, AGE FOUR
ditorial 0 • inio
Check Plan Needs Study
The Student Government Association Assembly will
hear a plan Thursday for a student check cashing agency
Students should have such an agency but the proposed
syhtem as it stands now needs a lot of retouching to be
successful
The freshman board plan would provide for check
cashing up to $125, with fees ranging from 10 cents to
one per cent of the total check. It goes into detail con
cerning makeup of the agency but it fails to cover the
problems it would undoubtedly encounter.
No provisions have been made for bad checks. This
cannot be overlooked but it is a problem anywhere checks
aro cashed. Some sort of penalty should be devised for
students who cash checks on overdrawn accounts.
A town bank has enough backing to cushion such
checks. However, a few such checks in one day could put
a big dent in the proposed $4OOO fund of a student agency.
Under the plan, the agency would be established as a
sort of student activity with its candidates and training,
sophomore, junior and senior boards. But, as pointed out
by George L. Donovan, director of Associated Student
Activities, this plan would not he efficient.
The agency would be operating only in the afternoons
and with only about two students on duty at a time. This
would hardly warrant such a complicated staff. Since
students should be handling a $4OOO fund they should also
be bonded.
The agency would fulfill a definite need of providing
check cashing when all downtown banks will be closed.
But more planning would have to be made before it could
be accepted
Class Gift—ln or Out?
Seniors have been given the choice of whether or not
to follow the traditional practice of giving the University
a gift. This tradition will depend upon their willingness
to check one of three choices picked by the committee.
Letters have been sent to each senior asking that he
pledge money to the fund and select his choice for the
Senior Class Gift of 1959.
While all three gifts admittedly would benefit the
students academically, it is questionable that all three are
connected with one phase of the Universit3'—the library.
A greater variety of choices have been offered in the
past and in view of the University's expansion program,
the committee could have found a greater varietS , of gift
suggestions.
But in addition to offering those selections the-com
mittee has given seniors the opportunity to make further
suggestions if they object to the ones made.
Before making a decision on the gift, seniors should
think over each choice and add their ideas to the list. In
this way the committee will be better able to come_to the
best decision in view of the general consensus of the class.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
GEORGE McTURK
Business Manager
Letters
Reader Backs
Deferred Rush
TO THE EDITOR: Last Wednes
day's Collegian, in summarizing
this year's editorial stands, states,
. . . if an evaluation bears out
general opinions, deferred rush
ing should be tossed out" Whose
general opinions and whose evalu
ation—lFC's alone?
Contrary to the Collegian's ap
parent assumption that deferred
rushing has failed, it seems to
have succeeded only too well. One
of its primary objectives was to'
raise the scholastic standing of
the freshman class—and, accord
ing to Collegian figures, the fresh
man class average last semester
was the best in six years.
According to the former IFC
President Ed Hintz himself: "The
higher freshman averages can
definitely be attributed to the
new (rushing) system." The ma
jor shortcoming of deferred rush
ing, then, is apparently that not
enough freshmen are pledging
this semester. But they have the
average, they have the opportun
ity to see the inside of dozens
of fraternities, they're being rush
ed like mad by anxious pledging
chairmen—is deferred rushing
still preventing them from pledg
ing?
I respectfully suggest that any
empty fraternity bunks may be
the fault of the fraternity system
rather than of deferred rushing.
Could it be that after a semester's
experience at the University,
some freshmen can see a little
more clearly the relative advan
tages of independent and frater
nity living, than if they were—as
has been the case in the past, and
as Collegian apparently wants
again—given a major snow job
by 54 fraternities immediately up
on entering the University and
before they knew enough to con
sider their moves wisely?
May I suggest;
1. That fraternities will not die
out through deferred rushing if
they have anything worthwhile—
and I think they do—to contribute
to the University and to potential
pledges.
2. That the Dean of Men's office
should make deferred rushing an
official University policy, still to
be enforced by the IFC, in the
same manner as the freshman
&inking ban (but with, let us
pray, more success.)
.3. That AIM, in the best in
terests of its members and of fu
ture freshmen, give its full sup
port to the adoption of an official
deferred rushing program.
4. That the new Collegian Board'
of Editors alter its editorial poli
cies to back deferred rushing, for
so long as it seems valuable in
promoting freshman scholarship
and in allowing a more knowlr
edgeable evaluation of the frater
nity system by prospective pled
ges.
—Alan C. Elms, '6O
Gazette
TODAY
Air Force Glee Club, 7 p m., HUB assent•
bly room
Belles Lettres. 7:20 p.m.. Simmons Lounge
Book Exchange Board. 11:30 p 217 HUB
Cabinet, 7:80' p.m., 203 HUB
Christian Fellowship, 12:30 p m. ' 218 HUB
Collegian Classified Ad Staff, 6:30 p.m.,
Main Off ice
Delta Sigma Pi, 7 p.m , Alpha Sigma Phi
Education Student Council, 6:30 p.m., 212
HUB
Freshman Regulations Board, 1210 p.m.,
212 HUB
Hillel Election.% 9 a.m. to 12 :.3...5 :30 p.m.,
7-19 p.m., Hillel Foundation
Judicial. 5:15 p.m., 217 HUB
Leadership Training, 7:00 p.m., 214 Boueke
Liberal Arts Student Council, 6:30 p.m.,
211 HUB
News and Views Senior Board, 2 p.m.,
Etta Cottage
Nittany Grotto, 7 p.m., .121 Mineral -In.
duatrics
Panhellenic Council. 6:31 p.m.. 203 HUB
WRA Tennia'Club, 6:30 p.M., 3 White Hall
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Janice Abrams, H. Clair Althouse, Azer.
rudia Ansari. Donald Benton, Terence Dill,
Carl Formosa. Barry Frank. Robert Fulton,
Sandra Girvin, Bohn Haberlen, Albert Hay-
Isom], William Hess, Allen Kaiser, Arlene
Kondor, Kenneth Lange-McGill, Roberta
Levine, James McLaughlin, William Na.
aman, Charles - Replogle, Robert Sleora,
Charli Steen, Michael Willard, Ursula
Wittenbrock.
Grucci to Read Tonight
At Belles. Leftres Club
- •
Joseph L, - Grucci, associate pro-_
fessor of English composition, will
read some of•his own poems at the.
Belles Lettres Club, at 7:30 p.m.
tonight in Simmons Lounge.
Grucci, who is director of the
poetry workshop, has published
poems in current periodicals. He
has also published a volume en
titled "The Time of Hawks."
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible/
"We only need to identify th' FACE."
from here to infinity
The Import Date:
Paradox in Skirts
We think that we will never see ''
A thing as paradoxical as an import.
With the last big weekend of the year under' our
belts, there is little to do but reminesce over some of the
highlights of the three-day festivities.
Probably the most controver
sial ingredient .of a weekend
other than the parties —is
the import that makes her way
to the Nittany Valley for the
festivities.
For some reason or other,
she's adored by her date, en
vied by the "resident coed,"
a headache to dorm hostesses,
and a financial asset for the
town's room renters.
She manages to get more
fraternity chow and less sleep
than almost any other crea
ture.
She has the knack of get
ting lost mot
times in do)
m i tory hall
than a sail(
without
compass.
She come
loaded wit
more suitcas(
and crinoline
than a depart
ment s tor
buyer but ne \
er manages to
THOMPSON
get into all 75
different outfits she brings
with her.
Her estimated time of ar
rival is as unpredictable as the
weather. And for some reason,
she always manages to leave
for home too soon.
She can arrive on- nearly
any method of transportation
Imaginable short of ox-cart.
We even know of an import
OH, (F-THERE WERE ONLY
SOME WAY TO WARN HER..
a•.®
\do. .iry •
Mr `ld—
s-s
TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1959
by bob thompson
who hitch-hiked to campus
one weekend.
She is welcomed with open
arms by the merchants, since
she nearly always manages to
leave town loaded down with
any number of souvenir s
ranging from garters to stuffed
animals.
,
Most of these young ladies
—at least first-comers—are
standouts on campus. If they
aren't. trapsing around in high
heels, they're walking around
trying to see all the campus
highlights t-h e y can possibly
jam into an afternoon.
The import manages qo wear
out • more of her date's shoe
leather, and burn more gaso
line in the course of one week
end than the average coed does
in an entire year. But• some
how her date never seems to
complain,
For her dale, she leaves be
hind a score of happy memo
ries—not to mention a sweater,
and two or three pairs of ear
rings.
And for her coed hostess
there are frowns from her
neighbors in the dorm for har
boring a "traitor," and the un
happy anticipation of black
marks for her - three-minute
late ' arrival after Saturday
night's party.
Even flunking a final can't
give her date the same feeling
(Continued on page eight)
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LIFE!TRAPPED! DOOMED!!
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