TUESDAY, OCTOBE
Presidents' Views
AIM-Leonides Merger
Considered Desirable
One of the main reasons behind the
proposed Association of Independent Men-
Leonides merger was "poor communication"
between the two groups, Harald Sandsthom,
AIM president, said.
AIM and Leonides have many joint activities
End because they are two separate groups
"many intermediate steps slow up the process of
planning these activities," Sandstrom said.
He said so many of the functions of AIM
and Leonides are similar, that merging the two
groups would be much more efficient.
Last year's Indie Encampment recommenda
tion that a joint planning commission be or.
ganized to coordinate activities was carried out.
Representatives of both AIM and Leonides formed
a committee to plan joint activities and reported
back to their respective organizations.
But, according to Sandstrom, the joint plan
ning commission "id not function as well as AIM
and Leonides methbers hoped it would."
He said there , was some disagreement about
the commission's authority. The commission was
not certain whether or not it should originate
end plan , activities end then administer them
independently,
Sandstrom said that it took too much time
for representatives to report back to the parent
organization for approval. Sometimes the com
mission went ahead without approval, he added.
A workshop was set up at this year's Indie
Encampment to work out some of the difficulties
of the joint planning commission. The merger
proposal originated in that workshop.
Sandstrom said the merger had been dis
cussed before but never "seriously."
On the actual structure of the combined
groups, Sandstrom haid, "I don't think it would
be feasible to take both organizations as they
now exist and simply put them together. The
group would be too unwieldy."
The elections system and the representation
(proportion of men to women) system would
have to be reorganized, Sandstrom said.
AIM and Leonides have not drawn up any
plans for their proposed organization. They will
not draw up their constitution and then decide
on the merger but will officially decide on the
merger first, Sandstrom said.
The committee working on the constitution
will then have more incentive and not wonder
whether or not what they are working on will
be approved or rejected completely, he said.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Leonides Council last night approved
by a 17-6 vote the merging of Leonides with
the Association of Independent Men into
one independent organization.
The council further decided to establish a
joint committee of five Leonides and five AIM
members to carry through a merger plan.
Both motions were made by Dorothy Tynan,
senior in psychology from Glenolden. The ap
proval of the merger came only after an involved
discussion of the merits of the proposal and
some confusion as to parlimentary procedure
concerning secondary suggestions from the floor.
Carol Frank, Leonides president, was absent
from the meeting due to illness, later gave her
views on the proposal.
Miss Frank said she was in favor of the move,
but the idea "needs a lot of study." According to
Miss Frank, the proposal came out of an Indie
Encampment Workshop which had originally
planned to discuss the Joint Planning Commis
sion, at present the only permanent joint group
of Leonides and AIM.
Since the two groups do so many things to
gether, a merger would make things more con
venient, said Miss Frank. Also she added the
increasing incidence of "community living" is
making it very difficult to segregate the two
groups.
However, she said, it will be necssary to
provide some group just for the women, since
some projects such as the housemother's tea,
the Mother's Day Breakfast and Mardi Gras are
strictly girls' projects.
The ideal setup she said, would be a joint
body which would contain two separate sub
groups, one for the men and one for the women.
Miss Frank emphasized that she approved
the plan for merger but had personal doubts
about the way it is being handled.
Her plan had been to establish a committee
to merely study the proposal, its merits, necessity,
etc. before approving the idea of the merger.
This idea was also brought up from the floor at
the meeting by Anne Farley, sophomore in edu
cation from Cedars. However, Miss Farley's mo
tions to table the motion or to establish a com
mittee to study the plan were not acted upon.
As set-up by the Council, implementation
of the merger will be establised by the committee.
A constitution will be submitted and voted upon
by both Leonides and AIM. If the constitution
is approved the question will be put to all the
independent students for a vote.
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Blue Key Hat Society
Taps 11 Junior Men
Eleven men have been tapped
for initiation into the Blue Key,
junior men's hat society.
They are: Jack Bergstein, Ben
jamin Bronstein, Lawrence Ep
stein, Gerald Goldberg, Richard
Goldberg, Marshall Goldstein,
Edgar Grubb. Gilbert Kahn, Stu
art Medwin, Guy Tucci and Ken
neth Weis.
Ed Association to Meet
The Student Education Associa
tion of Pennsylvania will hold
its first meeting of the year at
7 p.m. tomorrow in Simmons
main lounge.
STUDYING CAN BE SCREAMS
If studying is bugging you, try mnemonics
Mnemonics, as we all know, was invented by the great Greek
philosopher Mnemou in 526 B.C. (Mnemonics, incidentally,
was only one of the inventions of this fertile Athenian. He also
invented the staircase which, as you may imagine, was of
inestimable value to mankind. Before the staircase people
who wished to go from floor to floor were forced to live out
their lives, willy-nilly, on the ground floor, and ninny of them
grew cross as bears. Especially Demosthenes who was elected
Consul of Athens three times but never served because he was
unable to get up to the office of Commissioner of Oaths on the
third floor to he sworn in. But after Mnemon's staircase,
Demosthenes got up to the third floor easy as pie—to Athens'
soriow, as it turned out. Demosthenes, his temper shortened
by years of confinement to the ground floor, soon embroiled his
countrymen in a seiies of senseless wars with the Persians, the
Visigoths and the Ogallala Sioux. He was voted out of office in
517 B.C. and Mnemon, who had made his accession possible,
was pelted to death with fruit salad in the Duomo. This later
became known as the Missouri Compromise.)
But I digres.q. We were discuEsing mnemonics, which are nothing
more than aids to memory —catcliwords or jingles that help you
remember names, dates and places. For example:
See bow simple? Make up your own jingles. What, for in
stance, is the importaTit event immediately follouing Colum
bus's discovery of America? The Boston Tea Party, of course.
Try this:
(NOTE: The Zuyder Zee was located in Boston Harbor until
1904 when Salmon P. Chase traded it to Holland for Louisiana
and two outfielders.)
But I digress. To get back to mnemonics, you can see how
simple and useful they are—not only for history but also for
everyday living; for instance:
"Why Alpine?" you ask. Taste that fine, fresh flavor. Enjoy
that subtle coolness. Until Alpine you needed two cigarettes to
reap the benefits of Alpine—one for flavor, one for high filtra
tion—:and smoking two cigarettes is never graceful; in fact,
with mittens it is nigh impassible. Now you need only one
cigarette—Alpine. Get home. You'll asee.
The sponsors of this column make dipine, Philip Morris
and Marlboro Cigarettes. Pick what goo please. What you
Transportation Society
Initiates Nine Students
Nine students were initiated
into Delta Nu Alpha, men's trans
portation fraternity, at a special
meeting last Wednesday, The new
members are Robert Carroll, Kent
Yarnall, John Craig, Joseph
Kling, Samuel Coll, John Nevin,
'James Swope and Nicholas Dun
yak.
Lakonides Applications
Applications for membership in
Lakonides, women's Physical Ed
ucation honorary society, are now
available in 101 White Hall. Up
perclass women who are physical
education and recreation majors
with a 2.5 all-University average
are eligible for membership.
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Loves of Dale Gillis", etc.)
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
In fourteen hundred ninely-two.
&mud Adams flung the tea
Into the briny Znytter Zee.
In ?thicken hmuired fifty-nine
The smoke to look for is Alpine.
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