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Editorial Opinion
More Time Needed
For Greek Week
Gieek Week has been taking a back seat long enough!
Kvei y year, interest in Gieek Week drops as indicated
by the diminishing numbei of gioups entering the IFC-
Pnnhel Sing This event is the largest and most important
uf the week Its success or failure is a good measure of the
oveiali .success of the week.
This year only 14 fraternities and 15 sororities are
entering the Sing. Last year, 20 fraternities and sororities
participated.
Eveiy spring, Greeks face the question. Can its mem
bois aitoid to spend the time on Greek Week with Spring
Week only three weeks away? They would rather spend
a largei amount of time on Spring Week and much less on
Greek Week.
Certainly Greek Week should not be dropped. It is
worthwhile because it not only brings Greeks together as
a whole but it strengthens the ties within each group.
Seveial groups have dropped from the Sing because
they cannot afford the time required to win. Also they
have been discouraged by the fact that one group has won
the fraternity title for the past nine years.
One suggestion has been that a v. inner one year should
be disqualified from participating the following. However,
this would hardly be fair to discriminate against a group
because it is consistently good.
Instead it might be better to allow other groups more
lime to practice. One way to provide this time would be
shifting the entire week to the fall semester.
If it were held m the end of November or in the be
ginning of December enough time would be available for
sing practice, and the spring rush of events would not
inlerfei e with the other projects.
Separating Greek Week from Spring Week would help
both of them. Greek Week might become looked forward
to as the major event m the fall as Spring Week is in the
spring.
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Letters
Three Answer
Charges Made
On Vote Fix
TO THE EDITOR: In the past
weeks, many unfounded charges
have ben directed at the Univer
sity party and its party chairman.
We feel that these charges have
been made unjustifiably.
One of these charges is Mr.
Brandt's claim that Mr. Nelligan
tried to fix the upcoming elec
tions. Nelligan has admitted that
through his political inexperience
as a party chairman he made a
blunder while talking to Brandt.
He also stated that he had no
intention of fixing the election,
but meieiy was trying by a poli
tical maneuver to find out
Brandt’s party strength.
If this was not true, why did
Brandt take four weks to make
the chaises known? Is it that he
was trying to lake the limelight
off himself and his party chair
manship which by charges of his
own party members, he is holding
illegally? Or does he feel that by
name-calling and personality as
sassination he can initiate a better
student government?
Another charge that has been
brought against the party is that
we of the executive council of
the party have been influenced
by certain “'interest groups " The
purposes for what these interest
groups are pressuring us has not
been stated. The charge has been
made with no explanation. Could
it mean that we are being influ
enced m the choosing of candi
dates? Surely this can’t be true.
Nominations and party support
are open to any individual who
so aspires them. Candidates are
chosen by party members voting
at regular party meetings.
Any rational person could see
that it would be impossible for
five executive committee mem
bers to control the voles of over
850 party members. Could it be
that these charges refer to the
influence of interest groups on
party platforms? This we think is
also impossible.
The platforms are made up by
the party members and candi
dates. Again to restate this fact, if
the majority of the party did not
like the plaforms they could
change them.
We do admit that we are guilty
of two charges: standing foi a
clean political campaign and
fighting for a more effective stu
dent government. We attest to
these ideals and we will work
with all our strength to see that
they are fulfilled.
—Robert Gandel, '62
Michael Lazorchak, '6l
Henry Opperman, '6l
Coed Asks Cut
In Red Tape
TO THE EDITOR: First we would
like to thank Dean Lipp for our
new extended hours. However, we
would like to inquire if the red
tape of signing out could be mini
mized.
We realized that this is not en
tirely Dean Lipp’s planning. The
problem concerns the interpreta
tion of the rules. We would like to
know if it is necessary to sign out
in the evening.
We have classes or activities
which require us to be absent from
the dorm during the afternoon
and evening. Not being able to
return to ihe dorm to sign out in
the. evening causes us to incon
venience our friends by request
ing that they sign out for us.
If our friends should forget, we
are responsible and must take the
penalty. We also wonder if it is
necessary for everyone to sign
out on the same sheet when there
are five sheets on the bulletin
board. This causes a bottleneck
at 11-30 p.m. when everyone is
trying to sign in at once. Couldn’t
there be a sheet for each floor?
Perhaps it would be posible to
have the room numbers on the
sheets as on Friday and Saturday
nights. Either of these arrange
ments would make it easier for
the checkers and hostesses to
know which girls are out. This is
the whole purpose of the system
and it should be made workable.
—-Nam* Withheld
penny candy
Don't Do That,
It's Kid Stuff
Growing up is a series of not doing things
Take animal crackers. When was the last time you
ate one? Even if it was recently, we’re betting that you
didn’t eat it the way you did while a child. Reliable tests —•
ours—show that college students pop the whole cookie in
their mouth, chew it up and absentmindedly swallow it.
Not a child. When you are
young there is a way to eat
animal crackers. First you in
spect it carefully and decide
whether it is a bear or a lion
or an elephant. Next you bite
off the legs, carefully one by
one, and the tail. (If it is an
elephant you
start with
~ the trunk, of
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■Hv'lop Theie is a
specml wa y
Wg'2? to eat sand-
Ink, wich cookies,
He separates
MISS KEUOA.RTH the tvvo halves
first. Then comes a great mo
ment of indecision. He can
lick the icing off, eat the side
with the icing on it or eat
the plain side first.
But as we grow up we for
get the rituals of childhood,
and begin not doing things.
The right way becomes wrong,
or "childish."
How often have you longed
to sit down on the curb and
wait for a bus after a long day
of shopping? Your feet really
Weekly
ACROSS
1 Male deer.
8 Lays waste.
15 System for ac
quiring knowl
edge.
16 Unyielding.
17 Supplies and gear.
18 Imprisonment,
19 Cetyl alcohol.
20 Poetess Dickin-
son.
22 Beetle.
23 Fish delicacies,
24 Plaintive cry.
25 Ornamental
plant.
26 .-la.
27 Besieged.
28 Bakes in a kiln,
29 Capital oi New
South Wales.
31 Describing
Ilium’s towers,
33 Troubles.
35 Precipitation.
36 Ru9t-preventive:
2 words.
39 Take into the
army.
43 Show,
44 Depended upon,
46 Broadcast.
THURSDAY. MARCH 17. 1960
by lolli neubarth
ache, but grown-ups just don’t
do such things.
Haven't you lately felt like
picking up a handful of freshly
fallen snow to eat? But we un
fortunately know now that the
snow that in our youth was as
sweet as ambrosia, the very
nectar of the gods, is unclean,
unsanitary and teaming with
microscopic bacteria with 5-
syllable names.
Perhaps the most poignant
understanding of the change
from childhood to the adult
world is shown by the French
author Saint-Exupery in his
book, "The Little Prince."
Adults like numbers, he said.
When you tell them about a
friend they never question the
essentials. They never ask
about the sound of his voice,
the games he likes, or whether
he collects buttei flies. They
ask how old he is, how many
brothers he has and how much
money his father eains. Only
then do they know him.
If you say you saw a pretty
red brick house with geraniums
in the windows they can’t im
agine the house. But just tell
them you saw a $25,000 house
yesterday and the grownups
will cry without hesitation,
‘‘How lovely it must be!”
Grownups are like that.
Puzzle
Crossword
12 Male geese.
13 Repeated offerings,
14 Ship ends.
21 Proper.
24 Stendhal was his
pseudonym.
25 Devil.
27 Very attractive
girl.
28 Captain
Long John Sil
ver’s parrot.
30 Nest,
32 Author of “The
47 The birds.
48 Trite.
49 Regulation.
50 Honor card, in
bridge.
51 Useful.
52 Mrs. Mesta, .
53 Grand .—, villa
at Versailles,
55 Rampart,
57 Imparting.
58 One enjoying an
other’s patronage,
59 Worker, as an
ant or bee.
60 Giver of com
mands.
Age of Reason.”
34 Sea flooded lands.
36 Solemn respecter.
37 Nightfall.
38 Do business.
40 Unlawful seizer.
41 Coal of many
young Americana,
42 Kind of hi-fi
DOWN
1 Kenneth ,
• author,
2 Speech making.
3 Intellectual:
Slang.
4 Rutabagas, for
short.
5 Single, not dual,
6 Toothed wheel.
7 Genuflects.
speaker.
43 Baby’s plaything.
45 City in Syria.
48 Fourteen pounds.
49 Ancient Sabine
capital.
51 One thing,
52 Goad.
54 Political group.
56 A.rive; Abbr.
8 Heating device.
9 Grown-up.
10 Bs changeful.
11 Medical group.