PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Once-a-Year Rushing Has Many Setbacks ',muting sorority rushing to one period during the scholastic year could have a drastic effect on this Uni- versity's sot only system While the idea of completely eliminating the fall infoi mal rush program is still embryonic, there are many aspects of the problem that should be examined befoi e any definite action is taken. It Is true that one rush program a year would alleviate the time burden set on sororities. It can also be argued that prospective rushees might be encouraged to make the required grades in their first semester. But, the above aspects are merely secondary in con sidering the abolition of the semi-annual program. There ate many other doubts as to the effects of such action. First, the viewpoint of the rushee must be considered. Many guts find it difficult to adapt to college standards of study in their first semester; some find themselves en rolled in the wrong curriculum and others just have to learn through experience that studies are the primary factor of college life. Are we to prolong the waiting period for rushing eligibility for the sake of giving sororities a rest? Is the program to be shut to girls because they have made the mistake of failing to get that 2.3? om the sot ority standpoint, it can be maintained that many sot orities get their largest and finest pledge classes in--the fall. This can be partially attributed to the fact that these girls have an opportunity to observe the various groups for a longer period of time and are more sure of what they want. No sorority in the past few years has been known to consistently fill its quota in spring rush. Decisions as to whether the quota of any particular sorority should be filled usually are made after rushing begins, and a sorority has a chance to look over prospective pledges. If we ate to strengthen the sorority system as a whole, and that is the goal of Panhellenic Council at present, why limit the opportunities for acquiring new members to a once-a-year business? Why leave sororities who fail to get their quota, in the lurch for one year? Why leave rushees who fail to get a bid, out in the cold for a year? Why discriminate against those coeds who do not make their rushing average on the very first try? Idealistically, a once-a-year program might seem feasible. Realistically, one or both sides of the picture is bound to suffer. There is no real necessity for such a set back in the present system now or in the near ftiture. Individual sororities should hold the prerogative of deciding whether they wish to rush once or twice a year. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom Otte Elatig Tollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. Tho Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered 1114 second-clan matter July 6. 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 11, 1879. Mall Subscription Prices 93.00 per semester $5.00 per year Member of The Associated Press and The intercollegiate Press DENNIS MALICK Editor 4EO°3 STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Copy Editor, Meg Teichholtz; Wire Editor, Nicki Wolford; Headline Editor, Cordie LeIN is; Assistants, Bob Tacelosky, Reney Alkoff, Karin Miller, Ellie Hummer, Margie Zelko. Sue Taylor, Lynne Bordonaro, Suzie Ellison, Sandy Kattnsky, Bev Cades, Bob Dean I=ll 'DEAR .PICKER SiVACK COMPANyi ----- _,- -- - - 7 - - - i- -- -; - ,: - ._ _--?-:,_-_,--„. - lills 15 AN tIigyLICITED 1 ) ,5. 1 A/AATEVER ItiAT 15. 7E6TIMONIA L. PI t volei• reparZ.__;l=4,l6 _.--7,11 11 / 4 .- -.--"-- _, , ~..---- - • - , THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA GEORGE McTURK Business Manager I WANT To TELL You G3OD r YOUR CEREAL 16, I EAT IT EERY i;, MORNING. Letters HUB Employe Gives Views On Lion's Den TO THE EDITOR: Mr. Frick and The. Daily Collegian have both asked that the clos'ng hours of the Hetzel Union Building's Lion's Den be extended to accomodate the recently emancipated coeds. Let us, however, look at the oth er side of the situation. The in cieased cost of paying employes is only the most obvious objec tion to the proposal. Consideration for other people —an almost lost art—is not being taken into consideration. A ma jority of the employes of the HUB are fellow students. Many are de pendent on these jobs to stay in school. Officially, the Den now closes at 10 p.m. People do not think of the extra hour that it takes to clean up. After working four or five hours, the students then go home to study for several hours. The supervisr.rs, the last to leave and the first to arrive, would also have to stay longer, but still have to get up at 4.30 a.m. Students now have until 10 pm. to eat in the Den. yet at 9.55 the "take-out" line is quite extensive. It the clos ing hour were extended these peo ple would still procrastinate, only for an hour longer. These same inconsiderate peo ple who look up at the white uniformed lackey and ask, "Would you get me some ice?" (They're so weary from studying), or "Would you take this tray?" (They're in a cast from the neck down) now merely want an excuse to sit around an hour longer to avoid going home. Someone recently wrote of "giving an inch and taking a mile." This is a fairly obvious sub stantiation of this fact. For the people who have been on a cot. fee break all evening, wanting an extension of the Den's closilig hours is no excuse to take advan tage of the students and employes of the HUB. Why not have dis pensing machines in the dorms? Let's show how sensible (and con siderate, remember) we are by leaving the hour as it is. —Ronald Thomas, Graduate Student Nittany Men Get the Gas TO THE EDITOR: In Wednesday's Collegian there appeared an ar ticle concerning the gas leak in Nittany 32. According to the article, the leak was fixed and the matter was ended, but Thursday night the gas wa s again detected, stronger than before. The Nittany coordinator was contacted and after the informa tion had gone through the proper channels, it became evident that no action would be taken. As a matter of fact, that is basically what we were told. Open the front door and windows and for get about the gas. Is it possible that this situation would be allowed to occur in any of the other living areas, or is this just another one of the con ditions which Nittany men are forced to accept? Is it necessary to have a resi dent plumber, or can the Depart ment of Housing assume the re sponsibility to have the job done right, once and for all? Paper thin walls, clanking pipes, one telephone per dorm, mud and now we have gas. What next? —Stephen Sussman, '63 •Leifer cut Gazette TODAY Tl3l, 7 p.m., 203 HUB BX, all boards, 7 p.m., 212, 213 HUB Camera Club, 7 •30 p.m , 214. 215. 216 HUB Campus Party, 9 p m , 212, 213 HUB Chess Club, 7 n.m., HUB cardroom Christian Fellowship. 12:46 p.m., 218 HUB Dancing Class. 6:30 p.m , HUB ballroom Delta Zeta, 5 p m., HUB assembly hall Forestry Convocation, 11 a m., 121 Sparks German Club, 8 p.m., Schlow Memorial Library Graduate Lecture Series, 8 p m , 121 Sparks, Dr. Paul Sears; 12:30 p rn., HUB dining room A. Dr. Robert Radlow Creek Week. 3 p.m., 213 HUB ICCB. 5 p.m.. HUB cardroom Quarterdeck Society. 8 p.m., Phi Mu Delta Sigma Theta Epsilon, 7 p.m., Wesley Foundation Slavic Club, Russian film. 8 p m„ 7 p.m., 10 Sparks UCA, 6:30 p m , HUB ballroom Women's Chorus, 8:80 p.m., HUB assembly hall WSGA Publications, 8 p.m., 817 .11U13 Little Man on Campus by Dick Biblte World At Castro Accused Of Planning Plane Incident WASHINGTON (JP) —U.S. in vestigators held yesterday a sworn statement that Castro offi cials conspired in an illegal plane flight which Cubans have blamed on the United States. The statement came from Wil liam Schergales. one of the two U.S. fliers held by' the Cubans since their small private craft came down in Matanzas, Cuba. on March 21. Schergales was said to have plotted the incident with Dr. Juan Orta, a personal secretary in the office of Prime Minister Fidel Castro. Washington authorities viewed the incident as a bungled attempt by the Castro regime to give Un cle Sam a propaganda black eye throughout Latin America and at the same time to get rid of one Castro's Cuban enemies. Some officials here considered referring the case to the Peace Committee of the Organization of American States, an inter-Amer ican body set up to ease Latin- American tension. They saw the flight as a violation of both U.S. and Cuban law, undertaken to in flame Cuban passions against Americans. Soviet Arms Plan Rejected by West GENEVA (IP) The Western powers rejected yesterday the So viet approach to nuclear disarma ment. They maintained the Krem lin's program was based on emo tional slogans suitable for mass meetings but lacking any scien tific reality. French disarmament expert Jules Moch told the 10-nation dis armament conference that vague promises to surrender possession of nuclear weapons are meaning less unless accompanied by rigid controls. In the present state of the world's scientific knowledge Moch said, it is impossible to tell how many atomic and hydrogen bombs are held in stock by the world's nuclear powers even with con trols. Some stocks could always be hidden. Strike's End Expected HOLLYWOOD (JP) The 4- week strike of actors against ma jor movie studios is expected to end today or tomorrow, with cam eras rolling again next Monday. This would give the industry something to cheer about at its Academy Awards show Monday night. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30, 1960 A Glance Strike May Hit S. Africa Again JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (P) Militant Negro leaders warned yesterday they will call a total work boycott unless South Africa's government abolishes pass laws for nonwhites. "We have said before and we repeat that there can be no peace in this country until the demands of the African nonwhite people are fully met," said a statement from William Jolobe, spokesman for the Pan-Africanist Congress. The one-day boycott that erupt ed in bloody violence Monday gave an inkling of what such a total boycott could do to the South African economy. It was declared about 90 per cent effec tive. Negro labor forms the broad base for South African produc tion. Negroes streamed bark to work in Johannesburg after the night of violence but Cape Town still wa s crippled. Police ranged through the Negro quarters of Johannesburg looking for riot leaders. K Renews Attack On German Arms REIMS, France (AP) Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev re newed his attacks yesterday on German militarism after solemn ly touring Verdun, the bloodiest of all French-German battle grounds. The Soviet leader told French officials at a luncheon in Reims, a cathedral city on the traditional invasion route from the east, he was disturbed by a statement by German Chancellor Konrad Ade nauer that "Germany has the job of saving Europe." "We cannot accept such a the ory because we see in it a re establishing of the Hitler theory that the Germans are a superior race and that the others are serv ants," Khrushchev said. Senate Votes to Make Changes in 'Rights' Bill WASHINGTON (IP) The Sen ate Judiciary Committee voted yesterday to make changes in the civil rights bill which, if accepted by the Senate, could drag out ac tion still longer. The first major change that the committee voted in the House bill would make it a federal crime to obstruct all federal court or ders—not just those dealing with school desegregation. That passed 9-5. Another change struck out a part of the bill's antibombing sec tion.
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