PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Apartment Ruling A gieat divergence of opinion emanated from Old Mam this week on the issue oE whether or not women are to he allowed m the apartments ot male sudents. In Kebiuaiy WSGA passed a rule that women could visit a man's apartment if she complied with certain stipulations This WSGA rule was approved by Dean Lipp. Tha stipulations were that the coed had to have a letter of approval from her parents and then appear in the dean of women's office to obtain special permission. Only 9 coeds have complied with this procedure. One was turned down because she was a freshman. The dean of men’s office said last week, however, that its mtei pi elation is that no male student may entertain a woman guest in his apartment; and in doing so, a male student would be liable to disciplinary action. The dean of men’s office bases its interpretation on Senate Regulation W-0, which allows the dismissal of any student whose mlluence is found too injurious to the moral standaids of the student body, or to whose conduct is prejudicial to the good name of the University. Since theie is no written ruling prohibiting the piesence of a coed in a man’s apartment, the dean of women’s oftice felt justified in approving the ruling that it did. If it was convinced of the maturity and integrity of the women involved it could back such a policy. Obviously for a situation that can bring such grave consequences to a student as dismissal from the Uni versity, Old Main should have a single, clear cut ruling. And the thing that we cannot undestand is that such a situation could exist for thtee months under a double standard. The women could do it, but it the men were caught they were open to disciplinary action. Fortunately, the divergence of opinion was brought to light in a committee meeting and a remedy will be worked out. How explosive, and how detrimental to the students involved and to the University it would have been had it come out as a result of a couple—the woman legally and the man illegally—being found in the man’s apart ment together. SGA Going All Out SGA’s action setting up a committee to continue seek ing alternatives for the proposed calendar change in volving Thanksgiving vacation, and cal'ing of another special Assembly meeting before University Senate meets next Thursday indicates that it is going all out on this issue. It complied with Dr. Whisler’s admonishment that anv resolution passed should deal with policy which can be implemented for some years to come. Their continuing search indicates that they are also considering Dr. Bern reuter's opinion that they should advance another alterna tive if they do not back proposal four as does Whisler’s committee. SGA is attempting to cover both Daily (Unllcyian Successor to The Free Lance, est.lBB7 Published Tuesday through Satuiday morning during the I'nherslty year, The Dally (itllftiian U a student-operated newspaper. Knlered as second-class matter July 5. 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office tinder the act of March 3. 1879. Mail Subscription Prices $3.00 per semester $3.00 per year. JOHN BLACK Editor -®’ l STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Copy and Headline Editor, Pat Dyer; Wire Editor, Elbe Hummer; Assistants, Sunny Schade, Sandy Yaggi. Karin Miller, Reney Alkoff, Dave Runkel. /aiaH\ / HERE \ COMES / ./—Tit \Tis-PEN7 < a * f A a* CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Washington Beat Man's Weapons May Cancel Each Other By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON (Ah —A gleam of hope peeps out today through the angry clouds Man is so cun ning lie now has weapons that may destroy him Gadgets for modern bat He have become so complicated they may cancel each other. Anyone who plods through the testimony taken by a House Ap piopriations subcommittee can't help but reach such a conclusion. Here is Chan man George H. Mahon (D -Tex) talking about battlefield electronics "It would seem absurd if we should have a whole array of equipment on a ship or aircraft or in the field for the Army and then turn all this stuff on and it would not operate under battle field and actual operational con ditions. That is one thing that worries me." Maj. Gen. Robert J. Wood, from the office of the deputy chief of logistics, had a reply easier to understand than his title. “I think,’’ said Wood, ‘‘that is a justifiable concern in any piece of apparatus in the electronic field, Mr. Chairman." Inded, Wood said, the concern was so justifiable that the Army plans to spend around 33 million dollars to get this equipment to gether and see what happens It is a complex problem There’s the enemy trying to jam your electronic gadgets. Then there are your own de vices interfering with each other. "We know if we go io war lo day." Wood said, "ih» Army will have at least 20,000 electron’** emitter devices in a square GO miles on a side. This number does not include the devices of our sis ter services, the Air Force and the Navy, nor our Allies. ‘'Nor does it include tiie con tribution to the electronic envi ronment caused bv the enemy.” “These cover,” Wood said, "the entire gamut from a simple han ditalkie to the complex operation of a missile or aircraft contiol center ” It’s an interesting picture. All these emitters emitting, butting in intentionally, or unintentional ly on each other. Every measure would have a countei measure, every counter measure a counter-counter-mea sure a cracking battlefield turned into an electronic jamming session. It may be absurd to some, but maybe we’ll confuse our way into suivival yet. Student Hits Vacation Plan TO THE EDITOR: Why save va cations if they produce a problem of irregular class meetings? Af ter all, the administration’s in terests come before any other in terests. Why not have classes on Thanksgiving, but then that might interfere with the adminis tration’s desire to be with their families. Perhaps they expect us to race home and back again in order to enjoy a nice Thanksgiving Day doing work for Friday. While thev are at it. why not eliminate all of Christmas and Easter vaca tions. Just think, we would be through school by the beginning of May. But do the students want this? No they don’t, but there is noth ing our useless SGA can do about it. 5 New Members Named To Psychonomic Society Five members of the Depart ment of Psychology have been named charter members of the recently founded organization. The Psychonomic Society. They are Dr. John F. Corso, Dr. Joseph H. Grosslight, Dr. John F. Hall, Dr. William M. Lepley, and Dr. Sidney Siegel. The purpose of the society is to promote the communication of scientific research in psychology and allied sciences. —Richard Doyle '6l Little Man on Campus by Dick Bi Interpreting: S. African Negroes Bound to Positions By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst One of the most startling aspects of the current racial troubles in South Africa 'is the assumption by the Afrikaner government that, after fencing the Negroes into enclaves to live, it has the right to force them out again to work. Some years ago there was a great uproar in the United States when investigations point ed up the extent to which many poor whites and Negioes were bound to the tenant faims they woiked, bv debt and other im mobilizing economic factors. The cry of peonage swept the eouniry. Yet lhe responsibility lay with individuals, operating within a social and economic order which was and is still seeking humane solutions to its problems. In South Afnca the conditions arc produced by direct and de clared government policy, acting in extension of attitudes estab lished by the w'hite community The blacks suiter from an im mobilizing passportitis, and from many other economic deterrents which deny them movement and a free choice of jobs. If they seek to use the weapon of general strike—a weapon long available to workers in free countries— they aie liable to beatings from police with clubs and rubber whips, and even to shooting. Thus the climax comes to 12 years of a policy operating since 1948, when the Afrikaners won Block and Bridle Club Banquet, 6 p.m, HUB Ballroom Center Stage production, 4 *Tbe Dark at the (op of the Stair*." 8 pm Science Fair Luncheon, 11 a m., HUB Ball* room. Spring Week Carnival, evening hour*, golf course Varsity Golf vs. Lehigh. 1 p tn Varsity Lacrosse vs Rutgers. I p.m. Varsity Tennis vs. Lehigh, 2 p.m. TOMORROW Agricultural and Home Economics Exten- sion, 3 p n»., HUB Mam Lounge. Block “S" Executive Committee, 6.30 pm, 216 HUB. Chapel Service, 10.55 am, Schwab Audi torium. Ur. Liston Pope, Yale Univer sity Duinity School. Chess Club, 2 p m , HUB Cardroom Christian Fellowship, 2pm, 217 HUB. Delphi. 1 p.m.. 211 HUB. Emerson societ>, 6:30 pm., Eisenhower chapel Lounge Grad Student Bridge, 7 p.m., 212 HUB. Newman Club, 7 pm, 217 HUB Protestant Service of Worship, 9 am, Helen Enkin Eisenhower Chapel. R. E. Ainungton, associate professor of elec tiical engineoung Roman Catholic Mass, 9 a m., Schwab Auditorium Sophomore Advisory Board, 7 pm, 203 HUB WDFM PROGRAM SCHEDULE .j • wdfm 91.1 mft« t yciei Sophomore Advisory Board • SATURDAY 8:55 Weatherscope The Sophomore Class Advisory Vm Offbeat o1 ’™ Hous * Board will meet at 7p.m.,tomor i.M sim ou row in 203 Hetzel Union. SATURDAY. APRIL 30. 1960 SAY, DIDN'T YOU V '" 7 6£T TO ASK ** 'SNT by politics the Boer War which Britain thought she had won with guns in 1902. What is the essential differ ence, then, between lashing men to work when they do not wish to go, and the practice of slavery in the United States 100 years ago’ The African blacks are paid wages of a sott, which the Amer ican slaves were not. The bodies of the African blacks are not commercial commodities. Those are the major differences. As usual when governments resort to restriction of human rights, the restrictions tend to extend themselves beyond the original objects of hatred and to penetrate the whole politi cal body. Now even members of the South African Parliament are not permitted to visit the Negro en claves to see for themselves *what is going on. Will the liberties of the white opposition be the next object of government attack? It has often happened that way. Gazette Student Movie, 6*30 pm., HUB Assembly Room. Sweden Borgian Service, 10:30 a.m , 212 HUB. USF, 0:30 am. 218 HUB. MONDAY Alpha Phi Omega, 7 pm,* 212 HUB. Christian Fellowship, 12:45 pm., 218 HUB. Christian Fellowship, 8 p.m., 216 HUB. .Engineering Mechanics Seminar, 4:15 p.m., 203 Engineering “A". Faculty Luncheon Club, 12 a.m., HUB Dining Room "A”. IFC, 7 p.m., HUB Assembly Room. H CP, 7 p.m.. 217 HUB. Leonides. 6:15 p.m, 203 HUB. Penn State Model Railroad Club, 7 p.m., 215 HUB. BGA Assembly, 8 pm., 218 HUB. SC.A, 8:30 pm., 203 HUB. HOSPITAL Brenda Baer, John Badner, Enid Barron, David Burris, Carol Connelly, Richard Derglin, Gail Dubiow, Sheila Dubrow, Bar ton Freulman, Janice Funkhouaer, Jamea Gongola, Paul Gran, Barbara Hackman, Donald Kemmerer, Maxine King. Raymond Koltbas. F.leanor MnKay, Ralph Landis, Ronna Margolis, Louis Mcteiia, Rachel Miller, Josepha Mochulski, Jnmea More wood, James Moser, Carolm Myers, Carol Oswald, Orlando Pride* Joyce Rauch, Rus sell Sehleiden, Gail Shay, Donald Stewart* Edward Swientisky.
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