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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
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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
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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
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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.