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ditorial 0 • inion
Just. A Humble
Community living, a phrase which is
rapidly becoming a byword at Penn State,
got off to a very humble start this year.
The only evidence of the inauguration
of this new concept on the traditionally
conservative Penn State campus is the use
of Waring, Pollock, Redifer, McElwain,
Simmons and Atherton dining halls by
both men and women.
But yet community living is a concept
with which every student living on campus
should become familiar, for it will soon be
the core around which residence hall living
will revolve and will probably be the foun
dation for upon which much of the struc•
ture of student government will be built.
Though little known and even less
understood at Penn State, it is not a new
concept. It took hold some years ago in
several large mid-western universities.
Ideally the concept is designed to place
an equal number of men and women in
each group of residence halls, utilizing a
common dining hall and operating under
one student government unit and social
program. It is a device used to establish
decentralized centers of allegiance and
Gazette
TODAY
Pre-Vet Club, 6:00 p.m., 212 HUB
Traffic Office, 134 p.m., 203 HUB
4.. H Club, 1,1, p.m., 214 HUB
Newman Club, 6:16 p.m., 213 HUB
Orientation Transfera, 6 :30 p.m., 214 HUB
WM:A, 6:30 p.m., 203 HUB
Science inalltute, 7:00 p.m., HUB main
lounue
Fre.: Mlll Cuhtom* Board, 6:30 p.m., 212
HUH
Penn Stele Sportg tie Club. 8:00 p.m.,
217 llNit
Outing Club, '7 :00 p.m., HUB assembly
Freshman Women Counselors, 10 :00 p.m
lilt Assembly
Chess Club, 710(1 p.m., HUB card room
Christian Fellowship. 12 :.15 p.m., 218 HUB
Scrolls, 7:00 p.m., Pollock 2, SDT Suite
Riding Club. 7:39 112 Iturlihout
Women's Chorus, 7:00 p.m.. 111213 assent-
My room
Jazz CI 7:00 p.m.. 10 Sparks
La Vie Photography Staff, 7:00 p.m.,
I.liN'ie office, Ciumeuie
orcheein. 7 p.m., White Mill
Hockey Chih. 4-6 p.m., Bohm., Field
WS( 3leeting, 6:30 p.m., 2(.13 HUB
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activity in today's big universities.
The alignment of communities for this
first year is indeed makeshift. Many com
munities are grossly out of balance in the
male-female ratio. West Halls has five
times as many men as women even though
the total number of men and women stu
dents housed on campus is roughly even.
North Halls is still an all-male community
and South Halls is an all-female com
munity.
But there are many problems involved
in imposing a community living system
upon a residence hall system that was not
designed for it and until these can be
worked out the makeshift 'alignment must
suffice.
The University's new residence halls
are being built with the community living
concept in mind as is seen in Pollock and
the Turf Plot project still under construc
tion.
If by next year two of the four North
Halls house women and four of the eight
South Halls house men, if the West Halls
ratio can be evened and Turf Plot Halls
opened with an even ratio, the community
living concept could be in full bloom.
small talk
BMOCs and Froth
Greetings fellow student watch-,fa frosh humor magazine which
ers. If you will remember, the will line Pollock Rd. today) re
last time we began studying
Ifrain from "participating" in par-
I tisan politics because by "partici
itype of student known as thepating" Froth is not behaving as
BMOC.I a humor magazine should be-
Today we will commence with: l
have. Oh!
the study of BMOC habits. You' I wonder what the Saturday
will find that the BMOCs in thisißevie"' would do if the federal
area migrate every September t o !government and business leaders
;a wooded area called Mont Alto.; told its editors not to write ar
t This gathering of the clan, so to! ti - des on eggs because
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,speak, is called Student Encamp.: „ rt ~ „.,
i e would not be behaving like a
ta' magazine.
iment. Here the BMOCs decide '
. Anyway, I hear Dale Peters
!what they will do during the fol- ' (new Froth editor) doesn't care
(their position. (Actually they:
lowing year in order to maintain' (new
politics and will concentrate
on the selection of Froth girls. So
!don't complete their I
planned ' we seeBM OC
that recommenda
work but the thought is there.)
:lions and discuss ions don't always
i . Anyway, to give you an idea of accomplish anything.
what you may overhear while, With practice you too can tell
(watching these students, perhaps' when to watch and listen care
we ought to discuss some of their fully to a BMOC discussion as
"`work" at this encampment. though it were a yellow jacket
One group of BMOCs decided ::.nd when to brush the whole
this year to recommend that Froth 'ring off like a pesky fly.
Letters
TKE Asked to Sing Again
TO THE EDITOR: One of the but that just plain enthusiasm
most highly prized annual frater-
will work anytime.
And I hope you all join us in
pity awards is first place in the chllenging last year's winner to
IFC Sing. And each year, houses:again,a put in the best showing
have rehearsed rigorously to up- only if they are able.
set the well-sung champion, Tau
Kappa Epsilon.
No doubt the gentlemen at
TKE are being extremely gal
lant in stepping aside this year
and it is not my intention to
suggest that they fear humili
ation which would follow their
"eventual and inevitable de
feat."
But as leader of Pi Kappa Phi,
second place winner in last year's
competition, allow me to query
them. Where is competition if
ability encourages elimination;
and where is victory for the win
ner if the defending champion's
spot is empty?
To other houses, let me men
tion that doing well in t he
, sing
does not necessarily depend on
a rigorous program of rehearsal,
WDFNI Schedule
5:00 p.m. Three at Five
6 :00 p.m. Studio X -
6 :55 p.m. Weather Scope
7:00 p.m. Marque Memories
7 :55 p.m. News Round-up
8:00 p.m. Jars Panorama
9:00 p.m. Forum of the Air
9:30 p.m. Artist Series' Preview
9:15 p.m. News and Sports
10:00 p.m. Vlrtuoaa
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
by nicki wolford
A Student-Operated Newspaper
56 Years of Editorial Freedom
o . l)rr Daily Tollrgiatt.
Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The
Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter
July 6, 1931 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, ISTS,
Mail Subscription Price: 13.00 per semester 35.00 per year.
City Editor. Carol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Gloria Wolford; Sports Editor,
Sandy Padwe; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Llnkroum;
Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor, Elaine Miele; Copy Editor, Annabelle
Rosenthal; Photography Editor. Frederic Bower; Makeup Editor, Joel Were
Local Ad Mgr., Brad Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Hal Deisher; Credi: Mgr.,
Mary Ann Crane; Ass't Credit Mgr., Neal Keite; Classified Ad hip., Constance
Kissel: Co• Circulation Mgrs., Rosalind Abes, Richard Kitainger; Promotion Mgr.,
Elaine Michal: Personnel Mgr.. Becky Kohudie; Office Secretary, Joanne Huyett.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Jerrie Markos; Wire Edi
tor, Karen Hyneckeal; Assistants, Craig Yerkes, Sandy Yaggi,
011ie Himes, Phyllis Mandlebaum, Renee Alkoff, Lynn Border
naro.
Jack Hendricks,
Songleader,
Pi Kappa Phi
Member of The Associated Press
and The Intercollegiate Press
JOHN BLACK
a a CHESTER LUCIDO
gfto
Editor Business Manager
Snowed
Advance Warning
Cuts Donna's Toll
Hurricane Donna Rakes East Coast! Thousands Homeless
as Property Damages Hits $1 Billion.
Headlines such as these were common in newspapers
across the nation last week as mighty hurricane Donna ripped
a destructive path from Puerto
Rico to Canada
The story of Donna is basical
ly the same as that of other
powerful tropical storms that
have battered the East Coast,
except for one very conspi
cuous thing.
We hear no cries of "no ad
vance warnings"
or of impending
Congressional in
vestigations o f
the Weather Bu
reau for miscal
culating the ef
fects of the
storm.
The Weather
Bureau did a
very commen
dable job of
warning all the
people who were MYERS
in the line of fire of this devas
tating storm. The bureau didn't
expect one word of praise for its
nearly infallible prediction and
up until now we've not heard one
word of praise or thanks.
The constant vigil kept by
Weather Bureau personnel, of
ten at the risk of death or in•
jury, prevented the loss of un
told numbers of lives.
From the time that the storm
Letters
Housing Discrimination Hit
TO THE EDITOR: I want to com-1 then I think it is up to the stu
mend you for your editorial on!dents to demand some action.
housing discrimination which ap-; They should present the admin
peared in the issue of Wednes-listration with some constructive
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day, Sept. 14. It is very obvious solutions and see that at least one
that the administration's refusalis employed. It is about time that
to try to do anything about this!students rose to the challenge of
problem encourages the landlords the time.
to discriminate. ! Far too often in the past, stu-
It seems that as the student
population increases, more of
them will tend to live in town
and more or all overseas stu
dents will seek housing accom
modations in town. This will
make the problem more acute.
The housing list at the dean of
men's office should comprise only After all, the students do pride
those houses that will not dis-themselves on their democratic
criminate but will take all stu-'ideas and principles and yet de
dents no matter their race, color,'mocracy is a useless idea unless
or creed. . it is made practical.
If the administration does not, Jacob E. G. Dentu
do anything about this problem •Letter cut
WDFM Challenged
TO THE EDITOR: WDFM, the
University radio station, resumed
transmitting with the opening of
the new school year. To most of
the students this is probably a
matter of little or no consequence.
Many students probably don't
even realize that there is a sta
tion other than WMAJ in town.
This is partly due, I'm sure, to
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21. 1960
by Joel myers
was first discovered on Sept. 2
until it blew itself out over East
ern Canada last week, more than
100,000 persons were evacuated
from dangerous positions in the
predicted path of the hurricane
and at least 25 million people took
some precautions against winds,
high tides, floods, heavy rain,
storm tides and high water.
If no warnings had been issued,
it is conceivable and even prob
able that Donna might have killed
more than 10,000 people rather
than the 136 that did perish in her
wake.
For the saving of these lives
we should be thankful. But, what
about these 136 persons? Why did
they die?
Most, if not all, of them met
their death because they failed
to heed the storm warnings is
sued by the Weather Bureau.
They refused to follow expert
advice and instead chose to cling
to their own stubborn and un
founded ideas that the weather
could never injure them.
Eventually, perhaps, this "It
could never happen to me" atti
tude will be overcome and the
casualty total from a storm such
as Donna will be reduced to a
comparatively insignificant
amount.
dents have been as passive as
the authorities about this prob
lem and therefore also have
condoned it. My challenge to
the students is that they realize
that the problem does exist and
to exert themselves to get some
thing done.
the scarcity of FM receivers to
pick up WDFM.
Faced with this awesome fact
of the cultural barrenness of the
airwaves over State College I
would like to raise a few points
for consideration by whoever
happens to see this letter:
®WDFM is in what should be
the enviable situation of not hav
ing to cater to the tastes of com
mercial sponsors; the governing
factor in its programming should
be the good taste of its directors.
•WDFM is not really in com
petition with WMAJ; whoever
takes WMAJ as a steady diet de
serves the subsequent gastric (and
worse) disturbances.
•WDF'M must fully carry its
responsibilities as an educational
radio station by less reduplication
of the junk that generally char
acterizes WMAJ's programming.
The problems that face
WDFM are apparent: a lack of
adequate funds to purchase
more and finer programs, and
the apathy to most things that
have any smack of discrimina
tion in taste by the majority of
the students,
WDFM is a beginning in a di
rection that could lead to a valu
able addition to the campus.
Please do not waste it. One
WMAJ in the area is enough.
David Toor,
English Department
•Letter cut