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Editorial Opinion
Ready for Next Step
The housing list outside the dean of men’s office has
been taken down and the only remaining list is the
non-discriminatory one being maintained by the Student
Government Association. J
Thus another step toward erasing racial and religious
discrimination 'in this area has been accomplished. SGA
is to be congratulated for its part in this work.
Perhaps the next step should Involve the fraternity
sorority system. We propose that the Interfraternity and
Panhellenic Councils in conjunction, with the Senate
Committee on Student Affairs begin work toward abolish
ing all racial and religious discriminatory clauses existing
in some Greek groups' constitutions.
Ohio State University has been successful in giving
their groups a minimum of two contentions in which to
convince their national organizations to remove the
clauses. The alternative was to go local or get off campus.
Colgate University has recently initiated the same
sort of rule. At Penn State, the rules do not permit the
chartering of any .new organizations with discriminatory
clauses but Greek groups already established may have
such clauses.
The argument against the 1 abolition of such clauses
may be that it would destroy the purpose of a fraternity.
However,.we feel that if the only bond between fraternity
members is common skin color or the church attended,
then fraternities do not really have much of a reason
for existing.
If fraternities picked their members only because of
skin color and church affiliation, there would be no nsed
for rush. The whole thing could be accomplished with
IBM cards.
If individual chapters allow such factors to influence
their choice of memberS they will get the people they
deserve. However, chapters should not be forced to con
sider race and religion because of written
years ago and very far removed from local conditions or
Ideas.
The Stanford chapter of Alpha Tau Omega recently
pledged four Jewish students and the national organiza
tion has ordered them revoked because their pledging
violates the fraternity's national by-laws.
The Stanford chapter retained a lawyer and has gotten
a letter commending its stand from its brother chapter
at: Northwestern University.
At Ohio and Colgate, the threat of expulsion seems
to be having some good effects on the discrimination
problem in fraternities.
Penn State should join other universities in taking
positive action to eliminate this black mark on the fra
ternity system and add its voice to the protests being
heard at fraternity conventions.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
CHESTER LUCIDO
Businas* Manager
interpreting
U.S. Defense Position Clarified
By J. M. ROBERTS
The people of the United
States have been told so many
things about the state of their
military defense that they don’t
know what to believe.
They have been told that this
is the world’s greatest. power,
that it is a sec
-0 n d-rate na
tion, and a
lot of stuff in
between
“Missile gap”
is a phrase
which had al
most come to
be accepted as
an established
fact. Presi
d e n t Eisen- Roberts
hower always said it wasn’t
exactly true, despite the So
viet Union's lead. in rocket
motors. Candidate Kennedy
and President Kennedy stuck
to the gloomier side.
But now the Pentagon is
more inclined to agfee with*
Eisenhower. Kennedy's own
Other Campuses
ROTC Plan,
Honors Work
Revitalized
Compiled from the
Intercollegiate Press
Part of the bugaboo was tak
en out of the ROTC problem at
Bowdoin College recently when
advanced students were greet
ed with the news that 30 per
cent of their military instruc
tion will now be. in regular
academic courses.
The program has the bless
ings of Ihe Department of De
fense and was selected by the
College as the most advanta
geous to men in the advanced
courses.
With what amounts to 45
hours of non-military course
work, the Army is anticipating
increased intellectual vitality
and enrollment hikes.
Thiel College in Greenville is
going all out to keep the su
perior students on their cam
pus stimulated. Their new
achievement program, involv
ing only three per cent of the
student body, permits the ex
ceptional student to by-pass
so-called “introductory cours
es,” in favor of advanced study.
Upperclassmen at Thiel may
now earn up to six credits fpr
work done in their major field.
This flexible program may in
volve a thesis, oral examina
tions or research done on a
subject of particular interest to
the student, somewhat on the
European style'of “earn it your
self’ credit.
From the graduate side of the
degree track comes a plea for
the correction of abuses in the
administration of the Ph.D.
Professor Robert Ferber o!
the University of Illinois cites
the often unrecognized and un
rewarded work of the super
vising faculty member and
asks that celings be put on
work time involved.
Ferber recognizes that ' stu
dents too have their grievances
in the variations in require
ments for the doctor’s degree at
different schools. He asks that
these be standardized by the
leading professional organiza
tion in each field.
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Pentagon team says ihere's no
gap now.
The suggestion is that while
the Reds have gone forward
with their experiments, produc
tion has been a different mat
ter.
There has been a long stand
ing indication, based primarily
on the number and variety of
space shots, that the United
States has a fundamentally
broader program, embracing a
greater number of space capa
bilities, which lays a better
foundation for precision pro
duction.
The recent successful testing
of a solid-fuel missile was an
important step forward for the
United States in the purely
military uses of rockets. The
arrival of the Minuteman may
mark the real beginning of
U.S. production for operational
purposes, although there is al
ready quite a stockpile of
earlier models.
Tire new Pentagon study sug
gests that Russia, too, still has
started no intensive produc
tion program. This lends v/eight
Letters
Directors Identify
TO THE EDITOR: Unaccus
tomed as we are to journalistic
writing, the duly has fallen
upon us to inform the student
body, including Miss Pat Dyer
of the Collegian staff, that
WDFM has risen beyond the
chaos of the “alphabet soup.”
Yes, Pat, there is a student
radio station. Although your
little friends may tell you oth
erwise, those with FM radios
wjll confirm our statement.
Those without FM radios will
also agree, for lo and behold,
you can hear us six nights a
week on the local AM station,
WMAJ. (As this has been the
practice for no more than eight
years, we can excuse your ig
norance.)
Does anyone listen? Yes, in
deed! An ex-staff member, in
testifying recently before the
WDFM Executive Committee,
swore upon a copy of the NBC
Handbook of Pronunciation
that we received at least one
phone call from a happy lis
tener in the spring of 1955.
Although it has been sus
pected that this call came from
the roommate of the station
manager, we shall continue to
insist that this heartening re
sponse came from an impar
tial listener.
Still, there are those among
us who have neither AM nor
FM receivers but all is not
.lost, for you can enjoy the
fruits of our labors by joining
our studio audience each night
in 304 Sparks. Those interested
Little Man on Campus by dm m*.
pc\ p w m ctxz
WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1961
to estimates, based on the No
vember Communist manifesto
and recent Kremlin statements,
that the Soviet Union really
intends to fight the cold war
first, holding military power in
reserve in case she cannot win
the world without fighting.
Under such circumstances, it
would be to Russia’s benefit
not to expend too much of her
industrial capacity on military
production now. Yet by. her
very flexibility her knowl
edge that she will not be at
tacked by the democracies
while herself holding the in
itiative for war—she forces the
United States to continue.
Premier Khrushchev's prom
ise to aid civil wars in the pro
motion of nationalism is one of
the pressures. Kennedy is meet
ing that one through enlarge
ment and reorganization of air
borne power,
A great many of these things
are imponderables. In dealing
with the Soviet Union we have
to depend heavily on impres
sions and there is no end to
them.
'WDFM'
in joining our permanent stu
dio audience or working at
WDFM are invited to a meet
ing tonight at 8 in 121 Sparks.
As an extra ailraciion, ihe
meaning of our call letters—
W. D. F, and M shall be ex
plained by a representative of
the Federal Communications
Commission,
Yes, Virginia, ’er, Pat, there
is a student radio station,
which, despite the unwarrant
ed doubts of your; skeptical
little friends', will live on in
the detectors of crystal sets
county-wide, or at least bor
ough-wide, from now until the
entire staff goes on academic
probation.
—lra Berman,
Program Director
—Roland King,
Station Director
(Editor’s note: In the first
paragraphs of their letter, Mr,
Berman and Mr. King are re
ferring to a story, written by
Pat Dyer, which appeared in
yesterday's Collegian.)
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