PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion 'Ungodly? 'Unconstitutional'? The chaplain of the Interfraternity Council has more or less charged us with proposing a plan which is uncon stitutional, dangerous to democracy and ungodly. It is probably possible to use the broad terms of free dom and constitutionality to attack or defend almost any idea (the Soviet Union manages this nicely) and it is cer tainly possible to use the concept of God in any manner one chooses. However, we do feel that there are certain definitions of these terms which prevail in this country and we do not see how our proposal can be taken as "unconstitu tional" much less "ungodly." We merely think in order to help erase discrimination the University should not recognize fraternities whose national groups impose discriminatory clauses because of race or religion. Ohio State University and Colgate have instituted this rule. Discriminatory clauses have imposed a hardship on many local chapters who happen to choose members regardless of race or color. The Stanford chapter of Alpha Tau Omega has had to hire a lawyer because it pledged four Jewish boys. The intention of our proposal has been misconstrued, saying that we want to take away the right of “free association.” This is a complete reversal of meaning. We want actually to insure the right of “free” association. Discriminatory clauses prohibit “free association.” The elimination of such clauses would be a-definite step toward allowing free association to exist in individual fraternity chapters. Many fraternities are trying to get the discriminatory clauses removed from their constitutions and our pro posal was intended to help the cause. We have said nothing about individual chapters who choose ihemselvea to be governed by prejudice except that they will get'members whom they deserve. However, it is quite unfair for chapters to be forced to adhere to dis criminatory clauses written some time ago by someone else under quite different circumstances. If the Chaplain chooses to believe that God would look with disfavor upon this proposal we cannot say he is wrong but we can say that the ideals in the Judeo- Christian tradition, as wednterpret them, are on our side. So, at the risk of being monotonous, we again propose that the Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils in con junction with the Senate Committee on Student Affairs begin work toward abolishing all racial and religious clauses existing in the national constitutions of some Greek groups on campus. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom 3% Hatty (Mteyian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 PuWUhfd T M*«diiy through Siturdug morning during th, Unlreraltj jm. Th» o*||J Collrgion l> a ntudcnt-operated newspaper. Entered as second-rlass matter Julj 5, 19J4 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March S, IBf9 Mall Subscription Pricer $3.00 per semester $5.00 per gear. JOHN BLACK ' Editor Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Ellie Hummer; Wire Edi tor, Saralee Orton; Assistant Copy Editor, Lynne Cerefice; As sistants: Robert Dean, Marilee McClinlock, Betsy Mulcey, Maxine Fine, Kitty Bassett, Tucker Merrill and Sandy Pohlman. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager Letters Write to Your Representative TO THE EDITOR: The most recent warning we Penn Stat ers have had is that next term the tuition may go up. The question is: Why? The answer is: The University must meet operating expenses to keep its doors open to us, To meet these expenses, the University depends on appro priation from the state and our tuition fees. When the state does not meet the University’s financial request for operating budget, the money must be secured from other means, namely us. For yarious reasons Gover nor Lawrence has not seen' it in his budget to grant Dr. Walker the sum he has re quested. The requested sum is considered by the administra tion to be adequate tor the next year of operation. If the State continues to be obstinate concerning the amount allocated to Penn State, then the University Letters Sr. Answers Haney Letter Oh Prejudice TO THE EDITOR: (In response to George Haney’s letter on individual liberties) I shall write a bill, Mr. Haney, de manding that all organizations must have an arbitrary per centage of members of each ethnic group and each religious order—Then, and only then, would your letter demanding the right of free association be apropos. For then it would b« I <who was closing a door on the "rights, responsibilities. ' and privileges of citizenship." How ever, that bill has yet to be written, and now we must look at the real culprit of such a devious crime. Who exactly is committing a travesty against constitutional rights? Why, Mr. Hahey, it’s a piece of paper with carefully typed words saying No admittance to , These are words impinging on the rights of your own fraternity men, women in sororities; or on anyone a mem ber of an arbitrarily-restricted group. For I ask you, what right does a disassociated branch of a social organization have to determine who the immediate group shall have as brothers? What use are laws that cannot be respected by a. majority of a governing group? When a fra ternity with a sufficiently ef fective “black-ball” system agrees that they want a “No admittance to” member as a brother where are those “con stitutional rights” then, Sir? I repeat, none yet has de manded that there be a quota system, or even that any group of people change the way they decide upon their friends. Attitudes do not come in portfolios and they do not change with a change in law. However, if they had a tacit desire to change, don’t you think they should be given the right? —Leslie LeWinler '6l Gazette TODAY Inlerlandia, 7:30*10:30 p.m.» HUB ball* room Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, 12:15-1:10 p.m., 218 HUB; 7:30 p.m.. 11l Uoucke WDFM Schedule FRIDAY 8:30 Stork Market Report StftO News and Weather 4:00 Critic’s Choice 0:00 Three at Five 6:00 Studio X * 6:55 Wentherscope 7:OU Album Review 7:30 Portrait of a City 7:55 News Roundup 8:00 Starlight Review 9:00 Light Classical Jukebox 9:15 News, Sports, Weather 10:00 Ballet Theatre 12:00 Midnight Mood l :00 Sign Off - Trustees will have to raise the tuition. The State raises the money for appropriation through the various taxes in the state. One tax which hits all of us at this time of the year is the sales tax on books. This tax is theoret ically turned into a state fund for educational purposes. Does it really get there, and is it really used for education? In order to find out why the Legislature will not give us the funds we desperately need, I propose that each student write to his Senator or Representa tive, or both, and ask him what his stand is on the issue, and exactly what is happening to the sales tax from books. If we want to keep the tui tion down to the present level, we will have to put some pres sure on the Legislature at Har risburg to grant the sum re quested in the budget submit ted by Dr. Walker. If we take Dr. Walker’s ad- World At New Premier Heads Congo LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo (/P) The Congo’s government was handed back to the politi cians yesterday in a move to head off American overtures for a new deal with Patrice Lumumba. President Joseph Kasavubu formally dismantled the College of Commissioners —the group of university graduates installed by Gen. Joseph Mobutu to run the country last September and proclaimed a provisional govern ment of parliamentarians. It will serve until Parliament can be summoned, but this may not be for some time. The new premier is Senate President Joseph lleo, a soft spoken, slightly built man of 39. A firm opponent of Lumuba, lleo nevertheless offered the deposed premier a place in the govern ment once before in a bid to unite the Congo's warring fac tions. He now finds himself again as a potential conciliator. In naming the Cabinet, Kasavubu left open six posts—including the vital De fense Ministry—for opponents of Leopoldville in hopes they would rally to the central government. JFK Proposes Health Program WASHINGTON (/P) Presi dent Kennedy pressed yesterday for enactment of a "freedom of| choice” program under which 14.2 million older men and womenj would receive hospital, nursing and other medical care paid for by bigger Social Security taxes. Sending his medical care for the aged program to Congress, Kennedy sought to neutralize one major opposing argument by de claring, “This ... is not-a pro gram of socialized medicine. ' “It is a program of prepay ment of health costs with absolute freedom of choice guaranteed,” the President said in a special message. “Every person will choose his own doctor and hospi tal.” Arguing the need for his pro gram, Kennedy said the 16 mil lion Americans over age 65 face an annual medical bill twice that of the younger segment of the population “but their annual in come is only half as high.” Kennedy’s message signaled what may turn out to be the hot test battle of the session. Gas Tax Increase OK'd HARRISBURG UP) Gov. Lawrence yesterday signed into effect the two-cents-a-gallon in crease in the state’s gasoline tax. The increase raises the tax to seven cents, effective April 1. It will produce an estimated $74 million a year for the state motor fund: — the commonwealth’s high way-building treasury. i FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 10. 1961 vice, and each of us writes to his Senator and Representative as well as the Governor, we will be letting the Legislators on Capitol Hill know that Penn State students will not stand to be pushed around like chess pawns, or take second best. Politicians value their office; they cannot afford to ignore 14,000 letters flooded in from students who represent all counties of Pennsylvania. They know that votes count in elec tions, and if they do not give the voters what they want, they may not get back into of fice. Remember: The lobby pres sure and the leters to Senators and Representatives' got the two cent gas tax passed." Our student body- with its lobby of letters is just as big a lobby and just as effective for our share of appropriation. —Ron Sheetz '62 (Editors Note: We second the motion.) A Glance Tough Months Seen for U.S. I WASHINGTON (/P) -- Experts painted for Congress yesterday a 'picture of even tougher months 'ahead for the nation’s economy. ,They predicted things will get better later this year, but com plete recovery may not come be fore 1962. And there was applause for President Kennedy's go-slow ap proach in trying to provide gov ernment cures lor the country’s economic aches and pains. These were the over-all views of a panel of lop economists —■ in industry and government in testimony before the Senate- House Economic Committee. Meanwhile, Republican leaders in Congress removed any linger ing doubt that Kennedy’s eco nomic proposals will have tough sledding. Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois and House Leader Charles A. Halleck of In diana said some of Kennedy’s proposals might “dampen down the recovery process.” Expert Accuses 5 of Espionage LONDON UP) A British ex pert declared yesterday that five persons accused of spying for the Soviet Union stole details of the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine Dreadnought, based on designs supplied by the United States in 1959. The details were not specified but described by the witness, Navy Capt. George Symondsi as “of undoubted value to an en emv.” Symonds said the information was spirited Out of the highly se cret Royal Navy research station at Portland, where he was direc tor of the underwater weapons section. He said it was contained in photographs of the pages of a top-secret Royal Navy book. Algerian French Jets Intercept Soviet Plane ALGIERS (tf>) A French spokesman confirmed last night that French air force jets inter cepted a Soviet Ilyushin 18 and fired warning shots at it. The spokesman said the planes fired only when the Soviet air craft failed to reply to radio calls for identification. He said the French had no ad vance notice of the flight. The Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow charged last night that a French jet fired on an Ilyushin 18 carrying Soviet President Leo nid Brezhnev, Severance Resigns VILLANOVA, Pa. (A>) Al Severance, Villanova University basketball coach since 1936, re signed yesterday, effective the end of the season. His team won 415, lost 196 in that time.
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