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Editorial Opinion
Fraternity Discrimination
DARE (Direct Action for Racial' Equality) is now
seeking support from student-groups for its proposal to
abolish discrimination clauses in fraternity and sorority
constitutions within five years.
We had proposed, on Feb. 8, that the Interfraternity
and Panhelienic Councils working m conjunction with
the Senate Committee on Student Affairs seek to abolish
these clauses possibly with a University regulation out
lawing them. Our proposal was ignored.
DARE'a attempt to gel support for its proposal from
other student groups may not be successful either, be
cause it will take'courage to support it and we suspect
the chief response will be the fence-sitting refusal to
give an opinion.
We can hope, however, that DARE will get clear yes
or no answers.
In regard to the value of the DARE proposal, we are
not so naive as to believe that the removal of these clauses
will change the composition of these groups overnight.
We do not even particularly care whether or not the
local Alpha Tau Omega chapter ever pledges Jewish boys
or Negro boys or Hindus.
BUT we definitely feel that these national rules are
holding down chapters which would like to select their
members on criteria other than race or religion.
We also feel that the local groups ought to have the
right to choose whomever they please, on whatever basis
they decide to use. They should not be bound by out
moded rules made'years ago by people very far removed
from local conditions and modern ideas.
If the local members decide they do not want Jewish
people, Negroes and any people with dark hair, then we
realize that it is their right to do so.
The movement to remove these clauses by Univer
sity regulation is,hardly unique to Penn State. It has
been done successfully at Colgate and Ohio State and
we think this University should definitely lend its sup
port.
The national groups themselves cannot rule very
long by continually imposing restrictions which some or
many of their locals find oppressive. They may soon face
the choice of changing with the times or becoming extinct.
National fraternities are not nearly in as strong' a
position as Senator Barry Goldwater or Banla’s Greek
Exchange would like to believe they are.
We had hoped that the discrimination clauses could
be voluntarily abolished within each group or at least
that the local councils governing these groups would take
some action.
If, however, none is forthcoming from any group, we
urge that the administration of this University establish
a rule giving all fraternities and sororities a definite time
period in which to get their discriminatory clauses re
moved or go local.
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YOU SOT IT id RONS,
KID...ALL WRONG...
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. ' ST ATE COLLEGE* PENNSYLVANIA
CHESTER LUCIDO
Business Manager
interpreting
Kennedy and Latin
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
President Kennedy will an
nounce plans for his “alliance
of progress” with Latin Ameri
ca next week during a period
of speculation as to whether
the United States may be
traveling a one-way street.
All of the countries to the
South need economic aid, Some
of them, 1i k ~
Mexico, need
to heap up ster
on program
which have pi
duced considi
able achieverm
and promise,
Others h a
been goi
through politic
and economic
changes which Roberts
have prevented them from get
ting their feet on the ground..
Both the Eisenhower and Ken
nedy administrations have been
Letters
Dialogue
On Man's
Goodness
TO THE EDITOR: A short dia
logue on the goodness of man.
Characters: Jesus, ATO Rush
ing Chairman
Scene: Somewhere in the
HUB
ATO Rushing Chairman
(apologetically!: Well you see
how it is. We'd really like to
have you in the house, but you
know about these rules.
Jesus (puzzled): There are
no rules I am familiar with
that would prevent me from
pledging your fraternity.
Chairman: We discussed this
at our meeting last night, and
I’m afraid we can’t take any
J ews.
Jesus: (Waving arms in be
wilderment): But I thought a
fraternity was an organization
dedicated to the brotherhood of
man.
Chairman: (tapping spoon on
table in time to Elvis Presley
record): Oh it is. However, you
fail to realize that religion
plays an important part in our
fraternity life. You wouldn’t fit
in at all in any of these re
ligious activities.
Jesus: Well that may be. but
how do >cu explain this policy
to the administration?
Chairman: We just explain
to them that a fraternity is a
private organization, and any
interference on their part
would be a direct threat to our
American system of democracy
and our right of free associa
tion.
Jesus (looking relieved): Now
I understand what Barry Gold
water meant when he said that
the fraternal system was our
greatest bulwark against Com
munism.
Chairman: I’m glad that you
realize that this is the best of
all possible fraternal systems.
Jesus and ATO rushing chair
man shake hands, get up from
table, lock arms, and exit sing
ing “Outwardly Christian Sol
diers.”
—Mike Muldawer, '62
Gazette
TODAY
Bridpe Lessons, G:3oj>.m., HUB card
room
Bus Ad Council, 8:30 p.m., 218 HUB
IF!', 0:30 p.m., 111 llmicke
ISA dance, 8 p.m., HUH ballroom
Ml Colloquium, 4:15 p.m., MS audi-
torium
OSGA, 7 p.m., 212 HUB
OSUA, ICxecutive Committee, -1:30 p.m.,
218 HUB
OSGA Registration, 4 p.m., HUB read-
ing room
University BX Committee, 6 p.m., 218
HUB
HOSPITAL
Barbara Becker, Patricia Caputo,
Grctchen Carr, Richard DiMarcello,
Richard Doyle, Janies Draper, Thomas
Durst, Clara Ksterly, Nancy Gorman,
Thomas .Greenlee, Barbara Jamison,
Carol Kantor, Rosalind Katz, Neal
Keitz, Helen Ledoux, Wayne Lundy,
Jo Anne Mark, Ray Mendiratta, Alice
Mosher, Linda I'ownnll, Carol Lee
Rights, Neil Sarsfield, Nancy Smith#
K&tbejr Weschler, Robert White*
attempting to arrange sound
cooperation.
The planning, however, has
run headon into a Communist
infiltration situation which af
fects virtually the entire area.
Some of the governments facs
internal political instability be
cause of it.
Others have taken only a
hesitating—and therefore pain
ful—grasp of the Cuban nettle.
When Cuban Prime Minister
Fidel Castro says he is not at
tempting to export his revolu
tion to other countries, they
would rather listen to him than
to U.S. warnings against allow
ing Castro to consolidate his
position.
Brazil, traditionally allied
with the United States, ap
parently is being carried into a
position of leadership among
the countries which place dem
onstrations of their political
independence above coopera
tion.
There is an appearance of
developing neutralism on the
Cuban issue.
There is even evidence that
Little Man On Campus By Dick Bibler
No Art ITEM FOR OUR SfUtTeNT PRESS-WHAT'S YOl EfJSINEERS
OPINION Of Tf EARLY CLOSING HOUR'S FOR WOMEN? 4 '
On Other Campuses
Loyalty, ROTC, Salaries
Compiled from the Intercollegiate Press
NEW YORK Barnard Col
lege trustees have announced
support for the recommenda
tion of President Kennedy’s
Task Force on Education which
advises that the disclaimer
clause of the National Defense
Education Act be eliminated.
Barnard has refused to parti
cipate in the NDEA because of
the loyalty clause. Last year
the Student Council and the
Representative Assembly
adopted resolutions opposing
it.
* * *
MADISON, Wis. Students
and regents of the University
of Wisconsin worked together
to put military training on a
voluntary basis last semester.
Seventy-five per cent of the
number who entered third year
Army ROTC in the fall of 1959
must enter this program in the
fall of 1961 and 1962. Other
wise, the University will re
vert to compulsory basic
ROTC.
Under the present program
all male freshmen are required
to take an orientation pro
gram in the several ROTC cur
ricula. The orientation can take
no more than five class hour;,
Gerard A. Rohlich, chair
man of the faculty’s special
FRIDAY. MARCH 10. 1961
America
some governments are over*
stressing the growth of com
munism in an effort to build
a fire under the United States.
In the circumstances it is un
derstandable that the United
States should have trouble de
termining just what her goals
and methods should be.
Take Mexico, for instance.
She has been making great eco
nomic strides; and openly
credits the help of the United
States. Relations have im
proved steadily over the years
since her oil expropriations.
Yet she harbors one of the best
organized, best-financed and
most active Communist cadres
in the West.
It is inevitable that such sit
uations, highlighted by what
developed from a small leftist
spark in Cuba, shall be promi
nently in the background when
the Kennedy program goes to
Congress.
The Latin Americans them
selves, or some of them, are
preventing the good business
and good political approach
which the problems need.
ROTC Policy Committee, said
criticisms of the program are
under consideration but “in
our opinion the orientation
program \v a s constructive,
helpful to" the student and
should be continued.
* * ♦
PRINCETON, N.J. -- The
Board of Trustees of Prince
ton University recently ap
proved an upward revision of
salary scales for the faculty
effective Feb, 1, 1961. The new
salary minimums are: prqfes
sors, $12,000;' associate profes
sors, $9000; assistant profes
sors, $7000; instructors, $6OOO.
"Across Ihe board" increases
were also approved at ihe an
nual rate of $5OO for professors
and associate professors and
$250 for assistant professors and
instructors.
* * *
LAWRENCE, Kansas Sen
ior women living in organized
houses on the University of
Kansas campus may now
check out a key and remain out
past the closing hours estab
lished by the AWS Board of
Standards.
Parental permission is re
quired for senior women to
take advantage of this plan
which is termed “strictly ex
perimental” by the dean o£
women.