PAGE tObre a a aI I I I )1' 7 Editorial Opinion Why Not Honor System? The student leaders at the University of Florida have pessimistically said that an honor system is unfeasible on their campus because students fight for degrees and neglect education. Joseph Riley, former student body president at Florida, said many students will go after a degree with little regard for how they get it. To a certain extent, we feel this problem exists on the campuses of every university today, Penn State being no exception. Many students do not understand, ignore or never learn what "education" is. Education is regarded merely as a means to the end of earning a living and other values such as truth and honesty get lost in the competition. However, we are not nearly as pessimistic about the future of honor systems as are our southern friends. The experimentation with an honor system in certain courses within the College of Mineral Industries is apparently working out quite well. At the beginning of the semester, students in certain upper class courses vote on whether or not they will take their examinations under the honor system. These courses are given preliminary approval for establishing the honor system by the departments at the beginning of the semester. Assistant Dean John D. Ridge, who handles the col lege's honor system, said it was not made available in the lower level courses because so many students outside the College of Mineral Industries elected these courses. Ridge said he has not discovered a single case of cheating in classes which elected to take tests under the honor system. • We think that it would be entirely possible and cer tainly advantageous for other colleges to try this system with the eventual goal of establishing it on a University wide basis. We do not advocate that the University establish the honor system tomorrow or next week. The results would be disastrous. But we do think that, in time, the honor system could be established with students benefiting from the increased personal responsibility and more concern for truth and honesty. Ridge, in discussing a University-wide honor system, said that there "would be a lot of trouble until it became customary to report people who cheated." We think that if student attitude changed so that it became sophisticated to be truthful and honest rather than to be apathetic or "able to get through without a bit of work," there would be fewer cheaters. However, students would have to do more than whine about the guy who keeps crib notes. They would have to get up and do something about it. We definitely feel that with a slow implementation of an honor system, student attitudes would change and it might indeed become "customary" to report the cheater. The Coward's Way Out SGA President Richard Haber read before the SGA Assembly last night what he called "an anonymous letter" severely criticising The Daily Collegian. The Collegian asked to have the letter for publication. Haber flatly refused. The Collegian is only too happy to print and to listen to any criticism of itself if the author has enough convic tion in his beliefs and the intestinal fortitude to sign the letter. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial F'reedom o'lll> Bailg Tollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University rut. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 6. 1994 at the State College Pa. Poet Office 'under the set of March S. 187$. Man Subscription Pricer $3.00 per semester 95.00 per year. Mailing Address Box 261, State College. Pa. JOHN BLACK Editor a4M4•I STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor,. 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MARCH I'7. 1961 Business Manager CHESTER LUCID° 'THAT CONSTANT SLURPING SIMPLY NAUSEATES ME! or fak W). 4 . ~.= I DON'T THINK I'M GOING TO BE ABLE TO STAND 1T.... ot'°)• iF 4i i 3 ~$ a 14V7-1.., i 4 O ' 4 lell i 3 1 040 3 ~7_, t ,.... •••,Iti , ,-,7.--, .„,/ 7 --azu......... ~., THERE MUST BE fIJN)' DS er RAVEL AGENTS WHO WOULD BE • LY 160 GLAD TO GUIDE YOU TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD! okri It' - 40.•• -:- 1 .. :i i. ::" - -"`-- k. ,Alv .--;-,;,-- - qi,.....2 ~,,, Letters Another Upset By Policy On Discrimination TO THE EDITOR: I too was disturbed by the statement at tributed to Mr. Wilmer Wise and Dr. Monroe Newman, who spoke for the Senate Commit tee on Student Affairs, in the Collegian of March 8. The opinion that racial dis crimination in fraternities and sororities is a matter of self determination is sheer non sense. As a nation we began by de claring that all men are created equal. But some people have altered that statement to read all men are created equal ex cept Jews and Negroes. The heart of the race ques tion is moral and religious. It concerns rights of mankind and our attitude toward our fellow man. If our attitude is governed by the Christian law of love and respect for his rights, then we can proceed to work out the techniques for making the necessary social adjustments. But if our minds are poisoned by indifference toward the welfare and rights of our fel lowman, then our nation faces an internal crisis. It is unreasonable that fac tors such as race and religion should be made causes of dis crimination and a basis for unequal treatment. —Rev. Reiss J. Hampton, Liberal Catholic Missionary Gazette TODAY Alpha Phi Omega, 9 a.m., Ist floor, liUlt Bridge Club, 7 p.m., 111113 card room College of Agriculture Faculty. 4 :16 p.m., 109 A rmgby Cosmopolitan Club Dinner, 6:30 p.m., State College Presbyterian Church Eastern Arts Reeearch Committee, 7 p.m., 216 HUB Fluid Mechanics Seminar, 4:16 p.m., 105 51E Interamerican Club, 8 p.m., Conference Center MI Colloquium, 4 :15 p.m., MI Audi- tor it' ni Placement, S a.m. and 1 p.m., 203, 212 HUB Physics Colloquium, 4:15 p.m., 117 Os- mond University BX Committee, 6 p.m., 218 HUB Wesley Foundation, 8 p.m., St. Pat- rick's Day Party "Wonderful Town," B pan., Schwab interpreting U.S. Moves Slightly On Colonial Issue By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The United States moved ever so slightly Wednesday night toward what is for her a more natural relationship with the nationalist revolution which has been taking place in the world. She abandoned, at last for this once, the tightrope of absten tion by which she has been attempting to maintain a precarious balance in the United Nations between the burgeoning move ment for independence and the interests of some of her allies in the remaining tatters of colonialism. She sided wi the small natio] in their contei tion that Porn gal must no . start doing soul( thing t o war preparing A n gola for indr pendence. The Portu guese dictator ship has been ROBERTS following a stern and inflexi ble policy toward the African area which she calls an over seas province, after the French custom with regard to Algeria. No program looking toward establishment of a native poli tical entity has been permit ted. The farthest Portugal has gone has been to offer Portu guese citizenship to natives who can meet difficult quali fications. The U.N. Security Council —including Britain and France which still have their colonial problems—decided that the Angola situation did not rep resent a threat to peace and Letters Testimonial For Newman TO THE EDITOR: To those who know Dr. Newman, his stand against discrimination needs no expounding. But lest any doubt has been created in the minds of those who do not know him well, a statement from one who has had much contact with him would help to eliminate any doubts of his position with respect to dis crimination. In stating what the Univer sity's policy is on certain mat ters, it would be unfortunate if Dr. Newman is associated with favoring discrimination. I know of a number of peo ple in the campus community who are aware of the many ugly forms of discrimination It's In the Charter TO THE EDITOR: After read ing, with profound admiration, the defense of personal liber ties, the right to choose one's associates etc., stated by var ious spokesmen of official or gans of the Penn State student body, I am making public the formal request I shall voice at the next meeting of th e Diablerie Committee of the College of Liberal Arts. In so far as the Charter of the National Association of Liberal Arts Colleges (to which we owe allegiance, money and buddy-ship) makes it clear that undesirable types are to be excluded from all member - - colleges, I move that hence- —Jerold Roschwalb forth no member of the 1.F.C., English Department Economical Opportunity at Co-op TO THE EDITOR: Recently it to the, conclusion that many was brought to my attention students do not know that such that over 5000 students had a place does exist. Room and signed a petition which op- board is approximately half of posed a raise in tuition. From that of the dorms. this it is rather evident that there are quite a few students in financial need. For the past 23 years there has been an organization on campus whose aim has been to offer a less expensive means of attending college: This is the College Co-op. This June, for a lack of membership, there is the - possibility that the co-op may have to close its dom. From what I understand of the situation I can only come refused a resolution demand ing reforms. The issue will go to the General Assembly. But before Adlai E. Steven son had finished speaking, the attitude of the United States had transcended the immedi ate point at issue. Enunciating a policy decid ed upon only a short time be fore the meeting, Stevenson asserted the right of the Unit ed States to advise Portugal as a friend that her policies might eventually lead to a threat of war such as has occurred else where in Africa. He thus broke the front of waiting and maneuver by which the Western powers have tried to gain time. That does not mean the Unit ed States has decided time is not needed for orderly transi tion in the face of Commun ist threats of disorderly take over of emerging peoples. It does suggest that the United States is beginning to realize what can happen to her own position in the world if time runs on too long. It is an assertion of leader ship where leadership has been seriously needed. It is an ex pression of traditional Ameri can principles which may pay off where diplomatic pussy footing has not. here In Penn State and State College and who oppose such practices. Among those people is Dr. Newman. It would therefore be a ser ious disservice to the very forces that are fighting dis crimination to alienate Dr. Newman or people with his views. I have no doubt that his con victions on the immorality of discrimination are so great, that no unfortunate misrepre sentation of his position would deter him from continuing his fight for an equal chance for everyone, regardless of race, creed or color. —Hugh Greenidge Foreign Student S.G.A., F.L.A. (Freedom Lov ing Americans) be enrolled in our college. If any such types are presently enrolled, it is only because they are "passing" and refusing to reveal their true colors. Of course, I have nothing personal against these people, but the charter is the Charter is THE CHARTER. Should any ifcsgafla brother complain, let him go to another college or organize his own. Why do people always push themselves where they are not wanted? Let's go back to the peaceful days before I.F.C. or even P.S.U. Of course we cannot compete with the plush dorms; we can only offer the opportunity for a lessexpensive education among- , warmth and friendship. If the co-op must: close, it will be a loss to those who, because of financial difficul ties, are finding the cost of an education a much more ser ious problem than either they or we had first imagined. —Harry D. Boonin President, College Co-op
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