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Editorial Opinion
Remodeled Rosebud Rules
At a recent meeting of a Senate Committee several
light-hearted remarks were tossed concerning the wording
of a constitutional phrase.
That phrase was: The affairs of women students shall
he under the jurisdiction of the AWS and the affairs of
men students shall be under the jurisdiction of MRC.
We don't want to overwork an obvious pun but the
recently published recommendations and remarks of a
Student Encampment workshop lead us to the tender
subject underscoring those remarks women students
-visiting the apartments of men.
At the mere mention of this subject administrative
heads arc likely to start buzzing with all the rationaliza
tions to which this Nittany Valley taboo has been sub
jected for time immemorial.
Some of their responses focus on the degree of respon
sibility which young men and women, newly unleashed
from family ties, are able to assume.
Thus, of course, we have women signing out and in,
we have curfews, we have •"no apartment" rulings.
Yet the Dean of Women has often expressed her desire
to see Penn State women emerge as mature and responsible
individuals ready to take their places in the civic com-
munity
And although the Dean of Men and the Dean of Women
differ philosophically in some areas, it is interesting to
note that the men do not have a statute barring apartment
visiting, but have merely interpreted one of the Senate
regulations in this connotation.
Both, we are sure. are vitally interested in promoting
the mature development of the students whose welfare
they are charged with protecting.
The Rules, Regulations and Student Welfare workshop
at Encampment has, in this connection, evolved a recom
mendation which should prove acceptable to both offices.
They state simply that women over 21 and with no
past offenses in this area be allowed to visit the apart
ments of men.
In discussing this question, the workshop group called
the present restriction "unreasonable. Victorian, and unen
forceable."
Indeed, the regulation is a hangover from the days
when past Dean of Women Pearl 0. Weston publicly
referred to "her girls" as "rosebuds."
And indeed too, the present regulation is unenforce
able unless a rowdy party attracts the attention of the
law-en forcers.
The workshop provision stipulates "women over 21"
which is without doubt a most reasonable request. If a
woman is over 21, she is probably a senior and therefore
quito used to making her own decisions and unlikely to
run hog wild with newly discovered freedoms.
The rules governing the conduct of men who live in
residence halls are far more liberal than those for women
in residence halls.
From the day men enter the University they are free
to come and go as they wish. Certainly women who at 21
are legal in the eyes of the Commonwealth and the courts
should be given this extension of their freedom.
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Letters
Alum Calls
For Spirit
Awakening
TO THE STUDENT BODY:
While coming back from the
Army game last Saturday I
started to wonder to myself
"What happened???"
Not necessarily what hap
pened to our team—though I
don't really like the role of a
"good loser." But what hap
pened to our school spirit?
We are in a pretty sad posi
tion when our students can
only cheer a winning team. At
half time, behind only 0-7, the
silence from our sections was
deafening.
Whereas the entire section
of Cadets brought its team back
onto the field, our students
were content to sit like bumps
on a log—finally making a tok
en appearance at the last min
ute with rather futile results.
Let's wake up!! You need
only to look at Pitt to see how
easily a good team can regress
without student support.
We have a good teamt It
wants to win and will win
much more easily when it
knows that you are 110 per
cent behind it.
This weekend can be the
turning point in a so far dis
appointing season. I certainly
hope the momentum will build
up throughout the week so that
by Saturday your team goes
out against Syracuse deter
mined to chew up "Davis and
Co."
But you must show them
you're with them, Pep rallies
help; a word of encouragement
here and there in class is also
effective.
But your performance in the
stands while they're on the
field provides the biggest boost.
The whole Eastern United
States will be watching you.
Are you going to continue doz
ing or are you going to get in
there and do your part along
with the team?
We'll see ... good luck.
—Bill Winierburn '53
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Interpreting
Bomb 'lns and Outs'
BERLIN (IP)—Prospective propaganda benefits may
tempt Soviet Premier Khrushchev to call off his super
bomb test, but the feeling in Berlin, eye of the political
storm, seems to be that the blast will be carried out.
Khrushchev told the Soviet party congress this week
of plans to set off a 50-megaton
bomb at the end of this month.
Official versions of the speech
quoted him with qualifications
—that the current series of
tests probably would conclude
with the 50-megaton blast.
Some British officials are
taking this as a sign he will
call off the explosion and urge
a new world ban on nuclear
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The prospect of the blast has
brought a cry of protest from
many countries, including the
United States.
Ordinarily this would pre
sent an attractive prospect to
Kremlin leaders. The test con
ceivably could be called off
as a gesture to world peace, and
the Kremlin might stand to
gain in propaganda returns.
But. argue observers in this
beleagured enclave of free
dom, if the Communists have
the bomb they are likely to
explode it on schedule,
They reason: Kremlin leaders
find themselves in a box, need-
Letters
'New' Social Movement
Faces Modern Student
TO THE EDITOR: Students of
social history, take notice of
a new social force among us.
The leader of this force ad
vocates practicality above all,
and to hell with sentimentality.
Mr. Read, has launched a
gung-ho program for pushing
the cause of practicality; so,
gung-ho in fact that he has
made a remarkably smooth
transformation from man to
machine.
From now on, let me refer
to Mr. Read as IBM number
X, since I am supposed to be
practical. That way I can be
completely practical and avoid
anything so personal or (rival
as a name. .
It is a shame though, that
I have to assign him such an
arbitrary value as X, but I am
not certain of his true value
in such a sentimental society
as now exists.
Indeed, he may not have any
value at all; so, maybe I should
have assigned the value of X
to him. In my mind, he certain
ly is a negative person.
Since X is asserting him
self as the chieftain of the
fight for practicality, it is only
fair to expect certain tactics
on his part.
To show his loyalty to the
cause that was born of IBM
practicality, I suggest that on
that notoriously sentimental
holiday, Thanksgiving, he
spend the entire day in his
office taking care of his
practical jobs.
Maybe around noon, some of
us foolishly sentimental stu
dents will take him a delicious
dinner of roast IBM punch
Gazette
Agricultural Engineers, 1 P.m., HUB
assembly hall
IASEC. Student Working Abroad Pro.
gram. 4 p.m.. M. Boucke
Block "S" Club, 9 a.m.. HUB first floor
Bridge Club, 7 p.m., HUB card room
Elections Commission, 5:30 p.m., 217.
218 HUB
Foconsicß Council, I p.m., HIM WM/ cm-
bly hall
loterlandia Folk Boom :BO p.m., NI
Engineering A
International Student Adv, Comm., I:30
p.m., 213 111111
Intervaretty Chrktien Fellowship, 7 :30
p.m., 1 t t Itiiiieke
P.S. Bible Fellowship, 12:15 p.m., 2(2
BUB
P.S. Figure Skating, 4 p.m., HUB
ground floor
Sylvania Electric Co., 8:96 Ban., 218
HUB
Theta Sigma Phi, initiation, 7 e.m.,
Delta Theta suite, Pollock 2
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Associated Press News Analyst
TODAY
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 20. 1961
ing a quick political victory
over the West to uphold their
leadership in the Communist
world movement.
One means of achieving a
victory appears to be, in Krem
lin eyes, a campaign of terror
propaganda backed up by a
series of nuclear explosions to
impress upon the world the
might of the Soviet military
machine.
There may be other reasons.
Observers here, acutely inter
ested in the ins and outs of
Communist policies, even see
a possibility that Soviet nuclear
explosions may be connected
with Moscow's current diffi
culties with Red China.
The thinking goes like this:
The issue of Red China's mem
bership in the United Nations
is coming closer to a decision.
The Russians, so this reason
ing goes, do not at this moment
actually want the Red Chinese
to be members of the United
Nations, despite protestations
to the contrary.
cards. Can anyone think of a
better way to observe (not
celebrate —that's too senta
mental) Thanksgiving, the new
day of practicality?
We could also start a fund to
replace old X with a new IBM
machine. What practicality!
Why, at this rate I can al
ready foresee the extinction of
Christmas, Rosh Hashanna,
etc. Instead, we'll get down,
on our knees during study
breaks and offer prayers of
Thanksgiving to the adminis
tration for delivering us from
sentimentality.
—John Beam '64
BusAd Council
Congratulated
TO THE EDITOR: The College
of Business Administration's
Student Council, we feel, is to
be congratulated for attempt
ing to start an international
program for the exchange of
summer jobs.
For students wanting prac
tical business experience, espe
cially on the international
level, at a minimum of cost,
this is a wonderful opportunity.
For once, we can see an oh.
vious attempt on the part of a
student council to help their
students obtain a better edu
cation.
We would urge all students
interested in the foreign ex
change program to attend the
meeting at 4 p.m. today in 111
Boucke.
—Bill Bower, '63
—Herb Witmer, '64
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