PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion For A Faker Panhel Code The Panhellenic Council is currently considering a resolution that would bring some of this country's oldest and most basic constitutional rights to sororities. The reso lution requires anyone reporting infractions of the Panhel Rush Code to appear before the judicial board to present their charges. Under the present system the name of the group or person accusing a sorority of an infraction is kept secret by the judicial board. The name of the accusing sorority is not even revealed to the hoard members by the chair man until a decision has been made. The National Panhellenic Conference recommends that both the accuser and the accused be present in all judicial cases. Last year two sororities were given strict silence penalties because of reported pre-rush parties which were not permitted under the rush code. These sororities ap pealed the decision of the board but the penalties were sustained. In the past we have questioned this secretive method of accusation. With the formation this year of a standard judicial code for all University students, our feeling that Panhel must, in all fairness, change its policy becomes stronger. The judicial code set up by the University Senate Committee on Student Affairs entitles every student brought before any judicial hearing the right of facing his accuser. The presentation of the resolution to change policy was a significant step toward fairer handling of infrac- We urge all Panhellenic delegates and members of sororities to work for the resolution's adoption, In supporting this resolution we recognize the prob• lems it may present. Sororities may hesitate to report another sorority's infraction because they will have to face them. However, we feel confident that, after due consider ation, sororities 'will put the good of the sorority system before individual hesitations. This is a fair and much needed judicial change. We urge that it be adopted. A Credit to the Student Body Dean of Student Affairs Robert C. Bernreuter an nounced Thursday that 1,596 students of the Pennsylvania State University attained deans list averages (above a 3.5) during the fall term. . Looking at past statistics,' this figure represents 261 more students than received deans list recognition in the fall term, 1961, and 634 more than appeared on the list in 1960, the last fall under the semester System. - We wish to commend all of these students and those who fell just short of this level of achieVement. It is indeed a' credit to the University and to the capabilities of its student body. A Student-Operated Newspaper Tultrnian Successor .to The Free Lance, est: 1887 Published Tuesday through .Saturday morning during the University year. Th. Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matte: July 5. 1831 at the State College, Va. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Mail Subscription Prioe: $6.00 a year Mailing Address Dor 261. State College. Pa. Member of The Associated Press ANN PALMER Editor THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA HERBERT WITMER Business Manager Letters Currie Hit For Lack Of Knowledge TO THE EDITOR: When I read the article written by Mr. Phillip Currie in the Jan. 25 Collegian concerning Carnegie Building Penn State's "Testing Ground" I was amazed by the lack of knowledge displayed by those in the journalism department who share Carnegie with the music de partment. Currie, speaking Tor his department, complains of the "noises" made by students using the rooms. As a student in music education, I like these sounds even less than he does. First, we students are required to have a certain amount of train ing in instrumental, vocal and keyboard areas if we expect to teach others to play these instru ments. It is a well-known fact that one learns by doing. So, we prac tice so we can pass a proficiency examination in each of these areas. Unfortunately, our practicing sounds as it does because mu sicians are made, not born. Funda mentals must be learned before advanced instruction can be at tempted. These fundamentals are not easy to listen to, even for us. Secondly, we in music educa tion are required to pay per term a fee (not included in our tuition) for the privilege of using the rooms for practice. This term I paid $43 in practice fees; I am going to use these rooms now that this is paid, and work with the intent not of seeing how much noise I' can create to disturb the journalism department, but of gaining knowledge and under standing in these areas so that I will become a better and more intelligent teacher. I realize that it is difficult for those in the neighboring rooms to listen to, but I think the sugges tion is to reduce the number of musicians by 50 per cent is rather narrow-minded, especially for a graduate student. Currie failed to list his musical degrees which qualify him to make this rash statement. He also did not list any stipulations de , termining who shall be forced to have. His only criterion was how a student sounded through his of fice wall. A student lacking the necessary background will never sound like a concert artist. I .know you and your type writers did not ask to be placed in Carnegie, and we, having been there ,much longer than your one term, did not invite you. But, you were placed there. Now we must understand each other. We must not turn Carnegie into a "testing ground" where two de partments compete against each other, testing to see who can force the other into silent sub mission. —David L. Fluck '65 WDFM This Weekend SATURDAY, FEB. 2, 1963 1:00 Mid Day Concert: light classics 2:00 Metropolitan Opera from New York t Wagner: "The Plying Dutchman" 0:00 - Music of fife Western World: Bach: Andante from Sinfonia Con certantein Conceilo No. 2 Ma rcello; Introduction; Airia-Presto\ Haydn: Concerto for Harpsichord Vivaldi: Concerti No. 2 & 5 for Strings Handel: Royal Fireworks Pureß: Music for Trumpets 7:00 Ili-Fi Open Douse 8:00 Spotlight: Ste'Ve Monheimer reviews "Broadway '63" - 9:00 Offbeat Marquees: Parody of Mar quee, Memories 10:00 Offbeat: Unpopular host plays Popu lar music 1:00 Ken's Korner: Restless sounds into - the morning hours SUNDAY, FEB. 3, 1.963_ 1:00 Sunday Moods: Tapes of jazz, pop, show 4:00 Special Live Broadcast from Schwab: Model U.N. 5:00 Chapel Service 6:00 Mormon Tabernacle Choir 6:30 Chamber Music 7:00 The Third Programme: Five hours of finest- classics with Cano MONDAY, FEB. 4, 1963 4:15 "The Philadelphia" Grieg: "Peer Gynt Suite" No. 1 Enesco: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 Alfvert: Swedish Rhapsody 6:00 Dinner Date: Relaxing Dinner music 6:00 News Interpretation: with Steve Franklin 6:16 Weatheracope: xvith Joel Myers 6:20 Ballet Theater: Excerpts from Brit ten's "Turn of the Screw" 7:30 Highlight: On Campus: Barb Faris interviews Gary Oberst (TIM) 7:40 Two of a Kind 8:00 Jazz Panorama: Penn State Jais - Club 9:00 World of the Theater: Dawn Strauss & Larry Feathers discuss the "Fanta sticks" 9:16 Mostly Music: accent on folk musk 9:55 Campus News: On the spot report ing 10:00 Symphonic Notebook: -- Beethoven: Quartet No, 2 Sibelius: Symphony No. Rachmoninoff: Concerto No. I for Piano ' Letters Arch Soph Calls 'Joke' That May TO THE EDITOR: There is a joke being played on the architectural student body that may make a bit of history in Old Sackett. Our honorable acting department head has issued an official order that has taken the entire staff and student body aback. It is officially decreed that all drafting rooms be closed and empty by 10 p.m. instead of 2 a.m. This joke loses its humor when this order is enforced. The re• percussions to the morale of the architects can not be fully realized by a non-architect. There are many things that are an insult to our department; limited budget, crowded conditions, high student teacher ratio and of course the loss of accreditation. Now we are supposed to submit to this slap in the face. The reasons for this order seem vague since none are given. It is rumored that there have been violations of previous orders, such as staying longer than the allotted time. One case cites an archi tectural engineer prof coming to an 8 o'clock class and finding an architect catnapping on the lec- World at Planes Collide; Kill 11 Persons In Ankara Square ANKARA, Turkey (!f')---A pas senger airliner and a military plane collided head-on in a cloud bank over Ankara• yesterday and plunged as flaming wreckage into bustling crowds in the city's main square and nearby buildings. Police said 71 or more persons were killed and nearly 200 were injured about half of them gravely in the worst air dis aster in Turkish history. Most victims were pedestrians and occupants of buildings lining ,TJlus Square in the heart of this Turkish capital. There were - 17 persons aboard the two planes, and none was re ported to have survived. Five of the airliner's 11 passengers were listed as Americans. The passenger plane was a Middle East Airlines jet-prop Vis count carrying 11 passengers and 3 crew, members.• It was prepar ing to land at Ankara Airport northeast of the city after a stop at Nicosia, capital of Cyprus. Part Of its wreckage slammed into the %pare. The military craft was a Turk ish Air Force -C47 Dakota with a crew of three on an instrument training flight. Much of the wreckage hit houses, killing some occupants. A large. chunk of fuse lage landed at Ankara's ancient castle, - less than a third of a mile from the square.. Nuclear To Start WASHINGTON (/P) Secre tary of State Dean Rusk dis closed yesterday the United States will resume underground nuclear tests in the wake of the Soviet breakoff of atomic test-ban talks. At a news conference, Rusk said that as a result of the break up of the U.S.-Soviet-British talks in New York on Thursday night President Kennedy is issuing or ders to resume preparations for scheduled underground explosions in Nevada. Kennedy had. ordered suspen sion of the tests last weekend in an effort to spur.. the East-West negotiations. Rusk acknowledged Friday that earlier Washington hopes for an agreement with the Soviet Union have proved vain despite Premier Khrushehev's re acceptance,,in_princiPle, of on-site inspections to enforce a bah. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1963 Rule Change Make History ture room floor. Only a very narrow mind could find sufficient malice in this to impose such childish restrictions, These restrictions do absolutely nothing but heighten a general wave of dissatisfaction which pre cipatates letters to the Collegian and maybe ,worse! All Poulenc Turnout Called 'Disappointing' TO THE EDITOR: I found it very disappointing to see Schwab Auditorium only half full for last Saturday evening's All Paulenc program. I was further amazed that there was no coverage of this fine musical program in The Daily Collegian on Tuesday. The music was delightful and the performances were wonder ful. It seems unfortunate that the people who worked so hard to make it a success should receive so little credit. I wish there would be more programs of this type and more people (that includes students) to appreciate them. a Glance Settlement Ends Transit Strike HARRISBURG (IP)—An agree ment to settle the Philddelphia transit strike was reached last night at negotiations arranged in Harrisburg by .Gov. William W. Scranton. The agreement, which is expect ed to receive the prompt approval of 5,600 striking members of the Transport Workers Union, was reached after another long day of bargaining; the fourth in Harris burg. The strike was called 18 • days ago against the Philadelphia Transportation Co. ' which pro vides public transit service for q. half-milliori daily riders in the na tidn's fourth largest city: Scranton and the negotiators emerged from the governor's in ner office at 8:30 p.m. . - With the goyernor at a news conference table in the outer re ception room were Mayor James H. J. Tate of Philadelphia, - Mich ael J. Quill, international presi dent of the Transport Workers Union, and Douglas N. Pratt, pres ident of National City Lines, parent firm of the PTC. Russians in Cuba Give U.S. Concern WASHINGTON (4 1 P)—A Senate investigation seemed to be reveal ing yesterday what Secretary of State Dean Rusk called "a signifi- Cant Soviet military presence in. Cuba-which is of great concern_to the United States." Rusk told his news conference he does not believe.there has been a recent significant buildup of any major proportions in Cuba, but he said the continued presence there of 17,000 Soviet military, personnel is "something which this entire hemisphere must be concerned about." Tests Again- Fttisk spoke as a Senate Armed Services subcommittee decided in executive session that it will look into the Communist buildup in Cuba as the most - immediate thing on its program. Macmillan, Fanfani Meet To Discuss 'Market' ROME (R) Prime Minister Harold Macmillan teamed up yes terday with Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani in a determined battle to keep alive a future for Britain in the European Common Market. 'The British leader plunged in to' a series of crucial talks, with Fanfani, aimed at blunting the blow dealt by French President Charles de Gaulle against Brit ain'S entry. —Walter Bucki, '65 —Sharon Foltrnan '64
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