The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, February 02, 1963, Image 4

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    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.
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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