Editorial Opinion Sorority Rush Needs Evaluation Besides the objections of added costs and a shorter Christmas vacation which were raised last fall, some Greeks feel that the concentrated sched ule did not allow the time necessary for registration Having just completed the first new sorority rush plan in three years, sororities now face the serious—and vital—task of evaluating the program. That a thorough and sober evaluation is neces sary is evident. Many problems, unique to this system, arose and mist be solved if sororities are to maintain the healthy rush program necessary to their existence. First, and perhaps foremost, is that sororities inadvertently pledged fewer girls than they need to exist in the long run. This resulted from the division of rush into a fall session for upperclasswomen and a winter ses sion for transfers. The majority of sororities gave bids to fewer girls in fall rush than they had pre viously given to upperclasswomen in the combined rush presumably to save places for freshmen rushing during the winter. But during the winter session, no more fresh men signed preferentials than did the year before, and there were simply not enough girls to give each sorority a full pledge class. A sorority cannot survive without enough girls paying dues to bring costs per girl down to a rea sonable level. Whether the bitter experience of so few pledges this year will be lesson enough for the sororities, or whether Panhel should reinstate the combined rush period, should be a subject of rigid examination. The winter rush schedule, which ended before the term's classes began, raised a second problem of major controversy. The Suicide is a morbid, though rather fascinating subject. The possible methods of self destruction are infinitesmal, ranging from wrist-slashing to poison to a short shot-gun blast at one's own temple. Here at Pt was the talk the campus various t i m last year whi dents, driven to d peration by ow n perso anguish and bearable pr( lems, took tht own lives For we e _ after each tra- miss 'WATSON gic episode, shocked and ap palled students queried each other as to why any human being, but especially one so young, would prefer death to life. Equally puzzling to many was why anyone would kill himself by jumping off an eight-story dormitory rather than take sleeping pills or run a car in a closed garage. You'd think that someone bent on self-destruction would at least make it as painless for himself as pos sible, wouldn't you? It seems like a logical as sumption, folks, but it's simp ly not true! Just look around you. The girl borrowing matches from the boy beside her—the professor smoking as he lectures—the student head ed for the cigaret machine— your roommate lighting up after a meal—you, bumming cigarets from a friend—all are blithely contributing to their own premature deaths. And cancer hardly ranks among the more "pleasant" ways of dying, does it? The facts about smoking have been all too clearly re vealed in the recently re leased report of the Surgeon General's Committee on Smoking and Health. "Cigaret smoking," the pan el reported, "contributes sub stantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate." In addition, the report stated that men who smoked Boyle & Barry—Too Much for Berd TO THE EDITOR: I was in spired and enlightened by Miss Boyle's recent column on Barry Goldwater's fling for the pres idency. Strange as it may seem, I never realized how this noble citizen has striven to preserve my rights and to give me such a grand opportu nity to choose between political ideologies. Like an innocent babe I have been under the impression that the senator is a power-driven politician with some slightly outdated views. I thank Miss Boyle for enlightening me. It has always been my un fortunate misconception that Sen. Goldwater and not those antipatriots who smirk at his name are the ones who are ignorant of his views and who refuse to think rationally about him. PAGE TWO Tile Batlll Tollertiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesdef through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper, Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at tho State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 11179. Mail Subscription Price: $6.00 a year Mailing Address Box 261, State College, Pa. Editorial and Business Office Basement of Sackett (North End) Member of The Associated Press HERBERT WITMER ;diiorDAVID BOLBACH .teEpt,.‘ Business City Editors, Tony Foglia and Mel Avlibund; News and World At. . - ..1,10r. Steve Cimbate; News and Features Editor, Joan Hartman; Editorial Editors, Winnie Boyle and Rochelle Michaels; Sports Editor, Jim Bukata; Assistant Sports Editor, Ira Miller; Personnel Director, Penny Watson. Local Advertising Manager, Jacqueline Russiano; Classified Advertising Manager, Margaret Gettings; National Advertising Manager, Lynn Murphy. Credit Manager, Dianne Nast; Assistant Cremt Manager. Robert Driver; Promotion Manager, Patricia Skyria; Office Manager, Esther Kelly; Circulation Manager, Mark Saltzman. Deadly Habit had a death rate 70 percent higher than nonsmoker, and that "cigaret smoking is caus ally related to lung cancer in men." . If you smoke cigars of a pipe, the risk of your getting lung cancer is slightly less than if you smoke cigarets. According to the report, how ever, pipesmoking may be causally related to lip cancer —certainly not a happy af fliction. What, then, is to become of the millions of smokers across the nation, the thousands of smokers on this campus? Few of them would purposely step snowed Severe Winters Become Part of Weather Cycles by joel myers There's little doubt probably even in Grandpa's mind that the winters of the past four years can compare with any in history. Yesterday's big storm boost ed the total snow for the winter to over 46 inches, which is 2 inches more than the normal snow for an en tire winter. r This is the .. • fourth consecu- • tive winter in 7 •.,„ which snowfall ha s exceeded • the normal C . .. 11.0" amount. In the 1960 -61 winter, an extra or d nary total of 93.4 inches made.. that season the snowiest in his tory Fifty-two inches fell in 1961- 62 and 61 inches were meas ured last year. People want to know whether the record cold and heavy snows of recent years represent a trend just as they wanted to know back in the early 1950's whether the trend toward Astounded by the revelation that the senator's "ideas have been taken out of context . . . making them sound little better than ridiculous," I resolved to personally investigate some of these opinions. As a source of reference I choose nothing less than a campaign pamphlet published by the national Youth for Goldwater organiza t i o n. Surely this magnanimous group could not lead me wrong. Well, Miss Boyle was certain ly correct. While some deca dent characters had warned me that Sen. Goldwater was op posed to allowing middle and lower class Americans to share in their nation's wealth, I learned that to preserve "man's right to the possession and use of his property" he believes that the "government has a right to claim an equal TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1964 Ml2=li=fl procedures Some women also feel that a constant schedule of song practice, skit practices, rush parties and selection meetings for five consecutive days was too tiring and made rush a complete drudgery. Others claim that the advantage of completing rush before classes start is worth any sacrifice. This is too big an issue for one person or small group of persons, such as Panhellenic executive, to decide. An informal meeting of rush chairmen and representatives from each sorority should be held during which these issues are debated without the influence of a biased Panhel executive. Other problems which should be discussed in the comprehensive eveluation are: how many sorori ties were hindered by sisters refusing to come back early to rush; whether sororities were able to get hometown recommendations for each ribbonee within the short span of the winter rush schedule; whether Greeks were given a fair amount of time to observe prospective pledges in social and aca demic situations other than suite parties; and whether the early rush affected the number of girls who decided to rush. Too many opinions on the major controversies remain unstated for a decision to be made now on how to conduct next year's rush. But thorough and thoughtful debate is needed to insure that the same mnstakes will not occur. by penny watson in front of an oncoming car. Illness and perhaps death from cancer is surely slower —but just as fatal once it takes its deadly hold. Sure, it's awfully difficult to restrain yourself from lighting a cigaret after din ner. When you're sitting in the Skellar with a beer or in the HUB with a cup of coffee, or perhaps studying for a bluebook, it's even more tor tuous not to reach for the pack. But just think of the years your will power will add to your life! Smokers, is it now or never for you? milder winters would continue. The answer, of course, is unknown, but it is likely that winters of the future will swing back toward the normals. There are always cycles in the weather. In fact, the weath er is never normal but the result of the superposition of many cycles. At one extreme, there are ice ages, with a frequency of maybe tens of thousands of years, and at the other extreme showers or thun derstorms with a lifetime of a few minutes. The severe winters of recent years do not signify the coming of an ice age or something of that nature, because such an event would probably come on so gradually as to be 'imper ceptible to humans. Long range weather trends are overshadowed by much more dramatic but short lived cycles. Perhaps in a few years the severe winters of, the early 1960's will become just "warm" memories as did 'the mild winters of the early 1950's and the East Coast hurricanes of the middle 1950'5. percentage of each man's wealth and no more." Numerous slanderers ha d poisoned me with the notion that the senator was uninter ested in the Negro and his free dom, yet I found he firmly believes that "unenforceable government edicts benefit no one" and that "continued pub lic attention a n d moral per suasion" are of greater value. Although countless villains had whispered that this leader cared nothing for our nation's educational improvement, I discovered that the state gov ernments fail to provide ade quate facilities because "the federal taxing power has pre empted state and local sources of revenue," and that the proper solution is to restore "a portion of the tax resources which it has taken away." I must admit that I am still disconcerted about arguments that Sen. Goldwater's economic views are accepted by very few economists, that many of his concepts were discredited by the events ,of 1929 and there after, and that he has a tenden cy to change his mind frequent ly on basic issues. But who am Ito doubt a man so proficient in aviation and landscape photography? —David Berd, '66 WDFM Schedule TUESDAY, JAN. le, 1964 4:15 The Philadelphia (Sanford Hinkel) 5:00 Symphony Hall (Charles Oryel) 6:10 Dinner Date (Ann Lander and Tom Groff) 7:30 USG Reports (Don Morabito) 7:40 Questions for 15 (Tom Nutt) (1:00 Ports of Call (Andy Lipchak) 9:00 Show Stoppers (Jeff Moss) 9:55 Cempus News Report (Bill Mel , nem) 10.00 Symphonic Notebook (Bob Solosk0) WNW DON'T c/OU TAKE A PILL? T (7 Th • ~,. . .p m , --d r ~......, .1 1 a ..... . ......... 7..--_,_-4!,,,,, (.1./Hq DON'T 400 TAKE A PILL FOR RELIEF OF NAUSEA CAUSED. BY SIGHT OF LITTLE BROTHER CLUTCHING BLANKET? Letters Soph Backs Academics of Term System TO THE EDITOR: I must take issue with Ira Miller's sports column on academic sanity. I shall neither exten sively defend the term sys tem, which has been well de fended in the past, nor shall I deny that probation lists are damaging to many extra curricular activities, includ nthleti' But thr ing athletics. But .nere are statements that deserve a reply. I am sure that even Mr. Miller will agree that the small percentage of students participating in intercollegiate sports does not, alone, war rant the elimination of the term system. Also, if he would observe th e calendar, he would see that, more or less, there is little overlapping of a sports season into another term. This could not be said of the semester system. Second, a more liberal pro bation policy was called for and the policies of other' schools were cited. Such a policy might result in a ten dency by our athletes to be academically lax. I also question whether our probation system should be altered to resemble those of other schools. I would prefer' an examination of the situa tion by the University. "Our athletes must be stu dents first, even on the road" —Miller. Our athletes are giv en permission by the Univer sity to be away from campus —legal absences from classes. Mr. Miller seems to think that they should be free from studying also. I might remind him that this is a university and, as such, the improvement of the individual should be its basic aim with an emphasis on higher learning. Finally. I seriously doubt that we will "witness the de generation of our athletic pro gram to powder-puff Ivy League-type schedules." This is, of course, based on the premise that excellent coaches will be retained and secured, academically sound athletes will be recruited, and such football powers as Kent State and Ohio U. are re-1 moved from future schedules. l —Marvin Peebles. '66 •Letter Cut Once upon a time, not so long ago and hardly very far away, a rooster named Cheese stumbled into the yard of a village photographer. Upon introducing one to the other, the photographer said, "Say, Cheese, how would you like to work for me as a trademark?" Cheese took the job, became the best-dressed rooster in town and perched upon the highest shingle. The photographer was so proud of his partner that he always thought of him when at work and would proudly call out to him as he pressed the plunger—" Say, Cheese!" 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