PAGE TWO THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. 1877 Published Tuesday through Friday mornings during the College year by the staff of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second class matter July 5, 1934, at the State College, Pa., Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscriptions-$2.50 a semester, $4.00 the school year. Represented for national advertising by National Adver tising Service, Madison Ave., New York, N.Y.. Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Allan W. Ostar Donald W. Ellis STAFF THIS ISSUE Managing Editor Assistant News Editor Assistant Proofreader .... College Calendar All calendar items must be in the Daily Collegian office by 4:30 p.m. on the day pre ceding publication. Friday , September 26 BLUE BAND Marching Unit, candidates report to 109 Carnegie Hall, 9-12 a.m. COLLEGIAN business stair senior board meeting, 8 Carnegie Hall, 7 p.m. WRA Open House, White Hall, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, September 27 COLLEGIAN editorial staff senior board, 8 Carnegie Hall, 2 p.m.; junior board, 3 p.m.; sophomore board, 4 p.m. HILLEL Open House, Hillel Foundation, 9-12 p.m. Sunday, September 28 COLLEGIAN business staff junior board, 8 Carnegie Hall, 2 p.m.; business staff sopho more board, 3:30 p.m. SORORITY Open House, 2-4 p.m.; see story for individual places. Monday, September 29 LA VIE Senior Board meeting, 412 Old Main, 4:30 p.m. CHAPEL CHOIR tryouts: tenors, 211 Car negie Hall, 7-8 p.m.; basses and baritones, 8-10 p.m. PENN STATE CLUB meeting, 321 Old Main, 7 p.m. PENN STATE ENGINEER candidates meeting, 416 Old Main, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24, 1947 • JUNIOR PROM • RECREATION HALL--9 P. M. TO lA. M. • SEMI-FORMAL-14.00 PER COUPLE • TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, AT A.A. TICKET WINDOW ....Editor Bus. Mgr. Larry Foster . Dick Sarge . Dave Nalven Fran Keeney, Jo Fox Betty Gibbons THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA With the Editor In another part of today's Collegian is a round up of news which occured during the summer months. Some of that news was significant enough to warrant editorial comment which will be re viewed in part here. Fees Increase Most students, especially non-Gl's, were un pleasantly surprised to learn that a special fee of 4,2.0 has been added to the general fees. While it is significant that the College is the last institution in the East to increase fees, it is also significant that the increase was needed to. partially offset the budget deficiency caused by Governor Duff's slash of Penn State's appropriation which was originally approved by the state legislature. There will still be discontentment, however, be cause the new assessment adds only $400,000 to the budget. This is certainly not enough to take care of adequate salary increases for the staff and faculty to meet spiraling costs of living. According to a survey conducted by Colgate, educational expenses have increased over 50 per cent, and if appropriations do not keep pace the group that will suffer most will be the student body, and consequently the people of the Com monwealth. And what about other schools? The Univer sity of Minnesota received a 87 percent increase in state funds over last year. Indiana University's budget has been practically doubled. The Uni versity of Illinois appropriation represents a $24.000,000 increase over the preceding two-year operating budget. Yet, Pennsylvania which is the second largest state in the nation in terms of wealth and popula tion has allotted only $8,750,000 for general main tenance to the College for the next two-year period. Sugar Bowl Bid Penn State was again confronted this summer with racial discrimination in intercollegiate ath letics, and again made an unequivocal decision to compete only under circumstances which will per mit the playing of any or all members of its ath letic teams. The decision reached by the Athletic Advisory Board to decline the Sugar Bowl invitation ten dered the Lion boxing team is especially com mendable since there are no Negro boxers on the squad at the present time. When the football game with the University of Miami (Fla.) was cancelled last November, Penn State had two Negro players on its squad. Boxing captain Jackie Tighe as well as the other members of the board felt that the absence of Ne groes on the squad should have no bearing on the decision. The point stressed was that the invita tion attempted to place restriction on who could be members of the Lion team. Troxell Voted State s Post At Student Convention Robert Troxell was elected Pennsylvania Region vice-chairman and member of the national executive committee of the United States National Student Association at the Constitutional Convention held at the University of Wisconsin August 30 to September 7. Jane Fouracre, Eugene Fulomer, Allan Oster, and Troxell were elected by All-College cabinet last semester to represent Penn State at the 10-day convention at which more than 700 delegates repre-+ senting over a million students from 350 colleges and universi ties were present. The delegates will present re ports at mass meetings so that the student body can decide the question of ratification of the con stitution. Ratification at this time would make Penn State a charter member of the USNSA. USNSA was conceived when delegates from more than 300 schools met at the University of Chicago last December at the in vitation of the 25 American stu dent delegates to the World Stu dent Congress held in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in the summer of 1948. Purposes of the USNSA are to foster ans develop campus activi ties that improve the welfare of the student, and to conduct ac tivities which will bring the American student into closer con tact with the students and cul tures of the United Nations. At Wisconsin • the stand was taken that the organization will specifically refrain from becom ing involved in partisan political affairs, sectarian religious consid erations, or matters which do not directly affect the functions and activities of students. In addition to adopting the con stitution, the delegates chose Madison, Wisconsin, as the na tional headquarters of NSA, and ratified a "Student Bill of Rights." This statement of principle stresses the inherent right of teachers to speak "as' citizens," and be free of institutional cen sorship or discipline. The panel on student govern ment, of which Fulmer was a member, pointed out that the THE BIGGEST JUNIOR PROM - FALL HOUSEPARTY CHARLIE BARNET and HIS FAMOUS ORCHESTRA Saturday, Oct. 25, 1947 • VARSITY FOOTBALL UNIVERSITY OF WEST VIRGINIA vs. PENN STATE • VARSITY SOCCER • Varsity Cross Country • FRATERNITY DANCES isitiPil l , the YEAR FEATURING NAVY vs. PENN STATE CORNELL vs. PENN STATE FRIDAY, SETTEMBER 20, lea "teacher is entitled to freedom his classroom in discussing hie subject," and must be insured the right to join any political, re ligious or social clubs, groups or organizations "not illegal under the civil statutes." Miss Fouracre was a member of the panel on educational opt portunity which drew up a policy for NSA to work for t#e "event tual elimination of all forms of discriminatory educational ow terns" and encourage "wide in. vestigation and discussion" at the problems of racial barriert and white-Negro segregation 11 the classrooms of America. Affiliation with the Interns. tional Union of Students on t provisional basis was approves. by the third main panel on inter. national activities. Official membership of the NSA in the world student union however, can not be accomplishet until approved at the full NSI congress next summer, and rati fled by a majority of the member colleges. A condition of the proposed of filiation also includes the provi sion that "no decision of the 1111 which may be specifically repu diated by the NSA shall 'bind o shall be published as represent ing the opinions of American stu dents." Ostar, who was a member this panel, was elected chairmai of the sub-panel on publication of international activities. Troxell was elected by mem bers of the Pennsylvania regioi to represent them on the consti tutional committee which fireli up the constitution for adoptiol by the main body.
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