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’AGE TWO
You Are NSA
Believe it or not, you are a member of the Na
tional Student Association. You are therefore
affiliated with nearly 1,500,000 students in more
than 300 universities and colleges throughout the
nation.
NSA, as a coordinating organization, serves the
vital function at representing all students and
working for their welfare.
Its national program may be roughly divided
into three divisions, student life, educational
problems and international affairs.
Among the fields of action pertaining to student
life are student government, student rights, social
welfare and recreation, cultural welfare, health
and relationship to community.
Educational problems involving economic wel
fare, educational practices, human relations, aids
to education, curriculum and academic standards
and academic freedom are attacked by NSA.
On the international front, NSA is interested in
material assistance abroad, exchange of ideas and
persons, and is the only American student body
represented on the National Commission for
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Social, and
Cultural Organization).
Now these projects are all very fine and glori
ous-sounding. They look swell in print. But the
question of how they can be translated into action
is a pertinent one.
Obviously, the national and regional organiza
tions can act only as clearing houses for ideas,
and coordinators of policy. In general they are not
in a position to carry out programs of benefit to
students.
That brings the ultimate responsibility for direct
action right down to each individual campus—
including Penn State. That means that each stu
dent, as a member of NSA, has a responsibility to
participate in its activities.
The imposing array of NSA projects has a wide
enough diversity to satisfy the interests of almost
any student; its accomplishments will benefit all.
At Penn State, All-College Cabinet, as the gov
erning unit of the student body, elects delegates
to regional assemblies and the National Congress,
appoints the College NSA committee chairman,
and supports its activities financially.
Any student willing to work for student welfare
and international understanding is more than
welcome on the committee which meets in 8
Sparks at 7 p.m. every Thursday. Jane Fouracre
is the chairman.
You are NSA. Are you an asset or a liability?
A Short, Short Story
It might have 75, 80 or even 90 odd pages, if
death had not scrawled, “the end” on page six.
They placed the mangled little body of Emilio
Landeros on a hospital stretcher in Philadelphia
. . struck as he darted from a bus.
Who was he? The little boy who was always
late to school? Did he have dark eyes like Ma-ma’s
. . . the kind of lashes that sweep cobwebs from
hearts? Is a puppy-dog whining at his bedroom
door?
There is a strang, detached world, that operates
within this adult world ... a sort of balcony re
served for children . . . where angels sit on bed
posts, sandmen laugh at night time, and a jolly old
white-haired gent rewards his friends with candy
canes, trains and nice warm mittens . . . for snow
ball throwing.
Emilio lived there ... his feet not yet touching
the frigid floor of reality . . . still believing that
only joy comes of good ... in his hand, a crumpled
note ... on lined school paper. “Dear Santa, I
have been good, I want ...” to live?
The holiday death toll climbs one notch . . . an
other reckless driver . . . another statistic.
A child has died at Christmas time . . . ironi
cally, a child has died when all the world com
memorates the birth of a Child.
Collegian Gazette
Tuesday. December 14
INTERCOLLEGIATE Conference on Govern
ment, 124 Sparks, 7 p.m.
AIEE and IRE subsection E, AIEE, Student
Branch, 219 EE, 7:30 p.m.
HILLEL Round Table Coffee How, 133 W.
Beaver Ave., 4:10 p.m.
GERMAN Christmas Sing, Schwab, 7 p.m.
MEN’S Bridge, PUB, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN Advertising Staff, CH, 6:45 p.m.
LIBERAL Arts Student Council, 405 Old Main
(1:30 p.m.
TRIBUNAL, 201 Old Main, 7 p.m.
COLLEGIAN Sophomore Editorial Board, 9 CH
7 p.m
College Placement
Joy Manufacturing Co., December 13 and 14,
eighth semester in EE and ME. Should have in
clination for design and development in heavy
machinery.
Army Security Agency, December 13 and 14,
eighth semester students in EE.
Hagan Corp., December 15 and 16, eighth semes
ter men in EE, ME, Sanitary Eng, Ceramics, Chem
Eng, and Chem.
Piaseck Helicopter Corp., December 17, eighth
semester men in AE and ME.
Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal Co., December 16.
eighth semester ME, EE, Mining Eng, Architec
tural Ena, CK.
Something lor baby
By their locks shall ye know them.
By their long hair you may tell that they are supporting the
boycott of the local barber-shops.
And by their crossing the picket line you may know on which
side of the Jim Crow fence they stand.
As you’ll discover, as you read farther, we don’t like discrimina
tion. We get mad when we see it. And we get even madder when
we see people opposing efforts to end it.
So you don’t approve of a boycott.
Is that a good enough reason to cross a picket line? Is that a
good enough reason to block the efforts of colored students to attain
the full freedoms and rights of American citizens that you enjoy?
Or perhaps you’re one of the people that would just as soon not
see discrimination ended.
To you, then, there is little to be said. You cheered Negro stu
dents on the athletic field. How about at least refraining from oppos
ing them in the field of eliminating discrimination?
And for you who must get your hair cut, no matter what kind
of issues are involved, it’s just as easy to wait a few days until you
get home. NAACP chose a very convenient time to start picketing.
A few days wait will enable you to get your hair cut and at the
same time refrain from breaking the boycott.
Everyone agrees that the sooner the boycott can be ended the
better tor all concerned—if abolition of discrimination is attained.
And the more complete the boycott is, the quicker it can realize
its aims.
Which side of the Jim Crow fence win you stand on?
—Elliot Shapiro,
for the Senior Editorial Board
The normal person says of this unseasonably warm weather,
"wonderful... great!”
But members of the strange clan known as “schuss-boomers” or
“snow-bunnies” glare back at the sun, don their ceremonial garb
. . . parkas and poles. Then, waving long slat objects in a manner
that would make Congo medicine men jealous, they chant. . . “Come,
Snow, Snow, Snow.”
—Jo Foot.
In typical bunny-fashion, the sect has multiplied from 10,000
U S. skiers in 1035 to 5,000,000 this year. If you’re a statistic your
self, nobody need explain the increase for you. Skiing its believing.
In the season when the spirit of giving is predominant in the
minds of all, a theft seems particularly callous. Danny Pearson, Delta
Upsilon,, sauntered back to the dressing room in Rec Hall after IF
boxing matches last week to find himself without pants, wallet, and
car keys . . ■ and no barrel in sight.
No one can question the magnanimity of Penn State’s collective
heart. The week is crowded with parties for underprivileged kids.
Special laudits go to IFC for the plan to have each fraternity fix a
Christmas basket for a needy family.
The question bothering the Boycotters is what to do with guys
like this. A junior pre-med student observed a sign decrying dis
crimination and saying “Let’s get rid of Jim Crow.” Confronting its
bearer, he inquired, “Who is this guy Jim Crow and what has he
done?”
State College was really shocked out of its usual lethargic Sat
urday afternoon - . . when about 300 crusaders for non-discrimina
tion marched up and down the streets, cheering, “Jim Crow, Must
go!” Hank Glass demonstrated the use of thd “Sta-Neet” in front of
a local barber shop.
By Their Locks
Corner Rumors
By Jo Fox
Not Barreled This Time
Big Heart
Crusader's Headache
She Safety VaL
Letters to the editor mast be Minted laeliilti Ji tfcs
Safety Valve, although names will be withheld on reqaest. Tele*
ohone number* and addresses most be inelsdod n faellitate
verification of anthantlelty of Mjrnatnrem. Letters eaeeodinc
20# words in lenrth may bo eat when reqalrad by snaes
'.imitations.
An Explanation
TO THE EDITOR: An open letter to the Stu
dents and Faculty of Penn State: Those who sup
ported CORE in the past deserve an explanation.
To attack public discrimination, the Council on
Racial Equality tried several methods. Instead of
taking patronage away (boycott), CORE offered
patronage in advance. First with signatures, then
with dollars, we tried to prove that non-digerimi
natory barber shops in this town would really pay.
An offer of up to $lBOO cash advance to shops that
would serve Negroes as well as whites alike did
not, however, interest any of the existing shops.
We then began negotiating for a new, non-dis
criminatory shop—not as a solution, but as a start.
We have answered forty-seven inquiries from
barbers, interviewed over a dozen prospects in
State College, received offer of a fair location.
None of these applicants had any personal preju
dice. We encountered problems, but CORE voted
in November to continue negotiations for this shop
till January.
It is too late now for arguments about the best
approach. NAACP has no faith in the possibilities
of a new shop; the majority in CORE has no faith
in the'possibilities of a _ boycott. However, our
actions nave not been directed against NAACP.
CORE wants to overcome intolerance. If some
body else has a better way than ours to achieve
this result, we applaud its success.
—Executive Committee,
State College Council on Racial Equality.
Nature of People
TO THE EDITOR: The current boycott of the
barber-shops has produced many interesting re
sults in the reactions of the townspeople. Bringing
a deeply-rooted problem such as this into sharp
focus tends to bring out the real nature of people.
Those individuals who hurled epithets and nasty
language at shivering pickets can really feel proud
of themselves. They have aptjy demonstrated what
they think of the highest ideas of mankind. They
stand in sharp contrast to those who helped with
encouragement. The gracious woman who dis
tributed candy bars among the pickets, when the
wind was getting mighty cold, was surely more
of a compliment to America than all the wiseacres
rolled into one.
It was with a sense of shame and disappoint
ment that I read that the College had washed its
hands of the affair, leaving it to the private inter
ests in town. I seem to remember another time in
history when an influential figure washed "his
hands of a rather difficult problem. He has not
been too well remembered.
AVC Lookf to Coro
TO THE EDITOR: The American Veieragis
Committee, Centre County Chapter No. I, is
wholeheartedly in support of the light against
racial discrimination which is the basis for the
present boycott of the barbershops. "We wish it
clearly understood, however, that the non-dis'
criminatory shop, as proposed by CORE, is still a
necessary step toward the final goal of racial
equality in State College. We look to CORE to
implement its program soon enough to help in
the present fight.
—Executive Committee,
Corbin S. Kidder, Martin Light, Lawrence
Rothstein, Leo Troy. Beajemin DegL
Commands Collegian
TO THE EDITOR: The State College Council
on Racial Equality commends the Daily Collegian
for its publication of the series of articles, “In the
Land of Jim Crow” by Ray Sprigle. Such articles
are a necessary and effective part of .combatting
racial prejudice through education.
—Ellen Stanley,
Corresponding Secretary.
At the Movies .
CATHAUM—The Night Has a thousand Eyes.
STATE—lsn’t It Romantic.
NITTANY—Jenny La Mour.
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