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'AGE TWO
$lOOO Is Cheap
Is affiliation with the National Student Associa
tion worth an annual $lOOO appropriation from
All-College Cabinet?
Recently this question has been posed by sev
eral student leaders, but the entire student body
deserves the facts on which to base the answer.
Every student on this campus is a member of
NSA, but its programs are implemented by an
open committee of Cabinet. NSA is limited be
cause it cannot function independently as it does
on many campuses.
As a national organization composed of nearly a
million students in 265 colleges and universities,
NSA operates independently and cooperatively.
It has achieved a far greater scope of activities
than any other intercollegiate organization. As a
close federation of campus committees working
with student governments, of regional assemblies
and of national congresses, NSA has consummated
many of its objectives.
The only concern of Penn State students is,
however, the extent to which this national affilia
tion has been translated into concrete and vital
accomplishments on their own campus.
Improvement of student government is of para
mount importance to the campus committee. NSA
is now planning a program of student leadership
training, to acquaint students with the functions
and problems of their government and to provide
Cabinet with a reservoir of well-trained, experi
enced workers.
Student welfare is NSA's most vital concern.
To ease the continual and annoying drain on the
student purse created by campus charity drives
which do not reach their goals, NSA has studied
the possibilities of a campus chest, a consolidated
relief drive.
Groundwork for an area purchase card system
has been completed and a Cabinet-approved plan
is expected to be instituted in the spring. "PSC"
is an expedient to reduce student cost of living
and has proved highly successful at other colleges.
Student-faculty forums scheduled for the next
two months will give students an opportunity to
work for the improvement of the advisory sys
tems and curriculum requirements. National fac
ulty-rating forms are available for the use of the
school student councils.
In the brief year of NSA's recognition by Cab
inet, it has found, the hard way, that its programs
and proposals must be backed by facts and sta
tistics, not by the conclusions of debates.
If students who question NSA's value would
assist with its projects or attend an occasional
committee meeting (times and places are an
nounced in the Collegian), NSA will be far more
successful at Penn State. .Tanie Schwing.
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Spirit ---- Dead?
We find it hard to wax as indignant as some of our colleagues
over the lack of "class spirit" that characterizes the present senior
Only in the matter of apathy toward the choice of a class gift
can we sincerely join those who chastise the seniors. It is our hunch,
however, that a reasonable majority will, when the crucial moment
arrives, want to have their votes in the tally which will determine
Lne disposition of the significant $7OOO, or more.
As for the flop of last week's mixer, isn't it likely that most of
the 2416 seniors who passed up the free fun did so because they felt
their time would be spent to better advantage elsewhere?
This may be the "wrong" attitude. It certainly is deplorable
that the preparations for entertainment were largely wasted. But
the most casual observer could scarcely accuse seniors or any other
class of being averse to fun.
Basketball games, movies, campus dramas, and musical events
receive quite enthusiastic student support, considering the crushing
demands modern college life makes on the time of most pursuants
of a degree.
We predict, though those schooled in college tradition of a by-
gone era may stone us for it, that school spirit as expressed in "rah-
rahs" will have a tough time making a comeback.
Sports may become the focal point of this battle between old
and new. Present-day students—including those fresh out of high
school—come to Penn State for some purpose other than cheering
in unison at the command of two or three of their fellows.
An unwholesome development in college sports is the tendency
to boo a team or player who doesn't turn in a championship job every
time. Here is where we would like to see a return to the days when
the "important thing is not winning, but how 3rou play," as idealistic
speakers have put it.
It is clear that college life is subject to change, just as govern
ment, business and social life change despite the desperate efforts
of some to hold the status quo.
We hope the changes will always be for the better. The evolu
tion of student attitudes toward "class" and "school spirit" may be
part of something more important and bigger than any institution.
Whatever happens to these phases of collegiate living in the
next few years, it will be most interesting to watch, at least for those
of us who do not have an abiding fondness for tradition.
—John Bonnell.
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THURSDAY JANUARY 20 1949
Faculty Representation
Recent generations of students at the College
have found numerous occasions to contend that
their interests are poorly represented by the
Board of Trustees. The original failure of the
co-op store measure, and the pigeon-holing of last
year's senior class gift, toward a student press, are
contemporary cases in point.
A suggestion that students be granted ex
officio representation on the Board to inject stu
dent views into their deliberations, however, bor
ders on the ridiculous. Only by a vast stretch of
the imagination might students be considered to
have any legitimate prerogative even to direct
ex-officio Board representation.
Actual or projected plans for organized elec
tioneering by recently graduated classes to select,
after the three-year cooling-off period, trustees
inclined to the student viewpoint, are legitimate,
but delaying.
One agency to which students may turn in their
frustration is the faculty. Despite occasional moans
from the recalcitrant few, faculty aims are almost
always sympathetically related to student aims.
Aims ranging from a Student Union to keep-off
the-grass campaigns are advocated as sincerely, if
not as vocally, by the faculty as by students.
More significantly, measures which improve the
lot of the prof reflect themselves to the good of the
student. Better paid instruction is better instruc
tion. Moreover, the faculty doesn't graduate after
a three-year tenure.
Through the medium of the College chapter of
the American Association of University Professors,
the faculty has asked for consultative membership
on the Board of Trustees: With consideration of
the proposal due at Saturday's meeting, the time
for organizing support is short.
OIR Elattg Collegian
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Lew Stone
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