Two Views On The Proposed Student Union Fee Needs Of The College Few will deny that the College is in need of the Student Union Building which received the first approval of All-College Cabinet last Thurs day. A large percentage of the student body does, however, apparently find objections to the method Cabinet has chosen to finance the build ing. ONE OF THE CHIEF OBJECTIONS voiced to the Cabinet plan is, of course, that the $l5 assessment for next year is too high. They sug gest that the assessment be lowered and the debt be paid out over a longer period of years. Others have pointed out that the present junior class will not use the building, which will be• completed by the Fall of 1951 at the earliest, although its members will be com pelled to help pay for it. It has also been suggested that in a matter affecting students so vitally as does this, the students themselves should be given an oppor tunity to express their opinions directly through a referendum. IN ADDITION to weighing these suggestions, Cabinet should take into consideration whether the proposed building will meet the needs of the College. In one case apparently the building does not. We are refering, of course, to the pro posed ballroom, which would have about half the floor space of Recreation Hall. The possibility of the Commonwealth_ fi nancing the Student. Union Building, is ruled out by the policy of the state to contribute only to the construction of facilities directly concerned with academics.' If Penn State is to have its Student Union Building, it will have to be financed by the students. Cabinet must decide if, in the face of student objections, it wishes to stick to its original method of financing the building and whether the building will meet the needs of. the College. —Mary Krasnansky Gazette . • • Tuesday, May 23 NEWMAN CLUB DISCUSSION GROUP PLANNING COMMITTEE Meeting, Rectory, 7:15 p.m. PSYCHOLOGY CLUB Meeting, 204 Bur rowes, 7:30 p.m. NAVAL VOLUNTEER ELECTRONICS WAR FARE CO., Naval Lecture Room, EngE, 7 p.m. COLLEGIAN ADVERTISING STAFF, Sopho more and Junior Boards, 9 CH, 7 p.m. • COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF Meeting, Collegian Office, 7:30 p.m. PENN STATE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP, Bible Study, 418 Old Main, 7 p.m. PENN STATE Club, 405 Old Main, 7 p.m. INSURANCE Club, 316 Sparks, 8 p.m. AT THE MOVIES STATE: The Nevadan. CATHAUM: Cinderella. NITTANY: Woman of Dolwyn. COLLEGE PLACEMENT Farther information 'concerning interviews and job place. meats eau be obtained in 112 Old Main. Radio Corporation' of America, May 24. June grads in EE, ME, and Chem E for production and power work .in their television• tube plant. Travelers Insurance Co, May 25: June grads for com mission sales in Penna. No priority. Wear-Ever Aluminum, Cutco Division. June grads in di ned. sake. Group meeting for interested students May 25, '1 p.m. in 410 Old Main. Your Official Class Ring APPROVED* ACCLAIMED** The Balfour "extra" at no extra cost See and Order Your Ring Today A.A. STORE •By permanent ring committee of All-College Cabinet. BALFOUR **Acclaimed by everyone! by BALFOUR 11 - 1 E DAIL Y S i'ATt; LUULEG-E, PENNSYLVANIA Exempt The Seniors Penn State, almost everyone agrees, needs a Student Union building. Cabinet is in the,pro cess of adopting a plan for financing the build ing. That plan, we believe, is bad. CABINET OFFICERS are agreed that the plan proposed works an injustice on ,students now on campus, who will pay an extra $l5 fox a building which as yet doesn't exist. JuniorF. especially suffer, since they will never have any use of the building—they will be gone before if is built. The basic problem here is finding money for the first installments of the loan, the initial payments on an unbuilt building. Students object, and rightly, to an involuntary contri bution for a questionable charity. Here'-is an equitable plan for building- a Stu dent Union: Exempt next year's seniors from any payment whatsoever. They cannot be expected to contri bute for a building they will never see. Make the >lanned $l5 assessment against all other stu lents on campus, as the present plan calls for. THE FOLLOWING YEAR, however. when the building is up, exempt all students who paid the initial $l5 from $l5 of the $2O assessment scheduled for that year. Thus, new students on campus, who would get four years of enjoyment from the new building, would pay the full $2O each year, or $BO in all. But students who only had student union for three years would pay $6O, two years $4O, and one year $2O. Yet the College would have money for initial, payments on its construction loan. For simplicity, all calculations have been based on Cabinet's proposed figures. These figures, however, are far too high. So that they may be cut drastically, as they, must be if they are not to inflict hardship on many students, the proposed loan should be made on a 35 year basis, rather than 15 STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Information concerning these positions can 'lie obtained it the Student Employment Office in Old Main. Wear-Ever Aluminum, Cutco Div. Simmer sales. Group meeting May 25, 7 p.m. 410 Old Main. Part time seamstress for supervised work on slip, covers. _ _ Unit lender and Senior life saver for .Girl• Scout camp near Bethlehem, Pa. Interviews for girls at Lillian Home in Valencia, Pa. (Camp) " Tip Elattg Collegian Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. HUH Published ' Fuesday through Saturday mornings in• elusive during the College year by the attar of The Daily Collegian of The Pennsylvania State College. Entered as d-elass natter .1 Ply 5, 1934. at the State College. Pa.. Pest •ffiee at. tier the act of March 3. 1879 Collegian editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, and do not necessarily reflect the policy of Ihi newspaper. Unsigned editorials are by the editor. Editor Business Mgr. Dean Gladfelter ' Owen E. Landon STAFF THIS ISSUE Night Editors, John Dalbor and Jack Bodding ton; Assistant Night Editor, Greta Dunsmore; Copy Editor, • John Pakkanen; Assistants Nancy Holden, and Clarice Liich; Advertsing Staff: Don Schwartz, Anita Ranallo, Ina Epstein, and Mel Glass. —Ron Bonn NAME CARDS for Graduation Announcements Commercial Printing Inc. Glennland Bldg.. State College Coming Coming; Coming Corning Spring Carnival Safety Valve . . . . An Insult to the Petition Signers TO THE EDITOR: This letter is to be in answer to Mr. 'Name Withheld' who in calling himself a typical Engineer usurped the role of spokesman for State Engineers when he launched a campaign 3f 'mud-slinging' against the sup porters of Dr. Lorch while proud ly hiding behind a cloak of anony mity. Not only was he insulting to the Engineers, whom he claimed to represent, but to the more than one'thousand students who signed the petition asking the adminis tration to reconsider the `Lorch Case ' His letter indicates a flagrant ignorance of the facts. Dr. Lorch was recommended for reappoint ment by the head of the mathe matics department, and he was supported by, twenty-three mem bers of that department through their signatures to a statement which 'expressed their confidence in the ability of Dr. Lorch as a mathematician and a teacher: He 'las been helpful in departmental activities and is personally liked.' These facts were in an informa tion sheet circulated with the pe tition.. • The Student Committee For Academic Freedom conducted an investigation which lasted for three weeks; a substantial num'- ber' of faculty members • studied the f_ase and have registered their protests at his dismissal; the American Association 'of Univer gtyq' f e 's:'§riti'r's and the local American Federation of Teachers have taken action. —Elaine 'Clark Buechner Seymo,ur Schuster Branding the Liberals 4' 1:0 Trig, r.a.nTart: This is to chastise the engineering senior, who wisely had his name with held, for leaping before 'he took a good, look. It is , his premise that "incidents" occurring on this campus are played up as though they were of national import. It is my premise that such activi ties of the college which affect the student body in anyway are deserving of publicity in order to reveal pertinent available facts to help mold opinion so that ameliorating action of existing in justices may be initiated. lore disconcerting to me is the fact that a senior, supposedly having' benefited from four years of col lege training and broadening in fluences succumbs to the same pitfalls as biased and prejudiced groups. I am • referring to his terminology in branding . any ac tion of an individual with liberal thoughts or tendencies or who questions the status quo as "pink." For shame! —Shirley G. Felman Dorothy Roseman 1951 Graduates who won't be on campus the first eight weeks of the Jail semester Please make.,appaintments at the PENN STATE PHOTO SHOP between 9 and Pictures will be taken froin May 17 to May 27 These students must have .their pictures taken at this time if they want to be included 'in the 1951 LA VIE Hold - It! TO THE EDITOR: All-College Cabinet has given initial ap-. proval to a measure that would mean an assessment of $7.50 per semester for each student who is enrolled in or who plans to enroll in Penn State. If we assume that Cabinet has the legal power to make such an assessment, we might then ask "Can Cabinet ethically levy this fee without first conducting a College-wide election called for the specific pur'pose of determin ing the general student opinion?" If, we as students are to be com pelled to pay an amount of money that is equal to' almost seven per cent lof the present academic fees, should we not bp given the privilese of voting upon it. Won't you, members of All- Cbllege Cabinet, consider calling for a student vote of approval before acting further on this fee! A Sensible Letter To The Editor: The letter in May 18's Collegian, "Look Before You Leap", is the most sensible one written yet on the Lorch case. Some of the others appear to have been blind ravings by hys teric.al troublemakers, who have little qualification to criticize the College's action in its selec tion of faculty members. The College has stated that the racial factor had nothing to do with the dismissal, and how can we ser iously question this in the light of the College's past record along this line? The College merely followed its past precedent by such action= its reserved right to release an instructor after a trial period of employment under a temporary contract, without releasing any statement which might ,hqm the dismissed employee:. Why Why drag in the. fac'toii' of ra cial discrimination and play it up to the exclusion of all others, when it is doubtful that 'this fac tor even exists? Why not 'consider all the possible factors, .if the case is even worth considering? The College could use a little more student support 'occasional ly. instead of the continual oppo sition of a fdw radicals. We should oppose racial discrimination, but we should apply our opposition in the right places: 5 for La Vie photos. TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1950 •Lewis J. Hoover --John E. Butler
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