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Published Tuesday through Saturday mornings inclusive
during the College year by the staff of rho Daily Collegian
of The Pennsylvania State College.
Entered as second-class matter July 3. 1334. at the State
College. Pa. Post Office under the act of Itarek 3. 1879.
Collegian editorials . represent the viewpoints of the writ.
ere, not necessarily the ooliey of the avant*? Unsignei
editorials are by the editor
Mary Erasnansky ,-g h , Edward Shanken
Editor Business Mgr.
STAFF THIS ISSUE
Night editor, Joan Kuntz; copy editors, La-
Vonne Althouse, Arnie Bloom; assistants, Bob
Schoellkopf, Evvie Kielar, Marshall Donley,
Audrey Rothschild.
Ad manager, Dorothy Naveen; assistants,
Joan Hoffman, Margie See.
SU Assessment
Got 3. Student OK's
(Ed. Note: This is the first of a series of
five editorials designed to present the back
ground and clarify the issues on a subject
which has been the cause of much discussion,
the proposed Student Union building and the
$7.50 student fee recommended to the College
Board of Trustees by All-College Cabinet and
approved by the trustees in 1950.)
Since the announcement by the College that
construction of the Student Union building• has
been delayed by a shortage of steel, the once
dead issue of the SU assessment has been
thoroughly reincarnated. The SU assessment
has not been brought back to life in its true
picture, however. The SU assessment which
now stalks the Penn State campus is portrayed
as a bloodsucking vulture. hushed up until
the last moment, and then forced upon the
pocketbooks of an unwilling student body by
an All-College Cabinet which was the tool of a
few willful people.
I. History
When cabinet approved the plans for the
Student Union and the present assessment in
1950. the action was the culmination of a 13-
year campaign to get a much-needed SU build
ing for Penn State. In 1939 89 per cent of 800
students polled in favor of an SU. with 84 per
cent indicating a willingness to pay a fee. In
March, 1946, Daily Collegian Managing Editor
Larry Foster led a drive which netted 2700
signatures on a petition calling for a $5 increase
in College fees in order to finance the SU.
In May, 1946, Foster and Wesley Turk, another
student, appeared before a Joint Trustee-Alum
ni committee on a special building campaign,
and the following month this committee re
ported and recommended four things to the
College Board of Trustees, including a $5 per
semester student fee. The board accepted the
report and asked the committee to "continue
to study the problem further," although the fee
was not accepted.
In April, 1947, the student body voted ten
to one in favor of a Student Union over a field
house and favored a $5 per semester fee be
ginning with the fall semester, 1947.
President Ralph D. Hetzel presented a letter
to the trustees in May, 1947, from All-College
President Robert Foote, urging the SU and
citing the student vote for a,fee. This was the
second time the students had asked for a fee
When cabinet approved the fee in May, 1950,
it was the third time the students had made
such a request.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE, COLLEGE,' PENNSYLVANIA.
Safety Valve--
Student Union Fee
Was a Most Infamous• Deed
TO THE EDITOR: In your Student Union
editorial . . you have recalled and supported
one of the most infamous deeds ever perpetu
ated by All-College Cabinet here—one of , the
worst farces ever performed on student govern
ment at Penn State!
Student representation received a hollow'
mockery on that night in May, 1950, when some
20 student "representatives" decided that their
constituents would pay $7.50 a semester for an
indefinite period to construct an edifice, the
facts about which were still vague in their
minds.
The student body was never consulted on
this! 1. Cabinet knew students are reluctant to
contribute money for any cause; 2. The proposal
had to be railroaded through in a hurry in time
to go to a meeting of the College trustees with
a false stamp of student approval.
And you dare say. "It should be noted that it
was the students themselves, through All-
College Cabinet, who asked for the fee."
..„-There were a few honest people on that cabi
,net. Several abstained from voting because they
admitted they could not vote honestly •on the
assessment because they had no idea of how
their constituents felt.
Then and today and tomorrow the SU assess
ment would undoubtedly lose in a student
referendum. A very good reason for SU backers
to avoid such action.
Yet a good many Penn Staters. - -- ;Ayself in
cluded. would have been willing to he assessed
for a building we would never utilize if we
could at least have had the democratic and
idealistic privilege of approving our, own do
nation.
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I would have voted in favor of the assess
ment, and many "otherswould be willing to con
tribute if they had iust been consulted in some
way first. Now the whole deal leaves a sour
taste in our mouths.
—John Dalbor,
•" Collegian Managing Editor, 1950-51
Gazette ...
Wednesday, December 12
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AGRICULTURE
ENGINEERS. Dr. Lyman E. Jackson speaker,
105 Agricultural Engineering, 7 p.m.
COFFEE HOUR. cabinet and dean of men,
109 Old Main, 4 p.m.
FENCING CLUB, Beaver Field Water Tower
7:30 p.m.
PETROLEUM ENGINEERING SOCIETY
movies, 203 Willard Hall. 7 p.m.
RELIGION IN—LIFE WEEK general commit
tee. 209 Willard Hall, 7:30 p.m.
WRA BOWLING. White Hall alleys, 7 p.m
WRA DANCE, White Hall rhythm room.
7 p.m.
COLLEGE HOSPITAL
Gloria D'Antonio, Karen Gold, Michael Gold
stein, Louis Gomlick, Elaine Gottlieb, Ronald
Heisman, Nancy Misner, Thomas Mulligan, Con
rad Nagel, Aviva Sare, Cornelius Smith, Norma
Waters.
COLLEGE PLACEMENT
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. will inter
view January graduates in C&F Thursday; Dec. 13.
Hailer. Raymond and Brown, Inc. will interview graduates
'at all levels in EX., Phys., and Math Monday, Dee. 17.
Firestone Tire and Rubber CO. have opportunities- in sales
leading to retail management or wholesale sales. Further
information maybe obtained in 112 Old Main.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Women for waitress work from 7:30 to 11 p.m. in dairy
store.
Busboy for Mondays from 9 to 12 a.m.
Woman for housework five days per week from 11 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
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Fundamental
We owe our existence today, inPart, to the old theory of the
balance of power. Most political.. scientists the world over espouse
this principle as the only means available in our times of carrying
on international relations. That kind. of thinking, therefore,
helps perpetuate an insidious and dangerous means of diplomacy.
Thirty-seven years ago the bal
ance of power proponents cre
ated the machinery which when
set into operation resulted in
World War I. During the latter
part of the 1930's the same meth
od introduced - the Axis powers
to t h e scene. Previous to the
birth of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo
coalition the victorious allies
hamstrung. Germany yr i t h the
Versailles treaty. She had. one
recourse and that was to over
come the stigma of being a sec
ond rate power, creating the' cy
cle to the balance.
While it is true that economic
factors also played a part in
Hitler's rise to power and the
League of Nations did fail to
serve as an effective arbiter of
international disputes, the Axis
as such was the product of bal
ance of power thinking. As
usual, when one s i d e of the
scales decided it outweighed
the other, then that heavy side
wanted to crush the other.
Today the world is balanced
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again : precariously so to say the
least. And the old school is, hold
ing, firmly to the principle that
can start another great war. Mili
tary alliances with such new im
posing names as the North At
lantic Treaty Organization ar e
aL fashionable now as they were
in 1914 and again in 1930. Newer,
deadlier weapons are replacing
the older deadly weapons. The
machinery is being re-erected.
Trtie, the West cannot throw
down its arms and invite Rus
sian invasion. but the Wes t
should heed the words of two
leaders of former Axis countries
who call for a federation of
Europe now. While the federa
tion is, at this time, strictly, for
defense of the West and a part
of acquiring more weight, to.• the
West's side of the scales, it does
have future value if real peace
does come.
Premier Alcide de Gasperi of
Italy said recently his country
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