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STAFF THIS ISSUE
Editorial staff: Night editor, Gus Vollmer:
Copy editors, Al Goodman, Chuck Obertance:
Assistants, Mary Lipubris; Jack Reid, Al Gun
ther, Bill Pete.
Advertising staff: Connie Anderson, Betty
Schmidt, Clare Thiessen.
Council Fee Plan
Still Not Needed
All-College Cabinet. tonight will consider a
25-cent per semester fee consolidation plan
which, if approved,. will raise student fees
about $2400 a year. This fee plan should not
be passed.
The fee plan was given first approval last
week by cabinet after presentation from Inter
school Council Board. The ISCB presented the
plan to answer a College request for equalized
and consolidated fees which may be collected
easily at registration. There is no objection to
the College's- request..
The fee consolidation is necessary because the
Agriculture and Home Economics Student Coun
cils assess their students special fees. The other
six schools have no such fees. To equalize this
difference, ISCB has presented its plan.
' The main objection here is that . in attempt
ing to consolidate fees, ISCB has produced a
plan which would cost the students about
$l2OO a semester. At present, the two special
assessments total $1242.25 a semester. The
new fee plan would raise $2474.75 a semester,
or a $1232.50 increase. This increase is un
necessary.
The ISCB has taken it upon itself tb inject
into the College's request another _ motive: to
raise about $l2OO each semester for student
council use. The ISCB plan, therefore, is not
merely a consolidation plan, but a fee raise plan.
The College did not ask ISCB to raise fees, and
neither have the students.
If the ISCB wanted to equalize and con
solidate fees, which is what the College •,re
quested, it could have proposed a 12.5 cent
fee consolidation. Such a plan would raise
almost the same amount of money now needed
by the Agriculture and Horne Economics stu
dent councils. ISCB admits , it is attempting to
raise extra money for council use.
The individual student councils do not need
this additional money. Ohe council has honestly
asked not to receive it. Two councils have asked
modifications in the plan. It was not until Tues
day night, almost a week after cabinet's first
approval, that the Chemistry-Physics and Edu
cation student councils approved the fee plan.
Three remaining councils said they can use
additional money from the fee plan. These ,
same councils admit, however, they have not
previously asked for more funds. It is obvious
that any student council will gladly find a
use for money cabinet wants to give it. Any
one can find a use for more money. But if
those same councils actually need the money,
why haven't they ever asked for. it? It is a poor .
policy to pass a fee and then decide how to
use the money.
It has been continually contended the councils
need additional money that would result from
this fee plan. If the councils feel they deserve
more money, they should make an open request
to cabinet for that money in their own right
and seek an outright fee increase.
Instead, ISCB
,in seeking a fee increase has
incorporated it with a consolidatiOn request, and
wrongly so. If ISCB feels its member councils
need funds, then ISCB should not attempt to
slide them 'through on a. fee consolidation re
quest. Fee consolidation and fee raise should be
considered separately.
If must again be emphasized: if. All-College
Cabinet passes this fee plan tonight, it will
be doing the student body a great injustice.
—Dave Jones
Fee Plan Can Mean
Better Government
The fee proposal. which will come before All-
College Cabinet tonight for a second, and final,
vote has been kicked around a great deal re
cently. Much of the discussion on the present
plan has been confused, and has overlooked cer
tain points. •
One of the chief bones of contention is that
the councils do not need the money for which
they are asking. This is true in one; and per
haps two, councils, but the very fact that the .
rest have asked for the fee indicates other
wise. No one wants a fee passed just for the
fun of it, and school council presidents and
the members of their councils in particular
share this • view, as they are perhaps closer
to the students than anyone else on• cabinet.
The view is held that if the councils needed.
this money they should have asked for it before.
Actually, this has been done. Last year, the
^ouncil asked for additional funds from the
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terclass budget. An increase of $5OO was granted.
This amount haS proved during the year to be
insufficient. The Interschool Council Board had
anticipated asking for another increase this year,
- but when it started working on the problem,
found that no more funds could be obtained
Al this *manner.
Now. a council at the beginning of the year
;11 roost cases cannot know definitely that it will
need and can use more funds than it has on
hand to provide for a better program. Some
schools, however. like the Phys Ed school can
- tell in advance. This year the Phys Ed school
• got approximately $44 a semester from the
interclass budget. No kind of effective program
4 can be carried on with this amount.
What, then,'is the answer? The school coun
cils had to find another manner in which
to raise their money. No doubt some of them
considered_ asking cabinet for a raise in fees.
This became unnecesatry, however, when the
fee consolidation plan was evolved.
It has been charged that the ISCB 'is merely
using its plan for a 25 cent school council fee
for all students as a means to solve the problem
of consolidation. It has been charged that the
fee• plan is merely an easy way to extort an
additional quarter from unsuspecting students.
These charges have no basis in fact, nor are they
fair to student councils 'which are trying their
best to become more effective and thus be of
more value ,to the students.
A raise in fees is always protested by some
as a matter of course, regardless of the purpose
to which the money will be put. We do not
urge that all fees be blindly accepted, but we
do urge that some common sense be used be
fore tearing out at honet• efforts aimed at a
better Penn State.
,
The majority of the school councils, not just
their presidents, feel that additional funds can
be used effectively. It is for this reason that
All-College Cabinet must paSs this fee plan
tonight, or else be guilty of undermining its
own strength by cutting down the effective
ness of an jmPortant sec-m—t of student gov
ernment—the school council.
Last Chance ...
Today, as you will be hearing on the loud
speaker all day, will be your last chance to vote
in the All-College elections.
Yesterday, a good number of students voted,
and the voting machine operation ran smoothly.
With hopes of getting a record number of voters
out, th e All-College elections committee has
made every effort to see that the elections con
tinue to run smoothly.
It is hoped that interest in student govern
ment at Penn State will induce thousands
more to go to the Old Main lounge today and
vote. Whether or not you have the interest,
it must be remembered that the persons who
will be elected will determine important stu
dent policy and issues during the coming aca
demic year.
So, take the time—and take advantage of
your last chance to vote.
Safety Valve
Cites Unfair Action
TO THE EDITOR: In this week's meeting of
the Liberal Arts Student Council, nominations
for pr e s i d e n t of the yet-unformed Business
School Council were held. This president is to
be selected from present members of the Liberal
Arts Student Council who will be in the Business
school next semester. Only members of the Lib
eral Arts Council will be voting.
For a school that believes so much in the
democratic way, this seems to -be a very un
democratic action. Granted, the members of
the LA Council are experienced in operation
of such an organization. But this experience
could be used in an advisory and temporary
capacity instead of a method of attaining an •
undeserved position. The members of this new
council should have the power to choose their
own president.
In only a few weeks, the students will elect
members of the Business Council. Why should
the president of this organization be picked for
them? Although the LA Council will have no
more power than the Business School Council,
it has taken it upon itself to choose the president
for this younger group. This is neither fair to
the members of the Business School nor to the
council that will be elected in only a few weeks.
—Name withheld
Gazette ...
April 23, 1953
AIR FORCE . HONOR GUARD, 7 p.m., Arm
ory, class B uniform.
ALPHA KAPPA PSI, 7 p.m., Phi Kappa Psi.
AMERICAN SLAVONIC ORGANIZATION,
7:30 p.m., 102 Willard.
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL
ENGINEERS, 7 p.m., 105 Mechanical Engineer
ing.
FENCING CLUB, 7 p.m., Rec Hall.
FROTH CIRCULATION STAFF, 7 p.m., 2 Car
negie.
NEWMAN CLUB LECTURE DISCUSSION,
postponed.
PENN STATE HELLENIC SOCIETY, 7:30
p.m., TUB.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Asbury Arlington Hotel. New Jersey, will inter
view women, April 24.
Boy to work on farm for room and board.
Boys wanted for waiters and dishwashers.
Camp Nokomis, New York, will interview men
and women April 23.
Students' wives for evening counter work.
—Mimi Ungar
Little Man On Campus
t aly
Professor Snarf, if your ideas are so red hot why ain't
YOU out after one of those $25,000 a year jobs instead
of teaching school?"
Sealing Wax
and Cabbages
This being a last column and all, I guess I should say something
appropriate. For instance; I• could predict a brilliant future for dear
old State, but I won't. I could make a last appeal for improvement
on the many wrongs with student, faculty, and administration, but
it would only bo,tince off ears of stone.
I could, you know, recall the glory that was State, if there is
such a thing as glory. I could
break down and cry. I could pre
dict the dimmest of futures for
the incoming senior board. But
that would be silly. Every board
has been the best ever, as any
member of any board will tell
you
The past four years have been
of mixed emotions and my ex
' periences about the same as
any others. I was sorry to see
bars taken out of the fraterni
ties because I don't think drink
ing is an evil. I was sorry to
see irresponsibility shown on •
the part of students who par
took of panty raids. I was glad
to see the College stand up
against the American Legion at
one instance and reinstate Wen
dell S. Macßae in another.
Fraternities at Christmas time
made me proud and during a hell
week ashamed. At times they
show that they can live up to
their, .ideal s by supporting an
orphaned child in a foreign coun
try and at other times show their
hypocrisy in their many discrim
inatory clauses.
You can be proud of the Inde
pendents at times and quite
disgusted with them when they
destroy property or act like
slobs.
Students have much to be proud
and much to be ashamed of.
I can't help but wonder how
some things will come out. I won
der if any of the AIM governing
bodies will ever stop changing
constitutions everytime a problem
comes up. I wonder if All-College
election totals will ever rise above
50 per cent. I wonder if the Lion
will ever roar or the Obelisk fall.
The weather at Penn State is
not the worst in the world. I
realize this is a controversial
stand, in view of recent snow
storms. But isn't weather every
where all the time? I suppose
the sun always shines in your
home town!
To tie things up in a neat ball,
there was a lot that I never got
around to doing. For instance, I
have had a secret passion to at
tend a body mechanics class and .
do a column on it. Then I wanted
to take a hardy blast at the school
along lines of what. a liberal edia..
cation here should be and isn't.
There are a lot of things, but the
time has run out. •
Two girls will be cleaning up
the mess I have made—Lorraine
£HURSDAY, APRIL Z 3;
By ROBERT LANDIS
Gladus (librarian) and Gus Voll
mer (exchange editor). I would
like to express my deepest sym
pathies to them.
In closing, I guess I should tell
those who don't already know,
where I got the title for ,this
column. The title is a quotation
from Lewis Carroll's "Through
the Looking Glass." Tweedledum
and Tweedledee, two characters
in the book, asked Alice (of Alice
in Wonderland fame) if she would
like to hear a poem. She- wasn't
interested in hearing one but they
insisted. The title of it was "The
Walrus and the Carpenter:"
" 'The time has - "come,' the Walrus
said,
'To talk of many things:
Of shoes—and ships—and sealing
wax
Of Cabbages—and kings—
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have
wings.' "
Nittany Dorms
Given 17 Acres
As Rec Area
Approximately 17 acres east of
Nittany Dormitories have been
designated by the College as a rec
reational area, according to Ernest
B. McCoy, dean of the School of
Physical Education and Athletics.
This area, which_ is now being
filled with dirt from the Student
Union Building excavation, will
be devoted to intramural sports
and to a new freshman baseball
team practice diamond. Moving
the freshman team, to. this new
location will alleviate the cramp
ed conditions that exist in Beaver
Field during spring.✓,football prac
tice, McCoy said.
In addition to this new dia
mond, which will be constructed
in the northeast- corner, there will
be two new touch football fields
and ten to 12 new softball dia
monds to - be used for intramural
competition and weekend recrea
tional activities.
Indications are favorable _ thai
this project will be finished in
time for intramurals next fall.
McCoy said..
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