PA GE F 013.: Published Tuesday through Satorday mornings inclusive during the College year by the staff of The Daily Col legian of the Pennsylvania State College. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. rust Office - under th DAVE JONES, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor: Al Goodman; Copy Editors: Peggy McClain, Betty Koster; As sistants: Janice Laird, Kay Krause, Joe Beau Seigneur, Byron Fielding. Student Compensation Explained There has been a good deal of discussion in student circles re cently about All-College Cabi net's budget and the compensa tions and scholarships awarded to student government officials by that budget. This discussion has been precipitated by a re cent question as to whether or not student council presidents should be compensated. Many students evidently do not realize some student gov ernment officials and committee members are compensated.. It is partially through this lack of knowledge that campus election figures have suffered. The stu dent body has been repeatedly told All-College Cabinet is spending $12,000 a year in stu dent money. Cabinet has not. however, gone to the same pains to explain where the m goes. This is not to say cabin.- is under strict obligaf on fo precisely explain from time to time just how it spends mon ey. It is to say, however, that students should know where the money goes' and should have more of an opportunity to 'find out. IV. Judicial Would (This is the fourth in a series of five edi torials designed to outline and explain the proposal for a Supreme Court in. Penn State's judicial system.) The inconsistency and unfairness which resl, it under the current judicial system naturally re flects on the integrity of the College. The com plaints of students, which in many cases are echoed by their parents, can seriously damage the reputation of the College. In addition, the College feels it is not enougi_ to merely issue punishments and forget about the matter It realizes that some form of re habilitation program would be helpful in straightening out those students who have erred along the way. The present ,system pro vides no effective means for doing this. The deans' office probations, which merely consist of reporting in at regular intervals,• act only as an inconvenience to the student and a threw. of the possible consequendes should he becom involved in any further trouble. 'The newly proposed system would end tLc inconsistencies which threaten the integrity of the • College by setting up continuity procedure; uniformity of decision, and a sys-' tern of appeals. In- additicin, alloWing student agencies to hUndle all cases except those of extremely severe or personal, nature would further the integrity of the College by dern onstrating student interest . in their own , Safety Valve TO THE EDITOR: We understand that there is a motion before All-College Cabinet that will provide for a $l5 compensation to all student council presidents. This has raised the question in. ourminds as to how much money is given to whom and for what. This idea of compensation was new to ue If some group's receive compensation; do. all'r Why doesn't more of the student body know of this, especially since it comes out of our fees? We, as students, feel we have a right to know precisely where this money goes. Why hasn't this been explained to us? By keeping it quiet, either accidentally or on purpose, May 8, 1953 MARKETING CLUB picnic, 1:30 p.m., Sunset Park. STUDENT EMPLOYMENT Tuscarora in the Poconos, will interview men and women May 8. Men wanted for waiters. Men wanted for garden and lawn work, house cleaning and odd jobs. Centre Hall Band Boosters • TURKEY DINNER Newman .Club Saturday, May. 9, 1953 Senior Party . ~ 7 \ SERVED 5:0 - 7:00 P.M. at the • Friday, 0 May 8 M OTHER ' S Grange Hall in CENTRE HALL at 8:00 p.m. • • -Please iier with a gift from the Route 45—The Main Street PHI KAPPA FRATERNITY Adults $.1.50 Children 75c TREASURE HOUSE Dancing Ref res hm en ts Tickets at Keystorte Television Co. Everyone invited 112 S. Frazier St,' State College ' . WE HAVE A PRICE RANGE "TO FIT EVERY BUDGET Elailg entlegiatt Successor. to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887 That the students are not aware compensation is, given is only partially cabinet's fault. It is the responsibility of any in terested student to attempt to find out how his fees are spent. A student cannot expect to sit and wait for cabinet to present a detailed explanation without putting forth any effort on his own. Any student really interested in cabinet's budget should know it includes an item titled "schol arships and compensation," and should realize that attending a cabinet meeting when the bud get is presented should solve his lack of knowledge completely. That students do not take an interest in student govern ment is a sad truth. That they do not know where their money -goes, then, is largely a result of their own apathy. Because the student body does have the right to know exactly .10NNT All-College Cabinet spends its money, the Daily Collegian here undertakes an explanation of the amount of money cabinet spends for student scholarships and compensation. Under the 1953-54 budget as Questions Compensation Policy Gazette ... THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE. Business Mgr. End Inconsistencies community responsibilities. The rehabilitation problem could be handled by the establishment of a probation board which would be responsible to the offices of the deans of men and women. This board would eat as a counseling agent for student rehabilitation and should be composed of psychologists and sociologists who are best equipped to adequately '-:alp the student. Much of this work could be ir_4sumed by those already on the College payroll. The College is also interested in taking away from the Senate committee on student affairs the stigma of disciplinary action, and leaving it a purely constructive agency. Until - last year, disciplinary cases now handled by :his committee were under the jurisdiction of a disciplinary committee of the Council of Administration. What was then the student :welfare icomMittee•haridled only cases involv '.ng violations of College social codes. The Iwo groups were combined for the sake of ' afficiency. , • The disciplinary stigma would be removed 'corn the student affairs committee on dis :iplinary 'action into the Supreme Court, thus ~eaving the student affairs committee and its five subcommittees free - to devote themselves exclusively to constructive and positive meas ures. - we can't help but . get the impression that something is "shady.' We thought working on student councils was service to the school which is considered a :rivilege by those chosen few. The idea of lmpensation has lowered our estimation of ?se • positions Ed * Note— r The emotion before All-College Cabinet_was actually part of cabinet's annual budget. Cabinet's budget arid the compen sation in it have not been kept quiet; neither have they been shouted from the rooftops. COLLEGE HOSPITAL Rosetta Berger, Octavio Cano, Richard Demp ster, Ariana Dickson, John Epler, Joanne Fra zier, Robert K. Jackson, Benjamin Kreider, Lee Kummer, June Larson, Paul Makowski, Nancy Schade, Abing Sorriatmadja, Raymond Talipski, Ward Wheatall, Mark Wiener and Donald Ziegler. Collegian editorials repre sent the viewpoint 'of , the writers, not necessarily the policy of the newspaper. Un signed' editorials are by the Pditor. act of March 3, 1879 now set, $1550 will be spent for scholarsh!ps and $425 for compensation. This - is a $l3O increase over last year's bud get. This year's complete bud get will be $12,300, or a $745 total increase over last year. Scholarships awarded are: Al] r College president, $300; All-Col lege secretary-treasurer, $150; All-College vice president, sen ior class president, and Tribunal chairman. $lOO each; junior class president, $75; sophomore and freshman class presidents, elec tions board chairman, and Tri bunal. secretary, $5O each; Tri bunal treasurer, $4O; Orienta tion Week chairman, Student Handbook editor and business manager, $25 each. Compensa tion totaling $4lO is also given prominent handbook workers, Tribunal members, and Orienta tion Week and election commit tee members. Compensations awarded are: Spring We e k chairman. $5O; Junior and Senior Prom chair men, and Spring Week business manager, $25 each; and seven individual Spring Week commit te heads, $l5 each. In addition, (Continued on page eight) —Dave Pellnitz Retiring Editor —Pat Douthett Carolyn Cunningham Margie Hopp Little Man on Campus "See—l told you we could •get ci " rtg Arottiii With all the present discussion going on about some members of student government receiving compensation, we thought of one student government leader who is compensated at the rate of $lOO .1 year. He is the Chairman •of Tribunal. Be can have it. He has had to listen to More sad stories than a county judge handling divorce cases. Some ,of the stories are just as interesting. The chairman isn't the only member of Tribunal wh o is compensated. They all receive compensation not as much . but then . they haven't had to listen to as many stories. The boys of the parking fine collection agency probably appre ciate best . the non-story teller. This is the guy who comes in and says, "I thought I'd try to get away with parking there. How much?" His honesty pleases the board so much that they fine him only as much as the others. But no matter how much the board likes the non-story teller, the others are far , more inter esting. There is always the stu dent who oversleeps. He Over comes his plight with a solution born of the mechanical age. He drives to class—and is -caught. In recognition of this tale of woe, the , misdemeanant is ac corded the full and unqualified sympathy of Tribunal along with a monetary fine. Since there are about 20 lovers of sleep heard every week, we have long considered looking into the possibility of establishing an alarm clock factory, or at least a dealership, at the College. The board has also been con fronted with the' lad who brings with him a complete medical his tory attested to by every doctor his family has known since his birth. This is all right. It helps the board see why he can't or shouldn't walk to class. But in the case of some it might be simpler to get a note from the Health Service explaining that he might experience some difficulty in walking with a broken leg. Then there is the case of the student who was brought be fore Tribunal for going through a stop sign four times with a motorcycle. He liked the sen sation of goiiag over the dip FRIDAY,. MAY. 8, 1953 Fff RIR DEO ates if we just had a car.", By DICK RAU. in the road. This kind breaks up- the monotony. In every group there are, the pre-laW majors, not all of them taking pre-law. They usually do not deny that they were' parked illegally,l but would rather talk about. the legal aspects of setting up a parking system. The board listens politely, agrees that the 'system has its inconvenient sit uations, points out that they are only enforcing the law instead of making it, and fines him. Occasionally an embarrassing situation arises at 'the weekly hearings. One such situation in volved a Tribunal member.. He had received a ticket. His was the'. sorriest story of the night. He couldn't even plead ignor ance. He also joined the ranks of the poorer, but penitent. Now and "then during a. lull in the proceedings, the old members of Tribunal discuss days gone by when there were no assigned parking areas, but only assigned spaces scattered about the carri pus. In those days the number of .violators •invited before* Tribunal might have run as high as a dozen or more a week. Now business is booming. Tribunal has split .up into two shifts except for the more important cases. The Asso ciated Student Activities fund has received more money from fines than ever. before. Every thing has changed but the comp ' ensation and the tone of, the stor ies.. Phi Mu Alpha Elects Black President George Black; - sixth semester commerce major, wa s recently elected - president of Phi _Mu, Al pha, men's national music honor ary fraternity. Other officers 'are Allan May, vice president; Donald Lambert, secretary; Neil Andre, treasurer; Alexander Zerban, warden; -Rob ert Potter, historian; and 'John Jenkins, _alumni secretary.. Saturday Sold 'put P See it Tonight L Right You-'Are A (if you think so) Y This Friday BC E : Saturday Tickets on Sale- at Student Union and R at the door—W.oo s 8:00 p.m. Center Stage By Bibler
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