PAGE FOUR 1 Poe tidied Tuesday through San:tr.:ay mornings, during the University rear. the Daily Callevan is a student ! operated newspaper. Esiteireci es setond-clams •aattee dely 6, 1934 at etas Seats College, Pa. Peat Office ender DAVE JONES. Editoe STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Betty Koster; Copy editors, George Bairey, Tommie' Bloom; As- , sistants, Mike Miller, Anne Elder ; Phyllis Propert, Bill Eisenberg, Tom Smith, Connie Kline, Stan Frolic. IV. Campus Politics: Looking at the Set-up (Last of four editorials on campus politics) Both candidates for All-University president have flatly declared the chief issue in this spring's election is cleaning up campus politics. Yet, neither party has included anything of that nature in its platform. Certainly the chief issue of an election deserves platforT. recog nition. This is only one example of how campus par ties have adroitly avoided committing them selves on important issues. There are many issues both parties have neglected. What do they think about the stu dent parking situation? Do they favor the dor mitory dress rule? Will hey attempt to measure student opinion on the Recreation Hall seating plan, and modify it accordingly? They have ignored the move to merge Nittany and Pollock Councils. They have ignored the probleni of freshman-upperclass separation in the West Dorms. They have voiced no opinion on freshman customs, a student book store, the 25-cent student council fee, the inaccessibility of Station WDFM. They have overlooked the idea of analyzing student government and alter ing its. structure—something it could use. Both parties have avoided these issues be cause they are ones upon which there is divided student opinion. These issues could cost parties a few votes. Yet the very fact that there is divided opinion on them indicates they are of some importance. East Donn Merger: A Strong Council The old days are gone forever, but members of Pollock Council seem to be trying to re capture them. The council sent to committee a proposed constitution which would unite it with Nittany Council into an East Dorm Council. At the least, this means a delay in the establishment of a combined council which could benefit residents of both areas. If Pollock residents wish to regain lost pres tige—as they say they do—the best way to do so is to merge into a new council. They then would be able to work through a more efficient government in the entire East Dorms, and would provide their area—which has problems similar to those of Nittany—with a way to solve problems without seeking different solutions in each area. Pollock Circle dormitories are the last to be filled by the Department of Housing when mak ing room assignments. When vacancies occur elsewhere, Pollock residents are usually moved to Nittany. This means the Pollock area dormi tories' are at least partially emptied each year. This policy appears to be a continuing process. A separate council cannot be maintained with a skeleton of dormitories providing leaders for the area. One member of Nittany Council has said, "The only difference in the areas is the ma cadam road between them." Residents of both areas eat in the same dining hall. Social prob lems are similar in both areas. "A= single council would carry greater weight, and strengthen the voice of area residents.. .• Gazette ... Today PENN STATE GRANGE WORKSHOP, 1 p.m., basement of Schwab • Tomorrow HILLEL UPPERCLASS INDEPENDENTS, p.m., Hillel Foundation STUDENT EMPLOYMENT The following camps will interview at the Stu dent Employment Service, 112 Old Main; Camp Menatoma, Maine, on March 29 and 30; Clear Pool Camp, N.Y., on April 1; Camp Kiwanis on April 2; Camp Conrad Weiser on April 7. Sign up for interviews in advance. UNIVERSITY PLACEMENT This is a partial and unofficial listing. Complete informa tion on placement may be secured at 112 Old Main. SEABROOK FARMS CO. of Bridgeton. N.J. will meet with freshman, sophomores, and juniors interested in summer ...employment on March 30 in 105 Forestry to arrange inter views for March 31. Seniors interested in employment upon graduation will also be interviewed. THE KROGER CO will be on campus March 31 and April 1, to interview interested seniors. Names should be listed with G.N.P. Leetch, 112 Old Main. O'Brien To Serve On Speech Group Joseph F. O'Brien, professor of public speaking, will serve on the co: - - 1 ttee on constitutions divi -nd the committee on state ar Deal oratory at the meeting of . Speech Association of East er: States next month in Phila de- .hia. O'Brien's article, "Don't Shove, Mr. linowles—P . arliamentary Law is Basically Sound," appeared in the recent issue of Today's Sroc-h, a publication of the association. Tip Batig enlirgiati to THE MEE LANCE. eat. Int .4i90- , Summer Jobs Available At Employment Office Students may contact the Stu dent Employment Service about summer job sources, John J. Hu ber, director of student employ ment, has announced. Huber said the over-all low employment level may make it difficult for students to resume previous industrial or office jobs this summer. He added that there are open ings in camp and resort jobs in 16 different states available at the • - mni oyment service offide, 112 Old Main. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE. Business Mgr. Aside from party refusal to take stands on real issues, there is another factor operating against good platforms. Parties cannot hope to carry out platforms, tnder present operation, because they lose their discipline and entity im mediately after an election. Of course, party members are associated long after election time in respect to influence and appointments. But between elections, the force to carry out party platforms does not exist. And there is no demand to make parties carry out their planks. The answer to the platform problem is to pro vide permanent party registration and activity. This would mean the operation of All-University Cabinet along party lines. Demands would have to be forthcoming to insure party loyalty. If this type of situation is not desirable, then neither is the platform idea: Without platforms, campus politics would of ficially become a popularity contest. Because of the absence of party control, it is largely that now. If this is true, and if parties refuse ' to take stands on issues, we may as well call campaigns "popularity contests," and let it go at, that. It has been repeated over and over on the floor of All-University Cabinet that Penn State has a good student government set-up. Take a look at this semester's operation. Well now, I wonder. Pollock Council seems to favor the creation of a bi-area social committee. Yet, without political merger, a combined social committee will not succeed. The social committee would be responsible to two councils. Social commit tees cannot serve two masters. Political union is necessary for social progress. The social policy of the two areas must be coordinated with a merger. . . Personal emnity against the initiator of the proposal seems to be another reason fer Pol lock Council's unwillingness to see the merger ,accomplished. Council members feel the origin ator of the merger plan should have come to 'them with . the- plan before it was presented to Nittany Council. It does not seem to occur to them, however, that the president of the Pollock Council was living in Nittany and the vice president and secretary had approved the plan. The present council's officers were elected after the merger proposal was introduced. While the council may have grounds for feeling it was slighted, these grounds were minimized by the council's lack of organization. Proposals cannot be made to empty..chairs. Pollock" Council should study the proposals and approve it. Unification of Pollock and Nit- tany - Councils into one strong council, to speak for all residents of the East Dorm area, would be advantageous both to those residents and to the Association of Independent Men, which could benefit by -having a strong council repre sent the area. On Work Projects Fraternities and sororities at the University will demonstrate today one way the University serves the community. The theme for Greek Week, which begins today with work projects, is "Greeks Through the University." This theme could be extended because of the work projects into "Greeks Through the University to the Community." Fraternities and sororities, in cleaning up playgrounds in the borough and doing general work at other places such as Beaver Dam recre ation area and the Centre County Home for the Aged, are doing worthwhile services. It is a credit to these organizations that they are will ing to expend effort to prove students are will ing to aid welfare work in the community. The University is an integral part of the com munity. Fraternities and sororities are an im portant part of the Uriiversity. Therefore, fra ternities and sororities are adding to the welfare of the community, and thereby are upholding good relations between the citizens of State College and the University. Editorials represent , toe Viewpoint of the writers. not necessarily the policy of the paper. Unsigned edi torials are by the editor. set of Starch 3. 3879. —Phil Austin -Phil Austin Alderfer to Speak At Travel Series Harold F. Alderfer, professor of political science, will discuss "An American Sees Greece" at 7:30 p.m. Monday in 107 Main Engi neering. The talk will be the first of the international travel series sponsored by the Penn State Cos mopolitan Club. The series is designed to ac quaint students with the United States and foreign countries by means of speeches, sh.d.es, an d movies. ttle Myn on Campus Fir„ lc)ll , o zoFEsso ß mpg sNpkgF. ..........., • "IF - fl,/* p> • ••••: • Interpreting the News Sovereignty is Hoax In East Germany Now. the slogan of the anti-Communist European undergrounds, that "Liberation comes only with war," can be applied to East Ger many as well as to the other Russian satellites. . Russia, by announcing a "sovereign" government for East Ger. many, merely confirms what was made plain at the. Berlin confer• ence—that she intends to stay in central Europe indefinitely. There will be almost no differ ence between the operation as of day-before-yesterday and the op eration as of tomorrow. East Germany autonomy will be exercised under Russian oc cupation troops and Russian, di- . rection of relations wi th• the Western world. Rusia will claim, of course, that this is exactly what the Allies did when they sponsored the estab lishment of the West German gov ernment, and it is true that the forms are very much the same. It is the intent, and the spirit of administration, which are so dif ferent. West Germans' have given evidence of their satisfaction with the present arrangement, pending even further partnership with the West, in several entirely free elec tions. East Germans have had no free elections, and have evidenced nothing but hatred for their Mos cow-imposed rulers. Politically, the chief impact of the announcement is to serve no tice on Western Germany that there will be no reunification ex cept under Russian terms, which would give the Communists an opening to take over the whole country. - Practically, the chief imme diate effect seems likely to be the creation of further difficul ties in intercourse between East and West Germany, with the Elbe River line becoming not merely one of demarcation, but an' international boundary. The East Germany army, which the Russians have been develop ing under the guise of an internal security force, presumably will be formalized now. Russia may also add East Ger many to Red China as another "sovereign" nation for which she seeks diplomatic recognition and a seat in world councils. You can lay your bottom dollar that the United States is not going to fall for anything like that. One of Secretary Dulles' most adroit man euvers at the Berlin conference was to avoid, at several points, anything which could conceivably be interpreted as recognition of any responsibility at all for the Communist regime in East Ger many. The Russian action came as no surprise to Western observ ers, who have been expecting it for years. New York newspapers handled it under single column THERE'S PROF SNARF, A FINE By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst heads. ,The State department evalued it as "sheer facade." That means phony. Another def inition of "sheer" is something easily seen through. 21Apprehended in First Day Of Speed Trap Three students and four in structors at the University were caught exceeding the Speed limit by borough police yesterday in the first day of use of new speed trap equipment. • The, .seven were part of a- total of 21 apprehended in two hours on S. Atherton street where the speed limit is 35 miles per hour. Police officials said many others were missed because they were' borderline cases or they were lost in traffic congestion. Students listed •as offenders are Martin Kornbluth, graduate student in English literature;.Rob ert Lane, fourth semester student in the Division of Intermediate Registration; and- Gilbert Offen hartz, eighth semester arts and letters student. Faculty members included Rus sell B. Dickerson, associate dean of the College of Agriculture; Harold J. O'Brien, assistant- pro fessor of speech; Robert L.-Riddle, assistant professor of electrical engineering; and Thomas J. Wha len, research assistant in ceramics. 7:25 Sign On 7:30 __________ BBC-Music of the People 8:00 Jazz Mood 8:30 9:00 __----_--- 10:30 J Tomorrow 3 :00_ Phi Mu Alpha Concert 7 :30 asterwOrks from France 8:00 _-- Third Program 10:30 _- Sign Off 7:2s'_______ ' . 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