PAGE FOUR Published ruesday through Saturday mornings. daring ; 'the University year. the Daily Collegian is a student operated newspaper. Entered as sacond-elasa DAVE JONES. Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Nancy Ward; Copy editors, Mary Bolich, Ed Reiss; Assistants, Earl Kohnfelder, Mike Miller, Gay Snodgrass, Bob Thomas, Ira Wasserman. Ad Staff, Connie Ander son, Diane Hallock. Judicial Amendment: An amendment has been presented, for first approval by the Association of Independent Men Board of Governors, to permit at-large selection of the eight members of the Judicial Board of Review. AIM is trying to improve its judicial system. It is questionable, however, how much further improvement can be made in the existing disci plinary system. Proponents of the AIM plan are avowedly attempting to obtain more justice for those students appearing before the board. However, in their quest for justice, the proponents have overlooked a basic reason why the AIM judicial system should be altered. It is true the AIM judicial board has made some questionable decisions this year. First came the case involving a Nittany Dorm. The board decided to have the offenders donate blood to the Red Cross as punishment for hold ing a beer party in the dormitory. No one but board members seemed to agree with the de cision. If this decision had been more than a recommendation to an administrative office, the decision would have stood unless appealed and changed by a higher body. It was buffeted, however, between the AIM board and the Dean of Men's office until worthwhile punishment was impossible. Next came a case in which the board asked office probation for five students accused of setting off firecrackers in a dormitory. Subse quent referral by the Dean of Men's office to the Senate committee on student affair's sub committee on discipline led to suspension of the five. The board would have approved such re ferral. The board falsely believed, however, it did not have the power to recommend such a referral. In a third case, two students were to be re ferred to the subcommittee for holding a beer A Partial Vote Count: It would be unwise for the All-University elections committee to make a partial count of spring election returns after the first day of balloting. Announcement was made last week that the committee is considering such a count. Results of the first day's voting would remain secret, according to the committee. It is with a more realistic view of human nature that this problem must be seen. There is no reason to believe the elections committee lacks integrity, and no reason to believe it would openly reveal results of the first day's voting. But since the committee is as human as the rest of us, there is some doubt as to how secret the first day results would remain. , If a partial count were made, first day re sults would have to be kept secret. Revelation of what candidates are ahead, and by how much, before the election is over is not wise. It could result in dirty campaigning. Therefore, results Compensation: Cabinet Must Cheek the List The All-University Cabinet budget revision for next year is hardly a revision at all. Last year's budget allotted $1975 in compen sation for elected and appointed officials. The newly-approved budget allocates the same amount. Practically everyone who got paid be fore will get paid now, plus one. And not all compensated persons deserve the amount they will receive. Whether or not compensation is morally cor rect is not the problem here. Compensation takes up a large slice of cabinet's budget. Cab inet's money is student money. For that reason, every cent should be spent sensibly. The new budget is not as sensible as it should be. The budget committee has made changes— good changes—which reflect the realization that money has been spent unnecessarily in the past. For instance, the committee wisely eliminated scholarships for the Junior and Senior Prom committee members, persons whose work is concentrated in a short period of a semester. Yet various members of the Spring Week com mittee are also engaged in time-concentrated work, and they will receive compensation. Another good change was the reduction of Gazette ... Today FENCING CLUB, 7:30 p.m., North Corridor, Recreation Hall INKLING CIRCULATION STAFF, Candidates, 6:30 p.m., 108 Willard NEWMAN CLUB RADIO PROGRAM, 9:15 p.m., WMAJ NEWS AND VIEWS, 6:30 p.m., 14 Home Eco nomics POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, 7:30 p.m., Home Economics Living Center WSGA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 6:30 p.m., WSGA Room, White Hall STUDENT EMPLOYMENT The following camps will interview at the Stu dent Employment Service, 112 Old Main: Camp Skycrest on April 12; Camp Kiwanis on April 2; Camp Conrad Weiser on April 7. Sign up for interviews in advance. Caw Bally Catirgiatt Sueeesaol r ru FREE LANCE. est. 18117 niter Jody a, 1934 as Me dtate Cui/ege, ea. Peel Office under THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA VINCE DRAYNE. Business ralga. Scratch the Surface party in the dormitory ,room with a revolver in full sight. Tribunal altered the decision on appeal, giving the students a deferred suspen sion. Tribunal's decision may have been the key factor in permitting those students to re main in school. This means that, if the board's decision had stood, the students might not be at the University now. A student is not referred to a student disci plinary body unless "the goods" have already been placed on him by the Dean of Men's office. The dean's office presents the evidence to the board as well as the Charges against the de fendent. In this way, any appeal must be on the punishment meted out, not on the guilt of the defendent. Cases arise, as they have this year, in which best punishment is not the most popular—not only With the offender—but with the accuser. In a student government situation, this is un fortunate because -the accuser has the power to alter the board's decision. The Dean of Men's office does try to minimize alterations in recom mendations. Yet, it is sometimes necessary to make alterations. Publications of a list of violations for which students may be tried, and an explanation of the operation of student judicial bodies, could be an initial step in implementation of such a pro gram. The undergraduate regulations are of little help to students because they do not list all violations for which a student may be disciplined. Nor do they explain the meaning of the nebulous charge for which all , students are sent to the subcommittee: "Conduct detri mental to the good name of the University." The AIM amendment may be a step in the right direction. But it barely scratches the sur face of the main problem—that of student self discipline in a college community. . Not a Good Idea must be kept secret. The 11-member elections committee, no matter how conscientious, can not be expected to do it. The argument for counting first day votes is that such a count would spread out the elections committee's work load. Obviously, it would be easier on the committee to divide the count into two days. Hand-counting spring election ballots is no fun. This argument, however, is not strong enough to make such a count desirable. Had centralized voting been used this semester, voting machines might have solved the problem. When the corn-, mittee decided to employ decentralized voting, it must have realized nand-counting would re sult. This problem, then, is the by-product of decentralized voting. The elections committee must bear with this by-product. Counting votes after the first day of voting would almost certainly result in a leak. A leak in partial results is not worth the work that would be saved the elections committee. the freshman class president's scholarship from $5O to $25. The freshman president, as the other class presidents, presides over no more than a few meetings a year. In contrast, the student council presidents, who hold meetings almost every week and participate in Intercollege Council Board activities, receive $l5. The bud get committee has reasons for this distribution. ft feels class presidents are representative of the entire student body. Council presidents are elected by their immediate college governing bodies. This may be so, but students generally receive equal benefits from classes and coun cils, if not more from their individual colleges. Unfortunately, few students realize the amount of money going into compensation, and so pressure on cabinet to evaluate and re evaluate financial allocations is low. But despite student indifference, cabinet should realize its responsibility to check and recheck every fi nancial move. It's quite easy to be generous with other people's money. Safety Valve Hits Party Planks TO THE EDITOR: .. . (A campus political party) has included in its platform for the spring elec tions two' planks which are pertinent to resi dents of the West Dorms, namely: 1. Advocacy of more upperclassmen in the West Dorms. 2. Advocacy of informal coed dining for the West Dorms. We realize this is only a "paper platform" and, judging from past experience, little will probably be done along these lines . . . Our grievance is this: we do not like the idea of having a political party use as a political plat form plank something that we have worked on exclusively . . . In short, we do not wish the fruits of our labor to be capitalized upon by a political party. Editorials represent the riewPoint of the writers, not necessarily the policy of. the paper. Unsigned edi torials are by the editor. set of March L. 1879. —Phil Austip —Baylee Friedman —Reed J. Dunn Sec'y, West Dorm Council Little Man on Campus "Oh, I haven't been tryin" to answer yoUr questio sharpen my pencil." Interpreting the New Atom May Alter Russian Strategy There are many flaws and possibly many dangerous traps in the new Russian security proposals, but this is one time when it would not be safe for the Allies to cry "phony" before very careful consid eration, and probably not' before the Geneva conference. This is written on the basis of the first brief reports from Paris on the contents of the Russian note to France, Britain and the United States, delivered in Mos cow Wednesday. The French for eign office has more leaks than a sieve, and these first drippings of note contents have not always been entirely accurate. But it does seem pretty clear that the Russians have made two very important switches in pol icy on security since their pro posals on the subject at the Ber lin conference. Then, Russia was obviously try ing, primarily, to split the United States out of European affairs. They proposed a European secur ity pact eliminating her. Now they "no longer have any objection," they say, to having the United States join the proposed mutual security system. At the same time they suggest their own membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza tion. Could it be that the Russians now realize the United States has not been exaggerating the awful potentials of atomic war? Could that bring the change in their international relations for which the West has hoped so long? It would be foolish to accept any such theory. It would be even more foolish not to use every avenue of finding out whether it is more than theory. The Russian note bears down at great length on the horrors of any future war and the necessity of great power action to prevent it. That is the same tune that the Allies have been playing since the March 1 explosion at Bikini which tipped off the full truth about hy drogen bombs. In particular the British have cried out that no pride, no preconceived notions, no consideration of relatively incon sequential matters, must prevent an all-out drive for peace in the face of such an awesome threat. Malenkov recently indicated a new realization on his own part. The Russians have always said that Western reliance on atomic warfare meant the capitalist world would be destroyed. Now 3111 T. en - ko v says civilization would be de stroyed—an echo of President Eis enhower's United Nations speech. AU of this indicates the bomb '• By J. M. ROBERTS JR. Associated Press News Analyst may be a greater deterrent to war than • most of us had esti mated. before. In effect, as a member of NATO, with the United States a member of a European security pact, Rus sia would have to give up world revolution or else plan a secret attack behind the facade of the treaties. Such an attack would not -be beyond her, normal policy. It is what has long been feared. In NATO, Russia would be in on Western planning for defense against Russia, while any forces that she might be required to con tribute to the Supreme Headquar ters Allied Powers in Europe would be strictly expendable. The whole Russian proposal, presuming she has any intent other than disruption of the West ern Alliance and the prevention of ratification of the European De fense Community, is out of kilter with her recent demonstrations of determination to hold tight to everything she has in eastern and central Europe, . particularly East Germany. Therefore, any slightest sug gestion that such a change could just possibly have taken place must be carefully investigated. The first real opportunity for that' investigation will probably be the Geneva conference. • Application Deadline Set for Spring Week The, deadline for all committee chairmen:to give their names and the names of their group and the group they are combining with for - Spring Week activities has been extended to 5 p.m. Friday, George Richards, Spring Week chairman, announced. Name s, which are necessary to make up a mailing list, may be 'turned in to RichardS 'at the Student Union desk in Old Main, he added. Tonight on WDFM 7:25 1:30 ________ 8:00 Adventures in Research 8:15 Horizons Unlimited 8:30 9:30 Music of America 10:30 -- Sign• Off THURSpAY, - APRH.•I:. 1954 By Bibler I just wanna 91.1 MEGACYCLES Record Review Sign On Semi-Pops
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