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,Records Mgr.. Francis Crawford.
Librarian. Al Goodman: Senior Board. lack Reid.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night editor, Bay lee Friedman; Copy editors, Ann Leh, Phil Austin; Assist
ants, Earl Kohnf elder, Anita Oprendek, Ted Serrill, Margaret Lieberman, Bill Eisenberg, Doug
Millar. Ad Staff, Louise Caspary, Pat Dickinson, Mona Signorino.
Council Fee: How Good Are Retuns?
Students are giving 25 cents a semester to
their respective student councils this year, but
no one seems to really know where that money
is going.
Whenever they have been questioned, most
student council officers have mumbled gener
alities about mixers, coffee-hours, open houses,
and newsletters. They have not dealt in spe
cifics.
Students are paying the 25 cent council fee
as a result of the University's fee consolidation
plan which went into effect this year. Before
the consolidation, councils collected varying
amounts for annual operation. This variance,
and- others, prevented the University from im
mediately collecting student fees.
All-University Cabinet was given the task of
deciding how to level the council fees. The
College of Agriculture colleCted 75 cents, Col
lege of Home Economics 25 cents, and the other
six councils, nothing. Cabinet decided to assess
every student 25 cents, thus equalizing the fee
and allowing fee consolidation.
Few will quarrel with the consolidation idea.
The University has benefited from it. and stu
dents have not suffered—other than through
this new assessment. The real issue is this:
Why should each student be forced to pay 25
cents a semester merely to level the fees? A
better plan would have been to eliminate the
council fee altogether.
The Home Economics Student Council does
not benefit from the fee, since it collected 25
cents prior to the new system. The Agriculture
Student Council's losing 50 cents per student,
since it previously collected 75 cents. The En
gineering Student Council said frankly it
could not use money it would get from con
solidation. The Business at
Stu
dent Council did not exist dt the time. The other
AIM Amendments Need Further Study
Two amendments to the Association of Inde
pendent Men's constitution, approved on a sec
ond reading by the AIM Board of Governors
before spring recess, reflect sound judgment,
and should be approved. The other two do not
meet the standard. •
One amendment calls for a reorganization of
the executive board of AIM. If the amendment
is passed, the board would consist of the ex
ecutive officers of AIM together with the presi
dents of the four living areas. The board, as it
now stands, is composed of AIM officers, the
editor of the Independent Newsletter, and chair
men of the athletic, social, and project com
mittees.
Another amendment calls for the establish
ment of five standing committees: social, proj
ects, publicity, elections, and National Inde
pendent Student Association.
Both amendments seem more than construc
tive. The first will certainly make for a more
integrated organization with various living areas
directly represented on the executive board.
The second amendment will provide more work-
An Open House
The University Library Open House, sched
uled for 7 to 9 tonight, offers students a good
chance to get a real behind-the-scenes look at
the operation of our library—complete with the
new wing.
It will be the first official open house sanc
tioned by the library since the completion of
the wing last October. Three guided tours and
special exhibits will be featured in the open
house.
The addition of the $1.2 million wing has
allowed the expansion of existing sections of
the library, and has provided new space for
reading rooms and study desks.
This represents an opportunity for students
to acquire complete inside knowledge about the
functions of a building which has been called
the key to all academic knowledge.
—George Bairey
Faculty Cuncheon Club
Tci Hear Discussion
Four faculty members of the
College of Business Administra
tion will conduct a panel discus
sion on "The Administration Ap
proach to the Current Unemploy
ment Problem" before the Faculty
Luncheon Club at noon Monday
at the Hotel State College.
The panel will include David
H. McKinley, Lawrence E. Four
aker, Morris 1' T-mdelson, and Ho
ward A. Cutler.
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Weather Station
Predicts Showers
The University may •be in for
a rainy weekend, according to
the Weather Station of Meteorol
ogy department.
The station reported cloudiness
and cooler weather for today and
a chance of showers tonight. To
morrow may be partly cloudy
and warmer with scattered show
ers and thundershowers at night.
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VINCE DR4YNE, Business Mgr.
five councils passively said they "could use the
money.", Naturally, they could use more money.
The question is, did they need it? Indications
since tell us the answer is "no."
Perhaps primary among these indications is
_
the newly-approved All-University Cabinet
budget. Last year, without the fee, cabinet gave
the councils $l5OO. This year; with the fee, that
grant was cut to $9OO. This can only mean the
councils this year had even more money than
they could use.
AnOther indication has been the vagueness
with which the councils have treated the affair.
Mixers, coffee-hours, open houses, and news
letters sound nice. But they are not always of
real value to the student, and they are not al
ways successful. Many coffee-hours have flop
ped, and council newsletters characteristically
have been of little merit. The value of open
houses to the student is not certain.
This student council fee is the type that adds
unnecessarily to the cost of an education. The
cost of education is already too high for many.
There is no need to make it higher in this way.
And although 25 cents is. in itself, not much,
this fee illustrates a philosophy which is not
good. The idea that a student must pay a fee for
every service is not healthy, and, in this in
stance, the fee is not• warranted.
Some defend the council fee by saying coun
cils will return the money to the students. This
is only a good defense if benefits of the return
are great enough to warrant the fee. As yet,
they have not been. There is no indication they
will be in the future.
A better plan would be for All-University
Cabinet to seek removal of the fee, and to re
turn to the councils the $l5OO they originally
had. Most students certainly would rather spend
the 25 cents themselves than have their councils
spend it, somewhat questionably, for them.
ing groups within AIM on a more permanent
basis.
A third amendment, which would reorganize
the AIM JUdicial Board, deserves further study
before it is approved. The amendment provides
that eight board members be appointed in the
spring at large by the • AIM president. It also
provides that the chairman be a fifth or sixth
semester student at the time of appointment.
Although members of the Judicial Board do
not need to represent the living areas, since the
members are to be impartial judges regardless
of their own living area, the proposed amend
ment does not meet the problem. The proposed
system would be too liable to abuse, with ap
pointments made for political reasons. Also, it
gives the AIM presidential • candidate a wider
basis for making promises.
The fourth proposed amendment also deserves
further consideration. It provides for the pay
ment of $225 in compensation to the officers of
AIM. Such compensation seems totally un
necessary, and the money could be put to more
constructive uses—even if it meant a social af
fair for the independent men.
But the first obstacle seems to be getting a
quorum for an AIM meeting, judging from
Wednesday evening.
Gazette ...
Monday
INTERCOLLEGIATE CONFERENCE ON GOV
ERNMENT, 7 p.m., 108 Willard
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
Philadelphia YMCA will interview students
April 29 for jobs in the Philadelphia area.
PLACEMENT SERVICE
Women interested in nursing as a career may
talk with Miss Mary Florence Taylor of the
University of Pittsburgh the afternoon of
April 27. Arrangements for interviews may
be made in 112 Old Main.
INFIRMARY
William Banfield, William Craven, Dorothy
DeMay, Harry Eberhart, Theodore- Goobic,
Louis Grieco, Harry Nelson, William Nye, Bri
gitte Reinkraut, Richard Weigel, James Watt.
Lakonides Will Hold
Teacher Discussion
Student teachers will tell of
their teaching experiences at the
Lakonides, meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday at the WRA room in
White Hall. Women in the School
of Physical Education may, at
tend.
Lakonides recently tapped five
new members. They are Juanita
Hudson, Patricia Olkkanon, Vir
ginia Sturm, Gertrude Weidmann,
and Sara Jane Fague.
Editorials. represent the
viewpoint et . the writers,
not necessarily the policy of
the paper. Unarmed edi
torials are by the editor.
set et Matra 3. Ls 79.
—Len Goodman
Little Man on Campus
h. I wouldn't worry too much abdut passing, Miss Freeman—
long as .I'm grading on th' curve."
reting the News
Inter
American
Angers
Roger. Seydoux, minister plenipotentiary at the French
Em
bassy in Washington, said in a speech. at Fargo, N.D., Wednesday
that American attacks on so-called French colonialism were fanning
the "get out of Indodhina" fires in France.
The Seydoux thesis is that France no longer has any material
interests in Indochina or hope of profit from staying there.
He said, France, with American
help, is carrying a heavy burden
of human and material losses in
the' war for the sole purpose of
preventing Southeast Asia from
falling to the Communists.
"In all frankness," he said,
"France is tired of all the accu
sations of colonialism one reads
in the American press."
Other Frenchmen say repeat
edly that, if the United States
doesn't understand and doesn't
like the way the French are do
ing things, they will be glad to
get out and let America take over
the. problem
But Americans ask "if France is
not materially interested, if she
has actually foresworn colonial
ism, why doesn't she make the
same promises to these people for
after the war that Britain made
to India during the last war? Why
doesn't France tell them that,
when they are no longer in danger
of Red conquest, they can have
complete independence, within or
without the French Union as they
may freely decide? Because the
French don't do this, isn't America
becoming, tain t e d throughout
Asia? Isn't her traditional anti
colonialism being sidetracked, by
association with France in this
war?"
The new "independence" trea
ties with Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia do not meet American
specifications. Not so much be
cause they
_retain military com
mand and the conduct of foreign
affairs for France, but. because
they do not guarantee ultimate
self-determination.
There may be an explanation
for the French position, and a good
one, which they are unable to pub
licize themselves because to do
so would defeat an important pol
icy purpose.
France. has an army fighting in
Indochina. Its losses are heavy,
and especially in officers the cas
ualties are running ahead of pro
duction at St. Cyr, French West
Point. Because of this, France has
been unable to attend properly
to her own security in Europe.
The material costs of the war in
three months are equal to the en
tire remaining French commercial
investment. in Indochina, which
has: been heavily liquidated in re
cent years.
-The burden is being carried
by the army and by the people
at home very largely because
the war is for a part of -the
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French
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
French Union. The government
understands the other purpose.
the containment of communism.
but a war in far off Asia for this
purpose alone produces no more
enthusiasm among the French
army and the French people
than did such a war in Korea
among the American army and
people.
Thus, removal or the definite
promise of removal of Indochina
from the French Union might fin
ally cripple the government in
conduct of the war.
However correct this estimate of
the position may be, the French
are in no position to publicize it.
For that would carry the infer
ence that Indochina was being re
tained in the French Union only
as a sop to army and people, to be
turned loose when the crisis is
over, and the result on morale
would be the same.
It is unfortunate that France
does not have the political sta
bility to: face such problems as
Britain did. But you . will re
member that defense of India
itself was not the whole nor
even a major problem in that
war.
French political instability is a
fact of her existence, just as are
the powers and leadership which
she must contribute if the free
world resistance to the Commun
ists is to be a success.
Another fact of life is the pro
lific American expression of opin
ion, wise or foolish.
The two countries might as
well adjust themselves to these
facts. •
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