PAGE FOUR Yobtishro ruzsday tr..—la Saturday aterninaa. da. 4 .-fr the University Year. the Daily Collegian is a Aadent ',aerated nevrariaper. I ~ . S .1 •. DIEHL McKALIP, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dave Bronstein; Copy Editors, Jackie Hudgins, Joe Beau-Seig neur; Assistants, Joan Hickerson, Mike Moyle, Rod Felix, Evelyn Onsa, Ed Dubbs, Alice Grubb, Marilynn Zabusky. • Opposition to NSA Shows Poor Logic Although membership in the National Stu dent Association has been renewed this year, doubt is circulating among students as to the value the University receives from such mem bership. The essence of this doubt seems to be that "prestige" is the only value the University draws from NSA, and student government bodies are unwilling to accept the kowledge students gained from NSA conventions. However, students of this opinion are using rather distorted logic when considering this a reason for opposing further support or par ticipation in NSA functions. Actually, by such reasoning they are saying that because the University is not drawing a maximum from NSA, NSA itself is not worth support. Students opposing support of the organiza tion are right that at present the University is gaining little more than prestige. However, this cannot be considered a fault of the organ ization; rather it must be regarded as a lack of education about NSA' and an extremely nega tive and shortsighted attitude on the part of many students. As has been pointed out in previous editorials, some of the greatest advantages in NSA mem bership are intangibles: opportunity to , gain a broader perspective of academic affairs and exposure to the "high-level minds" of other campuses. However the tangible' benefits can be listed just as concretely. The central NSA office in Philadelphia maintains files of information on structure and implementation of many campus organizations at other institutions. From these files, available to all NSA members, can be drawn suggestions, recommendations, and ideas for setting up or improving campus organiza tions. NSA, nationally, composed of student offi cials from various parts of the country, also takes an active part in national political issues Chest Cents are Sense Almost $6OOO was raised by last year's Cam pus Chest drive through solicitations from only 55 per cent of thhe student body. This year the chest is asking for $7250; during the three day drive, 400 student solicitors will be work ing toward this goal. Last year Campus Chest aimed at 100 per cent participation with no set monetary goal. However, 100 percent of the students did not participate. This is in part understandable: students liv ing on a set allowance tend to feel annoyed when asked to donate a part of this to charities and the like. However, through Campus Chest, students are being relieved of unending solici tations from the dozens of charity groups seek ing donations. Because of the chest, no other national or local group can solicit students privately or at any other time. Under the chest, 15 national and local groups receive contributions from the student body. Whether the individual student contributes or not, the campus is free of any solicitation not included under the chest. However, this all-inclusive provision can not rightfully be considered an escape from in dividual donations. The student, because he is a student, cannot waive his community respon sibilities. Usually groups included in the chest drive are actually those groups to which stu dents would normally contribute, such as the Red Cross, the heart fund, and the cerebral palsy fund. Added to these charities are campus organ izations which will benefit directly from student support and in turn increase the strength of the WALLETS •Cameo - °Buxton Initials stamped in gold, free of charge at 0;5 _CA oinZery o A t . fiettiety. 3 134 E. 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Dissension is. frequently voiced against the policy of sending a small minority of the stu dent body to NSA conventions; many students feel that while these particular representatives are benefiting from the contacts and experi ences they find at these conclaves, the Univer sity as a whole does not benefit. This is in part correct; only a very few students from the Uni versity attend these conferences. However, any lack of verbal conveyance of the ideas pre sented at these conferences is not due to reti cence on the part of University representatives. Students from Penn State who attended the national congress this summer returned to cam pus prepared and willing to spend hours discus sing the conference; - unfortunately they met with a negative attitude of indifference on the part of their potential audiences. NSA might well be compared to a certain extent with the University's Student Encamp ment. While NSA is much larger and deals with a broader field of subjects, both groups are essentially a melting pot of student opinions for the purpose of formulating recommendations and solutions to problems dealing with colleges and universities.. Few students could deny the advantages the University has drawn from Student Encamp ment. Yet this group includes only 120 faculty and students from an approximate 12,000-person student body and offers no more tangible re sults than NSA has produced. It would possibly show a more educated level of thinking if students, rather than reject sup pert of NSA on the grounds that the University is not drawing from it, would study a few basic facts about the organization and possibly awak en to the benefits that are the University's merely for the exercise of taking them. —Peggy McCialai Gazette 0.,.. AG STUDENT, COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 103 Ag CPA DISTRIBUTION STAFF, '7:45 p.m., Collegian Ruei- ness Office CPA SENIOR DIRECTORATE, 6:30 p.m., CPA Office CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6 :45 p.m., 406 Old Main COLLEGIAN AD STAFF, 6:30 p.m., 9 Carnegie COLLEGIAN BUSINESS CANDIDATES, Women, 6:30 p.m., • Men, 7:30 p.m., 100 Weaver 4 COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, 6:46 p.m., Collegian Business Office COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF SENIOR BOARD, 8 :46 p.m.. 9 Carnegie COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF, 6:30 p.m., Business Office COLLEGIAN EDITORIAL CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 1 Car- negie COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 8 p.m., 102 Willard ENGINEERING STUDENT COUNCIL, 7 p.m., 107 Main Eng. NEWMAN CLUB, 8 p.m., Catholic Student Center PHI MU ALPHA, 9 p.m., 100 Carnegie SIGMA ALPHA ETA, 7:30 p.m., 1 Sparks SOPHOMORE CLASS MEETING COMMITTEE, 8:90 p.m., 101 Willard UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Albert Harman, Roscoe Kauffman. Samuel .McKibben, Fujio Oda, Albert Sankin, Harry Spayde. University. Such groups as the Penn State Scholarship Fund and the University Christian Association all add greatly to University life. Yet their strength is relative to student finan cial support. Whether you adopt one of the slogans of past chest drives as your reason—" Give Once, Serve All" or "All the Begs in One Asket"— or merely feel your duty to your fellowmen, you can not fail to see the good in the drive starting tomorrow. It consolidates your Charit able gifts into one giving, and it enables you to do your part. Editorials represent Me viewpoint of the writers. not necessarily the policy of the paper Unaltered ad& torials are by the editor. e act et Marc* S., 1879 —Jackie Hudgins Little Man on "I p of those students who always sit in the.backrow:` "Loyally" at... r%nu 61. The eing Station By PHIL AUSTIN Columnist George . Sokolsky wrote a column Saturday which would have been as funny as Fulton Lewis Jr.'s broadcasts—if it did not have 'serious implications - for the American college student. It seems that Mr. Sokolsky p Youth League, which is a Corn , campus. What troubles Mr. Soklosky is that there is no "activity among students that competently hits at this pernicious propaganda among our sons and daughters." In other words, he believes present college students are be ing sent to the dogs on the Mos cow express. Undoubtedly he would agree with the college administrations which feel that the national debate topic is too hot to handle. But the inference of the article is that college students aren't loyal. Mr. Sokolsky admits he does not know how widespread • this Communist Party propaganda has been circulated: But he is afraid. "I wonder on how many cam puses there is a Labor Youth League and how active it is in denouncing the United States and in serving the interests of Soviet Russia. This has nothing to do with academic freedom; it has to do with undermining the United States among the young." Then Mr. Sokolsky lists some • campus organizations which can undo this influence. The first of these is the ROTC( apparently with its loyalty oaths). The sec ond is with religious organiza tions, and the third is with the "not-yet effective" Students for America. Students for America is the con servatives' answer for the Nation al Student Association. However, it is an organization which deals STEAKS - CHOPS - CHICKEN CAMPUS RESTAURANT 142 E. COUEGE AVE. .TUESDAY; NOVEMBER 30, • 1 54 Campus eked up a brochure of the Labor unist organization, on a college only with the problems of Com munists on American campuses, rather than with general campus problems as the NSA does. The first time I was personally acquainted . with SFA was last year when I picked up an - ex change copy - of the University of Virginia Cavalier. Seems down in the Old Dominion State, an. FSA chapter was formed. Then some one wrote to the paper charging that an organization with fascist intents was active on the campus. The fight was on. But the real joker as far as I concerned is the ROTC: 'appar-• ently America's first line of de fense in Mr. Sokolsky's book. The epitome of everything is the requirement for all ROTC cadets to sign loyalty oaths. How ever, this seems to be inconse quental since some men and co eds do not take ROTC. The only, way to get around this' will ne to have all students entering the Uni versity sign loyalty oaths. (This also would eliminate any Com (Continued on page five) 'Tonight on WDFM R.l MEGACYCLNS 7:85 Siffil Oat B:®p , Behind the Letturn The Auir Forte ROTC, Colonel Riga Music of the People Informally Yours • . News This World ,of Music Thought for the Day Sign Off 8:30 9:00 _-. 9:ls:___. 9:30 10:30 10:35 moos m Old maw Bible'
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