PAGE FC:A'm l'u•nidnr thr.ugh SaUteday ta.tuirspo. flaring the wear. the DAP , / COilegißell ti SI NV1141414- laterat•sl viti.grojap,m. -.-. ~. If' IDTET-n., IvIcICALIP, Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jackie Hudgins; Copy Editors, Dave Bronstein, Roger„Beidler; Assistants, ,gaily Sykes,_Harry Davis., Joann lArohleber, Jane Casselberry, Gail Gilman, Don Barlett. Revision Committee Policy: Inconsistent When the All-University Cabinet revisions Committee meets tonight for further. revamping of the constitution, it will be in a semi-closed Meet Mg. We hope that .when the committee ad journs .fc:r the evening, it'will have established mere definite policy on whether the meetings are open or closed. At present,. students may attend the meetings as speetaiors and will not be prohibited unless, according..te. the comrnitt?.e chairman, the size of the "audience" handicops committee action and -speed. Some students will be especially in vited °to the meetings, the chairman has pointed out, if they are concerned With a particular article under consideration. In the same light, students can be prohibited from attending at the diScretion of the committee. • .'..A - Daily Collegian . reporter is permitted to attend. the committee meetings •with the pro viSion that he may not publish a written report of -proceedings. The situation is inconsistent. Student interest in committee action. will be tolerated until the interest increases to a point considered over whelming. Spectators, including a reporter, may absorb what is said and done during meetings, report verbally to whom they. please, and yet are prohibited from making a written report. Two justifiable alternatives are open to . ,the committee: opening the meetings, or closing . them completely. Either policy would be a distinct advantage over the present haphazard discrimination. Closing the meetings would of course shut the committee off from a maximum of initial student ideas. The student body would have no way of knowing officially what point in the constitution the committee has reached, and Safety Valve_ On S F A TO THE EDITOR: In Friday's column "Safety Valve" (Daily Collegian) was a letter on Red Propaganda which is a good example of half thinking. Its author, Jack Williams, stated "Most of us would not recognize the Commu nist line if we did hear it," thus intimating that we cannot depend on our own intellect, so rather than try to form our own judgments, we should depend on some outside force or order to mold our thoughts. He then praises a group called the Students for America. Since this group's name has ap peared in the Collegian in several instances, I believe an account of this group as presented in the March 2 issue of "Reporter" should be summarized here. "SFA was started by a student at the Uni versity of Southern California—Robert Munger, who having failed at conventional campus poli tics, set himself up as National Director of Mac- Arthur clubs in October, 1951. These clubs later became the SFA under Ma'nger's guidance. "The handbook Pf SFA shows how Munger patterned his group after the Communists he sought to outwit. A select hard core member ship controls the organi.zation. Local chapters were to be a campus underground. Intelligence sections composed of select individuals unknown to general memberships were to join leftist groups and report all information to national headquarters: this information was then to be forwarded to governmental comm;ttees. ; . . Munger advised members to seek campus of fices, recognizing that SFA should act through fronts. This group has nothing approximating a constitution and no democratic processes by which chapters may vote for national officers." It is this group which condemns NSA. Those who feel the outspokenness of men like - McCarthy:, Fulton Lewis Jr., and George Sokolsky is justified, should remember that one of the most ardent fighters against Com munism was Adolph Hitler. but who could con done his methods? Gazette ... AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR METALS Science Auditorium ALPHA KAPPA PSI, 7:15 p.m., Theta Delta Chi CENTRAL PROMOTIONS AGENCY SENIOR DIRECTOR- ATE. 0:30 p.m., CPA Office CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ORGANIZATION, 6:45 p.m., 304 Old Main CLOVER CLUB. 7 p.m., Alpha Gamma Rho COLLEGIAN BUSINESS STAFF, Senior Board, 8:96 p.m., 9 Carnegie Hall COLLEGIAN BUSINESS Business Office COLLEGIAN PROMOTION STAFF, 7 p.m., 102 Willard MARGARET'S Shop . . , New Location 202 S. Alien -103 W. Beaver 'Around Kay's Korner' (il!tt lat Cittruiau Hi:SCOW:at to THE PRIM LANCS. eat. INT —George Borosque A p.m., Mineral STAFF, 6:45 p.m., Collegian Rr. 129 S. Pugh THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA therefore would be unable to form opinions and make suggestions on committee action. Students •would hear an occasional committee report to cabinet, presented at the discretion of the committee; but to propose any changes in the revision, a student would have to: 1. Attend a particular cabinet meeting and 2. Analyze, form an opinion, and consider an alternative within the possible . hour thuirig which the report is given. The only justifiable reason the committee would have in closing the meetings . would be the time element. Should meetings be inter rupted by the voiced opinions of a few as ten spectators, •many hourS would probably be spent in haggling and debate. However, such debate will probably come sooner or later when the. reports are submitted to cabinet, so possibly it would be .advantageous to sound out student..opiniOn in the• beginning. The committee is 'legally, within its .rights . to clase or open the meetings as it sees fit But since the constitution involves student rights to such a great extent—that is, repreSentation, tribunal, and control Of student activities—we feel that the student body shotild have• th& most say possible in any alteration of these -righth'. Possibly a compromise could be. reached be tween the two. alternatives.. If.: the- committee, before further procedure, would subMit.tolcabiT• net a report stating„..to...what. extent ..they are changing the."tone' of - the constituticn-,-;hat whether they are •increasin.g or decreasing cabinet authority.. student sepro:entation, or division of powers—students would feel ...more comfortable about . rernaining.in the dark. about any minor changes.. on Campus Chest The final score for campus chest was not what a 12,000-student University could have tabulated. The drive fell short by almost 50 per cent of its goal of $7250. At a glance it=. would seem that .Penn -State students are' not -charity-minded. However, this is not the case 'a.S•has been shown by .previous responses to dreek- Week projects, group-spon sored foster children projects, children's-Christ mas parties, •and everi..:the purchase •of ' •the: Lion's suit from student 'donations. ' • • Evidently the problem lies with Campus Chest itself, it's particular contingents and its implementation.' The chief complaint ..against the : drive this year was the lack:rof a system to designate to which charities students wanted their donations given. Last year, sttidents could check off the particular groups they .wished - to support. This year the practice :.was ;discontinued, mainly to facilitate bookkeepingir—both the- time - element and the. added expense. ••Last year's • chairman spent the greater., part 'of the semester tabu lating the percentages designated on the dona tion cards. - - . . Preference of -a , designation system. 'indicates that students do not care to contribute to all listed Charities. Thus, it would be wise for All- University Cabinet to derive some way of poll ing student opinion as to what groups should be dropped from the list. The''eiware problem of low contributions would be solved if the chest were dropped completely. However, unless solicitors were prohibited from campus, ' students would be swamped with charity-seekers. And complete prohibition of charity drives would indicate a very poor spirit of public welfare on the part of the University. Possibly, chest could be dropped with the pro vision that no solicitations could be made in dormitories or clasroom buildings. This would not cut off the campus from charity groups completely, but it would eliminate the nuisance of continuous personal solicitations. We hope that cabine,t will decide upon a new course of action for the chest. Its results ob viously do not warrant the great amount of work which student committees and solicitors put into it. And from the low figure on contri butions, it is not meeting the needs of students so far as an all-inclusive charity' drive is con cerned. COLLEGIAN' BUSINESS STAFF CANDIDATES, 7 p.m., 100 Weaver' DAILY ROSARY, 4:30 p.m., Catholic Church SOLEMN NOVENA, 7 p.m., Catholic Church POLITICAL SCIENCE CLUB, 3 p.m., 108 Willard ZOOLOGY CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 214 Prefix. Laboratory Patricia Collins, William Cunningham, Delroy Heiser, Janice Karp, Richard Larrick, Sue Levy, Ken McPheeters, Arthur Miller, Jack Muse, Irvin Reichley, Willard Robb. HOME DELIVERY Oven Hot FRANK, CRESSMAN Business Mg.:. UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Oven Not gifitorkaln regart l ssera cke viewpoint eg the writer's, not necessarily the policy of i the paper Unsigned edi torials are by tin. editor he met of March S. (879. —Peggy . .McClain -P.M. Oven Not- Call AD 7-2280 Little Man on Campus ht perhaps you didn't know. 'There are three ades than D and , r."' • • higher Hot and Cold Impressions HOT. TIME We went to `"a fire. at , the Routs' store on Saturday night. It was not a` very pretty sight; but as usual at fires the attendance WaS excellent and comments from theT.Tniversity crowd and otheri were abundant The attenclance, 'ip....faet, seemed to be better than basketball game then'. in - ,progress -in Recreation Hall. The big trouble was that we saw not just flames • and. smoke shooting sky-ward arid billowing over the borough, but . in those fla.mes and smoke.: we: saw the Christmas for • hundreds: of little Centre.County boys and girls.- Not only were the dolls and trains being destroyed, -but also the pay checks of the parents who worked there: • Our sadness was lifted some what, however, when we dis-, covered no hoines were afire arid "so- none would be forced to Spend:dreary holidays mourning their losses. Too, there were no lives lost; but only machinery and iron and cement - which .can be replaced with- money. Yes; the - Houts' fire seemed to be the social center of State Col lege for there we met all our friends. Girls and boys; men and women, together and single, some in jeans and loafers, some in high heels and hobble skirts. All of them standing about in a paste of mud and shivering. Comments heard were: "I hear the Centre Daily Times is going to run a ten-page extra tomorrow; the first page of pic tures and the other nine of fire sale." From Ih e observations of three State College high school students as they charged to wards the fire: "These -Univer sity students are always getting out of control at a fire." Coming from an observer who had picked up the traditional yule-tide warning we heard: "It must have started in the Christ mas trees they had decorated in their display windows." A black mark was chalked up against spectators in general by the State College fire chief. Aim ing his charge particularly at stu dents (this is as usual but it must be admitted they comptised the majority of those watching), he TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1 . 954 By Bthler By 'DIEHL IvIcKALIP said the onlookers had been very uncooperative and had even eheered-the firemen as they had fought the blaze. STUDENT UNION BUILDING- . Considering the new Hetzel Union' Building yesterday, we wondered if the students and or ganizations are ready to use it. As it was shown to a group of visit ing student unioners from other campuses over the weekend, their eyes glowed with envy at our physical plant. We ask George Donovan, who will direct the monster, if every thing was ready for the occupa tion, particularly by the many student groups who will have of fices in the building. He said, "Yes," adding all furniture and other essentials except typewriters would be supplied by the Uni versity. Frankly, we mean more than this. Advisors to many of the groups think they should be preparing schedules of how they will staff the offices and .utilize them so that they do not be come mere depositories for out dated records and minutes. This is true, for the main reason of having the offices is to provide a place where all may contact the group •housed there. PERSONALITY Heard this morning with the arrival of the cold spell: "It was so cold this morning when I left the fraternity house that the mercury in the flier . mometer was half-way down the broom handle underneath." His nose was blue too. • Tonight on WDFM 91.1 AIEPACYCLES :30 ____-- - - _ :00 _-_----___ Behind the Le:turn :30 Music 'of the People :00 _____ Informally Yours :15 9:30 This World of Music 10:30 __ Thought For the Day (Sign Off) ssible Sign On Scott Unabridged
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