PAGE FOUR euoitanco rueliday through Sat:inlay morning,. daring th. University year. the nail, Collegian se a student operatei; newspaper. 9 • a 9 at a Collette Pa. Post 0 'ea •. • e t• •.• • .. DIEHL McKALIP, Editor Managing Ed., Mary Lee Laufter; City Ed., Mike Fein- Asst. Bus. Mgr., Benjamin Lowenstein: Local Adv. Mgr., silkier; Cqpy Ed., Nancy Ward; Sports Ed., Dick McDowell: Sondra Duckman; National Adv. Mgr. William Devera; Edit. Dir., Peggy McClain; Radio News Ed.. Phil Austin; Soc. Circulation Co-Mgrs.. Richard Gordon, Gail Framer; Pr 0.1.. .1.. Marcie MacDonald: Asst. Sports Ed.. Herm Weiskopf: motion.„Mgr.. Evelyn Riegel; Personnel Mgr., Carol Schwing; Asst. Soc. Ed., Mary Bolich; Feature Ed.. Edmund Reiss; Ex- Office Mgr.. Peggy Troxell; Classified Adv. Mgr., Dorothea change Ed., Paddy Beahan: Librarian, Bill Pete; Photog. Dir.. Ebert: Sec., Gertrude Malpezzi: Research and Records Mgr.. Ron Hoopes: Senior Board. Bev Dickinson, Ann Leh. Virginia Coskery. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Marnie Schenck; Copy Editors, Nancy Showalter, Dave Bron stein; Assistants, Fran Fanucci, Tony Arthur, Jack Williams, John Lawrence, and Ginny Miller; Ad Staff, Deanna Saltis, Liz Kraabel, and Barbara Kimble. Recommendation on The recommendation presented to All-Uni versity Cabinet last night to withdraw the in vitation to the United States National Student Association to hold its national congress here ; was a sound move. It was not made in haste. It followed two months and one day of work by a Cabinet appointed committee chaired by Robert Dennis, president of the Association of Independent Men. After the preliminary invitation was ex tended to , USNSA, the organization compiled the requirements of the congress and contacted the University to see if it would be possible to fill these needs. The committee investigated areas involved and also appraised the campus attitude toward USNSA. The decision to request the withdrawal of the invitation showed a realistic evaluation of the situation by the committee: it was undoubt edly a difficult decision to make since many of the members are staunch supporters of the USNSA program. There are several specific reasons involving the fact that the University was unable to meet congress requests and a compromise seemed improbable. More than this, however, was recognition of the fact that the University student body is not ready to be host to USNSA. As Mr. Dennis said, he "does not feel the student government and Juvenile Delinquency When Leo Healy, defense attorney for one of the Brooklyn youth "thrill killers,".gave his summary address to the jury Tuesday he made statements exemplifying a basic weakness in present day courts. Healy was defending Melvin Mittman, 17- year-old boy who has been referred to as the muscle-man of the duo who beat and killed William Menter in New York on Aug. 17. Healy attempted to emphasize to the court that Mitt man was guilty of committing or attempting to commit assault only, but was on trial for murder. To indict this boy for murder and throw him up as an example to other youths would help solve the problem of juvenile delinquency, Healy said, "but we're not here to solve the problem of juvenile delinquency." Whether Mittman's indictment for murder was justified is not our chief concern here. We are concerned with Healy's statement that "we're not here to solve the problem of juve nile delinquency." Such an attitude is too predominent in Ameri can courts. They tend to operate on a punitive basis, relying on punishment, both confinement and death penalty, because this method is easier on. the American economy and safety than psy chiatric treatment and therapy for the crim inals. To kill an indicted criminal, or lock him up in some forsaken spot with hundreds of other maladjusted creatures, is much simpler than attemtpirig to cure the criminal and al leviate the cause of his waywardness. Mittman's case is neither the beginning nor the climax to this situation. Psychiatric treat ment for Mittman or his 17-year old cohort alone will not solve the nation's problem of juvenile delinquency. However, every court that refuses to accept part responsibility for young criminals, and passes the buck of eliminating youth crbles to the welfare workers and the patrol boards, sets this nation back a step in finding the real solu tion to juvenile delinquency. An honest man's the noblest work of God Genius must be born, and never can be taught. —Dryden 011 r Battg enlirgian Soiceteaor to THE FREE LANCE. est. ISO ~1 .- ' , .1 —Peggy McClain —Pope THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA FRANK CRESSMAN Business Mgr. NSA: Wise Move the student body are sufficiently enthusiastic about having the convention here." He said the congress, if invited, must be received prop erly and not half-heartedly. It would be unfortunate if the congress were to come here and not be able to hold a success ful convention due to lack of interest by the student body. It would do great harm to the University's reputation and would ruin the possibility of ever again playing host to the congress. We are not lamenting the loss of the congress because we feel a wise decision was made. How ever, we do feel this has been a valid guage of student interest in USNSA and the results are not encouraging. Feeling as we do that the organization offers a fine laboratory for stu dent government and provides a channel for an orderly exchange of ideas between schools, we would, consider it a loss to stop participation. On the other hand, if the $6OO Cabinet spends running the program here is producing no wider results than are apparent, it might be possible to put that $6OO to better use. The committee made a wise move in asking that Cabinet postpone until another year — the invitation to USNSA to hold its convention here. In doing•so, however, it has caused some ques tion as to the effectiveness of NSA at Penn State as judged by the lack of student interest. On Dance Conflict The recently reported conflict between two scheduled dance dates—one to be sponsored by the Association of Independent Men and one by Hat Societies Council—looks rather un necessary. Two solutions are quite obvious to what AIM seems to consider a dilemma. 1. Hold both dances as scheduled. The AIM dance, a "farewell" party for the TUB, will naturally be patronized by presently-enrolled students who .know what the TUB is. The Hat Societies Dance, an orientation mixer for new students, will be patronized by new students and an assortment of men students interested in looking over the new crop. 2. Or combine the two dances and hold a farewell-orientation dance in the TUB. —P. M. Safety Valve Christmas Trees TO THE EDITOR: What are you going to do with those old Christmas trees? We of Pollock 4 have decided to give our tree and decorations to a welfare agency in this vicinity. It is in deed more practical to dispose of trees in this manner than to congest the rubbish pile with trees that can make a brighter Christmas for those served by the numerous welfare organ izations. Let's give the trees away instead of throwing the trees away. Gazette AGRICULTURE ENGINEERING CLUB, '7 p.m., 105 Agri- 'cultural Engineering CIRCLE K, BOARD OF, DIRECTORS, 10 p.m., Alpha Chi Sigma FENCING CLUB, 7:30 p.m., north corridor, Recreation Hall NEWMAN CLUB, 7:30 p.m., Old Main NITTANY GROTTO, 7:30 p.m., 229 Mineral Industries UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Barbara Aiello, Raphael Belford', Paul Brown, Nancy Burley, Harris Coleman, Linda Ely, Carl Fitzgerald, James Foyle, Gillian Hamer, Joseph Held, Melford Hersey, Mar garet Hoover, James Lawson, Ronald Lis, Polly Moore, Josiah Morrill, Charles Muse, Harvey Reiseman, Marilynn Zabusky. Editortale represent ch. viewpoint of the writera. sot necessarily the policy of the paper Unsigned edi torials are by the editor. —Harry Martini —President, Pollock 4 Little Man on Campus ~„, worry about these chapters. we skipped I believe I've them adequately in the-final." "Don't covere Marcie geaucoup Anybody for Europe next summer? Every year it's something different; last year every third college student spent the summer as a camp counselor. This year every third one is planning to sail the big Atlantic pond. • Sounds delightfully gay and of coeds who are finding that making plans for the grand conti nental tour is a big headache. They wrote scores of letters to steamship companies recently, feeling quite sure that they would have no trouble getting reserva tions so far in advance. Huge joke. Answers came from haughty secretaries, tersely sug gesting that they submit their ap plications now for passage in February of 1957. A charming executive from the French Line thanked them for their funny let W e 11, final; the Amalgama. ed Rhubarb E Line port Limited, ca m through with co' for three in engine roof and the coeds turned to plan ning their itiner- f '' • ary. All heck broke Marcie MacDonald loose at this point. One of them wanted to spend the whole sum mer in the Louvre. The second, wanted to get the autographs of, the best known names in Parlia ment. The third wanted to help alleviate expenses by subbing in the Folies Bergere. The only thing they agreed on was cutting down expenses, but they didn't agree on how. After careful perusal of the rates on the SS United States they figured that, if one of them went first class taking the other two as servants, they might cut a little off the bill. But this didn't work out because everybody wanted to be the grande dame and nobody wanted to be a maid. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1 .6.:1954 EXAM By MARCIE MacDONALD charming, but we know of a trio They tried to figure out a way to get a cut of the Campus Chest contributions, but that, too, failed. They're still struggling along, though. Anybody who's interested can drop .a small contribution in the basket on the society desk at the Collegian office. Council to Hold' Book Collection Agriculture Student Council Tuesday night made plans for the collection of books for Silliman University in the Philippines im mediately after the start of next semester. Older agricultural books are es pecially needed in order to co ordinate the available machinery with the information that the books supply. George Williams, council presi dent, announced that Ag Achieve ment Night will not be held this year. Agriculture leaders will be recognized in the April issue- of the Penn State Farmer, Forester and Scientist, he said. Williams appointed Douglas Moorhead, fifth semester horti culture major, chairman of the open house committee. Tonight on WDFM 7:25 7:30 7:45 8:00 8:30 _________ 9:00 9:15 9':30 10:30 By Bibler i2=121 i~~ ~ `~~ Ma MEGACYCLES Sign On Adventures in Research As You Believe _ Concert Cameos Just Out Guest Star News . Special Christmas Production 'The Other Wise Man" Sign Off
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