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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
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—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
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'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
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Little Man on Campus
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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.
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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.
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