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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor: Inez Althouse; Copy Editors: Sue Conklin, Joe Beau-Seigneur;
Assistants: Larry Jacobson, Ned Frear, Dodi Jones, Marilynn Zabusky, Ruth Herr, Pat Hunter, Bert
Scubon, Dave Thomas.
Elections Committee: Stop Fooling Around!
The platforms of the three campus political
parties were released Thursday, after consider
ation by the All-University Elections Com
mittee.
The State party platform was complete, and
contained four concrete planks which appear to
be workable.
The Campus party decided to release no plat
form at all. Instead the party will submit an
open letter to students, stating how they can
make student government more effective. This
will be considered by the Elections Committee
when other campaign literature is reviewed.
The letter is incomplete, and we would pre
fer to reserve comment until we have seen it.
The Lion parly platform was, at best, a hap
hazard attempt at formulating a platform. It
was incomplete and apparently poorly thought
out.
David Scott, Lion party vice clique chairman,
said the party did not understand that Thurs
day was the deadline for submitting final drafts
of planks to the Elections Committee.
If this is true, the elections committee is at
fault. The deadline should have been made un
deniably clear to the parties.
However, members of the Eleclions Commit
tee have said the parties definitely knew of the
deadline. If this is true, and Lion party was
merely stalling for lime, the Elections Commit
tee was far too lenient in the course of action it
decided to lake.
It tenatively approved six planks set forth
by Scott, on the condition that they appear un
changed in the final draft. The committee de
cided that no further planks could be added,
but that any of the existing planks could be
dropped. The party was given until noon today
to complete the platform.
If the party was intentionally avoiding the
TIM is a Flop
Town Independent Men, the organization
known as TIM during its short life span, is a
"it* was organized to serve several thousand
independents living downtown. These thou
sands are entitled to voting privileges after
attending two meetings. Little is asked of them
but that they use TIM as a media for helping
govern student affairs and making known their
wants and grievances.
TIM held four meetings for these thousands.
But TIM was unable to attract more than ten
men at any one meeting.
The last scheduled meeting of the group,
Wednesday night, had to be canceled because
there was not even a quorum. Only five men
showed up. . , . , ,
These figures make one fact glaringly clear
—town independents do not care, about student
government and campus affiliations.
This is their prerogative. They cannot be com
mended for indifference, but they can't be
forced to take an interest.
TIM has scheduled another meeting for Tues
day night. This should be a significant meet
ing. If it produces no greater attendance than
the past ones, TIM should be thrown out.
Perhaps if they flounder around long enough
without any voice in student government, the
town independents themselves will realize in
what a void they're living.
Squatters’ Rights?
The music rooms on the first floor of the
Hetzel Union Building are being monopolized
by a few “self-appointed” students.
These students are taking eight or nine long
play albums into the music rooms and lying up
the machines while they dance, study, or gen
erally-speaking, "party."
Many students wanting to listen to a single
album have turned away in disgust, usually
after waiting quite a while for a turn at one of
the machines. . ....
There are only seven music booths in the
room. These must serve 12,000 students. The
same consideration must be shown in their use
as toward a parly telephone line.
If the situation doesn't improve soon, lime
limits in the booths should be instituted. "Squat
ters rights" don't go with the HUB.
—Joe Beau-Seigneur
Friendship consists in forgetting what one
gives and remembering what one receives.
—Dumas the Younger
He who has truth need never fear the want
of persuasion on his tongue.—Ruskin
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
deadline with the hope of pulling the wool over
the eyes of the committee, it seems this would
be a good time for the committee to make use
of the $25 bond which was posted by each party
as security against violations of the All-Uni-'
▼ersity Elections Code. T|he party violated the
code by not meeting the for the com
pletion of its platform.
The Elections Committee is supposed to be a
check on the parties to see that they run orderly
campaigns. But if it refuses to force the parties
even to get their platforms completed on time,
who knows what other violations may be over
looked by the committee with a condescending
oat on the head!
On lop of this the committee blithely went on
to approve three planks in the Lion platform
even though it admitted that one was already
in operation, one was highly improbable, and
the third was of so little consequence that it
was a joke.
None of these planks had been checked with
authorities to establish whether they were even
workable, but the Elections Committee ap
proved them with the stipulation that the party
check with the authorities and throw put those
planks which were deemed impractical.
The chairman of the Elections Committee
?aid he would also check these planks to see
that they were feasable. The parties were left
on their own, with the warning that if any of
the planks used in campaigning were deemed
unworkable by those in the administration, the
parties would be penalized.
This is a slipshod way to enforce the pro
visions of the Elections Code. It seems as though
Lion party has been allowed to get away with
forcing Elections Committee to approve an. in
complete and sloppy platform.
—Don Shoemaker
Cars Choke Campus
Penn State is choking on automobiles.
The number of student cars driven and parked
on campus combined with those of the faculty
and staff has reached a maximum under pres
ent conditions. It has grown to proportions
which the Campus Patrol and the physical'plant
cannot control.
An answer to the problem of where to put
them is to prohibit freshmen from driving on
campus from Sunday evening through Satur
day noon during the schoool term and to build
a special freshman parking area at an extreme
edge of campus. This should easily eliminate
much of the driving congestion and should free
at least one-fourth of the centrally located park
ing spaces.
It sems cruel to go after the unsuspecting
first-year students, but someone has to go and
they are living the closest to their work and
have the least seniority. Faculty and staff em
ployees and studetns living off campus should
not be denied space for their cars while stu
dents living on campus fill parking spaces with
cars they rarely use.
Many schools forbid all underclassmen even
having a car at school, but it is impossible for
Penh State to go to quite such an extreme if
for no other reason than the lack of transpor
tation faciliites like plane or train in and out
of University Park. All students must be al
lowed to bring a means of transportation with
them, but they do not have to park it under
their windows.
Freshmen live close enough to classes with
current dormitory facilities that, unless handi
caped. they do not need to have their cars near
by or be permitted to drive them on campus.
This privilege should be reserved for those who
live farther away and who have seniority.
Gazette...
NEWMAN CLUB DAILY ROSARY. 4:»0 p.m., Church;
Open House. 8 p.m., Student Center
OUTING CLUB, 2 p.m., Recreation Hall
NEWMAN CLUB SUNDAY DEVOTIONS, 7 p.m.. Church;
Choir Practice, 2 p.m.. Church
PENN STATE CIRCLE K CLUB, 7:30 p.m., 209 HUB
Mondnr
NEWMAN CLUB RADIO PROGRAM, 7:80 p.m., WMAJ
STATE COLLEGE COLORED SLIDE CLUB, 8 p.m.. Mineral
Science Auditorium
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Edwin Chagnot, Judith Dombro, Jonathan Green, Stephen
Haky, Paul Merkel, Kenneth McClymonds, William Trow
bridge, Lawrence Golden.
STUDENT EMPLOYMENT
CAMP INTERVIEWS, 112 Old Main, sign up in advance:
Trail Blazer Camps, March 19: Camp Pocono, March 19;
Camp Woodhaven, March 21: Hidden Lake Camp, March
22; Teela-Wooket Camps, March 22; Camp Qulniback,
March 25.
SUMMER SALES WORK, 112 Old Main, sign up in advance
Schwartz Manufacturing Company, March 19.
RESORT WORK, Hulett’s on Lake George, March 19.
MEN'S MEAL JOBS, Ml and o U oampua, IU Old Main.
Tomorrow
Little Man on Campus
he gets mad as heck when , he's Waked up suddenly."
The Other Half
Even though coeds observed St. Paddy'S Day at dress-up dinners
Tuesday, most people waited until Thursday to don the green. Most,
that is, except the students at UC&Ai. Their Irish celebration came
two weeks ago with Coop Day {when 1 all. \yere asked to wear green)
and the Dublin Ball. A special guest at the. dance was movie star
Debbie Reynolds who crowned the! “Smiling Irishman.”
Flowers for big formals are be
coming a thing of the past, or so
current trends might indicate. "The
feature dance of Colgate's Winter
Carnival Weekend was labeled
non-floral was a recent big dance
at University of Maryland. Col
gate has some other rather inter
esting rules for its big Weekend
—each fraternity sets up its own
refreshment booth at ..the big
dance; all Saturday afternoon
cocktail parties and jam sessions
are closed; and no stags are al
lowed in. houses other than their
The student body of Texas
A& M has adopted an honor
code plan for students. The
academic honesty plan, far
stricter than the one proposed
for the University; provides for
students to voluntarily sign a
pledge. Once they have signed
the pledge, they are obliged to
report any cases of exam cheat*
ing to a student honor council.
The council will hear the cases
and report its verdict to the
violator's dean. The plan, inci
dentally, covers students whe
ther or not they have signed
the pledge.
One of the big events of the
centennial year at Brooklyn Poly
technic Institute will be the mov
ing of the school itself. BPI is
soon to take over buildings form
erly occupied by the American
Safety Razor Co. Other centen
nial features included a confer
ence with representatives of 30
other colleges (including the Uni
versity) and a Centennial Queen
contest. And across the country,
Stanford University observed its
70th birthday at Founders Day
celebrations last week.
Student drivers here may com
plain when they get permits to
park their cars in lots a bit dis
tant from their dormitories. But,
at least they must admit that no
matter where they are the Uni
versity parking lots are in good
condition. The following in an ex
erpt from a letter to the editor
in the Cornell Daily Sun:
"Hello Friend: I see that you
are a lucky holder of a Kite
Hill parking permit. How do I
know, you ask? . . . Your suit
... is mud from the hips down.
Your shoes (you are wearing
SATURDAY. MARCH 19.-1955
By ANN L!eH
them, aren't you) cannot even
be located beneath that cloying
mass sculptured so artistically
to the erids of your legs. And
ypur ‘ automobile? Alas, that
once shiny '54 Buick ... A junk
mail may give you $5O for' the
metal. At that you are luckier
thtih I; the last I saw of my car
Wad the antenna as it slowly
disappeared from sight..."
Third parties this spring are
nbt . reserved to the University.
There are also three at ‘Pitt: the
Panther, Pitt, and Veterans-linde
pendent Parties. But the big con
troversy in Pittsburgh now is hot
third, parties or elections, but wo
men—their roles in politics and
whether or not parties should in
tervene in women’s government
activities.
The Ohio University Campus'
Chest has an ambitious goal this*
year a do 11 ar donation front ■
each student or $5OOO total'.-' Bel 1
fore the drive opened all sorori
ties and several fraternities had
already pledged 100 per cent do
nations. Last year the ,OU Chest
almost reached its goal, collecting
$3861. v*;
Grudge-carrying isn't as.pjSov
alent as some people fhinls-il
to, be. or at least that's whatthe
results of a recent debate;Wdti}d
indicate. The debate Wiwiisfto*
tween the University of Penn
sylvania debate team and Fine
debate team of Norfolk Fjfi*pn.
Norfolk; Mass. The Pttt& men
lost, supporting the afflti&ktive
side of the topic,.Resolved: That
the United States should abolish
the jury system.
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