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Assistants, Ron Leik, Terry Leach, Cynthia Bell, Dodi Jones, Pat Hunter, Pat Herbster, Gladys Wood
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On Election Day:_Let's
Today and tomorrow are the days of decision
for campus office seekers. Nine days of cam
paigning are at an end, and the rest is up to
you, the voters; if you vote. Your part is small
compared to what they have done.
As you go to the polls today and tomorrow.
we would like to summarize with you just what
the three parties have offered, particularly in
the nine-day campaign period and since they
have released their platforms.
It must be remembered these platforms are
only campaign promises and are very hard to
put to work even if All-University Cabinet ap
proval is obtained, since many must also go
through the administration. They are, however,
the chief indication of a party's intentions and
the intelligence of the suggestions and the force
fullness with which they are supported by the
candidates should be noted.
The other main factor is the candidates them
selves, with enthusiasm probably being the
prime requisite. Also, it is desirable they be
versed in campus affairs and have a back
ground in student government, and certainly,
they should be able to give intelligent answers
to questions you, the voters, put to them.
We here and now are going to steer clear of
personalities, but we would like to look at the
platforms since the parties have had over a
week to develope them.
Alphabetically, the Campus party comes first.
This group, the youngest in politics at Penn
State, has no formal platform and is basing its
appeal on an open letter to students in which
it wants to put student government in the hands
of the students and make "higher authorities"
more accessible to students.
It is proposed to have student officers in the
Hqtzel Union Building at all times so as to be
avhilable to talk with students About student
problems. Another idea is to have a grievance
committee set-up to carry the complaints of
individual students to the proper authority
rapidly and through the proper channels.
Availability of student officers in the new
HUB offices seems logical even without a
promise, but the grievance arrangement sounds
good. A plan urging committees in each col
lege to consider academic grievances is to go
to Cabinet tomorrow, and it seems a similar
committee might be feasible on an all-Uni
versity basis.
Lion party proposes a more equitable regis
tration system, improved distribution of stu
dent committee appointments, and extension of
the period of library use until 11 p.m. during
finals.
The first, while good, is going to be hard to
obtain since top administrators claim they have
not received complaints from students. Lion
proposes to have seniors register prior to the
other classes rather than having all together
Constitution Good: Needs Two Changes
Penn State has a new All-University consti
tution—and it's a good constitution.
Probably its chief merit is its coherency. For
the first time in many, many years the Uni
versity student government has a document
that is readable, consistent, and lacking loop
holes.
Thanks to the Constitution Revision Commit
tee and the All-University Cabinet "contribu
amenders" the next Cabinet will have a
fairly firm basis to work on.
There are two specific considerations we'd
like this new Cabinet to think about.
1. Eliminating the seats for the chairman of
the Board of Publications and Board of Dra
matics and -Forensics from Cabinet.
2. And the wisdom of allowing Cabinet to go
into closed executive meetings.
The above mentioned boards have no perti
nent place on a legislative body such as Cabi
net. They are there now by virtue of receiving
fees from student assessments regulated, to a
degree, by Cabinet. But we can think of no
sound explanation why fees should be either a
prerequisite or a reason for representation on a
legislative body.
As the system of representation now exists,
Cabinet is an "amalgamated biain trust," with
an overlap of representation to the extent of
waste. To be realistic, Cabinet should be com
posed of subdivisions of student government.
Dramatics, forensics and publications do not
fall into this category.
The second consideration—reversing Cabi
net's allowance for closed doors—should need
little justification. The chief area related to
this would be "impeachment processes" behind
closed doors.
We must, of course, recognize the need of
legislative bodies to practice discretion in par-
Senate Will Meet Tonight
Wom-11'-• F,tudent Government Drama 61 and Hillel Founda-
Ass(-- e• - - - - cite will meet at tion will present the film "Walk
6:30 1 - :1 - - WSGA room in the Sun," the third in a ser
in W• ...:s revisionsi?s of eassieal films, at 4 and 6:30
of the WSGA rules. p.m. today at the foundation.
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wirMtift, WILLIAM DEVER& Business Manager
Classical Film Showing
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Look at the Record
as it now is. Cabinet has also expressed con
cern, but nothing has been done.
Concerning distribution of student appoint
ments, the Lion candidates seem to want to en
large the scope of Cabinet Personnel Inter
viewing Committee which now screens the
members of all Cabinet committees, excluding
chairmen. As to library hours, the party is
pressing an idea which originated in the Liber
al Arts Student Council and which sounds very
good.
An unofficial plank seems to have been added
to the platform by the campaigners; sell new
books at the Book Exchange. This is used as a
perennial vote-getter and, while not wrong to
advocate, has little chance of success. Steps in
this direction other years have been vetoed by
the Board of Trustees.
State party runs on four planks: a student
government guide booklet, one-way traffic in
front of Simmons and McElwain dormitories
during return-the-date hours on Fridays and
Saturdays, phone service to women's dorms un
til 11 p.m., and voting for the Senior Class
gift at spring elections.
The booklet sounds fine, but it is doubtful if
the cost would be balanced by the few stu
dents who would actually use it. A booklet of
student leader reports was dropped, some years
ago because it was financially a pool. thing. The
late phone hours sound worth working for if
the University will go along.
One-way traffic in front of Simmons and
McElwain dormitories was recently dropped by
a Cabinet Traffic Committee because Capt.
Philip A. Mark of the Campus Patrol said it
would not work. He said icy conditions in the
winter and lack of patrolmen to enforce it were
against the plan.
Voting for the Senior Class gift at spring
elections to get more participation is puszling.
Presently, all seniors are given a ballot when
they pick up their yearbooks late in May and
there is a ballot box right there. Only those who
put the ballot in their pocket or vote unwisely.
lose the value of their vote.
The campaign- and the conduct of the candi
dates so far seems to be above average. Ma
terials used are in good taste insofar as they
contain no written slurs at the opposition or
do not degrade the areas of their display. Most
of the talks we have heard have been of a ppsi
tive rather than a negative tone.
One thing that has been apparent in some
quarters is the bull which some of the politicos
have been throwing about rather indiscrimi
nately. It is the kind of stuff that is not a false
hood but neither is it the truth., This "shaded"
material is strictly political hogwash, and as
such it is not illegal but should not blind the
voter to the facts.
May the best candidates win.
titular areas—in our national government, these
recognized areas include investigations by grand
juries, criminal investigations and matters deal
ing with insane asylums.
We see no parallel between any of these and
an All-University officer. We do, however, see
the danger of hasty and shortsighted charges
against officers when these charges are assured
the privacy and protection of a closed door.
It would be far better, when Cabinet wishes
to practice discretion, to send reports and such
into committee for discussion, rather than shut
ting the entire Cabinet off from its public.
We urge the new Cabinet, when it takes of
fice, to give these matters serious consideration.
Remedy of these two situatibns would complete
an otherwise good document,
GaZette • • .
AIM-LEONIDES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES, 8 p.m., Me,
Elwain Study Lounge
ARCHERY CLUB. 7 p.m., 202 Engineering B
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.
7 p.m., 208 Willard
M.I. COUNCIL MEETING, Wednesday, March 90, 7:80 p.m.,
209 Willard. Election of Officers
NEWMAN CLUB, Daily Rosary, 4:30 p.m., Church; Novena,
7 p.m., Church: Choir practice, after Novena
NITTANY GROTTO, 7:90 p.m., 121 Mineral Industries
PERSHING RIFLES, 7 p.m., Armory, Class A Uniform
PLAYERS, Advertising meeting, 6:45 p.m., Schwab Audi-
torium loft
WOMEN'S CHORUS, 7 p.m., 1 Carnegie
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
John Arnat, John Barry, James Bates, Stephen Behman,
Richard Brown, James Brubaker, Lucille Buck, James Gar
rett, Dorothy Hancock, Norman Knopman, Frederick Liedtke,
Milton Linial, Phillip Matin, Marjorie Miller, David Miliner,
Teresa Netcher, Richard Phillips, Richard Mang, Harriet
Steinman, Joseph Tomei, Robert Wainscltt, Geartte Wein
baum.
Panhel to Elect Officers
Panhellenic Council will elect
officers for next year at 6:30 p.m.
tomorrow in the McElwain in
itiatioa room.
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Ideas: Rent or Borrow
Adam's Other Rib,
By PEGGY tdcCLAIN - 4
Either the old adage "Great minds run in the same ..." holds•Arue
for Penn State student affairs, or there's some fancy "borrowing"
of ideas running rampant on campus.
We refer here generally , to projects and recommendations intro
duced by local governing groups and showing up on party platforms,
and party planks that show up eventually as reports of local
governing groups.
We refer specifically to the par
ty plank to "make Shortlidge
Road U. one-way street on week
end nights" that was transformed
a few days later into a pending
recommendation from the Traffic
Committee to All-University Cab
inet.
This particular incident, while
causing a small amount of com
motion among concerned groups,
was eventually chalked up to
the "great minds run in the...."
theory. Supposedly the recom
mendation was a 19ft-over from
last, year's traffic court. And.
curiously enough, it was taken
off the Cabinet agenda.
The situation touched upon the
humorous when a second party
came out with a plank calling for
extension of library hours to
11 p.m. , during final exams. PriOr
to this, Liberal Arts Council had
agreed to try to have library,
hours extended . to 11 p.m. during
final exams.
With all this support behind ,
it, it seems almost inevitable
that the library must stay open
until 11 during finals.
It seems rather fine that parties
and governing bodies are thinking
on such common ground. If planks
are being put through before elec
tions are even held, and if parties
are so enthusiastic over goals
proposed by their fellow student
leaders that they incorporate
them into their own slates of
promises, then the goals them.
selves must be fairly terrific.
ther that or ideas are scarce and
are being spread thin over cam
pus organizations.
In the long run, it probably,
doesn't matter who puts an idea
into effect, so long as the idea
makes the rule book. This may
even be a good omen for con
curring opinions among student
leaders this next year.
But for those groups or parties
preferring to put their own ideas
into effect, we suggest they start
patenting their ideas. So be it
Correction
Enrollment in the Reserve Of
ficers Training Corps at the Uni
versity is a University require
ment, not one stipulated by the
Morrill Land Grant Act, as was
incorrectly reported in yesterday's
Daily Collegian. The act stipu
lates only that land-grant insti
tutiom offer military traimag.
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 30. 1955
Students to Tour
Red Cross Center
Student members of the:
Cross blood drive committee will
leave for Johnstown tomorrow
morning to tour the Red Cross
blood center there. The Univer
sity.blood group operates through
the Johnstown bloodmobile pro
gram.
A blood drive has been sched
uled' for April 26-27. Coeds in
terested in serving as hostesses
for the drive may contact Jean
Yemm, co-chairman of the drive.
WMAJ to Broadcast
Monthly AAUP Program
The. - first•of a series of monthly
radio , programs sponsored by the
University chapter of , the. Amer
ican Association of University
Professors will be heard over
WIVIAJ at 8 p.m.:Thursday.
The half-hour program will in
clude news of higher education, a
report on the recent national
meeting of AAUP and a discus
sion of the role of faculty mem
bers in college and university
government.
Students' Cars Banned
From HUB Driveway
University regulations prohibit
students from parking in the
driveway at the main entrance of
the Hetzel Union Building, ac
cording to Capt. Philip A. Mark
of the Campus Patrol:
The driveway is to be used only
as an unloading area, he said, not
as a place to leave a car while
making use of the building's fa
cilities.
TIM to Meet Tonight
Town Independent Men will
meet at 7:30 tonight in 103 Wil
lard. On the agenda for the meet
ing is the second reading of a pro
posed amendment to the TIM con
stitution. The amendment would
change the word "schools" in the
membership clause to read "col
leges".
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