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ants, Jack Melder, Lianne Cordero, Lynn Ward, Clark Polak.
Does NSA Have a Place at Penn State?
Hold your hats—here we go again.
From the looks on the faces of most of the
All-University Cabinet members who attended
the discussion of the National Student Associa
tion conducted by Ray Farabee, NSA vice presi
dent, Cabinet will probably vote to renew the
University's membership in the confederation
Thursday night.
Cabinet members seemed to catch the infec
tious "spirit of NSA" as expounded by Farabee
and members of the University's delegation to
last August's NSA convention.
NSA is a confederation of about 300 colleges
with a total enrollment of about 600,000. Fara
bee claimed that it is recognized as the "student
voice" in America.
Cabinet members are being asked to deCide
whether membership in NSA is worthwhile to
Penn State. Most of the members of Cabinet
seemed to forget this basic consideration as they
became caught up with Farabee's enthusiastic
account of NSA's purposes, functions, and ac
complishments.
NSA is a gigantic, unwieldy, student confed
eration which apparently is being perpetuated
by a few earnest zealots in each member school.
The student interest in this "student voice"
at Penn State was amply demonstrated by the
sparse crowd which greeted the NSA officer.
About the only students who were there were
members of Cabinet who had been told rather
forcibly at the last Cabinet meeting that their
attendance was expected.
In answer to a question. Farabee admitted
that the student interest in their "voice" on
other campuses was comparable to that demon
strated by Penn State students Sunday. night.
We have a feeling that this antipathy of the
average student toward his "voice" is recog
nized by most of the people NSA tries to in
fluence toward effectuating its policies.
Although NSA claims at least partial re
sponsibility for obtaining legislation favorable
to students, this influence is apparently not
recognized by veteran news reporters.
NSA is hardly prominent in the news. Ex
cept when in national convention, the "student
voice" is almost totally ignored by the profes
sional press.
This is rather unusual for a "voice." When
the doctors speak as a group, or when the own
ers of trucking concerns speak as a group, their
influence is reflected by substantial coverage
and comment in the nation's press. Why then
is NSA almost totally ignored? Is it because its
influence is negligible, and those who judge
news value recognize this fact and believe that
the students of the country are not really speak
ing as a group? •
Farabee also stressed the wealth of good
ideas concerning student government which
can be obtained through NSA. We question
whether NSA can really provide Penn State
with enough ideas to make it worthwhile.
The member schools of NSA vary so much in
makeup that there is little common ground for
an exchange of ideas. Schools range in size from
What Ails Campus Chest?
Campus Chest flopped again.
We're sure it isn't the basic philosophy of
college students not to support worthy service
organizations with their contributions. So what
is the problem here at Penn State?
There must either be a tremendous fallacy
in Penn State's method of fund raising or the
philosophy of Penn State students is excep
tionally uncharitable.
According to Campus Chest chairman John
Riggs, every effort was made to contact each
student for a contribution. He also said that he
felt that with the exception of a few cases, the
solicitors did a fine job of contacting students.
In spite of the efforts of these solicitors, only
a little over $3500 was collected. This is not a
very charitable figure when compared to the
12.000 student enrollment at Penn State.
The $6OOO goal, which was the lowest in the
past several years, would necessitate only a
fifty cent donation from each student—the
equivalent of two packs of cigarettes or one
copy of Playboy. Despite this low goal, the
total still fell $2500 short of the mark. This
isn't a favorable reputation for Penn State stu
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enrollments of 100 to giants such as UCLA,
where, Farabee stated, the student government
has annual budget of 1.5 million dollars and
power to hire and fire the football coach.
Schools at either of these extremes can do
nothing to help Penn State. nor can Penn State
do anything to help them. Since the variety in
the composition of member schools in NSA is
so marked, the number of schools which can
help Penn State student government narrows to
a number considerably less than 300.
This is particularly true in the region in
which the University would operate in NSA.
The member schools in this sector of the coun
try, with the exception of the University of
Pennsylvania, are all much
,the
than Penn
State. And at Penn only the, women's student
government is affiliated with NSA, thus per
haps nullifying any contributions from that
source. This would be a great deterrent to the
University delegations to NSA regional conven
tions.
So many facets of NSA are intangible that it
seems difficult to comprehend how the. ideas
of the organization are to be communicated
from one campus to another.
Some of the member schools , might be able
to help Penn State's student governmeut but
we cannot see why the University , woulehave
to belong to NSA to communicate with these
relatively few similar institutions.
The cost of NSA is substantial. In the past
the student government association has spent
between $6OO and $7OO per year for dues and
financing of delegates to the conventions. Sup
porters of NSA have contended that even more
money should be spent. The University is en
titled to send 14 students as delegates and al
ternates to each national convention. The fi
nancing of such a -delegation would at least
double the present cost of NSA.
A reason advanced for sending more dele
gates was so that freshmen and sophomores
might attend several conventions while they
were in college so that some continuity would
be added to the NSA program on campus.
Continuity in the :NSA program would defi
nitely be needed, but to, pick a delegate with
the idea of sending him to conventions for three
years smacks of hand-picking student leaders
to us.
But perhaps one of the most important points
Cabinet members should consider is that NSA
thus far has failed at Penn State. It will not
succeed bebause a handful of people become
enthused over its possibilities after listening to
a two-hour lecture.
The NSA coordination system at Penn State
is not a good one. This is evidenced by its past
failures. It did not succeed in making NSA an
important factor at Penn State. There is no real
reason to believe that it will be any more
successful in the future.
Before Cabinet even considers whether Penn
State should re-enter NSA, it should be sure
that there is a place for it at Penn State.
—The Editor
dents.
Riggs stated that the number of donations
wasn't the factor which held the total down.
He said in many cases it was the amount. He
mentioned several examples of 25 cent, 13 cent,
and six cent donations which might indicate a
case of tight purse strings on the part of many
students.
An incentive was even added to sororities
and fraternities in the form of trophies to the
highest contributors. Perhaps these rewards
should be broken down into even smaller cate
gories next year (if there is one). and a re
ward offered to the highest contributing cam
pus organisations. This might reduce the stri
dent feeling of getting something for nothing.
It would also embrace more students. But the
amount spent for rewards might be more than
the, amount collected.
In any event, students should make up their
minds as to whether they want Campus Chest
and then make their feelings heard. But stu
dents may already have expressed their opin
ions about this.
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Little Man on Campus
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Saarianders Desire
French Leadership
By J. M. ROBERTS JR.
Associated Press News Analyst
SaarlanderS have denionstrated overwhelmingly that they
had rather remain under French hegemony for a while longer
than to accept permanent separation . from Germany under a
vague. "Europeanized" status.
In a welter of .conflicting emotions they voted down the
statute proposed by France and West Germany. Under it an
internally autonomous Saar would
have yielded its external affairs
to control by the Western Euro
pean Union and started tt grad
ual resumption of normal eco
nomic relations with Germany—
but with France always actually
in control of the economy.
It was a complicated choice
they had to make. They made it
along traditional cultural and _na
tionalistic lines, and thereby they
struck several blows at European
unity.
They slapped the French hard,
and their pro-French premier
resigned in the face of rapidly
mounting demands that tie
Saar begin immediately its fight -
for return to Germany.
They encouraged close-to-Nazi
organizations which once more
have found a basis for affinity
between themselves and the hu
man ties of the fatherland and
mother tongue traditions.
They cut off at birth the first
attempt to give Western Euro- .
pean Union the aspects of po
litical as well as -military co
operation, since guardianship of
the Saar was to have been its
first political responsibility.
This is a setback to the move
ment, revived only last June at
Messina, Italy, looking toward
eventual European political un
ion through extension of the in
ternational coal and steel pool
idea, establishment of Europe as
a single market, international
wage and labor standards, joint
atomic developments, unified
power systems, and such things.
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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1955
By Bibler
as the now-dead Saar statue.
New negotiations between
France and Gennany appear al
most inevitable, :,accompanied
by a revival Cif inigrust which
had been °MY partipallayed by
the recent treathiskiihich them
selires were based'on 'the theory
that the Saar queition bad been
compromised. And , this time
Germany's , pro-union, Chancel
lor Konrad Adenauer will be
under extreme pressure to ac
. cept the demand of the Saar
lenders themselves and fight for
•their return to Germany.
Whether he will do so—he
• obably won't—a strong founda
ion has now been laid for a move
ment toward that end; a move
ment which promises to revive all
bitterness of past years and to
handicap Western Europe when
it needs unity in the new-type
conflict with 'Russia.
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