PAGE FOUR Published Tutuday through Saturday morning* during th« University year, the Daily (.'oltegian i« a student* operated newspaper. Kntgr.d »a ..r-.nri-clam matUr July 5. 1934 at tht Stat« College. Pa. Poat Office under the met of March 3, 1879, MIKE MILLER. Acting Editor ROGER VOGELSINGER, Acting Business Manager Managing Editor, Roger Beidler: City Editor. Don Shoo, maker: Cop? Editor. Dotty Stone: SporU Editor. Roy Wll. liams: Editorial Director. Jackie Hudgins: Society Editor, Ines Aithouse; Assistant Sports Editor: Ron Gatehouse: Pks* tography Editor. Ron Walker: Senior Board, Ron Leik. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Nancy Showalter; Copy Editor, Ed Dubbs; Wire Editor, Ted' Serrill; Assistants, Pauline Metza, Barb Martino, Ron Field, Dick Hufnagel, Pat O’Neill. Cabinet: Interest Gauge Reads No to NSA Tomorrow night All-University Cabinet will in all probability decide whether the University wdl re-enter the National Student Association. The NSA question has been a subject of hot controversy since it was introduced to Cabinet for consideration Nov. 4. Debate on the merits ot the far-Ilung student organization has been heated on both sides. The issue was finally tabled on a motion by Robert Bullock, presi dent of the Interfraternity Council, pending the sending and receipt of letters to eight other colleges—four member and four non-member schools—asking why or why not they are mem bers of NSA. One of the most vital questions to be answered before the NSA question can be resolved is the matter of interest. Opponents and proponents of NSA have both talked this point at length. NSA supporters have generally agreed that the University will not benefit from member ship unless it takes an active interest in the organization. These people have contended that an interest in NSA does exist. Opponents of NSA have also at least par tially centered their arguments around the in terest question. These people contended that an interest in NSA does not exist on campus. Other arguments center about cost of mem bership, merit of NSA’s objectives, size of the University as compared to member schools, and influence of NSA to mention a few. Of all the arguments put forth for and against NSA interest, cost, and relative size of member schools are the only ones which can be measured with any degree of accuracy. Interest also has the advantage of carrying considerable weight with both factions in the controversy. The other questions which have been raised are quite difficult to resolve because they rep resent an opinion more than a concrete issue. Recognizing that fact, and in an attempt to help resolve the question, The Daily Collegian recently polled a portion of the student body with regard to NSA. Three questions were asked by the pollsters: 1) What does the abbreviation NSA mean? 2) Do you feel qualified to give an opinion on whether the University should rejoin NSA? 3) What are your reasons for your opinion? Naturally if the student could not answer the first question, the other two were not asked. Although this poll was not set up in a scien- tific manner and, therefore, cannot claim to accurately sample and determine the feelings of the entire student body, care was taken to reach all segments of the student body and we believe the results are indicative of the interest of the students toward NSA. Students from all living units were contacted —fraternities, sororities, West dorms, Nittany, Pollock, women’s dorms, and town living quar ters. Of the 107 students contacted 64 could not answer the question "What does the abbrevia tion NSA mean?" Of the 43 who could identify the organization only 11 felt qualified to give an opinion on whether the University should rejoin NSA. Of the 11 seven were for NSA and four were against. Of the seven for NSA one Women vs. Housing The Director of Housing will meet with stu dent representatives "from the women’s dormi tories- tomorrow evening to try to settle dis agreements that have arisen as a result of hous ing regulations When Mr. Mueller assumed the Director of Housing duties in the tall of 1953 he requested the Women's Student Government Association to set up a housing committee to meet with him and act as liason between his office and the women’s particular needs. For some reason this committee was never active. Either it was not set up or it dissolved never having met with Mr. Mueller. At any rate sporalic attacks have been made on housing— partly because women students and hostesses did not favor particular regulations and partly because they just did not like to be told what to do. Before Mr. Mueller became the director, hous ing had rules which were not always enforced. And when he insisted nails were not to be driven into the walls and that rooms would be cleaned by the maids every week, some of the people who had been lax in their house keeping habits complained, although not always directly to the department. As a result of these disgruntled Little Theater Production Five o’clock theater will pre sent a lyric dance,- “Theme of Love,” at* 5 p.m. tomorrow in the Little Theater in the basement of Old Main. The production will star Betty Love, senior in physical education from Pittsburgh, and Clyde Gore, graduate in dramatics from Jack sonville, Fla. lath{ Collegian SncctMor to THE FREE LANCE, cat. 1887 women, Correction An election of officers of the Dairy Science Club will be held at 7 p.m. Monday in 117 Dairy in stead of 7 p.m. last night as er roneously reported in yesterday’s Daily Collegian. Chess Club to Meet Tonight The Penn State Chess Club will meet at 7 tonight in 7 Sparks. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Co-Ai«t. Baa. Mgrs., John Kmets. Dorothea Koldya: Local Adv. Mgr.. Jerry Fried; National Adv. Mgr., Eotelle Caplan; Co-Circulation Mgra., Israel Schwab, Christine Kauffman; Promotion Mgr., Delitc Hoopea; Co-Personnel Mgrs., Aletta Manbeek, Connie Anderson; Office Mgr., Ann Kee«er; Classi fied Adv Mgr., Peggy Davis; Secretary, Lil Melko: Research and Records Mgr.. Virginia Latshaw. is a member of Cabinet and perhaps should be classed outside of the "average informed stu dent" category which the poll tried to reach. On the basis of this sampling we believe it is safe to draw the conclusion that the vast ma jority of the student body is not interested in NSA. Of course, the primary conclusion which can be drawn from the poll is that students are ill informed concerning NSA. But we feel that this lack of information stems from disinterest. The student body has been literally bom barded with information concerning NSA dur ing this semester. The Daily Collegian has devoted 231 column inches, about 5800 words, to news accounts, feature articles, editorials, and letters from readers to the NSA issue. And the three feature articles were of an explana tory nature and were written before the poll. Perhaps it is also significant that of the total of 231 column inches only six inches consisted of letters from readers. Letters to the editor are sometimes indicative of the interest of the reader in the news. But only one letter was received all semester and that from a Cabinet member. In the light of this evidence, the only con crete evidence concerning interest in NSA of which we are aware, we submit that the only real interest in NSA at Penn State exists largely with a few Cabinet members, people who have attended NSA conventions, and a few friends of these people. And we wish to call attention to statements by people who have worked for NSA at the University in the past who said in substance that “NSA will not work at Penn State unless an active interest is maintained in it.’’ We do not believe that it is a feasible argu ment to contend that an interest in NSA can be built at the University. NSA existed at the Uni versity for seven years and it died primarily because of apathy. We ask Cabinet members to consider this fact. The past is the proof of the future in this case, we believe. NSA failed because few people took an active interest in it and when they graduated it died. If NSA is voted in tomorrow night the same situation would exist again. And in a few years we believe that NSA would die again. We ask Cabinet members who have supported NSA to stop looking at the organization idealis tically and face the facts for what they are. NSA is not an ideal for a few people to toy with at the expense of the student body. NSA is an expensive proposition. Cost of member ship is $6OO for dues plus travel expenses for up to 14 delegates and alternates to conventions which may well be held thousands of miles dis tant. NSA must merit this cost before Cabinet can conscientiously vote it in. At present it does not. Therefore, we say to Cabinet members that it would be grossly unfair of them to throw any more of the students’ money down the NSA drain. There are more than enough worthwhile projects at the University for which that money can be spent. We say Cabinet should vote no to NSA. Gazette... ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, 7 p.m., Atherton lounge DAILY COLLEGIAN CIRCULATION STAFF (sophomore board I, 6:30 p.m., Colleirian business office PENN STATE CHESS CLUB, 7 p.m., 7 Sparks PENN STATE MARKETING CLUB. 7:30 p.m., Phi Kappa Tau PHI Mi) ALPHA, 9 p.m., 117 Carnegie WOMEN’S CHORUS BUSINESS MEETING, 7 p.m., 100 Carnegie STUDENT LANDSCAPE SOCIETY BUSINESS MEETING, 7:16 p.m., 14 Hetzel Union University Hospital Sidney Brindley, Robert Dorwart, George Fish, Thomas Fridy, Stanford Glick, Marcia Greifer, John Howe, Albert Jacks, Robert Knee, Edmond Kramer, Barbara Leonard, Virginia Lewis, Willard McGaffick, Roderick Perry, Dotnna Smith, William Thompson, Charles Vance, and Gary Zook. housing has taken all the blame for the evils of dormitory living but has received none of the credit for its improvement. The department does not claim to have the perfect solution for every problem nor does it refuse to admit to error. Its members welcome suggestions although they can not always be carried out. So tomorrow evening complaints may he heard, suggestions will be made, and adults should meet each other as adults. —Jackie Hudgins Collegian Sophomore Board The Sophomore Board of the Daily Collegian circulation staff will meet at 6:30 tonight in the Collegian business office. Phi Mu Alpha to Meet Phi Mu Alpha, men’s honorary music society, will meet at 9 to night in 117 Carnegie. Editorials represent the viewpoints of the writers, not necessarliy the policy of the paper, the student body, or the University. —The Editor Tomorrow !e Man on Campus Litt Whadda: Farm Problem Solution Should Surplus By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press Foreign News Analyst President Eisenhower’s proposal to sell American farm surpluses to Communist countries will require much study on both sides of the Iron Curtain. For both sides in the cold war the proposal contains the sadvantage. It is notable that elements of advantage and di Moscow radio’s review of the President’s farm message made no direct reference to Communist countries in reporting on the offer of American surpluses. The Krem lin must have time to think that one over. It involves basic policy planning in Moscow. The sale of such surpluses has been limited up to now to friendly countries. There were reasons for that. - In the years since the death of Stalin, the Soviet Union and other Communist countries con cluded many deals with non- Communist nations for food and nonstrategic materials. These served a number of purposes. Meanwhile, the desperation with which the Soviet Union attacked its own agricultural production problem indicated that more than just a matter of supplying the Soviet Union with bread was wor rying the leaders. Communist boss Khrushchev gave a hint in 1953 of what was on the Kremlin’s mind. "On the whole," Khrushchev said in discussing the need for all-out farm production, "we cover the necessary require ments of the country for grain in the sense that the country is provided with bread that we have the needed state reserves, and conduct, within certain limits, export operations in grain." The key phrase was “within certain liimts.” The Kremlin wanted to remove those limits, be cause the export of food products can be a mighty political weapon in the hands of a government like that of the Soviet Union. The Kremlin had no intention of sacrificing' its heavy industry program of “building the defense might of the motherland” to con sumer production. But it did look around for sources of extra sup ply, not only to help satisfy the food needs of the Soviet Union and the Communist nations them selves, but to help relieve the strains on those economics gener ated by the all-out heavy indus try programs. As that strain is re lieved, the Soviet Union is in a better position to use its produc tion for export to provide addi tional means for increasing eco nomic and political influence abroad. The Communists gave every indication all along they were most anxious to buy and sell in the non-Communist world, and the great demand for con- WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 11. 1956 c? rm ah 7 i: | Sk/l /• tI /rllpj 1 : Si / IpH Hi [ fir', M / i ImR f,': S®- fiffllllti it ill iiiSfn •! i my paper ain't handed in properly? :ky ya even got a paper." We Sell to Reds? sumer goods in the U.S.S.R. pro vided a powerful lure to wave before the Wesf, At the same lime, this sort of trade was viewed by the Kremlin as one means of helping break down the barriers to trade in other goods. The other side of the coin, how ever, is this: The whole Soviet philosophy is based on the as sumption that sooner or later the capitalist world will run into crises of unbalanced production which will lead to chaos and an ultimate world victory of commu nism. If the Communists went along with the proposal to buy or barter for American farm sur pluses, they in turn might be re lieving a strain on the economy of the United States. They have pinned much hope on such strains. For, both sides, then, it seems a ■matter of determining which is the lesser evil. Paraguay Denies Clash Reports ASUNCION, Paraguay (/P) Sources close to the Paraguayan government today denied reports that President Alfredo Stroessner is under house arrest or military surveillance. The President is fol lowing his usual routine at gov ernment headquarters, they said. Paraguay has been tense and there have been frequent reports of dissension within the ruling Colorado party and in the armed forces since a “tommand crisis”— unoffcial sources called it a re volt in the army's Ist Cavalry Division last month. But government offices and businesses were operating as us ual this morning without any signs of trouble. ACE Will Meet Tonight The Association for Childhood Education will meet at 7. tonight in Atherton lounge. Tonight on WDFM 7:15 Sign On 7:20 News and Sports 7 Marquee Memories 8:00 Behind the Lectern : B:3G __— Music of the People 9:00 BBC Weekly 9:tS News 9:30 Virtuoso 10:$5 ... Sign Off By Bibler 7->^d-J7 S 8 •1.1 MEGACYCLES
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