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MIKE. MILLER. Asoiniste Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Dick Hufnagle; Copy Editors, Anne Friedberg, Terry Leach; As
: Joe Bouhret, Paula Miller, Ginny Philips, Jackie Rochel. Ad Staff; Joan Wallace, Claire
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Campus Platform: Attention to What?
It happens every spring. Polatent parties
sribnot to the student body empty platforms,
devoid of prartical, useful, new ideas. In
stead, they substitute some general, uncort
trorerstal—and generally unworkable—
prunitles It happened again this spring.
Today's editorial comments on the Cam-
pas prirtp plat frrrnt
Parry platform Will be discussed.
Campus party presented nothing to the
Eleictions Committee Wednesday night although
it was scheduled to submit its platform.
In lieu of a platform, last year's all-winning
group submitted an "open letter" to the stu
dent body which followed its winning "open
letter" formula of last year almost exactly.
Evidently the Campus party leaders figure
that what was good enough to win before will
again turn the trick.
But we are not so sure of the merit of this
formula. Campus party's "open letter" really is
nothing more than a mass of generalities which
commit the party candidates to nothing.
There is sonic merit to the party's argument
that political platforms have been none too suc
•e>sful in the past, but this does not preclude
the necessity for office seekers to take stands
on controversial issues, a•ven if their stand
might meet with disfavor in some quarters.
We suspect that Campus party is as much moti
vated by a desire to remain "in good" with all
the voters as it is to show its disdain of "mean-
ingless platforms."
Let's examine the "open letter' which Cam
pus party has submitted for inspection:
. Campus party is once again faced with
the perplexing problem of how to make student
government more effective . . . Campus party
realizes that we cannot solve all of these prob
lems affecting us, but we also realize that stu
dent government has the potential of solving
these problems."
An excellent statement. The problem is per
plexing and one group, of course, cannot be
expected to provide a panacea. It is expected,
of course, that student politicians will realize
the potential of student government.
So far, so good. We expected this introduc
tory statement to be followed by at least some
tentative solutions to student problems which
Campus party candidates would be pledged to
fulfill. But instead the party lists various ac
complishments made by their standard bearers
of last year. Some of these are office hours,
advisory boards to class officers, the re-estab
lishment of the National Student Association,
and "many other steps to bridge the gap be
tween us and our government."
The Campus party did advocate that All-
University and class officers establish office
hours and it was a good step, although we doubt
that any earthshaking results have been rea
lized.
But the idea of class advisory boards did not
originate with the party as is implied. Rather.
the party climbed on the bandwagon and urged
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its candidates to follow the lead of others. Of
course, there is nothing wrong with this as long
as credit is not taken where credit is not due.
The implied credit for the re-establishment
of NSA is a deliberate misrepresentation. We
fail to find any mention of this on the part of
Campus party in last year's campaign litera-
Tomorrow, the Lion ture.
Gazette
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
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ROGER VOGELSINGER. Ruiner" M
We suspect that Campus party is attempting
to lull the voters into believing that every
measure passed by All-University Cabinet since
the last spring elections is directly attributable
to the efforts of the party. This is not the case
and it would be deceit to contend that it is so.
Political parties in the spring elect only five
members to Cabinet, a body of 25. The re
establishment of NSA and the "many other
steps" referred to must also be credited to the
politically unaffiliated Cabinet members.
Campus party pledges to continue "this ef
fort." It pledges to give "definite attention" to
the health service and "additional attention" to
the food service in the dormitories.
The "attention" would involve the establish
ment of a Student Service Commission "to over
come these and other similar problems (by
maximizing) the value of these services, and
present grievances and suggestions obtained
from the student body."
This proposal, the only faintly concrete one
advanced by Campus party, is wholly inade
quate and, in some respects, Silly. _
There is no need nor reason to establish such
a commission. Cabinet is already empowered
to set up committees to investigate and propose
solutions to student problems. These commit
tees are entirely capable of handling and solv
ing student problems given interested and able
personnel.
Whether or not - the Cabinet committees have
been successful is not the point. A catchall
service commission could not be more success
ful.
Ultimately, the success of a committee or a
commission, call it what you may, depends on
the interest, ability, and perseverance of the
committee members and those to whom it is
subject.
A service commission to handle all student
problems would be so bogged down with gripes
that it would not have time to do anything well.
We can see no advantage in the establishment
of such a commission.
The "attention" promised by Campus party
to student problems merely represent a neat
way to skirt controversial issues by listing them
and promising to be concerned with them. The
service commission, we suspect, is just an
attention-getting device designed to hide the
lack of a forthright stand on the part of the
party.
The voters have a right to more than mere
attentiveness. They have a right to know what
the party proposes to do about that to which
their attention has been attracted.
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David Bennie, Richard Christian, Barbara Cyganowski,
Alan Field. Nancy Fluck. Robert Forrest. Sharon Gallagher,
Clayton Hakes. Nancy Hiinmeireich. Allen Hower. Law
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McKnight. Henry Man°. Imerio Matcs-Prieto, John Pursell,
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"Funny the way they go for those visual aids."
Look Who's Talking ...
About Animals
Ordinarily you wouldn't think a state sales tax could cause so
much confusion, but we've made a rather exhaustive study and we
are prepared to say nothing has baffled us so much since Old Main
struck 13 o'clock two weeks ago.
The fact that live dogs will be taxed strikes us as being a bit
unfair. Will stuffed dogs be taxed?
An all-inclusive dog taxation,
besides being recessive, seems to
us to constitute an insult to thor
oughbred dogs. Will a pure-bred
have to be subjected to the same
rate of taxation
that a mongrel
will? Is there no
attention paid to
background, no
respect paid to
breeding? W e
know,. dogs don't
have any effec-
tive means to
complain,
we do and we
we intend to
stand up for the
well-bred dog.
Live fish will
also be taxed. Dead fish were
not mentioned but undoubtedly
dead fish are included under
"restaurant meals costing more
than 50 cents."
Live birds also will have to
submit to taxation. This we do
not object to because so many of
the live birds purchased seem to
be of the same general variety—
the love bird type, the parrot
type, the canary type. Perhaps
our value system is way out of
line, but to us one bird is pretty
much like another bird.
But an aspect of the bird
problem that we do intend to
analyze thoroughly is the edi
ble fowl angle. Were he alive
he would .be taxable. Were he
dead ,cooked, and served: over
the counter or upon the table
he would be table. But what
if he is dead, uncooked, - and
lying in a butcher shop? What
is his status as far as Harris
burg is concerned? Obviously.
he would not be subject to tax
ation, but is this fair, we ask
you?
The plight of the cat is more
than confusing. It is degrading.
She is• taxed if she is alive and
dressed. She is, and it makes us
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blush, even taxed if she is nude.
Assuming, of course, that her coat
is made into a fur garment.
Many animals are -left to be
expounded upon. But it was not
our purpose to include them all.
You see our point.
WSGA House
Plans Drive
Plans for its annual clothing
drve were discussed by th e
Women's Student Government
House of Representatives Tues
day.
The drive will begin next Tues
day and continue through the
week following Easter vacation.
Boxes will be placed in the
offices of dormitory hostesses to
receive donations.
The clothing will be sent to the
Friends' Church and will be dis
tributed.
In other action, Barbara Ka
bakjain, junior in music educa
tion from Lancaster, was dropped
from membership because sh e
does not have the required aver
age to hold office. A 2.5 All-Uni
versity average is required.
Dean's List Addition
Larry K. King, sophomore in
Chemical Engineering from Park
er, Pa., has been added to the
dean's list of the College-of Chem
istry and Physics for the fall se
mester 1955 according to C. I.
Noll, assistant dean of the Col
lege of Chemistry and Physics.
King's average was 3.51.
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