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MIK!! MILLER, Associst• Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Ron Leik; Copy Editors, Pat Hunter, Judy Harkison; Assistants
Bill Kling, Dick Fishei, Kip Newlin, Barb Martino, Marian Beatty, Carole Gibson, Thom Shiels.
Lion Platform: Words Without Wisdom
Yebterday, the Catttpu:, party platform was
thscussed. Today's edttorial comments on the
Lion party platform.
Lion party tried to pull a shrewd one.
It incorporated into its platform three recom
rnstodations about campus parking which— co
inindentally, of course—just happened to be
contained in a report presented to All-Univer
sity Cabinet two weeks ago.
And it IN of course coincidental that Thomas
Dye, author of the report, "The Problem of
Pal king at Penn State," is a candidate for the
Lion party nomination for All-University vice
president and k a former Lion party clique
chairman
Dye appeared berme Cabinet and humbly
explained that as an interested student he want
ed to do something about the campus parking
pro b tern.
It iz. obvious that Dye was politically moti
vated tle wanted to do something for Lion
party, not for student automobile owners.
It should be likewise obvious that making a
political football out of a serious student prob
lem is in bad taste. Cabinet is not the instru
ment to use to promote personal political am
bition. The Lion party. by adopting this report
in its platform, has attempted to do exactly
that.
The Council of Admirmstration, to which the
parking recommendations must go if Cabinet
approves them. will not hold in high regard
retonimendations which went to Cabinet only co.
to give the Lion party something to talk about. ilt
Lion party has done a disservice to student tions
government by playing politics in the parking at the I.
problem. would los.
Lion party's second plank concerned the have been
establishment of a campus book store. This is votes.
a good idea, worthy of support. It is also a The third ant.
perennial plank; barely a year goes by in which It is also meanii.
one party doesn't faithfully promise a book The plank calls 11.
store. Somehow, Penn State still lacks one. -ling machines loca
And the Lion party intends to do something 'any-Pollock areas.
about it. So it denounces the Penn State Book have merit. But pi.
Exchange and the Used Book Agency, Although machines hardly gi
the party admits it has never seen the BX's ' vote for the Lion ,
books, it is convinced the BX is making a the platforms we i,
profit. It is also convinced that the ÜBA is 1 len harmless and m.
stashing away some $7200 a year. one -U. It is a thoughti.
These are serious charges. They are also contr. late issues and co.
political. If' members of the Lion party feel that ethics a. ' , an questionable ank.
the BX is gouging the student body, the heat of worth.
a political campaign is hardly the atmosphere Once agaii.. 'forms of both party.
in which to hold a trial. The Lion party is op- 'ci offer studen, '‘,! rational reason to ,
posing Campus party in this election, not the 'r either of the ,
BX. It has methods to publicise its charges —The Editor
For Mr. Morse: A More Important Job
Mr. Adrian 0. Morse, provost, says goodbye
to the University today.
In a month he will leave for Washington and
special training which will soon take him half
way around the world. At the age of 60. Mr.
Morse will assume a position of vital service
to the nation—and the world—in the crowded
and hot Indian capital of New Delhi.
For after 26 years of loyal and hard-working
service to the University, Mr. Morse will be
come the chief cultural officer for the United
States Information Agency in India.
We sincerely commend Mr. Morse for his con
victions in leaving behind friendships of 26
years and a position of respected prestige for
an utterly different post with the foreign serv
ice. We look with pride upon the faith the for
eign service, in recognition of his talent, has
bestowed upon Mr. Morse in assigning him a
job of infinitely more possibilities of service to
his country than, we must admit,' he holds as
University provost.
In terms of allegiance to either the Western
or Eastern world, neutralist India is perhaps
the most vital of the .non-Communist countries
in Asia. Strategically situated as she is, India,
with her immense manpower and her agricul
tural and industrial potential, could be a decid
ing factor in the unwritten conflict between the
two great earthly powers.
As chief officer in charge of a program de
signed to inform Indians of American culture
by means of libraries, lectures, exhibits, and
other methods, Mr. Morse may, in the troubled
times ahead, be helping to stave off Communist
domination of India—helpirfg, indeed, to hold
the friendship of the United States before In
dians at all times.
We shall miss him. And he Shall miss us. In
repeating the words of Adlai Stevenson in los-
Osborne Named Fellow HEc Council Nominations Brumbaugh to Address
In Royal Societ y of A I tmi
s Self-nominations 'ato '
i Student
l oung Re
Milton S. Osborne, professor start at 8 a.m. March 13 in the Former Congressman David E.
and head of the department of foyer of Home Economics. Brumbaugh, a delegate to the Re
architecture at the University,l Students with '2.0 All-Univer-
publican National convention in
has been elected a fellow of the sits averages may nominate them-
Royal Society of Arts in London. selves from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. until August, will speak to the Young
The Society, which was found- March 16.
I
Republican Club at 7 p.m. Tues
ed in the 18th century under
Royal Charter, promotes the de-!through publications and re-Igressman Brumbaugh will ex
velopment of arts and sciences } ,search. plain convention procedure.
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"03"6" ROGER VOGELSINGER. Business M
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
which are not available to the BX for answer
ing the charges.
It is obvious the Lion party is trying to create
an issue. In so doing, it is employing smear
tactics. This is another distinct disservice to
student government. The Lion party platform
preamble states: "We of the Lion party believe
in and deem necessary all things beneficial to
better student government . .." We note a con
tradiction which should not go unnoted by the
voters.
The Elections Committee acted wisely when
it rejected this plank from the Lion party plat
form Tuesday night. For one reason, the charges
in this plank are unsubstantiated. For another,
they don't belong in a political campaign. For a
third, Cabinet now has a committee studying
the possibility of establishing a book store and
this is all the Lion party candidates, if they
are elected, could be expected to do.
Yesterday, Robert Spadaro, Lion party clique
chairman, announced that the party may carry
a revised book store plank, regardless of the
Elections Committee rejection.
Ethically and politically Spadaro would be
making a follysome decision by choosing to
flaunt the Elections Committee ruling. The
Elections Committee has been given power to
lay down the law. By ignoring the committee,
the party would be acting lawlessly.
The Elections Committee has also been given
power to enforce its rulings of fining each can
didate from 10 to 100 votes and fining the party
up to $25 if the party chooses to violate the
committee's ruling.
We will be very much surprised if the Elec
tions Committee would fail to throw the book
at the party. This would mean each candidate
would lose 100 votes. Many elections on campus
have been won by margins of less than 100
votes.
The third and final plank is painless enough.
It is also meaningless to the average student.
The plank calls for decentralized voting via
voting machines located in the West Dorms and
Nittany-Pollock areas. Wow! The idea itself
may have merit. But promise of decentralized
voting machines hardly gives the students any
reason to vote for the Lion party slate.
Most of the platforms we have seen in past
years have been harmless and meaningless. This
one is different. It is a thoughtless document
contrived to create issues and confusion. Its
ethics are more than questionable and so is its
worth.
Once again, the platforms of both parties fail
to offer students a single rational reason to vote
for either of the parties.
ing to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, • Mr.
Morse has said, "It hurts too much to laugh,
and I'm too old to cry "
Safety Valve
Better Way to Tap
TO THE EDITOR: I should like to call to the
attention of men students a story in the March
2 Daily Collegian about Hat Society appli
cation. The story stated that permanent file
cards, which are to be filled out by men inter
ested in joining a society, are now available
at the Hetzel Union desk. This card will contain
all pertinent information which can be used by
hat societies for their tapping.
For some time the men's hat societies have
felt that the old system whereby men applied
for the honor of joining a society, was distaste
ful. Hence, this new system was worked out
and inaugurated by Hat Society Council. The
responsibility is still on the individual to keep
his card filled out and up to date. However, he
will no longer be put in the embarrassing posi
tion of writing to a hat society and saying, "I
want the honor of joining your society." Now
the society can go to the cards, select these per
sons best filling their qualifications, and truly
honor them by saying, "We want you to join
our society."
I should like to emphasize that each man do
this regardless of how good or how poor he
considers his qualifications. In this way the
societies can be the final judge. It also assures
the societies that they are making their selec
tions from the largest possible number of men.
With student cooperation, this further attempt
by hat societies to better themselves can be
made a successful venture.
• Letter Cut
Editorials repreoeat deo
viewpoists of the writers.
not issesssority the policy
of the paper. the student
hods. or lb. University
tits •et of• March 2, 187)
—Ted Serrill
—Robert J. Steele
President of
Delphi Hal Society
ittle Man on Campus
Y , P e
"Dad, this is Worthall. I understand he's flunking
your Econ. 14 course."
Quips and Quotes
If the parking situation changes at all next year, it will be a
little harder to find a parking place than ever, the Dean of Men
said this week.
Next year we may see a new type of commuting student who
will have to park in some traffic lane, keep his motor running
while he dashes to class, and return befOre his car is towed away.
It's been raining cats and dogs
in .the central part of the state.
Beastly weather!
This headline appeared in the
Collegian the other day:
"Deans Stress Interest
In Well-Rounded Courses"
. . . while students stress in
terest in well-rounded coeds.
Speaking of the weaker sex, we
read a column in the New York
Daily Mir r or by Abigail Van
Buren. It went like this:
"Dear Abby: My husband has
a morbid sense of humor. I walk
in the door and find him playing
dead on the floor. I wake up in
the morning and find him staring
at me with just the whites of his
eyes showing. I get terribly upset
and he thinks it is all the funnier.
Last night he hid in the closet
and when I opened the door he
fell out on me and frightened me
half to death. I love my husband,
Abby, but he is driving me crazy.
Dear Mortified: Abby didn't
ud•rise you to do this; but may
we suggest that the next time
your husband plays dead—bury
him.
1::::1
Here's another
"Dear Abby: I have had three
unsuccessful marriages and one
of my ' husbands committed sui
cide. Nobody out here knows it.
Should I keep these secrets
locked within me forever.
—Troubled"
Dear Troubled: We propose
that you tell your present hus
band.
In the same newspaper, Walter
Winchell, the dean of keyhole
journalism, made a political ob
servation:
"The reason Ike decided to run
Nominations Due
For Eng Council
Today is the last day that self
nominations for the Engineering
Student Council will be .accepted.
Second and third semester stu
dents may run- -for sophomore
posts. Fourth and fifth semester
students may run for junior posi
tions and sixth semester students
will be eligible for senior posts.
Ballots are available on the de
partment bulletin board in Main
Engineering.
SATURDAY. MARCH 10. 1956
was he didn't want to operate his
Gettysburg farm under the Ben
son Farm Program."
If the man from Poland is a
Pole, is the man from Holland
a Hole?
Jackie Gleason's latest record
in his Mood Music series is: Music
to Change Her Mind.
We can hardly wait for the
next one.
Today
LAVIE 1964 Senior Board, 1 p.m.. 41t
Old Main
NEWMAN CLUB Graduate Students, 8:241
p.m., Old Church basement
Tomorrow
ALPHA DELTA SIGMA, 7:39 p.m., Phi
Kappa
LAVIE 1967 Senior Board, 7:30 p.m, 4t
Old Main
NEWMAN CLUB Communion Brenkfant,
10 a.m., State College Hotel
PENN STATE ENGINEER COED Circa-
lation Staff. 7 p.m.. 212 Hetzel Union
PENN STATE ENGINEER Managing
Board, 8 p.m., 313 Mech. Engineering
Monday
-
—Mortified."
NEWMAN CLUB DISCUSSION, 7 p.m..
Student Center
PENN STATE ENGINEER Managing
Board, 5 p.m.. 313 Mech. Engineering
PENN STATE ENGINEER Staff, 7 p.m.,
211 Mechanical Engineering
Student Employment
The following camps will interview at
the Student Employment Service. 111 Ohl
Main. Please sign up in advance for an
appointment.
Camp Woodlands, Maine—March 10
Camp Lakeland, New York—March 10
Squinibeek Camp. Vermont —March IS
Camp Conrad Weiser, Penna.—'March
14-15
Camp Menstoma, Maine,—March 14-15
Camp Carondowanda, Penna.—March IA
University Hoapital--
.
Richard Christian. Ellen Donovan, Ed.
ward Drapcho, Alan Field, Nancy Fluck.
Robert Forrest, Henry Hint, Allen lower.
Richard McKnight, Imerio MatOs-Prieto.
Barbara Moehrle, James Stern, Richard
Winn, George Rock, Demetrius Mogeliak„
Charles Dickinson. .
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