The daily collegian. (University Park, Pa.) 1940-current, March 10, 1956, Image 4
PAGE FOUR rirbliatitd Tersday through tiatrrdar awning. during Mx UM, *mit) rear. the 111*ily rollegiar I* a stwileat sorts tod Italy *paper Eritartll se second-elate welter July 5, ilile at ttio State College. P*. Poet Office ender MIKE rEisl.4ll.nrit. Editor 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. o'o illaitg Cultrgiatt 8 ssssss or to THK FREE LANCE. ed. lan "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-- . 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