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MIKE MOYLE, Acting Editor
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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Terry 'Leach; Copy Editors, Barbara Martino, Chuck Dißocco;
Assistants. Dec?: Fisher, Jane Klein, Ruth Grossman, Dick Drayne, Han Johns, Les Powell, Mike Dutko,
Mary Jane rntfry, Pam Chamberlain, Barbara Hodge, Pat Earley. Ad Staff: Jan Skives,
Marilyn
Much Ado About Nothing
If it weren't fol Supreme Court we wonder
what All-Umvi :::tv Cabinet would have to do
ail year. Fort unalt.:y. this important (?) issue
has served the gin ,p from being labeled "do
nothings."
Last night's Cabinet meeting•was all Supreme
Court. As a matter of fact it was the lone agenda
item for the second consecutive meeting. How
ever, everyone knows that the Supreme Court
issue is of such earth-shattering importance that
all the long hours of debate are well worth the
effort.
There is one aspect of this issue which no
one has yet brought up. We wonder how student
governments of the past (before last year) ever
managed to get along without some sort of group
to pass judgment on legislation. It's amazing
how the hardy souls made their student govern
ment stick together.
But last year some wise student leader (or
leaders) came up w:th the' idea that perhaps
students were (11:- , atil•fied with Cabinet legisla
tion and needed an outlet for their gripes. Thus
Supreme Court came onto the scene.
Well, the response from the students was
tremendous. During the course of the year a
grand total of three cases was heard and de
cided upon by the court, made up of the senior
members of Judicial and Tribunal.
This year Cabinet, pretty generally agreed
(wonder of wonders) that the court was not a
good one and that we needed a more effective
group. So they named a committee (naturally)
to come up with something new and different.
Other persons worked. on the job individually
but these plans were vetoed by Cabinet. The
committee's suggestion—a 32-member c ourt
which was too bulky and was founded on poor
democratic principle—received .acceptance for
two weeks running but last night got the brush
off. This may have been because they had some
thing more interesting to consider. namely a
proposed five-member court brought up by
Lion party.
No matter what prompted last night's vote
Cabinet now has last year's Supreme Court in
effect. The one nobody wants. It would be a
laughable situation indeed if some sharpie
Cabinet Backtracks Five Weeks
After almost two hours of political and par- info two parts—a question and answer period
liamentary haggling last night, All-University and a parliamentary melee.
Cabinet is still left with the same old shoe— The question" and answer session, in spite of
the same Supreme Court that started out the frequent interruptions by the chair, consisted
year. to a large extent of reiteration. The same points
Perhaps if the group works hard for the next were hashed out over and over bringing mem
five weeks they can find a court which will bers of Cabinet no nearer a solution to their
please everyone. We doubt it, however, because problem. Such debate was a waste of time for
every one has his own opinion and seems un- Cabinet members, who, having been elected by
willling to compromise. the student body, haven't the ethical right to
Cabinet made several mistakes in handling waste time.
the Supreme Court issue. The first and greatest The discussion got so far out of hand at one
mistake was that it did not use wisely the•com- point that a student in the audience who was
mittee which it set up specifically for the pur- yielded the floor used language which was en
pose of reorganizing the constitution. The corn- tirely out of place at a Cabinet meeting: The
mittee was an excellent idea and it should have student had nothing new to offer to the discus
been used to the extent that-all proposals for a sion and only served to put a poor light on the
new court system would have come to Cabinet meeting. We hope that in the future students
through it. in the audience will show more respect for
Setting up a new court system is a compli- Cabinet. members of the administration - who
cated and technical matter. Cabinet, so far, has attend the meetings, and other visitors.
handled it like a child's playtoy. We think that The parliamentary melee to which we refer
Cabinet could have saved itself a great deal was concerned with the voting procedure to be
of trouble and some embarrassment if it had followed on the.two proposals for a new court.
heard all the suggestions for a new court from Questions were thrown at the chair in a hap
the committee.
__hazard manner. Few, we think 'stopped to con
. . .. .
Both Joseph Hartnett, senior class president,
and Byron LaVan. Lion party clique chairman,
have presented individual plans to Cabinet in
addition to the suggestion of the committee to
abolish the court and another plan to keep and
modify it. Had all of the plans been worked out
in the committee first, each one could have
been presented to Cabinet in a finished form.
Much of the argument which has taken place
on the floor of Cabinet during the past several
weeks could have been cleared up in a more
expedient manner by having the committee
chairman present the plan, or plans.
Had Cabinet put the plans through the com
mittee. it would have avoided the situation,
embarrassing at best, in which it found itself
last night. The session could be divided easily
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INTERLANDIA FOLK DANCES ''SLAVIC NIGHT, - Ile Gary Banker, Roland, Dauber, Thornton Grove. Philip
Hagen, Robert McCarron, Denis Milke. Andrew Moconyi. Dean
p.m., HUB Ballroom Moyer, William Muntenia, Anthony Natale. Stephen Polaski,
SABBATH EVE SERVICES, S:ll4 p.m., Hilted Foundation James Modes: Kenneth Ring. Paul Shaw.
Women's Hat Society
Plans 'Winter Fantasy'
Cwens, sophomore women's hat
society, will hold a "Winter Fan
tasy" fashion show and bridge
party at 2 p.m. tomorrow at the
Beta Theta Pi fraternity heisse.
Re 'Dad!! Collegian
Rioecamer to THE FREE LANCE. M. MT
--:c52- , . DAVE RICHARDS, Business Manager
Gazette
Taffy Pull Will Be Held Ag'Club to. Hear Huber -
• A taffy pull will be held at 7:30 Dr. Lawrence L. Huber, pro
tonight by the - Lutheran Student fessor of agronomy, wilt s p e a k Association at the Student Center.
at a meeting of the Clover Club
Fashions from a borough clothing at -7:15 p.m. Tuesday -at - Alpha
store will be shown. :A coed from ; Gamma -Rho. His topic will be
each sorority will modeL — t., l"What's New in Corn."• - ---I.:=
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
brought up a case to go before Supreme Court
tomorrow. We wonder what hasty procedures
would be' used to rule him out of order. Or
would his case be heard?
Although it isn't real good, the Lion party
court seems to have definite merit. It is one of
the better ones to come along so far. This is not
much of a compliment, however.
It is difficult to see how anyone can try to
get a decent Supreme Court by clearly defining
qualifications such as "judicially-minded' ele
ment, "well-informed" element or "activities"
element. These were terms used by Byron La-
Van, Lion party clique chairman, to set out what
a judicial body should have. This cannot be
done.
Since when does any court member need such
a vast knowledge of * student affairs. If the case
is clearly explained by both sides, any student
could sit in judgment. This business of being
"judicially-minded" or "well-informed" is noth
ing but a lot of bunk.
The main criticism of the proposal, however,
is that there seems to be a lot of wasted effort
going into something which will be little used.
The courts, both Superior and Supreme, will
accept only cases of constitutionality. We feel
quite sure that the number of students who are
familiar enough with any constitution to bring
a case before the Supreme Court are few in
- deed.
Of the number who are well-enough informed,
the number who take the effort to do so is even
smaller. So, the whole beaurocratic mess is un
necessary.
So, we are left wondering how in the world
past student bodies got along without a Supreme
Court. Is it possible? Or were, the others just
superhuman and superior in every way to the
student body today. We doubt that they were.
If you will look back on the Cabinet record
of this year thus far you will find that not very
much legislation has been passed! It would be
a tough task to find anything to call unconstitu
tional this year. It is becoming more and more
apparent that this great ado is being made over
. . . NOTHING.
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sider just what could be done within the bounds
of parliamentary law. Cabinet even went so far
as to vote on whether it should vote on the
Supreme Court recommendation which has been
before it for three weeks now. The first was un
necessary; Cabinet had to vote on the amend-.
ment.
Also unnecessary were the misunderstandings
and arguments which occurred near the end of
the meeting. They were caused because mem
bers did not stop to think before they spoke.
We hope the next meeting will show an im
provement. Last night's Cabinet meeting was
not up to par with the other sessions which have
been held this year. We hope next week will see
Cabinet back on its feet again.
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of the paper, the student
Way, or the University.
—The Editor
—Sue Conklin
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Two Developments
Seen Easing Crisis
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Two interpendent developments which will ease the
crisis caused by the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion of Egypt
now seem likely within the next two weeks.
Britain and France, after protesting all over the place
iddle East to stop a war which
that they intervened in the M
they had actually helped promote,
are yielding slowly—to preserve
their domestic political situations
at home—to UN pressure for with
drawal of their troops.
In return, the United States is
going to help them get the oil
needed to preserve their econo
mies against the consequences of
their own act.
A good many Britishers have
attributed American reluctance to
supply them with oil to a desire
to punish them for going into
Egypt against Washington's
wishes. This is incorrect.
It would, however, have been
incongruous for the United States
to act officially in condemnation
of the act while at the same time
acting to alleviate its consequen
ces. This would only have served
to further complicate Western
relationships with the Middle
East, and might have endangered
America's own oil interest's there.
The big point about United
States willingness to help West
ern Europe out of the oil shortage
is not simply the supply of oil,
which private companies have
gone ahead to arrange, but the
credit with which to pay for it.
By having to. pay cash dollars for
oil,
,the Allies would have en
dangered economic systems which
America has beeri at great pains
to support for 10 years.
Britain and France are still de
manding some assurances of Suez
Canal settlement before they leave
it to the care of the UN Emer
gency Force. By- doing so, they
clearly reveal their original mo
tive for the unlovely and unlucky
adventure in which they have
been involved. But you can ex
pect to see a gradual retreat on
this point, too, 'since the United
Nations is definitely not of a tem
per to be used by the two powers.
As to settlements, Britain and
France may as well recognize now
that they, wilL not be able to sit
in 'the councils as members with
clean hands.
On the other hand, the United
States has its position
as Mediator, and intendi to do so
in whatever it does about the oil
supply.
Unfortunately, the use . of force
by Britain and - France .to back
their_ .diplomatic - plays- - against
Egypt has served to. obscure the
use of force by Egypt': Nasser
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1956
by Bible
to back his own political plays.
Consideration of his provocations
will come back into the picture
when slugging has passed out of
it.
Coeds to Enter
'Novice' Debate
Four coeds who have never be
fore performed in a college de
bate will leave for Philadelphia
today to participate in the Tem
ple novice debate tournament
this weekend.
The topic is the national debate
topic Resolved: "That the United
States should discontinue direct
economic aid to all foreign coun
tries:'
Carol Reed and Carol Renner
will be the affirmative speakers.
Gail Bentley and Virginia Fitz
martin will argue the negation.
They will debate four rounds
against four of the 35 colleges
and universities attending.
Clayton Schug, professor of
public speaking, is the debate
coach. William Hamilton, assis
tant professor of speech, will ac
company the team, which will
return Sunday.
6 Talks Planned
By Westinghouse
Speakers from Westinghouse
Corp. will present a series of six
lectures on reactors during
December and January.
The series, sponsored by the
nuclear science and engineering
program, will begin tomorrow
and continue with lectures on Dec.
8, 15, and 22 and Jan. 5 and 12.
The lectures will be presented
from 8 a.m. to noon in 119 Osmond
and are open to the public.
Grad Group to Hold
Craft Sale; Tomorrow
Art education graduate students
will sponsor - a craft.sale from 7to
10 tonight and 1 a:m. to 10 p.m.
tomorrow in 105_ Tempor ary. " Funds from the tale of - Pottery.
jewelry, weaving, • prints, an d
sketches will be, used to purchase
exhibition material for -the art
education . department. -