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the University year. The
Daily eitileeian is a student
operated nenispaper.
$2.00 per semester 15.01 per year
Entered as if-class swatter July 5. 1534 at the State College. Pa. Post Office ander the stet of March 3. 1878
MIKE MOYLE. Acting Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Ni4fit Editor, Teri v Leach; Copy Editors, Greg Huntingdon, Pat Evans; Assist
ants, IVlickw Cohen, Linda S. gar, Dave Fineman, Mary Jane Montgomery, Gary Young, George
French
Cabinet Puts Cart Before Horse
All-University Cabinet is putting the cart
before the horse. The organization on campus
which is notorious for haggling over procedural
matter and doing little in a productive direction
is now attempting to put out a newsletter to
publicize its doings.
Cabinet. Thun-day night, tabled . a plan for a
public relations committee. The purpose of the
committee would be to publicize activities and
student government information. The plan also
calls for a monthly newsletter and the estab
lishment of an office for a personal dissemina
tion of information The report also mentions
that the committee would be able to take polls
or . conduct questionnaires among the students.
faculty, administration. University employees
and town residents. The results of the polls
would be available to Cabinet members, accord
ing to the report.
We think that it is unnecessary in many as
pects for Cabinet to attempt to publicize fur
ther what it does. It would be trying to dis
seminate the information to the general student
body and to students who are active in student
government. We think that the student body
would be little interested in information in any
more detail than it now gets the news from
The Daily Collegian.
By the time a newsletter was distributed
much of the information would be outdated.
In straw readership polls which only roughly
indicate ()pinion, we have found that students
have little interest in student government or
news stories about it. We doubt if the students
would want additional information. Student
government now receives more news play than
any other activity. Student government ma
terial is poorly read, we think, because so little
of the news material affects the student.
We think it would also be useless to try to
educate student government personnel to any
greater degree. Generally speaking, these stu
dents are either informed or have no desire to
be informed. They certainly have no trouble
under the present system to obtain information
about student government.
We also think that the plan is impractical in
`Lantern' Making a Comeback
Cheers to the Physical Education and Ath
letics College for their recent support of The
Lantern. the University literary magazine.
Despite its status as "the University literary
magazine." the Lantern has heretofore been•
associated solely with liberal arts students, the
Liberal Arts College and the Liberal Arts Stu
dent Couricil. Because of this gross misconcep
tion, the Liberal Arts Council has shouldered,
almost completely, the responsibility of financ
ing The Lantern. With little more than this
backing, the magazine has somehow staggered
on—it has even shown some headway.
Encouraged by the upward trend in sales, the
Liberal Arts CounciLrecently made a courageous
move and allocated $5OO to The Lantern. This
was a courageous move in that, minutes before
the resolution was adopted, the Council treas
urer reported that there was approximately $4OO
in the Council treasury.
Some would call the allocation of $5OO from a
$4OO budget a foolish gamble. The Council is
aware of the risk, but does not consider it a
foolish one. By slotting to The Lantern 5500.
the Council is making it possible for a record
number of 800 copies to be published. If The
Lantern sale is successful, the Council will be
repaid and the way towards future expansion
and development of the magazine will be con-
ceivable.
Judging from piapt records, the Council feels
TIM at Fault
TO THE EDITOR: Miss Pat Evans' recent edi
torial in Collegian, "TIM: Shape Up," caused
me some anguish. Although I hate to admit it,
the truth hurts.
This is my second year as an active member
of TIM. Never in that time has TIM looked
like a really strong organization. Last year
there were about 50 members at each of the
first few meetings Then attendance dropped
meeting by meeting until toward the end of
the year we had to struggle every meeting to
get a quorum—a quorum of only 15.
This year history is repeating itself. Eighty or
So came to the first few meetings, but now
we're lucky to get 20.
It is evident to me that the men downtown
are not interested in having a voice in the
operation of their organization, other than dur
ing elections. It therefore seems advisable to
scrap this "pure democracy," which is no democ
racy at all, and turn to representative govern
ment for TIM. If TIM members disagree then
they should support the organization as it
stands. But if they do not agree with this stand
then they should support the change to repre
sentative government.
Thr Belli Collegian
Sucre..-er to THE FREE LANCE, est. 1887
Safety Valve
Open the . Door!
--Raymond David
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
DAVE RICHARDS. Business Manager
some ways. If such a committee plans to dis
seminate information about student government
and other activities, the members of the com
mittee would have to be highly organized. They
would have to set up an activity coverage sys
tem which would be comparable to that of Col
legian. It would take time and effort on the
part of several students to publish such a news
letter which would, in effect, merely duplicate
what Collegian prints.
The suggestion for taking frequent polls and
conducting questionnaires is also impractical to
a great extent. Taking polls to get results that
are accurate and informative requires a great'
deal of professional knowledge. It is certainly a
job which requires a certain knowledge and
skill, and is not one that should be handled by
student government.
We would also like to question the final out
come of such a committee. We would predict
that the committee would waste a great deal
of time, effort and money. The money could
far better be spent in other areas. We would also
predict that eventually the newsletter would
merely copy from the Collegian.
We also question how Cabinet hopes to get
better coverage of its functions from people who
have no training-in the somewhat technical job
of reporting. Students working for the Collegian
receive two and three years training on the
paper in addition to numerous journalism
courses before they are assigned the Cabinet
beat.
Another point which Cabinet may have over
looked is that other governments find it un
wise to.disseminate their own information: they
find it far better to leave this to the press. When
a government agency distributes its own in
formation it merely states its own views and
does not accurately report the news. We feel
that this is a bad policy for any government to
accept. It should let its good work be its own
publicity. When Cabinet starts doing construc
tive and important work it will receive all the
publicity it needs. Until that time it cannot
hope to have an abundance of publicity and
student interest.
that The Lantern will be successful. Last spring
560 of the 600 copies published were sold, and
this fall the demand for The Lantern surpassed
the supply. With such a good record based on
so little outside help, The Lantern should have
many other patrons. The Liberal Arts Council
hoped that its initial move would set off a series
of similar moves in other councils, hat societies
and organizations. So far, the opportunity to
give has not been thoroughly exploited—per
haps, because of a lack of publicity about the
movement.
Well, here it is in black and white: The Lan
tern is a campus publication in need of campus
support!
For you - raving culture mongers, here is the op
portunity to act as well as rave. And to you who
claim no literary ties—well, there is no literary
twang in the words "physical education and
athletics." yet that College Council has con
tributed $25, and is, at least, givilig The. Lantern
a chance to prove itself.
This Council, the Liberal Arts Council by all
means, and the founding editor. Jackie Hudgins.
and this year's editor, Kip Newlin. all deserve
recognition for their support and loyalty to a
worthy project. It is forces like these which keep
the magazine alive, but it takes more than an
interested handful to make the magazine a real
success. •
Let's see more force from a new source!
—Barb Martino
TO THE EDITOR: Fourteen years ago last week,
491 people were killed• while trying to escape
from a fire in the Cocoanut Grove night club in
Boston. The reason for this tremendous num
ber of deaths was that the fire exits were all
locked.
A similar catastrophe could very well happen
right here on the Penn State campus. We have
observed that all of the fire exits in the South
Dining Room of Waring Hall, except the main
entrance and exit, are locked. The main en
trance, however, is locked immediately after
serving hours. Then, there is only a three-foot
doorway to handle the 200 or more remaining
people.
The conditions are more than ripe for a major
catastrophe!
This hazardous condition has been called to
the attention of Food Service by the West Halls
Council. Nothing has been done to remedy it!
Must we experience what happened in the
Cocoanut Grove to open the eyes of Food Serv
ice or will someone use some "good old common
sense?"
University Hospital
Murray Barsky. Paul Bauer. Anna Caranauch. Doris
Epstein. Thomas Haaepanos. Jerome Kleisatka, Ada Liggett.
Richard Malone. John Maychrowits. Roy itasatusoa. William
Sabaciao. William Smallwood. Joseph Smith.
Editorials represent the
•iewpoints of the writers.
not necessarily the policy
of the paper. the student
body, or the •University.
—Sue Conklin
—Samuel Alfonsi
Richard Eyerrnan
ittle Man on Campus
i4:pc
- He don't look like much coach—but you should see
Eddie here go after those rebounds."
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Rebels Turn Tables
On Red Tormentors
. By J. M. ROBERTS •
Associated Press News Analyst
The workers of Eastern Europe could hardly have turned
a more ironic weapon against the Communists than the one
they are using—the strike.
That is the weapon the Reds have appropriated as pe
culiarly their own.
It is the weapon that the workers and youth organizations
have been taught to use in the
Red revolution. Now it is being
used by those same workers and
youth organizations in the anti-
Red revolution.
Bereft of the arms with which
they only succeeded in arousing
Russian repression, the Hungar
ian rebels are making a day to
day display of their distaste -for
Communists and communism.
At the same time they have
drawn the Russians into a pos
ture which completely belies
their years-long chain to big
brotherhood with workers ev
erywhere.
It is the students and workers
of an immediate neighbor who
testify that the relationship with
Russia which the Kremlin has
styled "cooperation" is actually
the relationship between slave
and master.
In this atmosphere, when she is
rattling 'new chains to replace
those the Hungarians were about
to break, the Russians accuse the
United States of interfering with
Eastern European nations.
Like the strike, this tactic of
accusing the other fellow of
what you are doing yourself is
not a Communist invention, but
an adoption, and•like the strike,
it can boomerang.
Unlike the United States, Rus
sia has never been in a position
to meet charges against her with
an invitation to investigate. While
the Communists fight and dodge
UN investigation of their deeds
in Hungary, the United States can
say "Come ahead."
Regardless of the subject, this
has been American policy in the
UN for so long that you would
think the Russians would have
learned to avoid the trap.
There was a tendency among
some delegations to ignore the
Russian charges and not even put
them on the agenda, but they
could not ignore the American re
quest. They did, however, ignore
the Russian request for an early
action, which America would have
liked.
Now all the United States has
to do is sit back and let the other
nations compare her intervention
in Eastern Europe with Russia's.
SATURDAY. DECEMBER 15, 1956
by Bible
I=ll
Safety Group
Re-evaluates
Dumping Rule's
As the first step in re-examin
ing the University's safety pro
gram, a group of eight officials
from the institution met yester
day to consider rules and regula
tions for dumping waste mater
ials.
Dean Ossian R. MacKenzie.
special assistant to the president,
who called the meeting, explained
that the group was considering
only the immediate problem of
dumpage of University laborator
ies and that soon after this meet
ing all of the institution's safety
measures will be thoroughly re
assessed.
Those invited to the meeting
were:
Prof. Albert H. Holtzinger, di
rector of the chemistry labora
tories; Prof. Donald V. Josephson,
director of dairy science; R. Ru
pert Kountz, professor of sani
tary engineering.
Frank F. Morris, director of
personnel service; Harold J. Read,
professor of physical metallurgy;
Arthur T. Thompson, assistant di
rector of the Ordnance Research
Laboratory; and Walter H. Wie
gand, director of physical plant.
WRA Gives Yule Party
About 90 first and second grade
children from the Matternville
Elementary School were guests at
a Christmas party given by the
Women's Recreation Association
Thursday afternoon in the White
Hall lounge.
This Weekend
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