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ILD:Ily Collegian is a student
operated newspaper.
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Motored as serond-class matter July S. 1134 at the State College, Pa. Post 011ie* ander the set St March 3. 1871,
MIKE MOYLE, Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Paula Miller; Copy Editors, Chuck Dißocco, Bill Kling; Assistants,
Ginny Philips, Linda Segar, Pam Alexander, Rozanne Friedlander, Ken Ishler, Denny Malick.
"Under the Lion's Paw"
Hamlin Garland, late 19th century American
writer, wrote a short story entitled "Under the
Lion's Paw." Many students are wondering
what :s going on under the name of Lion's Paw.
One question which many would like answered
is "does Lion's Paw run the University?"
Lion's Paw is a supposedly secret organiza
tion composed of selected senior men who work
for the good of•the University. Their names are
published in The Daily Collegian each spring
after their initiation.
In our opinion. Lion's Paw serves two func
tions. First, it enables the leaders of several
different organizations to become well acquaint
ed with each other and each other's ideas. It
enables, them to criticize and receive criticism.
Second, it serves as the medium between the
administration and the students.
As far as running the University goes, Lion's
Paw does not, and anyone who thinks that it
does is livirig under a false supposition. The
administration runs the University.
It is a constructive idea for student leaders
to get•together, but it is not right for any secret
organization to deal with the administration on
behalf of the student body. All-University Cabi
net is the ideal medium for the administration
to use
Lion's Paw, being considered the - lop student
organization, also tends to undermine the pres
tige of Cabinet. This does not add to the effec-
The Senate Makes a
The University Senate, at last week's meet
ing, allowed the student press to cover its
meeting this year. The story, a rather small
one on the front page of Friday's Daily Col
legian, might well have gone unnoticed by the
average reader. Especially the reader who is
always griping about finding nothing in the
newspaper
However. this story has more importance
than this average reader thinks. The action is
not something which is in the line of annual
business for the Senate.
As a matter of fact, this is only the second
year that representatives of the student press
have been admitted to Senate meetings.
We might interject here to explain that the
University Senate is comprised of a representa
tive from each department z.t the University,
plus a few top administrative heads. Its chair-
man is the University Provost and it meets
month IN
Until last year student publications were not
Safety Valve
New Foreign Policy Needed disagree with our policy.
The real cause of the problem, Col. Nasser,
TO THE EDITOR: I believe it is time our for- who was in a precarious position after his hu
eign policy is changed. The Suez crisis may have miliating military defeat, is now at the height
temporarily abated and the Hungarian affair of his popularity. He is anti-American yet we
may be beyond our control but we must at least keep on supporting him. We are playing Rus
attempt to correct the damage that has been sian Roulette with him and one of these days he
done to our alliances and to the struggle for will explode and cause us much grief.
freedom throughout the world.
When we were informed of the attack on
Egypt we followed what seemed to be a logical
reaction, but our policy soon sunk to depths
which seemed to indicate that its sole purpose
was to punish England and France for their
military action—and for their worst offense of
not telling the United States of their intentions.
In our attempts to maintain Western influ
ence among the Arab countries we apparently
were more concerned with kicking our allies
while they were down than we were with any
serious efforts to ease the conditions that had
caused England, France, Israel to resort to force
in desperation.
Instead of trying to solve the problems that
caused this crisis the administration insisted
that the British and French retreat. Attempts
by Prime Minister Eden of Britain and Premier
Mollet of France to meet with President Eisen
hower were rejected. The President would not
even speak to their foreign ministers who were
in this country.
In the United Nations, where the President
said the problem must be solved, Australian
Foreign Minister Richard Casey made two
speeches pleading for the three powers to get
together. The results of this was reflected by
our very diplomatic-minded vice president who
happily stated that the Anglo-French attack
was a good thing for it liberated us from our
allies.
When western Europe asked for oil from this
country we turned them down. We couldn't
afford to offend Col. Nasser. Russia had no
fears, however, for she offered to sell the needed
oil to the allies.
Amateurs are fine for sports but not for
diplomats. Most of our professional diplomats
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
tiveness of student government.
Although Lion's Paw is supposedly secret, we
find that it is not. Many students know just
enough about it to be curious. Most of the ac
tivity students are constantly looking to Lion's
Paw as the important organization. Therefore
it does not serve as a secret organization, but as
a prestige mechanism and clique for those who
belong.
We are frequently told that we cannot realize
how wonderful Lion's Paw is and all that the
organization does because we just don't know.
We feel that the organization is not nearly as
secret as many of its members would believe.
We also feel that it does very little of construc
tive importance. The group can present a united
stand, but is that desirable when the members
may have different individual opinions and rep
resent different student body interests?
We also find that the organization serves the
purpose of disseminating administration opinion
quite effectively and enabling student opinion
to get lost in the shuffle. The members work so
closely with the administration that they no
longer have much contact with the student body
or with student ideas.
We would suggest that Lion's Paw become a
meeting ground for student leaders only and
stop giving the false air of running the Uni
versity.
Wise Move
permitted to cover any administrative meetings.
The Senate finally relented last year and per
mitted Collegian to cover meetings which were
not of a confidential nature. If there was a par
ticular meeting which was too "hush-hush" the
student reporter was kept out.
Also Senate has been careful to make these
rulings for one year only. At the end of this
academic year the rule will go out of effect.
Thus if student publications want to cover
Senate meetings next year the rule will have
to be voted on again.
Last week's vote was very close. This shows
that there are many faculty members who
don't want the students in faculty and admin
istrative meetings. However. the more liberal
minded members prevailed once again and the
Senate meetings are open for another year.
We wish to congratulate and thank the Uni
versity Senate for a progressive move which will
do much to cement student-administration's
relations.
There has been a lack of long-range planning
about the results of our foreign policy. How
long will it be before Nasser again starts send
ing patrols into Palestine and again threatens
the oil supply of Western Europe? Already he
wants the UN Police Force to leave as soon as
the British and French withdraw_
History has pointed to Chamberlain's capitu
lation to Hitler prior to World War 11, saying
that a more forceful policy might have pre
vented much of the bloodshed. One of those
farsighted Englishmen who thought England
should have used force was Anthony Eden. He
was right then: could he again be more far
sighted than those who administer our policy?
In Hungary our policy has been disgraceful.
Whereas we were willing to act tough in Egypt
we only say, "Naughty, Naughty" to Russia. We
must draw a line as to how much we are going
to stand. In 1950 President Truman exhibited
rare courage by ordering troops into Korea to
stop the march of Communism. Maybe we again
need some strong leadership in the White House.
There is no man in this country who is more
qualified to give us this leadership than Presi
dent Eisenhower. A get-tough policy may mean
war, but that is the chance we must take.
It Russia was ready to send volunteers to
Egypt we can send a police force to Hungary.
Our government can encourage and allow pri
vate organiiations who believe in freedom to
supply the heroic Hungarians with arms.
We cannot have two standards of dealing with
aggression. A policeman must arrest a thief who
is armed and dangerous just as he must arrest
one who is unarmed and won't fight back. We
must have courage and do what is right.
—Ralph Volpe
Ed. Note: Volpe is a former president of the
Young Democratic Club.
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the writers,
not necessarily the policy
of the paper. the student
body. or t►e University.
—Sue Conklin
—The Editor
ttle Man
_on Campus
was my turn to sit behind Biffo—you slept behind in history.
On Scheltifirt9
Most Anything
While glancing through the University timetable and
the catalogue in hopes of finding a few "snap" credits for
what I hope is my last semester at the University, I suddenly
realized that you can learn almost anything in college—
ranging from how to play a wicked game of badminton to
theoretical mechanics, dynamic
meteorology an d metaMorphis
petrology.
The "snap" courses I was look
ing for were a little difficult to
tind, but I did run across a few
'flabbetgasters" that I could
barely pronounce let alone think
of studying. Included among these
were paleontology, the principles
of germorphology, paleozic strati
graphy, geotectonics, bioclimatol
ogy, froth floation and agglomer
ation, ornithology, ochthyology,
instrumental pedagogy and psy
chopathology.
Imagine studying for a blue
book in gravity processes and
miscellaneous methods of min
eral preparation or taking a
5-minute quiz in advanced
qualitative and quantitative an
alysis. Believe it or not. they're
both listed in the timetable.
For those of you who came to
college with more in mind than
just a college education, may I
suggest easier sounding subjects
such as clay modeling (memories
of first grade), railroads (comes
in handy for setting up trains
around next year's Christmas
tree), ice cream making (labs
taught by Howard Johnson and
his 28 famous flavors), argumen
tation (recommended for future
husbands), job evaluation (handy
for graduating seniors) and hotel
housekeeping (for all janitors and
maids seeking employment by
Conrad Hilton).
Other courses which might
prove valuable are beekeeping,
horse and mule management,
mirror making, white potato pro
duction, curve fitting,. livestock
feeding, first aid, birds and bird
life, life saving, folk dancing, the
care of fishing equipment and the
art of knowing just where to put
a couch or television set in that
dream house of yours.
Never did find basket weav
ing listed, but guess somewhere
in the long list of 2898 courses
offered by th e University,
there's at least one that I can
pass.
The New Yorker, which pulls
goofs from newspapers all over
the world and reprints them, add
ing its own subtle comments.
came up with this gem in one
of its December issues.
The following story was re
printed from the , Birmingham
(Mich.) Eccentric:.
Brownie troops 150 and 278 of
Holy Name School held their in-
TUESDAY. JANUARY 8, 1957
by Bible
by *put hunter
vestiture ceremony Wednesday at
a special service in the church.
Rev. Father Schwager presented
pints to the Brownies.
The New Yorker added:
Just the gift for the child
who has everything.
In the "there ain't no justice'
department, sympathies go to the
poor guy, who for 45 minutes.
packed unpacked and repacked
his 1940-ish car before vacation,
with enough -suitcases ,to take
a trip around the world.
His passengers, five helpful co
eds, stood on the sidelines with
many encouraging comments.
The pay-off came when a guy
in a 1957 station wagon pulled
up in front of our frustrated
friend and picked up his only
passenger. Her luggage one
suitcase and a stuffed animal.
Here's a suggestion for you
January job-hunters. Norman
Lloyd, director of "Taming of the
Shrew" soon to be presented in
New York, is in search of long
living, well-trained, intelligent
moths.
During the second act of the
play, three moths must (on cue)
fly from under a hat. Since some
moths tend to die or fall asleep
under lights, only extra-healthy
creatures are wanted.
So grab your butterfly nets
and head for New York, grads.
Here's one employer who won't
even glance at your transcript.
Collegian Promotes
29 to Soph Board
Twenty-nine- editorial candi
dates have been promoted to the
sophomore board of The D.Vly
Collegian.
They are:
Wolfgang Alber, Pamela Alex
ander, Edith Blumenthal, Joan
Bransdorf, Pamela Chamberlain,
Mary Frances - Cowley, Richard
Drayne, Michael Dutko, Patricia
Earley, David Fineman, Rozanne
Friedlander, Barbara Hodge, Ken
neth "shier, William Jaffe, Heand
Johns, Mary Kelly..
Sherry Kennel, Roberta Levine,
Dennis Malick, Ralph Manna,
Michael Maxwell, Sheila Miller,
Mary • Jane Montgomery,. Marie
Moran, Leslie Powell, Marie Rus
-30, Anne Ruthrauff, Barbara stow
and Gary Young.