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MIKE MOYLE. Editor
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Voting Begins Today—Let's
Last yea, several of the candidates in the
spring elections said that they were shooting
for at least a 50 per cent voting turnout. They
got 29.6 per cent.
It is quite probable that candidates have been
hoping for 54 per cent turnouts (or higher) for
quite a number of years—and being similarly
disappointed.
Here ar. the voting percentages for the lest
few years: 1956-29.6; 1955-37.7: 1954-46.8;
1953-44.9; /952-44.3. Voting percentage has
never topped the 50 per cent-mark. 1953 was the
record year.
One car see that the turnout has gone down
hill since 1952. At the same rate it will be at
a very critical point in five more years.
The apathy seems to act in a vicious circle.
Whether or not it started with the general stu
dent body or with student government isn't
important. What is important is the fact that
practically qii the enthusiasm has gone out of
student government. There are really very few
student leaders today who are genuinely en
thused about student government. The ones
who are, and who aren't laughted at, are even
fewer. These student government enthusiasts
are usually stronger among the freshmen and
sophomores. But by the time they complete
their career in student government they are
hopelessly disillusioned.
This disillusionment has even reached the up
per echelons of the organization. All-University
President Robert Bahrenburg told Cabinet Sun
day night that he had received a great deal from
student government, but that he was_ glad he
was getting out. His reason? Only 14 Cabinet
members showed up for Sunday night's meeting
—a bare quorum.
We have noticed a change in the editorials
which have appeared on this subject of voting
in the past years. There was a time when they
sounded like the typical Electlons Committee
poster: Get Out and Vote; We Need YOUR.
Vote! RAH! RAH! There was a time when this
kind of thing affected some students, also.
Now, however, the editorial writers have ap
parently tired of this method. Finding that it
didn't work, they turned to a mild form of cyni
cism and sarcasm and anything else they thought
might catch the students' eye or might spur him
to unexpected action.
Nowadays everyone is blase. If a novice comes
- into student government with high faluting
ideas about how good it is, it is quickly pointed
Out You Go
Sick or not, you've got to go. This is what
Dr. Herbert R. Glenn. director ol the University
Health Service told three students in the in
firmary yesterday according to David Peffer,
freshman in business administration from Erie.
Peffer said that he and two other students did
not return from the sun porch to their rooms for
the doctor's visit because no one told them that
be was coming. He admitted that when they
saw him they should have returned to their
rooms in the hospital, but that they did not.
Feller said that on this basis Dr. Glenn re
fused to look at them and said they must leave
the hospital. Peffer said that this was par
ticularly unfair to one student who had not
yet received a medical examination.
Sanford Meade, freshman in electrical engi
neering from Philadelphia, said that he was dis
charged for not being in his room and had never
been given a medical examination.
The third student had entered the infirmary
on Saturday night with a temperature of 104,
but it was almost normal by today. When asked
to leave he said he would go but that he would
like some medicine to make sure that his tem
perature stayed down. Peffer said that Dr. Glenn
refused to give him medicine because he was
being given a disciplinary discharge.
When asked to comment Dr. Glenn said that
the students should be courteous to the senior
medical officer and that these three students
had been quite rude by not going to their rooms.
He said that the three students all had normal
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out to him by the "veterans" that it is actually
a large farce and that no one really believes
anymore that student government ever accom
plishes anything. This eases the novice's mind
and the inevitable relapse into apathy can be
made with a great deal less pain.
When we first came to Penn State the big
complaint was "apathy." Everyone was angry
because the. students just didn't care about what
their student leaders were trying to do for them.
Now the kick is student government's' in
effectiveness. The source of the problem? The
unwieldy administration. Most snags student
government runs into these days are finally at
tributed to the fact that students can do nothing
unless the administration wants to do it anyway.
That is. students can bring absolutely no pres
sure to bear upon the administration. Many spe
cific cases can be cited which will back up this
statement.
However, in a way, we can't blame the ad
ministration. Many student demands involve
weighty decisions on the part of the administra
tion. The whole matter of apathy and poor vot
ing percentage and ridiculing of student govern
ment efforts makes the decision relatively easy.
How can some of these radical (to the adminis
tration) changes be granted when the University
officials aren't sure the views they hear from
student leaders are the real views of the stu
dent, body?
You see, there is an answer to the excuse
which is now growing thin—that of no co
operation from the administration.
This editorial is a good example of what is
happening to student interest in their own elect
ed representatives. It has been quite discourag
ing to find that no matter what path is taken,
students don't want to even take enough time to
stop in the Hetzel Union Building to vote.
We find ourselves at a complete loss for words.
There are no campuses where there is a 100
per cent voting turnout. Penn State is not dis
tinctively apathetic. There are similar problems
on other campuses. The voting turnout for the
national elections is poor also.
So, all we can say is we.hope everyone turns
out to vote. All the pleadings in past years, no
matter what off-beat tack they have taken have
all gotten around to this one basic plea arc the
eve of elections:
DON'T LET THE LONG LINES AT THE HUB
DISCOURAGE YOU.
VOTE!
temperatures and it was alright to discharge
them. but he also said that he thought the stu
dents should be discharged because he saw no
reason why he as the senior medical officer of
the hospital should take such rudeness from the
students.
Dr. Glenn also said that the student had been
examined—in fact that all three students had
been examined.
We do not wish to credit or discredit the
statements of the students or Dr. Glenn, but we
do feel- that, in view of the fact that the stu
dents were sick, Dr. Glenn could have been a
little more patient with them. It would not
have been a great deal of trouble for a nurse to
get the students to come into their rooms.
We think it is poor practice to refuse students
medicine as a disciplinary measure. If Dr. Glenn
wanted to turn the students out he could have
at least given them medicine if they needed it.
Here we must agree with the students.
It is virtually impossible for anyone to get any
figures on what percentage of the student's fees
go to the health service, but whatever the figure
is, the parents pay,it with the thought that it
will guarantee their child of at least a minimum
of medical care.
Ordinarily the hospital and the dispensary
seem to give adequate service. We hope that a
situation where students are refused medical
care as a disciplinary measure does not occur
again. We believe that the dean of men's office
is capable of handling all disciplinary problems.
—Sue Conklin
Editorials represent the
viewpoints of the welters,
not necessarily the Palle,
of the payer, the student
body. or the Universld
the aet of March I. 18111
—The Editor
tie Man on Campus
From Here By Ed Dubbs
Tranquilizers
Newspapers and magazines have been carrying quite a
few stories on tranquilizers, which in 2 1 / years have mush
roomed into the second most commonly prescribed drug in
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the United States.
All of the reports I have teen have been favorable, and a
check of a borough drug chain showed that some students
are apparently using them with
satisfaction
The drug chain spokesman said
"some" students were using them
but said they were "few" in com
parison to the total number of
students. The number of prescrip
tions for them increases around
examination time, he said. He al
so Said he had several prescrip
tions from the Dispensary.
Dr. James G. Miller, a psy
chiatrist at the University of
Michigan, has, described tran
quilizers as a "possible answer
to America's problem of mod
ern day tension," according to
the Associated Press.
But, warned Dr. Miller, "there
are still many questions to be an
swered."
At a meeting of the Michigan
Clinical Institute," he said "our
tests show there is no effect on a
person's- reaction while under
double the normal dose of 'Mil
town' or Tquanir."
('Miltown" and "Equanil" are
two common brand names for me
probamate, the type of tranquil
izer prescribed for common ner
vousness. "Miltown" is manufac
tured by the Wallace Laboratories
of New Brunswick, N.J., and
"Equanil" by the Wyeth Labora
tories of Philadelphia, two large
chemical firms).
They are designed to relieve
mental tension and relax mus
cles without the dangerous ef
fects of other habit-forming
drugs such as narcotics.
In Dr. Miller's experiment at
the University of Michigan, 50
persons were fed double the nor
mal dose of "Miltown" with var-
TUESDAY. MARCH 19. 1957
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ious controls ranging from whis
key to harmless sugar pills' and
dexedrine.
"Alcohol," Dr. Miller said,
"significantly worsened perfor
mance as expected, but subjects
given alcohol plus meproambaio
were no worse than wheh given
alcohol alone. -
"I see no reason why people
should not take tranquilizers for
their whole life if they feel better
for it," said Dr. Miller. "But, it's
always better to try and arrange
our lives so we do not need arti
ficial help to calm our nerves."
In the words of the immortal.
Alfred E. Newman: "What, me
worry?"
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