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ED DUBBS, Editor
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Who Knows What Wonders?
This editorial will attempt to answer three
questions; Whal is the National Student Associa
tion? Why hasn't it worked at Penn State? How
-can it work at-. Penn State?
The first question: What is the National Stu
dent Association?
NSA says it's "a confederation of student gov
ernments which represent college student bodies
through their democratically-elected student
governments. It was created to serve the long
existing need for a representative intercollegiate
organization designed to serve the American
student community and promote students' in
terests and welfare."
In other words, it’s a lobby organization. It’s
a place one- can go to find out student opinion
on issues which affect students as students. This
is good. The voice of the students should be
heard, and an organization such as NSA is prob
ably the best way to have student views known.
Looking at some of the topics discussed at
NSA national conventions further reveals this.
These topics include the McCarran-Walter Im
migration Act, civil liberties, segregation, aca
demic freedom and growing college enrollments.
This is indeed a sketchy look at what NSA is,
but it will probably suffice.
The second question: Why hasn’t NSA worked
at Penn State?
First, many students fail to look outside Nit
fany Valley, They seem indifferent—and yes,
apathetic—about the world around them.
Secondly, NSA has had to spend most of its
time selling itself. Delegates don’t go to na
tional conventions prepared to discuss issues
and bring back different views on these issues.
They have to bring back information on NSA.
This is the reason we are opposed to sending
four delegates to this summer’s convention.
They wouldn't be going there to discuss aca
demic freedom or civil liberties. They would
be going there to find out about NSA. The two
are quite different.
Thirdly, NSA can't seem to find a place to
squeeze into the highly-complicated student
government system at the University. There are
many groups beside NSA trying to find things
lo do. The class advisory boards and the hat
societies are just a few.
Fourthly, NSA enthusiasts need to come down
from their idealistic ivory towers. All they do is
Alumni Office Is Offering Bargain Prices
Before 2000 graduating seniors leave the cam- News, published seven times a year and sent
pus June 8, they should stop by 104 Old Main only to paid members. It contains news of class
to see what's cooking. mates, alumni feature stories, articles by fac-
The Alumni Association is brewing a pot of ulty authorities and news of the University,
class reunions, alumni institutes, publications « The Football Letter, a personalized review
and general campus contact, and is v. aitmg mailed after each game
for some customers. f ",
The annual membership drive of the Associa- , .•”he ” erin Stater, a 4-page newspaper con
iion has begun and will continue with "bar- taming campus news that is published four
gain" rates until Commencement, June 8. times a year.
After four years of hard work and complain- • Membership in_one-of 70 Penn State Alumni
ing, seniors have but one thought and are hoping District Clubs, which are scattered across the
for a sheepskin to prove it—graduation. After nation and in Puerto Rico,
commencement they are no longer part of the • Membership which helps to support two
University and soon memories of “student days” big alumni weekends: Class reunions and the
will fade. Alumni Institute each June, and Homecoming
Unfortunately, too often seniors have to be in the falL Homecoming this year will be Octo
coaxed into joining because they fail to realize ber 18-19, the Vanderbilt game,
the advantages of membership. At the campus headquarters there is a current
If seniors register before June 8, they are record of the addresses of some 52 000 alumni
eligible for the “bargain" rate of $2 for the Scores of requests for information or other
first year or $7O for a lifetime membership. services are received daily
After commencement, the regular rates of $3 The advantages of joining the group far out
and $75 will apply. weigh Ihe cost. And by acting now, seniors can
Membership in the Alumni Association pro- take advantage of a University "bargain."
vides an “absentee,” but close contact with the The Alumni Association is one pot of soup
University. For $2, here's what you get: that too many cooks can't spoil.
• A subscription to the Penn State Alumni Judy Harklson
TODAY MONDAY
FiSwTi? OM !i N , S ballroorA CHIMES TEA, Bto 9 p.m., rear lounge of McElwain. For
LECTURE, Jeau Dalrymple, director of City Center Theatre old members and invited guests only.
CoratMiny. New York, on "Collaboration in the Art*/’ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
8 p.ni. HUB a*»emt>Jy Ernest Bowley. Stanley Burd. Jerome Kltnk. Richard
_, TOMOKKOn Neely, William C. Ncwhouse, Norman Phillip, Viola Scbalis,
CAMPUS PARTY, ateenne committee, 2 p.m.. 212 HUB. John Sweeney. Barbara Whitner. Gordon Zawodniak.
German Teachers 23 Students Tapped
To Hold Meeting By Coaly Society
The central Pennsylvania chap-j Twenty-three junior and senior!
ter of the American Association; students have been tapped by]
.of Teachers of German will meet C° a ty Sociey, agriculture society.]
today at the University. They are: ]
Nora E. Wittman, assistant pro-' .Beatty, Thomas Boyd, l
. r-, „„ tj. . J° e l Colvin, Leslie Firth, Robert:
fessor of German, and Richard, FoXi Richard Grubb, David Ja-I
Beam, instructor m German, will'quish. Charles Kresge, Bernardinej
give a demonstration of elemen-! McGovern, John Metzger, Gor-'
taiy school German instruction at'don Miller.
11a.m. in the College Heights' william Moore, Walter North,
* c ” oo ‘- „ _ George Peavey, Jean Poole, Ron-
Dr. Phillip A- Shelley, head of aid Roberts, Nicholas Rodriguez,
the Department of German, will Allen Shoey, Robert Slagle, Don
demonstrate and explain the use aid Snyder, Phoebe Tnimbauer,
of closed-circuit television inlEdward Wickersham and Carl
teaching at 1:30 pm. in 19 Sparks.'Wolfe.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
STEVE HIGGINS, Business Manager
talk about the glorious things NSA can do. They
should start doing some of these glorious things.
Fifthly, NSA fails to come close enough to the
students. There is only a hand-full of students
in*erested in NSA.
Those are some of the reasons, we believe,
NSA has failed at Penn State.
The third question: How can NSA be made
to work at Penn State?
Il won't succeed by sending four delegates lo
the NSA convention this summer. That will
probably just quicken its death.
Ardent NSA supporters should begin -early
next fall to look among the student body for
students interested in state, national and inter
national affairs, especially in how the'se relate
to students.
They should talk up NSA to these students;
get them interested in NSA.
These students should meet even weekly and
discuss current problems and issues— the same
type of topics discussed at the national conven
tions. They should discuss these informally and
in panels where other students may participate.
They should sponsor symposiums on these
problems and issues, and publish reports on
them.
Then NSA, loaded down with its work on
these issues and problems, should go before
All-University Cabinet next spring and ask it to
send a full slate of delegates and alternates to
the national convention.
Then the students would be prepared to par-
the convention. They could come
back with hew ideas on these issues and prob
* lems. Through more discussions, panels and
• symposiums they could interest more students
in the world outside Nittany Valley—the world
of NSA.
They might even interest Cabinet in Alaskan
statehood! The engineering students might even
learn what the McCarran-Waller Immigration
Act is! Who knows what wonders this thing
called NSA can do?
Then, in conclusion, NSA will probably get
nowhere at Penn State as long as it has to sell
itself instead of doing something—acting as a
sounding board on issues and problems facing
Pehn State students but lying outside Nittany
Valley.
Gazette
—The Editor
Driver Trainers
!Awarded Grant
A grant of $2500 to provide
scholarships for high school teach
ers in driver training programs
has been presented by the All-
State Foundation.
[ The presentation was made by
John MacArthur Jr., Pittsburgh
district representative of the All-
State Foundation.
The scholarships provided by
the grant will enable high school
teachers to enroll for the' Driver
Training and Safety Education
program to be offered during the
main summer session at the Uni
versity.; ....
itlle Man on Campus
"Boy, we just got lh' girls back in time—Smiley woulda
been closed in another ten minutes."
Interpreting the News
Queen Is Outdoing
Mother Goose
Associated Press News Analyst
Some of the Queen’s horses and some of the Queen’s men
are gradually restoring some of Britain’s influence in the
Middle East after her Humpty-Dumpty act of last fall.
The return of the British 1
Alliance, following a period of
Egyptian fiasco, is evidence that
some of the side effects of the
crisis are shaking down.
This coincides with broadened
American participation in the
pact’s affairs, and enhances a new
link being formed between the
West and some of the Arab states.
Iraq, h member of Ihe alli
ance, is now involved in Ihe
process of tightening her con
nections with kindred Jordan
and with Saudi Arabia as an
anli-Communist bloc within the
Arab League. Indeed, Saudi
Arabia and Iraq have become,
along with the United States,
the chief guarantors of weak
Jordan's identity.
As Britain returned to the pact
councils—at a "meeting of the
Economic Committee in Pakistan
—the United States arrived for
her first formal participation. Al
though not a member of the Al
liance. the United States joined
the Economic Committee last
year, and recently joined the mil
itary group, which makes her
just about as active in the pact
as any of the formal members.
The two great Western allies
have made economic development
of the area—Pakistan, Iran, Iraq
and Turkey—the first order of
their new business with the other
pact members.
They have agreed to back
the plan with an initial 18 mil
lion dollars, of which Britain
will contribute about a third.
Iraq, already under develop
ment with the money she gets
from European oil interests,'es
pecially British, will thus, be fur
ther strengthened for her role
as a stabilizing influence in the
Middle East.
At least that’s a part of the
general idea.
Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia
are being very particular not to
let their new position create a
break with Communist-tolerating
Syria and Egypt.
Iraq still maintains her mili
tary alliance with these count
tries, and her determination to
resist any Israeli expansion.
That is the one point w'here
there has been no deviation
from policy by the five coun
tries.
The new links and new pos
tures, do not mean an
SATURDAY. MAY 18. 1957
By J. M. ROBERTS
:o the councils of the Baghdad
quiet ostracism because of the
approach to the Middle East alli
ance which Britain and the United
States envisioned some years ago,
pre-Nasser. Any increased cohe
siveness and stability even in . a
limited area is, however, import
ant to the anti-Communist con
tainment program.
Brown Writes
Journ 13 Book
Charles H. Brown, associate
professor of journalism, has writ
ten a textbook for Journalism 13
entitled, “Informing the People.”
The book, intended mainly for
newspaper majors, consists of his
class notes, with particular em
phasis given to newspaper read
ership surveys.
The purpose of the book is to
increase the readability of news
papers in modifying and improv
ing practices of the press where
the need is pointed out by the
readership surveys.
A review of the book in Editor
and Publisher magazine said
“Professor Brown has a fresh ap
proach in this book and some ex
cellent points and know-how.”
The book, published by Henry
Holt and Company, Inc., will be
used this fall in Jouralism 13.
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