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What Price Political Pie?
When a student candidate runs for an All-
University or class office in an election he is re
quired to pay his own campaign fee.
This fee, which usually runs from SIO to $5O
according to the importance of the office, is used
to defray the cost of the party campaign.
This policy was opposed by the workshop
on student government at September's Student
Encampment.
It was opposed primarily because many stu
dents who are interested in student government
offices cannot afford to pay the fee.
Party campaigns cost money and money
doesn't grow on Penn State trees. In the fall
elections each party is allowed to spend a maxi
mum of 5150 on the campaign and in the spring
$4OO is allowed.
This money is collected within the Varty—
from the candidates and the steering commit
tee Members. Many capable students stay out
of politics simply because of the cost.
Collecting money to finance the campaign is
probably one of the biggest headaches during an
IV. The Winner Names the Age
(In the last installment of Lillian Smith's
June Commencement speech at Atlanta Uni
versity, the novelist mentioned that uncon
trolled freedom, even in democracies, can be
dangerous. 'Today she discusses some of the
possible controls which stilt would preserve
our civil liberties.)
A powerful control is contitutional law. A
democracy can't do without it. But it will work
only if the people believe in law and respect
its processes.
But the two strongest and best controls come
from within a free man's own mind: his con
science and his reason. Both of which—to stay
healthy—must be nourished on civilization's
great and germinal ideas. May I name a few?
Just to hear the music of them? For they sing
to the civilized mind:
•The idea that every child has a right to
grow:
•The idea that every one in, the community
has a right to be protected from violence;
•The idea that all people can speak out and
say whit they think;
•The idea that a man has a right to be dif
ferent in looks, beliefs, interests, and talents
if lie does not injure others;
•The idea that truth is a search that must
never stop, that both reason and imagination
ore necessary to that search, that the scientific
method is necessary, too, and cannot be inter
fered with except when human life is jeopar
dized or profound human values cheapened;
Today
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By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23
0)). This is the season
when congressmen, in
broadside and in person, ex
plain in detail what wonder
ful statesmen they are to
their lucky constituents.
But one congressional dele
gation needs only two words
to sum up its work for the eight
months Congress was in ses
sion: "NOt yet."
For ttie gentlemen from Alas
ka, two senators and a repre
sentative duly elected for jobs
that don't exist, haven't got to
first base on what they came
down here to do: Bring Alaska
into the union as the 49th state.
Yet the senators-presump
tive, Ernest Gruening and
William A. Egan, and the
quasirepresentative, Ralph J.
Rivers,.. area% .discouraged....
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election. And many a clique chairman has said
to get it is like pulling teeth.
When the Student Encampment workshop op
posed the campaign fee it also recommended
that All-University Cabinet allocate slloo—
for two parties during two campaigns
—each year for the elections.
If Cabinet could finance the parties, there
would be more students interested in the offices.
Also there would perhaps be more students
taking an active part within the party if there
were no money strings attached.
During the campaigns the clique officers and
steering committee members could concentrate
an .getting the vote rather than filling the
treasury.
This year the campaigns will have to continue
as in the past since even if the Cabinet fiancing
were adopted, for student government bud
get has been established for 1957-58.
The recommendation, however, will go before
Cabinet this fall. It should be given serious con
sideration.
•The idea that the way a thing is done, the
means used, are as important as the end sought;
•The basic idea: that God is the Ultimate
Concern beyond all men, that He is the supreme
symbol: not the white race, not the communist
party, not capitalism, not any authoriatarian
group: and that his laws of love and brother
hood and mercy and compassion must be obeyed.
When men stop believing'in these great ideas,
when they silence their conscience and trample
their reason, when they make their own image
their god—or their economic or political be=
lievers their god—then we are in for trouble.
For then, they hold even constitutional law
cheap. They sneer at the high courts of their
government; indeed, they say they obey only
the laws they want to.
When this happens, the free people with their
limitless potentials for growth and for good
will metamorphose into the mob.
Because it is happening in our country, espe
cially down here in the deep South where we
live, I want to talk about the mob in more detail.
There are three kinds of mobs, all alike in
that they worship an idol, alike in that they
have set aside both reason and conscience, alike
in that they hold other men's civil rights_cheap,
alike in that they value security more than sur
vival, alike in that they disregard our laws,
alike in that they want to hurt somebody. But
they behave differently.
(Miss Smith will discuss the three mobs
at length in the . next installment.)
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Non-Existing Jobs,
Remains Undone
They are sure they will get one may think about Alaska
a few swings in the batter's and statehood, Gruening is
box when Congress returns completely ready for full sena
in January. torhood.
The curious situation, in But a question. Many states
which impatient residents of a now act as if they had made
territory elect their congress- a bad bargain; how come Alas
men before they get statehood, ka is so redhot to be one?
is no new thing in U.S. history. "Why." Gruening s a id.
It first was used in 1796 by —Ri
g
ht now we're nothing
Tennessee, and worked so nice- buta colony and no frontier
ly that Michigan, Oregon and - colony and
our history has got such a
California tried it later. raw deal."
The Alaskans have busily
talked up statehood at every Here he launched :into de
opportunity. tails he obviously has gone over
"Everywhere we go," Gruen- , with fullfledged congressmen
ing said, "People will say, 'Oh, scores of times: How not being
Alaska! I've always wanted to a state causes certain automatic
go there.' And it is the most discriminations, - how in freight
beautiful place on earth. It has rates even Communist coun
been my privilege to see the tries get a better break.
Alps and the Andes, but where An example of the auto
else can you get such a won- matic discrimination: Alaskans
derful combination of moun- pay a cent a gallon tax on
tains and - the sea? Mountains gasoline and three cents a
rising 18,000 feet right_out of pound on auto tires to build
the ocean?" superhighwa's every place but
_ : 'roving. that,.no_ matter:what i tAlaika. iitsVl ; 1 i # 41_, -; ii s -„i
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Even Ivy Walls
Are Crumbling ...
By Judy Harkison
"More and more men and women students are studying
together and liking it."
This is hardly a startling statement on this campus but
actually it is the year's biggest news in higher education,
according to Newsweek (Sept. 23).
The barriers of the women's
colleges are "beginning to crum
ble." Men are being admitted and
classes and activities are being
coordinated with other schools
The title of
N e w sweek's re
port wa s "Tri
umph of the Fair
Coed." There
are two ways of
looking at it. We
don't know who
Was more trium
phant, the m e n
or the women.
Out of the 3.4
million s t udents
enrolled in col
lege this fall, 1.17 are women.
And 8 out of every 10 of the fe
male students are studying in co
educational classes.
Many of the nation's oldest wo
men's institutions, such as Rad
cliffe, Barnard, Mount Holyoke.
Smith and Bryn Mawr, are co
ordinating classes with men's
schools.
Harvard has been mingling
with Radcliffe for the last 14
years, but both Yale and Prince
ton have hesitated to take the
heap. _
Could be that the two Ivy
League schools still cling to the
old yarn about the superiority
of men.
At Yale last spring, however,
a faculty suggestion to admit wo
men brought protest from all ex=
cept the dean of admissions, who
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TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1957
thought girls would raise academ
ic standards.
Newsweek also reported that
a Princeton man recently ,asked
to be transferred io Harvard.
His rea s o n—"l'm absolutely
sick of spending S5O evfly time
I. want to see a girl. I want to
be in a place where-I can buy
her a cup of coffee and talk
abOut Plato."
We don't know how much of
Plato is discussed over a HUB
coffee cup, but we must admit
that our situation here' at Penn
State is quite desirable. Just
glance at' these three manifesta
tions—selected at random:
Here we have community
living. Might not be around
' long, but it's here.
Here men do not fear academic
competition. With the all-men's
average of 2.41 against the wo
men's 2.71 the men have given
up completely.
Here men do not spend $5O
on a date. There isn't any place
to spend it. Also no dates,
some say.
Bryn Mawr's president, Kath
arine E. Mcßride, sums the coed
situation up this way: "I think
the easy, regular 'association of
men and women in college is ex
cellent, distracting to some, sta
bilizing to others—but far super
ior to isolation."
Take your choice, if you can
still find one. - We're not com
plaining.
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