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- 53 Years of Editoriia Freedom
Published fuesdaf throoth O.IP Bailg entlrgiatt Editorials represent the
Saturday minable ■ dating viewpoints of the writers,
the University year. The not necessarily the POIiCY
Daily Collegian is a atodeut. Successor to THE FREE LANCE. est. MT of the paper, the stodont
operated aewspaper.. body. or the University
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ED DUBBS, Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Mike Maxwell, Copy Editor, Barb Martino; Wire Editor, Jack Mc-
Arthur; Assistants, Chuck Dißocco, Linda Segar, Jeanette Saxe, Ben Bronstein, Louise Franco, Bob
bie Toas. Martha Harrison, Mary Lee Hassall.
Cabinet: Take a Look in the Mirror ...
A re-distribution of All-University Cabinet
membership was recommended by a Student
Encampment workshop in order to equalize the
amount of representatives per student.
it is now possible for many students to be
represented by six and even seven Cabinet mem-
bens for many groups are overlapping.
The proposed system would add a seat for
Town , Independent Men and subtract four seats
—the Athletic Association, Wornen's Recreation
Association, Board of Dramatics and Forensics,
and The Daily Collegian.
In the proposed plan of the workshop each
student would be represented m the following
3-fold manner:
• University-wide affiliation All-University
student officers and class officers.
•College affiliation==student councils.
',Living unit affiliation—for men, Association
of Independent Men, TIM and Interfraternity
Council; for women, Women's Student Govern
ment Association, Panhellenic Council and Leon
ides.
The addition of a seat for TIM is pehaps the
most radical change. Cabinet membership for
TIM will undoubtedly come up this year since
it was proposed last year. No action was taken
because there was no request for it. It was just
suggested.
... And Also Into the Future
President Eric A. Walker, in speaking frankly
on community living and housing. leaves little
doubt that the University. is thinking in terms
of 1 962.
Student government should take note of this
and begin thinking into the future.
Many limes the students go to the administra
tion with ideas and expect them to put into
effect immediately, only to find they were even
two to six years late.
An example of this community living. Some
students had hopes of keeping coeds in Thomp
son Hall, and we must admit we would like to
see coeds stay in Thompson Hall.
But the policy on Thompson Hall was de
veloped back in the late forties. It was built
as a men's dormitory. Community living should
have been advanced while plans for the West
Halls were being made.
But last year was the first year since we've
been here that some good work on community
living was dOne by student government. Mean
while, construction work began on the new coed
residence halls along College Avenue. Now they
are almost finished.
V. The Winner Names the Age
(In the rast installment of novelist Lillian refuse the loan to the white man who tries to
Suittlt's June commencement speech at Atlan- help the Negro secure his civil rights. They are
to Liniverstty, Miss Smith said there were the men who refuse to sell to those whose opin
three types of mobs, and although they are ions they don't like: who refuse to insure some
similar, they act differently. Today she de- of those they don't like. They put the pres
scribes mobs.) sure on.
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Let's begin with the least dangerous: mob Mob number two also gives its protection to
number one. This is the mob on the street, mob number one. Without that protection mob
usually dressed in ordinary clothes. It may be number one would be in jail. It is obvious that
in pillowcase and sheet. This is the mob that mob number two has enormous power. But this
dynamites a church or a home; that burns the power is given it by mob number three.
cross; that drives by in a car, fires a shot at
someone, and drives on; that writes anonymous Let us look at mob number three. It is Air
letters, makes anonymous phone calls, threatens ficult to do so because it is invisible. This mob
and sometimes kills. This mob is made up of lives inside men's minds. It behaves rather like
the delinquents and criminals of a community the mob on the street but you may not hear a
who are . too cowardly to do this kind of thing sound. Mob number three burns a cross before
until the community gives them a green light. a man's conscience, dynamites his reason, threat-
But mob number two is, in my opinion, far • ens his sense of security, sends anonymous phone
more dangerous—because it holds more power calls to old memories, old fears that are sleeping
and prestige. We might call it the mob in the in peace. This kind of thing leaves a man
gray flannel suit. Certainly many of its mem- anxious, and hating, and sometimes wanting to
bers are •chairmzn of boards of big business; hurt something—he doesn't know what or why.
others are trustees of school, church, hospital; We can't here, go into the deep reasons for mob
some are directors of banks or presidents of in- thinking. But it comes to a religion when an
surance companies; others are professional men, idol is worshipped instead of God—and when
In the South, members of mob number two often men give up civilization's germinal beliefs.
belong to the White Citizens Council.
Do these men go out on the street and blow
up a church with dynamite? No. They have a
better way: they destroy the church from the
inside with their cynicism, their hate, their
panic. and their pressures. Do they shoot a man
down? No. they destroy his reputation, instead.
This mob's strength lies in the fact that it hires
people and sells goods. And its members use
this strength to hurt those who deviate from
their beliefs.
They are the ones who fire the teacher who
speaks up: who fire the young minister who
bows to God instead of to White Supremacy:
they are the ones who refuse the bank loan to
the Negro who works for his civil rights and
Today ______ ____...........
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
STEVE HIGGINS. Business Manager
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TIM is a growing organization. It is a part of
AIM, yet AIM represents a large number of
students—over 7000 men.
There is an unwritten law that says TIM
more or less represents the town independents
and AIM the campus independents.
TIM, since it is a young organization, is not
strong. But in it are several energetic workers
who want to make it strong.
One way to do this is to be heard—not only
through the pages of the newspaper but also
through the student government directly.
It would do Cabinet no harm to give TIM a
second thought and to thoroughly evaluate its
membership list.
Seats should be distributed so that the groups
included are directly connected with student
government. And then the list should end.
For instance, it is not necessary for the editor
of The Daily Collegian to sit on Cabinet. The
editor of a city newspaper does not sit on the
City Council. His job is to print and comment
on the news; not make it.
This recommendation, with many others, will
be studies by Cabinet sometime during the year.
It is a good one, and should be treated realis
tically and objectively.
Meanwhile, too, contracts were let for the new
men's living units on Park Avenue.
Once a policy has been made, it is extremely
difficult to change it. This is especially true in
building residence halls, for much time and
money is spent in planning before the first bit
of ground is broken.
Therefore, policy changes on residence halls
mean loss of both time and money. And the
University can afford neither.
Right now, as the President said, the Uni
versity is thinking in terms of 1962 for resi
dence halls. This includes the type to be built
and the locations of the new living units, All
these decisions—and any policy on community
living, if there is to be one must be made
within the next six or eight months for the resi
dence halls which may open in fall of 1962.
Akhough we hate to see community living go
out the window at Penn State, here is a lesson
for student government.
Student government, if it' is to be effective
as possible, must begin thinking into the future,
for thinking in the present is often too late.
—The Editor
It is this mob thinking that pushes mob num
ber one out on the streets. It is this mob think
ing that condones mob number two's vicious
boycott and pressures and leaves its members
still thinking of themselves as good men. For
every violent act committed, every threat and
effort at boycott and intimidation, every hate
word said. there are thousands of minds think
ing mob thoughts.
Enough to paralyze the police force, the courts,
the judges, the juries, and all law enforcement
machinery. Enough, also, completely to_ para
lyze public opinion—and sometimes even enough
to paralyze the ghristian church.
(In the fiext installment, Miss Smith gets to
"the crux of the matter.")
Gazette
Schwab Auditorium
tho act of March 3, 1879.
—Judy Harkison
Ed Dubbs
Little Man on Campus by Dick B
"Hey Coach, whai's this I hear about a 'winning prospect'
you found for us this season?"
Interpreting the News
Couldn't Imagine It,
Now He's Doing It
By .1. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Two months ago President Dwight D. Eisenhower said:
"I cant imagine any set of circumstances that would ever
induce me to send federal troops into a federal court and into
any area to enforce the orders of a federal court because I
believe that the common sense of America will never require
it."
He doesn't have to imagine it now. He faces as hard a fact
of life as he ever did when he
threw divisions against divisions
in war,
Sworn to uphold the Constitu
tion which can be interpreted by
no higher authority than the Su
preme Court, it was inevitable
that Eisenhower, as would any
President, would meet the test of
his oath.
The law of the United States
is the beacon by which her peo
ple set her course. If it be al
lowed to fall into disuse and
disrepute, none can foresee the'
consequences.
The -President hopes, that the
great prestige of the office, the
presence of force in being rather
than in action, will put a check
rein on emotion.
There will be debates for
years as to whether he should
have put the enforcement prob.
• lem in the hands of the milit
ary. Americans distrust inter
vention by the military in their
affairs.
They do, however, have faith in
the ennobling effect of the pres
idential office. They will expect
their general to become the tac
tical as well as strategical leader,
in order that they can be sure
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WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 25. 1957
that every action will be weighed
against the standards of wisdom,
of compassion; and an under
standing of the hearts of men.
'Ham' Operators
May Join W3YA
Students, faculty members or
University employes who hold
an amateur radio operator's li
cense of any class are eligible to
join W3YA-A3YA, the Univers
ity's amateur radio station.
Applicants have been asked to
send a letter at once to Gilbert L.
Crossley, assistant professor of
electrical engineering. ,
The letter should contain the
operator's experience, amateur
station call letters, grade" of ama
teur license and any other pert
inent facts.
Amateur operators who are not
interested in joining the station
staff have been invited to meet
the other amateurs at the station.
Hort Club to Show Slides
The Horticulture Club will pre
sertt a program of slides at 7 p.m.
tomorrow in 109 Tyson. Fresh.
men may attend.