I=M11211n:2 Editorials Cabinet and Temptations Cab:net member:; to!,ight will hear possibly the most important issue to come before them this year: a resolu tion on the University's military program which was unanimously approved Tuesday night by the Liberal Arts Student Council. The resolution proposes: •That the University Senate reject a report of its Corn ,mittee on Educational Affairs which would require a 2-year course in civil defense and military science for all men and women students. *That compulsory Reserve Officers Training Corps be abolished. *That a 1-semester civil defense course be included in the men's and women's required physical education pro gram. Cabinet will be facing two great temptations tonight The first is the temptation to accept the Senate corn : inittee's report as inevitable. We are willing to bet Cabinet will be told it will "not get to first base" with a resolution condemning the committee's report and asking an end to compulsory ROTC and that such a recommendation might jeopardize future Cabinet action dependent upon adminis trative approval. This is pure hogwash! Wilmer E. Kenw . orthy, assistant to the President, has assured student organizations in writing that the Board of Trustees will consider any proposal brought to it by Cabinet on its own merits. Such assurance hardly suggests administration reaction to future Cabinet proposals. Cabinet has the obligation to express student opinion, not to bow to the wishes of the administration. The second temptation is procrastination Cabinet may be asked to refer endorsement of the Liberal Arts Council resolution to a committee for study. Such action would be disastrous. If students are to speak up against the Senate com mittee, they must do so now. before the committee's recommendations proceed further toward translation into action or gain further credence. The committee saw fit to present its proposals in a PA page report, which supposedly represented two years of study on its part. We see. no reason for student govern ment to withhold comment until the committee decides it wants to release details. Cabinet has a clear and inescapable duty to the stu dents: To wholeheartedly endorse the Liberal Arts Stu dent Council's resolution tonight. Too Little About Too Much The - Bookworm" (William L. Werner, professor of American literature) writes in his column published by a rival newspaper **Certainly this (new) comprehensive course of five arts through five different periods (Arts I) is an attractive offering. With the President of Penn State an engineer and the Dean of the Graduate School a physicist, we hope that a similar omnibus course can be arranged for the sciences. so that students may get a solid and basic knowl edge of the hard sciences—as well as the arts—by the end of their freshman vear." President Eric A. Walker is on a general education kick. Quite a few other people around here seem to be on the same kick these days. This is good. We will be the first to admit that engi steers should have a background in the arts and that liberal artists should have a background in the sciences. However, the University must guard that these 3-credit omnibus courses don't become too general, with students learning too little about too much. Editorials are written by the editors and staff members of The Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent the views of the University or of the student body. A Student-Operated Netrspaper ahr Battu Toilrgitut WSGA Representatives Successor co The Free Lance, est. 1887 ' To , Meet With Mueller 'Wishes' Tuesday through Satanlay manning during the Unleers/ty year. The Dally. The Women's Student Govern cellaw. t o I , atudent.oporate4 eirespaper. Entered as serond•class matter July S. 1934' est alto stools Collet*. Pa.. Poet Office 'nude: the art of March 9,. 1179. i ment Associv'ion housing repre- Nati Selesesiptioe Priest 113.ee pet semester 1;.1111 per mit ,sentatives will meet with Otto E. !Mueller.- director of homing. at .5......,..i,vg STEVE HIGGINS. Bus. Mgr. 14:15 p.m. today in 109 Old-Main. They will discuss suggestions brought to the representatives ,from the students. ED DIMES. Editor STAFF IBIS ISSCE: Night Tat O'Neill: Copy FAiior. Dick Drayne; Wire Uttar. Mary Kt4iy A+si•t►ata. Ruth Mite. FAie itimactitbal. Tom Fzeler. Amy imeettkial, 3alty Witt, Jim Mona, Margaret Weiss. Larry Jacobson. out votit • L.vtervimilt Jr Put Lt Unit PENN., YI VANIA Interpretation Men of Today: Awfully Smart, Not Very wi s e By J. M. ROBERTS Assoctated Press News Analyst The United States is busily re minding Russia there is a differ ence between a rocket that can launch a satellite somewhere in space • and planes which are gassed-up and bombed up ready to pinpoint targets _in nonstop flights around the globe. Ready are the huge jets which can circle the globe nonstop, with the aid of tanker-planes which can meet them 8000 miles from their own home bases. Those are for massive retaliation. Ready are the so-called light bombers, able to enter "brush wars" 8000 . nonstop miles away in 17 hours. Ready are the atomic stock piles. . The American secretary of com merce tells the business commu nity it must support a "less but ter and more guns" federal budg et. "The Soviet Union's sensational exploits in satellites have posed the most serious challenge of this tension-wracked age," he says.' NATO is worried about Rus sia's big submarine fleet, and her extensive effort to develop an ocean-going surface fleet at a time when the rest of the world pays little attention to surface fleets. The Soviet fleet is already re ported to be larger than Britain's and second only to the United States. President Dwight D. Eisen hower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Britain hope to ar range, .through NATO, a great centralized military science effort. The physical means of the world are being mobilized for war. In a tiny enclave on Manhat tan Island; owned by 82 nations, delegates to the United Nations are still talking about disarma ment. The great powers which came to , stalemate on the subject in London last summer are being urged to try again. Russia said she wouldn't talk any more in a meeting where she was outnum bered 4-1. She asked the 82 na tions to form a disarmament com mittee-of-the-whole. - The Western powers carried their point that this would pro duce nothing but chaos. The negotiations seemed dead. But now the" West has agreed' to enlarge the subcommittee which met at London to include at least one more Communist country and some neutrals—how many being still indefinite. Russia is expected to compro mise and come back to the con ference table. There, while the planes remain bomb-laden, while the rockets and their launching sites are be ing built, man will demonstrate again that while he is awfully; smart, he is not yet very wise. Gazette TODAY American Rocket Society, 7 p.m.. 105 Me-t ehanical 'Engineering. ; Froth Advertising Staff, 7 p.m., in Hetzel, Union Office Froth Art Staff and candidates. 7 P.m., Het -I tel Union HiDel Advanced Hebrew Class, 9 p.m., ati foundation Billet Rasic Judaism lecture, 7 p.m., ati 'foundation Billet Comparative Religion lecture. S p.m..( at foundation Newman Club Discussion Group on Apolo-• getics, 7 p.m., 101 Program Center Newman Club Fraternity and Sorority' Committee. 7 p.m.. Hetzel Union Newman Club Legion of Mary, 7:30 p.m., Catholic Student Center Psychology Club, 7:30 p.m., Psychology Laboratory Seniors In College of Engineering. LaVie picture+, Pen State Photo Shop Sigma Alpha Eta. 7 p.m.. Simmons Lounge Young Democrats. 7 p.m, 209 Hetzel Union Young Republicans, 7 p.m., 215 Hetzel Union TONIGHT ON WDFM 8:45: Sign on and News; :WO: Con temporary Concepts; 7:50 State News and National Sports: 9:09: Guest D-. 1: 9:50: Showcase: 9:00: News. Local. National and World; 9:15: Special Events: 10:00: News; 10;05; Chamber Concert: 11:30: News and Sign-off. Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible, . j -7 ) ..- j 1 ISM e.)hi 6.\ \ , %~ ~~~ '—Now- r -I hope that will be the LAST we hear about Mr. Lawrence Welk and Mr. Guy Lombardo." From Here What's One More Vice President? The University seems to have quite a few vice presidents• these days. Shortly before Milton S. Eisenhower went to Johns Hop kins University, you will remember, Dr. Eric A. Walker was named vice president of the University. He was the second man to hold the title in 100 years.! Now we have five, at our last count (last week). There's Lawrence E. Dennis,l vice president for academic af fairs; C. S. Wyand, vice president: for development; Dr. Michael A. Farrell, vice president for re-1 search; Dr. Ossian R. MacKenzie,! vice president for business affairs,l and McKay Donkin, vice presi dent for finance. As you can see, each of the vice presidents has a special area which concerns him: finan ces, academic affairs, develop menf, efc. There's a rumor that the sixth vice president mill be in charge of military affairs! Undoubtedly encouraged and inspired by the trend towardl specialization, a friend of ours has come up with a suggestion for campus ROTC units. He feels that the ROTC units are missing a good be! in not developing their own specialists to the fullest. For instance, engineers could build bridges for muddy common: hours. Art majors could work on ; camouflages for common hoursi And majors in turf grass manage ment could repair the lawns after ' common hours. •• • • . Young Republicans to Meet Isn't it disgusting when some-1 Regular and prospective mem one confuses Penn State witivbers of the Young Republican Penn? This happens too often. !Club will meet at 7 tonight in But there's a chance that the .215 HUB. F UCS33 '3.741:4:47": " . " . I I (WELUTHERE HE iSi ) 1 vc"' viLzt; 00,.. MY PAL!! THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 14. 1957 G __,-) \4ll situation may become worse. In the future Penn State may be confused not only with Penn but with - the Pennsylvania Mili tary College! Safety Valve Red _Cross Lauds Drive Cooperation TO THE EDITOR: The State Col lege Chapter of the American Red Cross wishes to thank you and your staff for the splendid pub licity given our Bloodmobile Unit on its visit to the Hetzel Union Building, November 6-7. Although we did not receive our quota of 600 pints. we are pleased with what we did get and attribute a great deal of success to your newspaper. As you know, with the recent wave of respiratory type illnesses our supply of blood at the Johns town Regional Bloodcenter was 'almost exhausted. Our contribu tion will go a long way in filling ,the needs of the Bloodcenter. Again let us say thank you. —Loren D. Tukey Blood Program Chairman iitla‘4l4 4044 • _. ZEE RIME SHOtk , D HAVE A DOG TO GREET UMEN HE CMS HOME! g woc A m/carol A t/ 5 1640E14N 51 - 'to - MOP'. Zit ' S." MIMI ~'~} By Ed Dobbs
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