<»AGF FOUft Editorial Opinion Another Poor Judgment After admitting a “mistake in judgment” in extending his trip to New York City, All-University President Robert Steele last night received from Cabinet an endorse ment of his "actions and judgments.” Steele deserves much credit in calling a special meet ing of Cabinet and admitting what he called a “rather normal and natural inclination” to extend his trip to three days and two nights to be a “mistake in judgment.” However, Steele did admit he made a mistake. How. then, could Cabinet endorse his "actions and judgments" In this matter? Mistakes can be forgiven; they cannot be endorsed. The amount of money it cost Steele and Robert Yea ger, senior in metallurgy from Bellefonte, to stay over an extra day is irrelevant here. What is important is that money collected from students through fees was spent by Steele and Yeager for their own pleasure. If Steele and Yeager felt this "rather normal and natural inclination" to remain in New York City longer than necessary, they should have done so at their own expense. The pure and simple fact is that Steele and Yeager used student money after the first day in New York City for their own personal pleasure. They did not visit Larry Sharp after the afternoon they arrived, when Steele pre sented a $2500 check to him. If Cabinet wanted to forgive—as it certainly must have wanted to—it should have taken no action whatso ever. That is the way to forgive. ' But Cabinet members—except the three who ab stained—endorsed Steele’s “actions and judgments,” which included his self-admitted “mistake in judgment” of extending the trip for pleasure. This certainly does not help the reputation of Cabinet and student government in general. Cabinet, in essence, last night condoned expenditure of student funds for the pleasure of two student leaders. Apparently Cabinet also made a “mistake in judgment.” The Role of the Press The Daily Collegian last night was almost denounced by certain Cabinet members for bringing to light the trip to New York City by All-University President Robert Steele and his “friend” Robert Yeager, senior in metal lurgy from Bellefonte. Needless to say, these Cabinet members certainly have a misunderstanding of the role of the press. It is the job of the press to bring such things to light. The press is pledged, by definition and obligation to the Constitution, to keep a watch over matters of public Interest. These persons also feel (as expressed in a letter on this page) that Collegian “impugned unjustifiably the character of ... Steele with such colored terms as ‘taken’ and ‘junket’ in . . . news articles.” Impugnation is the act of assailing one’s actions. This newspaper merely did a reporting job in its news stories. Opinion of the newspaper was reserved to the editorial page. And. according to Webster's New International Dictionary, "taken" means "io obtain by removing,” which is exactly what happened to the money given Steele. Similarly, "junket” is defined "in the U.S.. to go on an outing at public cost." An "outing" is a "trip or stay." This newspaper, in our opinion, was only doing its job as a newspaper in reporting (in its news columns) and ex pressing its opinions (on the editorial page) of the self admitted “mistake in judgment” bv Mr. Steele. Editorials ace written ay Che editors and otaft Members of The Ootty CeUcfiaa and do Mt necessarily ropreseat the nr** of Che University or at the student body. A Student-Operated Newspaper Sally dkrllegtan Successoi to The Free Lance est 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during ih# University Mar. T%t Daily CoUfftaa ta • itadenPaptraUd atwipaper Entered aa serond-claa* Matter Jaiy a 1V34 at the Stale Celltgt Pa Peel Office under ike act of March J. |t?t* Mali Subscription Priest S3.U per wactUt —8.1 l rear ED DUYBS Editor STEVE HIGGINS. Bus Mgr. STAFF THIS tSSUK: Night editor, Mary Kelly: Copy editor, Dave Fineman; Assistants: dint Bruce, Barbara Green* a Id. thane Dieek, Judy Sollenberger, Carol U«?U* Anderson. Alice iorte, Ernie Williams, Bohbi Levina. THE BAHY COLLEGIAN STATF COLLEGE’ PENNSYI VANIA —The Board of Editors —The Board of Editors Letters ASA Upholds Steele Journey Related Editorials on this page TO THE EDITOR: It should be pointed out that all funds of the Student Government Association, including all money collected for the Larry Sharp Fund, are held and supervised by the Associated Student Activities’ Office. Regu lar audits are performed by Uni versity Auditors. In no case were funds “taken” as alleged in The Daily Collegian. Since we fell that a personalized presentation of the S2SOO check to Larry Sharp would be of great morale value to Larry Sharp, we approved of Mr. Steele's trip to New York. The constitution of the Student Government Associa tion authorizes us to approve of expenditures for amounts of less than S2OO. Mr. Steele was selected by us to present the check since he is the official representative of the student body, and because he was chairman of “A Christmas Pres ent For Larry” fund-raising cam paign. We felt that at least two students should be present at this presentation. Since Christmas re cess had already started, we left the selection of another student to Mr. Steele. We felt that it was particularly appropriate that stu dents present this check person ally to Larrv Sharp before Christ mas. The thank-you letter from Mr. and Mrs. Sharp indicated that the morale value of the trip and presentation of a check for $2500 to Larry was of great significance. It should also be pointed out that any persons representing the University on an official trip, such as the subjects of this letter, are expected to travel in a decent manner (Le.. first class travel by rail or plane.) They are expected to eat in respectable restaurants, lip according to accepted scales, stay at the better hotels, and at all times present themselves in an 1 acceptable manner in reference to personal dress and conduct. We are writing this letter be cause we feel that you have im pugned unjustifiably the charac ter of Robert Steeie with such colored terms as “taken” and “junket” in your news articles. We also feel that you have done incalculable damage to future fund-raising campaigns for Larry Sharp. —George Donovan. Acting Coordinator of Student Activities —Joseph A. Boehrei. Ail-University Secretary-Treasurer Gazette TODAY Btfinntn Bridge Cliwn, Tuesday eve* ning*. sign up at HUB Campus Party Publicity Committee, 7 p.m.. 217 HUB Collegian Business Staff, 7:80 p.m., 202 Willard Collegian Promotion Staff. 7 p.m., 209 Willard Delta Sigma* Pi, talk on “Economic Con* ditions Affecting Insurance/* 7:30 p.m., Alpha Sigma Phi Economics Setninar, Dr. George E. Bran dow on **The Joint Economic Committeo and the Role of the Economist in the Determination of Public Policy,” noon, HUB dining room “B” Emerson Society, Dr. Anton Kovar, 3:30 p.m.. Chape] small lounge Home Economics Club, 7 p.m.. Living Center Meteorology Seminar, Edward S. Epstein on “Instability Criteria for the Breakdown on the Polar Vortex/* 1:10 p.m., 219 Willard Kes Bavarian Schuhplattlers, 7:30 p.m.. 2 White Newman Club, film “Exploding New Hori- zons/' 7 p.m., 217 Willard Newman Mass, 7 and S a.m.. Our Lady of Victory Church Newman Roeary. 12:45 and -1:15 p.m.. Catholic Chapel Outing Club Cabin and Trail Division, 7 p.m., 317 Willard Soph Queen Contest Deadline, 4 p.m. Physics-Engineering Mechanics Colloquium, “Wave Propagation in Finite Media,” 4:10 p.m., 117 Osmond 4 ‘Ring Around the Moon,** 8 p.m.. Little Theatre. Old Main UCA Newspaper Staff, Vesper Service, Rev. Preston N. Williams on “Love and Suffering/* 4:30 p.m.. Chapel' TOMORROW Lutheran Holy Communion, 6:45 a.m., Grace Lutheran Church UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Ansari Ather. ‘Angela Black. Fonda Ghiardi. Rober Horvath, John McCarron, James Naugle, Pemmasaml Rao. Michael Rohrbach. Michael Sapovits. Basri Sezer, Razelle Stallop, La Rue Stellfox. Joseph Wachtcl. Edltnc Chun, John Johnson, Charles WyaockL Job Interviews Chicago Bridge St Iron: M&r 18; CE, Metal. Borg-Warner Corp: Mar IS: ME, EE for development St deaim eng; ME for tech* ntca) sale*. Borg-Warner Corp {Peace Prod Div): Mar 18; BS & MS in ME. EE, AeroE; also Jr in same fields for summer employ* menu (Continued on page jive) Little Man on Campus by Dick fliblw / f£OF£S SOB. SHAfcF, WOULP Y ( OJH OfcZ TO Trf OACKLAOAN V OUT A KEPOKT THAT SC IMDC6NT FKgSHtfg/ HAVE e££N INVOLVED G^^ L,NG^ l= ll^k^Y $ K (19-1-1) x (9) Equals Political Confusion The campus political waters, quite muddy this time last week, seem to have cleared a bit—but not without a threat of turbulence to come. Since a planned meeting of “15 or 20 reported in this column two weeks ago, taken place; a meeting of jun iors opposed to the first group has been held; and a second meeting of the original gather ing fizzled, then resulted in a rump session, Nineteen juniors met Feb. 19 in a fraternity house basement. Most of them .announced the positions they were then seek ing in next year’s student gov ernment. The only conflict brought out was for Interfrat ernity Council president, with three contenders. Only one parly official at tended the meeting. No politi cal deals were made. The only agreement was that every frat ernity represented should reg ister in strength with one po litical party. And this idea flopped. Nine other junior men met the following Sunday night, Feb. 23, at an- ——— other fra ter- : nity house, to • pick a spring campaign slate opposing those • in the first group who ex- • pressed a de- . sire to run. ► Included in £. the second group were at : least -two po- litical party officials —not then, but now members of the same part> r ; one junior who declined an invitation to attend the Feb. 19 meeting; and at least one fraternity brother of a junior prawnr""' 7:15 p.m., SO9 w i: ■Behind the News TUESDAY. MARCH 4. 1958 By. Bob Irra nklin Junior Men” was that meeting has who did attend the Feb. 19 meeting. A fairly good slate of candi dates was reported hammered out at this second conclave. A second meeting of the "Mystic Nineteen Plus One" —as one member of the "Mystic Nine" called it— was scheduled for last Wed nesday night at a downtown apartment. It fizzled when all the political candidates refused to attend. But a rump session was held at a campus' fraternity house. Again, no earth-shaking re sults were reported. *• ' * The mammoth i n t r a-party war for which Lion Party ap pears to be using University Party as the battleground ap parently has subsided—for the moment. Rumors that Byron La Van, former Lion party clique chairman, absent from the scene for nearly a year, was considering another grand coup, appear to be still rumors. But a new political shakeup in the next week is not im probable. Liberty No Longer Free DETROIT (A*) —Liberty Sam Lalomia, 39, petitioned Pro bate Judge James H. Saxton today to drop “Liberty” from his name. Same said in his petition the reason is he’s get ting married. .!■ I »ti UJrm CHARLIE BROUN. flying a (CITE is An EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE SF o
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