PAGE FOUR Editorial Opmion Temptation Placed That expensive trip to New York City to give a $2500 check to Larry Sharp is history. And this is one •time history' should not be allowed to repeat itself. The trip was authorized by All-University Secretary- Treasurer Joseph Boehret, George H. Donovan, then direc tor of Associated Student Activities and now acting coordinator of student activities, and All-University President Robert Steele. The authorization was legal under the Student Government Association constitution. It is in this group of three that the “mistake in judg ment" actually started. It started when Boehret. Steele and Donovan decided upon a Sl5O expense account for the trip. (Steele asked for $125 but Donovan said he advised Steele to take an extra $25 in case of an emergency). We do not know how this group ever granted the overly-high sum of $l5O for two men to deliver a check in New York City. This is putting temptation to spend the entire or most of the $l5O. It' Is difficult to understand how Donovan could approve of a $l5O expense account in this situation, espec ially when he should be aware that the University allows a maximum of only $l5 per day for both meals and lodging for a representative traveling to New York City. But his office wrote out a check for $l5O There also se<*ms to have been laxity by the office in not requiring that the expense account be submitted sooner after the trip. Donovan said it is “not unusual" for expense accounts to be turned into the office late. Here, within the ASA office which was then under the direction of Donovan, appears to be where the “mistake in judgment" began. Here is where action should be taken to see that this does not happen again. Cabinet: Take a Cue All-University Cabinet will probably make a decision tonight on what some members feel is a ticklish subject: whether or not to pass a recommendation asking the Board of Trustees to open its meetings to the public. And Cabinet would do well to take a cue from a trustee who said early this week the student government body ought to recommend to the trustees they open their meetings to the public—then let the trustees decide. More than likely, some Cabinet members will send up Ihe cry of “taint" (they say such a move would imply there Is something illegal going on in the meetings). The stale legislature approved open meetings and records laws dur ing the last session. And the legislators didn't seem to worry about any unfounded implications that thousands of county commissioners, school board members etc., were doing something illegal. The University is a private corporation (although a "public instrumentality” too) and Therefore does not under law have to open the trustee meetings to the public. But the board and the University would probably gain much prestige if the meetings were opened to the public under these circumstances. Clearly, Cabinet can make no mistake in simply ask ing (he board to consider the advantages (of increased public confidence and prestige) of open meetings. C4!tartale or* written by the editors and tuff members of rhe Oaily Collegian and do not necessarily represent the views of the University or of tho student body. A Student-Opcralea Newspaper latli? (Unllrgtari Successor to The Free Lance est 1887 fiMnlird fatsdu tkrwuzn Satnrua? aormni donna ttw University rear. Tbs Dally Cslltgitß H • •todeni-oper»ted newspaper Entered as »eeund*ciais matter J*ty i, 193 t at Uie Bute t'-oUtge Pc Pott Office under the ert of March 3 1879 Mail Babscripiien Priest 13.96 pei «emestet • 33.96 psi rear ED DUEBS. Editor STi Mbsscim £dltw. Jatfj HartUMi Cits Editor KoOert Franklin: Sports Editor. Tisn Cstsrrl. Cops Editor Marian Beatty; Assistant Copy Editor. Ralph Manns. Assistant Sports Editors. Matt Matthews and Loo Prato: Mako»ap Editor. Giaay Phillips. Photograph* Editor (*eort« Harrison. Aaat Bin Mgr. Bat Mertrnson. Local 44 Met. Marilyn Elias; 4ul Local 44 Myr Base Ann Consoles; National Ad Mgr. loan Wallace: Promotion Mgt, Mananas Mater Peroonnel Mat. Lynn Llaasfcara. Classified Ad Mcr« Steve tlitUle«A. oM Rovocds Mar. Bashars Ball: Office Seeretary. Marlene Marka. STAKE THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Lynn Ward; Copy Editor. Dick Fisher; Wire EdtWr. Pat Evan*. \ssi*tauis; Sallr Wilt. Phyllis Weslcott. Don Ca&ciato, Call Preus»*. Susie i.inkrouui. Gloria Wolford* The* Del Preio, Dick Stojek, Hele* McCaiferty and JUlia Davit. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA :VE HIGGINS. Bus Mgr. Letters Steele Needs 'Break' in Trip TO THE EDITOR: One of the most hard working students at Penn State has made a mistake. Was it an important one? Bob Steele has worked with all his power to make the top, and he had in most people's minds, until a few weeks ago when he made an admitted mis take and with a group of discrim inating remarks, he is now being cut down. Most of the students on this campus would have made the exact mistake our competent pres ident made. Anyone who was issued a one hundred and fifty dollar expense account and a two day schedule ... to take the money to Larry Sharp faces a great temptation. Give Bob Steele a break and let him cover his small unfor tunate mistake with some more of his great doings for our cam pus. Let the student body speak as a whole, not just a few with ac cess to an editorial column. —Anthony Fox, '6l 'Pro Not Severe Enough' for Steele TO THE EDITOR: We are frankly amazed at the shocking audacity . . . displayed by Robert Steele in his statement that he has “done absolutely nothing wrong” in fla grantly squandering student funds in his two-day sojourn in New York City. The apparent objective of the trip is commendable, Steele's se lecting a travel companion under standable, but his distorted no tions of property right; are frank ly unjustifiable . . . But the ultimate . . . was achieved in Cabinet’s approval of Steele’s unexcusable activities. That representatives of the stu dent body can be so blind to the contemporary standards of mor ality . . . simply defies compre hension. A decision to spend an unnecessary day in New York City at student expense cannot be excused as a “mistake of judg ment” It is our opinion that Steele and his companion Yeager should be required to reimburse the student body for a reasonable portion of their superfluous expense. It is questionable if removal from office or even probation would represent too severe a measure of discipline for such be havior. —David Scheicher. 59 Dale Schissler, '59 David Houghton, '59 • Letter cut Gazette TODAY Accounting Club. 7 p.m., MI Alph* Lambda Delta. 6:30 p.m., 216 HUB Block and Bridle Club, drawing for Little International. 7 :H0 p.m. Campus Party Publicity Committee, 7 p.m., 215 HUB Campus Party Special Effects Committee, 7:30 p.m.. 217 HUB Christian Science Organization, 7 p.m., 212 Chapel Dairy Science Club, Edgar Hall on "Be havior of Farm Animals," 7 p.m., 117 Dairy Gamma Theta Uptilon, 7:30 p.ra., SIS Mineral Science Bilie! Advanced Hebrew, 7 p.mi, Founda tion lota] Sirma Pi, speaker, 7:30 p.m., 302 Whitmore Newman Club Forum, "Making Marriage a Success", 7 p.m.. Chapel Lounge Liberal Arts Research Luncheon. HUB dining roam "A**: Dr. Ruth C, Silva on “Tb* Presidential Succession.’* **Rinf Round the Moon,** 8 p.m.. 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Esso Standard Oil Co: Mar 20-21: Bus Adm, LA for aales. Connecticut Mutual Life Ini Co: Mar 20| (Continued on page five) /ft/e Man on Campus by Dick Bibli Some Days You Just Can't Win WASHINGTON, March 5 (#•)—As the questions at President Eisenhower’s news conference today wandered all over the world,'and then took off for outer space, this thought kept bobbing up: What a difficult town this is in which to keep well informed. It’s an age of intricate implications. And they whiz by so fast it seems that to know what’s really going on would require every moment for reading, with no time left' in which to do a lick of work. For a president, the job is patricularly difficul. And Ei senhower's critics repeatedly have said he doesn't keep up with the news. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, for instance, said in a recent mag azine article that she doesn't think Eisenhower spends enough time reading news papers. “As I understand it,” she said, “he prefers to have the news digested for him or to be briefed orally on the news.” In a way, Eisenhower has himself to blame for this type of criticism. In his third news conference, on March 5, 1953, he used this answer, “It hasn’t been brought to my attention,” leaving the impression that if anything is to claim his atten ‘ tion it has to be fetched. He’s used similar expressions repeatedly since. Moving along to Jan. 20. 1956. we come to a celebrated magazine article in which Sec retary of -State John Foster • Dulles was quoted as saying the Eisenhower administration had "walked to the brink" of war three limes. 206 Armaby The whole capital—or at least the political part of it— HfIITMIM/ GET UP \ „ / there, you I / j! ( STUPID- ) // p yiTEjy //, FLY YOU STUPID KITE! FLY! fOTY! " —an' just WHO was looking around for help on that Western Civ. lest?" Washington Beat i-b THURSDAY. MARCH 6. 1958 By Arthur Edson problems with tremendous was talking. How about that, Mr. President? Eisenhower: “First of all, I am not—l have not read that article.” He then strongly de fended Dulles “the best secre tary of state I have ever known.” Or, dashing on down to the present, take his Feb. 26, 1958, conference. In connection with the congressional investigation of the regulatory agencies, Ei senhower was asked about a letter his assistant, Sherman Adams, had written to the act ing chairman of the Civil Aero nautics Board on a matter be fore the CAB. Eisenhower: "W ell, again you are bringing up a thing I have not heard of." Whether Eisenhower keeps himself sufficiently informed— or whether any president can in this, complex world—i 3 something for the historians to argue over. Today, at any rate, Eisen hower seemed to act like a man who has done his homo work and knows it. He quoted the Constitution. He referred to an article in the current Wall Street Journal. He fielded both the pop flies and_ the hard hit grounders. Finally someone asked him about a news conference Tues day in which, the reporter (Continued on page five) 'iM ON v OufJ aDE.CHACUE BROWN
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