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.
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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
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/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
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