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Editorial Opinion
Last Chance
Vets'
All-University President Jay Feldstein is looking for
ammunition—in the form of letters from veterans—to
support voluntary physical education before the Uni
versity Senate.
Feldstein will go before the Senate Thursday to
defend All-University Cabinet's recommendation to throw
out the phys ed requirement for veterans. The fight may
not be easy. for the Senate Committee on Academic Stand
ards has recommended that the requirement be kept
intact.
To back up Cabinet's case, Feldstein has asked fresh-
man and sophomore veterans to submit letters giving
their opinions and reasons supporting voluntary phys ed.
The letters are to be turned in at the Hetzel Union desk
before Thursday.
This battle has been fought long and hard by Cabinet.
But, after the recommendation was made to cut out the
requirement, the Senate committe asked that Cabinet's
request be v,oted down.
'l'he Senate Committee's reasons for going against
Cabinet's recommendation were vague and hardly con
vincing. But, nevertheless, the committee report stands,
and the voluntary phys ed issue may need a strong last
ditch fight to save it.
Feldstein is trying to do this. He will fight the com
mittee recommendation on the floor of the Senate. The
least the students involved can do is back up Feldstein
and Cabinet's actions with the letters he has requested.
PA—Please Attempt
Not because of—indeed in spite of—the efforts of
some, we stilt have seen nothing concrete come out of the
discussions on use of the public address system at Beaver
Field for play-by-play description of football games.
A recommendation to All-University Cabinet earlier
this year by Senior Class President Charles Welsh asked
that the PA system be further used to include descrip
tions of penalties, scoring sequences and play-by-play
accounts of the games.
Beginning with the Homecoming game with Mar
quette a description of the penalties and scoring sequences
has been announced over the PA system and will be an
nounced at the final home game with Holy Cross
on Nov. 15.
The last of the three recommendations—for play-by
play accounts of the games—is still being kicked around
in the Athletic Association.
The association and Dean Ernest B. McCoy of the
College of Physical Education have based objections to
the plan on three points: 1) possible interference with
spectators who do not wish to be disturbed; 2) interfer
ence with radio broadcasts of the game; and 3) discrep
ancies between the PA system announcer and the radio
sports broadcasters.
These are certainly valid objections. But no one is
going to iron •out these difficulties, it would seem by
talking about them.
How would the 13 members of the AA ever decide
in a discussion whether these three objections are strong
enough to defeat the plan? It has been suggested by Dean
McCoy that past attempts be searched for the answer.
But since such a search would doubtless turn up little of
value for present purposes, there is perhaps a better way.
Why not try it at the final home game on Nov. 15?
Then the "disturbed" spectators would turn out to object
and interference on the air could be determined.
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Even the Bard
Used 'Politician'
As Dirty Word
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON Lin No one
seems to know why "politician" is
at least a faintly dirty word.
But it is, and has been for cen
turies. One statistical scholar
found that Shakespeare used
"politician" five times, and every
time in an unfavorable sense.
Many of us will go to the polls
voting for, or against, politicians.
And it's ironic that the word has
acquired such sinister connota
tions that some of our most suc
cessful politicians—President Ei
senhower, for example—deny that
that is what they are.
Yet this feeling has led to some
splendid comments down through
the years. So before starting for
the polls, let's look at some quo
tations about politicians and poli
tics.
Back in Civil War days Arte
mus Ward was delighting his fol
lowers with comments like this:
"I am not a politician, and my
other habits are good."
"In politics," Theodore Roose
velt confessed in 1902, "we have
to do a great many things that we
ought not to do."
"Politicians should have three
hats handy at all times," the poet
historian Carl Sandburg has said.
"One for throwing into the ring,
another for talking through, and a
third for pulling rabbits out it
elected."
Sen. Jim Watson (R-Ind) re
portedly once said: "We've got
'em beat—if they don't buy us."
Simon Cameron, Pennsylvania
political boss and Lincoln's first
secretary of war, had a variation
of the same wisecrack. "An hon
est politician," Cameron said, "is
one who, when he is bought, will
stay bought."
One of the best known defini
tions came from Thomas Bracket
Reed of Maine, who was to be
speaker of the House. "A states
man," Reed said, "is a successful
politician who is dead."
One of the coldest comments
came from John J. Ingalls, a sen
ator from Kansas, who said: "The
purification of politics is an irri
descent dream. Government is
force. Politics is a battle for su
premacy. Parties are the armies.
The Decalogue and the Golden
Rule have no place in a political
campaign. The object is success."
"The proper memory for a poli
tician," said the Englishman, John
Morley, who was one, "is one that
knows what to remember an d
what to forget."
But, lest we're too cynical, let's
end with this: 'Politicians who
can't face unpopularity are real
ly not worth having."
The man who said that was a
politician who proved he could
take unpopularity and popularity
in magnificent stride. His name:
Winston Churchill.
4 Coeds Given
Strict Campuses
Two women students have been
given strict week campuses for
violating the Women's Student
Government drinking rule.
Women's Student Government
Judicial Board also penalized a
woman student for being 40 min
utes late on a I a.m. permission.
She received four strict days cam
pus, two to be served this week
and two next week.
Another woman received 10
days strict campus for being 40
minutes late on a 1 a.m. permis
sion. She had not notified her
housemother that she would be
late.
Judicial penalized one woman
for improper signing in of a guest.
She received a 1 o'clock removal.
Her original guest stayed at a
fraternity house Junior Prom
weekend, and she had another
guest to take her place. The other
guest stayed under the name of
the former one.
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Kee Kim. Sydney Kurtz, Kenneth Link,
Francis Loprest. Joan Miller, Robert
Miller, William Naaman, Ralph Riehl.
Carmeh Santinoceto, John Siatplair.
Richard Sorrentino, Ann Vosburg.
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Letters
Student Says
UN Purpose
Brotherly Love
TO THE EDITOR: In reply to
Richard Ferguson's letter in
the Oct. 31 edition of The Daily
Collegian:
You are so right, we don't
need the United Nations one
bit! Why should we sit in a
council with liars, thieves, and
murderers? Why should we
care about what is going on in
the rest of the world? To us it
should not matter that hun
dreds are dying from starva
tion or diseases: that cultures
are depriving people of their
lives. We don't have to recog
nize that we are part of hu
manity and must reach out
with an undemanding inex
haustible brotherly love.
Yes, we should develop an
isolationalism like the one af
ter World War I that led to
World War 11, for only fools
believe in talk, talk that brings
tolerance, belief, understand
ing and ultimately peace. Yes,
we have paid for our stupidity
—in good relations: important
overseas bases, and further sci.
entific and cultural knowledge.
We could be out on Mount
Nittany practicing military ma
neuvers instead of paying un
due homage to an organization
dedicated to the castration of
United States of America. We
could then be combating our
adversaries with their own
deadly fire. We could disre
gard everything our country
stands for: justice, freedom,
fairness, and most of all our
love of life and belief in our
fellow man. We could submit
to the very hated thing we are
fighting, and disregard our
F.- YOU AND YaR -‘
OL . BEETHOVEN!
HE WASN'T 50
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1958
to know you're under suspicion of hay
my last test—you PASSED it."
heritage of freedom and indi
viduality.
We could do all these things;
but we have educated, intelli
gent adults that realise the sig.
nificance of the United Nations
and international peace.
I also have regrets about that
exhibition. A regret that the
United Nations flag was not
raised above all other flags. A
flag for all the world to see s
and respect, and remember.
The flag which represents our
belief in the goodness and love
of all mankind.
—Jein Van Tassel, 'Si
Gazette
TODAY
Angel Flight, 6:30 p.m. Armory
Belles Lettres, "A Shavian De
bate on Stage Morality," 7:30
p.m., Simmons lounge
Bryan Green Foundation Com
mittee, 8 p.m., 217 HUB
Cabinet Judiciary Evaluation
Committee, 9 p m., 218 HUB
Classified Ad Staff, new mem-
bers only, 7 p.m., Collegian
off ice
Clover Club and Horticulture
Club student-faculty party,
7:15 p.m., 10 Tyson
Ed Student Council, 6:30 p.m.,
217 HUB
Freshman Regulation Board,
12:30 p.m , 217 HUB
Gamma Sigma Sigma, 6:13
p m., 218 HUB
Hillel, Interfaith Committee
Lecture Series, "Religion of
the Amish" by Dr. Maurice
A. Mook, 7:30 p.m., Founda
tion
Intercollegiate Conference on
Government, 7 p.m , 203 HUB
Judicial, 5:15 p.m., 217 HUB
Newman Club Movie Series,
"State and Church," 7:30
p.m., 214 Boucke
Phi Epsilon Kappa, 9 p.m., 214
HUB
Senior Class Advisory Board,
7 . 30 p.m., 218 HUB
Spring Week Committee, 7
pm, 215 HUB
Tau Beta Pi Pledge Meeting,
7:30 p.m., 102 Sackett