rrtiat rkati.. Editorial Opinion It's Time A Vague With the smoke of battle cleared and the campus more-or-less "back to normal," an analysis of the fresh man and sophomore class elections is in order. The results of the elections are significant in three categories of student activity: representation on All- University Cabinet and in the class offices; student inter est in elections; elections practices. University party won four of the six offices, althoUgh Campus party polled 51.4 per cent of the total vote of 8549. The two class presidencies—the two seats on All-Univers ity Cabinet--went to University party nominees by nar row margins. Donald Clagett defeated Keith Carlson for the Sopho more Class presidency by 22 votes, 543 to 521, Jay Kahie defeated Herbert Goldstein for the Freshman Class presi dency by 29 votes, 906 to 877. The two presidencies were the closest contests. Freshman and sophomore interest in the elections hit a 7-year high, with an average of 43.7 per cent of eligible voters casting ballots. A total of 53.1 per cent of the freshmen voted, and 33.7 per cent of the sophomores voted. The higher percentages may be attributed to more vigor ous campaigning, more controversy over issues, de centralized voting, get-out-the-vote drives by All-Uni versity Cabinet and student radio station WDFM and perhaps to more student interest in politics. Perhaps the most important result of this year's f all elections is yet to come. That result may be a wholesale revision of student elections practices at Penn State. For the blowup over two minor violations of the All-University Elections Code proved conclusively the total vagueness and inadequacy of the code provisions. These rules attempt to reach far beyond the Elections Committee's power to enforce them or the need to regulate political parties. Campus party committed two violations of the spirit —but not the letter—of the code, both financial in nature. A freshman candidate, apparently ignorant of the code's provisions, received as a gift campaign material which was not paid for by the party. And the clique chairman charged the photographs for posters to the individual candidates instead of to the party. The expenses for these items would have put the party over the $l5O allowed by the code for a fall election campaign. The elections committee—aided and abetted by the almost completely unenforceable elections code—has for years dwelt upon picayune political party violations while larger breaches have been hidden from the committee's eyes. As long as the elections committee is forced by the Elections Code to try to limit campaign spending, this University will experience a spectacle of wholesale viola tions, double-billing, party irresponsibility and personal financial troubles—although little of this will break into the news. It is time to scrap the entire Elections Code and start Over'l,vith legislation which will direct the Elections Corn mittee to do the only things it has a need or a right to do: register the party members, man the polls, count votes and find ways of improving these functions. Fifty-four Years of Student Editorial Freedom GO 'Battu Tutirgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian it a student-operated newspaper. Entered ■s second-clan matter July a, 1934 at the State College, Ps. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Msil Subscription Pricet 53.00 per semester 35.00 per year. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor . ;op city Editor. David Fineman; htanagint Editor, Richard Drayne; Sports Editor, Lou Prato; kssociste Sports Editor. Matt Mathews; Personnel and Public Relations Director. Patricia E‘anv; Copy Editor, Lynn Ward; Assistant Copy Editor. Dick Fisher: Photography Editor. Robert Thompson. Credit Mgr.. Janice Smith; Local Ad Mgr., Tom Burke,: Aest. Local Ad Mgr., Robert Pirrone; National Ad Mgr., Betsy Brackbill; Promotion Mgr., Kitty Bur ied; Personnel Mar.. Mickey Nash; _Classified Ad Mgr Rae Waters; Co. Circulation Mare., Mary Anne First.and Murray Simon; Research and Records hicir.. Mary Flerbetn; Office Secretary. Idyls Johnson. STAFF TIM ISSMSI Copy Editor. Janet Dttratine: Wire 'Editor, Ceorito French, Assistanta, Sissie Armor,. charlotte Flack. Beta: Mulch Alice 01:tunnel!. Joh* Black, Jim Moran and Ken FeiL to Throw Elections FRANK VOJTASEK Business Manager Irle LIHIL I L.ULIttitAN. SIAlt LULLttit. FtNNSYLVANIA In 25 Years Man May Hit Mars, Venus Out Code NEW YORK (A))—Colonies of earthmen will occupy the moon, Mars and Venus. Rockets will be burning their way toward the outer planets, more than 3 billion miles from earth. Engineers will fashion huge space transports, capable of car rying hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of people on space ex peditions that may last most of a life-time. ,„, These are among the predic tions for the next 25 years—the coming generation made re cently by a panel of nine space experts in Astronautics, the journal of the American Rocket Society. The experts were agreed that the earth would be ringed with satellites and space stations. • Huge rockets would roar be tween continents carrying cargo and passengers in minutes. "The stars themselves will still be out of reach 25 years from now, but perhaps by then we will have reached the same state with respect to interstellar travel as we have just passed in respect to earth satellites and interplanet ary travel," said Dr. Herbert P. York, chief scientist of the Ad vanced Research Projects Agen cy. In 25 years, he said, man will have closed, self-sufficient sys tems for space travel over long periods of time. 'Perhaps about 25 years from now we will be commencing man's real entry into space and man's emergence as a 3-dimen sional space being," wrote Dr. Simon Ramo, president of Space Technology Laboratories. - TODAY Club Habana, 9 p.m.. HUD ballroom Junior Class Advisory Board. 1:30 p.m., 212 HUD Student Movies, 7 p.m.. HUB assembly hall Women's Chorus, 1 p.m., 71U11 assembly hall Cabinet Judiciary Evaluation Committee, I p.ni., 213 HUB Film: "The Borden of Truth", 3 p.m., HUB assembly hall Polk Song Club, 2 p.m., 217 HUB Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 1:15 p.m., 212 HUB Newman Club, 7 p.m., HUB assembly ball Spring Week, 1 p.m., 212 HUB Student Movies, 6:30 p.m., HUB assembly hall Swedbordlan Services, 10:30 a.m., :12 HUH William Penn Foundation, 3 p.m., HUB assembly hall MONDAY Alpha PM Omega, 7 p m., 212 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12 :45 p.m., 218 HUB Home Economics Extension, 8:30 a.m., 212 HUB Jr. IFC, 7:30 p.m . HUB rtisembly hall Leonides Council. 6:3U p.m.. 217 HUB ' Model Railroad Club, 7 p.m., 215 HUB Walter Barnes. Ronald Castellanos. Mary Alice Cimmons, Lawrence Dull, Robert Fee, Margaret Fisher, Alice Gilpin, Wil liam Haugh, Richard Hoak, Richard Lucas, Arthur Naugle, James Pringle, Christo pher Kopernik, Virginia Kirkwood, Lois Neuharth, Jahn Parks. Christian Ministry Will Be Discussed Seminary students from seven theological schools will meet with students interested in the Chris tian ministry or - other areas of full-time Christian work at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. The meetings will be held in the small lounge of McElwain, the Wesley Foundation, the Luth eran Student Center, the Baptist Student Center, Alpha Zeta frat ernity, Delta Chi fraterntiy and Koinoinia, 117 E. Nittany Ave. In addition to the 3:30 p.m. meetings, individual appointments may also be arranged by calling Adams 8-8441, ext. 541. Jr. IFC to Meet, Take Christmas Tree Orders The Junior Interfraternity Coun cil will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Hetzel Union assembly hall. Orders will be taken for the sale of fireproofed Christmas trees which the group has undertaken as its first project. Committee ap pointments will also be made. By' JOHN A. BARBOUR AP Science Writer "We hope to have a man circle the globe in a satellite within a few years,"- said Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, deputy ad ministrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Admin istration. Gazette TOMORROW UNIVERSITY RQSPITAL Little Man on Campus by Dick Mu —She'd make ya swell blind date. Ask Worthal—l fixed him up with her earlier this evening." Letters Karn Views Women's Role TO - THE EDITOR: Thanks for the vehement response of your readers. The situation of wom en deserves sympathy. However, until the biochem ist can find a substitute mech anism, perhaps in the manner described in "The Brave New World,' the role of childbear ing will continue to cause wom en to come out on the short end of the deal. Perhaps their role is the more important one and conse quently carries greater respon sibility. The reproofs, indeed, apply just as well to men. Industralization and warfare of the past century have cast people loose. They have be come mobile. Some move into higher economic and power strata carrying a less disci plined code with them. Women in this situation seek to imitate men and select the loosest personal code as an ex pression of their coming into equality. There are also the nouveau riche in the intellec tual world. They are torn. Down with personal frustra tion and up with freedom was their cry. They are obliged to attack the old to gain power. for such is the nature of a revo lution. Once securely in pow er they become more royalist than the king for the status quo now works to their bene fit. They don't deserve easy vic tory: The first generation nev er looses its taint entirely until those with long memories are dead. The brave new resem bles the stately old- so much that it' invites occasional snip ing to renew its discomfort. —William Karn, graduate student glE=l2 BACK SCRATCANG 15 NICE.. SATURDAY. NOVEMBER. 22. 1958 .p • a'V'e Reader Deplores Moral of Movie TO THE EDITOR: The real moral perversion of .our day is in our thinking about patrio tism. Note the moral of the movie, "Torpedo Run." "It's OK to murder one's wife and child" if in the end the enemy carrier is sunk. The cliche about civilians starting wars is only partially correct. Rather wars are begun when militaristic values as in "Torpedo Run" twist normal minds that resist militaristic hate even on the battle field. Witness the non-large hate of "John Q. American, civilian soldier," for his Russian coun terpart. Militarism is a disease; it be gins in a few twisted• minds and spreads, if unchecked by education and positive action, until we actually can accept the rational and military jus tifications for wholesale mur der, "country above family," "devotion to duty" - (w hich should have been in preven tion of the disease), and other forms of perversion. This is the path for us to travel if we are to follow the garbage in "Torpedo Run." -Robert Reeder, graduate student WDFM SATURDAY NIGHT 50 . 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