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Editorial Opinion
Another Powerful Voice
Another powerful voice has been added to those
asking for open meetings of the University’s Board of
Trustees.
Gov-Elect David L. Lawrence, who is a member of the
board of trustees of the University of Pittsburgh, said
Thursday he sees no reason why the Penn State board
should not open its meetings to the public.
“f think there particularly, there ought to be a full
degree of publicity," he said, noting that the institution is
known as ‘‘THE State University."
Lawrence will become an ex-officio member of the
University's Board of Trustees when he is inaugurated
as governor on Jan. 20.
And his backing open board meetings is consistent
with the policy he intends to follow in state government.
He also told reporters on Thuisday that he believes among
executive boards and agencies, ‘‘anywhere where official
action is taken should be open.’’
Certainly this line of reasoning extends to the Uni
versity. Although technically a private institution, as “THE
State University" it numbers state officials among its
trustees. And the University receives financial support
from every man, woman and child in the Commonwealth,
through state aid.
The administration hopes to increase that support by
at least 50 per cent within the year. But increased financial
support must be preceded by increased awareness of the
University’s needs and increased confidence in its ability
to meet those needs.
What better way to build public awareness and confi
dence than to throw open to public scrutiny the meetings
of the University’s highest policy-making body?
The Board of Trustees has operated for many years
behind a wall of semi-secrecy.
Against the opposition of men like David L. Lawrence,
the most influential individual in Pennsylvania, how long
can that wall stand?
Just One More Hour
It looks as though students won’t get the 1-hour
extension of library hours during finals, as requested by
All-University Cabinet.
Ralph W. McComb, University librarian, said yester
day the normal 10 o’clock deadline probably will not be
extended, and that the service isn’t really essential since
it would accomodate only about 250 students. He said that
personnel is one of the big problems in extending the
hours, and that there are only a few people who might
help.
But the extra hour hardly seems an unfair request,
since the period would extend for less than two weeks.
The library is one of the best places on campus to study;
witness the overflow crowds which always fill it during
finals.
This, plus the factor of the many students who need
last-minute information that can be found only at the
library, seems to demand a little more consideration
during finals than the ten o’clock deadline provides.
Would personnel be such a problem? We think not,
since only the first floor would be open during the pro
posed extension period.
McComb said the extended hours had not definitely
been ruled out; before he makes the final decision, he
should consider the obligations of the library to the stu
dents at the most critical time of the semester.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
ROBERT PICCONE
Business Manages
Washington
ThereVe Been
Some Changes
In Six Years
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (A s )—You stand
there, high up in the House press
gallery, waiting for the great mo
ment.
That will come when William
N. (Fishbait) Miller, the House
doorkeeper, bustles into the cham
ber and shouts, “Mr. Speaker!
The President of the United
States!”
Your mind goes back six years,
when an exciting new figure was
to come through those doors,
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
He was to get a tremendous
reception.
Now the door swings open, and
here comes Fishbait Miller on his
important mission. Even before
he announces the honored guest,
you can spot the familiar grin and
familiar bald head.
This time the applause is more
restrained. After all, Eisenhower
and Congress now know each
other quite well. And besides
there aren’t nearly as many Re
publicans to make much of a clat
ter.
But there are other changes.
Then, Sen. Robert A. Taft (R.*
Ohio) was the most-watched fi
qure on the floor. Then, iho
first applause was led by Sen.
Herman Welker (R.-Idaho).
Both are dead.
Then, the presiding officer was
Speaker Joseph ‘W. Martin Jr.
Now he’s no longer a GOP big
wig, but plain Rep. Joe Martin of
Massachusetts, sitting in the back
row ?-> inconspicuously that you
have trouble locating him.
Nor was the No. 1 item of that
Feb. 2, 1953, speech mentioned
this time Then, Eisenhower said,
he had ordered the U.S. Navy to
stOD protecting Red China from
Chiang Kai-shek’s forces on For
mosa.
Well, Eisenhower talked on.
Once he went 10 minutes without
applause, but as State of the Un
ion messages go, this one was
fairly well received.
And you couldn't help Ihink
inq that the strangest part of
all this ritual was well summed
up years ago by the English ob
server, Lord Bryce.
“The president’s wishes con
veyed in a message have not nec
essarily any more effect on Con
gress than an article in a promi
nent party newspaper, and, in fact,
the suggestions which he makes,
year after year, are usually ne
glected.” Bryce said.
For a president may ask and
ask. a Congres may applaud and
— but it doesn’t have to
give.
Gazette
TODAY
Book Eichange, 1 p.m . 217 HUB
Gvm Meet against Temple, 2 p.m., Reo
Hall
Social Recreation Committee, 11 a.m., 218
HUB
Student Movie#, 7 p.m., HUB Assembly
Hall
**The Reluctant Debutant/* 8 p.m., Center
Stage
Wrestling Match against Lehigh, 8 p.m..
Rec Hall; freshman against Lehigh, 6
p.m , Reo Hall
TOMORROW
“Bull Session/* 12:30 p.m., WFBG-TW
Channel 10
Chapel Service, 10:55 a.m., Schwab
Entre Nous Choir, 2 p m., HUB Assembly
Hall
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 1:45
p.m., 212 HUB
Newman Club, 7 p.m, 214-15-16 HUB
Protestant Service, 9 am, Helen Eakin
Kiienhower Chapel
Radio WDFM, 2 p.m., 218 HUB
Roman Catholie Mass, 9 a m., Schwab
Spring Week Float Parade Committee, f
p.m., 217 HUB
Swedborjan, 10:30 a.m., 212 HUB
University Symphony Orchestra, Theodore
Kmrhan Conducting, 3 p.m., Schwab
MONDAY
Alpha Phi Omega. 7 p.m., 212 HUB; 8
p.m., 214-15-16 HUB
American Statistical Association, 6 p.m,,
201 Willard
Christian Fellowship. 12:15 pm.. 218 HUB
Education and Administration Section, 2
p.m.. 212 HUB
Engineering Mechanics Seminar, 4.16 p.m..
203 Engineering A
Faculty Luncheon Club, noon,.dining room
A HUB
Greek Week Committee. 8 p.m., 217 HUB
IFC, 7:30 p m., HUB Assembly Hall
Model Railroad Club, 7 p.m., 218 HUB
Mosart Concert Opera Group, open re
hearsal, 8:30 p.m., Schwab
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Elizabeth Anderson, Sarah Baker, Alexis
Barron. Bonnie Bartosh, Susan Chapman,-.
Remo Frangiosa, Joan Glassman, Eleanor
Hansen, (la Hayes, Linda Kelly, Martin
Lane. Thomas Little, Thomas Meloro,
John Reuner, Hugh Walsh, Patricia Zu«
HO.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Sib!«
"Here's your new office—just a stone's throw
•Behind the News
It Must Have Been
A Meatgrinder
In a closet in the basement of Carnegie Building, there
exists a poor, battered apparatus that looks something
like a typewriter without keys.
This is an Associated Press teletype monitor machine,
and every day it pours out its heart in a torrent of words,
a very few of which you read
in Collegian.
The words come from all
over the world, but eventually
they find their way to Phila
delphia or Pittsburgh, then on
to Altoona, from whence they
prepare for "The Big Jump,"
Many of the words don’t
make ‘‘The Jump.” Sometimes
their electrons
are sucked out
of the wires
before they
get even to
Tyrone. Or
they are bat
tered to bits
in a storm on
Skytop.
Many of the
words get
thor o u g h 1 y
mangled in
the machine franklin
itself. We suspect that in a for
mer life it must have been a
happy meatgrinder—or at least
a pressure-cooker
Consider this item that ar
rived last night:
"WASHINGTON
dent Eisenhower told Congress
Friday he will 600 n ask for
new legislate iooootoooloimm
olmoms
“BUST THIS”
We have no sympathy for the
SATURDAY'. JANUARY 10, 1957
from the boys dorm."
By Bob Franklin
AP’s instructions to “bust this”
—the machine obviously is in
pretty bad shape already.
But to digress a moment, we
wonder whether Congress will
grant the' President's request.
. We wouldn’t be a bit sur
prised.'After all, Congress has
authorized some pretty weird
things in the past—like build
ing a million-dollar bridge over
dry Kansas land, stockpiling
enough loose-leaf notebooks in
one department to last 99 years
and—so the story is told—
starting a study on how to
avoid having policemen re
ferred to as “the beat gener
ation.”
Well, what ever happens, at
the sound of "Thank you, Mr.
President," or "I have no com
ment to make at this time."
reporters will break for the
telephones.
Typewriters will clacketty
clack out the message, copy
pencils will scratch and the
news will come thundering
over the wire service desks.
And someday, somehow, the
electrons will keep pulsing,
and far away in the little town
of State College, the lucky
words will survive.