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Editorial Opinion
Unknown Representatives
Geutge Benlrem, a member of the Chemistry and
Physics Student Council, at a council meeting last night
voiced stiong opposition to parts of the student govern
ment iooi gamzation plan to be presented at All-University
Cabinet tonight.
He denied that the representative system outlined in
the plan is a good thing.
We are not condemning or praising him for holding
this opinion
We are condemning, however, his lack of courage in
trying to avoid, standing responsible for his opinions.
And vve are also condemning Council President Don
ald Zepp foi his sympathy with Bentrem and his disre
gard for and lack of understanding of the meaning of
lcpiescntuig other students on a council.
For Bentrem, before expressing his opinion, demanded
that his lemarks be off the record and that his statements
at the public meeting of student representatives not be
repot ted in the student newspaper.
The reporter, who felt that his opinions, regardless of
his demands for anonymity, were important enough to be
made known to ins constituents, did not know the speaker's
name and so requested his name from Zepp.
Zepp refused lo identify the speaker, saying that the
last time students found out what Bentrem had said at
a council meeting, it came close to hurting him in the
class elections.
We do not deny that what a student representative
says in a public meeting may hurt him in an election.
But we certainly deny the thesis that his constituents
should not know what ho has said while acting in their
behalf.
And Not a Drop to Drink
Oh, who’s afraid of the big bad bottle? We are, we are,
cries the dean of women’s office:
Yes, the dean's office has decreed ihat coeds must
remove all empty (and filled, of course) liquor bottles used
for decoration from their rooms, A few, even, were re
moved by Dean of Women Pearl 0. Weston herself, al
though a report that there had been a room-io-room search
was denied.
The order was given on the grounds that the coeds
realize liquor bottles have ndver ben allowed in the dorms,
and that the casual observor might not notice that the
decorative bottles were empty. “To eliminate gossip and
... in the interests of god taste,” according to Dean Weston.
T!iis bottle removal seems a little childish. Empty
liquor bottles are often ornately designed and make
atractive decorations for a room; they usually are not
intended to advertise the wonders of drinking and are not
in bad taste.
And as for someone thinking a bottle is filled, this is
hard to believe. If a coed visiting a room didn't at first
glance think a liquor bottle was empty, she would almost
certainly take a quick second check.
Perhaps the housemothers would be justified in order
ing removel of bottles if there were a great many in one
room; but one or two used decoratively don’t seem out of
order,
And what will they do if a bottle has a ship in it?
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
ROBERT PICCONE
Business Manage;
Letters
Student Blasts
Borough Tax
TO THE EDITOR: With regard
to your article yesterday under
the headline "Students in Apart
ments to Pay Tax": In every
American ‘history book dealing
with the Revolutionary period
there is a section devoted to the
colonists’ battle against “taxa
tion without representation.”
It seems an American way to
forget about such things when
it is convenient, especially in lo
cal bureaucracies. This is the
case in State College. Although
students can’t vote in this stu
dent-supported borough, or par
ticipate in any way in its admin
istraiton, the borough has a lav;
under which the students must
pay taxes.
No doubt the ungrateful citi
zenry of this burg, including its
student-made millionaires, are
100 per cent behind the law.
This taxation without represen
tation is tyrannical and com
pletely without the lesson we
supoosedly have taught the rest
of the world in our famous revo
lution, Perhaos the students
could well afford lo revolt. I
don't really expect this lo hap
pen, of course.
The tax, probably intended as
a nuisance more than anything
else (something like a mocking
slap in the face), is imposed nei
ther on students in dormitories
nor on the obviously favored
fraternities. The tax is paid by
the unorganized, poor (that’s the
rub) and unsupported downtown
independents. This. I think, is
significant. No doubt it is un
just.
At least this taxation is under
standable. It’s the old story of
get all vou can from the sucker
who will pay. Probably the frat
ernities took care of this prob
lem a Ion" time ago.
And the University, despite its
role as defender and protector
of ihe rights and morals of the
students, couldn't be expected
to lose political good standing
by Protecting its students' rights
beyond the gale on College
Avenue.
I think a great deal more re
mains to be said, but at the
moment I’m too disgusted to
continue. I hope the Collegian
can find room for this much
without having to cut it beyond
recognition and sensibility.
—James J. Bruce, '6O
YOU HANS ONTO IT FOR ME, BUT
DON’T GIVE ir TO ME EVEN IF I
BEG YOU FOR IT' NO MATTER
WHAT I TELL YOU, DONT GIVE
IT BACK TO ME!! r-H
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f I THINK IVE
•CHANGED Mr
MtNhJUJANT IT
NO NO
Partisan of Boucke Readers Protest
Replies to Column' Ed Council Report
TO THE EDITOR: Mr. Drayne TO THE EDITOR: There seem#
has used his sarcastic wit to ex- to be a serious misunderstand
press the typical thinking of ing in regards to the>Jsducation
those liberal arts students—those Student Council’s views con
romantics —who emerge “ . . . cerning the open class program,
from the stately hollows of It has been reported by Tha
Sparks Building with a subtle Collegian that the council is not
but unmistakable air of self- in favor of this policy. This is
confidence and poise." erroneous. Last semester the
T . council voted the approval and
It is no wonder then, that t of the p!an HIJ
these students greet the Boucke The question put before tha
Men . . . with some mixture Council last Tuesday night
of tolerance and contempt.” I was not the open class program
think however, that whatever itself as reported in The Col
tolerance and contempt they legian. Rather, we were pre
may have is directed not at the sented with a plan whereby pro-
Boucke Men but rather at them- fessors from all nine colleges
selves for their inability to es- would be asked to list the topics
cape from the utopian world in of their lectures for the coming
which they walk. week. These lists would be com-
Is this failure to be realistic a piled hy the presidents of tha
characteristic of maturity? Is colleges and posted on “Se
this knowledge of an almost dead zel u mo o ,? u j in ® bulletin
philosophy a contribution toward board each Monday morning,
the advancement of civilization? This is the plan which was
No, Mr. Drayne, I am afraid not favored by the Education
that the scholars to whom you Student Council. Council mem
refer have chosen the liberal bers felt that with all nine col
arts curriculum only because leges represented on the bul
they have no idea of what use- letin board, the size of the lists
ful function they wish to per- alone would discourage students
form, and that the only deep from looking for an extra class
and challenging question which to attend. The council also felt
they may ask themselves is, that if a student had a genuine
“Why didn’t I think twice?” interest in a certain lecture or
But the Boucke Men, those professor he would take the in
buffoons, bullies and rousta- itiative himself ana, after check
bouts, will determine your life, ”*8 with the professor, attend
Mr. Drayne—and the lives of the class,
all who adhere to your way of The alternate plan proposed
thinking. And so, Mr. Drayne, by the Education Student Coun
as you walk through life writ- cil was to post the lectures for
ing your silly ditties and con- one college each week. It was
tributing to the advancement of not to open the classes of just
the modern mind, you will find one college each week as re
that the stares which you re- ported by The Collegian,
ceive are not because you are a Perhaps before criticizing, Tha
liberal arts student pondering Collegian should be sure of what
some question, but because you they are criticizing.
forgot your pants.
—Robert H. Schimmel, '6O
ACROSS SO To the
1 ‘Where Grace „ degree.
Kelly lives. 51 Made an error
7 Letter. appear right by
14 Pike of minimizing
Pikes Peak. (with "over”).
15 More audible. 54 College degrees.
Id Cracker. 55 “ Lindo"
17 Football players, (Beautiful
18 Baba, Heaven):
19 Allure. Spanish song,
21 Fighter-actor 57 Subject to trial
Lee —. In court.
22 and zags. 59 Attired.
24 Pot herb. 60 Empowers.
25 Map, 61 Sen. Hill and
26 Search for. namesakes,
27 _ suit, 62 Removes the
28 Liszt or Schubert. upper decks
29 Poisonous gas. of a ship.
81 The fundamentals DOWN
of educations 1 More friable.
2 words. 2 Does a favors
S 3 Action. Collotr.
35 Shout. 3 Almond.
36 Wisconsin’s 4 Inter
capital, 5 Continent:
39 Certain Chopin Abbr.
compositions. 6 “ ,i>acklr
43 Christmas song. mjr shoe:”
44 Pleasant. 2 words.
46 Easterner in the 7 Well-known
_ West: Slang. Charlie.
47 Bow: Comb. g Choose.
t? 1 ™; , 9 Transmitted.
48 Crooked, 10 Held & session,
49 Ireland. II Hj
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RIGHT.
HERS..
THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 19. 1959
Weekly Crossword Puzzle
—Jacquelynne Myers, '6O
—Carole Cen, '6O
interstice
12 Natives o.
Stuttgart.
13 Substitute.
14 Magda’s sister.
20 Part of a plant
23 Old-fashioned
“scram!”
25 Introductory
movement ol
fugue,
27 Letters.
28 Wool fabric.
neither woven
or knitted.
30 Actor Hamilton.
32 An instrument
as the clarinet
34 Flowering trees.
36 A cocktail.
87 Bowmen.
38 Conjunctions.
40 Lasting.
41 Things to be
eaten,
42 Perceives,
43 Strike out
45 Pearl maker
48 Modify,
51fSq'off.
52 Singer Berger.
53 Mexican' presi
dent,, 1876-191 L
56 Considerable
number: Colloij.
58 Presidential
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