PAGE FOUR
Editorial Opinion
Should
Details
Reorganization
Not since 1939 have student leaders had the oppor
tunity they will enjoy tonight and the next two Thursday
nights
Not in 20 years has student government had laid
before it the plans for a total reorganization.
The opportunity is great. The responsibility is corn-
mensurate
All-University Cabinet last fall adopted a set of prin
ciples advanced by Student Encampment. It established
a committee with the expressed purpose of carrying out
these principles. Two weeks ago it approved the under
lv:ng structure of a governmental system which would put
Cabinet out of business as a legislative group.
But the real test is tonight, when the proposed Con
stitution, and all its fine points, come before the highest
existing student government body.
The proponents of reorganization will face two foes
during the next three Thursday night Cabinet sessions:
Cabinet members opposed to the overall plan and Cabinet
members opposed to certain details of the plan.
Two college student councils already have put them
selves in tt. -...ategory of being "agin" the program's prin
ciples already adopted by Cabinet. With comparatively
little study, they have come out in wholehearted opposi
tion to what they see as a raid on their "private preserve"
of automatic legislative seats for their presidents.
However, what these particular councils consider
their "private preserve" hardly can be labelled as in the
public interest in an expanded student government, es
pecially since college representatives now are elected not
by the general student body of the college, but by the
relatively few members who sit on the college council.
And most council members are elected by very, very
small votes.
The dissenters on details are expected to light on
provisions spelling out the organisation and election of the
legislature. details which have been worked out by the
committee after long discussion and careful planning. By
and large, these details seem to have ben worked out in the
best way by the committee.
This is not to suggest that Cabinet members should
refrain from questioning, suggesting and discussing the
entire program and its details at length. They should. In
fact, they have a responsibility to their constituents to
carefully examine all legislation before them.
But at the same time, Cabinet members tonight
should consider the hundreds of hours of research, com
pilation, weighing of alternatives and planning done by its
reorganization committee.
Cabinet members must make their decisions with
every concern for the completeness of the plan and the
general welfare of the student body it will govern. for the
plan which goes into effect in 1959 must work In 1959.
The need for reorganization is clear. The need—and
the underlying principles fulfilling the need already
have been accepted by Cabinet. Student government can
not allow itself to thwart its most important internal
legislation in years by sandbagging its vital details.
The next few Cabinet meetings call for the highest
qualities in student leadership.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Not Snag
Purposes
ROBERT PICCONE
Business Manager
Letters
Alum Decries
Policies Here
TO THE EDITOR: Having been
away from Penn State for near
ly three years, I was quite hap
py to discover several Daily Col
legians at the Stanford news
paper office.
But upon reading them, what
did I find?—that the Dean of
Women desires to remove empty
whiskey bottles from girls'
dormitories; that male students
are being campused; that town
independents are being taxed to
pay for State College schools;
and that the students in Nittany
dorms are still slopping in mud.
Is it possible that My school
is going backward instead of
forward?
Will the administration ever
discover that the great majority
of Penn State students are ma
ture adults, highly desirous of a
superior education, most cap
able of assuming responsibility
and self-government, but still
very much in need of protection
from over-zealous State College
merchants and tax assessors?
—Philip Green,. '56
Stanford Business School
Stanford. California
HomeEc Courses
Blasted by Reader
TO THE EDITOR: Re: Brenda
Donovan's rabid defense of the
Home Economic college in such
an outlandish and blatant man
ner.
Miss Donovan may have a
point: Mr. Fineman did have
"inadequate knowledge of the
curriculum and its purposes"—
but for her to go on in her dog
matic ways and ask how one is
to become better acquainted
with the various appliances in
the market today without study
ing home ec courses is on the
step of absurdity. •
My suggestion to you, Miss
Donovan, is that you stop in and
see your nearest appliance deal
er —or read the operating in
structions the next time you
buy one of his products. I'm
sure then you would be able
to "become better acquainted
with the more - advanced tech
niques relating to the construc
tion, operation, care and use of
the various appliances on the
market today."
"Maybe then you wouldn't
have to schedule such special
ized courses as H.M.FX. 439
(Home Management), H. M. F. E.
442 (Resident Experience in
Home Management), -F.N. 220
(Meal Management), or Hs. Eq.
213 (House hold Equipment)—,
just to cite a few examples.
Maybe then you would have
more time to schedule courses
that would enable you to uses
your mind more freely and crit
ically (The Arts 1. Humanities
1. International Understanding
300).
These are the types of courses
University Profs
Write ME Text
Norman R. Sparks, head of the
Department of Mechanical Engi
neering, and Charles C. Dillio,
associate professor of mechanical
engineering, nave recently had
their new book, "Mechanical En
gineering," published.
The book is designed not only
for students specializing in re
frigeration but also for those in
terested in basic fundamentals
and application. '
The book is a revision of "The
Theory of Mechanical Engineer
ing." by Sparks.
TIM Swim Party
The Town Independent Men
Council is sponsoring a couple
swim party at the Glennland
Pool from 7 to 9:30 p.m. tomor
row.
This is to be a make-up party
for one that was scheduled earlier
in the semester.
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL
Arnold Bleiereis. Lawrence Brody.-Don
ald Bruce. Fredrick Fernster, Anne Gard
ner, Ray Hansen. Catherine %Bra, Greg
ory Keller. Judith Latch. Priscilla Me-
Cormick, Mary Minkieorieh. Garr Mont
vxnert, Susanne Partisan. Neal Rhoads.
Carole Rubinson. Rafael Santiago, Anita
Sheldrake, Barbara, Slain. Dennis lip.
Itigkir &mud Wilms, Sandra Slam
that will help you broaden your
college years. make them more
interesting, challenging and
meaningful. 1 always thought of
college as a place where you
learned how to think—not as a
trade school where you are
taught how to tuck a baby in
bed or vacuum clean a rug.
If you really want to learn
how to sew, knit, cook, keep
house and manage children, did
you ever think about asking
your mother? I'll bet she's got
all the answers and can give
them to you in a couple of
hours.
—Mike Maxwell, '59
Student Objects
To Job Article
TO THE EDITOR: A news item
on student employment in Eu
rope appeared in The Daily Col
legian on Nov. 12, 1958. The or-
Weekly
ACROSS
1 Chapeaux,
5 Arose: 2 words
10 Star in Cetus,
14 Asian range.
15 Absslom's cousin.
16 "___ broom
sweeps clean."
:2 words.
17 Such and no
more.
18 Lucrative busi
ness :2 words.
20 Like hen's teeth.
22 O'Neill heroine.
23 Adjective for
Reynard.
24 Stone.
26 _ wave,
28 _ Cassidy.
32 Spite.
35 Actress Gardner.
36 Upbraid.
38 Worked in a col.
liery.
39 Baltic native.
41 The Cerman Rip
Van Winkle.
43 Biblical king.
44 Moral,
46 Man'a name.
46 Compass point.
49 Jangle tourney.
SI Randy man. .
53 Mohammedan
Bat.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1959
ganization sponsoring the em
ployment, the American Student
Information Service, invited stu
dent applications.
The writer refers the Colle
gian staff to page 250 of the
Editors and Publishers Year
book for 1955. The Code of Prac
tice reads:
"No advertising will be pub
lished if it is fraudulent, mis
leading, or otherwise harmful."
Had the Collegian staff
checked the reputation of the
American Student Information
Service (ASIS) they would have
found the organization not rec
ommerided by either the Coun
cil on Student Travel or the U,S.
State Department. (See refer
ence librarian's letter, Feb. 13,
1959.)
The writer is irritated over
having invested time and money
in a non-bonafide organization
which got away with having
their "ad" run in The Daily
Collegian.
—William F. Faust, 19
Crossword Puzzle
55 Colloquial potato.
56 Skewer.
58 Dylan Thomas.
60 Lady with the
12 Virginia -spe
cialty.
13 Crooked.
19 Ethel Merman
role.
21 Colonels! Abbr.
25 Hillock'
27 Inter —...
28 Pulls.
29 Mrs. Hobby.
30 Natty Eumppo,
31 Haw white of
careless cow.
64 Members of a
fraternal order:,
2 words,
67 Foreign trade dis•
count.
68 Buttery stuff.
69 Inspiring fear.
70 Penetrating
flavor.
egg.
33 Stop.
34 Turf-cutting tool.
37 Cape Cod scenery.
40 Poetic. headdress.
42 Imagined.
45 Crinkled mate
rial.
47 Biblical king.
50 Small object of
worship,
52 Have thoughts:
54 Moray fisherman.
56 Ship's deck.
57 Useless.
59 Rushed shoat.
61 Seaweed sub.
stance.
71 Marquette.
72 Drift..
73 Briinnhiide's
mother.
DOWN
I Amateur radio
operators.
2 Scotsman's name.
3 Ireland's historic
hill
4 Saw-toothed
range.
5 Fowl fighter.
6 Shoulder: Comb.
form. .
7 River in Kenya..
8 Didn't usually.
9 Old word for st
heathen.
10 Sheep sound
11 Writer of pot.
' boners.
62 Part of a chem.
63 Hindu Recede
system.
65 An iu•wisher.
66 Come out ahead.