PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion The Pollution-Go-Round The University is getting a "big run-around" from the State Department of Health on the controversial fish killing issue. Time and time again the University has asked the state officials not to only place the blame on the University but to show the University the cause of the killings. Albert E. Diem, vice president for business adminis tration and a comparative newcomer on the University scene, has repeatedly asked state sanitary engineer offi cials or other members of the health department to pro vide the University with evidence that it killed the fish in Spring Creek. The only reply he receives is that the University is to blame for the killings. It would seem only logical that once an accusation is made, the accuser has the responsibility to prove and show evidence of its accusations. The University's sewage plant is polluting the stream through its discharges of waste, according to the State Health department, but the Uni versity has never been told how the state came to its conclusions. In a series of replies to letters last week between University and state health officials, nothing was gained except hard feelings and widespread publicity o'f the Uni versity's seeming feud with the state. The Spring Creek streams are important to the resi dents of the state, especially the sportsmen. Through the state hatcheries located on the streams they provide the rest of the state with trout stockings. No one, including the University, wants to see these harmless and unsuspect ing fish killed by pollution. The next move lies with the state—to accept its responsibility as an accuser and supply the University with concrete and specific evidence that it was the Uni versity's sewage plant which caused the killings. Ignore the Loan Fund The University has been granted $24,120 under the now-famous "loyalty oath" loan program of the National Defense Education Act. The act provides that a student desiring a loan must disclaim by affidavit belief in or support of groups advo cating overthrow of the government by force. The loyalty oath clause of the loan program is now under heavy fire from educators across the country, and a total of five bills asking its repeal have been introduced in Congress. The opposition which has so quickly sprung up across the nation against the oath is easily understandable. There are three solid reasons why the oath is objectionable: • It is insulting to ask any United States citizen to sign an oath of allegiance to the country—insulting because it implies without reason that his patriotism Could be questioned and asks him to reaffirm a quality which should be taken for granted in every citizen. • The oath clause is aimed at foiling enemies of the United States government, but it is highly doubtful it could succeed in so doing because any such person who wanted a loan would not be likely to hesitate to sign the oath. If someone is planning violent overthrow of our government, it is hard to imagine his conscience balking at a loyalty oath. o The provisions of this particular act seem to single out students as a group particularly dangerous to na tional security. Not all government loans require the signing of such an oath—why should students be picked out as suspects? Congress should take the initiative and repeal the loyalty oath. Unless it is repealed, students should ignore the loan fund as though it didn't exist. Fifty-four Years of Student Editorial Freedom Otte Batty Tutirgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, eat. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Deily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-clan matter July I. 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1973. Mall Subscription Priest 33.00 per semester MOO per rear. ROBERT FRANKLIN Editor 4/))1" STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Bobbi terine: Copy Editor, Carol Blakeslee; Wire Editor. Toni Eitgler: Assistants, John Black. Judy Grundy. Karyl duChacek, Sue Hill. Janet Beahan, Katie Delis. Toro De Pietro, Joel Myers; Carol Fhgark. AIM Telehholts, Barbara Laney. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA ROBERT PICCONE Business Manager Letters Track Crowd Seen Possible TO THE EDITOR: The Penn State-Manhattan IC4A feud has created tremendous interest in their dual meet at Penn State in May. I'm sure The Daily Col legian, in cooperation with other leading groups on campus, could help turn out the largest group of students ever to attend a collegiate track meet held on campus. Why not choose a worthwhile charity and sell tickets to the meet, say for fifty cents. The charity would benefit; the track team would have the all-out sup port of the student body (prob ably for the first time in history) and the lucky ticket holders can witness a hotly contested meet. Move the meet into New Bea ver Field, if it isn't already sched uled there, and pack the place. If you want to have a little more fun get the Blue Band out and pick an IC4A queen! Sincerely, —Larry Foster, '4B President, Penn State Club of Northern New Jersey Gazette TODAY ACE, Joint meeting with county ACE in State College, 7:30 p.m., in front of • HUB AIM Judicial Board, I p.m., 218 HUB mug Yonder Workshop, I,_ p.m., 203 Wit• • lard - . . Camera Club. .7:30 p.m., 212.218 HUB - Chess Club, 7 p.m., 7 Sparks Christian Fellowship. 12:30 p.m., 218 HUB Dancing Clam, 4:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m., HUB ballroom DOC Student Council, 8:30 p.m., 218 RUB Journalism Department, 7 p.m., 214-216 HUB, 8:15 p.m., Main Lounge HUB ROTC Committee, 6:30 p.m., 217 HUB TIM. 7 p.m., 203 HUB Weider Foundation, 7 p.m., Kappa Ph! Women's Choir, 6 p.m , HUB aasembly MMIM,MMiI vanced, 7 p.m., White Hall WSGA, 6:30 p.m., 216 HUB Zoology Club, guest speaker from USDA on summer employment with the De partment of Agriculture, 7 p.m., 112 Buckhout Camp Interviews The following camps will Interview at the Student Employment Service, 112 Old Main. Appointments must be made in advance. Clear Pool Camp, Camel, N.Y., (Men), Mar. 13. Jewish Memorial Center in Altoona. Pa., (Men and Women for Day Camp). Mar Camp Woodlands, Bridgeton, Me, Mom. en). Mar. 17. Camp Quinibeek, Vt., (Women), Mar. 19 5 Councils-- (Continued from page one) offices of president, vice presi dent and recording secretary re spectively. Other officers of the Mineral Industries Student Council are Michael Bonaroti, junior in min eral preparation engineering from Oakmont. vice president an d Harry Chambers, junior in min eral economics from Pittsburgh, secretary-treasurer. Other officers elected in the Home Economics Council are Elizabeth Eagelman, sophomore in home economics from Womels dorf, vice president; Linda Brin sley, sophomore in home eco nomics from Pittsburgh, secre tary; and Judy Geary, freshman in home economics from Williams port, treasurer. In the Chemistry-Physics Stu dent Council. new officers include Walton Davis, junior in physics from Harbor Creek, vice presi dent, and Stephen Brown, sopho more in chemical engineering from Indiana, secretary-treasurer. Other officers elected in the Agriculture Student Council are Ray LeVan, junior in agriculture economics and rural sociology from Catawissa, vice president; Carol Frank, junior in landscape architecture from Wilkinsburg, secretary; and John Yocum, soph more in agronomy from Cata wissa, treasurer. Student Found Guilty Of Disorderly Conduct Jean Sease, junior in electrical engineering from Jenkintown, was found guilty of disorderly conduct yesterday in a hearing before Justice of the Peace Guy G. Mills. Sease pleaded guilty to charges of breaking a window and caus ing a disturbance in the area be hind Danks clothing shop at 1:35 tint yesterday. He was charged - $5O fine and costs and ordered to pay restitu tion for damages. Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible, „- ,'....., ,7 , .. , , f43 .1.'6 41. • 14 tS ;1.23/233 "NO. that's not my chalk drawer! .. . that's whets I keep my test papers." - Washington Congress Resolves; Used to Have Duels WASHINGTON (iP)—ln some countries, if you don't like the way things are going, you grow yourself a beard or go throw rocks at an embassy. In this nation it's usually simpler, though less dramatic You pass a resolution. Statistics aren't available, but we must hold the resolution-passing record. Get few of us together, and in stantly we're in a "Be it fur ther resolved" mood. Last Wednesday's issue of the "Congressional Record" il lustrates the point. Five pages, mostly in small type, are needed to present the resolutions that tell Congress how it should go about its work Although this isn't always true, most of this listing of pe titions come from state legis latures. They evidently have a few solutions left over from their own work, and so are happy to pass them on to Con gress. Take Wyoming. Its legisla tors seem to have been worry ing about the federal income tax—as who hasn't?—and have come up with a simple resolu tion: Let's abolish it. No suggestion as to where the money would come from then. But no matter. There's plenty of time for plenty of resolutions if it ever happens. Alabama wants an amend ment to protect states' rights, Idaho would like to protect the cobalt industry; Colorado pEANtypi DID VDU NO.. GEE, WHAT DO YOO fr ir. L EIBRA R VER FIND BOOK YOUR "MINK WILL.HAPPEN? ii CHARLIE MN? 5.4 Ili ik c 7'..- • Y I I , # , - E a t 11 1 PA 4 -:-."." rittetitit '' 2 "" 4Z.: ... 1, 'Tii ". " = ''' 1111 9 1 . 11 111iiiii ~ . DO - ..... '. lig trn t 3''. ---, . 61 :." .. .-.. r.. , ......1.105e... . •11 WELL, I'LL TELL YOU...(II4ENEVER WHAT'S T - THE HEARING v IT'S ONE MAN AGAINST AN 0 THE OF A GREAT IRON INSTITUTION, THERE IS ALWAYS MATTER:7 ALLAYS STNS ME! I A TENDENCY FOR THE INSTITUTION ' 1 70 COIN! x e el. . 3 . •). 4 10 - . , -. lisrl. _ : ~...., ....• •..... as • 0 ea, Z a . •• • .... ithaligialliiikelefilifilla 1.10...i a2.11 ket IS B =ll a 1 WEDNESDAY. MARCH 11. 1959 4 -4 , ft 4- 6 , 1 1 74 7 'nl;(l's2 Le s I By ARTHUR EDSON thinks it i i - time to start mois ture studies in the Great Plains region. But the nice thing about the petition game is that anybody can play. So the city of Mayfield Heights, Ohio, gets in its 10 cents worth. It says Congress should call off the 10 per cent tax on phone calls. The Houma-Terrebonne, La., Chamber of Commerce be lieves that two bayous in that neighborhood should be de clared non-navigable. Probably most of us today, including legislators, prefer to c on fi n e our gunplay to TV Westerns. But in the not so good old days, politicians not only shot off their mouths; they also shot at each other. Some of our best names were involved, too. A man, who was to become president, A n d r e w Jackson, killed a man who allegedly had made wisecracks about Mrs. J. _ _ A man who had been vice persident, Aaron Burr, killed (Continued on page five)
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