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Editorial Opinion
Political Reorganization
Must Take Place Now
The establishment of a Legislative Assembly to re
place All-University Cabinet as the top student law
making group will mean not only a big change for student
government but a new concept in campus politics.
Until now, politics has been almost completely
divorced from student government. Except for the junior,
sophomore and freshman class presidents, all the members
of Cabinet have usually been seniors. Therefore, the
political parties which secured their election had little to
say about their activities while in office, since when their
tenure of office was ended, the seniors' political careers
were also at an end.
In the new Assembly, however, seniors will make up
only 29 per cent of the group, while juniors will make up
26 per cent; sophomores, 24 per cent; and freshmen, 21
per cent
This means that 71 per cent of the Assembly mem
bers will be at the beginning or in the midst of their
campus political careers. They will have been nominated
and helped to office by their parties on platforms they
are pledged to fulfill. The parties, of course, will attempt
to see that the platforms are fulfilled by using the only
weapon at their disposal—the key to the student leaders'
political future on campus. Regardless of a provision for
self-nomination for election to the Assembly, the parties
will hold most of the cards.
Coupled with this new power in the parties is the new
hands-off policy adopted by both All-University Elections
Committee and Cabinet. Parties are no longer to be re
stricted as to the amounts they may spend hi campaigns
nor is there any longer a strict, enforceable Elections Code.
With these changes, the political parties cannot pos-
sibly remain the same. They will become more mature—.
or less mature.
The parties must realize these alternatives. The mem
bers must accept their new responsibilities. Too often in
the past the party has been merely a vehicle for electing
students to office; consequently, too little attention has
been paid to the selection of party officers with the result
that many, but fortunately not all, campaigns have been
mismanaged.
And the inactive period between campaigns will not
exist any longer. The party steering committees will not
fold up their work after the elections are over, but will
be exercising what control they can over the actions of
their candidates after the candidates begin their terms in
office.
But perhaps even more important—and this should
be realized now that nominations for candidates will soon
take place—is the fact that the candidates themselves
will have to take a really functional interest in the control
of their parties. They will find it to their advantage to
have more than a slight hand in platform making, in the
conduct of campaigns and in other party activity.
If parties fail to accept their new responsibilities,
politics will remain the childish, pointless game it has
sometimes become in the past.
If, on the other hand, the parties grow in maturity
and scope, politics and student government will become
even more useful to student welfare and will prove to be
truly a training ground for future citizenship.
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Letters
WDFM Denial
Called Injustice
TO THE EDITOR: If the Board
of Trustees unwisely kills the
possibility of having a campus
AM station, they will be doing a
great injustice to the Class of
1958 as well as to the present
and future students of this Uni
versity.
The University has absolutely
nothing to lose by giving the stu
dents an AM station, and much
to gain. Such a facility would be
extremely valuable to the stu
dents, their organizations and
their student government, not to
mention the effect it would have
on school spirit.
Using WMAJ's facilities on a
contract basis stands to benefit
only WMAJ and to hamstring
WDFM. By taking this course of
action, the Trustees will sentence
the future of WDFM to that of
status quo, sacrifice the interest
of the students, and disregard the
expressed intentions of the Class
of 1958. It is now the responsi
bility of every student and fac
ulty member who wants a better
Penn State to protest this action,
—Thomas A. Decker, '62
•Letter Cut
Champs Deserved
Better Recognition
TO THE EDITOR: The reception
that the gym team received at
Recreation Hall Monday afternoon
was so bad that I am almost
ashamed to admit that I am a
part of such a student body. It is
hard to imagine that out of a stu
dent body of 14,000 students only
50 would show up to welcome
back the National Champions.
Whether this is tide to ignor
ance on the students' part as (to)
when they were coming or the
lack of spirit I am not sure, but
It seems that the latter is the
case. The time was publicized in
the Collegian and broadcast over
the radio. I am sure that not all
of the remaining 13.950 students
had classes or couldn't spare ten
minutes to give their fellow stu
dents the recognition they de
serve.
—Richard Doyle, '6l
Gazette
TODAY
Christian Fellowship, 12:30 p.m., 213 HUB
Ed Student Council. 6:30 urn 212 HUB
Freshman Regulations Board, 12:30 p.m.,
212 HUB
German Club, 7:30 p.m., Helen Eakin Ei
senhower Chapel lounge
Judicial. 5:15 p.m., 217 HUB
Newman Club, Mised-marriage Instruct
tions, 7:13 p.m., Student Center
Science Fiction Club. 7 p.m.. 211 HUB
Wesley Foundation, Communion 5:15 p nto
choir rehearsal 6'15 p.m., Wesley Foun
dation
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Speaker's Outlines Available
Outlines are available at the
Hetzel Union desk for all those
participating over the vacation
period in the High School Speak
ers Program, sponsored by the
Senior Class Advisory Board.
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bible/
e ain't so tough—l'da got a strait 'A' if if
been for that stupid shop course."
www colleg
hadn't
et cetera
Poets
Penn
I never even knew A. E. Housman, the poet, had ever
visited the HUB Lion's Den, let alone written lines about
it. - But evidently he has, or I miss my guess.
A few lines from his "Terence, This is Stupid Stuff,"
were enough to convince me that Mr. Housman had the
Lion's Den in mind. Frinstance,
could he be talking about any
thing except the Den juke box
when he says:
"We poor lads, 'tie our turn
now
To hear such tunes as killed
the cow."
And could h
thing but
quoting a
HUB regular
upon his en
trance to the
Den in:
"And noth
ing now re
mained to do
But begin
the game a
new."
He doesn't
neglect the
coffee - server FINEMAN
in the Den during the break
fast hour, either:
" 'Tis true, the stuff I bring
for sale
Is not so brisk a brow as ale:
Out of a stem that scored
the hand
I wrung it in a weary land.
But take it: if the smack is
sour,
The better for the embittered
hour."
Mr. Housman evidently ran
into a few BMOCs while here,
too, and he recorded his
thoughts on them when they
finally recognized his presence:
"'Tis late to hearken, late to
smile,
ammo
r CARON IN, I
LINUS..I I VE GOT
SOMETHING TO
61400) YOU.. ,
S .
elide
AA.kot
ACCORDING TO LATEST
SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, TI-{E
WORLD lei'T ROUND. 115
PEAR- %APED!
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1959
I mmortalize
State
by Dave Fineman
But better late than never:
I shall have lived a little
while
Before I die for ever."
Robert Frost, too, must have
paid his visit to Penn State. In
fact, it seems he followed
through on a case of a couple
of freshmen caught drinking at
a fraternity house. First'he re
corded their delight while in
the bar:
"We make ourselves a place
apart
Behind light words that tease
and flout.
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really
out."
And then, in the same poem,
their appeal to the Board of
Control for leniency:
" 'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to in
spire
Th e understanding . of a
friend."
Ironically and finally in the
next stanza, the frosh find out
that some of their own num
ber, who were rushing a 'rival
house, had ratted on them and
they wail:
"But so with all, from babes
that play
At hide-and-seek to God
afar,
So all who hide too well
away
Must speak and tell us whero
they are."
A GLOBE! 11'S SOMETHING
I'VE ALWAYS WANTED..
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