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Editorial 0 • inion
Take an Extra Step
Students have frequently tried to make changes on
campus, offtime with little success. But there is one phase
in which they have a lot of influence—creating new walks.
Workmen have almost a year-round job paving and
building new walks which have been created by students
taking shortcuts.
Contrary to some prevailing opinion, the shortest
distance between two classes is not necessarily across
every lawn between the two locations
Students complain that with all the construction in
progress and being planned there will be no more greens
left to beautify campus. They say this while trapsing
across the lawn fronting Old Main.
With each new path, a new walk is built. Workmen
must be paid; materials bought. More money is nseded.
Student fees are raised. State taxes rise to give more funds
to the University.
Ridiculous? True. But a couple extra steps to stay on
the walk would be a good gesture on everyone's part.
More Recognition
Presentation of the Horatio Alger Award to President
Eric A. Walker is just another step along the University's
path of outstanding recognition.
The award, of course, is a fitting tribute to Walker
himself, and to the lifetime of work he has devoted to the
science and education fields,
But it has even further meaning. The University is
growing rapidly through the ranks pf the nation's great
educational institutions. And there are no signs of leveling
off.
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T and T Club Stirs Talk in Washington
By ARTHUR EDSON
WASHINGTON (EP)—
Promptly at noon, Speaker
of the House Sam Rayburn
(D-Tex.) pounded his gavel,
and the Thursday to Tues
day Club was in recess
again.
The Thursday to Tuesday
Club is one of the most hush
hush outfits in a secretive
town.
Officially, it doesn't exist.
Even unofficially, no one
would admit membership.
Anyone who lurks around
the House soon learns that im
portant business rarely is
scheduled either for Mondays
or Fridays.
Unless he has committee
meetings to keep him here, a
York, Connecticut or New
congressman from, say New
Jersey can get borne in time
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
GEORGE McTURK
Business Manager
for dinner Thursday night and
not have to be back in Wash
ington until the House meels
at noon Tuesday.
Recently these T. to T. com
muters were brought up by
Rep. Glenn Cunningham (R.
of Omaha, Neb.)
"It would be to the benefit
of the taxpayers, it seems to
me, if Congress would meet
for five or six days a week,
get the necessary work done,
and then adjourn," Cunning
ham said in a newsletter to his
constituents.
Other congresmen also have
complained, mostly in private,
but four years ago Rep. H. R.
Gross (R. of Waterloo, Iowa),
brought the subject up in a
floor debate with the Demo
cratic leader, Rep. John Mc-
Cormack of Dorchester, Mass.
Their exchange included
this:
Gross "Mr. Speaker, have
we not progressed ter enough
British Gamble;
Agree to Aid
Kassem Army
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Great Britain, by agreeing to
modernize the Iraqi army, is
gambling that Gen. Abdel Karim
Kassem will be willing and able
to defend himself and her oil
against either the' Communists or
the Nasserites.
The move has been assessed on
both sides of the ocean as a cal
culated risk which the British,
skilled in Iraqi politics, believe
worth taking.
Communists already have in
filtrated the Kassem govern.
ment to a large degree. There
is a possibility that they can do
the same in the army, and
eventually take it away from
Kassem if he chooses a show
down.
Nasserite elements already have
staged revolts in northern Iraq
and armed Russian-Kurds have
been exported by Moscow to ag
gravate this situation by further
disturbances.
There is always the possibility
that one of these elements•might
one day seize the arms and the
army and use them against Mid
dle Eastern friends of the West
after forcing Iraq into the Soviet
sphere.
The British also are gambling
with their newly improved re
lations with Egypt, which have
brought about negotiations in
several fields for renewal of
their traditional commercial re
lations.
Cairo propaganda already is
taking the line that military help
for Iraq represents a kind of re
venge for Suez.
On the other side of the picture
is the knowledge that if Britain
does not continue furnishing arms,
which the Iraqi's prefer because
they are accustomed to them, Kas
sem will be forced to turn to the
Communist bloc.
The next logical step after
that, from Kassem's standpoint,
would Le to nationalize the oil
wells now operated by foreign
interests, primarily British, in
order to pay Moscow. That
would be a blow felt through
out the West.
Kassem's attitude toward the
Western oil concessions undoubt
edly has played a great part in
the British arms decision.
Gazette
TODAY
AIM Judicial Board. 7 p.m., 21R HUB
Hata Gamma Sigma, 5 :30 p m., 21R HUB
Camera Club, 7:30 p.m., 212 HUB
Prof. Case Lecture Series, 7 p In., 104
Chapel
Chem-Phys Student Council. 7 p.m.. 212
HUB
Chess Club. 7 p m., 7 Sparks
Christian Fellowship. 12:40 p.m.. 21g HUB
Hat Society Council. 7 p m . 216 HUB
Home Economics Extension, 1-5 p m , 214
US
LaVie Photo Staff, 6:110 p.m., LaVie Office
Newman Club Choir Practice, 7 :30 p.m.,
Our Lady of Victory Church
Orientation Counselors (Men), 6:30 p.m.,
111 Boticke
Penn School Study Council, 2 p.m., 21S
HUB
TIM, 7 p m , 203 HUB
Women's Choir, 6 p.m., HUB assembly
room
WSGA, 6:30, 217 HUB -
in this session so that we can
abandon the Thursday to
Tuesday Club and work once
in a while on Friday, meeting
at noon on each day? I hope •
the gentlemen will give some
consideration to those who live
a thousand miles away from
our homes and who are stuck
here each weekend."
McCormack —"This talk
about the Thursday to Tues
day Club has no foundation,
and there is no basis for any
such statement, because when
I draw up a program there is
always legislation that is not
controversial. I put that down
on a Monday, rather than on
a Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. Any responsible
leader would do that."
Well, Gross didn't get far,
and Cunningham doesn't ex
pect to, either . . For Congress
is habit-forming, and a legis
lative addict is the worst ad
dict there is.
Little Man on Campus by Dick tibiae
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"I see they've patched things up."
How 'bout That?
Vacation Is Near—
We're Ready For It
The library is suddenly crowded. Last-minute
preparations for handing in term papers are being made.
Lots of cramming for finals. "Who has the most finals in
the least amount of time," seems to be the major topic of
discussion.
But behind all these worries is the pleasant thought
of summer vacation and the
students' plans of three months
of study-less-ness.
Study - less - ness is a new
term, my own, but an appro
priate one for
almost every
student wh o
will leave,
bag and bag- •
g a g e, within ,
the next few
weeks for va
rious destina
tions. It seems A
to be the only jt
term that
gives all of us MISS FLECK
the energy to pull through
finals and it may connotate
many things depending upon
how each student spends his
or her summer.
It could mean evenings at
Somer's Point a f ter a long
day's work at waitressing or
bussing tables. It may also
mean soaking up every ray of
seashore sun when you are not
putting in work-hours.
It may mean playing mother,
father, sister and brother to a
bunch of kids at camps in the
cool mountains—teaching songs
and learning to like snails,
snakes, and other infamous
creatures. and running off to
the big city on time-off to get
a glimpse of the civilized world
once again.
And then there are the more
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1959
by cathy fleck
unfortunate ones ' who will
wake each morning to the
strains of reveille- long before
the sun comes up in some• tor
rid ROTC summer camp.
There are some lucky .Navy
students who will see faraway
places on summer cruises.
Hot cities—air conditioned
office buildings—the constant
sound of typewriter keys—this
is another, way that many will
be spending their summer.
All these phases of summer
life and many more make up
the field of study-less-ness.
They do not all denote leisure
and freedom from hard work,
but they are far removed from
life at Penn State.
Removed from the constant
rushing to and from classes,
rushing to get assignments
completed, and projects hand
ed in. Removed from partici
pating in student activities,
the feeling of intense respon
sibility to others who are
higher above the student body,
and the feeling of relief when
TGIF comes around at the end
of every week. -
Three months of study-less
ness—a vacation greatly need
ed by every student after a
year of University life. For
the seniors, it will be perma
nent.
But the rest of us, if my
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