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Editorial Opinion
Selection of Chairmen
Must Be Done Fairly
Are committee chairmen appointments going to be
based on experience and interest or will the trend turn
to interest alone? This question is posed in view of a
recommendation that will go before the Assembly tomor
row night.
The Executive Cabinet will ask the Assembly to ap
pruve a recommendation it has made for the Elections
Commission chairman of the 1959-60 academic year.
And this recommendation directly conflicts with one
made by this year's commission chairman, Lynn Ward.
This action is unfair both to Miss Wat d and to Stanley
Foster whom Miss Ward had recommended. While a chair
man can only recommend a successor, she is the most
qualified person to say who can best fill her position.
The differences between Foster and Vincent Marino,
Cabinet's choice, are not those of character and personality.
The most outstanding difference, that which qualifies
Foster for the position, is that he has served for two years
on the commission—a certain indication of his knowledge
of the committee's functions,
While Marino has expressed the desire to head the
commission and would do his best in that position, he has
never served on it. It is questionable that Marino's best
would or could exceed the knowledge of its workings that
Foster now has.
In view of these facts, Cabinet, by going against Miss
Ward's recommendation, has indicated that it does not
feel she is capable of naming a successor.
Action such as this, which puts a person unfamiliar
with a commission as its head, will certainly result in a
lack of initiative on the part of its members to strive for
the chairmanship. If persons are chosen from outside a
committee's membership, there is a certain injustice
prevalent in this selection, provided there is someone
well-qualified for the position within the commission.
Experience is the best pre-requisite for any job which
entails leadership. And recommendations are usually made
by the chairmen for the person whom they think could
best serve in that capacity,
If this pre-requisite is disregarded, as it has been in
this case, Cabinet is placing itself in a position to judge
qualifications without actually having been acquainted
with the performance of the recommended person.
Cabinet has turned thumbs down on a worthwhile
recommendation. It has given to itself the power of
determining chairmen by capability alone and not past
performance. It has taken away from the committee chair
men their right to determine qualified successors.
And what is worse, it can give no substantial reasons
for having acted as it did, since it has no substantial
evidence against Foster.
It k up to the Assembly tomorrow night to investigate
this recommendation and to then act accordingly.
Unless there is complete justification for Cabinet's
recommendation, the Assembly should see to it that the
chairmanship goes to the most qualified person. And ex
perience is a qualification that cannot be disregarded if
the Assembly wants to have a smooth functioning Elec
tions Commission.
A Student-Operated Newspaper
MR Battu Tollrgiatt
Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887
Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The
Daly Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter
July S. 1931 at the Elate College, Pa Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879.
Mail Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year.
DENNIS MALICK GEORGE McTURK
Editor ' 47l° ' Business Manager
Managing Editor. William Jaffe; Assistant Editor. Catherine Fleck; Public
Relations Director. Loin Neuharth; Copy Editor, Roberta Levine; Sports Editor,
Sandy Padree; Assistant Sports Editor. John Black; Photography Editor, Martin
&herr; Member, Board of Editors. Robert Thompson.
Local Ad Mgr., Sherry Kennel; Ass% [meal Ad Mgr.. Darlene Anderson; Credit
Mgr.. Mary Ann Tittle: Nationai Ad Mgr., Lelia Uhler; Ciasaified Ad Mgr.,
SUB Man: Co• Circulation Mgrs., Loretta Mink. Murray Simon; Promotion
Mgr„ Rutn Briggs; Special Mgr.. Alice Mahachek; Personnel Mgr., Dorothy
timeal; Office Secretary. Bonnie Bailey; Research and Records, Margaret Crimped°.
STAFF TII ISSUE: Night Editor, Nit.ld WoHord: Copy Editor, Jim Whalen;
Wire Ell , tor, Zeituly Slosinn: As.istante, Janet Denham, Sue 11111 * Dick Culdbeig,
Carol Fagan, Suiten Weinman, Muria* Colfax.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Letters
Soph Defends
'Smuggler'
TO THE EDITOR: It was with
interest that I read of today's
"smuggling" episode in The Daily
Collegian. Previous to today's
edition of the Collegian I had
talked to the girl in question,
and I got quite a different story.
There was little reason to dis
believe the story that the girl re
lated to me, for the same had
been related to friends on her
floor and the head hostess. The
story in the Collegian appears to
be an amusing distortion of what
really happened.
While talking to the person
who "—faces charges of 'smug
gling'—", I learned that at least
three members of the staff of
the Collegian are residents on
the same dormitory floor as she,
but no attempt was made by a
Collegian reporter to interview
the girl.
The news story appears to have
been gathered from hearsay or
rumors. The least that could have
been done to obtain a reasonable
account of the disturbance would
have been to call or interview
the girl herself.
Sensationalism might be got
ten from hearsay or rumor, but is
news obtained in this manner?
Apparently the Collegian "repor
ter" who "covered" the story be
lieved so. Perhaps the senate
subcommittee on student affairs
will get the story straight!
There is also something to be
said about the girls who reported
their classmate. Normally we ex
pect human beings to help other
humans who are in difficult situ
ations. but in this case we hear
of two coeds being child-like and
irrational.
Had these two girls asked a few
questions and more seriously con
sidered their course of action, the
situation might not be as grave
as it appears to be.
Certainly a method of getting
rid of the intruder might have
been improvised and carried out,
but two of the so-called "women
of Penn State," not thinking of
the gravity of the situation, saw
fit to make an attempt at de
stroying the good name of one
of their classmates,
—Matthew J. Hillsman, '6l
(Editor's Note: Dean of Women
Pearl 0. Weston said last night
that the information in the Col
legian story agreed with that
which the coed told her during a
private interview.)
Gazette
Arc Ed Wives. 7 10 pm , Home of Mis.
Gle7un Z. Stevens
Agronomy, 6 13 p m , 215 HUB
AIM, 7 p.m 203 HUB
AIM Judicial Board, 7 p.m , 213 HUB
ASAE. 7 p ni , 206 Ag En g
Cabinet Social Committee, 5.15 p m , HUB
Chess Club. 7 p m . 7 Sparks
Christian Fellov.t,hip, 12:10 p.m., 218 HUB
(TIC. 7 p 213 HUB
Freshman Advisory Board, 7 p.m.. 217 HUB
Marketing Club. 6:15 p m . 212 11U13
Nittany Grotto. 7 p m , 121 MI
Rack Climbing Division FSOC, 7 p.m. 81 7
Willard
Sociology Club, 7:10 p m , 214 HUB
Women's Choir, 6 p m., Hetzel Union as
sembly room
Irwin Blank, Albert Berger. Vincente
Chi, John Coldren, Joan Fuss, Carolina
Gillespie. Evelyn Gustayson, Lois Hender
son, Leßoy 'shier. Gordon Jones, James
Kridel, Roland Lessard, Victor Makowski,
Lester Mabeile.Y, Hal Miller, Randall
Quinn. Cetard Rcan, Harriet Shapiro. Bar.
barn Sheipman, and James Swartzwelder.
Perkins Says
(Continued from page one)
milling students to live in un
approved residences is the lack
of available room. Until recent
ly, the construction of dormi
tories on campus has been most
ly the replacement of old build
ings.
If students were forbidden to
live in all the places where stand
ards have not been met, he said,
enrollment would be forced to
decrease.
When questioned about the bor
ough housing standards, Alvin R.
Grove, borough health officer,
said State College folloWs the
standards set by the state. These
stndards were last approved Sept.
21, 1923. The standards them
selves are quite obscure and have
been interpreted in many ways in
the past.
Grove said the borough is direct
ly responsible to the State, but is
willing to cooperate with the Uni
versity in any way possible.
TODAY
HOSPITAL
Little Man on Campus by Dick Ebbw.
"Are we mound to grading finals again Professor Snarf?"
Reader Cites
Wife's Aid
TO THE EDITOR: This letter
is devoted to these silent, sel
dom seen little women who
are as much a part of Penn
State as those of us holding
matric cards and-in many in
stances more so.
Degrees are passed out to us
at "State" in recognition of
our accomplishments, but how
about the wives who her help
ing their husbands obtain this
degree? They come and go un
noticed and unrecognized, and
I think unwilling to accept any
praise.
About to close five years of
college life successfully, I look
back now and realize how
much my loving wife has dobe
for me. As a matter of fact,
I'm just finding some avail
able time to sit and talk to
her. I realize that I have been
ignoring her through these
years that I may have an edu
cation.
There have been many
thankless times that she stayed
up late at night with me so
that she could help prepare
for the classes I would be at
tending. She left her work to
listen to my speeches, review
history. give encouragement
and comforting comments on
my progress; she worried and
she prayed with me.
When the daily study ses
sions ended, I retired leaving
the table covered with papers,
open books and notes. The
morning comes and every-thing
was neatly in order. Misplaced
items could be had in a matter
of seconds.
Wives understand so well
what we husbands are going
through that they try to over
look our tensions and thought
less tempers at exam time.
They are relieved when the
tests are over, because more
than anything else they want
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Students Hit
Photo Policy
TO THE EDITOR: I read with
interest your editorial concern
ing the ejection of a photo
grapher from E. E. Cummings
lecture last Friday.
It would seem that the Col
legian is more interested in
standing up for its "rights"
than it is in maintaining its
standards of good taste.
As stated in your editorial,
the photographer had a right
under the law to take his pie
ture. However, a newspaper
in exercising these rights as
sumes the far greater respon
sibility of not abusing them.
Mr. Cummings had ex
pressed a strong desire that
no pictures be taken of him
during his visit to the campus.
Whatever his reasons for
this wish, they should have
been respected unless the pub•
lie interest demanded other. ,
wise.
If the Collegian editors con•
sidered the event so newswor
thy, one should think they
might have devoted at least a
few words to it in their Sat
urday paper. The only cover.
age I have found since the lec
ture is the above-mentioned
editorial.
—Frank C. Eliot, '6O
(Editor's Note: It has been fre
quent Collegian policy to use
only a picture as coverage fol
lowing an Artist Series publi
cation.)
TO THE EDITOR: You are
first a student at Penn State
and second a "newspaper
man." Therefore, taking pic
tures of E. E. Cummings is
not a question of legality, but
whether or not we can extend
common courtesy to a distin
guished visitor. Apparently,
some of us cannot.
—David McGrew, '6O