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Editorial Opinion
Assembly More Effective
With President in Chair
Conti to the present constitution of the Student
Govei nrnent Association, the SGA president should be
the presiding officer of the Assembly.
Assembly members will he asked tonight to approve
a Student Encampment workshop recommendation giving
the president this power.
The recommendation would return to the highest
student government officer a power that was his prior
to student government reorganization. Under the present
constitution, the SGA vice president is given this power.
Last spring, the authors of the new constitution pre
sented the pros and cons for either officer chairing the
Assembly. They said that with the vice president in charge,
much of the overload of presidential duties would be re
lieved. They also felt that this would better insure the
separation of powers upon which the constitution is based.
Proponents for the president in the chair contended
that he is the focal point for responsibility, he is well in
formed, and he lends an aura of responsibility to student
government.
The result: the vice president was made chairman.
A few months ago those reasons seemed plausible to
the majority of Cabinet. Reorganized student government
had not yet become a reality and ideology played an im
portant part in organization of the present structure.
Now the reorganized system is in operation as speci
fied and there is little room for ideology. A realistic per
spective must be taken when considering remedies for
faults that may have been committed in drawing up the
"best" system.
Encampment members, after careful discussion, felt
that the president should chair the Assembly if student
government was to operate effectively.
Why such a change? Why give the president this
additional power thus making lum the presiding officer
of the executive and legislative bodies?
The SGA president is'elected to the highest position
in student government; he is the highest-ranking repre
sentative of the student body. The Assembly being the
highest student legislative body, should be headed by the
president who is the major link between students and
administration.
With the vice president in the chair, there is imminent
danger in future years that this position will become more
attractive to the most qualified candidate. It is imperative
that student government look to its president for the
highest quality of leadership.
Adoption of this recommendation will not defeat the
separation of powers theory since it is merely switching
two members of the executive branch. Executive and legis
lative branches will remain, and the duties of each will
not be destroyed or altered.
Student government needs good leadership and direct
channels of communication if it is to survive and if it is
to be carried on effectively. The one person to achieve
this is the leader of student government and that leader
is the SGA president.
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Campus Beat
A New Excuse
To Break Date
... in Advance
Well, students, here we are
again in the midst of homecoming
preparations.
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And speaking of preparing for
Homecoming weekend, a friend
of ours got a new excuse from a
prospective date: "I'm sorry, but
I'm going to be sick this week
end," she said.
CM:=l
The saving, "Rome wasn't built
in a day," can't be applied to cam
pus parking regulations. We hear
from a good source that they
were made in one day—or was it
a night mare^
IM:=1
That cordon of cadets that wel
comed the Army team onto the
field Saturday at West Point was
completely spontaneous. Guess
the Cadets couldn't be outdone by
we civilians.
We wonder how much reading
football captain Pat Botula got ac
complished on his flieht to West
Point last Friday? His book
"Courtship and Marriage."
New York may have its ticker
tape welcomes, but well wager '
that State College is the only place
around that gives one with toilet
paper.
Ei:=l
Bet there was a big demand for
the kind of tickets mentioned in
the story on the front page of
yesterday's Cillieqlan!
The most popular movie in town
last night wasn't shown in any
of the town's three movie houses.
It was the film of the Army game
shown in 119 Osmond. Both shows
were standing room only.
How much good are the fences
doing around the University con
struction projects The only
things they keep out are big
trucks and small elephants.
We never knew that the win
ners of residence hall and frater
nity homecoming displays were
more important than the girl who
is this year's homecoming Queen.
Evidentallv the nowers that be at
Beaver Field do. The Queen's
name won't be mentioned over
the public address system Satur
day, but the dorm winners will.
Then there were two coeds last
week who walked from the HUB
to Thompson Hall in the street
because they were deathly afraid
of worms on the sidewalks.
Well, students, time to go. See
you at the game Saturday. Even
though we're favored by 26 pOints,
we still need the spirit.
—Prof Wayne
Gazette
TOD Mt
Mr Force Glee Club, .8 p in., HUB assem-
iiis room
AK Hill Party Committee, 6:45 p.m , 213
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Alpha Phi Alpha, 7:30 p.m., 213 HUB
American Rocket Society, 7.15 p.m , 214
Boucke
Bridge Club, 5:10 p.m., HUB caidroom
Campus Assembly, 7 p.m., 217 HUB
Christian Fellowship, 12:15 p.m , 216 HUB
Dancing Classes, 4:15 p m. and 6:30 r.»,,,
HUB ballroom -
Faculty Women's Bridge, 7:45 p.m , 212
H Uit
S.C.C.A., S :30 p.m., 210 HUB
TIM Council, 7 p m , 20 t HUB
Wl{' Bun ling, 7:;10 pm., White Mal
11 BA
New Naiad's, 6:30 p.m., White Hall
paol
WWI. Old Naiads, 7:30 p ‘ m , White Hall
Neal
WRA Officials Club, 6:30 p.m . 2 White
Hall
VL RA Tennis Club, 4 p m., East tennis
courts
Job Interviews
TODAY
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/keen: and MS. PhD in ChE, Chem &
Phvs
Plt tom igh Plate Class—Jan BS. MS in
Aerie. 1k in MF, ChF. Cer Chem, Sri,
EE. 4: MS. PhD in ME, Cheni, Ms's,
Ent Sri. Cer.
Depattmelit of Navy, Bureau of Ships—
Jan BS, MS in AE, CE, EE, ME. Cer,
rhs,, Metal, Math.
TOMORROW
Food MachMery & Chemical Corp Jan
DS. MS, PhD in ChE, Cheni.
Chrirle, Pfizer & Co —Jan BS, MS, PhD
in ('hem; BS, PhD in Dnet ; BS, MS in
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penny candy
Neatzian Code--
Conform or Else
After that meeting Tuesday night I was a changed,
person. Oh, it was a pretty ordinary run-of-the-mill meet
ing. Somebody made a suggestion and no one had any
opinions about it. Nothing spectacular went on. But after
I left something happened that made me wonder and
meditate and ponder.
Since it was raining a woman drove me home. She
must have been a faculty mem
ber or a professor's wife it
doesn't really matter the im
portant thing was that she
viewed the world (Penn State)
through different eyes than
does a student.
While she drove we talked.
We had a lot of time since I
live in Cooper Hall—just this
side of Bellefonte. And I left,
expressing the sincere wish to
see her again.
Her answer was the shock
which changed my life—for at
least 30 minutes. "I'm sure we'll
meet again, dear," she said,
"but you'd better say hello to
me. I'm afraid you look just
like all the other coeds in your
trench coat and sneakers.'
So this is what conformity
really means, I thought wryly.
Things are
pretty bad
when a per
son is classi
fied as Miss
Trench -Coat
a n d-Sneakers
No. 576. That
was when I
began to won
der and medi
tate and pon
der,
A misty
vision came MISS NEUBARTH
to mind of a football game,
when a sea of khaki surround
ed me and the only thing that
broke the monchromatic mo
notony was an occasional
trench coat with a racoon col
lar.
A friend of mine had sat
down in front of me wearing
a new coat with a fuzzy collar,
and several coeds leaned over
to compliment her on her
"near coat.
"Just between us," she con
fided to me later, glancing
rUNUS SAID THAT
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WOW.: TAAT MEANS ME'S
GOING TO W'.V TO CROOSE
BETWEEN I-16 BLANKET AND
AAI6'S =MAR, DOESN'T IT?
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by loin neubarth
furtively behind her in case
someone was listening, "I al
ways like coats with fur col
lars. I'm so glad they're wear
ing them this year so I can
too."
"Why couldn't you before?"
I asked, knowing very well
what her answer would be.
"They would have called me
a CLOD," she whispered, hor
ror stricken at the idea,
And there it was—the REA•
son. Of course no one wants to
be a clod. So before we come
to college we swear by the
Neatzian Code: "I promise not
to do, say or think anything
that will make people call me
a clod, and will strive in every
way to be NEAT.
"I will shorten my skirt to
the same length of everyone
else's, even if my knees be
come rough and red, even if I
am knock-kneed. I will not
carry an umbrella when it
rains. I will not eat liver in
the dorm because no one else
like liver, and I will never,
never date a Alpha Alpha Al
pha because that is not a "neat"
house.
Neatzians can be found all
over campus. I know a boy
who used to hide his philos
ophy book inside a copy of
Playboy so he wouldn't appear
too intellectual. I khow a girl
who says her average is
a 2.9 to avoid being branded
a "three-pointer."
Is it just America? I won•
dered. Then my thoughts went
back to France, the land of
traditional individualism, re•
membering how amazed I was
to see conformity in dress even
among the French.
Bright blue and white were
THE colors this summer. Shop
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94E SAID THAT IF A CHILD
DRASSED A BLANKET AROUND WIN
RIM,IT WAS A 96N OF IMMATURITY,
AND SAE SAID *MAT StIE WOULD
NEVER POT UP WiTA THAT!
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WHOS MISS OThittilAP?
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