PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Modernize ROTC Program With Voluntary Systeth The constant student bickering, together with revision of the military system on a national scale point in only one direction--the present ROTC program should be changed. And the change should be toward a completely voluntary program. Under the Morrill Land Grant Act, the University is required to offer ROTC, but not necessarily compulsory. Should ROTC be compulsory for two years, one year or Should it be completely voluntary? These will be the considerations given to the ROTC question before SGA Assembly tonight. The crux of the question will he a recommendation to adopt a one-year compulsory program—the same recommendation passed with only one dissenting vote by last year's All-University Cabinet. The advantages of a voluntary program are obvious. The ROTC units would take in only those students who would be interested in the program. If this would not produce a big savings to the ROTC units, at least the funds could be concentrated on providing a better train ing for those sincerely interested in military careers. Considering the stand that a student should be ex posed to military discipline and instruction, could this be accomplished in one year? We think so. The best way to provide the necessary facts about the military and to learn something about each branch of the service would be a common freshman year.' Citizenship, civil defense and survival could be incorporated in the common year to provide a well-founded outlook on the military situation today and not as it was several years ago. A more voluntary program would necessarily mean more pTessure on the Army and Air Force units to recruit potential officers. The Navy with its commendable pro gram has proved how successfully this can be operated. As pointed out in the recommendations to be pre sented to Assembly, special skills of both military and civilian professors could be better utilized for instruction of their respective students. The sign of the times for the University as well as the military program is better use of present facilities. This would best be followed by providing ROTC only for those interested, and making better use of the facilities that this would make available. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom .11r Elattg Tollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. Ths Daily Collegian is a student operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 19t4 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Mail Subscription Pricet $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. DENNIS MALICK Editor 0 Mbo, Managing Editor, William Jaffe; Assistant Editor, Catherine Fleck; Public( Relations Director, Lolli Neuharth: Copy Editor, Roberta Levine; Sports Editor, Sandy l'adwe: Assistant Sports Editor, John Black: Photography Editor, Martin &herr, . Local Ad Mgr,, Sherry Kennel; AWL Local Ad Mgr.. Darlene Anderson; Credit Mar.. Murry Simon: National Ad Mgr.. Lee Dempsey: Classified Ad Mgr., Sala Brown: Cu•Clrrulatlnn Mgrs., Loretta Mink, Dick Kittinger; Promotion Mgr.. Ruth Briggs; Special Page Mgr., Alice Mahachek: Personnel Mgr., Dorothy Smettl; (Mire Secretary. Bonnie Bailey; Research and Records, Margaret Dimperto. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Pat Dyer; Copy Editor, Susie Linkroum; Wire Editor, Jeff Pollack; Assistants: Jerrie Markos, Julie Hill, Pat Bean, Judy Eveiett, Nancy Langsner, Karin Mil ler, Carol Kunkleman, Ina Zicherman, Bob Tacelosky, Bill Kraft, and Bob Yearicic. *6l - 00 11l 1,1 *3, «we.. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA GEORGE McTURK Business Manager r CATS HATE US...NORSES STEP ON US.. WILD ANIMALS h DESPISE Us- __A TNANK GOODNESS FOR PEOPLE ti 1 4 1.4 Letters Senior Calls SGA Action Not Improtant TO THE EDITOR: You are living true to your form of inconsistency. Tuesday you wrote an editorial on the planks of the SGA parties and, in general, criticizing those planks as being unimportant, superficial and not so very earth shaking. You also said in your editorial of Nov. 14, "They (SGA) are not coming up with platforms strong enough to interest the average voter." Well done! In your editorial of Nov. 18, you proceed to call the student body apathetic for not supporting SGA elections. It seems to me that your previous editorials more than answer the question, "Why aren't the students voting?" VOTE FOR WHAT??? Vote for people who will "look into" the abom inable parking regulations? Vote for people who will install tele phones and soundproofing? Etc. Let's face it, the SGA is only as powerful as the administration wants it to be. It provides a pseudo democratic veneer to a bureaucratic structure. Can the SGA get Frothy back to the foot ball games, or restore the cannon to the cheerleaders? What can they do besides make an effort to "look into" the parking rules? Can the SGA do anything about the restrictions the administration places upon student organization al funds? (Compare the current death throes of the Jazz Club with the activities they used to engage in). Could the SGA prevent the Ad ministration's decision to ignore the Homecoming Queen at the football game? You may well say that these are matter of Univer sity policy. Indeed they are, but shouldn't an effective SGA have a strong influence on such poli cies that so directly affect the students they represent? In short, I feel that the SGA has no real influence in matters that are portinent to the student body, and apparently the 77 per cent of the students who failed to vote in the last SGA election feel the same way. Unless it is evident to the stu dent body that their SGA is, in fact, an effective and influential force in making administrative decisions and policies, there is no valid reason why the students should vote. The type of "dem ocracy" that one finds at this University is not "what people all over the world are giving their lives for." —Richard Brady, '6O (Editor's note: You cannot blame the low percentage of voters last spring on the "passiveness" of the SGA. Last spring, SGA had not yet become a reality and at that time, students were voting on whether or not they wanted the new system. As was stated in yesterday's edit, how can the As sembly represent 15.000 students on the vote of 3000? The student body had the first say in what would be done through the peo ple they were allowed to elect, and the mandate was lower than any in the past five years.) Job Interviews TODAY Sehlumberger Well SurNeYing Corp: Jan US gratis in EE, Eng Sc,, Ceo Phys, Pet & Nat Gas, ME. Phys. Kopper? Chemical Company: Jan BS & 1960 MS, PhD candy. in Chem, ChE, ME. Geophysical Service Inc. (Div_ of Texas Instruments): Jan BS grads in Geol. Eng Std. EE for Oil Field Operations Si 19fid MS, PhD cands. in Geo Phys, Phys, EE, Muth for Research Must be C.S. Citizen. Texas Instruments Inc: Jan BS & 1960 MS. PhD rands. in Cer Tech, ChE, Chem, EE, Geo Phys, Phys, Math, ME, Metal & Geol. Wagner Electric: Jan BS in EE. ME. York Corporation: Jan BS in 111E._IE, Atr Reduction: Jan BS & 1960 MS, PhD In ChE, Metal: PhD In Chem, Phys & BS, MS in ME, EE. Hercules Powder: 1960 MS, PhD rands. in Cheni & ChE. TOMORROW Dow Corning: Jan BS & 1960 MS, PhD eands. in ChE, Chem, Phya; BS. MS in ME. EE, Federal Pacific: Jan BS in EE, ME, lE. B. F. Goodrich Company: 1960 MS, PhD in Chem, ChE for Research and MS, PhD in ChE, ME, Phya, Math, CE for Math Design and Analysis of Products Hercules' Powder: 1960 MS, PhD candy in Chem & ChE. Chapel to Remain Open The Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel will remain open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during the Thanksgiving recess, Nov. 25 to 2. the Man on Campus by Dick Bibtel I UNDERSTAND THEY'VE HAD A 'TOUGH TIME FINDING A QUALIFIED HOME E . O TEACHER. penny candy Praise the Lord; Pass the Berries We hear the cranberry industry has a plan to assure Americans they can eat cranberries by Thanksgiving. It is altogether fitting and proper that they should do so, for what could be more un-American than Thanksgiving without cranberries. I don't even know if it's worth going home this year since the government has ruined Thanksgiving! Rise up, Americans, and restore cran berries to their rightful place among the revered symbols of your country. Recognizincr b our duty to work for a better Ameriica, several members of the Collegian spent an hour (gladly missing a class for a worthy ,--,. •. , ~ 0"' cause) prepar -5,...,. - . mg a public : .., •,, o' relations cam . -- o - . paign to help f the cranberry ::' • IP, • ' . industry over come -..• the an .4*,-..., -"(: . tipathy toward ;,... . :.-_.. its product. ,-.i-.... _ . This w ill be the cam ... pa .• - 4 4 4 ,- • . - - 1.- ign of th e • - - - year; millions MISS NEueAarn of new uses will be found .for cranberries . . . both contaminated and healthy. Thanksgiving is lost this year, even the University scratched cranberry sauce off ifs special Thanksgiving din ner menu. And when food serv ice makes a menu change, his tory is made. How3ver, it's not too late to Mart a "Contaminated Cran berries for Christmas" cam- TODAY Air Force Glee Club, 8 p m., HUB as- sembly room Alpha Phi Alpha, 7:30 p.m., 213 HUB Block and Bridle Club, 7 :30 p.m., 206 A rmsby Bridge Club. 6.30 p m., HUB lounge Campus Assembly, 7 p m., 216 HUB Collegian Promotion Staff, 6:30 p.m.. 9 Carnegie Dancing . Class, 6:30 p.m., 1-IUO card- room Christian Fellowship, 12 :46 p.m., 216 HUB Fall Election', B a.m.•B p.m., HUB _ . cardroom Freshman Tea Committee, 8 p.m., 218 HUB Jr. Panhellenic Council, 7 p.m., 203 HUB News and Views Staff. T p.m., Home Economics Outing Club. 7 p.m., HUB ateembly room Phi Lambda Upsilon, 8 p.m., 214 Bouclce Rod and Coccus Club, 7 p.m., 215 Pat- terson SEA?. 7 p.m., 109 ArmsbY SCA Asnembly, 7 p.m., 214 HUB Sigma Alpha Eta, 7 p.m., Simmons lounge Gael°lolll Club. 7 p.m., 110 Electrical Engineering THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1959 ~i7 by lolli neuborth paign. Of course we're not ad vocating eating them, but we could bring back the old senti: mental Christmas tree, be decked with strings of popcorn and shiny red cranberries. And the red holly berries in wreaths are a nice safe place for contaminated berries. Then comes St. Valentine's Day, when the world is smoth ered with red paper hearts. This year crushed contaminat ed cranberries could be used for a dye for Valentine cards and heart-shaped candy boxes. Patriotism runs high around George Washington's Birthday, a perfect opportunity to boost the suffering cranberry indus try. All we'd have to do would be to "adjust" the cherish-11 old tale of Washington and the cherry tree. Millions of gram mar school teachers would teach their vulnerable little charges that old George really cut down a cranberry tree. Think of the patriotic associa tion. People would be buying cranberries by the bushel. Lit tle children would cry for cran berry pie on Feb. 22. Then comes Easter, beloved holiday, when youngsters all. over the United States dye Ea (Continued on page five) GAZETTE Student Affairs Committee, t p.m.. HUB assembly room WRA Bowling Club, 6:80 p.m., White Hall alleys WRA Bridge tntrm. Organization Meet init. 6:30 p.m., White Hall playroom WRA Naiads, New Naiads, 6:30 p.m.; Old Naiads, 7:30 p.m., White Hall pool WRA Officials Club, 6:80 p.m., White Hall WRA Volleyball Intrms., 6:80 p.m., White gym WRA Volleyball Intrm. Practice for Student Teachers, 6 p.m., White gym Patients in the University hospital yesterday were: Frederick Benner. Jocelyn Binns, Lois Blank. Ruth Bran don, Edward Cole, Paul Conover, Bar bara Felt, Harry Griffiths, Joan Haley, James Harbarger, Marcia Hartrick, Mar. cus Ingram, Stanley Johnston, Beth Kantor, Bert Kapinus, Walter Kearney, Roger Kochman, Lynne Lafferty. John Malenky, George Margetan, Richard Mazza, Donald Mitchell, Marilyn New. man, Jessie Mishimura, William Popp. Barbara Roth. Andrew Sack, Joel Slips. koff, Evelyn Steinberg, Nancy Stewart, Gail Tuk. Helen Winnick. HOSPITAL
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