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Editorial Opinion
1970--Nittany Still There
ljy 1970, the University will have grown to a modern,
spiawling institution with an on-campus population of
20,000 students. But according to future plans announced
last year, one of its antiquated landmarks will still be
standing Nittany Residence Halls.
The only improvement that has been announced is
that the infamous Nittany dining hall will be abandoned.
Nittany men will dine in the Pollock Circle area which is
now under construction.
Nittany men have been complaining for years about
cramped quarters, inadequate heating systems and general
shabbiness of the living units. This fall, poor telephone
service has ben added to the long list of complaints.
However, very little has been done to correct the
inadequacies. In fact, many of the problems have merely
been ignored.
It has been said jokingly—and seriously—that it is
time the University began integrating Nittany with the
rest of the campus. How true! There has been much
criticism of town housing lately, but let’s start cleaning
up some of our own backyards before telling people
residing off campus what to do.
Indies, Think Collectively!
The AIM-Leonides merger, a long-discussed proposal,
has been postponed until further study can be done to
insure its acceptability to all factions.
This in itself is a good step for the two groups have
indicated that this is not going to be any helter-skelter
plan thrown together for convenience sake. The plan in
volves reorganization of the two independent bodies into
one unified body.
In terms of the future increase of enrollment on
campus, a unified independent body would increase the
effectiveness and cohesion of the University's many in
dependent students.
As was stated by student government reorganization
leaders last year, it would be better for students to think
in terms of the student body as a whole and not as separate
units, and this warning can also be applied to the factions
opposing the merger for fear of underrepresentation.
Should the plan, when completed, offer independent
students a more advantageous and stronger position on
this campus, then it would be foolish for the various
factions to oppose the merger in order to retain tinges of
pseudo feudalism.
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Letters
Official Shows
Distinctions In
Loyalty Clauses
TO THE EDITOR: It seems to me
that much of the controversy be
ing generated over the ‘‘loyalty
oath” provision ot the National
Defense Education Act is based on
misunderstanding. It is evidently
not clear to many that Section
1001 (f) of the NDEA act contains
not one but two obligations that
must be satisfied to qualify a per
son to receive funds under this
act.
One of these is a simple affir
mation of loyalty or allegiance to
the United States. Although many
people feet that the dignity and
value of such oaths are not well
served by their being made a part
of a routine commercial transac
tion, almost no one has objected
strenuously to this inclusion of an
affirmative oath in the act.
It is generally reasoned that no
loyal American can object in con
science to a declaration of his
loyalty, however inappropriate
the occasion might seem to be.
To my knowledge, no college or
university has protested this re
quirement.
The other is a declaration that
the individual “does not believe
in, and is not a member of and
does not support any organization
that believes in or teaches, the
overthrow of the United States
Government by force or violence
or by any illegal or unconstitu
tional methods.” It is this provi
sion that Dr. Pusey of Harvard,
Dr. Griswold of Yale, Dr. Walker
here at Penn State, and many
other distinguished educators
find objectionable. At the very
least, these people feel that this
negative affidavit is discrimina
tory, unnecessary, and futile.
When we speaK of the "loyal
ty oath,” we are talking about the
first of these provisions. When we
speak of the “disclaimer,” we are
referring to the second. The two
are not the same thing, and the
distinction between them should
be kept in mind as a guide in our
thinking about this important is
sue.
Nittany Gets
More Defense
TO THE EDITOR: In answer to
Mr. Muller and the letter in
Thursday’s Collegian, I wo.uld
like to add some facts to the many
complaints already registered.
Mr. Muller said that Nittany
didn’t get more telephones because
North and West paid more, and
Thursday’s letter pointed out that
it amounts to $25 a semester. This
boils down to $1.51 more a week,
or 21 cents a day per man.
As staled Thursday there are
many things that West and North
have that Nittany doesn't. When
you look at that 21 cents pays for
quite a bit: almost twice as much
usable floor space sufficient stor
age space, decent work space, beds
that don't sag like hammocks,
adequate lighting, wall plugs, ven
tilation. screening and closet
space, a reasonable waste basket,
comfortable chairs to study in,
etc.
To elaborate, North has tile
bathrooms with the same and
more facilities for 36 men as Nit
tany has 44. They have inner
spring, single beds, that slide back
under the book cases behind them
and provide more seating space.
Their closet space for one man
is almost the same as Nittany’s
for two men. As far as the heat
ing system goes in Nittany, in ad
dition to excessive racket it is
almost impossible to adjust so that
the room is comfortable. North
and West have many more little
extras, such as drapes and bed
spreads.
I realize there will be much
fun made of this letter In North
and West. So I invite those who
pooh-pooh my criticism to visit
me (Nittany 26-Room 20) and I,
personally, will show you that this
is no laughing matter.
—Christian K. Arnold,
Staff Assistant to tha
President
Bill Masyrn '63
Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibli
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T errible
To Taint
If the problem of what to get little brother or sister,
your favorite niece or nephew or your own child (if you
are so endowed) for Christmas is bothering you, you will
be happy to know that your problems are solved.
In keeping with the latest trend toward “educational”
toys, one of the nation’s lead
ing manufacturers has come up
with a gadget guaranteed to
widen the eyes of any young
ster on Christmas morning.
They have come up with a
realistic-looking miniature mis
sile complete with launching
pad and electric wiring. At a
signal from the electric switch,
the missile “blasts off” the pad
makes a wide arc high above
the living room and lands on
a miniature house (.supplied as
part of the “game”), complete
ly demolishing it. As a final
touch, a little mushroom
shaped cloud of talcum powder
slowly rises above the wreck
age
Of course, the manufactur
er's guarantee says, there's ab
solutely nothing to worry
about. The little house can bo
put together again like a jig
saw puzzle, and your child can
spend many more happy hours
learning to take pleasure in
the powers of destruction.
Nothing to worry about, huh?
Nothing at all just the pos
sibility that your child will
come to associate missiles,
mushroom-shaped clouds and
the destruction of homes with
an exciting Christmas game
The possi
bilities that
can arise if
this new toy
catches on
are unlimited.
Just think, a
promotion -
minded manu
facturer can
come up with
some really
exciting “edu
cational" toys.
Picture a tiny MISS LEVINE
model of a jet plane equipped
with an ejection seat and a lit
tle cardboard man
At a touch of the button, the
little plane will begin to devel
op engine trouble. The cockpit
TODAY
Alpha PI Mo, 5 p.m., 217 HUB
Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 213
HUB, and 7:30 p.m.. Schwab
Cosmopolitan Club .Christmas Part/,
7:3Q p.m.. Chapel Lounge
EUB Student Fellowship Christmas
Part/, 7:30 p.m., St. John's Church
Kappa Phi Kappa, 5:15 p.m., 214 HUB
Library Expansion Committee, <4 p.m.,
213 HUB
p.im* 203 . .
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1959
Toys
Tiny
by bobbi levihe
will burst into flames, and fhe
little cardboard man will be
ejected into the air. But it will
be too late. The little man will
burn to a crisp before the eyes
of your highly-impressionable
child thus teaching him that
ejection devices in airplanes
do not always insure the safe
ty of the pilots.
Manufacturers will undoubt
edly supply a package of one
dozen cardboard man “refills,"
and your child will be able to
amuse himself with the spec
tacle for weeks.
Manufacturers who go in for
large scale productions can
really go wild. Imagine a town
of little plastic doll houses,
stores, churches and schools
complete with tiny plastic pop
ulation. At the top of the tall
est building you will see a
small scale radar antenna. By
flicking the appropriate switch
es, the radar antenna will be
gin to revolve; a siren will
wail; some of the tiny people
will move into buildings la
beled “Air Raid Shelter”; and
a squadron of jet fighters will
zoom over the town dropping
powder bombs,
When the town has been re
duced to rubble and the
"smoke" has cleared, your
child will be able to see that
the people who look shelter
are still "alive" while those
who did not are "dead." This
will eliminate all further need
for Civil Defense drills.
We could go on for hours
dreaming up new toys with
which to educate our young
sters to take their place in this
new “jet age,” but right now
we are on our way down town
to do our Christmas shopping.
We understand some reaction
ary manufacturer has come out
with a set of cowboy guns that
do not fire bullet-like caps and
produce no smoke—in fact you
can’t even move the trigger.
GAZETTE
Maryann Buckewicz, James Burrows,
Charles Collins, Diane Derrickson, Don*
aid Hearne. Louis Helfrlch, Gwendlyn
Hllburn, Madeline Hunsicker, Edward
Kotcbi, Paul' Krieger, Edgar Leedy,
Gordon Lehman, Stephen Lenhardt,
Abigail Lorant, Maureen Mack, Charles
Munroe, Marilyn Newman, Patricia
Niedbala, Norman Potter, Yong Shin,
William Snauffer, Dean Stiles, Johm
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