PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Forget the Negative; Get True Student Views The SGA Assembly displayed a typical, but rather unfair, tendency among Americans Thursday night while it was considering support for a Student Lobby Club. Assemblymen balked at the use o£ the word "lobby" in the club's name. One assemblyman said he was worried because it gave the connotation of influence. Indeed, the word not only has this connotation, but also has this actual meaning. But is this bad? SGA members have continually referred to the na tional government organization. Lobbying is one of the in teg 1a l paits of the Washington scene. Mention the word ‘‘communist,” and the typical Amer ican cringes, immediately formulating in his mind an image of a terrible, huge bear-like creature bent on con quering the world This happens because of past experience with communist actions. Likewise, Americans cringe at the words "lobby” and "influence.” But as happens in so many cases, bad news travels fast and only the "bad" side of lobbying and in fluenced are heard. But the idea of a well-informed group of students cxpiessmg opinions on state, national and international topics is certainly favorable lobbying. Voicing of opinions readied after a thorough discussion on these issues is sadly lacking, especially on college campuses. Regardless of any effoits to the contrary, opinions of the Student Lobby Club will reflect somewhat on the Uni veisity. To the outsider, it would appear as student opinion in general. But again, is this bad? It v/ould almost be precedent-setting for a group of college students to take the time to sit down and discuss national issues and voice their opinions. Theoretically, we are much better informed on such affairs than the average citizen. The dissenting SGA assemblymen and other doubting students should throw out their fears of taking a stand on national issues. Instead they should support the Lobby Club, join in the discussions, and thus make sure that the opinions voiced will be a reasonable measure of the IJni veisity student opinion. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom Site latlg (EulUgtan Successor to The Free Lance, est. 188 7 Puhlivhetl Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Dailv Collegian tv a student-operated newspaper Knlercd as eecond-clavs matter July 5. l'nt at the State College, t>a Post Office under the act of March S. 1819. Mail Subscription Price: 13.00 per aemester - $5.00 pet year. DENNIS MALICK Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Jopl Myers; Copy Editor, Katie Da v i^; Wue Editor. Nicki Wolford; Assistants, Lynne Cere fice, Kuien Hyneckeal, Susie Eberly, Sue Taylor, Margie Zelko, Carol Kunkleman, Judy Everett, Betsy Clark, Dean Billick. Little Man on Campus by Dick Biblei 'W s* S^BSfppli 111# IfHiaji Bti Nothing are makin' oam at mm OUT OF PLEP6IN r THAT BASKETBALL fLfiCß^ GEORGE McTURK Business Managei ilC>N* fSJ rnt^l w B §L THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Better Health Adds Problems To Middle East Arnold Air Society, 2 p.m., 203 IIUB TOMORROW AIM. 7 pm. 203 HUB Artiits Series, 8 p m., Schwab Block S Club. 5:30 pm., 215 HUB * Chess Club, 2 p.m., HUB cardroom Emerson Society Christmas Party, 6:30 P m . Stock Pavilion Graduate Student Brldjte. 7 p.m . 212 HUB Newman Club, 7pm, 217 HUB Penn State Bible Fellowship, 2 p.m., 214 HUB Roekview Christmas Program, 3:30 p.m., Schwab Senior Class Advisory Board, 2 p.m . 218 HUB BGA Committee on 'Center Integration, 5 p.m., 218 HUB Swedenborician Service. 10 p m., 212 HUB Thespians, 8 p.m , 214 HUB MONDAY APhiO, 7 pm,, 212 HUB Christian Fellowship. 12:15 p.m.. 7 n m.- 218 HUB Engineering Mechanics Seminar, 4:15 p.m., 2o:t Engineering “A” English Colloquium, 7:30 p.m., Chapel lounge Faculty I.uncheon Club, 12 Noon, HUB dining room “A” IFO» 7 p.m., HUB assembly room Spring Week Committee, 8 p.m., 216 HUB SGA Cabinet, 8 p.m.. 217 HUB State College Color Slide Club, 7:30 p.m.. Mineral Industries auditorium WSGA Flections Committee, 7:30 p.m., 215 HUB Veronica Antrim, Charles CoIUm, Di ane Deirickson, I«ec Dudeck, Donald Hearne. Louis Ilelfrich, Madeline Hun sicker, Edward Kotchi, Paul Krieger, Wil liam Leary, Edgar Leedy, Stephen Len« hardt. Althea Leslie, Daniel McLaughlin, Richard Nieholls, Patricia Packer, John Polko. Lois Rothenberg, Michael Saktnan, William Snaulfer, Dean Stiles, George Vlachos, Robert Waldo, Liselotte Weihle, Edward Scherlw, Kevin Crowt* Lois Dev raid* .JSkL Interpreting By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst If President Eisenhower could really find some means of con ducting a successful “noble war” against hunger, he would become a more important man to India and all Asia than Lord Clive or any other Western developers. For centuries an overwhelming proportion of Asian people has en dured a constant state of under nourishment to the point where general physical apathy is itself a major bar to improvement. Introduction of Western sani tation and health methods has merely served to heighten the food problem by increasing the birth rate and extending age averages. Indeed, the earth itself has been debilitated by the vast numbers of people seeking sustenance from it. and one of India’s most urgent needs is fertilizer and fertilizer factories. India has under way a syste matic birth control campaign and is seeking Western establishment of contraceptive factories. Several years ago Fairfield Osborn estimated in "The Lim its of the Earth" that 75,000 people were being born every day. Since then there has been a jump in birth rates nearly everywhere. Some say the fig ure is now more than 100,000, with more than half of this in Red China alone. It is estimated that India will soon have half a billion people, and China 800 million. The problem is the same in Southeast Asia, where the newly independent countries, with the exception of standoffish Indonesia, are particular responsibilities of the West. One of the most immediate problems is to find a way by which undernourished populations can be readied with surpluses produced in such countries as the United States. rood, like money/cannot just be given away, or sold cut rale, without affecting the world market and damaging someone else’s trade. Prices and estab lished patterns must make slow adjustments. The Communists, although they have never done it nor shown any signs of really wanting to, as wit ness the developing caste system in the Soviet Union, claim to be able to give equal shares to every one of what is available. This is one of their basic ap peals to the hungry nations, where people are willing to grasp at any straw, and see any change as good Gazette TODAY HOSPITAL SummJ HEAR YE! “'“L, HEAR YE] —mlll- Letters Alum Sees Library Progress TO THE EDITOR: A friend at Penn State -has been sending me the Collegian and it is in teresting to hear of develop ments back at Penn State. I noticed a recent rather angry letter from Sybil Klein, ’6O, with which I am basically in agreement. A lot of money is being spent at University Park on physical expansion, prob ably neglecting the Library. Nevertheless, let me mention somethings that present Penn Staters may not know. A lot of people of the present student body don’t realize that State has been big and had growing pains for quite a while. It real ly isn’t much bigger at the main campus than it was in 1951 nearly a decade ago. Theie were 11,000 there then (with a much smaller library). How big do you suppose the Paiiee Library was in 1948? My LaVie says (if I remember correctly) 225,000! It has passed the 500,000 mark long ago and is probably approximately 700.000 today. Looking at my Library Journal I notice that Slate i 3 acquiring 40,000 vol umes a year, and triple what journals it did in my day. This places it high up among nT&ny stale universities. Not enough, perhaps, but a dam sight bet ter than in 1951. The people of Pennsylvania had neglected Penn State for most of the history of their state university, true, but things are improving. It is a good university. All you have to do is to attach yourself to a real thinker; sit at a great pro fessor’s feet. Read. Are there great professors at Men Attack Housing Policy TO THE EDITOR: Housing De partment’s Mr. Mueller seems to be another of that happy throng of administrators who delight in acting first and thinking up reasons later—the action, in this case, being the denial of extra phones to Nit tany men. Having lived in or visited friends in Nittany at one time or another ourselves, and realizing that housing sure ly isn’t using all the Nittany board fees to pay off the origi nal cost of the Nittany units, we offer our most sincere sym pathies. Mueller’s stand on Nittany telephones seems to us just an other proof that housing has no sympathy for or desire to serve the student; it just wants to make money. Other exam ples are multitudinous. Housing utilizes, for example, the charming practice of billing every one> of several dozen persons in a dormitory unit for damage done in a limited area of the dorm by one or a few persons. If students protest, housing gets out its handy bludgeon: & threatens to block their reg istration, prevent their attend ing class or withhold their di plomas, all with the compli ance of the dean ot men. No arguments are accepted. Gross overcharging is an other favorite device. Right now we’re being asked collec tively to pay over $50.00 for $8 or $lO damages which occurred SATURDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1959 THE SIXTEENTH OF DECEMBER 15 . BEETHOVEN'S BIRTHDAY] Penn State? How good is the place any way? Ever hear of Professor Har ris or Professor Dickson? What about the thinkers in the MI College? Do you know how outstanding they all are? Go listen to Professor Forster. Can you top the recent champions which Penn State produced at the International Stock Show, Chicago (and for years past)? Of course, I've been away from State for quite a spell. Haven't been East in three years. However, I am not "too close" to University Park. Per haps I am able to see the for est in spite of the trees. It is good to go to other parts of the country. I've been in the Rocky Mountains, on the Great Plains, on the West Coast. Not just walking but visiting col leges, looking, and studying. Tiie Eastern universities ig nore the western. Los Angeles is a big birth town which is awe-struck by the Easterners who .might .be .teaching .at UCLA or Southern Cal. Maybe I’m a fool but I think I got a good start at Penn State My statues and lithographs are placed in museums and art gal leries alongside those of grad uates from the Art Institute of Chicago, or the Yale School of Fine Arts. Go to the Library and read the many beautiful first edi- tions by poet E. E. Cummings. Take a look at Zola’s “Germi nal.” See if you can’t find something good in the fine Mineral Science Industries Library. —Robert P. Johnston, '4B Assistant professor of art, Hastings College 9Letter cut' on another floor and in which none of us were even remote ly involved. Unles we pay up, housing promises to do all sorts of nasty things to us. (And, by Mr. Mueller’s own figures, we’re being over charged some $4B for each phone in the dormitory, since each of 8 individuals who uses a single phone in the North Halls pays $lO for its use, or $BO total, while housing pays the telephone company only $32 per semester per phone.l Not only does housing hold us collectively responsible for any damage occurring any where in our dormitory "house" —housing also absolves itself from any damages if or its rep resentatives may do to our property. Some of us recent! ly had several items of cloth! ing completely ruined in a clothes-dryer mistakenly ad justed to roasting heat by housing. They promised to think about the damage. Of course we haven't heard from them since. We’d like to go on listing the double-dealings of housing, but we’re running out of paper. In stead we’ll just sit here and contemplate the glories of housing’s beautiful sister, Food Service. —Richard Snyder, '6l? Alan Elms, '6O; Paul Krow, Frank Hugus, Bruce Harp, Anthony Lombar do, Bruce Smith, Ronald Chidlow, all of '63
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