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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.
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TOMORROW
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Block S Club. 5:30 pm., 215 HUB *
Chess Club, 2 p.m., HUB cardroom
Emerson Society Christmas Party, 6:30
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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
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Hearne. Louis Ilelfrich, Madeline Hun
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Richard Nieholls, Patricia Packer, John
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William Snaulfer, Dean Stiles, George
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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
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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