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Editorial Opinion
Administrative Immunity
Stifles Student Opinion
No one connected with this University makes mis
~m> one except students, of course.
One will seldom catch on administration official ad
niittin” that the administration has made a mistake.
This could be called administrative immunity.
We have seen this immunity exercised innumerable
times, notably whenever a student or group of students
has complained about the way things are run at Penn State.
Take the recent complaints about the lack of tele
phones m the Nittany area. With one telephone and tele
phone directory being allotted to each dormitory in that
area, the students there naturally found it necessary to
voice their complaints
And immediately, officials had several excuses for not
giving those dormitories the same privileges allowed the
remaining residence halls.
Not that the University officials ha\ e never tried to
correct some errors made. They have done this at times
when student opinion has reached a peak on some issue.
The University has given no indication of examining
the parking and traffic regulations drawn up last summer
—regulations that have done more to stir up protests of
the students than any issue this year. In the first place,
the regulations were made at a time when there was sure
to he no violent student opinion. Why? Because most of
the satdf-nt body was not on campus.
Students sit on various Senate subcommittees io bring
student opinion to the committees. After presenting these
views, the students can sit back silently while members of
fhe committee consider such matters. Why? Simply be
cause they are ex-officio members and cannot vote. After
all, they are only students, some few representing the
many thousands on campus whom the legislation will af
fect.
Suident government representatives recommended to
the administration that a half-holiday be awarded to the
student body for the Liberty Bowl game—a holiday with
out stiings.
And when the package came out of the University
Senate the strings were visible in the form of the students’
having to make up the classes missed on a day set aside to
prepare for examinations—a day for which student lead
ers had been pushing for a long time.
These and many other things have gone above and be
yond the power of fhe students this semester.
Our generation can leave this University thankful for
one tiling—that we have been playing ‘grown-up’ for four
year., while our ‘parents,’ the administrative officials, have
guided us along the way. They subject our most insignifi
cant actions to their approval or disapproval, and then
us tiie red or green light before we can proceed with any
decision-making.
Of course, not everything the students ask for is good.
But measures pertaining directly to the students should be
consideied by men who can step down from their admin
istrative pedestal and put themselves in the student’s po
sition.
Wa want to sea this University be a proving ground
for student leadership—real leadership, not lust make
believe. We want to see students leave this University
with a realistic attitude toward solving problems. Not
feeling indifferent where they had once believed them
selves capable of coming up with good solutions to press
ing student problems.
Until the officialdom adopts the attitude that students,
too, can have a good idea of how problems can be solved,
we can see only a future race of timid, unresolved defeat
ists coming out of this University.
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Letters
Jr. Renews
Blast on Rules
About Parking
TO THE EDITOR: Does anyone
except the administration know
the reason for some of our pres
ent parking and traffic regula
tions'’ If anyone does possess this
knowledge, why not enlighten the
student body? I think that we
have been kept in the dark long
enough.
Why, for instance, are there
only four lots open for students
parking at night, while the rest
of the lots on campus are never
more than one third to half full?
I wonder how many students have
driven around the HUB parking
lot for 15 to 20 minutes, looking
for a place to park in the eve
ning, while across the street, be
hind Osmond, there are places
galore.
Whv aren't centrally located
lots opened to students at night?
The lot behind Mineral Science
has places for several hundred
cars, yet I've never seen more
than 20 to 30 there during the eve
ning.
It seems that this wasted space
could be put to some use besides
keeping the Campus Patrol busy
writing parking tickets. There
certamlv seemed to be no parking
congestion last year when all lots
were open to students after five
o'clock. Why the change?
Also, what about the new reg
ulation that prohibits student
driving on Pollack Rd.? There
was no congestion problem last
year when students were allowed
to drive on Pollack Rd. Bfler 5
p.m., except possibly between 12
and 1 on Saturday night.
The reasons for these changes
are not readily apparent. It cer
tainly is not good policy to take
away privileges that have existed
for years without some sort of
reasonable explanation
—David Bigelow, ‘6l
Gazette
Air Force Glee Club, 8:30 p.m., HUB as
sembly room
Belles Lettrcs Club ami English Club joint
meeting, 7pm, Waring lounge
Christian Fellowship, 12:45 pm, 213 HUB
CPIC. 7 pm, 21(1 HUB
A* Council, 7 pm, 212 HUB
Ed Council, h-'tO p ni . 217 HUB
Froth Circulation Staff, BUS pm, 218
HUB
Froth Editorial Staff and Candidates, 8
p ni., Froth office, HUB
Froth Executhe Board, 7 pm., Froth of-
fice. HUB
Junior Class Advisory Board, 8:45 pm
217 HUB
Newman Club, 7 p.m., 214 HUB
Panhcllenic Council, 6 80 pm. 203 HUB
Penn State Engineer, 7 p.m., 104 Boucke
Psychology Club, 7*30 pm, 308 Willard
Schuhplnttler German Folk Dance Club,
7 15 pm. 3 White Hall
WDFM Live Broadcast, 8:15 p.m., HUB
assembly room
WRV Executive Board, 6*30 pm, 103
\N kite
Wit A Swim Club Interest Group, 6.30
p ni . INhito pool
WRA Volleyball Intramurals. 8:30 p.m.,
White gym
Social Facilities—
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in the residence halls, seems to
be the better use of dining halls.
The committee rceommended that
the dining halls, when not used
for meals, “be open for dancing,
studv, mixers or organized meet
ings ”
Since most of the cultural
life on campus hinges around
the Artist Series programs, the
main problem here is deciding
where to hold the events. If
they are held in Recreation
Hall, the report said, "The stage
is makeshift and the acoustics
are not of the best." "Schwab
Auditorium," it continued has
a capacity of 1200, is 50 years
old, has a poor seating arrange
ment and lacks modern facili-
ties."
Religious life, which is centered
around the Helen Eakin Eisen
hower Chapel, is hindered be
cause the final wing with a
capacity of 1700 has not yet been
built. A meditation chapel with a
capacity of about 140 and a
capacity of 12 must serve the
15 religious organizations on cam
pus.
There are 111 clubs or societies
for which students are eligible
for membership. With these op
portunities, twenty-seven per
cent of the students still belong to
no clubs, while the average is 1.6
club per student.
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NATO Cooperation
Requested of France
PARIS (TP) The West Germans lined up behind the
United States yesterday in a campaign to get French Presi
dent Charles de Gaulle to abandon his go-it-alone policy in
side the Atlantic Alliance.
This developed as the 15 1
Atlantic Treaty Organization en-.
gaged in tire preliminaries ofi
nine days of talks on NATO’s!
military health and a common,'
line for an East-West summit!
meeting.
President Eisenhower is to ar
rive here Friday for Western
summit talks.
Last week Gen. Nathan F.
Twining, chairman of the U.S.
Joint Chief of Staff, accused a
number of America's allies;
particularly France, of dragging
iheir feel in carrying out NATO
decisions to integrate armed
forces and accept U.S. atomic
weapons and stockpiles.
The French reaction was sharp.
Foreign Minister Maurice Couve
de Murville told US. Secretary
of State Christian A. Herter at a
private meeting yesterday that
Twining’s remarks were of “an
excessive and dramatic character.”
He expressed “extreme sur
prise” that Twining’s remarks at
a secret session had appeared in
the press.
Later, it appeared the French
were ready to tone down iheir
quarrel with the Americans, at
least in public. The public pos
ture seemed to be that the U.S.
action was regrettable but that
the alliance could rise above
such family spats.
Franz Josef Strauss, West Ger
man defense minister, in an ad
dress to the Foreign Affairs In
stitute, said those who want the
United States to stick to her mili
tary pledges in Europe “must not
engage in platonic appeals to
America or speak of her moral
responsibilities.”
Pope Urges
World Fight
Against Hunger
VATICAN CITY (TP) —Pope
John XXIII urged yesterday that
the world find ways to feed its
hungry without resorting to arti
ficial methods of birth control.
The Pope reaffirmed the Ro
man Catholic Church stand at a
secret consistory where he for
mally announced the elevation of
two new American cardinals, Al
bert Gregory Meyer of Chicago
and Alois Muench of Fargo, N.D.,
along with six from other coun
tries.
His speech to the consistory, as
distributed by the Vatican, made
no mention of discussion in the
United States over the possible
use of foreign aid funds for birth
control programs.
Instead he approached the ques
tion by referring to the problem
of feeding the hungry.
“For a great part of humanity
the problem of hunger is still
grave. In any case, to seek a rem
edy to this very grave calamity
there cannot be any adoption of
erroneous doctrines and harmful
methods and lethal limitation of
offspring,” he said.
“Instead, all riches which come
from the earth should be put at
the disposal of all, according to
the order of God and justice.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1959
IVE TOLD EVERYONE I KNOW
ABOUT BEETHOVEN'S BIRTHDAY
BEING THIS WEDNESDAY...
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'oreign ministers of the North
Farm Policy
Outlined By
Rockefeller
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn (TP)
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller out
lined a 4-pont farm policy yes
terday based primarily on long
term rentals of farms by the fed
eral government.
“We might as well face the fact
as a nation that we have not
solved the problem from either the
human or economic point of
view,” he said.
Rockefeller set forth his views
in a major speech before the Ju
nior Chamber of Commerce.
In his prepared text, the New
York governor said that “after
careful study of various propo
sals,” he urged the following
steps;
• A large-scale new land uso
program based on long-term gov
ernment rentals of farms under
which farmers could stay on tha
land.
• Stabilization supports for bet
ter incomes for farm families.
• Energetic market develop
ment for farm products.
• A vigorous job opportunity
program for farmers who want to
shift to other activities.
“I recommend that as a start
we double these land rental pro
grams by putting at least 60 mil
lion acres of our farm land to
such uses as reforestation ar,d
conservation,” he said.
“Our traditional systems of
price supports do not provide tha
proiper assistance and rewards to
modern farmers because they do
not reflect modern conditions. The
parity concept ties the old support
systems to obsolete economic re
lationships,” he said.
The governor said, however
that the support systems cannot ba
changed suddenly. To do so, he
said will hurt everybody. He ad
vocated a new system of stabiliza
tion.
Radio-TV Activities
Found Deceptive
WASHINGTON (TP) —Deceptive
broadcasting practices apparently
flourish throughout the radio
television industry, say congres
sional investigators.
What started out as an investi
gation of payola—undercover pay
offs to disc jockeys by record
makers—they report, is turning
up indications of other question
able activities involving the in
dustry from top to bottom.
A summary of their findings re
leased yesterday shows the in
vestigators charge “Top 10” rec
ord lists are rigged, program offi
cials take payoffs from child ac
tors and other performers, and
network executives use their
stations to plug outside commer
cial activities.