PAGE FOUR Editorta! Opinion Assembly Shows Promise Along with Growing Pains Ttit SGA Assembly has struggled its way through its fnst full semester without providing conclusive proof as to whether it will be a worthwhile legislative body. Since the full body of 42 members was not installed until after the November elections, the Assembly has actually only been operating for about two months as a complete body. Thus far, the reorganized system of student govern ment has not proven overwhelmingly superior to the former All-University Cabinet. On the other hand, it has not been proven inferior, but it seems t.o have been oper ating on about an even level with the old system. The beginning of the semester was occupied with assemblymen wrangling in parliamentary hassles over little business other than acceptance of Student Encamp ment reports. The net result was that students began con demning the new system as impractical. Din ing this time, the Assembly tangled with an Encampment recommendation to have the president chair the Assembly and also to provide for elected class officers beneath the presidential level. Both were deferred until after elections since the body was only serving as an interim group and could not take action on constitutional amendments. Once the full body was installed, the Assembly took on new life. It fought for and got a half holiday before the Liberty Bowl football game. It adopted an ROTC report which called for a long range switch from a compulsory to a voluntary program. Assembly mulled over and then committed recom mendations on the new parking regulations. It recom mended that the ban on student driving on Pollock Rd. be dropped for Sundays, and after 5:30 p.m. weekdays and 12:30 p.m. Saturdays. Assembly followed up Encampment recommenda tions by pushing for a combined Artist-Lecture Series and establishing a Block "S" Club. The Assemblymen then came to the fore in behalf of its student body by demand ing a cleanup-paintup-fixup project for the Nittarty resi dence area. Assemblymen, after a slow start and much petty bickering, have settled down to some solid business trans actions. However, the body must now rely on the com mittees it established this semester to come up with sub stantial reports for action. Parking and food service committees now hold the spotlight for Assembly action. The Reorganization Com mittee is readying reports on the two key issues of presi dent - vice president in the Assembly chair and class offi cers elected or appointed. The Intercollegiate Council Board must be counted on to step up into the more important role cast for it in the reorganization planning. Thus far, ICCB has not taken on an important role. The reorganized SGA system showed this semester that it can live up to its expectations. But it showed this only on occasions when the whole Assembly joined in intelligent debate. The issues SGA fought for and won were accomplished through concrete reasoning and diplo matic dealing with the administration. Past lessons should be applied in the future. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Edttoriat Freedom o . llr Daily Tollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, en. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1914 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879, Mail Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester MOO per year. DENNIS MALICK 'CEDD. Editor Member of The Associated Press and The Interco/leg/ate Press Managing Editor, William Jaffe; Assistant Editor Catherine Fleck; Patine Relations Director, Lolli Neuharth: Copy Editor. Roberta Levine; Sports Editor, Sandy Patine: Assistant Sport. Editor. John Black: Photography Editor Martin Scherr; Member, Zandy Slosson. Local Ad Mgr., William Hess: Met Local Ad Mgr., ('heater Lucido: Credit Mgr., Murray Simon; National Ad Mgr., Nancy Froebel: Classified Ad Mgr., Sara Brmen: Co-Circulation Mgrs., Loretta Mink, Richard Kitainger; Promotion Mgr., Darlene Anderson; Special Page Mgr., Alico Mahachek: Personnel Mgr., Dorothy Smeat; Office Secretary, Ronnie Bailey Meyer; Research and Records, Margaret Dimperio. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Cordie Lewis; Wire Editor, Pat Dyer; Copy Editor, Karen Ilyneckeal; Assistants, John Morris, Ellie Hummer, Barb Foster, Judy Everett, Reney Alkoff, Dex Hutchins, Lois Smith, Nancy Langsner, Sue Taylor, Carol Kunkleman. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA GEORGE McTURK Business Manager Letters 'Signs' Column Defended On Satirical Basis TO THE EDITOR: Saturday's Collegian had quite a bit of ad verse comment about Mr. Malick's column, "OK, Let's Play With Signs," in Thursday's paper. I noticed that Miss Bei"gstresser seems to feel that "mature" jour nalists do not "make wisecracks." I wonder if she has ever heard of a fairly successful journalist named Max Shulman? If Malick's writing is "absolutely ridiculous," you will have to come up with a superlative for "absolutely" when talking about Shulman. It was encouraging to see that we have three freshmen capable of recognizing satire. However, they say Mr. Malick's article "fell short of i:s goal," and then con tradict themselves. If you check with Webster's Dictionary you find that the editor was quite suc cessful with his satire "That which calls down ridicule upon itself or something related to it" —Enough said? I liked the comment about Ma lick's "simple" mind. Maybe the three complicated freshmen will get to be a little simple too, after they have been here for four years Incidentally, has anyone ever heard of the apparently obsolete practice of putting a building's name above its entrance? —William Walsh, '6O Nittany Climate Inspires Jingle (To the tune of "Nittany Lion") Every college has its weather Passed on from year to year. To which it's acclimated But sometimes cannot bear; And of all the rotten places One is far worse than the rest, It's the cloudy Nittany Valley, That really flunks the test. Hail on the mountain, skies are not blue, Hail Alma Mater, with her snowfalls too, Penn Stale for weather, too rough for men; Fight that old northwind, Fight! Before it storms again. There's Greenland with its gla ciers, And China with typhoons; Africa's tornados, And India's monsoons. Now put them all together, It's really quite unfair; For when it comes to weather, We get the Lion's share! Gazette TODAY AIEE and IRE. 7.15 p ni.. MI Aii , 'Barium Air Force Glee Club, 8 10 p.m., HUB assernbl r Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 215 HUB Physics Colloquium, 4:15 p m . 1.17 Osmond University Park Federal Credit Union, 9 n ni., 205 itimeke WOFM Live Broadcast. 7 :IL p in., HUB A,teniblv HOSPIT A L Rosalind Abes, Rienard Biddle. Marian Black. Jean Bliss, Richard Brane, Peter Broaca, John Carnwnth, James Collins, Michael Connelly, Kent Cootes, Michael Corrado, Judith Davis, Larry Deafen, Michael Deeny, Francis Gomez, Earl Har baugh, John Hillman, Richard Holmquist, John Huddatt, Nancy Hughes. Gale Kling ensmith, Kenneth Klinger, Thomas Kulp, Joseph Kunsmsn Michael Lazorchak, Linda Lehner, Thomas Malone, Anne Mar ren, Hisako Matsubarts. Jerry McMurdy, Leonard Miller, Eleanor More, Janet Mun roe. Daphne Parker, Robert Petrosky, Neal Prosen, Charles Reeves, Robert Sellalm, Quentin Seitz, Thomas Sramek, Robert Stillman. Robert Swid. Valerie Turner, Freya Weister, Victoria Wentz, Diane Zimmerman. Ceiqa to Perform Own Composition George C. Ceiga, University or ganist, will play his own compo sition "Mirage," at his second or gan recital of the season at 4 p.m. Sunday in Schwab Auditorium. He will also perform two num bers by J. S. Bach, "The Old Year Hath Passed Away" and "The Great Prelude and Fugue in G Major." The rest of the program will be "Cantabile" and "Piece Heroique" by Cesar Franck, "Sonata B Flat Major" by Thomas Arne, "In trduction and Toccata" by Wil liam Walond and "Pageant" by Leo Sowerby. Little Man /1741Y1 Mil. MXAM. AS SEEN SY Cc ,\\, • • - • / f ME STUDENT: MO CRAMMED NINO 511101E0 111 E WOO MATEKIAI.- Blackboard Schweitzer—Hero Or Shattered Idol? "Albert Schweitzer would never again be tolerated in Africa." This statement was made by a college-educated Niger ian student leader at an international student conference at Ohio University two weeks ago. As we shocked Westerners pick ourselves up from among the rubble of our shat tered idol, let's analyze the reasons for this statement Though admitting that Schweitzer is a "wonderful hu manitarian," this African, who holds a degree in law from the University of London and has held several editorial positions with newspapers in his home country, .said: "Schweitzer has never bothered to learn the language or employ an African doctor or nurse." What he is inferring in this —that Schweitzer never made a concentrated 3ffort to enter into CI relationship with the peo ple, to under stand them and to have a true concern for them as persons. It was the feeling of this African t hat Schweitz e is concern was not for the African peo ple but rather for his work and self-gratification of achieve ment. Several other African stu- dents attending the conference shared these sentiments toward Schweitzer. "What good is a man who knows everything, if he does not teach another." said one. Evident also was a slight re sentment towards Schweitzer's Letters Student Wants to Retain Finals TO THE EDITOR: In your re cent editorial you favored "complete elimination of final exams in favor of term proj ects and papers." How could these possibly measure, like final exams do, the students' understanding of the subject material of his course? If a subject concerning the subject material were assigned, it would be a simple matter for the student to write such a pa per (or project) using his text book as a crutch and wouldn't necessarily show any under standing of the material On the other hand, if some TUESDAY. JANUARY 19. 1960 on Campu • - 01140 SE= by Johnny Black world recognition and espe cially his 1952 Nobel Peace Prize. "There are Western mission aries in Africa," the student leader said, "who are doing devoted work and are much closer to the ideal of the suf fering servant, but have not won world recognition." Whether we accept this harsh judgement of Schweitzer or not, there are some insights we can draw from this if we are aware of the long-exploited peoples and the long-dormant cultures that are arising un der the banner of nationalism in what have too long been referred to as "backward" re gions of the world. The noise of World War II awoke these sleeping peoples. Since that time the number of nations gaining independ ence in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America has increased almost geometrically. These new countries are de manding a voice in world af fairs. A sincere challenge is pre sented to the rest of the world —how to accept these peoples. They are being educated, and with this education comes, naturally, a seeking of fulfill ment of self as a being in mod ern society. Brit what they seek is not only a passive acceptance by (Continued on page five) subject indirectly related to the course material itself were as signed, this would be defeating the purpose of stich term proj ects:-that of measuring the stu dents' knowledge of the course itself. But even if these two prob lems could be overcome, what would stop students from us ing fraternity files and simi lar sources for the completion of these projects? I sincerely believe that this plan would introduce many more draw backs than are now contained in the present system. —Paul Jacobs, 161 by Dick Bibb* -7 - 1; . _ _ _o usEs — Zeig NOTES--- WHO HASA COPY OF 771 E 7EST
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