PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion ICCB on Assembly Would Ruin Concept The move to replace elected members of SGA Assembly with student council presidents is an illogical regcesston toward a rejected student government system! Re-appearance of council presidents on Assembly would ruin the theory of a representative government and leave the body wide open to control by specific intet est groups. The Intercollegiate Council Board which has made the proposal is composed of the council presidents. ICCB feels that it could add much prestige, informed thinking and reasoning to the Assembly. This may be true to some extent. However, it would mean virtually reverting to the castoff Cabinet system. If council presidents are added, then why not add IFC, INSGA, AIM, and Panhel presidents who certainly fulfill the qualifications given for having ICCB members on Assembly.? The main idea for the entire reorganization was to give students representation through elected officials rela tively free of obligation to interest groups. It is a known fact that some councils are controlled by one or two individual groups. Some council members are actually elected without any votes. They had no opposition. This is hardly representative! The council presidents are elected by their own coun cils. A student who did not receive even one vote and did relatively little work could become president and thus sit on Assembly merely by being popular with members of his council. Some council presidents may feel robbed of the pres tige attached to Assembly membership. This, of course, is a poor excuse for wanting to be Assemblymen. Others feel that the class presidents are not elected as Assemblymen but as heads of their classes who sit on Assembly by position. They use this to support their arguments for seating council presidents. But the class presidents are elected by the classes as a whole, and the voters understand that election means a seat on Assembly. The representative SGA system is not operating at its top potential. But the system is not even a year old. Many of the inadequacies may be attributed to lack of exper ience. Upcoming elections should eliminate those Assemblymen who are now dragging their feet. Since almost all council presidents are seniors, their addition would overload Assembly membership with seniors. This would eliminate many underclassmen who are receiving valuable student government training. Eliminating this training would discourage under classmen who look ahead ands see no future for them selves on Assembly unless they are council presidents. Eventually this would revert to a system of "unrepresenta tive representation." Student leaders of several years running saw the definite need for junking the Cabinet system. The repre sentative system, passed after a tremendous amount of research and discussion, might be open now to minor revisions, but not to changes that would completely ruin its underlying principles. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom Dailg Tolltgian Mir Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Publixhed Tuesday through Saturday morning during the Untrersity year. The Daily Collegian i• a student-operated newspaper Entered as second-elass matter July 5. 1934 at the State College. Pa Post °Mee under the art of March 3. 1879. Mail iutwcription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per rear DENNIS MALICK Editor ft-70)°' Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press Managing Editor, William Jaffe, Assistant Editor Latherine Fleck; Public Relations Director Loin Neuharth; Copy Editor, Roberta Levine; Sports Editor, Sandy Padwe: Assistant Sport• Editor John Black; Photography Editor Martin Scherr: Member. lands Stosson Loral Ad Mgr., William Heim; Met Local Ad Mgr.. Chester Lucido; Credit Mgr.. Murray Simon; National Ad Mgr.. Nancy Froelich Classified Ad Mgr., Sara Brown; Co-Circulation Mum.. Loretta Mink. Richard Kiteinger; Promotion Mgr.. Darlene Anderson; Special Page Mgr., Alice Mahachek; Personnel Mgr.. Dorothy Smeal; Office Secretary. Bonnie Bailey Meyer; Research and Records, Margaret Dimperto. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Copy Editor, Meg Teichholtz; Head line Editor, Karen Hyneckeal; Wire Editor, Carol Blakeslee; Assistants, James Karl, Ellie Hummer, Kay Mills, Karin Miller, Ellen Sulkis, Bernice Parr, Dick Stein, Jeanne Swoboda, Sharon Harad, Sandra Dotter, Sandy Yaggi, Nancy Langsner. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA GEORGE McTURIC Business Managor Letters Transfer Rule Seen Unfair By Students TO THE EDITOR: Insofar as such a thing is possible I wonder if you could get some member of the SGA Cabinet to explain how this body can fail to oppose a measure which benefits no stu dent and will probably hurt some students I am speaking of the require ment that all transfers who are not planning to pledge a frater nity and who don't have some other "valid reason" live in dor mitories. I understand that the adminis tration can and will use such measures as are necessary to stay within the state budget. This after all is its job The lob of the SGA and its lead ers, on the other hand, is not to blindly accept administration de cisions. The job is to represent before and protect students from an impersonal administration. Is it possible that the measure just mentioned will benefit stu dents? I find it difficult to see how. Anyone who wants to, can find space in the dormitories now In the future, students who don't want to live on campus but can't find a valid excuse, whatever that may mean, will be forced, many times against their will, to live in some dormitory. If the SGA is just going to be a ribber stamo for administra tion decisions it is not likely that students will be any less apathe tic at the next election than at the last If a representative doesn't fulfill his responsibility to repre sent those who elected him, he can't expect to increase the num ber of people voting for him. —Robert Biesterfeldt Fiiminae Nittany, ,Sf_)ive Problems TO THE EDITOR: At present there are two seemingly unrelat ed complaints being aired on campus: the men in Nittany don't like their living conditions, and at the same time. there is an un welcome reception for the idea of making independent transfer stu dents spend their first year on campus Couldn't these problems be set tled by postponing the transfer on-campus arrangement for a few years and fill the new dorms first with the men who might have to live in Nittanv? Then the Nittany dorms could be razed a proc ess long overdue. Even if no new dorms were im mediately constructed in their place, the campus would be bet ter off without such an eyesore. —Rae Hoopes, '6O Gazette Re4eareh Committee Academic Affairs 6 10 pm , 21) HUB Argociation of Childhood Education. John th grade discu,sion, 7 p nu, Atil t.' ton ea,t lounge Che , ,4 Club. 7 p m , HUB cardroom Cbri,tian Felloashin. 12.45 p rn . 218 HUD Dancing Claqa, 6.30 p.m , HUD ballroom Greek Week Committee, 8 p m , 211 HUB Israeli Folk Dancing, 7:30 p.m.. Hillel Foundation Math Department, 7 p.m , HUB main lone" Nevi mon ( lub Fraternit -Sorority Com- puttee. 7 15 p m.. 216 HUB Pia' Rehearsal, p rn., 216 HUB Riding Club meeting, '7 p m , 105 Armsby Sports Car Club. 7 p m 212-113 HUB Student ( Imola n Residence Council, 6 •30 pm. 215 HUB TIM, 7 p.m , 203 HUB Women's Chorus, f .10 p.m . HUI 3 a ciembly room WS GA. 6 :30 p.m.. 217 HUB HOSPITAL Beni Amnake, Bobeit Backer, Linda Beigton, Ned Buckley, Richard Crothers. Mary English, Eleanor Foer.d, Joanne Kohut, Sandra Laboon, John Lasky, George Machlan. Salsatm e Malolate‘o, Spencer McGravk. Vi.d.liarn O'Malley. Stephen Burn ham:h, Nancy Stang, Fredric Tietz. Janet Tpulin, Wilburn Updegtaff, Joan Van De n Brian Watson. Terry M'oothdde. Junior Receives Grant For Study in France Marjorie Brewster, Junior in music from State College, has been awarded a UNESCO grant for study at the Institute for Amer ican Universities of the Univer sity of Aix-Marseille in Provence, France. Miss Brewster is enrolled at Aix-Marseille this semester. In ad dition to her academic courses, she will study piano under Mlle. La vigne of the Conservatory of Music* Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler UT HOW WILL I EXPLAIN YOUR A's' IF YOU DON'T Inside Washington Even Filibusters Have Funny Side WASHINGTON (il 3 ) The night and the Senate wore on. Usually only a few senators were around for the historic, continuous debate on civil rights. Now early morning had come at last, and Sen. John L. McClellan (D.-Ark.) had the floor. "At one time during the night," 'McClellan said, "I count- ed four in the press gallery, nine in the visitors' gallery and three or four senators on the floor." A reporter who had spent the night sitting up with talkative senators agreed it hadn't been much. "But earlier we had a little ex citement," he said. "I forget the exact time, but it must have been around 2 a.m., while people were still dropping in. One woman, a blonde, came in in a strapless eve ning gown. She looked as if she might have been a burlesque queen on her way home from work. "It wasn't much," he con ceded, "but it was the best we had." That probably is as good a way as any to describe a fili buster. If it's excitement you're after, hope that some blonde saunters into the gallery. The senators aren't likely to sup ply it. If you think this is exaggerated, let's examine the Senate as it spins its wheels. B:s7—McClellan begins to talk. 9:o9—McClellan asks permis sion for a clerk to read one of his bills to the Senate. To no #.6.4 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. 1960 LEARN 'TV 11Pe ?// By Arthur Edson one's surprise, since the point is to wear the other side down, Sen. Paul Douglas (D-I11) ob• jects. McClellan says he will read bill himself. 9:ls—Sen, Clifford P. Case (Ft- NJ), tiptoes across Senate floor. He's toting his topcoat and hat and looks like a man knocking off from the night shift. 9:20 Senatorial attendance booms. McClellan reads on. "Ar ticle B, Section 2 of such act," he says. 9:27—Sen. Estes Kefauver (D- Tenn), with the puzzled expres sion of a farmer who can't im agine why one of his cows failed to report for 'milking, walks across Senate floor, look ing neither to left nor right, and disappears into the back pasture. 9:4o—McClellan wishes he could get approval to have a clerk read an amendment to his bill but supposes someone will object. Douglas wakes up, bobs up. "I don't want to disappoint my good friend," he says. "I object." "My good friend from Illinois did not disappoint me," McClel lan said. "He lived up to my ex pectations." =SSIEiMI EVER NOLO AND THEN YOU RUN INTO A IITE tOITI4 A MIND OF ITS OWN! ag b ravv,v ..1111 Ni tAA/ 747 / "" V i i _IN I/ 04 6. .. ~, _~ =MM
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