PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Perfect Illustration The Slate- Colley- barbeis last night gave an Imita tion oi the pi over Inal ostrich sticking its head in the sand. Lone oi the hai hers attended the segregation meeting to which they had been invited (and this of course is theii pi A llege) Hut the leason that several of them gave for not attending was a perfect illustration of the blindness that the lecent demonstrations have been trying to erase. They said that to attend would be to admit that a pioblem exists. 'Hus is exactly the point the demonstrators have sought to prove. Let it be reiterated: the problem does exist here. Wake up you Rip Van Winkles of State College Alternate System Needed We wondei if the former SGA Assemblymen knew what they weie doing when they threw out the reorgan ization committee's pioposal for an alternate system. The proposal provided definite requirements for an alternate, a screening by the Rules Committee and final Assembly approval of the alternate. In another section, it limited the ways in which an alternate could obtain a seat in assembly and limited the number of times a regular assemblyman could be absent. Tho vote which defeated an SGA alternate system entirely was barely audible and one might conclude that some assemblymen did not quite understand either the reorganization plan or all the ramifications of their action. Obviously some new assemblymen and several old ones still Hunk an alternate system is needed because hew proposals and second thoughts can be detected in the low er and hierarchy ot student government. SGA president Richard Haber said he is personally against an alternate system but thinks that any alter nate system which assembly might pass should require approval of alternates by the. Assembly and the Rules Committee. This alternate approval was an integral part of the reorganization committee’s plan. Then, there is the Campus party proposal to at least pi ovule an alternate system for people who must be off the campus for academic requirements. This eliminates disci munation against education majors but by no means solves the problem. Before University party decided, in a recent caucus, to follow Haber's personal opinion, two party members pointed out that if two members of the present majority party went student leaching or had to drop assembly for other reasons, the majority party would no longer be a majority. They“felt this was not in the "democratic spirit" of things. In addition to the demise of “democratic spirit”, it can do nothing but further weaken political parties. The future, proper function of SGA depends on strong politi cal paities. The elected majority party should have a chance to function as a majority party. Ideally, perhaps the student body should elect a rep resentative and an alternate; but this is not feasible now because political parties do not have the strength and the student body does not have the interest to provide twice the number of present assemblymen for election. Both parties had some trouble finding enough candidates to fill their slates this election. Eventually we can hope that the election of alternates becomes feasible; but until then the reorganization com mittee's plan is the best plan. It piovides for a careful screening of alternates and definitely tries to cut down the ways in which the regular assemblvman can shirk his duty. SGA must face the fact that its members are students and as such, may be forced to drop out of Assembly for academic or personal reasons. They are not paid legis lators Alpha IMu Om*qa. dinner ilu'ice, 13 p Mi . Lit ..illt'l 1H Botnnv Club. 7 p m . 218 Bmkhout ( ('I F Alumni Utdleife, 211-218 HUB, In tn (»rad l luh Square Dance, 8 ‘lO pm , HI I! tmllmom Student Mmir, 7 pm, HUH «''*nnhi> TOMORROW Anti-NeKreuatiiin croup. 2 40 p m, Kt senhnu ei (. Impel ( he«i (luh, 2 pm HUB oaidioom Alpha Kappa F*i. s pm. 213 Hl’B < luiMtian Fellowship, 2 pm. 217 HUB Freshman AdvUory Board, 2 pm, 203 HUB Float Parade, Q pm, 2HI HUB Flashcard Uomnuttee. ti-IO pm. 218 HUB (•lee t lub. 3 pm, Schwab Auditorium Junior . lass Advisory Board. 3 30 p m . 211 HUB Newman UluS, 7 p m 211 HUB Sit Nittany Philatelic Society. 2 pm iti HUB GAZETTE Spring Week Committee, 7 pm, 217 HUB Student Movie, p m , HUB assem bly room United Student Fellowship, 0 30 pm, .MS HUB Alpha Phi Alpha, 7 pm, HUB Alpha Phi Omega, 7 p m , 213 HUB Christian lellonship. 8 pm, *203 HUB Diaarmament Seminar, noon. (. hapel louture Engineering: Mechanics Seminar, 4.13 p m . 203 Enx “\" Faculty Luncheon Club, noon, HUB dining room A 4-H Club, 7pm, 100 Wen\er IFC. 7 pm, HUB as>embl\ room luer. 7 pm., 217 HUB Leonides Council, 6:30 pm, 2‘U HUB S(»A Assembly, special meeting, 7 p m , 203 HUH SKA Cabinet. S pm.. 218 HUB Simmons Series Lecture, 8 p.m, 121 Sparks THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA MONDAY Letters Baker Says Scott Missed Connotations TO THE EDITOR: Re: the letter by Mi Scott, in yesterday's Col legian answering my letter which was published Thursday. Appar ently, Mr Scott didn’t receive a humorous connotation from my letter, which I intended to pur vey. I’m surpnsed he didn't call me a Communist. Since I have resided in the United States all my life, I am well aware of “ . . the American ideals of eauality of opportunity and justice.” . I am also aware of ihe right of selective discrimination. I can shoo where I please and go where I please, as long as I feel I' am welcome. I feel sure that I would not be welcome in Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club so I stay out. Unfortunately there are many places and things which offer dis criminatory bars to whites as well as Negroes. Let’s go picket them. In reptv to Mr Scott's question as to whether I will attend the groun meetings . . . the answer is no. I am working for my MA in two semesters and have little time to get involved in the Penn State Dream World However, if Mr Scott would care to discuss this fqrthei mv address and phone number can be easily located —William H. Baker. Graduate Student Three Groups Praised For Greek Projects TO THE EDITOR: The Nittany Valiev Little League wish to con vey to you that the Delta Delta Delta sororitv, Phi Sigma Upsilon and Delta Sigma Phi fraternities, working at our Little League Field as a part of Greek Week, did a most commendable job—especial ly since they had no supervision from the League. We feel that our students de serve a great deal of credit at this time when so many adverse things lend to make bitter'feelings be tween town and student groups —Phil Gill, President, Nittany Valley Little League Grad Student Protests Closed Parking Lot TO THE EDITOR: The recent use on Sunday afternoon of parking lot 30 as a testing ground for mo tor scooters is not only annoying to those trying to study in the ad jacent buildings, but also serves to point out that this parking lot serves no other useful purpose after hours Surely Mr Walker and Mr. Diem cannot believe it is reason able or necessary to continue keeping this lot closed and empty on weekends. —Peter J. Lunde, Graduate Student WSGA to Hold Retreat For Policy Revisions The Women’s Student Govern ment Association will hold a re treat from 1 to 8 p.m. today in the WRA cabin. Attending the retreat will be all WSGA senators, officers and Miss Lois M. MeColloch, faculty advisor. Also present will be rep resentatives from the Judicial Board, Leonides and Panhellemc Council. HOSPITAL Mel: nda Albrecht, Barton Friedman, •Toan ftiHniiiorf, Margery (ireen, Chan* Howard, Rodger Klein, Janice Levy, Rob ert Matoushek, Betsv O’Haia, Joyce Owen, Dorothv Ratbrnell, David Re\no!ds, Judith Robertson, Michael Uonenhlomn, Joel Roth, Edward Sekul.i, (’hatlea Wilson. ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 1/SO YOU eoT\ / YOUR RABIES \ SJOT YESTERDAY,/ V huh? Did it j Xhurt?^ i'm sM.r shouldn't HAve RgMINOfD Vt)U OF lT„, v »-*•* L 4- >l^^. - i y *r»<. \nw 3^' Snowed A Weathermans Predicaments Being a weather forecaster can be the most fascinating job in the world on some days and yet on others it doesn’t even pay to get out of bed in the morning. An incident to illustrate the latter case happened to me the other day. It was a rainy afternoon and I was walking along" Pollock Road toward the HUB, when I spotted an acquain tance of mine walking toward me. I thought of turning away or tak ing another path, but I was get ting wetter by the minute, so I decided to keep going As he drew near me, he snapped, “some sunshine ” I made some apologetic reply and con tinued hurriedly on my way I thought back to the afternoon before, when af ter ponderin g over the weath er map for hours I had finally de cided to forecast fair weather. The storm had looked so weak and in nocent there in Illinois, but there was no question of its potency myers now, as I finally made it to hte HUB, dripping wet. You see I had forgotten my umbrella. Actually weather forecasting is not as easy as some people think. There are literally millions of fac tors that must be considered, weighed and evaluated by the forecaster before an accurate pre diction can be made. In a critical Margenau Will Speak On Teaching of Science “The Teaching of Science” will Students and staff members of be the subject for a lecture to be the lonosphere Research Labora presented at 4:15 p.m. today tory are presenting 12 papers at in 109 Osmond by Dr. Henry Mar- meetings of the American Geo genau. " physical Union and International Margenau is professor of na- Scientific and Radio Union in tural philosophy at Yale Univer- Washington, D.C. sity and served last year as dis- The meetings will be held dur tinguished visiting professor of ing the last part of this month physical and engineering sciences, and during next month. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom Stye latlg (Mlrgtatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-clas' matter July 5, 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 2, 1879. Mall Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor City Editor. Carol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor. Gloria Wolford: HporU Editor* Sandy Padwe; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director. Huaan Llnkroam; Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor, Elaine Miele; Copy Editor, Annabel!* Rosenthal; Photography Editor. Frederic Bower; Make-up Editor. Joel Mvera, Local Ad Mgr., Brad Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mgr, Hal De’nber; ( redit Mgr, Mary Ann Crans; Ass’t Credit Mgr., Neal Keitz; Classified Ad Mgr., fonetane* Kiesel; Co-Circulation Mgr*., Rosalind Abes, Richard Ktzinger; Promotion Mgr * Elaine Michal; Personnel Mgr., Becky Kohudic: Office Hecretarr, Joanne ffovett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor, Pat Dyer; Headline Editor, Karen Hyneckeal; Wire Editor, Jim Karl; Assistants. Joan Mehan, Carol Kunkleman, Lois Haegley, Phyllis Mandlebaum, David Runkle, Kathy Kuchta, Karen Saldutti, Marty Seherr, Zandy Slosson, Denny Malick, Cathy Fleck, la>lli Neubnith, Bobbi Levine. SATURDAY. APRIL 23. 1960 by ioei myers or borderline situation this may require many hours. It is possible for any given weather event to occur on any given day and the weather fore cast is merely a combination of those weather occurrences that are most likely to be observed. Although the unexpected oc casionally takes place, the accur acy ot weather predictions aver ages about 85 to 90 per cent. The public often misunder stands the meaning of forecast terminology. For example, scat tered showers means that one or more showers will fall in an area of several hundred square miles. When one realizes that each show er is limited in area to a few square miles, it becomes obvious why all of the forecasted region doesn't get rain. A pariicular locality may be hit by a heavy shower that lasts for a half an hour. The residents immediately blame the meteorol ogist for not warning them of a "heavy downpour." On the other hand, the areas that are spared the rain criticize the forecaster for making a mis take. You can't win! Students to Participate In Science Conference CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager
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