PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion It Ought to Be More Than A Social Center .ears undergraduates, graduates and faculty menthe's have been complaining about the inadequate II v facilities at Penn State. Now, thanks to members of the Libeial Arts faculty, all these complaints have been compiled and taken a new form in consti uctive suggestions. Why at a University, which is literally isolated in the middle of Pennsylvania, should the library rank so low in comparison to other major universities? In financial grants, the Pane() Library ranks 102 out of 106 major universities, getting only 1.8 per cent of the total University funds. Library improvement is-going to cost money as do many other things the University needs. This time the administrators cannot sit back and plead that money is just not available. Money must be made available. The library should take precedence over many other matters. In the hustle and bustle of putting up new residence halls, a new football stadium and signs to tell visitors the names of buildings, the library—the point around which much of academic activity should revolve—has been for gotten Why bring more students to this isolated spot when the academic facilities cannot accommodate them? If the University is existing only to provide housing and enter tainment, then it is not a university. Housing (even Nit tany) and entertainment should be secondary to the Uni versity's primary function—that of providing a stimulus for intellectual growth. We are told libraries provide a big part of this stimulus and anyone who has spent time just exploring in libraries realizes they do provide stimulus. The library's inadequacies cannot be blamed entirely on inefficient operation, although this is certainly part of the problem. Anyone who has run back and forth between the stacks and the periodical room hunting for a magazine which each department says the other has will be able to see this. However. the main problem is not that it is too hard to find reference material because the material is all too often not there to begin with. The main problem is money. Great libraries are not built on dreams. A documented dream may become part of a library but it still costs money. Students could also help the situation. THEY COULD STOP S HALING BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. Any com- merits we could make about this little habit would be mere restatements of the obvious. However, to those book stealers who make things more difficult for their fellow students, we hope the next time they need a book, of which the library has only one edition, someone else has gotten there first. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom. 01le /3 ttitg Cr,olleginti Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as aecond-class matter July 5, 1931 at the State College Pa. Poet Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Mail Subscription Price: $3.00 pee semester $5.00 per year. JOHN BLACK Editor City Editor. Carol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Gloria WoHord; Sports Editor, Sandy Padsse; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkroum Feature Editor and Assistant Cop, Editor. Elaine Miele: Copy Editor, Annabelle Rosenthal; Photography Editor. Frederic Hower; Make-up Editor. Joel Myers Local Ad Mgr., Brad Dalin; Assistant Local Ad Mgr.. Hal Delsher; Credi. Mgr., Mary Ann Cram; Ass't Credit Mgr., Neal Heitz; Classified Ad Mg.., Constance Eked; ('o•('irtulation Mrs., Rosalind Abel, Richard Kitoinger; Promotion Mar.. Elaine Michel; Personnel Mgr., Becky ICohudie• Office Secretary, Joanne Huyett. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Ellie Hummer; Wire Editor, Sue Eberly; Night Copy Editor, Jo Anne Mark; Assistants, Polly Drano•, Carol Kunkleman, Lois Dontzig, Dean Billick, Jeanne Swoboda, Luanne Russell, Margie Hoffman. TODAY Art Ed Realktration, 2 p m., HUB BIM. flom Art Ed, 3 p.m , HUB assembly room Al! Campus Speech, 2 13 m . 212 HUB Bridge Club, 7 p.m., HUB rardroom Campus 'Pour, it ■.m., HUB assembly noon, Chrirtuan Fellowship. 12 :15 pm , 218 illin Fluid Mechanics Seminar. 4:15 pm. SU M.E. CHESTER LUCIDO 4413!:0" Business Manager Gazette Hat Society Council, 7 p m 215 HUB Interlandia, ?''to pon , 3. White Hall HOSPITAL Richard Anderson, Loretta Gowan, Mary Ann Krems, Joseph Kereniek, Betty Kohudic, Gei Rh! Lorah, Elizabeth Lott, David Mar-Mall, Roarer Nesti, Richard Nicholls, Carol Proper, Helen. Purism, Marile Rounds, Terrence Schmoyer, lielen Shull. Donald 'Lana• lint. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Frosh Finds Nittany 'Not Fit for Pigs' TO THE EDITOR: Over the past weekend, I was a visitor in Nit tany 29. Having read so much about the conditions of the dorms in the Nittany Area, I was elated to have this opportunity to view the situation. Never, in my wild est dreams, did I envision the shambles which the administra tion refers to as a dorm. The rooms are so small that I do not see how roommates are kept from constantly running into each other. The filth which sur rounds the entire area can hardly he conducive to good study hab its The furniture which is bat ter-.2d and worn should have been abandoned long ago Is It justice to inflict such dis gusting surroundings on men merely because they lack the ad ditional funds for the newer dorms? The University is now spending thousands of dollars on improvements, but, however, I do not see why they are wasting money to improve dorms which aren't fit for pigs. From what I have read, the ad ministration readily admits that the size of closet facilities, as well as room space cannot be in creased. Thus, what is the purpose of all the "new alterations?" A new coat of paint may be helpful, but it cannot serve to correct the pathetic conditions which already exist. Since I believe that man is, in Dart. "A product of his environ ment," the conditions under which he lives are also important. Isn't there enough apathy toward in tellectual achievement on this campus without creating new and unnecessary problems 9 Why are students so indifferent to "learning for the sake of learn ine9" What happened to the intel lectual, to the student who has int—rests other than himself? If the students at PSU would rid themselves of the compla cent attitude which surrounds them, this school might lose the reputation of beina nothing more than a country club. We have good teachers: we have good courses However, why does the average student lack ambition and initiative? This is a question which has puzzled me—perhaps, you know the answer. —Regina Vassalotti, '63 THE ONLY WAY TO PLAY BASEBALL RIGHT 16 TO USE TWO HANDS!. WAN as* 4•1 01P1' ,: 4 4 - r• •• .- - OP .le. l, - • Illir 44 hi, e - ..., 1 n *Ai V 6 ___ .4........, ..... May 16. \f file 'ls Ira • OW 1. 00.01 .s'ew.r.a. ttle Man on Campus by Dick B u LOOK, COON9CIN, YOU R OAD 0 13WAD)PMP YOUR WAY AN' 11.1. PO TM' JUMP M Y' World At U.S. Rejects Soviet Charge WASHINGTON (W)—The Unit, ed States rejected yesterday the Soviet Union's charge that Amer ican spy flights over Soviet ter ritory are•deliberate hostile acts. The State Department, acting with unusual speed, gave this for mal reply in a note just two days after Moscow officially protested the flights. The Soviet government had de manded an immediate halt to all such ae:.al intelligence gathering and threatened what it called "re taliatory measures" if it con tinues. A State Department spokes man, in reporting that the U.S. reply was delivered in Moscow yesterday, said the text would be made public later. Informants reoorted the reply politely but firmly upheld the U S. view that spy flights are needed unless the Soviet Union agrees to open its borders to international inspection against surprise at tacks. President Eisenhower was de scribed as determined to go ahead with a scheduled visit to the So viet Union, unless Premier Nikita Khrushchev personally suggests he stay home. Senator Asks Ike For Info On Bomb WASHINGTON (UP) Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D.-Conn.) called on President Eisenhower yester day to tell the American people what he knows about a neutron bomb which Dodd said would emit a kind of death ray. "I consider all this hush-hush that> surrounds the neutron bomb to be a glaring instance of the official abuse of secrecy," Dodd said. "To keep the facts of life on the nuclear age from the Ameri can people is foolish, and poten tially dangerous." An Army specialist on nuclear weapons said a neutron bomb is possible in theory. The Atomic Energy Commission declined com ment. Dodd raised the question of a neutron bomb in a speech declar ing the fate of the free world may hinge on early resumption of nu clear testing by the United States. Mane Flight Injures 12 MIAMI, Fla. (IF) A dozen persons, including two steward esses, were injured yesterday when a Delta Air Lines jet plane flying nonstop from Chicago, ran into turbulence 30 miles out of Miami. The plane, Flight 803, landed safely at Miami International Airport. FRIDAY. MAY 13, 1960 A Glance 'K,' Ike Have Optimism For Summit Meetin g MOSCOW (FP)—Hot winds blow from both East and West on the summit conference opening Mon day in Paris. But the two major antagonists President Eisen hower and Premier Nikita Khru shchev both used some cooler words as they prepared to fly to the meeting. Asked at his Washington news conference Wednesday whether the outlook for the summit had changed since the spy plane inci dent, Eisenhower replied: "Not decisively at all." After an initial explosion about the same time in Moscow, Khru shchev told a news conference he goes to the summit expecting to make some progress. "I am a hopeless optimist," added the Soviet Premier. While Khrushchev indicated he would not bring up the spy plane incident at the summit, the whole issue seemed likely to boil up. Eisenhower said he was going to make his open skies proposal again in Paris. The Soviets denounced that proposal at the time it was first made and have said the flight of the downed reconnaissance plane over the Soviet Union May 1 was an attempt to have open skies without the consent of the Soviet Union. The whole issue promised to be explosive and perhaps even dis ruptive. Aly Khan Killed In Car Accident PARIS VP) Prince Aly Khan, wealthy sportsman-diplomat, was killed in a suburban highway crash last night while driving in from the races with a beautiful woman at his side. He would have been 49 in June. His sports car and a light sedan crashed together on a highway at Suresnes as he was returning from an afternoon at the Long champs race track. With him were the French mod el Bettirla, a constant companion on his European visits, and his chauffer, who was riding as a passenger while Aly drove. Neither Bettina nor the chauf feur was reported seriously hurt. Prince Aly had turned to sober sided diplomacy as Pakistan's ambassador to the United Nations in recent years, but he still played a lower-keyed role as a fancier of women and horses.
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