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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.
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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
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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.