PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Challenge Must Be Met Last mi4ht a group of motivated students (a com modity which is rare in America and even more rare at Penn State) thiew out a challenge to the Student Gov nment. Association to take action on a vital moral issue ----dtsminination as it affects students at Penn State. After an hour of superfluous debate in which only two students said anything meaningful, a bill was passed (thanks to Divine ovidence) to form a committee to investigate inter-group relations in every aspect that aflects student affairs. Worried assemblymen questioned whether this com mitteo would overlap with other groups with interests in eliminating .discrimination. .questioned .whether .SGA should be concerned with this matter. Few saw the pur pose of SGA till one enlightened assemblyman said, "if we need others to tell us what we're here for we may as well adjourn now." Discrimination is an issue which affects students. It is an issue in which students have a vital interest. It is an issue in which SGA should be vitally interested. While SGA struts and frets most of its time in the public eye dealing with relative triviality, here is an issue of universal significance. It is vital that the official organ ization of the entire student body be concerned with this issue and do something about it on its own initiative. The challenge now faces the committee. Reports have been made before. Nothing was done and the crusade faded. This committee must not expect a complete format to be handed to it or plead for guidance from an outside group as SGA did. It must operate on its own inspired This committee must continue into the new school year and not stop with investigation, but must recom mend action based on findings of intensive investigation. The Student-Faculty assembly at Boston University is doing it. Students at Ohio State are doing It, students at the University of Illinois are doing it. Like one of the motivated students said, "let's quit dillydallying," and do something at Penn State. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freeciont Elatig Tollrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Dally Collegisn Is a student.operated newspsper Entered es second-class matter July 5. 1911 at the State College Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Meal Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. JOHN BLACK v. h. , ). 1 Editor ST Jul Le Pol AFF THIS ISSUE: Night Copy Editors, Lvnne Cerefice and n Kai l; Wile Editor. Ellie Hummer; Headline Editor, Cordie wis; A , .istant , : Juan Mellon, Saralee Orton, Suzie Ellison, Ily Dranov, Lois Dontzig, Dean 131 Hick. the Man on Campus by Dick Bibler THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager Being Amyable Problems It is not surprising that if lack of communication be tween student leaders and the administration can cause dis session, a lack of communica tion between nations of the world can cause the threat of world annihilation. However, the lack of commu nication between nations is moti vated by a factor which is not said to be present in the Univer sity situation. There is lack of communicate be- , tween the Unit- ed States and Russia bec a use it seems that Khrushchev does not want to com- municate at this Now members of the adminis tration have stated again and again that they want to com- Miss Rosenthal municate with the student body. In fact when SGA was consider ing a proposed bill to poll the legislators in Harrisburg on their view of compulsory ROTC, the bill died after President Leonard Julius pointed out that the ad ministration which had not been consulted did not like the bill and other Assemblymen objected because a large percentage of the students had not been asked their views on the bill. Dean Lipp revoked the WSGA Senate sign -out rule because the Senate had not asked her the reasons why the present policy should be retained. She also said that the student opinion gotten by a poll of women students was not valuable because the students did not understand the reasons for the policy. If students gi'.e their opinions to SGA after hearing the reason ing of the Administration, does that mean that their opinions will be taken into account? Maybe yes and maybe no. In the United States students can't communicate as effectively as those in Korea who overthrew a Campus Beat Conflicts Over Conflicts; Rules On Bermudas Dear students: In wandering about the campus your professor found this note of humor (?) at the April 28 Assembly meeting: One determined assemblyman arguing against eliminating Thanksgiving vacation told Benjamin A. Whir ler, chairman of the Senate Cal endar Committee, that he would "stake his life on the feasibility of shortening Christmas vacation." Whisler calmly replied, "Looks like you'd better go out and shoot yourself." EM:=l Evidently our administrators find boys' legs more shapely than girls' legs. The men may walk into dinner with knees showing, but the women never. 1:=M:1 The revised examination sched ule has many students in a mud dle. Seems that some of the reg ular exams now conflict with the conflicts of those who filed con filcts before the regular exam schedule came out. CM= Sad is the plight of one student who lost his matriculation card and his wallet which contained all his money. He couldn't cash a check without his matric card and couldn't buy a matric card with out cashing a check. And he couldn't even write home because he couldn't buy a stamp without money and couldn't cash a check without . . . An even sadder case is that of a student who carefully pasted his University registration sticker on his windshield and pasted be low it his permit for parking in any area. Then, he got a ticket for having two stickers on his car. —Prof Wayne in Communication by amy rosenthal -- government or those in Turkey dente hall councils, if and when and the Latin American coun- community living is established, tries who demonstrate against to SGA President Dick Haber's government officials. system of having assemblymen Students at this University sit in on all sorts of student coun have enough trouble getting ell meetings. themselves heard and have a Then too, the college councils harder time yet getting their opin- have been complaining that un ions seriously considered because der the new student government they prefer more orderly methods. system they are being left out in Remember for example the ROTC the cold. Perhaps they could be bill drawn up after much re- the ones to sound out student search and investigation by the opinion and communicate back old All-University Cabinet which administration stands. seems to have died in the Senate. If a communication system is But perhaps, this is not being fan•. During Student Encampment administiation and student lead ers will be getting together to dis cuss plans for the coming year. Perhaps thete, a system of two way communication could be worked out Enough plans have been sug gested this semester ranging from Dean Llpp's coeducational rest- Interpreting U.S. Sets Stage For Summit Failure By J. M. ROBERTS Assocwted Press News Analyst The background of summit failure goes much farther back than May 1, Looking backward, it is difficult to see how the United States could have set a better stage for Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's blowup even if she had been trying. First, Washington made it clear, even when agreeing to the sum mit conference, that little was expected from it. Then the United States virtually announced that, for its pact, Khrushchev need not expect any thing either, and that was made especially clear regarding Berlin. There never was any real prospect for a start on disarma ment. Whatever could be agreed upon ROBERTS regarding nuclear tests would be just as good, or just as bad, for one side as the other, and the Communists are little interested in that sort of a deal. Such a situation reduced possi ble Soviet profits at the summit to her chance of making it appear to the world that it was the West which placed all the obstacles in the way of agreements. And any success on that point would have been highly debatable. The summit had lost much of its appeal to everyone. Then someone forgot, or failed to properly evaluate, possible ef fect of continuing reconnaissance TODAY High Speed Carnputors, S a m.. 217 HUB Armed Forces, 8 a m., HUB ealdroom Mineral Industries Colloquium, Norman D. College of Agriculture Faculty meeting, Stihr, on "Speetrochumical Analyses of ßocks . and Minerals," 4 :16 p.m.. MI 4:11 p.m , 112 liiickhont auditorium Christian Fellowship, 12:15 pm , 218 HUB North Halls Dance, 9 p.m., HUB liallroont DOC, 8 a.m., 211 BUB Presbyterian Group, 7 p.m., 212 HUD Fluid Mechanics Seminar, Dr. Merrell Ft HOSPITAL Fenske. on — Mas , , Transfer Problems in David Ellis, Goldie Luria, Warren Long, Revolving Partially Miscible Liquids," Walter Marsland, Walter Martin, James 4:11 pm , 211 ME Nelligan, Kenneth Ralphs, Donald Sehnots. Gamma Sigma Sigma. 7 p m , 212 HUD lei FRIDAY. MAY 20. 1960 established and yet student opin ion is disregarded there is not much students can do except keep trying. After an, we stud'ents will one day become that group be loved by the administration—the ALUMNI and then too we will be the ones who pay taxes and elect those legislators down at the state capital that dish out the money for college appropriations. flights and the certainty that the Soviet Union would howl about them as soon as she could without admitting publicly she couldn't stop them. The Soviet Union caught a plane and the stage was set. The Soviet Union was given a wedge to drive between the Unit ed States and the countries which provide her with military bases. The Soviet Union was given a righteous position to which she is not accustomed. People realized that any country would make the same noises in the same case. The United States was slow in announcing renunciation of the spy plane flights. Khrushchev had the ball roll ing. He was on notice that no propaganda position he could at tain at the summit would com pare with what he already had. He got in his demands before Eisenhower announced the con cession he was prepared to make. Khrushchev's contempt f o r peace may boomerang. His boorish truculence has served to pull the Allies back from the brink of a very serious split. But the split would not have threatened if the United States had not been stumbling. First she talked too much, then too little. Gazette
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