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Editorial Opinion
Eliminate Discrimination
From Housing List
The current drive by morally concerned students to
ferret out discrimination has turned toward housing.
While the administration and other groups and
individuals in town and on campus refuse to recognize
that the problem of discrimination in housing exists, those
students whose skin is not white can verify it.
Other universities have ceased hiding from the prob
lem and have taken action to rectify it. The University of
Illinois will approve no privately operated student room
ing house unless the owner agrees to make its facilities
available to all students without discrimination With
respect to race or religion.
Similar action is being taken on other campuses
across the nation
It. has been advocated here that all places housing
students be registered at the dean of men's office and no
hou'ing be approved by the University unless the landlord
subscribes to a non-discrimination clause.
The University does not approve or force registration
of housing because to do so would place it in a unique
position of legal responsibility for anything that happened
there. The University does, however, provide a service for
landlords wishing to rent to students by posting a list of
available rooms that are called in to the dean of men's
off ice.
1.
And here is where the Unytersity could back up
non-discrimination in housing. It could refuse to place on
the list the housing of any landlord who refused to sub
scribe to a non-discrimination clause.
Enforcement of this would require the cooperation of
the students. If any Negro or international student, seek
ing accomodations at one of the listed places, were brushed
off by being toll the vacancies were filled or promised to
someone else, he would report that fact to the dean of
men's office. Obviously, if the vacancy is filled or prom
ised there would be no reason for it to remain on the list
and it should be immediately removed.
This is at least a starting point that could be feasibly
instituted even before the end of the semester.
Pinnacle of Absurdity
SGA Assembly in one night pulled the bottom out
from under a whole year of work to establish itself as a
responsible voice of the student body, commanding the
respect of the administration and the faith of the students
when members walked out unexcused from Thursday's
meeting.
Respected student government reached the pinnacle
of absurdity, when, while in the midst of conducting its
business, Assembly was rendered inoperative by the lack
of a quorum.
Will the University Senate allow such a group to
continue in existence when the day of reckoning comes
next year?
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA
CHESTER LUCIDO
Business Manager
Interpreting
'K' Employs
Hitler Tactics
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Not since the days of Adolf
Hitler has the world witnessed
such gyrations as Soviet Pre
mier Nikita Khrushchev has
been going through recently.
He worked for two years to get
a summit conference, manufac
turing a completely phony issue
about West Berlin to get it. He
said if the Allies refused to get
out he would make a separate
peace with East Germany and
turn over control of the city's out
side communications to his pup
pets there.
He said he would not press the
U 2 incident at the summit, and
then used it to blow up the con
ference. He sounded like he might
run risks of unilateral action on
Berlin.
He created a scene such as few
diplomats had ever watched.
Now he says the issue can wait
for some months until current
storms have blown themselves out
and another conference can be
arranged. He says he doesn't want
to make the cold war more se
vere.
Khrushchev has now become
so self-contradictory that no safe
estimate can be made of his
Course.
The cold war is more severe,
by the very fact that communi
cation between Khrushchev and
Eisenhower has been broken.
It is more severe because
Khrushchev has shown that sum
mitry was one of its tactics, rath
er than a real approach to peace.
America's smaller allies have
been brought more directly under
the gun in the Soviet effort to
break up NATO and the foreign
bases system.
- The Soviet Union and Red Chi
na can now put their propaganda
back on a concerted basis after
a period in which the Soviet has
been much softer. Peiping is freer
to go its own aggressive way.
There is a danger from having
a man in charge of a dictatorial
government who is as contemptu
ous of civilized behaviour as
Khrushchev proved himself at
Paris. There is danger in having
him at the controls of deadly ma
chines, sitting back and waiting
for something over which to take
offense. Where Stalin bluffed from
a position of weakness, Khrush
chve bluffs from a position of
strength.
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Letters
Coed Disgusted With SGT►
TO THE EDITOR: For once in
my life I was ashamed to be a
student at Pennsylvania State
University. I was ashamed, dis
gusted and tired with a sense of
futility. I attended the Thurs
day night session of SGA.
I was ashamed that the repre- the Davage report, which is an
sentatives of our student body entire thesis dealing with dis
did not have the sense of respon- crimination in State College.
sibility to remain to discuss Ja- Simes' answers and deciama
cob Dentu's bill on the problem of lions were not Indicative of the
housing discrimination. intelligence or diplomacy of a
Mr Dentu, I know, worked long dean of men from a university of
and tirelessly on this bill and this size, but I am wondering if
finally, after he sat three hours, they are indicative of the attitude
waiting for the opportunity to of the entire administration.
present it, it was discovered that How long is SGA, our admin-
SGA did NOT have a quorum to istration and our town going to
pass or even defeat it. evade the poignant issue which
The pertinence of this bill has affects all of us in some way and
been demonstrated numerous agood part of our student body
times on this campus, yet its ne- most directly? That is a question,
cessity eluded SGA which had though avoided by Mr. Simes and
other things to do when its time
of presentation arrived. our "representatives," must be
lam also ashamed that Dean of answered by YOU.
Men Frank J. Simes had the au- —Leslie LeWinter, '6l
Senior Protests Car Fee
TO THE EDITOR: So one more
fee is yet to be added; yet an
other subterfuge is used to draw
the pennies from the students'
pockets. Five dollars, says the
dean of men, is the pittance you
must put up for the privilege of
restricted driving of a car on
campus and parking in one of
those two sacred lots reserved
for students.
What privilege? Does the fact
that this is a state university
whose roads have been construct
ed with funds from state taxes
and student tuition (one of the
highest state university tuitions
in the country) mean that some
body is granting us, as a sort of
benevolent gesture, these roads
on which a toll must now be
placed?
Or is it that the dean of men
TODAY
Armed Forces, 8 a m , HUB cardroom
Chapel Choir and Symphony Concert, 8.30
p.m , Schwab
Gamma Sigma, 9 p.m., HUB aesembly
room
Gamma Sigma Sigma, 9 p.m, 214 HUD
Grad Student Association Square Dance,
-8:30 p m , HUB ballroom
Kappa Alpha Theta. 12:45 p.m., 212 HUB
Student Moyle. 7 p.m., HUB assembly room
TOMORROW
Campus Tour, 2 p.m., HUB alsembly room
Chapel Service, 10:65 a nt Schwab
Chem• Phys Council, 2 p.m , 218 HUB
Chess Club. 2 p.m., HUB cardroom
Christian Fellowship, 2 p.m., 217 HUB
College of Business, 3 :30 p m., HUB main
lounge
Ecumenical Rally, 3 pm . Schwab
Elumes, C :lb p.m , Simmons lounge on
second Hoot
Grad Student Bridge. 7 p m., 212 HUB
Newman Club, 7 p.m., 214 HUB
Protestant Santee of Workshop, 9 a.m.,
Eisenhower Chapel
Roman Catholic Maw 9 a.m.. Schwab
Sophomore Advisory Board, 7 p.m.. 202
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SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1960
dacity to say he recognized no
problem of discrimination in the
State College area. He said this,
moreover, directly to a young
man who has had numerous dis
criminatory experiences after
a previous speaker had elabor
ated on similar ordeals he en
dured, and after presentation of
feels that it is only right for the
student to pay at least doubly
for any benefits derived from his
donations?
I feel already, though, the use
lessness, the futility of writing
this letter. For it a well-known
fact that when the administration
makes up its mind, no logic or
attempted persuasion can sway it
from its apparently predestined
course of action.
I feel though, it is still possible
to receive some degree of clem
ency, say in the form of a park
ing sticker which would allow
town driving only, and possibly
if the University sees it in its
heart, to let us' drive on campus
on Sundays and holidays.
Oh well.
GAZETTE
Student Movie, 6:30 p.m , 11U13 staaembly
TOM
Swedenborgian Service, 10:30 a.m., Mt
HUB
University Party Open Meeting, 8 p.m.,
121 Sparks
USF, 0:30 a.ni , 216 HUB
Alpha Phi Omega, 7 p.m., 212 HUB
Christian Fellowship, l2:15 p.m., 218 HUB
Christian Fellowship, 8 p.m., 216 HUB
College of Physical Education and Ath-
Wick Faculty. 7 p.m.. Sec Hall
Disarmament Seminar, 12 p.m., Chapel
main lounge
Engineering Mechanics Seminar, 4:15
p.m., 203 Eng "A"
Faculty Luncheon Club, 12 p.m., HUB
dining room "A"
High Speed Computators, 8 a.m.-5 p.m,
217 HUB
IFC, 7 p.m., HUB assembly room
MCP, 7 p.m., 217 HUB
Sam Wherry, speaker, 3 p.m., HUB assem
bly room
State College Color Slide Club, 7:30 p.m.
Mineral Industries Aud.
WBA Densest. 7 p.m.. White Ball
by Dick Bibier
—Lanny Rosenman, '6l