PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion A Void In Middle Of Protest Storm Motor cades of Northern students head South to suppor t the sit-in demonstrations. Rallies to raise money fur the southern movements are sponsored by student governments in northern universities. Committees are being formed to investigate local discriminatory situations—committees functioning under studer:t govet nment systems. The "white" clauses in fraternity constitutions are questioned by student governments. Students defy their own leaders to support the sit-ins. Meanwhile at the Pennsylvania State University, most of the students sit in the HUB or the library oblivious to anything outside their own little I.voild. Members of the SGA Assembly find looking at seg regi ation or discrimination bills distasteful and claim the issue is personal—outside the realm of what one should have to do to get a hat. The majority of students here have left what should rightfully be their job too, to a handful of concerned stu dents organized under the name DARE—Direct Action for Racial Equality. At. other universities, students through their student governments have taken ACTION, even when the execu tive branch disapproved. . For example, five presidents of the student bodies in the Big Eight Conference in the mid-west met and passed a resolution condemning sit-ins. So far, the student gov ernment organizations at Oklahoma State, Kansas and Colorado Universities have passed resolutions supporting the sit-ins in defiance of their presidents. At Oklahoma State, the student senate protested their president's action claiming that he and his con stituents on the other campuses had no right to take a stand; and Colorado students were calling for President Hank Browning's resignation. Lending more than voice support to the sit-ins, the Student Senate at Ohio State University sponsored a rally to raise money in support of the movements. The senate at Ohio University ventured into tender territory (at least it appears to be here) when its subcommission on human relations attacked the fraternity system for the discriminatory clauses in some national constitutions. Michigan State's effective campaign consisting of rallies, motorcades and letters drew a sharp protest from the Klu Klux Klan. Support for the sit-in movement in the South is still growing in northern universities and taking a more solid form. But it looks as though students at this University find the issue too trivial and will remain placidly silent while their student government listens to reports on the lack of coordination of ride sheets. A Grim Reminder Without passing unqualified judgement on the sus pension of Delta Tau Delta's charter by the Senate Sub- Committee on Group Discipline, the incident must be pointed out as a grim reminder to all fraternities to control their own group and to the IFC to tighten its enforcement before the power is taken from their hands. The rash of recent provocations in the head-long dash to a premature vacation has had severe detrimental effects this year and could portend the collapse of the present self-regulatory fraternity system unless halted. A Student-Operated Newspaper 55 Years of Editorial Freedom o . lll* Daily Totlrvin Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Lolleglan is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 0, 1931 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Mail Subscription Pricer $3.00 per semester $5.00 Per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor <Doi STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Joanne Mark; Night Copy Editor, Susie Eberly; Wire Editor, Cordie Lewis; Assistants: Luanne Russell. Polly Dranov, Suzie Ellison, Sunny Schade, Pat Haller, Carol Kunkelman, Elaine Hrach, Saralee Orton, Dean Billick and Bob Dean. -- THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager Letters Student Auto Levy Sparks Protest Letters TO THE EDITOR: Would it be considered wrong to ask what bit d-bramed bureaucrat thought tip this latest scheme for obtain ing - revenue fiorn the students for maintaining the roads and paik mg lots on campus'' I think this latest $5 assessment for students operating cars in Centre County is absurd. It may come as a revelation to these greedy grubbers, but there are students with cars who seldom drive on campus or almost never use those lavish parking lots. Must there be a fee for those wretched souls that do not use the University's precious roads? A suggestion might be to issue free permits to those who do not use the beautiful native stone parking lots. Those so favored could take a solemn oath on the head of the Nittany Lion that they will never put a wheel on University prop erty and be liable to a suitable penalty for failure to keep this oath. (Say a $l,OOO fine or 10 years imprisonment or both). If this message fails to find sympathy with the powers that be, I can help them with a few suggestions for additional revenue that they may have (I doubt it) overlooked. •Put in pay toilets with grad uate students passing out towels and performing - valet services. (Tips to be turned over to the University). *A charge of 1 / 4 the regular fee for unicycles. •Turnstiles at the entrance to Hort Woods for nature lovers. Of course there are other equal ly brilliant schemes to provide revenue. Seriously, I think Patrick Hen ry would have had a field day at Penn State. "Taxation without representation is tyranny- —R. F. Angela, '6l ... More Revenue Sources Suggested TO THE EDITOR: We wish to extend our heartiest congratula tions to the University. it took some downright hard thinking to come up with the $5 fee for the registration of student auto mobiles. It makes us proud to know that we are a small part (the con tributing part) of such a great institution. We are sure this last gigantic brainstorm has left them so fatigued that they are now sitting back in their overstuffed chairs and missing many more op portunities with which to raise the standards of our STATE SUP PORTED UNIVERSITY. Thus we come to the real pur pose of this letter. We wish to submit a few idea§ of our own to help finance the new billboards and signs, etc. 1. Vending machines for toilet tissues. 2. Pay toilets. 3. $1 fee for the students' use of the sidewalks. 4. $2 fee for the privilege of operating bicycles on university roads. • . 5. Install parking meters in all University parking lots. 6. A small donation of fifty cents from all visitors to our cam pus. 7. A University Sales tax on all sales of 10 cents or more trans acted on campus. —Joe Klock, '63 —Dick Krouse, '63 HOSPITAL Weldon BliSsl, Jean Borden, Richard Rower man, Mary Brown, James Cola donato, Dee Dietrich, Stephen Ducar, Da. yid Frick, Jerome Gartman, Allen Gifford, Deborah Kinit, Coldie Larls, Bernard Settlemyer, Harriet Shapiro, Erika Staab, Sylvia Sumner, Joyce Thompson, Jane Wilby, Linda Williamson, Rita Witmer, Susan Young. WDFM WEDNESDAYS WDFIII 91.1 megacycles 6:55 Weatherscopa 7 00 Marquee Memories 7:55 News 3:00 Jaza Panorama 9:00 Forum of the Air 9:30 Artist Series Preview 9:45 News and Sports 10 :00 Virtuoso 11:30 Sign Oil World At Soviets Release Captured Plane WIESBADEN, Germany(lP) —With unusual speed and a mild protest, the Soviets yes terday released a U.S. Air Force C 47 transport plane and the nine American occupants forced down in East Germany last Friday. The crew and passengers per haps even the plane itself were expected to reach West Germany or Berlin later in the night or to day. The battered old C 47 had landed in a cow pasture near the village of Kluetz, about 10 miles inside the East German frontier. If it could take off with the nine from the pasture, it was to do so. Otherwise the passengers and crewmen probably will come out without it. One of the group is a woman, Barbara McCash of Atlanta, Ga. The others are Air Force officers and men. They had strayed on a flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Hamburg, Germany, west of the Iron Curtain. The relatively happy ending was signalled by a letter from Soviet Col. Gen. I. I. Yakubovsky, to Gen Clyde D Eddleman, corn mander of the US Army in ,Eu rope. 686 Votes Give Nixon Majority WASHINGTON (IP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon yes terday passed the majority mark needed for the Republican presi dential nomination. A Tennessee convention in structed 28 delegates for Nixon. The vice president was unopposed for 26 more in the Tuesday Florida primary. The two delegations jumped his unofficial total to 686, with only 867 needed to nominate. The figures are based on pri mary and state convention actions plus Associated Press polls of oth erwise uncommitted delegates. The • Republicans have now chosen 840 of their 1,331 delegates. Tidal Waves Leave Great Debris in Japan TOKYO (OP) The people of Japan, no strangers to natural disaster, yesterday began the grim task of digging out from debris left by giant tidal wave's that assaulted the western Pacific basin from Japan south to New Zealand. The devastating waves, pro pelled across the Pacific by earth quakes in Chile, left at least 165 persons dead or missing in Japan and Okinawa with another 626 reported injured. Property dam age was estimated in the millions of dollars. TODAY German Club Picnic at Dr. Shelley's home: AIM„ 7 p.m., 203 HUB meet at HUB entrance at 6:30 p.m. Chess Club, 7 p.m., HUB Cardroom ICCB, 8 p m., 218 HUB Christian Fellowship, 12:46 p.m., 218 HUB Instruction on High Speed Computers, 8 Civil Air Patrol, Group 1300, 7:30 p in., a m„ 217 HUB Air National Guaid Armory Marketing Club, 7:30 p.m., 216 HUB Encampment, 5:16 p In., HUB Assembly Riding Club Picnic, 5:30 p.m., Riding Room Stable Eng.-Arch. Student Council, 6:45 p.m., Senate Subcommittee on Student Affairs. 214 HUB 7:30 p.m., 212 HUB Forestry Convocation, 11 a.m., 121 Sparks UCA-Politics, 11,p.m., 217 BUB WEDNESDAY. MAY 25, 1960 A Glance U 2 Spy Incident To Be Probed WASHINGTON (/13)—With out a dissent, the Senate For ei g n Relations Committee agreed yesterday to open "an objective, impartial inquiry" into the spy plane incident and other events culminating in the summit breakdown. Announcing this, Chairman J. Witham Fulbright (D.-Ark.) stressed that every effort will be made to keep politics out of the closed-door inquiry which will be gin with Secretary of State Chris tian A. Herter. He reported the vote to go ahead was unanimous, with 12 of 17 committee members on hand. After a showing of Democratic- Republican unity in the face of Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev's blowup of the summit talks, a knock-down drag-out word battle erupted in the Sen ate Monday. Senate Democratic Leader Lyn don B. Johnson of Texas who has been preaching unity tried to bring political temperatures down yesterday. He was out of town during most of the donny brook. Speaking to fellow senators, Johnson said national unity "does not require sweeping facts under the rug -- no matter how un pleasant those facts may be." Disasters in Chile Cause 1000 Deaths SANTIAGO, Chile (1P) Earth quakes, landslides, tidal waves and a volcanic eruption dealt mas sive new devastation to southern Chile yesterday. The 4-day death toll mounted to more than 1,000, the Interior Ministry announced, arid perhaps 2 million people are homeless. A tidal wave swept 630 of the 800 people of Queulen, to their death Sunday, the ministry said. Those who survived fled to near by mountains where many were rescued Tuesday by U.S. Air Force helicopters. Tidal waves also carried more than 100 to death at Aleta on Tuesday. Midas 'Spy' Satellite Put Into Orbit by U.S. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (oP) —The United States launched an experimental Midas ''spy" satel lite into orbit yesterday opening a new chapter in the race for space. The 2 1 / 2 -ton satellite will test the feasibility of using orbiting space stations to provide almost instant warning of a ballistic missile at tack. The satellite, first of its kind in the world, was boosted aloft from this missile test center at 12:37 p.m. (EST) by a powerful 88-foot Atlas-Agena rocket. Gazette
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