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Editoriall)pinion
Let's Finish The Job
Let's hesitate no longer in setting up the community
living system.
It has been known since last spring that to install
this system would necessitate the reorganization of sev
eral groups on campus.
WSGA took the lead by becoming the Association
of Women Students and is currently organizing itself to
fit into the over-all community living concept.
Leonides decided that it was needed most as a social
and activities group for independents.
The Association of Independent Men, which has held
legislative and judicial functions, was hesitant to join the
movement at its first meeting this week. AIM decided to
continue in its present form, although it authorized a
study of, joining Leonides .and Town Independent Men
in an Independent Students Association.
Leonides, on the other hand, has not yet considered
this Independent Students Association.
Each side has gone half way.
The women are setting up their legislative and judi
cial functions within community councils and organizing
AWS as the top all-University body above them.
The men should follow this lead by incorporating the
legislative and judicial functions of AIM into the pro
posed Men's Residence Council, which would be the top
all-University body above the men's individual commu
nity councils.
AIM then still has an important role to fill as a social
and activities organization for independent men.
Therefore functions of a residence hail group which
involves both Greeks and independents is handled by one
organization, while functions only for independents are
handled by another organization.
Finally, Leonides should Join AIM in trying to or
ganize an Independent Students Association. The two
groups usually worked together In major independent
social events such as dances and Indie Week.
Why not for the benefit of more efficient operation
and coordination join in an ISA?
It's Going, Going, Going
Students and instructors; athletes .notwithstanding,
can now breathe a sigh of relief as the last vestige of
our University's "policy" (and we use that term loosely)
on class cutting enters its final month.
Until last year, the University required all instruc
tors to report students who were absent from class on
three successive occasions. This gave dull lecturers the
opportunity to make sure they bored a large grotip of
people.
Last spring, the Senate Committee on Rules tried
to abolish the K-9 rule; but too many members of the
Senate felt that this rule was useful in preventing "un
fortunate incidents." Presumably, they thought it helped
to keep track of students.
So, the rule was amended . by substituting "in any
such cases" for three successive absences—leaving it for
the instructor to decide if a student who cut his class a
few times was emotionally unstable and might have run
away from it
.all.
Our instructors, many of them of high quality, were
expected to be part-time baby sitters and record keepers.
Now an instructor can forget about class attendance
records if he would rather utilize the class time for some
thing more in his line of work—teaching, we think it is
called.
Many instructors had not paid any attention to the
K-rules anyway. But a word about those instructors who
require attendance, the only rule left on the subject of
grading requires that grades be based only on scholastic
achievement,
The Senate action abolishing some of the K-rules
leaves the subject of class attendance where it belongs—
with the student and his professor.
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Letters
Hiadick Letter
Answered By
Campus Party
TO THE EDITOR: After read
ing yesterday's letter to the
editor concerning student poli
tics, I am greatly disturbed at
its author's attempt to attribute
part of the plight of student
government to the leaders of
the Campus Party.
The only reason he says the
Campus Party is responsible
for his plight is that after the
election a plank was voted out
of our platform by Campus
legislators at a caucus meet
ing.
The author of yesterday's
letter didn't, unfortunately,
give the complete facts sur
rounding the situation. Using
this half truth and not felling
the entire story gives a weak
basis for his charges.
These are the reasons why
the caucus voted the plank out:
Campus Party .was the first
political party on this campus
to make a definite stand
against se g regation or any oth
er issue of nationalimportance.
We brought before the public
this important issue and as an
outgrowth of the publicity, the
anti-segregation organization,
DARE, organized, on this cam
pus.
By the time elections were
over, actions against segre
gation in State College were
being undertaken by this or
ganization. This made us feel
that it was expedient, and to
the best interest of the student
body, to leave the matter in
the hands of this organization.
Mr. Hladick's statement con
cerning the switching of
.par
ties on the part of the present
University Party officials is
the exact stand the Campus
Party took in the last election.
In resorting to weightless
name-calling, Mr. Hladick, you
are promoting the very evil
that has plagued student gov
ernment since its inception.
We of Campus Party invite
constructive criticism from any
member of the student body,
however, the application of
blindly applied labels, smacks
of the very hypocrisy you
spoke of.
—Dennis Eisman
Vice-Chairman
Campus Party
Gazette
TODAY
Alumni Association, 8 p.m., HUB as-
aemhly room
Alumni Registration, 1 p.m, to mid-
night. HUB fir,:t floor lobby
Bridge Lemma. 0:80 p.m., HUH card•
room
Dr. Davit Doctorial Exam. 8 a.m. to
5 p,rn., 212-213 HUB
Fluid Mechanics Seminar, 4:10 pin
211 Mechanical Engineering
Graduate Student Mixer, 11 p.m., HUB
ballroom
Geography Colloquium, 4:15 p.m.,
HUB auditorium. Robert Ho, chair
man "of geography department ; Uni
versity of Malaya, "Man and Land
in Malaya."
Interlandia Polk Dance and Workshop,
7:30 p.m., 100 Weaver
LSA, Football Party, 8:00 p.m., 412
W. Coliege Ave.
Mineral Industriea Colloquium, 4 :15
p.m., .Mineral Industries
Penn State Bible Fellowship, 7 :30
p.m., II I Boucke
Textiles, 8 a.m. .to noon, HUB assem-
bly room
W.R.A. Open House, 7 p.m., White
HRH
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Loehr, Barbara Ludman, Chester Mais,
William Martin, Suzanne - Mengel,
Elizabeth !Autrey, Edward Niakey,
Anita Padovsmo, Gerald Phillips, -Mi
chael Ressler. Kenneth Reynolds. Lois
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OCT. 11
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WDFM Schedule
5:00 p.m. Three et Five
6:08 past, Studio X
6:55 p.m. Watherseope
7:00 p.m. AlbUm Review
7:30 p.m. Portrait of • City
8:00 p.m. Starlight Review
0:00 p.m. Light Classical Jukebox
0:45 p.m. News, Sports. and Weather
10:00 p. Ballet Theatre
and furthermore
Those Frosh Say
Strange Things
"Out of the mouths of freshmen, of t-times_corne gems".
That's the form an oft-quoted line could take around this
campus.
And I'm not speaking just off the top of my head,
either, for •I have two sources of first-hand information
on the subject besides the gos
sip I hear, that is. First of all,
I live in a hall that's fairly
swarming with blueheads and
sparkling white sneakers, and
second, an eavesdropper.
Yes, I admit it. I LIKE to
listen to things I'm not sup
posed to be hearing. I guess
I'm the type of person the tele
phone company would have to
think twice about before -ever
giving a party line.
Sometimes it's almost as
good, though, hearing only the
half of the phone conversation
that's going on in the hall out
side your door.
Like the other day when a
freshman miss Vas describing
her Saturday night date to one
of her friends, gleefully squeal
ing, "He's got a car, too—not
his dad's', but his own!" Evi
dently the party on the other
end of the line was equally
impressed with this phenome
non because a series of "Yes,
Letters
Liberal Party
TO THE EDITOR: I would pre
fer that my letter be read as
though it were a question ra
ther than • a criticism. So, let
me begin by praising those
students who have shown ac
tive interest in the new Lib
eral Party.
If these people are sincerely
interested in obtaining proper
representation for, all the stu
dents in SQL then the fact
that they actively intend to
approach the situation is great
ly admirable.
For this democracy of ours
is the outgrowth of a similar
well-known unsatisfaction • . .
"Taxation without representa
tion." And, although I might
be prejudiced, I believe that
there is a deep, awesome beau
ty in the birth of a nation as in
the birth of a child.
Book Store-What Happened?
TO THE EDITOR: What hap
pened to the student book
store project that was proposed
near the end of the 1960 Spring
semester? A front page article
was included in your paper
concerning it and a sophomore
student, Ted Simon, who had
devoted a great deal of time
to it.
According to Mr. Simon. (his
is one of the very few land
grant institutions in the United
States without a student book
store. Even a majority of the
private colleges have student
run shops.
It is the stated purpose of
this institution to provide for
the student the best education
possible for the least personal
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he really does," and "Honest"
followed the remark.
The date, himself, had been
a source of confusion to an
other freshman girl who spent
15 minutes wandering around
the lobby of her dorm, look
ing in vain for the boy who'd
just called her to announce his
presence. "All those college
boys look alike" she wailed as
she told her plight to the sym
pathetic senior.
Campus vernacular is an
other thing the poor freshman
doesn't quite understand some
times. We had a difficult time
trying to convey the idea that
there really 'was a movie thea-__
ter in town which had the du
bious distinction of being called
"the Armpit." It was even
more difficult trying to tell
her why!
We old senior ladies are also
called upon to render girl
type advice to the anxious
(Continued on page five)
Questioned
But, while I am sincere in
my admiration for the beauty
in the birth of the nation, I
am also doubtful as to the
proper stimulus for such beau
ty. That is, our nation might
easily have been born from a
more gradual revolution than
an immediate revolution.
We must r ask ourselves
whether any ill effects have
arisen from the nature of the
birth of our nation.
Therefore, this is the ques
tion that the New Liberal Par-
ty members must ask them
selves: Since the welfare of all
students is our genuine goal,
would it be wiser to mould our
movement into a radical revo
lutionary organization or a
strong reform movement?
—Raymond G. Saba,
Graduate Student
cash outlay. This policy should,
and indeed, in other colleges,
does, extend to student books
and supplies.
The project is too large for
one person or student organi
zation to attempt. It will re
quire a large initial outlay, but
it will save countless hundreds
of thousands of dollars for fu
ture Penn Staters,
As an aside I would like to
note that the Armory is sched
uled to be demolished in the
next few years. Couldn't this
large, centrally located build
ing be converted to a book
store?
I w.ould appreciate a reply
to this' letter from the admin
istration.
—Tom Maxwell. '6l.
I'VE NOT ONLY THOUGHT ABOUT
IT, I REMEMBER ILI WAS UP IN
HEAVEN WANG TO BE BORN
WE USED TO HAVE SOME
PRETTY GOOD TIMES UP THERE!
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