PAGE FOUR Editorial 0 • inio A Key to Effectiveness Student Encampment adopted 'a recommendation de signed to strengthen the party system and bring about party responsibility in SGA, but unfortunately the mea sure apparently died at .that point for it has never been introduced into Assembly. The recommendation said that the majority and minority party leaders should serve as the heads of their respective cliques (party chairman). To cover all situations—such as a party which did not have any members on Assembly—provisions would have to be made for an interim chairman. But the thing that this would accomplish is to connect the party chairman to the Assembly and make him and the party more responsible for their platform and campaign promises. Thus it would also have the side effect of forcing the parties to improve their platforms. If each party chairman were a member of ASsembly and the head of his voting delegation, he would be in a position to introduce the party's programs into legislative action and be in more direct control of his party's stand. This measure could be a key to producing more effective parties and more, effective party action all around. And since SGA is still based on the party system it could produce a more active SGA. Sterling Performance Greek Week was given a somewhat less than rousing sendoff Sunday night when only eight of the 15 -fra ternity quartets registered for the sing preliminaries showed up. Three fraternities did manage to call in their excuses but four did not even bother. Is this Greek Week spirit? Sunday night found those in charge of the IFC-Pan hellenic Sing hastily trying to fill in gaps left by these groups in the program. The result was sad. Monday night all the groups who decided not to participate had called; so the program could be resched uled and at least went off without embarrasing halts, Of the 12 sorority quartets scheduled, 8 participated and of the 15 men's groups 12 came. Hooray for the sorority groups-12 registered, 12 came. The spirit should be participation itself without con sideration of winning or losing,. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom 0414 ihttig Collegian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper, Entered as aecond-class matter July S. 1931 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March E. 11319. Mail Subscription Price: 83.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor $003.- City Editor: CI rol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Gloria Wolford; Sports Editor, Sandy Padwe; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkroum; Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor. Elaine Miele; Copy Editor, Annabelle itcHentlial; Photography Editor, Frederic Bower; Make-up Editor, Joel Myers. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Lynn Cerefice; Wire Editors, Jo Anne Mark, Bev Cades; Night Copy Editor, Jerrie Markos; Assistants, Pat Haller, Elaine Feldvary, Tucker Merrill, Ann Irwin, Valerie J. Smith, Valerie I. Smith, Linda Raup, Sue Beveridge, Peggy Rush, Sandie Pohlman, Estelle Levine, Anne Thomas, Ceit Tolerico, Phyllis Hutton, Judy Zeger, Betty Sauer. PEANUTS LOOK AT IT THESE ARE YOUR BITTER MYS.. THIS (dAY,CHARLIE THESE ARE YOUR DAYS OF 4 BROWN... HARDSNiP AND 5TR066LE... tl i It Vtt P . --) of ; i- , ...1 4 1- . at, ft4 f _.,.. ::" ‘ - II ), \ 1, -, -- -4. " -- a -"- 401 -,....4.,,- - 4 'l. 110 1, ALO! s ' - ' - ' l / 4 haw' 4, 4 14 - , ,_.,. t , , 41.-.4.1.4••••• ..." --- „ o—, ...•=elqi--.____--- BUT IF YOU'LL JOSIHOLD r GEE, DO 'IOU FRANKLY, KEEP HEAD OP HieH, AND REALLY THINK NO I KEEP ON F1614T(N6, SO MEDAY 60, LUCI/F , YOull TRIUMPH! ipt r*: ,i'llk ....., 61.....,.........4 ~, k ill rii ....,- -IA - AN •,s LiA l tem • Lti THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO, Business Manager Letters Junior Comments On Apathy TO THE EDITOR: Bravo well said! Yes, ". . . a univer sity must be a place where stu dents do not find apathy more sophisticated than awareness." But instead of intelligent thinking and action on the part of the student, we hear only grumblings and complaints with the ever-present final statement, "but what's the use —we can't do anything." This apathy is widespr6ad. We witness it not only on cam pus, where even the few of us who want to reduce it are caught up in it, but throughout our whole country. Do you realize what apathy can mean to the future of a country? Do you realize that college students represent the greater part of the more intel ligent minds of our genera tion? Doesn't every nation need intelligent and educated lead en in all fields for a vibrant future? But are we learning to be come leaders, or are we learn ing to become followers? Cer tainly I admit it is easier to be a follower and let the other man do all the work while you occasionally lend a hand with verbal agreement, and still have plently of time for your personal business. But why be followers at all and waste your time in sup porting an ideal when you can just sit back and watch use less efforts 'on the parts of some to get this society on its feet. The easiest thing is to be a watcher. Then you can devote all your precious time to such things as worrying about that five bucks you lost on the se ries, or what shade of lipstick you should wear tonight. Society's problems aren't yours to solve. What do you care about other people's prob lems, as long as you are hap py and left alone. Go ahead fellow students (our future leaders) close your mind to intelligent thinking, questioning, and action. And then only then will you be happy in your own little im penetrable spheres of apathy and complacency. —Rinaldo Payout, '62 (Editor's Note: The quotation at the beginning of Favout's letter is taken from the edi torial "Parties and Platforms" appearing in. Saturday's Col legian.) Gazette TODAt AIM. 8 p.m., 203 HUB Alpha Pi Mu, 7 p.m., 218 HUB American Chemical Society, student affiliate, 7 p.m., 1.06 American institute Chemical Engineer ing, 7 p.m., 214 HUB Business Administration Student Coun- cil, 7:30 p.m., 306 Boucke Chess Club, 7 p.m., HUB cardroom College Caravan, 11 a.m., 213 HUB Dairy Herd Improvement Society Board, 19:30 a.m. 8:30 p.m., 218 HUB " Freshman Class Advisory Board, 6:30 p.m., 217 HUB Hockey Club, 4 p.m., Women's Athletic Field Israeli Folkdancina, T :30 p.m., Billet I V Christian Fellowship, 12 :45 p.m., 217 HUH Leadership Training Committee, 7 p.m., 212 HUB Modern Dance Club, 6 :45 p.m., White Hall Off.CanaDua Tribunal, S p.m., board room, OM Main Placement' Service, B a.m.-5 p.m., 212 HUB Penn State Grange, G:45 p.m., 100 Wea- vcr Psychology Colloquium, 12 lump, dining room "A," lIUB. Dr. Helen I. Sny der, assistant professor of psychology. on "Certain Aspects of Distortion in Interperson Perception." Quarterdeck Society, 7 :30 p.m., Pi Sig- ma Upsilon Senior Orchesis and Interest Group, I p.m., White Hall Sports Car Club, 8 p.m., 212 11.13 Sociology Club meeting. 7 p.m.. 212 HUB. Dr W. T. Sanders, assistant professor of anthropology, on "Penn State Field Trip to the Valley of Mexico." Senator Clark's speech, 4:80 p.m., HUB card room Tour Group, 10 a.m., HUB assembly room Women's Chorus, 6:30 p.m., HUB as senibiy room Young Democrats, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB ground floor Young Republicans, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB ground floor Letters About Those TO THE EDITOR: "Boys' will be boys" is an old saying. But they'd better not try being boys while they're at Penn State. It seems that Dean Simes' flunkies (otherwise known as Coordinators and Counselors) are opposed to such normal ac tion. In the midst of a spontane ous pep rally prior to last week's football thriller with Syracuse, the counselors of Pollock area backed by super secret serviceman Bill Schimpf took it upon themselves to break up this "juvenile gang war." They called in the re serves from other areas. "Easy- Dan" Leasure, North Halls Coordinator, assisted. Now these two men are ex tremely capable of knowing how to handle "boys." Mr. Schimpf was counselor in Mc- Elwain Hall this summer and threatened to make a federal case out of a water throwing incident. He conducted an ex tensive search for damage and finally concluded that he could charge the "boys" for the wax that had to be replaced. Mr. Leasure ' was counselor in Runkle Hall last year. Run kle had the distinct honor of having been the niosiest and dirtiest of all the North Halls. Mr. .Leasure has initiated autocracy in handling the disci pline of the North Halls area this year. He is behind his Nittany. Parking Problems TO THE EDITOR: There is a paved parking lot in. the heart of the Nittany area, and it Is designated at Lot No. 42. This lot has painted "slots" for ex actly 65 cars. Everyday for the past month six cars belonging to mainten ance men have been parked there legally. While a 65-car lot holds six cars, all the stu dent-drivers from the north half of the area are forced to hunt for spaces in the already crowded south Nittany park ing lots. We students paid our $l5, now why are we forced to park blocks away from our dorms while a 65-car lot stands emp ty? The administration claims that student-drivers are pay ing $l5 per semester for "main tenance, and the construction of new lots." New lots for whom? A map is furnished to each student who pays the $l5 fee. On that map, student park ing areas are designated in yel low. A quick survey of these areas discloses that approxi mately 8 per cent of these spaces are paved. The rest are a mixture of gravel and dust which coats every car over night with a thick, ugly grey film. With all the money the administration has collected, why aren't these "gravel-pits" at least coated with oil? Why not? Why does the administra tion force us to pay 15 precious dollars for a "no-parking per mit"? Why do they cause a large paved lot to stand empty Spirit Letter Gets Answer TO THE EDITOR; I read the article, "Another View of Spir it" and I .thoroughly disagree with Mr. Cordover. If Mr. Cordover is as mature and above the intolerable ac tivities, such as guarding the Lion, and holding spontaneous pep rallies, then how does he show his school spirit? Is it by sifting in his room and singing the Alma Mater or riding in his car with a cheerleader? I seriously doubt if Mr. Cordover is interested in anything but his car and him self. It is very doubtful that the "juvenile delinquents," whom Mr. Cordover encountered the other night, actually would have harmed him. They were just having a good time, and WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1960 Counselors counselors 100 per cent. (Last year the counselors were be hind their "boys" 100 per cent.) "Boys" are not permitted to check their mail boxes and then return to their spot in the dining hall line. At times four counselors are stationed in Warnock Hall to make sure none of the "boys" attempt to disobey this rule. It appears that the only people who object to checking for mail in this manner are the counselors. Yet, these same counselors use the Exit stairs to enter the dining area and then cut into the serving line ahead of the "boys" who have been standing in line for 15 to 20 minutes. "Boys" being disciplined for a "destructive" shaving cream incident were ordered to "stand at attention" while their coun selor spoke to them. This is not a complaint against action in disciplinary matters, but rather a complaint against the way in which the men's residence halls are being run in general. Rules are being made with little reguard for the wishes of students. Coun selors are acting as disciplinar ians and "spies" rather than as counselors. Seventeen, 18, and 19-year old boys are expected to act like mature grown-up men but are being treated like junior high school students. —The "Boys" in Montgom ery House in the Nittany area? Could it be that they want to pressure stu. dents into leaving their cars at home when they come to s chool2. If so, can the administration imagine the horrible mess that would ensue, if, for a school holiday, 16,00 fl students had to depend on "Greyhounds" and the "Boalsburg Express" to carry them away from the "dead-center" of Pennsylvania. Perhaps the administration has been ill-advised and will do its best to rectify the mis takes it has made on the stu dent parking issue. Or, on the other hand, perhaps the admin istration does not care two hoots for bothersome students and their silly little oroblems. Perhaps "students" are just a necessary evil which is en countered in the operation of a large university. Is this our beloved "alma mater" or just a place where we get a diploma and then "scram" with the feeling that our university is glad to be rid of us and our cars? Should I give money for a class gift in addition to the 90 or more dollars I will be forced to donate for mainten ance of lots in which I am not allowed to park during the re mainder of my stay here? If I am being either short sighteded or narrow-minded about this problem, I would weleoine a letter to the editor from someone who could set me straight on why students are treated thus. There may be a valid reason. How about it Mr. Diem? —E.N. Small Jr. all he had to do was point to his Penn State parking stick ers. In his letter, Mr. Cordover stated. that Penn State can be put on the map by its athletic, intellectual, social and cultural achievements without cutting loose. I heartily agree with this, but the object of honking horns, flying paper, and cheering, is not to put Penn State on the map. It is to have a good time. Without these much needed breaks in the routine, .State would be a very dull place to go to school. If Mr. Cordover has never cheered, thrown paper or honked his horn, he ought to try it; he might enjoy it. —Ed Landis, '64
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