PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Frustrated Grads While the University is considering many changes that will accompany the switch in the academic calendar, the plight of some of its graduate assistants should be known. Graduate assistants who are also sports fans are posed with a particularly perplexing dilemma. it would be more profitable for them to accept only a quarter-time assistantship, so that they can qualify as regular students and gain free admission to athletic events, than to accept a half-time assistantship or more and have to pay the full fare at all contests. The factors that cause the dilemma are somewhat complicated. Two sets of standards apply. A graduate student on a quarter-time assistantship can carry 12 credits in addition to.his job. A graduate stu dent on a half-time assistantship is prohibited by Uni versity regulations form carrying that many credits. Any student, graduate or undergraduate, must carry at least 12 credits to be considered a "full-time" student. Anyone with less credits' is designated a "special" student. And this is the standard which determines the extent of a student's athletic privileges. "Full-time" students are admitted to all athletic con tests by presenting their matriculation card. "Special" students must pay the same admission as an outsider. These same stipulations also apply for tickets to Artists' and Lecture Series. • Secondly, a married student can purchase a card for his wife which entitles her to admission to sporting events at a reduced rate. Married graduate assistants, who are limited to• less than 12 credits, do not even get this privi lege. If a graduate assistant is interested in such things as sports and concerts, it is financially advantageous for him to accept only a quarter-time assistantship rather than a half-time assistantship. The difference in salary will not offset the expense of athletic contests and 'concerts throughout the year. • Obviously rules must be made to govern these priv ileges, but the rules should make provisions for the grad uates who are working for the University at the. same time as they continue their schooling. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom 01Ir Daily Toliggiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a t•tudent-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1534 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of Hatch 3. 1879. Mail Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor clekl,,co City Editor: Carol 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 Rosenthal; Photography Editor, Frederic Bower; Make-up Editor, Joel Myers. Local Ad Mgr., Brad Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Hal Deisher; National Ad Mgr.. Bessie Burke: Credit Mgr., Mary Ann Crnns; Ass't Credit Mgr., Neal Keit ; Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Kiesel; Co• Circulation Mgrs.. Rosiland Ahei. Richard liitzinger ; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michel; 'Personnel Mgr., Becky Kohudic: Office Secretary, Joanne Iluyctt. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editors, Jerrie Markos and Bev Cades: Wire Editor, Ellie Hummer; Night Copy Editor, Lynne Cerefice; Assistants, Sandie Pohlman, Elaine Feldvary, Craig Yerkes, Pat Haller, Lois Haegley, Shellie Michaels, Judy Zeger, Arlene Lantzman, Anne Thomas,. Peggy Rush, Sue Beveridge, Linda Raup, Ann Irwin, Bettie McCoy. • TO THE "6REAT ): W ; HERE ELSE, INDEED? r (N CARE OF "THE PUMPKIN PATCH L...LOHERE ELSE ? • I oy • . ak+ AIM _ . • CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager COHERE DO a SEND IT? Au.* IHE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Junior Seeks Support For SGA Bill TO THE EDITOR: This letter is, primarily, one of commen dation. 'There are several fac tions on campus which, in the past several weeks, have taken interest in problems other than those of the dubious.magnitude of cheer-writing and other such problems of equal intensity. There are now three groups, more or less formally organ ized. to investigate, combat, and Possibly eradicate any evi dences of discrimtnation in the State College area. They are, in order of time in existence, Direct Action for Racial Equal ity, The Burgess' Committee of State College Residents, and the SGA Inter-Racial Problems Committee. All three of these groups have been meeting regularly during the past month and, I feel, there are some commen dable results. The SGA Inter• Racial Prob lems Committee has drafted a bill which will if passed by the SGA Assembly this Thurs day evening give SGA the control and operation of the presently openly discriminatory housing list that is maintained for off-campus students by the dean of men's office. Although, at first glance, this may seem like only a switch in who is doing the physical mainten ance of the list, it is actually much more than that. For, according to the resolu tion that is now in the hands of the SGA rules committee, this switch would undertake to provide a list that was .com pletely devoid of any discrim inatory landlords. 1, as an active member of DARE, have been told that, in order to assure the passage of this bill in the SGA assembly, it would be most advantageous to have a student show of (opinionated) force at the SGA meeting this Thursday. I have already rcquested those who attended the DARE meeting on Sunday afternoon to do this and I would like to issue this request to that portion of the student body which might be interested in such items as Human Equality to be present at that meeting to stand forth and be counted if necessary. May I again, in closing this _letter, repeat my happy feeling of what is, frankly, surprise that SGA is actually doing something and doing it quick ly. If this body is taking the initiative, the least the rest of us can do is remove our rumps from the snug seat of apathy and•state feelings.and opinions which will remove the- label of the "silent generation" from all of us. •Letter cut Gazette Arnold Air Society, 7 p.m.. 217 HUB S 203 HUB American Meteorology Society, 7 p.m., 212 HUB AWS, 6 :30 p.m., 203 HUB Camera Club. S p.m., 214.215 HUB Chem-Phys Student Council, 6:15 p.m., 218 HUB Chess Club, 7 p.m., HUB cardroom Eng . and Arch Student Council, 6:15 p.m.. 219 HUB Freshman. Class Advisory Board, 6 :15 p,m.,' 216 HUB Finance Club. 8:30 p.m., 216 HUB IV Christian Fellowship, 12 :45 p.m., its it'll Junior Class Advisory Board, 8:30 p.m., 217-218 HUB Kappa Phi, 7 p.m., Wesley Foundation Leadership Training, 7 p.m., I lit 03- mond - Mock Elections Committee, 7 p.m., 21.1- '215 HUH Newman Club, 8 n.m.-5 p.m., ground floor HUB Newman Club Football Game, New ton n Club es. Waring Chargers, 8::70 Rolf course. field. 3 Oft-Campus Tribunal, 8 p.m., Board Room, Ohl Main Sunator Hugh Scott, 12 :30 p.m., HUB ball' oont Sigma Theta Epsilon, 7 p.m., Wesley Foundation • U.N. Display, HMI ground floor lobby Wornen's Chorus, G :30 p.m., RUB sembly room Young Democrats, 8 a.m.-5 HUD g round floor Young Republicans, 11 a.m., DUB ball- room Young Republicans, 9 a.m.•5 p.m, HUB ground floor —Stephen FL Blum, '62 TODAY Interpreting Leaks on Surveys Of U. S. Prestige By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst So many leaks have occurred about the surveys of American prestige abroad that the United States will now be required to publish them just to keep people from thinking they are worse than they are. Judging from unofficial reports, the last one doesn't make very good propaganda. A gen eral idea in the free world that the United States is mili tarily inferior to the Soviet Union is dan gerous wheth er it is cor rect or not. It causes other nations to start re flecting on the value of their all i ances, and if it persists in to some time ROBERTS of great crisis, could produce defections. There was little doubt that American political prestige had dropped in the weeks imme diately after U 2. There has been a general feeling, how ever, that it had gone up again since the convening of the United Nations General As sembly. One thing people would like Letters Banner Destruction Decried TO THE EDITOR: As every one on campus knows by this time, Thespians are putting on their fall musical comedy "The Big One," on Oct. 27, 28, 29 Junior Prom Weekend in Schwab Auditorium. One of the best ways known to disseminate this- informa tion over a campus so large as ours is by means of a ban ner placed across the mall. The physical plant people strung the Big One across the mall at 12 noon on Friday. Many students and "faculty no ticed it and remarked about it. Needless to say, its original de sign was a 'show stopper' and a conversation piece. At 2 a.m. Saturday morning, I got a phone call from Ann Leon one of my crew; the girl who had conceived the idea and who lead the building of the Big One. She said vandals had torn off the bottom half of the Big One leaving nothing but the bare supportive boards. Now my question is simply this: What kind of warped in dividuals would deliberately desecrate a publicity gimmick which had done nothing to harm them? What provoked an Jr. Speaks on School Spirit TO THE EDITOR: I have read the two letters recently pub lished in the Collegian con cerning this matter of school spirit, and I agree for the most part with Mr. Cordover as to the farcicalness of most of what is labeled ."school spirit" at Penn State. Like Mr. Cordover, I am quietly proud of my school. Penn State is a great school with proud traditions. It is a top school in many curricu- lams. The opportunities outside of the classroom, such as the Artist Series and various lec ture series, gives the student a chance to develop a cultural as well as an academic back ground. It is things such as these of which the student should be rightfully proud. We should also be proud of our athletic teams, to be sure, but looking over page four of Tuesday's Collegian, I see two pieces concerning the lack of enthusiasm displayed for as Penn State team returning from a great effort at Syra cuse. What has happened to the old idea "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." Where were the RAH, RAH WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1960 to know is whether the pre vious surveys show ups . and downs, and whether the for eign concept of American mili tary power has shown any tendency to go up and down along with political prestige. They would also like to know more of the basis for the reports. There is, for instance, general agreement that the So viet Union is ahead of the United States in . rocket de velopment for space probes be cause her rockets have greater thrust. But from a strictly military standpoint, relative strength is not enhanced by range beyond what is needed. Have such points been kept clear by the surveyors? Did the surveyors ask mere ly about the United States, or was there a tabulation, too, of the effectiveness of her mw tual aid program, whereby bil lions of dollars of her own (Continued on Page Eight) attack on a defenseless 'Big One'? Certainly the banner. is nov el, but that's no reason to de face it. Have these malicious persons no consideration for the 'time and effort that went into the construction of the Big One? Is this their idea of a Friday evening of fun? -I am not sure whether the Big One was damaged by Uni versity students or State Col lege boys. I sincerely hope it wasn't any of our population, It is really a shame that a project which required so Much time and effort as did the con struction of this advertisement must be ruined by a few indi viduals who have a distorted sense of fun. The missing part of the One states the place and dates of the show. We sincerely hope that those who destroyed the BIG ONE will at least heed the message it contained, and buy a ticket to see the Thespian production of 'THE BIG ONE' The outcome may prove to be very rewarding for the desec rators. •Letter Cut —Judith R. Gordon, '6l Thespian Publicity Chairman fun-loving boys last year when a small band of Pitt men de faced the Lion on a Sunday night? Maybe the guys from Pitt realized that Penn State only has "school spirit" on Fri day nights for "breaks In the routine." Do students at the schools, without football go automatically stir crazy? Fordham and the University of Chicago have 'managed to •get along without football for years. If real, meaningful school spirit is to exist at Penn State, it must be constant. It must be backed up by the willingness of students to go a little out of their way once in awhile. rather than rowdies looking for a little escape. Only. three people made an attempt to guard the Lion that Sunday night. They knew for a fact that Pitt guys were com ing up arid spread the word as best they could, but to no avail. When the guards took a short break, the Pitt painters struck, because there was no one to take over the guard duty. For these reasons, I throw my lot with Mr. Cordover. --John' Scorch Reimer,, '62
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