PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Chance For Action Student Government Association will get a chance tonight to take positive action in one segment of the local fight against discrimination. A legislative bill will be introduced on the Assembly floor calling for SGA to maintain an off-campus housing list which would exclude the, names of landlords who refuse to rent to Negro and international student's. The bill states that all landlords placed on this list would have to agree not to discriminate_against a student because of race, color, creed or national origin. The University of Illinois, Ohio State and several other universities in the country have already adopted measures to ' eliminate discrimination in off-campus housing. Reform drives are underway at many other universities. Pressure is being felt in several ways by landlords who still cling to discriminatory practices in State Col lege. . Some of this pressure is coming where it hurts— through the pocketbook. The opening of Pollock Halls absorbed 1000 more men this year and East Halls—another large residence area—will open next year. The supply of off.campus housing now exceeds the demand. Landlords, who previously would have refused a Negro or international student, may have to let their prejudice slip for an instant and accept him rather than let the valuable source of revenue lie empty. We think that many of these people will realize how foolish their prejudice was after they observe that their new tenants are no worse than any others. Some landlords have rented to international or Negro students' for years and give testimonials of satisfaction. The bill before SGA tonight will carry a demanding responsibility. Provisions will have to be made to receive requests from landlords to establish the list and daily work will be required to keep it up to date. To fulfill this responsibility will be a challenge to an SGA which has criticized by the administration for lack of responsibility. It is ironic that if SGA passes this bill it will be taking over a responsibility that the administration refused to accept. New Ad Policy The Collegian has adopted the policy that "For Rent" advertising will not be accepted unless the party placing the ad agrees not to discriminate against prospective tenants because of raco, color, creed or national origin. As a student newspaper the Collegian feels that this polio• is tantamount to fulfilling its responsibility to the students. The Collegian cannot allow persons to use its pages as a means for perpetuating any practice that may result in affronts to the hurnean dignity of any student. Students who are discriminated against by any land lord advertising in Collegian should report such action to the Collegian, for any adyertiser who fails to comply with the policy will have his advertising removed. A Student-Operated Newspaper 5G Pears 01 Editorial Freedom Oly Dattplirgian Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. This Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July O. 1931 at the State College Pa. Post Office under the art of March 3. 1819. Mall Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor Local Ad Mgr., Brad Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mar.. Hal Deisher: Notional Ad Mgr.. Ressie !twice; ( redit Mar.. Niary Ann Crans; Ass't Credit Mgr., Neal Reit z; classified Ad Mgr., Constance Co-Circulation Mgrs., Rosiland Awa. Richard hitzinger; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michal; Personnel Reeky [(Audit.; Office Sec etary. Joanne lluyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline editor, JoAnne Mark; 'Wire edi tor, Meg Teichholtz: Night Copy Editor, De:: Hutchins; Assist ants: Bill Barber, Carole Kismaric, Linda Prunella, Adrienne 'Vee.;on, Lily Kapluch, Brenda Brunner, Kay Shaffer,,Carmen Zeller, Beth Nesbit. Judy Rendleman, Vicki Caplan, Diann Rabe, "Vicki Wentz. Barbara Brown, Dottie Spahr, Barb Baer, Jackie Russian°,lla Edelstein, Barb Fritz, Al Sharp, and John Gilbert. CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager m' rq~~ `4-~,.~ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA I DON'T SEE HOW THIS 15 EVER GOING TO GET DELIVERED... SURPRISED AT tebii, CHARLIE BROWN ! r-vN c . It a • '"4. YOUR LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN OUR POSTAL DEPARTMENT IG AN INSULT TO THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION! 7 ~N / 1 us mu. 1 ' =EL Letters Frosh Decries Drop in Spirit TO THE EDITOR: To those students who feel that we have too much school spirit, con gratulations. You really did it last week, didn't you. When the team needs spirit, 100 people show up at the pep rally, Would not more have been there to cheer the team if school spirit hadn't been suc cessfully dampened by some anti-spirited upperclassmen. The only embarrassment the Nittany Lion will feel is that caused by the low ebb to which school spirit has sunk. When school spirit is lowered, the team cannot function at peak efficiency. The result is needless losses. Will you let this happen at Penn State? Let's get out to the rallies, support the team, and see what happens Saturday. Helpers Thanked TO THE EDITOR: On behalf of the SGA Stone Valley Com mittee I want to take this op portunity to thank all the students and faculty members who worked so hard and well at Stone Valley last Saturday. Special thanks must go to Dr. Fletcher and Dean Perez for their invaluable help in organizing the event, and to Darnall Even and the Forestry Society, without whose super vision little of value could have been accomplished. --Duane Alexander Chairman, SGA Stone Valley Committee •Leffer cut Gazette Air Force Glee Club, 3 p.m., 21 r, HUB Ag DM Party, 11:30 p.m., 213 HUH Angel Flight Drill, 7:30 p.m., Wagner Campus Party, C, p.m., 212 HUB College of 1 - 3osine , m, 1:11 p.m., 217 11lift Gamma Sigma Sigma, 7 p.m., 107 lioneke • Hillel Coffee Hour. 3:30 p.m., Hi llel ICCEL 0:30 p.m., 210 }Turn Institute p.m., 105 Mechanical' Engineering Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, 12 :45 p.m., 218 HUH Mike and Rostrum. 7 p.m., 211 HUB Mock Elections Committee, 7:7U p.m., 212-213 MIA Newman Club Basketball, 7 :00 p.m 207 Chapel Placement, S a.m.-5 p. m., 21111U11 from Queen Judging, S :30 p.m., 214 HUB BGA, 7 p.m., 203 HUB UN Display, HUB urountl floor lobby Volleyball Officials' Club, 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., 2 White Hall Young Democrats, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 11U3 TO: TilE GREAT PUMPKIN c/o THE PuivtPKlN PATO-I ' —Dan Nester, '64 p.m,, 215 11U11 Aeronautical Sciences, Letters Rebuttal to Coleman Column TO THE EDITOR: In response to Bill Coleman's column on Tuesday and to the many over heard remarks on campus, I would like to point out the importance of this election. Mr. Coleman has taken the position of the average Ameri can. We aren't concerned with politics and we think that there is little or no difference be tween the major political par ties. This is not so. The main difference is not over ends, but over the means with which to achieve-these good ends. The result of this election will greatly affect the lives of all Americans. This is a time for experience: there is no time for experimentation. If elected I am sure that Senator Ken nedy will give his best to our country. I just doubt that his best will be good enough. If Sen. Ken ' nedy would employ his over eager approach with Premier Khrushchev the result would be deadly. Sen. Kennedy has said that it is essential for a President that he "think and act first." Vice President Nixon says that • he feels that it is more import- World At Candidates Still Debate U.S. Status By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The campaign row between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Ken nedy over American prestige abroad boiled into a feverish dispute yesterday. The running argument be tween the two presidential candidates was heightened by White House refusal to make public secret government pa pers on the subject as Ken nedy, the Democratic nominee, keeps denianding. He said the report had been suppressed to protect Nixon's claim that American prestige is at an all-time high. "I call upon Mr. Nixon to make the secret report public and to explain to the people how in the face of its evidence he can continue to pretend that our prestige is at an alt-time high," Kennedy said. His Republican opponent, Nixon whistle-stopped through Ohio, accusing the Democrats of using disgraceful and ir responsible tactics, by what he termed downgrading Ameri can prestige all over the world, Junta Ousts Latin President SAN SALVADOR, El Sal vador VP) A six-man Junta seized power yesterday from President Jose Maria Lemus and sent him fleeing to neigh boring Guatemala. The capital and the hinter lands of this smallest country in the Americas were reported calm after the lightning mili tary coup. It followed weeks of student demonstrations against Sal vadoran social and economic inequalities. Lemus retaliated with a police crackdown. The Salvador University faculty ac cused the police of brutality and shut down the school for a time. The junta that seized con trol is composed of three civi lians and three military men. Some elements of the military were believed alarmed at the extent of Lemus' measures to stop agitation, which he blamed on Communists. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1960 ant to "think first and act wisely." Which man's remarks reveal the temperament and qualities of judgment you favor in a President of the United States? Sen. Kennedy has been dem.; onstrating his acting first .throughout this campaign. Every time the Republicans pin down one of his statements he shifts. Is this what we want in our next President? Sen. Kennedy's dangerous position on Cuba could lead our coun try to war. Look at the past voting rec ords of Johnson & Kennedy. Johnson has supported the Re publican Administration's pro posals for 7 1 / 2 years and he is now completely reversing him self. Sen. Kennedy has not voted for the measures which are in the Democratic plat form. In fact he has voted against many .of them. I commend Nixon-Lodge to those Americans who put the country's welfare ahead of tra ditional party loyalties, who want our country to continue to move forward, and who want the best man in the White House for the next four years. —Bob Williams. '63 •Letter cut A Glance King Denied Jail Release DECATUR, .Ga. (AP) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Negro Integration leader was denied freedom yesterday from a four month prison term imposed as an indirect result of sit-in demonstrations in nearby At lanta. The denial came in a court session that was delayed tem porarily by anonymous tele phone threats to bomb the courtroom. More than 100 white and Negro spectators were evacuated from the court, and the hearing was trans ferred to another room as a precaution against possible vio lence. Judge Oscar Mitchell of De Kalk County Criminal Court ruled that King must serve four months'of a 12-month sus pended sentence received last month on a charge of driving without a Georgia driver's li cense. Probation of part of the term which King receil:ed on the traffic charge was revoked because King allegedly had violated the state's new anti trespassing law by taking part in the demonstrations last week. Talks With Reds Asked by Nixon TOLEDO. Ohio (. 1 M Vice President Richard M. Nixon said last night he would be willing to attend a summit meeting with Soviet Premier Khrushchev early next year if it would produce an enforce able agreement to end atomic testing. The Republican presidential candidate said that if elected, he would move the next day to try to break the two-year stalemate with the Soviet Un ion over a nuclear test-ban agreement. He said there is some rea son to believe the Soviet Un ion might be conducting secret tests in violation of the mora torium, Poet Wins Nobel Prize STOCKHOLM, Sweden (11)) —The Nobel Prize for liter ature was awarded yesterday to Saint John Perse, a French poet whose life has mixed di plomacy and modern poetry. The 18 - member Swedish Academy of Letters picked Perse for the $43,627 prize, from a fund established by. the inventor of dynamite, for po etry which "in a visionary fashion reflects the conditions of our time."
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