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Editorial Opinion
Lion's Paw and Sec
The Senate Committee on Student
Affairs has called for Lion's Paw to make
an intensive review of its organizational
structure, procedure for selecting mem
bers, time and place of meetings, functions,
publicity for activities and the use of the
name of the organization.
The results of this review and any
changes are to be reported to the Senate
Sub-committee on Organizational Control
by Feb. 1. 1961.
A report on three of the categories
mentioned should be made to the general
student body and the whole controversy
over Lion's Paw might be cleared up.
Most students know that the members
are selected according to their position on
campus and supposedly their devotion to
Penn State.
Most students know that LP's meeting
place is 419 Old Main, although they don't
know the time. And most students con
nect the actions of any member• to .1.1 - 1 b
actions of the organization.
But the three key categories that the
students should know about but don't be
cause of LP's veil of secrecy are organiza
tional structure, functioni and publicity
for activities.
And it is chiefly this veil of secrecy
that gives rise to most of the criticism of
Lion's Paw.
We do not deny their right to secrecy
of ritual. And we do not deny their right
to assemble.
But we do deny their right to secretly
function and act on matters that affect the
student body and its government.
The organizational structure and offi
cers, if any, should be known to the student
body just as are those of all other organi
zations on campus.
The functions of Lion's Paw should be
expressed in more specific terms than a
nebulous "what's best for Penn State"
motto.
Finally, the activities of the organiza-
To Better the System
Student leaders from 13 Common
wealth campuses and the University Park
campus will meet here today and tomorrow
to explore the possibilities of forming an
Organization of Student Government Asso-
dations
Such an organization has been pro
posed as one move toward the overall ob
jective of drawing all campuses of the
University closer together into a better
coordinated University system.
One of the requirements for accom
plishing this objective is to get the students
of all commonwealth campuses to feel
a unity with each other and with students
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tion should be known. This is .the area In
which the veil of secrecy is most lethal to
the interests of the students.
By the very fact that Lion's Paw is
composed of the top student leaders, any
action they decide to take is news. As stu
dent leaders they have every right to take
action they deem in the best interests of
the students but they also must take the
responsibility—be it credit or, blame—for
their actions.
We do not doubt that Lion's Paw has
done many things that have benefited the
student body. They should take credit for
them the same as any other organization.
Likewise, if they do anything to the detri
ment of the student body, they should take
the blame for it just as any other organiza
tion.
But its benefits or detriments to the
student body cannot be known if its actions
are not known.
There is no reason that Lion's Paw
should have any immunity that no other
organization has.
Lion's Paw says its actions are kept
secret because they do not want credit or
glory for the good things they do. Humility
is a laudable virtue, to be sure.
But secrecy can veil detrimental ac
tions as well as, good actions, and so long
as the students don't know, they cannot
judge.
In this case Lion's Paw's humility must
be sacrificed for the best interests of the
student body.
We do not contend their right to secret
ritual. We do not contend their right to
brotherhood in the service of their Uni
versity. We do not contend their right to
meet as student leaders and determine
action that they deem in the best interests
of the student body. But we do contend
their right to perform this action in secret
thus escaping either credit or blame as the
case may be.
on the University Park campus
We feel that an Organization of Shi
den Government Association can help
accomplish this feeling of unity. We also
feet that the exchange of ideas that would
come through such an organization would
be mutually beneficial.
This gathering of student leaders will
have to decide whether this organization
is to become a reality this weekend, and,
if so, what its structure, policy and objec
tives will be.
We urge them to establish an inter
campus student organization that will over
come the seperation of miles by the unity
of spirit and action.
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One df the most unusual political clashes in ancient history
occurred in Etatsnnep in 500 B. C.
The clash was between an interested, if noisy, group of
citizens and a secret society known as Wap Snoil. (These
strange alphabets lose something in translation.)
Now, Wap Snoil was com
posed of most of •ttte leading
influential men in Etatsnnep.
Just what Wap Snoil did could
not be ascertained by histor
ians because its first bylaw
was "Secrecy above all." (The
citizens who stole the bylaws
from the secret society's secret
room was later beheaded se
cretly.)
Evidently the Wap Snoilers
felt that whatever they decid
ed to do for Etatsnnep was
automatically best and they
could not possibly benefit from
any comment by non-Wap
Snoilers.
However, Wap Snoilers did
not realize that. secrecy breeds
fear and fear breeds unusual
phenomena whose main pur
pose is proving that - where
there is secrecy there is evil.
So the Wap Snoilefs •were
plagued by people who were
just trying to find out what
it's purpose was and with peo
ple who just liked to make ac
cusations.
The battle dragged on for
years, until the latter group
finally brought the situation
to the attention of the gods.
Several of the gods led by
one Nam-Wen &Aided to use
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Senior's La Vie Pictures
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La Vie state that pictures are
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A number of seniors have
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senior pictures taken at a
studio either in their home
town or some other location
where they feel the quality of
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As long as pictures are sub
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FRIDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1960
History
by nicki wolford
their superior power to settle
this controversy. None of the
accusations against the Wap
Snoilers could be properly
evaluated by the gods because
the secret society was so se
cret that even they were not
allowed to learn of ifs activ
ities.
So, the wise gods decided to
ask the Wap Snoilers to raise
the curtain of secrecy a few
feet or so in order to relieve
the minds of those who felt
secrecy was evil.
The gods also might have
thought that if the Wap Snoil
ers really were working for
Etatsnnep, then there could be
no real objection to allowing
the beneficiaries of this work
to see the workers.
Unfortunately, the records
on Etatsnnep were partially
destroyed by a fire in 600 A.D.
so historians do not know the
outcome of the controversy.
This event was really a shame
because Etatsnnepians had
kept very careful records even
noting the theme song of the
anti-Wap Snoilers - .vhich went
something like "Fairy Tales
Can 'Come True, It Can Hap
pen to You."
at some, other studio? If not,
would someone issue a state
ment clarifying the position of
the La Vie and the Penn State
Photo Shop?
—Don Burcin '6l
(Editor's Note: La Vie has a
contract with Penn State Photo
Shop which requires that ale
senior pictures appearing in the
annual be taken there. In ex
change, the Penn State Photo
Shop takes other pictures for
La Vie free of charge. The
problem of 'matching back
grounds and sizes in layouts
would be greater if the senior
pictures were taken by dif
ferent studios.)
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