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Editorial Opinion
'Commodious Structure'
The crowds of students that were turned away from
the two presentations of "J. B." in Schwab Sunday re
echoed what has been a constant cry for years about the
gross inadequacy of the University's auditorium.
The auditorium is inadequate in both seating capacity
and stage facilities.
The antiquated structure seats less than 9% of the
student body.
Taking advantage of the fine opportunity for students
to see high-quality actors performing the Broadway hit
on campus, several theatre arts professors asked their
classes to see the play and write a paper on it. But several
members of the classes could not even get in to see it,
And this happens almost every time a noted person
ality or group is brought to campus by the Artist or Lec
ture Series. Students who do not cut class to stand in line
when the ticket booth first opens in the HUB are usually
left out. The demand for tickets is consistently greater
than the supply.
On many a sunny Sunday morning persons are even
turned away from University chapel services.
As far as facilities are concerned Schwab does not
suffice for concerts, or theatre productions.
When the crew arrived to set up the stage Sunday
afternoon for "J. 8.," they stopped and stared in disbelief.
Campus officials had written to them describing the
facilities in advance, but they thought the description was
surely in jest. They could not imagine a state university -
the size of Penn State with such poor facilities for cul
tural education.
The lack of an orchestra pit, the shallow stage, the
poor lighting system, and the underground caverns that
serve as dressing rooms are examples of the poor facilities.
Maybe Schwab wasn't built to accommodate concerts
and theatrical productions but it is about time something
was.
In the humble words of W. F. Dunaway, who wrote a
history of the University in 1946, Schwab was "a large,
handsome, commodious structure seating 1500 persons,
erected at a cost of $155,000 in 1903." How times change.
In the intervening six decades the "large, handsome,
commodious 'structure" has been dwarfed by what we
suppose would have to be referred to as the gigantic,
colossal student body that has grown around it.
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Kennedy Win Predicted
by joel myers
Unless an international crisis
develops during the next sev
en days, the Kennedy family
will move into the White
House in January.
The emergence of the Massa
chusetts Senator as.the favor
ite in what had been billed as
the closet .election of the cen
tury can be attributed to many
factors, the most outstanding
of which seems to be the face
to-face TV debates between
the two candidates.
These debates, while giving
neither candi
date a strik
ing advantage
in the corn
rnunicafion of
his beliefs to
public, pro
vided the
mechanism
where by
Kennedy
could project
the image of
an earnest,
educated man with the neces
sary vitality to withstand the
grueling test of the world's
most demanding occupation.
At this time it appears that
Senator Kennedy will win the
presidency because of the fol
lowing factors.
Kennedy's apparent domi
nance of the TV debates spark
ed new life into the Democratic
Party. and has inspired party
leaders from precinct captains
Letters
interest
In Politics
Discussed
TO THE EDITOR: We, the
members of the students for
Kennedy-Johnson, feel that
the student body has really
displayed a keen interest in
the coming national election,
but we have noticed the same
faces coming by our booth ev
eryday.
Several times we have ex
hausted our supply of litera
ture, but we still feel that we
have not done an adequate job
in keeping with the coming
Mock Election being sponsored
by SGA. So we have taken it
upon ourselves to try to reach
the educational goal sought by
SGA.
The election results are not
as important as the learn
ing of the philosophies and
p l a t f o r m s of the parties,
therefore, to inform all Penn
Staters, this organization has
come to you. We have unoffi
cially proclaimed today as D-
Day (Democratic Day), and
last night you should have re
ceived a pamphlet from one
of our members.
.Letter cut
—John F. Bonella,
Young Democratic Club
Gazette
Alph■ Kappa Pal, business meeting
and panel discussion, 7 p.m., Phi
Kappa Psi
Angel Flight. 7 p.m.. 216 HUB
Delta Sigma Pi, business meeting and
rushing smoker, 7 p.m.. Phi Mu
Delta, 600 S. Allen St.
Education Student Council, 6:30 p.m.,
217 11118
Elections Commission, 8:30 p.m., 215
111711
Grad Student Association, 7:30 p.m.,
212 111 Th
ICCH Elections, B a.m.-6 p.m., HUB
ground floor
IV Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m.,
218 HUB
Liberal Party, 0 p.m., HUB first floor
Mineral Industries Student Council, 9
p.m., 211 IIUB
Newman Club. 8 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB
ground floor
Newman Club Fall Forum Series, 7
p.m., HUB assembly room
Nittany Council, 7:30 p.m.. Nittany 20
Nittany Grotto, 7 p.m., 121 MI
Pan-hel, 11:30 p.m., 203 HUB
Placement. 8 a.m.-5 213-211-215-
216 HUB
Phya Ed Student Council, 11 a.m., HUB
ussenibly room •
Scabbard and Blade Executive Com
mittee, 8 p.m., 217 HUB
Science Fiction Society, T P.m, 214
HUB
SGA Coffee Hour, 3 p.m., liUB main
lounge
SGA Traffic Investigation Committee,
8:30-9:30 p.m., 218 HUB
Young Democrats, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB
ground floor
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Young Republicans, 7 P.m., 19 Sparks
voting
MYERS
TODAY
to national committeemen.
Such new found enthusiasm at
such a late date in the cam
paign is of incalculable
value.
The religious issue, first
thought to be an obstacle in
Kennedy's campaign trail, now
seems to be of more value than
not. This is because the re
action to anti-Catholic material
seems to be greater than the
effect of the material itself.
Consequently, a large majority
of the Northern minority
groups will cast their ballots
against Richard M. Nixon, be
lieving these votes to be a vote
against bigotry.
The so-called Jewish vote,
which is often crucial in New
York and Connecticut, has been
drawn closer to the Democratic
Party than usual this year.
Henry Cabot Lodge is very un
popular among the Jewish peo
ple because of his anti-Israel
stand in the UN in 1956.
Jimmy Hoffa's endorsement
Interpreting
As Campaign Issue,
Religion Remains Alive
Hardly a man is now alive who can remember just what it
was like when it began, and even fewer will be sorry when it's
all over a week from today.
This campaign began soon after the 1956 election, perhaps
e'en before President Eisenhower's inauguration for his term.
By the summer of 1959 prac
tically all the Republican pol
iticians knew what they were
going to have
to do. That
fall Nelson A.
Rockefeller
took some
polls and paid
some visits
and decided
he couldn't
beat City
Hall
Things were
a little bit ROBERTS
wider open among the Demo
crats until the West Virginia
primary. When the religious
issue failed to outweigh John
F. Kennedy's economic prom
ises there, Kennedy joined
Richard M. Nixon in running
for the presidency rather than
just for the nomination.
Things were awfully dull.
When Kennedy and Lyndon
B. Johnson were nominated, at
a time when the Republicans
were taking it on the chin over
U 2 and the collapse of nego•
tiations with the Soviet Union,
it looked like an unbeatable
ticket.
Many people thought that 32
years of mass education would
Letters
Departments Can Help Too
TO THE EDITOR: We of the
Pollock area agree that the
students can help to lower
costs. However, we feel that
the problem isn't only up to
the students but also to the De
partment of Maintenance and
Last month the campus
lights in the Pollock Circle
came on at 4 p.m. and stayed
on until morning. This will per
haps be necessary during EST
but is hardly helpful when the
sun is still blinding. This month
the lights have continued to
burn all day for quite a few
successive days. Certainly the
weather isn't that drab! -
Another source of waste is
concerned with food. Many
times we find the oatmeal and
some starchy vegetables are
half cooked. This contributes to
much of the waste. If the em
ployes in the dining halls
would take a small amount of
pride in their products, much
of the waste would be elimi
nated. If the Maintenance and
Utility, the Department of
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 1. 1960
of Richard Nixon has tended to
neutralize the effect of Ken
nedy's labor ties with a resul
tant aid to the Kennedy camp.
One of the most successful
efforts of the Kennedy-John
son -ticket has been their unifi
cation of the southern Demo•
cratic Party. A very impres
sive organisation operation has
lieen performed by the man
from Texas and it now appears
that most of the Southern states
will return to the Democratic
fold in November. Johnson has
been conducting an old-fashion
back-woods core-poning cam
paign and the Southerners
seem to love it.
Finally, one of Kennedy's
most valuable aids on election
day will be the AFL-ClO's get
out-the-vote machine entitled
COPE. This organization dem
onstrated it s effectiveness
earlier in the year when it re
nominated Senator Estes Ice
fauver to office in an uphill
battle.
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press Analyst
have leveled off religious in
tolerance, and that West Vir
ginia proved it.
Nixon started behind in the
post-convention estimates, But
solid organizational work and
religion began to tell. He pulled
ahead.
Then came the morning -after
game "Who looked best last
night?" in a series cf four tele
vision debates. A lot of people
got to "know" Kennedy for the
first time and checks indicated
a small but firm majority
thought he looked best.
The issues developed didn't
get very far. Both candidates
began making mistakes and,
when caught up, were quick to
compromise, so that , frequently
they would , up traveling the
same way under banners bear
ing only slightly different
words.
Now, barring some unex
pected event, there being no
war that either candidate• can
stop, nearly all the voters are
ready to be counted. There is
a feeling that Kennedy is
ahead. But the religious issue
remains an important intan
gible.
Housing, and the students co
operate we can all lick this
problem together.
—Mary Loker '62
Judy Bausch '62
Barbara Pretsch '62
Grace Thomas '62
Jr. Questions
Survey's Secrecy
TO THE EDITOR: An open let
ter to the Young Republicans
Organization of Penn State.
An innocent uncommitted
voter wishes to know why the
present administration will not
release for publication a survey
taken by a government statisti
cal agency right after the col
lapse of the Paris summit con
ferences.
This survey, as reported in
"The New York Times," was
taken among ten nations and
questioned the falling prestige
of the United States. Why are
the results of this survey being
kept from the public at such a
crucial moment as this?
—Howard Schimmel '62