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Editorial Opinio
ROTC-Who's Right?
The Senate Committee on Educational
Policy has recommended the retention of
compulsory ROTC on the grounds that
“the military services regard the program
as essential to the national military estab
lishment.”
However, the Defense Department
does not support compulsory ROTC be
cause to do so would mean it felt such a
policy was necessary because of a military
need—a -need which does not, in fact, exist.
Now, who is right, Penn State’s Senate
Committee on Educational Policy or the
Defense Department? The Defense Depart
ment makes mistakes but ....
Compulsory basic ROTC is not needed
to meet quality standards in the military
services nor is it needed to produce the
required number of officers, according to
the Defense Department statement.
John Schanz, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Educational Policy, told
Liberal Arts Faculty members yesterday
that if they wished to do away with com
pulsory ROTC, they would have to show
just cause.
We do not think the Liberal Arts
faculty and the other anti-ROTC'ers (The
problem is hardly limited to LA 'faculty
men) have to prove their case because the
Defense Department did it for them last
March with its policy statement.
University Senate must realize
that compulsory ROTC for many students
is just a waste of valuable time which
might be spent in academic pursuits. This
is a University not an extension of a mili-
tary base.
The lasi iwo years of ROTC are vol
untary. It really can not be argued that the
country is getting more or better trained
officers through a compulsory program
since the men who do become officers do
so voluntarily.
The only thing really accomplished
by a compulsory two-year system is the
assurance that all men get a taste of mili
tary training. But, even the Army realizes
that aU men may not be potentially good
and rejects them. Military train
ing just does not benefit some people who
in turn do not benefit the armed forces. _
Potentially able military men might
Letters
Young Republicans State Their Case
TO THE EDITOR: The Young
Republicans of Penn State
comment on the letter to the
editor, Nov.'3, concerning “New
Republicanism.”
Williajn S. Livingood, for
mer Pennsylvania Secretary of
Internal Affairs, spoke before
the Young Republican meet
ing on Nov. 1. Mr. Livingood
was unavoidably detained and
therefore, compelled to speak
to the members after the meet
ing had* adjourned.
Eight dismal years? Those
“DOQMACRATS" who make
such statements must have for
gotten the ending of the Kor
eran War: the launching of the
Eisenhower atoms - for - peace
through the United Nations;
the snuffing out of threats to
peace in Formosa, Quemoy,
Matsu, Lebanon, Iran and Jor
dan; the establishing of tho
overall U.S. defense power to a
peace time high.
The sponsoring of the first
Civil Rights Act in 82 years;
the extension of Social Secur
ity to 12 million additional
persons, increased benefits for
all; the construction of 501,-
800 school classrooms, almost
twice the number built in 1935-
IHE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
also be discouraged by this compulsory
program. Some become antagonistic to the
program and antagonistic or uninterested
students drag down the whole class.
If the Defense Department did not
have to deal with so many men in ROTC,
it might be able to provide better training
for those who are truly interested.
Many instructors in the ROTC program
have never had any teaching experience
and facing antagonistic students is not the
easiest thing to do.
Any men who do not go on to the
advanced program have to take their basic
training again anyway if they go into the
service.
Perhaps the policy committee feels
the military sedvices will not do a proper
job and the University ought to give all
college graduates the chance to get some
real training under its jurisdiction. We
have heard, however, that. the military
services alone do the job a little better.
The importance of sheer manpower
is rapidly declining in modern defense.
Could it be that this University and the
other 60 land grant institutions with com
pulsory ROTC are behind the times?
Compulsory. ROTC benefits neither
the students nor the United State’s de
fense program. It seems to us that those
favoring compulsory ROTC have yet to
prove or show their “just cause.”
Get the Habit
Today all Penn State students,wheth
er over the “legal” age of 21 or not, get a
chance to make known their choice for the
next President of the United States.
Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 7
p.m, for the University's first mock na
tional election.
Mock elections are popular on college
campuses because they stimulate interest
in the political campaigns and cause stu
dents who will soon be voting citizens to
become aware of election issues and get
into the habit of voting.
We hope the students show a better
voting record in the mock national election
than they do in student elections. Other
wise its purpose will not be accomplished.
1952; the initiation of a vast
new 41,000-mile inter-state
super highway system; the
raising of the U.S. standard of
living to the highest ever, to
mention a few. And all this
without tax increase.
The Republican administra
tion has fully supported the
objectives of the United Na
tions through SEATO, ANZUS,
CENTO and other agencies
for the betterment of the free
world including health pro
grams, technical cooperation,
cultural exchange and econom
ic development.
The “typical Republican al
titude" toward advancement
and research has brought dur
ing the Republican administra
tion the following “firsts" in
U.S. space: first to find and
measure the Van Allen radia
tion belts; first to photograph
the earth from 300 miles out in
space: first to recover an ob
ject intact from outer space;
first to discover the pear shape
of the arih; first to orbit a com
munications satellite.
Richard Nixon said, “We are
are ahead in color T.V.” Well,
we are. We are ahead of Rur
sia by billions of dollars of as
sets. In fact, if we wanted tO'
be equal to Russia we would
have to scrap nearly one-half
of our steel industry to get
down to the Soviet steel capa
city.
We would have to wreck
two-thirds of American hydro
electric power production, burn
off 90 per cent of our natural
gas, rip up 14 of every 15 miles
of highway and two out of ev
ery three miles of railroad
trackage, sink eight out of ev
ery nine merchant ships, scrap
19 of every 20 automobiles,
and destroy 80 per cent of
American housing,
If this is what these “Doom
acrats” want, we would rather'
be Republicans and right.
—THE YOUNG REPUBLI
CANS OF PENN STATE
• Letter Cut
Hospital
Geoffrey Boardman, Beverly Britt,
Thomas E. Brown, Leßoy Brubaker,
Patricia Chavis, Anthony De Angelo,
Cynthia De Palnm, Robert Dockstader,
Sonia Flowers, Samira Fosselman. Rena
Goldman, Robert Hausnmnn, Robert
Judd, Marjorie Kapelsohn, Francis
Karl, Richard Kline, Lorna Maclntyre,
Ora McLaughlin, Jo Ann Meech, Su
san Monfi, Mark Nystrom, Donald
Palm, Martin Uhayre, George Renshaw,
Marian Shoemaker, Laurel Shupp, Ron
ald Stauffer, Etllot Stein, Earle Stine*
biser, Daniel Storrer, Susan Stulta,
Cynthia Vicander.
Snowed
Ike Cant Prevent
A Kennedy Victory
Richard Nixon’s White House Special rounded a bend in the
tracks a few weeks ago and the Vice President suddenly realized
that a huge object, Sen. John F. Kennedy’s growing personal
appeal, was blocking the train's projected path.
His only hope was to persuade the vastly popular Republican
President to again clear the
way so that his route to the
White House would be re
opened
Nixon went to see Eisen
hower last week and con
vinced the President that his
all-out support was needed if
the Republicans were to main
tain control of the govern
ment’s executive branch. Ike
consented
But .it ap
pears as if
E i s e n hower
entered the
campaign too
late to save
the Vice Pres
ident from
defeat at the
'polls a little
more than 100
hours from
now.
The Nixon- MYERS
Lodge ticket is bucking a
strong Kennedy tide, which
seems to indicate a decisive
electoral victory for the Mas
sachusetts senator in the mak
ing. Recent polls and surveys
in such populous and crucial
states as New York. New Jer
sey, Ohio and California show
Letters
Liberal Party Backed
TO THE EDITOR: I have been
setting back for the past few
weeks and reading and hearing
the pros and cons about the
Liberal Paity. Mr. Zuckerman’s
recent letter was too much for
me.
Mr. Zuckerman says, “Any
bill passed by SGA is for the
good of the entire student
body, bar none.” What is this
SGA? It would seem from the
aforementioned letter that it is
an infallible body, bordering
upon a deity.
This is utterly ridiculous!
When the SGA does gel a
quorum, and holds a meeting,
the bills passed are rarely
passed by unanimous vote.
This seems to indicate that
someone, even a member of
that never-failing body, doesn’t
think that the bills are for the
good of the entire student
body—bar none. We all make
mistakes.
Even the Congress of the
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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER'4. 1960
hy foel myers
that Kennedy's strength is in
creasing day by day.
This is the prime reason why
Eisenhower was urged to take
a more active part in the final
week of the campaign. The
GOP felt that there was little
chance of victory without Ike’s
help, but with him they hoped
the tide might be reversed in
the few days before election.
This is unlikely because of
several reasons:
First, most voters have al
ready made their decision be
tween the two candidates and
any last minute politicking
will have little influence on
them.
Second, the tide sems to bo
running in favor of Kennedy
and so Ihe most Ike will be able
to do in ihe short time that re
mains before the election will
be to neutralize this trend.
Third, Eisenhower’s popu
larity is, for the most part, non
transferrable. This was demon
strated conclusively in the past
three Congressional elections.
In 1954, 1956 and 1958 Ike
urged the nation to elect a Re
publican Congress and yet in
each succeeding election the
Democratic majority increased.
U.S. passes bills that are de
clared unconstitutional by the
Supreme Court,
Why doesn’t the SGA admit
it is wrong and repeal the bill
which takes $7OO of student
funds and allocates them for
use of a small faction? Cer
tainly, because of the diver
sity of people and ideas on this
campus, the parties can’t bene
fit all.
It's about lime someone came
along and stood for the good of
the large majority of students
—the independents.
Not only does the Liberal
Party have great ideas, but
also it looks as if they are
doing something about them.
I say the Liberal Party is a
party of deeds, not just words.
We don't find anyone else cir
culating petitions or coming
right out and taking stands
on what they feel is right.
—H. Edward Govan, '63
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