'AGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Who Uses HUB Lot? A study of the HUB lot parking survey conducted by the.SGA Committee on Traffic Code Investigation re veals more than the fact that, the lot which has been closed to students is seldom more than one-quarter full. On Nov. 4, G and 7 the student committee stopped each car entering the HUB lot and asked them their destination and occupation (student, faculty, visitor, etc.). One of the reasons given by the administration for closing the lot to student use in the evenings is that the spaces (there are 216 of them) are needed for faculty and staff parking. The committee’s survey shows that on Nov. 4 a total of 2;i faculty, staff and university employees used the lot, and only about half of these were doing work or research that night. The others were either eating in the HUB cafeteria or just using the facilities of the student union. Next, let’s consider the category of visitors. Eighty eight of them used the HUB lot on the night of Nov. 4. Several of these visitors were students from the Uni versity of Maryland who were here on a special “away weekend" an unusual occurance, the first we can remember. Others in the visitor category, according to the survey, were townspeople coming to eat or use the HUB facilities and some were local high school students coming to the HUB to socialize. Now we sympathize with the administration’s concern over having parking spaces available to visitors, and for that reason we have not asked for the lot to be opened on Saturday or Sunday afternoons- when there might be several bonafide visitors. But we cannot understand why townspeople and high school kids should have preference over the university’s students who have more valid reasons for using their own union building. Finally, a large portion of the cars in the HUB lot at night are student cars being parked there illegally under the present regulations. We .understand the Campus Patrol has not been ticketing student cars during the hours the cafeteria is open (5-6:45 p.m.) because this might hurt business. But this is not consistent with the rules. The, SGA survey has shown, and the administration has admitted, that the HUB lot is usually only one quarter full. la light of the more specific findings of the SGA committee we even question the right of several of those who comprise this quarter to have preference over the students. HUB Lot count for Monday: |6|7|B|9 | 10 j 11 | Hour No. Cars j 65 | 62 | 56 | 50 | 33 j 13 I ©fye latlg titnlUgian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday throne!' Saturday mornine during the University year. The Daily Collegian is u student-operated newspaper, Entered aa second-class matter July 5. 1931 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March S. 1879. Mail Subscription Pricei $3.00 per semester $3.00 per year. JOHN BLACK Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Barb Yunk; Wire Editor, Joanne Mark; Night Copy Editor, Lynne Cerefice; Assistants, Dick Leighton, Craig Yerkes, Shellie Michaels, Marie Thomas, Bettie McCoy, Ann Garrison, Elaine Feldvary, Phyllis Hutton, Tucker Merrill, Maxine Fine, Judy Zeger, Ann Thomas, Peggy Rush, Bruce Henderson, Steve Monheimer and Len Butkiewicz. 1 KfJOll) SOMETHING' m COULD GET ME 1 FDR BEETTHOVEN'S J \RKTtm...y THATS A 600 D IDEA..iII SET YOU A BOTTLE OF “EAU DE JUMPROPE"; CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager VOU COULD GET ME SOME PERFUME! Si ‘S / I BONDER 10HAT IT \ [B THAT MAKES MUSICIANS! \ SOSARCASTiC!?^y JSt mj THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA Letters 'A Modest Proposal' for Pattee Library TO THE EDITOR: Most of tha intelligent people around who have had occasion to use the University library are well aware of the situation that I would like to say a few words about. We are faced with what might, for lack of better words, be ter me d understocked shelves. The shelves are under stocked because there is not enough money to buy books. I hesitate to point an accus ing finger at either the admin istration or the legislature, rea lizing that the precise assign ment of blame is unimportant. What is important is the lack of money and in the following paragraphs I should like to offer my humble suggestions for improving the unfortunate situation. The core of my argument is centered around the huge amount of wasted space that is available in the library for oth er uses. I propose that this space be put to paying use. This is my plan: 1. All books that are current ly in the library can be prime sources of income. There are at least two, and in many in stances ten or /more blank white pages in every book in the library. Just think of the income that could be gathered by selling the space in these blank pages to advertisers. Gummed stickers carrying the advertising copy and pictures Letters Many Enter Cheer Contest TO THE EDITOR: On behalf of the Student Government Association, I would like to congratulate the winners of the SGA cheer contest Jan is Beachler (first place), Susie Randolph and Jack Soost (sec ond place), and Carol McNitt and Ronald Wilson (third place). Thanks is in order for the participation of every student and professor who submitted a cheer. A great many entries were received a good indi cation that the student body is behind the Lions all the way! The prizes for the contest, tickets to the Pitt game, will be presented to the winners at the pep rally on Thursday night. The winning cheers with motions created by the cheer leaders will be introduced at this time, also. The cheers will be printed in next year’s student handbook, and will be taught to the in coming freshmen next fall. Come out to the pep rally on Thursday night to learn the winning cheers and to give your team a big send off to Pittsburgh! —Barbara Hackman, Chair man, SGA Cheer Contest Committee Gazette TODAY AWS. G:«0 p.m., 203 HUB AWS Judicial, 12 noon, 212 HUB Bloodmobite, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., HUB card room Chess Club, 7 p.m., HUB .cardroom Foreign Economic Policy, 9 a.m., HUB assembly room Foreign Economic Policy, 10 a.m., 212 HUB Future Teachers, 10 a.m., 214 HUB Graduate Mining Seminar, 3:20 p.m., 304 M. 1.; F. D. Hoyt on “The Mining Engineer and Decision Making.” IFCPA, 7 P.m., 21G HUB IV Christian Fellowship. 12:15 p.m., 218 HUB Junior Class Advisory Board, 7 p.m., 212-211'. HUB Leadership Training, 7:30 p.m., 119 Osmond Marine Recruiting, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB ground floor Outing Club, 7 p.m.. HUB ballroom Penn State Grange, 7 p.m., 100 Wea- ver Psychology Colloquium, 12 noon, HUB dir hue room A, Douglas N. Jackson on “Kesponse Styles and Problems of Asseßsment.” Sports Car Club, 8 p.m., 212-213 HUB SGA Committee on Interracial Prob- lems, 10 p.m., 214 HUB TIM Council, 8 p.m., 203 HUB TIM Movies, 12:30 p.m., HUB assent* l)ly room Zoology Club, 7:30 p.m., 105 Frear Lab. could easily be placed on these pages. 2. The unusually high ceil ings in many rooms in the library present another poten tial source of income. Many of the walls are large and bare, serving no other purpose but to display the sickly pale green expanse of paint. These walls could be converted to display billboards and sold to adver tisers. Aside from the income derived from such a source, think how the bright colors of the ads will cheer up the mustv corridors and rooms. It would be a welcome change from the dreary, unimagina tive interiors that now depress library fans. 3. The card catalogues pre sent another place for adver tising income. Without too much trouble I'm sure that advertising cards, the size of the index cards, could be printed and placed in the draw ers at carefully chosen inter vals. 4. I hesitate to propose loud speakers in the library, but if some way could be worked out so that they might be placed in rooms where silence is not really needed, pleasant and soothing music could be piped in, broken at intervals by soft spoken, unobtrusive ads. Of course, rock and roll would be barred, and any music that is the least distracting. Monto vanni and such soft string sounds would probably be most appropriate Each of these proposals might Interpreting Soviet Ruble Called 'Merely a Curiosity' By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The Soviet Union’s effort to make her money appear as good or even better than that of the United States has fallen on the world’s deaf ear. Insofar as financial circles are concerned, Soviet rubles aren’t worth anything, and as a currency they are merely a curiosity outside the U.S.S.R. There is no trading in them, and no commercial at tempt to evaluate them Coun tries whi e h buy from the So viets evaluate the goods against world prices, except in the satel lites which are forced to pay Soviet prices, and pay in barter. Roberts Soviet loans to underdevelop ed countries are on the same basis. In the U.S.S.R., the ruble’s value is fixed by decree. In 1950 there was an announced gold value, in an effort to make it appear that the Soviet Union was going on' the gold stan dard, but noboby, in or out of the Soviet Union, can convert rubles into gold. She pays her "PONT mL Me, PRoF£$*OR, I CAH NEW CLOTH&, NEW PR\£FCA$£, SMU&- LOOK OF CONFIDEfIce....YOUVa TAKEN A Jog /N PRIVATE /NDUS-TRY. V WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1960. be handled with taste and dis cretion so as not to disturb the basic serenity of the library. For instance, in books by or about Shakespeare, the adver tisers could integrate pertinent observations by the Bard on their products: with a No-Doz ad might be in inscription, “Methought I heard a voice cry sleep no more.” I realize that there will be objections to these proposals, but they will probably come from the old stick-in-the-mud professors and other short sighted individuals who do not see that the progress of the American university must be intimately tied in with the progress and the ways of American business. Why should we rest on old fashioned traditions that have no real place in the American way of life? The streamlinihg of the calendar year is only one good example of how the Uni versity can take a lesson from the methods of modern enter prise. There is no reason why the ivory towers can not be tastefully plastered with ad vertising. I am sure I have overlooked many more potential sources of revenue, but I think this could be a start. Let’s get the ball rolling and show the world where we stand; we should buckle down and make this University tops. • Letter cut —David Toor —English Department —Member, TOCS international bills in gold, not in rubles, and no banker out side the Iron Curtain where they cannot help it would carry a Soviet balance in rubles. Incidentally, New York fi nancial experts estimate that the U.S.S.R., in the last half decade, has been paying out be tween 150 and 250 million dol lars worth of gold annually to meet her trade deficits outside the Iron Curtain. Inside the Soviet Union, Mon day's effort to peg the ruble as better than equal to the dol lar, making one new ruble worth about 10 old ones, may have more effect. France dis covered several years ago that a similar operation tended to increase respect for the franc and So enhanced its value at home. Experts believe there is a psychological result from giv ing people fewer monetary units which will buy as much as 10 times more than the old unit. CA m?U$ COAftDY
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