'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:
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Hour
No. Cars j 65 | 62 | 56 | 50 | 33 j 13 I
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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
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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.
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