PAGE FOUR ditorial Opinion Half-Holiday Again For the second straight year Penn State's football team has fought its way into the post-season Liberty Bowl game. And for the second straight year the SGA president will take a request to University President Eric A. Walker that a half-holiday be declared on the morning of the game. Last year the request was granted and a large con tingent of students took advantage of the opportunity to cheer their team to victory in the bowl's inaugural. Certain things have transpired in the intervening year that may make this year's request a little harder to implement. But we think the necessity of having strong support for the team in this highly publicized and nation ally televised game warrants the change in scheduling. SGA president Richard Haber will ask that the classes scheduled for Saturday morning before the game be rescheduled on the day before final examinations. This day has been scheduled each semester as •an open date ever since the students requested such a free day for study two years ago. The free day was instituted for the benefit of students and the students should be willing to sacrifice half of it in order to support the team which is bringing glory to their University. We do not see any plausibility in the petition of Anthony Gitt to drop classes not only on the morning of the game but also on the 2 1 / 2 days of the following week. Students should not expect class days to be dropped that cannot be made up at a later date. They should remember that it was a vote of the Uni versity Senate last spring that kept Thanksgiving vaca tion from being cut this fall - after the students had ex pressed their disapproval to this idea through SGA. There are several problems encountered, in trying to set up a schedule so that each class meets the proper number of times. Students cannot expect "gratis" days of vacation that disrupt the academic. schedule. But since a half-holiday on the morning of the game could be made up before final examinations, we hope the University can see fit to grant such a change. The football team is bringing honor to the University by playing in the Liberty Bowl. The team needs backing at the game by as much of the student body as possible. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom O'llx• Daily Tollrgian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 6, 1994 at the State College Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879, Mail Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester 15.00 per year. 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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Ann Palmer; Wire Editors, Susie Eberly and Polly Dranov; Night Copy Editor, Dexter Hutchins; Assistants, Dick Leighton, 011ie Himes, Dot Drasher, Sandy Yaggi, Eve Bowers, Lillian Berger, Phyllis Hansen, Karen Wrem, Diana Ryesky, Barbara Brown, Linda Williams, Margie Iprin, Sue Robbins, Linda Leney, Joan Ilartman, Sue Bicksler, Barb Baer and Bruce Henderson tiEMZE THAT A tOONDERFOL. WAY TO CELEBRATE FRETHOVEN's BiRiNDAQI f p 4 _ .-- . ... - • kl, it k . Aiftiok , , CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager WHY NOT KEEP IT SIMPLE? YOL) HAVE A FEW FRIENDS OVER, HAVE A PIECE OF CAKE AND LISTEN TO THE NINTH SYMPHONY... ALL I WANTED WAS A PRESENT, WHAT 00 1 GET? A LECTURE ON HOW TO GIVE PARTIES! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Sr. Answers Jr's. Letter On SGA TO THE EDITOR: This letter is in response to Mr .Richard Diehl's letter of Thursday, No vember 17. I would suggest to Mr. Diehl that the ineffectiveness of stu dent government at this uni versity is a direct result of the attitude of indifference held, not only by him, but by many others as well, Mr.' Diehl staled, in the course of his letter, that there are many people on this cam pus who are not in the least interested in student govern ment. This is unfortunately true. The effectiveness of student government at this university as compared to that at many other universities leaves much to be desired. I hasten to add, however, that the effectiveness of stu dent government here will in crease only in proportion to the support which it receives from the student body. As a student I desire a strong student government which has some degree of bar gaining power with the uni. versity administration. This has been achieved at the Uni versity of Florida and at the University of Virginia. I be lieve that it could be achieved at Penn State. 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Increased national de fense, reduc ed 'unemploy ment, deseg regation, fed eral aid for education, foreign ai d with a touch of emphasis on the mili ta r y side, ROBERTS more emphasis on science—all of these have already become —Con Rodgers, '6l TODAY WDFM Schedule T,UESDAY By J. M. ROBERTS On Universities Barzun Discusses Administrations Answering his own question "Why worry about the failure of administration in universities," Jacques Barzun, in "Think" magazine, pointed out the two-fold need for smoothly operating administrations. First Barzun noted that the man who complains loudest about a top-heavy administra tion would also be the first to complain if he could not de pend on the administration to provide admission and registra- . tion for students. "But still more pressing, though harder to recognize, is the need for central direction to -keep a semblance of order in the confused mass of purposes that now use the University as their playground," Barzun said, He explained that the ad ministration alone is in a posi tion to see the whole picture "but it tends to isolate itself from the faculty and students and to split into two parts—a higher and a lower separated from each other." Barzun advocated a full dis closure of policies noting that now "most faculties do not know the exact arrangements governing their institutional life and only feel its difficul ties." Most students do not under stand the system under which they work and trustees, in making an attempt to learn what it's all about, "seldom get beyond a grasp of labor and maintenance problems," he said. In concluding the article, Barzun listed several steps he feels a modern university must take in order to regain "the uni fied consciousness which it has lost" or else it will decay. The steps included: •"Reduce directly forms of waste ostentation, needless moving about and internal re- Letters Petition Asks 3 Extra Days TO THE EDITOR: I would like to advise you that the follow ing petition is being circulated on campus We the undersigned hereby request that the Christmas va cation be rescheduled so as to permit Penn State students an opportunity to attend the Lib erty BoWI game in Philadel phia on Dec. 17. 1960. We fully realize the difficul ties involved in rescheduling this vacation, but we feel that school spirit and the support of our team warrent such a change. The above petition has been drawn up in all seriousness. We realize the difficulties in- volved in order to reschedule matters of increased national cognizance. All involve heavy spending which the commission points out will probably produce in creased taxes, even with ex pected increases in the nation al product as a base for govern ment income. There is a call on the people for national heroism in meet ing the problems, similar to the one made by President elect John F. Kennedy during the campaign. Indeed, there are few if any fields covered by the report which were not discussed by the candidates or covered in the party platforms, and the American people are familiar with all of them. As a call for mobilization of the American people, begin ning with the individual fam ily, against. the background of TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1960 duplication of effort NOT by introducing a three or four term system. The year-round program is as bad as an all night hotel. The University is not a plant in the manufactur ing sense. And it is a second absurd paradox to spend money for advertising and public re lations and skimp on the in dispensable ingredient of learn ing which is time. If we asked students to work hard while they do work, we would need no acceleration. If we do spread out the work we shall only loaf through 12 months instead of eight. • "By a steady systematic disclosure of proposals, prob lems and changes, create on campus a public opinion which will help decide and carry out the proposals. • "After full disclosure, make similarly systematic attempts to recapture the president. He is needed for internal guidance. Alumni donors, foundations, government and industry aro not to become oriental po tentates requiring flattery by sycophants and beggars. • "Increase the salaries of in structors and have fewer. In crease the salaries of adminis trators and have better ones. e "Set a limit to competition for students and teachers. It now costs $3OO to get one stu dent and untold disruptive ef fort to get one •teacher. Com peting for students when places are too few is an economic paradox of the first magnitude. Brochures and blurbery for this purpose reduce the stature of the university." the Christmas vacation so. as to start on December 16. We realize that three full days of classes would he missed, and we realize that these classes would have to be made up. We also realize that we have a fine football team that de serves our support. We further feel that since this contest is to receive national publicity, the University would be placed in a bad light if it were to be come known that the Univer sity would not officially allow its students to attend the game in order to support its team. It is with these intentions that this petition has been drawn up. —Tony Gilt, '62 their traditional moral atti tudes, the report is remindful of passages in several Eisen hower speeches. The document makes small attempt to set up ways and means by which the goals may be attained. Additional statements by in dividual members of the com mission show clearly that the result of two years of effort is a compromise. Perhaps the • report does leave us floundering just as much as ever over how to ac complish all the good things which should be accomplished. But as a finely expressed summary • of national aspira tions, of national character and motivation, and of responsi bility in the world, it is an his torical document, for other peo ples as well as for Americans.
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