WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30. 1960
Haber Aims to End
Communication Gulf
Richard Haber, Student Gov
ernment Association president,
has 'written the following letter
in an effort to establish more
ef f e cti ve communications be
tween the student body and SGA
and to make "student govern
ment a living reality."
As president of the Penn
State Student Government
Association, I am often called
upon to act or speak for you.
Every day I begin at least a half
dozen letters with, the words . . .
"on behalf of the Student Body
of The Pennsylvania State Uni
versity" . . . thus I am speaking
on your behalf. In this capacity,
I not only initiate matters in your
name, but also assume the respon
sibility for your actions. Due to
our large student body, commu
nication with each of you is most
difficult.
However, for us to move for
ward, I will concern Myself with
methods of improving communi
cations between the student body
and its representative, the student
body president.
There are several media open
to our use. The Student Govern
ment Association office provides
one location where we might get
together to better improve our
lines of communication. (Office
hours are posted on the door of
room 203 HUB.) SGA coffee hours
extend an open invitation to each
of you to attend and informally
discuss student affairs. The open
meeting of the Student Govern
ment Association Assembly on
Leaders
To Discuss
Party Issues
Student
.political leaders will
debate party issues and platforms
at 9 tonight on WDFM-WMAJ's
"Forum of the Air."
Representing the University
party will be Walter Darran, par
ty chairman, and Michael Lazor
chak, campaign manager and
vice chairman. Campus party rep
resentatives will be Dennis Eise
man, vice chairman, and William
Laman, candidate for junior as
semblyman.
Leslie Lewinter, secretary-treas
urer, and Wayne Ulsh will speak
for the Liberal party.
Following statements by the
party representatives, there will
be cross-discussion and inter
panel questioning. The leaders
will also discuss the role of stu
dent government on campus at
present and its status in the fu
ture.
Also on tonight's Forum will be
Dr. Richard R. Renner, director
of the Latin American Project for
the University. He will discuss the
pi.ogram scheduled for the 21
Latin American educators who
have come to the University to
observe American teaching and
administration methods.
VIZZAPIE
? Where to go?
BOALSBURG STEAK HOUSE
4 Miles South of State College on Route 322
Thursday evenings affords an op
portunity for you to be heard by
your student legislature. •
Why is it important for you to
be heard by student government?
Simply this . .. every day a mem
ber of the Student Government
Association is called upon to ex
press an opinion on behalf of the
student body. The subject in
volved might be a disciplinary
case, a revision of calendar and
class schedule, a policy of aca
demic honesty, the approval of a
charter for a student organiza
tion, or perhaps an election of the
president of the Penn State
Alumni Association.
Your Student Government As
sociation is the group recognized
by the administraticin; faculty arid
other universities to be the offi
cial voice of the student body. I
consider it my primary function
to represent you. As for the as
sembly, it represents you as well
as you support it . . . that is to
say that the assembly has all the
power you alone give . . . you
'are the ones that strengthen or
weaken the voice of the assembly.
Now that we understand the
nroblem involved with communi
cation and cooperation, we must
work together to solve them. The
fact that the University is grow
ing more aware of a need for bet
ter communications is exempli
fied by President Walker's re
cent talk with the Assembly. the
greater circulation and expansion
of The Daily Collegian, and the
attempt to strengthen ties with
our Commonwealth Campuses
through the Organization of Stu
dent Government Associations.
One step which you as students
might take in the immediate fu
ture is that of fulfilling your ob
ligation by voting in the Pall Stu
dent Government elections. It is
through the strength of your bal
lot that the voice of student gov
ernment will be heard.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN; STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Political Parties Come and Go
By DICK LEIGHTON
Rallying around cries of
"Get the Greeks out of
politics," "Keep the Indies
out of government" and
"We will show you how it's
done," campus political
parties have led a hectic,
but comparatively short-lived,
existence at this university.
Student political parties, as
we know then now, came into
their own when the Campus
Clique, a fraternity-backed or
ganization which had the repu
tation of controlling Univer
sity politics, did not reorgan-•
ize after World War IL
Since the fall of Campus
Clique in 1944, the University
has seen at least 10 parties or
ganized and has watched
many more student groups try
vainly for acceptance.
The Nittany - Independent
and Campus-Key parties were
the first to go the polls after
the war. The Independents
made such a thorough sweep
in that 1945 election that Cam
pus-Key never recovered.
After sweeping their second
election (1946), the Nittany-
Independents were considered
kings of campus politics. Inde
pendent officials openly
laughed when a new group
which called themselves the
State party said they would
run in the next election.
The Daily Collegian added
to the Nittany-Independents'
confidence when it openly en
dorsed the incumbent party on
its editorial page. (Collegian
policy now is not to endorse
either party or candidates,)
The fall election of 1947 will
long be remembered by many
of the University's alumni, for
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the new party won all but ono
office and caused the complete
disruption of. the Independent
party, which soon (lied.
The next two elections were
dominated by the State party
which won all but one office
in each election from the new
ly formed Lion party. A brief
stir was made during this time
by a third party which com
plained about Greek domina
tion. This party failed to be
come organized sufficiemly to
run any candidates.
Campus politics remained a
battle between the Lion and
State. parties for . the next few
years. In 1954 student parties
became officially recognized
by the student government All
University • Cabinet. Up until
this time they were unofficial
groups working in accordance
with an elections committee.
This power of approving
parties was later given to the
University Senate Committee
on Student Affairs, thereby
giving the groups 9fficial Uni
versity recognition.
The year 1955 was a big one
for new parties. Three new
parties Campus Campus-
Key 'University made their
appearance ,that year and al
though Campus-Key and Uni-
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State and Lion parties.
State party, suffering from
many desertions to the new
Campus party, dissolved that
year and once again the Uni
versity had a two-party sys
tem.
Lion and Campus parties
battled each other for two
years before another party en
tered the race.' University and
Blue and White parties arose
in 1958 but Blue and White
disappeared after a few weeks
because it could not blect a
chairman. The campus once
again had a three-party sys
tem,
History repOted itself that
fall when the newly recog'-'
nized University party cap
tured four out of the six avail
able positions. This was too
much for the aging Lion party.
With a final roar at its desert
ing members it too faded
away.
And so the political scene
has remained; University and
Campus battling each other for
the past two years and as of
late the new Liberal party has
begun its fight for recognition.
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