PAGE FOUR ditorial 0 • inio Students Ought to Use HUB Lot on 'Trial Basis' Since students were asked to give the -administra tion's parking regulations a trial period, we might well ask that the administration at least give the student proposal to open the HUB lot a trial. Most of the restrictions will just have to be accepted until someone can find a better way to handle the over flow of cars and dearth of space. However. the administration has not really proved any need for a ban on the HUB lot after 6 pan. Surveys conducted by the Campus Patrol and the SGA Traffic Committee have consistently shown th . atthe 216-car lot is usually only one-quarter full after 6 p,m. The SGA. committee found that many of the faculty members using the lot do so in order to eat in the HUB and not in order to conduct any vital or scholarly research-. There is a fine big lot behind Osmond which is nearer the Library and most laboratories than the HUB lot and which might accommodate the night workers. We would also like to point out that the HUB was built with student funds for students and they have just as much if not more right to easy access to the building as instructors and visitors. And students definitely have more of a claim on those parking spaces used by high schoolers who find the HUB a good hangout or an advanced playground. • Now, the administration contends that if the lot were opened students would fill it up and those instructors who like to eat in the HUB and those visitors and high school ers would have to park elsewhere. However, the administration could not possibly be sure that this would be the result and there is the possi• bility that the lot would not even be crowded. So, why not open the HUB lot on . a trial basis? If non-students complained because they could not find a parking space, why could not one-quarter or one half of the lot be reserved for them? A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom Eittitgllrglau Vlt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 PuJished Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian fa a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-awls matter July 6, 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of Mareh 3, 1870. - Mall Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester 37.00 per year. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor 11-or4 • ' City Editors Carol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Cloris Wolford; Sports Editor, Sandy Padwe; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkrourn; Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor. Elaine Miele; Copy Editor, Annabelle Rosenthal; Photography Editor, Frederic Bower; Make-up Editor, Joel Myers. Local Ad Mgr., Brad Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Hal Deisher; National Ad Mgr., Bessie Burke; Credit Mgr., Mary Ann Craws; Aas't Credit Mgr., Neal Hells: Classified Ad Mgr.. Constance Hiegel; Co-Circulation Mgrs.. Rosiland Ahrs, Richard Kitzinger; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michel; Personnel Mgr., Becky Kohudic; Office Secretary, Joanne liuyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline editor, Karen Hyneckeal; Wire editors. Polly Dranov, Barb Yunk; Night Copy editor, Lois Itaegley. Assistants: Judy Rohrer, Barbara Fritz, Brenda Brun ner, Jackie Russiano, Adrienne Veeson, Carmen Zetler, Judy Rondelman, Dee Rabe, Linda Prunella and Joan Mehan. THE NEXT THING qOO KNOtO THEY'LL BE SELLING f3EENOVEN SWEAT-SHIRT_ I 1. ti , -,) :57- CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager COMMERCIALIZED?, RCALIZED! eikillOr ehAing„, DID atEatklE THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Weak SGA Blamed On Low Interest TO THE EDITOR: I would like to offer this letter in support of Mr. Con Rodgers' letter of Tuesday, Nov. 29. I strongly agree that any in effectiveness of our student government is due to the lack of interest of the student body. The student government. ought to represent a large majority, if not the entire student body of Penn State. For SGA to expect any rec ognition whatsoever from the administration, if must be able to_ offer proof of full student support. Next week on Dec. 6 and 7 our student body has the best possible chance to give SGA this essential backing. An elec tion that produces only 23 per cent participation is not ade quate. For SCA to function ef fectively it must have well over 50 per cent participation. Being a member of the fresh man class I would like to see a continuance of the trend for the freshmen to have the high est voting percentage. However, being a student of this UniversitT I would like, even more so, to see a much greater all university partici pation than there has been in previous years. For the 'SGA to function properly it has to have the full support of the student body. This support can be extended by you the individual, and only by you. If you, as an indivi dual, vote the SGA will be con siderably more effective. Gazette AF (lee Club, 3 p.m., HUB woe - 111)1y mom AFROTC Band. 3:15 pan„ Carnegie Arnold Air Society, 8:15 p.m., 217.218 HUlt AWS Pollock Judicial. 3 :30 p.m., 211 HIM Block 'S' ExeCutlre Board, 6:30 p.m, 216 111111 Gamma Sigma Sigma, Pledging • and Sistera, :1 0 7 :14, 111J13 assembly room IV Christian Fellowship, 12:15 p.m., 218 HUB Jazz Club, 7:30 p.m.. 212-213 111111 Omega Pat PM, 9 p.m., 212 HUB PS Special Ed, 13;30 p.m., 217-218 HUB University Party, 7 p.m., 213 HUB West Hails AWS Community Council, 4 p.m., 113 Irvin Ahmad Afrari, Warren Rentzen. Brure Rutetra. Charles Ebert, Elizabeth Fos ter, Marc Coldstein, Anita Coshko. Sarah }NM, Linda Hendricks, Elizabeth Leety, Ruth Silvis, Regis Tandarich, Marilyn Trimble, Wayne Trueeett, Ste phen Wagner, Nancy Wynn. 3 :30 Stock Market Report 3 :50 News and Weather 4:011 Critic's Choke 5:00 Three at Five 6 :00 Studio X 6 WeatherscoPe 7 :00 Obelisk 7 :30 The Jazz Sound 7:55 News Roundup 8:00 This le The Subject :WI Folk Music 9:30 Opinion 13 9:15 News, Sports, Weather 10:00 Chamber Concert 12:00 Sign Off interpretin Front Must Be Strengthened By J. M. ROBERTS, Associated Press News Analyst The Free World has lots of hole-plugging to do in the next several months if it hOpes to maintain its front against. in ternational Communism. One of the great dangers of the day is a plethora of wishful think ing that ideo logical divi- sion in the Communist sphere wi 11 result in a , weakened as.: sault, with less attention to serious ROBERTS gaps in the Western lines. More wishful thinking sur rounds the idea that by some strange miracle the world can --,lim Sloane, '64 TODAY HOSPITAL WDFM Schedule THURSDAY Letters Gift Proposal Hit Again TO THE EDITOR: At times my companions at this institu tion amaze me. I am referring at this time to Mr. Gitt's semi intelligent petition. I have heard rumors some where in the dark recesses of this campus (probably echoes from Senate meetings) that Penn State is an educational institution, This I had accept ed, but now the erudite Mr. Gitt tells me that we are -a travelling society of football addicts. He says "the University would be placed in a bad light if it were to become known that the University would not officially allow its students to attend the game." Seriously, Mr. Gitt, do you really mean to take an absurd statement like the above in earnest? Surely M.I.T. is not in a bad light, but they are without that primary purpose of all colleges and universities, a football team. A petition is a fine thing for the student body to present. Such an action, if done with in- Bicycle Traffic Tickets? TO THE EDITOR: The in famous Borough of State Col lege is now the proud innova tor of a foolproof method to procure more operation in come. While quietly riding my bicycle through State College, I was issued a "traffic ticket" for allegedly driving through a traffic signal! Upon receipt of the sum mons, I was shocked to learn that the fine amounted to ten dollars—five dollars for the fine, and five dollars for court costs. This fine happens to be. the same for an automobile, and the "costs" go to their friend the Justice of the Peace! Now this whole incident is obviously ridiculous. The fine is horribly unrealistic, as well as the intent of the arresting officer, who must have more important tasks to accomplish Panther Painters Praised TO THE EDITOR; This letter is written in regard of your article of November 29, 1960, entitled, "Frosh Paint Stone Panther." The article was 'correct as far as it stated that Theodore Komorowski and Andrew Moy er were apprehended, but they were not apprehended "dump- ing a can of dime store paint over an unsuspecting stone panther." No such cursory treatment could be truly indicative of a Penn State student's spirit. be relieved of its burden of ar mament, with its constant threat of explosion, without first establishing some sem blance of international trust, which is by no means in sight. It is quite likely that the Communist-controlled nations will come out of their ideolog ical slugfest at Moscow purged of their differences and deter mined on new coordinated as saults. As witness the new trade " agreement between Cuba and Red China, the Reds have chosen a . battlefield which should be strangely suitable to the West, but one on which the Allied forces are still scattered all over the lot. The United States was the first of all the nations to real ize and do something about the fact that this is a new kind of war a war of material THURSDAY. DECEMBER 1, 1960 telligence, can be a powerful instrument to aid SGA in its attempts to overcome its pres ent near-impotence and raise itself to a stature where it could not be ignored_by the PSU bureaucracy. A , three day extra holiday sounds fine, but why bother? They would only have to be made up at a later date. I understand that . Mr. Gitt has found methods for reclaiming two of the lost days, May I suggest that two of the lost days be scheduled for the "free" day. Theity may be class conflicts, but who cares? . I came to P.S.U. to watch football and I can always afford to miss a class for it. Who cares if I therefore learn nothing? I wouldn't have any use for knowledge anyway, why pre tend? I am no egghead. Every body knows, that eggheads study 24 hours a day. They don't date and they are all communists. Students of Penn State arise! Fight for the three extra days! We have nothing to Jose but knowledge! —Bernard Goldsmith, '62 than to run down bicycles with their cruiser. And where else in this state, or even in this country do "court costs" equal 100% of the original fine? If automobile regulations are to be applied to bicycles, why are not equal facilities pro vided? We have no bicycle traf fic lanes, nor parking spots. Next we will have parking me ters for bicycles! can only classify this inci dent as blatant discrimination against an already hard-pressed college student and an out right attack against common sense. I was informed upon payment that even 12-year-old: grade school students would be fined likewise. This action seems to be a foolproof meth od for collecting revenue, and protecting the town folks from hot-rodding cyclists! —Roger Luther, '63 Rather, the panther was ar tistically ornamented in 18-inch letters: P.S.U. And as I , understand, since both of these students are fel low members of Lackawanna House, Beam Hall, the appre hension and subsequent detain ment of Theodore and Andrew were the direct results of this nimble-fingered labor. Merely throwing paint is, obviously, reserved for the faint hearted; the use of a brush requires more time—time not spent in watching for the park police. —J. A. Forbes. '63 ism for economic conquest, without bullets. In the first postwar years she was the only nation able to do anything about it. In those days there was great care not to become overcommitted, militarily or economically. As the new war has pro gressed, overcommitment, all out commitment, has become inevitable, as in all wars. The question ribvr_ is whether the Allies, who have become able, are going to fight ,this war on a united front with general mobilization of pri vate enterprise which, after all. has the biggest stake in the outcome. The United States, conduct ing aid programs all over the world with varying success, is not only beginning to run short of money for the purpose, but will have to concentrate a great deal more effort on Lat in Atherica now.
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