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Questions on
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By Elea Chairman
The recent decisions made by the elections commis).
sion chairman are without a doubt the most ridiculous
and most confusing in the history of a bad election's
commission.
The recent Student Government Association bill pro
vides "that commercial radio time and printed poster
displays arranged by the elections commission are to be
the ONLY commercial publicity allowed during the cam-
pa igns."
Yet Robert Umstead extends this to include newspaper
ads for Campus and University Party and gives the bill a
"rather loose" interpretation. When a reporter asked Urn
stead why he could extend the bi)l, Umstead said "I think
the Assembly intended that the issues be put before the
students."
Talking to Denny Eisman, we learned that Umstead
told Eisman he was going to put the party platforms on
the campaign posters in line with the "printed poster
displays" requirement. However, the posters came out
minus t 7 - ie platforms and then Umstead put an ad in the
Daily Collegian containing the platforms for Campus
and University parties.
Since•the Liheral Party is not allowed, according to
thnstead, to put ads in the Collegian or put up posters in
the BX or pass out cards, the group is left in a difficult
position.
Why are the interpretations so strict in many cases
and so "liberal" in others: Umstead may think he is the
supreme court but we are not so sure.
Umstead could very easily have printed separate
posters containing the Campus and University party plat
forms and given the Liberal Party a better chance to
compete for necessary publicity,
We would also like a little clarification of circum
stances surrounding the , disqualification of the three
Liberal party "endorsees." We would like to know exact
ly how many petition signatures were declared invalid on
each candidates sheet and we would like to know the rea
sons for each invalidation. Does the elections commission
qualify as a handwriting expert arid did it check every
person who signed the petitions?
Umstead admitted that some petitions were invali•
dated after a few false signatures were found and that the
rest of them were not checked carefully. He did not care
to.give "his - interpretation" of "a few." Petitioners only
needed a hundred valid signatures.
We hope this whole mess is cleared up before the
election is a thing of the past.
Piddle Party Questioned
The most recent arrival on the Penn State political
scene is an interesting group j called the Piddle Party.
At first we thought members might ,be potential
candidates for our Student Government-Association; but
a closer examination of their platform leads us to believe
that this is 'hardly their intent.
Since the party advocates parrots to help reduce the
work load of SGA officers we can conclude that the mem
bers of Piddle Party do not intend to run for assembly
and help the officers themselves.
However, do not these party members realize that
parrots are expensive creatures and perhaps the SGA
budget could not stand the added expenditure.
Some seem to feel that the party is only trying to
ridicule student government and
,thus reduce the vote
in the-'up coming election. But the group appears to be
concerned with other things on the campus.
The' Piddle Party's platform reminds us of a little
yellow magazine which used to be published on the
campus some years ago. It is rumored that the publishers
of the magazine one day suddenly ceased work" on it
after one edition included some humorous but scathing
comments about some campus dwellers.
Periodically, however, some students feel the need to
express themselves in the same manner and little yellow
magazines turn up in dormitories and Old Main and other
places.
The magazine is usually called the Lemon. We guess
the title might be a pun on the taste left in the mouths of
some readers.
We think that after comparing the Piddle Party's
Platform with the editorial content of the Lemon, we can
safely conclude that the party is just another manifesta
tion of something which has been going on around here
for a lOng time. •
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Rulings
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA
Letters
Students
Complains
Of Theft
TO THE EDITOR: Wednesday
evening on my way home, I
stopped in a local store to pur
chase a magazine, and when I
turned around to pick up my
gloves and books, they were
gone. Yes, someone, a fellow
student took these items.
The reason for taking them
is a good question because I
DO NOT know what good the
textbook for Economics 450
and the notes for my entire six
courses are going to do for
him. I can see the theft of the
gloves.
What bothers me the most is
the fact that the notebook for
my six courses is probably ly
ing in some trash can or has
been hauled away to the local
dump. What am I to do for the
remainder of the semester for
bluebooks when all my work
has been tossed away by some
one who has not yet learned to
value another's property or to
respect it.
How can this student walk
into his classes with a clea s r
conscience, take notes for his
.courses and assignments and
know all to well that I am
floundering around trying to
make up the lost notes when
two thirds of the semester has
passed. -
I only hope that the indi
vidual who has "appropriated"
my text book and looseleaf
notebook will return them to
the HUB desk so that 1 can
have a fighting chance when
this next to last bluebook
period comes around. I DO NOT
want to be a double loser when
the finals come along. Please
return them; my name and ad
dress is on the cover.
—John F. Bonella
AD 7-2210
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Letters
TOCS Explanation Offered
TO THE EDITOR: In a letter
published in The Daily Col
legian on Nov. 19, 1960, Mr.
John Weld asked "What are
the ends of TOCS?" As im
plied in my previous letter pub
lished in The Collegian on Nov.
8, 1960, TOGS is not an organ
ization in the usual sense.
Rather TOCS represents a
spontaneous movement on the
part of those who desire to pre
serve certain traditional fea
tures of university - life which
appear to be endangered in this
so-called "jet-age:' Among
these are an atmosphere of
scholarship on campus and a
pace of operation sufficiently
unhurried to allow adequate
time for reflection and/or
meditation on the part of the
faculty and students.
Lyrics by S. Siegel and E. Fitzgerald
(Sung to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean")
There used to he four years of collehe
But now three are "par for the course."
With this jet-age production of knowledge
There's no time for the buggy and horse.
Bring back, bring back, bring back those halcyon days
to me,
Bring back, bring back, oh bring back those halcyon
days.
Retrain
There used to be one Dean per college
But dozens now clutter the place:
In this wonderful jet-age of knowledge
One Dean could not keep up the pace!
Bring back. bring back, bring back those halcyon days
to me,
Bring back, bring back, oh bring back those halcyon
days.
Refrain
There used to be no Veeps in college
But now we have Veeps by the score..
And while they creep through our 'foliage
We wonder who's minding their store!
Bring back, bring back, bring back those halcyon days
to me,
Bring back, bring back, oh bring back those halcyon
days.
Refrain:
It used to be so nice in college,
Away from the world's stress and strain,
To study and slowly gain knowledge
At speeds of an old piston plane.
Bring back, bring back, bring back those halcyon days
to me,
Bring back, bring back, oh bring back those halcyon
days.
Refrain
A Student-Operated Newspaper
56 Years of Editorial Freedom
o . llrig Tolirgian
Successor to The Free Lance, est dBB7
Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The
Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter
July 5. 1914 at the State College Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 18.111.
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Member of The - Associated Press
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JOHN BLACK
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TOCS members also advocate
cliche-free speech.
At the moment TOCS has no
organization, no meeting, no
committees, and only two,
purely honorary officers. In
spite of this (or perhaps be
cause of it) TOCS continues to
grow with members now in
Annapolis, Washington, D.C.,
New Mexico, California, New
York, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Ohio, Massachusetts and the
British Isles.
Mr. Weld also wondered if
TOCS was a contemporaneous
and highly sophisticated ver
sion of the Whiffenpoof So
ciety. Here a similarity does
exist in that there is a TOC-;.
SONG.
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—Edwin R. Fitzgerald
Department of Physics
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Business Manager