SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1960
Editorial 0 • inio
Let's Get Story Straight
(See Related Story, Page 1)
We supported the idea of a student-town committee
being formed to investigate the off-campus housing situ
ation, but developments late last night indicate that too
many hands are dipping into the pot, and conflicting
versions of the proposed investigation are being told to
the townspeople and the students.
We would reiterate our support for one student-town
committee dedicated to an investigation including ade
quacy of facilities and discriminatory policies. But the
principles the students have fought for cannot be abro
gated or they should continue the job themselves.
A Good Program
The capacity audience at the first faculty lecture of
the Liberal Arts Council's new one-a-month series should
inspire other student councils to set up similar programs.
The series scheduled by the council will 'each month
spotlight an outstanding professor in the College of
Liberal Arts in an informal talk on a topic of special,
contemporary or extra-curricular interest.
The council has come up with a good plan to utilize
the too-often untapped talents of professors who are quali
fied and more than willing to talk on interesting subjects
which may be connected with or completely unrelated
to the subjects they teach.
Such a lecture series gives students a chance to see
and hear a professor out of the context of the regular class
and may give them an appreciation of his vast realm of
knowledge.
Even students who claim drowsiness in stodgy class
sessions might be surprised at how interesting and enter
taining the professors are when the listeners do not have
to sweat the bluebooks or grades.
The LA Council picked a good' man to start off its
series in the popular philosophy professor, Dr. Henry A.
Finch, who can speak with equal ease on Aristotle or
Aesop.
Other councils should take a cue from the Liberal
Arts Council and capitalize on the talents of distinguished
men in their colleges to speak in similar programs to the
students.
Walsh for editorial on strident imminent Tuesday
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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Meg Teichholtz; Wire
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ke], Carmen Zetler, Maxine Fine, Ginger Signor, Barbara Brown,
Sue Bicksler, Sandie Pohlman, Linda Johnson, Carol Vino,
Adriane Veeson, Linda Prunella and Mary Diamond.
Family Finance Workshop, 11 a.m.-
3 p.m., 212 MTh
"Oedipus Rex," 8 p.m., Schwab
Penn State Dames, 6 p.m.-midnight,
11U13 ballroom
Student Movies, 7 :304 :30, HUB as
sembly hall
•'Summer and Smoke," 8 p.m., Center
Stage
SUNDAY
BUSiltrllS College, 3-5 p.m., lICII main
lounge
Chapel Service, 10:65 a.m., Schwab
Chess Club, 2-5 p.m., HUB card room
Chimes, 6:30 p.m., Tri Delt suite
Folk Lore Society, 7 :30-0 :30 p.m., 218
HUB
ISA, 1.6 p.m., HUB ballroom
Newman Club, 7-8 p.m., 212-213 HUB
Protestant Worship Service, 9 a.m.,
Eisenhower Chapel
Etonian Catholic Masa, 9 a.m., Schwab
GAZETTE
Student Movies, 6:30 p.m., HUB R -
'4llllO , hall
Swedenborgian. 10 :40-noon, 212 HUH
Thespians, 7 :30-9 :30 p.m., 218 HUB
MONDAY
"Archaeology and the Bible," Dr. Lud
wik Stefaniak, 9 p.m., Eisenhower
Chapel ,
Bridge Club, 7-10 0.m., HUH card room
Civil Service Speaker, 7-9 p.m., 303
Faculty Luncheon Club. 12 noon, HUB
dining room A
IFC, 7 :30-9 p.m.. HUB nasenddy hall
Christian Fellowship, 12 :40-1 :10
p.m., 218 HUB
IVCF. 7-10 p.m., 216 HUB
Leonides, 6:304:30 p.m., 203 HUH
Physics Colloquium, 4:16 p.m., 117
Osmond
"Rehabilitation Services," Dr. 'William
A. Fraenkel, 10 a.m.-noon, HUB
Riding Committee, 7-S p.m., 210 HUB
Special Education Lecture, 10-noon,
BUD assembly hall
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE-COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
CHESTER LUCIDO
Business Manager
Letters
Frosh Laments Election Interest
TO THE EDITOR: Well, fall
elections are a thing of the
past, and a typically poor
showing by the student body
has resulted in the selection of
some 22 leaders by a small
minority of their fellow stu
dents.
Two of these elections were
resolved by three votes. It's
true that the national election
was close this year, but that
was decided by 70% of the
people, not 17%.
Why was the showing at the
polls so• poor? For one thing,
the voting places were badly
chosen. Three of the four were
located in two buildings direct
ly across the street from one
another, and the fourth was
two blocks away.
Waring Hall is only one block
away from Willard, but stu
dents who go there generally
have more free time than those
who pass through the latter
building going to and/or from
a class.
Bob Umstead, elections com
mission chairman, said that the
dining halls were ruled out be
cause, as they were not cen
trally located, it was difficult
to arrange for students to at
tend to the polls there.
I think, had a slight effort
been expended by Mr'. Um
stead, the arrangements could
have been made with the re
sultant increase in voting
making it worthwhile.
Another major portion of the
blame must fall on publicity.
Certainly the elections were
given sufficient attention by
WDFM and the Collegian, but,
the news from these sources
was aimed at students who had
an interest in campus politics;
Flashman's Signature
Error, Says Snyder
TO THE EDITOR: I wish to
say that due to a typing error,
Barry Flashman's name was
inadvertantly carried as a co
signer of the Liberal Party let
ter, dated Dec. 6, to the Sen
ate Committee on Student Af
fairs.
—Richard Snyder, '6l
it made no attempt to stimulate
the interest of ethers.
Of the 79.95 q of freshmen
who didn't vote, a greet num
ber of these students felt that
the election didn't concern
them. They had heard about
it, but they thought it did_ not
affect them personally and thus
was not worth their trouble.
The emergence of the Piddle
Party was the one event which
did arouse some enthusiasm
Meat Brings
TO THE EDITOR: December 7
was a day of complete abstin
ence (no meat) for every Cath
olic as a tribute to the coming
feast of the Immaculate Con
ception on December 8.
Oil Wednesday, 2500 students
were denied their right to eat
in the cafeteria as the dieti
cian refused to serve a small
amount of meatless food for
the minority!
Ignorance was not the rea
son, for I myself told the dieti
cian previously of the regula
tion. Her only answer was that
they provide "fish once a week
—on Friday. The rest of tile
World at
Castro Moves
Against Rebels
HAVANA UP) -- Truckloads
of Cuban soldiers and militia,
some bringing mortars and
heavy weapons, were reported
moving to encircle the Escam
bray foothills yesterday in
what may be the prelude to
a general assault on insurgent
bands,
Word of this movement,
from Santa Clara, indicates a
shift of government and anti
government forces from west
ern and northern Cuba into the
old insurgent breeding ground
-,--the mountainous central
province of Las Villas.
Completely unconfirmed re
ports reaching Havana said a
considerable number of fresh
insurgents landed by coffee
boat at El Ingle's. a small port
town at the mouth of the San
Juan River on Las Villas'
southern coast.
Presumably they are rein
forcements for elements oppos
ing Prime .Minister Fidel Cas
tro. already situated in the
Escambrays.
JFK Continues
Work in Florida
WASHINGTON (IP) Pres
ident-elect John F. Kennedy
gathered his personal family
yesterday and left by air for a
long weekend in Palm Beach,
Fla. There he will continue the
job of assembling an official
family to take office with him
in six weeks.
A few hours before the
.3.20
n.m. takeoff, Kennedy brought
home from Georgetown Uni
versity Hospital Mrs. Kenne
dy And their 2-week-old son,
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy Still Leads;
All Precincts Counted
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WASHINGTON til 3 ) With
returns from all the nation's
166,054 precincts counted, Sen.
John F. Kennedy Friday had
a popular vote plurality of
139,332 over Vice President
Richard M. Nixon in the Nov.
presidential election.
An Associated Press tabula
tion based on official returns
from 44 states and unofficial
totals from Idaho, Illinois,
Massachusetts. Ne w York,
Pennsylvania and Rhode Is
land, gave: Kennedy 34,221,-
229, 'Nixon 34,081,897, Others
461,505.
among freshmen, if not among
upperclassmen as well. This
brought the campaign closer to
their level. I'm not saying that
candidates should be comedi•
ans, but a more imaginative
approach should be sought.
Students must learn 'more
about their. government and
the work it dots for them. Per
haps if we were to hold an
S.G.A. pep rally .. .
—Sieve Monheimer,
Complaint
time you people must shift for
yourselves."
The menu Dec. 7 read—pep
per soup and 2 pieces of meat
for lunch, and roast beef for
supper •
"The biggest cut was lunch
Thursday: salad, macaroni, to
matoes, milk, berries. To me it
appeared to be meatless un
less sonic meat extract was un
knowingly slipped in.
The Cathloic sector did not
expect Lobster Thermidor
grilled cheese would have suf
ficed on Wednesday.
—Mary Elizabeth Reilly,
Grad student
a Glance
New Coup Gives
Laos Communists
Control of Capital
VIENTIANE, Laos tIP)
Leftist Capt. Kong Le and his
soldiers recaptured military
control of Vientiane in a blood
less coup yesterday, ousting
anti-Communist soldiers who
unseated him 24 hours earlier.
As. the two forces observed
an unofficial and uneasy truce
in their struggle for control of
the capital's garrison, two more
planeloads of paratroopers from
the command of rightist rebel
Gen. Phoumi Nosavan dropped
Thursday, giving the rebel
general about 180 well-trained
men in easy striking distance.
The Phoumi paratroopers
could either support the anti-
Communist soldiers of Vien
tiane—who favor a truce with
Phoumi—or act as a spearhead
for the general's main force,
now reported only 50 miles
away from the capital.
Russia-China Pact
Called Dangerous
WASHINGTON (in U.S.
officials reported yesterday
that the new Soviet-Commu
nist China agreement published
in Moscow this week contains
some dangerous storm signals
for the West.
The Soviet Union and Red
China failed, however, to
reconcile their basic differ
ences over a major Communist
strategy in ideological issues.
They did succeed in "papering
over" their differences for the
moment.
Their dispute is expected to
?runt again some time in the
future into open ideological
:onflict.
Integrated School's
Attendance Decreases
NEW ORLEANS (/11—Eight
white children and one Negro
girl went to school at integrat
ed. William Frantz yesterday
—the number shrunk by pres
sures of segregation boycotters.
They went to school by the
sides of U.S. deputy marshals,
a fi'esh move by the federal
government amid rumors of
harassment for blockade-run
ning parents.
Two more fathers have been
threatened with loss of their
jobs if they persist in sending
their children to school under
token integration.
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