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Editorial Opinion
An Arm of Hope
The devastating riots in Algeria this
week are further evidence that within a
few years this country is going to be inde-
pendent
Who are going to be its leaders when
this country, whose native Moslem popu
lation has an illiteracy rate of over 80 per
cent, begins self-rule?
Very likely many of them may come
from among Algerian Moslem students
now refugees in Morocco and Tunisia.
According to the latest census by the
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, there are approximately 1100
refugee Algeria students in Tunisia and
600 in Morocco.
These students had no opportunity to
study in their strife-torn homeland. Many
were told to leave the country and stay
away from the fighting because they were
more valuable to the future of their coun
try as students.
These students are not revolutionaries,
but are involved in a revolutionary situa
tion and will help build the foundation of
the government when this nation emerges.
In America where it may soon be neces-
sary to have a college degree to drive a
milk truck, the vital importance to Algeria
of this elite minority of persons with any
education may not be grasped. But as has
happened in the already independent
Will the Trend Turn Upward?
Tonight's SGA meeting may well set
the tone for the crucial weeks coming up
for student government at this University.
In contrast to many previous weeks
there will be several important issues to be
considered. The thing to watch is how
these issues are handled and the discussion
and interest they evoke.
There will be three important com
mittee reports commonwealth campus
integration, inter-racial problems and rules
committee plus the internal business of
president pro tempore and rules commit
tee elections, to say nothing of resolving
the dilemma posed by six extra Assembly
men.
But even more important is what
action will be taken after Ted Simon's re
port on a university bookstore—an issue
which has served as fuel for political cam
paigns for years.
And what will be the reaction to a
startling but intriguing proposal by John
Brandt that SGA hire a full-time execu
tive secretary?
And what will happen to Walter Dar
ran's frank challenge to student govern
ment members to change their attitude,
awaken to vaster responsibilities to the
student body, and come out of their hiber-
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STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Karen Hyneckeal; Wire
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sistants, Sue Beveridge, Vicki Wentz, Al Sharp, Linda Leney,
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
for Students
states in Africa and Southeast Asia this
small educated core, so recently just stu
dents, will man most of the governmental
posts.
In Tunisia and Morocco the Algerian
refugee students live in squalor, survive
on marginal starchy foodstuffs that do
more to fill the belly than strengthen the
limbs, and fight for the few ragged texts
available on any subject.
The Soviet Union, East Germany and
Red China try to woo them with scholar
ships to study behind the Iron Curtain.
Some go. But more refuse, though they
may be giving up the only chance they'll
ever get for education.
But there is an arm of help for them
in organizations like World University
Service, the international student agency
to which the students of any country can
turn in time of crisis.
WUS maintains hostels for housing
and feeding these refugee students. It
maintains health clinics and centers where
classes are taught. It furnishes books and
supplies. It gives as many scholarships as
posible.
The Algerian case is only one example
of WUS's actions supplying individual and
emergency aid to students throughout the
world who are caught in the race between
education and catastrophe.
nation to take stands on Issues of larger
scope whether they have worked out de
tailed solutions or not?
For the first time this year a report
may be coaxed out of the executive as to
the status of certain issues and the com
mittee work already done or now under
way, when Wayne U.lsh raises his ques
tions.
While cries about breakdowns in com
munications have arisen from all sides, the
most devastating break exists between the
SGA executive and the SGA legislative.
The University Board of Trustees has
its semi-annual meeting in January. Has
anyone thought that tonight's meeting will
probably be the last chance SGA has to
take action on any issue it would want
brought before the Trustees?
And who will speak at Assembly? The
same three or four that have been carrying
the load all semester? Will new life be evi
dent? As of 10 o'clock last night only half
of the SGA members had picked up their
agenda which have been ready since 8
p.m. Tuesday.
Wheels have started rolling and tonight
SGA can prove it is on the way to redeem
ing itself through action—action that must
be (1) positive and (2) dynamic.
CHESTER LUCIDO
Business Manager
Gazette
TODAY
AF Glee Club. 3 p.m., HUB assembly
room
Aloha Phi Men, 6 P.m., 2t4 HUB
AIN'S Judichil Pollock, 3:30 p.m., 217
HUB
Campun Party, 6 p.m., 212 HUB
DOC Student Council. 7:30 p.m., 401
Old Main
Flying Cub. 7:30 p.m., 217 HUB
Women's Bridge, 7:45 p.m., 212 11U13
Gamma Sigma Sigma, :30 HUB
assembly room
Hine), 7 :30 p.m.
I.V. Ctiristian Fellowship; 12:45 p.m.,
218 HUB
I.V. Christian Fellowship, 7 p.m., 216
HUB
Liberal Party. 6:30 p.m., 217 "fun
Omega Psi .Phi, 9 p.m., 21% HUB
PSEA, '7:30 p.m., 214 Boucke
Schuhplattlers, 9:30 p.m., 100 Weaver
SGA, 8 p.m., 203 HUB
Student Christian Association, 8:30
p.m., Eisenhower Chapel small lounge
Letters
Darran Resolution Backed
TO THE EDITOR: I agree with
the editorial in Wednesday's
Collegian. I too feel that not
only should SGA take stands
on on-campus issues, but also
it should concern itself with
issues that directly affect the
rights of all students every
where for instance the seg
regation problem in the South
with its student sit-in strikes.
You mentioned in your edi
torial the student committees
at the University of California
at Berkeley which concern
themselves with the Cuba
problem and the House of Un-
American Activities Commit
tee.
As a point of information, I
would like to note that last
year the President of that Uni
versity, Clark Kerr. came forth
with three propositions which
came to be known as Kerr's
Directives. These soon to be
hated directives rejected the
rights of all student councils
or any other student group to
take a stand on off-campus is
sues.
Through the combined ef
forts of the student leaders of
all seven campuses, they were
able to put enough pressure on
President Kerr and his col
leagues to modify these direc
tives so that groups such as
the above could function. At
World at
Kennedy May
Tap Poage
For Ag Post
WASHINGTON (Al) Ren.
W. R. Poage, a Texan with
nearly a quarter of a century
of experience in farm legisla
tion, is being considered by
President-elect John F. Ken
nedy for secretary of agricul
ture, a Kennedy caller said
yesterday.
One of Poage's fellow Tex
ans. Rep. Albert Thomas, told
newsmen that Kennedy likes
Poage "very much and he is
giving the matter considera
tion."
It was obvious that Thomas
brought up Poage's name,
which has figured with many
others in speculation about
whom Kennedy finally will
tap to head the Agriculture
Department. Itts a job which
has been something of a hot
spot.
Thomas was at least the sec
ond Democratic House mem
ber to recommend Poage, who
hails from Waco. Also a Dem
ocrat, Poage, 60, was elected to
the House in 1936 and has risen
to second place on the Demo
cratic side of the House Agri
culture Committee.
Five Cabinet posts remain:
secretaries of the Agriculture,
Treasury and Labor Depart
ments, attorney general and
postmaster general.
Battle Continues
For Laos Capital
VIENTIANE, Laos UP/—The
seesaw battle for this Laotian
capital focused yesterday on
the center of the city, where
anti-Communist forces tried to
dislodge a mixed pro-Commu
nist force.
Troops loyal to Gen. Phoumi
Nosavan advanced from the
northern section of the city
against stiff resistance put up
by paratroops and pro-Com
munist Pathet Lao guerrillas
commanded by Capt. Kong Le.
One of the focal points of the
fighting was the area around
army headquarters and the
Ministry of Defense. Kong Le's
men, identified by their red
armbands, put up heavy mortar
and machine gun fire against
armored cars and infantry
wearing white 'arm bands.
It was the second day of bat
tle that • followed- a night of
confusion and scattered gun
fire during which Kong Le's
prd-Communist forces retook
the center of the city. They had
lost it Tuesday afternoon.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 15. 1960
Penn State we have this pri
vilege handed to us on a silver
platter, and what do we do?
We ignore its existence.
Hats off to Mr. Duran. Let's
hope his proposal goes through
and SGA, by acting accord
ingly, will then be able to stim
ulate the interest of more than
a mere 17 per cent of the stu
dent body.
—Joan Brass, '62
Color Change
TO THE EDITOR: Have you
noticed the color of the bulbs
in the Christmas "Greetings"
decoration hanging in front of
the West Halls Quadrangle?
The color is a dull blue and
doesn't brighten the display as
well as it should.
Christmas is the time 'for
bright feelings and cheerful
ness. How is one supposed to
get Christmas cheer by look
ing at a row of nine blue blurs
in the night?
If these blue bulbs were
taken out and replaced by
some red, yellow, green, or
other colored bulbs, the dis
play would be brightened up
and he easily read, thus giving
a bright, warm "Greetings" to
all who may look at it.
—Ronald Sebosky, '64
a Glance
8-Jet Bomber
Breaks Recoid
LOS ANGELES (/P) "We
have just proved that Ameri
can bombers can hit Russia
with nuclear payloads and
either fly home or go on to
safe territory."
This statement was made
yesterday by Lt. Col. Thomas
R. Grissom shortly after his
852 G StrAtofortress set a
world record at 10,000 miles
without refueling.
GrisSom, 36, of Cory, Ind.,
flew here after landing early
yesterday at Edwards Air Force
Base, Calif., following a 19-
hour, 45-minute flight over
American territory.
The eight-jet 852 G, ad
vanced version of the 852 that
serves as a mother ship for the
drop-launched Xl6 roc k e t
plane, can carry a nuclear
bomb and two Hound Dog mis
siles.
Support Secured
For Housing Bill
HARRISBURG till) A fair
housing law will be passed by
the 1961 legislature under bi
partisan sponsorship, the chair
man of the Pennsylvania Equal
Rights Council predicted yes
terday.
Walter Gay Jr. of Philadel
phia said that the council had
secured sponsorship commit
ments for the controversial
legislation from Republicans
and Democrats in both- houses.
A fair housing law passed
the House in the 1959 legisla
ture but was killed by a Re
publican-controlled Senate
committee.
Gay said the 1961 bill will be
the same, with minor language
changes, as the 1959 measure.
The 1959 fair housing law
would have, prohibited discrim
ination in the lease or sale of
housing on grounds of race,
color or creed. The only ex
ception was in the case of
owner-occupied single homes
and owner-occupied duplexes.
UN Downs Colonialism
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (R)
—The United Nations called
yesterday for an end to colo
nialism. •
The United States abstained
on the vote but its only Negro
deleg a t e, Zelma Watson
George, stood and joined in
applause at the General Assem
bly's action.