PAGE FOUR Editorial 0 • irtion The Case for a Bookstore The young man was standing in a long, long line. Both his arms were loaded with heavy books. He had ben standing for about 45 minutes when he decided to put the books down and try to unbend his arms. Just then the line moved up two inches and someone crowded in ahead of him. lie muttered a few indistinguishable words and then stretched his arms knocking books out of the hands of a student in the line next to his. He was already too late for his next class but then he hadn't been able to get the book for it anyway. One might think he was having one of those frustrating days when everything goes wrong but this was not the case. He was just a Penn State student going through the normal routine of buying books at the beginning of a semester. That book he could not get might not be in until a month of classes and even the first bluebook were recorded in his profes sor's grade book. * * * Penn State students want a bookstore and need a bookstore run by the Uni versity. The student bookstore committee reports that 87 per cent of the state uni versities with over 10,000 students have a bookstore. Penn State's other campuses and cen ters have their own bookstores and, so far as we can determine, there is literally no reason why the main campus could not have one too. Th e three bookstores downtown, Metzgers, Keelers and the 'A' Store, cannot adequately handle the number of students already on campus and by 1970 25,000 stu dents are expected to be enrolled at the University. It would be several years before a Observations at Assembly Observations at last night's SGA Assembly meeting indicate that Campus Party may be joining the ranks of other political groups which have departed from the scene at Penn State. The party did not place any of its Assemblymen in nomination for the all important Rules Committee. University Party maintained control with five members elected to the commit tee. The other two spots on the seven-mem ber committee were filled by political independents. * * * The SGA presidency took on shades of the national presidency when the office of A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom Offr Ogg (guilt')tan Successor to The Fres Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-clas• matter July 4. 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office tinder the act of March 1. Mall Subscription Prior: $3.00 per semester 05.00 per year JOHN BLACK Editor 4Nck'' City Editors Carol Blakeslee' Assistant Editor, Gloria VVolfords Sports Editeir, Sandy Padvre; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkroum: Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor. Elaine Miele; Copy Editor, Annabelle Rosenthal• Photography Editor, Frederic Dowell Make-up Editor, Joel Myers. Local Ad Mgr., grad Davist Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Hal Dasher; National Ad Mgr.. Bessie Burke: Credit Mgr., Mary Ann Crane; Ass't Credit Mgr.. Neal Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Mese!: Co-Circulation Mgrs., Rostland Abe.. Richard Kiteinger; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michel: Personnel Mgr., Becky Kohudics Office Secretary, Joanna Huyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Ann Palmer; Wire Editor, Pony Drano'; Night Copy Editor, Sandy Yaggi, Assistants: Sue Robbins, Ann Irwin, Bob Dean, Betsy Mulcey; Marilee McClin tock, Denny Grubb, Rochelle Goulde, Tucker Merrill, Leh Butkie wicz, Barbara Duitz, Peggy Phillips. . THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA bookstore, if established, would be fully operating and by then there will be enough students to keep everybody rich and happy. The one objection, if it can be termed an "objection," is that students would only be able to save 10 to 15 per cent on books. For some students that 10 to 15 per cent could mean a lot and in three or four years those per cents add up. If a cooperative store is run, students, professors and administrators would get part of their money back in the form of patronage refunds in proportion to the amount of buying they had done at the store. Even if the administration is not inter ested in making sure students get books and supplies at the lowest possible prices, it could run an institutional bookstore in which profits go to the University. One school, according to the bookstore committee report, even paid for a student union building out of the profits from its book store. Penn State could certainly use such profits for some worthy causes like the Pattee Library or (heaven forbid) an auditorium. Penn State's bookstore should and could be set-up in the new addition - to the Hetzel Union Building. Students could work part-time in the store under a full time manager. There is an employment agency, run by the National Association of College Stores, for bookstore managers All 36 colleges and universities, which answered a questionnaire sent out by book- store committee chairman Ted Simon, said their bookstores were completely success ful and some were planning to expand. Penn State students have been asking for a bookstore since 1937 and the Board of Trustees should grant the request today. executive assistant to the president was created to give Richard Haber a personal cabinet of one. Creation of the office appears to be a good idea to help relieve the president of the administrative burden as student gov ernment has indicated it intends to carry out a more vigorous program in represent ing the students. Another point that should be well taken was Secretary Sue Sherman's sug gestion to the Assemblymen that they dig out reference material from SGA files on issues that reappear periodically before Assembly. CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager * * Gazette TODAY Interlandia, 8:80-10:80 p.m., RUB ball- I.V. C hristian Fellowship, 12:46-1:10, 213 HUB, 7:30 p.m., 11l Douche Newman Club. first Friday. Mr se. 6:16 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel schultplattlers. 7_ HUB bealmint HOSPITAL Marilynn Baker, Arnold Bleiweis, Judith Crabb, Barbara Friedman. Ed. ward Gaven, Roberta Cuss, James Ineone, Ellen Jay, Nyron Ligo, Judith Lobley. Catherine Mink, Jutta Mueller, Howard Pearlstein, Syed Raza, Sarah Ross. WDFM Schedule FRIDAY :30 Stock Market Report 3:60 News and Weather 4 :00 Critic's Choice 6:00 Three at Five 6:00 Studio X 6 :55 Weatherecope 7:00 Album Review 7 :30 Portrait of a City 7:55 News Roundup 8:00 Starlight Review 9:00 Light Classical Jukebox 0:85 News, Sports, Weather 10:00 Ballet Theatre 12:00 Midnight Mood 1:00 Sign Off Interpreting Cuba, An Example Of What's to Come By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Cuba and Laos are just samples of the situations which the International Communists hope to present to the world this year. The two nations, along with the Congo, were specifically listed for trouble in the manifesto recently issued by leaders of 81 Communist parties meeting in Moscow. But the entire areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America were also listed. So were spots in Europe. Heretofore, going back to the early days of the Soviet Union, the Communi s t have struck here and there, at points where they Con sidered th e free world to be weakest. First it was ROBERTS Mongolia, with the world hard ly knowing or caring. Then the Baltic states, Eastern Europe. They failed in South Korea, but got a bit of Indochina and are now moving again in Southeast Asia. They played a game of opportunism, back ing away from adventures which seemed too costly. Now they consider them selves able to fight an all-out economic and political war, and are reaching far beyond their periphery. They lost their early postwar opportunities in Italy and France, but now list those countries among the places where they are prepared or preparing to move, along with pain and Portugal. They are going to play on UNU itigitt LOHERE ARE *LINZ ASKED ME YOU GOING?7O6I WA' TOI OHL • 41.4. • It's Happening Elsewhere From the Intercollegiate Press The College of Arts and Sci ences at the University of Flori da is considering adding to its courses a two-semester senior seminar for students with at least a 3.2 average, offering an integrated picture of the de velopment of modern mind According to Dr. John A. Harrison of Florida's history department, the course will not be a survey or great books course, but a discussion "of the events which make us think the way we do. "Students are to be stimu lated to think—not just to be taught that certain books are good," he said. * • • In Madison, Wisconsin, the state coordinating committee for higher education, studying the possibility of a trimester plan for State College and Uni versity of Wisconsin students, came up with this set of pros and eons. Advantages: 1. Fuller utilization of build ing space (if enough students FRIDAY, JANUARY 6. 1961 racial prejudice, nationalism and resentment against past and present colonialism every where in the world in an ef fort to cut the Western indus trial nations off from raw ma terials and so produce the at mosphere for revolution. They mention racial tension in the United States as worthy of their prime attention. What is happening in Bel gium as a result of the Congo fiasco is a good example of the Communist objective. Reshipment of Communist arms through Cuba to dissident forces in Latin Arneirca prob ably will result this year in establishment of an interna tional blockade in the Carib bean which will profoundly disturb Latin-American rela tions. The whole Communist campaign in Latin America fo cuses strategically on the Pana ma Canal, in reminder of their intent to hold hot war in re serve in case cold war should fail. Every emerging country is to be made a battleground in this new type war, which will in volve Great Britain more di rectly than ever as a number of countries under her wing come to independence. attend the summer trimester). 2. Lower annual operating costs. 3. Longer periods of employ ment for students taking the summer trimester and acceler ation of study for students en rolled in it. Disadvantages: 1. Curtailment of activities in the summer such as confer ences and short courses. 2. Financial difficulties for students enrolling in summer trimesters. 3. Less vacation time for fac ulty members. * * • Dean John G. Palfrey of Columbia College, New York City asserts that the emphasis on fundamentals may prove to be more important than changes in the content of edu cation or flexibility of curricu lum. He says, "everywhere there are signs of renewed applica tions of essentials. The dean of the Law School at Columbia recently complained that col leges had not trained students to write an English sentence."
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