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ditorial 0 •inion
Privilege Jeopardized
Since the time when the Nixon-Kennedy TV debates
were the big news of the day, students and local residents
have, on several occasions, enjoyed the use of Eidophor,-
Penn State's giant economy size TV screen in Schwab.
But inconsiderate acts of some viewers could place
this privilege in jeopardy.
An informal atmosphere prevails during Eidophor
presentations to be sure, but this is hardly cause for people
to break the state - fire regulations which do not allow
smoking in the auditorium.
Nor does it seem necessary for the audience to be so
relaxed as to prop feet on the seats, etc.
Minor damage was done to upholstery and hymnal
racks on the seats during the telecast of the Liberty Bowl.
It is unfortunate that Schwab cannot supply the com
plete atmosphere that Recreation Hall does for sports
contests. But such habits as eating cause „extra work for
janitors who have to clean up the paper and debris after
a Saturday night telecast to make the auditorium pre
sentable for Sunday morning chapel services.
Eidophor is too good a thing to lose by thoughtless
actions in the auditorium.
Lean Year In Capitol
Probably the most constructive thing that can be
said for the University's appropriation request from the
state legislature this year is a prayer.
The state's financial condition when the legislature
convened this week was anything but sound and there are
worries about deficit spending.
Gov. Lawrence greeted the lawmakers with a rewrite
of his 14-point program which they killed last year, and
veteran observers expect even more programs to drain the
state's financial well this year than last.
We hope that the report of the Governor's Task Force
on Higher Education convinces the legislature to the tune
of a few more dollars this spring.
But it is a lean year to start the new policy of an
annual budget request by the University and the outlook
for an increase is bleak.
A Student-Operated Newspaper
56 Years of Editorial Freedom
O'lle Batty Tollrgian
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Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The
Daily Collegian is a atudent.operated newspaper, Entered a■ second-class matter
July 5, 1934 at the State College. Pa. Post Office under the act of March 1, 1875.
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JOHN BLACK
Editor siaXt`i
Member of The Associated Press
and The Intercollegiate Press
City Editors Carol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Gloria Watford; Sports Editor.
Sandy Padwe; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkroum;
Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor. Elaine Miele; Copy Editor, Annabelle
Rosenthal; Photography Editor, Frederic Boyer; Make-up Editor, Joel Myers.
Local Ad Mgr., tired Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Hal Deleher; National
Ad Mgr., Bessie Burke; Credit Mgr., Mary Ann Crane: Ass't Credit Mgr., Neal
Keits; Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Klesel; Co-Circulation Mgrs., Rogßand
Ahem. Richard Kitringer; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michel; Personnel Mgr.,
Becky Kohudic; Office Secretary, Joanne Huyett.
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Joan Mehan; Wire Edi
tor. Pat Dyer; Night Copy Editor, Meg Teichholtz; Assistants,
Sue Taylor, Vicki Wentz, Sue Hicksler, Ginger Signor, Linda
Levey. Arlene Lantzman, Kitty Bassett, Dottie Spahr.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. •PENNSYLVANIA
CHESTER LUCIDO
Business Manager
Other Views
Of 'Leaders'
A columnist for Syracuse
University's "Daily Orange"
describes his student govern
ment this way:
"No other activity could keep
so many children off the streets
as student government. It is
this function as a cure for juve
nile delinquency and traffic
congestion that we appreciate.
But beyond this we are du
bious.
Those elected and chosen in
struments of student govern
ment can be called many things
but certainly the word 'leader'
isn't one of them. Student
'lookers', 'dressers' and 'smil
ers' might fit but that's it."
Bicycle owners at Michigan
State University are riding
back and forth to classes on
specially paved bicycle paths.
The Michigan State News
said the paths are designed for
one-way traffic, each route
having two paths going in
different directions.
The University Daily Kan
san ran into a bit of difficulty
when it printed a classified ad
with a "white" only stipulation.
Faculty members and students
registered protests and the
"Daily Kansan" announced:
"Be it resolved by the gov
erning board of the University
Daily Kansan that, effective
immediately, the University
Daily Kansan shall not know
ingly publish any advertise
ment stipulating race, color or
creed."
Gazette
UCA, dessert forum for faculty, staff,
and graduate students, A p.m., Eisen
hower Chapel
Student Moyle,' 7 :30 pin. to 9:30 p.m.,
HUH assembly room
"Summer and Smoke," 8 p.m, Center
Stage
Testing (Pre•Registration), A a.m. to
4 p.m., 214, 215, 218 HUB
Varsity basketball, versus Carnegie
Tech, 8:45 p.m., Rea Hall
Varsity wrestling, versus Lehigh. 7
p.m., Rea Hall
Tomorrow
Alpha Phi Omega. 7 to 9 p.m.. 212 HUB
Artints Serlea, Robert Shaw Chorale,
8 p.m., Rec Hall
Chess Club, 2 to d p.m., HUB card
MOM
5 O'clock Theater, tryouts for first
production, 1::;0 p.m., Little Theater,
basement of Old Main.
Junior Class Advisory Board, 0:30 to
8 p.m., 217, 218 HUB
Omega Pei Phi, 3 to 4 p.m., 218 HUB
Student Movie, 6:30 p.m., HUB annetn
bly room
Swedenborgian, 10:15 A.m. to noon,
212, 213 HUB
Monday
Alpha Phi Omega, '7 to 9 p.m., 212, 218
HUB
American Chemical Society, B p.m.,
HI 'Macke
Bridge Club, 7 to 10 p.m., HUB card
room
Campus 4-H Club. 7 p.m.. 100 Wearer
Faculty Luncheon Club, 12 noon, HUH
dining room A
IFC. 7:30 to 9 p.m.. HUB nwiemblY
ISA. 7 to 10:30 p.m., 203 HUH
IV Christian Fellowship, 7 to 10 p.m.,
215 HUH
Materials Science Seminar, 4:15 p.m.,
105 ME
Model Railroad Club, 7 to 9 p.m., 219
HUB
SCCA, 7 p.m., 217 HUB
Sehuhplaßlers, 7 p.m., HUB ballroom
Speech. 2 to 3:15 p.m., 212 HUB
Slate College Color Slide Club. 7 :30
p.m., Ml auditorium
Interpreting
End of French Colonial Power Seen
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Some thoughts after scan
ning a week's news:
President Charles de Gaulle
has finally admitted that, no
matter how France may con
sider Algeria a domestic ques
tion, the world will not much
longer repress its very great
interest there.
Either France will solve the
problem, beginning with the
referendum which started Fri
day, or some
one else will,
De Gaulle told
the nation.
That is be
lated accept
ance of what
11 a s become
increasi n g 1 y
evident. After
all the fight
ing, after all
the threats to ROUVRTS
the very stability of France
herself, there are strong indi
cations that this marks the be-
ropriation Time Again
Budget Awaiting
State Consideration
No matter what the organization, the word "budget" whether
referring to past, present or future, alwSys brings controversy,
a swarm of figures and endless predictions, The University's
budget is no exception,
In the next week or two,
the state's budget to the Harris
burg legislature. Included will
be a portion entitled "Educa
tion." And this is where the
University comes in.
How much money will be
allotted to University Park for
the fiscal year beginning June
1. How much more or less will
it be than the figure suggested
by President Eric A. Walker?
These are the questions which
always and inevitably come up
whenever th e University's
budget comes into the conver
sation.
In 1959, under the biennial
system, $44 million was the
suggested figure, $lO million
more than was finally allotted
by the state.' This year the
budget will be decided on an
annual basis.
How much the University
has suggested this time is still
a dark secret as it is a Univer
sity policy not to release the
amount until the state budg
et 'has been presented to the
legislature.
But this time there are fur
ther complications surrounding
the budget. Last spring, Gov
ernor Lawrence appointed a
special task force to study edu
cation in the Commonwealth.
The results of this study or at
least, a report of some sort, are
not expected until the spring.
For this reason it is expected
that no definite, permanent ac
tion will be taken on any funds
,
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THAT'S
OUR LIITLE
ginning of the end of France
as a colonial power.
There is even hope for a be
ginning of a new era of leader
ship in Africa for a France
with clean hands. This hope is
not very great. The odds still
are that eventually Algeria will
take the troubled road of sepa
ratism—may even face parti
tion. But the situation has
reached the point where even
a temporary solution will be an
improvement.
With five Africa nations
threatening to withdraw their
troops from the UN police con
tingent forming among the
Arab states and some of the
new African states, Egypt's
Gamal Abdel Nasser was the
big shot at the Casablanca con
ference.
But King Mohammed •V of
Morocco and Kwame Nkrumah
of Ghana, the former with ac
quisitive eyes on Mauritania
and the latter hoping for lead
ership of an eventually feder
ated western Africa, were fry
ing some of their own fish, also.
SATURDAY. JANUARY 7, 1961
By KAREN HYNECKEAL
Governor Lawrence will present
concerning education, includ
ing the University.
It is expected that when
the governor presents his state
budget to the legislature some
time in the next two weeks, he
will still include the educa
tional section but will ask only
for the amounts which were
allotted in 1959. In the Univer
sity's case, the figure would be
$l7 million per year.
He will most likely explain
to the legislature that these
educational allotments are ten
tative, pending some word from
his task force. And in the
spring, when that word has
been heard, the governor may
ask for additional funds or sup
plements to the original money.
However, recent debates in
Harrisburg indicate that the
governor, if he does ask for
supplements in the spring, will
insist that the money come
from some tax program rather
than simply from "the treas
ury." And this, too, could pre
sent a problem.
Another aspect of the budg
et is whether or not the Uni
versity will release its pros
pective budget (the amount it
is asking) this month when the
state budget comes before the
legislature, or whether it will
wait until the spring.
With so many political and
economic considerations, this
year's budget, more than any
other year's, should prove
worth watching.
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ittoproi notnim I;sg
GIRL ON THAT FLOAT."
An Arab-West African coalition
of any real cohesion doesn't
seem to have much future.
Cuba is going to be invaded
one of these days, all right. By
some Cubans with business in
terests to regain, by some Cu
bans seeking political power,
by some Cubans and perhaps
others who are just incorrigible
fighters for liberty. Castro will
claim ifs all the work of the
State Department. Nobody ex
cept members of his own re
gime will help him try to keep
up the misrepresentation, for
which he's getting ready now.
The world surely looks sour.
But I spent Christmas in
Greensboro, N.C., a city of
more than 100,000 people,
where the Daily News re
marked quite casually on
Christmas morning that Santa
Claus had not missed a single
home in the city where there
was a child. And I was re
minded
. that there are places
where goodness is just as nor
mal as badness is in others.
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