PAGE FOUR \ / Editorial Opinion y Time for the Change At the opening of the fall semester, the administra tion announced new parking regulations which excluded student cars from the area bounded by Shortlidge, Curtin and Burrowes. Students were resigned to all the restrictions except the ban on the Hetzel Union parking lot during the eve- ning hours. Mr. Albert E. Diem, vice-president lor business ad ministration; said the restriction on the HUB lot was designed to relieve traffic congestion on Shortlidge Rd. and maintain safely conditions in the area. Diem also cited a need for parking spaces for faculty members and campus visitors as one of the reasons for the restriction, The ban after 6 p.m. actually did not solve any of the problems and students asked that it be lifted. The request was refused. The 216-car HUB lot is usually only one-quarter full after 6 p.m. Surveys taken by the SGA Traffic Committee and the Campus Patrol found that only 50 to 60 cars use the lot in the evening. Since traffic congestion in the area occurs only during the daytime at peak hours such as noon and 5 p.m., the evening restriction does not help relieve it. On Friday and Saturday, the restriction on the HUB lot almost doubles the traffic congestion behind Simmons and McElwain. The traffic committee's survey indicated that most of the faculty members using the lot do so in order to eat in the HUB and not lo conduct any vital or scholarly re- search. There is a fine big lot behind Osmond which could be used by faculty members. It is located nearer to the Library and most laboratories than is the HUB 'lot. The survey also indicated that many of the “visitors” to the campus were townspeople or high schoolers, who find the HUB a nice place to hang out. spaces. The Hetzel Union Building was built for students with student funds. We feel that at the beginning of the new semester, the ban on student parking in the HUB lot should be lifted after 6 p.m. on weekdays and after 12:30 p.m. on Saturdays. This arrangement worked well last year and probably will again. At least it could be given a “trial” period. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA I guess I’m an administra tor's dream because I’m leav ing this fair institution a semester earlier than I’d origi nally planned. And I decided to do it many moons before the stamps were licked on all the “literature” pushing the four-term plan, I might add in an effort to preserve my origi nality. When I came here on a rainy, torrential day in 1957 I never really thought I’d graduate. I was scared of the place, for one thing, and figured I'd either get lost somewhere on campus or else get the equivalent of a pink slip with my transcript one day. But somehow, I haven't got ten TOO lost—at least I've al ways been able to find my way back to College Ave.—and the IBM machine which computes my average has been relatively good to me. And so three and a half years laler I find myself ready to leave Penn State—or find if ready to get rid of me, whichever the case may be after almost 1000 days of mu tual toleration. And now I’m a little sad. Not the gushy, tear-filled-eyes kind of sad which comes to high school seniors. Just feeling a little twinge of nostalgia-to-be, because there are so many things here which those of us who are about to be released to the outside world, won’t be able to experience again. Where else but here, for in- Letters 'Campus Cop' Answers TO THE EDITOR: As a long time member of the Campus Patrol, I have grown accus tomed to bearing all kinds of verbal abuse in long suffering silence. But when our loyalty to the flag is questioned, time has come to speak out. Allow me to enlighten that poor, uninformed unfortunate who wonders why the “Campus Cops” DID not, (and DO not) salute the flag when the Na tional Anthem is played. Salut ing the flag when in uniform is a privilege that is granted to mainly military organiza tions. I wonder if that same ob servant person saw that all the “Cops” were “at attention” and facing the flag, and that they always do so, unless they must deal with some emer gency when the National An them is being played. —"Buck" Bailey '62 Translation Of Soviet Welcome The students of Penn State welcome the visiting Olympic gymnasts of the Union of So viet Socialist Republics and the United States. We are honored to be your hosts and to be able to witness this outstanding meet, bringing together some of the finest ath letes from both hemispheres. Penn State perennially has the best college gymnastics team in the United Slates, so the students and fans in this area appreciate good gymnas tics performances. We know that tonight we will see some of the best gym nastics exhibitions of our fives by both the Soviet and Ameri can competitors. Athletics is an endeavor which has no national or ideo logical boundaries. Man is pitted against man in friendly competition. Athletics is beauty, it is struggle, it is contest. But athletics greatest value to man is the lesson which it teaches and the spirit in which it is pursued—sportsmanship. It should be an example to leaders gnd followers in the troubled world of today. Once again, welcome to Penn State. and furthermore It's All Over Now stance, is spring foretold by the first pair of white ducks. (Evidently robins are unable to endure the precipitation in the Nittany Valley.) And evidently the busses and trains don't flourish too well here either, because no one who's been forced to travel into or out of this forlorn place via public transportation could ever forget their experiences taking a 5-hour trip in 15 hours. And who could forget Old Main bonging out loud and clear 26 times at 2 a.m., or hearing sopranos, basses, ten ors, quartets, Beethoven, jazz, pianos, trumpets and clarinets, all practicing or being practiced at the same time in Carnegie. And then there’s always the green beer you drink on St. Patrick's Day, and the bock beer you drink when you’re under age because it looks like coke. Or the first time you ever did a wash by yourself and it was dispensed from the white money-eating monsters a beau tiful shade of green because Letters Coeds Complain on Housing TO THE EDITOR: Sorority from friends of long standing women on this campus pay for their last college days. It over $lOOO per year for the makes it impossible for the re privilege of using a suite with- turning people to make use of in the dormitory area, yet girls the suite they have payed for. returning from student teach- It’s about time the housing ing for the fourth eight weeks department remedies this situ period are finding that they ation, or comes up with some are barred, not only from their mighty good reasons as to why sorority dorm block, but from it must exist. We are not con the entire dormitory in which vinced that it is an inevitable the sorority is located! evil. This is extremely unfair, par- — Diana Moritz '6l ticularly in the case of senior — Beverly Read '6l girls who will be separated — Judy Siright '6l Gl College Benefits Bill TO THE EDITOR: A UPI story between Jan. 31, 1955 and July from Washington yesterday re- L 1963. The veterans would re ported , h „ S.da.o, M ph W. Sf d >* 0 f » Yarborough (D-Tex.) and 30 months. other senators introduced legis- In view of the fact that pay lation which would make 4.5 ments would range from $llO million post-Korean war vet- monthly for single veterans to erans eligible for the G.I. Bill $165 for a married veteran with of Rights. An identical bill' two children, I feel it would passed the Senate last year 57- be well worth the while of 31 but died in a House Com- eligible veterans to write to mittee. Senator Yarborough or to their Yarborough said the bill own congressmen expressing would provide educational their interest in the measure, benefits for those who served — Jere Martin '62 TODAY Cwena Card Party, 1-5 p.m., HUB ball- room Gymnastics. U.S.S.R. vs. U.S., 7 p.m, Recreation Hall ISA, Dance, 9 p.m.-l a.m., HUB ball- room k MONDAY Student Movie, 7 :30*9 :30 p.m., HUB Agricultural Economics, 3-5 p.m., 214, mwMYtbly room 215, 216 HUB Varsity Gymnastics, Temple, 2 p.m., Alpha Delta Omicron, 7-9 p.m., 212-21$ Rec Hall HUB TOMORROW Bridge Club, 7-10 p.m., HUB cardroom Chess Club, 2-5 p.m.. HUB cardroom College of Education, 4:15-5:15 p.m., Folklore Society, 7:30-10 p.m., 212-213 HUB assembly room HUB ISA, 7-10:30 p.m., 212-213 HUB ML Nittany Stamp Society, 2-5 p.m., IV Christian Fellowship, 12:45*1:10 217-219 HUB p.m., 218 HUB; 7-10 p.m., 216 HUB A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom (Stye Sailg (doUrgfcm Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 8. 18T». Mall Subscription Prices 63.00 per semester $5.00' per year. JOHN BLACK Editor Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press City Editor: Carol Blakeslee; Assistant Editor, Gloria Wolford; Sports Editor, Sandy Pad we; Assistant City Editor and Personnel Director, Susan Linkroamt Feature Editor and Assistant Copy Editor. Elaine Mielej Copy Editor, Annabel!* Rosenthal: Photography Editor, Frederic Bower: Make-up Editor, Joel Myers, Local Ad Mgr., Brad Davis; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Hal Deisher; National Ad Mgr., Bessie Burke; Credit Mgr., Mary Ann Grans: Ass’t Credit Mgr.. Neal Kcitz; Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Kiesel: Co-Circulation Mgrs., Roslland Abes. Richard Kitzfnger; Promotion Mgr., Etaina Michal; Personnel Mgr* Becky Kohudic; Office Secretary, Joanne Uuyctt STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Pat Dyer; Wire Editor, Meg Teichholtz; Night Copy Editor, Dave Runkel; Assistants: Betsy Mulcey, Molla Edelstein, Trudy Rohrer, Bettie McCoy, Sandie Wall, Tucker Merrill, Ann Thomas, Karen Wrem, Barbara Baer, Ginger Signor and Bruce Henderson. SATURDAY. JANUARY 14. 1961 hy carol blakeslee you put a green blouse in with the white things. And then there’s the night you saw the dawn break over Mt. Nittany because you stayed awake (with the help of a few No-Doze tablets) to finish a term paper due at 8 the next morning. Like everyone else. I'll miss complaining about the food, complaining about how much I have lo do, complaining about hearing everybody else com plain about how much they have to do. I’ll miss telling my guardian senior resident where I am every hour of the night. And for me there will ba special area of missing which only eight others will share, and that, of course, is being an editor of Collegian. Despite the work (seven hours every night could hardly be anything else), despite the complaints we get from 'everyone on campus (“Why wasn’t my story in?”, “Y o u spelled my name wrong!’’) —despite everything, it's been fun. Gazette Student Movie, 6:30 p.m., HUB assem bly room Swedenborgian, 10:45 a.m.-noon, 212* 213 HUB University Readers, 6:30-9 p.m., 217* 218 HUB CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manage*
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