PAGE FOUR
Editorial Opinion
A Matter of Values
The reluctance of state .legislatures to appropriate a
sufficient amount of money for education illustrates an
imbalance in sense of values which this country can ill
afford.
Cities and private institutions cannot begin to fulfill
the educational needs of the country. The number of
children enrolled and costs rise faster than budgets can
stand. As a .result, many get a poor education in high
school and may never go any further,
In order to keep ihe United States in the number
ONE position (or perhaps in qrder io get there) its people
must have more than food and automatic washing ma
chines. In order to prove our system of government is
best, we musi have more scientists, engineers, teachers,
and intelligent voters. *
To keep the world free from communist domination,
we must aid other countries both with food and technology
—and we must, have educated people to do this job.
The future of the United States and the entire free
world depends on education —and yet the state legislators
probably worry more about highways and keeping taxes
down than they do about education.
Their constituencies worry about these things first
and until ihe people realize that education is more Impor
tant, no surprising increase in appropriations for schools
will occur. Politicians are not noted for bravery and often
the votes in the next election mean more than what is
actually good for the country or state as a whole.
Pennsylvania (third most populous state in the union)
ranks 48th in the amount of money it appropriates to its
schools. Compared to some other states, Pennsylvania is
not even beginning to do its share in meeting educational
needs.
Last year the state legislature cut $lO million from
Penn State’s original request for the biennium and
didn’t fill the second smaller request. Despite Governor
Lawrence’s apparent interest in education, the hopes that
this year’s request will be granted are not high.
If it is not granted tuition will increase. Some of the
brightest high school students may not be able to afford
this "state" institution and perhaps others already in
school, will not be able to go on. New qualified students
may be turned away because the University cannot afford
to take them.
Penn State has asked for $23,113,014, an increase of
$8 million over its usual yearly appropriation. This is
only 36 per cent of the University’s 1961-62 budget and
somehow legislators must be convinced that Pennsylvania
should pay at least one third of the operating expenses of
its “state” school.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
..DENTISTS FURTHER A6REE THAT
PSttHOttBCAL IMPLICATIONS
INVOLVED IN PREVENTATIVE
STEPS TO CORRECT THE HABIT
OP THUMOSUCKIN6 FAROUTWEI6H
THE ORAL PROBLEMS."
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D£NT6TS ARE A REW ARKABLY
Umt&TANOING LOT !
Other Campuses
Fixed Fees,
Teaching Plan
And Grades
A plan which would be wel
come to many Penn State stu
dents will be instituted in Sep
tember at St. Olaf College.
It is a four-year guaranteed
cost plan by which students
will be guaranteed that the fees
they pay will not be increased
at any time during their four
years of college.
Under the new plan, which is
ah effort to help students and
their parents budget accurately
for college costs, students will
know exactly what their four
year college education will cost
from the day they enter col
lege.
They will not have to face
financial problems resulting
from tuition increases made
necessary by rising costs. Fu
ture fee raises will affect only
the incoming classes and the
new fee levels in turn would
be guaranteed for a four-year
period for these classes.
The average you make your
first semester in college may
give a better indication of your
ultimate success than does your
high school rank or mark on an
entrance exam, reports Chand
ler Young, assistant dean of the
College of Letters and Science
at the University of Wisconsin.
Young's report is the tenta
tive finding of a study of grades
of former college students. The
first phase of a long term re
search effort, the study de
scribes the scholastic progress
made by 4000 new freshmen
who entered the university in
September of 1950 and 1951.
“The student’s record after
he gets to college tells a much
better story than pre-college
data,” he explained.
Using the college of Letters
and Science as an example,
Dean Young said that 305 who
earned a “B” average in the
first semester progressed bet
ter than the 305 ranked in the
top 10 per cent of their high ,
school graduating class and bet
ter than the 305 who scored in
the top quarter on the Ameri
can Council Psychological Ex
amination.
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Intercollegiate Press
Interpretin
Castro Sets Up
Indoctrination Plan
HAVANA (/ P) “American exploiters have discovered vast
deposits of oil in Cuba, but have attempted to hide the wells for
future reserves. Thanks to our finding a secret map they will
soon be developed for the new Cuba.’'
“Thanks to a plentiful supply of machetes cane-cutting
knives from Czechoslovakia
there are no problems in har
vesting Cuba's 1961 sugar
These are not comments
from Radio Moscow but typi
cal indoctrination statements
offered visiting journalists and
"tourists" by guides of Castro
Cuba's new Soviet-style Insti
tute for Friendship With the
Peoples ICAP.
Almost an exact model of
the Kremlin’s State Commit
tee for Cultural Relations,
ICAP has taken over from
other governmental organi
zations the housing, entertain
ment, and indoctrination of the
hundreds of special guests and
journalists pouring into this is
land from many parts of the
world.
Many of these guests are in
vited by the Castro regime,
and the government picks up
the full tab of all expenses.
Others pay their own way to
and from Havana but receive
red-carpet treatment here. A
few, to the consternation of
ICAP officials, have insisted
on paying for everything they
get.
ICAP guides, who frequent
ly speak to Iheir charges with
surprising candor, say the or
ganization's 1961 budget is
equivalent to $500,000. They
add that its rolling stock in
cludes 130 late-model automo
biles, most of them Cadillac or
Chrystler sedans.
The institute itself is housed
in a confiscated Vedado man
sion with many of the fine
pieces of furniture and paint
ings remaining from earlier
days. Many officers and ICAP
staff workers wear militia uni
TODAY
Ag. Econ., 5-5 p.m., 211 HUB
Alpha Phl Omega, 7-9 p.m.. 214 HUB
Bridge Club. 7-10 p.m., HUB cardroom
Freshman Advisory Board, 7:30-9 p.m.,
217 HUB
IVCF, 7-10 p.m., 2!« HUB
Little Man on Campus by Dick Biblci
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By HAROLD K. MILKS
forms and carry big pistols on
the job.
Many guests of the ICAP are
put up in former Havana lux
ury hotels, now run by the Cas
tro government.
Those classed as very impor
tant are frequently given spe
cial treatment and housed in
one of the more than 50 requi
sitioned mansions that the Cu
ban government now main
tains in the former country
club area of Havana.
These are kept staffed and
fully equipped including a
Cadillac in each garage for
use of those the Castro regime
considers worthy of extra at
tention.
European journalists who
registered with ICAP among
other questions they were
asked what other countries
they had viisted said-they,
too, were given red-carpet
treatment, including automo
bile tours wherever they choose
to go, complete with linguist
guides and drivers.
Guides’ comments, on these
tours indicated intensive indoc
trination and statistics on the
“new Cuba.”
Visitors who asked questions
about any section or project in
Cuba found the replies heavi
ly larded with anti-American
comments, they reported. Fre
quently guides were quick to
praise the work of Communist
bloc nations in helping Cas
tro's Cuba.
“We found that references
to past visits to Iron Curtain
countries helped,” said one
European newsman after a
two-day tour with ICAP. “We
found, too, that the guides
were long on information about
what will happen in the fu
ture and short on data about
the present situation.”
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