PAGE FOUR pinion Editorial 0 Students Might Help Avoid Tuition Hike Senator Joseph Hayes said that any appeal for an increase in Penn State’s appropriation this spring must be personalized. Legislators must feel pressure favoring an increase from individuals in their voting districts. The University, last week, took a personal approach by writing letters to students’ parents explaining that a tuition boost would be imposed next fall if the legislature did.not grant its appropriation request for $23,113,014. We suggest also that students write letters home urging their parents to write to their representatives in support of the increase. However, there is nothing to pre vent students themselves from writing to legislators ask ing for the increase and protesting the necessary tuition raise if if is not, received. Many Penn State students today are or will be tax payers and voters in Pennsylvania and. the legislature might bear this in mind. Students here, particularly seniors whom the fee hike will not even affect, should by now appreciate the value of education and the opportunity that this state institution afforded them. To be unconcerned about its future because you are not affected is selfish. One of the problems connected with Penn State appro priations is that Pennsylvania citizens and legislators have never developed an inherent feeling that the Uni versity is really the state institution of higher education. Several private schools were operating long before Penn State was established and. the University went through many phases of development before it became established as an institution of higher learning. However, the research and services performed at the University do a lot to aid the state and $1 million of the appropriation increase requested would be devoted to a special program of research projects for the betterment of the commonwealth. President Walker has said that Pennsylvania’s other colleges and universities do not and can not perforin the services for the state that the University does. Consequently, Penn State indeed deserves a higher appropriation and should definitely have the extra $6 mil lion requested. A Student-Operated Newspaper 86 Years of Editorial Freedom 0% Saihj (Mkgtan Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during tha University year. The bally Collegian Is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class rnaftor duly Ci l(3< at Che State College, Pa. Poet Office under the act of March I. 18TI. Mall Subscription Price i (3.09 per semester $5.00 per year. JOHN BLACK Editor Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press City Editor and Personnel Director. 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STATE-COLLEGE., PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager (====l | '<( t c -Vi /WELU (jufJ */NOBOP/UKES\ / ME.-I DONTHAVE] A siN6lf FRIEND / \ IN THE MOie / v tuoßLp' y rCANTPIAmS£OALt,I CAN’T PLAY FOOTBALL, I CANY PIAVCHKKEf&.ICANTDO . AmTHtHGH'M A COMPLETE FLOP! / *y\ 50 I'M ON MV OJA 1 / TOTHE BARBERSHOP... IM 60mTomN MV SORROWS (N A HAIRCUT i Letters Eight Protest Fee increase TO THE EDITOR: If the Legis lature refuses the University’s budget request, tuition will increase. In order to prevent this, each student should ask his or her parents to urge their representatives in Harrisburg to vote to grant the University’s budget request. We must make our voices heard if we hope to avoid a tuition increase. —Richard S. Helffrich '64 —Richard Holman '63 —Myron Midwid '63 —Fred Sheridan '63 —Dick Buck '64 —David A. Proctor '63 —David V. Bell '64 —William Davis '64 Other Campuses Texas Begins Teaching Plan Compiled from the Intercollegiate Press The University of Texas Coun cil on Teacher Education has approved an “expressway” route to high school and ele mentary school teaching for academically-talented juniors and seniors. Selected students will be able to compress professional prepa ration for teaching into two semesters (or a summer session and a semester) instead of the standing four or five semes ters. Special courses will be ready for prospective high school teachers this spring. The ele mentary school program will get underway in the spring. Gazette TODAY Alpha Kappa Psi, business meeting 7 p.m., Hushing Smoker 8 p.m., 321 K. Faivmount Ave. Angel Flight. 7 p.m.. 217 HUB Froth Circulation. 8:30 p.m., 212 HUB Industrial Education Society, 7:30 p.m., Tan Kappa Epsilon ICE, S p.m.. 203 HUB Journ. Student Assoc. Lecture, 7 p.m.. 2U HUB Journ. Student Assoc. Reception, 8:30 p.m., HUB main lounge LA Student Council, 6:30 p.m., 212 HUB Ml Student Council, 7:30 p.m., 216 HUB Nittany Grotto, 7 p.m., MT Outing Club, 7 p.m., HUB'auditorium Panhei, 6:30 p.m., 203 HUB Schuhplattlers, -publicity mooting, 8 p.m., 214 HUB Social and Ree. Adr. Committee* 4 p.uw 212 HUB From Washington Congress To Miss Meyer's Dissent WASHINGTON—The new Congress looks a lot different from its immediate predecessor, if only for the absence of on# vigorous voice of dissent. That voice belonged to U.S. Rep. William H. Meyer, a tower ing, soft-spoken Democrat from Vermont who was a Penn State honor graduate and who pur sued a two-year career of rais ing hob with the established order A native of Philadelphia, Meyer made national news in 1958 when he defeated former Gov. Harold J. Arthur for Ver mont's lone House seal and be came the first Democrat to win statewide office since 1850. Meyer joined with some oth er liberal Democrats in criti cising Eisenhower foreign and defense policies. He .also has advocated world disarmament, Beginning today. The Daily Collegian will increase its coverage with Washington news service reports of events in the nation's capital of in terest to University students. They will be written by Wil liam Harris, a Washington law student, and Robert Franklin, a former Collegian editor. Harris, a California graduate, has reported for newspapers in California, Colorado and Ohio. Franklin, who has won three Pennsylvania newspaper awards, is a reporter for the Northern Virginia Sun in Ar lington, eventual recognition of Red China and its eventual inclu sion into the United Nations. One of his biggest battles, his fight against the military draft, has special significance for the 46-year-old ex-Con gressman. For Moyer, who boxed as a freshman at Penn State and played two years of football as a 170-pound tackle, registered as a conscientious objector dur ing World War 11. Nevertheless, he says, he is not a pacifist. “American Democracy is on trial," he told the House, as it considered renewing the draft in 1959. “If this House con tinues to permit military lead ers and their spokesmen to usurp the powers and duties of Congress, then Patrick Henry spoke in vain ... If we allow a modern Praetorian Guard to incubate as a menace to mod ern Rome, we will have chosen Sparta at its worst in prefer ence to Athens at its best.” In listing 10 reasons for drop ping the draft, he told the House the Pentagon knows'the system is wrong, but is afraid Editorials are written by the editors and staff members of The Daily Collegian and do not necessarily represent the views of the University or of the student body. Little Man on Campus by Dick Biblai item in. <Z4^de&tL, tei il»i TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1961 to abolish conscription, which is wasteful in every way; cre ates a false sense of security; weakens the country’s total strength; interferes with the proper development of its youth; violates American tra ditions and does not contribute to peaceful solutions of world problems. "We have no right to con script labor at substandard rates nor to maintain a system riddled with inequalities," he said. Meyer advocated a “better and cheaper” well-paid volun tary Army as an adequate mili tary defense that avoids “cruci fying our traditions on a dou ble-edged sword” of “cancer ous militarism.” “It costs $ll,OOO to train a draftee over a two-year peri od,” he told Washington Wire. “But 97 per cent don't re enlist." Nevertheless, the House voted 381-20 to extend the draft to July 1. 1963. Meyer was a driving force even in college days, when he was graduated from Penn State in forestry in 3'/2 years. He has worked as a limber cruiser, state and federal forester. Civilian Conservation Corps technician and supervisor in West Virginia, Maryland, Wis consin and New Jersey, fol lowed by 10 years with the Soil Conservation Service in Vermont. In 1951 he entered private practice as a consulting fores ter and became executive di rector of the Vermont Forest and Farmland Foundation. The Meyer’s daughter, Krisntin, was graduated from Penn Slate in June 1959. One of their two sons, Karl, has been arrested for demonstra tions against a New York com pulsory civil defense law and an Omaha missile base. Meyer’s courageous individ ualism didn’t help his chances of winning reelection last year. Although he ran nearly 5000 votes ahead of President-elect Kennedy, he lost by 25,000 votes. He was defeated by &e -publican Gov. Robert T. Staf ford, who himself won the governorship by only 700 votes, in the unusual Democratic year of 1958. nee wr& fijbktm F, O. MM
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