PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Politics Strangle University A University professor recently remarked that Penn State has one of the greatest potentials of any institution in the country but is strangled by an archaic state political system. The University has thousands of acres of land sprawl ing through Nittany Valley. But it is not confined to this piece of Pennsylvania's heartland, It also has a system of campuses spread across the state. Except for the mediocre salaries offered, it holds a strong attraction for qualified faculty. And it is certainly surrounded by adequate raw material in the form of potential students, as is evidenced by the fact that four are turned down for every one admitted. Penn State is a slumbering educational giant that lacks but one essential ingredient for turning its vast potential into kinetic capital. And this is «•here the state's archaic political system has hampered its growth. Although Pennsylvania through the years has been :me of the nation's wealthiest states and much money was amassed in personal fortunes, little was set aside for such vital public necessities as education. An attitude recognizing the state's need for building a strong system of higher education never developed here as it did in Western states. Another factor that has hurt the establishment of a true "state university" is the fact that Pennsylvania con tributes nine times as much money to private institutions as all other states combined. Most of the state legislators who are college graduates are alumni of the state's private institutions. There are only two Penn State alumni in the state Senate and few in the House. The political leadership of the state for many years has come primarily from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh where the subsidized private institutions are located. Regardless of how much the taxpayers complain, the total state and local tax burden on Pennsylvania citizens N relatively low. In fact the state ranks 38th out of 50 in amount of tax paid per capita. The long hard drive for a state income tax has been thwarted for many years. If this educational giant that slumbers in the shadow of Mount Nittany is ever to awake to handle its quota of 35.000 students in 1970, there are going to have to be great changes in a sluggish and out-dated State political struc ture and a back-sliding public attitude toward necessary taxation. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editortat Freedom o . llr Daily Totlegiatt 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-rinse 'natter July 6, 1934 at the State College Pa. Post (Mire under the let of March 3. 1319. Mosil Subscription Price: $3.00 per •emeiter $5.00 per /ear JOHN BLACK Editor Local Ad Mgr., Hrad Davis: Assistant Local Ad Mgr. Hal Deisher: National Ad Mgr.. Resale Rorke: Credit Mgr., Mary Ann Cram: Asst Credit Mgr.. Neal Relit: ( - lasiOita Ad Mgr.. Constance Klett!: Co-Circulation Mgrs.. Rolland Abell. Richard Ritzinger: Promotion Mgr., Elaine Personnel Mgr.. Becky Kohudic; Office Secretary. Joanne ilurett, STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Dave Runkel; Wire Edi tor, Anne - Palmer; Assistant Copy- Editor, Karen Hyneckeal; Assistants, Trudy Rohrer, Susan Lindquist, Joanne Denny Mollura, Bobbi Schepps. Bobbie Wholtman, Gloria Magida, Lillian Berger, Shellie Michaels and John Morris. THE MAILMAN - H ALL THE ,LENTINE.S IT TO ME Pr' FRIENDS.. „THEN 111, OPEN THEM •c* ONE BY ONE, -- AND.... A N D ., eA” 4141,114, ""1-•3' CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager . . I STAND HERE AND .--). LET HIM GIVE ~___-, THEM To ME, ~ AND THEN I'LL i tal TAKE 14E 141CLE KRA MARL INTO • „k„ !!*.aits,QE ii005E . ... ; 1 4 -, ------- - -- = --- - Zi p ! - 7, ... •- . . . - . . —___. _ .2../V i l . .a... 3. . i!. i . - 4. 'D' ) .6/6.1 i i 1 ...e t .,._ 44 4 0 . 0 . . ‘. 4•44....-y2...v-rt-Lee4 ".."2--;'''•••Zar.i. • ' 1 . - - - ;5;70e THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Fraternity Discrimination Discussed TO THE EDITOR: It would he fine if, as the letters to the Col legian suggest, the fraternities on college campuses could by a democratic Note abolish the discriminatory clauses in their charters. I am afraid, however, this is a dream which will he difficult to realize. The policies of a fraternity on a national level are deter mined by votes of their respec tive alumni conferences and national officers. The latter who have long since regarded fraternities as nothing other than a business are trying as hard as they can, as business men have been doing through out history, to protect their business from outsiders and "do gooders" who are telling them what to do. In this case the "do gooders" are those who fe.el that dis crimination in official campus chartered organizations is im moral and in the case of state universities possibly illegal. It is interesting to see how the phraseology of the defend ents of fraternity rights in the letters to he Collegian parallel that of President Maxwell of the National Interfraternity Council when he expressed his opinions on the "do gooders," as reported in The New York Times of May 12, 1960. All the decisions of the un dergradaute chapters at their yearly conferences must if they are concerned with ra tional policy be approved by the alumni conference. There fore a group who is not active in fraternity life on the cam pus is making the decisions for those who are active. It is naive to feel that at this present time the local chapters of these national fra fernifies have complete free choice as to their membership, For example, when the Beta Theta Pi chapter at Williams College tried to pledge a Ne gro they were barred from ini tiating members by - their na tional office. I feel that Senator Barry Goldwater was wrong in claiming that the fraternity system is a deterrent to com munism. The discriminatory practices of the fraternity sys tem provide a glaring fault in the American college system which can be pointed to by the leaders of the world commun ist movement. "See how the United States practices ..-qual ity" they can say, "but it isn't practiced.- Think U.S. Food Waste Deplored In his campaign for office President Kennedy spoke of the millions of Americans who go to bed hungry every night. He spoke of this problem as if it were both intolerable and unique. It is intolerable, but it is not unique. In conversations when upon occasion, I have discussed the food shortages in, for example, India, the discussion has usu ally ended with the , rather abrupt comment that my feel ings are both impractical and unrealistic. I am told that "you just don't understand ... I do not understand' how this country can spend one mil. lion dollars per day to store surplus commodities. Among these commodities are flour, —Aaron Konstam, Graduate Student WDFM Schedule TUESDAY 3:30 Stnck Market Report 3:50 News and Weather 4:00 Critic's Choice 5 :00 Three at Five 6 :00 Studio X 6:55 Weaiheracope 7 :00 Children's Corner 7:30 Guest Lecture 7;45 News Roundup 8:00 /went on Sound 9:00 Drama Showcase 0:30 Focus 9 :45 News, Sports, Weather 19:00 Contemporary Classics 12:00 Sian Off By STEPHEN A. BLUM Interpretin Future Depends On Congo Reaction . By IM. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The immediate future of a large part of Africa depends heavily today on the reaction to the death of Patrice Lumumba. It appears that efforts of the United States and the United. Nations to develop a workable program for the former Belgian Congo have not matured in time Katanga Province does not admit that it arra need th e killing, but its gov ernment ac cepts the event as an execution for ROBERTS which a reward will be paid In the eyes of Africa, this will tend to confirm the feel ing that Katanga remains Bel gian. The most radical forces in the Lumumba group, already pulling strings to get the pow er of the Soviet Union behind their effort to rule all the coun try, will now benefit from newly dug wells of sympathy in many places.' Even before the killing the rough treatment of Lumumba had stirred remonstrance among numerous Afri c an groups, and in India. Bonds of affinity had been growing between the Lumum ba group and nationalist forces in Northern Rhodesia. where the British are having trouble working out a constitution which will protect all sections of the populace, white and Letters Snowbound Lot Protested TO THE EDITOR: When I ar- cuses for the condition of C-53, rived on campus, I attempted one of which is the number of to find a place in lot C-53 to cars always in the lot. I saw a park my car. For the dubious Rader in the much cussed and privilege of parking my car in discussed HUB lot the other this lot I have paid $3O. Instead night removing snow from of a parking place I find piles around parked• cars. I assume of snow and ice this machine could operate in The aforementioned parking C-53 just as well. fees are to be used for admin- If the administration feels re istering and improving the moving the snow is asking too parking lots. If you look at much they might at least have C-53 it is readily visible that a bin of ashes handy for those there is a great deal more ad- of us who are stuck on the ministering than improving be- glacier ing done. I imagine there are many ex- TODAY LaVie Candidates Test, 6:30 p.m., 111 As Student Council, 7 p.m., 212 HUB Buticke American Society for Metals, 7:15 p.m., Liberal Arts Lecture Series. 7 :30 p.m., ht I auditorium HUB assembly room AWS South Halls Council. 6:30 p.m., Liberal Arts Student Council, 8:26 Miss Houtz's Office • p.m., HUB main li , unKe Economics Faculty Strainer, noon, HUB 'Men on Ice,' Lecture. 8 p.m., 121. dining room Sparks Education Council, Et :30 p.m, 217 HUB Panhellenic Council. 6:80 p.m., DA Electrical Engineering Seminar, 4 :15 HUH 2417 fig Gamma Sigma Sigma Executive Board 6:15 p.m., 8 McElwain Pi Lambda Theta, 5:30 p.m., 212 HUD Heart Fund, R a.m.-5 p.m., HUB ground Placement, 6 a.m.-5 p.m., 215 HUB floor, lot floor Schuhplattlera, 6:15 p.m., 215-216 HUD Inter-Collegiate Conference on Govern- Science Fiction Society, 7 p.m., 208 merit. 8 p.m., 2(15 HUB Bourke Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, Slavic Club, 2 p.m., 212 HUB 12:15 p.m.. 218 HUB Sports Car Club, 8 p.m., 217 111M4 lnnior CMS* Advisory Board, 8 p.m., Women's Debate LaVie Photos. 6:30 214 HUB p.m., Fenn State Photo potatoes and many other foods that are considered basic parts of the diet. These basic parts of any ,diet are available for. the sightseer to view in huge towers .from the plains of Ohio westward. They just sit there until they rot, at which time these foods are dumped into a nearby waterway, or buried, or burned. At the same time this dis posal is taking place there are those "teeming millions" in In dia that we hear so much about. They are hungry. Food, clothing and shelter are basic needs of any human being to survive. The value of human life is something that we. as American citizens, have tried to affirm in both time of war and time of peace. Ameri- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14. 1961 black, under independence lat er this year. The Lumumba nationalists also have lines leading into Angola, where Portugal is hav ing troubles. This whole area of Africa needs little to set off wide spread disorder. Unleashed tri bal wars M Congo would be likely to do just that. The Kennedy administration is reported redoubling its ef fort to come up with a Congo program both political ant economic which the United Nations could sponsor. But be fore any real help can arrive the tribal forces, Belgian influ ences and pro-Communists may deprive the country of any sign of entity. The Communists immediate ly seized on the killing report to renew their propaganda campaign about colonialism, making their own contribution to the prospect of widespread repercussions throughout Afri ca. To do so, they even relegat ed to a back seat their latest sensational success in space. Lumumba has been a stum bling block in the path of or derly government ever since the Congo crisis developed. But to have him murdered may prove a greater defeat for the West than anything he ever did himself. —R, A. Clouser, Graduate Student Gazette Phi Delta Kappa Valentine Banquet, 6:30 p.m.. HUB dining room can men have died to affirm this value, to affirm this sanc tity, We live in a society which is wealthy. Galbraith (The Af fluent Society) and Packard (The Waste Makers) have af firmed this from different points of view. This wealth is, to a large degree, being used to further the happiness and needs of the American people. But there is a great deal left over (and those words seem apt just "left over" as far as we well fed people are con cerned). So then there is our wealth. And there is "their" (regard less of whose) hunger. And there is the moral sanctity._ we place on life. Three things which, I am said to say, do not reaffirm each other.
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