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Editorial Opinion
Letter Campaign
The Liberal party deserves commendation for being
the first student group to jump behind President Eric A.
Walker in an effort to stir up support for the University's
appropriation request.
The party has announced plans to conduct a "write
your representative" campaign among students on campus
and is also sending letters to newspapers throughout the
These are all good moves to fry to convince legislators
of the University's need for the full appropriation.
The need is exactly this=if the full appropriation is
not granted, tuition, which is already the second highest
of any land grant college in the country, will take another
big jump. If this fact doesn't activate students, we don't
know what will.
Students should flood letters to their representatives,
the Governor, the majority and minority leaders in the
Senate and the House. We have but one word of caution
on a letter campaign—take care in the timing.
Letters will be much more effective if they reach the
legislators just before the appropriation bill is introduced
or during the time it is on the floor of the Assembly. This
is not expected to be until the beginning or middle of
March, after the report of the Governor's Committee on
Education is given.
If letters are received too soon they are apt to slip
the memory of the Legislator, but if they are fresh in his
mind when his vote is called for he cannot ignore them.
It is good to be laying the groundwork for a campaign
now, but it would be better if the letters were actually
sent a week. or two hence.
Every state student is either a voter or a potential
voter and should make his feelings known to the men who
are representing him in Harrisburg.
We would oppose the idea of form letters. These would
be immediately discarded by legislators as the work of one
person with solicited and maybe even forged signatures.
In any event they would not carry the weight that individ
ual handwritten letters would.
Likewise, we feel a petition, regardless of how many
signatures, could only be an aid and not a substitute for
personal letters.
Students should also encourage their taxpaying and
tuition-paying parents to join the letter campaign.
Student Government Association in representing the
student body should draft a definite stand backing the
University's full appropriation request and explaining
the need.
Students have a big stake in the outcome of the
appropriation request at least a couple hundred dollars
worth and this should be enough incentive to stir
them to action.
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Letters
Liberal Party
Sends Letters
About Budget
TO THE EDITOR: Recently
you may have read that the
Pennsylvania Legislature is
planning to grant six • million
dollars less than the amount
needed by the Pennsylvania
State University to maintain
its services to the common
wealth.
We as a group of Penn State
students are writing to explain
why we believe the University
urgently needs the full amount
requested and to ask for your
support on the matter.
• The University must meet
expenses• in order to keep its
doors ppen to the influx of
Pennsylvania's pr o spec tive
students. Last year Penn State
admitted an additional 1200
students to meet the demand.
This year the University
plans to admit another addi
tional 1200 "students, ID per
cent of the estimated number
of Pennsylvanians who will
then be seeking college en•
trance. However, failure to re
ceive the increased funds will
prevent the University from
extending this service.
In this case, many of the
residents of your own city may
be refused admittance because
of the lack of accommodations.
Also, the research and serv
ices performed at the‘Univer
sity do much- to aid the state.
One million of the requested
appropriation would finance a
special progress program of re
search projects dealing with is
sues vital to Pennsylvania.
We appeal for your consid
eration and intereset in this
matter and for your influence
with the legislators of your
district. The Governor has
stated that the granting of the
needed amount wculd .require
an increase in •axation.
Ohly your willingness - to as
sume the responsibility for
strengthening the educational
standards of the state will
make this measure possible.
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, as an important institu
tion in the life of the common
wealth, needs this appropria
tion.
Liberal Party
(Editor's Note: The letter is a
duplicate of the one which Lib
eral Party is sending to news
papers throughout the state,
We would like to point out
that the appropriation measure
has not yet come before the
legislature. Governor David L.
Lawrence ha s recommended
that the' Penn State appropria
tion remain at the present 17
million (six million less than
the request) pending the report
of his committee on higher ed
ucation.)
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TODAY
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HOSPITAL
Interpretin
USSR's Plan
May Backfire
- By J. M. ROBERTS
Aisociated Press News Analyst
The Soviet Union has thrown a war scare into the Congo
crisis, is attacking the United Nations, and by those acts may
lose permanently the support, of many of the newly emerging
nations which she hoped would help advance her cause.
The alacrity with which she called the pro-Comumnist
Antoine Gizenga group the
legitimate government of the
Congo, thus providing her with
a technical basis for a Laos
type military airlift if she
chooses, has disturbed every
one who hoped to smooth over
the Lumumba
crisis without
a chaotic civil
war. And the
smaller na
tions do hope
for this.
The break
in relation s
with Secre
tary - General
Dag Hammar
skjold of the ROBERTS
United Nations, and the at
tempt to scuttle the entire UN
operation in the Congo, runs
against what most of the na
tions have already voted in
favor of, and threaten the fo
cal point around which they
believe their security revolves.
India, which frequently ig
nores Western policy, is a
powerful leader among these
countries whi c h, however
naively, wish just to be let
alone.
One of the most significant
products of the Soviet actions
on Tuesday was the immediate
expression of disapproval by
India.
Instead of withdrawing the
Letters
Arabs Appreciate U.S. More
TO THE EDITOR: While I
was reading Miss Lynn Cere
fice's quick interview' with Mr.
Baddah (The Daily Collegian,
Feb. 14, 1961), this statement
aggravated my sight: "Many
people . of Kuwait picture the
U.S. citizen as someone who
wears a cowboy suit, rides
horseback and carries a gun."
Being from that area and
knowing its people well, I
could not but question the ex
actness of this statement. After
discussing it with my friend
Mr. Baddah, I came to tho
conclusion that his interviewer
had either misunderstood him
or put words into his mouth.
I feel that It is my duty to
point this out lest anyone takes
the wrong impression of our
knowledge of America.
In the meantime, - I would
Jr. Discusses
TO THE EDITOR: I would like
to publicly thank Mr. Stephen
Blum for having the good sense
to say something that I have
been afraid to say for so - long
a time.
I also feel that the wasted
commodities of the country
are deplorable. We preach the
righteousness of capitalism to
the various underdeveloped
countries of the world in the
hope that they will believe us
and steer clear of socialism,
as defined in Russia.
But what proof do we offer
these people as to the worth of
a system of economics that de
mands the waste of countless
millions of dollars worth of
food while people are starving
or at any rate going hungry?
In sociology we had a film
on India which told us that the
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TIN force-from the Congo, In
dia said, it should be strength
ened along with the whole UN
policy. Its Congolese troops
which should be disarmed, and
foreign elements eliminated,
said the Indian ambassador to
Washington, adding: "It should
only be done in, the UN."
This is faith reiterated de
spite UN inability to act de
cisively so far. It is, by its
direct contradiction of Com
munist policy, a strong com
plaint against anyone who
would promote chaos in the
Congo for their own purposes.
The Soviet idea that she can
establish a puppet regime even
in part of the Congo, as she has
tried to do in Cuba, without
producing a direct conflict and
perhaps war with the West, is
farfetched. If it comes to that,
through promotion of civil war,
the West will not sit back and
see Africa start down the Com
munist road as did Asia after
World War 11.
The Western powers, also,
are just as determined as the
small nations that the United
Nations shall not be under
mined.
If the Soviet Union con
tinues her pressures on either
or both of these points, she will
produce a coalescence which
might not have occurred other
wise.
like to emphasize the fact that
our notion of the typical
American is not that superfi
cial, and that we know about
Great America more than some
Americans know about them
selves.
It is true, that a good num
ber of the movies shown there
are of the "Western" type.
However, when r.eople go to
see them, they do realize that
those movies are shown not
because they exemplify the
American life, but because
they are easy to comprehend
by non-English speakers.
I doubt that any Arab would
be so narrowminded to "pic
ture the U.S, citizen as some
one who wears a cowboy suit,
rides horseback and carries a
gun."
—Saleh Hurnaidan, '64
Food Waste
children of the peasant class of
India usually only eat four
reasonable facsimiles of a meal
every week. We in this coun
try eat easily five times as
much as they do, and, much.
to our own shame; we waste
many times that amount of
food.
Our way of life is the best
way of life on most counts and
we know it, but some of the
other free peoples of the world
do not know it. It is up to us
to show them this truth, which
is so very obvious to us.
—Donald Fies, '62
(Editor's Note: Fies is refer.
ing, in his first paragraph, to
an article written by Stephen
R. Blum, junior in arts and let
ters, which appeared in Tues
day's issue of the Daily Col
legian.)
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