PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Get the Lion's Share With the establishment of the SGA Back the Penn State's Budget Committee, the student campaign to divert a raise in tuition has gone into full swing. Ron Sheetz, the energetic junior, named chairman, and his committee must move fast in sifting various pro posals aimed at making the State Legislature conscious of the University's needs. Several groups have started embryonic ideas for the student campaign and all want credit for their work, but the best interests of the student body will be served only If all efforts can be coordinated through one central corn mittee. Sheetz's committee already has proposals by Liberal and Campus parties to work on and its biggest job is to generate enthusiasm among the students to write letters to their own representatives and to encourage their parents to do likewise. President Walker goes before the Appropriations Committee in Harrisburg Monday to present his request and the reasons for it, and after that the wheels must start clicking. Seldom have we seen the whole student body so interested in one goal, but then it touches them closely. Five years ago tuition at the University was lust five dollars over half the present rate. In two rapid-fire jumps it increased 40 per cent to $175 per semester then another 37 per cent to $240 per semester to rank Penn State as the second most expensive land grant institution In the nation —a position of which ,the residents of Pennsylvania can hardly be proud. It will be the job of the SGA committee to tap the reser( , oir of student concern and to channel student efforts into a well-planned, effective drive against the most rapidly rising tuition rate of any state university the country. A Student-Operated Newspaper Ele Elatig Tollrgian Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Published'Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University fear. Ths Daily Collegian to a student-operated nervipaper. Entered as second-class mallet July 5. 1934 at the State College Pa. Post Office under the art of March 9. 1849. Mail Subscription r • $2.00 per semester $5.00 per year. - Mailing Ai ma llox 261, Slate College, Pa. JOHN BLA Editor STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, ) Jo Anne Mark; Wire Edi tor, Meg TeichhOltz; Assistant Copy Editor, Pat Dyer; Assistants: Carole Ki.3maric, Al Sharp, Carmen Zeiler, Barbara Baer, Kitty Bassett, Joanne Copley, Linda Gorin, Myrn Harris, Veronica liolley, Cathy Mink, Barbara Prezioso, Sandy Reabuck, Dianne Rycesky, Ginger Signor and Dottie Spahr. Letters Bring Back Housemothers TO THE EDITOR: "Bring Back The Housemothers and the Good Old Days." After reading the article in Thursday's Collegian, "Coeds Evicted From Dorm," I felt a growing awareness of a lack I have vaguely sensed since last September. That lack is due to the diminishing role of the wise and judicious housemothers who used to be able to cope with our misdemeanors in a manner that showed judge ment, understanding and ma turity. The new' system of senior residents, however, is at best merely another wasted system; at worst, it is a clan of young sters carried away by their first experience in lording power over others. This determination to exhibit authority stems per haps from their own uncon scious feeling that they don't possess it. If I am wrong about this, then what are they trying to prove? What was• Miss Morelock trying to prove in the case un der consideration—that evict ing students from the dorm is an effective way of making them see their wrong—if they were wrong--or merely that she had the power to evict them? Since there is no way", how ever, for this writer to be sure, let's assume that her motives were to bring about reform and even assume, as she does, that "the eviction policy . . was extremely effective." Still the K 46711., question remains: Was it just or wise? One need merely examine the facts of the case to know it wasn't just. Since when are quiet hours * effective in the dorms over the dinner hour? The policy passed by the community council' and the AWS judicial board specifies "the set quiet hours." The instance at hand does not merely 'manifest a clear-cut case of injustice but also a gross, though less tangible, lack of wisdom and good' judge ment. The rule, to anyone who has ever.thought of its possible 'consequences, is• in itself un wise. • Need I mention that the li brary closes at ten, the HUB at eleven, etc. These evictees are not out on a date and con sequently unescorted. Is it wise to have coeds wandering aim lessly about town and campus with nothing to do and no par ticular plece to go? What sort of judgement does it show to punish girls in this manner just for making noise even during quiet- hours? And where -are the sagacious and mature housemothers wh o know the answer? If Miss Morelock feels she handled the immediate prob lem in the best way she knows how, she's merely proving my suspicion that it's time we re discover the women who, I'm sure through 3 1 / 2 years of close association with them, would have known how to handle it better. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LIJCIDO Business Manager —Name Withheld cIA Z-11 isH-dattvar- IT'S NICE TO HAVE A HOME WHERE YOUR G U ESTS FEEL. COWORTABLE Gazette TODAY Freshman• Triangular Gym Meet, 6 :30 p.m.. Recreation Hall Placement, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 218 HUB SGA Budget Committee, 1:30 p.m., HUB Bummer and Smoke, 8 P.m., Center Stage TIM Leonides Blue Book Ronnie, 9-12 P.m., HUB ballroom UCA, 6 p.m.. HUB dining room Varsity Gymnastics, 8 p.m., Recreation Hall SUNDAY Chess Club, 2-5 p.m., HUB oardroom DARE, 3 p.m., Faith Church Emerson Society, 7 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel Liberal Party, 2:30 p.m.. 212 HUB Mt. Nittany Stamp Society, 2-5 p.m., 217-218 HUB Organ Recital, 4 p.m., Schwab Student Movies, 6:30 p.m., HUB as• xembly room Swedenboraian, 111:35 a.m.•12 noon, 212- 213 HUB Universal Student Day of Prayer Serv ice, 6:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel MONDAY Alpha Colony. 6:30 p.m., 214 HUB Alpha Phi Omega, chapter meeting, 7:30 p.m., 212-214 HUD Alpha Phi Omega, executive meeting, G:3O p.m., 212.214 HUB AUSA Field Trip, 7 p.m., Phi Delta Theta Bridae Club. 140 p.m., HUB eardroom Cabinet Personnel Interviewing, 6 :80- 10 p.m.. 217.218 HUB Color Slide Club, 7:10 p.m., MI audi- torium Ed. Faculty, 4:15 p.m., HIM assembly room Faculty Luncheon Club, 12 noon, HUB dining room A IFC, 7:30-9 p.m., HUB assembly room IVCA, 12:46.1:10 p.m., 218 HUB IVCA, 7-10 p.m., 212 HUB Leonides. 7-8:30 p.m., 203 HUB Letters Students Lament Pranksters' Abuse TO THE EDITOR: When one is desperately searching for a weekend ride and begins call ing the names liSted on the campus ride sheets, it is ex tremely exasperating to re ceive a puzzled reply to one's request for a ride. _No fewer than four times did we receive an answer such as, "Where am I supposed to be going?" "What ride sheet?" or "Someone must be playing a joke on you." Nothing can be more dis gusting, especially when this so-called "joke" is costinz phone money, The ride sheets are posted to aid students, and not to pr o v i d e an opportunity for pranksters to play their little games. We hope that in the future the ride sheets will be reserved for the purpose for which they were intended. OLetter cut —Lenore DeFonso, '63; Sue - Painter, '64; Paula Zim merman, '64: Claudia Goetz, '64 interpreting 4' V--- Congo Crisis Solution Possible Without War By J. M. ROBERTS Associated, Press News Analyst Prompt action by African and Asian interests to interpose themselves between the Soviet Union and the United States in the Congo, at the same time strengthening the police powers of the United Nations, has raised some hope that the immediate crisis can be Smoothed over without civil war. Speed is essential, however, as soldiers of opposing political factions appear on the verge of finaLcommitment. The suggestion by 18 nations in New York that the United Nations use force if necessary, and the statement by Prime Minister Neh ru that India is now pre pared to pro vide combat soldiers if the Unite d Na tions acts what he calls properly, is an admission of urgency which many nations ROBERTI refused to recognize at the start of the Congo trouble The demand' that all non- UN foreigners get out would seriously damage the effort to Discoverer-- EMI Biggest Yet-- Orbits Earth VANDERBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) Discoverer XX—the biggest, heaviest, most powerful yet—shot into orbit yesterday with a new stunt on its mechanical mind: Keeping its recoverable capsule aloft for a record four days. Next month a similar cap sule is expected to carry a monkey aloft to sample haz ards man will encounter dur ing an extended period in orbit. The 81-foot projectile roared into a clear, blue sky at 12:26 p.m. Two hours later the Air Force said its satellite second stage was whizzing around the earth's poles every 95 minutes at altitudes ranging from 201 to 400 miles. Some time Tuesday, if all goes well, the satellite will kick out a 300-pound bell shaped capsule over Alaska. View Hopeful On JFK Bill WASHINGTON (/P) Pros pects of House action in about a week on the first of Presi de n t Kennedy's economic measures opened up as the Ways and Means Committee ended hearings yesterday, on an emergency unemployment compensation bill. The measure would provide up to 13 weeks additional bene fits for long-term unemployed who have used up their rights under existing law. Meanwhile, the President's proposal to increase the mini mum wage and extend its cov erage met opposition from both sides in Congress yesterday, foreshadowing rough seas ahead. U.S. Investigates Arms Smuggling . WASHINGTON (II ) )- Ex pressing serious concern, the U.S. government yesterday ordered an inquiry into reports that modern U.S. arms have been funneled to Chinese Na tionalist .soldiers in the north ern hills of Burma. It offered again to help evac uate the Chinese. .And it prom ised prompt and appropriate action if the arms are found to have come from the U.S. arms aid program. World at SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18. 1961 preserve what is left of Congo business and civil administra tion and vitally affect the cop per boom in Katanga, but would scotch the widely effec tive Communist charge that the United Nations has pri marily been protecting West ern interests. The endorsement of Joseph. Ileo as premier coincides with United States policy, an d stresses a - tendency toward pacifism which is very strong among the true neutrals. Ileo is a man who could obtain strong support from the same people who supported Mahatma Ghandi. Indeed, if India accepts a stronger role in pacification of the Congo, and thereby works into position as a tutor in po litical maturity and civic or ganization, there might be some hope of establishing a new nation. a Glance Congo Torn By Anarchy LEOPOLDVILLE, the Con go (R) Patrice Lumumba's lieutenants are locked in a des perate struggle for power among themselves and anar chy reigns in the_one-third of the Congo they control, intel ligence reports said yesterday. Anicet Kashamura, a close advisor of the dead ex-pre mier, has been dethroned as head of Kivu Province and taken by army escort to Stan leyville, the rebel capital, dip. lomatic advices said. He was considered No. 2 behind Com munist-backed rebel Premier Antoine Gizenga. But Gizen ga himself is reported to be in peril. Refugees reaching neighbor ing Ruanda-Urundi from Ki vu told of terror rising in Bu kavu, Kivu capital. West Germany Joins with U.S. In Aiding Nations WASHINGTON_ (1P) West Germany, in a sudden about face, promised yesterday to as sist underdeveloped nations on a permanent basis and hinted it is ready to give $1 billion a year for this purpose. Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano informed Presi dent Kennedy of the change in the German position at a White House conference. The President, a joint communique said, "heard with satisfaction that the federal West German government will be prepared to provide the necessary means to carry on its program for the underdeveloped countries in future years." Space Agency Finds Satellite Circling Earth WASHINGTON (R) The space agency found its missing polka dot satellite to be firmly in orbit yesterday and proudly named it Explorer IX. The 12-foot inflatable sphere was launched from Wallops Station Va. at 8:05 a.m. EST Thursday but could not be tracked adequately on its or bit. Earthquake in Chile SANTIAGO Chile (/P) -- A strong earthquake shook a number of towns in the Andes Mountains facing the Chilean capital yesterday. The shocks lasted 33 seconds.
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