PAGE FOUR Editorial ()pinion Reorganization Time The Student Government Association Reorganization Committee had better function soon and hasten its steps because it has a lot to do in less than two months. The present semester which is already fading away into the history books is the University's last and SGA must adapt itself to the up-coming four-term system. SGA must decide just when and how it will function under the new system. Will there be an SGA during the summer term? When will elections he held? And SGA is getting hit this spring with both barrels. Not only is it faced with adaptation to the four-term sys tem, but at the same time its two-year trial period runs out and changes must be made accordingly. What has been learned over the past two years? What aspects of SGA have proved unworkable or sluggish? What obstacles have ben discovered? What stumbling blocks must be eliminated? Two basic things have been evident for two years. First, the Assembly is too large and unwieldy. The work and ideas still come primarily frdm the same few. Second, the class representation system provides no real constituency. Few if any Assemblymen can claim that they actually discuss student problems with anyone outside of fraternity brothers or dorm-mates, let alone derive their mandate from members of their own class. The class representation system would become even more untenable under the four-term academic year and it must undergo a basic change. As Lawrence E. Dennis, vice president for academic affairs, explained to Assembly last week, the class struc ture will no longer be distinct. Students who used to be considered "out of phase" may become the rule rather than the exception. The most logical basis for representation would ap pear to he the living area—residence hall, downtown quarters, fraternity, etc. But there are many problems involved here too, not the least of which is what is going to be the status of the community councils. Will they he coed? Will they continue as at present? Will they be an effective unit of government? And what will be their relation to SGA? Will SGA representatives come from the community councils or should they specifically b'e students who do not sit on area councils? There is too little time and too much to be done. It is past the time for thinking and is now the time for action. A great deal must be done before the elections April 18-20, A Student-Operated Newspaper O'llx• Datil; Cillpgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est 188? Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University y►_ar. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as aecond•class matter July 5. 1934 at the State College, Pa. Poet Office under the act of March 5. 1571. Mali Subscription Price: 13.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Mailing Address Box 261, State College, Ps. JOHN BLACK Editor Local Ad Mgr., Bred Davis; National Ad Hal Deisher; Credit Altrr,, Mary Ann Cram.; Assistant Credit Mgr., Neal Keltz; Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Hirst.); Co-Circulation Mgr,., Barbara Noll, Richard Kitzinger; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michel; Personnel Mgr.. Becky Kohudic; Office Secretary, Joanne Huyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editor, Dave Runkel, Wire Edi tor, Carol Kunkleman; Assistant Copy Editor, Karen Hyneckeal; Assistants: John Morris, Diane Rysky, Carole Kismaric, Robbie CObritl, Sue Lindquist, Celia Bohhinder, Arlene Lantzman, Vir g nias Matta, Ellie Aurand, Sue Bicksler, Margie Halprin, Bar ra Duitz, Roberta Wohltman, Ken Kastle, Veronica Holley. PEANUTS I HAVE A ►i - MEORY...I THINK 'IYJ DON'T LIKE ME BECAUSE YCXYRE 41141 4 JEALOO6 OF ME! ‘4l/4.N. HA wimiAlit ~.~ a ~, 2-L•la~ CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manager JEALOUS of you?!!! HA MA i4A NA HA NA (I( \ ' 041 4 1 11 00 1 . ° 4, 44.: A- -- V I k,,,(/',...4. I CAN'T REMEMBER EVER HAVNG A 'NEON EXPLODED QUITE SO FAST! --~-.,w.~-~,~. FEll!= THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Counselor's 'Sitting' Rule Brings Protest TO THE EDITOR: On several occasions, I have considered writing a letter 'to the Collegian but thought that the situation would resolve itself and have refrained from doing so. How ever, the latest incident forces me to conclude that this is all but an impossibility, The situation I am referring to is the relationship of the counselors to the students in North Halls. When I first came to the Main Campus from Ogontz this fall, I was favorably impressed by the counselor-student re lationship described and ex plained by my own individual counselor and by the North Halls Coordinator. However, these counselors have since impressed me as acting in an arbitrary and ca pricious manner and as a re sult have lost much of my con fidence. I should like to know what other students think of the specific incident which causes nie to be silent no longer. While talking on the tele phone, I was sitting on the floor in the hall to facilitate writing information concerning an as signment. Our counselor came by and told me that it was against the rules to sit on the floor. When asked for the rea son behind such a rule, he simply stated that that is the way it is, I have spoken to a number of people and no one has been able to give me any reason for the rule, let alone one that made sense. I would greatly appreciate it if anyone would help me in this matter. Gazette TODAY Angel Flight, 7 p.m., 214 Boucke AWS, 12:15 p.m., 212 HUB Education Council. 6:30 p.m., 215 HUB Inter-V amity Christian Fellowship, 12:45 p.m., 21S HUB Geophysical Seminar, 3:15 p.m., 121 Ml Grad Lecture Series, 8 p.m., 121 Sparks Inter-collegiate Conference on Govern ment, 8 p.m., 203 HUB Leadership Training. 8 p.m., 217 HUB Liberal Party, . 8 a.m.-5 p.m., HUB ground floor Navy Recruiting, 8 a.m.•5 p.m., HUB ground floor Newman Club, 7 p.m., HUB assembly hall Nittany Grotto, 7 p.m., 121 MI Pantie', 6:30 p.m., 203 HUB Penn State Education Association, 7 p.m., 214 HUB Placement, 0-5 p.m.. 203 tittit Political Science Colloquium, 12:30 p.m., HUB dining room Sehubplattices, 7 p.m.. (old members), g (now mmnbers), ?Ms. Spring Week, 6:3(1 p.m., 217 HUB Student Employment, .in., 212 HUIS Swingtel Recording, 9 P.M., HUB as sembly hall ÜBA, 9-5 mni., HUB card room World University Service, 6:39 218 HUB Inter Economic Associated Press News Analyst The Soviet Union's maneu ver for veto power over the United Nations General Assem bly appears to have been a serious mistake. Yet her eco nomic war against the West goes ahead unchecked and is even carried forward by others. Many years ago the inter national Communists adopted a f u n damental belief that the road to world conquest would through th e ruins of the Western eco nomic system. At a post war meeting in China, a definite grain was adopted for cutting Europe off from its traditional sources of raw materials in Asia and Africa and thus soft ening the colonial powers for the final coup. It was decided to ride the horse of rising nationalism in these areas, even when it ad- .~~.r~ —Anthony L. Grillo '62 reti n By J. M. ROBERTS wind ROBERTS Letters Concert Draws Complaints TO THE EDITOR: My room mate returned from the Ray Charles concert, bearing tales of students who became carried away by the "music" and began "twisting" in the aisles. Sunday's affair brings to mind two conditions which have bothered me for some time: Is the Jazz Club fulfill ing its idealized purpose, and are the students of Penn State acquiring the maturity this in stitution is supposed to instill in them? I doubt if there are many people on campus who remem ber Ted Richards, even though he has been gone only three years, Richards was a professor of Agriculture Extension who doubled as faculty advisor to the Jazz Club. Under his guidance, the Jazz Club presented to the person interested in jazz such artists as Charlie Mingus, Gerry Mul ligan, Chris Connor, Stan Ken ton, Kal Winding, and Le Jazz Modes ,to name a few. After Richards left the University, the Jazz Club became relatively dormant. Then, this past year, in what seemed a rebirth of the Rich ards spirit, the Jazz Club came to life again. Maynard Fergu son presented to the Penn State student the first actual contact with jazz that he had had in yea's. (This is discount ing the La Galeria fiasco of last year.) After Ferguson, I awaited with great anticipation the an nouncement of the next artist to appear. Charles' billing as a jazz artist set me back a few steps. Charles is. in my opin ion, no more of a jazz artist than the Young Hero, Elvis Presley. (Thank God they couldn't get Elvis!) The exact reason for Charles' appearance is still unknown to Soph Crusades for 'SANE' TO THE EDITOR: The danger of a nuclear war is the most pressing problem facing the world. William Faulkner wrote, "Our tragedy today is a gen eral and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even hear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the ques tion; When will I be blown up?" An attempt is being made to start a chapter of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy here at Penn State. Sane through its various local com mittee works for the following goals: Cessation of all nuclear weapons testing with ade quate inspection. sEstablishment of a United Nations Security Force, War Proceeds vanced beyond the hope of immediate political advantage for communism. A wedge between an under developed nation and an in dustrial nation, driven by any one, was a feather in the Com munist hat. The Soviet Union fumbled in her political approach to the Congo. But economically the situation has produced a seri ous condition and the fall of a government in Belgium to bal ance initial Communist slip ups. The latest killings of politi cal prisoners, b y elements through which the West hoped to restore some order, again divide the Soviet's opponents in the United Nations and stir African sympathy for the pro- Communists. Morocco is turning toward political and economic ties with other northern and west ern African states as against her long association with France. Native forces are working hard to diminish British ties with new nations which are taking various steps toward TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1961 me, although I suspect it was nothing more than a money making scheme on the part of Mr. Pollon, et al. If this is the case, the club has lost its origi nal purpose in favor of a full treasury. The IFC-Panhel Jazz Festi val has, in fact, through their booking of Shearing, out jazzed the Jazz Club! If the club con tinues this policy of rock 'n roll-disguised-as-jazz, I sug gest they change their name to the Elvis Presley Fan Club or its equivalent. The "twisting" and the gen eral roudy attitude of the audi ence is one more manifestation of the apparent immaturity of some of the student body. (I hesitate to say most.) This add ed to the list of acts which led me to the above conclusion of immaturity. People who Write vulgar statements on bathroom walls, who hide in the dark and make snide remarks, who ban to gether in cliques to satisfy the need for security and group identification, who litter the University grounds with empty beer bottles, who deface li brary property, who cheat in exams; etc., are not mature individuals, and are a long way down the road from this goal. The University, perhaps un knowingly, provides places for the fretilization and growth of this immaturity. The West Halls Record Hops and tonight's concert are examples of these breeding grounds. The alleviation of these situ ations is not the problem of the University alone; it lies for the most part with the students themselves. If they are to bene fit fully from their four years at the University, they must take stock of their actions and attempt to alter these situa tions. —Neil C. Buckley '63 ®General Multilateral dis armament. These are not idealistic dreams. War and the prepara tion for war are unnatural states of existence. And the in dividual can exert an influ. ence which will bring about a world in which words such as massive retaliation, fallout, and ICBM will be archaic. SANE attempts through de monstrations, lectures, publi cations, and broadcasts to cre ate a greater awareness of the danger of the armament race and to work toward a solution to the problem. If you are in agreement with the above goals and wish to make a contribution as an in dividual to the cause of world disarmament join SANE. —John F. Kunselman '63 independence this year. In some areas the forces of co operation are being seriously challenged by other native forces determined merely to throw out the whites, as in the Congo. There is a possibility that the new Republic of South Africa will be blackballed from the Commonwealth, creating a ser ious situation for vast British commercial interests there. A war between Indonesia and the Netherlands over West New Guinea is always possible. The Soviet Union. by drag ging the rebellious Algerian provisional government into a political position regarding the Congo, has added another bit to the difficulties of negotia tions which the Western world has hoped would bind up the French-Algerian wounds. Many of these situations are little influenced by the Com munists. It's just that the Reds have a policy into which they fit, as in Cuba. The showdown between the Communists and the weak new governments can come later.
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