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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,
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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-
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—Anthony L. Grillo '62
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By J. M. ROBERTS
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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.