THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23..1961
Collegian Questionnaire Shows
Little Interest in SGA Affairs
How strong are the campus political parties in the period of time between the fall and
the spring elections?
Results of a. survey taken by The Daily Collegian show that only 14 per cent of the
students questioned were affiliated with a campus political party and only another 30
per cent had any preference for a party.
The poll confirmed the general student belief that political parties are weak in this
Grant Given
To Continue
Adult Ed
A grant of $350,000 has been
given to the University for the
continuing liberal education
program by the Fund for
Adult Education.
The grant will be used to estab
lish a center for continuing edu
cation on a permanent basis.
-The University's continuing ed
ucation program offers short
courses to both graduates and for
mer students. The courses plus
workshops and conferences •are
held during the summer and at
intervals throughout the year.
The grant, the third the Univer
sity has received from the fund,
must be matched for five years.
In 1966, the University will take
over the full responsibility for the
program.
President Eric A. Walker ac
cepted _the grant at a dinner in
New York City early this week
from C. Scott Fletcher who com
mended the University. on its
progress in furthering adult edu
cation throughout the state.
Previous grants from the Fund
for Adult Education, a part of
the Ford Foundation, allowed the
University to establish centers on
an experimental basis in 1958. The
new gr an t will provide for
maintenance of these centers on
a permanent basis.
Frosh Board
Plans to Picket
The Freshman Class Advisory
Board will picket the campus
Tuesday to advertise freshman
meetings that will be held that
evening in all residence halls, ac
cording to James Sloane, fresh
man class president.
In an effort to acquaint fresh
men with the advisory group,
members will speak at the
meetings about the board its
structure and purpose, its aim to
promote class activity and its
planned projects.
Some of these projects are a
class meeting in Recreation Hall,
a Freshman Queen Contest and
Freshman Dance and class ac
tivity suggestion boxes.
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period between elections. Sixteen
students of the 115 that took part
in the survey belong to a party.
These divided into 13 University
party members, two Liberalites,
and one Campus party member.
Thirty-thiree other students
questioned preferred one party
to another one.
Again University party led the
way with 23, Liberal party was
a distant second with 6 and Cam
pus party trailed with only 4.
This leaves a majority 56
Per cent of the students
polled who do not have any
party preference.
Perhaps par ty membership
could be boosted if more students
knew the names of all three po
litical groups. Results of the poll
showed that only one-third of
those questioned were able to
name correctly all three parties.
Apparently some confusion re
sulted from the election of sev
,eral students running without
,party affiliation to the SGA As
!sembly, since a number of stu
dents said that one of the three
parties was "Independent."
I Approximately 59 per cent of
those polled knew that Univer
sity party holds the majority of
;seats in the SGA Assembly.
While less than 50 per cent of
those polled correctly identified
Richard Haber, SGA president,
as a member of University par
ty, only 17 students were able
to name the SGA Vice Presi
dent, Donald Clagett, and his
party affiliation University.
Approximately 75 per cent of
those polled failed to identify Su
san Sherman as secretary-trea
surer of SGA and the party tick
et (Campus) she ran on last
spring.
Less than 45 per cent of the
students questioned were able to
recall the platforms which were
at issue in the elections this past
fall. Very few, only three or four,
out of those polled knew the
winning party's (University) plat
form which advocated coordina
tion of SGA with all student gov
erning organizations.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Dock May
Be Built By
Dedication
For the first time in the Uni
versity's history there is a pos
sibility that the Senior Class
Gift will be completed at the
time of its dedication, accord
ing to Herm Weber, senior
class president.
Weather permitting, the dock
and landing at Stone Valley,
which the senior class voted to
make their gift, will be complet
ed in May, he said,
Plans were also discussed at a
,recent - meeting for •holding Gins
Day at Stone Valley.• Graduating
'seniors would be 'dale to get some
use from their gift at a picnic fol
lowing the traditional ceremonies.
In other business, it was sug
gested that a mutual fund be
started after graduation. Under
this system each senior would
pledge a certain amount of money
each year for the ten years after
graduation. If five dollars per
year were pledged by 50 per cent
of the class, -the amount would
accumulate to $300,000 in .25
years. This would be presented as
a gift to the University.
The Committee also suggested
that the $3OOO allotted for the
class reunion be invested in a
mutual fund for ten years during
which time its value would
double.
Weber announced the appoint
ment of Edgar •Grubb, senior in
business administration from
Harrisburg, as permanent secre
tary-treasurer of the Class of '6l.
Grubb will be in charge of re
union plans and finances.
COLLEGIAN CLASSIFIEDS
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Strong Exec. Asked
For SGA Guidance
(This is the second in a series
of interviews with members of
SGA Assembly.)
Robert Harrison, U-Jr., the
newly elected majority leader
on SGA Assembly, said last
night that the present student
government could do a good
job if its executive branch .
"would push a little."
Harrison said a stronger execu
tive might remedy many exist
ing SGA problems, among them,
that Assembly
men make little
effort to repre
sent their con
stituencies
"Cabinet," he
continued,
"should bring
suggestions and
drive the Assem
blymen on to
work. I don't
know if this hap
pened much this
ye a r." "L et' s. Harakiri
face it," he said, "the people with
experience have to do the push
ing."
Harrison noted that inexperi
enced, newly-elected SGA mem-
Commercial Art
Exhibited in HUB
Outstanding examples of works
of commercial art are exhibited
in the gallery of the Hetzel Union
Building in the collection circu
lated by the American Institute
of Graphic Arts.
The exhibition, which will con
tinue until Tuesday includes ex
amples of advertisements, book
and record jackets, letterheads,
college bulletins, placards, direct
mail pieces and other types of
commercial art.
THE PENN, STATE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
Invites everyone to take part in
'Mock Job Interviews'
Editor of
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bers would "learn faster with a
little guidance."
Asked if Assembly could be
structurally improved, Harrison
replied in the affirmative, saying
that three alternate representa
tive systems might be employed.
"We could use community liv
ing as a basis, or College Coun
cils or revert back to the old
Cabinet system, but when• you
get down to facts there are stilt
going to be too many people on
Assembly: We need quality not
quantity," he continued.
On the subject of political par
ties, Harrison said that the lead
ers of the parties are in close
contact with the members but
that they should concentrate on
specific items of business.
He added that. "there is no rea
son why there should be partisan
action on a measure benefiting
the whole student body, such as
backing the budget. A real team
effort is needed for success."
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