PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Students Are Part Of 'University Family' Thursday night the books as well as the minds of the administration apparently closed on the students' plea to open the HUB parking lot on weekday evenings. Speaking before the SGA Assembly, Albert E. Diem, vice president for business administration, said he would not consider opening the lot for a trial period. We wonder if Mr. Diem read the SGA' report which asked that students be allowed to use the HUB lot after 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday. He kept citing conges tion on Shortlidge Rd. as a reason for closing the lot. However, any congestion after 6 p.m. occurs on Friday and Saturday nights and students have not asked to use the lot then. We might point out that opening up this lot on Friday and Saturday might avoid the nasty traffic con gestion in the Pollock lots. The surveys of the SGA Traffic Committee and the Campus Patrol consistently showed that the HUB lot was only one quarter full after 6 p.m. Yet Mr. Diem insists that the lot is being closed because of unsafe conditions result ing from congestion. In the meantime, the administration does nothing about the really serious congestion problems at 8 a.m., noon, and 1 and 5 p.m. when students are streaming to and from classes at the same time all employees are streaming to and from work. Obviously the congestion point over the HUB lot is merely a device of argument and has nothing to do with fact or reason. If the adminiitration were sincerely inter ested in alleviating congestion, it would hardly start with an area in which the seriousness of congestion is question able if not non-existent. The closing of the HUB lot might be step one of a plan to eliminate student driving; however, this is com pletely unfeasible in this "isolated little-hamlet" equally inaccessible from all points. This University does not exist to bolster the money stocks of inconvenient bus lines and trains; but exists for and because of students. Mr. Diem keeps using the term "University family" and keeping them all happy to defend closing the lot. We think this is as trite as it is unconvincing: but even the banal sometimes merits an answer and we say this: THREE-QUARTERS OF THIS FAMILY IS STUDENTS. We would also like to point out that this "family line" is successful in many business firms but, contrary to apparent administrative belief, this University is not a business yet and its "products" are still people. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom O'llr Batty Totirgiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is • student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 6. 1934 ■t the Slats College. Pa. Post Offic• under the net of March - 11, Mall Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Mailing Address Box 261, Slots College, Pa. ' Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor •'4IA)°, STAFF THIS ISSUE: Headline Editors, Meg Teichholtz, Trudy Rohrer; Wire Editor, Sue Eberly; Assistant Copy Editor, Pat Dyer; Assistants, Jackie Russiano, Gloria Magido, Sandy Rea buck, Connie Ulerich, Joanne Phillippi, Bobbi Schepps, Roberta , Wohltinan, Sandy Wall, Maxine Fine, Lillian Berger, and Doti , Drasher. PEANUTS p . mwe oF THE - . . IT DIDN'TAY, FRO 6 :',. WI-I AT "F G,' S 4130 SWAMI DOES THAT IT 5AID,"006"1 MEAN? . / i 8 tU 0, D, _ lll I* DOG ____ 1 .... : . i 10 6 i ,i i.--:. it g _--e_4.7.4._tz z . ' ar -r- ---- ---2 S-i-, ,, z... v-141 , i er• th , h V^.. ~.... OM., I. Z-25' GOOD GRIEF! • 3a4 IFil Idu ....,. satARE la .10 .. Or 174:1 .........•-•••--•••-•-•:-• DOG it MN ''''' --'..:-.---__ coY • qtr . • . • ...._ „., _ _ _ •‘1) - , me DAILY - COLLEGIAN. 'STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA CHESTER LUCIDO Business Manages Letters Counselors' Room Search Draws Protest TO THE EDITOR: On Febru ary 21 at about 9:00 p.m., our dormitory was invaded by a group of six or seven coun selors, who, with no apparent reason began to search each room with remarkable dili gence. Meanwhile, we were herded• into the lobby and forced to remain there an hour and a half with no books while they ransacked our rooms. When these gentlemen were politely asked the reason for this invasion, they curtly re plied: "Don't worry about it, son." Be it agreed that these coun selors have difficult jobs, and that there exist certain rights which give them the right to inspect a room under suspicion. We should like to know, how ever. how far these rights ex tend. Many of the students on our living units who keep cash boxes and suitcases under lock and key were, to say the least, perturbed when their privacy was invaded arid their valu ables exposed to what we con sider an unreasonable search. Upon returning to our dis arranged rooms after the sur prise "shakedown" some of us found these personal belong ings - forced open by the said inspectors. We feel that at least one more point concerning this raid may be questioned. Some of us were not in the dormi tory at the time of the search, and when we returned we found our doors opened, lights on, and belongings scattered. We feel that the opened doors invited temptation to anyone who might have been passing through and since there have been reported thefts in the area, we .feel a locked door is an understandable pre caution. We understand that the work of a counselor is at times dif ficult and unpleasant, yet, with the price we pay for our room rent per semester, we believe that we should be entitled to a reasonable amount of pri vacy and Security of possession. We begin to wonder where counseling ends and Gestapo begins. —The Residents of Nittany 37 Hearty Thanks Given For Heart Fund Gifts TO THE EDITOR: We would like to thank the general pub. lie "with all our hearts" for making- our recent lollipop sale such a success. Everyone con t r ibuted unselfishly to "HELP PHI SIGMA SIGMA HELP THE NATIONS HEART," and due to their vn erosity, we managed to raise $157.61 which will be turned over to the Heart Fund. Thank you once again. —The Sisters of Phi Sigma Sigma Gazette TODAY 441 Club Meeting, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., 217 HUB Graduate Student Square Dance. fac ulty members and graduate students invited, 8:30 p.m.•12 HUB ballroom Student Movies, 7 :30-9 :30 p.m., HUB Special Orientation Committee, 2 :30 p.m., 212 HUH "Summer and Smoke." 8 p.m., Center Stage SUNDAY Chess Club. 2 p.m., HUB chess room DARE. 3 p.m., second floor lounge, Faith Church Emerson Society, 7 p.m., 210, Eisen. hower Ciuipel Navy Disc. Committee, 2 p.m., 214 HUB Sophomore Class Advisory Board, 1:30 P.m., 203 HUB Spring Week, 6:20 p.m., 217 HUB Spring Week Publicity Committee, 2:30 p.m., 212 HUB Student Movies, 6:30 p.m., HUB Swedenborgian, 10:45-12 8.111., 212 HUB United Student Fellowship, 6:30 p.m., Faith Church MONDAY Alpha Phi Omega, 12-9 p.m., 212 HUB Alpha Phi Omega Business Meeting, 7 p.m., 212 HUB Alpha Pitt Omega Pledge Initiation, 8 p.m. 212 HUB Bridge Club, 7 p.m., HUB card room ISA, 7 p.m., 203 HUB Inter-varaity Christian Fellowship. 12 :45 p.m., 218 HUB IVCF, 7 p.m., 21G HUB Placement, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 203 HUB University BX Committee, 6 p.m., 217 HUB University Party, 7 p.m., 218 HUB Letters Party Invitation Refused TO THE EDITOR: Re: Corrado letter in Friday's Collegian. In regard to your request that I offer my home for your up coming enragement party: There are some considerations that I fear that, in your at tempt at erudite cynicism, you have overlooked. One of the matters of con sequence that you overlooked was that it would be impossible to invite people who "emit low growls or cries of anguish." For you see Mr. Corrado these people could add little to the party other than an at mosphere of false sadness and unintelligibility and as you know the enraged must not be that . . . it is only animals who growl meaninglessly in an guish. In regard to the Casting of Stones, I believe this event will have to be rescheduled because I don't think there will be any person strong enough (except perhaps your self?) to lift the boulders that are all about. It takes more Little Man On Campus By Dick Bibler coveft. at,494S toEtyttlf.Bs acirsics• er tiificwHei . ca..4kss. • Farr iv 5 ' g Ohle l ,l 4 1t 4 4-PROF 6gagF TrAc44o YA To MINK FOR. yggSELF ive JUT WIPEO 7b pgO9 "rms calfz4E,# Interprefin USSR Not Waiting For U.S. Proposals By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The Soviet Union, renewing the airlift in Laos, her political campaign against West Berlin, and her attacks on the United States and the United Nations, shows no sign of waiting for the Kennedy administration to come up with proposals for settle ments. Ignoring the fact that Berlin is a four-power problem in which West Germany is tech nically a bystander, the Krem lin ha s bypassed Britain, France an d the. United States to warn Bonn -that she still demands that Berlin become a de militarized free city. Oth erwise she will turn con trol of access over to the ROBERTS East German Communists. That's the same thing as an oblique notice to the West that, whatever they may ex pect from a summit conference, a German settlement would not be among them. That's hardly news. Fidel Castro's National Agrarian Reform Institute, comprised primarily of work ers with little or no organiza tional or management skills, is being shorn of its powers over industry and sugar in favor of the two pro-Commu- SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 25. 1961 than an anguished animal. to Cast such a Stone. Haven't you noticed the in creasing size of the Stones? It seems to me that we would have a good deal of trouble picking up any Stones—and then think of the trouble we would have choosing just who to throw the Stone at. There are so many choices you know. Because or this arid numer ous other difficulties I suggest that the scene of the party not be Chdnged to my home, but that you keep it right where it is; in the mind of every sopho more cynic. Because your enragement party would accomplish noth ing. I am afraid it can not be at my home; not only that, in my "proud righleousness," I don't think that I can attend. Give my disregards to all the apathetic when you see them at the party. • If, in the spirit of one-up manship, it becomes necessary to have a "humble motto" we will use: the meek shall in herit what is left of the earth. —Steve Blum '63 nists, Ernesto Guevara and Raul Castro. The two have been assigned to revive the horses they have beaten near ly to death. Many American motorists are turning away from the ex pressways and taking the old winding routes to get back to the country. A tourist in West Germany can achieve a great change in atmosphere by drop ping off one of the great auto bahns to see the picturesque little towns clustered around ancient baronial towers. Jordan now plans to elimi nate the centuries—old wind ing route from the Dead Sea to Jerusalem. Perhaps elimi nate is the wrong word, and the old road will be maintained. Else speed will conquer both beauty and history. .. A neat twist. Katanga's Moise Tshornbe is offering citi zenship to foreigners including Belgians. Just the opposite of Prance and Portugal, who of fer citizenship to natives of some areas in Africa.
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