TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 28. 1961
Letters to the Editor
Nittany Room
Search Draws
Sharp Retort
TO THE EDITOR: Perhaps the
government of Israel should be
notified that there are some
Nazi war criminals still uncap
tured. There might be some in
the Department of Housing
and perhaps in other branches
of the dictatorship known as
the Administration.
I am referring of course to
the shocking invasion of Nit
tany 37 by a horde of coun
selors, who with a complete
disregard for personal privacy
and human rights, ransacked
the private rooms of the resi
dents.
To paraphrase the Bible, "By
their M. 0. (Modus Operandi)
ye shall know them." This room
search was definitely done in
the best traditions of the Ges
tapo, the N.K.V.D., and other
secret police. Here in the Unit
ed States, the people are sup
posedly protected from unrea
sonable search by Article IV of
the Bill of Rights. Evidently
the University's Gestapo-like
wing doesn't care or isn't aware
of the fourth amendment
The students should at least
have been present in their
rooms when the counselors
conducted their search. Also,
the students should have been
advised of the purpose of the
search.
Now the SGA has a golden
opportunity to prove that it is
really a representative of the
students and not just a "yes
man" for the administration.
Let the SGA investigate this
incident and demand that it
shall not be repeated. However,
I doubt that this campus kid
die club will have the guts to
open its mouth about the
Housing Department's Gestapo.
—K. C. Rhody Jr., '62
•Letter cut
Holiday Extension
Draws Complaint
TO THE EDITOR: These are
the times that try men's souls.
Why does the administration
insist upon adding our "extra
week" onto the Christmas Holi
day? Why can't this week (or
even just a few days) be dedi
cated in respect to the tradi
tional American Thanksgiving
Holiday?
Next year's planned Christ
mas vacation is unduly long
and might even be detrimental
to the study habits of the stu
dent who breaks the "grind"
for too long a time. A Thanks
giving recess is a beneficial
break as well as being an en
trenched college custom.• Be
sides, this will legalize the
probable "exodus" that will
take place around any vacation
time.
—AI Altman '64
—Chuck Hipple '64
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TO THE EDITOR: It seems to
me that the absence of most of
the senior class from President
Walker's speech can be taken
as an unwitting objection to
the President's purpose of in
creasing the student body of
the University to 35,000 by
1970, and is, as a phenomenon
in itself, symptomatic of the
student's situation at Pennsyl
vania State University.
It seems to me the senior
class took little interest in
President Walker's speech be
cause it feels itself, and has
always felt itself, not a unified
group, but a makeshift mass;
and as a number in such a
mass, no individual student can
be expected to have a sense of
the private responsibility
which is essential to public ac
tion even such action as lis
tening to a speech.
The University's structure,
its system of colleges, does
nothing to alleviate the stu
dent's sense of being a number
in a mass, and of acting like
one: and the college system,
as it exists, is in itself incohe
rent with respect to affording
the student a sense of his in
dividual worth and private im
portance.
The introduction of the four
term system will do little to
alleviate the mediocrity the
existent university structure
generates in students. And cer-
tainly increasing the student
body without any coherent sys-
Lack of Attachment
TO THE EDITOR: In regard
to your editorial on the 23rd,
"One-tenth Care," we believe
you are unjustly critical in
condemning the seniors who
did not attend Prexy's talk.
After three and half. years of
no contact one could say that
this contact is a little late for
those who have left only four
months of university life.
The seniors' apparent lack of
attachment is also mentioned.
Why should any student, and
especially the seniors, who
have been antagonized and
persecuted the longest, form
any attachments to the Uni
versity? For students in the
dorms, how often do the din
ing halls run out of food and
substitute with something
cheaper? Or the rulings which
prevent any student from al
lowing someone else to use his
meal ticket or matric card to
eat or attend events for which
he has already paid?
We are sure no positive feel
ings are formed toward the
University by students whose
units are ruled without reason
by gestapo-type counselors.
There have been many inci.
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of a Mass
tern of integrating the addi
tional students, apart from a
program of building dormi
tories and adding faculty mem
bers as the need for them
seems to arise, will do little to
alleviate the student's uncon
scious sense of oppression by
the masses of other students,
and the mediocrity and anon
ymity which result from it.
Without any coherent plan
of reorganizing the University,
for student purposes as well
as for administrative purposes,
and without the purpose of the
University's self-imposed need
of partaking in a future which
seems to it to mean nothing
but a pile of numbers each with
the label "quality product";
without such a plan it seems
to me any plan of adding stu
dents will destroy these stu
dents' characters and make
their educatioa meaningless.
Morever, increased numbers
in the future will do no more
than obscure the fundamental
mediocrity of the present
Pennsylvania State University
student.
No member of the senior
class can he expected to par
take in the future of a Univer
sity which has always treated
him as a cipher and which has
helped to make him mediocre,
apart from being able to pur
sue a career upon his gradua
tion.
—Dr. Donald B. Kuspit.
Instructor
dents in North Halls and re
member the Nittany 37 raid.
reported in Saturday's Colle
gian.
Look at the automobile situ
ations. Thirty dollars a year is
paid to the University for the
privilege of parking in an open
field without protection from
either weather or vandals. To
park any other place is to risk
a ticket from Diem's boys in
blue.
How many times have stu
dents been unable to take re
quired courses because all the
sections are filled. We wonder
how often a senior has had to
put in an extra semester for
one or two required courses?
The point we are trying to
make is that with the type of
treatment the students receive
here, why should they form
any attachments to the Univer
sity at all?
In conclusion, we feel that
the University is an organiza
tion of, by and for the admin
istration, run with the mini
mum regard for the wants and
needs of the students.
—William Molyneaux, '62
Wayne Magaral, '62
oLetter cut
Interpreting
USSR's Brand
Of 'Coexistence'
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The United States and her allies are constantly running as
says to determine just what Premier Khrushchev means by
peaceful coexistence.
There's a good chance that he has what he wants right
Under this theory, Khrushchev is proceeding at home
his effort to equal the United
States in agricultural and in
dustrial powers, trying to con
vince newly
emerging na
tions by ex
ample that
communism
offers the
best possibili
ties for rapid
economic ad
vancement.
Abroad, the
Soviets ar e
putting on the ROBERTS
pressure designed to show that
the United Nations, and the
free world alliances which op
erate under permission of its
charter, do not offer the best
bulwark behind which former
colonial areas may pursue in
dependence and self-reliance.
One trouble Khrushchev has
is trying to juggle the long
term coexistence campaign
with the necessity of taking ad
vantage of current opportuni
ties, as in Africa, Latin Amer
ica and Southeast Asia.
Recognizing that he over
played his hand in his latest at
tempt to undercut the United
Nations, he is now making a
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new approach to the uncom
mitted nations which refused
to back him on that point. He
seeks to play on their new
sense of importance and their
desires for peace by suggest
ing that they sidetrack the
United Nations and themselves
take over in the Congo.
In this he relies on recogni
tion, already shown by the
Western powers which as in
dividuals have kept out of the
Congo mess, that the Congolese
will deal most readily with
kinfolk. And the Soviet Union
has made some progress in in
fluencing some of those kin
folk.
But the key nation among
those uncommitted is India.
Prime Minister Nehru has be
lieved for years that a neutral
India would eventually earn
important profit as a peace
maker. The Soviet Union
would very much like to play
on this hope now.
But Nehru has learned a
great deal about Soviet inten
tions in the last few years, and
about how to pursue his own
policies without getting tangled
in other people's strings.
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Rutgers '56
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