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Like a Ton of Bricks
SGA Assembly will witness tonight a big unveiling
by "James Madison" Alexander, who will whip the cloak
of secrecy off a completely revised SGA Constitution.
Assembly will then be faced with the unenviable task of
approving or disapproving and changing this Constitu
tion within three weeks before Spring elections.
This is not only an unjust task to be thrust upon
Assembly, but it is unfair to the student body to have a
new government constituted in this hasty order.
It's like being hit by a ton of bricks.
Although it has been known for two years that this
reorganization would have to be made, Assembly will get
Its first look at the proposed changes less than a month
before they have to he completed.
The most important internal problem to face SGA
since its inception will be dumped into Assembly's lap
with just three weeks left to sound out student feeling
and hash out proposals in order to have a fit constitution
to present to the Senate Committee on Student Affairs
for review later this spring.
The wraps will finally be taken off what is supposed
to be the culmination of two whole years of observation,
study and work. Two years.' work must be evaluated and
put into final form in three weeks.
Assembly has not been informed of any of the work
of the SGA Reorganization Committee in spite of the fact
that last October
,Assembly passed a procedural rule
which requires that each committee submit a written re•
port of every meeting to Rules Committee, within one
week of that meeting. The secrecy imposed upon all work
of the committee was in direct violation of an SGA rule.
Reorganization Committee chairman Duane Alexan
der has said that his committee has met at least three
times since October. First of all, this seems like mighty
few meetings in which to complete such a constitutional
reorganization.
Second of all, a report on each of these meetings
should have been presented to SGA Rules Committee as
required by law so that SGA was aware of the progress
of the.committee for the last four months.
Rules Committee chairman Joan Cavanagh said last
night that no reports have ever been turned in by the
Reorganization Committee.
Elections are scheduled for April 18-20. This may be
a physical impossibility if a complete new election system
is going to be constituted in the meantime.
Political parties are supposed to meet for the first
time Sunday night to begin to organize their campaign
for spring elections. We don't know what they can plan—
when they don't even know what the elections system
will be. For that matter, they don't even know if they
will still be in existence,
The muddle of confusion that will be caused in stu
dent government in the nest three weeks could be endless.
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Letters
Book Buying
Policy Draws
Complaint
TO • THE EDITOR: In the
March 14 edition of the Col
legian there is an article men
tioning the fact that the Pattee
Library has just recently pur
chased a rare collection of 250
books of English Literature
dating back to the 17th and
18th Centuries.
I am not questioning the
needs of the English Depart
ment for research material, but
are these collections, costing
thousands of dollars, necessary
in place of needed course texts
of which two or three editions
on reserve suffice the needs of
the entire student body.
Can the library afford these
rare copies and sacrifice the
required needs of the student
body? Are the books that valu
able to the University library
and English Department?
Once the books do arrive,
will they be just thrown into
another dark alcove beyond the
undergraduate's reach, and
classified as dead knowledge?
Jacques Barzun has a most ap
propriate note in "Teacher in
America" . . . "the library—
originally founded to give out
books becomes a museum de
signed to keep them in."
Is it not the policy of the
University to use the money
legislated to it so it benefits
the majority of the students,
including the undergraduates?
Is this what President Walker
wants with his recent budget
appeal to the state legislature?
Or, maybe Swift was right
. . . "Seamen have a custom
when they meet a whale to
fling him out and empty tub
by way of amusement to divert
him from laying violent hands
upon the ship."
Frosh Discusses
'Ad'onAdvertising
TO THE EDITOR: I'd like to
ask the origin of the article on
advertising in the March. 7 is
sue of the Collegian. I would
like to comment on an impor
tant facet of advertising that
the article has failed to relate
and perhaps avoided.
What, all of a sudden, has
become of the great field of
"motivational research"? Is the
writer of this essay blind to all
the ads that try to sell products
that people don't need by ap
pealing to their desire for
prestige?
—Carole Carpey '6l
(Editor's Note: The advertise
ment was' written by Richard
Byers, associate professor of
journalism, and sponsored by
Alpha Delta Sigma, profession
al advertising society.)
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Letters
Advertisement Criticized
TO THE EDITOR: Those boxed
testimonials you have been
running on behalf of advertis
ing have brought tears into my
eyes—already misty from read
ing Edgar A. Guest, Norman
Vincent Peale and other clear
thinkers who make Arthur M.
Schlesinger Jr. look like a col
lege professor.
The latest testimonial touched
at the deepest wellsprings of
my being, when I read that
"Historians agree that paid
messages had their first start
(sic) during this period (the
founding of our country)." This
made me realize that perhaps
Paul Revere was our first ad
man, since he got out a sixty
second message heard "round
the world."
How he did this without the
benefit of an agency is really
more than I can understand
and I have accordingly rework•
ed his message to show what
enlightened advertising so
much abused by college pro
fessors and other useless intel
lectuals—could have made of
it:
"WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
Paul Revere, maker of fine ket
tles, pots, frying pans, salt-and
pepper sets and a variety of
copperware unexcelled for its
fineness of tone. its purity of
design, its durability Paul
Revere brings you word that
those lovable redcoated devils,
the British, are on the move
again . . .
Stay glued to your local win
dow and let them have it—but
don't aim for their buttons, be
cause those buttons are made
of copper. and copper is a
whopper of a stopper of drab,
old lead.
Next time you're in Boston
stop in and see Paul Revere—
just a stone's throw from the
Old North Church—and treat
yourself to a new copper
breastplate for the coming
World at
Kennedy Meets
With Reporters
WASHINGTON (N) Presi
dent Kennedy called yesterday
for religious harmony, warning
that if the country divides on
the school aid issue "our na
tional strength" will be sapped.
At the news conference, Ken
nedy also dealt with these oth
er matters:
LAOS—The United States is
determined, Kennedy said, "to
support the government and
the people of Laos" in resisting
what he called rebel attacks
there "backed by personnel and
supplies from outside."
UNITED NATIONS The
President said he plans to ad
dress the United Nations Gen
eral Assembly now meeting in
New York.
WORK WEEK Touching
off a round of chuckles, Ken
nedy said he would like a
shorter work week for himself.
But he added in a serious tone
that he is against a shorter
week as a general policy for
American workers.
DISARMAMENT Ken
nedy said the United States
has suggested that East-West
negotiations on general dis
armament be resumed in Au
gust.
Jones Quits Court
Because of Eyesight
PITTSBURGH (/P) Charles
Alvin Jones, chief justice of
the Pennsylvania Supreme
Court since 1956, said yester
day he is resigning because of
poor eyesight.
Jones said he is hopeful his
resignation can become effec
tive by the end of July when
he expects to complete his
judicial affairs.
Prof Named Ambassador
WASHINGTON (/P) Pres
ident Kennedy yesterday chose
J. Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard
professor of economics, to be
ambassador to India.
THURSDAY. MARCH 16, 1961
revolution: and, remember:
COPPER IS A WHOPPER
OF A STOPPER OF DRAB,
OLD LEAD.
This message brought to you
as a public service."
How did they ever pull off
the revolution without modern
advertising?
—Gilbert Aberg
(Editor's Note: Those "boxed
testimonials" are themselves
advertisements for the institu
tion of advertising. They are
not staff written.)
Williams Clarifies
Letter on Policy
TO THE EDITOR: I apologize
for whatever suggestion my
letter of March 11 may have
contained about the personal
views of Dr. Monroe Newman
on the question of discrimina
tion. He is to be counted among
those who desire fair and equal
treatment for all persons re
gardless of race, creed, or color.
Nor was my letter intended
to be a criticism of Mr. Wilmer
Wise as a person, although I
am uncertain about Mr. Wise's
personal views.
My criticism was a criticism
of what Dr. Newman and Mr.
Wise stated to be official Uni
versity policy.
—Preston N. Williams
University Chaplain
Coordinator of Religious
Affairs
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a Glance
U.N. Hears
Cuban Charge
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JP)
Cuba put before the United
Nations yesterday a charge
that the Kennedy administra
tion is intensifying a U.S. cam
paign aimed at overthrowing
Prime Minister Fidel Castro's
revolutionary regime.
Raul Roa, Cuban foreign
minister, made plain he was
doing so in order to buttress
Castro's Soviet-supported
charges pending before the
U.N. General Assembly that
the United States is planning
armed aggression against Cuba.
Roa sent a letter to Frederick
H. Boland of Ireland, president
of the assembly, linking the
United States with an attack
by an armed speedboat on the
nationalized Texaco oil refine
ry at Santiago on Monday. Roa
described the incident as "an
act of international political
piracy."
Congo Premier 1
Addresses U.N.
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo
(iP) Premier oseph Ilea said
yesterday negotiations are un
der way to bring rebel Oriental
Province into the proposed
Congolese confederation.
He also told the United Na
tions there is no longer any
need for an international mili
tary force in the Congo and
said that U.N. reinforcements
on the way would be better
advised to stay home.
Senate Passes Aid
For Depressed Areas
WASHINGTON (iP) The
Senate last night passed Presi
dent Kennedy's bill designed to
bring new jobs to communities
suffering from depression.
The bill would provide $3OO
million in loans and $94 mil
lion in grants to try to attract
new job-making industries to
distressed communities.