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Editorial 0 a inio
May Be Last Chance
It is a severe indictment on the Pennsylvania state
government that educational institutions should have to
enter the dirty game of politics and. kowtow to politicians
to beg for the money necessary to educate the inhabitants
of this state.
But for years the government officials have dodged
the imperative needs of education in this state and tried
to absolve themselves of responsibility for its sad condi-
Why? Because they were scared of what they saw.
Scared of the horse-and-buggy education system which
they saw existing. Scared of the tremendous rebuilding
lob that lay before them. Scared of the increased financial
burden they knew it would bring.
In the fiscal year 1950-51 the state spent $125 million
on education. In the present fiscal year it is spending
$4OO million. The report of the Governor's Committee on
Education is expected to designate $660 million as the
necessary annual outlay for education in 1970 plus an
additional $l5O million for improvements.
They could see it coming, but each year they shrugged
off their responsibility and ran.
They shrugged off their responsibility to a committee
which they said was to study the needs of education. Well,
studies were made and they led to nothing but more
studies, each of which was promptly pigeonholed in its
turn.
But with this policy of procrastination they have only
run themselves into a corner that narrows each year.
Sometime they have got to stop running and face the job
that needs to be done on Pennsylvania's education
system.
The state has already indicated the expanded role it
expects the University to play in the state's education
system.
Governor Lawrence recommended more money in
General State Authority funds for buildings on campus
than the administration had even requested.
The Governor's Education Committee expects the
University to handle 35,000 students by 1970.
It is totally incomprehensible that the state would
expect the University to fulfill this expended role without
giving it the necessary appropriation increases.
Yet the present situation finds the University's re
quest for $23 million tucked away in House and Senate
committees; the Governor's Committee's special education
report delayed from Jan. 15 to Mar. 15 to Mar. 25 to April 1
to April 15; and rumors circulating that the state legis
lature is going to try to adjourn before the report comes
out or before any action is taken on appropriations.
If the full appropriation is not granted, it will not be
the University that will Suffer as much as the students.
Whatever money the University does not get from appro
priations it has already said it would get from tuition. It
is the students' pocketbooks that will feel the pinch.'
Easter vacation will be the students' best chance—
and it may be their last chance—to do something about a
tuition raise.
The state legislature is in recess till April 4. The
senators and representatives should be at home in their
respective areas.
Each student during the Easter vacation should pay
a personal visit to his state 'senator and representative and
take his parents along. The parents will carry more weight
than the students.
If a personal visit is impossible he should at least
write letters and, encourage his parents to do the same,
pointing out the needs of the University for the full
appropriation request.
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JOHN BLACK
Editor
STAFF THIS ISSUE; Night Editor, Saralee Orton; Wire Editor,
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
interpreting
'Edge' Taken Off Laos Crisis
Associated Press News Analyst
Reports from all quarters
yesterday tended to take
the cutting edge off the
Laos crisis, suggesting that
the Soviet Union has been
pursuing her old familiar
tactic of pushing until it
proves too dangerous and then
withdrawing.
The crisis is by no means
over. Indeed, it is quite possi
ble that thr
Communists pr(
vided a lull onl
to give rebels i
Laos time to of
viate a pea(
c o n ference
fore it can gl
started.
But taking
by the book, t
Communists. will ROBERTS
now zig-zag. They are faced
Letters
Serenade's
Interruption
Protested
TO THE EDITOR: Last night
during an orderly fraternity
serenade, the alert campus pa
trol boys carried out their pro
tective duties and abruptly
interrupted the singers by
stating that "gentlemen are not
allowed in the courtyard."
We wonder if it was entirely
necessary for the solemnity of
this .occasion to have been so
rudery disrupted. A telephone
call to the campus patrol re
vealed that such serenades
must first be cleared
,by the
hostesses with the patrol.
Although admittedly there
was a misunderstinding on this
point, it certainly seems to us
that .the patrolmen could have
used more discretion.
—Second Floor Vest Atherton
•Letter cut
TO. THE EDITORc Tonight
(Sunday, March 26) a girl in
Atherton Hall was serenaded
by a Penn State fraternity. This
is one of the few sentimentali
ties remaining on this large,
impersonal, growing campus.
Now it is about these campus
patrolmen who disregard this
tradition of the serenading of
pinmates! We realize that sev
eral incidents have occurred
recently to keep the campus
patrolmen '"on their toes".
where coeds are concerned.
But interrupting a serenade
to inform the fraternity men
that men are not allowed in
our courtyard is a bit dis
respectful. Serenades have
been taking place in this same
courtyard for years without en
dangering the Atherton coeds.
Why now, in the middle of
one serenade, do the campus
patrolmen decide to change
their policy?
—Franci Johns '6l
—Beverly Shaffer '6l
—Merlllat Frost '62
Hildreth '62
—Bobbi Abrams '63
TO THE EDITOR: Last Sun
day evening, the members of
our fraternity.were in the midst
of a serenade in the courtyard
of Atherton Hall. Prior to our
last song, we were rudely inter
rupted by two tactless campus
patrolmen.
They flashed their trusty
lights around and informed us
that we were not allowed in
the courtyard. We feel we have
a just complaint since we were
never told that the territory
was "out of bounds" by the
campus patrol office; also, the
housemother of Atherton Hall
was previously informed.
Perhaps a definite policy on
serenades by the campus pa
trol office is- necessary so that
other fraternities are not sub
jected to the same undiplo
matic treatment. Needless to
say, the sentimental value of
the serenade was ruined.
By J. M. ROBERTS
—Phi. Sigma Kappa
by what is perhaps the firmest Soviet Union carried the ball,
anti-Communist political front instead of Red China, is still
which the free world has been unclear. unless China didn't
able to throw up since the have the planes for an airlift
Berlin blockade was defied. or was too busy helping the
Certainly it is the firmest / Viet Cong campaign against
political front ever established South Viet Nam.
by a consortium of Western The lull in the rebel offen
and Asian nations in consider- sive in Laos and Soviet press
able number. reports on the Kremlin atti-
In the case of Communist ag- tude are not necessarily direct
gression against South Korea, results of the last few days of
the United States cast the die Western diplomacy. The build
and the United Nations front up of Western firmness has
which developed was a mili- been visible for some time.
tary one, and thin. Expression of Soviet policy
The SEATO front against through the press is usually a
Communist absorption of Laos, slow and cumbersome process,
on the other hand, is a political entailing delays to which the
front with military overtones. West is unaccustomed. This
And it has behind it the hopes makes it difficult to follow
of a vast proportion of the moves and countermoves in a
world's neutrals and the clear pattern to a clear result.
emerging states whose only Nevertheless, th e - Soviet
hope of development lies in a Union now seems to be doing
period of peace. what it should be doing in its
It is hardly likely that the own interests backing away
Kremlin ever intended to push from a military clash in order
the Laos affair beyond what to go into negatiations where
could be accomplished without the USSR can promote ob;ec
outside intervention. Why the fives at less risk.
Letters
DARE Activities Supported
TO THE EDITOR: The tragedy
of the "discriminatory clause"
is not that it prevents "like
able" people of certain racial
or religious backgrounds from
becoming part of the social
whirl with likeable people from
other racial and religious back
grounds; the real and pitiful
tragedy is the effect that the
acceptance of these "clauses,"
whether it be a real or compla
cent one, has on the member
of the excluding group.
When the member goes
through four years of partici
pation in peaceful exclusion he
believes that nothing is wrong
or immoral with such practices
—"it's part of our American
way of life, why buck the sys
tem."
And even if by chance he
does experience temporary mo
ments of guilt, he never does
anything about it because no
one else is doing anything and
why should he not conform.
Herein lies the fundamental
tragedy of this predicament.
These people are the future
businessmen, the executives of
our society. After finishing col
lege many of them move into
Soph Discusses 'Education'
TO THE EDITOR: Why am I
at Penn State? This is a ques
tion that I've often asked my
self in these past two years.
Everyone said that it is the
thing of the ages to go on to
college in order to know a
little more about something
than the ordinary high school
graduate. But, what have I
learned at Penn State?
I've learned that to be classi
fied as anything other than a
"square" a person has to drink,
smoke, and twist. I've learned
to "fix" my lab,problems.
I've learned that •in order to
get my grades above average
I may have to resort 'to cheat
ing like a great number of my
BY THE WAY, ARE
TUESDAY. MARCH 28. 1961
business circles which practice
the same "clauses" that they
experienced in college only this
time it's not a written clause,
"it's illegal now," but to him
it's socially acceptable after
all "everything went so smooth
ly back in school with these
clauses,"
That is why I sympathize
with DARE when the SGA
Committee on Inter-Racial Re
lations said that DARE was
making a "mountain out of a
molehill."
Perhaps some of - these fra
ternity and sorority members
need a little extra pushing to
bring their better moral poten
tials to the surface and to crew
ate a little unconformity in
the society they're about to run.
I realize that the present
members did not create these
"clauses" which perpetuate an
ultra-pluralistic society but
they must share the blame for
running past them with their
eyes closed for four years.
We all know that most of us
do not have the courage to
change the status quo, but why
should the SGA rebuff an or
ganization (DARE) that does?
—Gilbert J. Brenner
classmates. And today I learned
that a person can't leave any
thing that isn't under lock and
key.
During my Friday morning
gym class I was relieved of
$21.00 while I took a showers
Since it took me approximately
25 hours of wiping garbage off
plates to earn this money
should kick myself for invit
ing such an incident.
Instead I think I shall con
gratulate this person on the
success of his profession and
hope that someday he shall
graduate from the State Penn—
a better man. He has picked a
good place to practice and to
further his education!
—Paul Higby '63
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