r'AGE FOUR
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Bookstore or Bureaucracy
The long hard fight for a University bookstore, which
seemed to be gaining momentum after a quarter century
campaign last semester, seems to have lost much of its
energy in recent weeks
Phil Steinhauer, chairman of the SGA Bookstore
Committee just may be falling victim to administrative
bureaucracy.
His committee set-up looks great on paper. As chair
man he lops a structure that includes fact finders, statis
ticians. historians and other researchers.
As the axis of his report, Steinhauer has drawn up a
scientific questionnaire designed to see if Penn State
students feel a need for a bookstore.
The questionnaire also is to determine how the stu
dents picture a bookstore and what it should
The Board of Trustees, however, specifically asked
SGA to compile a report calling for detailed information
on needs and costs.
The reason they "didn't say yes and didn't say no"
was because they did not have enough information on
which to base their answer.
Steinhauer's job, then, to meet the Board's challenge,
is to give them this information.
We have detected, however, a certain sluggishness
on the part of this chairman that must be corrected im
mediately if the committee hopes to meet the June dead
line which the Trustees requested. •
Although SGA Assembly is not currently in session,
Steinhauer's work and findings are not being overlooked
by the student body. Tuition hike or not, money is money.
Steinhauer and committee have been at work since
January, and it is now . mid-April.
We have yet to see that he is making any headway
in digging up the very important facts that could establish
a bookstore on this campus.
We don't want to see the vitality sapped from the
issue by default.
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Letters
Sr. Blames
Library Lines
On Students
TO THE EDITOR: I do not pos
sess any sympathy for "those
who stand and wait!" If some
of these "academic pursuers"
would take the time to learn
the correct use of the 'card
catalogue and of the library,
they would not have to "stand
and wait."
For example, a girl came up
to the desk the other day and
handed me 11 call numbers. I
looked for the books on six
different levels of the stacks. I
found not a trace of one of
them!
As fatigued as could possibly
be, I asked the petite coed
whether anything else on the
catalogue cards had caught her
eye. Her innocent reply "oh
yes, it said Home Economics
Library on all II cards."
Meanwhile, droves of people
had congregated in these 20
minutes because of the ignor
ance of one person.
It is not a shame that our
underprivileged undergraduate
students may not enter the
stacks. The few who do sneak
their way into the maze usual
ly upset the order of the
shelved books. Thus, it be
comes increasingly difficult
for the efficient staff members
to find them for the sagacious
sages of the University and
havcic is created.
Furthermore, when the cir
culation desk is busy, all the
members and student assistants
of the library staff devote their
efforts to finding books,
Until the Pattee Library is
flooded with that precious
greenery to purchase automat
ic conveyor-belt stacks, or one
staff member for each student,
don't complain about the cir
cumstances at the Circulation
desk which cause "those to
stand and wait."
Learn the correct use of the
card catalogue and consider
your fellow students by not
'`playing library" by handing
a staff member 11 cards for
to
which are not important
to you.
—Martin -H. Lizerbrarn '6l
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Cuban Lesson
by feet myers
Armed forces are pressing toward the capital of Cuba
and the regime of Fidel Castro appears to be in its last
clays. Whether Castro is overthrown today or tomorrow
is secondary to the fact that his time is limited.
That puts a mighty burden on the policy-forming
men in Washington, who must
see that another Castro doesn't
come to power. It might be re
membered that it was our rap
id recognition of his govern
ment that steadied Castro's
position at his most critical
time
When Cas
tro topples,
the first offi
cially - rec
ognized corn
monist gov
er n ment in
the Western
Hemisphere
will fall with
it.
The Rus
sians have
backed the
Cuban Coin- MYERS
rnunist regime With men and
supplies and have supported
their wild charges in the Unit
ed Nations, but because of the
great distance from Moscow
and the instability of the gov
ernment, Russia also realizes
that Castro's days are num
bered.
However, Moscow strategists
intend • to derive maximum
propaganda profit from his fall
by blaming the "colonialist and
capitalist" interest in the Unit
ed States.
The Red's success in Cuba
ran years ahead of internation
al communism's time-table of
world takeover. Not being will-
Letters
Bellingard's Stand Criticized
TO THE EDITOR: I read Mr.
Bellingard's letter and had dif
ficulty in understanding it.
Whether it was due to my own
dullness or his difficulty with
the language or his inability
to organize, I don't know, but
the basis of it seemed to me to
be that he feels that no one
should kill or expose himself
to death for any ideal.
He also seems to believe that
a person is truly - free only if
he is above the continuous con.
flici that is man and that the
only way that he attains this
freedom is by means of a free
mind. The first idea I disagree
with thoroughly, and the sec
ond I think is only half the
truth. Both I answer this way:
If Mr. Bellingard would put
himself in complete servitude
to my will for an indefinite
period of time, we will be able
to_ see how long it will take
for him .to become obsessed
with the desire to murder me
in order to regain his freedom,
risk to his life or not.
I might add further, that if
a man wants to be free to en
joy life, he must be free and
willing to lose it. Bertrand Rus
sell recently said, and I quote,
that "I would rather be Red
than dead." Pulitzer Prize win
ner or not, Bertrand Russell is
full of beans. If there is noth
ing worth dying for, there is
nothing worth - living for.
As long as I am in a spout
ing mood today, I might as
Dining Incident Discussed
TO THE EDITOR: Not know
ing the facts on both sides of
the argument presented in The
Daily Collegian of April 14, by
Mr, Dance and Mr. Reilly, I
cannot judge this issue, how
ever, I am wondering what
facts weren't brought out`
Did either of these students
stop to think that they were
wasting our money when they
dawdle at meals, making the
employes wait unduly? These
men are paid employes.
If students linger unneces
sarily they are making them
work longer' than necessary,
and they forget that the waiters
TUESDAY. APRIL 18. .1961
ing to risk military action so
near U.S. soil and not wishing
to chance the loss of military
equipment and men for the de
fense of a militarily indefen
sible and economically poor is
land, Russia will not enter the
struggle. In remaining an ob
server, she will allow her first
beachhead in the new world to
fall by the wayside.
Next time it may be differ
ent.
While the Reds are focusing
their attention on the trouble
spots of Africa and Asia, the
free world has been granted a
temporary reprieve in Latin
America. This extra time
should be used in building the
social and economic status of
Latin America so that the com
munist threat, when it turns in
vigor to the Western Hemi
sphere, will find a healthy and
vigorous society offering no
roads for communist penetra
tion.
President Kennedy has al
ready proposed a $5OO million
program for Latin America.
But, this is not enough.
Financial aid must be sup
plemented by experienced men
who will sell the case for de
mocracy with appealing ideas.
Perhaps the Peace Corps of
fers part of this supplement,
but a more comprehensive pro
gram for Latin American de
velopment must be construe
ed at once!
well add something else that is
relevant.
From where I sit, and it's
pretty far away I'll admit, the
problems that - we have with,
other countries, particularly
the smaller and newer ones,
are due very much to their con
tradicting attitude toward
America.
They look to America for
leadership and expect to see a
god, and when they see this god
make blunders, blunders that
are made worse by the power
of the one making them, and
not by having any less virtue
than any other country, they
become dismayed.
They want a Big Brother
vvho will finance them and
teach them and protect them
from each other, but expect
him to offend no one.
They want to be uplifted but
want us to keep our hands off.
The history of the develop
men! of practically all highly
developed countries has in
volved the degradation of the
people or the complete control
of their country by another, or
both,
If they want to develop
quickly, and with our help,
they would be correct in being
apprehensive, but at the same
time they can't expect us to
help without taking some de
gree of control. There is no
economic aid without strings
attached, and there is no sud
den development without pain,
even with the aid of another
country, no matter what the
Russians say.
—John Leonetti, '62
are not the only ones that are
working—what about the boys
in the dishroom? What about,
those expensive dishwashers
that must be kept on until
every last dish is clean? If Mr.
Dance and Mr. Reilly want to
pay for these out of their own
pockets, fine, but I wish they
wouldn't take it out of mine.
It is strange that such waste
fulness should be continuing;
especially when we are fight
ing for an extra $6 million from
the legislature. Don't we have
troubles with rising tuition
without asking for a hike in
room and board as well?
—M. L. Mergel 'B3