PAGE FOUR Editorial 0 • inio Election Suggestions In an effort to avoid the rash of complaints about ballot-stuffing, illegal elections precedures, etc., that usually follow every SGA election, we are backing up some ideas of Elections Commission Chairman Robert Dufner .and adding a few more suggestions. Dufner has said he thought ballots could be numbered and also perforated so that each voter could tear off a receipt of his ballot for a voting record. Dufner also said that the voter could sign a list at the poll when voting. These procedures would provide a check against illegal voting. If each voter had to sign a list before his matriculation card was punched, the signatures could be compared. The number of signatures should also tally with the number of ballots used during the election. Two things that could be included on the posters that SGA prints for display at the polls are the requirement for voting and the things that will disqualify a ballot. A great number of people have the misunderstanding that they cannot vote in the election unless they are registered with a party. They do not realize that they need only to present their matriculation card to vote. In the last election many people unintentionally, but unthinkingly, disqualified their ballot by not marking it properly. Also, ballots should be kept until the end of the semester in the event disputes arise after the elections are ovei Another suggestion is to allow a member of each party to Mt at each polling place. The elections code prohibits these people from campaigning but they can observe to see that proper precedures are carried out by the elections commission members manning each poll. Finally, parties should be encouraged to use their own Initiative in utilizing free means of non-commercial pub licity not restricted by the elections code. Mixed Emotions The success of the first IFC-Panhel Jazz Festival is attested to by the -people counting the money. They say that the proceeds may wipe out the entire $l3OO debt incurred by last year's IFC-Panhel Ball. frhe festival, which was applauded so enthusiastically by 6,000 personS in Recreation Hall last Saturday, has apparently established itself solidly and at the same time sounded the final roll call for the IFC-Panhel Ball. The jazz festival will make a welcome addition to the annual All-University social program, but we feel just a twinge about the passing of the dance. This leaves only three big d,4nees a year—the junior Prom, Senior Prom and Mil Ball—and at least two of these are floundering. The Junior Prom lost money last fall and the Senior Prom is being moved to the smaller I-letzel Union ballroom this year because of poor attend ance last year. We hope the big dances are not going to fade out of the social picture altogether. 56 Years of Editorial Freedom A Student-Operated Newspaper ~lir ilailli Tolirgiart Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Pa'dished Tue.day through Saturday morning during the University you. Ms Daily Collegian is a student operated newspaper. Entered as eecond•class matter Jul, 6. (334 at the State College Pa. Post Dicke under the act of March 3. len. Mall Subscription Price 33.00 pet semester, $5.00 per year. Stalling Address Box 261, State College, Pa. Member of The Assoctated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor City Editor and Personnel Director. Susan linkroum; Assistant Editor, Clods it'oMud; Sports Cditor, Sandy Patiwe: Assistant City Editor, Joel Myers; Copy and Features Editor. Elaine Miele; Photography Editor, Ft-carte Rower. Local Ad Mgr., Brad Hurls; Notional Ad Mgr.. Hal Dekker; Credit Mgr.. Mary Ann Crans; Assistant Crcdii Mgr., Neal Kelt!: Classified Ad Mgr., Constance Kiesel; Co-Circulation Mgrs., Barbara Noll, Richard Kitzinger; Promotion Mgr., Elaine Michel; Personnel Mgr., Becky Ko!ludic; Office Secretary, Joanne linyett. STAFF THIS ISSUE: Wire Editor, Joan Mehan; Headline Editor, Dave Runkel; Assistants: Vicki Caplan, Maxine Fine, Carmen Zetler, Ken Kastle, Susie Linkrouni, Rick Bower, Nicki Wolford, Elaine Miele, Sandy Padwe. * * * CHESTER LUCID°. Business Manager THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Campus Plank QuestionedOn Practicality TO THE EDITOR: The candi date for SGA President, Dennis Foianini, has stated in The Daily Collegian article of April 20, 1961 that his party favors a winter referendum in which the student body shall voice its opinion about SGA in general, and the SGA officers in par ticular. In the event of unfavorable opinion on either account, Mr. Foianini says, then all Campus party candidates are pledged to resign from office. And then what happens? Does this mean that Campus party will shoul der the blame for anything that goes wrong, or does this mean that Campus party wants no part of SGA if anything does go wrong? It is my opinion that this plank in the party platform borders on the ridiculous. SGA has stumbled around for two years trying to find the right govern mental set-up. As of this mo ment no one has resigned be cause of unfavorable opinion voiced by the student body— and there has been plenty of it. The SGA Constitution pro vides that no one party shall have a clean sweep of candi dates in any class. In the event that Campus party , candidates carry out their pledge and re sign in the face of unfavorable opinion, the Assembly will be left short handed. There is also the possibility that SGA would be left without a President. Resignation is not the an swer to such a pressing prob lem as unfavorable student opinion. Perhaps Mr. Foianini and his backers had better think twice before they follow up on this plank. —Richard Levinson '62 Gazette Cooly Society, 8-5 p.m., ground floor HUB Home Economies Dedication Conference, 9 a.m., Home Et. Jazz Club, 10 a.m., 212 HUB Pa. Council of Teachers of English, 9-4 p.m., 213 HUB SGA Reorganization, 2 p.m.. 212 HUB Sophomore Class Advisory Board, 12:30 p.m., 11138 cardroom Sophomore Class Faculty Tea, 1 :30 p.m.. HUB assembly hall Student ?Boyles, 7:30 p.m., HUB assem bly hall . SUNDAY Ches.' Club, 2 n.m., FMB eardroom Chimes, 6:30 p.m.. Delta Gmmina Suite DARE. 3 ..no p.m., second floor lounge Faith Church Faculty Tea Entertainment, 1;30 p.m., HUB assembly hall Folklore Society, 7:30 p.m.. 214 HUB Grad Faculty Bridge, 7:30 p.m., 212 HUB ISA Constitution. 2 p.m., ISA office 111311. Jazz Club, 10 a.m., 217 HMS Jazz Club Workshop, 12 noon, HUB ballroom Boph Class Advisory Board, 1:30 p.m., 203 HUB Soph Faculty Reception, 2 p.m., Main lounge HUB Student Movies, 6 :30 p.m., HUB as- xembly hall Swroienhorfrian, 10 Ali a.m., 212 HUB Women'n Chorut4, 3 p.m., Schwab Audi torium Alpha Phi Omega. 7 p.m., 212 HUB Beta Colony, 9 p.m., 2.1 S HUB Bridge Club, '7 p.m., HUB eardroom Cooly Society, 6 p.m., 214 HUB Faculty Luncheon Club, 12 noon; HUB dining room A WC, 7::10 p.m., HUB miserably hall 111 CF. 12;45 p.m., 218 HUB 111 CF, 7 p.m., 216 HUB Lecture Series, 8 p.m., MI Auditorium Leonides, 7 p.m., 218 HUB Queen of Hearts, 8 p.m., 214 HUB SCA Tutoring Committee, 6:80 p.m., 217 HUB WDFM Schedule SATURDAY :60 Metropolitan Opera (Live) :00 Spotlight 6 :55 Weathereeope 7 :00 lli Fi Open House 9:00 Off-Beat 1:00 Rony and Mr. X 8:00 Sign Off SUNDAY 5 :00 Chapel Service C :00 Chamber Music 6::50 Mormon Choir 7:00 Highlights of the Week 7:16 The Third Programme 1:00 Sign Off MONDAY' 3 :25 Financial Tidbits :30 Stock Market Reports 4 :00 Critic's Choice 6 :00 Music at Five 6:00 Studio X 6 :55 Weatherscope 7:15 Seven O'Clock Report 7:30 The Little Show 7:55 News Roundup :00 Contemporary Concepts 9:00 Campus and Religion 9:30 Campus and Religion 9 :45 News, Weather, Sports 10:00 Symphonic Notebook 12:1)I) Sign Oft TODAY MONDAY 8 o'clock fog Parting Shots Four years is a long time to spend looking at these same green and yellow walls in the Collegian office. Maybe the way to say goodbye is simply to walk out the door and close it quietly. But I keep sitting here think ing more things need to be said and done in our Univer sity community. I wish . . that faculty salaries were in creased so Penn State wouldn't be famous for having the thin nest profs in the country. that we could get the budget request so the same thing won't be said about the students. that the HUB expansion would be pushed up on the calendar to make room for the students presently enrolled. that some of the plush of fices in Old Main were used to house the long-suffering Nittany tnen. that WDFM could get an AM frequency the next time an opportunity arises. that somebody would do something about a University bookstore. that spring (if it ever comes) wouldn't have such an effect on studies. that Food Service could think of another way to get rid of Letters Williams Missed SGT► Goal TO THE EDITOR: I read with a great deal of interest the statement of Gomer Williams that the SGA Back the Budget Committee is "a committee that does nothing." In resigning is Mr. Williams really interested in securing the $23.1 million dollars that Dr. Walker request ed from the Commonwealth? In citing his reasons for re signing Mr. Williams said "that he had been under pressure from both within and outside the committee." It appears as if Mr. Williams doesn't have the maturity to accept construc tive criticism from "within or outside the committee." I think this is a failure on his part to realize the philosophy of any committee that it should be working towards one goal. _ _ _ The goal of the SGA Back the Budget Committee was to raise a concern among the stu dents so that they would trans mit their opinions to members of the State Legislature and ultimately receive increased funds for operating the Uni versity without taking these funds from the student's pock ets in the form of a tuition increase. Although no tangible results Anti-Segregationists Ask Aid TO THE EDITOR: We ask your help. Austin, Texas, is ready for further integration of public facilities and business estab lishments. Many restaurants are open to Negroes, as are predominantly white churches and civic organizations. The University of Texas has been integrated since 1956, with no racial violence whatsoever. But our theaters refuse to open their doors to Negroes. The theater managers refer us to Mr. Leonard Goldenson, President of ABC Paramount, 7 West 66th Street, New York 23, New York, in whose hands the decision rests. For more than two years Mr. Goldenson has refused the per sistent requests of hundreds of Austin residents, Since last November as many as 600 students and citizens in a single day have stood in pro test lines in front of the thea- SATURDAY. APRIL 22. 1961 by elaine miele "meat turnovers" besides serv ing them. that freshmen didn't have to sit in the end zone during football games. that Old Main's clock would be slow when I'm late for class. that the army of IBM ma chines on camptis would never make a mistake (or rather that they were always fed the right information). that the local millionaires would build a department store in State College. that SGA would get re organized before the turn of the century. that AWS would find some thing to do. The list is not complete yet. Maybe the new senior board of Collegian -can finish it for me in the coming year—even when the phone keeps ringing with nothing but complaints or a small riot breaks out one minute before 11. p.m. dead line. I hope they continue trying to do a good job and keep wishing .. . THIRTY have come from the commit tee's efforts thus far I think that they have done an excel lent job of instilling concern among members of the student body. I will agree that attendance at committee meetings is one criteria for judging the ef ficiency of a committee, how ever, I doubt that the efficiency of a committee is measured solely by the number of meet ings they have had. It appears that Mr. Williams received much information from "sources close to the legis lature in Harrisburg." It further appears that if Mr. Williams had "important" in formation he could have dis cussed it with the various sub committee chairmen indi vidually, and knowing several of them personally I am sure that if there was anything im portant for the committee to take up at a meeting they would 'have made every effort to hold such a meeting. In closing I believe the in efficiency lies in the students who haven't written letters, but are we to resign because there are some students who haven't written? —Donald Moskowitz '63 ters three times a week. We are using every peaceful, law ful means of protest available to us. Can you help us? Inform Mr. Goldenson of ABC Paramount at the above address of your decision to patronize -only theaters which belong to integrated chains. Send a dollar, or as much as you can afford, to help buy a full page advertisement in the New York Times, protesting Mr. Goldenson's segregation policy, and to aid us in bring ing integration to Austin, and to Texas. Send your contributions to Students for Direct Action, 2844 Shoal Crest, Austin, Texas. —Chandler Davidson. President. Students for Direct Action (Editors Note: According to Mr. Davidson, the above letter was not accepted for publication in the University of Texas news paper "due to ft conservative southern censorship policy".)
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