PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Time for Improvement For the first time in the memory of many State Col lege residents there are an appreciable number of vacant rooms in the town area immediately adjacent to the campus These town vacancies are partially a result of the difference in rates between residence hall construction and admission of new students. Residence halls have housed an increasingly greater percentage of the University's students in the past few years, and this has resulted in a decrease of student tenants in town. The oversupply of room-seekers that preVailed for many years in State College forced reutal charges to clinib above rents charged for similar rooms in surround ing communities. This overcharging can be further illustrated by ob serving that rents are reduced by 20 to 35 per cent during the summer •because of the lack of tenants. Because of an abundance of room-seekers landlords bad no desire to spend money for improvements. Now, however, the supply of rooms exceeds the demand and tenants, if organized, could achieve improve ments in living conditions and possibly a decrease in rent. Some sort of inspection system whereby students could evaluate the conditions of rooms and possibly sug gest fair prices to the landlords might be established. Also the SGA housing list might be expanded to include an evaluation of the room's condition and a suggestion for a fair and reasonable rental charge. Although this would require a good deal of work, it would serve to provide the mass of town men with a sort of mobility. That is, the undesirable and overpriced rooms would be left unoccupied. This reform of town housing is of particular interest now because if either of the political parties is able to will the favor of the usually apathetic independent men, it is a good bet to win the election. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom 01P Elaitg Tollrgian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 7887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1019. Mail Subscription Price: 83.00 per semester 65.00 per year. Mailing Address Boa 261, State College, Pa. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK WAYNE HILINSKI Editor <D° Business-Manager City Editors, Lynne Cereflce and Richard Leighton; Editorial Editors, Melt Teichbolts and Joel ?dyers; News Editors, Patricia Dyer and Paula Dranor; Personnel and Training Director, Karen Dyneckeal; Assistant Personnel and Training Director. Susan Eberly; Sports Editor, James Earl; Assistant Sports Editor. John Morris; Picture Editor, John Demme. Loral Ad Mgr„ Marge Downer; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Martin Zonis: National Ad Mgr.. Phyllia Hamilton; Credit Mgr., Jeffrey Schwartz; Assistant Credit Mgr.. HMO Friedman; Classified Ad Mgr., Bobbie Graham; Circulation Mgr., Neal Keitz; Promotion Mgr., Jane Trevaskis; Personnel Mar., Anita Holl; Office Mgr., Marry Gress. Persons with complaints about The Daily Collegian's editorial policy or news coverage mg.,' voice them In the letters to the editor column or present them, in person or in writing, to the editor. All complaints will be investigated and efforts made to remedy situations where this newspaper is at Nutt. The Daily Collegian. however, upholds the right to maintain its independence and to eternise lib own judgment as to what it thinks is in the best interest ot the University as a whole. r NOW CAN A PERsoN DECIDE WHAT RE'S GOING 10 THINK?, .1.... al /..\,,\ 7 v . '. -61 .- 1 ! .-- 1 -..., 1 _ - 7 ' . 1 .:.3 te. DOESN'T HE HAVE TO THINK FIRST, AND THEN TRY TO DISCOVER WHAT IT IS THAT HE TROUGAT Yoo'RE LOOKING AT ME LOITH BLANK EYES! THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Soph. Hits Elex Plan Of Dufner TO THE EDITOR: It never ceases to amaze me as to how an Elections Commission Chair man can be so ignorant of ba sic green roots politics. For Mr. Robert Dufner's sake I would like to cite an example that is consistent for the entire nation. I am from a town with a pop ulation of 12 thousand. Some six thousand people are regis tered and eligible to vote. The city provides i 4 polling places scattered conveniently across the town. Compare this with Penn State and its enrollmerit of over 12 thousand and therefore 12 thousand eligible voters. However, we are provided with only three polling places. If Mr. Dufner honestly be lieves that the lack of turnout of student voters in an SGA election is a vote of confidence for student government, then he is living in a dream world. Mr. Dufner cited a distur bance that occurred a few years •,ago when residence hall voting was tried. Couldn't the same thing happen in the HUB or Willard, or anywhere else, for that matter? Now, speaking of foresight, any assembly that doesn't have the foresight to see that some of its members are sitting il legally, or the foresight to note that two assemblymen are claiming the same seat, then that assembly is an irresponsi ble assembly and why should n't it be elected by irresponsi ble voters? In conclusion I would like to say that it is my hope that campus politics grows up and begins to act as the mature group it is supposed to be. •Letter cut TODAY Campus Party. 6 p.m.. 212 HUB Chemistry Colloquium, 12:30 p.m., 802 Whitmore Civil Defense, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., HUB ca rd room Economics Seminar, 12 noon, RUB dining room Frosh Queen Interviews, 9:30 p.m., 214 HUB 1.V.C.F., 12:46 p.m., MI HUB Rending Festiva!, 12 Titan, HUB read. mg room BGA, 7 :30 p.m. 203 HUB University Par ty, 7 p.m., 213 HUB Eichmann: A Reverse Christ By STEPHEN R. BLUM Contributing Writer The trial of Adolph Eich mann is now several days old and it seems it has been going on for weeks. It is boring, as boring as the le gal machinery that has brought Eichmann to "justice." I am of Jewish birth. Al though I was not of an age when I had yet learned to feel horror, still f am not too far removed from that time of in humanity that was World War Why then, I ask myself, do I seem so insensitive to the Eich. mann trial? Why then do I feel that Eichmann is receiving "justice" rather than justice? I suppose I should feel ashamed at not being full of wrath, or at least being full of wrath's more sophisticated counterpart: a calm indigna tion. However: The world is treating Adolph Eichmann as a reverse Christ. We are 'all casting our stones at this one man—in the des perate hope 'that we can con demn him and then forget. Ironically 'enough the purpose of dragging the trial out for months is the opposite: to make us remember that horrid time Letters to the Editor —Leo Scoda, '63 Gazette University Administration Holds 'Ultimate Power' TO THE EDITOR: It seems to me there is a- basic misconcep tion among many people as to the duties and responsibilities of a student government asso ciation and, more particularly, of student leaders. Most certainly it is not the purpose of such a governing association to defy the ultimate authorities of this University. The administrative members of this University have a greater responsibility to the state of Pennsylvania in the education of its youth than they have to the whims of the student body. Why should the working time of these administrators be taken up with petty argu ments? And also at this point let me challenge the student body with this question: Should a student's concern be with the quality of education he is receiving during his term of residence, or should it be with a problem of where he can park his car or this length of his Thanksgiving vacation? Why don't the advocates of a powerful and demanding SGA sit back and take a good look at the situation. The first thing they should realize is that a university community is not a democratic community. In an area such as this there is not time for such a govern- A group of people. well trained in university and busi ness circles, with the experi ence necessary for good think ing and clear planning, are Much better suited for adminis tering this community than a group of four year (soon to be three year) transients. These administrators have the experience of the past and the plans for the future in their grasp. Can . anyone say that a student knows what is best for Campus Win 'Put Up or Shut Up' TO THE EDITOR: Sob Harri. of the parade of status-seekers son's fraternity brother, Rich- that call themselves a govern ard Levinson, has termed im- ment. The lists of activities that practical Dennis Foianini's appear on election posters each pledge to call new elections year seem in direct proportion upon demand by the student to the insincerity of the candi body. dates they represent. Mr. Foianini is, in my ex- Campus people say they will perience, the only candidate for put up or shut up, and that's any office at Penn State, past the only sensible thing I've and present, to promise he will heard any candidate say in produce or get out and back it up. years I, for one, am sick and tired that caused the creation of a new word: genocide. Adolph Eichmann is the "bad guy," and all the world is the "good boy" full of righteous indignation. We feel no com plicity at having watched and read about one of the greatest of those occasional neurotic bloodbaths that niar history and are called wars. Americans and the British alike feel no pangs of regret at having forestalled the cre ation of the country of Israel long enough so that the Nazis could, quantitatively speaking, come within a not-too-small mathematical fraction of hav ing "solved" the Jewish Prob lem. With a melodramatic flourish that elated the hearts of mil lions, Eichmann was caught. What to do with this man (let us never forget that man is an animal—some higher and some lower than other animals) caught the emotions and the minds of millions. The decision was made: by showing Eichmann to the rest of the world the Israeli gov ernment would, at one and the same time, both revenge its six million who never had the chance to become citizens 'of Israel (or of any other land) and also show the world the figure of the person who is the most recent personification of THURSDAY. APRIL 27. 1961 Penn State when all he knows is the present? The real responsibility of a student government is to' co ordinate the present wishes of the student body with the plans of the University in the Vest manner possible. If the ideas are diametrically op posed, the temporary should yield to the lasting. , For this reason, the leaders Of the student body are given extra and essential information, so that they may better co ordinate the plans of a student governing body. - And now a word aiibut the student leaders and their selec tion. Wouldn't we all be sur prised if one of the graduates of 1961 were asked to become the president and chairman of the board for the Proctor & Gamble Company? Even if his name were Gam ble, we would be surprised. For a local example, what if Ken Kastle—a name chosen from the staff list at the Daily Col legian—had been chosen as editor of The Daily Collegian last week. Wouldn't we be surprised? The reason for this surprise is obvious: Though a new 'per son comes with new ideas, are these ideas tempered with' the training and experience that make their sound, workable ideas? Workers must be trained in the field they are about to en ter, and they must be care fully trained if they are des tined to assume positions of leadership and responsibility. With these questions in mind I feel each student should re appraise his attitudes and phil osophy towards student gov ernment and our campus lead ers. There seems to be some faulty reasoning somewhere. —Gary W. Robinson, '6l —Dave McKelvey, '62 that form of unbalanced"animal which could be called the chronic anti-Semite. Yes, the trial will bring its revenge—no matter how much the emotions of the participants are trying to mask this revenae under the legal make-believe of witnesses for the defense and prosecution. But will the trial serve to re awaken the world to the hor rors of genocide? I think not. Try to conceive of six mil lion, that is 6,000,000. Think of six million dollars, then try and think of six million peo ple; next try and conceive of 6,000,000 dead people. Very dif ficult, is it not—rather beyond our academic imagination. We cannot conceive of the horror of what was done to the Jew ish people during World War Do not drag the Eichmann trial out—for it shall bore oth ers than myself, others who do not understand the magnitude of the pile of bodies 6,000,000 in number. Do not give Eichmann a "fair trial"—it will take too ,long to have any effect on those who cast stones. Either kill Eichmann out of pure revenge or give him to Lincoln Rockwell's neo-Nazis so that he can start again and give us a better example of what the figure 6,000,000 means and says.
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