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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.
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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.
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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.