PAGE FOUR Editorial 0 •inio A Loophole and A Solution The lack of a provision in SGA's constitution regard ing requirements for the . winning margin of votes for an SGA president may leave the results of this election in doubt. The constitution was apparently designed to meet the needs of a' political system based on a two party rather than a three party foundation. Thus, the constitution carries no mention of whether a candidate needs a plurality or a majority in order to be declared the winner. The election now in process involves three candidates and the pulse of the campaign suggests the possibility that no candidate will secure a majority of the votes. SGA President Richard Haber, in an attempt to cor rect this untennable situation, has called a- special Assem bly session, for tonight. We strongly urge all Assembly members to attend this meeting, so that a responsible decision results. The lack of a quorum at this very important meeting would give student government a black-eye that might take years to heal. This decision should be reached tonight, because a delay' might prevent a winner from emerging from this election. If SGA attempts to declare a plurality winner with out passing the appropriate legislation, the losing candi dates would seem to have a legal reason for appealing their case to the SGA Supreme Court. We believe that Assembly is more qualified than Supreme Court to make a decision of this nature, and any lack of Assembly action in this matter would appear to us as an abrogation of responsibility. We suggest that Assembly, by officially meeting three times tonight, pass an amendment requiring that the win ning candidate secure a majority of the votes. Although this might necessitate a run-off election, we believe the democratic philosophy of Pule by the majority and the handicaps of a minority administration justify this inconvenience. . A minority president would be greatly handicapped in attempts to accomplish his legislative and executive programs, because his opponents would claim that more persons =voted against him than for him. A - Student-Operated Newspaper 56• Years of Editorial Freedom •73atig Tolligiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the *University year. The Andy Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5.,1931 at the Slate Coliege, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Mail Subscription Price: $3.00 per semester $5.00 per year. Mailing Address Box 261, State College, Pa. Member of The Associated Press and The Intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK Editor '4ff`P'4' City P.ditors, Lynne Cerefice and Richard Leighton; Editorial Editors, Meg' Teichhollz and Joel Myers; Ness Editors. Patricia Dyer and Paula Dranov; Personnel and Training Director, Karen If ynerkeal; Assistant Personnel and Training Drector, Susan 'Eberly; Sports Edifor, James Karl; Assistant Sports Editor. John Morris; Picture Editor, John Beauge. Local Ad Mgr. Marge Downer; Assistant Local Ad Mgr.. Martin Zunis; National Ad Mgr,. Phyllis Hamilton; Credit Mgr., Jeffrey Schwartz; Assistant Credit Mgr., Ralph Criedintit; Classified Ad Mgr., Bobbie Graham; Circulation Mgr., Neal Reitz; Promotion Mgr.. Jane Trevaskis; Personnel Mgr., Anita Hull; Office Mgr., Marcy Gress. PPr,rm. wish cormilainta about. The Daily Collegian's editorial policy or news COV1 , 1'111:0 may voice them in the letters to the editor column or present them in Person Or in writing, to the editor. All emnplaints will he investigated and efforts made to remedy aitnation.i where this newspaper is at Nutt. The Daily Collegian. however, uphold, the right to maintain its independence and to exercise its own jptigenWilt as to what it thinks is in the best interest of the University us a whole. NO, NOT COtiPLETEO/... 1 If 4 , .......... .... . it us 0.40.4? •-•43. ..41( . .. , .. L . ! , ro. 1- -' ...trim. -_,;...- ••. - t . ..M. _—_,A.---...5:.3 WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager SNE REALLY HURT YOUR FEELINGS, DIDN'T 51-IE. CHARLIE BROWN? I HOPE gHE DIDN'T TAKE ALL THE LIFE OUT OF (0.. F * BUT YOU CAN NUMBER ME AMONG , THE WALKING WOUNDED! , fi e, THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Sciph Notes 'Self-Sacrifice' For Activities TO THE EDITOR: It was with pleasure that I read the "big activities men's" two beautiful rebuttals to Miss Wolford's col umn in the April 25, 1961 issue of The Daily Collegian in which she endorsed Dennis FoianinL I liked these rebuttals. I thought they brought out a lot of pertinent information. They showed that, contrary to pop ular belief, "big activities men" really are self-sacrificing indi viduals. And then there is John Brandt poor fool. He actu ally thought that SGA meant something more than "the big gest activity of all!" He actually thought (and no body ever bothered to set him straight) that the SGA existed to accomplish things that would make the university a better place for all concerned. People like John make it tough on all you "big activities men," •and I sympathize with you because I know how diffi cult it is fo ignore all those bad things I have heard about this University when somebody like John is continually complain ing about it. But he's just another crack pot and can't possibly do any harm. Besides, he is leaving this place soon, and there is no sense in worrying about him. It seems to me, though, that this Foianini is infected with a mania similar to Brandt's, al though he does have some good qualities. He is actually a "big activities man" at heart be cause he •has worked with or ganizations such as WDFM. But he is vain because he wants the presidency of the "biggest activity on campus." (But he won't make a good president; Harrison and Alex ander . both have more activ ities and hence more knowledge and more good sense than he would know what to do with.) He is very unconvincing when he talks about it, too, for he seems to think that even though he has none of the es sential and requisite activities (i.e. qualities) which every good SGA president must have, he would make a good one. Even I know that the best president always has the long est list of activities underneath his cherubic photograph. Just ask President Haber if you doubt my word. "Big activities men," I sal ute you, But, 'hearken! Arise before it is too late and sub due this pretentious individual who claims'he can do more for Penn State than you have ever done! Gazette Today AIM; R a.m., 203 HUB American Chemical Society, student affiliate meeting, 8:15 p.m., 103 .oantond AWS, 6:30 p.m.. 203 HUB Bus Ad Student Council, 6 ;15 p.m., 314 Boucke Chern-Pliyo Council, 7 D.ni., 217-218 11Ult Chess Club, 7 prir, HUB card room Fraternity presidents, 3 p.m., 217 HUB Frost' Advisory Board, 6:30 p.m., 214 Gamma Sims Delta, banquet. t :30 p.m., HUB dining room A and B Home Ec., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., ground floor HUB Home Ec Research Seminar, 12:30 p.m., HUH dining room A 12:15 p m., 218 HUB Jazz Club, 6 :15 p.m., 212-213 HUB La Critique, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., ground floor HUB Old gym +, 9 p.m., 21.2-213 HUB Service Club. 7 p.m., 316 Boucke Spanish Club. 7:30 p.m.. 107 Boucke SGA Assembly, 7 p.m., 203 HUB TIM. 12 pin., HUB 11 nsembly room 'Women's Chorut, 6:30 p.m., HUB as sembly room Judith Allen, Mary Ann Allen, Syl. via Ileague, Charles Beecham, David Monello, Barry Curie, John Cyic, Sally Dame; Cynthia DePalma, Ma rilyn Geyer, Kenneth Glass, Ellis Griffith, Gail Hall, Larry Handn•erk, Olive Rimes, Douglas Housenick, Linda Hunt, Julie Kahl, William Lezinski, Clifford Logan, Stephen Marder, Hewitt Mc. Cloakey, Phyllis Moberly, John M o. zeliak, Janet Munroe, Richard Parvel, Mary Phillips, Richard Ploetz, Char. lotte Rothberg, George Scheuchenzober. Sally Stephens, Gayle Sturgen, Laurence Yager. Election —Frank lingua, '63 Hospital Campaign Letters Smears, Mat-Practices 'Disgust' SGA Member TO THE EDITOR: Many eye opening things concerning stu dent politics have come to my attention during my term as an SGA member. Those of us who are involved in student government general ly are aware of the practices taking place. It is the naive ' student, however, who becomes the innocent victim of the lit tle men with little minds who corrupt student government. There are many examples that I could cite but my pur pose in writing this letter is not to reopen issues of the past but to discuss certain malprac tices of the current campaign. Here again numerous examples could be given but I shall con cern myself with just two. First is the location of voting places on campus. It was the unanimous feeling of the As sembly that polls should be placed in the various dining areas. At the Assembly meeting Thursday night, Mr. Polishook suggested a reasonable way in which this plan could be im plemented. Again the Elections Commis sioner, Bob Dufner, repeated his feeble excuses for failing to take action. Since a quorum was not present, and since the Assembly had unwisely dele gated its legislative powers to Mr. Haber for the duration of the reorganization proceedings, Ulsh Hits Student Supremacy TO THE EDITOR: I am very relieved to see that there are those among the student body who see the functions of SGA as Mr. Woltman expressed qiem in his letter in Saturday's Daily Collegian. When and only when stu dents become responsible in areas which they already have jurisdiction will they be al lowed to expand the scope of their jurisdiction. There are those members of the student body who feel that students should be supreme in all matters which directly af fect them. Do these people really show signs of responsibility and have the real interests of the students at heart? There are several instances which I might call to your attention. First of all is it really fair to have 'The Daily Collegian as the only school newspaper spend all of the student's mon ey including Mr. Harrison's and Mr. Alexander's to support one candidate for SGA Presi dent. I doubt that Miss Teichholtz is really conducting herself in a responsible manner by guid ing her pen under the cover of any amplifying device. I hope that this is the only case of "when the editor is away the assistant begins to play." Secondly, is Mr. Foianini in rising from the "radio-active" halls of apathy where he lived for the past two and one-half years really interested in stu dent government and the stu dents themselves, or is his re Soph Tired of Power 'Set-Up' TO THE EDITOR: Attitude is the most important criterion on which the three SGA presiden tial candidates should be judged. Of the three, Alexander, Foianini, Harrison who is most interested in the wishes of the student body as a whole? Who is most willing to really work in their behalf? All three candidates belong, to special groups two to fra ternities, the other to an inde pendent, politically-active group. Voters roust decide WEDNESDAY, MAY 3.1961 the Assembly was held pow erless to exercise its constitu tional right to designate the times and places for voting. Someone wanted to make awfully sure that voting was not decentralised. This issue is dead, however, because regardless of their mo tives, Mr. Dufner and his co horts have succeeded in de priving the students of all pos sible opportunity to vote. From here I would like 10 call attention fo one of the low est and most childish election maneuvers of the' entire cam• paign. Last night many fraternity presidents received a telephone call warning them to advise their brothers not to vote for Dennis Foianini for President because Mr Foianini is supposedly anti-fraternity! Announcements to this effect were consequently made in certain chapter meetings. Oth. er ridiculous rumors concern. ing the candidates were also be gun. One of the funniest was the rumor that a certain can didate is seeking office because he or she is poverty stricken and needs the money. My own reaction to these at tempted smears was one of dis gust. Nevertheless, because the average voter is unaware he may be easily deceived. I, could only advise him to be critical of what he hears and when he votes, to vote wisely. —Allison Woodall. '62 cent interest in student govern ment and the students them selves arising because it is politically advantageous to do so at this time. Thirdly, one might ask after seeing Mr. Alexander's hand ling of the SGA reorganization and the confusion into which SGA has been thrown by such handling in recent weeks whether or not he would han dle the SGA Presidency with such "competence?" Realizing, as Mr. Woltman does, that the University should be operated by University Ad ministrators and that SGA does have a function in any univer sity you ask who should be the president of our student body for next year. After close and very critical observation of the past records of Mr. Harrison and Mr. Alex ander, and the present actions of Mr. Foianini it appears that the student best qualified to represent you in dealing with the faculty, administration, and outside world is Mr. Robert Harrison. As each of you go to the polls Wednesday and Thurs day I would ask that you give serious consideration to ques tions that have been posed in this letter. —Wayne Ulsh, '62 (Editor's note: We would like to point out to Mr. Ulsh that The Daily Collegian has .not en dorsed any candidate for the SGA presidency. As for Miss Teichholtz' right to endorse a candidate from her column, Mr. Ulsh might check his federal government's constitution for further information on the free press.) which of the three will be most concerned with students and student government rather than with power, prestige and pull for his special group. I'm sorry; I can't and don't believe in the "power, pull prestige" set-up. The new SGA president should put personal interest aside and lead SGA in the 'interests of the whole stu- dent body despite pressures from special groups or the ad ministration. —Phyllis Hutton, '63 •Letter cut
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