PAGE FOUR Editorial 0 A Plurality With Dignity Student government took quick action to work its way out of a perilous situation somewhat extra-legally last night When it agreed to insure that a plurality of votes would be sufficient for election to SGA offices. Although SGA Assembly, which has found itself in several untenable situations recently, did not have a quorum, it made its decision by a straw vote and SGA president Richard Haber pledged to carry out the Assem bly's wishes, Assembly drew upon past precedents and expediency to clarify procedure for this election. It is clear that a ruling favoring elections by a majority would have been in the true democratic tradition and would have yielded a clear mandate to the winner. Yet this probably would have made a run-off election inevitable and would have magnified an unfortunate over sight in the present SGA constitution. The end result might have increased student apathy when, with the large voting turnout, it seems that the fog just may be lifting from past "sophisticated" disinter est in SGA. In contrast, it may also be noted that the case favoiing a plurality election was strong when the past precedents in this vein, both recent and under Cabinet in 1955, were considered This sense of tradition and dignity is new to SGA and extremely complimentary. We were also pleased to see that Richard Haber agreed to use his executive powers in aiding the implementation of Assembly's straw vote decision. He guaranteed that he would issue an executive order insuring what the Assembly, for lack of a quorum could not—that plurality would rule. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom 00 •Eittitti Ciargiau Successor to The Free Lance, est 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The tinily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered us second-class matter July 5, 1931 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Matt 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 seDn' City Editors, Lynne Cerefice and Richard Leighton; Editorial Editors, Meg Teivhholit and Joel Myers Ncus Editors, Patricia Dyer and Paula Dranov Personnel and Training Director. Karen Byneekeal; Assistant Personnel and Training Ihreclor. Susan EherlY ; Sports Editor, James Karl; Assistant Sports Editor, John Morris; Picture Editor. John Beauge. Local Ad Mgr., Marge Downer; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Martin Zonisi National Ad Mgr.. Ithylliß Hamilton; Credit Mgr„ Jeffrey Schwartz; Assistant Credit Mgr.. Ralph Friedman; Claaaitied Ad Mgr., Bobbie Graham; Circulation Mgr., Neal Reitz; Promotion Mgr., Jane Trevaskis; Personnel Mgr., Anita Hull; Office Mgr„ Marcy Creas. Persons with COMOhlilitS about The Daily Collegian's editorial policy or news e,teccito• nul l , 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 fault. The Daily Collegian, however. upholds the right to maintain its independence and to exercise its own Judgment as to W 1111( it thinks is in the best Interest of the University as a whole. PSYCHIATRIC HELP 54 Docroß git - 11 4.43: TODAY Ag 11111 Party, 6::10 p.m.: 21G HUB Gamma Sigma Sigma, 6 :30 p.m., 217, Air Force Glee Club, 3 ) ,,m, DUD A,,_ 218 DUD ... senility room • German Department, 8 p.m., main Angel Flight Drill, 6:; d p.m., it 011 lounge HUB terrace Home Economics Seminar, 12:30 p.m., Block 'S' Club, Flasheard Committee. 'lining room A HUB 7 p.m., 213 11 011 IVCF, 12 :45 p.m., 218 HUB Cadet Staff, 7 p.ni., 9 Carnegie Liberal Arta Student Council, 6:30 Chews (1114,, 7 p.m., MAI carilromn p.m., 215 HUH Chi Epsilon, 7:45 p.m., 212 HUD Liberal Party, 9 p.m., 212 11U13 Elections, R a.m., to 5 pm., It round SL A, Executive, Legislative Reorgan. f loor 11011 ization meeting, 7 p.m., 203 HUB Elections Committee, 7 p.m., lillls Sorority House Managers, 8 p.m.. 216 eardrum : 11011 Gamma Sigma Delta, 6 :30 p.m., dining University Party, 7 p.m., 212 HUD riom‘s A and D BUD WIZ Committee. 1-5 p.m., 213 HUH inion I WONDtR IAAY YOU DON'T SEE THEM,SO MUCH ANY MORE,. WHAT 6 TAKEN THEIR PLACE? I LA Ai .0 • VW.; Gazette THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager Letters Foianini Backed By 'Boneila TO THE EDITOR: Within the last several years our SGA has been subject to a constant deg radation by a seemingly end less line of status seekers, op portunists, and spotlight per sonalities, Penn State student govern ment deserves a better chance than it has gotten in these "de pressing" years, and only you the students can give it the im petus it requires. You as individuals must col lectivize (by voting) on behalf of the man who in your opinion can lift SGA out of its quandry. While activities are good ex perience, they are not a pana cea. It takes more than—activi ties to give a candidate the backbone to stand behind his convictions and push for. what he thinks and knows the stu dents want from SGA. What good comes from read ing a long list of activities, re lated or unrelated to govern ment if they have not helped the candidate mature. What leadership qualities did Mr. Harrison and Mr. Alexan der exert in SGA this past year? If any, were their con tributions substantial? I contend that these two gentlemen in question DID NOT exert nor do they possess the characteristics of a strong leader who can mold the thoughts of the members of SGA, for if these qualities were part of them, they would have come to the forefront during the struggle of reorganization rather than losing their plans in the oblivion of secret meet ings and sorority rush. In evaluating the candidates, I find only one such man as piring for the top student office in the University who possesses the leadership potential supple mented by heart, drive, and de sire to lift SGA to its former stature. In his quiet, yet affirmative approach, Mr. Dennis Foianini definitely warrants your con sideration as All-University President. —John F. Bonella, '6l C.D. Protest Misinformed TO THE EDITOR: The group that protested the CD test is obviously misinformed. Civil Defense is a very efficient na tional organization which will provide invaluable service to the people in case of war. When an atomic attack does come, it will not be the final blow, True, the destruction will be staggering, but it is possible to live through a nuclear ex plosion with proper protection. We will have about 15 min utes warning of a missile at tack. If in this time we take cover in a properly designed shelter, our chances are good. Outside of the area of major destruction -the problem will be radiation. A properly de signed shelter will prevent fall out from entering and it will probably be safe to go outside after a week or so. Civil Defense will be respon sible for getting people to these shelters, providing sup plies, communication, disaster equipment, and trained radia tion detection personnel. These things are necessary for sur vival. If some people want to stand and yell "peace" while they are being turned into radio active gas, let them, but for myself, I'll take cover and be around to finish the war and re build. —Harold Harrington, '63 HOSPITAL Mary Ann Allen, Barbara Baran, David Bonello, Sylvia Brague, Evelyn Cline, Barry Corle, Cynthia Depalnut, Mark DuMars, Elizabeth Engelman, Kenneth Glass, Gail Hall, Olive Billies, Ruth Ann Horner, Steve Hronee, Frank lingua. Linda Hunt, Julie Kahl, Ar lene Kirson, William Lezinski, Arthur Livingston, Clifford Logan, Stephen Monier, Hewitt McCloskey, John Mu xolisk, Janet Munroe, William Orf, Richard Farrel, James Penvose, Rich ard Metz, Ronald Ramey, WealeY Richard, Charlotte Rothberg, George Seheuchenzuber, Gayle Sturgen. Otto Wolff, Laurence Yager. Letters Williams' View of Ulsh; 'A Victim of the System' TO THE EDITOR: Wayne Ulsh is a naive student who has be come the victim of wanting status on this campus. He is willing to do almost anything to achieve this status. - - _ Once again Mr.. Ulsh, our Senator from Old Main, showed his ability to make irrespon sible statements without hav ing facts behind them. The Daily Collegian has sup ported no one. In her column Miss Teichholtz was only stat ing her rather strong convic tions. She sat in the gallery at the SGA meetings for a year and I respect her opinions. I respect them because I sat in the same gallery and find many of her opinions to be true. One wonders whether the misguided Mr. Ulsh would like to do away with all freedom of the- press. Is this what his constituents in Old Main want? As Mr. Ulsh well knows, Mr. Foianini has showed an in terest in student government before. My question is, where is Ulsh's interest in the stu dents when he refuses to intro duce bills into the Assembly until he talks to the "boys." It appears that Mr. Foianini is too popular with the stu dents. The Administration is afraid that he might win and hence campaigning in the din ing halls and rooms are no longer permitted. Fraternities have been tell 'Mathis Plank' TO THE EDITOR: With elec tions now going on it looks like Bob Harrison has come up with the cheapest trick we will see in this campaign. I am referring to his stra tegically-timed disclosure of the University Party's "Mathis Plank." While his announcement that he had learned of a date when Johnny Mathis could appear here was carefully worded to imply that this was just a sam ple of the hard work Mr. Har rison will do if elected, it was also calculated to attract the votes of those students who are more interested in amuse ment than in our student gov ernment, to contact the agency shows only the cleverness of his cam paign managers. It is likely that this is an indication of how much time and effort Harrison would put into the office of SGA president if elected. I sincerely hope that no stu dents will permit such cheap stunts as this to cloud the real issues in this election. —Steve Monheimer '64 Perhaps these students don't •Letter cut Control in the 'Jungle' TO THE EDITOR: I read with interest Meg Teichholtz's col umn on the activities jungle at Penn State. After the recent revelation that the BX Board of Cohtrol has been staffed for the past six years exclusively by mem bers of three fraternities, Tau Kappa_, psilon, Phi Sigma Del ta, and Delta Sigma Phi, I won der if her statements that status seekers are groomed for positions in student govern ment are not essentially true. I note that all three of the BX fraternities have candidates in the election. Four fraterni ties who ran winning candi dates for the top offices last Eichmann May Reawaken World TO THE EDITOR: This letter made by the German govern. is written in regard to Stephen ment to Israel paid for the Blum's article: "Eichmann, A Jews "convinces me that the Reverse Christ" (April 27, world has already forgotten." 1961 Daily Collegian). In essence, Dr. Servatius As I see it, the trial of presented the world Jewish Adolph Eichmann can serve Community with a receipt: 6 one great purpose, that is to MILLION JEWS PAID IN re-awaken the peoples of the FULL. world, especially those who However, this does not mean call themselves Aryan, to the that Israel should not try Eich terrible crimes committed mann. lam inclined to believe against the Jews and against that Israel has a moral respon humanity. sibility to try .Eichmann, and lam inclined to agree with to expose all of the grotesque Mr. Blum in that the trial will acts committed against the be fruitless. Jews and against humanity. The world wants to forget The world will be a better this horrible calamity so that and safer place to live when it will not weight heavy on its and only when it remembers. conscience. Until such time, it is the re- The fact that Dr. Robert Ser vatius, chief counsel for Wich mann, made a statement to the effect that the reparations THURSDAY. MAY 4. 1961 ing their brothers not to vote for Mr. Foianini because he is anti-fraternity. This is absurd. Mr. Dufner has refused to have ballot boxes in the dining halls. Yet with all these disad vantages Mr. Foianini's popu larity is increasing. There is no doubt in my mind that he would make the best SGA president. Perhaps Mr. Foianini is wrong in believing that the students should have a say in matters which directly affect them and in believing that the SGA should be more than an activity. I have worked with the SGA during the past year and I know it can be very effective if it has the proper leader. Foianini is that man. He has intelligence, initiative, and plans action instead of words. Alexander has made a ter rible mess out of reorganiza tion. Harrison has repeatedly changed his position during the campaign so that it agrees with Old Main. Is this what we want for our SGA President? I urge all students to vote in the elections for the person who they think will make the best leader. SGA needs a strong leader; Dennis Foianini is the person who will do, the best job. —Cromer Williams '63 Termed Cheap realize just how simple and meaningless Harrison's action was. With just one phone call or letter (to General Artists Corporation) any student on campus can learn the open dates of hundreds of other top performers. That Harrison was the first year are doing the same again this year. The student body has not had an independent president in the last four years. Only one independent is running for of fice, Dennis Foianini. Duane Alexander, running independent of a party is a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon. It seems that there is indeed a power structure at Penn State, although, as Bob Um stead explained during the BX incident, "anyone is free to try out." A continued lack of interest on the part of the student body will certainly ensure that this structure will remain intact in the coming year. --Joannah M. Purnell '63 *Letter cut sponsibility of those in a posi tion to do so to remind the world of its past transgressions. —Richard J. Brumberg, .8
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