PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Constitution Changes The proposed constitution now before the SGA Assembly provides a solid governmental structure. The change in the base of representation—living areas instead of class—make constituencies a reality. Two other changes in particular make this constitu tion a much stronger one than the present and add lati tude to the jurisdiction of SGA. The cabinet has been strengthened by expanding it to include the presidents of all the college councils and the major residence councils (AWS, MRC, IFC, and TIM). Integrating ihese councils in to the structure under SGA unifies the whole system of student government on campus. The proposed constitution also provides SGA with a new power—the power to charter, review and rescind charters of all student organizations. The Senate Commit tee on Student Affairs has advocated for some time that SGA take over this job. However, there is one clear contradiction in the pro posed constitution and a few provisions we still question. One section of the constitution says a person in the gallery may be recognized only for a point of information. This is in direct opposition to a later section under the Bill of Rights which says, "any member of the faculty, adminis tration, or student body may attend and present to the Assembly matters which concern student welfare.” Other provisions we question are the provision which allows tribunals to perpetuate themselves by holding the majority vote on the committee which selects new tribunal members. The judicial branch of government is one of the strong est, and members to this branch should be appointed by the president, assembly or agency outside the judicial itself. Finally, ihe by-laws provide that if an Assemblyman loses his academic average, or goes student leaching for a term he becomes ineligible that term but may become eligible again the' next. If an Assmblyman becomes ineligible to hold office, his constituency (living area) should be allowed to elect another representative rather than lose their representa tion for that term. Rally Time Again A “Back the Budget” car caravan sponsored by the three political parties will culminate in a rally on the steps of Old Main tomorrow afternoon. The potential news coverage of this event is surpassed only by President Kennedy's news conferences. More than 200 Pennsylvania journalists and publishers including Governor Lawrence’s news secretary are on campus at tending the annual Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association conference. With this captive audience of news reporters on campus, an energetic rally could get statewide publicity and send Lawrence's secretary home with a firm impres sion of student support for the increase in appropriations. The rally must be kept orderly, but if students should pour out of the residence halls, rooming houses and fra ternities as they did in football victory rallies of recent years, the threat of a tuition hike might be squelched. A Student-Operated Newspaper 56 Years of Editorial Freedom iatlg (EnUrgian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Publiihed Tuesday through Saturday morninjr during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1 y;U at the tftate College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March S, 1879. Mail Subscription Price: $5.00 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 City Editors, Lynn# Orifice and Richard Leighton; Editorial Editors, Meg Telchhnlti and Joel Myers; News Editors, Patricia Dyer and Paula Dranov; Personnel and Training Director, Karen Hyneckeal; Assistant Personnel and Training Director, Susan Eberly; Sport* Editor, James Kar): Assistant Sports Editor, John MorrU; Picture Editor. John Beauge. Local Ad Mgr., Marge Downer: Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Martin Zonla; National Ad Mgr., Phyllis Hamilton: Credit Mgr., Jeffrey Schwarts; Assistant Credit Mgr., Ralph Friedman; Classified Ad Mgr., Bobbie Graham; Circulation Mgr., Neal Krlts; Promotion Mar., Jane XreTsukW; Personnel Mgr., Anita Holl: Office Mgr„ Marry Grras. TODAY Emerson Society, T p.m., Chess f luh. 7 p.m., HUB card room hoover Chapel Graduate Square Dance, 9 p.m., HUD Freahman Customs, 7 p.m., 218 HUB ballroom Student movie, 6 :30 p.nn, HUB assent* Employment, noon, 213 HUB bly room Institute of Food Technicians, 9 a.m., Swtrienborgian, 10:45 a m., 212-218 •217-218 HUH HUB Kappa Alpha Phi, 8 p.m., 212 HUH MONDAY OHdA, 9 a.m.. HUH Assembly Hal! Alpha Phi Omega, 7 p.m., 212-218 HUB Student Movie. 7:30 p.m., HUB assent- Beta Colony, 9 p.m., 217 HUB lily room Bridge Club, 7 p.m.. HUB card room •‘Three Sister*,” 8 p.m., Conference Cwens, 8:30 p.m., 218 HUB Center Faculty Luncheon Club, noon, HUB l/nlrersity Chapel Choir-University dining room A Symphony Concert, 8 p.m., Schwab IFC, 7:30 p.m., HUB assembly room ISA, 7 p.m., 203 HUB TOMOHKOW IVCF, 12:45 p.m., 213 HUB Art Department. 3 p.m., HUB Main IVCF, 7 p.m., 216 HUB Lountcc Newman Club, 7 p.m., 217-218 HUB Block- S Club, 6:30 p.m., 217 HUB Special Ed, 7 p.m., 214-215 HUB Cht«> Club, 2 p.m., HUB card room Special Ed, 8 a.m., 212-213 HUB WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager Gazette THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Soph Hits Squandering TO THE EDITOR: Indeed how fortunate we are that we have students such as Duane Alex ander who are willing to watch out for our interests. I am in full agreement with his efforts to divert the unused class gift funds from the li brary. Why just recently I was in the library, and guess what I saw? Bookshelves full of dir ty, dusty, germ-laden books. And believe it or not, I am told that there are still more books in the back rooms! Now with all these books, why should we waste students' mon ey on more books? It's only common sense that we'll get new books when the old ones wear away, and since only a few select books are al lowed out of the library for more than a day, the books should lasi for quite a while. It was also very keen of him to note that the state legisla ture may appropriate money for our library. If that or any other imminent event (e.g., the earth falling into the sun) should occur, then our money will just be wasted. I like the idea of Stone Val ley, but if that doesn’t pass SGA, maybe some of my sug gestions for utilizing the sur plus cash will be helpful. How about a huge bomb shelter for the next Civil Defense test, or maybe gold trimmed uniforms for the Campus Patrol, or even flashing neon lights to identi fy all the buildings on campus? Perhaps as a gesture of good will on lhe part of the students towards the town, we could present the money to Messrs. Keeler, Metzger, and A Store in payment for the mental an guish we've caused them by mentioning a student-run book agency. I certainly hope though, that Mr. Foianini wakes up and re alizes that we students don’t want to squander our money on useless things such as books. —Mike Muldawer, '62 Coverage Questioned TO THE EDITOR: Did you know that yesterday was Hon ors Day? Apparently not! Does n’t this newspaper believe in giving recognition to students of outstanding scholastic achievement? Evidently it does not from the size of the article written on the last page of yesterday’s Collegian. Will the Collegian publish only the names of stu dents in athletic, social, and political activities? Doesn’t it feel it's worth the space to publish the names of outstanding scholars of the University? Could you imagine the re percussions if the announce ments of the Spring Week Awards were not mentioned on the first page and did not in :lude the names of the winners? Perhaps this is why Penn State is known as a “Country Club," an intellectual void. Reader, if you are convinced that Penn State does not place enough emphasis on scholastic achievement, ask yourself and the few people standing around you. “What is an Evan Pugh Scholar?” WDFM Schedule SATURDAY 2:00 Metropolitan Opera (Lire) 6:00 Spotlight 6:05 Weatiierseopo 7:00 Hi Fi Open Hoosa 9:00 Off-Dent 1:00 Rony and Mr. X *:00 Sign Off SUNDAY 6:00 Chapel Service 6:00 Chamber Music 6:00 Mormon Choir 7:00 Highlights of the Week 7:15 The Third Programme 1:00 Sign Off 210 Ei.ien- MONDAY 8:25 Financial Tidbits 3:50 Stock Market Reports 4:00 Critic's Choice 5:00 Music at Fire 6:00 Studio X 6:55 Weatherecope 7:15 Seven O'clock Report 7:30 The Little Show 7 :55 News Roundup 8:60 Contemporary Concepts 9:00 Campus end Religion 9:30 Campus and Religion 9:45 Newa, Weather, Sports 10:00 Symphonic Notebook 11:00 Sign Oft —Kaihy Boflhalmus, '6l drifting and dreaming Batting Average —— by karen hyneckeal We were playing baseball in front of the Collegian office. Just a small, friendly game. We girls smashed the ball over the hedges and down by Schwab and the boys chased it. Every so often a passer-by, anxious to get in our game, would retrieve the ball for us and send it soaring across Pol lock Road, br field.” ; One boy, ' however, who was walking on our side of the street stopped to look at us in disgust. “Why don’t you get in there and put out your old paper,” he said. Then he quickly turned his head and walked away. A few minutes later, another member of our passing audi ence whined, "It must be nico to have nothing to do, no blue books, no finals, no . . .” Her voice trailed behind her. At first, I was sure they must be kidding but the expressions on their faces told me other wise. Somehow, though, I think they might be represen tative of us all at one time or another. We college students are busy people. We have to determine what the United States' for eign policy on Cuba should be and put it in a term paper. We have to analyze Faulk ner’s “The Sound and the Fury” and still find time to memorize all the factors affecting the economic system in South Af rica. If we are involved in a for eign language, it is of imme diate importance that we learn all variations of all possible nouns and verbs. In less than two weeks, wa will be faced with our very most magnanimous duty of the semester collect all the odds and ends and dates and names we've ever heard of, pack them into our already overcrowded Letters Old Main Called Inactive TO THE EDITOR: If Penn State does not receive the full appropriation as requested by Dr. Eric A. Walker the blame will fall not on the legislature or on the Governor, but on our own administration. I am writing this letter so that the students, faculty, and administration may know the truth about our appropriation. Up until now, pressures have forced me to keep quiet. There is no chance whatso ever that Penn Slate will re ceive the full appropriation un less a strong stand is taken by our own administration. If such a stand were taken, there is a great possibility that we would receive the appro priation because Dr. Walker is highly respected in political circles and his opinion is held in high regard. Mr. Reed Ferguson, one of our lobbyists, told me that our legislature is taking a “wait and see” attitude. He added, “There is no reason to pressure Governor Lawrence because he likes us and would like to help us, but he has no money.” I strongly disagree with this. Let's face the facts. This Gov ernor's Committee on Education report is the third report that has been made and pigeon holed by our legislators and the Governor. Only 27 per cent of Pennsyl vania’s college-age students at tend college. Compare this with California's GO per cent and Massachusetts’ 55 per cent. Our state is well below the national average. As a result, the Committee strongly recommended that Penn State be given all the money it needs to expand. If we do not receive our full appropriation, Penn State will be hurt by the fact that some of its leading professors will leave for better positions else where and many students here will be unable to continue their education because Penn State SATURDAY. MAY 20. 1961 heads and give them back to our professors on paper. Five minutes later, we’ll for get them. Yes, we college students cer tainly are busy people. We’re too busy to play baseball on a May afternoon, too busy to walk in the rain just for the heck of it and much, much too busy to go to the library for any reason other than research. We’re busy getting an edu cation. We simply must attend every single class. If we’re brave enough or sleepy enough to cut, we absolutely have to find out what the professor said that might be on the final. And doing well on our finals is especially important since we're faking 18 or more credits so we can graduate early. Besides worrying about fi nals, we have all these papers due. Our biggest problem here is that Joe might not lend us the one he handed in last se mester. That means we’ll have to do it ourselves and what do we know or care about France's reaction to Louis XIII? We're busy getting an edu cation all right but are we get ting educated? Maybe we can’t see the course for the classes or the subject matter for the papers. Whatever our trouble, what ever our reasons, we’re miss ing something. Some thing equal to, if not more important, than this ralrace to get a grade, a credit, a degree. In three weeks, it will be all over, at least for the summer. And what will it matter then, I mean really matter, whether or not we knew on what day of the week the battle of Gettys burg began? Was it Monday? Saturday? I’m not sure. And I’m too busy to look it up now. I’m up next. will have the highest tuition of any state university in the na tion. If our state is ever io have a commitment io higher educa tion it must come now—in this session of the General Assem bly. Dedication on the part of our professors is one thing, but when secondary school teachers in other states are earning more than our college professors, you cannot expect these pro fessors to remain here. The salaries our state pays to teach ers is deplorable. Our own administration has requested that our professors not take part in the campaign to receive full appropriation be cause “this wouldn’t be right.” I strongly disagree with this too. Either Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Wyand, our two lobbyists, are lying to me, or else the one doesn't know what the other is doing. I have had very con flicting reports during my sev eral visits to their office. They have poor communica tions with Harrisburg, they don’t know how much support they have in Harrisburg for the appropriation, they haven’t asked anyone to amend the bill, etc. Their basic argument against me is that they have had more experience in these matters than I. However, their experi ence has been one of never re ceiving the full appropriation under President Walker. (Ru mors in Harrisburg indicate that Dr. Walker has political hopes. By his actions this year, I would say these rumors are true.) On the other hand, I have people working with me be cause they are concerned with education and some of these people have been in politics over 20 years. I believe that our adminis tration is playing a smooth (Continued on page five)
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