TUESDAY. MAY 23. 1961 the megaphone Summit Meeting We were sitting in the Lion’s Den Friday morning doing some “people watching” and eavesdropping when one coed came up with the quote for the week. “What”, we heard her mutter between sips of coke and doses of Collegian, “is this thing they call encamp ment? Sounds like a blast—but what’s it doing for me?” Just then someone fed a few nickels into the stereo and our sleuthing into the general mind of the student body was out do n e by a Beethoven So nata with bon go accompani ment All hough we’re not re lated to Gallup and the boys we know enough about statistics to know that our one sample was insufficient for a poll. Miss Teichholtz Investigating further, we were not surprised to find that most students were totally in different to the activities of their leaders, who each fall, secrete themselves at Mt. Alto for a game of tennis with Prexy. These findings in part repre sent an intangible—call it a nebulous feeling that somehow bull sessions with the Ad ministration have not yielded better student government. But then we remembered what we had heard at SGA Assembly meeting the night before. We heard Skip Witmer and Ed Grubb speak of the intangible feeling that accom panied the Mt. Alto summit meeting each year. They said one couldn’t ap preciate this feeling unless one had been to encampment, but that it, in itself was reason to keep encampment at Mt. Alto. Now we never went to en campment our application CIRCULATION STAFF 7pM MEETING TONIGHT i„ Office Concerning Next Year's Operations !j BOOKING For SUMMER And FALL TERMS j > All zooms with hoi and cold running waier or private bath < [ ... maid service . . . inner-spring maliresses , . , Television § ... Parking ... Central Location. Quiet for rest and study. tCall Mrs. Cox AD 7-7792 or AD 7-4850 Weekend Accommodations /or Family and Friends Cot.niat JJoIJ 123 W. NITTANY AVE. - * -wiMny- ' 1 , . % The University of Maine provides the ideal opportunity for ttimulating summer study in the invigorating atmosphere * • cf one of our nation's choicest vacation regions . Warm, sunny days and cool evenings ample opportunity to enjoy off-nours and week-end trips to inland lakes and mountains, ”' 5 -- : the seashore and famed resort areas tor swimming, fishing, boating, hiking, mountain climbing, golf every outdoor activity. Cultural interests, too; concerts, summer theatres, art exhibits and other social and cultural programs. ■> (*• l a —4* 1 by meg teichholtz was rejected lasi spring and this fall we will be putting out the 32-page orientation issue of Collegian while the meetings are being held. So, you see, we cannot evalu ate encampment in the same intangible terms. This puts us in the same unfortunate boat as the student body at large. What we can say, however, is that if Dennis Foianini’s goal of producing strong govern ment for this student body at large is to become tangible more work and more people will have to dedicate their time to what he has termed “a sober evaluation of past encamp ments,” in addition to the pres ent problems to be considered. Quite logically, more people would mean that encampment would have io be held here at University Park, since Mt. Al io center can only accommo date 70 people, many of whom attend by position. Other points in favor of hold ing encampment at University Park include that it would be somewhat less expensive, all old files and reports are readily available, and the entire Ad ministration is present. These may not be intangibles, but we hope they won’t be dis missed for this reason. As a matter of fact all this talk about the “spirit” of en campment makes us recall the “spirit of Geneva” in 1955. What did it all mean the next year? (Views of columnists do not necessarily represent the views of The Daily Collegian.) Make % i VACATIONIAND Your "TjOyi VOCATIONIAND attend Summer Sessions at UNIVERSITY of MAINE GRADUATE and UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS at ORONO and PORTLAND. MAINE Several hundred courses ranging from Art to Zoology, T op-ranking faculty, nationally know visiting lecturers. Conferences, institutes, workshops, tours and assemblies. Special programs of recreation and entertainment. THREE WEEK SESSION, JUNE 19-JULY 7 SIX WEEK SESSION, JULY 10-AUGUST 18 For detailed Information write toi Director of Summer Session University of Maine Orono, Mains THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Black's View of L.P Challenged TO THE EDITOR: When the editor of The Daily Collegian, Johnny Black, believes it ne cessary to publicly state his motives for joining Lion’s Paw, then proceeds to defend them, he obviously has a good reason. The problem, though, lies within his understanding of Lion’s Paw. Lion’s Paw is a senior men’s honorary society, founded or iginally upon the altruistic ideals of humility and service to the college; these ideals jus tified its secrecy. More recently Lion's Paw, somewhat surreptitiously, has rationalized its existence as a benevolent discussion group, exerting influence only ihrough the exchange of ideas among members "a bull session," a la Johnny Black. The immediate difficulty to be recognized is that only ac tion, not bull-sessions can jus tify the raison d’etre of a for mal group with its attendant prestige and status symbol, as T& nmi' ■ JLkJLii m L’r’l Pack or Bo: Question #1: As a college student, do you believe that you are taking the best advantage of your educational opportunities? • Answer: Question #2: Some college men are wearing trimmed beards, Do you think most girls will be attracted to men with trimmed beards? Answer: Question #3: Answer: Question #4: Answer: UNLOCK A NEW WORLD OF FRESH SMOKING PLEASURE Start Fresh with I] 1f... Stay Fresh with UM ... Answer, Question #1: Answer, Question *2: Answer, Question *3: Answer, Question #4: Campus Opinion The more you smoke, the more you appreciate today’s I,*M. You start fresh with L*M, and you stay fresh with L«M. Do away with dried oii’ taste for good. The secret? Flavor Seal . . . lAM’* special way of moisturizing tobacco to seal in natural tobacco freshness ... natural tobacco goodness. Cot fresh-lasting —hesl-tasting L®M. Answers: The ISM Campus Opinion Poll was taken at over 100 colleges where L&M has student representatives, and may not be a statistically random selection of all undergraduate schools. 61961 Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. must be the case with Lion’s Paw. It would be a naive and spe cious socio-psvchological as sumption that.rn inactive, dis cussive group would by pres tige alone attract the lime and talents of select “campus lead ers.” To assert, as did Johnny Black, that Lion's Paw has, one, an influence upon student government and activities, which may becoinc "undue,” and two, that Lion’s Paw clandestinely works “for a Bet ter Penn State, v is to witness the most recent example of contradiction and confusion of goals among Lion’s Paw mem bers. The central difficulty is that for Lion’s Paw to claim altru ism under the aegis of secrecy may now be to proclaim acute hypocrisy for a self-gain, the undue influence. It is the prerogative of John ny Black to state publicly why he now believes secrecy con- Do you think that American colleges tend to overemphasize football and other sports to the detriment of the status of academic accomplishments ? Yes No How many cigarettes do you smoke a day, on the average? Less than 8 18-22. ducive fo Lion's Paw, or fo risk public stigma for confusion and contradiction. In a larger Sense, it is the’ prerogative of Lion's Paw to exchange secrecy for accep tance, idealistic confusion and contradiction for truth and purpose. The other alternative would be for student and faculty rec ognition of Lion’s Paw as a secretive, political group im plicity sanctioned by the Uni versity and not necessarily now dedicated to the good of the University as a whole. • Letter cut 1 atfotUe y /’ t- '. S. jATHtRTON. ST. f! . ■ 'S'* • • stau .coiufo ’ ; T V ‘ '.OKN7 OAYS - HiUVATIONi - . sro » f,M.‘ AO'rDOjj *•' -.SUNDAYS imo,'* mi r ' :r Over 22 Yes 3G7c - No 6470 Yes 10% - No 90% Yes 34% - No 60% Less than 8, 20% -8-12, 187 c -13-17, 19%- 18-22, 287c-Over 22, 157 c PAGE FIVE —John Weld, 'G3 tom of page). 13-17.
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