PAGE SIX Letters Grad Asks Reappraisal Of Values TO THE EDITOR: Are you really students? Was a new sta dium more important than first rate library facilities or a fine auditorium worthy of a uni versity this size and its excel lent artist and lecture series? Who decided that: You? The Administration? Harrisburg? What were the criteria? Who chooses Ihe movies for the infantile HUB series? Who selects the crude, meaningless music that bombards the HUB Den and monopolizes your ra dio station’s programming? Who picks the banal radio and TV shows lo be brought to your attention via the HUB’S bul letin boards? Hov; do you explain the ig norance of ' the evidenced tastes? How do you justify the paucity of vital conversation on your campus? If you think, what do you think about? How is it "that there seems to be a disproportionate amount of thievery and dishonesty among you? And why are State College’s surrounding areas said to have the highest il legitimacy rate in tire coun try? Doesn’t it bother you that Penn State is referred to as Pennsylvania's largest country club? How is it that you tolerate the town’s over-charging for goods and services? Haven't you ever heard of the boycott, the picket line, passive re sistance, political rallies and pressure? Don't you realise the power of your numbers and the de pendency of the town economy on your presence here? Why do you so lack truly moral, in tellectual, and social vigor? Has the bread and circus of your games and dances so di verted you, from what should be your main purpose here—an education—, that whatever in tellectual curiosity brought you here has been dissipated leav ing you stultified .and content to be merely trained a la Pav lov’s dogs? Will you vote? Will you prove that a university can he a center for learning, broaden ing, deepening and generating information and experience enough to lead you to knowl edge and thereby to wisdom? And if you vole, will you then work to prove that you aro capable and willing to share in and lead the Ameri can adventure? Or, will you continue to be flaccid, unthink ing, cajoled, little children? The choice is yours. Shall Penn State be a Mounty Pamussus? Or shall it be that Mount Nittany were better Mount Vesuvius? —Anthony V. Ficarra. Graduate Student Phone AD 7-2112 Spring Thaw TO THE EDITOR: Recently, as is usual for this time of year when there is nothing else ex citing happening, a handful of students have decided that it’s time to attack Lion’s Paw again. For the umpteenth time a cry has arisen that Lion’s Paw is unfair. Lion’s Paw is preju diced, Lion’s Paw is run by certain organizations, and even that Lion’s Paw is Lion's Paw. And, as is usual, the people who raise this cry are not mem bers of Lion's Paw, have never been members of Lion's Paw, and, if their reactions can be judged as a criteria of their feeling, never want to be mem bers of Lion's Paw. Because of this they do not have a clear idea of the pur pose or the workings of Lion's Paw, and especially of the way it selects new members. Someone once said that you shouldn’t speak about what you don’t know about. So how can anyone who has never been in Lion’s Paw, who, I am sure, does not have a clear idea of Lion’s Paw, and who does not know how it selects its members, criticize this or ganization? I have no more knowledge about it than its critics do, and therefore I don’t feel myself in a position lo criticise or judge. No one has the right to criticize when they don't know all the facts. One of these above-mentioned Select yours today fifteen cents each, including envelopes KEELER'S • • • The University Book Store THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA LAST CALL- Before you leave for the summer why not purchase your official Penn State Class Ring? It will be your sym bol of prestige and recognition wher ever you go. A $5.00 deposit is all that is needed. Stop in today and see Crum Jenkins, the only Balfour representative in State College. ■rnmuin— L. O. Qyfoitr i Co. For Those Who Forget!!! We hove in stock a limited number of specially engraved GRADUATION ANNOUNCEMENTS imprinted with time, date & location on finest quality bond Lion's Paw critics has complained that the past SGA president, Richard Haber, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, James Et telson, whose names he would not mention, are members of Lion's Paw and are also mem bers of the same fraternity, “by some stroke of luck." This, I suppose, was a closely guarded secret that Mr. Hurwitz dis covered just in time to reveal to the world through the pages of The Daily Collegian. He meant to infer, I am sure, that this fraternity pushed to have another member of the fraternity accepted into Lion's Paw. Was Mr. Hurwitz trying to criticize this fraternity? He was questioning the purpose of Lion’s Paw, and now I am ques tioning the purpose of his let ter. He shouldn’t be afraid to say what he means. I happen to be a member of that same fraternity and “by some stroke of luck” my house happens to back the opposite political party that his fra ternity hacks. Is it possible that he had that in mind when he wrote his letter criticizing Lion's Paw? As of now he has created much confusion because he hasn’t made it clear whether he was criticizing Lion's Paw, a specific fraternity, or a spe cific political party. -—Eugene Zuckerman '63 In The "A" Store Sheetz Sees Budget 'Nod' TO THE EDITOR: I want to thank all the students who participated in, and are still participating in the “Back the Budget Campaign." As it now appears, there is a stalemate in Harrisburg over any appropriation to education. I do not feel that the “Cam paign’’ was a failure, instead I feel that the it has accom plished what it set out to do, and that is to arouse the legis lature to the needs of Penn State. The legislature has seen con siderable pressure from the student body, and other in terested groups regarding Penn State's budget. With the end of the semester coming up, students will be going home, with some time on their hands. I ask that each For Results Use Collegian Classifieds IIIMUMMIIIIIIMIIm Mil* - to For the store nearest you, please write to Glen Raven, Inc., 1430 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 206 East College Ave., State College TUESDAY. MAY 23. 1961 one take time and write to his senator and representative, or if he lives close enough, con tact him personally. If students are going to visit him, take their parents along, after all they are the voters in most cases, and the Assembly, men will usually lend an at tentive ear. Penn Slate may not receive the full request this time, but Harrisburg is aware that there is considerable pressure from our students and their parents. With a continuation of this pressure throughout the sum mer, I feel that such would keep Penn State’s name in front of the legislature, and event ually we will get an appropri ation nod from them. —Ronald Sheetz, '62 Chairman, SGA Back the Budget Committee GOWG OH CMHBt PANH-LEGS IMTS WHAT! What's going on girls In every college in the country? PANTI LEGS by GLEN RAVEN...the fabulous fashion that’* mak ing girdles, garters and garter belts old fashion! A canny com bination of sheerest stretch stock ing:* and non-transparent stretch pant? brief, PANTI-LEGS are ecstatically comfortable with cam pus togs, date frocks, ell your ’round-the-clock clothes espe cially the new culottes and under slacks. No sag, wrinkle or bulge. L-o-n-g weering. Of sleek Enka Nylon. Available in three shade* of beige plus black tint, Seamless or with eeame. Petite, Medium, Medium Tall, Tall. Seamless, $3.00. 2 for $6.90. With seams (non-run), $2.60. 2 for $4.90.
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