RAGE FOUR Editorial Onion A Stepchild of the State? Penn State's legal status today rests upon a relatively obscure ruling which relates the University's public char acter to a gasoline, tax. The ruling made clear. what had been supposition or unwritten law for many years—that this was in fact THE State University. To those who respect the law and its customs of presi dent if must indeed seem strange that this simple matter should still be debated, That Penn State's legal status has remained foggy in some minds is a kind of testimonial to the political doings of State officials. In cases where it is convenient for these officials to consider this a State University, they will glibly do so. As Dr. Walker nicely put it, "If the Governor wanted to fire me, he could." In addition, the University acts as an instrumentality of the State in dealing with the U.S. Department of Agri- culture Further, our appropriations bill is an amendment to the original bill of 1863 with which the State accepted the Federal provisions of the Morrill act, while other State-aided institutions must have a new bill introduced each year, Recently, however, the Governor and various legis lators alike have suffered memory lapses concerning Penn State's status: And it is• not coincidence that these lapses have coin cided with Penn State's budgetary woes. To admit that this is The State University would be to admit that definite responsibility towards its improve ment rests with the Commonwealth. By virtue of the fact that Penn State has to get on Its knees and • beg like a stepchild for its budget each year, the Commonwealth obviously 'is rejecting its re sponsibility and thereby ignoring our legal position. That State officials would like to think of the Uni versity as a private institution is evident from statements of these officials. Mr. Polen would have us believe we are only a Land- Grant College; Mr. Fulmer on the radio has called us a "quasi" State institution with reference to the budget request And Governor Lawrence THINKS we are the State Universit In order to avoid this conflict we would urge that University officials press this issue and clarify it once and for all in the record bookS. This University has, with its long-range expansion plans. repeatedly demonstrated its sense of responsibility to higher education in the Commonwealth. We see no valid reason why the convenient overlook ing of legal evidence should continue, nor why this Uni versity should be denied the rewards which its•responsi bility and status merit. A Student-Operated Newspaper Pwittuturr Tutlegiatt Successdi to The Free Lance est 7887 Published 'Tttc.day. June 13 and every Thursday thereafter from June 22 through August 17. 'The Summ e r Conran-1n is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second class matter July u, 1931 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of . March 3, 1879, ➢)nil Subscription Price: Fifty cents for 10 issues MEG TEICHHOLTZ RICHARD LEIGHTON via>, Co-Editors EEMMMB i I p .l , I _ \ I ‘. _ Wt ' I ga' , '...' , 4,E," • _______ NLIII WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager THANK YOU r HAVE A GOOD DA' i .s.a4ez 4 -x BECOMG EDUCATED; SUMMER COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Encampment Resignations; Trampled Toes TO THE EDITOR: I do feel that Dennis Foianini has a say in the matter of Student Encamp ment appointments, especially since SGA couldn't meet to ap prove or disapprove them. My objection, however, is that he gave - me his okay and then. after a whole week of work had been completed, vetoed some of the chairmen selected. This caused-considerable em harassment. We didn't agree on all of the present appointments. I was told that his decisions were the "final authority." As far as resignations are concerned, I feel that, while they are somewhat justified, they indicate an attitude which is not necessarily in the best interests of student govern ment. I am disappointed to see that a few student leaders aren't going to live up to their re sponsibility of representing their groups. It is only natural that per sonal interests may be neglect ed in representation but when a "student leader" gets HIS toes stepped on, that doesn't relieve him of the re sponsibility of his position. I have been criticized for not resigning along with Duane Alexander and Rich Pigossi as a protest against Denny's "high handed" tactics. I doubt that I would solve any problems by resigning as Encampment Chairman it would only prove that I wanted to play the game my way or not at all. Denny's list of workshop chairmen is, to say the least, quite interesting. While they aren't my personal choices, I think they are certainly' capa ble. Every one of them repre sents a "new" attitude towards student government, and per haps they'll make these en campment discussions the best yet. It has been quite evident that student government is headed for quite a change; these peo ple are, for the most part the ones who helped bring about this change. Denny's idea of the "new" student government is the rea son behind his veto of my ap pointments, and I'm not yet sure which one of us is right. Regardless of his "power" ap proach, I'm sure that Denny is doing what he thinks best. His decisions should at least be respected, since he was elect ed by such a definite majority, —Nancy Williams, '62 Encampment Chairman (Editor's Note: Miss Williams' letter refers to Duane Alexan der, former SGA reorganiza tion chairman, and Richard Pigossi. IFC President. Mr. Alexander resigned as chair man of th e Encampment "Rules, Regulations and Wel fare" committee after Foianini appointed Dennis Eisman as Alexander's co-chairman. Mr. Pigossi resigned as co-chair man of "Four-term Adjust ments." although Foianini had approved his appointment.) Events Noted? TO THE EDITOR: I was very pleased with the first edition of The. Summer Collegian and all of the noteworthy news in it. Without the knowledge that the F.FA was on campus I prob ably would have had to spend my time wasted on such ac tivity as watching a movie. Also glad to see that the Underwater Acoustics Seminar is being held here, A paper directed towards the students will make for "A Bet ter Penn State." *Letter cut WDFM Schedule 0:00 p.m. Summer Serenade 7:00 p.m. Washington Reports 7 :15 p.m. Album Review 7 :30 p.m.News and Weather 7 :45 p.m. Album Review 8 :00 p.m. Show Muaie 8:30 p.m.Starlight Review :30 p.m. Opinion 15 10:00 p.m. Chamber Concert 12:00 midnight Sign Ott —Neal Keitz, '6l Snowed 'Red' Lava Events in recent weeks have proved beyond doubt that . the Communists are marking time until they are in a position to destroy the United States without suffering devastating consequences. The threat they pose to our way of life is more real than the menace of Germany or Japan in World War II be cause their armies of infiltra tion are invisible, and their aim is our complete annihila tion We are a peace-loving na tion and we try t aterpret the news in a hopewl way. This works to the advantage of the Communists because major de feats in the Cold War are made to appear as temporary set backs. We soot forget them and are confi dent that thing! will get better Conf idenci in the Ameri. can system h not enough t( guarantee it: p e r p etuation. Confidence a lone would not MYERS have stopped the British at Lexington or Concord nor the Germans in World War 11. To save our system we often must face unpleasant tasks and stoop below our usual level of thought and action. The periods following both the major wars have proved that Democracy cannot be fostered in other na tions and among other people simply by declaring those peo ple are free. Rapid developments in mass communication and transpor tation and tremendous prog ress in technology have caused every nation's policy to be• come international. Each major power if it hopes to survive must adopt effective methods of fostering these beliefs among the un commilted and undecided peo ples of the world. The Communists have achieved the upper hand in this battle by employing psy- accents The I was walking down the Mall near Sackett early Mon day morning when I noticed what might be considered the stereotype freshman engineer. He was 16 or 17 years old, had a sliderule strapped to his belt, a pocket full of pencils and an armful of books. He appeared to be getting a great deal of amusement from watching something in the grass just in front of Sackett. This aroused my curiosity, so I edged over to see what the young man was so interested in. It was a little brown chip munk which was either bury ing something or trying to dig something out of the ground. Whatever it was doing, ev ery time it raised its head (and it did this frequently to keep an eye on the young man) its little snout vas covered with dirt. The chip munk disposed of the dirt by putting its two front paws up to its face and pushing it off. As all this was going on, a multitude of morningstu dents was mak ing its way down the Mall. About 30 or 40 LEIGIITON of these students rushed right by the freshman without even giving him a second glance, but two upperclassmen-types slowed down their pace long enough to give the young man and his chipmunk a lackadai sical look, The freshman, seeing their interest, perked up and said, "Look, he's washing his face." This brought a strange re sponse from the upperclastnen. THURSDAY. JUNE 22, 1961 by Joel myers chology, military tactics and economic devices, but they still lack the strength to physically destroy us. They are waiting and gain ing. When they secure the ca pabilities to destroy us noth ing will deter them. Until they reach that position they want to negotiate with us, but will concede nothing. The dead locked conferences on Laos, nu clear testing and disarmament are examples of this policy. The string of Communist successes has painted a global picture of an invincible red lava that flows from a vol cano in Moscow. Supposedly, the advance of the lava can only be stopped temporarily. It seeps and burns and finally destroys all bar riers in its path, and then be gins to flow again. This concept • of the unde tainable flowing red lava is the major premise upon which the advance of Communism is predicated. However, it is false. We tend to forget that be hind the red lava are many bubbles of trouble, some of which burst in the mid 1950's in Hungary, East Germany and Poland. The advance of the lava can be stopped without touching its generetting.volcano. A high ly-trained professional army taught to fight with the latest weapons of psychology, guer rilla tactics, sabotage and es pionage could be infiltrated into the areas where people cherish freedom and long for its return. This army would merely be the counterpart to the "Com munist liberators," but it would prove more successful since it would have the co operation of the natives. (Continued on page eight) Chipmunk dick Leighton who, by the way, had not stopped walking. One imme diately broke out into gales of laughter and the other,. in a high-pitched, mimicking voice repeated, "Look, he's washing his face." Th e freshman mumbled something, which at a distance of 20 feet sounded (or ap peared to be) "Gee," and with a fleeting, self-conscious look at his rodent friend, he joined the passing throng and ambled off to class. Upon reflection, the situa tion appears rather ironic. Here we had a member of the first four term class (a type of high-presure education) who was foolish enough to take time out to look at a chipmunk. He was, in a way, reprimanded for his actions. Let us hope that this is not an indication of things to come. Let us hope that students will be able to take the time to look at a chipmunk every now and then. And let us hope that looking at chipmunks or some similar divergence does not suffer from being labeled "im mature" or "uncollege-like." A young man's pride was hurt Monday, but let us hope that this was all that was hurt. It would be sad if this incident led the young man to become what so many college gradu ates have become technical robots without either curiosity or imagination.
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