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Editorial Opinion
The Real Loser
The University Administration, students, faculty and
alumni felt the final pain of a long and unsuccessful
battle tor additional funds yesterday when Governor
Lawrence signed the University's standstill appropriation
into law.
The year long fight for more money, which was fought
mainly by students and their parents in the hope of pre
venting another tuition increase* was doomed to failure
when the General Assembly defeated a two per cent tax
on rents, royalties and dividends.
That bill was designed to finance the Lawrence
sponsored education bill which became a hot political
President Walker, who has been attempting to main
tain a rate of expansion that would provide space for
35.DM students by 1970, answered the Harrisburg defeat
by a self-styled austerity plan.
All construction was halted, tuition was raised to the
highest rate of any strictly-state supported college in the
nation and admission standards were sharply upgraded.
Most students will be able to survive the tuition boost
and administrators ana faculty will keep their jobs, so the
real loser was nor Penn State but Pennsylvania.
The benefits the state might have received from
thousands of additional college-educated students will
never be realized.
The burden on the taxpayers is also greater since
additional funds were voted for the University of Penn
sylvania and other private schools which must buy expen
sive land and build in the heart of industrial centers to
expand their facilities.
Penn State, the State University, already owns sev
eral thousand acres of. land in central Pennsylvania on
which it could build.
The Governors Committee on Education had these
facts in mind together with the enthusiastic attitude of
Penn State's administrators toward expansion when tbev
recommended funds for Penn Sates growdh to accom
modate 35.000 students bv 1970.
The governor and the legislature, instead of follow
ing the advice of this non-partisan committee which
studied the problem for more than a year, chose to make
political hay of education.
Pennsylvania will be the loser.
Sink the Navy
Penn State may not have had the best football team
in the nation during the pait few years, but few teams
can claim more enthusiastic support"than that show?! the
Nhttanv Lions.
Spontaneous victory rallies formed by thousands of
shouting, cheering students followed the Army and Illi
nois games in 19;>9 and the Army game last vear.
But. perhaps the greatest show of enthusiasm in re
cent years preceded the Syracuse game in 1953. The un
beaten Nittany Lions had seven victories to their credit
when they met the number one team in the nation on
Beaver Field.
Impromptu pep rallies sparked the campus each night
of the week preceding the game, and hundreds of students
went without sleep to guard the Nittany Lion.
Penn State lost the game, 20-18, but the overflow
crowd gave the Nittany Lions a standing ovation.
Penn State students will probably continua to demon
strate enthusiastic support for their football team this
year, particularly in view of the tough schedule we face..
But since the pigskin fortune-tellers have consistently
rated our team as one of the country’s ten best, it deserves
more than lively and enthusiastic support. It should get
the noisiest, biggest welcome in the nation when it storms
onto the field this afternoon.
Sink the Naw!
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
WAYNE HtLINSKI
Burisca Wans
the megaphone —-
That Grand Old Paw
We stand in wonder, in awe, in saluation, at the abject humility of Lion’s Paw.
They didn't want anyone to know -who got their goat.
Now in the past, Lion’s Paw People (both members and those aspiring to mem
bership in this secret society of outstanding seniors) have been a little ticklish about
telling us (those who are not members and are not aspiring) about their doings.
accents
Little
There are many untold tales in the classified sections
of newspapers. The unexpected personals, the for sale ads
that often come up with the weirdest articles imaginable
and the lost ads with the big rewards. All in their succinct
way they make some of the most interesting reading in
the newspaper.
Perhaps the reason for their
popularity lies in their very
brevity. The reader can use his
own ur.agmauon when he
reads. ‘“'Darling meet me at the
same plate at
the same time
today.”
This one sea
t-eace has e
n-mjgfa informa
tion in it for
both “Dart mg'*
to take the ap
propriate action
and for avsd
classified read
ers to sh O W
tbeir friend?. It
does not need
anythin? else.
There are some ads. however,
which could use more of an
explanation. There a one in
this edition of The Daily Col
ifigisn.
The birth of this ad took
place early Wednesday morn
ing when a freshman came to
the office to place an ad in
today's paper. When he was in
formed of the price of the ad-
Snowed
Era o
Hurricane Esther lost some of her sting as she moved
northward, and the North Atlantic states and New Eng
land escaped a major disaster.
Even though Esther’s winds and rain
millions of dollars in damage rather than
millions, the path o? the hurri
cane indicates the continua
tion of a destructive pattern.
That pattern, which has
caused several
billions of dol
lars in damagi
and c 1 a i me'
several thou;
and lives i
the North A
'antic state
and New En;.
land first be
came notieeab)
in 1938.
Prior to ttu
time, Atlantic' —
hurricanes, i f ktess
they missed the South Atlan
tic coastal areas, would turn
northeastward and head
harmlessly out to sea.
In 1931 e savers hurricane
crashed across Long Island and
bulldozed its way through the
Connoetieui Valley, Damage
exceeded a third of a billion
dollars and the death toll
reached SOO.
In the 300 years prior to 1938
only one very severe hurri
cane struck New England. In
the past eight years, four very
severe hurricanes have hit New
England.
The North Atlantic states
have aiso witnessed a startling
increase in hurricane frequency
during the past decade.
Two storms. Dianne (1955)
and Donna {19501 caused
more than one billion dollars
in damage apiece.
The cause of this major
change in hurricane track is
probably related to large-scale
climatic changes. These
changer, are so complex end
probably occur over such a
long period that thousands of
Background
• dick leighten —■—
vertisement he hesitated a bit
and then admitted he had only
29 cents. He wanted to know
what he could get for that.
After he explained why he
wanted the ad, it was given to
him free. He wanted a Lost ad
and it read:
BLACK LEATHER Wallet. *l7 a«d
csrdi. Reward it rrtuhiftl. All the
master 1 hare. UN WWJ.
The student’s name is Eugene
Paesano and he is a first term
Liberal Arts student from
Wilmeding. He came to this
University with enough money
to buy books and pay same
University expenses.
He has just borrowed enough
money to pay these expenses,
but be is afraid to tell his par
ents of his loss—" They’ll try to
send me the money, and they
can’t afford it."
He has also just taken a job
to help pay his expenses.
“I felt sick,’’ he said, "when
I realized I had lost my money.
I just went to my room and
felt sick.’’
Destruction
by jo#t myers
years cf observation might be
required before they can bo
predicted with acceptable ac
curacy.
Thus the hurricane threat to
New England and the North
Atlantic states may last for a
million years or ii could end
with Esther.
Campus Beat
Pro# Wayne:
Ike, Peace
Judging by the way all
the parents and new stu
dents were asking directions
Sunday—and I know there
will be even more—it must
be fall. Guess it won’t be long
before the upperclassmen and
customs will be prominent on
this old campus of ours.
Really the best time was this
summer. Former President Ei
senhower showed everybody
how to hit a golfb&U. (I under
stand they tried to sign him up
to leach.)
Also the Peace Corps came
to learn all about, the Philip
pines. (At that time if you
wanted to see President Walk
er you had to address him in
that language or you weren't
with it)
I guess it is about time to
quit giving advice and get my
classroom set up for the first
day of classes. See you then.
—Prof. Wayn*
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 23. 1961
by meg teichholtz
LOST
only caused
hundreds of
And they didn’t really tell its
about this either. We sort of
guessed, and proved the truth
of our guess by
;king several
■mbers. Their
res were pic-
Pictures that
•.emble one
another page
this paper
a goat gaz
ig with urgent
n d innocent
and loving eyes
toward that
M, “ T,,d,h,lli * symbol of their
best the Nittany Lion.
Why do I say “symbol of
their best?" Well, for many
years LP has painted the Nit
tany Lion before crucial games.
They don't readily admit to
that either, but where there’s
paint there’s an LP.
Right here and now, we’d
like to commend LP for taking
such a grand and wholesome
interest in school spirit. That
is, after alt, what they claim to
be their “reason d’etre."
Of course Penn State does
have the Bllock "S'* club and
cheerleaders and the like, but
I guess the grand old Paw (their
president?) doesn't feel that
open displays of spirit can ac
complish what secret can. Fun
ny, but that’s their philosophy.
And of course too, since most
of these “student leaders” op
posed the current student gov
ernment administration in the
election last spring, most of
them now have time to concen
trate on the more all-American
side of spirit. That is if secrecy
can be all-American.
Well, the goat traversing
campus isn’t Navy's goat, (as an
LP casually told us) but v/e are
glad he is here. We hope that
LP can maintain activities of
such high benefit yet win the
battle of retaining their ad
mirable humility.
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