PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Showing Cause, and Spunk We hope we will not be boring those proponents of the wonders of compulsory ROTC when we again say we support the vigorous actions of the Liberal Arts faculty in their attempt to bring a conversion to a voluntary system The faculty has spunk. They have been given every chance to rescind their liberal viewpoint, to maintain the status quo, to keep the services in business and they haven't done it Rather, they actually undertook to show reasons for making ROTC voluntary—something the Senate Com mittee on Military Affairs sardonically challenged when It gave its "status quo" report in November, 1960. This, added to the dubious theoretical and practical compulsory ROTC, carries more weight than the student political platforms, posters and petitions that flood campus with each campaign. There is one vital point of concern about this com mittee report—it is dated April 24, 1960. That was five months ago. Mr. Brewster, to whom the report was sub mitted (he is head of the LA Planning Committee), said yesterday that the delay in presentation to the faculty resulted from lack of time for committee meetings last spring. He further stated that it would be "about a month" before his committee could produce any facts. Simple arithmetic says that five and one is six, also known as one-half year. If a planning committee ever is going to plan anything it will have to he a vigorous committee, which infers a few meetings here and there. We do not think it presumptuous to infer that inaction hills any committee report, quietly, perhaps inadvertently, but most effectively. In addition, the Liberal Arts faculty can debate and decide, but no action can be taken until the question is brought before the University Senate—a body that meets only monthly. The postponement by the Planning Committee, there fore postpones Senate discussion and gives those who feel "every red blooded American lad should want to take ROTC and if he doesn't we'll make him," more time to gather ammunition for the fight. We therefore earnestly entreat that this faculty act before facts become dim, energy diverted and hope lost. This is the same faculty that prepared the 1960 report on the state of the Pattee Library, a report which was in fluential in getting the library a $lOO,OOO grant. If any faculty can take an intense interest and create a strung and persuasive case, this same group can—and must. Wondering...and Waiting Dr. Walker will return from the University's under water laboratory in La Speiza, Italy this weekend, and on Monday he may make a statement on the Student Book store report. We have once requested that he send a copy of the report to all the members of the Board of Trustees before their meeting in mid-October. We have many times written about, suggested and endorsed various methods of establishing and managing a bookstore that would return its profits in dividends to the student hod''. Now all we can do is wait—wait to he told something about the report, wait for it to be sent to the board, wait for the board to meditate arid mediate, wait for a decision. This waiting isn't new to us. We do it downtown all the time. A Student-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Editorial Freedom Oilr Buggilrgiati Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 rubliomi Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5. 1934 at the State College, Pa. last Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Mail Subscription Price: 36.00 a year Melling Address Hoc 261, State College, Pa. JOHN BLACK Editor City Editors, Lynne Cerefice and Richard Leighton; Editorial Editors, Meg Teichholli and Joel Myers; News Editors, Patricia Dyer and Paula Dranov: Personnel and Training Director. Karen Flyneckeai: Assistant Personnel and Tr:lining Director, Suson Eberly: Sports Editor, James Karl; Picture Editor, John ficouge. Local Ad Mgr. Mtrge Downer; Assistant Local Ad Mgr.. Martin Zonis; National Ad Mgr., Phy llis Hamilton; Credit Mgr.. Jeffrey Schwartz; Assistant Credit Mgr., Ralph Friedman; Classified Ad Mgr., Bobbie Graham; Circulation Mgr., Neal Reitz; Promotion Mgr.. Jane Treraskis; Personnel Mgr., Anita Milli Office Mgr.,, Marcy Gress. • THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager snowed Next Crisis: The first country to applaud Russia's decision to resume nuclear testing has been the first to feel the damaging results of those tests. A western province of Communist China, which adjoins the Soviet Union, has been put under a state of emergency according to intelligence reports that have reached Taipei, Formosa. Those reports indicate that radioactive fallout from Soviet atmospheric nuclear ex plosions is approaching harmful proportions. Communist China has been plagued by drought and severe storms during the past three years, which have caused wide spread crop failures and starvation. Now the na tion that was most anxious for Russia to resume nuclear testing, is un der assault from deadly fallout. The hungry, overcrowded Chinese popu lation is undoubtedly becom ing restless. The Communist leaders, in order to perpetuate their system and themselves, must raise the hope of better living conditions and divert the population's attention from its own misery. Expansion is the only solu tion. the megaphone Sweet immunity A blue-capped, orange-carded, bicycle toting, pony tailed member of the class of '65 ran breathless into my room the other day. She had just discovered the HUB, and in particular, the Lion's Den. • The discovery thrilled her young, double scoop ice cream cone loving soul. But she ran into the room in the middle of a discussion of the world situ ation (we we 7 just about do► reworking ci' ilization aft THE war) an, I'm afraid he picture of 1.1 . , good life shif• ed a trifle aftt our pessimism. It was some thing like bat( ing cotton can dy in rubber Min Telchholts cement—not to appealing—and she walked out in search of her "roomie," a 1 s o blue-capped, also ice-cream loving. She wished, I think, to be immune from the human race, which as we saw it (and see it) is a barbaric lot. After four years, she may find cotton candy not quite so consoling, rubber cement a bit too sticky, and may ask her self as Satre does in "Troubled Sleep" "by what phony trick am I responsible for this?" Granted, there doesn't seem much we can do about Red China's hoards waiting around to pick up the pieces after we demolish civilization. Granted, we could all just run back and forth to the HUB, thinking our selves into intellectual immun- Interpreting Precarious U.A.R. By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst For some time the West ern powers have been keep ing a nervous eye on the not-very United Arab Re public. There are conflicting facets of the interest. They are glad to see any- thing which interferes with the dream of U.A.R. President Gamal Abdel Nasser of turn ing the Arab States into one country. Such a development would inevitably require a Western decision regarding Its obligations to defend Israel. At the same time there has been hope, in the present strained state of the world, that nothing would happen to dis turb the precarious• balance of another front in the conflict between the West and the Sino- Soviet bloc. This attitude involves more than the desire to hold in check Soviet efforts to interfere in Middle East politics. The relations of Red China with the underdeveloped coun tries is the source of increas ingly great concern. Chinese Communist em is saries are contriving a sympa thetic relationship in both African and Latin America be cause their problems at home are so closely a kin to the prob lems of the revolutionary ele ments in other economically and politically backward coun tries. What appears to have been primarily a fight between poll- Southeast Asia by meg teichholtz ity. And granted, too, we could lake the course of least re sistance and accept it all with granite complacency. We could, but I hope we won't. We all have a duty to our selves that gets more and more apparent as the animal seems to dominate our world. This isn't a selfish duty, nor a divinely inspired one. It's the simple duty of living life to its fullest. Not, mind you, hedonistically, nor purposeless ly, but carrying our innate capacities to their proper fru ition, training our minds to their fullest awareness, devel oping the guts to stand up for what we believe. Some among us may one day have to reconstruct whatever is left of the world. Sorry to mention it, but this just might happen. Whether it does or doesn't has little to do with most of our present opinions on the world situation—but in either case, that responsibility to ourselves is going to make a great deal of difference in the world we live in. The world is only composed of people you know—so the kind of day-to-day world it is depends only on people. If you magnify that into society, you get the point. t.ians for authority in Syria may turn out to have been merely a power play by which one faction which promotes Syrian subjection to Egypt sought to gain an advantage over another faction with similar aims. But in its first moments, it appeared to be an effort to restore Syrian independence and end the tenuous union of two states whose cultures and interests are disparate at many points. And the Syrian nationalists, like those everywhere, are per fectly willing to accept help from any quarter in which it may be offered. f3c4?, 0 Bo?, 0 Bog 0 I - owns e••••• I=== FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 29, 1961 by joel myers The two principal directions open for "aggression" are the west and the southeast. Russia lies to the west; Laos Viet Nam, Thailand and Burma and na t ions protected by the SEATO pact lie to the southeast. Russia is well aware of the threat that the restless Chi nese pose to their eastern fron tier. In fact, I believe this dan ger is what prompted Premier Khrushchev to develop the militarily inefficient 100-mega ton bomb. Military experts have stressed that five 20-megaton bombs are considerably more useful than one 100-megaton device. However, a 100-megaton nu clear weapon would seem to be a very efficient weapon of human destruction. The smoldering situation in Southeast Asia, which features guerrilla warfare, assassinations and Communist infiltration may soon explode into open war as the rainy season comes to an end. Already, reports indicate that the Chinese are strengthening their military positions, and many Red regulars have been sited. United States concern for possible Chinese aggression in Southeast Asia is apparently what prompted President Ken nedy to restate in his U.N. ad dress our determination to pre vent Communist gains in that area. Red China must expand! Rus sia is holding the 100-megaton nightmare over her head in the west, and we are giving her erratic resistance in the southeast. The path of least re sistance is obvious. The Berlin crisis seems to be diminishing, but the United States may soon be faced with another situation on the other side of the world that may not have the alternative of nego tiation. HES SO STUPID HE ACTUALLY THOUGHT THAT M 156 OTHMAR TOOK MONEY FOR BEING A TEACHER: BUT I SURE STRARINED HIM WTI I TOLD HIM j 1•1 I TROCIME BROWN CAN SURE BE STUPID: MYERS .7 A 014,NO! v•• ft.