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Editorial Opinion
Early Fee Payment
An uncooperative state legislature forced the Uni
versity to tighten its financial belt last summer. That
move precipitated several new policies, many of which
are unfair to the students.
One of these unfair regulations is the requirement that
all students must pay their room and board fee and tuition
a month before the start of the term. A $25 late fee is
charged for failure to comply with this ruling.
Until August 6 University policy had allowed students
to pay their fees at anytime up until the time of registra
tion.
Then, without warning or previous announcement,
the University instituted the new policy, just 19 days
before the fee payment deadline.
We realize that the indecisiveness of the legislature
and their failure to grant a portion of the additional funds
requested by President Walker might have precipitated
a financial crisis for the University in August.
But since the University survived the immediate
crisis and since the increase in tuition and room and board
is supposed to make up for the money not granted by the
legislature, we see no reason for continuing the policy
requiring payment a month in advance.
The financial hardship that the pre-payment ruling
creates for many students is obvious since it cuts off
another four weeks from their earning time. It should be
noted that this ruling is in direct contradiction to Uni
versity policy of last year.
When the four-term plan was announced, University
policy-makers lauded the long Christmas vacation as a
period in which students could earn extra money 'to help
pay the fees for the winter term.
But the new fee ruling nullifies that possibility be-
cause winter term fees must be paid by December 8, the
first day of the Christmas vacation.
Past statistics indicate that most students pay their
fees before "the last minute." Nevertheless,' University
administrators claimed that the elimination of that "last
minute rush" was the purpose for the new ruling.
They also asserted that the advance payment will
allow the University to have an accurate count of the
number of students planning io live in residence halls.
We cannot understand why the University needs pre
payment of fees to .estimate the number of residence hall
occupants that will report for classes. The halls have
been filled to the point where students were living in
linen closets in the past few years.
We see no valid reason why the University should
impose a hardship on the students by requiring payment
of fees a month before registration.
We call upon the University to revert to its former
policy of allowing - students to pay their fees any time
before registration.
Informing the Students
The Senate Committee on Student Affairs will soon
be considering a newly revised constitution for student
government.
It is a constitution that has taken innumerable man
hours of discussion. It was obviously needed from the
inception of the past SGA and should be considered
with especial care by the committee.
A constitution,-after all, shapes the government it was
created to guide. And student government this year, as
was evidenced in the SGA workshop of encampment, is
seeking to expand its area of defined jurisdiction over the
students it represents.
This constitution brings representation down to the
basic living areas, closer than was ever before attempted.
In line with this close representation and expanded
power we ask that the SGA President and the Chairman
of the Senate Committee on Student Affairs issue regular
statements of the committee's progress so that the students
will be prepared to undertake support and leadership in
their government.
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PEACE CONFERENCE?
Letters
Chaplain
Asks Spirit,
Even in Loss
TO THE EDITOR: As one who
is majoring in "spirit-ology,"
I wish to make some state
ments about the Penn State-
Miami game:
*Observation: At the begin
ning of the game, Penn State
seemed to have more spirit
than Miami, but with each un
fortunate setback to a promis
ing drive, it appeared that
Penn State became dis-spirited,
whereas Miami's spirits rose.
•Comment: Naturally! Who
wouldn't be somewhat dis
couraged under the circum
stances?
oQue.Stion: Are we interest
ed only in sharing the glory of
a winner, the honor of a high
national rating? (Apart from
not winning on the scoreboard,
what did the team or coaches
do to justify the noisy condem
nation of some of the fans in
Rec Hall?)
•Request: Let's reverse the
process and support our team
with strong school spirit. Since
spirit is a basic factor in the
performance of the team, we
should not leave it all to the
players and coaches!
o Short Sermon: If God wait
ed to offer His grace to those
who were already winners in
the game of life, no one would
ever win.
—Robert Boyer
University Baptist Chaplain
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Interpreting
Flames Grow Dim
For The Present
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
Several developments in the last few days have served
to take some of the heat out of the international situation.
Foreign Secretary Lord Home of Britain said he
thought, after talking to Secretary of State Dean RUsk
and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the U.S.S.R.,
that the Soviets had finally
been convinced they were ac
tually on a collision course
with the United States
This enhanced the feeling
that has been growing for some
days that the Soviet Union,
while perhaps signing the
"paper treaty - with the East
Germans about which Presi
dent Kennedy said he was not
concerned, will actually back
away from any dangerous
showdown this year over East
German control of Allied access
to 'West Berlin.
Acif ai Stevenson, U.S. am
bassador to the United Nations,
has said he has "some expecta
tions" the Soviets may yet
come back to the nuclear test
conference table.
He did not go into what this
would mean to Allied confi
dence in any agreement that
might be made only after the
Soviets have completed all the
tests they now want to make.
The Soviets also seemed to
realize their troika proposal
for reorganizing the United
Nations secretariat had been
caught in a snowdrift. They
came up with a face-saving
proposal for a "little troika"
undersecretariat without veto
rights over a temporary secre
tary general to serve out Dag
Hammarskjold's term.
There was no indication the
Assembly would accept this,
either. The prospects were for
a rather colorless secretary
general until the permanent
succession fight is resumed
next year.
There was a possibility that
final determination of the ap
propriation for U.S. foreign
aid in the next year would
bring a simmering -down of
some of the sell-seeking man
euvering which the underde
veloped nations have been do
ing.
Red China gave some lip
Snowed
A SANE Policy
After surviving the confusion of registration, I walked
with increasing speed toward the exit of Rec Hall where I
was handed an impressive-looking sheet of paper.
I slowed my gait and began to read it. Under the
heading of "The Pennsylvania State University" and
"Old Main" were three para
graphs.
The first was addressed "To
All Students" and explained
what nearly every student al
ready knows will happen if a
nuclear explosion were to
occur in the vicinity.
Although I just skimmed
through that material, the mere
thought of the dreadful topic
transformed the jubilant stti.
tude that comes with complet.
ing registration to a serious,
thoughtful one.
But as I read further my
mood changed again, and before
completing the second para
graph I was laughing loudly.
That paragraph said "In the
event of an alert on the campus
or in State College, all student
residents of campus residence
halls are to report to their
rooms immediately and remain
there for further instructions
from University officials."
With harmful radioactive
debris floating all through the
stmosphere, does the University
believe that students would be
safer in their residence halls
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3. 1961
service to Soviet-type "coexist
ence" for a change, in an ap
parent effort to create con
fusion about her aims among
the neutrals as the fight over
her U. N. membership ap
proaches.
But she made no reference
to the one great demand of the
United States, that she re
nounced her promise to use
force in the Formosa matter.
Any contribution Red China
might make to a period of
greater calm can only be con
sidered as strictly tactical and
temporary.
France contributed to the
healing of a sore spot which
had seriously embarrassed the
Western world by beginning to
withdraw her troops from the
city of Bizerte back to her mil
itary base there, following
Tunisia's backdown from her
demand for immediate French
withdrawal from the country.
The Syrian revolt appeared
to have put an effective damper
on the effoits of President Ga
mal Abdel Nasser of Egypt to
create a single Arab state in
the Middle East and produce an
ultimate federation with other
new African states to consoli
date his front against Israel and
confront the world with a new
power.
These developments with re
gard to Europe and the U.S.-
Soviet confrontation thus ele
vated Southeast Asia to the
chief spot of danger in the
world, with a new war appar
ently beginning as the rainy
season ends in Viet Nam and
Laos.
Whether the Chinese Reds,
under great pressure for agri
cultural expansion, would let
their apparently hopeless bid
for U.N. membership delay
their action in Southeast Asia
was a very debatable question.
by joel myers
than in the basement of a stone
building.
It seems that someone would
have as much chance to survive
the damaging effects of radio
active debris in an open field
as in a room on the seventh
floor of a Pollock dormitory,
waiting for a by-then contami.
nated University official to
make a decision.
We don't doubt that the offi
cial making that decision would
think of the students ahead of
his family and himself, but it
seems that unless decisions of
this sort have been made and
carefully explained prior to the
occurrence of a catastrophe
they would be ineffective.
It is unfortunate that at a
time of fiscal crisis the Uni
versity would choose to waste
money for printing such an
utterly useless notice.
The only thing it accomplish
ed was to reveal that the Uni
versity lacks a nuclear policy.
We hope any future funds,
no matter how small, that are
used for this purpose are di
rected toward the development
of a SANE nuclear policy.