PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Bookstore Not Dead All hope for a University bookstore is not dead. President Walker yesterday said that the University could not undertake the construction of a bookstore at this time because of the financial condition of the Uni- ye! say But he did not close the door on the bookstore issue In fact, he indicated a genuine interest in a University bookstore for the students. Actually, Walker's idea of a University bookstore goes farther than the students'. He said he would like to see a .University bookstore carrying all types - of books that would help students reach their educational goals. This would include rare and ex pensive books that students may not even be able to pur chase but could browse through more like they were in a library than a store. • Such a bookstore would be an academic addition as well as a . money-saving one for students. The University right now is at a virtual standstill. This is understandable since the University's appro priation from the state has•been at a virtual standstill for the past three years. The Board of Trustees has decreed that there shall be no new projects undertaken and no more students admitted until the necessary finances are forthcoming. Tho state legislature has forced this standstill. How long it lasts will depend upon their action. it is no secret that the University was on the brink of bankruptcy this summer. Hence the early collection of the increased tuition that was forced on the students with only two weeks notice. The University was actually operating for a couple months without a budget since the old fiscal year ran out before the legislature approved the appropriation for the new fiscal year. An appropriation that should have been acted on in January was tossed around as a political foot ball until August—and then fumbled anyway. Thus, the University bookstore is at a, standstill, also— but it is not dead. In fact it is more alive than it ever has been in the 20-year history of the fight. This is the first time it has ever reached the dollars and cents stage. Admittedly, this will probably be its toughest hurdle. However, there are now detailed reports on the record that can easily be updated the Minute the financial atmos phere is right. Though the state legislature has forced the University to a standstill now, it is illogical to think that it will ruin the state's higher education system by continuing to choke off its life blood. The state expects our campus to accommodate 25,000 students within the near future. And the minute the legislature loosens the purse strings so that the University can move ahead again, a University bookstore will become a necessity to supply the additional thousands of students,' since the commercial facilities are already overtaxed with the present student enrollment. A Strident-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Editorial Freedom 011 r Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the finiversity year. The Daily Collegian is a RI udent•operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July b. 1934 at .the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3. 1879. Mall Subscription Price: $6.00 ■ year Mailing Address Box 261, State College. Pa. JOHN BLACK Editor ' .<IEOO, City Editors, Lynne Ceretice and Richard Leighton; Editorial Editors, Meg Trichholts 'and Joel Myers; New. Editors, Patricia Dyer and Paula Dranov: Personnel and Training Director. Karen Ilynerkeal; Assistant Personnel and Training Director, Susan Eberly; Sports Editor. James Karl; Picture Editor, John lienuge. Local Ad Mgr., Marge Downer; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Martin Zonis; National Ad ,Mgr.. PhOis Hamilton; Credit Mgr.. Jeffrey Schwartz; Assistant Credit Mgr.. Ralph Friedman; Classified Ad Mgr., Bobbie Graham: Circulation Mgr., Neal Reitz; Promotion Mgr.. Jane Trevaskis: Personnel Mgr.. Anita Boll; Office Mar.. Marcy Gress. Persons with complaints about The Daily Collegian's editorial policy or news coverage may voice them in the letters to the editor column or present them in person or in writing, to the editor. Alt complaint* will be investigated and efforts made to remedy situations where this newspaper is at fault. The Daily Collegian, however, upholds the right to maintain its independence end to exercise its own Judgment as to what it thinks I. in the beet interest of the University as a whole. Tolirgiatt THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager Letters Junior Wants Extra Days For Finals TO THE EDITOR: I am glad to see that Prexy Walker has seen the necessity of a final exam period, even if an ab breviated version of the old semester schedule. We are told that by next year a suitable arrangement will be worked out. But what about this year? With the extra days tacked onto the fall, winter, and spring terms, a makeshift final exam period should be able to be worked out, even if only on an informal basis between stu dents and profs. Having attended the sum mer term, I know the panic and confusion that sets in about the last two weeks of the term. Here is a chance lo avoid getting the first three terms off to a bad start. A final suggestion: if the three days extra cannot be used for finals, then why not use two of them to make the thou sands of students who plan to cut two days after Thanks giving benefit by a legal va cation? —Ray M. Anderson '63 CHARLIE OROWN,YOU `I,OCKNEADI /OU'D BETTER BE CAREFUL:,,. YOU MIGHT OFFEND HIM,. ~.: 1 r.:: ~~ ~~~ OFFEND HIM? , s- I-, 11 ..,. z.e. ,i n 141,fr ili ~ 'O.. .. , .. ' ?..I'' ... - - , ...or 502 E, HE MIGHT REALLY BE A 'BLOCKHEAD! , "7 - \c i . <• 3•1 V ~.. • ' t, tm t) kla rr - """^:*"' • .7"..A.0.b. . 1 Gazette TODAY Chapel Choir Banquet, 8 p.m., HUB Circus' gym malt Rake refund, 9 to 11 a.m., McElwain recreation room Education Council, 10 a.m., HUB Aa aembly Hall: 11 a.m., HUH lebby ISA Autumn Ball, 9 p.m., HUB Ball- room F. Sociological Society, 8 a.m., 212- 213, 217-218 HUB; 9 p.m., 214 HUB Registrettion, 8 _ft.lll., HUH lobby TOMORROW Alpha Delta Sigma, rushing smoker, 3 p.m., Phi Gamma Delta Alpha Phi Omega, 1 p.m., 217 HUB Delphi Hat Society, 7 p.m., 218 HUB Folklore Society, 6:30 p.m., HUB Ball- room creek Week Chairmen, 2 p.m., 212 HUB Liberal Party Student Committee, 9 p.m., 217 HUB School of Liberal Aria, 3 p.m., HUB main lounge Swedenborgian, 10 a ni., 212 HUB MONDAY Agriculture Winter Course Registra tion, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., HUB Assembly Dail Alpha Phi Omega, brothers, 7 p.m., 213 - HUB: pledges, 8 p.m., 213 HUB Alpha Phi Omega, rushing smoker, 7 p.m.; 217 HUB Bridge Club, 8:30 p.m., HUB cardroom Marine Recruiting, 8 a.m. to b p.m., ground floor, 218 HUB • Nary Recruiting, 10 A.M. to 8 p.m., ground floor HUll Penn State Bible Fellowship, 12:16 p.m., 212 11UB; 7 p.m., 214 NUB Letters Grad Bewails Parking, "Walking Is Faster" TO THE EDITOR:' 'd like to add my comments to the long list of notes you have received concerning the University's administration in general and its policies on parking in par ticular. Of course I'm a victim of the $lO parking fee, and I'm cer tain this has increased my mo tivation to write this letter. First of all I wish to inform all students who are required to park one-half of a mile from their classrooms that the emp ty lot which used to be their parking lot will at some time in the future (how far I don't know) be filled with other cars. When the new addition to Rec Hall is completed it will stand where approximately 200 automobiles are now parking. They will be moved to our old EMPTY lot. It is good public, relations to let the public (students) know why they now must walk fur ther to class when their old Berlin Talks Called Useful By Gromyko WASHINGTON VP) Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko met with President Kennedy for more than two hours on the Berlin crisis late yesterday and said afterwards he stressed the importance of a peace treaty with Germany. While Gromyko described the parley as useful, neither he nor Secretary of State Dean Rusk gave any evidence of a break-through in the U.S.-So viet conversations which have made little progress so far. Rusk reported the White House conference was a con tinuation of inconclusive meet ings he has held with Gromyko in New York in a search for evidence of Kremlin willing ness for negotiations on the ex plosive Berlin issue on terms the western powers will accept. 0 /'' ' '4o - '% X 010. 11. Deaths at UNC Mystify Town CHAPEL HILL. N.C. (AP) • This cojlege town was shocked and mystified yester day by the death of two Uni versity of North Carolina students who were found dead in adjoining beds in their dormitory room. ~tves~. Auhorities said there were no marks of violence on the bodies of William Henry Har rison Johnson Jr., .24, of Statesville, a graduate student in industrial relations; and James Michael Barham, 21, a 'junior from Burlington. A coroner's jury ruled "death by unknown causes" and or dered an autopsy. A report on the post-mortem was not ex pected until Saturday. Discovery of the bodies came a day after Robert S. Mauldin, 33, a dental school laboratory photographer and former grad uate student, was found dead under similar circumstances Thursday. State Department Refutes Rumor WASHINGTON (I?) The State Department denied yes terday reports that it has ap proached the West German government about having that government negotiate with East Germany "on access rights of the Western powers to West Berlin." Press officer Joseph Reap de clared: "I am authorized to state that there is no truth to reports that the United States has approached the West Ger man government as .to its will ingness to negotiate with East Germany on access rights of the Western powers to West Berlin." World Roundup SATURDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1961 parking lot, which is closer to their classes, contains only two cars, and these are improperly parked. A partial solution to this problem is to inform the stu dents. Without this information the student is convinced of the poor administration of Univer sity problems. I'm sure the edu‘cation which many students are striving for would be a little easier to ac• quire if the following recom. mendafion is carried out. This recommendation in volves making the small park ing lot next to the library avail able to students who wish to pick-up or take back library books. Simple isn't it. Because of the size of the University and the "red tape" involved our chance of seeing results within the next 10 years is very poor. Naturally I paid the fine . . . —Andrew F. Whitman Graduate student U.S. Urges U.N. To Study Ban UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (N) The United States urged the U. N.'s main political com mittee yesterday to give urgent top billing to a treaty ban on nuclear weapons tests. It ran into immediate opposition irom the Soviet Union, now engaged in a series of such tests. No decision was reached in this committee, but the as sembly's special political com mittee brushed aside Soviet opposition and supported a Canadian request to take up immediately the latest U. N. reports of possible dangers to mankind involved in atomic radiation stemming from tests. Tshombe Hits U.N. Activity ELISABETHVILLE, Katan ga (EP)— President Moise Tsh ombe has accused the United nations of rein;orcing its .mili tary position in this secession ist Congo province in violation of the Sept. 20 ceasefire. He told a news conference Thursday the United Nations was doing all in its power to help the central government in Leopoldville start a civil war, and was obstructing the supply of his troops in outlying areas. Tshombe made his charge as U.N. reports in Leopoldville said Katanga was bringing in war material and mercenaries from Rhodesia. Sidewinder Missile Downs Pilotless Jet WASHINGTON (AP) Two Navy jet fighters shot down a photographic plane over the Atlantic yesterday after the pilot of the photo plane - had bailed out, the Defense De partment announced. The Pentagon said the photographic jet plane was downed by a Sidewinder mis sile out over the ocean so it would not be a menace as it wandered without ' a pilot at the controls. 'Tony' to Gain Seat LONDON UP) Anthony Armstrong-Jones officially be came the Earl of Snowdon last night. A formal announcement in the London Gazette, official organ for state and palace an nouncements, made it possible for him to use his title publicly and has the effect of dating the new earl's seniority in the House of Lords, where he is now entitled to a seat. Swiss Represent Turks BERN (AP) Switzerland has taken over representation of Turkish interests in Cairo since President Gamal Abdel Nasser's break with the Ankara government over Turkish rec ognition of independent Syria.
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