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Editorial Opinion
Demonstration of Support
University administrators have not looked with favor
on the idea of extending the Thanksgiving recess, but all
hope of obtaining that extension has not vanished.
Dennis Foianini, SGA president, is planning to meet
with President Walker Saturday to begin preliminary
talks about extending the vacation to include the Friday
and Saturday immediately following Thanksgiving.
The chance of obtaining the recess, which would be
very valuable for study time and could serve as a break
from the rapid pace of the four-term system, will hinge
on Walker's reaction to Foianini's proposals.
Harold Reed, chairman of the Senate Committee on
Calendar and Class Schedule, indicated yesterday that the
chances of getting a three-day holiday, because of the three
extra clays included in the fall term calendar, was very
it is not three days that is being asked for but really
only a day and a half. •
Many professors have already cancelled classes for the
Friday and Saturday after Thanksgiving so that students
may go home .for the .holiday. Othei students are planning
to cut classes - on those days either to go home or to attend
the Pitt game.
So it's already apparent that Friday and Saturday. will
be an unofficial holiday for many students.
Director of Housing and Food Services Stanley Camp
bell has indicated that an official holiday would work no
extra hardship for his department.
He said that the residence halls would remain open
even if an official holiday is proclaimed, but some dining
halls would be closed if it appeared that a great many
students would be leaving campus.
Since a vacation extension would not cause incon
venience for the administration, and because it would
serve as a convenience for the students, we urge Dr.
Walker to seriously consider Foianini's proposals.
To demonstrate support for the vacation extension,
we urge those students who have not already signed
one of the several petitions circulating on campus that
request this extension do so at once.
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WAYNE RILINSK I
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Letters
Coeds Attack
Sentimental
Stagnation
TO THE EDITOR: In accord
ance with the admirable opin
ions of Mr. B. and Mr. C., we
wish to propose an additional
idea concerning Thanksgiving
recess.
As long as the adminiStra
tion wishes to be practical
about the entire matter, why
not eliminate all "sentimental
ity" and schedule classes for
Thanksgiving Day also?
After all, this would solve
the problem"of maintaining an
uninterrupted academic term,
and the risk of obliteraitng nine
weeks of mental toil would be
terminated.
Foreseeing the repercussions
of the three day recess, we rea
lize that even twenty-four
hours of stagnation are suffi
cient to mar our dexterity in
the laboratories, and heaven
forbid—to initiate spontaneous
rusting of our slide-rules from
disuse.
Practicality demands that
students remain on campus
during the one day recess; thus,
we propose, that while the ad
ministrators are enjoying their
turkey dinners with their fami
lies, students would be attend
ing compulsory study sessions
as imposed by their college
deans.
Thariksgiving Day must be
divided into morning, after
noon, and evening sessions,
each of which will provide suf
ficient time for the average
student to sprint to the dormi
tory for his "Dining Hall Spe
cial" dinner.
Hunger squelched, the stu
dent must then journey to his
final study session of the day
proctored by our amicable and
ever-faithful graduate students,
whose duty it is to prevent our
academic deceleratf3n and to
insure our steadfast adherence
to the consecrated principles
emanating from the Lamp of
Knowledge.
—Doris Jean Jenkins, '62
—Patricia Alice O'Handley, '62
—Mary Louise Fetrow, '62
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Interpretin
Gromyko's Attitude
May Shift Balance
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
A very great deal now depends on what Andrei A.
Gromyko reports to Premier Khrushchev about the atti
tude of the Western powers toward Berlin, and how he
reports it.
There is a considerable feeling in Washington, and an
even greater feeling in Britain,
that Gromyko has been made
to understand that, political
shenanigans such as an East
German treaty aside, a force
ful attempt to oust the Allies
from West Berlin will mean
war.
The lodgment of that con
viction has been the chief ob
jective of American policy ever
since President Kennedy's con
ference with Khrushchev in
Vienna. It remains the chief
hope, aside from the physical
deterrent of Allied prepared
ness.
The question is how strong
Gromyko's conviction is, and
whether he will feel himself
in a position to tell Khrushchev
bluntly that his policies have
put East and West on a colli
sion course.
The answer lies, perhaps, in
the personal relations between
the two men, combined with
Gromyko's knowledge of Khru
shchev's predilections.
Gromyko is a career diplo
mat, not a high policy maker
or very powerful in either the
Communist party or the Soviet
government. He is an agent.
If Gromyko feels Khrushchev
is determined to drive toward
a fatal brink, will he lay the
situation as he knows it cold on
Letters
'War' Issue Restated
TO THE EDITOR: According to
G. M. Ballog's recent letter to
the Daily Collegian, "—Russia
is known to have no more than
about 46 to 50 1.C.8.M.'s cap
able of reaching the U.S."
Also, "with . . . no opera
tional bomber of any threat
that could compare to the B-58
'Hustler,' any sort of.full-scale
war would be sheer lunacy and
plain suicide for Russia."
I agree whole-heartedly that
war would be suicide for the
U.S.S.R., but perhaps G. M.
Ballog has not yet been able
to grasp the fact that nuclear
war would also be murder for
all other countries and peoples
of the world.
I'm glad to hear from such an
informed source t hat the
U.S.S.R. is sadly deficient in
bombers and 1.C.8.M.'5. Such
positive information to be IN
FALLIBLE, must have come
directly from MR. "K" himself.
I seriously doubt, however,
that Mr. "K" would divulge
ALL his secrets, so perhaps he
held something back.
Did he mention air-to-ground
missiles which can be fired
from a cordon of "inferior"
bombers approaching our con
tinent at high altitude, or is
such a thing impossible?
Ai this point I should men
tion that the Nike-Zeus anti
missile missile, of which Mr.
Myers seems to be so confident,
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the line, or will he sugar coat
it after the fashion of yes men
everywhere?
Perhaps the most important
part of this equation is how
much pressure Khrushchev is
under from the Stalinists and
the Chinese Communists, many
of whom feel that war is an in
evitable part of the Communist
world revolution, and that it
would be better to have it now
than later.
To wait may seem to them
to be to allowocontinued mobi
lization of Western power
which, pursued relentlessly
with growing recognition of
such inevitability, would be
come overwhelming.
Such pressure, if strong
enough despite Khrushchev's
apparent position of control,
might produce a cool reception
for any go-slow advice.
Many Western observers
have speculated since the abor
tive Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Khrushchev confrontation in
Paris that the Soviet premier
is under considerable obliga
tion to and pressure from the
Red army.
And the position of that
army, facing such great poten
tial power in the West, may
not be producing a desire to
wait.
is reported to have had several
test-firings recently. Effective
ness—zero: they both failed.
Perhaps those 46 or SO cities
can be scratched after all.
• With all respect to Major
De Seversky and his recent
book, it should be remembered
that any study of Russia's rela
tive nuclear capability becomes
out-dated very soon, unless
Russia's huge industrial ma
chine has suddenly ground to a
halt.
If a man like Major De Se
versky has all the facts, as Mr.
Ballog seems sure he does, why
must our country waste a re
ported billion dollars a year on
the C.1.A., and embarrassing
little spy-gadgets like the U-2?
I notice that Mr. Myers is
grinding on in his latest col
umn where he repeats, "—the
United States maintains a mili
tary superiority that would be
decisive in war, even nuclear
war." So I must quote myself
and repeat, "—there is a world
of difference between 'miser
able survival' and 'decisive
victory'."
If we should ever have a nu
clear war with Russia and we
can claim a decisive victory, I
will be so happy that I will
gladly buy Messers. Myers and
Ballog a big steak dinner—just
as soon as somebody rebuilds
a restaurant.
—E. N. Small, Jr. '62