AGE FOUR Editorial OpiniOn A Planned Demonstration With Mature Objectives This Saturday's regionally-televised football game does not seem to be the time nor the place to hold a mass deinonstration for an extensi9n of th e Thanksgiving vacatlon ..=i,,lthough the suggestion for such a demonstration (v.-hich as mutually proposed by the chairmen of the three campus political parties) may have superficial appeal to vacation-minded students, the disadvantages of such a demonstration outweigh its merits. Students demonstrating for an extended holiday will appear to TV viewers, unfamiliar with the background of the issue, as rowdy youngsters attempting to shirk their work. Even if the TV viewers knew and sympathized with our reasons for wanting the vacation extension, it is ex tremely doubtful that they would exert any pressure on our behalf. The administration. which possesses the power to af fect a calendar change, would probably he so disgusted by this immature move they would snuff out what little hope remains for ebtainine a recess extension If, however, students are anxious and vrilling to demonstrate this Saturday the theme of their actions should be the University budget. The focus of attention that budget-conscious students tried in vain to obtain last year in order to pressure the legislature and Governor into appropriating the full Uni versity budget will be within their reach for more than two hours Saturday. The failure of the legislature to appropriate the need ed funds, which resulted in tuition and room and board increases, was valid evidence that the people of Pennsyl vania have not been made aware of Penn State's needs. The legislature recently changed from biennium bud get sessions to annual sessions. The budget question will therefore arise again this spring. Now is the time to begin a demand for recognition The people of Pennsylvania must be told of the legis lature's archaic neglect of public higher education in the Commonwealth They must be informed that Penn State has the high est tuition of any strictly state-supported institution as a result of this neglect. In contrast to a vacation demonstration, a budget rally might create sonie interest among the viewing audience, particularly if that audience included some legislators and Governor Lawrence As opposed to a vacation demonstration, a campaign of this nature cannot damage the University "image." If carried out in a mature, planned and orderly fashion, with leadership from the SCA, it may go far towards obtaining recognition of the depressing financial problems that tie the hands of the administration. 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PENNSYLVANIA WAYNE HILINSKI Business Manager the megaphone Holiday Road Blocks The Senate Committee on Calendar and Class Schedule is throwing up road blocks and smoke screens to keep students from taking a powder for Thanksgiving recess. The measures the committee has in past days announced are diversionary, throw ing the emphasis from the real issue to a series of minor points and weak excuses designed to have the students running in circles. Thus, the committee must think, the students will tire themselves and give up in disgust. One such measure is Chairman Read's belated "discovery" of some small print in the June 1961 minutes of the University Senate which quietly stipulates some Letters Walker Will Get Vacation Proposal TO THE EDITOR: During the pas: fev. - 'oseeks there XB3 been a zreat deal. of disct:iwt:l a::.>:;ut extencilng Thanks i .ir:vtzt.t vakt-a tion. Becatte c-f :::-.'..s ciis.7l:s- EINNE sion a .g:c,'. a:er a:;sen, 11. e 5t...:,4e:1•.-=.4,-... t:eir: re:a T'nese reia.lon. have su ov. - as was wi - .nessca at ciun,r,,q. ga:r.e wrcen :he sluaenls spur; ta!ieousi owed :he four-tor:n system and drowned out the Blue Band wath cries of We want a vacation." Something must be done NOW by students, faculty, and administrators alike to im prove the relations between us. Decisions should not be made with total disregard to the groups effected by the decisions. \Ve must be responsible and dedicated leaders. When we be lieve that the administration is wrong, we should investigate fully and try to find out their reasons before we criticize. If criticism is called for then it is our duty to speak out con structively. Therefore, I propose that: the president of SGA, the president of TIM, the president of IFC, the president of AWS, the edi tor of The Daily Collegian meet with President Walker, the special assistant to the president for student affairs, the assistant to the president for academic affairs, and the chairman of the University Senate Committee on Calendar and Class Schedules to discuss the proposed Thanksgiving re cess. At this meeting the students should be prepared to listen and think carefully about the administration's points against extending the vacation. Because of • the complete breakdown of student-admin istration relations it will be very difficult for the adminis tration to put themselves in the students' place. Nevertheless, they should try to do so. If Dr. Walker or the Univers ity Senate at the present time refused the vacation the stu dent sentiment would continue to grow against them and the student - administration rela tions would sink even lower. Therefore, I shall present my proposal to Dr. Walker this afternoon. —Gomer Williams '63 •Letter Cut Gazette TODAY Ag. Club, :3" p 111.. 233 Weisser B.A. Student Council, 6:45 P.m., 30t Bourke Block S. 9-5 p.m.. I,t - floor Mal Chem.-Phys, Student' Council, 6:15 p.m., 211-'215 HUB Clusa Club. 7:30 p.m., HUB cari room Faculty Club, 7 p.m.. 111'13 ballroom Hillel Fre , hrnan Council. S:1:5 21 11U11 Ind. Ed. Society. 5:30 p.m., 212-213 HUI{ Newman Club. HUB gr,m4 11r , ,r P.S. Bible Fellow qhip, i 2 :15 p.m., 214 Penn State Figure Skating Club, 4 11 fn., e r ,„ lr,j fi Huff Penn State Plying Club, 1:1:: p.m., 21c, If l'l3 Pcnn State Sports Car Club. 3 [. rr. :17 Wijgrd Stoat DMA, 10 a.m.. HUB Theta Sigma Phi. PAIL, 12; Sec's:-:: TIM. 7 p.m , 2,3 HUB lA:A-Freshman Scrim 5:30 p.m., Chapel lounge U.S. information Agency, 130 p.m., 213 HUB Women's Chorus, 6:30 p.m., if Uti arL sembly ball portant procedures These procedures would have all proposed changes in the 1961-'62 calendar made in ac cord with the more evenly dis tributed 1962-'63 calendar. When we first spoke to Dr. Read about the possibility of a recess, he said he would a the stude members o his committ construc Ing one. The n e day he phonf us :o tell of :r.is "srna and i _.:dd}niy a Imp..nant II plications. The dicovery was convenient, but we are sure, does not have to bind the hands of his commit tee and of the University Sen ate. No ruling of this nature is iron clad and when opinion an d circumstances demand. bureaucracy can find many ways to bend to the demand. From this first ruling, how ever, another has blossomed. Read asked the ,tudent mem bers of his committee to alter their articulate and eloquent proposal tw.h.ch he blatantly said - missed the point - ) in ac cord with the above ruling. This would mean that the students will be presenting a proposal 10 install a Thanks giving recess into every term henceforth. Obviously Dr. Read entirely missed the point of the original request, To clarify this point, the idea was that in this fall term and this one only, there are three extra days. The days are there, according to Dr. I3ernreuter, because the start of the term was moved ahead one week from the originally scheduled date. And the term was moved ahead, as we all know, because Penn State played the Navy. If the start of the term had not been moved up the game would have been a financial failure. Very obviously, Read has gotten the students to ask for something the Senate would not approve since after this year each term will have exactly 60 days. Thus the students will be asking for something that is impractical rather than the very practical use of this term's three non-recurring days for a recess. Dr. Read's next point con cerns the timing of the student's objections. He contends that if students wanted to alter the schedule they should have lodged their protest last spring when the calendar was being considered. We'd like to refresh Read's memory on three points that counter this pat and very du bious answer. Firstly, the calendar did not have those three extra days when it was first approved. Therefore there wa s little bother in asking for the impos sible. Secondly, the change which brought the extra days was made late in the spring when students were, and rightly so, studying for upcoming final examinations. It was, there for impossible to make any concerted effort for the recess. Thirdly, the committee seems to feel that because nothing was done last year it is now impossible to alter the precious term. Policy, to be effective must be flexible. The committee (Continued on page,eight) WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 18. 1961 by meg teichholtz Letters Alum Sees Dollar Sign In Athletics TO THE EDITOR: Having read in Sunday's Philadelphia In quirer that the State-Army games of 62-63 may be played in Philadelphia's vast 100,000 seat stadium, where 80.000 seats are either in the end zone or two blocks away, I thought to myself, ''how greedy can you get"? It's no wonder the students feel they are getting the short end of the stick. In order to pay for our "big time" schedule they are con sidering taking one of our best home games 200 miles away to "tin .can alley." With a brand new 46,000 seat stadium, which any State-Army game could fill, the "powers that be" are going for the big money. Let's not let this happen! It's time the mighty dollar be given the go by. Give the students, and people who appreciate Penn State and what it stands for, a break. Keep the home schedules as they have been drawn for the next three years. If this can't be done, let's de-emphasize and bring on Penn and Bucknell. (Which isn't a bad idea either; we could use a breather for a change.) W. H. Parkhill '49 THE DETERAMD SALMON SWIM/4(W UPSTREAM.. HE LEAPS t . UP THE FALLS- • 4 ""egi At./1111 to-rr • G 41, - 11 h" , 1 1 .4 - .44 IMF --- Alia\ SC~./Lz
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