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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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-
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sion a
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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
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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
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