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Editorial Opinion
More Than a Survey
The results of a survey of State College housing will
be released within a week according to Chamber of Com
merce President Paul Mazza.
The chief aim of the survey was to obtain the total
number of vacancies in town to guide the University in
planning for future student housing.
It was apparently, prompted by the growing number
of vacancies in State College rooming houses.
Although the results of the survey reveal many inter
esting statistics, the fact that a survey has been conducted
will not prompt University planners to give the town
landlords greater consideration in the future.
The University has for a long time recognized the
existence of substandard housing in State College. In fact,
the Dean of Men's Office in 1953 began a program of
housing inspection based on voluntary request of the land
lords.
Houses that met established minimum requirements
were placed on an "approved housing" list.
In 1957 the Board of Trustees went a step further .and
forbade students from living in houses that weren't ap•
proved by the University. .
When it was found that such action might endanger
the legal immunity of the University, this decision was
reversed.
As an alternative to prohibiting students from living
in unsafe or unhealthy town housing, the University ac
celerated its rate or residence hall construction so no
student would be forced to live in substandard housing.
The University has indicated it will maintain this
policy as long as substandard housing conditions exist in
town.
If town landlords are concerned with their loss of
income as a result of vacancies, they should begin a cam
paign to improve the substandard health, sanitation and
safety conditions that exist.
Direct action aimed at "cleaning house" is more likely
to earn the consideration of administration planners than
is a housing survey, which simply represents a summary
of the present conditions.
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Letters
Grad Objects
T© Debating
On Recess
TO THE EDITOR: In this
"best of all possible worlds"
it seems very peculiar to me
that so much time and energy
must be consumed debating the
question of whether the fall
recess should be 1 or 3 days
long.
If we insist on pinching the
administration where it hurts
most then let us concentrate
on matters of importance.
For example suppose for
the basis of argument that
there exists some poor soul on .
this campus who has forgotten
that the primary purpose of a
university is to give students
and teachers every possible op
portunity to develop their men
tal abilities with th 4 ideal goal
that someday they will be able
to do some independent serious
thinking.
Further, let us assume that
this poor soul has the power to
formulate university policies
and that he decides to enforce
a rule which requires students
to stop studying after 6 p.m.
(Monday-Friday) and not at
all on Sunday. Then I would
say object to this obstruction
and object viforously.
Your first reaction may be
this: "Nonsense, who would
ever do such a thing?" My an
swer is that the rule may never
be stated in plain English but it
often appears dressed in very
subtle clothing.
If, after all this you still in
sist on a 3-day fall recess
(for whatever reason you need)
then by all means take it.
In fact, please take an ex
tended vacation so there will be
room in this university for stu
dents who do recognize the pri
mary purpose of a university.
—C. Pangloss, Grad.
Fallout Protection
Asked By Junior
TO THE EDITOR: As each
student of Penn State passed
through fall registration, he
was given a sheet of paper with
vague information pertaining
to the procedure which should
be followed if the University
Park area became contaminated
with radioactive fallout result
ing from a nuclear attack in an
outlying region.
This information does not
offer a complete plan which
can be immediately followed.
According to the instructions,
students living on or off cam
pus are to confine themselves
to their living quarters, "and
remain there for further in
structions from University offi
cials."
Now is the time for the ad
ministration to reveal these
mysterious instructions to the
student body, not later when
our lives may be in jeopardy.
—Geoffrey Abelson '63
Students Ask Recess
For National Holiday
TO THE EDITOR "There is no
place like home for the holi
days, no matter how far away
you are." For the holidays you
can't beat "home sweet home."
There is nothing like home
made pumpkin pie, roast tur
key, and cranberry sauce.
It is only too bad that Penn
State students won't be able
to enjoy this National holiday
at home as other college stu
dents do.
—Thomas Bayline '62
—David Ellis '64
Gazette
TODAY
Agriculture Student Council, 7 p.m.,
212-213 HUB
American Chemical Society, student Rf.
Ciliate, 7:30 p.m., 101 Osmond
'AURA pledges, 6:30 p.m., 214 HUB
Froth, 7 p.m., 215-216 HUB
International Relations Club, 9 a.m.-
5 p.m.,
ground and Ist floor, HUB
Jazz Club, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., ground floor
HUB
Navy recruiting. 9 a.m.-I pan„ ground
floor HUB
Navy leafing, 11 a:rn...10 :30 p.m.. 218
HUB
Netherlands Bureau for Foreign Stu•
dent Relations. 8 p.m., 214 HUB
Panhel, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., 214-215-218 HUB
Penn State Bible Fellowship, 12 :15
p.m., 212 HUB
Schuhplattlers, T p.m., 216 Wagner
Sense, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., ground floor HUB
United Nations program, 9:30 a.m.. ,
6 p.m.,HUB assembly hall
Countlitesoerata. 6:80 n.m., 217 RUB
Snowed
New Policy Starts
The Kennedy administration embarked on a new
policy Saturday when Assistant Secretary of Defense
Gilpatric warned Russia the United States would deci
sively defeat her in war, even nuclear war,
This new line is aimed at destroying the overinflated
image of Russian military
strength.
The false illusion that cur
rently prevails pictures Rus
sia as making military gains
that will eventually be used to
subjugate the world. This first
took root in 1957 with the
launching of Sputnik I.
Subsequent Soviet space
gains were falsely associated
with accele
rating military
might, which
sup e rimposed
on the foreign
policy failures
of the Eisen
hower Admin
istration, made
people believe
the United
States was fall
ing behind the
Soviet Union MYERS
as a military power.
Kennedy's failure to meet
challenges in Laos and Cuba
intensified this belief, and
many Americans in recent
months have been worried
that war or annihilation was
drawing near.
Soviet space feats were a
result of greater Russian em
phasis on powerful rockets in
the post war years, and they
alone should not be taken as an
index of relative military
power.
Nonetheless, scientists have
interpreting
Kennedy Team Projects
New Image to World
By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
The Kennedy administration now seems to be adopt
ing a view which seems to have been prevalent among
the American people for quite a while—that the Soviet
Union is not nine feet tall and, as French President
Charles de Gaulle puts it. negotiations with her need not
be carried out from fear.
Already the administration
had made its obeisance to the
world image it seeks to project
—of a nation long-forbearing,
searching for peace if peace
can be attained reasonably and
with honor.
Already it had made obei
sance to the sen
sitivities of the
small nations
without impres
sive results—and
to the domestic
political p r o b
lems of the Brit
ish government.
But also, al
ready, it had be
gun to take a
new look at the ROBERTS
theory that economic support
should go to all sorts of
politically immature regimes
which have been trying to
feather their own nests by
playing both sides of the street
in the cold war, and especially
those who played mostly with
the Soviet Union in the ap
parent belief that, in case of
extremity, the West would bail
them out anyway.
Also, already, there was re
examination of the value of
helping an independently Com
munist nation such as Yugo
slavia or a "maybe would like
to be independent" Poland
where U.S. aid may keep alive
some hope; but where it also
helps relieve very apparent
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1961
by joel myers
overplayed the significance of
Russian space feats to secure
extra research funds, and Gen
erals used them to prod Con
gressmen into appropriating
extra money fo r military
equipment.
Politicians also found it ex
pedient to jump on the band
wagon in order to rally public
support for the fight against
Conimunism.
However, Kennedy now feels
the danger of the American
public becoming complacent—
in an era when complacency
could lead - to extermination—
no longer exists.
Therefore, he has launched
a new policy that is designed
to re-establish th e United
States as the number one power
in the eyes of the world.
In order to obtain this goal
the United States will revamp
its foreign aid policy to favor
our allies. Aid to neutralist na
tions will be re-considered on
the basis of their political atti
tude toward the United States.
Russia will be warned in pre
cise terms that egression in any
area of the world, whether it
be Berlin, South America or
Southeast Asia, will result in
military retaliation.
Faced with this offensive
U.S. policy, Russia should be
gin to take her rightful number
two position in the eyes of the
world.
strains on the general economy
of the Communist bloc.
The voices of Adlai E. Stev
enson and Chester Bowles are
heard more dimly from off
stage.
Now, adopting the old mili
tary tactic of countering an
enemy attack when it begins
to show:
_signs of slowing up.
the United States is beginning
to inform the world about her
ability to meet the Soviets and
beat them in any kind of war
they choose.
American troops cross the
artificial boundary in Berlin in
timehonored fashion to protect
the rights of an American na
tional. Nothing happened, and.
probably nothing •would have
happened, and probably noth
ing would have happened,
either, if that wall had been
kicked down before it was fin
ished instead of having been
accepted as a defeat.
Asst. Defense Secretary R. L.
Gilpatric warns of American
might, of the ability to absorb
the first punch and still kick
lieu' out of any enemy.
Secretary Dean Rusk admits
it is about time the United
States displayed her wares in
this respect, and states empha
tically that the United States
is not dealing from weakness.
The United States, strong
and rich and enviable, gets
little love from the world—
certainly not enough to make
a decisive difference in this
strange and unaccustomed war.
Perhaps a try' for respect will
be more productive.