PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Commonwealth Classroom Penn State's action in protesting the FCC decision which halted hopes for a statewide TV network has sig nificance for the Commonwealth and for the nation. Educatio►sal programs emanating from University Park would bring to the CoMmonwealth's attention the vitality .of the University's research -projects, long un noticed by the state. The past attitude toward education, which the state has demonstrated in denying our budget increase, is archaic. Pennsylvania seems to think its University should be run just as it was decades ago when it was mainly an agricultural school. An educational television station would graphically update this sorry picture. It would further give the citi zenry an opportunity to extend their own education as the most distinguished members' of the faculty lectured to them. - • In the national perspective the issue gains even greater Importance The FCC has never supported educational television. They would very much like to relegate it to the UHF channels and they tell educators that these frequencies offer them an opportunity to develop additional facets of the television industry. There are only two things wrong with this righteous theory. First, it is unfortunate but true that most people wAtch TV just as they thumb through a magazine in a doctor's waiting room. There is little discrimination or selectivity and too much ineitia. it follows that only the most interested would spend the money or take the time to convert their TV sets for UHF reception. Second, it is not the responsibility of the educator to be a TV promoter. If this field of UHF is undeveloped the problems for educational TV would me made infinitely more complex than they already are. Syr....cuse University is currently contesting the same issue with the FCC. They are, however, a privately en dowed institution and therefore do not have as tight a "public.service" case as this, a public institution, does. In addition, lawyers for the University have noted that should the District Court of Appeals deny Penn State's case, a further appeal could be made to the Supreme Court. In the event that the verdict from the appeals court is negative the University should appeal to this highest body. There is more at stake here than a linking station between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and more than just reversing the educational inertia of the Commonwealth. The FCC must be made to realize that in the national interest, educational television is infinitely more valuable and of greater importance than a Cherrios commercial, even if financially less lucrative. A Student-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Editorial Freedom •11. e •Elailli Tollrgiati Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the finiyereity year. The Daily collegian is s student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Poet Office under the act of March 3, 1879. Mail Subscription Price: $6.00 a year Mailing Address Box 261, State College, Pa, JOHN BLACK Editor I 514OULD HAVE KNOWN SETrea„, el' ~e 45 ,4 •- 4 6 4 4 WAYNE HILINSKI 14 66 W" Business Manager ceOU TALK LIKE SOMEONE WHO'S JUST FALLEN OUT OF A TREE: 4 IOU'RE STARK RAVING STUPID!! :ice io -2c THERE ARE THREE THINGS I RAVE LEARNED NEVER TO DISCUSS WITH PEOPLE RELIC7ION,FOt ITICS AND THE GREAT RAPK(N! , ) k e a e.c.e...ed-ae. 4 + 4 •+'1 .4 ° ,4 _ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA Interpreting Battle Royal for Battling Reds Associated Press News Analyst BERLIN (?P)—Soviet ex plosion of a monster nuclear bomb provides another clue to a two-front battle royal inside the world Communist party. On one front, Premier Kh rushchev seems still to be struggling for a clear victory over his enemies inside the Soviet party. On the other, Khrushchev and his supporters appear fight ing to establish a policy which begins to look suspiciously like containment of Red China. The bomb explosion hints that Khrushchev is not entirely master of the situation in Mos cow. Persons who know the Soviet leader seem convinced he would have preferred to avoid actual explosion of a monster, but militarily ques tionable, nuclear bomb. Khrushchev, such observers say, would have sought to reap the vast and alluring propa ganda benefits of a dramatic cancellation of monster-bomb tests. The new explosion was suf ficiently big in any event to damage communism from a propaganda standpoint by arousing worldwide protest. All this arowes speculation that in order to preserve his own position and that of his political machine, Khrushchev was obliged to give the military side a free hand. This reasoning will be borne out if, following the party con gress, there is a shakeup in the armed forces command. That now seems likely, just as a severe housecleaning seems in store for the party Central Committee and Presidium. A lot of old-timers are likely to go from the civilian side the deadwood holdovers from the Joseph Stalin era still in high places, and on the mili tary .side .the :conservative marshals and generals whose watchword for years had been caution. Hints of Khrushche'v's prob lems came in the address by Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky to the 22nd Soviet Communist congress. HE FLIES 11.1 Mil THE AIR, AND BONGS TOs'6 TO ALL THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD: 4;., -` 1114.kru -Z"-* ...., CI DON'T \ THINK SHE r , ~. eatEVED , i . c . ) ' ;i ME ~,. -F F....... 4, 1 1 -.... R /.....! By WILLIAM L. RYAN After dwelling on the might of the armed forces, Malinovsky shifted to the political picture. He announced that the mili tary backed Khrushchev's pol icies for "building communism," meaning the premier's 20-year program for the economy, which has been the source of bitter behind-scenes debate. The armed forces, said Mali novsky, also approved Khrush chev's rout of the so-called anti-party group. The marshal then kicked off a bitter at. tack on his predecessor as de fense minister, war hero Georgi K. Zhukov, banished by Khrushchev late in 1957. There is a strong sugges tion that two blocs are forming within the Communist world. One gets the impression of the megaphone Cute Coleman Coleman did it again. And again. The counterfeit sophisticate, svelte photographer of College Ave. finally let his bravado carry him to absurdity. For years Coleman has permitted his eloquence to grace our pages in his weekly advertisement 4nd last Saturday something meant as • a spoof appeared under a photo of Gloria Barton (Miss Penn State). In that column, Mr. Cole man tried to intrigue us with tidbits of Continental society intimating illicit affairs and foul play on the balcony of •a boudoir. Lightly tossed references here and there were supposed to tell everyone _(whom Cole man had not he had faun' ed off to El rope for summer of a, but was no' returned. Letters Soph Suggests SGA Conduct Pol! on Prexy TO THE EDITOR: When I was an incoming freshman here at Penn State, Richard Haber was the SGA President. In his welcoming speech at the freshman convocation, Mr. Haber told us about life at a large university. One of the things he said was that Presi dent Walker was affectionately known to the students as "Prexy," This title, he said, was an honor to which the students had elected President Walker. If this is true, then it is con ceivable that the students may want to withdraw this tills from Dr. Walker. I suggest that Student Gov ernment look Into the awarding of the title to Dr. Walker, and, if necessary, conduct a refer endum to see if the students still want to call Dr. Walker, "Proxy." —Steve Monheimer '64 Gazette TODAY AWS Senate, :30 p.m., 212-3.13 'HUH Chess Club, 7 p.m., HUB card room Dean of Alen, 8 a.m., 203 HUH Eastern Orthodox Society, 7 p.m., 306 Boticke Navy Recruiting, 9 a.m., HUB ground floor Navy Testing, 11 f 1.111., 218 HEM Philosophy Club, 7:30 p.m., 216 HUB P.S. Bible Fellowship. 12:15 p.m., 212 11U11 P.S. Figure Skating Club, 8 p.m., 21G lIUB Sociology Club, 7:30 p.m., 2.17-216 UUB UCA Freshman Series, 6:30 p.m., OmPel lounge Women's Chorus. G:3O p.m.. 212 HUB TIM, 7 p.m., 203 HUB .0 . VAfigisgy, AT Tsa Roar of YOUR ANWIE7IO*;IO 11W , FACT THAT YOUR STOPFAIN HATA' Ittoß ‘01'5.11 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1961 a second power center Peiping emerging for com munism, Peiping's activities could in volve the Communist world in adventures in Asia, even at the risk of nuclear war. The Russians are bound by military treaty to the Red Chinese. The choice would be difficult: Either risk nuclear war or see com munism ripped apart by an open Moscow-Peiping split. . Neither prospect would he pleasant for the Muscovites. Khrushchev's problem seems to be to find a way to appease the Chinese sufficiently so their ambitions can be con tained and they will present less of a threat to the Soviet party program. by meg teichholtz Cole m a n creation, t h "Counte V en g a-Ba ghese" was t: mouthpiec for his pulp. We noted with special interest his refer ence to the sorority system "where girls have graduated from togetherness to oneness or sameness." We're not defending the sys tem. but let Mr. Coleman not forget on which side his bread is buttered. Now the always tempera mental artist Coleman is also taking a public opinion poll to see what the coeds think of the ingratiating countess. He almost cares. Not content to make himself the public fool but once this month, Coleman preened his feathers with a repeat in yes terday's paper (because he didn't like the reproduction of Miss Barton in Saturday's edi tion). Indeed this fixture must con sider himself the unexpendable artist-satirist-cbserver of the State College Scene. To quote Queen Victoria— "we are not amused"—at all. CAMVUS COMSD? SoKAILXOIfitUi 1161
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