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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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