PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Alumni Should Help Back the Budget Last year University officials, students and their parents fought a long and hard campaign to secure enough money from the state so that the proposed expansion rate of the University' facilities could be maintained. The campaign ended in total failure last summer when the General Assembly refused to increase the stand-still appropriation recommended by Governor Lawrence. A tuition hike, an increase in room and board fees and a general tightening of the University's fiscal policy was prompted by the legislature's failure to support its state university. University administrators will probably request an increase in state funds again this year so that the Univers ity can grant' 'admission to a greater number of the Com monwealth's qualified students. Two important factors will be operating in Penn State's favor during this legislative session, and if handled properly by University officials they could pressure the Assembly into granting Penn State's full budget request. • Legislators will not want to jeopardize their chances of re-election by antagonizing any part of their constitu ency by voting against an educational appropriation. • The lobbying machinery and experience that ad ministrators and students gained from last year's fight for money could make this year's budget effort more efficient. To be successful, the University must begin early in rounding-up support for this year's budget campaign. The most influential segment of the Penn State com munity, the alumni, was not used in last year's fight for funds. The alumni's interest in bettering Penn State is dem onstrated in many ways each year, the most evident taking the form of contributions to the University. If Penn State's graduates could be persuaded to take up the fight in support of the University's budget, the chances of favorable -legislative action would be con siderably enhanced. Perhaps the Alumni Association could send a letter to each University graduate explaining the budget situation, and appealing for support in pressuring the legislators into favorable action. A Student-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Editortai Freedom T4r Daily Toliggiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 188? Published Tamils,' through Saturday morning during the Unirersiti year. The Daily Collegian le a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second-class matter Job' i, 1034 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March L 1876. Mall Subscription Prices $B.OO a year Mailing Address Boa 281, Stale College, Pa. Member of The Associated Press and The intercollegiate Press JOHN BLACK WAYNE HILINSK I Editor oilEW' Business Manager City Unarm. Lynn. Ceretice and Richard Leighton; Editorial Editor., Meg Trichholts and .loti Myers; News Editors, Patricia Dyer and Paula Dranor; Personnel and Training Director, Karen liyneciteal; Assistant Personnel and Training Director, Susan Eberly; Sports Editor. James Karl; Picture Editor, John Demise. Local Ad Mgr.. Marge Downer; Assistant Local Ad Mgr., Martin Zonis; National Ad Mgr.. Phyllis Hamilton; Credit Mgr., Jeffrey Schwarts; Assistant Credit Mgr., Ralph Friedman; Ciasaified Ad Mgr., Hobble Graham; Circulation Mgr, Neal IWO.; Promotion Mgr.. Jane Trevaskisi Personnel Mgr.. Anita Holt; Office Mgr. Marcy Cress. ANOIE LOHO WOULD 61T OUT IN A PUMPKIN PATCH FOR FRE DAY/ WAITING FOR THE "GREAT PUMPKIN" TO ARRIVE 16 ABSOLUTELY CRAZY: THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA Letters Vacation Motives Interpreted TO THE EDITOR: I think I've figured out why the Prexir is against our having the three day vacation. . He' knows that outsiders realize that if their friends and relatives from Penn State don't come home for Thanks giving it will create a feeling of uneasiness toward this school. This feeling will, of course, affect opinions when the col lege catalogs begin to be opened by high school seniors. Maybe a few thousand of these students like the idea of Thanksgiving at home and will decide to go to another school which is "just as good." This would relieve some of the over-crowdedness on our campus and thereby relieve the Prexy's mind of a few small worries like more dorms, more classrooms, a larger Rec Hall, etc, There might be a few good students in the bunch who like their family and home. Too, there might be a potential foot ball All-American that liked Thanksgiving and turkey and choose the "Panther" instead of the "Lion." (Rip. take note.) Or maybe the Prexy still thinks cranberries will give us cancer and he's trying to pro tect us. Simmons Senior Says Slip-ups Treacherous TO THE EDITOR: There is a standing joke around Simmons Hall that the housemen are waxing our front steps in stead of our rooms! I wonder how humorous this is to the many students who have had the misfortune of slipping and painfully' in juring themselves on those treacherous steps. Can't something be done to alleviate this dangerous situa tion before the snows camou flage the. steps entirely, mak ing them even more danger ous? Gazette Alumni Cider Party, 8 p.m., HUB main lounge Alumni Luncheon, 11 a.m., HUB ball• room Alumni Registration, 8 a.m., hit floor 11U13 mid Movie "The Young Lions", IliHal Foundation News and Views, 10 a.tn., ground floor HUlt Student Films, 7 p.m., HUB assembly room Folklore Society, 6:30 p.m., HUB ball. ' room Greek Games Committee, 8:15 imrt., 212 HUB ICCB. 9 p.m., 21R HUB Peace Corps. 4 p.m., HUB main lounge Slavic Center Open House, 2-6 p.m., Myra Dock House Speech 200, 8 p.m., 217 HUB Student Films, 7 p.m., HUB assembly room Swedenborgian, 10 a.m., 212 HUB MONDAY Alpha Phi Omega, 7 p.m., 212 HUB Bridge Club, 6:30 mm., HUB card room, ISA. 7 p.m., 203 HUB Model Railroad Club, 7 p.m., 217 HUB Placement Service, 8:45 a.m., 212 HUB P.S. Bible Fellowship, 12:15 a.m., 213 HUB • P.S. Bible Fellowship, 7 p.m., 214 HUD WDFM Schedule SATURDAY 6 :00 6:06 o:6b 7 :00 9 :00 1 :00 2 :00 6 :00 6 :30 6:35 7:00 12 :00 3 :55 t:00 6:00 5 :05 6 :00 6 :05 6 :55 7 :00 Merry Christmas! —James Cremer '64 —Reva M. Rubin '62 TODAY TOMORROW News Saturday at State Weatherseopo Hi•Fi Open House Offbeat King's Corner Sign-off SUNDAY Chapel Service Chamber Music Mormon Tabernacle Choir The Third Programme Sign-off MONDAY Financial Tidbits The Philadelphia News Music at Five News Dinner Date Weatherscope CAMPUS BEAT Listening Poet London Album Review Masterworks from Franco News Contemporary Concepts Passport Campus and Religion Artists Series Preview Bookmark News, Sports, Weather Symphonic Notebook rffil2 Inter Questions Raised By Red Congress By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst Two of the interesting questions raised by the Com munist party congress in Moscow involve internal affairs of both the Soviet Union and the international movement. Soviet Premier Khrushchev has been bragging about CommuniSt advances and what the Communists expect to do in the next 20 years. Why does the ruling clique work so' hard to' establish a whipping boy? At this point, why does Red China, in such desperate need of Soviet economic aid, refuse so pointedly to ap prove the inclu sion of Albania among the boys being whipped? Tr a ditionally ROBERTS the czars, and then Stalin shortly before his death, set up whipping boys—the Jews —to distract attention from admin istrative failures. The Khrushchev administra tion, on the other hand, has de pended primarily upon anti foreign agitation. He n ever really carried his anti-Stalinist campaign to the people Yet now he goes back to beating the "Stalinist" bushes which he seemed to have cleared out pretty thoroughly through the execution of Lay rentia Beria, the demotions of some like Georgi Malenkov, and the virtual exile of V. M. Molotov. Many observers think that if Khrushchev still faces any interhal danger now it lies Letters Jr. Hits Holiday Policy TO THE EDITOR: In regard to the recent issue concerning the Thanksgiving vacation, I have come to the conclusion that most of our student body, particularly those handling the conflict, are extremely near righted. May I suggest that all sup porters of the "Turkey at home" campaign consult those little blue and white calendars which were so lavishly dis tributed during registration. If you will note, the admin istration has been lenient enough to give us Easter Sun day off as "Easter Day Re cess." How generous of them. Did it not occur to our great white fathers in Old Main that a predominately Christian uni versity should observe the day of crucifixion? At least we could cancel the classes be tween 12 and 3 o'clock on Good Friday afternoon. Nov is the time for us to call this over sight to the attention of the calendar committee. It might oven be a good idea to combine it with any action which might be done on the Thanksgiving controversy. At least the administration could Frosh Wants Batteries Returned TO THE EDITOR: When I re ceived my acceptance to Penn State I was very pleased be cause this was a school that everyone talks about. It has high standards, excellent cour ses, and most important of all ; an "honor system." This "system" is the answer to every student's prayer. All worrying about dishonesty is to be vanished because Penn State students are trustworthy. The University trusts us not to cheat on exams and if we should catch anyone "cribbing" we are supposed to turn them in. (But of course no one cheats, so no one is turned in.) Think, just one minute, have you ever seen a bicycle with out a lock: or have you ever seen a student hang up his coat SATURDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1961 with the army. Yet the army gets less public criticism than others with whom he has had trouble. And the whole world of com munism is asked to join in the beating of the "old crowd." There may be a more funda mental_ reason for pressing the Albanian issue. In both the Medit e r ranean and Latin America the Chinese Reds hale been seeking to export their revolution almost as ac tively as in Asia, which might be considered their more nat ural field. There have been signs the Soviet Union does not always appreciate these efforts. Espe cially in Laos the Soviet inter vention appeared in some ways to have been designed to fore stall any, unilateral victory for Peiping there. Preservation of the hard core qualities of Communist organization, and its preten sions to be a religion in which all dissenters are heretics, are also important to the Kremlin. But what foreign observers would like to know particu larly is what is happening in the Soviet Union itself, and to the confidence of the Soviet leaders of international com munism, which now requires them to use whipping boys." not plead insufficient time to correct this error. Is this new issue that I have discovered a mistake, or is it intentional. I notice that one day is allowed for an Indepen dance Day holiday as well as Thanksgiving. They even had the audacity to schedule the first day of fall registration on Yom Kippur, the most sacred Jewish holi day. Has our University become so efficient in their "ultimate" four term systems that they cant allow the students a lit tle sentimentality for observing nationally recognized holidays properly? Perhaps our smiling friends, the State College merchant, thinks the new tradition of Mom and Dad visiting junior at Penn State is more profit able than junior going home for these holidays. At any rate, if this policy of scheduling holidays persists, the state will be forced to change the purpose of our edu. cational system from "helping the individual develop to the utmost of his capacities" to "the mass production of me chanical robots." —Jerald Llchty '63 without first saying a prayer that it will be there when he returns. What has happened to the honor of the students? Also, if this letter should "hit home" to anyone, would that student please return the batteriei that he "borrowed" from the headlight of my bi cycle. I realize that batteries are very expensive (40c) and it's a long walk to an automotive supply store (1 block) but I'm cheap and lazy and would like my batteries back. Pretty Please! You weren't really too smart, the bicycle next to mine had a generator on it. Just think, it would have meant no bat teries for life! - .—Arthur Epstein
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