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Editorial Opinion
Library Life Blood
One hunched thousand dollars wended its way out of
the University coffers to the Pattee Library once again
this year in the second of what are termed “non-recurring”
grants.
With every department clammering for funds and
the concurrent neglect demonstrated by the Harrisburg
crew it is reassuring indeed to have such news.
Coming as it does in the midst of a sudden half in
planned expansion by the University the grant is especially
noteworthy.
When the first grant was made last fall we noted
that it was “a good beginning.”
Yet the deficiencies of the University library noted
in the report of the Liberal Arts faculty in the spring of
1900 outlined tremendous gaps in the research facilities
of Pattee.
Therefore although money is poured down the throat
of this starving department it will be quite a while before
Die improvements are noticed in any obvious manner.
One of the improvements we would like to see, and one
which has been on lhe minds of administrative planners
for some time, is the physical expansion of the library.
As Librarian Ralph McComb noted yesterday, and as
students have experienced all term, there is a great in
crease in the use of library facilities this term.
McComb attributes this 25 to 50 per cent increase in
use to the pressures of the term system and the dangers
of procrastination inherent in its operation.
We are certain that this speculation is correct and we
further note that this puis increased pressure on the men
in charge of the University's budgetary life.
One or two grants will help the Library to expand
its sources and reference shelves. But much more is need
ed to build the new wing which increased use of these
resources makes necessary.
In the meantime students have approached the library
staff to extend library hours on Saturday evening and to
open earlier on Sunday. The library is, however, under
staffed and therefore unable to do so at the present time.
McComb emphasized that students have asked, that
only the reading rooms be kept open if desk facilities
could not be in use.
Such requests indicate that one of the .needs of the
student body is increased study facilities. This may be
supplied by opening class rooms for this purpose. Several
College Councils have already had classrooms made
available.
In toto, the library and study facilities have a long
way to improvement before they satisfy the new demands
of the foui-term system.
But measures such as the new grant and the work of
the College Councils will help make this goal closer to
reality that much sooner.
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Soph Says
Senate Lacks
Courtesy
TO THE EDITOR: I would like
to comment on the Thanks
giving issue. I believe the Com
mittee on Calendar and Class
Schedule and the Senate have
conducted themselves disgrace
fully concerning this matter.
I have been brought up to
show common courtesy in that
to listen to a person who desires
to speak, even if he has nothing
of importance to say. However,
I now witness a group of edu
cated men, holding important
positions, violating these basic
rules of courtesy.
I believe, had the committee,
approached by the students,
listened to their proposals and
then issued an official ultima
tum pro or con, the student
body would have acted as
adults and accepted fate.
However, when we tried to
issue our proposal, we were ac
cused of conspiring to evade
classes and finally ignored al
together. I cannot blame the
students for feeling offended.
Could this action have taken
place because there is no sound
reason as to why the vacation
cannot be granted?
The Thanksgiving issue is
now settled and another great
er problem has been created.
How much longer are we to be
considered subjects of an ol
igarchy and not students of this
university?
Before we can even consider
approaching the Senate or the
Calendar • committee on an
Easter vacation, we should
strive to establish an under
standing relationship between
the student body and those who
make policy.
If this feeling persists, other
steps could be taken. Our par
ents possess the right to elect
whomever they choose. It could
be a Republican governor in
1962.
—Frank Serdy '64
Readers Pan
Office Holiday
TO THE EDITOR: We are over
joyed to hear that the admin
istration granted an extra holi
day to its office workers so
that they could celebrate Vet
erans’ Day for two days in
stead of one.
We realize that on such a
sacred holiday the office em
ployes want to be home with
their friends and loved ones
to celebrate.
This Veterans' Day holiday
(celebrated on Friday instead
of Saturday, the day on which
it actually fell) is, we realize,
much more important than
Thanksgiving or Easter.
How could we students be so
selfish as to ask for days off
for such insignificant holidays?
However, we were thinking
that since Easter falls on a Sun
day, maybe we could have
Monday off to celebrate it?
We know our request will be
considered because the system
of democracy in this Universe
ity is so highly conscious of the
needs of the students. They are
eager to listen to complaints
such as those voiced by the
student representatives at the
Senate meeting this week.
We hope the families of the
administration had a safe and
sane Veterans’ Day.
—Diania Sasse '64
—Faye Colker '64
—Judith Angerman '65
—Suzan Levine '64
Letters to The Editor
Pablum for Diaper Patriots
TO THE EDITOR: I have no
wish to dissuade Mr. Blackmon,
or anyone else, from rallying
on the lactose wall of patriot
ism with a cartouche full of
inaccuracies and a full ration
of intellectual pablum.
I would, however, urge all
such diaper patriots and slogan
soldies to x - esist that illogical,
adolescent tendency to con
struct one-sided houses.
Mr. Blackmon quotes Mayor
Chrisfopher's hasty and unsup
ported statement of Jan. 18,
1961, without feeling it incum
bent upon him for any reason
(intellectual inlegrily being the
least considerable) to add that
the Mayor retracted his state
ment within the week.
I firmly believe that to call
all supporters of the film in
question KKK reactionaries is
as patently ridiculous as the
assertion that all those against
the film and the HUAC are
communists or communist
dupes.
If a genuine intellectual cli
mate of inquiry existed in those
Senate Action Lamented
TO THE EDITOR: It is one
thing for the University Senate
to deny the students of what
the students want, for this is
simply a matter of what the
University considers right and
wrong.
But when a group represent
ing the University, ignores the
ideas of the students, it is a
far more serious matter. The
students at Penn State have de
sired, as a whole, a Thanks
giving vacation. Their repre
sentatives, S.G.A. President
Dennis Foianini and Harvey
Klein, presented the students’
views, which obviously favored
a longer Thanksgiving recess.
The validity of fhe students'
argument is . one thing, but
when lheir desires are suppres
sed, without even consideration
of the problem presented, this
is oligarchy in ils highest form.
The act of purposely ad
journing the Senate meeting
so that the Thanksgiving ques
tion would not even have to be
discussed is more akin to Hit
ler’s Germany and Khrush-
Frosh Hits Li
TO THE EDITOR: Although the
issue regarding Thanksgiving
vacation is dead, I would like
to refer to Dean Lipp’s view
on the subject as it was pre
sented in The Daily Collegian
Nov. 8.
Dean Lipp may have the
courage to forego tradition, but
might not one regard this as
foregoing America, loo? After
all, America is tradition, a long
line of tradition.
I am glad to see that Dean
Lipp feels that “the pressure of
the times” (or is that just the
pressure of Penn State?) should
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places where it is most neces
sary, it would be a simple mat
ter to deal with the willful per
versions of accuracy and fact
in this film and in the Hoover
report.
But since so many of us in
sist on seeking refuge in emo
tional generalities when con
fronted by the need for a ra
tional response, it would be best
to simply recognize our preju
dices for exactly what they are
without honoring them by call
ing them fads.
One further word which may
certainly be relevant.
I was an eyewitness to Black
Friday (May 13, 1960) and the
months of student committees
which followed. I have also
seen the film, “Operation Abo
lition” as well as having read
the Hoover report.
I cannot say that the fictions
which these two accounts pre
sent square in any way with
the events which I witnessed
and which so indelibly were
engraved in my memory.
—Oswald LeWinler
Instructor in English
chev’s Russia than Penn State's
University Senate.
Should the ideals of demo
cracy be lost in the University
hierarchy and is Penn State a
place where the student, in es
sence, is only an IBM card to
be processed at will?
Fellow Penn Slaters, we're
being stepped on. Whether
we're right or wrong we deserve
an airing of our ideas and a
vote on the same. The Thanks
giving issue is of but small im
portance.
It is the idea that we cannot
get the people who are sup
posedly representing our inter
ests to vote on something which
is of importance to the whole
student body. Does not the
University care enough about
its student body to give us a
vote on something we consider
important?
There are some terribly
thoughtless people in the Uni
versity Senate, and we, the
Penn State students, will have
to suffer with time.
—Steven Carl Klipstein '64
pp Speech
cause our heritage to be lost.
I, as one patriotic individual,
feel that Dean Lipp should re
veiw America’s past and dis
cover what this nation is based
on.
The tradition of Thanksgiv
ing is. reverence and unity.
Our nation is based on this
reverence for high ideals and
unity of all.
Dean Lipp might just as well
offer to destroy the basis of our
democracy as to remove the
honoring of the tradition from
which it has come.
—Margaret M. Pace '65
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