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Editorial Opinion
Irony of Gen. Bullmoose
According to A 1 Capp “What’s good for Gen. Bull
moose is good for the country.” And it suddenly strikes us
as ironic that what’s good for the student body is good for
the Patlee Library.
The building at the top of the jnall will be closed all
of Thanksgiving day. The reason, says Ralph McComb,
University Librarian, is that his staff is following the same
calendar as the student body.
We realize how difficult it would be to get a staff to
serve the students that one day. We fully understand that
the staff is already overburdened.
But here is where the irony returns.
Three-fourths of the student body must remain on
campus for Thanksgiving because the one-day vacation
is too short for them to go home and back. An extended
holiday was denied because of the terrible effects that
interrupting the continuity of education would bring upon
the students.
How then can the University Justify interrupting the
education of thousands of students who have been planning
to spend that one-day vacation doing term papers and re
search projects that require the use of the Library?
Such a lack of continuity forced upon the students
may be disastrous.
Different Problems
While students at Penn State are faced with the
"perplexing" problems of Thanksgiving vacation, parking
and the four-term system, other students around the globe
are faced with much graver problems in obtaining an
education.
Some must find ways and means to resume their edu
cation after they have fled or been forced from their home
land by oppressive totalitarian regimes. Others must fight
off disease in overcrowded infested cities of Southeast
Asia. Others cannot find housing nor obtain precious text
books.
One international student organization conducts a
never-ending mission of mercy to aid their fellow siudenta
—fhis is World University Service.
The Penn State WUS committee will begin its annual
mission of mercy Monday night with a program designed
to explain WUS to all interested students. It will be held
at 7 p.m. in 112 Buckhout.
We are thankful some students can still take time to
think of their fellow men.
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Frosh Will No
TO THE EDITOR: The issue
regarding the Thanksgiving
recess has been well debated
by the students since its ap
pearance, but I would like to
add my comments for poster
ity.
As a freshman, I realize that
I am not as experienced as the
upperclassmen who have ex
pressed their opinions thus far,
but I know that the action
taken by the administration
regarding the Thanksgiving
recess ami other calendar mat
ters has greatly affected my
opinion of Penn State.
As a high school student, I
was constantly annoyed with
the fact that the students were
never given a chance to voice
an opinion on matters that
concerned them.
I have discovered to my
dismay that the same situation
from which I have been at
tempting to escape exists here
at Penn State.
Of what value is the Univer
sity Senate if it will not even
Frosh Asks
Recognition
Of Authority
TO THE EDITOR: As a fresh
man at Penn State there are
many things that have very
favorably impressed me. But
there is one thing that has left
me completely stunned and
that is the immaturity so fre
quently and abundantly dis
played by some students who
persist in their protestations
about our Thanksgiving vaca
tion.
This is a University com
prised of thousands of students.
Whenever that many people
are gathered in one place some
sort of government must have
a voice of authority and Penn
Slate is no exception.
It is the duty of the people
comprising this group to recog
nize the authority vested in the
established government and
abide by its decisions.
If they do not there is no
point in having a government
and nothing can be accom
plished. There is only a maze
of individuals, each pulling in
a different direction.
Penn State has fallen to this
condition. If you students do
not pull yourselves together
and give up these childish atti
tudes we might as well relin
quish the title of Pennsylvania
State University.
It does not matter whether
the student think the decisions
of the authority are unfair or
groundless. They are not in a
position to question them.
These people are much more
intelligent and experienced
than any of them and much
more capable of making de
cisions.
The authorities here have
made a decision and the stu
dents should have enough re
spect for themselves and for
their University to accept it
and abide by it.
—Mary Ann Stiles '65
Waiting Lines
TO THE EDITOR! Concerning
the previous article on slowness
of food lines in Redifer Hall.
Those 1500 girls referred to in
the article are the most prob
able cause of this slow move
ment.
—Alan Goldner '63
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rs to The Editor
Lette
t Accept 'Dictatorship
discuss the problems of the in
dividuals who are providing its
members with their salaries?
To this I except Dr. Lawrence
Lailman, who I believe to he a
man interested in the students'
problems.
What right has this Univer
sity or any other to encroach
upon the sentimentality of an
individual? It is a poor enough
situation that a student at Penn
State is nothing more than a
bunch of holes punched in an
IBM card; now he is expected
to think and act like a machine.
I am well aware that the new
four-term system does not al
low for wasted time, and that
an interruption in the schedule
might hamper the study habits
of the students, but I would
like to know what assurance the
administration has that the
students who remain on cam
pus are going to study or even
attend classes.
I would like to remind the
administration that this is the
time of the year when high
school seniors begin to apply to
Ethics Questioned
TO THE EDITOR: The admini
stration and some of the stu
dents at the University have
been pushing to get increased
appropriations from the State
of Pennsylvania.
We feel that there should be
no more appropriations until a
Senate Investigation Commit
tee can look into the Admini
stration’s use of funds already
appropriated.
At present, the tuition for
Penn State students is the high
est of all public-supported col
leges in the nation, and teach
er’s salaries are among the low
est. Where is the money going?
Maybe the ethics of the Uni
versity administration should
be investigated. If a whole
school calendar can be moved
up a week in order to secure
the gate-receipts from a single
football game, why can't one
and a half of these extra days
be given back to the students so
that they can go home for
Thanksgiving?
What the Dean of Women has
Frosh Condemns Critics
TO THE EDITOR: What is the
matter with the students on
this campus? Are they lacking
in character and decent up
bringing that they have never
been acquainted with the con
cept of respect of .both elders
and responsible position?
By what possible right do the
students feel that they may at
tack President Walker's actions ~
by calling them "immature and
irresponsible?"
Whether or not the students
have a sound basis for their
grievances against the adminis
tration policies is not the mat
ter in question.
The fact is that the student
body ha 3 gone too far in its
Grtktt Square Dance, 7 p.m., HUB ball-
room
Student Fl!m», T p.m., HUB assembly
hall
Emerson Society, 6:30 p.m., Eisenhower
Chapel, small lounge
Folklore Society, 6:30 p.m., HUB ball-
room
Hat Society Connell, SiSO p.m., 214
HUB
Jazz Club, 12:30 p.m., HUB ballroom
Liberal Arts Student Council, 6:30 p.m.,
212, 213 HUB
Liberal Party, 7 p.m., 215, 216 HUB
Mt. Nittany Stamp Society, S p.m., 217,
218 HUB
Penny-a-Mlnute Committee, 1 p.m., 212,
213 HUB
Penn State Thespians, 7 p.m., 217 HUB
Student Films, 7 p.m., HUB assembly
hall
Bwedenborglan, 10 a-m., 212, 213 HUB
Thespians, 8 p.m., 217, 218 HUB
Gazette
TODAY
TOMORROW
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 18. 1961
colleges. Although it has been
announced that this year's ap
plications have already sur
passed last year's number, what
will be the case next year when
high school students learn
about the undemocratic meth
ods employed at Penn State.
Will these students be so
eager to apply to an oligrachy?
And how many of the presently
enrolled students are willing
to accept threats of disciplinary
action or even expulsion, if
they voice an opinion to that of
the administration?
I am not willing to accept
this. Therefore, I have decided
to further my education else
where.
I know that the administra
tion will not mourn, or lower
the flags to half mast, or even
give the office employment a
day off because of my absence
next term, but perhaps the
action of one may have an
influence on the actions of
others.
—Joseph Casfiglia
•Letter cut
stated about the students hav
ing to do away with holiday
vacations that have sentimental
value can also be applied to the
administration and their day
and a half paid vacation on
Veteran’s Day.
If the students have to be in
classes all day Good Friday,
why couldn’t the Administra
tion offices be open the Friday
before Veteran’s Day?
Maybe the administration’s
code of ethics is right and ours
wrong. If so, will some in
formed person correct us?
—Robert Wiseman '63, Carl
Gordon '63, Samuel W. Jones
111 '63, Theodore Negley '63.
Darlene Brickell '63, Peter E.
Farlin '63, Sylvia Kasinski
'63, Edgar S. Nug, Jr '64, Kar
en S. Miller '63, Irene Wo
jcik '63, Mary Lou Mayle '63,
Edith Bloom '62
(Editor’s Note: According to
Robert Bernreuter, Special
Assistant to the President for
Student Affairs, the calen
dar was moved up so that
automobile traffic from the
Navy football game would
not interfere with the traffic
of arriving freshmen.)
campaign for student rights.
Perhaps, the use of a little more
discretion in its actions might
better serve their cause.
For no matter what one
thinks about administrative
policy, one has absolutely no
right to consider oneself on an
equal with the President or any
of the University administra
tors.
Why doesn't the student body
get smart and show the ad
ministration. that they are as
mature as they would have
them believe? And, maybe in
this way, we students might
get some of the privileges—
and they are privileges—that
we are requesting.
—Rena Gear 'B5
MONDAY
Alpha Phi Omega, 7 p.m., 212. 213 HUB
Bridge Club, 6:80 p.m., HUB card room
College of Education, 8:16 p.m., HUB
assembly hall
Grad Student Assoc., 8:16 a.m., 214,
215 HUB
1.8. - 7 p.m., 208 HUB
La Critique, 0 a.m. - I p.m., HUB
ground floor
Men’s Residence Council, 0:30 p.m..
203 HUB
Model Railroad Club, 7 p.m., 218 HUB
P.S. Bible Fellowship, 12:15 p.m., 212
HUB
P.S. Bible Fellowship, 7 p.m., 217 HUB
Philosophy Dept,, 7:30 p.m., HUB main
Jounge
Spanish Club, 7 p.m., HUB assembly
hall
Spanish Club Presents Two Plays, 8
p.m., HUB assembly ball
Women’s Chorus, 6:30 p.m., HUB ball-
room
World University Servlet Meeting, 7)18
p.m, 112 Buckhout