PAGE FOUR
Editorial Opinion
inform the People
In his testimony before the joint session of the State - -
Senate and House appropriations committees next week
we hope President Eric A. Walker impresses upon the
legislature the urgency of our need for-funds.
_He should explain the disgraceful results of last year's
deprivation of money, and spell out the consequences of
Another refusal to grant the full budget request.
_ The increase in tuition, hike in room and board fees,
the regulation requiring - pre-paymentof tuition, the estab
lishment of a $5O general deposit and a- host of tighter
fiscal regulations grew from the legislature's unrespon
siveness.
The failure of the General Assembly to grant the Uni
versity's full request may be an'indication that the people
of Pennsylvania are not acquainted with our needs.
While this year's drive for4unds should be directed
to the legislature, any large scale expansion of the Uni
versity, and its Comhionwealth campuses must be the wish
of the state's electorate.
Thus, the University administration must: begin a
publicity campaign, which will inform the state's citizens
of Pennsylvania's educational needs and Penn State's
atteippts to fulfill them.
A lob of this nature will not be easy, but the Univers
lty's ultimate success in achieving the size and greatness
envisioned by many administrators may depend on the
success of such a campaign. •
We are sure students, alumni and all persons inter
ested in the growth and future success of Penn State
will be glad to help.
Control of the Press
When the Pittsburgh Poit-Gazette called "30" during
the fall, few observers were surprised. Rumors that Pitts
burgh was to be left with one daily newspaper had long
circulated in the trade.
Now the new year has brought an end to two of the
lour Los Angeles dailies—an end that was also preceeded
by rumor and followed by charges of a deal between
owners of the LA papers.
Whether or not,there was a deal involved is important.
but not as important as the chop down in th• news market
available to the public.
The right of the people to know—to be informed—to
hear all sides of an issue and then reach conclusions—is
protected primarily by competition in the press.
The events in Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, however,
,only reflect the current trend in American journalism
toward a monied and monopolistic control of the press.
Too few citizens are aware that such a situation presents
a grave challenge to their freedoms.
A Student-Opirated Newspaper
57 Years of Editorfal Freedom
al l g Batty Tatlrgian
Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887
Vabllahed cSarisday through Saturday morning during the, University year.- Tba
.pally Collegian b a atudent-operated newspapor., Matured as norrond-rianr matter
- July 8. 1914 at the Stat. Collage. Pa. Poet Office under the art at March 1. 1879.
Mall Subscription Pricer 111.1111 a year
Mailing Addrasa Bea tit. State College. Pa.
Member of The' Associated Pre::
JOHN BLACK
Editor 4W,
ot7 Editors, Lynn., Coteries and Richard Leighton: Editorial Editors. Ides
T•idrhelts sad Joel Myers: News Editors, Patricia Dyer_ and Paula Drumm:
ronsonnel and Training Diroctor, Karen Hyasckeal: Assistant Personnel and
Training Director, Susan Eberly; Sports Editor. Jlllll6ll Karl; Assistant Sports
Kolitisr. Dean Kink*; Pirtals Editor, John Braes.
Local Ad Ida. Margo Dolmen Assistant Local Ad Iddr, Martin Zonis, Nation&
Ad Mgr. nom. Beniitotty Credit Mgr. Jeffrey Belmarts; Assistant Credit Mgr.
Ralph Friedman: Classified Ad Mgr, Bobbie Graham: Cireatatssa Myr, Neal
Lott*: Promotion Kyr.. Jane Trtraskist P•nroanst Mgr. Ardis Hells Office Mir.
Morey Gomm
Perrone with coliplainto about The Datly/Golheriaa'a editorial policy et 'mows
eineme may voice then; In the letters to the editor celuiss or present these,
Mpens. or ill writing. to the editor. AU reatplalats will be iareetitated
*Meta wade to . :seaseir Munition where this newspoper is at fault. The Danz
Cohesion. however, epliehis the light to saalaiala Ib hafepesaeace and' to
onartioe Hs own lodgment as 1* whet it thiabals to tie be intern* of the
Ilaharaity Ildr a aim"'
• „
•
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARKIPENNSYLVANIA
WAYNE r I
Business Manager
Letters to
Williams
States Plans
To Aid PSU
TO THE EDITOR: Once again
the students have been dealt a
severe blow by the announce
ment that the state will give
us $4 million less than request
ed.
Since this is a very impor—
tant election year and because
the state's budget has been
balanced for the first time in
many years, there is little,
chance that Penn Stat . - will r 0
ceive a higher appropriation.
Mr. Reed Ferguson, one of
the lobbyists, "is in agreement
with me that if money can be
ut from something else, Penn
State will receive more money.
There appears little chance that
this will occur.
Therefore, I suggest that the
student body take the follow
ing, action:
•Concentrate most of our
efforts, not on this year. but on
next year. Dr. Walker will try
to cut back in some other field
before he asks for another
tuition boost. He should be
able to cut back and still in
crease the teachers' slartes with
the increase in appropriation
that Penn State will receive,
this year.
- •Pressure for a bill to be
introduced in the General As
sembly making Penn State the
State University and granting
a charter to the same effect.
•Endorse Mr. Sinkler's (past
chairrnan'of the now disbanded
Citizens' Committee on Educa
tion) recommendation that the
Governor's Committee on Edu
cation be reactivated.
*Endorse Dr. Walker's plan
for.an independent State Coun
cil of Higher Education to di
rect the orderly development
of education opportunities in
Pennsylyitiia.
•Endoite) . _ Sen. Hays' plan
for making our Board of
Trustees rrißre responsible to
the Commonwealth.
•Realizing that a higher ap
propriation will mean that
money must come from some
source, recommend that Penn
sylvania adopt a new modern
constitution which would elim
inate much of ' the needless
duplication. —
As soon as preliminary dis-,
cussions with members of the
General Assembly to deter
mine the climate in Harrisburg
are finished, I shall begin a
state-wide, drive to get these
points adOpted.
—Corner Williams '63
Karl's Column
Draws. Debate
TO THE EDITOR: Judging
from Jim Karl's editoral en
titled "Narrow-Minded Profs—
You Bet," I am starting to
doubt if Penn State prepares
men for professional jobs or
gives it to them. '
Mr. Karl grossly con adicts
himself by saying that Lundy,
a mediocre student, "expected
no pressure on a prof from a
department head to raise a
grade." and then ,saying that
a "deal" between John Egli and
the department head was al
most accomplished. :
I admire our athletes. but I
can feel no sympathy for their
tong practice hours. There aro
many students in various ac
tivities who spend as much
time the full year around with•
out any more compensation
than prestige and self-satisfac
tion. -
I do not know the details
of Lundy's case, but I know
that the excuses for the flunk
(frustrated, unbalanced, etc.)
profs are strikingly familiar
to those used by moat flunkers.
The entire faculty Would prob
ably be considered mentally
unbalanced if we believed half
of these excuses.
The only solution to Mr.
Karl's problem is to offer
Wayne Lundy's father a liberal
contract with no - escape clauses.
Sigmas '62
the Editor,
'Future Plans
TO THE EDITOR: Recent
events indicate to me that Penn
State is in more financial
trouble than the student body
realizes; I think it relevant to
point this out, since • the in
ability of the'University to ex
tricate itself from its difficul
ties has so far resulted in a
corresponding depletion of our
bank accounts.
President Walker, at! the cost
of severed relations with the
students, has been on the road
trying! to raise funds; he has
not been successful to date;
While; at the same time dis
gruntled•graduates are, not fall
ing over themselves to kick
in to the] alumni fund.
In the aftermath of Business
VP Albert E. Diem's resigna
tion, Dean of Women Dorothy
Lipp , warned of possible in
creased dorm fees, already
jacked up once this year. She
told Lyons Hall girls last term
that if 250 vacancies in wo
men's dorms around campus
were not filled, housing fees
might go up. BUT THE PEO
PLE WHO WILL FILL THESE
VACANCIES ARE ALMOST
ENTIRELY 'ONES WHO HAVE
HOUSING CONTRACTS FOR
THE ENTIRE YEAR.
Early fee payment and the
increase in refundable deposit
give additional evidence of the
school's lack of working capi
tal, entirely apart from Dr.
Walker's warnings of long
range• enrollment and expan
sion cut-backs to come. _
- , The largest share of the re
„cent tuition boost went to give
faculty members a long-de
'Peace, Not Panici—SENSE
TO THE EDITOR* Hiroshima:
August 6, 1945
Crowds of maddened peo
ple were running like de
mented lemmings, trying ,to
get across the river. They
were screaming and it sound
ed, like ic?ne enormous voice
their skins hung from
them like strands of dark sea:-
'weed!
Instead of noses, holes!
Their ears and hands were so
swollen ,as to be shapeless ..
In theirl terror of dying they
clawed;their way over one
another! their eyes hanging
from their sockets, pushing
one another into the! river,
and screaming all the time. '+
(Children of the Ashes, by
Robert Jungk)
But it couldn't happen here?
We in She peace movement
have been charged with being
unreallitic. Perhaps we are.
Perhaps the stark realities of
the Riroihima holocaust, are
unrealistiC. They are fairy tales
and we are authors. Soon we
may all be characters.
History, has shown us that
arms build-ups have ultimately
led to Wars. Today, in the ther
monuclear age, war means the
extinction of life as we know it.
Therefore, if we assume that
everyone; values life (his own,
at lbast),we come to a contra
diction inherent in the whole
'
I DON'T
TH►NK SHE
COULD DO:
IT!
TUESDAY, JAJUARY 9; 1962
Undisclosed'
served pay raise, and, in my
opinion, the administration is
to. be congratulated for taking
this step so necessary to retain
Penn State's academic walls
intact.
Neither should high Old
Main officials be blamed for
the current ' financial. straits
which resulted from ”overex
pansion" or what on hindsight
appearsto be a faulty estimate
ofa the Pennsylvania voters—and their representatives'—in
telligence.
The citizen's suppression of
his scarcest resource, the high
ly :trained employee, can only
result in a, bigger depressed
• area bill which he, the citizen,
will have to pay.
I am critical, however, of
President Walker's failure to
make a frank appraisal of
the-University's financial pros
; pects, such an appraisal as.that
which last year resulted in the
intensive, albeit futile, letter
writing campaign to Harris
burg.
Because the Penn State stu-'
dent will apparently have to
; pay his own way, at least in
the foreseeable future, I think
he is entitled to some forecast
of his educational invoice. As
things now stand the cutline
under Albert E. Diem's photo,
which appeared in The Daily
Collegian on;the announcement
of his resignation, neatly sums
up the situation for students,
facility and! administration a
like: "Future ' plans undis
closed."
--LawseriCe W. Cameron "64
'64
concept of the cold war arms
race.
Those who vacuously belittle
the risk of global war , and an
nihilation—the same ones who
would continue the arms build
up— knowingly or unknowing
ly :are encouraging their own
destruction ;and that of civili
zation. '
Right-wing extremists here
and abroad irave that Commu
nists cannot be trusted, that
negotiations are meaningless
since they mean "concession."
We do not absurdly propose
that the United States "con
cede" to the USSR. We advo
cate negotiation an d coin
prbmise ON BOTH SIDES
concerning disarmament, the
present crises and others which
may arise. I"Coh . ipromise" and
"concession" ars not synono
auras.
'A policy of increased military
expenditures and resumption of
testing will hardly create an
atmosphere of trustfulness and
compromise, needed if any ne
gotiations are to be successful.
We do not condone nuclear
testing by any power!
It is not a question of being
"Red or dead. ' It - is.a question
of life for !all peoples on our
globe. We Must live side by side
in peace, not panic and haired.
Let America take the lead in
the "peace race." Future gen
erations will thank Us. We will
thank each other.
-SENSEi Students for Peace
DIDN'T THINK SHEI) BE ABLE:-
TO GIVE UP CHEWING HER
FINGERNAILS FOR FIVE MINUTES.
AND HERE ITS BEEN FIVE DAYS!!
•
C Ifro
- It
Ka.
t - ellll
_- - -
-., _ •
I MADE Mg BIG MISTAKE
WHEN I JUDGED HER AS A
HUMAN BEING INSTEAD OF AS
:A SCHOOL TEACHER
-'4 . -j--
tr• &vol..
i
4.44.4...