PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Self-defeating Cycle The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with its archaic view of eduCation and its goernor's quietly disconcert ing and poorly organized *planning may be doing itself more harm than it now realizes by 'refusing to face up to its educational responsibilities. By not granting the budget requests of this University, the Comnionwealth forces Penn StateSs President to raise tuition in order that he may retain an outstanding faCulty. But by raising tuition Penn State iiclimbing , info the economic fee bracketsbeyond the level of those it was established to educate—the lower and middle income classes. Thus it is eliminating thevery opportunity a state university is designed to perpetrate. Yet this Commonwealth is far from a prosperous one— many of its citizens are chronically underemployed be cause of the condition of industry in the state. The iCom monwealth, however, does not seem to realize that this is an argument in favor of increased state aid to the state . university. It doesn't take much imagination to realize that peo ple who cannot support themselves in one area will mi grate to a more financially rewarding area. Yet if compe tent but inexpensive higher education could be Offered to the financially impoverished residents of this state, Pennsylvania would he helping Pennsylvania solve some of, its economic woes: This situation in which immense potential is neglected while an economic tide might 'be stemmed, must prove extremely frustrating to Dr. Walker—who years ago realized that with.tareful planning this University might have an important role In educating the "war babies" and in boosting the state's economy. 'The cycle in which the UniOrsity is . tiow placed—one which is fostered by the state-is sel f-defeating. Penn State was established to educate those who could not afford private- training. but its tuition fees are placing - it out-of reach for these citizens. Its far-sightee expansion program thus is halted because of a myopic state evern rnent. Ali that remains to be seen is which party will, in thelong run, suffer more. Lion Every so often someone at Penn State does some ihing that, in the eyes of these editors, particularly benefits the University and fulfills our motto—For a Better . Penn State. We are today establishing an editorial feature, The Lion Roars, to call particular attention to these contribu tions. The frequency of the Lion Roan editorial will depend on the activities of the newsmakers and, of course, the prejudices of the Collegian Board of Editors. - The first recipient—and we proudly announce is- Dr. Monroe Newman, head of the department of eco nomics. Dr. Newman is cited for his successful efforts to eliminate the UniVersity's practice -of condoning :the - existence of discriminatory clauses in the constitutions of social organizations. Today the Lion roars for _Dr. Monroe Newman... A Student-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Editorial Freedom 0111 , Batty Tollegian Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 teblkhed Tuesday through Saturday morning during the i/sleerafty year. no Sally Collegian is • •trdent-•perated newspaper. Entered" u imalread-clAtai smatter July S,. at the State College. Pa. Post Offir• under Our art •f Mare* 3, 1878. Nail Sabstriptisa Priest U.►► a mar Dialling Address Ban M. Mat* Colima. rs. Member of The Associated Pre.* JOHN MACK Editor ,_ - 4460" Editors, Lynn* Ceref Ira and Richard Leighton: Editorial Editors. Rog Toichhoitt and Joel Myers: Erna Editors, Patricia Dyer and Paula Drarior; Personnel end Training Director, Karen Ilyneeteal: Assistant Personnel and Training Director. Susan Eberly; Sports Editor, James Earl; Assistant SP•fts Editors, Dean Minch and Jahn Morris; Meow, Editor. Juba Bats.. Lira At Mgr. Margo DOMINIK: Assistant Lineal Ad Mgr.. Mirth Zonis: Nail‘slal Ad Mgr.. Korey Pars: Credit May.. RalpY Trirrasing Assistant Credit 4111drii. Neissialensi Clarified Ad Man. Maids firsitsead Clreitiation Mir. Alarm Cliessler; Promotion Mgr, Jane Trernskis; Personnel Mgr. Anita Boa. The WAYNE HILINSIEL Business Manager THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA Letters and untrue representation of a verflity ball player as, at best, a person with very little inter est in anything but his varsity --sport. Roars TO THE EDITORi I heartily agree with Mr. Sigman in his letter to the editor concerning Jim Karl's recent columns. If Penn State operated'entire ly on - the set of values implied by Jim Karl in his editorial entitled "Narrow Minded Profs —You Bet." then Penn State would cease to be the citadel of higher learning it supposedly is. It would become a minor league team for the N.F.L. and the N.B.A. In that case athletes could 'he offered no cut con - tracts and be allowed to live without the harrassment of a "frustrated, unbalanced facul ty What Tare we here for I hope fi)r an education. Then why shotild the faculty pass a person who has "a little brain," and has not earned the right to pass, if he •is a star on a varsity team? As to Mr..lCarl's "No Special Consider a tio n" editorial, I bleed for the poor coaches and their non-existent assistants. Rather than self another coach et Perm State.(l.virould rather see,-1,000 new-"books on the library shelves. As far "as Ohio State. West Virginia, and Wa bash U Are concerned, two wrongs do not make a right. If we would operate our sys tem of higher education on the values of Mr_ Karl, I am afraid the only outer space we would conquer would be the space between the ears of a 6'9" basketball machine. --Season Malkin. '63 - •Letter cut Athletics or Scholarship Or Lundy? TO THE EDITOR: I was sorry to learn, from Saturday's "Halftime" column, that " Penn Stale lost a potential All- American . . . " when Wayne Lundy withdrew from school. I believe, however, that it ,is more unfortunate that one of our fellow students, Wayne Lundy, left college. This point seems to have been overlooked by Sports Editor Karl. I don't know if the colum nist is being completely honest` in his article but we can all see that his logic is appalling, his non-sequiturs are abundant and his style is sensational. These factors are sufficient for us to dismiss his article -as worthless journalism but it does, nevertheless, unea rt h something ',very basic on our campus and many other cam puses. Mi..._Karl is, ostensibly. de crying'ihe unfair position that college athletes maintain on ou,r "academic\ campus." I agree with this in part, but Mr. Karl is helping to - further this at titude which he has so bitterly! attacked. Let's look at the situ ation. Th e "Universi ty 'recognizes our varsity athletes .4s...student athletes:" they are non'6profes lionals who are attending col lege. Part of their collegiate life is playing varsity bill. Another part of their educa tion, considered important by" the University and the student, and a prerequisite for athletic participation, is achievement in academic training There is no valid reason' for the attitude which maintains a dichotomy between the "col lege student" and the "college athlete?' it is artificial, but we all know it exists as an unfair There was no mention in Karl's column of the fact that, due to en ,"injtzstice" a stu dent's academic'career was cut short; that. because of supposed discrimination against athletes, Lundy lost the chance of pre-i sent and perhaps future .con tinuation of education as well as the long term career aspria tions. it is reasonable to expect that with articles of this calibre, the false., dichotomy between student and athlete will be firmly implanted. Norm Simonson Graduate student * Letter Cut the megaphone 'Twinking' The "hello, where are .you fronl, what curriculum are you in"!routine being at its peak, we thought we'd take some tim e to investigate other means of greeting and chatting with people we don't know. Such a search really needs no more rationalization than the pinched smiles and rolled up nerves we've been ob serving for the past week or so. "The Big Book of Twink" which is four inches by five inches, not very thick and the creation of Robert Shure of San Francisco was pointed out as exactly thr searching 1( The book if collection short dialog, with the us, thinking p terns turned side-out ; backwards. With some agination a Mr. Shur script we ( see sister A s, ing to Rush. I,.."Have,you noticed that the eating craze is dying down?" Whereupon, Rushee I picks up the conversation: "Yes, people are just getting tired of food." We shall let the dialogue con tinue. "Those big fads never last." "What's the', new one now?" after' all that eating, a reducing craze is sweeping the country." "It must be quite Popular." %.'lt's the biggest thing since eki - Zng.*: N. This rushee is well-traveled: "The silliest way to drive through a_rnountain is to use a tunnel." ' - "How do you get through?" says the anximis sister. "There's a giantsipper, on the side of every modern mountain Letters . .. _ Groans on Ai 4 Office 1 Course TQ THE EDITOR: Health is4,,,..commtinit.v., J a ridiculous time - consuming To make flatters worse, the subject for the half credit; health book i written by earned. To meet the minimum j Arthur Davis;- - is the epitome requirements of Health one i of incorrect grammar, lack of must spend as Much time on it coherence, and ambi guo u a as on a three credit course. The statement. Al quotation which required program of study for , exemplifies Mr. Davis' errors this course is as follows: and lack of forethought is: • A term' paper "One who is, opposed to smok *Answers -to thirty - three ing might well ask the ques- Pages of essay questions. tion: how much keener mental • Answers to 'twenty - four ly and stronger physically he pages of true-false, multiple might 'beif he didn't smoke." choice, and fill-in questions. —Michael M. Palmer '65 • An outline of twenty pages of concentrated material. —John H. Wood '65 •A health survey of your —Charles D. Weniling '63 TO THE EDITOR: Thinking how nice it would be to earn a little extra money babysitting. I went to the Office of'Student Aid in Willard Building to give them my name so that, they could inform those who needed - babysitters that was interested in employment. I was disappointed and very disgusted when I leained that they do not give prospective employers students names but instead post notices of those wanting sitters on the bulletin EMSISE WHAT IN THE WORLD....?. ' i _ t, 4 0 , e',...- - * i '' --- ;, ar k 14 (' s 444! - ~....... ......,,,„ •.....,...... s'idt74,- 41 11.........0. - I GOTTA HAVE AV BLANKET EACK...I CAN'T GO ON LIKE 71116...D0 I LOOK NUNZLE? ..:;...... .. 4.1.0 (.--jii "--'' ‘ THURSDAY. JANUARY 11, 1962 ---I by meg teichholtz —just unzip it and driie through." ; "Well that certainly sounds more practical." "Don't count on finding a zip per every time, though." "Why not?" "Some of the older mountains still have buttons." Looking for diverse inter ests? The well-rounded, rushee or sister (whichever you're looking for) has a hobby. "My hobby is collecting rare clouds." "Where do you keep them?" "I've rented a sky." - "Do you have a fellow col lector you can trade with?" "Yes, but he lost his entire collection." "What happened?" "His sky turned blue." If you're caught in one of those "home remedy" conver sations, iMr. Shure might sug gest this for a cure: i - "There's a new kind of pill that's supposed to .make you feel sick.' " Does it really work?" " ; 'Thus far. the results have been very satisfactory?? ?This, ls good news for peo ple who wake up with that horrible healthy feeling." And regardless cf tomorrow's outcome, sisters 'and rushee: can take a tip from Twink's . philosophy:' decided to live happily ever after.' "HoW come?" "I don't know what else to do with myself."' board where students .must check daily. Then the student calls the prospective employer. It is obviously a very in effecient system for both em ployer and employee and ap pears to be ridiculous. I would like to know . why there is such a system-and, if it can be altered to be a real student aid in practice as well as in name. Until the!situation is rem- - edied. parents who need a baby sitter can call .me! —Mary Margaret Kyle '63 lM SURRENDER[N6...IA GOING TO MISS 0114 MR CN MY NANDS AND KNEES 10 St/WENDER_ " 1 # ‘4° NAUSEATINGLY . HUMBLE?! ; - n `a g IL. , La.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers