PAGE . '.FOUR Editorial Opinion. Do it Yourself Gifts A fe'w years ago, the University, like an over-protect tive mother, gave the graduating class the money with which to purchase the class gift. , Then mother cut the apron strings, most probably because the University was beginning to expand rapidly and no longer had the time or the patience to dispense funds each year for a gift to itself. _ - In order - that cutting of those ties should not be too traumatic and permanently Injure the psyches of the senior siblings, the University weened its young seniors gradually by matching funds for a time. According to the program set up, the class of 1962 is 'the first to be completely self-sufficient with respect to purchasing a gift for- their Alma Mater. In a University where students ritually decry the "paternalistic" methods of the administration, we think this measure of independence, and the potential r for initia 'tive it allows, are altogether commendable. Commendable or not. however, the class of '62 is left with $4,350 for its gift, one of the smallest suns ever. To augment this fund, we suggest that the Senior Class Advisory Board intensify its efforts to collect unfulfilled pledges of money. The class .board has already come up with two sug gestions for a gift which make up in practicality what they lack in originality. These are a revolving loan fund to be 'idispensed through the Office of Student Aid, and an unre stricted gift to the ever needy Pattee Library. The current seniors will soon be balloting these two proposals. It_ should be noted that the first is justified , by the jumping cost of education and the second, by the needed expansion of University facilities. There can be no great controversy here since both are _responsible choices which will provide valuable asisstance. The decision -is left to the seniors who may have a scarcity of funds but who are the first to have done it themselves. Memo to Congressmen: Tonight is the first meeting of ,the USG Congress It is at 7:30 in 203 Hetzel Union building. . - Be there. A Student-Operated Newspaper 57 .Y ears of Editorial Freedom Ot BAR Tottentan Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 tahll•hed Tarots, through Saturday moratag darbut tm lialveratty pat. na path C•tlaglaa to II atugoat-oparata4 astraoapar. Satersd as aorted-shag taunt* July 5, 1134 •t the State College. Pa. Peat Ottlre wader the art 44 March I. 11711. Kali Bolheerlptloa Priest SLOG • Tear Stalling Address Bet 111 g 4.. College, P•. Member of The Associated Prc s JOHN BLACK Editor 44i6P', City .Edltors, Lynne C•refiee 1 1 / 1 11i Richard Leighton: Editorial Editors. Meg Teitith•ltt and Joel Myers; hr.. Editor. Paola Drams,: Personnel and 'Training Director. Karon illyneckeal: Assistant Personnel and Training Director. Susan Eberly; Sports Editor. i•ineo Karl; Assistant Sports Editors. Dean Dillick and John Norris: Picture Editor. JOlll Braude. Local Ad Mgr.. Marge Downer: Aubassi Local Ad Mgr, Martin Zonis: National Ad Mgr.. Marcy Gress; Credit Mgr.. Rats'. Friedman; Assistant Credit Mgr, kaiaks Notopoloss: Classified Ad Mgr.. Kathie Monsen: Circs'sties Mgr.. &bison cisessler: Progiotios Mgr.. Jan* Treraskiss Personnel Mgr.. Anita 8011. %/VS %NOP THIS NEXT CLASS AND Go Ger A DEE • --oaTIFuL pAY, ISN'T IT llorosor slecg 7" WAYNE HILIAFI Busils!ss Ml,ziager, - cwt.'s cows( 4y? THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. sPENNSYLVANIA YIVRE 571 u. gota.ING MAE., Letters Dirty Wash TO THE EDITOR: While we're on the subject of food service and its failings, I'd like to add a petpeeve of my own. As - muqh as I might enjoy my dorm dinner, I don't like to see ternnants of that dinner' crusted on the trays and silverl. ware 'at the next morningi breakfast. Nor do I appreciate lipstick, smears on my fork- or white. crust on my - knife. These things happen too often to be ignored. Last year in Simmons the trays and silverware were im maculate., I wonder what the problem Is in Pollock? —Cecelia Halbert. '64 •Letter cut Grad Eyes Youth's TO THE EDITOR: I have at tended The Pennsylvania State University for five, months and feel called upon now to ex press my views to the student body on - a matter of the great est importance. I don't know whether you shill publish this letter since the American peo ple are healthier on pablum. However, I have been moved. to pen the follewing for which I take full responsibility , , since the views expressed are cer-. tainly not those of the student body, either graduate or under , graduate. nor of the faculty • or adMinistration. AlthOugh for a long time I have`experienced a vague feel; Lug of ' uneasiness, inevar, be fore my stay at Penn State, hid 11 crystallised into the realisa- Hanoi the complete empty:gess' of modern American youth as it has now. They radiate lack of commit ment—a total non-involve- ment in any matters of lasting human concern.: They can be excited only by sex, money, •booxe. or Thanksgiving recess —and then no more profound ly than had- they been tickled. Never befdre have I been so. ' pessimistic about the future of the United States. If the stu dents in :Abe major state sup ported university in one of the most educated comMunities_in the country are so irresponsible I , arid detached, hew must it be in those areas of lesser "sophis tf_cation?". " And if students. are not con -owned ahem! human problems. Who will be? . Around the • world, In Africa. Asia Latin 4i3U STOP' YOU'RE SCO4XING AT ME INSIDE! STOP SCOWLIN6 AT ME INS(DE: - /-- IL) I 2 RA.TSI IF YOa CAN'T EVEN SCOWL (NSIDE Wt-tAT is THERE LEFT? Elf scwu~z the megaphone_ Careful, If thq pile,of mail awaiting me each day is any indica tion, this :newspager is on every sucker list in the nation and some from abitra'd. The letters, pamphlets and as immortal• utterances from Motorsithe text of a sales agree ment signed when the Univer sity sold a pedigreed bull, pic tures of fthe Shakespearean theater at Stratford-on-Avon and what! hr been my.4ave ite joke bix), t h e Natio Review. I say ;t magazine been my Lay it: because week eve thing on top-ten, b e seller 11 mdved down make room for a folksy comic book gloriously titled "WE THE PEOPLE ..." the or someone called the VLodisiana State Sover eignty Commission" sent 'this to the Collegian in a misguided attempt to convince us that racial or religious discrimina tion in all phases of life is a right guaranteed by the tenth amendment to the Constitu tion. Printed on newsprint (as is any comic book 'worth its jokes) this is a dialogue, with pictures, :between Upstanding, Selt-righteous "Pop" and Tow- Headed, 'Freckle-Faced "Son" on the Facts of Life in the U.S.A. Just what are those facts? Son asks Pop: "Is that (the tenth amend- On Other Cam . uses Faculty Poll on Quarter System REDLANDS, Calif Statis tics compiled from a faculty opinion survey at the Univers ity of Redlands; indicates the faculty might prefer a quarter or "middle semester" system. , The following answers were received during the survey: • Should we seek ways to re duce the .number of courses taken by a student at one time? Yes, No, 8. Most suggested three or four courses at a time. o Should we seek 'ways to re duce the number of courses for Non Commitment Policy America. it is they who aro leading the struggles for free dom: witness Turkey,. Korea, Japan, etc. They are active and working for what they be lieve in whatever that may be while ' , ours have faith only in the ability to live with out faith) While they are the vanguard of humanity, ours are the dung on top of the heap. No wonder the American people face the world with fear and trepidation; no wonder we view with annoyance national strivings for liberty and inde pendence. The leaders in Africa speak like Jefferson and Madison; ours act like England and King George. They have the de termination to do something r -- to make life meaningful; while we judge it by. consumer sta tistics. The United States of America: had a unique mission in the world: . to bring the message and the reality of racial indi vidual freedom and human rights; of human development of unlimited potentialities; of hope and work -on earth: a pioneer. experience, 'unique in history. confident in its abil ity to free mankind. This 'we brought into the world in the 18th and 19th centuries. And now in the 20th we have disowned it; we are fighting a rear guard action against humanity. Yes, we re peat the same slogans; but the meaning has gone out of them. Could this be more evident. than at Penn State? .y• THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 1. 1962 Bub by .meg teichholtz releases include the president went) important?" "Very Important. Son. There are some people who think even our state-owned schools, and a. lot of other things, all: ought to be run out of Wash ington . . ." "You mean like in - Little Rock, ,Pop? But colored people have nice schools. Lots of them are better than ours. Wouldn't it be fair to• have separate schools just so long as they were equal?" "That's exactly what a fed eral court held, for many years. And we all got along just fine." At this point I continued reading only out of some sadis tic urge to uncover other per versions of the Constitution or more insidious ',euphemisms about those "Crackpots and Fedeial power grabbers" in Washington. • Yes, Bub (I forgot to mention that Son's real name was Bub) listen to Pop who is older and knows better. Listen, also • to Rogers and Hammerstein "You've Got to be Carefully Taught." Then, Bub, it you" want mote copies of this comic to give your friends as commencement presents, write to the Louisiana State Sovereignty Commission, State Capitol, Baton Rouge, La- Save one to give to your own kids, Bub. It may be harder to educate, them to these things by then. which an instructor-must pre pare during a given semester? Yes, 38; No, 7. Most suggested two to four courses. - *Should we seek -to elimi nate the 'post-Christmas Name duck" perio4? Yes, 25; No, 12. Thirteen recommended the 43- 5-13 program (two 13-week se mesters with an intervening five week "middle semester ' beginning right after Christm,as vacation), seven suggested the quarter system and two sug gester a 12-4-16 arrangement., don't we have a student com mittee for national liberation? Why not 'an organization of 3,000 actively supporting the U.N.? Why not a vast uproar for greater individual freedom in -the spirit of the Bill of Rights? Where are our students active in seeking to rid the country of the HUACT Why not an active movement on campus In support of civil rights? (The only area in our country where any students show any, concern; and then almnst only those directly af fected.) Why no large student committee working for edu cationf Why, in short, not a renewal of the old battle Cry: To hell with the privileged and com placent; give us life, liberty; and purposeful activity?' Why don't we respond?'- Because WE JUST DON'T CARE!! We are sick, perfeit examples Of a society rapidly becoming as empty inside as it is gaudy outside. I might challenge the entire student body to .respond if I thought it might be mean ingfully done; but the most I am likely to incite is some statistics from some computer, vague charges of downgrading America, and allegations of communistic sympathies. Let us face the realities: we are not losing the cold war: We are just becoming too cold to care about anything which might make the conflict Mean ingful! —David A. Sprinissa Grad Student, , such things of General
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