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Editorial ()pinion
The HUB Lot Reaction
The history of the Hetzel Union parking lot is as long
as it is fascinating and the issue itself has called forth
much student effort and agitation since the lot was closed
to nighttime student drivers in the fall of 1980.
The lot was closed, the administration said, to ease
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.four pressing traffic problems faced by the University.
The most serious of these was maintaining safety in the
congested areas of ,Shortlidge Rd. and the HUB lot.
Problems two and three centered around the need
adequate parking facilities for -visitors and the need
additional parking space for faculty and staff.
Problem four dealt with the dispersion of traffic at
peak hours.
The great panacea for these ills was to close the lot to
students. The one catch was that the students did' not
agree with the decision to close the lot which was adjacent
to the student union building—a building which"gets much
use at night.
Protesting the administrative edict as arbitrary and
illogical (which it was since it solved none of .the stated
problems), the 1960 Student Encampment drew up recom
mendations fo alternate Nays to alleviate poor traffic
conditions, none of which _were accepted by the adminis
tration, .
There followed three surveys to find out how much
the HUB lot was used at night, with the secondary pur
pose of detomining Just how impoverished local parking
facilities for guests and non-students really were.
The results, tabulated by the SGA, the Campus Patrol
and the Daily Collegian revealed that seldom was the
HUB lot filled to one-quarter of its 216 car capacity in the
hours between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. Sunday through Thurs
day.
This was just about the time that the former Vice
President for Business Administrration made his famous
"for the good of the University family as ,a whole" state
ment before an SGA Assembly inquiring into the rationale
of closing the lot.
In the past weeks, as the Military Ball committee
negotiated for the special opening of the lot for their
dance, the new business affairs chief reconsidered the
order of his predecessor and opened the lot.
Thanks, indeed, go to those who were - responsible for
prompting this decision and to Stanley Hi Campbell for
making it. We are happy to see this bit of illogical doctrine
dispensed with—for the good of only park of the whole
University family—the student body.
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JOHN BLACK
Editor
Member of The Associated Pre.'
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Grcid Objects
To Priority s
On Programs
TO THE EDITOR:-The Penn
State Men's. Debate Team made
its fiist , appearance last
Thursday night.. Having an in
" tert in debate tournaments,
I went to one dormitory.lounge
and then to another and finally
to the HUB in order to see the
prograrit.
At each den 'the scene was
the same: grOups of students
watching "The linmention
ables."lThese intellectuals were
indignantly unwilling to switch
• channels. •
&being such future college
graduates in front of the "idiot
box" makes one wonder if it is
really i the so-called "masses"
that are to blame for the trash
on TV/
Moreover, the HUB manager,
who admitted that a number of
persona had expressed an in
terest in the debate, remained -
quite indifferent /to the matter.
He felt that ft would hardly
be wnrthwhile because the
building would close at 11; in-i
cidentally, the !program began •
at 10:30 and was over at 11.
The i adMinistration reserves
Schwab, Auditorium and Rec
reation Hall for football tele
casts, but cainnot'allot•even one
television sat 'for an activity
which' should be looked upon
with pride.
It certainly is a display of
proper emph!lsis on the part of
University officials and stu
dents.,
Tlie Critic
Of the Critic
TO THE EDITOR: Although
drama critics are not the best
liked people in the world, I
.feel ttiat Mr. Hutchins is un
doubt dly tine most ignorant
one whom I have ever come in
contact with.
I have seen all of the plays
he has reviewed since my ar
rival here, and even though' I
agreed with his opinions on a
few rare occasions, I cannot ,
tolerate his manner..
1.14, 'obviously knows nothing
about the theatre. or he would
never' dare to write the idiotic
garbage that ha considers to
be a'review. Perhaps he feels
that aill a drama critic needs to
do is to tear a show to pieces.
No, Mr. Hutchins—you, as a
critic r tmust criticize, not insult.
I viould like to know what
qualifications you have that
allow.;you to put such inane re
views. in The Daily Collegian.
Yoe - may have received an "A"
in journalism. , but have you
ever bothered to take a theatre
course?
—Martin Petlock '65
Skirt Theft
TO THE EDITOR: Today on
returning to the girls' locker
room;after phys ed class, I was
shocked to find that my skirt
had been stolen along with the
'clothing of several other girls.
Am I expected to roam the
campus in merely a short
jacket? Obviously this is far
from) ethiCal. Well so is steal
ing.
Arse we so=caU4d "mature'
Individuals so, deprived (or de
praved) .thtt we must stoop to
such disgusting behavior?
You had better not wear
That skirt, "dearie," 'or you too
will be running around' in just
a short jacket!
Teaching Machine
_‘:
T6l THE _EDITOR: I quote
without ;comment the follow
ingtwhich- appeared in a recent
issue of the Journal of Chem
ical Education:
. "Is the Teaching Machine
Redundant?'
Tht latest report from the Dean
In praise of the teaching
.machine ; '
Is that Oedipus Rex
I 'Could, have learned
abcruesex
B himself,i and not bothered
the Queen.
—4 -Paul A. Cadmus:. Graduate
. .
—V. Baiger
Graduate student
—Barbara Erigol 14
Letters
'Rite of Erner
TO THE EDITOR: On Sunday, and. so they fled down the gel-
February 4th, some careless low, brick road and entered the
wizard split his watercolors portals of the Ewing Hole of
across the sky, creating s:
_Recreation where freedom of
radiant glow of .warmth and ' expression overwhelmed them.
causing a multitude of students Thie Was their Emerald City.
to: appear simultaneously on ' Just theniPPFFTI'l Alas, the
the "yellow brick road" be- wicked witch of South Halls
tween the ,Pollock A - Ewing .. appeared in - the Den of Right=
area. ousness. She ordered th e
The stadents praised the gods " ; twistin people", to cease their
for • their good fortunes in the revolutions, proclaiming that
form of a realigns right they jt had not been sanctioned by
called the " twist " They were
,‘, the , "Old Maininites," and it
all in search of the Emerald therefore , was a fallacy (Old
City (they were too far from Main 'being a phallacy). - •
the Peppermint Lounge). They E n entourage
were a revelrent crowd and turned bri their Achilles Heels
pieceful as the day is long.
„ . • and drudged back to their re-
But' thin , thin. in the
i t illl '': spective tombs.
square black lynx. militia ' ''',4l
of the - Peltonilas' arrived to i --4 dona Sheen . 'l5ll .
disperse the realigui wereship.l —Mary Davies •'64
pers. —Janet Miller '63
Their magical poviers puti —Becky Breen 'SS
the students in a state of- fear' • ; Fletuse skobolciff 'SS
Applause hir'P,SCIVIS
TO THE EDITOR: My congrat 7 ; •
ulatioris to the Penn State - Ms:l
sical Music Society for their
courage in speaking out against
the "den of derelicts,. other
wise known as the Lion's Den.
Many of us had virtually,
given up in despair at the sight
of "gyrating, garish, gluttons"
hiding in a pale of cigarette
smoke and beginning to think
World At
Demonstration
Ends in Paris;
Bombing Follows
PARIS (R)-A leftist demon
stration against zightist'secret
army terrorism and Paris,
po
lice anti-riot methods ended
peacefully last night.' It was
followed, however, by a wave
of secret army-style plastic
bomb blasts. .
The bombs started going off
in neighborhoods far from the
demonstration scene as the last
of the demonstrators .Were
going home under the eyes of
heavily armed security forces.
By 11
. p.m., six bombs had
exploded, injuring tworirsons
and doing considerable dam
age.
The target's' included the
home of a government radio-
TV -news reporter and a North
African restaurant. •
The , massive demonstration
built up considerable 'tension
but did not explode into vio
lence as did that of last Thurs
day.
Police stood impassively be
hind barricades 30,000 of
them had been concentrated in
Paris ready for trouble— r ag the
crowds moved up to the square
in the
,eastern part of the capi
tal.. , • •
Sociilists said there were
100,000 demonstrators in • the
side streets, but police officials
said there were perhaps
,10,000,
perhaps less. • _
Storin May Halt
Glenn's Mission
CAPE• CANAVERAL, Fla.
(iP)—Two wave-lashing :storms
whistling into the central At
lantic cast doubt yesterday, on
whether astronaut John H.
Glenn Jr. will rocket &round
the world tomorrow:
Even so, the National Aero
nautics and Space Administra
tion said the preliminary count
down for the space flight would
begin today in the hope the
weather would clear.
Unless the weather gets
worse, sources reported any
decision to call off the shot
might not be made until a
couple of hours before the
scheduled 7:30 am. blastoff
time.
A second. less, intense storm
was due to hit the same area
today. f
Tll ESDAY-. -FEBRUARY • 13. 1962
ld City
it *a., inevitable. But the let
te frOtn - sensitiire menthers of
the class 0f'1984 has given us
renewed inspiration to crusade
for' action against it.
- How about it I ,, CMS?
How hbout the pin -ball ad
dicts? ls this. inevitable, too?
'And the lover boys
• draped
over the sofas in the founge?
- Adams,
• Asst. Professor •
Department of Art
A Glance
Reds Attempt
2-Hour Block
Of Corridors
BERLIN (W) The Western
Big , Three Allies forced a show=
down, with the Soviet Union
yesterday over free use of the
Berlin air corridors 'and, in wet
and windy weather . , won.
The Allies thrust military
transports through the north
and center corridors during a
period of more than two hours
when the Soviets wanted to
monopolize them.
' The Soviets changed their
plans without giving any ma
son. The result was that half a
dozen Western civil airliners
and military transtiortg of the
'United States, Britain _ and
France !had the corridoti to
'• thernselVes. •
An 'Allied spokesman said
the Soviet flights had been de
, layed. Then he, announced they
were canceled.'
To demonstrate their rights
the U.S. Globihasters, British
Beverleys and French Nord
atlases—all lumbering air gi
ants.= buffeted through, 60
mile. an-hour winds, driving
rains and poor visibility below
7,500 feet.
Senator Demands
Power's Story
WASHINGTON (W) Sena
tors began moving in yester
day on the many mysterious
aspects of U 2 pilot Francis
Gary Powers' adventures be
hind ,the Iron Curtain and ,his
dramatic release.
Sen.' Strom Thurmond, D-
S.C., proposed that the 32-year
old flier be called before a pub
lic session of the Senate Armed
Services - Commitfie to tell the
story of "his *captUre.
"In fairness to Mr. Powers,
the American people need to
hear his story from Mr. Powers
himself," Thurrriond said. "If
there is no blame, this ought to
be brought , out."
Aides of Sen. Richard B. Rua
sell, D-Ga., who heads , the com
mittee, said , Russell would
have no comment at this time.
Pa. Senate Will Hear
$1 Billion Fisnd Bill
HARRISBURG (PP) The
Senate is expected to give
quick reading to the $1 billion
general fund package when
the General Assembly returns
today- - -