PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion , ,i 1 Why the Pledge? 1 - The six candidates for the top IJSG fiffices and the three party chairmen signed a fai# - campaign pact on Tuesday night pledging themselves 1 toconduct a clean election campaign and to "refrain from tatements and actions contradictory to the principles and ideals of our University and our student government." 1 We ask the signees: "Why was such a pledge neces- nary?" Political parties on this campus i are i very valuable ansl essential ingredient in maintaining an_ energetic and responsible student government. Parties can and should provide a basic training ground iu democratic procedure for students. But when party leaders'and •candidates for the top All-University offices find it necessiry to hind each other ---- through a signed pledge to insure a fair !and clean .cam paign, we feel it is time for thein to take a close look at their respective party's tactics and evaluate whether or not they are living up to the high ideals theymust represent. Support WUS Project • In these "if you test your nuclear aorribs, 'test mine" days it .-js enlightening to find a truly •benevolent organization. WUS (World University Service) is such_a group. •It is an international student agency to which the students • of any country can turn in time of crisis. WUS provides basic needs for the education of many students in other countries. Books and supplies, classroom buildings, health chides, and hostels' for housing and feed ing these students are just a few of the large nuthber of services provided by WUS, WUS works -chiefly in the growing Asian, African and Latin American nations which are currently coming under self rule. Small cores of educated men are leading these nations and WUS is trying to help to expand this small core. . , WUS can complete these projects only with financial aid from college students in the United States. Today the local members of WUS will hold the first of two fund-raising projects this term a "Penny Mile" drive in the blocked off portion of Padlock Road. The goal of this project is a Small !amount, a mile long line of pennies or about $792: when, compared with the goals of other charitable campaigns. We, who in comparison with these foreign students have so much, should give, if only the pennies in the bottoms-of our pockets or those in the back of our desk drawers, 'to WUS so it can continue; to expand its valuable services to college students in 4 many under developed parts of the world. MR Daily Triltertiatt Successor to The Free Lance, est: 1887 Published Tuesday threugh fisterday morning during tie University year. The Daily Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered 'as **coma-clue platter Jelly 8, llOt at the State College, Pa. Poet Office-ander th• art of March 3. 1871. Mall Subscription Price: Maths year Mailing Addreut Boa ,261. State College. Pa ANN PALMER Editor .1 r 60E55 LINOS 1 Is PRETTY 0-al) I TO HIS GLASSES _EL,qT4IS TIME.. " .., ASK Aim WHO'S 6004610 WIN 4' THE NATIONAL LEASUE PENNANT AMA !FOP ,414 r a t nor . .th en: \ REALLY ? A Student-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Editorial Freedom Member of The Associated Pre.: 41511 P-. _ THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY' PARK. PENNSYLVANIA HERBERT WITMER Business Manager OHHES.., INCIDENTALLY, I THINK. HE"S Interpreting Ret4liotiort Theory By J. M. ROBERTS will not be available to Min, Associated Press News Analyst the layman is hardly in posi tion to pass judgment on the The "second strike" then validity of the idea, but never under which the United States, the - less is entitled to his doubts. with one type of exception, The public--and the enmity would 'prepare to endure a as well--has been told that the surprise nuclear attack and United Stales will not make i'a then retaliate, is being• incor- pro . omp fk ro a tt ac k o f aggr o s . porated in the new code of atom" That seems to involvi a foreign policy being drawn up definition of aggression. sorrier for the guidance of. all, govern- thing which also is not, avail ment departments. able. Because complete informa- The position has been offi tion on corrollary protective cially qualified by the explatia measures may not and probably tion that "all available" means 2 cents worth Conservative Congress The three-month-old Under- millets to' investigate possible graduate Student Government alternatives. Also the original loose budget Congress has been a complete of student government, which surprise to "many people. It accounts for appropriations to has proved to be a very cau- • ageticies and other USG-shp tious legislative body a nl i ported activities, but not the would • hatte to be termed detailed expenditures of each 'conservative" asopposed to aided group, were brought Un the usually "liberal" _tenden- der attack early in the Congres cies of colt sional session — by John Witther, student gove ments, The Conga has ,not proved prop als witho long discussit both iNL and of the ,Conga sional !meeti room, and sl ious debate the floor ab( the benefits or r RUNKEL harmful effects of a bill. For example, the Transpor tation Bill, providing bus serv ice for students to the largest cities of the Commonwealth, although a basically good pro posal, was handed back. to its sponsor, President Dennis Foi anini, when Congress felt there were not enoughficts on the service to consider-the bill re sponsibly:' The conservatism of the Con gress is probably most dra matically shown by the almost complete lack _of material progress accruing! from t h e Congress' first term. Instead of taking immediate action, which could have proved harmful, the . Cong{ess depended upon com Letters Party Politics Hit by Sr. To . THE EDITOR: I am in full agreement with your editorial opinion of April 18, "Plug the I;oophole," and I - do not write as a barker of any party since I am a graduating senior. Fur thermore, I have validated your statement that Miss Katie Johnson is both a Campus , Party candidate Sind a Univer sity Party member. This candidate seems to be . quite an unstalale decision ' maker. Yet, she has chosen to run for a position which re quires the handling of a large amount of money. This. position also requires that she be a member of the appropriations committee whici allocates money to all student activities and analyzes '• student activity budgets. I would like to hear from Miss Johnson, Dennis Eisman, ' or whoever chooses to sign his name to an answer that might . explain this candidate's in ability to make .up her mind with which party to become affiliated, and still consider herself capable and stable enough to make- the decisions which are required of a USG secretary-treasurer. I would like 'to thank the Collegian _Board of Editors for continuing to point out the b,fal lacies in our student govern ment system. Only these valid criticisms ' and through the cooperation: of e eryone, will there be -efficient and strong student ' government here at Penn State. 1 I —BM Males** '62 by, dave runkel fraternity representative:-But, as Witmer gained support in his budgetary - battle, the Con press decided that a . complete iecord of expendituies should ))e presented in writing and in detail to each Congressman at at the beginning of each month. This conservatism on the part of the Congress, will be' a strong power with which the new USG president, whether': it be Campus-Liberalite Allison Woodall or the University party's Dean Wharton, !will have to contend. Letters 1 ! knowing, would be able to , Twist Record , ! wait, kind whether a well-pre ; _pared_ position befre the world Coiled 'Poor' ' ' should contain a loophole for, action as it does in the case. iit TO THE EDITOR: Come on conventional and open aggres4 everybody,_ let's do the perm '. sion. , • I 1 State twist. What a tribute i.:- to an institution of higher learning! "The Penn State Twist" record is being, distrib uted with cartons of, a certain soft drink in the State College 1 • area. I think that the officials of this University should take some. severe measures to! see that this record, which is in very poor taste to say the least, is taken off the market before Penn State is brOded as '"the twist College." Such a title is taking away the prestige and pride in our University which I feel v. 4 ,e all want to build, not destroy. —Ralph Guokas '64 —Ralph Anderson '65 tie Man on Campus - by Dick [Sibiu 'Y u, I L , * You ezrAusv so leg erz,t4.lse YOU'RE WC: Wall* 0/IRE 'coris4DeggE • tw-aas Ittrw wRiIWI cx4tX Iglit 151 WE EVER mmi l / 4 5EP ro arm I . '• - ' /' • FRIDAY. APRIL 20. i 9cf2i ,would be used to 'counter a con ventional arms • attack on the United States or her military allies which threatened to over run them without nuclear at tack. That sets a rule under which ithe United States might fire the first nuclear shot. In 1941 the-United States took an awful , Shellacking at Pearl Harboi, because, knowing that Japan intended to start a war, we sat still for the first blow. i In 1840, having known for months that the Nazis planned to strike through the loWlands; of Holland and Belgium, those i countries and the allies sat, still for the first blow, even for several days after the .Ger /manm armies had left their bas'es: ' for strikes at the borders ati points which were known toi the, victims. Holland and Bel-' gium. standing on their, neu trality. didn't, even ask for; British or ;;;French reinforce-I meat. They, and. France, were! wiped out. Obviously, then.- there is thel possibility, especially in the; light of recent reports of Soviet' advancements. in the applican :tion of nuclear weapons, that this business of standing aroundi on principle can get you killed_ Under the so-called code oft the Old West, before there was ' law, self-defense began the moment an enemy reached for ! his• gun. YQI.I didn't have to, wait ; for a shot to absolutely prove intention. There is now no law in inter-1 national conflict. So-called suri prise' attack has become the rule. But few of them . , haVei been, really and truly, surd prises. ' I No principled nation can make a pre-emptiye attack •to avoid aggression inerely on the basis of a feeling, but there are ways of I knowing. The question is whether . the l United Staters, in a situation o WDFM Schedule FRIDAY 6:00 Nein 6:05 Dinner Date • 6:s6..Weatherscop• 7:00 - Spotlight 3:00 Light Classical Jukebox • - 9:OC Marquee Memories 9:46 News. 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