PAGE four Editorial Opinion La Vie Recognition Of Campus' Expansion i It has been the unstated policy of La Vie not to print the activities in which a senior graduating from the University has participated while attending a Common wealth campus. I La Vie has done this for so long that it has become a tradition—one which unfortunately is out dated. J ! In the past La Vie has defended this practice stating that most of the campuses offered only two-year pro grams and that it was too difficult to check the validity of a student's activities at another campus. } Considering the growing importance of this Uni versity's Commonwealth campuses we believe that La Vie can no longer justify this tradition. In recent years dthese branches of Penn State have become more important to the expansion of the Uni versity. In fact, the names of these branches have been changed from “centers" to “campuses” to give a more accurate picture of their position within the University’s structure. They are currently destined to play an even niore important role in the expansion of the University. Next fall 2,500 of the 5,500 freshmen admitted to the University will enter one of the 13 Commonwealth campuses. And President Walker has indicated that possibly in the future all Penn State students will spend their freshman year ait a Commonwealth campus. • Although many students spend only one or two years at a .campus, they often fill high positions of leadership in the activities of that campus. At least tvfp of the candidates for office in last month's student government elections began their work with student government while attend ing a Commonwealth, campus. It would indeed be unfortunate if the outstanding contributions to the University of these and other-transfer students were not attributed to them in their yearbook. The La Vie staff could compile a list of the major activities at each Commonwealth campus with little diffi culty. Such» list would protect La Vie from listing,non existant or very minor activities and still allow for recogni tion of outstanding transfer students.- It would.be a simple matter for the La Vie staff to contact a student's campus if a question about an activity -should arise. This year the La Vie staff for 1963 has done much worthwhile revamping and we urge that the senior board extend their up-dating plans to provide for these transfer students. The University is growing rapidly in areas other than University Park. So are its student leaders. A Student-Operated Newspaper 57 Years of Editorial Freedom (Hij? Uatlg (EflU^ntan Successor to The Free Lance, est. IM7 Fvhllulied Taeadar th ranch Saturday morning durine thu I'nlrrraltjr year. Thu Oailr I'ellecUn U a atudent-aperatrd newupaper. Entered aa aecend-rlaM mallrr Jalf 4, tail at Ihu Statu Collect. Pa. Pout Office under the act of March I, IS7». Mali SuWcrlplWn Price: a year Mall in# AMrtM Box SCI, SUU OH**®. Pa. Member of The Associated Prc. s ANN PALMER Editor flggßUa HI il K JL y ! 1 a--# - . • THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY: PARK. PENNSYLVANIA HERBERT WITHER Business Manager 2 cemfs worth Swing Votes Decisive It seems ironic thiat neither the party which controls the executive branch of USG, nor the party with which most of \ the Congresr' pathize contrt the Congress. This is 1 exemplified the actioi taken by Coi gress Thursf' night when 1 major piece> legislation w passed ' NSA propo: and the 1 up student opinion bureau. These bills were pre sented by opposing power cliques in the Congress and were not supported by the other grotp. The vote on both of these bills; was close witji the NSA proposal passing by) two votes, 13 to 11, and tine student opinion bureau, biljt being, ap proved, 13 to 9. ‘ijhese close votes were recorded even though suitable compromises were worked out in both cases.' Letters Sr. Questions Bomb Testing TO THE EDITOIt: No one wants war, nucleajr or other wise." Linus Pawliijg is a very distinguished p h y.s i s is t, no doubt, but like tide cigarette and cancer (and the'y have more evidence and work with) argument thSs claim that three. million neonatal deaths will be the result; of the one per cent increase itjt radioactiv ity is mere scientific specula tion based on very little evi dence. They stili) have -not proved conclusively that there is any relation between ciga rette smoking and) cancer. If Mr. Ravitz wil] lakea little longer look at the map he will soon see that ihe majority of the Islands near tjhe test area belong to the U.Si Those that don’t belong to thtj U.S. belong to our close allies.'Also I’don’t believe Hawaii would declare war on us if a nussle did land there. A chance tsr accidental war by a stray missile was the contention of hisj first letter. The missiles are undoubtedly sent on a trajectory such that in case of a complete malfunc tion of all safety ; systems the missile would land within the safety zone set up 1 for this rea son. The only typ? of accident that -could occur ?t one of our missile bases is, ;that one of the personnel wbpld take con trol and put the others out‘of commission so he;could launch a missile. Other country’s! commanders could launch an attack whether or not we had A-Bombs. Mr. Ravitz evidently has for gotten that any, decision to launch SAC or th<t missiles is a joint decision by IIORAD, SAC and finalized by ilhe only per son who singlely could launch an attack, the President. —Dennis Politano, '62 Change l Jrged In La Vie Policy TO THE EDITOR: No recog nition will be given to transfer students for their, participation in activities while attending a center, according to La Vie. The Senior Board of La Vie states it is- unable to validate these activities although all .center organizations are;under a joint chartering system; with Univer sity Park. Efforts are being made to rectify this situation for the benefit of our seniors. There is still time to change this policy for the 1963 yearbook. If you • think your time; is worthy of recognition, call Sandy Schall of the La Vie senior board to help expedite this matter. • - - —Bob) Crawford *63 The obstinacy of these two power groups was only over come by the sound, clear, in dividual thinking of a small minority of Congressmen with out a party affiliation.-; j • The NSA proposal was pre sented by. two Liberal parry members, Ann Tyson and Mur ray Winderman. both repre senting West Halls. The origi nal bill called for USG to join NSA permanently, but the Con gress, after many hours of de bate and discussion on three occasions finally approved an experimental one-year mem bership in the national student organization. This membership will expire next spring, unleu USG decides to join the group permanently, and will giye this student government an ex cellent chance to study the or ganization while enjoying fpll privileges at &0 per cent of the normal fee. Even though this excellent compromise, was: presented, voting on the bill followed party lines with Liberal parly voting for and congressmen, who registered with Univer sity party this spring voting against the proposal. I This performance was re peated, but in reverse, on the YAF Chairman Thormeyer Letters Defends Copservative View TO THE EDITOR:, The fbllojw- lation which would affect youth ing is a reply to Miss Sarajee - and the economic life of the Orton’s column entitled “Lest nation, further proving the We Forget," which appealed reputation of the YAF, which in the Collegian on May 10.1 It' Miss Orton feels does not exist, has been prepared by the mejm- As for Miss Orton’s wholly bers of the. Young Americans unsubstantiated charge that the for Freedom here on this cairn- YAF “witch-hunts" more than pus. J ,it worries about the foreign In her column, Miss Orjon implies that external commu-' nist threat is of considerably more concern than is the (in ternal danger. Those who Miss Orton thinks feel' otherwise are grouped under the heading of “witchhunters." She states that these people “find witch hunting and subversive scares far more exciting than a cold analysis of the foreign.threat," and that “The 1 John Birch So ciety, ‘ Neo-Minutemen • a(n d members of the YAF fall into this category." She goes ori to say that “the methods they [use may contribute far more tojthe destruction of democracy than the action of the eommuiiists within our country."' We of the YAF object tojthe totally unsupported and sweep ing generalizations and asser tions made about our organ ization for the following rea sons: I • Miss Orton has failed to differentiate throughout iher column between the responsible YAF and the highly irrespon sible John Birch and Minute men Societies. .j • By not doing so, she I has attempted to damage the repu tation of the YAF and its mem bers,.both here on campus land nationally. : I "•In her attacks. Miss drton has offered no proof of any kind that .the YAF engages in! the activities she mentions (witch hunting, etc.). j The YAF has no connections with either the John BircH So ciety or the Minutemen. both of which we differ from in both, philosophy end method: [fur thermore. we neither conjlone nor utilise the I methods of either. Unlike these groups. YAF is not semi-secret but is a reputable and completely open organisation, with permis sion from the Senate Subcom mittee on Student Affair* to operate, on the Penn Slate tarn pur. J Our reputatir idr-ited __'pm ion is indica. by the well inspected person nel on the National YAR ad- visory board, which includes among-' others Rep. Walter Judd, R-Minn., Sen. Bdrry Goldwater, R-Ariz., and :Gen. Mark Clark. Representatives of the _ organization have bften testified - before': Congressional committees investigating legis- TUESDAY. MAY 15. 1962 by dove runke l vote on the student opinion bureau. This bill was presented by University party on their platform this spring and Vice President Morris Baker intro duced. it to the Congress. Liberal party-connected con gressmen continued then op position to the bill even though they had passed an amend ment-putting the bureau under the Public Relations Agency. - This- compromise proposal was originally opposed .by Baker, but it finally passed with University party-connect ed congressmen leading the suppoit for it and Liberal party members voting agiinst. The unwillingness of the two largest coordinated groups in the Congres3 to accept a com promise is unfortunate. It has often been said that politics is 90 per cent compromise, but, apparently this is not true at Penn State. But, just as this obstinacy is unfortunate, it is fortunate that there is .'quite a large “swing vote” in the Congress which determines- the final say on action the Congress will take. This situation has permitted the Congress to reap the bene fits of both power groups, hopefully, without approving the bad ideas of either groups. challenge of communism, had she read some of the periodicals of the YAF, and in. particular the Sharon - Statement (our basic principles * and beliefs which state that the greatest single threat to our liberties at the present time is the inter national ■ communist conspir acy), Miss Orton would have seen that her charges were completely unwarranted and in direct contradiction to fact. For those wishing to see for them selves, there is a copy of .the Sharon Statement in the Of fice of Student Affairs. The YAF gland on Ihic issue it the game as lhal of the. Ho norable J. Edgar Hoover, direc tor of the FBI, who when asked "which is of more concern,-the infernal or external threat of Commuhism?", answered, 'lt is both." Because of the proven repu tation of the YAF, we cannot be compared with the John Bircfters or the Minutemen; nor can we be’called witchhunters, again because of our .factual stand on the dangers of Com munism in general, not just internally. We would 1 • request that Miss Orton either prove her _ unsubstantiated general izations about the YAF, or else retract these statements public ly and print the truth, in her next column, since she violated her journalistic responsibilities by her unfounded charges' in .the first place. —Carl Thormeyer, chairman. Young Americans for Freedom LETTER POLICY Letter* lo the editor must carry the full name' of the author. Identification of the author will be verified be fore any letter is published. In most cases letters over 400 words will not be pub lished. : The' Daily Collegian reserves the right lo edit any letter if it is deemed necessary. The decision to publish or reject a letter lies solely with, the editor ,and totters containing obvious' mistatemenis or lacking in good taste lor fair play will be rejected. On a few oc casions the name of the author will be withheld but only with the consent of the editor? i
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