PAGE FOUP Ecitioriat Opinion An = Open Letter To the University To Whom it DOES Concern: Evei city has problems that seem unsolvable, but Penn State ha.; been ridden with manysuch.dilemmas foi about a year liow. First the School of Journalism _suddenly lest its ac creditation because of rifts within the faculty. Albert E.- - Diem, a well-known and well-liked administrative vice pre:;ident resigned because of a difference in policy with ibe DOard of 'Trustees. The recent resignation of John A. Sauer .as head of the Department of Physics was followed by widespre.ad protest against his resignation by his fac ulty. and graduate students. And now - the Department of Architecture has lost its accreditation. . - Amidst all these blows have been the sometimes quiet and sometimes not so quiet protests against the term sys tem both by faculty members and students. There have also been rumblings about difficulties in other depart- Ments and some of these quite audible. ' With all this protest and anti-profestis our appropri ation problem. We beg for $24 million to just *ep . the ,University going and receive $2O million. When the Uni versity is given money from the budget Surplus; we who arc on "the tightest budget in Penn State's history"-begin new research projects. It makes one wonder just how much money is needed to run the University and also just how accurately our-needs have been .presented. • A great whiny of these problems were explored by a staff reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Triggered by letters of protest against the acceptance of Sauer'S resignation, the city paper sent a reporter here to investi gate. He found, : its we have, that everyone makes vague statements concerning the controversy, but only those who prefer to remain anonymous will voice an honest estimate of the situation. Fear of retaliation seems_to be , the guiding force. Thus we remain in a period of controversy with many people of position giving us vague and conflicting an; wers to pointed, probing questions. The - Inswers Just won't mesh. For the cases cited, we respectfully request that someone have the courage and integrity to bring the facts Into the own. What other questions and answers have been swept under the rug we cannot know. The University is, how ever, divided quite decidedly on these problems and a solution must be found. Suppression of - facts - by anyone concerned is definitely- not the way to gp about solving problems that could_ give the University-a colossal "black #uttutter Trillrgiatt Successor to The Free Lance est 1887 PahHalted Thursday. June 21 and e• err Thursday thereafter, through August 23. The Summer, Collegian is a student-operated newspaper. Entered as second ciao' 1 • 111141 ' 10 11 2 2, 1331 at the State CeSeae. Pa. Past °tate under the act at March 3, 1872. Melt Subacriplion Pricer fiftJ cents rot 14 tuna KAY MILLS Editor Photography Editor. To Browne: Sports Editor. Ken Denlinter: Credit Manager. Ralph Friedman; Circulation Manager. Phil Wiest: Personnel Manager, Lynn Murphy. STAFF THIS ISSUES Dorothy Drasher, Nancy IVicCorkle, Joel Myers and Linda Smets. • BOARD OF EDITORS THE SUMMER COLLEGIAN JOAN 14EHAN Associate- Editor 'WE EgANYAWS At.t4ls GET 511".:"K WITH DOG THE . SABV-f,TTINE: ZZ E. _ i' . ~, SUMMER COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA 1 HERBERT WITMER Business Manages meandering Some universities have fairly normal problems .such as kick of;funds, need for facilities,,and less than capacity enrollments. However, Penn ;State has a very unusual problem.. We are a State university that lacks a state. We are essentially like the man without a country—he tried to recor his -- -tr but his couni would ha nothing to with him. The traditi al problem h seems to be definition of stateunive The U versify. beli ing that it a: state, p a Penn sylvania MISS ME11.4.1N1 due homage We operated on a double standard, charging reduced tui tion =rates to in-state students. The University proudly names residence hall units after the counties in tho state with great ceremony and pub licity. It is as if we recognize our lack of, acceptance and are trying to 'gain it county by county ; , The final and most elaboiale Letters Coed Shows Interest In Market O THE . EDITOR: I enjoyed the article by Mr. Krauss on the Common Market in the is sue of July sth. Less than five weeks ago, we, in the Penn State Study Abroad group at Cologne, Germany. traveled through Brussels. Luxembourg and Strasbourg, France for the purpose: lectures for nearly a week long by official spokes men on the topic of a United Europe. Naturally, it was in teresting to hear the European point of view on the situation. Mr. Krauss mentioned "the admission of Britain, Switzer land, Austria; Portugal and Sweden." which. would create "a gross cash income three. fifths as big as ours ..:IMr. Krauss may be interested in knowing that we were in formed by a Mr. Moser of the E.E.C. (European Economic 'Commission) in Brussels, i that Yugoslavia. Portugal and Spain would be among -certain gov ernments which would most probably be excluded. In fact: the only new coun tries mentioned by Mr. Mozer as - possibly joinling were Brit ain, Ireland and Sweden. We were later told in Luxembourg that any additional member countries would have to: • Have a strong economy. •Guarantee existence l of a democratic form of govern ment_ (It was mentioned that the communism in Italy is pre senting a problem) •Be neutral in foreign pol icy and not liable to change. ' We were also tidy' sed that the "U.S. wants to prqduce: it is rich. Europe wants to develop the little that it has. --Carolyn* Coiswold '63 *Letter cut • Campus Beat Cast Some Light . . . I realize it's kind of useless to dream up mare expenditure type projects when the Uni versity can hardly get enough money to buy library books and pay us long-suffering souls on the faculty. The administra tion is quite capable of this planning function. I 'am repeatedly concerned about the lack, of adequate lighting both On campus and on nearby st!eets: It's a sad day when the list of things to do grows longer and longer and the money to do them slips through I your fingers. • = • Prof Wayne Up for Adoption by loan mehan plea to the state is made in the drawn out ritual known as our state appropriation request. Around appropriation time there are often more University officials in Harrisburg than in State College. The University is not above the noble art of lobbying. .All these time honored tradi-t tions are of no avail, however..: The state officials continually tell us that Pennsylvania has no state university. Penn State in their eyes is just' a' land-f grant college which receives less than its appropriation re= quest every year. They tell us that since a nta4 jority of our trustees are not state appointed this also takes over the rail PANAMA CITY, Fla. fore leaving Penn State this spring, it Was suggested to me that I write a column for the Summer Collegian reporting on my NROTC summer cruise. It had further been suggested that this column (they already had presumed I would be conned into writing the col umn) be titled "Over the Rail?' Foolishly, as I view the situ ation with sented both writing the umn and to name. So t have t hro several I lined "Over Rail's" there. And t, have landed the pier. You see and five o midshipm from State have received close to shore duty for our summer cruise. Our ships, minesweep ers, are doing test work for the Mine Defense Laboratory located in Panama City, Fla. Since civilian employees do most of the actual testing and our ships only provide trans portation out to the testing center in the Gulf of Mexico, we must operate by civilian Letters Senior Hits 'System' TO THE EDITOR: A recent ar ticle in the Pittsburgh Post- Gazette sums up what the out side world is thinking of Penn State (and what we are think inA of ourselves). The Post- Gazette staff writer expressed concern about disputes which are upsetting the campus. I feel that this article accentu ated the theme of Joan Mehan's Memorization U. column of a few weeks ago. t , - From. The above-cited ar ticles. comments of others and personal experience. it appears that Penn State has. lit fact. become a largo-scale "brain fac tory" concerned with the "pro duction" of "educated indi viduals." This is either a reason for the term system or an ef fect of it: education on a pro duction line basis. "geared to the needs of The country." The administration produces data to show 'the size of the dean's list has grown under the term system. They then equate this one piece of evi dence to the "success" of. the system. However. a few im portant variables have been excluded in their analysis. Two important ones may be cited. First, the standards of ad mission have been raised, and therefore the- caliber of people admitted to the University has also been raised. DOC can verify this claim. The effect of these people on the scholastic averages is obvious. With such a high caliber of students. the number on,the• dean's list is bound to grow. In Dry RUNKEL Penn THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1962 us out of the state university category. All this verbal by-play oc curs year after year and noth ing much is really accoMplit ed. I would suggest_that since Pennsylvania doesn't want us. we should secede • from the Commonwealth. The !admis sions office should encourage out-of-state enrollment re - quests and attempt to !: get majority of students from an other state. Perhaps New Jersey or even New York would be interested in adopting us. We seem to be getting nowhere in Ptnnsyl yania, so the University might very well benefit by putting it self up for adoption. Dock by dave runkel hours or on eight-hour days. We go out in the'rhorning and back in the afternoon. We even sleep in the airy conditioned barracks on; shore because there is not enough room for us on board the ship., Although this doesn'•t really seem too exciting, it is sort of interesting. Minesweepers are sma 11 wooden ships. They, are com pact. House trailer manufac turers and minesweeperi build ers must get together Annually to swap notes A:in how to use every available square inch of space and how to build a smaller bothroom. (Thel Penn sylvania association -probably meets at University. Park in one of the Nittany units.) Being small ships, they are noted for their roll and pitch in the waters. But here;in the Gulf the sea has been so calm that anyone could get more seasick in Walker Lab•than on our' ship. But the most notable charac teristic of minesweepers, at least here in. Florida, Is that they are hot. With the daily temperature running well over 90 degrees, working is almost unbearable, especially to one not particularly motivated in that direction. Oh well, who knows—; some thing exciting might happen soon, I hope!! • A second fact, not too well known, is the fact that the" , number of people on the pro- i bation and warning lists hie grown proportionally with the dean's list. The question then arises, "Is this process fair to those who are in the lower percentage of the student body?" It would be an ideal' situation if all students had the intellectual ability*, to do .dean's list work. This' is not the case, however. Theh what of the people who cannot learn well under this tension-filled system? Shall the University cater ONLY to the select few who are of the dean's list caliber? Taking these facts into ac count, the term systemiis NOT - the howling success it has been blown up to be. I know that _ many graduate students and? much of the faculty] of 213e* chemistry department ar e against the termsystem. The physics • department has lost several members of their Jac-. ulty„ such as Dr. Fitzgerald. one of the leaders of the TOCS movement. I believe thise men left because they wanted noth ing to do with the term sys tem. The results of the survey now being conducted by the Graduate Students Association will probably add to the list of no's against the new Old Main system. ' A neo , TOCS movOMent would be a welcome -addition to the campus. We all need to take stock of the system_ - —Neil Buckley 6$ •Letter cut ,
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