PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Summer Relaxation The summer term is billed as a "terin like all - others" in the attempt to condition students' 0 - linking on warm weather enrollment. More deliberate attempts are being made, however, to infirm the students of the social and recreational opportunities available to thenr in June, July and August than during the fall, winter and. Spring terms. The planners and publicists of these sumrner prograrns —as well as all other groups active this term—are to be commended for their efforts. Even though more organiza- Lions will function in the fall, and thus more activities will be available, many of thege services deserve continuation then. Students with varied entertainment likes can find their favorite means of relaxation throughout the summer. Thera have been several concerts_ this slimmer by the , internationally-known Curtis Siring Quartet which many - people have said "made" the summer term for them. : The dahcbig public has been catered to by folk dances, square dances and - ballroom dances. High school students have. provided band, orchestra and chorus concerts and: . the Department of Music's faculty has added to the pro-i• gram with several recitals. The silver screen has hardly been neglecter either..,lnl addition to the movie theatres in State College, there have! been free - movirt on the HUB lawn and continuation:of; th InternatiOnal Film ~ommittee's efforts have brought top foreign;movies to the students. Foreign language, movies have also been shown by the National Defense Ed ucation Act's summer language . institute. - Summertime athletes hsve little cause for Complaint. Available to them are facilities for baseball, bowling, golf. swimming, tennis and now even cricket. Nearby Whipple's Dam and Stone Valley have hardly . been unpopulated during the summer months. Whoever created the infamous saying that - the University is a country tJub must have attended.thesummer term. Yet in the midst - of all the activity, classes do go On. There is something about the psychology of summer that few have been able to overcome. Classes may continue at 1 a brisk pace-and still, paradoxically, the aura of rela.xation clings to thejerm. There remain many extra lectures students may attend. such as those sponsored by the-Associated Mormon Students or the summer council of the Association of Women Students. The growth of the mind is by no means tied to the classroom. Summer is a time when thotights can ramble and ideas germinate. We repeat-here that the summer programmers might well note any stray ideas' which pass their way, storing them for consideration and possible use in the fall. When our fellow students return in the ,. fall, we should like to point to YOUR accomplishments with' pride, and say, "See what happened this summer. The summer term is coming of age.". ttittmrr Tolirgian 'Successor to The Free Lance. est. IU7 Pub][abed Thursday, Jun* 21 *tad every Thursday thereafter through August 23. The Surnemer Collegian I. • student-operated newspaper. Entered slit second thus swatter July 6, 1931 at the .Illata College, Pa. Past Office under the act at March g. Brbeerlytlea,Prleef Fifty twits for 1• 182.0111 lel> KAY MILLS JOAN MEHAN HERBERT WITMER Editor Associate Editor Business Manager Photography Editor, Tow Browne; Sports Editor, Ken Deniingert Credit Manager, Ralph Friedman: Circulation Manager, Phtl Guest' Personnel Manager: Unit Murphy. AFF THIS ISSUE: Dorothy Drasher, Nadine Kofman, Nancy Corkle, JOel Myers, Carmen Rappaport and Linda Smets. THEY NEVEZ EVEN •Sektf) _ .6,oaßiv. t it* , • SUMMER COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA President Kennedy revealed his :strategy for the fall's..con gressional campaign at his press conference last wvek. He in dicated that he plans to pre sent the Democratic Party to the voters as the "ajction" party and the Republican Party as the "opposed to action" party. He will brill, out the Repub• licans' opposi. tion to his med; icare bill. hi: proposal for Department o, Urban Affair his farm pro gram and hit bill for. fedora aid to highel education. A the press con• ference he said. BROWNE "The American reople will have a choice. They will choose either to anchor - down or to sail." In recent months the Repub lican Party has tended to take on the image of the . "Anti- Kennedy" Party. If it continues simply to oppose Kennedy : and to project a negative image, it will play right into the Presi dent's hands. No group, politi cal or otherwise, can get 'very far simply being against things. It must have a positive ap proach to the problems at band. The Republican's reaction to the great depression and,Roose velt's "New Deal" gave that party .a negative image and• it has yet io regain a positive one. With the crash of thestock market, and the ensuing de pression, Americans began to have doubts aboUt the mean ing .and course of U.S. society. The Democratic Party under the directicin of Roosevelt took full advantage of the iincer tanties of the American! peo ple. It recognized the need for change and presentedEi ,pdsi five program of action, the "New Deal." And althou;gh the "New, Deal" failed to get the country out " of the depression, • the Democratic Party h4s been able to hold onto, the image of the party with the positive solutions to the country's prob lems, in many people's minds. Today the Republican Party has a golden opportunity • .to gain the offensim the econ omy starts for gm into a reces sion by November, the Demo- Letters Prayer Seen As Solution To Dilema TO THE „EDITOR: What is man to do in a, world of bu reauracy and feather bedding? As,ethnocentric entities in such a hamlet consisting of icono clakic warlocks - having a reve latitn, the contemporary stu-. dents in this pets environment of sin must at once take arms against the insolent I bores which inhibit our fair campus. These misled mrsrgates are suf fering a mere .traurn4ic bi variate curve of the mind— a purely menta4 catharsis. Ah, but I ash unto thee, is the dichotomy • which isevers the, essence- of- Mind and body the bi-serial correlation man is to search for? tr.erebrailjrinton ations of the mipd are esent 1y being directed to the linvidi ously soliliquacious 'egne-like diction of Ayn Rand. l Who fol lows the theory that ; .• "fretting can never solidify itself into an overabundant artifice" ; (Mar tin Buber, "The Mind-4an Ar tifice"). . Forthwith. we (using the edi torial form) must never-climb into the womb of lust and de pravity. Hence, seek the gas ttionorny .of the natural and "nude veritati". shall prevail through out. Tlie Gallis princes who never found this out were put into said dichotomous di lemma. , _ ' • In short, change, for the sake of change—go away and pray! . Gwen Epstein 13 view finder Rekublicaft Opportunity_ 1 crats may find themselves in the - same situation as the Re publicans did in the earl/ nine teen thirties a party ap parently unable to cope with the economic problems at band. It "can of course be argued that the government is not nec essarily responsible for a reces sion, but since Kennedy made such a point of the fact that he was going to get the econ omy moving forward at a faster pace, he will have the responsibility for a recession fall A his shoulders. • Even; today there is an indi cation that the stage is set for the Republicans. Kennedy's "warmed-over New Deal" pro gram has met with strong op position irk Congress. Certainly they legislatofs opposing Ken nedy would not do so if they didn't feel 'that their constitu- meandering Fringe Benefit's The summer term has many fringe-. benefits besides the beautiful weather and pleagant surroundings, not a, small one of which is that the Univer sity's facilities are much more adequate for the 5,000 summer enrollment than the regular enrollment of 17,000. Anyone who has ever waited for. 45 -minutes for a book at Pattee's circ7 lation desk cei tainly apprec; ates the le: crowded cond. tions and mot efficient ser ice. The hou of waiting f, reserve bool needed by t other studen has also beE conside r ably -- reduced since MISS MEHAN with smaller class enrollments there are fewer students clam mering for books. The once noisy overcrowded rooms in the- library are now more, pleasant places for study and research.' The encyclope dias and periodicals are more often available now also. • The HUB also seems more adequate in the summer. You can actually find a table in the Lion's Den to enjoy that be tween class cup of coffee. Dur ing the -regular year yo u usually had to drink your cof fee standing up, being pushed Little Man on Campus THURSDAY. AUGU by tom browne! ents - back honie were. not also disappointed with Kennedy's program. If, the Republicans ban come up with new and positive solu• lions• to the nation's problems instead of just being, against those proposed by lbe Demo crats, they could make them selves a party of action and immune to Kennedy's charges of merely being prabticers of "obstructionism." Instead of having to choose either'to "anchor dow l n or saili" the voters may have he choice of whether .to sail with the Democrats along an old .and inadequate course or to sail with the RepublicanS along a new and possibly better course. It 31epends ;on whether or not the Republican Party takes ad vantage of the opportunity at hand. y roan me an and shoved by the "other hur ried coffee drinkers, • The mobs of people gbing in and out of the Den made your entrance and exit mutt more time consuming. Now you can leave the HUB and be at-your class on the fourt floor of Boucke in , two min tes, a sig nificant emprovement over the regular year record of 10 min utes. The weekend movie lines are now much shorter. In the summer you can usually see a movie without .the regular line waiting so common the rest of the year. Tickets to concerts or lec tures are more ea ily obtain able,. where not too long . ago I can remember st nding in a t t line that twisted round the HUB and outside a T. e-Grange for an Artists' Seri s ticket. , This smaller enrp lment gives the summer leisure ime a more relaxed pace and makes it much more enjoya le. Undoubtedly we would not have all-these facilities for the summer - if it wer n't for the money paid in fees y the large ci b regular enrollmen . However, the summer term enrollee sure ly benefits. During the year the, facilities are there but so overcrowded that only a frac tion of the students can enjoy them.'l r I d, ./on't_propose ;that we re duce our enrollment,' but I do propose, howevei, that we don t -raise it either until we can better accommodate our regular, student bckl, y. I 2. 1962 Dick Biblet
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