.PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion We Review Our Pu!poses During Newspaper Week Several times 'during the , year we take time to re evaluate our purposes to stimulate measurement`of our success in achieving these goals. This, being National Newspaper Week, is one of those times of the year We would again like to review our basic purposes and goali. We welcome- student correspondence on our performance. - The Daily Collegian is a student newspaper; it is run by, students, firuLped partially by student fees and par tially A _by funds gained from advertising revenue. It is written and edited by students of The Pennsylvania State University. 1 . < We strive tpresent as much varied news of Uni versity and stude t affairs as our space will permit. We are not bound to co cern ourselves solely with news items which reflect fav iably on the University, for we feel that the University 6 benefited as much by constructive criticism 'and exposure of faults as it is by praise of its many good point's; O f pr right to Comment on any situation affecting the student body is a Vital student freedom, found in relative ly few student newspapers. We present our views on events and situations affecting students in our "Editorial Opinion" columrf. The editors of this paper are also privileged to - preser4 their indiVidual views through signed columns. Every student is given the right to comment and ex press views in a: responsible "Letter to the Editor." The Daily Collegian has complete editorial freedom, unencumbered try censorship. ,We take tremendoUs pride 'in this freedom and the responsibility connected with it. The i Daily Collegian is published by Collegian, Inc., Which acts as our ; board of directors. We are chartered by the state of Pennsylvania. • . This week We join with many newspaper's In the United States and in the free world in an appreciation of the freefilom of thf. press and of expression whicli we en,joy. . , VOTE Today! , The entire legislative branch of student government is now being elected. Voting Will continue today and to morrow during ;class hours in the HUB and on the Mall, during 'dining hours in each dining hall and in the eve nings in floating' l ,polls roaming the downtown area. Students can vote only in their living areays. Voting polls, for students living off campus have been set up on ihe'Mall and in }the HUB. The.Congr4s w i ich students will elect this week will have a strong voice in determining any actions taken by student government in the next year. Whether you vote or not, those students elected will be speaking for you. This year will be a vital one for student government. The "founding fathers". of the current representative sys tem of government have been replaced. The system has survived its first formative year; it will now be si!en if the system 'can serVe the governmental needs of th'e. student body without those who formulated its organization and who led it through its first year. The new Congress will have many problems: to face. These will include whether the student government at Penn State will become a , permanent member Of the Na tional Student Association: what the future of campus political parties will be and what will be the jurisdiction of the Student Supreme Court. Last year, over 42 per cent of the student body'voted' in the Congressional elections. We hope that that figure will be topped this year. Support the candidates of your Choice by voting. A Studen"-Gperated Newspaper SS Years of Editorial Freedom ai m Daily Toligniatt Successor to The Free Lance. est. lilt? Published Tuesday anima* Saturday warning during the trnlvendfir Year- ITU Daily CAdlutian is a stedent-uperated newspaper. !Uttered as wend-class matter July 5.• UM at the SW* Cenere. Pa. Pest Mine under the art et March 1, 169 Kell S•bseriptlon Prier: ii.N • year Mailing Address Sex 211. State Callers. Pa. Member of The Associated Press ANN PALMER Editor 641iIii).s , City Miters, Jean Veinal and David Bedbecht Mew* and World /Main - Utter. Kay Mills: "Editorial Bitter. Carl Bankleeeen: Searle Editor. John Merriat Amelotant _Sporb Editor. Kea midieurer: Pbettertaltit7 Co -edltarli. Toe ;lllitinid soot Den Caesium Personnel Director. Sondes Orton g New. and Features Billtm. Iltrinan Boom. Lwical Advertising Cet4irinageror Jima !Did. Jame Snrantolnt Nottoota Ad *Arr. Barbara Browns Credit Mgr.. Ralph Friedman: Animism! Credit Mgr. Sam Rim*, Premetiero Mgr.. Barr, Levitz: Classified Ad idgr:. Catlerrbm dosiorr: eirridation Mgr.. Phil Guest: -.ll.nistant Circalaties Mgr,, David BOWS' gni Orate Myr.. Lynn Marrobl. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY. PARK. PENNSYLVANIA HERBERT WITHER Business Manager focus .. An Btiemy On the Run For the past several months the news media of the free world have been proclaiming that the Vietnames&,:.aided by the United States, are . on the offensive in their war against the communists in Southeast Asia. During the pi., several, years thi United States hs been fighting losing war in tilt so - called bacl , Ward nations Southeast A s Just this year were forced out Laos by the Co munists and neutralist sett ment was made that, at most, will COLEMAN only be temporary. We have been asked to 'send troops to Thailand to deter possible aggression by the communists in neighboring coun tries. In Vietnam we are fighting to preserve the territorial integrity of that country. Vietnam was one united coun try until 1954 when the Commu nists overran the northern portion of Vietnam and set up a Com munist state. there. The French held on to South Vietnam. In recent years, the Communists have been infiltrating the border between North and South Vietnam and President Kennedy has com mitted the United States to de fending South Vietnam. We have been on the losing end of the war until now. The average Vietnamese gueril la is not a hard core Communist soldier, He has been trained only Letters Negro Student Comments On Miss Kunkleman's Column TO THE EDITOR: -I, being Ne gro. was very interested in Miss Kunkleman's column in The Daily Collegian of Oct. 10, 1962. The first thing I noticed was her use of the words desegregation and integration. Miss Kunkleman, they are not the same. Desegre gation: is concerned with the rights , of all human beings, be they black or- white. Each citizen of the United States has rights guaranteed to him by law.i However, integra tion is an individual relationship. It deals not with laws i but with morati, and each person's accept ance of another human . being, for what he is, exclUsive of laws. I Should like ,to ask Miss Kunkleman . a question. Why should we be aware of inter marriage? I am becoming sick ened by people asking me, "Do you believe in interracial mar riage?" and "You really don't want to intermarry, do you?", To each person I give the'same reply, - I don't believe in interracial marriage because it simply does not exist!" People fail to realiie what marriage it. It is an "inter- • #ll . 6+„ . _ - `•=•- .3; in the use of his parti - cular weapon and has had little training in com bat tactics. - Called a Viet Cong guerilla, the Communist is not well-equopped by our standards. He wears no -uni form. A pair of rubber soled can vas shoes suffice for combat boots. His weapons are generally very' inferior. He uses a poisoned cross bow, spears, and traps. A. few of the Viet Cong carry old French rifles. They have no effective supply or communications system. There is. no air support. On the other hand, the U.S. equipped Vietnamese soldier has a uniform, an American M-1 rifle, a submachine (portable)_ gun, or possibly the new lightweight, hi velocity Armalight .225 caliber rifle, vihich is considered by many experts to be the best jungle - weapon in the world. He has a superior supply, sys tem, firepower, superior commu nication and air support if and when he needs it. He is, then, much better equipped than the Viet Cong. But, the Viet Cong guerilla, has been winning the battles because of the tactics he has used. These tactics can be traced hick to the years of French, power in Ihii area. The French forces were very small and therefore could not carry out large scale patrols or raids against the Communists. The Vietnamese army was trained by the 'French and adapts the French tactics of waiting in forts for the rebels to attack, and then pursuing them. This allowed the guerillas to move unmolested through the dense jungles. Their camps were not disturbed and they could carry on their training persona!" relationship. The priest or minister does not marry two races, but two people. Two :peo ple, individuals. They are the ones to determine their relation ship, not you, not society, not L I therefore ask you again. "Why should .we be aware of this situ ation?" Next you use . traditions, fears and Negro standards as examples of the Southern Whites' basis of criticsm.• My dear Miss Kunkle: man, if tradition were a valid reason; for doing anything, then the world would still be in the Dark Ages. As for fear of retri bution,. the Southern White only sees what he himself would do in a Nero's place. Finally, peo ple in - the same economic group, be they of any race, generally have the same living conditions and social standards. • Missi Kunkleman, you have no need to travel any further south than South Allen Street for ma terial on prejudice. Look about you on this campus. Note the fra ternities. With few exceptions they are farces to the ideals of brotherhood. Note the subtleties of housing around here, and use these as examples of prejudice in your column. —Warren Barbour, '65 I JUST WANT 1 0 TO KNOW THAT THREE HUNDRED•AND FIFTY MILUON DOLLARS A YEAR 16' SPENT ON 006 NON IMMO -ftwairiaamiai I WONDER IF THAT INGLUDES TIPS I P _ I; ! I__ Atli 1 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1,962 by den coleman and planning without fear of at tack. This situation has been re versed. • With full scale entry of the United States into the cOnflict, the Vietnamese are being trained in ranger and anti-guerilla tactics by instructors of the rst Special Forces ; United States Army. They have adapted British tactics used in Maylaya.to the jungles in Viet Nam. They are showing the Viet namese how to prepare ambushes for the Viet Cong ,how to counter his attacks and how to pursue him. Most important, our , army is convincing ' the Vietnames that 1 1 the Viet Cong is not invinci le. Among the newer aggr ssive tactics used in this theatre • one that has achieved outstanding success, Eagle Flight. Eagle Flight consists of loading American hen-. copters with combat-ready Viet namese troops. The helicopters are flown over the countryside to seek out_the Viet Cong bands. An adapation of Eagle Flight is a plan in which helicopters and troops on the ground are constant ly on the alert 'for, reports ' of, xontact with Viet Cong forces. The helicopters then fly to the scene of the encounter and drop into the thick of the fighting or assist in pursuing the fleeing Viet Cong. While the' new tactics being used may not show a rise in kills and captures of Viet Cong troops, they acomplish a far greater pur pose in that they do not allow the Viet Cong time to consolidate and plan new attacks. Rather, the Viet Cong are kept , on the run. . . It is for this reason that, the Vietnamese are or. the offensive. They're taking the war to the Viet Cong. - ,_ Froth Co-Editors Issue Apology TO THE EDITOR: Because our • own medium of communication has been suspended, we, the co editors of Froth, are using this space to make an apology to any social organization which feels 'that we have damaged its image by singling it out in a story. 'Any such action taken by us was corn pletely unintentional and was ' made in the firm belief that we Would not cause any hard -feel ings due to the nature of our magazine. ,If publication ,is continued, it ,t will not happen 'in the future. We also wish to thank every- '- one who has and is working for our causes. Even if we go under you can be assured that the sup- . port that yob' have given us will not be forgotten. —Andi Buscanics '63 -4Edwin Uric '63 - SCCA Hit By Junior TO THE' EDITOR: On October 10, 1962,. at 10:45 p.m., the' Stu dent Check Cashing Agency was closed. Why? It is perhaps;' under standable that during the first week of a term things might be a little confused. But during the third week of a term there is no excuse. This was not the only time the SCCA has failed to open in recent days. U the SCCA, as it claims, is a service to the students, it should -be dependable. Therefore, the agency must have regular hours. : The student leaders take nearly $5OO a year from us to run the • SCCA. Why don't they produce?! Perhaps, the time has come for. an investigation. Can the Uni-' versity run it better? Surely,' one full time .empoyee or two are more efficient than fifteen part' time students. If the controllers cannot operate. the SCCA—well —let them die. —A. L. Harris, 14 Got word the other day that the new Campus Party chairman will spend the year surrounded by 31 lovely females. I also hear he has only one other male with which to share this paradise. Wish you all the luck In the, world, my boy! . -*—Prof Wayne;
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