PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion Evaluation of USG Executive On this iftorning afterthp state.flec- we find it appropriate to review th» achievements, or lack of them, of this campus' student government execu tive branch elected last~spring.' Student body president, Dean.V/harton_and.his Uruversit’- party administration have just parsed the halfway mark of their term •'in officer. Jheir accomplishments are few in number and in stature. Reviewing the ■ platform bn which they were .elected we see that some action has been taken on many of the planks, Wharton's maln proposal when cam paigning was to change the present "obsolete grading system to a more real istic and fair one ..He proposed a five point system Instead of the present four point plan. Since his election Wharton, with the approval of the. Congress, has set up a committee. to study this pro posal. We understand the committee is working on stop ope of a multi-step study program. At the presont time they are reviewing all possible grading systems with the objective of making a rocom-, mendaiion to the Congress at somotime in the future. No dqte for completion-of their recommendations has been set. ■ We consider the formation of this committee a step in the right direction in fulfilling the campaign plank. A major consideration such as this deserves care ful and complete study. But steps must be taken to insure that this does not'be come another "one-term” deal—advo cated by one Administration and dropped by the next. Planning considerations of a new system can be accomplished by direct student government action or by. working closely with those members of the administration who have final say in the matter. This issue cannot be allowed to stay solely in student government committee much longer. ~ The secdnd proposal of University parly last spring wks the establishment of a (Student Opinion Bureau. Such a bureau was Approved by the Congress; it has bean used once—for the Froth issue. We believe that this bureau should beTised and-used tq the advantage of. the students. Student opinion cati and must ( be influential if-accurately represented. We feel students should be asked to state their opinions on roll call voting in the Congress, on NSA, bn the duties of the Supreme Court,.on University; expan sion, on academic honesty and on a mul titude of other issues which directly affect them. This project hps been perhaps the rhajor accomplishment ~of the Wharton administration. But we believe it could and should he used more effectively. . Oh the plank concerning student conduct which proposed publicizing the procedures of our student judicial and tribunal ayatems and ihatwomen over " 21 be permitted in downtown apart* Telsiar's Promise for Communications “This is Brussels .. , stand'by . .Company and the United States* Nation stand by .. . stand by-. . al, American and Columbia networks. “Go, America, go .. . Go, America, The American Telephone & .Telegraph company is the builder of Telstar. Some of the questions that can be raised in view of this background are: Will these companies aim for private ownership of go . . . Within seconds these brief signals flashed across the Atlantic and thus the -first live television program, pf suhatanee was seen 6n TV screens in both the United States and Europe. 'The vehicle for the July 23 telecast was.Telstar, a manmade satellite which carries with it a promise of better understanding. Because of Telstar’s suc cess, U.S.'scientists are confident they can put 20 to 25 similar satellites in orbit and eventually provide uninterrupted telephone and television linkage for both the United States and Europe. ■ The British and French already have Telsiar transmitting stations at Goon hilly Downs and Pleumeur-Bodou.. Soon the Germans will add theirs at Ralating, and the Italians theirs at Fuclni. The U.S. station is in Andover, Me. Although advances such as Telstar have lessened difficulties in communica tions because of geographical barriers, there still remains’many questions as to how this new- phase’ of television will be operated. The first telecast was produced jointly by the Canadian Broadcasting (Flip Sathj (EnUenian Successor, ro The Free Lance, es?/1357 PuklUXii TMMiir tkrttffc fit«r447 ■•min# 4«ri>l lh* l ulurtit} i**f. Th* t'Aily l it t Ata4eat*«p«rftt*4 aewtrtptr Cftl«rt4 u pfttUr Jnly l, lU4 u U< State CUU4I* Pft. P«»l ««4«r thfftct «( *Urs* hJUI ANN PALMER Editor rj,„. J„, *„4 D*xi4 Baifetk. N««i »»4 W.rU AMyn E4)Ur. k», «.lb: E4UvU} M>««. Ijrol k So-MU UKar. J«k» M«ib: E4it*r k<* CWnU»4<r; PV«u«ta»h> l-a-f4iJM». . T«« .*4 DiracWr. Sa.ab. l>r«w: X... ..4 Emit.. K4.Ua. D«fM iW. . ,-i rvk.unn ■ Jaaa RttklL Jaa. Sth.ntaia: Xktwaal A 4 M«i. lUib»r» Br»»»: Crt4u iUt k*\*L tlwi.B Aui.UM 0.4 U »« " *«.<k M,t . Barn t«m; Xi M«r.. EUu Uu u<tt»tlk Little, if anything, has been done on „the-minor planks of' University party such as Stone'’Valley and recreation or on improving school spirit. ' ' - » In general, we believe some success has been noted ill -the two major planks of the winning party of last spring. But, on both of these, as we Kaye pointed out, a-.high degree of effectiveness has not been, achieved. Whartonhas studied,..wuth. a. comfhitr tee, student life insurance plans. A bill will be presented to the Congress tonight to endorse the one found to be most acceptable. ' , . But, ho vigorous action has been taken by this administration to present the pros and cons of membership in the National Student Association to the Student body. TO THE EDITOR: RE: Peter Mil •No action' has been taken to define ler's letter of Nov. 2 questioning the operating procedures of the Supreme wliy wc should r,' .i* "., , . , , In an attempt fo answer why Court for the student body. we , hould fight, i will first state No action was. taken to insure a challenge 1 and then, \yhat we more . reliable and representative Con- must do.- gross by instituting roll call votes on It is now,, generally agreed •,' . . among political and military load major ifisues. ers that the U.S.' is at war. Our Wharton did not take a strong lead are the Communists, enemies “ , of freedom in all its forms. This in the fight against tne uanmng of Froth, j s a W ar for the hearts and minds a fight which 74 per cent of the student . people, throughout the . body has endorsed'. Ue has not called for V Undoubtedly. the Russian peo-. a survey of, or injected the opinions of pie wanf-peace as much as we ~ ~ , do, but they do not control their the student body into major national government. The Soviet'leaders issues such as the racial problems at the also would prefer to avoid war, TT . ~ ....... but ihey are prepared and will- University of Mississippi. ing t 0 ; isk it i n order to reach Secrefary’-rreas- ‘ • worldwide urer, has never presented a reporting "Vitkin four decades commu of the outlay of USG funds .to the Gon- n i s *h h as sP rcaii through 40-per . , ,; , . . cent of the wprld s. population gress. A report which is necessary since and 25 per cent of its surface. the student group spends thousands of The Communists firmly believe **... 6 r that they are destined to conquer •dollars each year, the world. They have increasingly Morris Baker, USG. vice president. did not take a strong .lead in ,chairing'-.., guerilla,, warfare and j propaganda the state Mock Electibns held last week. JJ** Tdly, We believe that Ihe students of this week, 52 weeks a year, whether IfnivArilty hsv« ih. righ. .nd ih. obll- » gallon lo demand a more forceful'and tage and murder to smiles and productive student government. their advance has Students elect the All-University ' included over 600 million people officers to their positions and we feel , wUhin^OO h milc 5 n °of a ?h| nC .unny they have the right to expect -strength Florida beaches. and determination and effectiveness, to wjll slrjp of his belief in ' a ETeaterextent-than-wO-Tiavasemyfrom Qnd, his-heritage of-'freedonv»nd , , his trust" in law, justicerand'mcr-- these leaders.. * a~space'networkr6r will the~f ceteral“goy ernrivent, because of the intercontinental aspect of Telstar, set up its own broad casting facilities? ' Sine# AT&T bulli.Telstar, does this moan It will have exclusive rights for future simllaradditlons to a network, or will the network be built by other inter ested competing companies? Will Telstar be classified as a public utility, as our telephone and telegraph lines on earth are? Will the Federal Communications Commission oversee the quality, taste and extent of programming, as it does for existing networks, or will a United Na tions committee be established? What sort of programs will be transmitted and how- can present sets be adapted to pick them up? cooperation and understanding that is -used in applying its success and.in solv ing unanswered questions will determine how great its effect will be on world understanding. A Studmr-Operatrd .Veu’jpa per SS Yean of Editorial Freedom M*tl SutvivtspLaa Priw.; ?6 00 a year •MfT'ibe'’ cj The Associated Press ments, the Wharton *iministration has failed completely. Nothing on either of these two issues has been done or even formally studied by student government. Other achievements of the Wharton administration have been the reorganiza tion and streamlining of the student government committee system by intro ducing commissions. This has been need ed for a.-long time an'd is indeed a welcome improvement to student gov- ernment. ' The administration has t reorganized" the downlo\vn housing list.to make it more cbiyvenierit f 6r _ landlords: Another •achievement worthy of merit/ •, Though Telstar is only one phase of the 12-billion-dollar space program, the - HERBERT WITMEH Business Managed THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA „.-Y , 1 i • , \ Letters Challenge to U S. Seen by Williams cy. Let us look at what the U.S. would be like if the. Communists took over America. National, slate, and local governments would-. be eliminated. Soviets would be. formed which -would liquidate mayors, chief of police,, clergymen and leading citizens. The Constitution and all.laws wtiuld be abolished. If you owned productive property. you ..wowjd bd-‘arrested as an' exploiter and' sentenced to a concentration camp or liquidated. All property (home, business, bank deposits, and re lated personal property) would is h e'd: Industry would be nationalised and (arms would be taken from their owners. T,abor unions would be obliterated. The pross would be. muzzled, free speech forbid den, and complete conformity de manded. Women would be free from housework, but thay would alio be "FREE" to work in fac tories and mines with men. The Communists want to con trol everything: what you are paid, what you think, what street cars you ride, how your children' are educated, and what you may not and must read, write, etc. My statements are confirmed by reports from areas ' where the Communists have taken over. These Communist doctrines threaten the happiness of every community, the safety of every, individual, and the continuance of every fireside. "The "Commu nists create crises after crises and force the U 5,.. because of our greater fear of war, to back down. In IS years we have engaged in 19 high-level talks with lh* Soviet Union and out of these talks hava come 40 agreements. Of these, the Soviets have vio- aaiiagM/ \ / "\JT rr'EACVp 1 i .<W l:f= 2a ! :s=d. /. - . IBEIEffMN!I •iY !>•„*/. lalod 37. The be lieve in force, - noi companion; haired, not goodness; ruthless ness, not mercy. They use many words- -which have, very worthy meanings to us, .such as, peace, coexistence, etc. Their definition of peace is a peace when' there are no oppo nents of communism. To them, peaceful coexistence means cos-, ■ sation of opposition to thje Com munists’ aggression. The Communists use a bluff occasionally to obtain some con cessions. They opake it appear that they will go to war over some demand, but when thc.chips7 are down .and their hand is called, they do not go t<*jyar, e.g„ Ber- . lin, Cuba. If they gain their con cessions, they immediately begin - to seek other concessions (Laos). If they fail, they begin seeking the same concessions # by other means (Cuba). v ' They will never be appeased. They are demanding the whole world, not just concessions at Ber lin or freedom to occupy Cuba. If the Communists ' fail in one place, they exert pressure in an other. This is the threat which con fronts the free ,world today. . —Gomer R. Williams, '63 Glise Opposes Pius XII Grant TO THE EDITOR: In reading The Daily Collegian of Oct. 31, 1962, I noticed a proposal by the USG Congress to "appropriate $2O to the University College of Pius XII." I certainly hope that the " t sponsorr'Michael-Stoll (fraternity: —A it »t-i-» * • area), makes known to the stu- A%li/ITI V*f flfvfZGS dent body who controls this uni- . . VC U*appears*to this col- FrOf/l DeC/S/OP particular religion. If this is the sii n t^n«^ nt f L iU.- the * case, the bill should not be passed. ‘.?v P f£ ,?L l .ty- d ‘ sc(fl )hnUir The first amendment to the •..Phceof Froth. Without a doubt, Constitution of lhe United States, ™ ls . was n ° spur-of-the-moment Article I of the BUI-of Rights, decision on the part of the in states-ihai—t'Congresa_ahalLmake yolved; however, it seems almost no law respecting the establish- inconceivable to- me —that some ment of religion . . The courts advance planning and re-organiza of our nation have continually |' on ? ou * d not have prevented this held this to mean that public termination, funds should in no way whatso- As a former editor of "Critique" - th»~*upport-of —end-former-edvertising-manager— of "Froth." I can remember well some of th? attendant problems and can, in part, sympathise with them. However, if. businesses to dar were not flexible and able to shift with the times, they too would not continue to exist. To me, it' is the responsibility of the university to help guide • undergraduates and show them “ the necessity for planning to meet (new) situations. I am most disappointed in this turn of events and hope sincerely that there will be steps’ tqken to see that “Froth” has taken only a haitus from publishing and will resume its 53-year old tradition in the relatively near future. —David R. Eldridga '49 parochial tchooli. Penn State is a state (public) university, supported, by public funds. I am sure there are thou sands of students on this campus who do not Want to see their money, regardless -of how little, be used for such a cause.'- Separation of chureh and state is a time-honored tradition in the United States. President Kennedy has repeatedly opposed the use of public. funds for sectarian causes. We students at Penn State should have no part in such a flagrant.violation of the principle of separation of church and state. (Editor’s note: The University of Pius XII described itself.in a letter to Michael Stoll: Although under Catholic auspices, we are not Catholic in any narrow sense. From 30 to SO per cent of our stu dents are always Protestants, Hin du or Moslem ... Our staff is com posed of nationals from Holland, Ireland, United Kingdom, South Africa, Canada and the United States . . . We teach no religion courses as such.") ‘rdJ 3cTIM NOT. 1 35CAJ3EOF. Wu'A I.'»!irrszO 6--So CUT FOR ;'T&C<S OR 7££ATO< nALLOuiccN: i.tA hEVri? 50iN5 70 SPzAC tO ni\ A6AN. AS LOSS A 3 I LIVE. 1 / 'J' kfisf' \ c <s SaCT '*) V J iK 17 1: A t • ■ - ** /. <*,' • 5 »'* ‘ , *• Reasons For Fighting Presented TO THE EDITOR: In Friday's .Collegian there’appeared a letter written by Peter A. Miller .in which he asked, “How does a young person go .to war, fight, ''and perhaps die for an ideal so nebulous as ‘The American Way?’" Here is my answer. Yes, I Would —John Glise, ‘65 Alum Views Froth Issue TO THE EDITOR: I have before me a newspaper clipping stating that the Committee on Student Organizations has ordered a shut down of the campus humor mag azine Froth! It is indeed unfortunate that this happened, However, it was to be expected since the admin istration decided .to remove Frothy from the football game, a few years ago. If such a practice continues in v the future. I can see such things as mentioning Hort Woods, re peating the saying concerning the Obelisk and even a letter such as this on* being banned. . Sure, Froth did, say certain things about the administration and did have articles that maybe .'-'Should have been left out but •what college, humor magazine does not have any rely on these types of materials for entertain ment? May I repeat, it is indeed un fortunate! USG - A Joke TO THE EDITOR: Speaking of responsible government, you wanna hear a good joke? USG.- W6uld I go to war. Fight-and die? Yes, l would. And you ask why. Would I leave mjj school,, My home, my country? Yes. I would, And you may trust me; For the. life I enjoy And lake so iighiiy. Yes, I would, Though death may strike me, For the country I love, For its freedom-strong. Yes, I would, Though the war be long. .For the God I worship, For his blessings many. Yes, J would. For all, for any. For my family and friends, For the girl back home. Yes, I would. And I am not alone. Would we go to war, Fight and die? Yes, we would. And you know why. —Charles F. Jackson, ‘6l -John T. Wasdi. E.E. ’«1 - Fort Balvoir, Va, —Kurt Simons. 'S3 soft touch Campus of Sheep Makes Job Difficult Sitting eating breakfast, bleary, eyed after a night’s toil. I listen carefully foi my contemporaries' comments as they read the day’s news in the Collegian. Many are astounded that what they read is not “what I heard" and seem to doubt that I spent the previous evening editing veritable ne\}’s. These people are rumor-rouscrs. They believe what they hear. Where j are all thc~doubt~ ing Thomases of veOSß^j In his book. ''Nd\ ' \ tion of Sheep,"' ;; William J. Leder- L ’ er cautions Arneri- I y jSw cans against ac- It *3 cepting as truth all that they hear or read. The most f ' important thing to_ . ? 'a consider, he points’ miss bkeson,, ou t continually, is the original source of the news. He exemplifies this in his re vealing account of newsmen .being informed by the Communists themselves-while they were re porting on the Korean conflict and several other incidents. The news which we received, then, was already colored red. Rather than letting this hap pen,-however, -the Collegian .go** to the “front" and see* for itself what is happening on campus. If we did not bother to do this, we • could perhaps witness a perfect Penn State, over and above a better on*. Naturally, this would not be possible without the aid of a diligent rumor-router. Just for fun, I tried to be one for a day, and it could have been one of the most exciting days I have ever spent here if only I had believed what I heard. At breakfast I heard that three ■people in my dortnitory had at tempted suicide the night before. I was sorry I had missed the ox citement and at the same time', gueteed that I would never really know, because people “in the know” don’t like to talk about those ■ things. On my way out of the dining hall, I saw one of the threij sui cide cases. She looked pretty healthy. Then I went up to the library Letters Professional Architecture Fraternity tauiijfi a! Ik a krmMV' flip|Wlll dm V Illy VI iiiv nimvif TO THE EDITOR: We, the mem bers of Alpha Rho Chi, the profes sional architectural fraternity, are unanimously in support of saving the Armory from destruction for the proposed addition to the Wil lard Building, if solely for its architectural and historical sig nificance. As one of the best examples at brick architecture in Central Pennsylvania, the Armory’s archi tectural value is widely acclaimed. The innovation of .the semi circular windows and their venti lation principle by the former college president, George W. Ath erton, is an outstanding feature worth recognition. With its sweeping form and harmonlus use of stone, brick, glass .and slate. It is, we feel, the most picturesque building on campus. It is a building beautiful ly designed to fill the need for a large, enclosed, unobstructed space) its present misuse In hous ing the Department of Music is painfully obvious. Historically, the Armory’s value lies in the fact that it is one of the' first buildings of the Penn State Campus, and one of two Remaining intact, Its many dif ferent uses since its construction • in 1889 have unboubtedly given it an; integral, part in the college life andTTiemories~of all alumni.” Our stand against the proposed IM Coverage Galled —— Discriminatory by Indie TO THE EDITOR) Since the be ginning of the intramural touch football season, The Daily Col legian has treated its readers to a spectacle.,of one-sided reporting that is .inconsistent with good newspaper coverage. Before the tone of my letter Ts mistaken let me stfjte-;herc and now that my ••war” is not with fraternities. Rather it is a war against dis crimination and clearly the Col legian is discriminating against independent men. Since the beginning of the touch football season not one dorm team or one town team has had its game covered in detail by the Collegian. On some days not even the scores from the Stadium fields (where most independent teams play) are reported. Instead, day after day, we are treated to practically a play by play description of certain teams that use lh# golf course fields (not Independent teams). ' Does not the Collegian Sports department think that independ ent teams are worthy of cover age? Don’t you think that we work just as hard on our teams as other organizations? Don’t you think that independent units de serve the same recognition as others? If so, when is your staff going to do something about it? I reject categorically any argu ment that the Collegian does not. have a large enough staff cov er all the games. For even if one reporter is assigned to cover foot ball games, couldn’t he split the coverage equally by going one day to the stadium fields and one day to the golf course fields? I reject also tbs excuse of lack of communication with dorm teams. All .dorm units have ath letic chairmen whose names can be easily obtained by contacting the counselor of the unit. If this is not sufficient I will supply the names of the respective alhletip chairmen for North Halls. 1 am WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1962 by donnan beeson to get some books for my term paper. On the way. I met one of my friends, overladen with an armful of books. Said friend let me in on the news that things had chanaed up' there and now you got a book tor every card you ' turned in. 1 Several hours later. 1 came out of'the library batting a two for nine average. While 1 was resting on the stops after my ordeal, 1 happen to hear two students saying, as they went m to play the Cir culation Game, that they had both ’ heard ‘from Dan that the Armory was going to remain on campus. 1 didn’t bother to inquire who Dan was, hut I found later that someone whose name was not Dkn and wfito was in charge of the whole thing, had said that this paragon in architecture was due for destruction. Then I. went over to the-HUB to get a ticket for the Artists Series. There were a lot of peo ple waiting in line end all of them seemed very enthusiastic for the coming program. I fig ured that this meant all of those people would deem it' an abso lute must to be in attendance when the event occurred. Instead, ft fair number of them kept their tickets fQr mementos of that day of waiting in line rind found something else to do on the night printed on their ticket. The crowning blow came that night when I decided to sit in on a USG meeting. The inspira tion for this, came from the over all feeling around campus that all the new congressmen could hardly wait to get in there and get some meaningful legislation passed. . Alas, the legislation'puied was minimal and most of whal I heard. I'd heard before and what's more, I knew I'd hear It again. Whereas Lederer deplores A Nation of Sheep, I feel the same .way about a Campus’ of Sheep and at times, I feel that I and my fellow editors are doing a job in vain. I even feel that way after breakfast. - addition to the Willard Building at the loss of the Armory is, how ever, more deeply rooted, Al though we support the Univer sity’s policy of utilizing the most advanced' methods and materials in new construction;, we feel that' some of the later projects, in cluding the Hammond Building and the additions to Sackett, are worthy addition!; to our campus. Whothor they are products of Insufficient finances, time or aesthetic appreciation, there is little one can say in defense of such .massive, impersonal ma chines for mass-education. Even the careful efforts of those who so beautifully landscape our campus will never soften the efforts of these coral curtainwall blocks. Nothing can save the lay out of their interiors.' With such a past record, It la with liltle'wonder-that the-Unl versity’s actions are challenged at this time. To destroy the Armory, a building of outstanding struc tural. aesthetic, •tmd historical significance, at an undeniably large sum of money, would be a loss no modern classroom build ing could compromise. Another typical addition would be a sad' mistake. —The members of Alpha Rbo Chi ■ ~’Professional Architecture Fraternity suro that iho praildtntf of iho othor artai would bo willing to do tho umo. On the editorial page the policy of The Dally Collegian i» atated as follows: "Ajl complaints will be investigated and efforts made to remedy situations where this newspaper is at fault." I chal ' lenge the Collegian to live up to its editorial policy. And, specifi cally, I challenge the sports de partment to lift itself from the mire of discrimination and £et down to the business of reporting the activities of the some 10,000 independent men on campus —Leo Scods, '63 Prmldaitl. North Htll* Council Play of News Questioned TO THE EDITOR* A newspaper always retained the right to deter mine for itself what news of th* day is of relative, importance. However, some things are abso lutely of more importance than pthers. Surely, the editors of The Daily Coljegian, after careful considera tion. must agree that a world crisis of the magnitude of tha Cuban situation is of paramount importance. Why, then, was this crisis relegated to an inferior front page position in relation to an issue which was not only a week old. but which was surely not as significant to the lives of all of us students as well as the men »n Washington? Froth is an important issue here on~campus, of course. But how could the editors of the Collegian have given it a banner headline and article m relation to a crisis which has conceivably brought us to the brink of war? —Thomas Berlenbach. 'O3 —Paul Browns tein, '64
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