PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion USG Study on Senate Rules One of the bills accepted in USG's energetic approval of nine proposals Wednesday night establishes a commUtee to study and evaluate the University Senate’s rules andj regulations. The bill’s sponsor annd temporary chairman of the study committee, Harry Grace, said the six-member group would study each section of the regulations for .its" merits end applications. ' . The Senate rules have been changing ; yearly.' it seems, to fit the faculty’s concept of increasing student responsibility. ; Two years ago, the Senate abolished the; “K" rule 3 on ’class attendance and in their place established an attendance policy. The policy lets . instructors organize their course material with the intention of encouraging students to attend class. The instructor is left free to decide whether scholastic achievement in his course depends on class attendance and to relate this policy to his students. ' • , The p ~- >rrm * J , •, . , 1 chaser of those air- htem The Senate took action only recently on the S rules mail stamps, which featured up concerning compulsory Reserve Officers Training Corps ? ide down airplanes, sold his $24 ** * , , : t investment to a group of stamp courses. It has recommended a change from compulsory dealers several* da>-3 later for to voluntary ROTC to the<Boani of Trustees.; = later broke up the The value of a atudent committee to study the Senate sheet and today the individual rule. Mem. to It. primarily In educating and Informing *° r S conSn student, on the significance and • implication, of the; One of the discoverers of the Hammer*Jcjold error, Leon oenaxe rules. ard Sherman of Irvington. NJ.. Perhaps the committee can devise a method of get- thought h. had a similar find un ting students to understand what is expected of them and what they can expec}_in return. ! A second value of such a committee to be that further changes in the rules could be .suggested by the. student group. ’ - j - Study of the “M" rules concerning grading, the “U” rules on student automobiles, the VW” rules on student conduct and the “Z” rules on social organizations have been areas of concern to past student groups and should provide fertile bases for student evaluation! In studying any of these areas, we feel It Is of pri mary importance for the committee to do as' much re- March as time allows In talking to or getting a survey of student knowledge and awareness of the rules and their opinions on them. We hope the committee will speak at length with faculty and administrators on the reasoning. behind the rules and the feasibility of possible changes. Other schools should be; as to their policies. Only with thorough research can the committee hope to make a valid appraisal that willlse beneficial both tb the students and the faculty and one that will be influ- ■- ential.in formulating future policies that cohcur with the needs of the University body. NSA Regional Conference Pennsylvania and West Virginia member schools.of the United States National Student Association will' convene their regional conference on campus tonight. The conference topic will be the aims of education. JThis University is a member of NSA on a tentative basis only. Student government entered the national or ganization on a one-year trial basis last ‘spring. This spring a decision will have to be made by the stiident body on whether Penn State should or should hot remain a mem; ber of the association. i With this major decision lying ahead, we believe that this conference provides a golden opportunity for students to Judge some of the merits and demerits of;NSA at work. Furthermore, the presence of representatives from member schools in this area, including major universities such as the University of Pennsylvania and Temple Uni versity, will give Penn State students an opportunity to question more experienced members on the value of NSA membership. t ! Wa urge all students of this University to talk with students from member schools and If possible lo illend some of the conference meetings tonight and tomorrow. Whether or not Penn State '•should become a full member of. NSA is a decision which all students on this campus should begin considering now. . - t tiltje Daily (EoUwitan Successor to The Tree Lance, est. tSIT FoUUSM TmsSot (Snath B»t*r4»r moraine Sorlnc tho I’nlnnltr roor. Tkt Soßr Collotioß I* o iUlanl-otnM mwbmsot. Eatcnt u oocool don motto* Mr *. IBM lit (ho Steto Colton. Fo. Foot Offlra onto tfc* ort of Kerch t, UTS. lUB SckMitpUta PriMi H.H a UaOlar AMrw S«x MX. SUt* C*o«c*. Pa. ANN PALMER HERBERT WITHER Editor 1 Butin ess Manager iTHE XOLLEGIAfsI. UNIVERSITY PARK. PENNSYLVANIA I r i. ' : J The Post Office Department's \ recent decision to deliberately -flood the market with misprinted ! Dag Harrimarskjold commemora- f tive stamps not only speaks poorly ! for that office'3 philosophy but : may enhance the possibilities for individual profit-taking- at the taxpayers' expense. Several! days ago a few stamp • collectors noticed that some of the . Hammarskjold commemoratives , were partly p'' 't- ■ ed upside, dow This errorrwl ; resulted from sheet of: stai ' being inserted , the printer ba wards for the r ' ond impressioi : similar to -the ; that was detei ' in 1917 on a si ; of airmail stai Letters 1-Day Thanksgiving Vacation Discusses Brings Protest from Freshman . I* f* • TO THE EDITOR) - 1 have often has been paid, so if we wanl to fCrfYAff Sf*nlFlt\f ' heard Penn State called‘The Fac- lose a few dollars worth of time isruvu jecuniy tory „ but yrh4ve always in thB TO THE EDITOR: Wth reference pasti stood up for dear Old State, the one. whfwill b^los^g to make some remarks pertinent k* 1 ’ 1 l ust “ factory where we’re This isn't hurting "Dear Old to those.of Mr. Charles K. Krantz. spokes in a wheel, not BlBte one bit. In particular, I would like to com- "individuals human individuals , A ? h f rT ' an beings we want to ment on his statement... ‘‘Securi- _,u„ • iranf • f • be treated as human beings, as ty is not always to be equated * tobe w ‘ th their fai P* college students we want to be with fullest possible military pre- k llles for Thanksgiving. treated as qollege students. I feel Daredness." Should we give thanks- for our that the cuts taken this Thanks- As a student of bislorr Mr reward of a cold, empty Thanks- giving holiday should Krants must know that simulta- „e iv ‘ n 8 Day in the dorm and a be treated as ordinary cuts. To neously with the recognition of -"‘‘delicious" Thanksgiving feast in me, <as to most of. my professors th. state of Israel by tte United * me « ball?" 3h- t ". w 6 ’ and Nations, the armies of seven Arab ' Many of us have forefeited l " at * wbere ? want to be ‘ stales, invaded Israel. No nation going home over weekends so —Georgia Brose, '66 came to the aid of this Infant that we would be able/'lo be with nation. With much sacrifice of life,' our families on this special holi- Israel was victorious. day, when suddenly we are pre- Grad Student Similarly, in 1955, after re peated Fedayeen raids with the murder of many innocents, and fruitless appeals to the United Nations to stop these raids, Israel launched the' Sinai campaign. The immense arsenal of Soviet offensive weapons that were sub sequently destroyed and captured showed the world, without doubt, the aggressive intent of Egypt. • It has taken these seven vears for Col. Nasser to rebuild his Soviet arsenal and again threaten Israel's very existence. I use the word existence with its fullest meaning. Although the Egyptians have twice been de feated* there Is still, and will al ways be, an Egypt. For Israel, any defeat will be final and complete. Israel does not have the hundreds of millions, nor the vast area of India, to risk waiting poorly-armed for the overt aggression to occur. Tel Aviv is only minutes by jet bomber and even less by rocket from Egyptian bates. Yet Mr. Krantz would want to., have a unilateral arms embargo and let Israel’s security not be the “fullest military preparedness." He would do unto others what he' would not hava dona unto him self. WDFM Schedule ' FRIDAY. NOV. IS I Dinner Dele * 1:11 Weetherscop* witfe Joel Kjrere • Ballet Theater—Prokofiev, “Cin derella-; Rare!. “La YaJee” TitO Sport* Highlight*; Interview bf Ron Eakln T:4O. Alhnm the Week: Featuring itw rdmti •:W Marquee Memories t* Tonight, Br* Birdie!** t;tS Send Off: Music t» atart tfca IS :<«, Night Sound: Cool auiic Into ike ; night _ ; snowed Hammarsk/old's Folly —Gerald Kahc. Grad Student til the Pott Office decided Tues day to flood the market with mis printed stamps to that" every little boy in America who-wants one can have one." . The Post Office, which spends thousands of dollars annually in order to prevent imperfect stamps from reaching the public, will now turn around and deliberately print 400,000 of the flawed issue. In the process they will destroy the image of their own department not only in the United States but throughout the world; not to men tion the insult to the memory of Dag Hammarskjold himself. The announced intention of the Post .Office to print 400,000 of these errors .will not reduce the initial problem -but rather com pound it. . 1 There are approximately 10,000.000 stamp collectors in the United States and millions more abroad who collect our stamps. These collectors purchase a large share of each commemorative issue; which usually appears in editions of 120,000,000. If the P.O. Department goes through with its plans to print only 400.000 stamps of an issue that has received international notoriety. It will find the issue still won't be within the financial grasp of every stamp collector. . On the contrary, investors will flock to stamp windows consider ing such a limited issue will rep- tented with a threat that we either remain here, or suffer, the consequences of having our names turned in to the "principal's of fice" and missing manufactured busy-work designed especially ior that day. . If the University wants us to develop into mature, responsible adults does it think it is going to achieve this by treating us like high school students? r The University maintains that if ‘we take this Thanksgiving weekend holiday, we won’t settle down to studying for our finals ; the following week, but isn't that up’to us to decide? Our parents have footed the bill for our tui tion; isn’t it up to them to give us permission to be home for Thanksgiving? . What rightful say has the Uni varsity in this matter? Our money Roosevelt, Kennedy Defended by Senior TO THE EDITOR! Re: Mr. Ke nagy’s letter of Nov, 13, in which he criticizes several Collegian editorials. I would challenge Mr. Kenagy to show to me one constitutional right Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Ken nedy has abused or usurped. On the contrary, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Kennedy have the undying gratitude of minority groups for whose constitutional rights they have relentlessly fought, I don’t know how anyone could interpret the - recent congres sional elections as anything but a victory for the Kennedy legis lative program. The voters have clearly shown that they- have re jected the stone-age philosophies of the Barry Goldwater conserva tives. —lrv Ehrenreich. '63 •Letter cut FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1962 by Joel myers resent profitable investment But the injustice does not end here. What if the “lucky" pur chaser Had quickly sold his'“find" to someone else for a neat profit. It would be the buyer of these stamps .who would suffer a great financial loss. : This ii precisely" what happen ed earlier this year, when the Post Office followed a similar policy on a series of plate number blocks that inadvertently appeared in limited stipply. Many lof these blocks had changed [hands many times for prices ranging up to $lOO a block before the Post Office announced that morej would be issued. However, the .additional blocks were not ifesued in sufficient quan .tity to redpce the price to normal levels'. Many of these blocks are still selling for several dollars' apiece, which is well above their face vaueiof sixteen cents: The Post Office will again try to ..reduce the value of a collector's item without completely elimi nating it from that status. In do ing so. it arbitrarily will deter mine where and when these stamps will go on sale and thus permit many more collectors and investors to duplicate the lucky discovery of Leonard Sherman. Maybe next year it will begin reminting valuable old Roman coins “so every little boy in America who wants one can have one." NO,.WATCHIN6 TV!
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