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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
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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.
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• Ballet Theater—Prokofiev, “Cin
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TitO Sport* Highlight*; Interview bf
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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."
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