PAGE FOUR Editorial Opinion The Governor's Challenge The Republican Party officially claimed its position in Pennsylvania state government yesterday with the inau guration of William W. Scranton as governor. - Perhaps, never has an incoming governor faced as many serious problems as Scranton faces today. The Commonwealth is clearly a declining state. It has lost its position as the second most populous state in the nation. It is losing its century-long name as one of the leading industrial states in the union. It faces challenges in health, education and welfare services it provides. Scranton's inaugural address yesterday clearly showed that he' recognizes these problems. He mentioned the moods of the citizens of this state: •The lack of hope among youth of the state and their desires to move to other areas of this nation where a more promising future' lies. •The determination of the unemployed and the wives of the unemployed who are not willing to give - up this state but who sincerely wish that new industry or re vitalized old industries would present them with a new challenge to face. •The businessman, too busy to find the solutions him self, but anxious to go along once someone starts the ball rolling. •The farmer, an industrious worker, proud that he is still doing a day's work. Governor Scranton mentioned all of these citizens. He • recognized the problems of each of these groups. His job in the next four years will be to-begin solving these problems. We say begin because even a superman could not completely solve all of them in one four-year term. Most are long-range problems requiring long-rang . 4 solutions. While we are mindful of the problems confronting the adults and elderly persons of the state, we believe that Pennsylvania's future lies in its youth. An atmosphere must be created in which the youth of this state do not express hopelessness. This requires an all-out state effort in the field of education—from kindergartens to graduate schools. We strongly believe that the school reorganization act passed by the state legislature must be retained with clarifying amendments, We believe it will go far in helping to solve many of the problems of elementary and high school education which should be of primary concern. We strongly believe a coordinating body must be created to direct the higher education facilities of this state. Pennsylvania spends a huge amount of money each year on higher education. We do not believe it is deriving maximum benefits from its expenditures. The facilities are either available or planned for. Direction is needed to best use these facilities. Such direc tion may lead to a diminishing importance of this Univers ity in relation to its present position. But, we do not be lieve that the self-Importance of Penn State should stand in the way of a general improvement of the state. In the words of Scranton in his inaugural address: "We must have the wisdom to keep y,rhat should be kept; the courage to change what should be changed." A Student-Gperated Newspaper 58 Years of Editorial Freedom Oviiis Dalin Ta Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1881 Published Tuesday through Saturday morning during the University year. The Dilly Collegian is II student—operated newspaper. Entered as- second—dass matter July 5, 1531 it the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, IBM Mall Subscription Prioet $B.OO a year Mailing Address Bor:201, State College, Pa. ANN PALMER Editor •tiMis Member of The Associated Press City Editors, Joan Mahan and David Bolbaeht News and World Affair' Editor, Kay Mills; Editorial Editor, David Runkel; Sports Editor, Dean Buick; Photog raphy Editor, Den Coleman: Assistant Photography Editor, Bill Goodman; Per sonnel Director, Sande, Orton; News and Features Editors, Donnan Beeson and Sandra Yaggi. rhcal and Classified Advertising Co-Managers: Jane Silverstein. - Jean Ruhl; ational Ad Mgr., Barbara Brown; Credit Mgr., Ralph Friedman; Assistant credit Mgr., Harry Rauch: Promotion Mgr.. Barry Levitz; Circulation Mgr., - it Guest; Assistant Circulation Mgr., David Spirt. - Persons with' complaints about The Daily Collegian's editolal police or news coverage, moy voice them In the letters to the editor column or present them, -- In person or in writing , to the editor. . All complaint, will be investigated and efforts made to remedy situations where this newspaper is at fault. The Daily Collegian; however, upholds the right to maintain Its independence and to exercise Its own judgment as to what It thinks Is in the beet interest of the University as a whole. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN,' UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA HERBERT WITMER Business Manager meandering An Educational Utopia? It is the year 1994 and we are touring Pennsylvania's most auto mated university, The student union, many times expanded, was recently torn down. Gone are the football field and tennis courts. The snack bars and vending ma chine - areas have long since been replaced by concentrated study areas The place seem, deserted until shrill bell Comin i from the centre. tower echo: through the cam pus. As this hap pens thousands o dresse students in dull grey un forms leave class rooms and walk i, single file to their - MISS MEUAN dormitory niches. A morbid silence penetrates the body. There is no time to speak or laugh the once traditional "hello" is gone. - At this very moment in other parts of the campus, the second shift of students is walking as the third shift is leaving assigned study areas to enter classes. This u n iv e r sit y which specializes in unthinking precision has de iiiSed , a system whereby three shifts of students can attend while Letters Grad. Student Cites Trouble With Advice of Do-Gooders TO THE EDITOR: The chief dif ference between a do=gooder and a doer of good appears most clear ly in the matter of offering ad vice. The do-gooder exudes that commodity, like a dandy trailing cheap perfume. He not only volunteers advice; he denies your right to reject it. His specialty is to make an easy simplicity of a life not his own. The trouble with the do-gooder Is that, when all is said and done, he does so little good. A wise man's dislike of advice and his reluctance to offer it arise from modesty born of ex perience. He does not even think only occupying as much class and dormitory space as one shift. In this 'way three times the tuition is paid. Times and places for sleep, study and classes are des ignated to each student at regis tration. Each class is eight hours long— ,one per day and a course is finished in four days.- Classes are taught by old• educational tele vision films (made in the '6o's). Professors were eliminated sev eral years ago climaxing their long battle to attain • higher salaries. Immediately after leaving classes, students are permitted a 10-minute break at a designated play area. After this they must go quickly to a designated study area. • There - are. no longer any edu cational frills such as concerts, lectures or extra-curricular ac tivities. Only the hard core, of memorization is left. The univer sity boasts that - its students - are just members of 'a happy-intellec tual family (of about 100,000). To insure personal, autonomy stu dents are known - by •their social security numbers (a practice started in September '63). Now even to reveal your name is an offense meriting_ dismissal. • No time is even wasted on food since at registration studerits are given enough food capsules to last the term. Yes, I said term: This that he can solve yotti problem. Why, because he is probably un able to solve his own. He'sees that you are not solving them; and if you can't, who can? What, for a simple fact, can he know about your intimate worries? He cannot even feel them the way. they feel to you, Certainly he is too far away from you to offer you peace of soul or even to offer you peace of mind. But 'if he is too far: you your self may be .too near.- CiVernear ness can impair vision as well as heighten the hurts that hurt so much. The - chief factor, indeed, that limits our aid to one another is neither distance nor difference neither distance between us nor difference in our problems. It is, rather, that the plain cure for our ills is hard to take. The soul's medicine is, always bitter. All of us want enlightenment in general; but how we do resist enlightenment is particular! Know ing that it's not troubles them selves that kill but how we take them, most of us subscribe to the task of getting a better' attitude until some critic pointedly tells us what's wrong with the attitude we already have. - • Then we rush to: our own de• fense, though only a moment be- ' fore we had admitted ourselves defenseless! What we want to • be told is how civilized we already are before we listen to how much more civilized we need to become. ,Yes, all of us have .our prob lems and are likely to have them to the end. We've got to learn to live with them, and in achieving this goal certain decent confi dences may go quite away, toward yourself, that is: I ask, for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself. • • —George Rossmann Grad Student. In the past our country . has supported the right of people everywhere to self-determination. Yet in the - Congo we crush - a pro-West Katanga government seeking self-determination while in Cuba 'we permit The existence of - communist activity directed against our LitM American allies and our own - country. The :U.S. lost its important nickel-cobalt processing plant at Moa - Bay, Cuba, and had to turn to - Katanga for-these minerals. - INDFM Schedule Katinga has 73 per cent of the world's cobalt and 60 per cent WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16, 1968 of the uranium of the West. Our 4:15 "The Philadelphia" interest.in Katanga ii not for a Brahma: Hungarian Dances 17-21 central government or for the • Debussy: Afternoon of a Faun Schubert: Unfinished Symphony welfare of the people, but for 5:00 Dinner Music. these resources.' Without them our 6:00 News Analysis: The day's important national defense would be in news analyzed 6:16 Weatherscope with • Joel Myers • jeopardy. - . 6:20 Virtuoso: Tonight featuring Val With Shochman 'policies such as the cur -7:80 Weekend Preview: Ruggeri() Ricci rent U.S. policy in the Katanga, it and John Coltrane - is rio wonder 'that - the is mudic 8:00 Classical Interlude: Light classical continuing to lose the Cold U.S. War , •: • 13:00 Campus and Religion ,- and that we are hated through -9:15 Mostly Music: Tonight the accent is -'' out' the world. Why don't we give on show musk 10:00 Symphonic Notebook: - . ''' - foOd.to - the Congo instead of_rnili- Brahma: Piano Concerto No. $ tary, weapons? _ Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 ' Mozart: Symphony No. 38 - - .;=-Gomer Williams '63 WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 'l6. 1963 by joan mehan system had its humble beginnings in the fout-Iterm system back in 1961. It is truly,a masterpiece of engineering • genius and student apathy. Students can graduate in less than a year now. - As we roam this austere cam pus, suddenly five bells are heard and students march out of every building. They gather around a large television screen. As a face appears on the screen a dead silericecomes over the group. The man is - the head of the university family and it , is a disinissal offense to speak when his presence has been made known - and as stu dents know, he is always watch ing- them. He begins to speak: "In an effort to prepare the -univer sity family even .further for the hard world, my advisors •have decided to eliminate the tradition al one-day Thanksgiving -vaca tion." Student silence continues. A card with the words, University pep and spirit "cheer" appears on the screen. 'Three cheers each lasting one second are given and students turn to march silently back to their Designated Areas. Letters U.N. Action In Katanga Opposed TO THE EDITOR: • The United Nations, an organization sup posedly devoted to peace, has invaded •Katanga (a- supposedly independent country) with crush ing military force to settle an internal dispute. Three times in 15 months the world organization that ..was set • up• to prevent war and preserve the peace has started a war in' the Congo. • The true story ,of 'the U.N.'s occupation of Katanga has been a. ghastly saga of rape, pillage, atrocity, confusion, treaty viola -. Eon,: and contempt for the entire international code of military ethics. The U.N. forces operate under diplomatic immunity and, therefore, have no higher controls over them. An investigation by the International Red Cross con firmed the previous charges. • U.N. officials have said that the time for negotiation has ended: This is absurd. Despite these facts, the U.S. has' continued to be the main supporter of the U.N. operation in the Congo and of the disgrace ful conduct of U.N. forces operat ing in the, name of law restora tion and order. The U.N. intervention into an internal matter in the Congo would, in theory, enable the U.N. to intervene in the internal affairs of the U.S. (e.g. Send U.N. 'troops into Miss.). The present action in the Congo is the same as if a world organization had prevented the U.S. from declaring its nide pendenCe from -Great Britain. in 1776.
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