-'■ Editorial Opinion Board's Enthusiasm Misdirected It \s unfortunate that the apparent industry and enthusiasm displayed by the members of the Fresh man Class Advisory Board cannot be better utilized in more worthwhile organizations. At its first meeting Tuesday night, the board discussed plans for numerous projects, including a jam session and concert for the Frosh-Soph week end, participation in fall orientation, coordinating the downtown housing list and sponsoring a concert to raise money for a freshman scholarship fund. All of these projects are certainly worthwhile/ and the board deserves commendation for its zealous spirit. But at the same time, all of these projects are either now being provided or can be provided more capably by other organizations more suited to carrying them out. The fall orientation programs are presently being handled quite well. Improvements have been made in both the men’s and women’s programs in recent years. The problem of coordinating the downtown housing list is better left to student government. As for events such as concerts, there are a multitude of organizations which presently provide that type of activity. The Jazz Club, for example, exists for that sole purpose. Other groups which provide similar cul- boiling point A Mudslinging '64 At this point of the term it is a natural phenomenon that all students look forward to Christmas vacation and the coming of the new year. To be sure, 1964 will bring with it a new chance to do all the things that everyone vowed to do at the be ginning of tl' term. But 1964 all holds more store. At lea: one quarter the student boi (we seniors) wi be following completely di ferent way i life, hopefully >. becoming gain fully employed. MISS BOYLE There is little doubt that Ken nedy will be heading the Demo cratic ticket backed up by his millions, Bobby’s brains, the federal treasury and a multi tude of public relations schemes. The toss-up however is in the GOP camp where there are the most controversial of aspirants for the job. This election and pre-election campaigning should provide the maximum of mudslinging as there are all sorts of juicy tidbits to be savored by politi cal opponents, the press and the general public. We’ve got Rocky and his divorce. And his opponents will completely overlook the fact that this is a personal problem and has no bearing whatsoever on his political capabilities. We’ve got Barry and a sumptuous morsel which has not yet been widely served. We’ve all cracked jokes about the Arizona senator’s reaction ary views even though we don’t know quite what those views are, but for heaven’s sake that is only the appetizer. Wait until someone releases the fact that he is Jewish. Even if he is only a half-Jew by heredity and a converted one at that (he’s a practicing Epis copalian), some brilliant ana lyst is bound to realize that this is a major Jewish effort to take over the country; it’s just cleverly disguised. Then we have Dick Nixon and his political obituary to consider. Certainly that he lost to Kennedy last year and to Pat Brown in California makes it obvious that he doesn’t really have what it takes to be a good President. a penny's worth Humor—A Student Essential When you first came to the University in search of knowledge and parties, you were conveniently provided with a handy little booklet entitled “Coming to Penn State.” This versatile publi cation included a list of items you could bring without fear Of confiscation by housing, instructions for sending trunks ahead so that you and they would arrive simultane ously, and numerous other tidbits of useful information. Nevertheless, no one told you to bring something that's an absolute essential for maintaining your sanity and composure under the pres sures and ups and downs of college life—a sense of hu mor. The ability to see the light er side of situations can get you through a lot of traumas —and this goes beyond being able to laugh when your roommate short-sheets your bed or the guys down the hall put shaving cream in vour ROTC hat. The first time I had to re- ’AGE TWO Successor to The Free Li nee, tst , ISS 7 Pubflihed Tuesday fhroujb Safurdey mar nine durind me Unlvtrslly year. Th* d ally Colltilsn is a tluimt-opiralii ntwipiptr. Snlirti as saeand-eliss matlir July 5, 1t34 at the State College, Pa. Past Olfics undsr tot atl al March 3, »7t. DAVID BOLBACH. Editor Also just remember the way his wife acted after he lost last year; she couldn’t be the na tion's first lady following the poised and cultured Jackie. Considering these two impor tant criteria most everyone will nix Nixon. Since obviously none of the above mentioned Republicans are qualified for the office, the conservatives of the country are left with only one alterna tive and that is to nominate our own Bill Scranton. Let us Pennsylvanians forget that he has failed miserably in getting appropriations to state hartbeat Lets Integrate! Let’s integrate! It’s a mar velous idea. Everyone knows it is the right and moral thing to do. Enthusiasm is all over the place. You can tell by the way everyone has rushed out and joined the lo cal NAACP chapter. And every “w h i t Christian” sr rority has i: vited back least one Negi coed for fir? chatter date And every fr tern i t y hi pledged at lea: one Negro ma: It’s tremei dou s. Pen State is leadin, the way to the Mi ss hartman true life. We are great and we are righteous. Why, down South they unleash police dogs on demonstrating Ne groes (in Chicago they never would do that) and they have the worst sin of all—they ad mit they are prejudiced. They say they don’t like their little brown brother and that they don’t want to go to school with him. But we love our little dark-skinned' friends and we want them in our Greek organizations and we want them to live next door to us. And we are all going to vole for Kennedy because he is pushing civil rights. But then again he is not pushing it fast enough. I guess we will have to back James Baldwin in '64. membbr my sepse of humor was when I went through registration my first semester. I was out on the floor of Rec Hall for three hours before I finally emerged with my torn, soiled number two card bear ing a schedule with six eight o’clocks. As I left th.e main floor, a voice told me look up, before I km it my dazed e: pression w recorded film. Actual I could s < nothing am ing about 1 situation at time, but m every time look at my m trie card pic- Jl| ss watson ture I really break up—to say nothing of other peoples’ re actions! One circumstance in which a bit of levity helps is writing home for money. For instance, you can sometimes soften the request by placing on your utyp Sailij (EfllUotan tural events include IFC-Panhel, the Artists Series committee, the Liberal Arts Lecture Series com mittee, Folklore Society and various religious groups on campus. In addition to this factor, there is the possibility that the student body may become satiated with such events, or that events might conflict, as is the case next term with the Frosh-Soph weekend and the Model United Nations. All of which points to one inescapable conclu sion which has been stated before by this newspaper: class advisory boards have no major function and should be abolished. They are simply remnants of the semester sys tem which have no place in the changing student life of the term system. No matter what class presidents may say, the importance of classes has decreased already and will decrease even more in future years. The term system has also caused a decrease in interest in extra-curri cular activities and the talents of the students who sit on advisory boards could be better used else where. It is often difficult to realize, much less admit, that long-standing traditions sometimes outlive their usefulness. But this is what must be done if student activi ties at Penn State are- going to keep pace with the other aspects of student life. by winnie boyle universities and medical insti tutions because of his petty politiking, and let us forget that he has hardly enough experi ence to step into such a major office. We must back him be cause he is our favorite son which is ten times more im portant than bothersome politi cal records. While voting for our first time as-the newest addition to the nation's citizenry, let us look beyond these unimportant, yet usually decisive factors, and help to elect the man most truly able to fulfill the demands of a President of the United States. by joan Hartman Then we will ban "Emperor Jones” and picket any estab lishment that doesn’t serve “black and white” ice cream sodas. We will always eat vanilla fudge ice cream. And we will all own Dalmation dogs. We’ll have to ferret out a few things on this campus first before we go on to big ger and better things. "Rip" Engle definitely has to go. Why, he is coaching a team in the annual Blue-Gray game, and only spectators with sun glasses will see a dark face there. And we will get Prexy to expel anyone who dares ask, “What’s blue, red, black and flies?” Then, when we are through on campus, we will all take a Negro friend home for din ner and introduce him around the neighborhood. After that we will take a bus down to Birmingham (he'll sit in the front and we'll sit in the back) and we'll visit Gov. Wallace. And we'll tell him of all the wonderful things we've done at Penn State. We’ll show him our fra ternities and sororities, our football team, and we will show him how very, very wrong he is to be prejudiced. He’s so very wrong. And we are right and we have done everything that shows we are right. We don’t say one thing and do another. We love everyone, everywhere, all the time. by penny watson envelope a witty return ad dress—like “University Park Debtors’ Prison.” Of course, if either of your parents is a gullible type or prone to hys terics, this is not a very good idea. Actually, it’s not just in these little situations that a sense of humor comes in so handy. True, when you’re really in despair it can be awfully difficult to smile; sometimes you even derive a rather morbid pleasure from wallowing in your mis ery, and resent others’ at tempts to cheer you up. But when you're depressed, did you ever accidentally break down and lei a giggle escape or allow a trace of a smile to show on your face? It helps; in fact, try it now ... So you can’t go to the Pitt game this weekend because you have a bluebook Saturday morning. Just envision the funny funny telephone wires on College Avenue draped with toilet paper Saturday afternoon when the students remaining on campus cele brate the Lions’ victory! HERBERT WITMER, Business Manager Letters ode to the thinhead: having claimed the thinnest heads and denny dimwit, mutt, et al carrots, asparagus vegetate you refuse to integrate offbeat pinhead thinhead god you are our apathetic cowardly conforming reforming idealistic unselfish liberal we wild-eyed radicals adulate and flagellate thus vaccaliate to the nonexistent insecure base and baseless monheimerism contrary to popular belief you are everything existentialist, optimist, pessimist, realist, idealist, marxist, leninist, socialist, communist, anarchist. monarchist, fascist, nazist, reactionary, birchite, you are the radical middle you are eisenhower, rockefeller, wayne morse, macmillan, adenauer our hitler, mussolini, rockwell, robert welch, our mao-tsetung, khrushchev, ben bella, castro yes' you are our very own barry goldwater you are negro Christian white jeiuish buddist atheist you are the NAACP SNCC CORE SANE SURE USG SPCA IFC MRC WIBG you are holden caul/ieid; you are dearabby bach beethouen, brahms berioz, bartok britton bobby rydell elvis presley chubby checker roosevelt nettles you should and can be our next president you ari every kennedy and that’s a lot you are truman mccarthy you excel in english math bi sci and serbocroatian you art our out egotistical self-centered couiardly apathetic loser we could go on ad infinitum, but suffice it to say —3o— Baurnes, ’64 fflMMfflUta/i/w DONTKMId !! . / (jJHAT IT’S LIKE 4 TO BE A. , jj ' Vbarber's SON! S^jpgi - VOU DON'T KNOW (JUHAT IT'S LIKE!! RSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1963 ' TODAY ON CAMPUS Philosophy Colloquium •Mikel Durrenne of the Uni versity of Poitiers, France, will speak on “Existentialism and Existentialisms” at the phil osophy colloquium, 8 p.m., 113 Chambers. Artists Series > Approximately 400 student tickets remain for Saturday’s Artists Series concert, which will feature Russian 'cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. Both student and general admission tickets will be distributed from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at the ■Hetzel Union desk. Phys Ed Convocation J. Kenneth Doherty will speak on “The Organization of Russian Sports” at the physical education convocation, 7:30 p.m., 209 Home Economics South. Other Events Angel Flight drill, 6:30 p.m., Wagner building. 47 Students Now Enrolled Ift NAACP The local membership drive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is “continuing slowly,” Arthur Brown, drive co-chair man, said. To date, 41 students have joined the proposed NAACP chapter, Brown said. Fifty members are needed before the group can submit its constitu tion to the Committee on Stu dent Organizations for official chartering as a student organ ization. The membership drive start ed in late October. Member ship dues —$1 a year—are sent to national and district NAACP chapters. The group organizers are making plans for a program, “The American Negro and So ciety," to be held in February with the cooperation of the Hetzel Union Fine Arts com mittee. Students of any race who wish to join the NAACP chap ter can obtain information from members of Omega Psi Phi fraternity, the organizing group. Through the Looking Glass with Gabbl ARE YOU NERVOUS, TOO! Well, it’s that “time of the term” again. We’re all start ing to feel the pressures of the work we left behind. It’s evident. I 4 mean, you can notice a marked change in the majority of students. For instance, there’s the student who’s now smoking three packs of cigarettes a day in stead of two. And there’s the student who’s going to spend this weekend in Pittsburgh, and rationalizes by saying, “What’s the use? It’s too late to bring up the grades now anyway.” And did you notice the girl in your class who’s gained about 20 lbs. in the last week? Well, she’s the type who can't stop eating when she gets nervous. This is the central problem behind all of these students -NERVOUSNESS. There are various methods of getting rid of this common ail ment which appears when finals draw near. We can either quit school; take nerve pills; remain a nervous wreck; or relax our nerves by taking a soothing browse around ETHEL MESERVE. I think the final solution is best. It offers us the chance to relax, to have an amusing time, and to get our minds off those inevitable finals. When you go to ETHEL MESERVE to browse around, be sure to notice the toy co'un ter. ETHEL MESERVE’S cute stuffed anitbals are bound to take your mind off those finals. And look at the unusual jewelry styles; the large selection of umbrellas; the enormous supply of ties; and . . . well, I could just go on forever! See You at ETHEL MESERVE (I'm nervous, too!) Gabbi 112 E. College Avo Cwens dinner meeting, 4:45 p.m., McEiwain. Gamma Gamma Sigma, 6:30 p.m., 214 HUB. International House Tea, 2:30 p.m., Simmons lounge. Keystone Society, 6:30 p.m., 212 HUB. News and Views, 6:30 p.m., Home Economics living cen ter. Pre-Veterinary Club, 7 p.m., 117 Borland. Sigma Tau Delta, 7:30 p.m.', Delta Zeta suite (Pollock 2). University Readers, 3:45 p.m., 309 Sparks. PART TIME WORK 11 malt students, preferably Business or LA maisrs. Must be free II hours per week afternoons and evenings. 343 per Meek. 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