-'■ 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-
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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
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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
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