Editorial Opinion Student-Trustee Forum—A First Step Gov. William W. Scranton last spring sug gested that the University's Board of Trustees meet once or twice a ,year with the student body to discuss problems related to the management of the University. At that time, the governor said he had dis cussed the matter with President Eric A. Walker and intended to explore the situation further. The board will open its regular winter meeting in Harrisburg on Friday, and it is apparent that thus far no action has been taken—either by the board or by Scranton—on his proposal. The Daily Collegian has consistently main tained that the only truly responsible way for the board to meet its Lbligations to the people of the state, including the students, is to hold open meet ings. We have stated repeatedly that Penn State is, in reality, THE state university and should be governed by the open meeting laws for public in stitutions. The board, however, has used a legal techni cality giving the University private corporation status to continue its closed meeting policy. The board's insistence on this irresponsible policy smacks of a "public be damned" philosophy. All efforts to dissuade the board from pursuing its present policy have failed. While a few board analysis Academ Two more years of high school? That's what may face your younger brothers and sisters, and perhaps your children. A recent editorial in the Harrisburg Pa- triot synthe- • sizes some ideas . ; on this contro versial . • subject, , a topic of much` , debate in edu cational circles. It all started ` l 4.;„„r when the Edu- 4 cational P o 1 , ci e s Commis- " sion, a group of, • 20 educators sponsor e d by CIMBALA the National Education Assn. and the American Assn. of School Administrators, rec ommended in a recently-pub lished article that "the 13th and 14th years of education in public colleges be free of cost to the student. because it is in the interest of the na tion that the abilities of each person be developed through education up to this level." The commission recom mended not only that the add ed schooling be free but also that, on the community col lege level, admission be non selective. Pennsylvania should take care before climbing on the "education for everybody" bandwagon implied in part of these proposals. I would certainly not con test the major premise of those who support the plan as the Patriot states it: "A society, if it is to keep advancing, must continually upgrade the educational level and the skills of its work force. Since the war, it has become more and more ap parent that a high school diploma no longer will suffice as the standard educational goal for young people and as a guarantee of a fairly good job . . . the nation must ex pand educational opportuni ties." It is true that every intel lectually-qualified s t u d en t, rich or poor, should go to col lege. It is also true that many intellectually qualified stu dents who deserve to attend college find schools' doors closed to them because they cannot dig up the requisite funds. But sending everybody who merits higher education to college is one thing—and sending everybody to college is another. Because a college education in America is so readily ac cessible to so many, too many American parents and educa tors have come to think in terms of "college or nothing" for their offspring. If the proposal to make ad mission to community col leges free and non-selective is carried through, a thundering horde of parchment-seekers will cram these institutions' LETTER POLICY Letters to the editor must carry• the full name of the author and identification of the author will be verified before any letter is published. In most cases letters over 400 words will not be pub lished. The Daily Collegian reserves the right to edit any letter if it is deemed neces sary. The decision to publish or reject a letter lies solely with the editor; letters con taining obvious misstatements or lacking good taste or fair play will be rejected. PAGE FOUR Olir Dalin (folirniart Successor to The Free Lance. est. 1837 Published Tuesday through Saturday mornirg during the University year. The Daily Collegian Is a student•operated newspaper, Entered as second class m:tter July 5, 1934 at the State College, Pa. Post Office under the act of March 3, 1871. Mail Subscription Price: 56.00 a year Mailing Address Box 201, Slate College, Pa. Editorial and Business Office Casement of Sackett (North End) Phone UN S-2531 Member of The Associated Pross _ DAVID BOLBACH h .T WITMR Editor' 46 ll. l6 `" Business Manager is Anarchy classrooms—many of them, unconcerned with education, merely occupying seats to avoid Uncle Sam or a legiti mate occupation. In addition, many misguid ed students, lured by the bedizenments of a sheepskin, will jump into the degree derby and abandon plans for other careers, where their true interests and abilities lie. It seems unrealistic to waste taxpayers' greenbacks in vain attempts to provide a college education for the thousands who don't really want it in order to catch those who do deserve it but cannot pay the toll. Nonetheless, those in the latter category should cer tainly be assisted. So it seems that while ad mission to these community colleges should be free, it should not be non-selective academically—such a carte blanche for the unqualified could backfire drastically, If colleges are forced to ad mit countless students who are academically unqualified, (I don't believe that a high school diploma consisting of any hodgepodge of courses automatically qualifies one for further education) they will theoretically be forced to expand accordingly. Eventually they'll reach the point of diminishing returns as far as this expansion goes —the trustees and taxpayers will tire of shelling out mil- out of the fog The Un-Blackface Strut The man on the Manhat ten Limited the other day was not in the best of moods. Along with his com lila • s about the poor service ren dered by Pennsy could found a running diatribe against the Negro community in Philadelph' 'Before know _ it, tb fella Moth° an, his NA A C chums'll telling th Mayor he can wear a blak tie becaus it's `discrimin tory!' " Being a Phil delp h i a 11 m: self, I rather surmised that my seatmate was referring to the court in junction against the wearing of blackface in the (deiayea) annual Mummers Parade Saturday. I questioned the old gentle man a bit on why he felt that way. "Ya see, son," he said, "I've been a mummer ever since my dad took me to see the first Mummers Parade on Broad Street back in 1900 and that farce they held yes terday just wasn't a Mum mers Parade. How could it be, with no blackface min strels in it? "Every year for 63 years I've paraded in biackface. I've strutted from South Philadelphia to City Hall to North Philly and back to South Philly again. Sure it's more than seven miles each New Year's Day, but it's worth it to see the kids laugh and to feel that you're makin' people happy. "But this year I just couldn't do it. How do you expect me to go up Broad Street without my bleckface? Why, lid be like going up WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1964 members have in the past advocated open meet ings, the board has given no indication that it would consider such a policy. Scranton has gone on record as opposing open meetings, which he feels would result a "holocaust." While we feel strongly that open meetings are not only desirable but neoded, we feel it is even more important that the student body have some avenue of communication with the board. Most students, we would guess probably do not know who the trustees are, nor even how many there-are. News of what action they take is released only when it pleases them to do so. Scranton's proposal thus is, if not the most desirable, at least an improvement over the pres ent policy, where students are completely ignorant of the University's top policy-making group. An open forum such as he suggests would give the student body an opportunity to discover who the trustees are, to exchange ideas and to air legiti mate complaints. It would also give the trustees an opportunity to establish closer contact with the students, who are usually most affected by their decisions. The board should consider the forum proposal this weekend and should take steps to implement it. It is not the best solution. But then nothing could be worse than the present situation. by steve cimbala lions to educate the undeserv ing. Then, these institutions will be forced to concoct ridicu lously-tough e e d in g-out standards to separate the wheat from the chaff (yes, I know that's a cliche, fresh man English virtuoso). In the process, some poor souls who could have made the grade under normal weeding-out standards will be washed out because too many were ad mitted in the first place. Much more sensible is the plan Pennsylvania began work on this year—a com munity college system in which students attending such two-year schools would pay a nominal charge of about $2OO while meeting some not-too-drastic academic admission standards, For the indigent out quali- Led, the $2OO tab could be dropped. At the same time, federal and privately-endowed aid to education, especially in the form of scholarships and loans, should be stepped up. A combination of the latter two moves, while retaining some academic selectivity, might lower the financial barrier, but not the academic barrier, between high school and college. It might help more academically-deserving students get into college with out opening a Pandora's box of ivy-league loiterers. One should not ventilate a house by blowing off the roof. by tony foglio —• The Street al ark naked! true discrimination, which Blackface isn't 'discrimina- they've got a right to protest tory,' it's as much part of the about, and a symbol, which is costume as my baggy pants!" all blackface is. It's not meant After reflecting on this for to harm anybody, it's just a little while, I said, "But part of a parade intended to Cecil Moore (head of the let people enjoy themselves. Philadelphia NAACP) and his "And how could they en friends seem to think that it joy themselves when they is discriminatory, that you're were afraid? Why, do you mocking Negroes whbn you realize that 3,000 policemen put on the blackface and do were stationed along the pa your strut up The Street." rade route, just in case some " Listen, boy," he said, "if thing did happen? that's true, then you're gonna "And anotner thing: only have to outlaw Indian cos- 300,000 people lined Broad turves and Oriental costumes Street yesterday when a pa and sailor costumes, too. If rade ain't considered a suc what the NAACP says is true, cess unless there's near a mil then those city judges should lion . . and that's in all have stopped those two guys kinds of weather, too. dressed up like Lady Bird "Was anybody happy with Johnson and Mme. Nhu, be- the injunction? The mum cause they all might take it mers sure weren't. Why, a lot into their heads to be of- of the string bands didn't fended at what those mum- even play or strut when they mers were doing. were going through the Negro "No, boy, ya can't do it for sections. Some of them just one if you're not gonna do played a tattoo on the drums, it for all. But did I hear just like in a funeral march. Moore and the rest of them "One group of clowns even jerks 'protest' in support of pulled an NAACP trick, stag- Indians or Mrs. Johnson or ing a sit-down strike right in that Mine. Nhu? I sure the middle of Broad Street. didn't!" "Now you tell me, son, "Sir," I said, "I understand have you ever heard of any how you feel but don't you thing like that before in a think the judges who banned Mummers Day Parade? Tnat s the blackface marchers from right, you haven't. But you the parade were right? After mark my words, if those Ne all, those CORE fellows said groes don't wise up and begin there'd be a race riot if black• realizing that they're not the face minstrels showed up in only ones who're entitled to the Negro section of town." rights, then the Mummers "Maybe they did prevent a Parade has had it—just like riot—and Lord knows nobody I've had it. wanted one—but those judges "New Year's Day just won't were just as confused as the be the same without tne Negroes themselves, Ya see, mummers. And it's not the boy, the Negroes got them- same now without blackface selves all mixed up over real, minstrels." Frosh Criticizes Actions Of Residence Counselors TO THE EDITOR: ''Follow the Leader" was a game we played as children. I wonder if we should always follow our leaders. I would certainly not follow the examples that some of our leaders set down before us. While standing by the tele phone booths in the PUB last term, I saw three people enter into first the lounge and then the coordinator's apartment. One of the two men in the group was carry ing two oranges This 4 s, of Course, not sub st-nlal evidence. However, there is a sign in each dining \ II' - d 111 ALL R1614T, I'D BE GLAD TO. A 600 P BROTHER SNOULD BE KIND AND CONSIDERATE.. THE WELFARE OF HIS SISTER OR SISTEKs SHOULD ALWAYS BE ONE OF 14IS CHIEF CONCERNS.. HE SNOOLD SE HONEST, THRIFTY AND SINCERE... , PO IA „, . AND TRUSTING AND FAITHFUL AND COURAGEOUS AND BOLD AND PATENT AND GENEROUS AND.. s?-t^s that food is not to be removed from room. We also had oranges with our dinner th... evening. Where did those oranges come from? One other question which I have is as follows: Where are; the resident counselors dur ing quiet hours? Our counse-; for is assigned to two resi dence halls, which makes it hard to be in two places at the same time. But not to be . in either one is even worse: This is not a letter of com-; plaint, but rather one of ern i-1 etsm. —Edward D. Guldner, '67 TODAY ON CAMPUS Engineering Seminar Dr. V. Lensky, professor of elasticity and plasticity at the University of Moscow who is visiting the University's engi neering mechanics department, will lecture on "Developments in Plasticity" at the Engineer ing Mechanics Seminar, 4 p.m., 210 Hammond. ÜBA Opens The Used Book Agency, ground floor, Hetzel Union Building. opens at 1 p.m. to sell books today through Tues day. lEC Rush Meeting The Interfraternity Council will hold a rush orientation meeting for all male students second term and above at 7:30 in Schwab. Other Events Episcopal Holy Communion, 9 p m.. Helen Eakin Eisen hower chapel. Episcopal Student Council, 7 p.m.. Eisenhower ch a pel small lounge. Rain Seen Likely For This Evening Partly sunny skies and' sea sonable temperatures are ex pected this morning and early this afternoon, but increasing and thickening clouds will lead to overcast conditions this eve ning. Today's high will be near 40. It should be cold and damp with rain tonight and most of tomorrow. The rain may be, heavy at times. Tonight's low will be about 35 and a high of, 42 is seen for tomorrow. Snow flurries and colder, weather are predicted for latel tomorrow and tomorrow night., Friday should be partly cloudy: and colder. r a w LLEGU DINER Downtown Between the:Movks i • .‘ 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 RADIO•PHONO • SERVICE • iffE TELEVISION SERVICE CENTER 232 S. 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