Time For Action
With, the vagaries and vacuums of election time
over, Undergraduate' Student Government now has'
to get to work.
USG President Richard Kalich has said he wanti
to put the impetus ahd effectiveness of his organiza
tion behind a drive to increase the Academic Side of
student life. .
He proposes, to work for the institution of a -
“pass-fail” system of grading so studerits can take 1 j
courses outside their majors Without fear of pulling'
down averages. 7
He wants student representation allotted oh the
reorganized University Senate’s committees.
He wantp students provided with a three-way
advisory system to provide couhseling and direction
in legal, academic and administrative areas. USG
already has a smoothly-functioning. Legal Awareness
Committee, It must institute or spark the Administra
tive Academic Awareness Committee.
All these, plans and aspirations look good on
paper, but now it’s 'Up to the newly-elected repre
sentatives and those elected last spring to stop talk
ing'and start acting.
Kalich has said ha plans to act; now he must
prove it, But hi, and the elected and ex-officio mem
bers of Congress, cannot convert their‘plana Into ac
complished fact if they must constantly face chal
lenges to their existence.
To understand USG, a person must take it for
exactly what it’s worth.' It is a group of students,
students who will be here only four years, who'try
to both tell the administration what their fellow
students want and to institute programs which will ,
be beneficial to students in an academic, social and
cultural context.
USG is not a government; it his no sovereignty
over the Administration. But it is the highest student
medium at the University for coalescing student opin
ion and for coordinating student programs.
USG leaders realize this. They know their limita
tions ahd they try to increase their effectiveness by
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EDITORIAL OPINION
HELEN VAN NOBDEN
Businiis Manager
FRIDAY, OCTOBER ,21, 1966
The
Fabuious
lobbying for more power for students.-They, do this
by working withiri the system, by reasoning with' the 4
Administration, by coming up with alternati.ye v plahs
of action. ' ■ : I,' 1 1
Currently USG is facing [yet another challenge ,
to its basic existence by Students for a Democratic
Spcfety. This group has said It Intends to make an
Intensive, investigation into the, functions, programsv
and attitudes of USG. SDS Is acting under the .
premise that USG does nothing but talk to itself.
This SDS challenge comes two years after a>
major, campus-wide campaign- to abolish USG and
five months after an election campaign to'elect an
apathy candidate to the USG presidency.
It is well and good for USG: to be forced to re- .
evaluate itself periodically. But it is ridiculous to
expect the organization to spend 90 per .cent of: its
time explaining and defending itself.-This leaVes only
10 per cent of its working time for it to do what it’s
supposed to do; work for the betterment of the stu
dent’s life here. ' ■
Although these periodic attacks on USG show a
basic failure of the organization to clue students in
on what USG is and does, it would be far better for
those Who are attacking it with a destructive, nega
tive attitude to instead work to better the .organiza
tion.' To work, within, the system rather than out
side it. "
If SDS and these other organizations would
adopt this approach, they would stand a better chance
of achieving their goals and, at the same time, quit
Obsirucllng/USG inits basic work.
V; : Anti-jlJSG.;elements,‘could-;easily achieye' im
provements. im.USG’s structure, could .inject' new
blood; ihto
it that" the" group accompliiihes‘;concrete, action if it
would chahnel'its efforts into Offering constructive
criticism and active assistance,. ’ ' , ; • ,
_ SDS will get only a. negative answer'fromUSG.
if it the problem with", a negative attitude.
' USG faces a new year now, with 13 newly-elec
ted persons in its posts ‘of leadership. If this
year is to be successful, if USG is to deliver the aca
demically-oriented programs it 1 proposes, it must
have constructive .help, rather than destructive
efforts. ; -
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BERRY'S WORLD
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"Fasten your seat belt, Mr. President! We're going over
dangerous territory-r-tbe Berkeley campus!"
An AP News Analysis
Vietnam
History
SAIGON, South, Vietnam, . before . the seven-nation sum
(AP) Deputy Premier Nguy- mit called to study Vietnam’s
,en Luu Vien submitted his res- .future ,the discontented min
ignation from ’the Cabinet this inters seemingly hoped to win
Week. Thursday, 24 hours later, important concessions.
re i n |? r Two of those,who quit seem
Nguyen Cao Ky and heard Ky determined to stay out. At least
announce that Vien will act as two have returned to the fold,
head of government while Viet- T h e resignations were
-, next P rom Pted by Vietnam’s emo
week s conference in Manila. tion-charged North-South reg-
His resignation was not offi- ionalism overlaid by oldtime
daily withdrawn. It was not politicking,
rejected. One official in Ky’s K y and many top leaders in
,}* was not f° Saigon are refugees from what
ly received. j s now North Vietnam . K?
Six other resignations an- comes from Hanoi,
nounced Wednesday and ac- Even though Ky and othr
companied by bitter attacks on Northerners came to the Soui
the government are in the same ' 12 or more years ago, they ai
strange limbo. still mistrusted by Southerner
No reports on the political especially • since taking ovi
turmoil appeared in the cen- key positions.
•sored nress or, were broadcast. Southerners in the Cablni
No officials would talk. The hold the foreign affairs and ii
people directly involved did formation portfolios and th
not seem certain of the status important Rural Reconstrui
of anything. tion Ministry post.
.. But a piecing together of The 27 Northern refuge
•often contradictory reports, deputies in the Constituent A:
"gives this picture: ’ . sembly elected Sept. 11 to writ
• Ky s regime is not imperiled, a newlconstltution already hav
.’only, embarrassed,’ by the dis-; emerged as the assembly
enslon. most dynamic and progressi’
■The 35-man cabinet has.no element. ••. .
vital powers and Southern civil- . The seven Cabinet ministei
/ian members are low on the of- evidently saw the Southei
ficial totem pole. position eroding, and decidi
By tlmbig their revolt just to rebel.
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Resignations:
and Timing
LISTEN SUNDAY NIGHTS
It's nice, to have your assumptions jarred, to be re
minded that the stereotypes you think in are not .universally
Carousing through Philadelphia on a weekend escape
(admittedly, a most unlikely city to escape to), one of my
most longstanding preconceptions was, to my great delight,
shattered. .
There were these two guys. One was bearded,' wore a
not-qulte-clean bat almost electronically mod shirt, leather
vest,, smoked wire-rim glasses and a Goodwill Industries
cap of early 30’s vintage. •' '
The other one made no pretensions to such elegance;
he got byt with torn blue jeans and other Bucolia. ■
But if their clothes’could be called nondescript, their
minds' were definitely descript. As we led a lurching rake’s
progress through the city’s seamier quarters, the conversa
tion crackled; venturing with, equal temerity into discussions
of'symbolic logic and Modigliani paintings. '
But my stereotype came crashing when they started talk
ing about a most improbable topic: “the House.”
Now I had heard this sort of thing discussed before,
but never in such with-it company. So it took me more than
a moment to understand that these Were, in fact, fraternity
men, brothers, of Delta Kappa Epsilon at Lafayette.
When they rolled up the streets in Philly (early, as
usual) I spent the . night in somebody’s unquestionably hip,
rundown pad oh Market Street near the Penn campus.
The apartment had a huge “Socialismo Democratico”
poster hanging in the hall, discarded picket signs in the
corner, and posters salvaged from somebody’s apprentice
ship as a civil rights worker in Mississippi. And the resi
dents hardly looked like Young Republicans, to say the least.
But with my Penn State images solidly burned in, I
still found myself resisting-the belief that at the bottom of
this.dalliance with Bohemia I had found fraternity pins.
Well, I got back f to the Nittany Valley in time for Monday
morning classes, and on the way thereto I was submerged
in a sea of V-neck sweaters, weejuns and Bold Traditionals.
Had I been dreaming? .Wasn’t this reality? '
A chorus of overheard gabbling about the “great blast
out at the house” and “Would you believe, this date I had...”
reaffirmed my traditional classification of the Penn State
neat frat.
But the weekend’s perspective had absolved the fra
ternity system as a whole. They aren’t all broken records,
repeating and ■ repeating in the same herringbone groove.
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Supreme oldies
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