EDITORIAL OPINION L, ' i ■■■*■■ Timely Today, with, the,- gubernatorial election just’l3 days hence, the Pennsylvania House of Representa tives Higher 1 Education Cortimittee begins hearings on the state’s nfe’W Master Plan for Higher Education. The’hearlnga come near iheend of a campaighin which education has bebn the primary issue, higher education in particular. Their scheduling now may or may not be a weitd twist oi fate. ’. “I suppose sdtnebcjdy, has already yelled politics,’’ Rep. James Gallagher, chairman of the Higher Edu cation Committee, said, but" he claimed the same change would be made even if the hearings were scheduled after the election. He is probably right. At any ,r ate, we do not find it discouraging', 1 that the hearings are taking place now. The hearings are designed, according to Gal lagher, to get opinions from the colleges that will be affected by the plan. Otis C. McCreary, chairman of the State Board of Education, presidents of 20 col leges and universities, and representatives of the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Univer sities will deliver an estimated seven hours of testi mony before the board. The Master Plan has implications for the Uni versity that are, to speak conservatively, staggering. It would drastically alter the. present system of state aid for private institutions; and calls for merging the University's commonwealth campus system into a statewide network of community colleges. If the ideas of the educators who will appear at the hearings add fuel to the campaign, so be it. In fact, all the better. If points of view important to Pennsylvanians in deciding how to vote on the gov ernorship (which means deciding how to vote on ed ucation) emerge from the Committee’s scrutiny of the plan, they should be widely publicized and debated by the candidates. ' In the course of the campaign, Republican candi date Raymond Shafer has endorsed the master plan, although expressing dissatisfaction with some of its provisions. The Democratic nominee, Milton Shapp, who has been pushing new ideas for higher education strongly as a campaign issue, .has criticized the plan sharply, claiming it lacks depth and scope. He says it is “noth ing more than a proposal and not a plan.” Considering the importance of the plan and of the education issues in the campaign to all of us, we should be watching closely what each candidate has to say about what comes out of the hearings. Our first chance to do some such watching should 61 Years of Editorial Freedom SaiUj (Eflltentatt Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1687 PtflliMd Tuisday through Saturday during tha Fall, Winter and Sprint larmi •I'd w««MV «n Thursday during June, July »nd Ausust. The Dally Collaalan It a iludont-oporatid newspaper. 1 , tacond dais postaia paid at Stale cellos*, Ps. Kill. Circulation 9,500. • Moll Subscription Price: 57.90 a year ' Milling Minn r- Box «7, Slate Collose, Pa. KIM Editorial and Business, Otllca. -■ Basement o« Sackott (North End) Phono - WS-1531 luslniss office hours* Monday through Wtdnosday, fill a.m. to 4tU p.m. Member of The Associated Press WILLIAM F. LEE (Editor- PAGE TWO -seta*.. HELEN VAN NORDEN , Business Manager . WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, FOR THE HOMECOMING FINALE The Penn State Folklore Society presents A W A| L K W,_ t h- Mg R U S »H Appraisal v . i. V ' H come on Monday, when Shapp will be on cainpus-t0;... discuss education.. His Speech is slated'for the Het2el;Union3.uilding Either candidate' could. get fresh ammunition;, 1 ■ from'the hearings. Both certainly will be. looking for-; it. Whichever way therhearings go,, they will? rnake'.a -big- difference for- us; and they just might make the essential difference.in the election, which looks'more and niore like-a cliffhanger every day,, . .V , StylßdYGPtt . pay Mr. Boycott, All over the" place - ' • “ Charles Boycott, the English land agent who re fused to lower the rents in Ireland, and who met with "a rent strike that made his name' immortal, would certainly be in sympathy with the owners of large chain stores across the country right now. , ' Housewives, enraged at what they consider to be unreasonably high food prices charged by the chain outlets, are boycotting in Pittsburgh, Miami, Houston, Denver, Atlanta—and State College. At ,Rockledge,.;pn the- East Coast of .Florida, rebellion." The boycott of chain stores "in State College which began Monday and was designed to last for two or three days was, if local chain-store managers are to be believed, a failure. . They, all report that trade has been just about average. . i . ~ ' For the time, the strike took place,.one manager explained, "average" means pretty slow, the reason being that the paydays for the University and HRB- Singer aria not due until later in the month. Most food shopping is done around the paydays,, with a considerable lull just before, as State College' is pretty much a one-factory town, (even .it it is a brain factory). The Great Grocery Strike hit Mr. Boycott right in the lull, when he couldn’t care less. ' ’ . If the housewives do in fact have a valid grfpe, the should reschedule their effort for a time when it would really hurt. imWm Aflsxmv/Mf i WWCAHIW (JWVBtEATAU. J mur wav TOE NOW? ) y /here's tha I UORLOIMI IPW. MECHANICS WMGBYAW GMIEUTHtf VPE,,. N Cq ° n c e Er t SCHWAB AUDITORIUM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30th SKJOft’.HASA 'TNEREOBASM GOCDSEHSEOF HAS6E€NSI6HT£O wroon.mnt WSNOOW? J MUST BSIN6 ~ ' ' HIMDOUN! > iPWDOIftHEAfi' mvs.mw A ST. BERNARD!; 8:00 P.M. 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Tnib/fsuch an election' is an exercise in democratic-thought, arid true, the students of Penn State 'should be-nrtterested in’the-results or the. coming general election.’for precisely the. reasons outlined in the editorial. •*»''•••./•' . But. I find that..!' moot disagree quite' readily with -other portions of the 'editorial. To setthifscord; straight: the Young Democrats have challenged! iha Young Republi cans to a face-io-faca debate. We have b'edn : refused. The Young Democrats have psked-to appear.on WDFhi's High light program. The. appeararicai.failjjd.foxmaferialize when the Young Republicans refused to -gfj. otl the show. The Young Demoe IBUel Liberation;'Front, consists ..of three members of the Hillel foundation, two of „• whom -were mentioned in Saturday a-article; The v third--member’s name was withheld because, out of respect for the Sabbath, he refused to par ticipate ih the distribution. y Although we (the Jewish population) support the -view that religion should concern itself with the social, moral pud ethical problems of the day, we all do not support the extremist view set forth by the three-member Hillel Liberation Front. We do not deny the fact that these three students have the right to organize themselves into a group such-as the HLF and advocate a definite position on such a controversial topic -as i Vietnam. However, their position is definitely not the.position supported by the national B’ltai B’rith Hillel Foundation .(indeed, the American. 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