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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
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26,
FOR THE HOMECOMING FINALE
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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 ,
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. 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.
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r LETTERS TO THE EDITOR I
/Support an*f Variance'
TO THE EDITOR: I read With interest the Collegian edi-•
torial on‘ the Mock Elections. And,! I. jvish, to express both
support for it and variance from- it.' • v >,
First of all let me say that; the Young Democrats sup
port the Mock Election 100 per cent. 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 Demo<?raU<have asked , the . Young / ftpßUblicans to
jointly sponsor a Rjcfll candidafes' jtiighl-ohVcflmpus. We
were refused hdaperetion in f ihis,endeavor also,--
I wQuld;,alsg;tak6 exceb'ticim .tor "nelthef.i (group) has
made miueh effort to sell:theiif andidatfes.” ,I, would like;
to point: put .that- almost • 2|ooo-'’coples. of‘the’’ Shapp ■ Notes
were distributed to the studeht''oody. arid •’'over 5,000 copies
of Shapp’s . higher education , pamphlet,, have circulated.
Totally, .almost 10,000 copies, of .'assorted.'pamphlets empha
stzmg the isjues have been distributed,by. the Shapp group
alone.
In conclusion, I would like to say that the quality of a
group and its activities is not always measured by the
amount of noise or the amount of publicity they receive.
Campaigning calls for various activities such as telephone
banks, candidate research, envelope addressing, and, yes,
manning a HUB booth. Matty of these activities do not get
Collegian coverage, but I assure you that they are essential
to any campaign.
And, oh yes, the Young Democrats will present Milton
Shapp on campus next Monday!, at p.m. Presenting a
'Sf^siiip u? % * 6reat deal
-,V % Robert Healy, chairman
Students for Shapp
, What Would It Prove?
a c °l umn in yesterday’s Collegian,
£,«t6r Bill Lee made the absurb (sic) proposition that the
campus chapter of Students for a Democratic Society should
try to gain recognition from the'National Student Associa
tion as the legal representative of. the student body. If this
would- happen would it prove anything?
The NSA consists of 300 student governments, a small
fraction of the total student governments eligible for mem
bership. Its original purpose was to provide a channel for
communications among student governments and serve as
a clearing house for programming suggestions for member
schools. But NSA became under control of the radical student
left, in 1961. Since then it has become increasingly involved in
ultra Jeft-wing.poUUcal activity while neglecting services to
member schools. While this was going on, over 50 colleges
and universities withdrew from NSA.
Would NSA recognition of SDS as the true reoresenta
“V-e student government help the student body? Do the views
„ „ or SDS represent the majority opinion of the student
body?. Or would Lee.’s wild scheme make the student govern
ment an effective arm of a small leftist minority?
Thomas Bennett, chairman
Young Americans for Freedom
Hillel Clarification
TO THE EDITOR: We, find it necessary to clarify certain
facts concerning the distribution of anti-Vietnam war leaf
lets at the Hillel Foundation Friday evening.
P>e 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. Jews do not and could
not possibly have a single stand), and Is not necessarily
indicative of the other 497 members of the Hillel Foundation
at Penn State, - - - ...
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Stephen Gerson, ’69; Mitchell Berger, ’69; ’
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