It's ctstomary for The Daily Collegian to offer
Words of welcome at the start of each new term.
All right, welcome back. And, it's time to think of a
few important things.
First of all, Gov. Shafer is about to sign a bill to
release funds for Pennsylvania's state supported
universities.
After a long impasse on tax measures in Harris
burg, legislators charged into the state's financial
problems by passing a six per cent sales tax and
hiking taxes on, alcoholic beverages to match the
previously raised tax on cigarettes.
Pinancially, one of the most important measures,
aid to Pennsylvania's three state supported univers
ities, Penn State, Pitt and Temple, is ready after con
tinuous pleas from President Walker that the Uni
versity has been spending money for five months
"based on a budget request submitted more than
a year ago."
So, one oriels has ben averted -- that of a tuition
hike. Meanwhile, the University owes large sums in
interest payments on money borroed to pay oper
ating expenses for the last five mo nths. There are a
few faculty and staff positiOns vacarla due to a ban on
biring . 'during December.
In short, it's important to keel) a close eye on
Harrisburg in the future. If legislators were able to
create as much of a problem for educational institu
tions in this state as they just have, it won't be easy
to trust them in future matters involving education
and the money to keep it going.
Meanwhile, back here at University Park, there
remain leftovers from last term. The Town Inde
pendent Men's Council is still waging its battle
against unsuttable downtoWn living conditions. Ali
though TlM's work has had minor successes in cor
recting sundry bad situations, there's still much work
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1968
LEVIER POLICY
TTENTION
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'to be done. And, TIM needs help, if only the backing
of students living off-campus to shake its work worth-
while, if nothing else.
There are the usual academic goals and the usual
social goals to strive for such as a pass-fail grading
system for certain courses, improVements in campus
facilities, etc.
There are extra-curricular projects worthy of
interest such as the Model United Nations sessions
set for Feb. 22-25, University Theatre productions,
winter athletics.
We're still fighting in Vietnam. Senator Eugene
McCarthy is making a bid for the Democratic presi
dential nomination. Both are things to give energy to
—whether pro or con.
Winter tei'm 1968 promises, to be one of the cold
est on record too. So, whatever energy we have left
after fighting the climate may at well go towards
something constructive.
Many projects were started last term. Let's keep
the ball rolling into spring.
A Resolution
President Walker addressed new students Wed
nesday night and repeated the idea he threw out-to
new students last term the University must edu
cate students to be 'responsible citizens in a complex
world."
It bears repeating.
Last term the Collegian editorialized that the
University's goal to educate students to be able to
contribute to society and social issues as well as to
keep the wheels of society going, was a long needed
goal.
That thought bears repeating.
f, We hope that the four months that have passed
Since Walker announced this new emphasis on learn
ing have seen some progress. That includes progress
on both sides -- from students and from the Uni
versity.
Is the University actiVely encouraging student
awareness in different spheres?
Are students really interested in being aware
even though they are living in an area out of the
mainstream of the world?
These. are important considerations. When the
four years are up, the University has an obligation to
turn out students that will be an asset to society.
Students, in turn, are responsible to society in their
direct participation in various social problems.
The University already makes open many ave
nues to activities where students can apply what
they've learned to what lies outside of campus.
Many students take advantage of the extra-curri
cular programs available. Unfortunately, not - enough
do. Of course, the participants always outnumber the
onlookers and the non-involved. And, of course, there
are always those that call for more involvement
(like the Collegian).
But, what is most important is that the Univer
sity can not do anything if only a handful of students
are interested in what the University can do.
The Collegian urges involvement not only for
the sake of being involved, but for the sake of setting
a good habit for the future.
It's a new year and a new term. If 'resolutions
are in order, getting involved is a good one.
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A few months ago I wrote that serious consideration '
should be given to the revamping of laws which go ig
nored by a vast majority of the public. Abortion was the
subject in that column; now it's the Pennsylvania law
prohibiting the sale ,or consumption of alcoholic beverages
by minors.
I'm proposing that the slate lower the legal drinking
age to 18. I don't think this is asking too much. And if
common sense prevails (which fails surprisingly often
when you think about how common it common sense) then
this proposal is merely asking for self-honesty.
The obvious reason for the age reduction, I suggest,
is the draft. Nobody with a pinch of sense can honestly
utter in the same breath that at 18 one is old enough to
be ,trusted with this or another nation's security yet not
until three years later tan we trust someone with a mug
of beer. •
One supposes it takes the height of maturity to com
mit inan's most dramatic act, to kill. Perhaps our legisla
tors reason that it requires more self:control to keep one
self from getting drunk than from remaining steadfast iii
combat.
The draft, however, is bnly a superficial and secondary
argument for lowering the drinking age. My premise is
that once a youth turns 18 he either already hat the ma
turity to indulge intelligently or will soon reach it. Those
who can't handle liquor at 18 probably will be prone to
the same drunken Sprees at 21.
We permit our youth to drive the number one killer
in this country at 16. How can we reconcile this privilege—
I mean to drive, not to kill—with the drinking age? We
have faith that our adolescents will drive safely, but we
don't think these same people have the maturity to drink
until they've grown up another five years. This is plainly
hypocritical and absurd.
Many argue that if we did lower the drinking age,
more deaths as a result would occur on the highway. The
reasoning behind this is that those who are prone to drunk
en driving at 18 probably will mature by 21. This may be
true in some instances.
However, I submit, that the number who may mature
during the three years is very Small and that in fact by
prolonging this common right we are simply increasing the
desire and fascination to drink in many young adults. By
the time they reach that gifted age, they've pent up such
physical and psychological cravings for alcohol that they
start drinking wildly.
On the contrary, if drinking were permitted at 18
these anxieties would be almost nonexistent. Furthermore,
drinking would stand a far greater chance of beginning in
the home when one i5..18. And any educator, legislator
or whoever will tell you that if your going to drink, the
best place to begin is in the home under your parents'
guidance.
Beside all these honest arguments, there is the hard
truth that once a person leaves high school alcohol is
• readily available to him. Anybody who wants a drink can
get it.
A few. years ago New York's Moreland Commission
(on alcohol) realized that the state liquor control system
had no demonstrable effect on the direct problems Of alco
hol or its rate of consumption.
- One doesn't have to be told that the liquor laws are
unenforceable. Parents, ask your teenage children. Legis
lators, ask any young adult on the street. Go to universi
ties and check apartments and fraternities. Go into our
armed services and ask the minor if he's never had the
opportunity to indulge. Visit the workingman who's under
21 and ask him if he won't have a nip now and then.
Prohibition didn't work because nobody payed any at
tention to it. Few people who want to drink wait until
they're 21. WS time the state realized that. It's time the
state stopped being so foolishly and obviously hypocritical
by permitting the Selective Service Act to stand beside the
liquor laws.
It's time the state implemented the sound idea of drink
ing beginning in the home by writing a practical law. It's
time the state stood up to its responsibility and looked
honestly at the issues.
Something can be done about the present situation.
Students should write to their parents requesting them to
write to their legislators and asking for action.
Governments are sometimes funny in that they won't
necessarily do what is required unless they have strong
public support. So if you want to have one less thing to
protest, stop being so hypocritical. If you're tired of this
game and the hypocrisy involved then do something;
write to your congressman and deniand him to act honestly.
Local
J. Robert Shore
A Call For
A New Law