Editorial Opinion
Put on
The University Senate is disci
bookstore proposal, the Undergradi
ernmerit is discussing the camps
posal, students and interested not
cussing the University bookstore
body's talking about it; not tot
anything else.
The Senate tossed around pi.,
the bookstore at a meeting Tut
established a "formal debating fort
bookstore as a topic at the next ml
,USG leaders have been weigl
cons, too. They are generally in
establishment of a bookstore, an'
them, are really doing anything to
say. Steve Gerson, chairman of thi
tion Action Committee, and a fe
issue have been waging a specta,
favor of the bookstore, but the going is sti. Low.
The point is that all this discussion, all this
weighing of pros and cons, all this tardiness should
be largely unnecessary. The bookstore proposal has
been around for 30 years. That's been plenty of time
to discuss the proposal. And, it's been discussed for
the past 30 years as perennial issue Na. 1 at the
Univerity.
Now a bookstore can easily become a reality.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1968
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Depending on where you live in the Commonwealth . you
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Air and Water
changing and growing more complex. With the expanding sub
urban communities, the population proliferation and new in-
dustrial processes, increasing numbers of automobiles and changes
in the amounts and character of refuse have affected the nature
and amounts of air and water pollutants in the Commonwealth.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health needs your assist
ance to abate 'the growing air and water pollution menace in your
state. Sanitary Engineering will be on campus:
If you will be receiving your degree in Civil, Chemical, In
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sign up for an interview to discuss our program and your future.
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financial gain for students who are presently threat
ened with the financial setback of a possible tuition
increase. They want some results before the issue
goes back to the shelves to be brought up again next
year for the same treatment.
More than ever before, a campus bookstore can
become a• reality. Students expect some consensus
from the Senate soon. So let's have it.
Letters to the Editor
Competitive Prices? Here?
TO THE EDITOR: Anyone who claims that the book situ
ation in State College is "competitive" had better look the
word up in a dictionary. Why the prices are almost per
fectly uniform! Uniformly high! I bought a new engineer
ing text last month for $11.25 in a Pittsburgh bookstore
(not Pitt's bookstore) after being frustrated by State Col
lege's best "competitive" price of $13.50.
If the State College bookstores truly wish to be com
petitive, let them compete with bookstores at other major
universities on the basis of one thing—price. I think many
students here are unaware of what books cost elsewhere
and therefore cannot see anything to be upset about.
I would like to see the Undergraduate Student Gov
ernment enterprisingly compile a list of some common
texts with State College prices and the prices charged else
where or even the proposed prices under the Whitman
Book Shops plan. An economic comparison must be made
clear to everyone.
Karl 3. Lack
Graduate
Squeezing the Pimple
TO THE EDITOR: Just a short note to let you know that
some students sympathize with your benevolent hamlet's
opposition to irnprovements such as free parking and a uni
versity operated bookstore.
The bookstore is the most despicable idea that we can
think of. By our conservative estimate, the average student
spends $3O per term for books, At a minimum discount of 10
per cent for each of 25,000 students, this means $75 thousand
less profit per term among downtown book dealers. That is
certainly appreciable. This would be analogous to squeezing
the pus out of a big acne pimple. '
Without leeching the students, this rest stop colony
would simply cease to exist. We unite with your bosses
against a student operated bookstore?
Pollution Problems in Pennsylvania are
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The only hitch involved now in bringing the war to
the negotiating table—if everyone is saying what they
mean—seems to be President Johnson's condition that talks
must be "meaningful."
I don't know about you or Ho, but I've been lying
up late at night, biting my fingernails and pulling my
hair, trying to figure out what LBJ meant by this rela
tive condition. What is meaningful to the President may
not be meaningful to Ho, the NLF or Saigon.
For example, rumor has it that Mr. Johnson has been
looking for a new barbecue sauce recipe. It seems that
everyone who partakes of his Texan barbecues ends up
with indigestion. Since the President always slaughters
his finest steers for his guests, the sickness must stem
from his barbecue sauce, which he imports from some
tiny Southeast Asian country.
The fact that LBJ has sickened his guests has per
turbed the President. Perhaps, he'd like to talk to Ho
about it. The talks would certainly be meaningful be
cause Mr. Johnson is in no position to lose friends because
of poor culinary talents.
This was just one idea I had. It may seem silly, but
it shouldn't be discounted because so many of our actions
in the past have been facetious.
The other night was particularly bad.. I sleeplessly
paced my room, racking my brain for some idea as to
what the President meant in his San Antonio formula.
Finally, I envisioned the following dialogue between LBJ
and Ho Chi Minh.
Johnson: Well, Ho, here we are. I bet you didn't think
we'd make it, eh? You should've realized that we Texans
are an ornery bunch. When we say something, we mean it.
Ho: I have to concede your point, Mr. Johnson. But
let's not talk about how we've come to meet. Tell me,
first, what you meant by "meaningful." No one seems to
know. To tell you the truth, I came here more out of
curiosity than anything else. So please, what do you
mean, Mr. Johnson?
Johnson: (Whispers in Ho's ear) Promise to keep this
thing to yourself? (Ho nods affirmatively) OK. Ho, you've
been having a civil war for how long? Twenty years?
It doesn't matter. Anyway, if America weren't around, you
would have settled the problem right away, eh?
Ho: Damn right! But what are you getting at?
Johnson: Look, I want you to help me stop a civil
war in America. Esquire magazine said we're going to
have a civil war this summer. My commission on Civil Dis
order, predicts worse riots this summer. What am I to do?
Ho: Mr. Johnson, you've got to be kidding. You mean
you brought me here to tell you how to quell your coun
try?
Johnson: Well, we never had a modern civil war.
Our last civil war was 100 years ago. You've been fighting
for a generation. I'm sure you could help me prevent an
American war.
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Ho: Do you know why you're going to have this war?
It's because you've• been over here too long. You've ne
glected your people. .And now that the Negro is upset,
you can't help him because you're spending all your money
in my country. You can't even stop the war because all
your soldiers are in Vietnam. You want my advice?
Yankee, go home!
Johnson: Ho, you're right. Vietnam isn't even worth
New Mexico. I'll pull out American troops and have the
money necessary for alleviating America's internal prob
lems. Do you see what I mean by meaningful, now?
Ho: Yes. But, you've got to admit, you Americans
have a funny way of starting and ending things. As a
matter of fact, you Americans have a funny way of
doing everything.
Johnson: Yep.
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on behalf of
present
J. Robert Shore
'Meaningful'
Negotiations
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