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its bookstore boycott Saturday. The Whitman Book Naturally, no studelt enjoys shelling out $3O or so V: e ,
Store in Philadelphia, which had offered to supply . : ' each term - ;for..liookS: But if ,art: on-campus bookstore . ' : • . • There's so .
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same time. In other words, the proposal for an , ' 'Gerson:: .says t,'hat, '.'•this. Western Pennsylvania .• * • ". . If only the
on-campus book store might' be dying again, book dealer will offer books at prices 'l5 per cent '!' ''. l .:i ...0 • • have halted the '
Steve Gerson, chairman of the Administrative under those of downtown:merchants. Will this mer- l' -,...'. -.. r.'. : : . . \ -- 1-• , though. The Tf
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posal for an on-campus bookstore has been around
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TO THE EDITORt I believe that it is time that the so
called statettients of fact by the Dean of Women's office
concerning the infeasibility of women living' off campus
be reputiated, It is my firm belief, as the..kosident of
the Town Independent Men and the chairman'of the:Under
graduate Student Government Off-Canipus Living Corn
mittee, that there is room for the number of 21-year-old
girls who wish to move into apartments.
Mrs, O'Hara, as reported in Tuesday's Collegian, said
that the Administration, two years ago, •considered ad
mitting enough students to balance the senior women who
would then be able to move in town. According to their,
study, there wasn't enough classroom space and profes
sors to do this. She failed to explain that the- figures she
used were for the entire senior class anti, not just .the
21-year-olds.
Granted, it might have been a problem at that time
to allow all the senior women out of the dorms, but this
is not the case being considered. Just last fall - the Dean of
Women's office insisted that 1,000 girlS would move off
campus if 21-year-olds were allowed out of their dorms.
Yet, today there is no mention of this ,figure since our
evidence (through a survey conducted by `USG and AWS)
now shows that there would be only about 300 who would
move if allowed.
I ant astonished that the Dean of Women's office can
have so many opinions concerning availability of housing,
without having completed any realistic research. The Ad
ministration has consistently indicated a "hands off" policy
concerning downtown living, and claims it does not in
volve itself, Yet it' feels 'that ifs opinion is more concrete
than the evidence compiled by TIM.
I would like to ask the following questions, paramount
in disputing the opinions of the Dean of Women's office:
oWhy is it that dorm space was sufficiently full this
year so that over 100 fraternity pledges could move . out of
the dorms in the middle of the year?
•'Why were graduate ,students, who wanted to live
in the dorms, turned away or placed' in the Nittany area
after Atherton Hall was filled? Why can't Old Main en
courage graduate students% live in the dorms.
•Why is the Dean of-Women's office continuing to
say that there will be difficulty filling the dorms when
the Student Affairs office and the Office of Registration
- . ,,,expeek'thg the dorms willflf . .overcrowded next e-
WEDNIBSDAY APRIL 3,1968
cause Of the new draft lawi-#ffecting the graduatestudent,
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The Apartment Question
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"And, after Palm Springs"
CHOOSE IT, - CHARGE IT!
217-218 HUB
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"Just for fun, let's stick a pin in a place where there h
NO potential crisis!"
for
more undergraduates will be admitted (perhaps 1,000) in
order to keep the University at a level of 25,000 students.
Since this increase will consist of new freshmen or transfer
students, these students will be required to live in the
dorms.
Dorothy L. Harris, Dean of Women, .says she feels
that rents will go up, competition will be' too great for
aPartinents and this will be hard on the town, men.
•Finally, does the Dean of Women's office actually .
beleive that I,• as TIM president, and with four years ex
perience working •with State College housing problems
as.TlM's housing chairman, would advocate a plan, as I•do,
of. letting 21-year-old women off campus if - it would offer
a great problem •for my constituents either in rent hikes
or competition for apartments.
TIM Council has conducted the only statistical survey
of cost for off campus living, has offered the only avail
able housing advice and is the only publisher of a 'town
guidebook to housing conditions., Yet the Dean of Women's
office has never contacted TIM for advice or for its opin
ions in formulating its own opinions.
It is my hope that the Office of Student Affairs, head
ed by Dr. Charles Lewis, will look at this problem directly
if the Dean of Women's office continues to judge things
by opinion and let the facts be disregarded.
Ed Dench,
President, Town Independent Men's Council
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tinly is no dearth of comment on the Presi-
You are being smothered with analysis,
:culation. But if you can forget about the
a minute . ,To ease your eyes and mind,
the student government's recent activity.
USG decided to boycott the Student Book
that this store deals in the largest volume
in State College. The book store buys back
at 50 per cent of their list price, like most
I sells them back to students at 80 per cent
unlike most book stores who are members
Association of College Stores and who re.
sell used books at 75 per cent of limir original cost,
claims student government.
Our student leaders obviously .don't care for an or.
ganized and efficiently run bookstore. It doesn't seem
to phase them that the Student Book Store employs more
than 50 students -- more than any other book store—
at the beginning of each term. By the way, none of the
students was fired during the boycott when business, of
course, wasn't as usual.
Student leaders don't care that the store is only two
years old. It doesn't seem to matter that while Keelers
and Metzgers have been getting rich at the students' ex
pense for years, the owner of the Student Book Store is
just starting out.
If USG really wanted to do something worthwhile it
would have boycotted all the bookstores. That would have
been. fair to all the owners. It would also have been a
boon to the students.
Without books, monstrous classes couldn't exist. Teach
ing would take place on a Socratic level. Dialectic would
reign while rhetoric would be left to sophomoric writers.
Just think of the time reading wastes. That time could
be spent doing. Says Goethe Faust: "Aye! Wedded to this
concept like a wife, I find this wisdom's final form: / He
only earns his freedom and his life / Who takes them
everyday by storm . . ."
Who needs reading today anyway? Why read about
Africa when you can take a plane and be there in hours?
Why read a book when you can see the movie? Why read
about equations and grammar when you can count and
write with a teacher's instruction and practice?
You read that 20 minus 10 is 10. So what? Your
mother gives you a $2O bill for a 10-cent item and the
clerk gives you 90 cents in change. When your mother
sends you back to the store with a sore posterior you know
how to count. No book can teach as well as your mother's
hand.
Books are for snooks. We'd be much better off if we
didn't' have to rely on books. Teachers would have to quit
rationalizing and start thinking for themselves. Originality
would thrive: conformity would fade out.
If our student government had been a bit more in
telligent, it would have put all the book stores out of
business with a massive boycott. There's still time. Espe
cially since USG has nothing else to do this term except
to elect new officials.
--- Clip and Save ---
L Robert Shore
Why Not
Boycott Books?
much to say about President Johnson's men
lerican public Sunday night. One doesn't
begin. Because of his- personal courage,
he's done for this country, Lyndon Baines
'obably go down in history as a great Presi-
President had realized that he• should
bombing of North Vietnam before January
et offensive might have been prevented:
have halted all the bombing in the North
. ould be no Beige at Khe Sanh and no bat•
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