A Challenge: Student Power for Penn State
Although this year’s Undergraduate
Student Government elections failed to
generate the excitement or capture the
student interest that past elections have,
the campaign completed last night con
tained a most significant point.
During the closing days of the cam
paign, both presidential candidates stres
sed what they called “student power.”
James Womer, the victor, and Jon Fox,
the loser, repeatedly used this phrase. But
what is student power?
To "us, student power represents the
strength of the student voice in University
affairs. It is the degree to which the stu
dent body influences the thoughts and
actions of the people in Old Main.
Unfortunately, student power is sadly
lacking at Penn State. It is a vacuum re
‘Mini-Morality’ at Barnard?
The Daily Collegian presents
its “Model of Morality” award to
the Judicial Committee of Barnard
College for its remarkable short
sightedness in playing Mother,
Church and Queen Victoria.
The committee recently ruled
that a 20-year-old coed who broke
housing regulations by living off
campus with her boy friend would
be denied the use of the cafeteria
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and snack bar. The group of stu
dents, faculty and administrators
also recommended that the girl,
sophomore Jill LeClair, be refused
admittance to dormitory social
events at the New York City wo
men’s college.
What the committee is attempt
ing to prove is difficult to deter
mine. That it did not recommend
suspension is commendable. But to
bar the student from the snack bar
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fleeted in the powerless state of USG.
USG is powerless because students
here are powerless. And students are
powerless because most of them are not
concerned with the problems they can cor
rect.
Worse yet are those comparatively few
students who are concerned with the prob
lems—-those students active in USG, sev
eral political groups on campus, and other
organizations. These students simply do
not know how to go about solving the
problems.
* * *
At this time several issues need solu-
• the establishment of a University
operated bookstore
a the rule prohibiting coeds, both under
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and cafeteria? Is the committee
trying to say that she is impure,
and therefore a bad influence on
other students?
If so, we recommend that the
committee shed its bustle and petti
coats, and shorten its hem. While
not advocating “mini-morality,” we
hope that outdated and hypocritical
regulations are adjusted to conform
with the modern morality and
social norms.
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and over the age of 21, from moving out of
the dormitories
• the regulations forcing transfer stu
dents, even seniors, to live in dorms
• the recently enacted overnight fees
at the Ritenour Health C,enter
•the .ticket fees for football games.
• ■USG- has sought the Administration’s
view on all of these problems. But to all of
USG’s questions have'come the standard,
unsatisfactory answers
Old Main, most likely, has good rea
sons for its stands on these problems. In
some cases, economic factors or pressure
from State legislators prevent the Adminis
tration from complying with student re
quests.
Too often, however, we find that the
Administration is unwilling to go along
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with student sentiment. In addition, admin
istrators often refuse to answer questions;
information is withheld.
And how can they get away with it?
Quite simply: the student is powerless. He
is absolutely powerless to influence the
moves of the Administration.
Now, however, we have a newly elec
ted USG president. He has promised “to
achieve student objectives,” and to “make
USG a more powerful force on campus.”
But can he accomplish this? Can Jim
Womer reverse the Administration’s priv
ilege of considering student opinion only
when it is convenient for it to do so?
We think so. There’s no reason why the
student body of Penn State, with proper
leadership from USG, should not make a
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stronger impression on the Administration.
This should be Womer’s main goal as
he takes office. A mature plan for mobi
lizing a display of student support should
be drawn up and executed.
Letters to the Editor
Women Must Be Better To Get In
TO THE EDITOR: I should like to express agreement with
Ernest C. Pollard’s proposals (yesterday's “Faculty Forum”)
to provide additional opportunities at Penn State for the
education of the culturally disadvantaged.
There is, however, a serious error in his statement:
“By a sad twist, the very virtue of admissions policy in our
University (indeed in all State Universities with which I
am acquainted) the virtue that students are selected with
out knowledge of their background or appearance, but
solely on their qualifications, gets in the way of educating
those whose NEED renders them admissable.”
Students at Penn State are NOT selected solely on
their qualifications. Each year hundreds of women appli
cants are denied entrance to the University while hundreds
of less qualified men are accepted. By requiring significant
ly higher scores for women, Perm State admits between 2.5
and 3.0 men for each woman. If students were admitted on
the basis of qualifications, there would be as many women
students as men.
Furthermore, many state universities discriminate a
gainst women. In the eyes of University administrators
“Equal protection of the laws” and “Equal access to public
education” do not apply to female citizens. While Penn
State’s discriminatory practices' in admissions are almost
the worst in the nation, they are by no means unique.
Our admissions policies an: not “virtuous”; they are
institutionalized bigotry.
Rena Foy
Assistant Professor of Education
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TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in response to Miss Wert
heimer’s humorously ridiculous article “Individuals Can
not Transcend the Law” in the Wednesday issue of The
Daily Collegian.
Anyone who thinks the way you do about the racial
problem in this country Miss Wertheimer is either insane
or totally uninformed. If the latter, I suggest that you
purchase and read a copy of the riot commission’s report; it
costs only $1.95.
Elijah Johnson
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will be
SOON.
Even if Womer has to resort to rallies
and boycotts—tactics some students might
regard as unsophisticated—student support
must be demonstrated.
The burden now lies with Womer, He
must provide aggressive leadership if USG
is to awaken the student body. And he
must remind the Administration that Penn
State’s students will no longer tolerate
being pushed aside at the convenience of
the people in the belltower.
But the burden also lies with the stu
dents. USG can only be as strong as the
student body makes it.