To Your For the past three weeks the people in Old Main have answered student activists' demands with, "Express your complaints through legitimate student voices." The Administration has responded to Walkertown and the Free Speech Movement by saying, in effect, "Work through the Undergraduate Student Government." Well, hold on to your belltower, Old Main, 'cause here it comes. Forty-one students are, running in the USG elections which open this morning. Of these 41, at least four merit special attention. They are Alan Krivoy from North Halls, Norman Schwartz from town, Jeff Shear from West Halls, and Judy Rubin from Simmons-McElwain. All four have been involved in Walkertown. All four have expressed dissatisfaction with the voiceless and powerless state of the student body. And all four have been told that although they might have valid complaints, they must work through USG. We support the election of these four students because they have shown they are willing to do something about student grievances. They have not been sitting back, like most students, content with their beer and football games. They have not raised an occasional feeble voice, wondering "Why can't we •achieve what we want?" Instead, they know why students have not been able to present their re quests effectively. They know that stu dents here have been sitting back too long, allowing their voices and power to rot. . And they know that now, this term, when a relatively small number of stu dents have banded together to argue for 1 111 r Tolintian Published Tuesday through Saturday during the Pall, Winter and Spring Terms, and Thursday during The Summer Term, by students of The Pennsylvania Slats University. Second class postage paid at State College. Pa. 16501. Circulation: 12,500. Mailina Address Box 467, State College, Pa. 16801 Editorial and Business Office Basement of Sackett (North End) .-. ye 9:30 a.m. • 4 • n PAUL. J. LEVINE Editor , Board of Editors: Editor, William Epstein; Editorial Editor, Michael Serrlll; City Editors, Judy Rife and Gerry Hamilton; Copy Editors, Kathy Litwak and Martha Hare; Sports Editor, Ron Kolb; Assistant Sports Editor, Don McKee; Photography Editor, Pierre Bellicini; Senior Reporters, ,Pat , Gurosky and Merge Cohen; Weather Reporter, Elliot Abrams. 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When you fini. h the program, you'll have a Editorial Opinion Old Main: Time—Now! bona fide student, causes, the small number faces an overwhelming student and faculty apathy. The small number must work against a student body which has no confidence in student activism or USG, due to a long history of administrative indifference to USG requests: The small number must also put up with disinterest on the part of most faculty members. True, some faculty members have turned out at Walker town. The majority, however, are also content with their beer and football games, or whatever it is that faculty members are content with. The legitimate student issues we refer to ar e too numerous to mention here. We have dealt with them in the past such complaints as those concerning downtown living conditions, dormitory living regulations, the class room situation and the student role in University policy formation. There are also issues of a much more complex, and perhaps more important, nature such as the shamefully low number of black students at Penn State and the determination of the Univer sity's role in society. But now your time has come, Old Main. Hopefully, the four students we have cited will be elected. Perhaps they can convince you, by working "within the system," that valid student com plaints exist. Perhaps they can generate a call to action on the part of USG—a call which would lead to effective, well-docu mented presentation of student requests. Should this happen, Old Main, you will no longer be able to ignore the stu dent voice. Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 63 Years of Editorial Freedom Mail Subscription Price: $12.00 a year CIIIMEMEI Member of The Associated Press -eMlit , .. majors. We, for one, will not let you WILLIAM FOWLER Business Manager working knowledge of the basis of every business: finance. And that means you'll be qualified to work in any one of - the 170 separate product depart ments of General Electric. Our representative will be on campus soon. Why not plan on talking finance with him? It just might prove profitable. GENERAL g ELECTRIC Letters to the Editor Are the Faculty Bound by Rules? TO THE EDITOR: On pages 17 and 20 of the University's Guide to University Regulations Concerning Student Affairs, Conduct and Discipline, the obligations of students as to their proper conduct both inside and outside the classroom is stress ed. Students violating these rules are subsequently held ac countable for their actions, with proper disciplinary 'action resulting. But what about the faculty of the Pennsylvania State University? Do the standards of decent behavior and conduct demanded by the Administration and faculty apply to them as well? Unfortunately, it would appear as if they do not. For there is one particular faculty member who has caused not only ex treme financial burdens for hundreds of University students, but also has caused the University considerable embarrass ment. However, the guilt does not rest upon Dr. Sun alone. His colleagues his fellow faculty members, are as much to blame as he is for permitting him to continue for so long un checked. The students themselves were finally forced to take the necessary action to stop Dr. Sun. Moreover, by not voicing their disapproval of his actions, the faculty and• Administration of The Pennsylvania State University have silently given him their incredibly apathetic consent. If some sort of action, legal or otherwise, is not brought against Dr. Sun by the peoper officials, every member of this University and community should hang their head in shime. For if a faculty member does not observe the proper stan dards of conduct approved by the University Senate (and I don't believe the University Senate would publicly approVe Dr. Sun.'s actions), then how can the students be expected to ob serve them?! Actions speak louder than words, Dr; Sun! Therefore I, 161-40-0009, (Terrence Michael McCabe, to those interested), and approximately five hundred other par ticipants of the Free Speech Movement, publicly demand an answer from Dr. Sun to the following question: What do you value most, Dr. Sun—your chosen profession of "teaching" or your real estate business your role as landlord - or your role as a professor at The Pennsylvania State University? There is a distinction, you know, or at:least that's what I thought until coming here. Should Have Grace and Courtesy TO THU EDITOR: I think the editor of the Collegian ought to have the grace and courtesy to support Dr. Walker 'editorially in a "confrontation" as artificial and contrived as the present Walkertown affair. I am not saying or implying that the president should al ways have the editor's support. I am saying only that so far nothing of any substance has been reported in the Collegian to justify a "movement" to take on the Administration". With best regards from a graduate well "over 30". David F. Fortney Chemistry '35 .An equal opportunity employer "The Nixon-Agnew Laff-in's a comedy show . Right ? ?" Pre-Law '7O ALLI&• Gpneratithy of, . Protest: Are We .:ScDiffereng ~,of '::. he :tents : . ',' ' -,' '' "'" ' ".. Where'. the' - sOldiers went fo 'empty Collegian Staff Writer themselves; This is the age of protest, and we are And there were the whores-who followed the protest generation .-. . or so we're told. its full o f syp hili s; Told so often, that now, many of us believe - And beastly acts between ourselves or that we are the first and only generation to a l one, protest. With bullying Is atre d, degradation, , The music and poetry of today are full among us. of protest as Protest against the establish- And days of loathing and nights of fear ment, the dictates of a conservative society. To the hour of the charge through the the war we can't steaming Swamp, Following the flag, understand. The Till I fell with a scream, shot thorough following could . very well reflect the guts, Now there's a flag over use in Spoon, the thoughts of River. some in this, our A flag! a flag! protest gener ation: By JIM WOODCOCK "/ was just turned twenty one, And Henry Phipps, the Sun day - school su perintendent, Made a speech in Bindle's Opera House. •`The.honor of the flag must be upheld,' he said, `Whether it be assailed by a barbarous tribe of Tagalogs Or the greatest power in Europe, And we cheered and cheered the speech and the flag he waved, As he spoke. And I went to the war in spite of my father, And followed the flag till I saw it raised By our camp in a- rice field near Manila, And all of us cheered and cheered it; But there were -flies and poisonous things; And there was the deadly water, ' And the cruel heat, And the sickening, putrid food; And the smell of the trench just back Collegian Letter Policy The Daily Collegian wel comes comments on news coverage, editorial policy and campus or non-campus af fairs. Letters must be type written, double spaced, signed by no more than two persons and no longer than 30 lines. Students' letters should in clude name, term and major of the writer. They should be brought to the Collegian of fice, 19 Sackett, in person so proper identification of the writer can be made, although names will be withheld by request. If letters are re ceived by mail, Collegian will contact the signer for verifi cation. The Collegian reserves the right to fairly select, edit and condense all letters. BOX Ma 2ZILWAIMOUL WI 53201.... AN ZOOM. =ORTON= XIEPLOVXII This poem could have been written to day, by any of the protest generation. - It wasn't. The war being protested was different. the society being attacked was different. The poem first appeared in 1914 in the Spoon'Rivr. Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters. Even then, it seems, there was a group which questioned war is a means of carry ing out national policy'in foreip affairs, and which questioned a society which was unable, or unwilling, to accept views not completely in line with the leaders. Are we then so much different from past generations? Or are we just more ar ticulate in making our demands? Is our society truly decadent? Or is it just warped by fear? Are demands for complete and total change justified, or must they be tempered by an understanding of these fears? WOODCOCK The responsibility of finding answers to these questions rests with this protest generation . . . if for no other reason than, perhaps 50 years from now, another pro tester might look back wondering: Are we really so much different? pEANuTs ;4ERE'sII-1E WORLD-FAMOUS • 11 HOCKEY PLAYER ' SKATING OUT OttTO THE ICE.. ?:1 A • I Sl4OOll THE GOALIE NEVER EVEN SEES THE POCK! Maybe you... :.§li-01. -, .: - ,titillt . ',.':: ; , , tci t,hez,•::,,:. , -, iditact - ''y ---fkiiria , . S , , - ~ Ca ' ALLIS‘CHALA/lERS. Different War Responsibility I PICK UP THE PUCK NEAR THE BLUE LINE... 1111111 3 AMR 11111111111111111111 THEI`RE NOT SLEEPING WELL IM MONTREAL TONIGHT...
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