Editorial opinion Save TAP now Do you hate Forum classes and formal classroom structure? Are you interested in con servation and coed housing? How would you like to live with your classmates and instructors this summer in two on-campus fraternity houses and take 12 credits in courses focused on “Involuntary Conservation - Re source Management and the Future of Man?" Does it sound different and in teresting but also impossible for this University? It may well become impossible for this Univer sity if you are interested but do not apply to participate in the Thematic Academic Program before tomorrow. TAP already has the instructors. And the instructors already have planned the four courses to be Letters to the Editor Veto the bill TO THE EDITOR: The Association of Residence 1-iall Students Council requests that the Undergraduate Student Government President, George Cernusca veto USG Senate Bill No. 45, concerning the formation of the Bureau of Residential Life. The ARHS Council does not necessarily disagree with the intent of the bill creating unity between student organizations. However, we feel that the USG Senate improperly passed this bill without consulting ARHS. Further, the wording of the bill is also very vague and ambiguous. Therefore, we recommend that representatives of ARHS and USG work together in order to write a proposal agreeable to both organizations. Veto the bill twice TO THE EDITOR: Since the election last Thursday, OTIS has voiced its willingness to cooperate with the new USG ad ministration to work toward common goals. However, the controversy s till exists as to where boundaries will be con cerning the Bureaus of Town Affairs and Residential Life, because the USG Senate bill is ambiguous and ill defined. It is our opinion that the proper precautionary steps should be taken to avoid a confrontation in the future about the in terpretation of the bill. We. as an organization, feel that if such bureaus are to be established, that OTIS and ARHS be consulted ahead of time so that the proper guidelines may be drawn up to make the bureaus, or whatever organizations involved, as effective as possible in their operations. Therefore, OTIS is calling for the veto of Senate Bill No. 45 because it, at the present time, is not m the best interests of the students. Faculty unions TO THE EDITOR: The concern expressed in Frank Lindh's April 3 letter to the editor was pleasantly refreshing in spite of his naively suggested all encompassing solution to Penn State's problems, the simple formation of a faculty (professional) union. Lindh and all of the rest of Penn State's students might well be gravely concerned, for in the final analysis they’re the beneficiaries of the Penn State educational experience. Students may become innocent victims of the union negotiations, for ordinarily they are not influential, active participants! Vital segments of student welfare may be gradually and unintentionally eroded through successive union contracts. This could happen in a steady, unassuming fashion. For example, standardized salary increases may reduce merit P • UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT • UNDERGRADUATE I USG NEEDS A 3 TREASURER! For more Information call: Sam Starr USG Office See Claire to sign-up for interviews in Room 202 HUB Q DEADLINE: Monday April 15 at 5:00 p.m. 5 • UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT GOVERNMENT* UNDERGRADUATE :j i \ ii : * i ' Li Li Interested in: Budgets? Bookkeeping? little Hassels? 237-6189 taught so that they are in terrelated: Mineral Economy 87, Principles of Mineral Economy; Agronomy 200, Soil Resources and Land Use; Philosophy 5, In troduction to Problem of Values; and English 198, Communication and Writing, a course specially created for TAP. All TAP needs now is the students. Tomorrow ends the second ex tension of the deadline for stu dents to apply for this summer’s TAP program. So far only 15 stu dents have applied. The program needs 40 students to get the go ahead from the University, and it can include up to 54. Rather than a non-classroom, TAP planners call the program a classroom-plus. TAP is one of the few innovative experiments the University has sponsored to im prove the quality of education. incentives and eventually eliminate adequate rewards for outstanding service. This could lead to a lower standard of performance and the loss of outstanding teachers and researchers. These same standardized salary schedules could render it very difficult, if not impossible, to recruit exceptional faculty, for these individualists generally dislike the union regimentation. In ten years, where will the Penn State un dergraduates be without outstanding teachers, and where will the graduate students be without leading researchers? What about the effects of inappropriate “job actions" on educational and research programs? Strikes, sick-ins, etc., as might be expected to occasionally result when negotiations stall or fail, could conceivably interrupt a student’s education or prevent the completion of a research program. A student might have to wait another year before a required course is offered again, or for another Spring to plant his research crops. A Fall term strike might cancel the football schedule! ARHS Council Unions also introduce additional bureaucracy at a level between the faculty and the administration; hopefully, this bureaucracy would have some real input from the faculty. As such it would be another demand on the faculty member’s time, leaving even less time than now available for actual teaching, as well as class preparation and other related student faculty activities. Unions may naturally be expected to attempt to negotiate other student related ilems such as class size, student-faculty ratios, teaching loads, etc. All of these are of a vital and legitimate interest to the students. These types of items are the real dangers ;that all of the students, including Lindh, should be concerned about. I suspect that increased tuition, although not inconsequential to many students, may be relatively insignificant, other than for a starting point in the discussion of the real issues of a quality educational experience. Don't Streak TO THE EDITOR: I would ask the streakers to please consider the type of audience they streak in front of. If it has children in it, as the audience had Saturday night at the NCAA Gym nastics Championship meet, I would ask them to please not streak. Although I think it is good for children .to be aware of the body I see as much harm resulting in children seeing the body used as a joke as in hiding it as if it was something shameful. Both are unnatural and can only result in confused and distorted thinking. 123 S. Allen Street Open daily 9:00 to 5:30 Monday and Friday until 9:00 863-0295 Don’t let the Univeristy think you do not care whether it provides such programs. If TAP does not get more applications by tomorrow, it is in grave danger of being canceled. If you are curious about TAP or have any interest in the program at all, contact one of TAP’s planners: Ed Pitts at 865-0458, Paul Holtz man at 865-7812 or Eugene Melander at 865-4229. Or apply for the program through campus mail with one of the TAP ap plication forms posted on campus bulletin boards. Do it by tomorrow. Otherwise, students may loose a good chance for a different kind qf learning ex perience, and the administration may loose interest in researching and planning new and better educational programs. R.C. Bradt associate professor of ceramic science Smocks Suzan Neiger 3rd-elementary education QALBULATOtiS 212E- QOIIiEE m. STATE QOUEK.M. 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Atherton St. Weekdays 8:30-5:30 Sat. 9-12a.m. thought I read somewhere that Professor Nutley was doing research on his book "The Uninhibited Joys of Streaking”. 1 Save creative streaking By JACK JACKSON of the Collegian staff I was at the book store Saturday, visiting my money, when among the Marilyn Monroe calendars and coloring books I noticed a joke book about streakers. On the front cover was a picture of Vice President Gerald Ford, a puzzled look on his face, asking of a telephone, “Explain it to me again. First you take off your clothes, then what?” Since the book was not published to expose the fine thinking rampant in the Nixon administration, I assume it is the vanguard of a soon-to-come army of streaker novelties such as streaker headbands, see-through automobiles and snow-shoes for State College streakers. I am not against streaking, since it is popular to talk about and it offers some great pick-up lines I can use in the bars—now that Gerald Ford taught me how. Unfortunately, we cannot preserve streaking if we keep treating it as a fad. Last week's mild weather caused aggregations of people all over the area, especially on Beaver Avenue, where nearly a thousand people mulled about watching a never-ending parade of boney knee caps run by. This was hardly my idea of tt\g glorified streaker, braving such dangers Publishers statement The Daily Collegian is published by Collegian, Inc., a private, non-profit corporation which bears legal and financial responsibility for the newspaper. The Board of Directors of Collegian, Inc., is the controlling body of the corporation. The Board is composed of three undergraduate students, one graduate student, three faculty members, two professional members, the editor and the business manager. The paper's adviser also serves as executive secretary to the Board, a non-votinp position. as police arrest, low flying pigeons and running into his mother by accident. I started a campaign to preserve streaking in its true form by avoiding it. It didn't work. I could hardly step outside at any hour and not get trampled by legions of naked businessmen and students wearing only headbands and knapsacks. Last Saturday was the worst of all. After reading what Gerald Ford had to say, I decided to go home. Alopg the way I was stopped at least a hundred times by people soliciting for the Easter Seal Society. Naturally this is a very worthy cause and I wanted to give them what I could. I stopped next to two fellows who were handing out flowers and balloons in return for donations. They were streakers. I knew this because one of them had the ballons and flowers pasted to his body. I stood there and noticed he was peeling off flowers and balloons as he accepted donations. The more flowers he plucked, the more his garden grew. I walked back to my room slowly. Maybe I imagined it, but looking into a store window, I saw a female mannequin wearing only a pair of Adidas and a headband and carrying her State College snow shoes. The male dummy next to her was smiling. DIANE M.NOTTLE Editor Successorfo the Free Lance, est. 1887 Member of the Associated Press Charter member of the Pennsylvania Editorial policy is determined b^heEditor^ Opinions expressed by the editors and staff of The Daily Collegian are not necessarily those of the University administration, faculty or students. Mail subscription price: $17.50 a year. Mailing Address: Box 467, State College, Pa. 16801 Silent Seminar April 11 7:30 p.m. at small chapel in Eisenhower Chapel Sponsored by Young Friends Give it a try! r Q In n Back in my room, I started thinking about the preface of the streaker book, which, strangely enough, was written by Golda Meir. I have a portrait of Golda Meir in my room. I was undressing for a nap when I glanced up at the portrait. Golda was grinning. Between Golda and the stores, I'm sure the streaker market will soon peak in State College. The stores will begin selling items like records without jackets and pepperoni-less pizzas. But none of these fad-like trends will change the one aspect of Penn State streaking I am working to attain: female streakers. At first I thought someone forgot to tell the girls around here to streak, but the real reson is that central Penn sylvania lacks a proper sexual en vironment. If I were a sex addict, I’d be hard pressed io O.D. at Penn State. Unfortunately, I found out I really am an addict and as a result of low supplies, I am in a constant state of withdrawal. (The term has many meanings.) I am trying to preserve streaking in its truest form, but the area girls are ignoring me. I wish they would end the male dominance in Penn State streaking. I wish they would stop ignoring my pleas and start streaking. Then, as they streaked by, l could pretend I was ignoring them. CYNTHIA A. ASHEAR Business Manager
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