Letters to the Editor From your point of view Crime; in USG TO THE EDITOR: I wish to report the perpetration of a crime against the constitution and laws of the Undergraduate Student Government Last Wednesday night the USG Senate passed an impeachment article quoting their oWn senate resolulion Number 9 as saying "failure to comply with a committee subpoena shall be considered an impeachable offense ' Regardless of the fact that this was a misquote of the resolution and therefore invalid (the actual phrase was "refusal !C) comply." and I might add that not one speaker at that fleeting even accused George Cernusca of refusal to so comply) The senate does not have the power to create im peachable offenses in resolutions, but only in laws, a class of legislation distinct from both resolutions and orders. Last Sunday night the senate passed another impeachment article. citing Cernusca for "misfeasance of office" despite the explicit recognition by the USG consitiution of only malfeasance (and the insurance investigatory committee spent considerable time explaining the distinction to the Senate) and actions in contradiction to. or in violation of, this constitution and the laws of this congress" are impeachable offenses. A senate which can ;ass two such resolutions after having been warned of their invalidity is at best deaf and at worst a lynch mob. If We insist on playing Watergate. let us at least play by the rules. Squawking USG Senate TO THE EDITOR: Penn State students are at soul a con servative people, They are conservative in their fundamental 1)0110 s of democracy. In the USG Senate, this belief does not exist As one of these conservative students, I challenge these so-called "liberals" in the student Senate who are always squawking about individual rights. As a conservative student with a political ideology very dll4erent from that of Geroge Cernusca, even I would see that he; was given every basic freedom entitled to f)im. That is something the flaming liberals in the USG Senate were not and are not about to consider' Where's the UCC? TO THE EDITOR: Has anyone' seen the University Concert Committee lately? Could it be that they were working %o hard on the Homecoming concert that they completely forgot that this weekend is Homecoming? Or could it be that they thought they couldn't compete with East Halls and the HUB and the three big names they have lined up for Schwab Saturday night? I'll never forget the times I saw Forest Green out by Beaver Stadium and those fun-filled coffee houses with Sunday Drive in the Fub Rec Room. I for-one certainly Wouldn't expect the UCC to come up to the high standards bf such places as Millersville with Yes—or Lycoming Community College with Mountain. or East Stroudsburg with EMerson, Lake and Palmer I know it must be difficult to get a good group or were you afraid that with only '30,000 students to draw from that you wouldn't be able to sell out? UCC not inept TO THE EDITOR: Too often a student speaks out without any knowledge of the subject he addresses himself to. As Chiiirman of the UCC. I would like to correct a few miscon ceptions brought out in Friday's letter to the egitor describing dt:Collegian MANE M. NOTTLE Editor . Editorial policy is determined by the Editor Opinions expressed by the editors and staff of The Daly Collegian are not necessarily those of the University administration, faculty or students Editorial Staff: 865-1828 Sports Staff - 865-1820 business Staff: 865-2531 $6.00 per term • Fall, Winter, Spring $4.50 per Summer Term On-Campus - $l3 00 per year $3.50 per term - Fall, Winter, Spring $3.00 per Summer Term Mailing Address: Box 467, State College, Pa, 16801 Office: 126 Carnegie BOARD OFVTORS: MANAGING EDITOR, Steve Ostrosky; EDITORIAL EDITOR, Barb White; NEWS DITOR, Glenda Gephart: COPY EDITORS, Jean LaPenna. Robyn Moses, terry Schwartz; LAYOUT EDITORS, Cathy Cipotla, Paula Ruth; SPORTS EDITOR, Rick Starr; ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS, Tim Panaccio, Jeff Young; PHOTO EDITOR, Ed Golomb, ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR, Ed Palsa; EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS, Tom Gibb. a Mike Sanni; WEATHER REPORTER, Thad Chupalio. BOARD OF MANAGERS: ADVERTISING MANAGER, David Lang; ASSISTANT ADVER TISING MANAGERS, Susan Voytovich, Kim Batey; NATIONAL ADVERTISING MANAGER, Bob Rosner; ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER, Heather Walden; BILLING, Sandy Pollock, Michele Reilly; DELIVERY, Steve Straley, Jorene Proper; ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES, Rob Moffet, Jett Berney, Tom Tull, Ellen Clair, Steve Wallach. BOARD OF DIRECTORS: PRESIDENT, Randy Woodbury; VICE PRESIDENT, John Frantz: EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, Curtis Reve; DIRECTORS, Rosemary Antonelli, Bill Davis, H. Eugene Goodwin, Dtivid Ladov, Gerd Rosenblatt; Ron Smith, Al Stolte. PRODUCTION MANAGER, Michael Name withheld coNCegC CLAM EE , "iiIDODLNI %ESENISI.• irredma_ArtAD 4 s NE6RDvE_ tA\‘_i_s Iq+Xocil3PAD 1/111 Mark Hannagan 7th-psychology Jeff Schatz 7th-horticulture Successor to the Free Lance. est. 1887 Member of the Associated Press Charter member of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Media Association New subscription rates r Off-Campus - $22.00 per year my Committee's 'ineptitude l in selecting, top name arti. University concerts.•" The University Concert Committee had nothing to d ihe ForestrGreen Concert No one ,from either, of - the soring organizations saw the need to'even discuss the with me. The UCC did 'iave • a major 'artist.' schedult Homecoming Weekend. Unfortunately,' the artist can without sufficient time left to secure a comparable ad idea of doing several smaller acts was dismissed as poor second choice. • Since placing the fall concert schedule in Friday's paper, another top artist has been signed for November 6. There is no need to reply to our "inepiitdde." but for those who feel like Mr Shaffer. I would just like to say that this year's Cominittee has shown more cohesivehese and response to student input than any previous Committee I have witnessed. The UCC story ‘. l TO THE EDITOR: This is in response to Ron-Shaffer's letter. Perhaps I shouldmot be.the one who should write this reply, but I am just sick and tired of, people who talk and don't know what they are talking about. yes, Mr. Shaffer, i you are one of these people. If you had read any of the publications about'The supposed Homecoming Concert, you would have realized that the concert was being sponsored by the Hetzel Union Board and the East Halls Concert Committee. John Philips USG Senator Town Area I must agree with you that it was a shame that there was no major concert, but some thinps just cannot be helped. As a person who has worked with ;roups such as Morning Song, I know how tight booking sch dules can be. Lecation doesn't help our situation either. Being in the middle of the wilderness with transportation problems lis a major factor in why many groups elect to play elsewhere Another factor is, If you were a big-name group would you want to travel to the middle of nowhere, to a place that had, an auditorium, with a seating capacity of 6,500 people andi could only afford to pay you $20,000 to $25,000, 1 or go to the Spectrum in Philadelphia or the Civic Arena in Pittsburghi which seat 20;000, and Make $BO,OOO to $lOO,OOO for a night's work. Any person with an ounce of intelligence would take $BO,OOO before they would take $20.000 at least that is what I would assume. So, Mr. Shaffer, maybe now you Understand the situation the University Concert Committee is in. The elimination of the traditional Homecoming Queen also detracted from this past weekend. I agree with many of the women libbers' ideas, but how in the woftfl did they get-the final say about liquidating the Homecoming Queen. First of all, women .libbers may not think of the female as an object of beauty, anti that's their prerogative; but what gives them the right to prevent those women who want-to participate in beauty Wise up, Wendy pageants from participating? The libbers are being just as biased and' discriminative as males once were to females. Secondly, the Homecoming Queen Pageant serves as the TO THE EDITOR: Wendy Morris has done it again. With the aid -culmination of the week's activities. It is something that of her fellow cheerleaders she has been contribUting to the bad people campus wide become interested in whether they are reputation of Penn State's student spectators by i encouraging directly involved in the pageant or not. Why couldn't the them to make loud, distracting noises when theopposing team pageant be conducted in a manner similar to the Miss America is trying to execute a play. First, this is extremely poor and contest for example. Girls could come from the dorm halls, unsportsmanlike conduct. As a former high sdhoil cheerleader ^ sororities, apartment complexes and where ever else, and they I have been thoroughly indoctrinated with a sense of respect could go through a preliminary judging session; then Saturday not only for our own players but also for the opponents. How night after the football game, Ate semifinalists and finaliats would Penn-St - ate fans feel if our team were trying to con- could go through competition inf Went categories, bathing suit centrate and calling for quiet while thdusandsof people were categories. etc., just like prospective Miss Americas do. shouting and booing at them'? Second; the noise can distract our own team's concentration on defense. When the Wake Forest team members repeatedly called for quiet to no avail, a few of the Pennl State players turned around and signalled the crowd to keep it down: The fans, spurred by Wendy and her fellow cheerleaders, were too preoccupied (or perhaps too obstihate) to notice this and kept right on screaming. Penn - State cheerleaders: WISE UP!! And if Wendy EVER calls for some noise to "shake them up," fans„ be more sen stble than she is. CYNTHIA A. ASHEAR Business Manager Business Office Hours: Monday through Friday 9:30 a m. to 4 p.m. =MI Jordan Rednor l an University Concert ComOilttee Fred Lichter University Concert Committee Jan Matthew sth-theatre & journalism Letter policy 1 The Daily - Collegiarv:encourages comments on news coverage, editorial policy and campus ' and off-campus affairs. Letters should be typewritten, double spaced, signed by no more than two persons and no longer than 30 liqes. Students' letters should include Ithe name, term and major of the writer. 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( ', . ; 1 , • 1 0 ~ , its for Agli l •' . ) with . 4. ..-4 :V T , '-_. spon- : i onceri ed for icelled 7.t. The ieing a . to7i 'Well, Mr. RattlecrackeG your letter wasn't printed Who's on the mike? TO THE EDITOR: We would like to call to your attention once again the situation at the football games concerning the cheerleader with the microphone.,We appreciate the fact that she has stopped calling for cheers during plays in the game, and we thank her for it, but we would also like to be able to hear the public' address announcer directly after each play. During last Saturday's game, she repeatedly called Aor cheers at the same time that the public address announcer vas reporting the action in the previous.play. If she isn't interested in the game, fine, but we are and we woUld like to know what is happening. Cheering for the team 14 fine, and it gives the crowd a sense of participation, but some discretion must be used. Why not put the coke man on the mike? Homecoming: no pizzazz TO THE EDITOR: I have not even been at PSU for : one full tarm. yet it was easy for me to see that this past Homecoming weekend lacked pizza 2 . -6 1. maybe I should say that this past weekend lacked a Homecoming. The basic fault of •the entire situation was that there were no unifying, campus-Wide activities. For example, the parade on Friday night was r an excellent idea, but why weren't the residence halls and other groups involved? Why were there so few floats from the frats and sororities? After all, it was IFC and Panhel who sponsored the parade, and there are certainly more than five or six frats and sororities. Why couldn't 'the parade hive terminated at a big bonfire pep rally for the forthcoming game? The idea of the concert, sponsored by the ERA and HUB concert committees was also good, and it is a shame that it fell ihrough this year. I don't believe these two groups were completely at fault for its 'failure though, and hopefulty next year will be more promising. Possibly a combination ,danCe and concert could be held on Saturday night with, the Homecoming Queen Pageant on Sunday evening. The Blue Band deserves a hand for gearing their excell half-time program around Homecoming', and in particular, Alumni Blue Band must be lauded for a show well done. ft wonder that they even wanted to return to play for PSU's called HomecOming. • Al least the Homecoming football game has not been done away with ALI wonder how long it will take the women libbers .o complain about no female foci - theft players or referees being in the Homecoming game, or halie..they already. Alma Mater TO THE EDITOR: Kindly permit 'me to offer the following suggestion to the ladies and gentlemen of the student body as a possible solution to an apparent problem: Could we af i l please consider clipping out the poem copied out below and bringing it and hopefully even a few extra copies to the remaining home football games. Should we become aware that .here be some near us who are unfamiliar with it, might we not lust offer to share our copies with them. We would imiy then need to smile courteously and say, "Now you do." because it lost something in the translation from butcher paper to newsprint.' Ist term-accounting and pre-lam! For the Glory of Old State For her founders strong and , great, For the future that we wait, Raise the song, raise the song. Sing our love and loyalty Sing our hopes that bright and tree Rest, 0 .:other dear; with thee, All with thee, all with thee. When we stood at boyhood's gate Shapeless in the hands of fate, Thou didst mold us, dear old State Into men, into men. May no act of ours bring shame To one heart that loves thy name, May our lives but swell thy fame, Dear old State, dear old State. - - By Fred Lewis Pattee Guy E. Croyle, Jr. Graduate-agricultural extension education Fl. ~ _ / Pamela E. Waddington Ist-pre-vet Brad Harris - - sw, VRN\\ Oil ~ es STUDY ° c (/)lE_T fLEet. More realistic grades TO THE EDITOR: A rampant 15 per cent "grade inflation" has raised the grade point average of the average (ranked in middle of the class) Penn State student from a 2.6 five years ago to a current 3.0. according to the Records Office. Thus, half of this University's students have grade averages of B or better. Grades do not differentiate Well enough between student performances. Half of the students are cramped into a one point spread (3.0-4.0). while the other half are scattered over a three point spread (0 0-3.0). Above-average grades have less value than they did in the past.'and this is why "grade inflation, - poses a serious threat to students, not lust at Penn State, but acro.o, the nation as well. Employers and graduate schools, forced to choose between students with equally above-average grades, will be tempted to make hiring and admissions decisions on criteria not related to proven academic performance. These criteria might include the size of the school attended. participation in extracurricular activities Or scores on certain standardized tests. Such criteria would not.be as accurate as grade point average in evaluating applicants because grades are the only standard which con stantly monitor a student's progress. Stricter grading is the only means of reinstating the C as the average grade in the present system r , However, simply tightening down on grades here at Penn State could jeopardize the careers of the many students who aspir) to attend graduate school because Penn State . students would be forced to compete with students from other schools\where the average grade is still B or higher. , Stricter grading is necessary at colleges and universities across the nation, To this end. I propose that the ad pihistration of this University use its position as a member of • the Association of American Universities to work for more„ realistic grading in higher education in the United States Missing the point? TO THE EDITOR: When I first came to Penn State, and in the time since. I have been very excited about {earning. I could not be considered a stuffy intellectual, but I have always loved to tread. I enjoy writing, and ideas have always fascinated me. Being perhaps misguided. I would have assumed that this was ikhat college is all about or, at least the base to underlie the study. , I have had very good courses here...including some that are completely out of my "linq. l ' But with only rare exceptions, I have found mostly that these courses, with good professors, - awaken interest only to squash it by putting so much material into the course that all one can do is take a deep breath and plbw through reading after reading or assignment after assignment. I understand the reason given is that there is a lot of:material to be, learned. This is undoubtedly true and would be fine if for 10 weeks one did nothing else. But this leaves one: no room to explore further something which may catch your interest. or even to,look more than superficially at any one book or area covered. Assuming a student really does want to do the work and is really interested (there are many left) there is no room for anything else, much less for one's own self. I am beginning to realize that I shall leave college in a year or so knowing a little bit about a lot and a lot about very little. And I'll leave frustrated, with a list hundreds long of things "one day to be looked Onto.'' But the worst of all is that I'll leave -remembering many friends who cared about their work pressured to the point of tears, ulcers and frazzled nerves. But I'm afraid I still can't help wondering what education is really about. Is this learning? Or have we missed the point com pletely somewhere along the line? 'Reserved' seats TO THE EDITOR: I don't understand. The Collegian reported that George Plimpton spoke to a "near-capacity crowd." If there were seats available, why were 20 students not permitted to enter the auditorium? We were told that it was sold out and that we would be fire hazards. We were told by people who were leaving that there was a whole balcony open. 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