HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN, FEBRUARY 14, 1972 -- PAGE TWO
Two open letters
to all students
Dear Students
The Council of Presidents was held • Saturday at Ogontz
Campus and several interesting things occured there. The minutes
from the December 4th meeting stating that the resolution
concerning Senate Policy 111-D-8 had been rejected was amended
by a unanimous vote of the Presidents attending.
These erroneous minutes stated that the action I proposed be
taken regarding student publications had been rejected. In
actuality, the action has been taken and COP is now. in the
process of revision of the Senate Policy for the eventual
submission to Dr. Oswald and the Senate at University Park.
These faulty minutes had been the source of much friction
between the Press Association and the Hazleton Campus. I
don't think any fault lies in the APS reporting facilities in that
they received their information from a faulty source. But I think
blame can be placed with the APS for the overreaction of the
entire matter. It is this person's opinion that APS tried to push
their weight around in an area in which they had no real
jurisdiction. Their threatening letters to myself, the editor of the
Collegian, John Roslevich, and letters stating our willing
obstinence were sent to the body of COP. We object to these
kinds of tactics and hope now that the matter is settled that
subsequent communications will be the key to any kind of
disagreements rather than "force."
Fellow students
I am writing this open letter to bring to your attention an
unfortunate incident concerning this newspaper, the Press
Association of Commonwealth Campuses, and the Hazleton
Student Government Association.
In the Jan. 17, 1972 issue of the Collegian, we reported in an
objective, front page story the apparent discrepancy existing
between a Press Association news release concerning the Dec. 4
Council of Presidents meeting and Hazleton SGA President Paul
Yanoshik's report of the same meeting.
Much confusion resulted over whether or not COP had
passed the Hazleton proposal to amend Senate Policy 111-D-8,
governing non-chartered publications. The Hazleton SGA and the
Collegian have repeatedly voiced opinions favoring the
amendment of this policy, which would allow distribution of the
underground newspaper, The Guerilla, on campus.
The news release stated that the proposal was defeated, while
Paul was of the belief that COP had passed it. According to Paul
the minutes were erroneous, and were corrected at Saturday's
COP meeting at the Ogontz Campus.
I received a letter dated February 7, 1972, from Gary K.
Fisher, PACC Vice President for Newspapers. In it he asked for a
voluntary retraction of, the Jan.l7 article. In view of the
correction of the minutes at Saturday's COP meeting, the
Collegian at this time feels that a retraction, voluntary or
involuntary, is out of the question.
In his letter, Gary also said, "I hope you can too understand
the potential danger to our news credibility you have created.
"If this was your purpose, I think you were successful. If
not, and I hope this is the case, I trust you would want to correct
the matter."
The truth is that the article in question was not written with
malicious intent. Rather, it was meant to provide for our readers
an unbiased look at a situation in which both the Collegian and
the SGA believe firmly, namely, the amendment of Senate Policy
111-D-8. The story was not written to destroy the credibility of
APS, and if this is the belief of Gary and his colleagues, it is only
for this that we apologize.
Hoping that this letter has cleared up any questions, I remain
OhP Eigharres Tolirgiatt
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Drake, Thomas Heppe.
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Sunday, February 13, 1972
Respectfully submitted,
Paul J. Yanoshik
President, Student Government
Sunday, February 13, 1972
Sincerely yours,
John Roslevich, Jr
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The poet Aleister Crowley stressed the fact that "Every man
and woman is a star." He wrote that "...every man and every
woman has each definite attributes whose tendency, considered
'in due relation to environment, indicate a proper course of action
in each case. To pursue this course of action is to do one's true
"The physical parallel still holds. In a galaxy each star has its
own magnetitude, characteristics and direction; and the celestial
harmony is best maintained by its attending to its own business.
Nothing could be more subversive of that harmony than if a
number of stars set up in a uniform standard of conduct insisted
on everyone aiming at the same goal, going at the same pace, and
so on. Even a single star, by refusing to do its own will, by
restricting itself in any way, would immediately produce
disorder."
The above lines appear to contain the key to Utopia. If man
would not interfere with his fellow man's "orbit," his proper
course of action for his true learning experience in life, our world
would be one of perpetual education instead of perpetual
frustration.
Imagine a world in which you allow your neighbor to do
whatever he wants without restriction. You might think this
would be the worst possible thing to do. Does the very thought of
it conjure images of people murdering and plundering without
fear of penalty? Of course, people murder and plunder at this
very moment without fear of penalty, don't they? Some people
don't seem to know the meaning of responsibility.
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Everybody is a star
But do we have the right to impose our will upon others?
The answer is contained within Crowley's analogy. Can we truly
say we have wisdom enough to push a star from its predetermined
orbit without causing a cosmic cataclysm without parallel? No,
we cannot. Nor do we have the wisdom to restrain a man or a
woman from following his or her own path because we do not
know what the true will of another person's soul is, or his true
place in the scheme of things.
Yet, this is what we are doing to each other. We are binding
our brothers' wills by imposing restrictions upon them. We make
it impossible for our fellow man to function freely in order to
gain experience, wisdom, and responsibility on his own in the
short span of years he has to live.
We are CREATING irresponsibility in each other because we
do not allow ourselves the paranoia-less freedom needed to
LEARN responsibility from within.
If we stopped all restrictions on human activity today, we
would not have Utopia by tomorrow. But we would be affirming
our belief that man has the potential within himself to
consciously evolve towards the Perfect Man and thereby the
perfect" society. In fact, this is what we MUST do to enable
humanity to gain its own responsibility and trust in itself.
If we want man to reach higher pinnacles in his evolution
instead of having his growth stunted, we must give each other
total freedom in order to gain total responsibility. And it shall
come to pass that every man and woman will be free to create in
the spirit of joy, love, and brotherhood.
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WHO ARE THE HARRISBURG EIGHT?
Three of them are Roman Catholic priests; one is a nun who
teaches art history. The youngest of the Eight is a former Eagle
Scout, the son of a college president Still another is a gentle,
lucid Pakistani scholar, an authority on Third World nationalism.
Finally, a couple: a former priest, son of a Congressman; a former
nun, a Fulbright scholar in French.
Their names:
Eqbal Ahmad, Father Philip Berrigan, Ted Glick, Sister
Elizabeth McAlister, Father Neil McLaughlin, Anthony and Mary
Scoblick, Father. Joseph Wenderoth.
Eight people who hate war.
WHAT IS THE ISSUE?
The Department of Justice has invested thousands of agent
man-hours in this case. It has coerced dozens of witnesses, made
free and brazen use of wiretapping, manipulated a docile grand
jury for a period ,of five full months. All this labor produced an
enormously complex, subtly fashioned indictment most of
which is malicious nonsense.
The Harrisburg Eight are not, as the government charges,
conspirators or bombers or kidnapers. They are, indeed, resisters;
some of them have gone past deploring the war to the point of
direct action, against its tools. But it not because they interfered.
with the draft that our government is staging this massive, costly
show trial against them. It is because these eight men and women
appeal powerfully to the roots of American conscience.
The issue, then is conscience versus power.
WHO'S. WINNING"
Nobody knows who'll win in court but -the , real verdict
won't come from the jury anyway. The government's goal is to
use the fear of jail as a club against the peace movement. The
government loses if the, actual result of the trial is a widening of
the community of conscience, a deepening of the spirit of
resistance.
If you want to know more, if you'd like to help the
defendants with the heavy expenses of the trial, write or call: The
Harrisburg Defense Committee (in Harrisburg) 1004 N. 3rd Street
Harrisburg, Pa. 17101....(717) 233-3072
A primer on
The
Harrisburg
Conspiracy
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