LIBRARY
NEWS
Just a reminder for those
whodmve not yet read the bul
letin noards yet, the Library
has new hours. The Library
is open Monday through .Fri
day from 8 a,m.-5p.m., Satur
day'afternoons from 1 p.m.-
4 p.m. and Sunday through
Thursday eveningsfrom 6 p.m.-
9:30 p.m.
In addition to the hours,
the Library also publishes a
book list twice each month of
new books. Some of the new
books are as follows:
Social Sciences: McKee,
Bill, New Careers For Teachers.
Education: LaCrosse, E.
Robert, Early Childhood Educa
tion Directory.
Fine Arts: Kadinsky,
Wassily, Concerning the Spir
itual in Art and Fainting in
Particular.
Music: Nadeau, Roland, If there are more con-
They Symphony, Structure and ;racts filed than spaces a-
Style. railable, students now living
Language Literature: - n residence halls who cannot
Bailly, Rene, "Dictionairre des ,e accommodated will be noti-
Synonynesde la Langue Francaise." :ied no lat er than May 16 that
Philosophy: Hower, Richard their contract will be canceled
L. Heidegger and Jaspers on 311,1 teh $45 required advanced
Nietzche. payment will be refunded.
History: Longford, Frank, Others not accomodated should
The History Makers, Leaders to notified by May 30. Can-
Statesmen of the 20th Century. cellations will be made start-
America: Nixon, Richard in « from the latest dates con-
M. Nixon: The Fifth Year of tracts were received.
His Presidency. Mule there has been no
Mathematics: Internation- action taken on increasing room
al Congress on Math Education, 3114 board charges at Penn
Developments in Mathematical State, University officials in-
Education. dicate that rising costs sug-
Phvsics: Chapman. SB®* that an increase starting
J., Heat Transfer. with the 1975 Fall Term can be
expected. j
The above listings are
only a few of the many new
books that are waiting to
be used. Others deal with
technology, bibliography
and library sciences, agri
culture, biology, political
sciences and anthropology.
Rush on Dorms
More than Byooo students,
including more than 3,oo9,en
tering freshmen, already have
filed requests for the Fall
Term for the 11,500 available
spaces in residence halls at
the University Park Campus of
The Pennsylvania State Univer
sity,
"It's the first time
there has been a rush to apply
during the first few days after
contract forms have been made
available,” William H. Reiber,
of the Department of Housing
and Food Service Operations,
says.
A probable reason for
the rush, he says, is the fact
that more than 800 upperdass
students last Fall had to be
informed they could not be ac
commodated in the residence
halls, although they filed re
quests before the deadline.
Their applications were receiv
ed after all vacancies and
staging facilities had been as-
signed.
The filing deadline for
students now living in the re
sidence halls in April 15 but
it is expected that spaces pro
bably will be filled long be
fore that deadline and students
axe advised not to wait for the
leadline.
Movie Review:
Hearts and Minds
By James Gormley
Sometime within the
year Warner Brothers will be
gins to realize a profit from
a property called "Hearts and
Minds.” The release was delay
ed until a national consen
sus was reached on whose fin
gerprints were on the smoking
revolver (they were Nixon's).
The film is basically a
well-edited recapitulation of
the evening news from 1965 to
1972 with an eye for impact and
The Highacres Collegian, April 4* "1975 - 1 5*
irony. For this reason it will
be categorized as blatant prop
aganda, which it is, that tells
a good deal of the truth about
Vietnam. Many Americans had
bit parts in the film and for
them it will be a painfully
redundant exercise analagous
to watching home movies of a
now official divorce.
The title is the most
interesting part because it is
the mirror which reveals so
much of the war, why we were
in it and why it was a failure
from the start. It also ad
dresses the country mare di
rectly than the film's depic
tion of the deceptions and
callaus stupidity of our lead
ership. When Lyndon Johnson
and John Wayne exhorted us to
wage war on the VC they didn't
say, "We're going to kill a
bout a million of them.” They
said, "We're going to win their
hearts and minds.” So bum
ning with confidence we set
out to win the heart and mind
of our reluctant Vietnamese
peace object.
When the Vietnamese re
fused to surrender their col
lective heart and mind, and
thus confirm our perceived
goodness, we suddenly stopped
seeing them in their charming
ao-dais off to market but
rather as a fatigue clad as
sortment of gooks, dinks,
slopes and inept zipper heads
who wouldn't run their coun
try efficiently (i.e. our way).
The Vietnamese-American affair
is almost over and they're a
bout to take their country
to restore their land and
their lives. They're going
to run their heart and mind
their way. But what about ua.
"Hearts and Minds" will
tell us ultimately that we
failed there bacanse we never
saw them as people. Its not
going to tell us how to win
the next banana war by seeing
the natives as people but ra
ther to avoid it by doing so.
It says communists, gooks,
teachers, wives and. children
are people who resist being
used as facilitators of arro
gant egos the only way they
can. It tells America it
cheated itself by trying to
cheat them of their humanity.
This abstraction seems so re
mote from reality. Perhaps
because we see it so seldom
in reality that it only ex*
ists as an abstraction.