November 2Q, 1970
H.B. 2594
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a friend in Harrisburg. I had an op
portunity to discuss this matter with
the Chief Legislative Liaison Officer
from the Dept, of Education to the
General Assembly. He was kind
enough to supply me with the follow
ing information:
1) The bill will not be passed dur
ing this session of the General
Assembly. It is presently in the
House Committee on Education,
and will not be able to get out of
committee before the General
Assembly adjourns at the end of
November. This adjournment
automatically ‘kills’ the bill.
2) The Dept, of Education is a
gainst this, or any such bill,
which undermines the adminis
tration of any State college or
University in the decision mak
ing process.
I was informed though that bills
like this w;ill appear more and more
frequently in the General Assembly
in the near future. If the situation
arises, the Student Senate will need
your support in attempting to help
defeat these bills. There is no room
in a college or university today for
power politics, especially during
times like now, where each college
and university is a potential powder
keg, ready to explode if given the
right situation. Pieces of legislation
like House Bill 2594, which attempts
to undermine basic student freedoms,
are enough to start a chain reaction
of events capable of destroying any
academic community. These bills
must be stopped, and we will need
your support to stop them. For your
own benefit, and for the benefit of
the academic community here at
Capitol, throw away the cloak of apa
thy that most of you wear. If you
don’t, academic freedoms will be gone
and so will Capitol.
Publicity? Call
Missy at 944-5662
POETRY CONTEST
by Chandler Wolf
Poetry was the topic of discussion
in the Black History Program in Mid
dletown as Dr. Oliver Lagrone and
Chandler Wolf met at the Community
Action Center Monday, November 3.
Local students from the Middletown
community read poetry they had
composed for a contest sponsored by
the Black History Program. The fol
lowing is a copy of the poem which
was deemed most outstanding and
was awarded a ten dollar prize.
THE BLACK MAN
by Joyce Fultz
The Black man should be honored
For all the work he’s done
He’s built this country with his hands
He has slaved for everyone.
He worked'his ASS into the ground
He slaved and slaved and slaved at
night
That someday he’d be saved
The Black man had no schooling
The only thing he lacked
Today he has the knowledge
He’s proud tp say he’s BLACK
The black-man should be honored
By whites, as well as Blacks
To me the Blacks are superior
There’s nothing that he lacks
THE CAPITOLIST
MEADE HEIGHTS
Unity Amid Diversity
by Stephen D. Millman
I am writing this as a personal re
sponse to certain expressed concerns
about the role of the Meade Heights
Board of Governors in relation to
Meade Heights and the rest of the
campus. I hope I can shed some light
on my own orientation.
DIVERSITY IN FACILITIES
Residence facilities on this campus
are as diverse a lot as can be found
We have an apartment
structure, we have two residence
halls as that term is traditionally de
fined, and we have a set of structur
ally independent houses. This diver
sity serves the students by allowing
a wide choice of desired residence ar
rangement. No facility is judged by
the University to be more desireable
than any other. Rather they are
merely different strokes for different
folks.
The Student Affairs Office and
Department of Housing and Food
Service have been making a very con
scious effort to upgrade all residence
facilities in ways that will be most
beneficial to residents of the particu
lar units. It would not make a great
deal of sense to make identical
changes in such diverse facilities.
Rather, the effort is made to create
such improvements as will enhance
the unique potential of each setting.
The intention is to be fair and equit
able in regard to all facilites; not to
make them all look the same. In all
cases, an individual decision is made
as to whether any change is to the
best advantage of that facility and
the whole campus in general.
THE IMPORTANCE OF
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Diversity can also be very easily
seen among those who populate this
campus. It is true that there is a
need for a unified spirit on campus.
But equally important, there is a
need for smaller groups of people
with strong common interests to in
teract with each other on some regu
lar basis. This is the rationale be
hind the establishment and mainten
ance of student organizations. Whole
societies, just as whole student bod
ies, can not in my opinion hold to
gether without the “glue” of smaller
organismic bodies within. People will
not continue to interact over any
period of time in bland, universal
groups which are not personally
meaningful to them. In many cases,
wide global concerns often lack suf
ficient specificity and relevance for
strong individual satisfaction.
In a pluralistic society (or a plura
listic study body), one can bring
Cry my baby, Die my Child
Hoping that you never see the ignorance of man in war as I.
The sword is not spared because you’re young, but
beared because you’re strong.
So die my Black Brothers make free Vietnam
For you yourselves the bells of freedom have not RUNG.
So cry my baby, Die my Child
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Criticism of drafting of 430,000 additional men
Steptu..
small special interests groups on campus
to Interact with each other.
people and groups of people together
only by understanding individual and
group difference. It would seen un
ethical and self-defeating to bring
people and/or groups together by at
tempting to submerge differences
and create assimilation. Rather we
need to carefully weigh the balance
of 'those traits and characteristics
which we have in common and those
which distinguish us .
In essence, what we should be striv
ing for is a “stew-pot” rather than a
“melting pot”. . . on campus—and in
the larger community. In a stew, one
can distinguish meat from potato, al
though some of the beauty of one
rubs off on the other. In a melting
pot, one can not easily distinguish
the original differences after the
blend is complete.
To bring about a spirit of unity, it
is not necessary or wise to seek total
consensus at the expense of diversity.
As expressed by Clyde Kluckholn, we
must be willing to accept that in cer
tain respects, every person is: (a)
like all other persons, (b) like some
other persons, (c) like no other per
sons.
It should be our goal therefore to
determine and facilitate those fragile
elements which unite us all, encour
age the formation of groups of in
dividuals who feel common bonds or
share a common experience, and
thoroughly respect those ways in
which each of us “march to the beat
of a different drummer.” Only
through such consideration can we
all get together in ways that are posi
tively rewarding to all. Otherwise,
we will have merely created a unity
of blandness and hollowness on cam
pus.
DRAFT ME BABY
by Chandler Wolf
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