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Editor-in-Chief RANDY S. =MEAD
Managing Editor TERRY L. ROBINSON
Sports Editor DOM LAMBERTI
Layout VICKIE CASSEY
Business and Photos GARY GRirelS,
JOHN MEYERS (Photos)
Advisors _ SHARI .K.E.LTS,
R. C. BAUGHMAN
The Nittany CUB is located in the Reed Union Building,
The Behrend Campus of the Pennsylvania State University,
Station Road, Wesleyville, Pa. 16510. Advertising inquiries phone
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Viet Nam Called
"Something Else"
A settlement in the 11-week old strike against General Elec
tric by the International Union of Electricians (TUE) is not appar
rent in the immediate future. In the local plant which employs
8.500 to 10,000 workers (5,000 of which are striking or observing
picket lines sympathetically), the General is having apprentices run
production. A good estimate would put production at 1 / 3 or less than
normal. -
- -Erie is not alone in the strike, as Genetal Electric is not the
sole company affected. But G.E. is
.the largest complex affected. In
nearby Cleveland the General published a full-page ad in The Plain
Dealer - asking "What's the real reason for the strike against Gen
eral Electric?—Money? Employee benefits? GE's bargaining ap
proach? or something else?"
Naturally the General believes it is "something else." Naturally
they are right. The rest of the page extolls the offerings contained
in the contract as it stands, which are really, at most, mediocre
when compared to the steel workers or auto workers' contracts. As
a matter of fact, the. General is really proud that they offer three
weeks vacation to 15-year veterans. What a bargain! Then, they
continue by listing union responses. Two weeks before they called
the strike, a union official said: "We can't accept your offer, and
there is no way you can shift or modify it that will make it ac
ceptable to our members". . . "Even if you gave us all our economic
demands you'll still have a strike on your hands."
-Nowhere in this ad is the "something else" that G.E. blames the
strike on defined.
However, the "Something else" is obvious. General Electric is
. the second largest contractor for the government. "Something else"
is - .Viet Nam. The whole strike is a ploy by high union officials for
political leverage in the new regime which is imminent ób ebolu
tion if not revolution. The fact that we see this ploy is in our favor,
we, can exand upon the idea that Viet Nam is the real cause for
the strike, irregardless of the lUE officials' politiCal aspirations.
We, typified by the Student Mobilization Committee to end the
war. in Viet Nam (SMC) and dozens of other such organizations,
are 'aware of industry's lack of morality, and will continue to ex
emplify this at any opportunity.
"Coll For Action"
;',`Call For Action," is a nation
wide program, sponsored in Erie
as
,a. public service by radio sta
tion - IVINGO. There are two as
pects to this program. Research
and telephone. -The station 'will
advertise a number to call for
information relating to problems
the individual might have. Vol
unteers will answer phones and
refer the individual to various
agencies. In this way attempting
to help the person cope
,with the
many. confusion of agencies. This
program has proved successful in
other states and cities. New York
City has had it for a number of
years. There is a need for VOL
UNTEERS; if you can volunteer
to help in this project, please
call the Urban Coalition Office
—4.55-:2731 or Mrs. Allen Rubin
stein-866-2668.
by Randy Kinkead
BULLetin Bored
'Complimentary tickets for the
Erie Philharmonic Orchestra Con
cert January 26th are available
at the Student Union Desk. The
program is as follows: •
Overture to Rosamunde
Schubert
'Concerto for Piano and
Orchestra in C minor (K.
491)
Mozart
Rudolf Firkusny
Soloist
INTERMISSIO
"Daphnis' et Chloe"
Suite No. 2 Ravel
Concerto for Piano
and Orchestra
Yardilmian
Rudolf Firkusny,
Soloist
Rudolf Firkusny a pianist,
THE NITTANYCUB
Dear Charley
(Anyone having " a question
about anything, please send your
question to Charly Lee, c/o Pub
lications Office Reed Building.
All letters will then become pro
perty of the CUB and will be eli
gible for printing.)
Dear Charly:
I'm a communter who just
started here at beautiful Beh
rend. My question, sir, is: what
does one receive in exchange for
the $7.50 he pays to park in the
school parking lot? It seems that
it's a daily battle to get the last
parking space. For a fee of that
amount one would expect to at
least get a space in which to park
one's car. So far, however, all I've
received is a $2.00 fine for park
ing in the visitors space because
all the other spaces were full. Tell
me please, what does one get out
of the deal?
VICTIM OF THE SYSTEM
Dear Vie:
- Our research departinent has
come up with the following -item
ization:
COST OF STICKER, ______ $ .29
Total $ .29
-As for the remaining _ $7.21,
we're not too sure where it goes.
I - think however this is another
game that the University is play
ing. It's called "guess where all
your hard earned money goes."
If you're really inerested in the
answer to your quetion, Vic, write
to:
Mr. J. W. Wilson
208 Old Main
University Park, Pa. 16802
I'm sure that good ole Mr. Wil
son would be happy, overjoyed,
even religiously fulfilled to an
swer any questions you have on
this subject.
Dear Charly:
For a economics project our
class is studying the economic
system of Penn State. Could you
tell me who is the founder of our
economic system?
STUDENT AT LARGE
Dear Stud:
Robin Hood.
Dear Charly:
I would like to know exactly
why our tuitions have gone up,
and why many of us who had
PHEAA scholarships last year,
had them conceled even • when
our economic condition hasn't
changed?
JOE 'iVMTE.
Dear White:
I could give you about 500 good
reasons why our money has been
tightened this year, but for fear
of my life I will remain silent.
whom the Christian Science Mon
itor called. "One of the Titans of
our time", is the guest soloist for
the affair. •
CEN=EI
Can anyone answer this ques
tion? . . . "What root beer?"
Who got the lowest average last
term; The Student _Body Presi
dent, Chairman of SGA, or the
CUB editor-in-chief? •
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The . Reed Union "Building desk
has been established as the Lost
and Found Center For The Beh
rend Campus. All missing Items
should •be reported to the desk
and any found items should be
turned in at the desk. Your CO-
We Are "Children
Of The Future"
by 'Gary Thernblooln
Sitting around over the holidays . I was able to devote
some time to reading, a few of the many "end of the decade"
special issues. It seems that everyone is eager to cash in on
a double-issue to compliment the occasion. The past ten years
have Witnessed rapid change - everywhere and have passed
with the-swiftness of a speed-rap.-Some- observations which
I've seen and read are included in what I've put down here.
Few writers will attempt to enclose the years 1960
through 1969 in the expression "the 60'S." The beginning
years of the sixties were actually a carry-over from- the late
fifties, in the popular music tastes, the movements, politics,
and life style. At that time there - was a .big thing on about
civil rights issues with sit-ins as the form of protest, peti
tions were being cirCulated against nuclear testing, and a
few "beatnik-type" kooks in the Student Peace Union who
knew way back then what - Viet Nam Was' all- about were
running around with signs. In -August of 1963 there was
the Civil Rights march on Washington. •The Free Speech
Movement and the Berkeley scene characterized 1964-65.
Bursting fOrth behind 'the fires of Watts in August.
1965, came the rage, turbulence, and change which was the
trend of America in -the last decade. Along with the explo
sions of the ghetto came the realization within the move
ment that working to change the present, system was futile
and so the resulting shift was away from an emphasis on
reformism to one on revolution and destruction. The hard
core SDS type were into a thing of taking over campuses.
In October of 1967 there was "stop the draft week" and
the confrontation at the Oakland- Induction Center. Assasin
ations, the war in Viet Nam, campus takebvers, confronta
tion tactics, riots, violence, violence and more violence was
where those days were at.
Those were the years Of the sixties and they are now
in the past. They have been in the past for quite some time
and they ended well before the last day of December. The
opening mood of the seventies has hopefully been set with
the. peacefulness of Woodstock and the Moratorium obser
vance in Washington. Non-violence could be the theme of
the seventies and as we begin this next decade we shotild
strive to gain peace on this beautiful earth which only be
comes f*cked-up when man enters into the picture. Man can
live in , harmony with nature. The . past generations have
failed. If we accept their values, goals and attitudes then we
accept the world as it is, but if we reject them then we
must set our own standards and dedicate ourselves to change
and lots of it. We are "Children of the Future" and must
remain as children in the future. War and violence is not an
inborn trait in us, but it is- something that we experience
from our earliest moments of memory. Violence has alWays
led to more violence and must be rejected as a means to get
change. Peace and loVe will be our weapons and more people
are now beginning to understand this. .
operation in this matter will be
greatly appreciated. •
E=M:3
The RUB is not a wastebasket.
a wastebasket is a wastebasket,
dig?
Feiffer's
People -Are
Corning!
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EDITORIAL POLICY
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'therefore Subject to critism. Alt
letters that -' are typewritten and
Submitted to the - newspaper staff -
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of those that are repetitious or- in
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Nittany CUB.
January 9, 1970