pril 17, 1970 Cohen, Spielman (Continued from Page 1) might have been considered a poor risk for Behrend. Cohen •also stated something that Kochel hinted to this writer that "Cohen wouldn't be able to make it at Behrend, because he was too ambitious . . . and poss ibly that he didn't fit in with the Behrend mystique." Cohen feels that the adminis tration is afraid of change and will only allow those changes or advanceinents which don't ser iously affect anything. Acadernic freedom is not limited as such, but in a larger context it is Um ited._ The atmosphere at• Behrend. allows just so much change as can occur without affeCting atti c tudes. Another area which Cohen spoke aibout was his feeling that the administration is personality oriented rather than issue-orien ted. The administration takes comments as personal affronts." Recommendations for construc tive change are taken as attacks on the individuals' at the top rather than as ideas expressed to change policies. Cohen stated that he feels that "the students should read' and understand the issues from both sides and be really cer tain that the real issue isn't be= tween One faculty member or a group of faculty naembers against the . administration; but rather, the issues that are at stake." While Cohen had decided prior to his dismissal notice that he wouldn't be returning to Behrend, Spielmarin was still undecided as to whether he wished to return 'or not Spielmann stated that he had " . . . no warning, premoni tion or indication—spoken, writ ten; explicit or implicit—that my services were less than highly satisfactory prior to February 20 . . . and I had in fact expected a raise." Spielmann felt that Kciehe "adniiniifer - s a junior college ex tremely well. But B- . - • • • longer afford to be a 'juni. col lege." He went on to say that .ffirirend is "not only a budding four year college, but will soon be a university." - Spielmann also added that he "hopes policies can be devised to provide faculty with a better understanding of what is expected of them." I regards to the .u- •f EMMET - A S • oke hicr 1 of Kochel's ability to kee• things stable and well-run for the past tszejzze.:gearsbu hp fejl_tha-t -4 g- . • 9 • '• ' • and the,t by not changin: that Kochel .. 'Erh subject to da han that which I received." Cohen feels that Kochel's role 0 "system maintenance" was in keeping with his goal of main- ar,..-.._...ea5. Another set of factors at play in Kochel's decision may have been the outside activities of the three. All three have been more than teachers in the traditional sense. They ha've been active in various community projects. Their efforts were influential in the Morator ium observance, in• defense of stu dents charged with "conduct un becomming Penn State students," and they have been active in pol itics. When questioned as to future plans Cohen spoke of possibly at tending the University of Michi gan for PhD. work. or of a posi tion with the "Peace Research" program at the University of Pennsylvania (not to be confused with PSU) which deals in con- flict _analysis. Spielmann ruled out teaching as a profession for him and with regards to the future chuckled and said he will "go on relief." Cohen and Spielmann said they granted an interview to inform the students, not to cause dis ruption as Kochel fears the case will be. Cohen and Spielmann agreed that any action taken should be accomplished through the proper channels. The Faculty Organization was mentioned as a group which might objectively analyze the situation. It seems to the writer that ef fects of the dismissal of the three Will be felt by students next year. tudents will find almost all new factg teaching their social science courses. • Other effects which cannot be stated factually, but which may safely assumed, are that other faculty members will be somewhat reluctant to say what they want and to become involved with pro jects they may wish to support. While no one may object overt to faculty members' outside activi ties, factors of salary, future refer 1 ence and job security may servJ as effective muzzles. Cohen summed up his position by saying that he doesn't fear change and he feels remorse to wards those who do fear it. The situation is presented here as objectively and as factually as is possible from what Kochel, Co hen, and Bpielinann told me in my interview with each of them. As it stands now Kochel feels that students have no right to know what is going on. He fur- ther seems to believe that Cohen, Sansone, and Spielmann have no right to know. In his own words Kochel feels that "it is not in the genuine interests of Behrend Campus for the situation to be given any attention." Spielmann feels that the ad ministration and more specifically Kochel and Claridge are "com petent and doing the best job they can." However he does feel . that "they are overworked in• part because they over-control." Spielmann added that "that be cause of incomplete information and too much desk work they may sometimes make the wrong deci sions." He also feels that more administrators are needed to help run •the academic part of the school. In closing Spielmann said that "this place will be a very fine university someday." Cohen feels that the situation at issue is the relation of admin istration to faculty and to stu dents. Cohen mentioned he would like to know the reasons for his dismissal because he is in the pro cess of a re-evaluation of his life aims and he feels the reasons could •be of value to him in his re-evaluation. quo in many Cohen's closing comment will Irving Kochei THE NITTANY CUB John Wayne Wins Oscar For Best Screen Performance Of A Personality By Kathryn Franis Aloe Now that the recent orgy of self-gratulation (hereafter known as the Academy Awards) are over, the cry of cuckoos resound throughout the land: "John Wayne Best Actor? He can't act his way out of a paper bag. He just got it, `cause he's a conserva tive hawk. Why not Dustin Hoff man or Richard Burton? The Os car's are rigged; nobody who ever deserves one gets one." True. But did you ever hear of Sean Thornton or the Ringo Kid or ;Sgt. Stryker? Maybe Tom Dunson or John T. Chance or Sean Mercer? Nathan Brittles? Tom Doniphon? Ethan Edwards? Ole Olson? Remember the old pilot striding off into the fog, whistling softly after landing the crippled air liner? Or the old bush pilot wait ing quietly to be rescued in the midst of an artic waste? Or may be you remember Rooster Cog burn Chirging across the pasture, his horse's reins in his teeth, a rifle in one hand, a six-gun in the other? All of those characters were created on the screen by John Wayne—perhaps all merely facets of his own personality, but all memorable. In case you've for gotten the films, they were, in order: THE QUIET MAN, STAGE COACH, SANDS OF IWO JIMA (Big John's other Oscar Nomina tion), RED RIVER, RIO BRAVO, HATARI, SHE WORE A YEL LOW RIBBON, THE MAN WHO SHOT T,TBERTY. VALENCE, THE SEARCHERS, THE LONG VOY -46E HOME, THE HIGH AND MIGHTY, ISLAND IN THE SKY, and TRUE GRlT—and I didn't even mention FIONDO, NORTH ALASKA, REAP THE WILD WIN* THE sporEzitB; THEY WERE EXPENDABLE,. FORT APACHE, THE FLYING TIGERS, WAKE OF THE RED WITCH, and Tall ALAMO or the 183 Mins that Big John has made during his 43 years in the movies. It's obvious that John Wayne has made some good, memorable Maris (and some bad ones too— remember THE BARBARIAN AND ME GEISH or ant: CON QUEROR?) for some of the very best directors, so he can't be the bad actor that most of the critics also be mine. "I don't fear change that society began to worry less about its happiness and more about its freedoms." COMING TO STATE COLLEGE? Rent at White all Plaza Apartments 424 WAUPELANI DRIVE STATE COLLEGE, PA. 16801 PHONE (814) 238-2600 undergraduates Graduates Welcomed 1-2-3-4 PERSONS, FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED APARTMENTS INSPECTION INVITED See Our Model Apartments Daily 10:00 a.m.-8 :00 p.m. Saturday 10:00-6:00 p.m. or by Appointment would have us believe. Perhaps the answer lies in the term "actor"; perhaps Big John is not an actor but a "personal ity", which might be defined as "someone who portrays an aspect of his own psyche for the movies". Now, if Big John is a personality, not an actor; then we can place him in the category of "super star", along with Gable, Bogart, Cooper, Tracy, Stewart, and Cag:- ney; all of whom have won Os cars; all of whom are not actors in the manner of Dustin Hoff man or Maggie Smith; and all of whom portrayed the image that the Public expected of them. But is Big John a super star? Yes, definitely. A little over a month ago he was named the big gest box office star of the last, 25 years, having grossed more than $350 million dtu'ing that time for the' 53 films he made—that's over 6 1 /0 million per picture. Obviously he pleases the public, as did Ga ble, Bogart, Cooper, Tracy, Stew art, and Cagney, whose combined film grosses during the same per iod amounted to over $4OO mill- We have grown up wtih these super star-personalities; we take them for granted—they're friends. But they are not - actors in the truest sense of the ward; they do not subordinate their own person alities for the demands of the role. They are not actors in the sense that Alan Arkin is or Susannah York. And Hollywood does not usually give awards to actors: Hoffman and Arkin have never won; neither have Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Henry Fonda, Or son Wells, Charles Boyer, Greta Garbo - , or Charlie Chaplin—and the latter two were cited by Hollywood as the greatest "ac tors" of all time. Some of these have been given special awards, but that might come under the heading of char ity. Big John isn't the type to ac cept charity—and his work in TRUE GRIT was the equal of Gable's in IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT, Bogart's in the AFRICAN performances. I, for one, was glad to see Big Sohn meet Oscar, as he is the summation of Hollywood films. Beginning in 1929 in John Ford's HANGMAN'S HOUSE, a silent film, Wayne made nearly 100 quickie Westerns for cheap film studios (KING OF THE PECOS, by RIDES ALONE, TWO FlS.c.h;.o LAW, THE THREE NIESQUITT.taiS) before Ford gave him starring roles in STAGECOACH (1939) and THE LONG VOYAGE HOME (1M). But he didn't really excite the public until C. D. DeMille cast him as the evil sea captain in REAP THE WILD WIND (1942). Even so he did not hit his stride with the public until Howard Hawks asked him to play the old range boss in RED RIVER (1948). probably his finest performance. From htat time on it has been stardom, even though - he has to live down the fact that he was the first singing cowboy on tte screen . . . in 1930 in Raoul Walsh's THE BIG TRAIL . . . the singing was duhhed, 'thank goodness. John Wayne did not give the best acting performance in 1970 —that belongs to Dustin Hoffman in =NIGHT COWBOY—but he did give the best screen perfor mance of a personality in TRUE GRIT. And that is what Holly wood gives Oscars for. And, critics to the contrary, r feel deserved it—not only for TRUE GRIT, but for all those long walks down dusty frontier streets, for all those bone crunch ing brawls, for all the times we listened and listened tight, for the lurching walk, the crooked grin, the faltering love scene's, and for all the hours in the darkness of a movie palace or a living room when we became the per son we really are—deep down in sideßig John Wayne. 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