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EDITORIAL
The Question We Must Ask
The Black Student Union called for the resignation of Dr. T. Sherman
Stanford, admissions director of Penn State, at a meeting held Nov., 10
at University Park.
Members of BSU waited for the administration to appear at the public
ly announced meeting which they called. President Walker said he was
unable to attend because he would be out of town on that date. The BSU
then demanded the resignation of Stanford for the following reasons:
He is most responsible for the admission of all students into the Penn
sylvania State University, hence he is directly responsible for the lack
of admissiOn of 1,000 black students into Penn State.
If he were professionally committed to this job, he would have made
an early statement of his desire to attend the meeting, which the. BSU
called. However, it is obvious that he lacks personal and professional
commitment.
Dr. T. S. Stanford lacks the professional ability and responsibility to
be corni:letent in his position.
The question which we must ask is whether Mr. Stanford has refused
to admit students because they are black or whether he has refused to
admit students because they do not meet the university's admission re
quirements.
If you look at an application for admission, you will find that the uni
versity does not ask for a student's race. However, the applications do
require a complete record of the student's high school grades and a re
cord of the student's college board scores. Therefore. Mr. Stanford re-.
jects or accepts students not by race but by ability. If a student meets
the academic requirements of the university, he will undoubtedly be ad-
The BSU appears to be concerned with, tbe admission of black students
mitted.
and relatively unconcerned with , the university's standards. If we are to
maintain high academic standards at the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity, we must insist , that Mr. Stanford continue to admit students on the
grounds of academic achievement, regardless of color.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
"CONGRESS SHALL MAKE graphed insert because the print-
NO LAW ABRIDGING THE er refused to be involved.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR OF What is needed now are more.
THE PRESS." test cases so that the University.
Dear Editor,
We are sure that you as an
editor of a college newspaper,
who has not yet had to buckle
under to the requirements of, a
commercialized press, agree with
these words most emphatically.
It is our feeling - and we are
sure that you will agree that
Rule W-20, either as it stands
or in any other form, represents
a violation of Article I of the
Bill of Rights.
As you know, the Ogentz Cam
pus News has made the first test
case, of Wl2O. The Faculty Coun
cii here, after the Temple Free
Press had been kanned due to
W-20, recommended to the Facul
ty Senate at University Park that
Rule-20 be abolished. Last year,
at this time, the Ogontz Campus
News printed an objectional word
but had to put it on 'a mimeo-
can be pressured into abolishing
Rule W-20.
If you are not familiar with
Rule-20 it is now published in the
new Faculty Senate Rules. As
you will or have seen, the rule
is purposely vague, and its over
all purpose is to set standards -
moral standards - for the students
of this University. This too is an
impingements. of our personal lib
erties. We feel that no one or no
group can impose their moral
standards on anyone else. To do
so is the first and prerequiste
step toward fascist-p,gism.
In Pght of these points we hope
that you will jo'n with the Ogontz
News in a concerted effort to
force the issue of Rule W2O on
the Faculty Senate.
Such an action will have many
benefits. First, it could succeed
in abolishing W-20. Second, it
THE HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
To the Collegian:
There was _on this campus last
year a sage who accused this
school of lacking class. This
promptly led all of the arid sage
brushes in s our halls to rise up in
an attexnpt to rub him, out. That
made, his, point. Part of having
class is krniwing how to accept &
deal with well - intentional
criticism. But that was last year,
or was it?
For over a year now I have
listened to the complaint of our
"higher" class students that our
faculty is apathetic, that is doesn't
care about our students ! that it
doesn't offer its time to the stu-
dents, or its ,skllls outside the
classroom. This criticism has a
point but not a sharp one. High
acres surely has some faculty
who would not be caught in the
SUB if it were Shangra-La, which
of course, because many students
think it is their own pig sty, it
is not. And there are those facul
ty who, be- arseof their apathy,
will let Comeriety die. These,
however, are not the whole facul
ty. Our school does have, in case
the students haven't noticed, a
history club, a basketball team,
a literary magazine, a rterary
society, a drama club, a ping
pong team, a chess team, even a
football team. All of these activi
ties require the time of interested
'faculty who re^eive no extra fin
ancal comoensation and little or
nn rooogurion for what they do.
So let's be fair. Is it the faculty
or the s'uden's who lack class?
Who is it that is really anathetic?
Joyce Rupp
It is my dubious pleasore to be
advisor to the CrllPoian this
term. Puroorfertiv this paoer is
staffed by eager beavers - jazzy
jumpers: who work; work, work.
The fact has been that where it is
said, to be staffed by many com
petent. Persons, from the so called
Chief Edtor on down, it is run
by about three or four persons in
spite of the rest of the staff. The
Collegian is too full of persons
may make the Park realize that
the commonwealth pampusei are
alive and well in. the State of
Pennsylvania.
Sincerely,
The Ogontz Campus News Staff
Collegian
To The
an its; staff who :Think it is. im
portant to have a journalistic
title, but , who are not popared
to merit that title. They expect
it as a gift. In this they are no
different froritthose apathetic fac-
ulty who think they deserve praise,
for not doing harm instead of for
making an outstanding contribu
tion to the school, or- who think,
that they , deserve respect simply
for -having been• born, even if
they are now a dull teacher wend
ing a fosslized mind. But even
the most disinterested faculty of
this school, or.i*gnost• incompet
ent teachers, make a contribution
to the education of, its students.
Apathetic students contribute noel
ing. And the present situation on
the Collegian, where the few
-arry the many, is nat arr except
ional example of the "I can no'
he botherod eon% let me helr
student who fill is the cracks in
the SUB with what sl-ould he their
expanding youthful hearts and
m'nd but whi^h 's r'a'ly so much
warmed-over air.
I think back to 'ast year tiv ,
year of the "classy Hi rhlcre.
T think of a ~l ie^s hib t''a' er
really started becius.- s
could not- be bothered to send
their class schedules to the on
tential club ad'v'isor so that he
could get things or" . anized. And
I think of this year the year of
th "class'er" Highacres, the year
of the "young Turks" and the
"outside agitators" from points
South and east and west. I think
of a paper which is lucky to run
at all. I think of a Corneriety thatt&
failed I think of a ping-pong club
aga , n nat formed. And I think of
next year, the year of the "dass-
iest" Highacres, the year when
the faculty of this campus begins
to see that there own indictment
for apathy is the product of a
studen`ry that wants it to be fac
ulty and studonts, too. A student
ry that is itself colorless, listless,
lazy, trite. That shall be the- year
of the faculty "wise up. and walk
out," the year when our students
get the effort from our faculty
on their behalf that the studnts
themselves are prepared to put
out—no effort at all.
NOVEMBER, 1969
Richard. A. Campbell
In4rnctor in. Philosciphy