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Vol. 2, No. 1
CHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA
December, 1969
bINGBERG EDIT
CRITIQUE OF WAR
While battles of varying sizes
and intensities were being fought
all over the globe during the past
three years, political leaders in
world capitals and at the United
Nations spent many hours exam-
ining possible ways and means to
end the conflicts.
At the same time, a group of
192 scholars in 40 countries were
going one step further. They
were examining, among other
things, the philosophy behind war
and the reasons nations send men
marching to battle in the first
place. x
The results of their collective
thoughts on war have been pub-
lished by Henry Regnery Press
of Chicago. The volume, edited
by Robert Ginsberg, assistant pro-
fessor of philesophy at the cam-
pus, is entitled “The Critique of
War: Contemporary Philosophical
Explorations.”
Ginsberg directed the project
which involved three years of
work and correspondence in seven
languages with the contributing
philosophers. The final volume,
available in both hardcover and
paperback, contains 18 chapters
on the causes, consequences, jus-
tification and elimination of war. |.
According to Ginsberg, the book
is the first systematic analysis of
war by an international team of
philosophers. The topics explored
ROBERT GINSBERG
by them are war and human na-
ture, religion and peace, sover-
cignty and anarchy, Marxism and
capitalism, nonviolence and world
government.
Ginsberg, in addition to editing
the volume, also contributed an
introductory chapter entitled ‘“Phi-
losophy vs. War” and translated
two chapters from the Spanish
and Portuguese.
In the volume Ginsberg pro-
poses the organization of Inter-
national Centers for the Philoso-
phy of Peace and War, and Inter-
national Philosophy Peace Teams.
Contributors to the project in-
clude Carl J. Friedrich, Risieri
Frondizi, Barrows Dunham, Robert
S. ‘Hartman, E. A. Burtt, and
Swami Nikhilananda.
835 BLACK STUDENTS
ENROLLED AT PENN STATE
University officials report ap-
proximately 835 black students are
enrolled on a full-time basis at
all Penn State locations through-
out the state.
Enrollment at the University
Park campus was reported to be
in the vicinity of 550 while a
survey of the 19 Commonwealth
Campuses showed another 285
black students registered for for-
mal day programs. Another 365
black students were estimated to
be enrolled in evening or Con-
tinuing Education credit pro-
grams at the campuses for a total
of approximately 1,200 throughout
the system.
University recruiters George
Culmer and Hodges Glenn mean-
while, have begun their activities
throughout the state for the 1970-
71 academic year. Mr. Culmer
spent a week in Philadelphia
visiting high schools with pre-
dominantly black student enroll-
ments. The two recruiters plan
to concentrate their activities in
coming weeks in the urban cen-
ters of the state such as Phila-
delphia, Pittsburgh, Erie and
Harrisburg.
Of the Commonwealth Cam-
puses, Ogontz and Delaware re-
ported the highest black registra-
tion with approximately 165 each.
Ogontz reported 84 students in
day sessions and another 81 in
the evening programs. Delaware
reported 60 in day sessions and
109 in the evening.
The campus survey did not in-
clude the King of Prussia Gradu-
ate Center.
Judge Louis A. Bloom Reelected
Head of Campus Advisory Board
Louis A. Bloom, judge of the
Common Pleas Court of Delaware
County, was reelected president
of the advisory board to the Dela-
ware County Campus at the
board’s annual meeting.
Judge Bloom has been a mem-
ber of the 19-member advisory
board since its inception in Au-
gust, 1967. He served as vice-
president to the board during the
1967-68 school year, the first year
of the campus’ operation.
Other officers reelected to a
one-year term are Paul M. Mat-
thews, executive assistant, Large
Turbine Division, Westinghouse
Electric Corporation, Lester
Branch, vice-president; John D.
Vairo, director of the Delaware
County Campus, secretary; LeRoy
F. F. Wright, president of the
ORIENTATION SCORED
BY STUDENT GOVERNMENT
University Park (APS) — The
Organization of Student Govern-
ment Associations (OSGA) has
threatened to advise Common-
wealth Campus students not to
attend the Orientation Program
at University Park unless changes
are made in the program.
OSGA revealed that it rejects
the Orientation Program that
transfer students from Common-
wealth Campuses receive when
they transfer to University Park.
The OSGA is an organization
that represents all students and
student government associations
at the Commonwealth Campuses
of Penn State.
Ron Batchelor, OSGA president,
said that he considered the pres-
ent program a ‘‘slap in the face”
and a “waste of time.”
“If the upcoming programs are
not turned over to the Keystone
Society or OSGA, we will notify
all Commonwealth Campus stu-
dents not to attend the Orienta-
tion Program at University Park.
The present program considers
the transfer students as secondary
to incoming freshmen,” Batchelor
said.
According to Batchelor, an in-
vestigation is being conducted by
OSGA to find out why most Com-
monwealth Campus transfer stu-
dents were placed in study lounges
and other temporary housing
quarters.
“We want to know how many
students, who the students are,
and from which Commonwealth
Campuses they come. We will
demand a reason from Housing as
to why they were placed in such
anarters. We want a guarantee
that it won't happen again and
we reject the $15 refund that
Housing gives the students if
they are still in temporary assign-
ments after five weeks,” Batchelor
said.
RISING TUITION COSTS
BLAMED ON LEGISLATURES
Rising university tuition costs
can be blamed, at least in part,
on State legislatures.
The National Association of
State Universities and Land Grant
Colleges say tuitions and fees rose
to unpredicted heights for this
academic year and said the sharp
increases could be attributed to
difficulty in obtaining funds from
the state legislatures.
Penn State ranked ninth in the
nation in tuition costs for in-state
students. Penn State's charges
are $600 compared with Cornell
(N. Y.) $825, Rutgers (N. J.) $536,
and West Virginia, $280.
Delaware County National Bank,
treasurer; and Guy GG. deFuria,
KEsq., of deFuria & Rankin, a
Chester law firm, solicitor.
The board heard a report from
Campus Director John Vairo on
the progress of the campus’ first
permanent building now being
constructed at Yearsley Mill and
Middletown Roads, Lima. The
building is scheduled for comple-
tion by the spring of 1970.
Campus Comes Alive
At M-Day Microphone
Panelists discussing the draft and its alternatives are (left
to right) Ronald Zirpoli
(4th term—DOC), Joseph Bacanskas
(4th—Education), Thomas Madden (1st—Education), and James
R. Smith (4th—Science).
November’s Moratorium ‘“Speak-
Out” at Delaware consisted of
student speakers, a panel discus-
sion, open discussions, and some
»houting matches in the lounge.
Participants debated politics in
Sotheast Asia, the effect of
Vietnam on U. S. domestic poli-
cies, the immorality of war, and
the question of anarchy vs. or-
sanized government.
The draft was the subject of
the panel discussion. Panelists
included Tom Madden and Jim
Smith, Ron Szirpoli and Joe
Bacanskas. Although all disagreed
with the present draft system,
Madden and Smith favored reform
while Szirpoli and Bacanskas ad-
vocated abolition. Madden pointed
out that creation of a voluntary
army would, most likely, also cre-
ate an army of minority military
force. Smith added that a volun-
tary army would consist of highly
military-oriented individuals who
would “think Army.” He ex-
pressed the possibility of a mili-
taristic-fascist state emerging. The
arguments against the draft were
summed up in a statement by Joe
Bacanskas: “No one has a right
to my life.”
The final portion of the three-
hour program included some fire-
works. Jim Smith pointed out
that there could hardly be an in-
tellectual atmosphere cultivated
in the school when everyone sat
around playing cards all the time.
(Some student card-players went
on as usual during the speech but
a noticeable reaction set in.) “In
an institute which stresses intel-
lectual pursuits, ROTC, the mani-
festation of discipline rather than
learning,” Jim said, “does not
belong. One's mind should be
stimnlated, not drilled to con-
formity.”
Jim’s observation was well taken
by many students. One onlooker
heatedly . remarked: “ROTC has
the office that had been SGA’s
office last year. While this year,
SGA is put into a broom closet.
This campus’ sense of priorities
is somewhat backwards.”
At the end of this comment,
Norm Udovich, a ROTC member,
rose to defend his position;
“ROTC is not just discipline, but
also individual thinking. These
men are being trained to become
leaders and to defend you people.”
One black student objected to
this statement, however, and
pointed out somewhat vehemently
that “he didn’t need the protec-
tion.
street, he could certainly defend
himself.”
James Garner, a Black student,
vas next. He spoke on ‘Blacks
and the War.” The essence of
James’ speech was this: “I didn’t
fully realize the irony of Vietnam
until I finished my hiteh and re-
turned to the States. A black
man goes to Vietnam supposedly
to fight for freedom. Yet when
he returned to his homeland, he
has to crawl for his equality.”
James also noted that: “There is
too much emphasis on foreign
affairs, and not enough on our
domestic problems.”
However, Ramona Phillips, she
too a black student at Delco,
voiced a conflicting opinion—one
that was quite unpopular for the
day. “I feel that demonstrations
had their purpose at one time,
but now they are no longer useful.
We don’t know the effect these
demonstrations have on the North
Vietnamese. They (Vietnamese)
can look at our country and see
it torn with disagreement and
they might decide to make the
war last for years and years.
I'm not saying, however, that
demonstrations are bad. I believe
that in many situations they are
good. But, in my opinion, in re-
gards to anti-Vietnam demonstra-
tions, the bad outweighs the
good.”
LITERARY MAGAZINE
Students at the campus will
again publish a literary magazine
in the Spring. Editors Greg
O’Meara, and Trina Donato are
beginning a campaign to solicit
short stories, poetry, drawings,
nhotographs and essays from the
student body. Students wishing
to submit materials for possible
vublication in Symposium, should
submit the materials to Mrs. Vir-
zinia Beards, publication advisor,
or to the Office of Public Infor-
mation.
When he walked down his