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Editorial Opinion
Rifles or Understanding?
The Saturday Review in its December 14 issue supposes
for a minute that America will be successful in its pres
ent quest for scientists "and classrooms will be bulging
with physicists, chemists, biologists, mathematicians and
engineers of the highest talents." It supposes even fur
ther that America is able to devise "not only super inter
continental ballistic missiles but a master switchboard
that is the final triumph of war fought by automation."
After all this supposing, It comes down to a simple
2-word question: 'What thenr
"When we succeed in doing these things," the maga
zine says, `•we will still have left the largest part of the
problem facing America. For what this nation needs today
more than scientists is men of wisdom and vision. It ur
gently needs men with the clear and full view, men who
understand what is happpening in the world and who are
not continually being taken by surprise by living history
and by the effects of recognizable causes. It needs men
who can cope with communism in terms of a hard, work
ing knowledge of what it actually is rather than what they
find it convenient to think it is. Most of all, it needs men
who are not afraid to bet their public careers on big ideas
and who are as much concerned about the safety and
rights of the next generation as they are about their own."
Realizing, therefore, that a "master switchboard" will
not bring peace, the Saturday Review goes on:
"Our job is to help create a great debate in the world.
Once we define the need for a pooling of sovereignty
in the creation of a design of world law—adequate to
prevent aggression, stop the nuclear arms race, and
provide a basis for Justice in settling the disputes among
nations—once we do this, we create a stage for the
long-overdue great debate that the age requires."
The magazine realizes that such a debate may not auto
matically end communism as a world threat "or any of
the other insistent problems in the world; but at least it
can enable us to focus on our real problems. Whatever
chance we have of solving a problem depends first on our
recognition of it and second on the amount of dedicated
support that can be rallied behind it."
The Saturday Review, apparently realizing this is not
In the immediate future, says the American universities
"in the meanwhile" can serve "the nation best not only
by giving increased attention to the need for scientific
knowledge but to the need for knowledge about the
world itself. Education for Western civilization is not
enough: beyond Europe lies the preponderance of the
world's peoples. Who are they, what they believe, and
what they want—rather than what the Russians alone
or the Americans alone say or want—could determine
the outcome of the great debate."
Here is a challenge for our universities. it is a challenge
for Penn State. Admittedly, the University does offer
some outstanding courses—lnternational Understanding
300, for example—in this line, but definitely more could
be done, especially by making these courses available to
more students.
We think this la a bigger challenge—a bigger service
—for a university to perform than teaching its male
students how to drill and carry a rifle.
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Other Opinion
The Students
And Freedom
The current crop of college stu
dents, we are told. is a conserva
tive lot, bent more on acquiring
a corporation berth and the re
spectability of suburbia than on
breaking new ground with the
radical thinking and progressive
action that characterized the un
dergraduates of a generation ago.
The evidence to confirm this
judgment is weightier than we
like to consider, and only recently
a fresh bunch of proof turned up
to add to our dismay.
The Bill of Rights. America's
charter of individual freedom,
is , certainly no radical docu
ment. But a scientific survey of
undergraduate opinion has dis
closed that less than one per
cent of the students agree with,
or accept with reservations, all
of the historic liberties, enumer
ated in the Constitution's first
ten amendments by the con
servative founding fathers of
our Republic.
Professor Raymond W. Mack of
Northwestern University and Pro
fessor Robert McGinnis of, the
University of Wisconsin, both soci
ologists, polled a cross-section of
student opinion on the individual
safeguards in the Bill of Rights
and came up with the shocking
conclusion that "even the most
highly educated segments of our
population cannot be courited on
to defend the principles of human
rights set forth in the first ten
amendments to our Constitution."
The response among students
at private, conservative North
western was not greatly differ
ent from that among the stu
dents at the state-supported,
more progressive University of
Wisconsin. And there was no
significant difference between
those who classified themselves
as Democrats or Republicans.
Both surveys showed that more
than 70 per cent of the students
would deny an accused person the
right to confront his accuser, that
more than 40 per cent believe
there are situations where star
chamber proceedings are prefer
able to a public trial, that 40 per
cent believe there are groups to
which the right of peaceful assem
bly should be denied, and that
75 per cent believe there are cir
cumstances in which an individ
ual ought to be subject to double
jeopardy.
Dr. McGinnis broadened his!
study to include 500 secondary i
school teachers. Their response;
was remarkably similar to that of!
the students. The teachers, in fact,i
showed a significantly greater,
proportion of acceptance on only
one of the 14 items in the Bill of
Rights on which they were ques
tioned.
The Ninth and Tenth Amend
ments reserve to the people and
the states all powers not ex
plicitly granted to the federal
government. Sixteen per cent
more teachers than students
agreed with this provision. But,
as Dr. McGinnis pointed out,
"approval of this item seems to
indicate more a belief in states'
rights than civil liberties?'
Part of America's propaganda
campaign overseas consists of a
proud display of our charters of
liberty:notably the Bill of Rights.
Certainly th e McGinnis-Mack
findings emphasize the more ur
gent need for a vast educational
effort here at home to inspire
American youth with an under
standing and appreciation of the
source of - our strength and the
citadel of our freedom—the in
dividual liberties guaranteed in
the first ten amendments to the
Constitution.
Three Engineer Groups
To Hear Nuclear Talk
A joint meeting of the Institute
of Radio Engineers, American In
stitute of Electrical Engineers and
the Electrical Engineering So
ciety. will be held at 7:15 tonight
in 219 Electrical Engineering.
Richard D'Ardenne, field en
gineer for the Nuclear Systems
Group, Leeds and Northrup Co.,
will speak on "Instrumentation
for Nuclear Reactors."
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (IP)—Curious
man.
He quickly developed a contempt for
Indian and his ways.
Yet what has happened?
NVe now have reached a spot in our
by working like fools, we may be
able to set aside enough so that
in our leisure we can do what
the Indians did full time: Go
hunting, fishing and camping.
This is well illustrated today
in a new exhibit at the Smith
' sonian Institution that com
pletes a study of the American
Eskimo and Indian from the far
north to the tip of South Amer
ica.
One can see, as he drifts among
the exhibits, many of them life
size and astonishingly lifelike,
what the Indians wore, what
they ate, how they worshipped,
what kind of a life they lived.
One reporter's viewpoint: It
wasn't bad.
Apparently that's what the
Smithsonian experts think, too.
One placard saps: _"The New
World peoples showed a high
degree of imagination and skill
in using the resources of their
environment." •
Possibly the biggest surprise
comes in the variety of the cul
tures.
The Eskimos, for example,
worked out clothes that not only
are warm but also are extremely
attractive.
The Northwest Indians went in
for fancy masks, and the Smith
sonian, who seems to get gayer
as it grows - older, has arranged a
spectacular display of them.
Lights have been put inside
the masks, and as they glower—
or, worse, grin—from a dark
ened display it certainly is ef
fective enough to scare off any
evil spirit. And that goes dou
ble for the mask representing a
monstrous bird that ate human
brains.
Some of the Indians had habits
that weren't exactly attractive.
The Jivaro Indians of Ecuador
thought that after you captured
an enemy you ought to be able to
'rove it, So why not whack off
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his head and shrink it for evi-
dence?
The Smithsonian, ever thor
ough going, has dug up the re
cipe for head shrinking, which
we won't go into here.- But it
takes 20 hours, and judging
by the r esults of the speci
mens on display, Is scarcely
worth the effort.
If you want to work up a full
portion of . envy,- consider the
Grizzly Bear Indians. They also
are known as the Yosemites, and
each summer those fortunate peo
'pie camped out in what now is
thenational park bearing their
name.
Now a word about the Indians•
religious beliefs.
The Hopi snake dance is a
prayer for rain, and the Smith
sonian has a display in which the
Indians are busily whooping it up.
One Indian has a rattlesnake in
his mouth. •
The Smithsonian has a note
saying no one is sure why the
Indians weren't bitten more of
ten, but that two theories have
been advanced lazy rattle
snakes, or was the poison
milked out before the dance be
gan?
Anyway, no one believes in this
sort of thing any more. But a
curious thing did happen. The
display was opened—and it
rained steadily here for three
days.
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