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Editorial Opinion
2 Words for Cabinet
It seems that whenever student leaders go to Old Main
to talk with administrative officials, one word often creeps
into the conversation in one way or another..
That word is “responsible." Old Main tells student
leaders they should be responsible—that is, according to
Webster, “able to respond or answer for one’s conduct and
obligations."
This is mainly responsibility to the University. We
expect the same thing in our national leaders. We expect
them to be responsible to our country.
There's another word we have never heard told to a
student leader in Old Main. That is “responsive”—that is,
according to Webster “ready or inclined to respond or
react in sympathy*” We expect our national leaders to be
responsive to our wishes.
Let’s try to apply “responsible” leadership to All-Uni
versity Cabinet, the highest student government body.
Being a "responsible” member of Cabinet means, to
in. that the person checks both sides of the issue, weighs
iht evidence carefully, and voles intelligently and
honestly.
Let’s try to apply “responsive” leadership to Cabinet.
The main purpose of student government, supposedly,
is to represent the students. After all, most of Cabinet’s
major ac:i«m isn’t final—it merely recommends something
to Old Mam, the Trustees, etc. In doing this, it should be
"responsive” to the wishes of the student body.
Than, wa expect our elected representatives to be
"responsible" and "responsive."
Too often Cabinet falls down on the “responsive” part.
It could be said that Cabinet tries too hard to be “respon
sible” and forgets too often to be “responsive.” Maybe this
is because Cabinet members don’t realize they can be
"responsible” and still disagree with Old Main.
In Memory of ...
The late Joseph F. O’Brien, professor of public speak
ing and for 30 years coach of the men’s debate team, was
honored this weekend when the name of the Interstate
Debate Congress was changed to the Joseph F. O’Brien
Interstate Debate Congress.
The honor was bestowed at the 23rd annual congress
by representatives from 16 colleges and universities from
the eastern states.
O'Brien, who passed away Feb, 14, waa an outstanding
orator and active in many state and national speech
organizations.
Coming to the University in 1928, he substituted for
John H. Frizzell as coach of men’s debate and continued
for 30 years, coaching teams that achieved amazing success.
For a number of years, he served as president of the
Pennsylvania Speech Association and also served as presi
dent of the Debating Association of Pennsylvania Colleges
and the Pennsylvania Speech Roundtable.
When the Interstate Debate Congress chose to rename
itself in memory of O’Brien, it remembered one man who
contributed inestimable service to both the University and
the art of public speaking.
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN' ’ STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Freund Writes
On the Ethics
Cabinet Forgot
TO THE EDITOR: I am writing
you because I am extremely puz
zled by a certain decision of the
student Cabinet which seems to
me to be strangely at odds with
the facts which it intended to
adjudicate. I refer to the discus
sion of the All-University Presi
dent’s trip to New York to deliver,
to Larry Sharp the contributions
from the student body.
. If my facts are correct, the All-
University President stayed’ in
New York for a day longer than
was necessary to fulfill nis mis
sion, and he did so at the expense
of student funds allocated for
this mission. Following a thorough
discussion the Cabinet was report
ed to have endorsed all the actions
and judgments of their president
connected with the New York
trip.
f would lika to submit that the
particular action of staying over
in New York for another day also
to be paid from student tees was
wrong, and that therefore the de
cision of the Cabinet to approve
all actions and judgments in the
case as right was self-contradic
tory.
Now why is the action referred
to wrong? It is wrong because it
falls under one of the basic “do
not” principles of social living
which can be formulated as fol
lows: If money is collected from
people under the laws of society
and entrusted to a person to be
spent in a specified manner, then
it would be wrong for such a per
son to use it wholly or partly in
a way in which it was not meant
to be used considering the pur
pose for which it was allocated.
This principle covers all kinds of
funds socially collected, taxpay
ers’ money, church money, chari
table and welfare drive money
and so on and sets up social limi
tations regarding the way in
which group funds may be spent.
Many student, to whom I spoka
objected here that they would
have acted exactly in the same
manner as their president did it
placed in the same situation. But
this objection completely misses
the point.
The rightness or wrongness of
an action is not determined by
what we actually do, it is de
termined by what we ought to do.
Even if the whole of the United
States agreed upon a certain line
of action, this alone could not
render it right if it were in con
flict with the values and ideals
to which United States citizens
are committed.
We all are well aware of the
frailty, the imperfection of hu
man nature, of the numerous
wrongs which we constantly com
mit in the performance of our
regular duties. But this fact does
not relieve us of our responsibility
to recognize whatever wrong we
may do and to keep intact our
sense of the real values in life to
which we are dedicated. It does
not relieve us of the responsibility
to live by these values and ideals
instead of merely conforming to
what we see other people doing.
If, for instance, taken prisoner
in a war we find all our fellow
prisoners succumbing to enemy
pressure toward some kind of
collaboration, it would still be
wrong for us io succumb too. To
do so might be understandable,
it might be excusable, it might
even be inevitable, but it could
never be right.
Thus we seem to be driven to
the conclusion that the Cabinet’s
decision, being self-contradictory,
was an irrational one such as
cannot be defended on rational
grounds
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ED OUBBS. Editor
STEVE HIGGINS, Bosineta Manager
STAFF THIS ISSUE: Night Editor. Mary
Kelly; Copy Editor. Denny Malick: Wire
Editor. Bill Jaffe:. Aniitintt: Marlene
Mileni. Jeannette Saxe. Them Del Prete,
Dodi Kota. Amy Rosen that Carol B lakes*
laA l &etoy Aadmoa aad Ernie ‘William*
—E. H. Freund
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To State, with Love
'Paths of
And the
By Larry Jacobson
Although not an ardent movie-goer, I had the plea
sure Saturday night of standing through a performance of
“Paths of Glory”—along with what seemed like 4000 other
students.
Billed as one of the top ten pictures of
movie lives up to all advance billing. It’s
have to see twice to reaUy ex
tract all the complex meanings
inherent in the show.
“Paths of Glory” is an ex
pose’ of an infamous episode
during World War I when a
French commander tried to
fire his artillery on his own
men for not taking part in a
charge on a German hill. He
undertook the task of trying to
take the heavy fortified hill,
and when the attack failed, he
had to cover up for his. own
mistake in judgment. In spite
of the fact that the charge
failed because of heavy enemy
artillery, the commander has
one man from each battalion
tried before a court martial on
the charge of “cowardice.” Al
though the real reason for the
court martial was to cover up
for his error in ordering the at
tack, he runs-the court martial
under the guise of “building
the moral of the men ”
Although innocent, the three
men are convicted by a rigged
trial and shot to death. The
commander gets his due when
it is discovered he ordered his
artillery to fire on his own
men, and although it doesn’t
happen in the picture, one gets
the impression that he too
eventually gets court mar
tial! ed.
Although I walked away from
the movie with 15 or 20
thoughts swimming around in
my head, the movie made one
point that overshadowed all
others: whether right or wrong.
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Military
the year,
the type
you must'obey orders in any
military service. One entire
facet of military philosophy is
that to question an order, or
disobey it, is treasonable.
Now this philosophy is fine
during wartime, because war
is in itself an ugly thing, and
battles are'oftimes won or lost
on split-second timing. There
is no time, or’place in disci
pline, for questions. The only
trouble is that this philosophy
doesn’t disappear from the mil
itary during peace-time.
And with that thought in
mind, I kept recalling the
ROTC controversy on campus
a few months ago. Somewhere
during the many discussions,
the statement was made that
the military has become a part
of the American way of life,
and should be included in the
College of The Liberal Arts be
cause military and civilian
principles could be inter
changed. In other .words,, each
would get a taste of the other.
Perish the thought! I grant
we are no longer the country
of free thinkers we once were.
I also grant that the military
principle is becoming more
and more dominant as the
years pass by. But why help
this transition along?-
The LA College is the last
haven of the free thinker. Put
the military in that college,
and if by nothing more than
osmosis, some of this strict dis-
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