TUESDAY. MAY 23. 1961
the megaphone
Summit Meeting
We were sitting in the Lion’s Den Friday morning
doing some “people watching” and eavesdropping when
one coed came up with the quote for the week.
“What”, we heard her mutter between sips of coke
and doses of Collegian, “is this thing they call encamp
ment? Sounds like a blast—but what’s it doing for me?”
Just then someone fed a few
nickels into the stereo and our
sleuthing into the general mind
of the student body was out
do n e by a
Beethoven So
nata with bon
go accompani
ment
All hough
we’re not re
lated to Gallup
and the boys we
know enough
about statistics
to know that
our one sample
was insufficient
for a poll. Miss Teichholtz
Investigating further, we
were not surprised to find that
most students were totally in
different to the activities of
their leaders, who each fall,
secrete themselves at Mt. Alto
for a game of tennis with
Prexy.
These findings in part repre
sent an intangible—call it a
nebulous feeling that somehow
bull sessions with the Ad
ministration have not yielded
better student government.
But then we remembered
what we had heard at SGA
Assembly meeting the night
before. We heard Skip Witmer
and Ed Grubb speak of the
intangible feeling that accom
panied the Mt. Alto summit
meeting each year.
They said one couldn’t ap
preciate this feeling unless one
had been to encampment, but
that it, in itself was reason to
keep encampment at Mt. Alto.
Now we never went to en
campment our application
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by meg teichholtz
was rejected lasi spring and
this fall we will be putting out
the 32-page orientation issue of
Collegian while the meetings
are being held.
So, you see, we cannot evalu
ate encampment in the same
intangible terms. This puts us
in the same unfortunate boat
as the student body at large.
What we can say, however,
is that if Dennis Foianini’s goal
of producing strong govern
ment for this student body at
large is to become tangible
more work and more people
will have to dedicate their time
to what he has termed “a sober
evaluation of past encamp
ments,” in addition to the pres
ent problems to be considered.
Quite logically, more people
would mean that encampment
would have io be held here at
University Park, since Mt. Al
io center can only accommo
date 70 people, many of whom
attend by position.
Other points in favor of hold
ing encampment at University
Park include that it would be
somewhat less expensive, all
old files and reports are readily
available, and the entire Ad
ministration is present.
These may not be intangibles,
but we hope they won’t be dis
missed for this reason.
As a matter of fact all this
talk about the “spirit” of en
campment makes us recall the
“spirit of Geneva” in 1955.
What did it all mean the next
year?
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necessarily represent the views
of The Daily Collegian.)
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Black's View of L.P Challenged
TO THE EDITOR: When the
editor of The Daily Collegian,
Johnny Black, believes it ne
cessary to publicly state his
motives for joining Lion’s Paw,
then proceeds to defend them,
he obviously has a good reason.
The problem, though, lies
within his understanding of
Lion’s Paw.
Lion’s Paw is a senior men’s
honorary society, founded or
iginally upon the altruistic
ideals of humility and service
to the college; these ideals jus
tified its secrecy.
More recently Lion's Paw,
somewhat surreptitiously, has
rationalized its existence as a
benevolent discussion group,
exerting influence only
ihrough the exchange of ideas
among members "a bull
session," a la Johnny Black.
The immediate difficulty to
be recognized is that only ac
tion, not bull-sessions can jus
tify the raison d’etre of a for
mal group with its attendant
prestige and status symbol, as
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must be the case with Lion’s
Paw.
It would be a naive and spe
cious socio-psvchological as
sumption that.rn inactive, dis
cussive group would by pres
tige alone attract the lime and
talents of select “campus lead
ers.”
To assert, as did Johnny
Black, that Lion's Paw has,
one, an influence upon student
government and activities,
which may becoinc "undue,”
and two, that Lion’s Paw
clandestinely works “for a Bet
ter Penn State, v is to witness
the most recent example of
contradiction and confusion of
goals among Lion’s Paw mem
bers.
The central difficulty is that
for Lion’s Paw to claim altru
ism under the aegis of secrecy
may now be to proclaim acute
hypocrisy for a self-gain, the
undue influence.
It is the prerogative of John
ny Black to state publicly why
he now believes secrecy con-
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ducive fo Lion's Paw, or fo risk
public stigma for confusion and
contradiction.
In a larger Sense, it is the’
prerogative of Lion's Paw to
exchange secrecy for accep
tance, idealistic confusion and
contradiction for truth and
purpose.
The other alternative would
be for student and faculty rec
ognition of Lion’s Paw as a
secretive, political group im
plicity sanctioned by the Uni
versity and not necessarily
now dedicated to the good of
the University as a whole.
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