August 6, An Anniversary
By STEPHEN BLUM
Contributing Writer
On Aug. 6 at exactly 8:15
in the morning I forgot an
anniversary. This was, to a
degree, excusable, for I had
been up late the night be
fore, and during the day it
self I had been very busy
working and grading papers.
You know what I mean . . .
Aug. 6 was an anniversary
that you should have remem
bered too. It is a day which
should have called for some
sort of national awareness.
Why then didn't the New York
Times remind all of us about
the magnitude of that day?
Well, I guess, with the Ber
lin crisis and all, nobody real
ly had too much time to read
about the past. And it was hot,
and there were things that had
to be done you know what
I mean . . .
And, as you remember, Aug.
6 came out on a Sunday this
year. Sunday is a day of peace,
set aside by those of peaceful
intent. People don't want to
think about sad memories,
much less death, on Sunday. It
is just not right to ruin a good
day like that, you know.
There is a woman named
Miss Toshiko Sasaki who re-
Letters
Newspapers?
TO THE EDITOR:
We wonder why, in a univer
sity of this size, there are no
facilities available on campus
for students to purchase news
papers to inform us of world
events. Since we have been at
tending Penn State this sum
mer, we have been obtaining
knowledge from books and lec
tures, but as far as the world
affairs, we are ignorant of
what is happening around us.
To cite specific examples, we
discovered that during Gris
son's scheduled space flight,
only some students were aware
of this. Also, in psychology to
day we found that in a class
of 150 students, none had read
this morning's headlines con
cerning the Berlin Crisis.
Is this our preparation for
the future, which, after all, is
why we are here. There seems
to us no reason why the Uni
versity cannot make available
to students a place where we
can buy newspapers, which
would save us the time of
having to walk downtown each
day
—Nan Staggers, '64
—SOH Scott, '64
(Editor's Note: Some of the
leading State newspapers are
sold at the West entrance to
the Lion's Den. During the
next three terms, most of the
living areas will offer news
papers and magazines for sale.
There are at least two news
stands within 200 feet of the
campus.)
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membered th e anniversary.
Miss Sasaki will remember for
the rest of her life that at 8:15
in the morning on Aug. 6, 1945,
"The ceiling dropped sudden
ly and the wooden floor above
collapsed in splinters and the
people up there came down and
the room above them gave
way; but principally and first
of all, the bookcases right be
hind her swooped forward and
the contents threw her down,
with her left leg horribly twist
ed and breaking underneath
her. There, in the tin factory
(where she worked), in the first
moment of the atomic age, a
human being was crushed by
books."
The world full of innocence
and melodrama, has recently
affected a catharsis with the
trial of Adolph Eichmann. We
all Cast Our Stones at this, the
Universal Bad Guy. But there
were others.
On Aug. 6, 1945, a United
States bomber flew over Hiro
shima and, in one flash of light
that was seen and felt around
the world, dropped a bomb
which proceeded to method
ically kill 100,000 people. To
make sure the job was com
plete there was a repeat per
formance of the same fire
show at Nagasaki some few
days later.
I shall not bother to go into
the immorality of dropping
University Summer Calendar
TODAY
Art Lecture by Robert Mallary,
8 p.m., "Between Painting
and Sculpture," HUB Assem
bly Hall.
Dean Lipp talk, 6:30 p.m., Mc-
Kee Recreation Room.
Interlandia Folk Dance, 7:30
p.m., 301 Engineering B.
Co-recreational swimming, 8 to
9:30, Glennland Pool.
TOMORROW
Rozen talk, 12 noon, Chapel,
"Factors Affecting Econom
ic Growth in Developing Na
tion," sponsored by the
Friends and Social Order
Committee.
Peace Corps talk, 7 p.m., 110
EE.
SATURDAY
West Halls record hop, 9 p.m.,
Waring lounge.
Rainbow coronation, 8 p.m.,
Rec Hall.
-WDFM Schedule
0:00 p.m. Summer Serenade
7:00 p.m. Washington Reports
7:15 p.m. Album Review
7:30 p.m.Newa and Weather
7:40 p.m. Financial Tidbits
7:45 p.m. Album Review
8:00 p.m. Show Music
:30 p.m.Starlight Review
9:30 p.m. Opinion 15
10:00 p.m. Chamber Concert
12:00 midnight Sign Off
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that bomb: it is beyond argu
ment, just as politics and war
are beyond morality. What I
should like to do, briefly, is of
fer a few thoughts on the pos
sibility of this thing happen
ing again. This is not a plea
for unilateral disarmament
(thank you dear flag-waving..
letter writers), rather a plea for
common sense.
The atomic bomb that fell
over Hiroshima killed over 96
per cent of the people within
a half-mile of its center. "A
few vague human silhouettes
were found . . One story told
of how a man and his cart on
the bridge near the Museum
of Science and Industry, al
most under the center of the
explosion, were cast down in
an embossed shadow which
made it clear that the man was
about to whip his horse."
Needles to say neither the man
nor the horse was left to prove
the story.
While the stock market goes
up in happy spirals anticipating
that cure for all economic evils
(war), let us hope that there
are some somber men who did
not forget the anniversary of
Hiroshima and who are striv
ing, underneath the political
doubletalk, for self-preserva
tion (peace).
(Views of Columnists are
not necessarily the views of
the Summer Collegian.)
SUNDAY
Chapel, 9 a.m., Helen Eakin
Eisenhower Chapel.
MONDAY
Mateer Playhouse, "Fallen An
gels," 8:30 p.m., (Monday
thru Saturday).
Bridge Club, 7 p.m., HUB card
room.
PIAA Football Officials' Chap
ter, 7:30 p.m. 219 1 / 2 W. High
St., Bellefonte.
TUESDAY
Co-recreational swimming, 8
to 9:30 p.m. in Glennland
Pool,
THURSDAY
Summer Term classes end, 9:55
FRIDAY
7th annual folk and square
dance festival, HUB ball
room.
SATURDAY
Summer term commencement
:00 p.m. Summer Serenade
7:00 p.m. British Information Service
7:15 p.m. Album Review
7:80 p.m. News and Weather
7:10 p.m. Financial Tidbits .
7:45 p.m. Album 'Review
8:00 p.m. Big Band
8:30 p.m. Starlight Review
4:80 p.m. Big Band
10:00 p.m. Ballet Theatre
12:00 midnight Sign Off
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