THURSDAY. APRIL 26. 1962 Letters Problem of' StudeOt I Apathy • • Discuissid,' by Soph omore • • ._•••. TO THE EDITOR: in reference the result is -rules -lacking stu to your column of 1 April 24,, dent ! backing since student be frank Miss Palmer: your government is only a club for question should not have been • the social climbing, there are "Where does apathy end?", but occasional exceptions, future where does apathy. begin? I lawn ; mowers" of America. will grant Yon your point that ,I have no intention of voting apathy is a. disease : spreading unlesi you can assure me an across Penn State, but I will other 1 Foianini-type president, ask: why shouldn't there be a -man •Who will stick up for apathy? Why should I vote in his rights and try to make the the current, elections? Well, I students' voice heard. can tell you why I shouldn't PuriliSstoore. there Is a vote. • world of difference (in fact. • Student government in my no analogy) -in voting for a opinion is worthless: a big- president of •th e n ati on al gov . talk, do-nothing body c pamper- emin e n t as contrasted to vot ing and burping the Univer- lag for a president of the USG. sity administrators. How can One goiernment is sovereign: you have effective government the other is not.• Need I say with an "elite" of reactionary, more? The problem is this. Miss miniature overlords manipulat- Palmeri as long as the Univer- Ing the strings 'of puppet altrstu-continues to treat students dents? What does it matter if striving to find a place in a students want a Thanksgiving It o wijoisilectual society as vacation? The Senate adjourn- members of the common masses ment gave the answer. So, I through its institutional meth should vote for an officer hi ods of IBM machines, rules on order to get a non-profit book- dis'cipliite, and rules: on con store or a. different grading fortuity; you 'will hay, apathy. system, Ha! No student govern- I conjure you Ann: if you ment is going to get me the are fed4up with apathy;at Penn above. • State, you as editor 'of The The 'only way any student Daily Collegian. can do some will ever purchase a book at thing about this condition. unit at this institution is by You. Ann, must accept the paitkeipating in a mass sevolu- • • challenge by striking at the Jaen In which the members . of heart of the problem through the.l3oard of Trustees are mur- striving to make the Penn dared fn \ a protest hanging on State student a human being the Mall by the student body. and •an individual. The road , And, what of the student will be long and the fight will government-itself? Even where be hard, but as editor of the student goverment does exist Collegian you have the neces and does accomplish something, sary weapons. -Burt Kaplan '64 • ; Soph Attacks Campus Patty TO THE - EDITOR: All year I waited for all the material • things that ! . Campus party promised last ; year. The Gfeat ;Foianini, whose drive and de termination was "unquestion- , able" was going to change stu- , dent government, rid it of its apathy, etc. (of course, . all without previous student gov ernment experience). But notii intieazne forth. ;Will the voting majority be / fooled again? Will they let Den nis Eisman 'put another,one over on them? He's usin an other crop of puppets on the Campus party slate 'to try and stay! in power..„Too bad with all his dealings he couldn't have found' better candidates to use'. 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Gamma Sigma Sigma sisters, 6:30 p.m., 105 Armshy. CRAM COURSE No, 3: ENGLISH. POETRY Final e•CZWIR Kill son- be upon IN. Tll6 it no time for fun and Kamen. Let us instead study hard, eram flereelliF, prepare /midi,- oust England, Meanwhile limbs went G, Rome to try to grow. Who does not remember his wistful lyric: " Although I am anfy fire feet high, Same day I will look in an elephant's eye.. But Keati: did not grow. liis friends, lihelley am! Byron, • touched to the heart, rushed to lion* to stretch him. Thin too failed. Then Byron, ever the ladies' man, took-up with Lueresi* itom;a, Catherine of Aragon, and Annie Oakley. Shelley, a more don tie type, stayed home with , his wife Mary, and wrote his famous twin: lore to stay horne frith the miJous and mite, • And hug her and kiss her end gire her a bite. Mary Shelley finally got 40 tired of being bitten that she went into another room and wrote Frankenstein. Upon reading tt►s "•., manuscript, Shelley and Byron got so ,eared they immediately \ booked imuwage home to England. Keats triedto go too. but he was so su►all that the clerk at the itraniship office.teouldtet ate him elver the top of the counter. So , f(enhi remained in,Rome and died of a broken heart. Byron and Shelley tried a lot and then together compoisixt this immortal epitaph: Ocro&old Keats, he-might hare been short, _ But he , Fa* a great American and a heck of a ?!►rd sport. * tsss No rikaaa. OIL, • with L•Wflai:G• Mitt2kitt= Author of "Rally Round TM Flag, Roys". "TM ' Man y Loses of Dobie Gillis", efe.) In this column today let us make a quick survey of English Poetry. When we speak of English poetry, we are, Of course, speaking of Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Some say that of the three, Keats was the most talented. it is true that he displayed his gifts earlier than the others. Mille 0111 a schoolboy at St. Swithin's hewrote his epic lines: If I ant good, I get an apple, So I don't whistle in the chapel. • From this distinguished beginning, he went on to writer an. other 40,000 poems in his lifetime— which' is all the more remarkable when you consider that he was only five feet,tall l I mention this fart only to sh o w that phySical problems never keep the true artist from creating. Byron, for example, was lame. Shelley had an ingrown hair. Nonetheless, these three titans of literature turned out, a veritable torrent of s romantie• ixictry. Nor did they neglect their personal lives. Byron, a devil • with tlie ladies, was expelled from Oxford for dipping Elisabeth Barrett's pigtails in an inkwell. lie thereupon left England to fight in the Greek war of independence. He fought bravely and well, but women were never far from his mind, as evidenced by this immortal poem: How splendid it is to fight for the Greek, Bid I don't enjoy it half as much us dancing cheek to cheek. While Byron fought in Greece, Shelley remained in England, where he became court poet to the Duke of MariboroUgh. (It is interesting to note in pasting that Marlborough was the origi-. nal spelling of Marlboro Cigarettes, but the makers were unable _ to get the entire word on the package. With characteristic in genuity they cleverly lopped off the final "gh": This; of comae, left them with a "gh" lying around the factory, They looked for some place to put it and finally decided to give it to the Director of Sales, Mr. Vincent Van Go. This bad a rather curious 'result. As plain Van Go, he had been a crackerjack director of. sales, but once he became Van- Gogh, he felt a mysterious,. irresistible urge to paint. ffe resigned from the Company and became an artist. It did not work out too well. When `an - Gogh learned what a great success ISfarlqoto Cigarettes quickly be came—as, of course, they had -to with such a. flavorful flavor, such a filterftil filter, such a flip-top box, such:a soft pack—he was so upset about leaving the firm that he cut off his ear In fit of chagrin.) But I digress. Byron, I say, was in Italy and Shelley in ./"GiR Titan. not poetry is the buslnaes of the Marlboro maker., and roe tell you truly that 'goo canq And a belles lasting, better smoking cloaratte than toddies Marlboro. International Fliers, 7 p.m., ballroom. LA Student Council. 6:30 214 HUB. News Conference Luncheon. a.m.. HUB ballroom. Rod & Coccus Club, 7 p.m., Patterson. Sigma Tau Delta, 7:30 p.m... HUB Executive mee 6:45 p.m. Spring Week Carnival Cbm tee, 9 p.m.,, 218 HUB. irtylv letkaziez PAGE F
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