: RIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1963
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By JOSEPH
Assistant Professor
The author and Thomas F.
Magner, head of the Slavic
languages department, stud
ied Russian at Moscow Uni
versity last summer under
a' government - sponsored
teachers exchange program.
Most Soviet students (as
well as teachers) that I met
seemed thoroughly indoctri
nated with Communist doc
trine. However, there were
those who saw everything as
either black or white and
those who were more cautious
and did recognize that rela
tions "among people and na
tions are somewhat complex
and cannot be reduced to a
black-and-white category.
An example of the first
group was a graduate student
in history who blamed the
West, especially the U.S., for
all the present difficulties in
the world. He said, for ex
ample, that the Soviets’ quar
rel with China was not serious
but insofar as it was serious
and important, the U.S. was
to blame for it because it
would not recognize mainland
China at the United Nations.
On the other hand, he would
freely admit that the U.S.S.R.
was still backward in many
respects (therefore, accord
ing to him, the use of force
by the government was often
necessary), and that private
economy had been eliminated
too soon.
However, he (and practical
ly everyone else) blamed the
country's economic difficul
ties on the suffering the So
viet Union experienced in
World War 11. What was most
interesting to me was the fact
that this staunch Communist
several times pleaded for
books from the West, books
with a .“different point of
view.”
Supper Talk
Once a friendly coed, a
fourth-year philology student,
invited one of my American
colleagues and me to a sup
per that she had prepared in
her room (fried potatoes, to
mato salad with plenty of
onion, bread, tea, and cook
ies—all very delicious).
Afterward we had a long
conversation and talked
about almost anything. It
would seem, therefore, quite
natural to talk also about re
ligion. However, as soon as
the word “religion” was used,
the young lady became so dis
turbed that she had to leave
the room and calm down out
side. She couldn’t understand
how-any rational human be
ing could have anything to
do with religion and faith.
Speaking about the extent
of indoctrination, may I also
add a remark that one of my
Soviet teachers once made in
* class: namely,' that “only
| abnormal people go to
1 church.”
] Two Graduates
\ Once I talked to two female
■| graduate students in philos
-1 ophy. One was specializing in
iraodern Italian philosophy,
1 and the other was actually
-1 just beginning her graduate
i study after teaching, for a
1 year, a course on atheism at
’j a medical institute in
!’ Kharkov.
They were both quite ex
cited about the “eventual vic
j tory” of Communism in the
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1980’s (in the U.S.S.R.) and
described to me with great )
enthusiasm what life under.
such Communism would be y :
like; e.g. free food and enough;-
living space for everyone, free'
transportation-, free univer-.
sity education for everyone, \
etc.
In one of the University
post offices a student asked
me whether I had any chew- .
ing gum with me. He said he
was going to Baku the next :
day and would like to show
the gum to his friends there. ’-
I invited him to my room be-;
cause I didn’t have any with
me, gave him some gum and,
then we talked for an hour.
What actually followed was
an hour of most violent (ver
bal) attack against the U.S.,
during which he blasted the
“American capitalists and
millionaires” as “warmon
gers and exploiters' of the
working class.”
Blames U.S,
He accused the U.S. gov-;
eminent of being “responsi-’
ble for discrimination against ’
the Negroes and unemploy
ment,” and for “all kinds of
disorders in the world today.” ;
We never did get acquainted, i
but before leaving we did :
shake hands and he wished ■■
me a pleasant journey home.
After this fiery Russian had .-
left, I noticed on my table a'
pretty miniature wooden shoe
.vhich, I thought, he must have •
forgotten in his excitement..
Since I knew neither his name''
nor his room number, I went
to the person on duty on our,
floor and asked her how I,
could return the item to its
Russian owner. She said 1 “Oh l
no, don’t return it, your visi-.
tor didn’t forget that at all,.
but simply left it with you as
a gift.” Well, this is at least
one way of receiving a gift ’
in the Soviet Union.
I also met several students'
who did not issue such blanket ;
accusations against the U.S. :
and who either avoided ideo-:
logical discussions or else
were rational in discussing
various things and wanted to’
know more before passing a
judgment.
Sense of Humor
I especially enjoyed talking
to one graduate student (in
history) because he had a
sense of humor and because
he did seem to agree that our
ways of life are rather com
plex. He also agreed that in
order to understand one an
other better we must not
cat e g orize everything as
either black or white.
Discussing unemployment,
for example, he was quite
perplexed when I said that
the Soviet Union has a great
deal of hidden unemployment.
(Moscow University, for ex
ample, employs several hun
dred women doing, in ' my
opinion, useless jobs. They
are of course paid very little,
less than an average unem
ployed worker is paid in the
U.S. through his unemploy
ment compensation.) He
found my remark on hidden
unemployment “very inter
esting” and said that he “had
never thought about it that
way.”
There was one thing that
especially impressed me, or
(Continued on page four)
JFK Texas Trip
Indicates Concern
For '64 Election
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP) -
President Kennedy said yester
day the United States “has
tossed its cap over the wall of
space—and we have no choice
but to follow it.”
In remarks prepared for the
dedication of the $l6-million
Aerospace Medical Center
first stop on a three-day tour of
the Jlpne Star State—Kennedy
had this to say about the em
battled space program:
“There will be setbacks and
frustrations and disappoint
ments. There will be pressures
for our country to do less and
temptations to do something
else. But this research must and
will go on. The' conquest of
space must and will go ahead.”
Kennedy’s Texas schedule,
taking him to San Antonio,
Houston and Fort Worth on the
first day, was indicative of
Soph Class Plans
Ugly Man Contest
Mirror, mirror on the wall—
Who’s the ugliest of them all?
An Ugly Man contest, spon
sored for the second consecutive
year by the Sophomore Class Ad
visory Board, will be held Mon
day through Wednesday.
Any fraternity or men’s "resi
dence area can enter the contest
by submitting a picture of its
contestant.
The pictures will be placed on
display outside the Lion’s Den
in the Hetzel Union Building for
the three days of the competi
tion. Students can vote there for
their favorite ugly man.
Each vote counts one cent. The
group sponsoring the winning
picture will be awarded all the
money its picture receives.
The remainder of the money
will be used for book scholar
ships for deserving sophomores.
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presidential, concern about his
chances of carrying the state in
the 1964 election.
Nonpartisan Text
Kennedy’s text for an appear
ance at Brooks Air Force Base
in San Antonio had a distinctly
nonpartisan flavor. The Presi
dent even *>>•' ~
cans, in effect, to start using the
term “New Frontier. •
"That is not a partisan term.
It is not the exclusive property
of either Democrats or Repub
licans. It refers instead to this
nation’s position in history to
day,” he said.
Kennedy said that, in this
age, “doing and daring are re
quired of all who are willing to
explore the unknown and test
the uncertain in ever phase of
human endeavor.”
The Texas trip, which will
take Kennedy also to Dallas,
Austin and the Johnson City
ranch of Vice President Lyndon
B. Johnson, followed by three
days a presidential foray into
Florida.
Texas and Florida are the
most populous states in the
South and the 1964 destination
of their electoral votes—2s in
Texas and 14 in Florida—is un
certain.
Civil Rights
In Texas, as in Florida, Ken
nedy will tour areas where civil
rights is a major issue and
where partisans of Sen. Barry
Goldwater of Arizona, front run
ner for the GOP presidential
nomination, are numerous.
What Kennedy does and says
may be influenced more strong
ly, however, by still another
factor factional squabbling
among Texas Democrats.
Those most commonly identi
fied as symbols of the principal
oarty factions are Gov. John
Connally, a conservative, and
Sen. Ralph Yarborough, a lib
eral, who will seek re-election
next year.
Johnson is close to Connally
and both have avoided sup
porting Yarborough’s second
term bid.
Connally and Johnson were
on the ground to greet Ken
nedy at San Antonio. Yarbor
ough flew in from Washington.
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CYRILLE ADOULA
Adoula Declares
Soviet Diplomats
Must Quit Congo
LEOPOLDVILLE, the Congo
(fP) —Premier Cyrille Adoula
ordered all Soviet diplomats
expelled from the Congo yes
terday.
He emphasized, however,
that he was not breaking diplo
matic relations with Moscow.
He told reporters he had de
clared all members of the So
viet mission persona non grata
(unwelcome) and had informed
Soviet Ambassador Sergei
Nemtchina of his decision.
“We remain disposed to ex
amine the candidacy of Soviet
diplomats submitted for our
agreement,” Adoula said.
He added the Russians would
have to quit the Congo, “prob
ably within 48 hours.”
'lrrefutable'
The expulsions followed the
arrest Tuesday of two Soviet
diplomats on their return from
Brazzaville. Documents seized
from them proved “irrefut
ably” they had been in'contact
with a Congolese government
in exile being established there
by Adoula’s extremist. oppo
nents, Congolese officials said.
TODAY
ON CAMPUS
Tickets
Approximately 250 student
tickets remain for tomorrow’s
Artists Series.concert featuring
Russian cellist Mstislav Rostro
povich. All general admission
tickets for the program, which
will be held at 8:30 p.m. in
Schwab, have been sold.
Applications
Applications for the Spring
Week committees must be re
turned by 5 p.m. to the Hetzel
Union desk.
* * *
The deadline for applications
for the USG College Bowl com
petition has been extended to 5
p.m. Wednesday. All applica
tions should be returned to the
HUB desk. '
Other Events
Fluid Mechanics Seminar, 4
p.m., basement of Sackett.
Intervarsity Christian Fellow
ship, 7:30 p.m., 11l Boucke.
Mineral Industries Colloquium,
3:45 p.m., Mineral Industries
auditorium.
Presbyterian University Fellow
ship cabin party, 7:30 p.m.,
132 W. Beaver Ave.
Wesley Foundation scavenger
hunt, 8 p.m., Wesley Founda
tion.
Educators Support Objective
Study of Communism, USSR
How should teachers go
about the job of teaching a
bout communism and Rus
sia?
The subjects should be
taught as objectively as pos
sible in the public schools and
teachers should be immunized
against local pressures that
seek to have such courses
either banned or presented as
anti-communist indoctrination.
This was the consensus of a
group of high school educators
and administrators who dis
cussed the subject in a seminar
at the University this week.
The conference was spon
sored jointly by Penn State’s
Russian Area committee and
the Pennsylvania Department
of Public Instruction with the
co-operation of the Pennsyl
vania Department; American
Legion.
Too Hot to Handle
Vernon V. Aspaturian, pro
fessor of political science and
director of the seminar, said
that schools, until recently,
have tended to shy away from
teaching such subjects because
of their controversial nature.
“But it has become apparent
that public schools can no long
er ignore the growing power
and challenge of communism
and Soviet Russia in world af
fairs,” he said. “Students know
about communism, they see,
hear and read about it, but
haven’t been getting any in
formation about it through the
schools.”
The problem now, Aspatur
ian said, is that many commu
nities are demanding that
something be taught.
Involved Problems
“But many teachers are" not
equipped to teach the subject
and others feel that they will
‘get into trouble’ if they pre
sent such courses objectively.
Some pressure groups want
strictly anti-communism cours
es showing communism as all
evil. You can’t get a self-re
specting teacher to go along
with this type of indoctrina-
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For the standard drill, Cadet
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The consensus of the group
was that the nation and the
local community are best
served by permitting the teach
er to present the material
objectively and from all sides,
rather than being compelled
either to ignore the matter or
to bow to the views of the
most persistent and vocal
forces in the community.
The teacher should objective
ly discuss the attractions of
communism, its weakness and
vulnerability, and its breeding
grounds.
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“If you want to combat com
munism, you' want to know
what it is, what its. strong
points are and what its weak
nesses are,” As'paturian said.
“Teachers should also point
out to students that we must
lie ready for all types of chang
ing relationships with the So
viets from peace to war.”
The consensus of the group
was that local communities
should also realize that the
teacher is dealing with “a very,
very touchy topic” and should
be as free from pressure as
possible.
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