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EDITOR'S NOTE: Much has been spoken end written—
tco much perhaps—about the recent wave of student activism
on the nation's college campuses. In this story. Collegian
News Editor Kathy Case offers her view in the form of a
review of aciivisir.-Penn*State-siylo during iho past lew
terms. This story was prepared for a classroom assignment
and offers a refreshing and thorough analysis of the situation.
The beatnik is d< ad. long live the aeti.'ist!
C’hai fetcm i/ed In a beard. bniM hair, iaclcd blue icans
and '•men bonk Imu. Mu* boa l, 'ik shambled.
unto the L’mversitv stone durum the filttrs to piaetiee bn
theory of withdiuual fioiu •'Orietv and to contemplate )ih
identity
found Mjck'fy riddled with hypocrisy find uslinCfS,
and sought escape li'om il thiough fiee-verse pnetiv and
serin-ion. Occasionally in his search for utopia lie turned to
dui'K- alcohol and sexual oigiex
With the advent fit the sixties, a new face appeared,
clean shaven, well shod and with new tools of protest—the
picket, the sit-in, and the soaobex. He is the activist. His aim
is to change the nation politically and socially.
For the inrM pari, iho more intelligent, intellectual, and
.'icadenucaliy successful he is, the more likely he is to be
found oil the soapbox
From Berkeley io Yale, he has protested what he con
siders infringements on basic human freedoms. He carries
signs with slogans ranging from "End the Draft" to "Give
Negroes the Vote." He is part of what is collectively called
The Movement.
AI Pi'Tkelcv Calif. Ihe ■iiow_-ir>i j n t is called free speech:
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f’arl Davidson and Bruce Goldberg, both philosophy gradu
ate students.
"We wish to e-tnblish the freedom of sclf-rosnoivdbihtv.”
-aid co-chau man Daeidso n. "but our idea of freedom is not
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In order to establish a basis from which to work, the
committee supported a rights and responsibilities bill mtio
duccd into the student governing body, the Undergraduate
Student Government.
Proposing no specific legislation, the bill eventually
passed by USG stated that it was the right and responsibility
of evety student'
‘'to acquiie knowledge and experience m any matter
within the laws of the land that are consistent with the
Bill of Rights
"to question and receive answers when there are an-weis
'to refuse to obey laws contrary to human dignity
"to make the iiilc.- governing their conduct in the uni-
As USG became involved with their annual elections,
the Ad Hoe Committee picked up the hot potato of students
rights and responsibilities, earned it to their soapboxes and
began to speak.
On May 5. 1965. .John Downey, an English graduate stu
dent. stood on a battered soft-drink ease in the center of
tile University campus and announced the advent of a
"new type of student.”
This type of student, he said, "feels like a number in an
impersonal and indifferent environment and begins to ques
tion his present experience because he knows that the type
of experience he has in college prefigures on life on the
outside in a curious way.”
Downey proposed a scries of spontaneous speeches
during which students could express then' views, and the
“soapbox derby'' began.
During the next two weeks the ‘'derbv” became quite a
production with everyone advocating their own paiticular
cause.
Civil rights worker Robert Lavelle spoke about voter
registration in the South and called for student participa
tion to aid oppressed Negroes.
James Caulan, Ad Hoc Committee member, demanded
that students be allowed to make their own rules.
Barry Clenison and Thomas O'Brjen, both graduate stu
dents who had done civil rights work in the South, demand
ed that the University cease its policy of "m loco parentis”
Tlie derby was moved to the steps of Schwab Auditorium
and music was added to the oroduction with the singing of
an appropriate sons. “The Times They Are A-ChanginV’
Attendance at the speeches varied from crowds of 150
to five or six
Somewhere along the line the Administration appeared
on the scene.
Robert G. Bernreu'er. vice president for student affairs,
accepted an invitation to ascend the soapbox. He denied the
accusation of University paternalism. The University sets
rules, he said, “simply in order that groups of students can
live together amicably.”
When asked his opinion of the Ad Hoc Committee, Bern
reutcr said. “I am completely neutral, and I am not aware
of any controversy between the committee and the Uni
versity.”
Bernreuter called the group's activities "a little echo of
Berkeley." Penn State went through its worst student tur
moil three or four years ago, long before the Berkeley revolt,
he said. Then student leaders were running for office on
platforms promising to resist anything the administration
had to offer, he added.
Witli the assumption of responsibility, he said, the stu
dents eventually began to resist resistance.
Dorothy L. Harris, dean of women, addressed a group
of students in a residence hall about the Berkeley situation.
She accused the leaders of the Berkeley uprising of “radical
ism and irresponsibilitv.”
Her speech caused a flurry of protest from Ad Hoc
members. John Downev again took the soapbox and called
Dean Harris’ statements irresponsible and uninformed.
The voices of a few faculty members rose to comment
on the student movement.
William M. Frev. assistant professor of management,
said. “Students must have the guts to do more than talk
about the ideal situation: they must do something about it ”
Joseph Flay, instructor of philosophy, said, "The student
already has all of the freedom and all of the responsibility
he will ever have. The basis of freedom is the abilitv to make
a choice, the ability to decide and to act. Responsibility, on
the other hand, has nothinq to do with ability, but means
simply the shoulderina of the consequences of acting as vou
have decided to act. Therefor, if you act upon your choice,
you are responsible for what you do."
Although the term’s main subjpet of controversy was
University policy for the Ad Hoc committee, other organiza
tions carried the Penn State movement into national affairs.
The Congress for Racial Equaliv. (CORE) sponsored the
showing of a Viet Cong-produced film brought to the campus
by Russell Stetler. a Haverford College student.
The Universitv allowed the film to be shown and was
chastised for doing so by the Harrisburg administrators
Members of the Student Union for Racial Equalitv.
(SURE) picketed the Erie Hammermill Paper Company to
protest its proposed move to Selma. Ala , which would con
flict with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s proposed eco
nomic boycottt of that state.
The Young Americans for Freedom. (YAK'. Die onlv
recognized conservative groun involved in Ihe Penn Slate
movement, nickeled to protest the SURE picket which they
said would harm industrial growth.
Thirtv-nine members of SENSE. Students for Peace,
marched on Washington to protest President Johnson's
police in Viet Nam.
The YAF held a demonstration al tlm foot of the Mall
in support of Johnson's Viet Nam policy. 'Die YAF demon-
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.'nation was picketed by membeis of SENSE.
And \anous civil lights groups combmcl to form a
“Penn State in the South” program and ehose three students
to work in the South on voter registration.
Then suddenly it was summer and everybody went
home. The majority of the members of the alphabet soup of
organizations dispersed temporarily. Davidson, Goldberg,
and O'Brien, the principal characters in the Ad Hoc saga
transferred to other schools or finished their degrees, and
the flood of student agitation dwindled to a trickle.
But behind the comparatively quiet scene, protestors
were sitting on their soapboxes and working out the legal
and adnnnislratii c aspects of activism.
When students returned to the Umveisitv Paik campus
last fall, they found a few changes had been made The
Ad Hoc committee announced that they had a university
charier, had lomporurtlv abandoned the soapbox and were
planning to work with the existing governmental bodies to
introduce legislation. Many Ad Hoc members were "under
ground. writing lulls lor USG.” according to John Rosen
baum. Ad Hoc'co-chairman
Barry C’lcnison and Bruce Macombor. members of the
initial Ad Hoc Committee announced that tlicv planned
student-faculty seminars in the Hcl/cl Union Building once
a week.
SENSE announced that they planned lo place less em
phasis on demonstrating and more on educating the students
regarding their princinl-s. They suggested that their mem
bers wer coats an ties to any future demonstration
And a group ealed (lie Socialist Club was chartered.
Only the YAF seemed to retain the spark of the Spring,
which they blow into a minor llanie by distributing copies
of John Stunner's controversial hook "None Date Call It
Treason "
It appealed the Penn Stale movement had been .silenced
until Oct. Hi. International Day of Piolc-I Against lIS.
Policy in Viet Nam.
Members of SENSE and the newly formed Socialist
Club gathered at the foot of the Mall to protest the war in
Viet Nam and fanned the flames of dissent, which eventually
culminated in the burning of selective service identification
by four of the demonstrators.
The four, Andrew Stapo Jacob lloynrin. Ibn-id million
and Imran Rahaman. are all nicmlK’!of SENSE nr 1 tip
Socialist Club All held Ihe opinion dial llv wai in Y'ei Mam
was immoral and illonal but had varied re i-ons for bin nine
their draft identification.
Ileyman. who actually burned his draft dihMln'.ilmn
notification became he did not have ln< dralt card with
him. said his was an "act of civil disobedience" against the
draft.
Rahaman ancl Milton, who hunted their .'-elective ser
vice cards, said thov were motivated hv contempt for "a law
which would enforce five veins m j.nl for the burning of a
draft card.”
Stapp said. “We wouldn't be fighting in Viet Nam now
if we didn't have the draft. The dialt is not the cause hut
the means."
YAF was in Washington picketin'; m support of .Joint
son's policin' at the true of tlt• ■ SENSE demonstration
Although occasional protests were reaistered concern
ing University regulations durino the fall term, the princi
pal topics of Protest—Part two—at Penn Stale were the Viet
Nam controversy, freedom for the Negro, and socialism in
the United States.
SENSE and the Socialist Club stood off to the ieft with
YAK and the Young Republicans maintaining llte riphtest
position.
Somewhere in llte middle was (he Ad Hoc Committee,
selling back issues of ''Birdcage." a humor magazine banned
front campus, speaking to administrators and introducing
legislation.
The administration was silent on the activities of the
other activist groups but commented freely on the Ad Hoe
Committee.
Dean of Women Dorothy L, Harris said. “The Ad Hoe
Committee rose to fill a need hut the direction m which it
will go depends oil its leadeis" The niobicm is. she said,
“how do vou maintain ord a- m sociotv and still work in
its behalf.’"
Bernreuler observed that students seemed to he in
volved in a "frantic search for causes that is so diaracter
istic of the activist movement.”
The piedommant vehicle of protest m tile fall term was
the spcak-in. with pickets on the side
The Socialist Club brought Russell Stetler back to cam
pus to discuss communism.
The YAF greeted Gen. Maxwell Tavlor. while SENSE
and the Socialist Club picketed against him.
The Ad Hoc sponsored a rallv at which student leaders
denounced the University ruling foibidding coeds to visit
downtown apartments.
Various civil rights groups organized a "Freedom Wepk"
during which comedian Dick Gregoiv and rights worker
Fannv Lou Hamer wore the principal speakers.
The draft card burners await the decision of the FBI
which has investigated the incident and sent (lie lesults of
their investigation In the US Attorney General.
The Ad Hoc Committee has turned its attention to pro
test of a tuition hike for out-of-state students oassed by the
Legislature, and which, they felt, will make Penn State a
university "limited to Pennsylvania students."
In spite nf the turmoil, administrators still leel that
I here is no revolt al Penn Slate. Dean of Men Frank J. Sillies
labeled the Penn Sta'p activism ‘‘mostly an emulation of
Berkeley.”
He said that in the oast students suffered in silence and
today there are more nutlets for revolt and channels for
•unrest, "but they haven't suddenly appeared, they have just
become more vocal.”
He said that "fringe groups" overlap and so give Ihe
appearance of being in greater numbers. ‘‘Membership lists
would probably reveal the same names over and over again,”
be said
Bernreuter said there was no tevnlt because. “We have
no city. The non-college population is not full of semi-pro
fessional agitators. That's the cw*e at Berkeley.”
Sillies said that graduate students who usually “set the
tone" are not as numerous at Penn State.
Dean Harris said. “The administration needs to en
courage social action, but not at the expense of doing the
job the students came here to do —get an education.”
“Our job, after all.” she said, “is to promote the best
values of our culture, not the worst."
Bernreuter said. ''Parents want the University to put
its weight on the side of what is moral, to set the highest
moral standards.”
"Many students feel they have olher rights as humans,
rights which everyone has reserved to himself under a
democratic society, but this is not a democratic society,"
Bernreuter added.
The University was not formed by the students, he said,
and "any rights not delegated to the students aie not stu
dents’ rights.”
According to a survey conducted last winter by the
Student Affairs Research Bureau. 72 per cent of the students
polled felt that they had encountered no restrictions on
speech at the University, 51 opr cent felt the administration
had the right to regulate University atmosphere, although
85 per cent were against the policy of “in loco parentis ”
The general view of the students was that they didn’t
waul to take over but did want a share in running the Uni
versity.
Although no legislative action has vet resulted from
protests staged by students at Penn State, the activists feel
that they are becoming an integral part of tbe university
scene.
Carl Davidson summarized the activist feeling. "The age
of apathy characteristics of the fifties is at an end Students
todav are recognizing limitations, and they are overcoming
them.”
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