`Average' Students Look magazine, in a forthcoming issue, probably offers the best remarks for'a new academic term. The words are reassuring to the majority of students who have never quite realized their dreams of high "All-U's" and have watched the select group of those that have receive numerous awards and plaudits for "academic- achievement." Harold A. Fitzgerald observes in "Needed: A University for the C+ Student" that the average student, with a cumulative average that just ap proaches 3.00, is the "Average Young Man who built this world." "Always be kind to your A and B students," the author quotes Novice G. Fawcett, president of Ohio State, in a letter Fawcett received from the president of Yale a few years ago. "Someday, one of them will return to your campus as a good professor. And, also be kind to your C+ students. Someday, one of them will build you a $2,000,000 science laboratory." The author adds that the C+ student is the "collective backbone of the nation." The logic of the C+ student eventually wins out when the theories so well-memorized by the A+ student don't always suffice. We tend to agree. And. we'd like to add' that those students who protest, who participate, who lead at this university, can only boast a handful of the "top. students" in their ranks. The majority don't have academic records as shining as their extra- TODAY ON CAMPUS Association of Women Students Panhellenic Council, 3:30 p.m., Executives, 6 p.m., 214 Hetzel HUB Ballroom Union Buildiag Press Association of Common- Ge rm an Department, 6:30 wealth Campuses; 7:45 p.m., p.m., HUB Assembly Hall 216 HUB Inter-Collegiate Council Board, Students for a Democratic So -6:30 p.m., 216 HUB ciety, 7:30 p.m., 217-218 HUB Interfraternity Council, 3 p.m., Undergraduate Student Govern -216 HUB ment, 7 p.m., 215 HUB Men's Residence Council, 7:30' Used Book Agency, 8 a.m., p.m., 203 HUB " HUB cardroom Successor to The Tree Lance, eat. 1887 MR BE* (tolitglatt 82 Years of Editorial Freedom Published Tuesday through Saturday durlpg the Fail, Winter and Spring Terms gull once weekly en Thursdays during June, July and August. The Daily Collation is a student.epereted newspaper. Second class postage paid at State College, Pe. Circ4latlen, 11400. Mall Subscription Price! 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Marti It Managers: Licit AdYertiting Manager, Larry Gruch: Assistant Local Advertising Managers, Marcia Snyder and Edward .Fromkini Ce• Credit Managers, Judy Solna and GM Fowler; Assistant Credit .Manager, Clem Gelb; Classified Advertising Manager, Patty Rlssinger; National Advertising Managers, Mary Ann Ross and Linda Haller; Circulation Manager, George Bordner; Office and Per. cannel Mangier, Karen KIWI; Public Relations and Promotion Mangier, Maid Resnlkoff. PAGE TWO IS STEVE SCHLOW'S TEMPERATURE EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY STARTING TONIGHT WRSC FM 961 EDITORIAL OPINION TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1968 REALLY A SUBNORMAL 96.7 That's Just the frequency at which you'll find him holding forth A new night-time talk and back•talk show Any Tuesday or Thursdeg, 10 • II p.m. Do the Commies Control the U.S. Senate? Can SDS really damage your genes? Listen to TEMPO-TALK where such subjects will be ARE THE MASS MEDIA A MESS? (TONIGHT) TOPIC TO BE ANNOUNCED. (Jan. 11) IS POP MUSIC TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING? (Jan. 16) DOES ANYBODY BELIEVE ANYBODY? (The Credibility Gap) (Jan. 1.9) Twice each week Steve Etchlow, young bearded Lion of the College Avenue Scene will pt in the cage (WRSC's Studio A) with two or three full-grown, untamed undergraduates and whip up a discussion guaranteed to rock the seismograph in In the Nike Building. You can get in on the action too, by dialing 238-5085. You'll be on the air all the way from Bellefonte to Boalsburg, from Snowshoe to Orbisonia. No free Om, no tickets to next week's production—just an hour of talk and back• talk on TEMPO-TALK WRSC FM 96.7 10-11 P.M. COMMUNITY CONSCIOUS RADIO curricular records, but their contributions and their practical learning cancel that so-called negative aspect. Their time is spent doing, instead of locking themselves away with their textbooks. The C+ students are the ones you'll see at the majority of programs and functions at the Univer sity, the ones speaking out while their fellow A+ students are too busy at the library. And, we are not attending the University pri marily to go to classes and pile up credits. Learning involves much more than that to make a university important and to make a student's time here valuable later on. The University should realize that its C+ stu dents are really the most important part of the stu dent population. And, as long as a good number of A+ students seem only content in fostering their own academic averages instead of trying to use their ability towards more constructive activities, the C+ student will continue to deserve more admiration. A+ students are the top echelon at any institu tion of learning thanks to the layers of C+ students supporting them and keeping them up there— aca demically, if nothing else. Buy books, study and go to class. Sure. But don't only buy books, study, and go to class. Use your ability and energy profitably, even if you're a "C+" student. TO THE EDITOR: On Nov. 22 a group of students pro claimed a day of mourning for our troops in Vietnam that have made the ultimate sacrifice. Of course, the theme of this insolent demonstration was that our troops have died in vain, that they have been needlessly sacrificed for a worthless cause. Conspicuous'by their absttnce at this degrading display of yoUthful ignorance were the veterans of Vietnam. Strange, indeed, that none of our men who have served decided to take advantage of this demonstration to make their countrymen aware that our fighting men see no rea son for our presence in Vietnam, are there against their will and are being forced to fight a war of aggression. Since none of our veterans showed up to participate in this demonstration, and in fact have never showed up for any long-haired show of disenchantment with the war effort, one must wonder about the opinion of the men who have been there. If Americans have a shred of respect left they must prevent the reoccurence of anything approaching the spec- Thetacle that occurred on the mall on the eve of Thanksgiving. , opinion of our fighting men as a group has been accurately summarized by Carl Janus.lll, a 23-year-old sergeant serving in Vietnam. He writes, "Everytime I read NO! Twice a week on WRSC-FM's TEMPO•TALK in which YOU can participate by dialing i 2384085 Are there Martians on Earth? scrupulously avoided in favor of Letters To War Dead Sacrilege s a OVER 'THERE! OVER TRUE: DRESS OPTIONAL BERRY'S WORLD t pr) 4 i (Ae "Do you think the junta will ever let Melina .Mercauri return to power h 7 Greece?" The Editor in the papers of these protest marches I get sick in the stomach." If our deceased veterans somehow voice their opinion of their "mourners" they would effectively com municate their feelings in the same way Pfc. Ronald Pad get.). a Vietnam veteran did upon observing a group of dem onstrators in front of a Detroit bar. He threw a pitcher of beer on them and spat on the picture of Mao-Tse•Tung which they were carrying. Our men in Vietnam loathe and despise the draft card burning protestors. The dead would turn over in their graves if they knew they were being defiled by a group of so-called mourners that unforgivably insulted them by associating them with an anti-war demonstration. American citizens have the cherished freedom to dissent, but common decency dictates that a mockery must not be made of our war dead. On Nov. 22, every man that has died in Vienam was shamelessly degraded by indi viduals that, had he lived, he would not have blemished his reputation by associating with them. trACK UP tuR TROuOLO6 IPI ktIIIK OW KIT SAG..., ,r; .(-41 NITTANY NEWS B • OK SHOP 'l. lawoo Q 1968 by NU, Inc Robert Dewar '6B Veteran ROW IN THE WORLD AM I GOING TO 6ET iwe TROUBLES IN A 'KIT Bike? the shortest wait & the best selection of, goodies to look at while you're waiting. beside the Corner Room Ever since Will Shakespeare wrote, "Above all to thine own self be true," people have gone around thinking that self-honesty is one of mankind's greatest virtues. Today's young adults set such value on self-honesty that it remains their primary goal in life—after marriage, of course, for the girls. Coupled with the self-truth principle is a search for identity. This is where Shakespeare and the psychiatrists come in. The men of the mind help us help ourselves. They can't tell us what we are, but they try to direct us to find out about ourselves. These men, of course, swear by Will. "If I never accomplish anything else," remarked a one-time Penn State engineering major, "let me be true to myself." That seine student later said, "You can lie to your friends. Everyone does anyway. But if you lie to yourself .. . Well then, life just ain't worth livin'." Most of us agree with the student. At least that's the consensus one gets whenever one hears or participates in a bull session which isn't dwelling on sex or sports. Right? You bet. But , no matter what you're theorizing, it doesn't matter because this self-honesty bit is some ro• mantic concoction of little practicality. False! Fool, you cry? I say there's no greater virtue than self-deception. In the words of the architect who designed Willard Building, "Those who deceive themselves best/live happiest." Look, who are the people who end up in asylums? Aren't they the ones who, after having caught a glimpse of reality, simply snapped out? And what about that most revered and respected man, the artist? He lives and creates in a world of illusion. Wasn't it Friedrich Nietzsche who said lies are necessary to rise superior to reality, to the horrible truth of life? There's no need for us to get bogged down in the psyche of Nietzsche. He really wasn't a pessimist anyway. Art, which misrepresented reality, caused him to be optimistic. Who are the happiest people in the world? The answer's a snap for any parent: children. Kids are so happy because they don't see life in terms of dollars and cents, birth and death. They live in a phony world, a world of illusion. Nevertheless, it is a world of happiness. Give a kid a few blocks, and he's built a pyramid; give 'aim a gun and holster, and he's Wyatt Earp. Children aren't saddled with a station in life like adults. They can change their position with a spark of the imagination. If adults don't like what they're doing, they still have to think of bringing home the coin. But you don't have to be a child to enjoy life. Of course, you must make money to live. But you don't have to do it honestly. I mean you can rationalize, a sophisti cated term for lying. We rationalize every day to make life more bearable. To put it a bit more refined, we study our great politi cians like Lyndon Johnson and speak tactfully or (as Nietzsche would have it) with art. You still don't believe me? O.K. What excuses did you give your parents when they saw last term's transcript? Girls: what kind of line will you throw to the fella' who asks for a date tonight? Men: what did you say to your buddies after you called her? As tough as 'it is to be honest with your associates, it's infinitely more difficult to be true to yourself? Suppose you find your identity. What would you do? Wallow in the satisfaction of knowing that you're perfectly suited as a pipe -cleaner? No. You'll rationalize out of whatever you find. So why expend all this unnecessary energy? ...• . • ••• •••• • . . .. •• •. •• • .• • • • . ..• . ,•••• •. ••.: • : • ••••• •• • • ••• •••••••...• plus: J. Robert Shore Self-Truth Baloney
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