Editorial Opinion
Rights and Awareness
xjast week The Collegian reported that the Uni
versity administration is studying a bill of rights for
students.
The work of 10 national educational groups, the
bill stipulates rights of students from the time they
enter their school until they are ready to leave.
The bill of rights makes no new revelations of
what students have been asking for some time now.
Like any expected bill of rights of this type, it says
that “freedom to teach and freedom to learn are
inseparable facets of academic life. The freedom to
learn depends upon appropriate opportunities and
conditions in the classroom, the campus and the large
community.”
It further notes that students should exercise re
sponsibility with this freedom—“each college and uni
versity has a duty to develop policies and procedures
which provide and safeguard this freedom”—to use
the exact words.
This clause, of course, is open for a wide range of
interpretation. Hopefully, colleges and universities,
while eagerly embracing this bill of rights, won't find
an easy way to continue various restrictions with the
cry that they are "developing policies and procedures
to provide and safeguard" the freedoms they want to
allow.
The bill of rights is a neutral one. It can really
offend no one. It rambles on about what freedom
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And that can be an advantage.
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to sell
for a giant?
everyone should have, and makes pleasant reading
for high-ranking university officials.
We think they should study it all they want.
We also thought that most colleges and univer
sities had passed the stage where student rights,
which should have started when the schools
built, needed to be clarified in a document sweated
over by 10 national education groups.
- But more important than a student bill of rights
at this time is a bill calling for student awareness.
At a time when the world needs a strong effort for
peace, when domestic problems are increasing, it; is
necessary that students, who hold the future of the
country in their hands, realize their responsibilities
to it. '
It is necessary for them to know; what their
rights are—rights which if learned now in college
will enable them to contend with this future.
If students will demand a complete university ex
perience, chances are they will make the same de
mands from .the world. In other, words, participation
and concern now means a good chance of participa
tion and concern later when it really counts.
A bill of rights 1b fine. A bill to prod awareness,
however awareness can be prodded in the first place,
is even better.
We, think that should be given some study, too,
Letters to the Editor
And Thereby Hangs a Tale
TO THE EDITOR: As members of Penn State’s black com
munity, we had to laugh' when we read the letter in Thurs
day’s Collegian entitled “What Price Honor.”
Here is another poor, brainwashed individual (a white
person, we presume) who actually thinks that this baßtion
of white, fascist, racist imperialism is great. As far as we
are concerned, this country's greatness and honor ceased
to exist in the year 1777.
This person has the nerve to talk about “losing the
world piece by piece.” Whatever made you think that
the-world belonged to you in the first place?
The North Koreans, The National Liberation Front,
the people of Angola. Mozambique, Guatemala, and the
black people right here in this prison (we are referring
to the "land of the free and the home of the brave") are
telling you Americans in the only language that you
understand that you don't own as much as you think.
People all over the world are starting to wake up to
what you have done. Your country is in trouble no matter
where you turn your head. Your emissaries are being spat
on, your flag burned, your embassies sacked, even your
sp-called Allies are laughing and ridiculing your so-called
leadership. De Gaulle is messing with your gold, Wilson
tells you that the “defense of the Far East from Commu
nism" is your baby, your South Vietnamese allies are
telling you that it is your war. Your cities are being
burned; your property destroyed and your prestige
smashed by black people who are saying that empty
promises just don’t make it any more.
After Six
As far 'as a better world is concerned, we too, want
a better world. So do the people of Harlem, Newark,
Wails, North Philly, Saigon, Hanoi, Guatemala, Bolivia,
the U.A.R., Syria, and the North Koreans. As far. as
they are concerned, America is the barrier to a belter
world. This is Why they are taking care of business.'
They can see, if you can't, that America has made a
farce cut of its affairs, both infernal and international.
In closing, we wish to stress the importance that
you do not lean too heavily on your “solid pillar of
greatness.” You may suffer a nasty fall.
Ken Waters '7O
Dan Butler '7l
Jim Grant
Graduate
areas. You may handle as many as three different assignments
in your first two years.
You’ll develop a talent for malting hard-nosed, imagina
tive decisions. And you’ll know how these decisions affect
the guts of the operation. At the grass roots. Because you’ll
have been there.
If you’d like to be a giant yourself, and you’ve got
,better ideas in marketing and sales, see the man from Ford
when he visits your campus. Or send your resume to Ford
Motor Company, College Recruiting Department.
You and Ford can grow bigger together.
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A Growing Menace
TO THE EDITOR; I am writing to point out a growing
menace on campus people who are not afraid to think
for themselves or be different from others, those radicals
who insist on knowing the truth, those who take nothing
for granted, those who truly strive for a real education,
people who do not,readily fit Nietzsche’s definition of
modern man as “an uncreative conformist and complacent
hedonist.” . 1
Already some of these people are appearing on campus.
Action must be taken ■ now to prevent this dangerous
minority from infecting the majority of Penn State students.
LBJ, FDR and Mao
TO THE EDITOR: The quotes from "Chairman LBJ” illus
trate that the courses of action taken by our Chairman are
more likely to be compared to the actions of Mao rather
than those of LBJ’s avowed idol, FDR.
lam reassured knowing that LBJ is seeking'(a?) Peace
rather than War. Otherwise our soldiers would occupy
Southeast Asia and Minnesota.
Long Live Lyndon! If only to protect us from the reign
of what s-his-name”. (Hubert somebody)
(V)
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Corry Stevens '6B
etc, etc, etc.
That’s what
J. Robert Shore
a sea, sailed a ship. It doesn’t matter the
or ship because by any name, they’d still
iuffice it to say, the great ship came from
imprised of a great populace, the greatest
the leaders.
asn’t so great. But it was big and some
wd rough and deep and blue and every
>t so great sea is.
je ship that sailed the sea was, of course,
■at men, captained by. the greatest of men
the greatest of ideals. Now you may ask
is such greatness doing on a not so great
tod question. It was raised by a minority of
10 stayed home in. the great land. They
ir the query, but the great leader who
ship set most of his people straight,
people are sailing this great ship to greet
ire our greatness. Needless to say, the great
to bestow upon the untortunates are all
ou know, our greatness is not tinged with
in, but reflects entirely our great culture,
proud and honored that we brave men
have the courage and generosity to give others our great
ness."
So spoketh the leader.
It came to pass (doesn’t everything?), that this ship
and crew fell upon some unfortunate few. Unfortunate
in that these people were ignorant of the great ways of
the great people.
"We will help these people become great," pro
claimed the leader. "We will show' them the way, not
just because it's our religious duty, but because we want
to." And so cheered the crew ail but a few who
thought it wiser to think than to spew.
And lo and behold, something stranger than the
mouse that moved the elephant came to pass. The great
people (pachyderms) failed to budge the unfortunate ones
(peromyscus or microtus).
The crew, knowing it was great, thought something
was wrong with the leader. “Why should it be so hard
to help people? It must be the fault of our leader,”
thought the crew.
"Why should it be so hard to show these people the
light? I mustl not be getting enough support," pondered
the leader.
“Why must these big goons bug us? 1 We were happy
until these huge ones infiltrated our island,” cried the
unfortunate ones.
And so it went. The ,great people meant no harmj
they came to share iheir greatness. But they found them
selves rejected. Finally, the already battered ship set
sail for home and almost didn't' make it because the
ship was headed for the rocks until the latrine boy re
lieved the beleaguered captain of his navigational chores.
On dockng at home, the weary, but great leader
found his land troubled and ruined because it had gone
unattended for too long. Where the people once played,
they now threw stones and shot guns and committed in
numerable crimes.
Where the land was once green, it was now strewn
with garbage and weeds and everything unwanted. Where
the populace was once happy, it now cried and screamed
and grew frustrated and angry and sick.
"What has happened?" bellowed the leader. He
knew not what to do. He tried everything everything
he used on the 'unfortunate ones, everything great. But
his response was negative.
Finally, as a last resort, he once again followed the
wisdom of his latrine boy. No, he didn’t dean up the
mess.
The great leader took his great and sick people to
the unfortunate land whereby he colonized it with great
ness and within time, eradicated the poor natives who did
not change to the great ways. Reasoned the leader, “If
they are not bright enough to see the way, they are blind
and deserve the fate we have accorded them.”
Nobody lived happily ever after.
with nerve, gumption, intellectual curiosity—
people who care about what happens to the world.
So it’s not only your major we’re interested in.
It’s you. Why not see our interviewer when he
comes to campus and find out whether you’re'the
kind of person General Electric is made of.
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