We®k in Review
; It was a surprise election week on
campus as independent candidate James
Womer wen the Undergraduate Student
Government presidency by the slimmest
margin in USG ! s history. .Womer, the
first independent candidate to win the
top USG post in many"years, did what
many people felt would be impossible—
he defeated Jon Fox.
It was the first major upset for Fox
who has been freshman class president,
sophomore
class president,
and USG vice
president. His
strong voting
appeal in the
past three
years made
campus politi
cal speculators
predict Fox’s
Student and
Lion Party
would sweep
the election,
Fox lost by
only 108 votes WOMER
hff sMe r ( eS Te°d •• • tried the imp( ? ssible
Thompson, candidate for the vice presi
dency, and Harvey Reeder, candidate
for the treasurer post, pulled through.
Another election, overshadowed by
USG, put Gene Cavalucci into the presi
dent’s seat of the Men’s Residence Coun
cil. John Shuman and Sarp Edelman
were elected vice president and secre
tary-treasurer respectively.
Meanwhile, the Interfraternity
Council elections race has started. Voting
for president, vice president and secre
tary-treasurer will be held Monday.
In other campus news last week,
large numbers of students from Pollock
Halls suffered a dose of food poisoning
over *'m weekend. Improper food prep-
spoiled food or a virus, accord-
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ing to Otto E.' Mueller, director of hous
ing and food services,' was the cause.
Tests are being run to find out which.
The demand for a campus drug in
vestigation by State Sen. R. Lawrence
Coughlin two weeks ago neared reality
last week as State Attorney General
William Sennet assigned an agent to con
duct a probe at University Park. Univer
sity officials said Wednesday no investi
gation has been started on campus yet,
but the agent is supposedly questioning
a coed who supplied evidence of mari
juana parties attended by faculty mem
bers and students.
On Thursday, the University re
ceived a report recommending that
seven commonwealth campuses be con
verted to locally, controlled community
colleges and that others merge or be
phased out of operation.
Heald, Hobson Associates, an inde
pendent education survey firm, suggest
ed that campuses in Berks and Schuyl
kill'Counties be converted lo.single com
munity colleges. The report also sug
gested that Ogontz campus be turned
into a four year college. At present,
Ogontz carries only two year programs.
The Collegian learned last week
that another educational change might
be considered. According to correspon
.dence between- the Administration and
Senate’s Committee on Resident Instruc
tion, plans have been proposed' for two
15 week semesters and a 10 week sum
mer term, or three 10 week terms and
an 8 week summer term or two 14-week
semesters and a 10-week summer I,erm.
The Senate has not made any formal
comments on the plan.
And in less serious investigating,
Charwick C. Hansen, associate professor
of English, has compiled research tracing
today’s dance fads back a century or two.
His study shows that there’s- nothing,
new about the “boogaloo” and that the
twist is related to the minuet.
WILLIAM FOWLER
Business Manager
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1968
IFC Congressman
Sophomore Class
President
BERRY'S WORLD
(6) 1968 by NEA, Inc.
Letters to the Editor
Don't Blame Judicial Committee
TO THE EDITOR: I present my “Uninformed Newspaper
of the Year” award to The Daily Collegian for its commen
tary yesterday on the Barnard “scandal”. Your lack of
understanding of judicial responsibility is not commend
able.
To present the case from the viewpoint of one who hat
experienced parallel situations, I would like to make three
points:'
• The court involved did not make the rules “violated"
by Miss LeClair, it simply determined whether or not
existing rules were “violated”.
• Once it had been determined that .a rule had been
-violated, (admittedly pressure may have been brought to
bear in this decision) it was necessary to make a decision
concerning the penalty. Now, try and think what kind
of a penalty could be inflicted. Suspension is always a
convenient thing, but short of that, what is there left? I
maintain that the committee felt some degree of agreement
with Miss LeClair’s actions, and the resulting decision re
flects this in that the punishment probably means little
actual penalty to Miss LeClair, nor does it signify any to
anyone else on the Barnard campus.
•As a result, had I been the one to have rendered
that verdict and sentence,' (as I have in the past) I would
in essence be condemning the short sightedness of the rule
that forced me to make such a farcical penalty.
An active small college judiciary often finds itself in a
position analogous to the one at Barnard, though it rarely
makes national, headlines. That they acted as they did
should cause some serious thought in the minds of the
‘powers to be” on the Barnard campus. This is a good
thing.
(The writer is a former member of the Muhlenberg
College Student Court)
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‘Trains’ Disappointing,
‘Apes’ Entertaining
By PAUL 95YDOR
Collegian Movie Critic
There are just some films about which
little can be said. Even a film that is im
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little to the critic’s eye.
“Closely Watched Trains,” now playing
at the Nittany Theater is such a film. It is
enjoyable, to be sure. But at the same time
it is disappointing. “Trains” was chosen “Best
Foreign Film of the Year.” Therefore, an
audience . has a
right to' expect
more than en- »
joyment.
Briefly, the
story is about a
young man who -
gets a job in a :
small train-sta- :
tion in Czecho- i
Slovakia, circa >:
World War 11. :
Milos, the young
man, has a sex
hang-up (“When
ever the time
comes, I just
melt”)
According to
a doctor who
treats him after SEYDOR
a suicide attempt,, the problem is “prema
ture ejaculation.” We think he finally over
comes it when a sensual female resistance
worker seduces him. At the end, however,
Milos drops a bomb on a German munitions
train and gets shot because he reveals him
self too soon. Premature ejaculation, I guess.
Presumably, Jiri Menzel, the director,
wanted to paint a poignant picture of a boy
who must assume adulthood before he’s
ready for it. Thus, his stationmaster’s uni
form is too big for him. Consequently, Milos
dies in a war of his elders’ making. Message:
the world breaks everyone. It kills the very
good and the very gentle and the very brave
impartially.
The film lacks impact because the paral-
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too easily drawn. Milos is too precious; the
women are too ready for bed-play; the men
are too dull-witted arid uncaring.
Worst of all, Menzel begins with one
theme —a boy’s initiation to manhood—and
ends, bereft of a transition, with another—
the horror of war. But he develops neither.
Thus we ask, what happens when a boy be
comes a man? Where does he go from there?
If the tragedy is that Milos is denied the
chance, so what? We’ve heard it all before,
only done better.
To pick up on my earlier allusion: "A
Farewell to Arms” is powerful and profound
because Hemingway explores the true hor
ror of war—which is not death—for a young
man drawn into it. Rather, it is the trauma
ohe who has experienced war must live with
the rest of his life, that makes him sleep
with a light on, that makes him occupy his
mind with trifles and rituals so he won’t
crack.
“Closely Watched Trains,” a story told
with wit, tenderness, and even some elo
quence, is essentially a cop-out because it
takes the easy, way out.
"Planet of the Apes'
Most science fiction films make clear
from the first frame that they are completely
divorced from reality. What we see so vividly
in our daydreams usually rings false and
.shallow when projected onto the screen,
where we must view fantasy through some
one else’s eyes.
Fortunately, except for some embarras
sing apes who mug now and then, “Planet
of the Apes,” now at the Cinema Theater
is relatively free from such defects. This is
an excellent film to unbcggle your mind on,
especially if you’ve just finished a murder
ous brainstorming session of studying for
tests or writing themes.
The film is a glorious romp in the finest
tradition of space-opera science fiction, pour
ing on the suspense right lip to a predictably
hokey conclusion that somehow manages, in
spite of itself, to be effective and even
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