Kennedy: High Ideals and Com.moii Sense Eugene McCarthy's explosion onto the national political scene could not have been better timed. If ever America needed the shining, white knight in politician's cloth ing, 1968 is the year. When the term "credibility gap" is synonymOus with the Administration line, a silver-haired, philosopher-poet from the Midwest is in demand. The soft-spoken symbol of the comman man took up the cause of the young, the disenchanted and the idealistic, and a new political cult was born. Starry-eyed youngsters rallied to Mc- Carthy's side and brought with them a whole new political vocabulary. "Courage" and 'integrity," are the bywords of the campaign. Who could argue that Eugene McCarthy lacks these attributes, so rarely associated with politicians? But are these enough to qualify a man for the presidency? We think not. This is not to say that McCarthy falls short of successfully meeting the issues. Final Reflections By RICHARD' WIESENHUTTER The Daily Collegian was founded as The Free Lance in 1887. Shortly thereafter, I started writing USG stories. And observing the University from that peg gives a person a good perspective on what stuff composes the people that come here. I've gone through seven elections and seen uncountable congressmen. and USG bills come and go. It's been interesting but gen erally uneventful. Then the 1968 executive elections came along—the most unusual and most surprising on record. And, it said some thing about the student body. They said the Titanic couldn't sink and they said Jon Fox couldn't lose. Both did. Fox's loss was heartbreak ing. There he sat on the left ven tricle of the Uni- versity's heart, using all his tre- mendous energy in a sincere ef- fort to take PSU back 10 years to the rah-rah 50's We couldn't help smiling at his at- tempts to bring the flair of school spirit back to the University and at his schemes to bring caged mountain lions to Rec Hall as official• mascots. But the voters last week showed that the .university no longer wants that. They showed that the University is very different than it was when this Jungle crop of gradu ating seniors entered in 1964. At that time, PSU was just entering the last phase of a school where fraternities count the most and where terms like TGIF (Thank God it's Friday, in case you've for• gotten) were acceptable parts of conversa tion. There are many imitation Jon Foxes at this University. The real one changed last week. In fact, he was changing all last year. He finally realized how easy it is to overdo a nice thing. Unfortunately the price was , USG's loss of what could have been its most ambitious president. McCarthy-Historical Parallels TO THE EDITOR: In regard to your editorial an nouncing support of RFK, a brief review of pre vious nominating conventions will clearly serve as contradiction to your unwise' statement, in ref erence to Senator McCarthy, "He has no chance of winning," For instance, Warren G. Harding was not even considered as a "possible" prior to the 1920 convention. In 1940, Wendell Wilkie was clearly an underdog. Even Eisenhower had less than a majority going into the 1952 convention. In 1912, an intellectual named Woodrow Wilson was clearly in third place behind two other Demo crats with machine backing. Wilson won on the 46th ballot. Is it necessary to point out political parallel between Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and Eugene McCarthy of 19683 - The fact that four out siders have won their party's nomination in this century seems to seriously , threaten a "McCarthy doesn't stand a chance" position. Whether those who subscribe to this "front runner" philosophy are right or wrong in this case, the political morality underlying such a philosophy is, to say the least, not in the best in terests of a democracy. To favor a candidate on the basis of his political power rather than his avowed policies cannot help, but perpetuate the unhealthy condition of our. government. Unfor tunately, those who have the power to nominate candidates use this criterion all too often. In a day when ever increasing numbers of American students are legitimately voicing their dissent against such evilslin the political system, during a year in which the 'massive student par ticipation in the presidential race has provided the first breath of fresh air American politics has felt Elatig Toltalian Published Tuesday through Saturday, during the Fall, Winter and Spring Terms, and Thursday during the Summer Term, by students of The Pennsylvania State University. Second Blass postage paid •at State College, Pa. 16801. Circulation: 12400.. PAUL J. LEVINE Editor William Epstein Managing Editor Judy RINI, City Editor; Richard Reyitz, News Editor; Ronald Kolb, Sports Editor; Don McKee, Assistant Sports Editor; Dan Rodgers, Photography Editor; Phyllis Ross, Personnel Director • Office Manager; Pat Ouroslw, Kitty Philbin, Dennis Minding, Senior Reporters; Elliot Abrams, Weather Reporter. Committee on Accuracy and Fair Play: Char' Clemson. PAGE TWO From Outgoing Editor WIESENHUTTER Sueceisor to The Free Lance s ' est. 1887 62 Years of Editorial Freedom Mail Subscription Price: U.SI a year Editoria M ealnlidn g B A us d i d n r e e s s s s Office sx 4 Ba S eme e Co o l f le S e c kPetat MO (North End) . ' Phone 665.2531 Business office hours: Monday' through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Member of The Associated Press .4630 , los Brown, Fin Tenney, Harvey Reeder. Adviser: Donna S. Quite the contrary. His views on both do mestic and foreign affairs coincide re markably with those-of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, whose beliefs we have long ad mired. With their mutual distaste for the war in Vietnam, their pledges of massive aid, to the nation's cities and their concern with civil rights, the two senators share more than a party label, For the nation's voters of the same persuasions, the choice is not one of issues, but of personalities. And therein lies Mc- Carthy's strength and Kennedy's weakness with the aforementioned young, disen chanted and idealistic. As a self-proclaimed idealist, McCarthy emerges as a brave and principled civil servant fighting all that has- giVen politics a tainted image:As a practical politician, Kennedy looms as the unsavory oppor tunist.' While courageous Gene took on the seemingly hopeless task of upending Lyn don Johnson, where was Bobby Kennedy, Many of . his imitators and followers won't change, however. They hang on, grasp ing at collegiate activities that are far gone in the past. It's cute when they're freshmen and sophomores, but it's unfortunate and un comfortable when they're still that way as seniors. It's nice to escape the realities of the world chuckling at freshmen wearing beanies and at football game honor lines, but 1968 is a year when no one can really laugh very hard or very long when he considers the prob lems facing the nation: civil rights, Vietnam, the alienation of black Americans (which this middle class school can never under stand no matter how sympathetic it may be), and the isolation of the University from the world. All of these things characterize The Pennsylvania State University. They always will—despite attempts of various secret or ganizations to work "for a better Penn State" never realizing that they are perpetuating the University as it is simply by the nature of the organizations themselves. The smug elite of students that run this school won't change either. How can they begin to help build a better society or understand differ ent groups in it when• they can't even trust or believe each other? That's why the major problems which that coterie of concerned students contin ually try to change won't ever see a solution. The situation is the same at universities across the nation. There's nothing very spark ling about college graduates 1968. And there's nothing sparkling about the world they're entering. Every senior has had his Bad Times and Good Times. He's learned a lot—probably more so out of class than in. Some have made every minute count, others have -done -'the opposite. We've all gone to jemmies, foot ball games, fraternities.- There's nothing wrong about that except when this escape becomes an unjustifiable substitute for, not a temporary escape, from reality. Commencement is six weeks away. Most of us will probably spend that time drinking our way to Beaver Stadium. The sobering thought is that it will be all over, completely over, on June 15. For quite a few of us it will be the best reason to drink that we've had in the past four years. -30- in too many years, your editorial was distressingly out of place. To be kind, it was not a breath of fresh air. Stanley Cutler, Graduate Craig Smith, Graduate Clean Up the Campaign Trail TO THE EDITOR: Now that the primary election is over, I wonder if ex-candidates Cooper and Tanner and their admirers plan to remove the campaign posters with which they so painstakingly defaced the Pennsylvania countryside. Frankly, I'm surprised that such good, conser. vative Republicans as the aforementioned would stoop so low as to attach posters to trees. Tech! Tech! What would Teddy Roosevelt have thought? Walter Washko '7O Unjustified Endorsement? TO THE EDITOR: On Tuesday you claimed that you were not supporting any Presidential 'candi date. The very next day you came out for Bobby Kennedy and in your rush to voice support, you failed to clearly articulate the reasons for such an overnight decision. You are concerned that Humphrey be stopped from receiving the nomination, but this in itself does not explain why Kennedy is preferable to Eugene McCarthy support of either man is itself opposition to the Vice-President. Seeing the need to go deeper into the situ ation you make the claim that Kennedy should be supported because he can win the nomination easier than McCarthy. A critical logician could have a field day with this argument, but let me simply make the point that such a statement rep sents the kind of flabby political rationales which WILLIAM FOWLER Business Manager Michael S. Serrill Editorial Editor FRIDAY, AP BERRY'S WORLD © 196.3 by HEA, Inc. "Charles. is VERY CONCERNED about what cola happen Letter Policy The Daily Collegian wel comes comments on news coverage, editorial poll cy, and campus or nor-campus affairs. Letters must be type written, double-spaced, signed -by no more than two persons, and no longer than 30 lines. They should be brought to the Collegian office in person so that •proper identification of the writer can be made. If letters are received by mail, the Collegian will contact the signer for verification. The Collegian editors reserve the right to fairly select, edit, and condenge all letters. IL 26, 1968 Editorial Opinion the McCarthyites ask. "bancing in the light of the moon," according to McCarthy. In the praise that followed McCarthy's courageous venture into New Hampshire, one point is generally overlooked. The Minnesota senator was taking a rather small risk by opposing the powers-that-be. He was a nonentity on the national political scene, with little future outside the plains of Minnesota. Kennedy, on the other hand, was re garded as the fair-haired boy of the Demo cratic party. Come 1972, RFK would be the man to beat, said the party professionals. To jeopardize the potentially, brightest political future in the land would have been foolhardy. - Some people, however, did not see it that way. , Because he, waited until Isilc- Carthy had, successfully gauged public opinion, Kennedy was termed an oppor tunist. Since a politician is by definition an op portunist, it is difficult to see why ambition rrtme th. Pm. I•^4 -.. (as I understand it) are supposed to turn off the turned-on young political activists of the left who are on a search for moral commitment. So, aside from this politics-of-the-fifties men tality, I cannot see what reasons you have for endorsing Kennedy over McCarthy, especially since it was Eugene McCarthy who made it all possible, not just for us but for UK too. William J. Meyer. Graduate Concert Tickets Scarce TO THE EDITOR: An unavoidable situation at this large university is that the demand for tickets for many concerts far exceeds the supply. So it was for the Simon and Garfunkle concert. However, ticket sales for this concert had an added twist. It was stated in pre-concert advertisements that tickets would be sold in blocks of no less than 20 tickets; unfortunately, there was no specified upper limit. As you may have heard certain groups on campus took advantage of this situation. These groups, after detailed battle plans, dispatched cer tain stalwart individuals, who, equipped with 'No Doz', waited patiently outside the ticket window at the HUB. When the tickets went on sale early Wednesday morning these valiant, red-eyed young men began purchasing blocks of 800 or so tickets at a time. At this attrition rate the tickets were soon gobbled up leaving a vast majority of non-Greco-oriented stu dents staring aghast at a `Sold Out' sign. The ticket sales were a farce. USG deserves praise for bringing such an excellent duo to campus, but their method of distributing tickets leaves some thing to be desired. S - HIS IS YEW INTERESTIN6,„ . - rim ( —, A44 raw I Paper Asks for Faculty Writers University faculty are In viten to submit articles to Col t egi an's "Faculty Forum." Columns of opinion from all men hers of the faculty are welcome. The artic'es should be type written and trip'.n-,paced and should not e•cc'c' 7. lines in length. Interested faculty should bring their articles to Collegian office, 20 Sackett Building. Thomas L. Weimer '6B Linton Wildreck '69 PIP 1 100 KNOW THAT WRIST REFLER6 HAVE THROWN MOTTO? 1 : HOW FITTING • 2 r could be held against a political aspirant. Will Hubert Humphrey be assailed as an opportunist when he announces his candi dacy? We would guess that there is more to the anti-Kennedy sentiment than his late start in the presidential race. The same re sentment against the family name and money that plagued John Kennedy is haunting the junior senator from New York. Even some of those enthralled with the memory of the late president have re jected Bobby as a pretender to the name. There are others who take offense• at his New England accent, the long hair, the toothy smile. And finally, the image of Kennedy as the aggressive politician has hurt him more than anything else. Against the soft sell of the shining light from Minnesota, Kennedy often appears overbearing. But it is precisely the difference in personalities that moves us toward the Kennedy camp. For in the real political `The Fox:' Cinematic, Artistic. Pussyfooting By PAUL 9EYDOR Collegian Film Critic -Why can't most film directors handle symbolism with subtlety, humility and re straint? The camera, with its subjective and objective eye, affords them limitless oppor tunities to construct elaborate and/or simple symbols that would 'enhance but never in terfere with film stories. yet, when these opportunities knock, most directors seem never to be at home. In stead, they're out devising symbolism that is either pretentious, like that of Fellini's "Juliet of the Spirits," or obvious, like the guns in "Bonnie and Clyde." (There are ex ceptions, of course: Norman Jewison's "In the Heat of the Night," Ingmar Bergman's "Per sona.") "The F o x," directed by Mark Rydell, exempli fies the best and the worst in cin ematic symbol ism. Adapted by Howard Koch and Lewis John Carlino from D. H. Lawrence's novella, the story is about two wo men who work a farm some where in the SETDOR backwoods , of Canada. March, the younger, is a child just discovering her own sexuality...i..h. the older, is a simpering and overbearing mother type who, having had and• rejected hetero sexuality, tries to stiF e March's emerging passions. Into their ostensibly idyllic life comes Paul, who falls in love with March. Rydell's symbols are usually subtle when he decorates the scriptwriters' careful delin eation of the three-fold relationship. The bleak, wintry landscape serves first as a metaphor suggesting lack of an outlet for March's sexuality. Later, when she is cap tivated by her reflection in a pond, she dis covers a fox has been watching her. In a series of quick close-ups swit:thing back and forth from March to the fox, we learn that the animal represents male virility to her—at once frightening and attractive. Transfer of Sy-- -'s In a well-accomplished transfer of sym bols (vitiated only by a ser,pt w.... 1 the matter), Paul becomes the fox, since at first, he too is a predator. He sees March simply as an easy make. After he falls in love with March, he kills the fox. This is necessary and cit . tie symbol must be abandoned because Paul is no longer potentially harmful to March. Therefore he can't represent the destructive fox. Paul's act shows that he desires March for other than purely sexual reasons. March's surrender to Paul not only com pletes her development as a woman but also momentarily severs her ties with Jill. Rydell powerfully points this up by punctuating March's ecstatic moans with Jill's desperate though unheeded cries for March to return. At the close of this sequence, in yet another transfer of symbols, Rydell employs the marat/sade impressions By ALAN SLUTSKIN Collegian Drama Critic revolution - revolution - revolution - co pulation - copulation - tender-violent-kill hit sooth strike why-F-R-R-E-E-D-O-M! breuler discord martin meekness power breathe breathe gasp a knapp by the shank to sleep. AHH instruments of duperret tangled physiognomy words and thoughts mangled screams run fall clamor brings in the back ground tear and terror magnified in silent wonder standing out from obsequies-hen ninger. oh dan gled sweet= bang and blow jingle discs toulson pipes in organist in with all out among— tho - mas goes marching on! .robin tweet and hark to all stretch a limb of long and thread, plant a seed then global visionary seek and revel by SLUT'SKIN omnipotence. but woe and watch listen then striking shirking down the way power potent coulmier madame and/or oiselle melons plump thighs buttocks heads to roll Film Criti ening night world—the give and take battlefield of Congress—the idealist, the dreamer, does not get far. It is unfortunate, but true, that a man of unswerving convictions—of un compromising attitudes usually cannot acomplish what a practical politician can. It took the practical politics of a Lyn don Johnson, for example, to convert the dreams of John Kennedy into legislation. We do not suggest that the best com promiser is necessarily the best president. Rather we support a man who both knows the solutions to the nation's problems and can provide the dynamic leadership nec cessary to enact those solutions. To criticize a candidate for his char ismatic appeal, driving pragmatism and youthful flair, is to hold against him three essentials of leadership. We support and urge the student body to support Robert F. Kennedy, the candi date who combines the high ideals of a statesman with the common sense of a poli tician. —P.J.L. landscape to indicate Jill's utter alienation. She is seen kneeling in the midnight snow as her terrifying cries echo around her. Paul then leaves, promising to return. March, meanwhile, decides, partly out of fear, partly out of sympathy, to remain with Jill. Though she writes Paul of her decision, he returns anyway. She is unable to ask him to go. The dramatic conflict is finally estab lished. March must choose to be either the complete, Sensuous woman she is with Paul or the incomplete, lesbic child she is with Jill. (Ryden nicely foreshadows this conflict early in the film. As March stands nude in front of a double-mirror, we see her twice reflected. One mirror reveals her full face, the other only one side of her face.) Then, They End It Then, just when Koch and Carlino ought to go on and resolve the conflict, they end the film by killing Jill in an unbelievably-God awfully stupid scene. A gigantic symbol of Paul's penis falls on her, i.e., he cuts down a tree that she insists on standing under despite his warnings. Death-wish? Accident? Mur der? Who knows? Now we understand why the symbolism during thd last part of the film is so convolu ted,- constipated and obvious. Everything is either a phallic or a vaginal symbol: icicles, cracks in ice, axes, saws, trees, forked-trunks, ad infinitum. . Presumably the tree is meant to herald the return of the male-as-destroyer motif (thus, the last shot of the sneering face of the fox). But now it makes no sense. There is no reason to view Paul's virility as destructive. By declaring his love for March and subse quently seducing her, he plays a functionally constructive role in her life. He initiates her into womanhood; he is the means by which she effects her own physical-spiritual meta morphosis. Jill is the destructive force in March's life because she continually tries to prevent March from becoming a woman. What the ending really shows is that Koch, Carlino and Rydell lacked either the inclination or the ability to resolve the dra matic situation. By killing off, Jill they les sen the force of the drama by leaving March with only one, hence no, choice. This is artis tic pussyfooting. Audiences have a right to demand an intelligent resolution. Mannerisms Unnerving Sandy Dennis as Jill and Keir Dullea ei Paul are both good, but not much more. Heir mannerisms are unnerving, his emotional range is limited. Anne Heywood, as March; is the real star 'of this show. She is one of the most naturally sexy newcomers to the screen. She brings to her role a supreme conviction that - forces one to believe she is March, has always been March, will always be March. A great, great performance. I think if I had any critical or ethical backbone at all, I would advise you to ignore this film. Despite the crummy conclusioe, though, there are fine_ things here. You've, been forewarned,- anyway. 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