IDA Teach-In
Since most students are relatively
uninformed about University involve
ment with the Institute for Defense
Anaylses, tomorrow's teach-in will serve
a useful purpose.
The talks by the three Columbia
University students should prove espe
cially interesting. Ed Robinson, who. re--
signed Monday as head of the Columbia
Strike Committee, Steve Halliwell. 'a
member of the Committee, and Mike
Clare, a member of the Columbia IDA
investigative committee will all speak
at the teach-in. All are members of the
Columbia chapter of Students for a
Democratic Society,
. The problem with all this, however,
is that only one side will be presented.
In addition to the Columbia students,
James Petras, professor of political sci
ence at they University and'Joe Schultz,
a student, will speak. All five teach-in
"teachers" are opposed to University in
volvement with IDA.
This is to be expected since the or
ganizers of the event are also petitioning
Welcome
Rocky
The Young Republicans are to be
congratulated for arranging today's
visit of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller to
the University.
With the three major television
networks and many newspapers repre
sented here today, Rockefeller's visit
will receive nationwide attention. A
large turnout of students and faculty—
hopefully 10.000 to 15,000—may be all
that is needed to inspire more candidates
to touch down in University Park.
We therefore urge all to abandon
the classrooms and make their way to
the HUB lawn.
Tilt Eittilli Tn.ltertiatt
62 Years of Editorial Freedom •
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 class postage paid al
State College, Pa. 11101. Circulation: 12,500.
Mail Subscription Price: 511.50 a year
Malting Address Box 451, State Cones*, Pa. 16801
Editorial and Business Office Basement et Sackett (North End)
Phone 11652331
Business office hours: Monday through Friday, f:3O a.m. to 4 p.m
PAUL J. LEVINE
Editor
William Epstein
Managing Editor
Judy Rife, City Editor; Ronald Kolb, Sports Editor; Don McKee., Assistant Sports Editor; Richard Ravin.
Gerry Hamilton, Kathy Litwak, Copy Editors; Dan Rodgers, Photography Editor; Pierre Bellicini, Assistant
Photography Editor; Phyllis Ross, Personnel Director - Office Manager; Pat Gurosky, Kitty Philhin, Dennis
Stimeling, Senior Reporters; Elliot Abrams, Weather Reporter.
Committee en Accuracy and Fair Play: Charles Brown, Faith *annoy, Harvey I
Clemson.
PAGE TWO WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1968
Spring Tlieeh 68
ct ,
. t
z'.
z z .T.
-
Editorial Opinion
the University to/ "expose" IDA work at
Penn State and "sever" its ties with the
research group. But the educational as
pects of the teach-in would be greatly
enhanced if speakers of the opposite
persuasion would give their views.
As it stands now, the. open-minded
student may be repulsed by the steady
stream of anti-IDA. anti-Administra
tion propaganda, which is sure to echo
across Old Main Lawn.
The speakers are likely to overlook
some of the facts as they assail the evils
of IDA.
It is in the interest of University
students to know some of the pertinent
data which may be conveniently forgot
ten, such as:
• Thereds no IDA work going on at
University, Park according to the Ad
ministration. Some members of the
University faculty do serve as consul
tants to IDA's Jason Division, a part
time group which meets mostly in the
summer.
• The University receives no money
for its affiliation membership in IDA.
• e IDA is actually a rather small
part of the defense •effort. In 1967, IDA
operated on a budget of less than $l5
million.
• IDA was founded in 1956 strictly
as a defense mechanism. Although its
detractors claim it perpetrates every
thing from insidious imperialism in
Latin America, to biological warfare in
Asia, it serves mainly as a protective
"think tank." IDA's function,is to guard
against the nation being scientifically
unprepared for war. Those who remem
ber the chaos among scientists in the
beginning of World War II know the
importance of "think tank" readiness.
The second World War was nearly over
when U. S. brainpower finally began to
mesh.
With tomorrow's teach-in only ex
pressing the anti-IDA line, students
would do well to keep these points•in
mind. —P.J.L.
Successor to The Free Lance, est. 2887
Member o f AssOciatedPres:
.OMO- ,
Carnival
Headquarters Tent
Carnival Grounds
5:00 P.M.
Wednesday
Gymkhana
and
Fun Ratty
Saturday 1:30 P.M.
Parking Lot 80
?7ZI9►/
WILLIAM FOWLER
Business Manager
Michael S. Saulll
Editorial Editor
Spring. Weeh
Meeting
BERRY'S WORLD
"I'm voting for the man who PAYS THE MOST for his
nomination!"
Collegian Invites Faculty Writers
University faculty are In
viten to submit articles to Col
tegian's "Faculty Forum."
Columns of opinion from all
men hers of the faculty are
welcome.
The articles should be type
((.4
90ri• 11'
eV'
•-..,_
.---,-,-----... '---D-
Mad-Hatters
Judging Wednesday
7:30 P.M.
Rec Hall
Spring Week Carnival
"What Would. Have Happened If"
Carnival Grounds Saturday 2-12 P.M.
(Monday; May 20th Carnival fiaindate)
- 6Utid4
written and triple-spaced and
should not exceed 75 lines in
length. Interested f acuity
should bring their articles to
Collegian office, 20 Sackett
Building.
4110 A 4
tt,
Spring liAleet 68
Spring Week '6B
Hilarious History
. •
- Special Treatment Webhg .
TO THE EDITOR: I am proud to attend a
University which admits no one on the basis
of religion or color. As an agency of public
education, the only fair policy a slate uni
versity can -follow is that of admitting ap
plicants solely on the basis of academic
qualifications. ,
Admission authorities should not be
coerced into discriminating against white
students by making' special exceptions for
poorly qualified black students. This would
violate the very rights of equality which ,the
Negro holds so dearly.
The other demands made by the Negro
students should also be considered in this
light. If University library officials insisted
on. the separation of black and white authors
for any reason, blacks would protest. Yet
blacks are now urging, that a section of
Pattee be devoted exclusively to black au
thors.
Not only do they ask special treatment
in' admission procedures, init also in the
library and on athletic teams. There has been
no evidence whatsoever that the University
discriminates against black athletes. If they
have the ability, they make the team (Pro
viding, of course, that they have the initial
ability to be admitted here in the first place).
I suggest that the Douglas Association
students think twice about the demands they
are making for special -treatment. The
changes they desire are changes that cannot
be made in the University, but instead in
the whole position of Negroes in our society.
Special treatment here is not the answer.
Name Withheld by Request
How About ltalian Power?
I strongly support the 100 or so Negroes
who confronted Charles L. Lewis Monday
to voice their, demands for equality. In fact
I think more students should have equal
respect for their partipilar, pardon the ex
pression, "clique."
In view of this belief I would like to
make the following demands of Old Main:
1. More Italian undergraduates
2. That a building be named after and
dedicated to Garibaldi, Italian patriot and
general
_
3. That a Garibaldi scholarship fund be
established
4. That a course in Italian history be
made a permanent part of the curriculum
5. More Italian professors
6. More Italian graduate students
7. That a section 'of Pattee Library be
devoted exclusively to Italian authors
8., Reevaluation of the athletic recruiting
program with regard to Italian students
9. More Italian athletes
10. Italian coaches for the athletic teams
• 11. More Italian literature offered in the
University's English course
12. The introduction of an Italian cul
ture study program
Seriously, can anyone see my point?
Tony Talotta '69 "
Whites Paranoid on Racism
TO THE EDITOR: The Negro was going
50/mph while the Whitey ahead of him was
going 40/mph. Therefore, to maintain his
pace, the Negro had to accelerate and pass
the White man.
Yes, we whites were affected by the
"Black Demands." As a stratified group we
each responded to the article according to
our social "bags". Some of us consciously
responded reticently to avoid any inklings
of prejudices. Some of us agreed it was about
time the Negroes were demanding their
rights, although the degree of honest enthusi
asm varied.
- Some of us were resentful and illustrated
freely our "unhypocritical racism". Most of
presents
Semi-Finals
Thursday 2:30 P.M.
Finals
M. C. Dr. Lattman wiii crown
Miss Penn .State
, guiddi
Spring Met
He-Man
Sunday 1:30 P.M.
, - Beaver Stadium
Awards Night
Tuesday, May 21
7:30 P.M. • Rec Hall
us chose the . acceptible Means of responding
—ambivalently by subtle; jesting; digs:Subtle
digs are of course in jest and rarely criticized
for containing deep-rooted resentment!
Yes, yes, we all laughed at _Nyman
Schwartz's and Walter Wononski's, and Tim
othy 11 , 1cPatrick's and Antonio Pazerio's re
sponse to the black demands.
We all laughed at how each stratified,
group would go about. demanding recog:
nition on the Penn State campus. Yes, we
whites just laughed and subtly revealed
how ethnically, racially, and culturally we
were conscious and egocentric. We all
laughed that we had to discriminate amonge
groups and compare before we could "really"
interact.
And we all laughed that we were aware
of our biases, yet we still operated according
ly. We laughed at the myth "treat all men
equal". One had to be blind, deaf, and un
socialized to ever accomplish that. Yes, we
all laugh • . . some out of fear, resentment,
or just ambivalence to the reality that the
blacks are going to maintain their pace and
that they will pass the white man even if he
pleads that, "he hears a different drummer."
When we were tired of laughing we
began theorizing: "See. .it is like this
. . . the blacks - up here havee a middleclass
hang-up. Now they _don't want to be- Uncle
Tom . . . so they identify with the Harlem
tactic."
Really, it is plain to' see that the blacks
want black power and black recognition ...
they want to be discriminated from us . . .
they want to feel persecuted. They don't
want white help or white postulates to "their
problem", but supposedly "we" are their
problem. Oh . they just want to use the
great defense mechanism . . the loud cry
. . DISCRIMINATION.
Hmmm . ...maybe when the whites are
tired of subtle jesting and theorizing and the
blacks are willing to see how paranoid he has
made the white man about racism, there will
be fewer speed tickets and traffic violations.
Then again, maybe ."gray matter" can not
tone down black and white emotion and
therefore we must construct • a four-lane
highway and unanimously elect Jim Crow
for President!
Whites Make Demands
'ln regard to the outlandish demands
imposed on The Pennsylvania' State Uni
versity by the "contaminated," we feel an
equal right to impose demands of our own.
They are as follows:
•We want less black undergraduates.
Presently there are about 200 black
students attending the University. By the
fall of '6B we want this number decreased
to 100, and by the following fall we want
zero per cent of the undergrad population to
be black.
•We wish a building to be dedicated
and named after the late and great Lurleen
Wallace.
eWe want a Gov. Wallace scholarship
fund established.
sWe want all courses in Negro History
to be discontinued, because we may be "con
taminated".
•We want no black professors or black
grad students because we may be "contami
nated":
•We want a section in Pattee Library
devoted exclusively to Polish authors. ,
•We want all athletes and coaches
evaluated with regard to their athletic and
'academic - merit.
é Oril3# good literature should' be offered
in the 'University's English courses.
• The introduction of a Guam Island cul
ture study program.'
If these demands are not met, we will
riot, seige 'and. loot as .is -the black custom.
Gus Schuller '69
Jim Kohl '6B •
Rec Hall
--Auidd4
Lairde Silver '69
"'t
e...
c 4
OZI
%kt ,