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    eAGE FOUR
'Kinetic i9►rt'
- (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of
a two-part series analyzing the short
film subject as an art form. Currently,
Cinema X is presenting a collection of
short films entitled "The Kinetic Art."
Part two of the three-week program
will be shown tonight in Forum.)
By PAUL SEYDOR
Collegian Film Critic
Circle the correct letter:
o Question: Jordan Belson
(a) writer, (b) director,
(c) actor, (d) singer.
• Question: Bruno Bozetto—
(a) "La Vita," (b) "La Notte,"
(c) "L'Aventurra,"
(d) "La Plomme." •
•Question: Zoltan Huszarik—
(a) Budapest, (b) Paris,
(c) San Francisco, (d) Prague.
Answers: b, a, a.
Don't be too embarrassed if you
NEWLY APPOINTED EXECUTIVES OF WDFM, University radio station, are (1. to r.)
John Gingrich. program director; Gary Schwartz. station manager; 'and Jack Molnar,
chief engineer.
Rivalry Part of PSU History
(Continued from page one) One of the most persistent of
held in November, and the the contests was the flag scrap.
"In the beginning the freshmen
rules required the freshman
class to get a barrel of cider always sought to place their
flagon the tower of Old Main,
on the campus in the area of
Old Main without being de-
but if the sophomores got wind
tected by the sophomores.
of it, there was sure to be an
If the freshmen could deliver all-over contest upon the stair
the barrel and give ..,o-ne of the even on the platform of the
cider to members of the junior
class, they were declared win-
to ver itself."
ners. Event 'Moved
Guarded, Area
Needless to say the sopho- Old Main and the freshmen
mores carefully guarded the would place the flag at the top
area and the freshmen also of a high pole and try to pre
made elaborate plans to smug- vent the sophomores from re
gle in the barrel. moving it.
Sometimes an empty barrel Another of the class duels
or one filled with water would was called the pushball scrap.
be used to divert the attention In this event, teams of five
of the sophomores. On one oc- from each of the classes were
casion, "The cider barrel was required to push a huge ball
brought to the campus in a into the enemy territory of a
laundry basket on a cart by a pre-arranged field to score
student disguised as a rustic." points.
Blacks To Meet With Lewis, Rackley
(Continued from page one) printed in yesterday's issue. uate students (out of 3,900) graduate students because it
"I said .. . the situation at and about 10 black athletes. would be construed as dis- 1
The confrontation with
Lewis in Old Main was in at Columbia in response to a Association's de m and for "On the graduate level, I
part the result of an article comnarison question. I tried more black graduate students, don't think there is that muchi
in Sunday's Bulletin. to point out that decisions M. Nelson McGeary, dean of inequity," Samuels continued.
Speaking to a Bulletin re- and situations at State Col- the graduate school, said last Samuels said it would be
porter about dissent at Penn lege of necessity differ from night that he doesn't know "ridiculous" to lower the
State, Lewis said that the Columbia and other schools. how many black graduate standards of the graduate
situation is not "as danger- Penn State is not faced with students there are and that school just to admit more'
ous as at Columbia" because the same situation and de- he has no plans to give blacks black students.
Penn State is "not in an ur- cisions as those confused by special consideration in the Samuels called for a "revo
ban area and not contami- an urban situation with Har- future. lution" in the educational,
nated by Harlem." tern adjacent to the campus. Johns Samuels, president system which would - allow ))
The black students re- "I do not consider the of the Graduate Student As- the "lower classes" to get a
sented the word "contami- Douglas Association to be sociation, said that his or- proper education in high
nate" and the implication black militants as in the con- ganization has made no at- school and undergraduate
that the Douglas Association text of the article . . . tempt to count the black school. _
was associated with the Stu- "The Douglas Association isl -
dents for a Democratic So- not and has not been affili- 1
ciety, a nationwide leftist ated with SDS.
group with a chapter at Penn "I am deeply sorry a wrong,
State. interpretation can be put oni
The black students de- the quotations to make it,
mended that Lewis retract. sound anti-black, anti-Har-1
the statement during the lem, anti-anything." I
meeting Monday. He imme- . .-Manley told the Bulletin ,
diately called Philadelphia Monday night that Penn State
and made the following now only has three black
statement to the Bulletin, teachers, about 35 black grad-
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scored zilch; before last week I could
n't have even made up the quiz, ' let
alone pass it. The three persons named
are directors, whose opuses are in
cluded in "The Kinetic Art," a series
of 26 short films, ranging in length
from about one minute to just under
an hour.
Brant Sloan, an art-film impre
sario from the West Coast, assembled
"The Kinetic Art" package after view
ing hundreds of short films produced
in the last few years:
His selections, culled from several
countries, are supposed to represent
some of today's most original, exciting,
and stimulating work not only in short
subjects, but also in the cinema gen
erally. Undergraduate Student Gov
ernment, due mostly to the efforts of
Dave Shepard of the theatre depart
ment and Joe Chirra, president of
Cinema X, is presenting the second
American engagement of "The Kinetic
Class Battles, Hazing, Scra •s, Pranks
Later the event moN,ed out of
Demand 12 Reforms
A Subjective Look at the Film Short
Both. Original :and 'Exciting
Part One was shown last week.
Parts Two and Three are scheduled for
7:30 p.m. today, tomorrow and Friday
in Forum. Each program is 105 minutes
long. Tickets are available at the door
at $1.25 a person.
The history of the short-subject is
sad. Its heyday was during the silent
era when it was used primarily for
slapstick (although Salvador Dali,
among others, made some notable early
Advances in the form). The cartoon,
subsequent to Walt Disney's develop
ment and perfection, gradually replaced
the live-action short. Newsreels; too,
gained popularity, though, thank good
ness, they haven't survived.
Nowadays, about the only shorts
released commercially to first-run
theatres are the frequently very un
funny cartoons (Roadrunner and Pink
Panther excepted), those dreadful
More often than not, the ears callin st u dent Ey WILLIAM ROY
y g to s Collegian Staff Writer
game quickly degenerated into classes, was a favorite target What does a single girl want
a all-out battle between the of the earlier classes. The stu- to do after graduating from
classes with scores of students dents delighted in turning the Penn State? For Vicki Brown,
fighting their way onto the bell upside down, filling it with a recent alumna, the answer
field. - water and leaving it to freeze was the Women's Air Force.
Tug-of-War Survives during the winter months. Miss Brown, a native of Alex-
The freshman-sophomore tug- The tower ha ; always had andria, Pa., graduated from
o -war, that was recently re- some mysterious attraction for . the University in 1964 with a
vived, is the last surviving con- the students because they have
___ ~ ~'. bachelor of arts degree in
test between the classes. and done some strange things up 'fr,l4:,=,---, , , -.- .-z. ,- ' , l:' A;z,:--.- , . 7, ,, ..,7,1,4 music education. She received
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even that is not as spirited as there. . /.44eze‘v5.;.54w)4,i.:., , ,,, kr - ;ml3 her masters degree in 1967.
it used to be. There are records that inm- i5n,i ; ", ,, :,;in., ,, 0, .7 - ,:1 She had been -teaching for
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The scraps were frequently ^ate a number of_animals have t . ;::'Y' ,--, .,':...7 , ~ ,,. 3 Z , : ,,'-',-...- : ,?, , ,,:.;;; . ,,, - :, . .ik, about two years at Westerly
violent affairs in which un- been stranded in the bell tower. L , '" , 44.1i/.,,,t:' 1 - :;:14,t''' . .,,1',5 ,,, ;,,'“ '.lv.i parkway . 1. uni o r High School
countable eyes were blackened These include some of the local li - 0z;: ; ',P4W0.0 7 4V:.4:1.1....1',; before she got the urge to fly,
and noses broken. In 1907' cows and mules. 6,1;'=,:k:4,-,-..t..-izi4---....7,41 and on December 28, 1967, she
durin : the sophomore-fresh- Prol+ably the best known ex- VICKI BROWN , hung up' her civies. •
man rush, "500 participated, a ample is "Old Snowball," the Her first stop was the Air
number were hurt and one was campus mule who frequently Woman's Air Force . Force Officer Training School
killed." climbed the five flights of stairs at the Lackland Air Force
But not all of the customs to the prriding of snickering
were so brutal. Many of the students. He was often painted
pranks that the students played by the students and finally died
were centered around Old after being covered with a
Lain. "zebra-like coat of green
The bell, which had rung for paint."
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Coed Takes Honors at Show
BY BRUCE RANDALL
Collegian Staff Writer
How did it feel to become the Reserve Grand
Champion Showman of the 51st Little Interna
tional Livestock Exposition held last month at the
University? "I just couldn't believe it," Becky
Boyd said.
Miss Boyd (9th-animal science-Glen Rock),
who competed with about 140 other entries, has
the distinction of being the second girl in the
show's history to win the honor. No girl has ever
won Grand Champion Showman, the highest title,
which she just barely lost.
This honor was her reward for the long hours
she spent clipping and, grooming her cow, Arrow
smith Pollyana, and training her to walk and stand
properly for the judges. In the month she had to
prepare for the contest, Miss Boyd worked on
Pollyana six days a week.
Miss Boyd entered and left the show ring with
a limp, since Pollyana stepped on her toe—almost
breaking it —a week earlier. As if that wasn't
enough, Polly "restomped" the same toe during the
judging. "But it was worth it. It didn't hurt so bad
after I won, and I forgave her," she said.
She wasn't worried about her foot, though: "My
main worry was that Pollyana, who seemed bored
with the whole affair, would fall asleep during the
show right there in the ring," she said.
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travelogues, and Disney's often -excel
lea wildlife films ("The Grand Can
yon" and "Seal Island" especially).'
Considering, then, the usually poor
quality of shorts, -their demise is hardly
a cause for lament. What is sad, how
ever, is that the form has , rarely been
given a fair chance to prove itself. The
reason is that, as Benjamin Fogey, a re
porter, noted in the Washington Star
(March 31, 1968), "the purpose of the
'short subject' as -practiced for. too
many years was to keep the movie
patron half awake between viewings
of the feature attraction."
Recent years, on the contrary, have
seen more serious attention paid: to
short film. "They are being made,"`
Fogey wrote, "by film-makers whose
primary interest is in the expressive
possibilities of the film, especially , the ,
film in segments of less than an hour.
"This is an admirable and intelli
gent position. A short film can be
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liberated from the often stultifying de
mands of plot and character devel'op
ment, And in cases where these ele
ments are used, the points can be made
niore-' incisively. Short films can do
many things long films probably can
not do. They can,do things that longer
films do, and do them better."
- Part of that , sounds remarkably
similar to a statement by Federico
Fellini. This belly-aching of directors
about the rigidities of plot and char
acter development is sheer laziness.
Their 'expatulations are, by turns, ir
ritatingt amusing, and boring.
- Joyce and Hemingway invented
two of the most revolutionary technical
stylistic innovations in literature while
hampered by the "stulifying restrictions
of plot and character development."
D. W, Griffith and Alfred Hitchcock
managed similar accomplishments in
the cinema. •
Her lir;t step toward the title was the Cham
pion Shorthorn Fitter award. Shorthorns are a
particular breed of cattle: Fitting refers to the
showman's ability to make the cow as clean as
possible, to clip it in the proper manner for the
species and to comb its hair properly. For this she
received a trophy and a plaque.
Next Miss Boyd won the Champion Shorthorn
Showman. This event was judged on the show
man's ability to display the animal to its best ad
vantage. Another trophy and plaque were hers.
Cash Award
Her next victory was the Champion Beef
Showman. This event encompassed all breeds of
cattle. For it she won a silver tray and bowl as
well as a cash award.
Then. she tried with Richard Kuzemchak (12th
animal industry-Clymer) for the Grand Champion
Showman. In this event they had to rotate around
the ring and show a cow, horse, sheep and swine.
Miss Boyd repeated this procedure because of the
tie, the horse acted up and she lost the title. She
had never shown a horse before.
, "That horse really scared me. It wanted to
eat my hand," she said.
In the final event, Reserve Grand Champion
Showman, Miss Boyd found herself in another tie.
Again the event was repeated. "After this second
tie I was so tired I could hardly walk through the
sawdust and sand of the ring," Miss Boyd said.
Careers for Coeds
Offered by WAF
Debate Set
Harold Wexler (4th-liberal arts-
Levittown). James Creegan
(7th-history-Philadelphia) is ex
pected to be one of the debaters
from SDS. The othcr will be a
member of the Douglas Asso
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The format of the de'aate will
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Miss Brown decided to be a
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She's 'presently at Keesler
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that is almost all technique with just
the slimmest excuse for a story: Note
"8 1 / 2 ," "Last Year at Marienbad," and
"Elvira Madigan." And, certainly, the
results can be brilliant, spectacular, and
dazzling. Yet the net effect is about as
artistically significant as a p erfrom
ance by a pianist whose inputis a vir
tuosity enabling him to toss off, say,
an "Emperor" concerto as easily es he
snaps on his white tie, but whose out
put reveals all the elan he would bring
to sipping coffee made \ from yester
day's grounds. What good is technique
unless it is made to serve the purpose
of art, which is that of codifying, ar
ranging, distilling, and thereby giving
purpose and meaning to experience?
There is a place in the cinema,
however, for pure experimentation, for
the exploration
~of new horizons that
will, hopefully, lead to new techniques,
forms and styles 'of dramatic applica
tion.
This time she emerged victoridus. She re
ceived another trophy and silver 'tray, along with
a cash award of $175.
She is not a very talkative person, but her
friends all said that they knew how she felt by the
ecstatic expression on her face. It lasted for three
days.
"With all the confusion of A long banquet
which began an hour after the contest,' and with
cleanup of the Ice Pavilion at 8 a.m. the following
day, it was a full day before I had time to realize
what I had done," she said.
Miss Boyd is a member of the Livestock
Judging Team which just returned from Ohio
State last weekend. She helped represent Penn
State in The North Central Spring Livestock
Judging Contest. Penn State placed fourth out of
10 competing colleges.
Miss Boyd placed second overall in the Spring
Livestock Judging Contest sponsored here by the
Block and Bridle Club. She had been secretary
of the Pre-Veterinary Club. and is secretary of
the Block and Bridle Club. She is also vice presi
dent of the Coaly Society, an honorary agricul
tural organization. With all her activities, she
maintains a Dean's List All-U. She is also active
in 4-H.
She has shown cattle, sheep and pigs and her
room in Delaware honor House is practically
papered with blue ribbons from contests.
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