Black Demands
The initial reaction of most students
to the black students' diplomatic offen
sive -on Old Main seems to be either
blatant racism or haughty indignation.
The racists cringe at the possibility
of being "contaminated" by a sudden
deluge of black students. They send
"cute" 'afters to the student newspaper
proposing the opposite of the black stu
dents demands: "less black undergrad
uates, no Negro professors," etc.
But,' the majority of the students,
and from all indications, a substantial
portion of the Administration, have con
vinced themselves that the 1965 Civil
Rights Law and the 1966 Voting Rights
Bill automatically did away with dis
crimination and that the rest is up to
the blacks themselves.
"Why should we give them special
privileges?" cry offended students and
administrators. "Why should we lower
the standards of our undergraduate and
graduate schools just to admit more
blacks? They have as much opportunity
as we do to get an education now that the
Civil Rights Bill has been passed."
White Americans have been ration
alizing their apathy and latent racism in
the above terms since 1865. The compla
cent whites refuse to accept the argu
ment that in order to eliminate the ef
fects of 300 years of bigotry we must
discriminate FOR the black man and not
against him.
If necessary, we should lower the
standards of our schools to admit him.
If necessary, we must build him houses
and give him extra opportunities to earn
a decent living. We must, in short, at
tempt to allay the injustices of the past
by providing hope for the future.
For the high standard of living
which white America enjoys is in pait
the result of discrimination. If the prof
its from the industrial boom which fol
lowed the civil War had been allocated
to educate and house the former slaves,
some white Americans might not be
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Editorial Opinion
nearly so rich but black men would not
be living in ghettoes. '
The demands of black students both
here and at colleges across the nation
are merely the exercise of the black
man's historical right to special consid
eration.
The Douglas Association's demands
are not excessive. If the Administra
tion procrastinates until the summer
and then reneges on its promise to ful
fill the Association's demands, the black
students will be justified in taking the
"drastic action" which Wilbert Manley
spoke of Monday night.—M.S.S:
Two Looks
At IDA
Two separate events today promise
to give interested students a more mean
ingful understanding of the least under
stood topic on campus—the Institute for
Defense Analyses.
Immediately following Gov. Nelson
A. Rockefeller's speech this afternoon,
students will move to the Old Main
Lawn for a teach-in which will focus on
the SDS-inspired complaints about IDA.
And, tonight at 7:30 in the Hetzel Union
Building Ballroom, a Forum entitled
"University Research: IDA at Penn
State," should give the other side of the
story.
Three Columbia University students
who were intimately involved with the
IDA controversy at Morningside Heights
will highlight the afternoon session. At
the evening Forum, E. F. Osborn, vice
president of research at the University,
and four professors will speak.
For students with a desire to clear
up some of the confusion surrounding
IDA, attendance at both sessions "is a
must.
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THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1968
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'Act Now' ®n Black beniands. Quakers,. 'and Polish" jokes are are fun. Instead of 4.
sea of grey Pablum 'in 'the 'American melting
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TO THE EDITOR: I was not surprised to read in we find 'stubborn chunks that don't want to dis- • ,
yesterday's letters' column the response to ,the integrate; 'Negroes, Jews-who-don't-eat-ham, and '`-
Douglas Society's demands. "Special treatment is Amish-who4won't-send-their-kids-to-school.
not the answer,' writes Name Withheld. And these groiips must go, because they will
Blacks deserve some pretty damn special upset the All-American applecart.
treatment, friend, and they deserve it now. I could But tho Negro has served , notice that- he .
tell you what they've been through, but I doubt isn't going to take this any longer. If lam not ••-
that it would have any effect on y6u. It's hard to mistaken, there are many Negroes who are itching '
fight 300 years' worth of inherent prejudice. ' to print in big, •bold• letters the word NEGRO at
What blacks deserve is to have 25,000 under- the top of their application blanks not-because they
graduates here by •Fall, 1968. What blacks de- want preferential treatment, but because they are
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serve is Centre County. What blacks deserve is proud to be a Negro. And society will be) the
Pennsylvania. It is impossible to calculate what richer because of it. 1
blacks deserve, for no one can measure 300 years The minority revolution will not stop with
of the crap they have been taking by merely . the Negro movement, we can be sure of that. .
being' alive. . 'Other minority- groups are restless and are be-
You'd better act now before the -demands, be- , ginning to see - that a total obliteration of differ
come harder to meet. This is nothing: It's 'fine to ences is not the answer. And so, members of the
become indignant when you, think your happy, Douglas Associatibn, although I may 'not agree
stable life is about to be upset. Become indignant, with all your goals 'and ideals, you are better ,
become angry, but don't think. Don't try to find men than I am. ' - , •
out why these black people want just to live as Tjalle T. Vandergra_ff
human beings. Thinking is for people who have -Graduate Student •- •
intelligence, who care. .
Yes, Mr. Talotta, I get your point, And I am' University Not To. Blame ' being very serious. You make light of what is TO THE EDITOR: Come now,Douglas Association,
happening. You joke. You want blacks to take whom are" you trying to fobl? The size; of the'
the slow road. Blacks are fine as long as they black student ,r' opulation - at - Penn State can't be".
are making touchdowns or singing, .but as soon blamed on the
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as they get angry, as soon as they realize that if When you filled out the standard applica-'
they keep singing and playing ball their grand
children will be in the same boat as they are, you tion form before you came here, you weren't
change your mind. It's time to put them back
their place. Your letter was apparently written , asked to affixphotograph or otherwise state
in f ' t
your race; . it's illegal . meques such information.,
in jest, but the time for jesting is over.
Finally, Mr. Kohl and Mr. Schultes conclude, Without it, the admissions staff is obliged to ac- -
ce t or reject an applicant solely on, the basis of '
following - their list of demands (which may or,may academic P qualifications. Youknow how' loudly'
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not be satirical) that they will "riot, siege, and you'd shout "Bigotry!"policy were any
loot, as is the black custom." . different. •-- .
If a student is 'not' admitted to Penn State
Perhaps if the blacks' demands are not met, because he doesn't qualifyr
acade 'call the fault
they will lynch, castrate and rape, as is the white
custom. It may not be a bad idea. Personal re- is again not the University's. The student and/or
pies are invited. My name, by request, is not his high school is quite clearly to• blame. Reform
withheld, in'the local school district comes no more from
-- - - - ._- a distant university's, administration 'than it does
from , thin air. Are yon.' the students affected, try
ing to change this - basic 'problem? Alternatively,
no one is restraining ilie , student from overcom
ing his high school's inadequacies. No' one who is
too lazy to study belongs at a state supported uni- •
varsity. .. , .
• Quite possibly, :as you say; not • enough re- - '
cruiting is done in tic high schools. I - can't demon
strate this as ~--; universal truth, but any Penn
State recruiting that went on at 'my high school
was done by its own alumni—not by the adminis
tration. Have any of you tried to interest students
at your old schools in coming to Penn State, per
haps by such a program as the Lutheran Student
Association sponsors every year?
Finally, I'm interested in the source for a
statistic. Where, Douglas Association, did you get
the figure 200 as the black, population of this
campus? The administration eeps no record of
any student's race. If it's,a head count of Douglas
Assoication, members, you'd better check again. •
There- are probably many black students at Penn
State who take no interest in actions as poorly
considered as yours evidently are.
Mary Elinor Chamberlain '7O
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Continuous Dialogue Needed
TO THE EDITOR: After 300 years of slavery and
100 years of promises, the black community is
finally making demands; the white community is
being shaken out of its lethargy; everybody's
upset and nobody seems to have any answers.
The sad thing is that not too many people are
really looking fof answers. Maintenance of the
status quo is of prime importance. Apathy is the
battlecry.
It is too easy to dismiss the black's demands
as outlandish. If some of them seem unnecessary
and superficial, others are certainly worthwhile.
To.blithel•rignore and reject all of them is absurd.
Keith Bates '7l
More Obscene Than Words
TO THE EDITOR: Rocky didn't show up at yes
terday's rally, but 20 placard-carrying blacks from
the Douglas Association did. Many of the dissa
pointed spectators were apparently appalled at
some of the scribblings on the signs. One shocker,
for instance, read: "We've had enough of this shit."
A , woman in spring green objected: "There's
no reason to be obscene." I just wonder if this
same woman, and many like her, would see pov
erty and say it is obscene, or witness the subtle
racial injustice (Northern style) and say it is ob
scene. 'At Penn State we have only 200 Blacks
at a university which by all right and reason
should represent a fair cross-section of the state's
population. The fact that we have only 200 Blacks
at Penn State, Man, that's obscene.
Rocco A. De Pietro Jr.
Better Man Than i Am . . .
TO THE EDITOR: Monday's action by part of the
Negro student body has undoubtedly taken many
of us Whites by surprise. This is understandable,
for it doesn't happen very often that a minority
stands up for its God-given rights, and as a con
sequence, minority groups all over have seen their
rights and privileges trampled upon.
We have been brainwashed., into belieliing
that, if we all follow the same path and if we
all fit into the same mold, all will . be well. And.
so we are told to omit any reference to race,
creed, or national origin when we .file an applica
tion, because then, sooner or later, we will all be
the same. But it hasn't worked, has it? For by
trying to "protect" the minorities, we have given
them an inferiority complex.
And as a result Time magazine ridicules the
fundamentalist, "hawkish" newspapers ridicule
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What is necessary is a continuous dialogue be
tween blacks and whites coupled with responsible
action. •
if changes "in,,the whole position of Negroes
'in our society" is necessary, does this not include
the. University? If not, then where? On the streets
of Newark I presume.
If "riots are illegal, unjustified, and immoral,
so .are years of discrimination, .murders,' and
bombings. We who shout not guilty the - loudest
should be the first to stop perpetuationg this
cancer.
And to the two gentlemen who wrote that
heartwarming letter yesterday, may that be their
epitaph.
s,
Bob Cook '69
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View from a Black /Moderate
TO THE EDITOR: As one of the thirty or so grad
Students at the University who happens to be
black, I feel I must comment on one of the Doug
las Association's "demands" submitted to the
Administration; that more Negro grad students
be admitted.
This is fine. However, should such a demand
involve, lowering - admissions raquirements, I
think a great injustice would be done to thoSe of
us who were able to make it by-'conforming to
the rigid, admissions requirements and' aca
demic standards demanded - of the Graduate School.
Furthermore, I feel that by relaxing admis
sions requirements, the University would have to
loWer its academic standards to keep the student
enrolled. Not everyone can succeed at the rigors
demanded by graduate education, and the quality
of - such education
,should not be sacrificed to the
end of achieving a certain racial quota. '
As one of the few black moderates on campus,
I am only sorry more of our views aren't aired to
the UniVersity community. It seems that only the
discontented are polled, on the issues, while those
of us who see the; problem in a different light are
usually ignored. Maybe this is a start. •
Ronald C. Johnson
". Graduate, Biochemistry
Seeing Through Italian Joke
TO THE, EDITOR: Ai 'true Italian chauvinists we
strongly support the demands for Italian equality
made by Tony Talotta '69 in Wednesday's Col
legian. We would like ,to make the following de
mands ,on, pardon the expression; "Old Main":
1. There should be a bigger building across
from the Garabaldi building dedicated to, and
named after, the first son of Italy to become a
true American: Al Capone.
2. That a Benito Mussolini scholarship fund
be established.
3. That a course in the history of the gal
lantry and bravery of the Italian army in Ethiopia
and Europe be made a permanent part of the cur
riculum.
4. More Italian professors to give courses in
social problems, business 'management, public
relations ,and -ethics in urban areas, with special
emphasis on the contributions made by the Mafia
and the Cosa Nostra in these areas.
5. That a section of Pattee be devoted ex
clusively to an archive of Black Hand literature:
6. Reevaluation of the athletic recruiting
program with regard to Italian students to give
other deserving minority grotips a - -chance.
7. Italian literature .courses should be sep
arate from the University's English course to avoid
cultural contamination. . • .
8. The introduction of a shOrt course in
Italian culture. ' . . .
9. More Italians in the Administration. We
especially support the appointment of Mr: Frank
Rizzo. as chief Campus Security Officer.
Seriously, can anyone see through Tony Tal
otta's white racism?
Alfredo Anthony Joseph Dißernardo
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