UE;G Elections:
Pep Talk Time
"Alright, now, editors, I want to with change, who have openly partici
hear Pep Talk No. 1. I want you to pated in activities like Walkertown and
really arouse these people. I want you the Free Speech Movement, who have
to send them scurrying to the polls the flooded our brains with diabolical
same way sex-starved convicts on their schemes to thrust this University into
first day out scurry to the cathouse. I the mainstream of educational life,
want you to really get these people where we would be mercilessly carried
psyched up over this USG election." along on a tide of new, revolutionary
"Yeah, boss. We've got it. How's ideas
this,
"Oh, these four are demons. Keep
"Okay students, we want you to their names in mind—Krivoy, Schwartz,
get out there and vole! Do you hear! Shear and Rubin. And to add to the
h
Pay attention to us now students. We horror, there are a number of others
on the ballot with similar handicaps."
want you to bound out of bed this morn
ing beaming and laughing with the "That was beautiful, fellas. Nov
prospect that YOU today will be per- try a little bit of praise for the hard
miffed, by virtue of your status as stu- core non-participants "
dents, to vote in the USG elections,
"Come on, people! Get with it. This follow the cockroaches and they take
is your last chance. Look at that list of you right to Nittany. People in, of and
candidates. Aren't they an impressive around Nittany, Shunk and Porter. Do
bunch? Eh? Don't they make you want you realize that you are the mainstay
to just go out and vote for them?" of this University's traditions, that with
" Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine boys. out people like you there would be
But I don't think it would appeal to this change oh, lord in heaven, no—there
particular student body. Penn State is would actually be change on this cam
different than most big schools, you pus.
know. You have to appeal to what they
like most."
apathetic to half-dead, that not one of
"Got ya, boss. How's this. Students
you is willing to run for USG Congress.
of Penn State. Voting is cool. Not only
This is admirable, the ultimate in non
will we have a keg set up at the polling
participation. But reconsider, men. Sup
booth, but we will have all your mothers pose there were no representative from
there and hundreds of apple pies. Also, your area. That would be change. It
think of the advantages of voting. If would disrupt the status quo.
you go out and vote today, you can "You must create one,
write-in one.
create the USG Congress of your We are confident that you will write-in
dreams. It will be a pillar of mediocrity, the most thoroughly mediocre dolt im
a staunch supporter of that collection of aginable."
institutions that we all love so well, the -
status quo
"Okay, editors, now let's make an
appeal to their lust for power. That al
"There's no denying it, students. If ways works well."
this year you really put your minds to it,
"Students. There are 25,000 of you.
you can have a USG Congress that will
Do you realize how much stir 25,000
bow to the Administration's every de
enthusiastic students can cause. We
mand, that will concede its dignity on would like to see all 25,000 of you vote
any point, that will inspire an explo- before this afternoon.
sion of apathy beyond your •wildest
"But we know that the figure will
be less than 5,000. Why not make it
"That's fine, editors, but.l. think it 6,000 or 7,000? You might even be more
needs a bit of negative kick. We must content, more secure, more sure of
appeal to the students' outrage at any yourselves if you invoke the power that
kind of activism." is inherent in your numbers.
dreams."
"That's easy boss. Listen to this. `,`They say that the attainment of
Outraged students. Among the 33 can- power is an exhilarating experience.
didates running for office this year are Why not try it? All you have to lose is
at least four who dare to threaten us your chains."
Editorial Opinion
"They're easy to find, boss. Just
"You are so bad to mediocre, so
"Watch out for his mud-ball .. . I"
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TO THE EDITOR: Today an undergraduate
advisee said to me, "Our generation gap is so
great that we communicate from different
planets."
I agree that the college student-today is not
the naive creature of my undergraduate days.
The sights and sounds of television and the
pocket radio were not my daily diet. I never
received the sensation of participating in
McLuhan's global village nor did I receive vast
quantities of knowledge beyond my capacity to
absorb. In my undergraduate days everywhere
was far away, every event was long ago. I did
not have social awareness and I know I lacked
wisdom. I was taught that wisdom and com
petence came through discipline, training and
experience.
The student of today's electronic age is in a
real dilemma. The media created an imme
diate ' awareness and involvement which
generates a false confidence. Wisdom and com
petence have taken a back seat.
The way people feel about a problem or an
issue has become more important than the
facts or -the past or the Tong range goal. The
keynotes for my advisee are immediate ex
perience and awareness. And herein lies the
conflict between us. He won't accept the - pro
position that age has acquired more wisdom
and competence. •
The word is that those of .us over thirty are
not to be trusted.
This generation gap between advisor and
advisee is nothing new. The Sorbonne in the
middle ages was noted for the fury with which
the students, with sword in hand, defended
what they regarded as their rights and
privileges. The universities in Tsarist Russia
were often closed down because of student
unrest.
Perhaps on a university campus the
generation gap is in the very nature of things.
The faculty repreSents continuity. The student
is temporary and constantly replaced. A
freshman is not competent to judge how or
what he should be taught in a discipline of
which he is only partially familiar.
However, the heart of the problem of liber
ty and authority should be examined in an
institution of higher learning with reason and
valid evidence rather than with emotion and
immediate expediency.
J. D. McAulay
Professor of Education
An Ass byAny Other Name
TO THE EDITOR: "Anybody who likes it is an
ass with no taste whatsoever..."
That's it, SeydOr. Give 'em hell. Walt Dis
ney's "The Parent Trap" is a film trap for
cinema ignoramuses. Just do a reader of yours
one favor; try not to confirm unwarranted
status on the flick by publicizing your con
demnation.
T. Robert Shore
11th-Journalism
been the practice of American democracy to
Jeering 'From Sidelines elect officials to work for us, not against us
to elect those who represent the views and
TO THE EDITOR: Paul Seydor is frustrated at desires of the majority to positions of power.
the lack of films he likes in State College. His The very fact that Walkertown has attracted an
angry kick at the local theatre managements, articulate, yet really very insignificant in num
however, seems to me not only ill-informed and ber, group of students emphasizes my position
childish; but also unhelpful as a positive step that the majority of Penn State, students
towards improvement. wish to be represented in USG by,offiCiali who
Movie theaters respond more immediately will use their power, not to satisfy their own
and directly than any other outlet of popular self-interests, but rather to truly represent
entertainment to the pressures and wishes of those who have elected them.
their audiences as expressed at the box office. Only if this "apathetic" majority will ,get
As a matter of record, "Tbe -Sound of Music" out and vote against these "minority" - can
did more business in one night than "Persona" didates can true representation be maintained.
did in a week. We may properly bemoan this Perhaps Old Main isn't really ignoring the
new proof that Gresham was right, but we "student voice"—it just can't bear such a lit
oughtn't to blame the theatres. They offered tle voice: The sounds of 25,000 busy and con
and continue to offer a choice. They do not take tented PSU students are drowning it out and
the easy way out. We do. maybe that should be a subtle hint.
State Collegeo has a- long history of such Fail Freunsch • .. -
-`preferences;-•thus,%the distributOrs a - "Belle du Music Education-'7l
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get it later, m;hen the other•defnand is satiated.
We regularly get tested to see, if the pattern
has changed. So far, it hasn't.
As Collegian movie critic, Paul Seydor can
help to change the pattern by encouraging and
celebratMg the films he admires, rather than
by wasting invective on the ones he doesn't. A
week ago, his enthusiasm for "The TWo of Us"
might have done some good. While Paul Was
baiting "The Parent Trap," "The• Girl With
Green Eyes" ran to almost-empty houses at
Twelvetrees. Kurosawa's brilliant "Seven
Samurai" will come and go at the HUB, Paul's
readers none the wiser.
•
It is an absolute fact that State College is
better served for films than any other town of
comparable, size and population in the United
States. Those of us who put time and money in
to improving the situation would welcome Paul
Seydor's lielp.-We do not need him jeering on
the sidelines. •
David Shepard
Assistant Professor in Film
Dep't. of Theatre Arts
Little•To Bitch About
TO THE EDITOR: Being somewhat incensed
over Saturday's editorial in re an apathetic
faculty, I want to let you know where I, for
one, stand.
I favor Penn State status quo generally,
including the USG, first rate teaching and
scholarship, etc. I would like to see a 'Univer
sity bookstore and increased recreational and
housing facilities for students.
I am much down on the drug users and the
radical, disruptive minority element such as
the SUS.
I think that a young person with the op
portunity to attend Penn State has much to
think about and be thankful for, and damned
little to bitch about.
Edwin Gamble,
Assistant Professor of Music
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It's Such a Little Voice
TO THE EDITOR: In regards to the Editorial
Opinion The Daily Collegian Oct. 8, concern
ing the four USG candidates who. are involved
with Waikertown I quote: "this term, when a
relatively small number of students have band
ed together to argue for bona fide student
causes, the small number faces an overwhelm
ing student and faculty apathy. The small num
ber must work against a student body which
has no confidence in student activism or USG,
due to a long history of administrative indif
ference to USG requests."
First, I resent being termed "apathetic"
merely because I believe Eric A. Walker is bet
ter qualified to run this university than any of
the 25,000 students here.
Secondly, I question the phrase "work
against a student body": I believe it has long
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