THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1968
The Hot Tip:
Noll It All
By JUDY RIFE
Collegian City Editor
Twenty-four hciurs later, there I was. standing next to
the hot tip himself! But I managed to maintain my cool
and' not say "Hi there, Hot Tip!" I said instead, "Hello,
Dr. Noll."
It was Charlie Hosler, who had tipped me off about
his colleague the day before.
"Do you know Dean
Noll?" the head of the Col
lege of Earth and Mineral
Sciences had asked me on
the phone. "College of Sci
ence?"
(Resigning I thought,
we scoop Public Informa
tion! No, Hosler would go
through proper channels
with news like that . . . and
besides, if it were true, like
Roose and Heller, it would
have been common knowl
edge, or at least a nasty
rumor, all over town). "Well, he's 60
headlines: Dean Has Birthday!) ". .
reclassified l-A."
Clarence I. Noll. dean of the College of Science, age
60, reclassified 1-A. A hot tip!
Dr. Noll was taking the news calmly. "I'm a 60-year
old grandfather!"
And besides, the notice was not from his draft board
nor was it his Selective Service number.
"The head of the biology department (Joseph G.
O'Mara) has this all figured out," he said. "He says you
always receive something from your draft board after
your 15th birthday and I was just 15 this year." Which
prompted my alert photographer to speak up: "Leap year."
And I nodded and said, 'When is your birthday?" Every
interview is marked by at least one brilliant question.
Without prompting. Dr. Noll proceeded to answer the
questions I had mentally prepared. think I know what
happened. Students come to us asking if we'll inform their
draft boards of what they are doing here in hopes of ob
taining deferments. Some secretary probably saw my
name at the bottom of one of these letters and sent a notice
to me by mistake.
Somebody Doesn't Know
9t is not my Selective Service number and it's not
my draft board. The serious part of it is that there is some
body who has that number and doesn't know he's I-A.
"I'm going to write them a letter explaining the error
and ask that the right person not be held to the date of
the notice,"
And there it was: the hot tip, tracked down by the
unrelenting, truth-seeking journalist. But the proverbial
nose for news was already twitching. Another hot tip was
in the making: "they" will meet you half-way. If you want
to talk to "them," "they" will talk to you.
' Dr. Noll and I expressed a mutual interest in Latin
America and mutual concern over the upcoming Presi
dential elections. We discussed the IDA mess in the spring
and University involvement with government and industry
research and the political nature of the next generation.
Mutual Enjoyment
We exchanged titles of good books we've read lately
and discovered a mutual enjoyment of Wilder's "The
Bridge of San Luis Rey." (Another hot tip: he suggests
having a heart attack to catch up on all those things you'l,e
been meaning to read!) Then the conversation drifted to
student activism, student-faculty relations, and how liberal
arts students have this thing about Bi Sci and science
courses in general.'
I apologized for keeping him from his dinner, but
then Dr. Noll gave me the hottest tip of all: "That's all
right, I'm not just being paid to be interested in students,
I am."
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA
Sound Off? Put It
By ROBERT J. GRAHAM
Assistant Professor of English
THEODORA. R. GRAHAM
Instructor in English
Ironically, The Daily Collegian editorial. "Facul
ty Apathy." (Oct. 5) will probably reach a small
number of the faculty unless the adamant few who
subscribe to the Collegian or those, like us. who ask
students to leave a copy after class pass it to their
colleagues.
We have suggested to Collegian editors, to faculty
senators, to student leaders that the University
should foot the bill for copies sent to professors re
questing th e m
arid that the Col
legian or, if neces
sary, another pub
lication become a
bona fide student
faculty newspaper
with all that title
implies. Faculty
Forum is no substi
tute for what is
needed at Penn
State,
If discussion is
to be continuous
among students and
faculty, then we
suggest realistic and
serious exchanges Theodora R. Graham
can best occur in
writing. Free-wheeling personal confrontations
with or without microphones, sometimes heroine
interesting, intense encounters; but it has been our
experience that too much talk and oral counter--
explanation under such conditions abort good
intentions.
In certain dramatic instances such direct ex
change may encourage understanding and fruitful ac
tion. We recommend. however, that these desired
results not be left to chance. There's something solid
about print.
Let's keep the microphone but seek a larger con
text.
What is personally frustrating about your
editorial is the paradox at its base. How to cut the
Gordian knot?
There is in academic logic an optional escape
clause which runs
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would appear undignified...
•if you suspect it might be misconstrued . . .
•if you would prefer not to.
Ancient history. Begin again.
Student-Faculty Dialogue
Once there was an indefinite and self-defining un
group, non-committee called Student-Faculty
Dialogue. Back in '65-66. Not to be Confused with any
other organization, place, or arrangement which sub
sequently borrowed the name. That was after Ad
Hoc. Jim Kaplan Co. Soap boxes, a rare micro
phone, one guitar, a few best minds of a PSU genera
tion and other decent ones.
Not many placards. One or two rallies where
most people dressed square because anything else
alienated those above. A self-conscious, spontaneous
sit-in in Old Main at which the Alma Mater was
sung with no little embarrassment ("let no act of
ours...").
All about student-rights (that was before
"power": change is the essence and a rose becomes
something else when someone else perceives a dif
ference). Mostly off-campus independence; choice; in
loco parentis.
A few resigned and retired; some probably got
ulcers hoping it would go away.
A Bookstore, ORL, et. al.
Repeated patterns. It was also ( for those who
realized students were doing what they wanted to do,
anyway, and were primarily sick of the hypocrisy) a
bookstore. Ordnance Research Laboratory, mindless
Spring Weeks, a few large do-nothing classes, some
ugly new buildings, the worst aspects of Greek-ism
(about which IFC chairmen prove to be perceptive),
205 Black students in the midst of a 23.000 enrollment
(about which John Warner was perceptive), pass-tail
for real, the AAUP at PSU, resident learning centers,
an independent study school, portable do-it-yourself
free university classes with libraries and a
student-faculty Senate with legal awareness. At that
moment in time the Faculty Senate was not chaired
by an elected member.
Where are we? Take your own inventory. It
wasn't an easy road to that Senate for those involved
in and behind the scene: but what does it mean: For
many Ancient History is a bore. It is N-O-W. Besides.
if the students in the Senate seem inarticulate, what
does it mean?
Cases in point.
The student-faculty dialogue was rational, signifi
cant, and good despite the slurs, the newsletters a
few professors sent back with red-ink condemnations,
a couple of ignorant telephone calls from those who
didn't choose to use print to make relevant remarks.
About 25 faculty members were regulars, contribut
ing money and time and it took plenty of both to
publish one newsletter.
in Print
Others consistently showed up at dialogues in the
HUB, coming and going when they could. Up to 400
faculty members and. students appeared at the three
S-FD Forums held in the Forum. Fact , liv
like Dr. Young, Dear. Heller, Dr. Rabinowitz, Dr.
Rosemary Schraer and others along Nl,ll acuii
trators, student leaders (the serious kind), editors
discussed in open forum (does anyone remember?)
"What Is a University?" We had plenty of free
speech.
Begin again? Where is a Bruce Macomber?
There was a box or two of S•FD paper, brown ink.
addressograph plates for all faculty members and
student organizations, a few dollars in the downtown
bank account and a lot of experience with bureau
cratic redtape. Anyone want to hear how difficult it
was to get some college deans and some department
heads to permit distribution in faculty mailboxes
and how some effcrts failed?
No Student Editor
S-FD folded because there was no student editor
(the editorship was a joint faculty-student set-up with
an open advisory board) who wanted to take Bruce's
place even though the time-consuming machinery
was well-oiled. And this was no slippery, undercover,
low-quality bottom
of anyone's bird
.cage.
No red - eyed
radical spurning
howl with four-let
ter words to affront
Aunt Edna and the
legislature: nor neg
ativistic anarchistic
down - with State
and - Happy Valley
movement. We were
telling it like it is
before anyone
coined the phrase—
and with taste and
as much literary
style as contributors
Robert J. Graham could summon or
editors could induce en short notice.
Some will always believe that evaluation and
critioism cannot persist with concern and love; but
nobody's got an edge on love because he chooses only
praise or silence. Elm trees, a man's achievements.
the past are potentially comprehensible to anyone
over 1211.
When the newsletter was satirical, one didn'l
choose the stance because it was most friendly; one
chose it to shake the apathy, to drag written
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