Columbia: Can
It Happen Here?
Things have changed since May.
At that time we compared Penn
State’s student-Administration relations
to those of Columbia University. We
cited the violent nature of the Columbia
situation, and claimed “It could never
happen here.”
Our statements were based on what
we called “an open channel of commu
nication” and a “working relationship
between Old Main and its student body.”
We also cited the. “perennially apa
thetic attitude” of the Penn State stu
dent body towards campus affairs. There
is no issue “that would arouse enough
student interest to cause unrest on the
scale of .that experienced _ at Columbia,”
we said.
But now we are forced to re-examine
our statements. As our headlines have
Indicated, we sense a spark of student
activism this’ term. Walkeriown and the
Free Speech Movement have caused us
to think that perhaps students can or
ganize to effectively make, known their
dissatisfaction, with University policies.
Some readers have accused us of
perpetrating Walkertown. We have been
told (by naive and misinformed letter
writers) that without The Daily Col
legian’s “left-wing ravings,” Walkertown
—and what it represents—would have
died in the first week of the term.
This comes as no surprise to us, for
we are the first to admit that the Col
legian has aided Walkertown. But we
have supported this student activism in
a responsible manner, pointing to its
faults and literally straining to present
the Administration’s views.
In the course of our coverage we
have found another important reference
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Editorial Opinion
to Columbia.
Last week a panel headed by Archi
bald Cox, Harvard law professor and
former Solicitor General of the United
States, issued a report on the causes of
Columbia’s disturbances. At least two
aspects of the report are worth our
attention:
• "At a time when the spirit of self
determination is running strongly, the
administration of Columbia's affairs too
often conveyed an attitude of authori
tarianism and invited distrust."
more remote from problems of student
life and general university policy . . .
The authoritarian manner, on one s'ide,
the aloofness, on the other, were mu
tually reinforcing."
Interesting, isn’t it, that these two
comments describe so aptly the present
situation at Penn State?
Antagonism between Old Main and
the student body, of course, hasn’t
reached Columbian proportions. The Ad
ministration has told those involved in
the Free Speech Movement to work
through a legitimate channel the
Undergraduate Student Government.
And some of the activists have tried to
do just that, such as the four Walker
tonians who campaigned this week in
the USG elections.
But what if USG can produce well
documented requests for change? And
what if Old Main again ignores valid
student complaints?
We still see no immediate threat of
disruption at Penn State. But we sense
a changed atmosphere here and we
can not rule disruption out as a possi
bility.
Last May we said “It couldn’t hap
pen here.” Now we’re not so sure.
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Majority Doesn't Give a Damn
TO THE EDITOR: Miss Freunsch’s letter to the editor in
yesterday’s Collegian urged Penn State’s “ ’apathetic’ ma
jority (to) get out and vote against (the) ‘minority’ can
didates” running for USG. How absurd: an apathetic*
majority really caring about the vociferous and do-some
thing ‘minority!’ Come now, Miss Freunsch—Apathy, get
out and vote?
The allegedly SDS-oriented students, to whom. you
refer as the ‘minority,’ may indeed be a “little voice” as
you say. Regardless of what your opinions may be on
what this group has to say, you must accede that this
band of Penn Staters is saying something, letting its col
lective thoughts be heard and wanting to ameliorate exist
ing faults on campus.
Please realize that your 'busy and contented,’ 'apa
thetic' majority just doesn't give a damn, one way or the
other. If it did, the majority would add to the "little
voice." They would contribute to tlm destruction of apathy.
(God. something might get accomplished!)
Also—this ‘minority’ may voice opinions which rub
you the wrong way. So get off your duff, speak your
piece and stop' appealing to an ‘apathetic’ majority. What
do ’they care? It’s the old ostrich concept: Shut your ears
and no one is talking, at all. A ‘little voice’ deafens where
silence dominates.
E. J. Harvey, Jr.
Graduate Student—Comparative Literature
Collegian Twisting 'Twisted Logic?'
TO THE EDITOR: In yodr editorial of Oct. 4, on the Supreme
Court, you indicated that the Court was not deserving of
criticism leveled at it. Doing so was exhibiting "twisted
logic.” You seem to feel a minority of simple-minded out
siders are responsible for slandering a united judicial body.
In view of this, it is interesting to note that the greatest
amount of criticism has come from the Court’s own members.
From 1953 to 1965 the Warren Court differed in judgment on
65.8 per cent of their decisions.
In a 1966 “criminal” decision, Justices White, Stewart,
and Harlan said: "In some unknown number of cases -the
Court’s rule will return a killer, a rapist or other criminal to
the streets.”
In Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965, Justices Black and
Stewart remarked: “The adoption of such a loose-standard for
holding laws unconstitutional will amount to a great un
constitutional shift of power to the courts, which will be bad for
the courts and worse for the country.” •
Chief justices from 36 states adopted-a resolution saying
“the Supreme Court too often has tended to adopt the role of
policy maker without proper judicial restraint.;’ Criticism has
also come from district attorneys, law- enforcement leaders,
and the American Bar Association. One'oftthgipiirposes of'the
Omnibus Crime Bill was to cancel several cbm i decisions. .
However, according to your editorial; dissenting' Court
Justices, a majority of state chief justices, (including Bell of,
Pennsylvania), attorneys, congressmen, and.a majority- of
U.S. citizens who disapprove of Court actions are using
twisted logic. Thank God for The Daily Collegian editorial
staff which graciously burdens itself with the task of'showing
these misguided souls and political initiates the error of their
thoughts.
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Sitting Alone, Looking
Around, Draining Away
By BILL MOHAN
Looking around the room, you can see
the quiet, clinical fatigue. See fatigue: strewn
albums, dog-eared papers, furniture just a
little out of place. But mostly it’s his constant
careful 'attempts' at neatness that tire the
brain, and you don’t know why.
' And outside the world too is sick. Rain
is coming, down
The fog . social
izing - with the
grey buildings is
obscuring but
npt quite dous
ing the lights
downtown. Mul
ticolored and
scat t e r e d and
half - heartedly
blinking: State’
C o liege looks
like a tilted pin
ball machine.
Back in the
room, he sits in
peace. You hope it’s an agitated peace. You
are conscious of turning pages from his
paperback on Islam which may well be
more than a textbook. You wonder whether
he can achieve, or even wants to achieve
this oriental ecstasy he speaks about —from
poring over the words printed in. Hacken
sack, local color from a disinterested press.
A machine that couldn’t tell an Islam book
from a Superman comic .
Creeps Along
Outside, only one car creeps creeps
along apologetically like a metal, four-door
Peter Lorre. Somebody and his date walk
across the street, but they aren’t holding
hands. You’re sure she’s thinking about her
new raincoat and how it might get wet if it
starts to rain again. He’s thinking that this
girl’s got acne and his fraternity brothers
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will most likely give himthe pig-of-the-week
award. And they aren’t even holding hands.
The air-conditioner whirs impassively.
You know it would whir exactly the same
whether there was a wild party here or a
person’s funeral. It really bugs you. You get
indignant because you know that if you
dropped dead right now, that damned thing
wouldn’t have the common courtesy to whirr
a little bit softer while you were experienc
ing your first moments of lifelessness on the
floor.
There’s more blinking and stirring now.
It’s as though everybody all at once realized
it was Saturday night, shrugged their col
lective shoulders, and went out with a grim
determination to have a good time. Now
traffic and people are moving real fast.
Grimacing. Trying to unseal the sleepy enve
lope which will enclose them ’til tomorrow
morning. You won’t hear, but you know the
laughs will be.louder tonight, the drinks
will be stronger, the make-up will be thicker.
MOHAN
There are some pictures up on the walls
which look avant-garde. Hip—split chemicals
making very colorful and very meaningless
designs underneath which is a calendar tell
ing you exactly what month it is in five dif
ferent languages. You just want to thank
God that our society has become so modern
that a soul-less chemical can make a picture.
You just want to thank God that you’ve be
come so muted that the picture satisfies you.
If you walk over to the balcony, you can
see the peak of a modern church. Its neo
tower knifes pretentiously into the sky and
looks like it’s going to punch a hole into
heaven and maybe someone will fall out.
He sits there, one finger fused phalli
cally with the page—sapping just a little
more nirvana before going in to comb his
hair.
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