Editorial Opinion Bouie Haden Bouie Haden curses the day he was born. If what he said in his. speech in the Hetzel . Union Building yesterday is true, he was condemned from birth. His black mother was raped by a white man and from that ignoble union he was _conceived. HE GREW UP in a glitto. He never had a chance to make anything of himself. He was taught by ghetto society that the only way to get what you want is to take it. He learned his lessons well. Since 1941, he has been arrested 44 times. Crime and 1. - ziverty go hand in hand. In Whitey's world, he never had a' chance. Bouie Haden hates his birth, hates his life and hates the society that has made him what he is. The civil rights movement and the black revolution have provided Hatlen with an outlet for his hatred, and he has taken full advantage of it. He is therefore a very dangerous man. Yesterday, Haden visited the University with a Pittsburgh civil rights group called the Citizcns- Action Committee. He led the group in a walk-out from President Eric A. Walker's office and on the way out called the President the filthiest word in the English language. He then proceeded to the HUB Assembly Room, where he issued a call to revolution to the 70 to 80 black students gathered to hear him. IT WAS A HORRIBLE, insulting,' frightening experience for the 25 sympathetic whites who also were there. To them he applied the same epithet with which he had branded Walker. Making effec tive use of thundeiing, eloquent rhetoric, he depicted the white man—all white men—as perverted, blood sucking monsters whose sole purpose in life is to suppress the black man. This is an insult to all those concerned whites who have taken part in the black liberation move ment. Haden's solutions to the problem of racism - come straight from the credos of H. Rap Brown. Accord ing to Haden, the black man should conquer racism in the same way David conquered Goliath—through violence. Denied all other vehicles of persuasion, the black man will rise from privation "if we cut every goddamn throat we see." Chills ran up and down every white spine in the auditorium 'as the blacks applauded. It is a tragedy that the efforts of the University's black community to obtain racial balance have been tainted by the irrational invocation of black racism. HADEN INSISTED late in his speech that he "did not come here to add additional hate to the bur den that you (black students) carry." But if his speech, taken as a whole, had any pur pose at all, it was to transmit Haden's intense hatred of the white man to Penn State's black students, to persuade them to seek fulfillment of their goals through violence and thus lose what little they have gained through negotiation. Bouie Haden is an angry black man. His hatred of the, white society is to a large extent justified. And he is probably right to say that if white society does not take rapid, positive action to eliminate racial discrimination, the only alternative for the black man is violence. But he is wrong to urge the black community to resort to violence before every other - possible method for combating the problem has been explored., THE PENN STATE THESPIANS are proud to - announce a winter workshop open to all students. An orientation meeting explaining the workshop and its goals will be held Sunday, January 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Schwab Auditorium. Entertainment and refreshments will be provided. Attention Rushees! Pi Lambda Phi proudly announces its . WINTER '69' OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 2-5 p.m. 412 West College Avenue Refreshments will be served THE DAIL LOCAL AD -DEADLINE 4:00 P.M. 2. Days- Before Publication OLLEGIAN .CLASSIFIED AD DEADLINE 10:30 A.M. Day afar.d Publication pEANvEs STUPID TREE LC • ~HELN 244 z EATING MY PIANO!! vow „ , _-_-_-_ ` 1 1441 C-. CALLTKE RE DEPARTmeir! HERE'S 0 E mow a ze -m " RESCUE CALL - THE RESCUE SQUAD! 'NE SCENE CF EMERGENCY HIM Ir, t eiN AS \ _......,.....,..........._ ~...,...„„.::............ „„........„.........„.:..:..............,...,...........,..,...,.......:....,.............i...,....,... .:..,;..,•..-:....,'.k.0*.!.t05..-:..•*0-r.........t.ki....-.•:..g0t•00,..::-.....: GSA Expresses Concern TO THE EDITOR: After due consideration and discussion, the Executive Committee of the Graduate Student Association, acting under interim powers delegated to it, passed on Tuesday, Jan. 21, the following resolution: "It is resolved that GSA expresses its concern at the racial imbalance on the campus. It supports the Douglass Association, the Committee on the 'Culturally Disadvantaged. and other concerned groups, in drawing attention to this issue: and it strongly urges the University Administration to ta k e additional, imrnediste and positive action in resolving this problem. The GSA will take steps to provide its own constructive proposals in the near future. We urge all parties to seek a nonviolent solution to the problem." Russ Messier • - President: GSA Loyal Crowd Helps Team TO THE EDITOR: The basketball game against West Virginia showed the tremendous psychological advantage of a team playing on its home court. - It is easy to tell the difference between the play of a team that has - a noisy, cheering crowd and one with a 'dull, somber group of spectators. The fans' vocal support can sometimes get the momentum going in a team's favor. --. „- . • , The object of my criticism is the fans' booing of Bill Stansfield. Even as early as the announcement of the players, the catcalls rang out. The booing of a player by his home fans has got •to have some effect on his performance. It also gives an additional psychological advantage to the visiting team to know that the fans aren't 100 per cent in support of the home team. All players make mistakes and it Is the crowd's duty to help him forget them. Let's not make it worse by booing and heckling the player. A 100 per cent loyal crowd helps the ball team win. sth Mechanical Engineering Fair, Accurate Reporting? TO THE EDITOR: After listening to Dr. Walker speak to the Graduate Student Association Tuesday evening and then reading Miss Debbie Cover's report of the talk, I am convinced that Miss Cover was either sleeping most of the time or concocted her story to fit the framework of The Daily Collegian'S credo. The Collegian's credo being. of course, that Dr. Walker can't possibly have anything good or constructive to say so.forget about reporting it. For example: One graduate student who identified himself as a• member of another minority group other than the Blacks, asked why the president had "given in" to the Black demands. Did he do so from fear? - 7 .....-•- g ,..,. c „,_ z. .- . . : , _ cr e , ... ii r t ~2„ . ~ o f ft it. • 4 . - e_• - 7, 0 , --,... r; A, -,-`:%.T, : z . .) , . .-. 4 , 400 ,, /V MONDAY Smorgasbord . . . . __l At the PUB RESTAURANT ik. & 1ac N.,.., • 64 ? ,. . SOUTH ATHERTON STREET, STATE COLLEGE, PA. () . -41.*- . 0 FRUIT SALAD TOMATO JUICE RELISH TRAY (ask the waitress) I :4 COLD SALADS FLAVORED ASPICS . ..i...1 TOSSED SALAD JELLC) SALAD HOT POTATO ROAST ROUND OF BEEF HOT VEGETABLE gltq Assorted PIES and CAKES HOT MEAT. FISH, or . 1 ICE CREAM or SHERBERT , POULTRY l / TRY UNCLE BILL'S DELICIOUS FRIED CHICKEN 'i a $ O % ri% A Taste Treat for Gourmets ti '-ir• a.av prepared by i. per person Chef Steve Scourtics children under 12 .;!:*• SPECIAL HOLIDAY INN BUFFETS tt/ aft)_ • /7" Wednesday Chuckwagon Buffet $3.00 per person $1.50 children under 12 RV vs, ....._ If so, then any minority group could force its demands on the University at will. This was no way to run a University, the student said. The president's reply, if I may paraphrase him: "I too am a member of a minority group. I came to this country without a penny and I am thankful for the opportunities this country gave me. I want everyone else to have such opportunities. And if it means bending over backwards to help others, then I'll bend over backWards.'But I don't intend to operate out of fear." That statement drew 'the loudest and longest applause of the evening. Yet Miss Cover conveniently chose to ignore it, as she did other positive statements of this kind. She preferred instead to devote three paragraphs to the president's entire speech taking it out of context at that and to his answers to questions, while devoting the majority of the story to negativism and to the few who are always willing to be quoted. Fair and accurate reporting? Baloney. - Chester C. Gnatt State College (Editor's Note: Reader Gnatt, a University alumnus and former member of The Daily Collegian staff, is a staff assistant to Presi dent Walker.) Where Are the Lights? 'TO THE EDITOR: A recent Collegian announcement warned coeds to travel the "well lighted streets and walks on campus." I ask. "WHERE ARE THESE WELL LIGHTED AREAS?" I have yet to see them. Consider a walk from Atherton Hall to Patee Library. At night the walkway from Atherton to the HUB is illuminated Ity dim lights which do little more than serve as path guides. On the diagonal from, the new gym to the HUB terrace there is a 100-foot triangular area full of trees and thick shrubbery with a light at either . end. The walk is thus dark , and foreboding. Most of the time the HUB terrace is lighted only by two small lights on either side of the steps and only light from inside the HUB lights the path outside it. - AFTER NEGOTIATING the Atherton walk on a typical foggy night one is then faced with the distance to the library: The front of the HUB - is hardly distinguishable. Pollock Road has the same -dim lights as those on the Atherton walk and on one side only! On turning from Pollock to -the library walk one again encounters the same spartan lighting and as picayune as this sounds, light "6F" -across from Carnegie has been out since I arrived in September. Of course, there are 'other ways to get to the library, One could walk through the Human Development area and across Old Main. But try stumbling across Old Main terrace, all the lights are on the dome. •Letter Cut Friday Fish Luau $2.50 per person $1.25 children under 12 Phone 238-3001 for Reservations visa the Pub Bar before or after your dinner d' " 4 , AI C , L. A /A lt \•: . 11 1 ; ' .. _ . ife :. t -....."1 Collegian Letter Policy The Dilly Colleginti wel- Comes 'comments on,,mews cove. age , editorial policy and campus or non-campus .af fairs. 'Letters must be type written, double spaced, signed by do more than two persons and no longer than 30 lines. Students' letters should in clude name, term and major of the writer. They should be b-ought to the C •Ilegian of fice, 2.5 Sackett, in person so proper • identification of the writer can be made, although names wiU be -withheld by -equest. If letters are re ceived by If, Collegian will contact the signer for verifi cation. The Collegian reserves the right to fairly select, edit and condense all letter's. Elaine Lally Graduate—Are Education 'ye :11 `Candy': Black Humor At its Best and Worst , By PAUL pEYDOR Co[Legion Film Critic .If you feel like walking out during the first half hour or so of "Candy," resist the urge at least until the hospital sequence is over. This ridicule of modern surgery is so sick and depraved and degenerate and grotesque and rotten that you know you should be reviled and wish it would end as soon as possible. But you're so crippled with laughter and having such a wickedly goo d time, that, like "Playboy's" vir gins, you figure there's plenty of time later to hate yourself. It is the only part in the movie where the ideas ar e built skill fully in anticipa tion of the climax (here that bloody middle - fin g e r raised was an apt SEYDOR commentary o n the proceedings). Not the least of its effective ness is due to James Coburn, as Dr. Krankeit, delivering a subticly-controlled, shrewdly-timed comic performance. Funny Guru Having gotten as far as the hospital scene you may as well hang around for Marlon Brando's very funny Guru,' especially the 'sequence where he recites the-pig anecdote while struggling under the covers with Candy. Otherwise, "Candy" is an extravaganza of ineptitude. Buck Henry, who helped Mike Nichols abort "The Graduate." now helps the director Christian Marquand miscarry the Terry Southern - Mason Hoffcnberg n o v e 1. Evidently they didn't have faith in the authors, for they strain so hard to make "Candy" the funniest movie ever made that all you laugh at is' their sheer, total incompetence. More accurately, you're offended by it. Most of the gags and situations are tiresome and trite, including a blatant steal from Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove." Technically, "Candy" is a pigsty. The casting mostly misses the mark. Ewa Aulin, as Candy, can't seem to figure out why she's in the movie, and with good reason: she shouldn't be because she can't act. Tuesday Weld would have seemed to me the obvious choice (and she can act). Aunt Livia needs the cynicism of an Anne Bancroft and the vulgarity of an Ethel Merman. Elsa Martinelli supplies neither and, moreover, seems always on the 'Verge of passing out. John Astin is perfect as the father, less so as the uncle. At first Richard Burton is brilliant in a spoof of Dylan Thomas but Henry and Elaitg &Madan Published Tuesday through Saturday during the Fall, Win:sr and Spring Terms, and Thursday during the Summer Term, by students of The Pennsylvania State University. Second Class postage paid at State College, Pa. lent. Circulation: 15,500. Mall Subscription Price: 012.00 a year Malllro Address Box 467, state College, Pa. 16101 'Mt°Nal and Business Office easement of Sackett (North End) Phone 165.2531 Business office hours: Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. PAUL J. LEVINE Editor _ Board of Editors: Whooping Editor, William Epstein; Editorial Editor, Michael serrill; City Editors, Gerry Lynn Hamil• tan and Charles Redmond; Copy Editors, Kathy Litwak, Pat DUrOSkY. Ricky - Feilke and John Bronson; News Editors, David Nestor and Marc Klein; Sports Editor, Ron Kolb; Assistant Sports Editor, Don Metre*: Photooraphy- Editor, Pierre_ B 4111011; Senior Reporters, Maros Cohen, Glenn Kranzley, Allan Yoder and Jim D 01715: Weather Reporter, Elliot Abrams. Board of Managers: Cal-emit Ad Managers, Kathy McCormick and Leslie Schmidt; National Advertising Manager., Jim Soutar; Credit Manager, George Gelb; Assistant Credit Managers, Carol Book and Steve Litchi: Classified Adver tising Manager, Mary Kramer; Public Relations and Promotion Manager, Ron Resnik°lf; Circulation Manager, Allen Nixon; Office Manager, Mary Gabler. Committee on Accuracy and Fair Play: John R. Zimmerman, Frederick C. Jones. Thomas M. Golden PAGE TWO for unrest. The brooding palace and that students are a lot more See your travel agent or beehive tombs of Mycenae. adventurous and curious than mail the coupon. The royal twents of the' mos+ travelers. So we weren't Sun King. Tutankhamen's afraid to be a little far out when Olympic Airways 547 Fifth Ave. New Y0rk.N.Y.10022 treasure. The Temple of Venus we planned our itineraries. I'd like to see 'which cure is right at Baalbek. The Labyrinth But of course we didn't for me. Please send complete in on Crete. The teeming bazaars neglect any of the more down- formation an your 11 Student .. of Cairo. The Blarney Stone. to-earth details. Like deluxe or Tours Archaeologists who tell first-class hotels throughout. - Name' you more about a ruin than Departufe dates that fit right just who ruined it. into your spring or summer That's just a small sample ' vacation. From 15 to 60 days. of what's included in Olympic's And, of course, Olympic's 11 Student Tours. We figured special student prices. Marquand. true to form, push the sketch to absurdity. Walter Matthau might be all right as the commando chief. but you keep remembering his antecedents, George C. Scott and Slim Pickens in "Strangelove," and Matthau just can't compare. And Ringo Starr as Emmanuel looks and sounds just like a limey 'imitating a Mexican. He proves, moreover, that he can act as• well as he sings and plays the cymbals which is not very well at all. Though "The - Night They Raided Minsky's," at the Cinema 11, is so superior to "Candy" in almost every aspect that there's hardly a basis for comparison, th e moviemakers are plagued by similar problems: they don't realize the marvelous possibilities in the subject. A burlesque of early burlesque has the potential for a near-classic comedy. "Minsky's" is, instead, a once over lightly, its materials stretched thinner than skin over a wemer. Nevertheless, "Minsky's" is a pleasant movie; and though I know that term is often used perjoratively, I intend it, rather, as a shield. If you don't expect a laugh-riot (as you do but don't get with "Candy"), you'll enjoy the movie very much. especially the stage numbers, which are first-rate, as is Jason Robards' performance. William Fr'ecikin's direction is very imaginative, with some lovely photography, and some clever trickery that stops just short of gimmickry. He is also honest, as the makers of "Candy" are not, and should be commended for resisting the temptation, as so many lesser directors might not have, to glamorize or romanticize the chorus line. They're a beautifully seedy, tawdry bunch of girls, and perhaps the best example of the accurate sense of milieu Frieclkin has given the movie. The Nittany Theatre is throwing what it calls a "Critic's Choice" film festival that is pretty pathetic. But if you go tonight you'll find the recent British satire "Morgan" playing, which stars Vanessa Redgrave and David Warner. On Monday night is the Joseph Losey-Harold Pinter "Accident." Neither film is great, perhaps not even good, but both are worthy of your attention. The best film playing in town is at Twelvetrees. "Casablanca," with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, is one of the Grand Old Romances of screen history, a classic entertainment. I don't know of anyone who hasn't enjoyed this movie. It's worth seeing just to hear Bogart deliver his famous line to Bergman, "Here's lioking at you, kid." If you haven't seen "Casablanca," don't miss it. It's liable to depress you, though, for you might come away believing "they just don't make movies like this anymore." Successor to, The Free Lance. est. 1887 63 Years of Editorial Freedom Member of ,The Associated Press -t3iMit. , cures student Clever Direction 'Casablanca Is Best' WILLIAM 'FOWLER Business Manager SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1969 State rp
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