The Final Insult
IT IS THE final insult. In two weeks
the members of the class of 1969 will
graduate. But Penn State couldn't let
them go without a parting shot, without
one last insult.
The seniors had invited Milton
Shapp, unsuccessful gubernatorial can
didate in 1966, to be the commencement
speaker. They contacted Shapp's Phila
delphia office, and he made plans to be
in Beaver Stadium when the more than
4,500 students receive their undergrad
uate and advanced degrees.
BUT IN A statement released yes
terday by T. Reed Ferguson, vice presi
dent for public affairs, it was announced
that the seniors were told that Shapp
would not be allowed to come anyway.
Also, the Senior Class president was
told that a person like Shapp would
alienate the Republican members of the
State Legislature. Besides that, Old
Main says an invitation to the unsuc
cessful candidate would be taken as an
insult by present Gov. Raymond Shafer.
These arguments are weak, narrow
minded and show faulty reasoning.
IF UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS ser
iously believe that Shapp is such a parti
san politician in the opinion of Harris
burg officials, then it is surprising that
they could make such basic errors
in evaluating the legislature as bad
arithmetic.
The State Senate is comprised of 27
Republicans and 23 Democrats. In the
State House of Representatives there
are 106 Democrats and 99 Republicans
for an overall edge of three votes for the
Democrats. So any Armageddons staged
between the parties in Harrisburg over
the appearance of Shapp in Beaver Sta-
Absolutely Invisible
By BILL MOHAN
Collegian Columnist
There was an accident here today. One
car into another car into another car into
another car.
They looked at the car. They stood
around. They bounced into no one. They
stayed together. Like a litany. A fair-weather
bible. A valley
of trees ,
They kicked
the fender. They
stood around.
They complained
about the dam
age. They got in
to their car and
left.
They were
sitting against
the tree when I
came up. There
were a lot of
people standing
out in the street.
The cops out
checking driver's
licenses. Little MOHAN
pudgy red-haired lady whose car was the
fourth one hit, three ricochets and bang,
into her sixty-two oldsmobile. Man laugh
ing and upset.
There's a lot of glass on the street. It
takes a while, but you finally see the four
cars, staggered at different places on the
street. There were five or six cops, one had
his red blinker light on. The news sorta
swarmed around the area and soon kids
were looking from their balconies in U.T.
An unfriendly man with a gray crew-cut
gave me no information. Everybody else
"just got here."
So the eight of them (there were about
eight) sat under a tree by the side of the
road, in front of one of the damaged cars.
The wind was blowing spritely through the
trees and they were green as fish in the
summer sun.
The one you first notice is a blonde girl
Remember: The War of the Jungle
By MARGE WHEN
Collegian Feature Editor
It's Memorial Day, May 30
Today is the day we remember all those brave
men who gave their lives to their country, who
responded to the call to arms and died so their
country could live.
In Lewistown, Monument Square will be
decked with flags. The monument to honor the
war dead in the cen
ter of town will be -
surrounded with flags
and flowers to the
memory of the men,
long gone from the
face of the earth.
The scene will be
duplicated across the
country too man y
times to mention, too
many times to recall
And the people in
Lewistown will drive
around the square,
glance at the flags
and remember: "It's
Memorial Day. No
wonder the store is
closed. Damn what
can I buy for dinner?"
The people in Lewistown will be more
worried about eating dinner, about closed grocery
stores, than about men who have died for their
country. Even if their families have lost men in
Korea or Germany or Japan, they will be too
busy to remember.
Because they are too busy any day to be
aware—aware of what is happening not only on
the other side of the world in Vietnam, but on
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dium would go to the Democrats any
way.
We would like to know what would
have happened had the seniors invited
a Republican, say former Gov. William
Scranton, to speak. Would it then be
argued that Scranton would alienate the
Democrats in Harrisburg? Even this
hypothetical case has a stronger argu
ment than the one now being used to
negate Shapp's invitation. •
A UNIVERSITY, EVEN a state
supported one such as Penn State,
should be a free academic community.
Persons coming here, whether they are
commencement speakers o r faculty
members, should not be influenced by
a force so base as partisan politics.
Why doesn't the University stand
up to the threats, if there really are any,
from the legislators? Why isn't the free
dom of the academic community de
fended against the politicians' threats
and economic pressure?
If there really are pressures being
directed against this University by state
politicians, and the Administrators' feal
is well-founded, then the Legislature
must decide whether the institution they
are sending funds to is a free academic
community or a political plaything.
THE SENIORS INVITED a speaker
because they want their commencement
to be something special, something dif
ferent from the traditional Penn State
June exercises. Old Main said a speaker
would make the ceremonies too long, but
this year's exercises are for this year's
class. They should be allowed to plan
their final formalities with the Univer
sity. And the Administration should
cooperate.
who undermines you. Her beauty but then
more her unattractiveness makes her a cur
ious, interesting figure there in the center
of the group. Her total lack of understanding
for anyone else makes her marble, cold cold
statue, an unhealing wound. Like giving a
diamond to a man in the desert. Timeless in
the twilight, sunshine in the afternoon.
When the men came to put her in the
burlap bag, I was happy. I was running out
of time so I was glad when the pick-up came.
Two guys get out in work clothes, one had
a red ruddy face and three days growth,
can't remember anything about the other.
She didn't give them much trouble, just
waved her arms a little bit and made a few
little noises, but mostly they just put her
in the bag and took off.
Her friends really got very upset and
they ran around and two boys started crying.
One girl started climbing a tree. Cars were
passing and one of them stopped and asked
what happened but the boy who was asked
just ran around like a moron with hands
in his mouth and his ass sticking out. The
guy who'd asked looked for a minute then
rode away.
- Meanwhile Dena in the back of the
pick-up truck. She slept for a while, then
just laid there thinking about her day. The
ride was bumpy and sometimes her back
hit up and down against the floor, rattling
some chains. It was dark and cold. Dena
in a summer dress.
And the two men in the front they
did bullshit. All along the ride, with the
radio on some country station. The front
was dirty like the back, but it bothered the
two men. They intended getting rid of some
of the dirt and papers at the next stop. They
slid their feet around the floor on the yel
lowed dirty newspapers. They would be
there, soon.
So they drove a couple more miles into
the breeze and ducked off to the side of the
road. There, there was a quarry and with
out speaking they got Dena out of the back
of the truck and threw her into it.
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the other side of the mountain in Bellefonte—for
that matter, on the other side of the tracks in
Lewistown.
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But, one thing in defense of my dear home
town. She can be found anywhere, anytime. The
names of the inhabitants can be changed, but
they are the same all over.
Isolated from the world, yet conveniently
located for escape within the narrow confines of
central Pennsylvania, Lewistown evolved from
the relaxed, easy living of bliss-filled America.
The two men pictured in an Associated Press
wirephoto were probably raised in towns very
similar to mine. Only, they were not matriculating
at college as I am; they were engaged in battle, in
war, two weeks before Memorial Day, in Vietnam.
A picture of war—a black soldier receiving
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from his white
buddy in a muddy field in Vietnam—there, only
because of time and circumstance.
A picture of war—a black boy and a white
boy.
A picture of war—two men together, fighting
so other men can live together—even if it means
killing and dying for a unified life.
The irony is too overwhelming to articulate
the impact of the picture of the two men fighting
not only for their country, but also fighting to
stay alive.
How many of us have said good-by to brothers,
fathers, friends leaving for the war—how many
fathers who fought in Korea advised their sons on
battle tactics to use in Vietnam . . . how many
more sons will go?
Just where have all the young men gone?
"To flowers?" I doubt it. Because they are still
around . . . remembering a war a half a world
away on Memorial Day. And, some are recalling
scenes at home in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New
York, wherever, while their brothers and sisters
rummage among filth and garbage for something
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Skammen', 'Greeting': Rewarding
By PAUL S'EYDOR
Collegian Film Critic
Ingmar Bergman's "Skammen" (now at the
Nittany Theatre through Tuesday) has had such a
overwhelming effect on me that I am not sure I
can yet articulate my thoughts about it. But, as
today's Collegian is the last of the term, I shall try
getting something down in order to interest as
many people as possible in this great film.
"Skammen (translated, "Shame") is set on a
Swedish island in the near future as a war is being
fought. The story focuses on a married couple, Jan
and Eva, two musicians out of work since the or
chestra disbanded, who are trying to escape the
war. The theme is, gen
erally, war itself; spe
cifically, it is war as
it affects civilians.
I have rarely seen
a movie that is so un
compromisingly honest vision of war
in its depiction of the
brutalizing effects of
war on people; so will rank with
penetratingly truthful
in its psychological
revelations; so pains
takingly veristic in its the greatest.'
setting; so perfectly
concordant with con
temporary concerns yet so elementally transcen
dent in its universal relevance.
We follow the lives of Eva and Jan, at first
comfortably away from the war, then caught up
in its horrors, then resolving to escape it entirely.
The title refers less to the shame of war than to
the shame of our indifferzAce toward war, or, per
haps, to the shame of our ineffectuality in being
able to do anything about it.
Part of what is so astonishing about "Skam
men" is that it came at this time from Bergman,
who seemed, in recent years, to be going in a
different, less satisfactory direction. But here he
to eat, while families fight to stay alive in the
war in the slums.
We talk about a jungle war a half a world
away—what about the jungle war in our city
streets? Why remember only a war in Vietnam
while just as fierce a battle is being waged not
far from us.
It all comes back to the human community—
here we are in State College, safe from not only
the bullets of the enemy, but also the bite of the
rat in the race in the "outside world," and we say
we will fast in protest to the war or we will en
'roll in a course on American racism.
But what does either really do? "Yea, I'm
against the war," and - "Damn—l guess I really am
a racist. From now on, I am-going to talk to every
black I see to prove that now I'm hip," does
nothing—big deal—you're a dove and a do-gooder.
• We all talk about man's inhumanity to man,
meanwhile pointing our finger's at everybody else.
But what do we do? Tomorrow looks very - much
like today as long as so many of us are basing
our lives on yesterday.
Not until we—not our esteemed faculty ad
visers nor our respected parents—re-evaluate
what we are doing here, what we will be doing
once we leave here, can tomorrow include the
sun—and I am not talking all flowers and sun
shine; I don't believe in it.
But I am talking awareness ... mental aware
ness if physical involvement is too much of a
strain . . . mental awareness of what today
really is.
It's Memorial Day, May 30'. . . a day to re
member, but even more importantly, a day to
think not only about past and present soldiers,
but people living in war in the middle of central
Pennsylvania or anywhere in this great land of
America.
We profess to be so proud of her—the lady
of nations. If she is such a lady,' when will she
start acting like one? , . .
Recruiting Is - 'Too Slow
Robert H. Dunham, assistant
to the vice president for resident
instruction, said yesterday that the
spaces reserved by each college for
disadvantaged students were not
being filled "fast enough."
Dunham, who is also coordina
tor f or the committee on the
culturally disadvantaged, said he
doesn't think that the colleges are
doing a fast enough, or thorough
enough job of recruiting blacks.
"I'm hoping the spaces will fill up
a lot quicker. I don't think they're
being filled quite fast enough. With
summer here, the colleges are going
•to have to do quick work."
Approximately 198 spaces were
reserved for the disadvantaged
throughout the University. And so
far, the colleges have only 76 ac
ceptances from students, from the
171 offers they extended.
Most likely, one reason for so
few acceptances is that the colleges
have not been able to offer ade
quate financial aid to the disad
vantaged.
Blacks with the desire and
ability to go to college frequently
need financial assistance=and un
til the University is able to offer
that assistance, it will be difficult
to recruit the disadvantaged.
But despite the low number of
acceptances, we would like to know
why each college has not offered its
full quota of spaces to the disad
vantaged. Nearly the entire class
'Bergman's
Editorial Opinion
of '73 has already been offered ac
ceptances, and half of that class
will be starting in a few weeks.
But why raven't the colleges
been able to offer admission to
enough blacks?
It would be easy for the col
leges to state that they just couldn't
find enough disadvantaged stu
dents who qualified for admissioh.
But certainly, in a state whose pop
ulation is more than 12 per cent
black and probably close to 20 per
cent disadvantaged, the University
could find 200 qualified applicants.
We wonder if the committees
whose job it is to find potential stu
dents have really looked very hard.
And we wonder now why the re
sponsibility for finding these peo
ple is left •to each college as an
individual unit.
Perhaps if the University's
Office of Admissions would have
taken the major responsibility for
recruiting the disadvantaged, more
students could have been found.
The system, as it is set up now, is
too decentralized for effective re
cruitment. The Colleges of Liberal
Arts, Education and Human De
velopment are probably competing
against each other for applicants.
As a result, nobody is getting
anywhere. And the black student
is losing.
The colleges have offered 27
spaces under their quota. And only
76 disadvantaged students have
seems transformed: gone is the pretentious re
ligion, the confused symbolism, the involuted
esotericism that ruined many of his latest movies.
He seems to have undergone some sort of meta
morphosis from which he has emerged purged of
his weaknesses but ,ever sure of his strengths.
Here is an artist for whom technical problems
seem no longer to exist, who is in such supreme
command of his materials, who has such profound
confidence in his medium that he is in the rare
position of being able to function at the highest
level of artistic creation: that of idea and state
ment. He already knows how; he can concen
trate on what.
I wish I were in the state of mind right now
and had the space to detail the many excellences
of "Skammen," how perfectly clear and apposite
the style is to the content, how economical Berg
man's means are. For instance, the way he tells
us all we need to know about the characters simply
by cutting between their actions on awaking in
the morning; or how he suggests Eva's moment of
happiness when Jan declares his love (the sun
momentarily floods her face); or his demonstration
in, the house-searching sequence of how effective
fast-cutting techniques can be if used judiciously
and appropriately.
But I don't want to talk about how he does
things simply because what he does is so much
more interesting, such as, for example, the subtle
reversals of his characters from beginning to end,
where Jan finally becomes the man Eva wants him
to be and then hates him when he becomes so; or
the picture of a pathetic interrogator whose tasks
forces him to rule people and blocks the emotional
fulfillment he wants and needs.
"Skammen" is Bergman's masterpiece. I do
not believe that is an overstatement; nor do I be
lieve it is an overstatement to say that his vision
of war will rank with the visions of the greatest
directors of the century; Griffith's, Eisenstein's,
Renoir's, Kurosawa's, and Huston's.
If I may go beyond the medium, I would say
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Arabs Answer Article
(Editor's Note: The following is a statement
from the University Arab Club. The state
ment is in answer to a story on Emanuel
Feuchtwang, associate professor of physics,
which appeared in the May 22 Collegian.
The statement is printed in full.)
Deliberate twisting of the truth, distortion
of facts and reporting of half-truths is nothing
new to the Palestine Problem. What is new,
however, is that such an attribute is manifested
by a professor—an educator. This casts doubt
on the future of the whole mankind.
In a recent interview with the Collegian
(May 22) Dr. Emanuel Feuchtwang added a
new chapter to the crusade that is aimed to
mislead the International public opinion, and
the American in particular. He stated that "a
United Nations commission investigated the
treatment of Arabs in territory occupied by
Israel .. ." We challenge this statement. True,
such commission has been established by the
Security Council Resolution 237 (1967) of 14
June 1967 and General Assembly Resolution
2252 (ES-V) of 4 July 1967: But it is also true
that Israel refused to allow the committee to
carry , out its projected mission—a
humanitarian one indeed. On the contrary to
". . . found no evidence of ill-treatment."—as
Mr. Feuchtwang mentioned —, it was Michael
Adams, the Manchester Guardian reporter,
who drew the World's attention to the inhuman
treatment of the Arabs in the Occupied ter
ritories: "I had my ups and downs during four
years as a prisoner of war in Germany. But the
Germans never treated me as harshly as the
Israelis are treating the Arabs of Gaza strip,
the majority of whom are women and
children." The implied motivation behind these
tactics is to make room for more "imported"
Zionists. As Moshe Dayan put it to the youth of
the United Labor Party: "our fathers made the
borders of '47. We made the borders of '49. You
made the,borders of '67. Another generation will
take - our frontiers to where they belong. Isn't
that territorial expansion by definition!?
To claim that the problem is just a com
petition between two nations is a gross over
simplification that grows into total falsehood.
Judaism, the great religion, is international and
shouldn't therefore be confined to a certain
geographical area. Jews are citizens of
whatever state they reside in. It is hard to con
ceive how' a
,heterogeneous group of JewiSh'
accepted. As a result, the colleges
complain that there isn't 'enough
money, there aren't enough quali
fied blacks to go around so they
won't' be able to fill their quotas.,
The colleges should have oper
ated in the same way in which the
admissions office works. If there
are 200 spaces, offer admission to
300 Students. That way, when 100
students turn down the admissions
offer, the University won't be left
in the cold.
Qualified black students are in
demand, but that does not mean
that there are not enough of them
to recruit for Penn State.
Dunham said he thinks the
colleges are holding out for the
cream of the crop—the very best
qualified disadvantaged students.
But 'if that is the case, those blacks
could get in under already opera
tional admissions systems. _ •
The word disadvantaged im
plies that although the potential is
there, the students so labeled have
not yet shown it. So it takes more
than just a little effort on the part
of the colleges to find disadvanT
taged students.
Dunham said the colleges
are going to have to do - "quick
work." But that is an understate
ment. The colleges 'must, find stu
dents now or the racial imbalance
at Penn State will be just as bad
next year as it was this year, and
that imbalance is intolerable.
that if the novelist who gave us our greatest pie
ture of the psychological devastation of war, Er
nest Hemingway, had been Swedish and had made
movies, "Skammen" would have been the result.
"Greetings," now at Twelvetrees, was made by
a couple of independent American filmmakers,
Charles Hirsch (producer) and Brian De Palma
(director), both of whom wrote this fresh and lively
story aoout the efforts of three young Americans
to avoid the draft.
These days most good, really good, American
movies come neither from Hollywood nor from the
underground, but from young independents who
refuse to join the commercial gristmill of one or
the slop house of the other. Men like John Korty
("The . Crazy Quilt") and Noel Black ("Skater-
Dater" and "Pretty Poison") are demonstrating
that freshness, originality, and vitality are still
possible, in American movies..
Now De Palma and Hirsch have too. And what
a L .pleasure it is to be able to report that "Greet
ings" doesn't cop out, that its attitude toward sex
is genuinely youthful, enthusiastic and healthy.
"Greetings" isn't a great movie, but it is so con
temporary, so perfectly and accurately expressive
of certain attitudes among the young, that I don't
even feel like pointing out the few things that are
wrong with it.
"Greetings" contains that precious quality that
we often go to movies for but so rarely find:
disrespect for respectability. This movie sustains
its subversiveness from beginning to end and we
leave with a feeling of liberation tantamount to
letting out a good glorious obscenity after a week
of' classes or a boring lecture. We're almost drunk
from its sheer, total exhilaration.
It occurs to me that I have written no "30"
column. In the event I am happy to be able to
close up shop for the year on two movies as re
warding as "Greetings" and "Skammen."
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refugees could be described as a nation to corn
peting with the Palestinians who lived there for
thousands of years. Nowadays less than one
fifth of the Jews' population of the world live in
Israel—a fact which, obviously, contradicts the
above claim.
The problem of the Arab refugees was not
created by the Arab Government—as Dr.
Feuchtwang wants us to believe. Rather, it is a
direct consequence of the establishment of
Israel. To say it bluntly, "if there were no
Israel, there would have been no refugees. The
West has been led to believe that the refugees
left home voluntarily. The famous British
historian, Arnold Toynbee refuted that argu
ment by saying ". . . The Jewish treatment of
the Arabs in 1947 is as morally.indefensible as
the slaughter by the Nazis of six million Jews,.
.. The most tragic thing in human life is when
people who had suffered, impose suffering in
their turn . . . The massacre of Arab civiliaris
by the Israeli armed forces were carried out
cold-bloodedly and with purpose . . ." He
describes the whole mess as "This is robbery;
and I am sure it is on the Jewish conscience."'
The aspiration of these unfortunate Arabs
should be given high priority if there could be a
lasting peace in the Middle 'East. A just
solution which respects the eternal rights of the
refugees is in accordance with the basic beliefs
of Judaism, and it is our hope that the world
Jewery will help undoing what the Zionists
have done in Palestine.
Dr. Feuchtwang lived in Palestine from
1934-1951; the crucial period for the establish
ment of Israel. Nevertheless'he failed to tell us
how this peaceful little state came into ex
istence. In particular the bloody and violent
means he witnessed and therefore has first
hand information. Most of us, the young
readers, lack such information. We wish to ask
where was he on the eve of April 9th, 1948,
when the Zionist gang massacred some 250
people—women and children included—in Dir
Yasin. Perhaps he was there, and perhaps not,
Dr. Feuchtwang left Israel in 1951. If Israel
was created as an ultimate solution to the
"Jewish question," then one wonders what are
the reasons behind his decision to leave.
Perhaps it is the consicence feel of guilt that
•led . him ,to. flee the stolen land. But again,
perhaps not. " - _ .. • .
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