FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1969
Letters to the Editor... And Then Some
Faculty 'Club-Frontier It
TO THE EDITOR: The proposed faculty club shows signs
of being the next focus of discord on campus, and before
the matter becomes engulfed in a malestrom of-recrimina
tion, every student should visit the proposed site of con
struction and think carefully about what will come.
The club is being financed by private individuals
who have the right to stipulate the use of their money, so
no one can reasonably condemn a faculty club out of
existence regardless of how ostentatious and intemperate
the concept may be. And the concept, as it appeared in
last Friday's Collegian, would do credit to the inflamed
imagination of a Las Vegas architect.
The real point of concern is that this club will be built
in one of the choicest spots on campus. Elm Cottage and
the trees end grounds surrounding it mark one of the
most secluded and pastoral sites available for everyone
to enjoy. If the faculty club is out there, and later if the
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HUB is expanded south over the field, students will find
themselves slowly forced into a position similar to that
of the Plains Indians toward the end of the last century.
Students should protest this usurpation of land for a
faculty fringe benefit. The central campus should be main
tained as it is, not choked by grandiose buildings and con
crete pavement. The University put the graduate student
center out on the frontier, and they put probably the
most important building on campus, Shields, even further
away. Presumably the center of the expanding University
will gravitate around Shields. If we can believe this, why
can't the faculty club be built near Shields where the
action is? If the faculty want to seclude themselves from
the student body, let them do so with discretion, but why
can't we keep some green grass and fine shade trees at
the same time?
Dennis O'Leary
Graduate, Geology
Establishment To Fight
TO THE EDITOR: Several of Jim Womer's statements at
Wednesday's Undergraduate Student Government hearings
on membership in the National Student Association cannot
go unchallenged.
Foremost was his belief that the defeat of NSA mem
bership in several southern universities was due to a
•"conservative backlash" conservative because they don't
like the tone and actions of the Radical Left as professed
by NSA. Womer tried but failed to make a distinction
between Students for a Democratic Society and NSA pro
grams and political ideologies. He said that between the
Radical Right, which Young Americans for Freedom rep
resented, and the New Left, represented by SDS, fell
the National Student Association, in the middle of the
mainstream of American politics.
That idea is a complete fallacy, and Womer knew it
when he threw up such an absurd statement. Even one
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of his associates seemed rather astonished at Womer's in
sane analysis of this nation's political spectrum.
The National Office of SDS encourages partipication
in NSA conventions in order to radicalize the student dele
gates. Several NSA leaders are present and former SDS
members, such as Bob Ross, and the two SDS members
that are councilmen from Town Independent Men will
vote for NSA membership on Thursday, May 29.
Womer also told the audience that SDS considers
NSA an "Establishment" group and therefore opposes it.
This is, from the evidence, the absolute untruth, and we
therefore question Jim Woriter's integrity when speaking
to fellow students. He seems to be a misinformed power
elitist who brought NSA here on trial membership and
wants to keep it here because he professes the same politi
cal ideology as the association does, not because of any
record, travel, or legal services to the students. He ad
monished YAF opposition to NSA as politically motivated,
yet one can see he favors it purely for his personal ideology.
Womer and Don Shall have denied the students of
PSU a referendum on this issue because it would be de
feated by them, NSA membership has never been elected
by a student body anywhere. Shall said at an East Halls
Council meeting that a referendum would be impossible.
Why? 'Students lack information because they don't read
The Daily Collegian.
One final point: when pressed about a student referen
dum, Womer and a few friends kept asking YAF mem
bers if they would hold the referendum and supply time
and work. Is this the group we want in power with our
student funds? Is this the group that cares so little about
student opinion that it tells another student group to con
duct the student poll if it's so concerned about NSA mem
bership?
Mr. Womer—why do you think you know what's best
for the next student and his share of the general student
fund that membership dues would draw from? In short,
the students at Penn State have a new Establishment to
fight, and that is the power group that conrtols USG and
its membership in the National Student Association.
Paul Squire
9th-Business Logistics-McLean, Va.
Doug Lamoo
3rd-Business Administration. Lancaster
Calls for Referendum
TO THE, EDITOR: For a majority of the students of PSU to
personally benefit from the "services" offered by NSA. that
majority would have to be aware that the services existed. As
most USG congressmen would admit, the majority of the stu
dents at PSU were not aware of the role of NSA or its services
this past year during PSU's provisional membership in NSA,
and, therefore, the majority of the student body has neither
benefited nor been aware of its existence. Students who have
come into contact with and-or done research on NSA hold
opinions ranging from considering it to have done more for
educational reform than the State of Pennsylvania, to con
sidering it an organization which offers the student no services
and uses his money without representing him.
Reviewing the situation, keeping in mind that USG is pro
bably more informed about NSA than the student body; that
the USG can't possibly claim to represent the opinion of a stu
dent body which has probably not yet formulated an opinion
on this issue; and that the few students who have opinions
strongly disagree, it seems to me that the best way both to in
form that student body and to get their opinion on NSA would
be a student referendum and its accompanying publicity. Such
a referendum represents to me the only just way to deal with
this situation.
Anne Heiser
3rd-Liberal Arts-Clarks Summit
Sympathetic to Slutskin?
TO THE EDITOR: I send my sincere sympathy to Alan
Slutskin, Collagian Drama Critic, on the bad review he receiv
ed in your May 29 issue. A few of us who have observed Alan's
"performance" over the past four years unanimously agree
that the author of the critique ignored many important
aspects of Alan's work in order to make a clearly unsubstan
tiated point.
To us Alan's work stands out as an oasis of poignant com
munique in the parched desert of commonplace, unemotional
theatrical criticisms. Alan's critiques were always sharp and to
the point, his point of view was made perfectly clear every
review, and, in short, he reported his emotional responses to
theatrical performances without letting any dull, scientifically
based evaluations pollute his insight.
The critic who wrote Alan's review clearly ignored these
attributes. Whatever his emotional hang-ups or ulterior
motives were, we agree that his review of Mr. Slutskin was
totally emotional, unscientific, and just plain wrong! BRAVO
MR. SLUTSKIN !!!!
Robert Neil Dumin
4th-Pre-Died. Program-Cheltenham
Body Without A Mind
TO THE EDITOR: It may be an old-fashioned notion but it
has always seemed to me that a theatre critic's most sacred
duty is to inform the public intelligently and accurately.
May I suggest that, before the theatre season is quite
over, Mr. Slutskin take a course in "The History and Ap
preciation of the Theatre" (I, 2 and 3 if necessary) before set-
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ting himself up as State College's very own Clive Barnes.
I could ignore his bumptious remark regarding
Strindberg's "paraphrasing" of Shakespeare (whatever that is
supposed to mean) but if it is his belief that Strindberg also
wrote "The Cherry Orchard" he is clearly misinformed and
should make a definite effort to ascertain the authorship of
one of the most beautiful and profoundly moving plays ever
written and which, in my opinion, does not deserve the sort of
treatment given it by Mr. Slutskin "in a cheap and superficial
attempt at writing dramatic criticism". It is, therefore, my
Mind—let alone a Soul.
Mind—let alone a Soul
Marion Langley
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Misstatement of Facts
TO THE EDITOR: After reading Alan Slutskin's review of
"The Firebugs", I feel the need to correct several errors.
The paragraph referring to the cast's running into the
audience which reads: 'lt's done the way Strindberg
paraphrased Shakespeare in "Miss Julie" and "The Cherry
Orchard" in a cheap attempt to make his plays profound.'
contains:
—a blatant error (Strindberg did not write "The Cherry
Orchard": Anton Chekhov did.) . .
—an idea entirely new to modern criticism (the statement
that Strindberg paraphrased Shakespeare in "Miss Julie".)
—a highly debatable and groundless hypothesis (a cheap
attempt to make his plays profound: Strindberg's work is
perhaps the deepest and most multi-leveled body of art in all
the modern theatre.)
Also, Victor Jory never won an Oscar and the song
- Fire", which is not sung at the end of the show is performed
by Arthur Brown, not Jimi Hendrix.
I shall not quarrel with Mr. Slutskin's opinion of the pro
duction. which I have not yet seen, but it begins to look highly
dubious among so many easily correctable errors in simple
fact.
Jerry James
Graduate-Theatre Arts-Elizabeth
Relevant to Understanding
TO THE EDITOR: This letter is in response to that of
Abdeslem El-Alabui, whose remarks appear in The Daily
Collegian of May 28.
At the Friday night session of Colloquy on the Middle
East. each panelist, including me, was given two minutes
to present his views on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Given
such a short space of time, I chose to emphasize, with
supporting facts, that Israelis are mortally afraid of per
mitting the return of large numbers of Arab refugees.
My recounting the atrocious murders of two downed Israeli
pilots in the Six Day War was meant to demonstrate the
Israeli conviction that Israel must remain a Jewish state
and free from Arab hatred and prejudice against Jews.
The return of many refugees might very well reduce
Jews to a minority within Israel and thus submit Jews
to oppression and worse.
The purpose of my stories, then, was to make one
very significant point, i.e., that Israelis can hardly be
expected to acquiesce in what they regard as their own
destruction. Mr. El-Alaoui's claim—that Arab civilization
has made great contributions to mankind—is not disputed
by Israelis. Their esteem for its accomplishments, how
ever, is tempered by the fact that in the recent past it has
become remarkably hostile to its Semitic brothers the Jews.
I was disturbed by Mr. El-Alaoui's characterization of
my remarks at Colloquy as "intolerable, ignoble and ma
licious." I can only presume that, in his opinion. the senti
ments of the Israelis are of no account in seeking to under
stand the situation in the Middle East. I believe that the
sentiments of both Arabs and Israelis are relevant to that
understanding.
David Ricci
Assistant Professor of Political Science
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