Revise the USG Elections Code
Fraternities at Penn State
have long been a bastion of
undeserved prestige, overdue
influence and power and special
privileges.
This power has carried over to
student government. With little
more than 3,000 men in frater
nities, these students are
represented on the USG Congress
with four seats. This is in addition
to the ex officio se°t held by the
president of the Interfraternity
Council.
No other group on campus is
catered to with such special
privileges. Even sorority women
are represented only by the
Panhellenic Council president.
All other groups on campus
are treated in the same manner.
Men in residence halls elect area
congressmen—the number deter
mined by the population of their
area—and are represented by the
Men’s Residence Council ~ presi
dent.
Residence hall women who are
unaffiliated with sororities are the
same way: Representation through
elected congressmen and the presi-
Angel Flight: A Woman’s Role?
By CAROL L. BONTEMPO
Instructor of English
In the excitement and publicity connected with last week’s
many activities, at least one campus organization received
less attention than it warrants. Angel Flight, the women’s
organization associated with the Air Force ROTC, held its fall
rush tea last Monday night, and will soon be selecting its new
members. The girls chosen to join the present Angel Flight in
its support of the campus military establishment will surely
be thrilled at their election.
And yet, in their eagerness to wear the uniform, perform
the drills, and serve the tea, have they given anv real thought
to what this organization stands for, and what they, as women,
are doing in it?
Thoughtful consideration of these questions immediately
reveals some obvious contradictions between the function of
this organization, and the function of women as moral mem
bers of our society, both in the personal and in the social
sphere.
Personally, they at least tacitly accept an insidiously
degrading male characterization of them as a mere com
bination of passive foil to their male “superiors," and
mindless window-dressing based on a stereotyped idea of sex
appeal {there are no girls with fat legs, flat chests, and acne
in Angel Flight). By doing so. they are admitting their alleged
weaknesses, and denying their real strengths.
These strengths, which many women are too brainwashed
to realize they have, might well be diverted into more ef
fective channels. Instead of glamorizing various questionable
activities, women could work on some of the moral im
peratives which are becoming clearer to us all the time.
Heeding the challenge of aware young people, they could
help to bring about a fairer legal system so that, for example,
women could obtain needed abortions without being butchered.
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Editorial Opinion
dent of the Association of Women
Students.
And eight elected congressmen
and the president of the Town In
dependent Men’s Council speak for
town men.
Why then do fraternities elect
officials separate from the town?
Article 2, Section 1 of the USG
Elections Code provides that
“representation is to be geograph
ical, not social or economic.”
Clearly, that means that
representation on Congress should
be determined only by geographical
areas, not social (or any other kind
of) affiliations.
If all fraternities were located
in one specific area of town, their
special seats could be tolerated. But
knowledge of the random place
ment of fraternity houses all over
town clearly shows that this is not
the case.
The unique interests of frater
nities and fraternity men can be
sufficiently served by the IFC
president. Claims that Greek m-»n
have problems which can only be
explained and lobbied for bv other
Greeks may be true. But the truth
is that other special interest
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They could agitate to end the atrocious war in Vietnam,
and prevent similar horrors in the future.
They could work to end the glaring inequities of poverty
and racism that threaten our very existence. They could turn
their energies toward helping such oppressed groups as the
grape pickers, and generally returning power to the people.
Being thus actively involved in important issues, women
such as those in Angel Flight could begin to realize their
potential socially as well as personally. And this seems par
ticularly necessary in our country today. For these women,
now, obviously approve of the American military, a brutal and
oppressive machine which no citizen can support without com
plicity in all that it implies.
This unquestioning acquiescence in such an obscene
system suggests that these women (and the many others who
look with favor on their presence here) are less than fully
aware of their responsibility, and their value, to society.
This attitude is all the more unconscionable because of
some of the other women we had the opportunity to meet dur
ing the week. There could hardly be a more striking contrast
to Angel Flight than two invited speakers at the Moratorium,
Jill Boskey and Marjorie Melville. These were two very dif
ferent women, one an intense young draft-resistance-counselor
from New York, and the other a gently dynamic ex-nun who
has worked extensively among the peasants in Guatemala.
Yet both represent the antithesis of the Air Force sorority,
partly because both have helped to destroy draft files, and
both have willingly been persecuted for doing so.
We may not wish to regard either of them as ideals, or
models, and probably (as Stanley Aronowitz suggested last
Wednesday night in a somewhat different context) we should
not. Yet wc cannot help being deeply impressed by them as
responsible, thoughtful, active, and therefore real, women.
Perhaps we could get somewhere if there were more
women like this in our society, and fewer seraphic swingers.
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groups, such as sororities and
agriculture students, are not
spoken for in Congress by their
own elected representatives.
The sensible alternative, then,
is to make fraternity members
vote with town residents. Instead
of eiffht town congressmen, there
would be 12. And the confusion
over where a fraternitv man who
lives in town should vote—town or
fraternity—would be eliminated.
For the past few years, the
election of jTaternitv congressmen
to USG has been typified by low
voter turnout aM "'enere'l anathv.
In this week’s elections, for exam
ole, o r ' lv six candidates ran for the
four fraternity seats. And four of
those candidate'’ v'ere from or> I,r
two of the Greek system’s 51
houses.
Obviously, most fraternitv
men want, to ke°n their TTSO seats
onlv to maintain their power in the
hierarchy.
A revision of the Elections
Poda is In maViocr
changes, USG officials must
what is more important—tradition
al nlacement on the runes of the
TTniversitv commumtv ladder or a
fair and effective elections code.
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Turn Pressure Upon Hanoi
TO THE EDITOR: If the next “Peace March” focuses on
censure of Hanoi's unwillingness to negotiate for peace, rather
than on continued criticism of U. S. imperfections in seeking
peace, it can really be a major step toward ending the Viet
nam war. If this is done, Hanoi, instead of gloating over the
war weariness in America and refusing now to admit Soulh
Vietnam to the peace table, will feel some pressure 1o
negotiate for peace not for the spoils of war.
Peace cannot he achieved unilaterally all combatants
must stop fighting. Peace can be negotiated now if there is a
willingness by the participants to do so. It need not await a
victor who will dictate the terms. But we must not let North
Vietnam feel that it is unnecessary to negotiate by letting it
appear that Americans will do it for them.
We went inlo Vietnam to help a people defend themselves
following the massacre oi hundreds of thousands of South
Vietnamese after withdrawal of the French. Though we may
question the wisdom of getting involved and the effectiveness
of our methods, we took the action in good faith.
Our withdrawal now without a peace settlement would set
the stage for North Vietnam to overrun South Vietnam and
could lead to another horrendous bloodletting. It would also
encourage other aggressive nations to overpower their weaker
neighbors.
TO THE EDITOR: One’s dialogue with God is best kept
private; it need not be broadcast over a public address
system—especially at a state-assisted university.
With this in mind it seems to me that the reading of in
vocations prior to the two recent home football games may
have been unwise and perhaps even unconstitutional
Penn State, as a state-university, is obliged not only to
those who claim a belief in God but also to those who do not.
The reading of an invocation to God to an essentially captive
Beaver Stadium audience is as unjustified as the prayer public
school youngsters were listening to each morning until the re
cent Supreme Court ruling.
Ought not a university which refuses to make a commit
ment on a day-long national war moratorium (claiming it is a
matter of personal conscience) also refuse to permit religion
(What can be more personal?) into its athletic contests?
11. Charles Neuhaus
(graduafcc-jouraalism-Lake Hiawatha. N.J.)
We've seen it happen in Czechoslovakia only months ago
when the risk to the aggressor was small. This is the type of
procedure that led to World War II; it is the same kind of pro
cedure that could lead to World War 111.
If we can get North Vietnam to negotiate a peace that will
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Campus-Style Dragnet
On a Dark, Rainy Night
(Editor’s Note: Name withheld to protect
the irmocetit from the lecherous.)
Like this isn’t the Hearst Press or
anything. I mean Jim Dorris didn't make me
disguise myself as a beautiful, voluptuous Penn
State code so all this would happen, and I
could report on the eye-opening realities of
what it’s like to be attacked (or, as in my case,
aIMOST attacked) and the aftermath and all
that. This really did happen.
On Monday night around 9:15 (between
rain storms) 1 was heading towards The Col
legian along the walk that runs perpendicular
to Sackett Buulding. In the area just below Old
Main. Some guy was approaching me, and as
we passed, we looked at each other, and he
started to say something to me, only I kept
right on going, mainly because that’s common
procedure for a girl and besides, this person
had that “Professional dirty movie patron”
look. That may sound cruel and insensitive, but
baby, that’s the way he affected me. Anyhow,
when I continued on my way. he bagan to walk
after me, so instinctively I took off. WOOSH! 1
knew there was no way that jerk was going to
catch up with “Old Nine Flat in the Hundred
here.
But apparently I didn’t turn him on
because I didn’t hear raging loot steps in the
too near distant future. Nevertheless I didn’t
turn around to check, 1 just rambled on into
Sackett, not knowing if 1 really almost got at
tacked or not.
Back at the dorm about 45 minutes later, I
told everybody about it. and people convinced
me to call up Campus Patrol. Bu f I was reluc
tant because I had that “What For? It probably
meant nothing” attitude. Still I gave them a
buzz, and this campus cop came over to
question me and then asked if I would mind
riding around in his cop car with him.
I said okay, but it probably wouldn’t do any
good because I doubted if I could identify him
for sure and I didn’t want the responsibility
of—get this—“convicting an innocent man.”
The cop got a laugh out of that last statement,
boy.
We got into the car, and Davey. that was
the cop's name, told me that about six girls had
called that night and that the descriptions that
one or two others had given coincided with
mine. Boy. did I feel important. I actually saw
somebody. A would-be assailent. It was just
like being on Dragnet,
We drove around —mostly around the lower
end of campus, but I didn’t sec anyone who
vaguely resembled the guy. So Davey asked me
if I’d be scared to walk through the HUB. and I
said, “Nah.”
But first we had to pick up some other cop.
and Davey said they’d be waiting in the kitchen
while I looked around. No luck, of course.
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Back in the car again, Davey and the other
cop—l'll call him Mr. X—drummed up a con
versation concerning the yellow raincoats they
had to wear on rainy nights. Davey said when
you're trying to hide in some shrubbery, you
look “just like a fire hydrant in a bush.”
In the midst of their conversation, Mr. X
asked me why I didn’t "bust the guy in the
mouth?” I told him I didn't have time, that I
just took off. He said he guessed that was
instinctive. Actually, the guy didn’t touch me,
and I'm not getting in a fight for nothing.
However, should he have laid a hand on me, I
would’ve busted him all right, but I had
someplace else in mind.
Finally they look me back to headquarters,
and although I felt like I was on Dragnet, the
Campus Patrol Station certainly wasn’t as nice
as the one they have in LA. I sauntered into
some room and took out a cigarette—about the
fifth I had since Davey picked me up—and
waited while they finished questioning some
other girl who had the same problem as 1 had
that night, some JR from Ewing.
First the cop sitting at a desk asked me to
tell him what happened, and he wrote it all
down. He asked me if I called Campus Patrol
from the Collegian office, and I said. "No, I
went down to Lorenzo’s and then took that back
alley back to the dorm,” which goes to show
you how phased I was over the whole incident.
I said I wasn't going to call at all, but
everyone convinced me to. so I did. The desk
cop said that was the trouble. A lot of people
don’t call in—especially boys when they’re at
tacked—and then they only have one or two
skimpy descriptions to go on which doesn’t help
much.
Then the desk cop took out a check sheet
and asked me questions concerning the descrip
tion of my would-be assailant. Well, it’s rather
difficult, to accurately describe someone you
had a five second glimpse of in the dark, boy.
You’re just not sure, and you don’t want to give
out any false information. He asked me his
weight, and I said “skinny.” and the desk rop
asked, “would you say about 160-170 pounos?” I
told him I was no good at estimating weights at
ah. so he wrote down “skinny” in the blank
reserved for “Weight.” But I tried to scour the
old belfry for all it was worth.
Then he handed me a family photograph
album that Campus Patrol uses for mug-shots,
and although I didn't see the King of the Jerks,
I think I recognized the kid who lived next door
to me during my grammar school days that got
me interested in collecting baseball cards. That
was a shocker.
Finally, I had to write out a statement on
what happened and sign it and say whether or
not I woutd recognize this villain again. Then
they let me go.
give the South Vietnamese a chance to reasonably determine
their destiny, vve will have made definite progress toward a
more lasting peace.
We chastised ourselves on Oct. 15, 1969. It is time to turn
our pressure for peace upon Hanoi.
Penn Staters and Stale College residents can provide real
leadership by focusing the November Peace March on getting
both sides to negotiate at the peace table. If you feel as I do,
cut out this article: sign it. get others who teel the same way
to sign it also; and return it to the editor. Let yourself be
heard.
N. J. PaNadino Dean, College of Engineering
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