University Senate: Open the Door Wide THE UNIVERSITY SENATE final ly seems to have awakened to the ad visability of student inclusion in the decision-making process, though the matter of how much inclusion is still unsettled. The Senate is considering changes in its constitution which would allow -students the right to vote in that power ful body, presently composed of facult'- members and administration represen tatives with only token student non voting representation on the various Senate - committees. The Senate Committee on Com mittees and Rules, which is corv='' I ''"'-' T the constitutional change, rebuffed the proposal for student inclusion as ■recently as last June. IN TURNING DOWN the idea, the committee cited two reasons. The first was that the Senate was constituted only three years ago “after an ex haustive study” and the urmnimou" adoption of the constitution, by-laws and standing rules, indicating “overwhelm ing approval of the prniciples—especial ly those of composition. It is ridiculous to think change is uncalled for because the nrecent Senate has been constituted for only three years and the rules were adopted unanimously at that time. The second reason was even more ridiculous. The committee determined that a conflict of interest could arise if person were voting on academic policy while pursuing a degree at Penn State. NOT ONLY DID the committee not point out that faculty members mu vote on what they teach, they also fail ed to foresee the conflict of intern*' which would arise in the debate over the term versus the semester svstem at the next Senate meeting. Faculty mem bers argued long and hard over which svstem was best, at least from the standout of how each Senator would Letters to the Collegian Editor Typically Naive Slant TO THE EDITOR: The slant of your recent article concerning defense spending on university •oampuses was typical of the naive morally self-righteous attitude that we have come to expect from The Daily Collegian. The article raised the question “What public interest, is served by the research and develop ment of weapons of mass destruction. . After we by-pass the chimeric moral question we are faced with the cold reality of the necessity of maintaining an effective deterent in a world fraught with tension. To advocate that the leading scientists in the nations should be locked away in an ivory tower when their skills are needed in the very real struggle to maintain a balance of power (which presently is the only factor which guaran tees a general peace) is absurd. On a more mundane level one must consider that whether or not military research continues on the campus it will continue. Thus, if campus research ends we may be well assured that the government will set up costly .military research centers of its own, thus diverting much needed funds from domestic programs. The university becomes absurd if it becomes fo entangled in ethical red tape that it cannot discern practical realities. Charles A. Mills (Tth-Foreign Service-Youngstown, Ohio) TIME The longest word in the language? By letter count, the longest word may be pneumonoultra microscopicsilicovolcanoconiosif t a rare lung disease. You won’t find it in Webster's New World Dictionary, College Edition. But you will find more useful infor mation about words than in any other desk dictionary. Take the word rime. 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Now that the Committee has seen the foolhardiness of these reasons for rejection, there is another matter which needs to be resolved before the Senate may earn the honored title —“University Senate.” This matter concerns the percentage of representation which students would receive in the true University Senate. SEVERAL PROPOSALS are being considered by the Committee. The per centages of representation range from 10 per cent (the number of students on Senate committees! to about 30 per cent. These are inadequate. Students should be allotted 50 per cent of the seats to achieve meaningful representation in a true University Senate. A fair breakdown would have to be worked out. For instance, un dergraduates could elect 30 per cent of the Senators according to colleges. Graduate students would be responsible for electing 10 per cent by colleges and the Commonwealth Campuses would be allotted 10 per cent also. The Administration would keep its 15 per cent representation in order to have a hand in the legislation it would be required to implement, and the faculty would be left with an allocation of 35 oer cent of the Senators. STUDENTS HAVE BEEN fighting for a long time to achieve facu'tv of their capabilities outside the University classrooms. It has been a bitter fight, uphill all the way until now. when the Senate is finally opening the door a crack. However, a crack is not good enough. A mere crack will not alleviate the feeling of student impotency at not being included in the decision-making process. THE CRACK MUST BE widened, the door must be onened all the wav to give students a meaningful hand in’ the process which directly affects the whole University community. ...■ft l'£, u mT a, cA^Paulist Qoes ..ipt backward Time never stands still and neither does a Paulist. Issues are raised, conflicts ap pear and the world changes, but the Paulist is always part of the new . . . blending the best of the old with the hope and prom ise of the future. Because one of the major char acteristics of the Paulist is his ability to cope with, and wel come, change, he's better able to meet the needs of modern man: he uses his own talents to work for Christ and is given the freedom to.do so. If you've given thought to the priesthood, find out more about the order that never stands still. Write today for an illustrated brochure and a summary of our recent Renewal Chapter Guidelines. Vocation Director epaulist . _ epathefg Room 100 415 West 59th Street New York, N.Y. 10019 "Support the Artists Series" No National Recognition TO THE EDITOR: Your recent editorial pro testing the Nittany Lions’ slippage in the national rankings is a beautiful example of letting your emotions override your common sense. Now we are all proud of the Penn State foot ball team but we must put things in proper perspective. Let’s face it, despite Coach Paterno’s protestations, the schedule is indeed a joke. Perennial foobtall powers such as Notre Dame, Texas, etc., would be embarrassed to play Penn State’s schedule. It speaks for itself when it is said that West Virginia (UGH!) is our toughest op ponent. Until Penn State begins to play a truly representative schedule, such as Notre Dame plays, it will have to be content to be the best in the East and neither deserves nor should expect any national recognition. Peter J. Kerney Instructor, Mechanical Engineering USG: Legitimized Violence? TO THE EDITOR: In Spring Term of last year the Undergraduate Student Government voted to join the National Student Association, an Intercollegiate organization consisting of a union of student governments. Several years ago Penn I HAVE A "WAT'S TME MOST RIDICULOUS THINS I'VE EVER HEARPi Daily Collegian Letter Policy The Daily ,‘ollegian wel- Collegian office, 20 Sackett, in conies comments on news cov- person so proper identification erage, editorial nolicy, and of the writer can be made, al campus or m.n-campus affairs, though names will be withheld Letters must be typewritten, by request. If letters are re double-spaced, signed by no ceived by mail, Collegian will more than two persons, and no contact the signer for verifi longer than 30 lines. Students’ cation. The Collegian reserves letters should include name, the right to 'airly select, edit term and major of the writer, and condense all letters. They should be brought to the State withdrew from NSA after a student referen dum-what right did USG have to rejoin this organization without another student referendum? USG, at the time of its reentry into NSA, claimed that as the representative of the students it had the right to join without referendum. However, without a referendum, in which students could reveal their opinions on the positions held by NSA, how can the USG state that it truly represents the will of the majority In supporting NSA’s position. Although only student governments are represented in NSA, the positions NSA supports concern the students. For example. NSA has ask ed for Federal control and inspection of Fraternity admissions and operating standards-has NSA or our USG which has supported Berkeley Riots as “responsible action." By supporting NSA’s position, USG has legitimatized violence as a form of responsible political action at Penn State. If a referendum were held, how many students would agree to this? Therefore, since issues taken up by NSA will afioct the students of this camnus and not merely USG, the decision for membership in NSA must be left up to those conccrned-the students. I HA>VE A THEOR I / THAT TIE “HEAP BEASLE" AND THE “6REAT PUMPKIN" ARE THE SAME PERSON i IT SOUNDS LIKE 60ME SORT OF NEU) THEOLOS^i Wayne E. White Till LA-Willow Grove Alan Montross 4th EE-Noxen ‘The Lion in Winter By PAUL SEYDOR Collegian Film Critic I once had the unforgettable experience of attending a concert of some of Mozart’s lighter salon pieces which the conductor performed as if they were towering statements like Beethoven’s Ninth or Wagner’s prelude to “Tristan.” The poor man was utterly desperate, and the results were wretched, as he shook the music for profundities it just doesn’t have, stretched it to a scale it just couldn’t take, heaped on it meanings it just can’t and was never meant to support. Not only did he fail to imbue the music with an extrinsic quality, but he almost destroyed its intrinsic quality its grace and poise and deli-.,-. . , cacy. The ftiovicmcfrC©i*s Something si the movie version ~ r “The Lion Winter.” Directed as :* were by Anthony Harvey as ,r and adapted by James Goid man 'King tear'- from his (too) high- 9 ly acclaimed play, the movie pretends cum-Holinshed . .." to historical rele- vance by centering on the struggle between King Henry II and his Queen Eleanor of Aquitane over which of their sons will inherit the throne. But the historical filler is just that—filler —while the play is really nothing more than a clever, trashy domestic squabble, peopled by a family of hideous characters who it’s fun to watch bicker because they trade such hilariously nas ty invectives. Although as drama the play is hardly the quality of the Mozart pieces as music, it could conceivably be entertaining, in a production scaled to size where the preten tious “serious’’ stuff is played straight and paced fast to allow the acidic humor to prevail. But the movie makers treat the play as if it were “King Lear ’-eum-Holinshed, as if it were history in the making. Harvey has discovered Panavision and Technicolor and zomar lenses, which he uses to suck you into an environment of real castels and thundering horses and mud dy streets and chilly corridors and rolling plains. Now there’s nothing wrong with such authenticity of setting if—and it’s a big “if”—-the subject matter can sustain the historical reverberations touched off. Un fortunately the high-toned and expensive treat ment of “The Lion in Winter" only winds up exposing the difficulties of the play, either as history or as a poetic drama. But they’re all so devoted, these moviemakers, they all seem so serious and solemn, so convinced they’re creating an im portant work of art that we may begin to won der if we shouldn't take a closer look. The writ ing itself is literate, with acapital “L.” Gold man (like Shapcspeare) uses the artifacts of literacy such metaphor, simile, dramatic irony imagery, symbolism, etc., and (like Sophocles) deals with such “sophisticated” topics as court intrigue, incest and homosexuality and fashions them all into a plav of almost in conceivable nonsense. What are we to think when amid all this authenticity of detail and verisimilitude of setting, the quality of metaphor runs along lines like. “Kings, queens and knights everywhere and I’m the only ©tip Sailn (Cnllentan Published Tuesday tbreueh Saturday during inn Fan, winter and Spring Terms, and Thursday during tha summer Term, by students of Tha Pennsylvania State University. Second class postage paid at State College, Pa. 14801. 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BLUEBELL APARTMENTS 818 Bellaire Ave. (Near University Dr.) 238-4911 Office Open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. Weekdays 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday Film Critique pawn or when the level of intellect settles around such smoldering banalities a s In a world where carpenters can get lesun acted anything is possible”; or when the features such stupid mcongruencics as Heniy wandering in out of a stormy night to declar "The sky is pocked with stars. , We’re liable to think it's all a fantastic put on and maybe it would be better if it were- I can easily imagine someone with Orson Welles's gigantic sense of humor transfoimirjo billiousness and pomposity into a high com c stvle in order to extract all the potential humor in’the disparity between a large-minded pr - duction and a small-minded play. Thus is what Peter O'Toole does witn his shouting Stomping flailing performance. He carries the gesture of conceit to such an extreme that i e manages to stylize it. He s so blatant and obvious that he's almost subtle: only those who are taking the play seriously miss the bulge in his cheek. , , , . ~ And if Harvey and Goldman had a similar flair for irony and could have gotten Katherine Hepburn to stop taking her part so seriously (and to drop that stifling-back-the-tears trick of hers). “The Lion in Winter” might have been a magnificent conquest of style. But they haven t that sense of irony; indeed one suspects that haven’t even a sense of humor. And it s ap parent neither has much of a cinematic sense. ‘‘The Lion in Winter” is possibly the worst example ot ‘‘opening up” a play that I’ve ever seen. Whole scenes are broken up or shifted around for no other reason than to establish simultaneous planes of action even at the ex pense of dramatic sense. Or the characters will often take long walks just to keep the camera moving, the locale shifting. This last practice is not only irritating because we’re so aware of its artificiality but it has a way of unscoring the play’s talkincss and repetitiveness. In a movie when the scene shifts to a new locale we’re accustomed to expecting something new a further development an extension of the ac tion or the meaning. And when it doesn’t occur the new setting only throws the old content into greater relief. These characters just walk and walk and walk and talk and talk and talk gnawing the bones that were pretty meatless to begin with so that by the time Eleanor and Henry deny their love for the fifth time after asserting it for the fourth you don t care if they ever make up their minds. It's even duller when Harvey dwells on them with loving close up.- because he only diminishes their appeal. These characters are entertaining only because they’re so fiendishly hideous: make them sym pathetic and decent and you obliterate the only interest they’ve got. It would be nice to conclude by saying that the often elegant photography, the lov e l y landscapes and the occasionally good acting are enjoyable in themselves. But the truth is they work against enjoyment: faced with such expense and such effort wasted on such slight and insignificant material you’re embarrassed and offended. And when Oscars were parcelled out to Hepburn for her uncharacteristically poor performance and to the talented John Barry for his bloated Carl Orff by way of Grygory Lygeti music score you didn't know whether to feel sorrier for the losers or the winners. Like so many Oscar recipients they’ll be remembered for their worst achievements demonstrating once again the truth in Marc An tony’s dictum: ‘‘The evil that men do lives after them...” Successor to The Free La nee, est. 1887 64 Years of Editorial Freedom PAUL S. BATES Business Manager
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