End to Degree Factory?
THE STAFF OF the Yale student
newspaper recently published , a guide
book for prospective college students. It
included tips on what to expect for
schools of all sizes across the nation and,
while it cited Penn State for having an
extensive "down home" system of com
monwealth campuses, another notation
was less flattering.
The guidebook, in the very first
paragraph in the section on dear Old
State, charged that many students would
find that education here is something
like a degree factory.
GREAT. NOW HIGH school stu
dents across the country can get at least
one opinion of what might be wrong
with learning here. But for the first time
ever, things are taking a turn in the
opposite direction. Beside the thousands
of courses computer - catalogued and
offered every term, the Free University
is offering 17 non-credit, non-mandatory,
non-graded, non-competitive courses.
What is special' about Free U's
Another
By COMMANDER ALI
Collegian Columnist
The Dick Gregory speech-interview at Juniata
College will be continued next week. Today, the
Census Bureau will serve .as a , vent for my inner
most frustrations. Those bureaucratic bastards de
serve the "gross malcontempt of the decade"
award. Those bumbling incompetents missed five
million people in the '6O census. Last year, they
just got around to admitting missing these five
million people. I'm quite sure the figures are
muffed. I wonder how many people they really
missed. They'll make up for it somehow, some
decade.
For the record, two million of those five mil
lion were black. The other three comprised various
ethnic and minority groups, such as Puerto Ricans,
Mexican-Americans, Orientals and a few over
looked poor whites. Curious as to where I got my
figures? I'll list a few of my sources for all you
doubting Thomases. Jet magazine sometime in the
spring of '69 and TV 10 News (Philadelphia) inter
view March 25 with black director of the Phila
delphia area Census Bureau.
The reason the Philadelphia Census Bureau
Chief gave for the undercount was: "In 1960 there
were fewer members of various ethnic and mi
nority groups taking the census. Since most of the
Census takers were white they were afraid to
enter poorer districts of the city." If they were
afraid to go in the ghetto then why did they become
census takers in the first place? This goes to
show you that .the cycloptic bureaucratic govern
ment will hire almost any "concerned" dimwit
to perform important tasks.
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Free U type ledrning doesn't depend on
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ment, term paper or exam dosage in a
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The College of The Liberal Arts' 493
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The U. S. Census Bur
Facet of Racist America
Just today a friend mentioned that his mother
was a census taker in '6O. He mentioned how
some census takers would stop at the corner
store and take an estimate or go into an apart
ment building, count the mailboxes and make an
"accurate" estimate.
Returning to my sources: Walter Cronkite's
CBS Evening News of March 27; The MIT study
estimate of 50 million about two years ago; Bobby
Kennedy's Freudian slip of 30 million about eight
years ago. Sounds a little inconsistent, doesn't it?
Those are "reliable" white sources, not my cere
brum's. My figures are drastically different from
those of that damn, racist Census Bureau. I see
the miscount as a part of the indelibly etched
racism within the American System.
I contend that 50 million black Americans
are residing in the US. From 1790 to 1870 blacks
weren't counted in the census, since we weren't
considered citizens or even human beings. Slaves
were considered as property, and three-fifths hu
man under the Constitution. Therefore, their
numbers were estimated on slave plantations. No
great painstaking "care" was made to count them
as in 1960. After 1808, four million more were
smuggled into the country, that ending around
1860. For the record,'ls million Africans lost their
lives on the "pleasure cruise" over.
If the Federal Government will admit to
missing two million blacks in '6O, then how many
were missed in '5O, '4O, '3O on back. The old folks
tell me we've had that proverbial figure of 20
million since '5O. I can remember only 20 mil
lion reported "Negroes" for my entire 12 years
in school. Rather odd, don't you think? I'm not
going to freak out supporting my contentions to
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It's going to be mighty hard to fill Eric's shoes ...
you white folks. If you can go around making
bland estimates, so can I. Only my estimates hold
a little more weight. since I'm a member of Black
Masses. I reinterate my figure of 50 million black
folks here in America.
I've read white's rate of multiplication—it's
seven per cent. The black rate is almost double
that at 13.6 per cent. We have a higher fertility
rate because the pill isn't as firmly entrenched in
our communities as white suburbia. Not that I'm
endorsing having a dozen kids unable to support
them. Statistics show whites are trying to main
tain having 2.5 kids. Over half the black nation
in North American is under 30.
This is one explanation of the upsurge of
Planned Parenthood Centers in the ghetto.
Planned Parenthood Centers are nice names for
"Genocide Clinics." These "Genocide Clinics" have
also sprung up in other non-white districts of the
city. Their essential purpose is to limit non-white
America's population. Those of us who can't be
eliminated in that manner they attempt "mental
genocide" on in these hallowed halls of Penn State.
Some are disabled spiritually with "medicines"
like dope and booze. Others are done away with
physically in such "far away exotic" places over
the pond, like Vietnam. This completes the racist
American 360 degree genocide cycle. One might
ask how does mental. spiritual and physical geno
cide relate to the Census?
This is a part of the American racist "master
plan." Once you can accurately total the numbers
of various sub-cultures, you can devise more effec
tive means to eliminate them. You right-wing
swingers can open the concentration campus, start
more Vietnams, give our women the pill and
really get your thrills.
•Over the vacation my parents received a
census form. It said not to include students at
tending college and not residing at home. They
will receive Census forms at their respective resi
dences. At the end of Winter Terni - I changed my
residence. I checked my old mailbox this morn
ing, and have yet to receive a census form. I'm
not going to lose any sleep behind those inade
quate census takers. So I guess that doesn't make
me an April fool. It does make me a non-existent
member of an "invincible" population . . "calling all
non-existing members of an 'invincible' popula
tion." Is the black population increasing, decreas
ing or maintaining an unchangeable population?
In other words, I existed in 1960 but don't exist
in 1970, according to the "friendly" facist Census
Bureau. That's one helluva' paradox to be caught
up in.
An undercount can keep needed poverty funds
out of the black community; the black communi
ties are predominantly located in the urban areas;
the cities are losing possible funds because of past
undercounting. The new Census mailing system
was devised to better count so-called minority
(non-white) groups. Why else would they change
methods in midstream if their older methods were
so damn "accurate"?
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Red Rush of Wine
By BILL MOHAN
Collegian Columnist
Guy went into his small footlqcker at
the end of the bed and pulled out a - bottle
of dark red wine. He sat down at the table
in the "kitchen" section of his single room.
There's bad light in the room, gas station
men's room light, sort of a polluted yellow.
Outside it is Saturday night at eight o'clock,
almost dark, it -
should be darl-
but Guy persistei
ly sees a pink ai
white streak in tl
The early spri
is deceptively co
as, cold
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parts of the wint
but the sun shim
during the day ar
so you go out wit
out a coat at nigi.
The shades in Guy'
room are draw•
and kind of sy
bolize his wanii,
no parts of tIL
outside. '
He holds the bottle like a test tube. He
turns it slowly around, observing the red
green wrinkles in the thick-blown glass. The
label, which is tissue paper with an inscrip
tion, is crusty and peeling. Guy stares at the
inscription, ascertaining once again that the
signature on the bottle is that of Napoleon I.
He had paid five thousand dollars at a
New York auction for this wine. And, with
out the radio on or the record player play
ing, Without distraction, he was going to drink
it tonight.. "The ultimate flattery is to drink
one hundred and sixty five year old wine
by oneself," he recited as he maneuvered
the brittle cork with his thumbs. The ex
`Z': Biased Achievement
By MARC TRACHTMAN
Collegian Film. Critic
The film "Z" is a superior film. It is a
political film and it is a biased film, but con
trary to a recently published review, "1" is
also an artistic achievement.
As far as I understand, art is the ex
pression of life, This expression may be
figurative or it may be literal and unadorned,
as "Z" is. However, to deny a film credit as an
artistic work simply because it lacks the frills
of Hollywood scriptwriters is the height of ar
rogance. Besides, with the clamor for
"relevance" in all things today what could be
more relevant to real-life people than real-life
situations?
And how can a political film be called "ter
ribly dishonest?" Biased, yes; stilted, yes; but
never dishonest. Indeed, the people who made
the film are totally committed to their cause,
making their viewpoint a necessarily slanted
one. Sure. "Z" tries to win audiences to its
side, but then the makers think they are right.
To expect an objective, detailed analysis of the
historical events behind the film (such as info
on the coup d'etat or the CIA) is to expect a
CBS news film.
"Z" is not unbiased and does not pretend to
be, as proven by the marvelous opening notice
that all similarity to real events is intended.
This remark proves the film is pretending to be
neither "pseudo-documentary" or objective and
also proves that the film is not "terribly
dishonest."
As for relying on the viewers' knowledge of
past events, it seems that for once a film has
been made which assumes some degree of in
telligence on the part of the viewer and does
not spoon-feed every bit of information to the
audience. I, for one, am pleased that the film
respects its audience, proving that this film
was NOT made for the masses of John Wayne
addicts who go to films in order not to think.
I also claim there are several "living,
breathing characters" within the film. Pro-
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plosion was somewhat gentle; a white cloud
of liquid slowly curled from the bottle's
narrow neck. He would get a good head on.
Guy was a fairly skinny kid, wearing
tan pants and•a burgundy crew-neck sweater
as he took down the fist• gulp. It was very
sweet,
,and tickled as the bubbles burst on
his lips. He picked up today's Washington
Post, then pushed it away when he remem
bered what he was drinking. He . took an
extra reverent swig. The bottle was half
done. "The days of Napoleon," Guy thought
half-jokingly, "are being played out in my
stomach."
He picked up the bottle and went to the
window, drew up the shade and sat on the
bed. It was definitely dark now. Lights and
cars were seen vacantly passing, voices like
silverware, absently heard. The red rush of
wine in his head made everything inscru
tably humorous. The bottle being finished
was humorous. He glowed.
So now Guy put on his raincoat for the
damp night air, turned out the light and
left his room. He, plowed up through the
traffic of gravity all the way to the jammY,
where the band was playing loudly. It
seemed like a lot of people were coming' up
and saying "Alleluia" to him as he stood by
the drinking fountain fumbling his change.
- MOHAN
Inside, the hall was dark, and swarming
with dancers and every kind of gaper im
aginable. A black hustler and a blonde chick
were dancing in a corner, Guy could hear
the cat's high-pitched dandy voice above the
music. The usual settlers were there: high
school kids, the secretaries, the hard up hip
pies who came stoned.
"There's •no sense in trying to pick up
a girl," Guy mused in the midst 'of mono
lithic bother. How could he have ever en
tertained the thought? With hands in pock
ets, he turned and left, and walked until
he was in the parking lot, where he had to
piss. Good-bye Napoleon.
bably the most impressive is the government
investigator who slowly uncovers the corruption
within official circles. This character, although
hindered as all others are by subtitles, does
come through as an honest man with scruples
(in fact, it is so stated in the dialogue) who
must suddenly decide between honesty to
himself or self-corruption. His decision is the
obvious one, but follows the development of the
character smoothly and surprises no one.
Yves Montand as the all important "doc
tor" also has a strong honesty of character. He
should not need to explain why he loves peace
or why he continues to fight for peace. It Is
part of his character and is reflected in his ac
tions and speeches.
Also, several of the "top brass" who ap
pear sparsely throughout the film reflect a
slightly stereotyped but still amusingly adept
presentation of doddering, simple-minded of
ficials, particularly in a scene near the end of
the film in which they are all indicted for con
spiracy and murder.
Finally, I must defend Mikis Theodorakis'
musical score. For once this composer has
created a background that fits neatly into the
film. There is no "ear-pounding" noise, but
rather a unique rhythmic composition to un
derscore a fight on the back of a pick-up truck
and a brilliantly satirical march for that scene
where the officials are presented with their in
dictments. It is unquestionably Theodorakis'
best score and considering his emotional at
tachment to the story (he is currently in exile
from Greece and his music is banned) it is
quite understandable.
I realize that no one film can appeal to
everyone, but "Z" is the only film I have ever
seen three times, and I wanted to applaud at
the end each time. I only wish the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had the guts
to give the film the Oscars it was nominated
for, including the double-best-picture-of-the
year awards for best foreign film and best pic
ture of the year. "Z" is alive.