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By JOHN WEAGRAFF
Collegian Staff Writer
Contrary to popular legend the Penn
State obelisk has a purpose other than serv
ing as an indicator of one's moral 'standing.
According to the plaque found on the
obelisk, Magnus C. Ihlseng, the University's
first professor of mining engineering and
geology, put forth the idea for the monu
ment in 1894 as an experiment in the
weathering process of stone.
The actual placing of the stones, which
was completed in 1896, was har died by
Thomas C. Hopkins, then assistant professor
of economic geology.
The structure consists of 281 stones col
lected from various Pennsylvania rock quar
ries. The stones represent the sedimentary,
metamorphic and igneous rock groups and
are placed in the polylith according to geo
logical age, with the oldest at the bottom
and the youngest at the top.
In a letter to University President
George W. Atherton in 1896, Ihlseng said,
"The obelisk exhibits many of the varieties
of structural, material with which Pennsyl
vania is endowed and reveals the, possibili
ties of artistic combinations from our native
products.
"To the builder, - similar information is
given together with that afforded by the re
ports of the physical tests and microscopic
SIL official says Miss Davis
UCLA case
David Ward, program co
chairman of Students for In
dividual Liberty, said Wednes
day night that Angela Davis
was guilty of no crime in sup
plying guns to a group that
raided a California county
court because there was no
proof that those people would
initiate force.
" Miss Davis, a former assis
tant professor at University of
California at Los Angeles and
an avowed Communist, was ar
rested Oct. 13 in New York for
supplying guns to a group of
blacks who raided the Marion
County Hall of Justice in San
Rafael, Calif., in an attempted
kidnapping.
Ward, who spoke at a SIL
meeting, said he also opposed
preventive detention and con
spiracy laws for the same rea-
Women sue
abortion
to keep
records secret
PITTSBURGH (AP) Three inent member . . ."
women who said they obtained Duggan's office issued the
abortions at Magee Women's original complaint Oct. 2
Hospital filed suit in Allegheny against Drs. Wilfred Finegold,
County Court yesterday to pre- Louis Meyers and Felix Miller.
vent District Attorney Robert A hearing is scheduled on the
Duggan from obtaining their charges for Nov. 10,
hospital case records
Judge Anne X. Alpern sched
uled a hearing for Nov. 4 ;nto
Duggan issued subpoenas the three women's request for
against the hospital earlier a preliminary injunction to
this month to obtain the rec-
bar Duggan from obtaining the
ords to substantiate his charge hospital data
that three staff physicians at
the hospital conseired to com-
mit illegal abortions
The three women are Mary
Berman and Iris Nahemow,
both of Pittsburgh and Eliza
beth Slegodnik. They claim to
represent 900 others who re
ceived abortions at the hospital
this year.
Their suit charged Duggan
with using the abortion i..sue
to "seek publicity and political
advantage for the Republican
Party of which he 'is a prom-
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examination of its constituent specimens,"
Atherton wrote.
The obelisk was the subject of a thesis
written in 1899 by William Affelder, then a
candidate for a bachelor of science degree.
Affelder made microscopic examinations of
the stones and described them according to
their geological age, location in the polylith,
donating quarry, origin and esimated worth
as building material.
In 1949 John E. Allen, associate profes
sor of geology, took the data compiled by
Affelder, and made note of the effects of
weathering on the stones. Records of Allen's
readings are on file in the Penn State Room
at Pattce and at the Earth and Mineral Sci
ences Library.
Because of the somewhat obscure pur
pose of the obelisk, students have supplied
their own interpretations of its intent.
The prevailing legend is that if a virgin
walks in front of the obelisk, the structure
will tumble to her virtuous feet.
An older and more conservative legend
contends that the body of "Old Jerry." the
mule used to haul the stones to build Old
Main, is buriod at the foot of the obelisk.
Each individual must answer the mys
tery of the obelisk to please his own imagi
nation. It may be a monument to the geo
logical ages of the earth, the burial ground
of a tired mule, or perhaps the final resting
place of campus morality.
innocent •
discussed
son of uncertainty of motives. lem, he noted, by taking the
. During his speech Ward cited life of the individual as its
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two basic views of man—the hi ' hest value.
The Young Americans for Freedom will YAF will also start the publication of a
conservative one that man is Referring to altruist philoso- hold a book sale from Monday to Friday next weekly news letter Mitros .said. Called
inherently bad and the liberal phies, which subordinate the week on the ground floor of the Trretzel TTnion "Reflections on Freedom" it will be dis
one that man is good. These value of the individual to Building, Chairman Thomas IVliiros said last tributed on the seats of classrooms and at
views lead conservatives to others, he said there should be nigh,tr,iai.et
books are
of e in the . gro p.
sold atcost, Mitros the YAF table in the HUB, Ken Boehm (10th
write constitutions and frag- wholisa y o ifi s c o ing h o e f o s n o e ic s i elf ila Th ve os a e
said. Most of thebooks g range in price from newsletter,politicascie s n oi cs . -Hatboro), and editor of the
merit governmental pow e r, wrong sense of values since 10 to 50 cents.
YAF will conduct a membership drive
while liberals shun such insti- they are giving a greater for a The idea of the sale is to bring students
tutions, putting their faith in lesser value. into contact with the ideas of YAF, , he said. from now until January, Mitrus said. The
drive is part of a contest sponsored by the
They cover social and ecomic thought, con
the people, he explained.
e nrional organization. Prizes will be award-
SIL members will travel to servatiive philosophy, Communism and
mem-
The problem with each of Boston to attend a speech by American politics. tothe chapters with the most new
Ayn Rand at 8 p.m. Nov. 1. YAF will donate one copy of each book bers. The prizes are: a speech by cartoonist
these views. Ward said, is that AI Capp.. for first place; a speech by Con-
Interested persons should con- to the library, Mitros said, because "there
Con
they do not state the reason tact David Lampo (7th-political is no other way to get libertarian books into gressman Phillip Crane (R-Illinois) for sec
for their political system. science-Lancaster.) the library." and place; a mimeograph machine for third
place and $5O for fourth place. Dues for the
Therefore the means became national organization are one dollar
the ends, he said, which is • •
shown today in "conservatives
who are for law and order but ariadians despise
don't know why, and liberals
who are for freedom but don't •
know what to do with it."
Objectivism solves this prob. French to
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PITSBURGH (AP) A kidnapping of Richard Cross,
Cenadian diplomat said yester- British Trade Commiss'oner,
day terrorists activities in his Towe said:
country are "equally abhor- "These kidnappers and as
rent" to all Canadians and ex- sassins are indeed only a hand
pressed belief that sentiment ful, a few hundred at most, in
is "swinging against separa- a population of 21 million. A
tism" in Quebec, number of them aer not even 1
"French-Canadians are be-
Canadians. They find no sym-'1
pathy at all among the vast
ginning to take their place in majority of our population,
the sun of Canada as genuinely whether French or English
equal partners in the develop- speaking."
aunt not only or their heart
land in Quebec, but of all Cana
da, which is equally their,
home," said Peter M. Towe,'
senior minister in the Canadian
Embassy in Washington.
Referring to the kidnap
murder of Quebec's Labor Min
ister Pierre Laporte and the
Trick or
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concentrated raids on North Vietnam's supply line in the
Laotian panhandle.
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