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VoI. 71, No. 124
- ;ole'S seeks order
ag..inst University
By JOYCE KIRSCHNER
Collegian Junior Reporter
Members of the "Other Vision:
Homophiles of Penn State" last night
announced that they will seek an in
junction against the University to
demand the return of their pe,v,ieges
until the University has determined
the legality of the organization.
According to HOPS Vice President
Diane Whitney, representives from the
group yesterday met with a Univer
sity lawyer who claimed that the
group had grounds to seek an injunc
tion. "The lawyer said that our charter
was perfectly legal, that the Univer
sity took our privileges without 'stat
ing a reason, and that they have no
right to do that," she said.
HOPS is also basing its evidence
on a letter dated May 14 from Elton
Atwater, chairman of the University
Senate Committee on Undergraduate
Student Affairs to Raymond 0. Mur
phy, acting vice president for student
affairs.
In his letter, Atwater. professor of
political science, said members of
SCUSA had expressed concern about
the abridgement of Senate procedures
in the suspension of privileges of the
HOPS organization.
Freedom stressed
Strong Africa urged
The blacks in America must help
to develop and free Africa if they are
to survive in this country, Tim Thomas
of the Black Organization for Student
Unity said yesterday.
Thomas, speaking before a predom
inantly black audience in the HUB
Assembly Room, said, "You must fight
to develop and to save Africa. Survival
in this country is contingent upon
gaining a strong Africa because there is
nothing to stop white folks from com
mitting genocide (against the blacks)."
Thomas said the gaining of a strong
Africa would .give the blacks "a land
base from which to wage our battle,"
the lack of which is one of the four
great problems facing the blacks today.
The others are capitalism, racism and
a lack of identity for the black, he said.
Calling this country's educational
system "the major vehicle by which we
have been brainwashed," Thomas said
it teaches two things—the support of
capitalism and the support of racism.
- —Material Weatlh - - •
The system, Thomas said, "empha
sizes and even encourages material
wealth as a yardstick of your social
wealth, of your social position."
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Hutto to ,ploy
J.S. Hutto and' the Hawks will
perform at 7:30 tonight in Schwab.
' The Chicago-based blues group
will present "Slues Music of Black
America." There will be a $1 admiss
ion charge.
3 CRIME coordinators
preparing to incorporate
By MARY ELLEN THOMPSON
Collegian Junior Reporter
Three members of the Committee
for the Reintegration of Inmates
through Meaningful Exchange were
recently released to pre-release cen
ters in Philadelphia and Harrisburg
prior to parole.
Willie Davis, Timothy Perry and.
Donald Blouse. who have been re
leased to the centers, and two other
committee Members still in 'the Hun
tingdon penitentiary, are now working
to incorporate CRIME.
According 'to Willie Davis who
spoke at a Colloquy '7l workshop Mon
day, they want to make CRlME—
which began as a committee to "tell
it like it is" about the penal system--
a nonprofit organization on the out
side.
Davis said he had scheduled a
series of meetings about the incorpora
tion next week and that it "looks
promising."
CRIME, which has made two ap
pearances on campus and held a press
conference at the prison, was disbanded
May 3 following a remark the Asso
ciated Press printed after a press con
ference last month.
A Daily Collegian article May 6
quoted sources who ch , trced that the
convicts had been ma, signed to indi
vidual work duties and were being
harressed by guards.
According to Willie Davis, CRIME's
first aim—once it is incorporated—is
to set up a center to' prevent incarcer
ation. He said they also 'plan to set
up a day care center to look after the
families of inmates and to arrange
family visits with the inmates "so they
don't lose contact with the outside."
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Permit No. 10
6 Pages
According to the Senate Policies
and Rules book, the Undergraduate
Student Government has the authority
to charter student organizations and to
revoke such charters if the group vio
lates Senate policies. The rules also
specify that official recognition of an
organization may be withdrawn only
atlee an appropriate hearing by the
USG Supreme Court.
Atwater also said University Presi
dent John W. Oswald wrote a letter
to Senate Chairman Thomas F. Magner
saying that "the existing rules of the
University Senate would continue in
operation during the present academic
year, pending the reorganization of the
Senate."
The new Senate does not officially
become effective until June 1, 1971;
therefore, the old rules are still in ef
fect at the present time, according to
Atwater.
Temporary Suspension
He explained that the University's
suspension of HOP's privileges amounts
to a temporary suspension of the char
ter because the charter becomes mean
ingless if the privileges are not en
joyed.
"We think you have, in fact, sus-
nation, which are supported by capi
talism, a major component of which is
racism," he said. "The educational sys
tem turns us into racists, hating black
folk instead of loving black folk."
Discussing the lack of a black
identity, Thomas said blacks should
not consider themselves as Americans,
but rather as Africans.
African People
"We are African people," he said.
"Our history has been that of African
people, our future must be that of
African people."
Thomas said, however, that the
culture of tribal Africa must be updated
to a technical culture equal to that of
other societies before it can be used by
present-day blacks.
Thomas pointed out the need for a
black ideology such as Pan Africanism.
with all of Africa being free and united
under scientific socialism. The united
African land mass would then be an
area from "which to launch our strug
gle."
'Settler Colonies
He said much of Africa now is un
der the control of Europeans in the
form of "settler Colonies." America, tee,
became a settler colony when the land
was taken, from the Indians, he said.
"To be a successful settler colony
you have to commit acts of genocide
against the original people," he added.
Thomas described the four objec
tives in gaining land seizing, holding,
developing and expanding it and,
therefore, power.
"The land," he said. "must be taken
from the white folk. There is no way
around it. you have to do it."
,Thomas said hit-and-run tactics
would have to be used since blacks
would be unable to hold such land.
"Our ability to seize, hold and de
velop land is limited," he said, "I'm not
saying we're not going to fight—don't
get me wrong—we're going to fight and
it's going to be a bloody fight."
Criticizes Apathy
Speaking of the. efforts to "unify
our community," Thomas criticized the
blacks' apathy, use of drugs and what
he termed "little niggers fighting little
niggers," with "the white folk con
trolling the whole situation."
Blacks need an "ideology which
will unite our people around a major
thought," he said.
Throughout the session, Thomas
discussed different points with stu
dents. When one of the few white stu
dents present questioned Thomas, how
ever, he responded by saying he wished
the student had not come.
"You need us, we don't need you."
he said. "I'm not even concerned with
you ... I'm trying to talk to my brothers
and sisters."—RM
According to Davis, fhe whole
penal system needs to be rebuilt. He
said the present system, which reflects
American society, reduces the prison
ers to slaves with guards as overseers.
"There can be no rehabilitation in
any institution in Pennsylvania until
custody takes a back seat," Davis said.
Replace Guards
CRIME proposes that the guards be
replaced by counselors. The old guards
could be replaced with counselors as
they retire, while younger guards all
could be given the opportunity to at
tend sociology and counseling courses.
Davis said, "It doesn't take a high
school education to turn a key, but it
does take a college education and con
cern to turn a man around and put him
on the right path."
In addition to Davis and CRIME,
the workshop included other inmates
trom several institutions across_ the
state who are working with, programs
similar to CRIME.
Two inmates are part of drug re
habilitation commissions in their prisons
which send inmates to speak to high
school and junior high school groups
about drugs.
Talks Effective
They said they believed their talks
were effective because "we've been
there and will tell the truth; you can't
lie to them (young people) anymore.
In another program, an inmate
from the State Correctional Institution
at Camp Hill, speaks to groups about
what jail is like.
Davis said programs like this are
revolutionary in Pennsylvania. Another
Inmate added that the3e progranis open
up the institutions and lead to more
social action'by involving people on the
outside.
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pa., Wednesday Morning, May 19, 1971
pended the practical existence of the
charter and this has been done in a
way which is contrary to the intent of
Senate rules and procedure," Atwater
said in the letter.
He said the suspension of privi
leges interferes with the basic princi
ples of freedom of enquiry on campus,
and thus is not in harmony with basic
University education policy and objec
tives.
Talk To Lawyer
According to Bruce Miller, a mem
ber of HOPS, his counsel advised that
before the group seek an injunction
they talk with University lawyer Del
bert McQuaid, who is inquiring into
the legality
.of HOPS.
"We asked him to meet with the
officers of HOPS to discusS exactly
what the University is investigating
but he said he would not have any
meetings with us," Miller said.
HOPS presently is looking for a
lawyer because their counsel, employed
by the University, could not work for
them: HOPS also is soliciting funds for
the injunction from campus organiza
tions. It will take one to two weeks to
obtain the injunction.
The group presently is meeting at
the Women's Liberation House in State
College. At a meeting tonight, the USG
Senate will vote on a resolution allow
ing HOPS to use University facilities
under USG's name.
Will Reserve Room
USG Senate president pro tempore
Russ Sensing, said if the proposal is
passed, the USG will reserve a room
in the Hetzel Union Building and al
low HOPS to use it.
According to Diane Whitney, the
Colloquy workshops on homosexuality
were successful. "Between 50 and 120
people attended them." she said.
Concerning Gov. Milton J. Shapp's
speech at the University on Friday to
begin the Renaissance Festival, Miss
Whitney said, "He jumped on the
bandwagon. He supported war, women,
and all the things that he knew stu
dents wanted. But when Frank Ka
meny, worker for Gay Liberation, con
fronted Shapp with the HOPS issue,
Shapp didn't say much because he
didn't know the student's feelings."
Members of HOPS also accused
Shapp of backing up the administra
tion although he didn't know what the
administration was doing.
Veterans offered aid for visitors
By MITCHELL CHERNOFF
Collegian Staff Writer
The Penn State Veterans Organiza
tion has been flooded with offers of
food, lodging, and funds for 30 dis
abled veterans coming here this week
end.
The visitors from Valley Forge
Memorial Army Hospital had no place
to stay when the University said no
rooms were available. Since this an
nouncement, offers of help from pri
vate sources have been pouring in.
The veterans will be sleeping at
fraternities during their stay. Seven
fraternities volunteered use of their
houses.
According to Stewart Koontz, a
member of the Veterans Organization
executive committee, at least four peo
ple have offered to house veterans
in their apartments. Koontz said stu
dents have also offered their residence
hall rooms.
Koontz said many stores in town
had expressed their willingness to give
the visitors a 10 to 20 per cent dis
count. Woolworth's has donated deco
rations for planned parties.
Koontz added that "quite a few
Homosexuals
By JIM WIGGINS
Collegian Contributing Editor
In the term used by homosexuals
themselves, the gay subculture at Penn
State has finally "come out." After
years, maybe decades, of hiding and
secrecy, of "staying in the closet,"
homosexuals here have publicly de
clared their existence and are begin
ning to fight for legitimate status with
in the University community.
In past years it was different. The
gay subculture, although very much
present, was visible only to the careful
observer who watched the action in
certain downtown bars or on Old Main
wall late at night.- The message was
more blatantly purveyed by notes
scrawled on toilet stalls in men's rooms
across campus, but for the most part,
gays stayed underground and out of
sight, known only to themselves,
Now, in 1971, three years after
homosexuals at Columbia University
started the first above-ground campus
hdmophile organization in the United
States, gays at Penn State have shed
their cloak of secrecy by founding
The Other Vision: Homophiles of Penn
State. Why their sudden emergence?
' It's part of the spirit of the times."
Homosexuals, like other minorities, are
"sick and tired of getting shoved
around," Frank Kemeny explained.
Governor's Address
Kameny is the man who incurred
the displeasure of two important Penn
sylvanians, Gov. Milton J. Shapp and
University President John W., Oswald,
when he grabbed the podium following
the Governor's address at Old Main
Friday to demand an immediate rever
sal of the University's decision to tem
porarily suspend the HOPS charter
pending an investigation of the organ
ization's legality.
In sharp, angry tones he denounced
Raymond 0. Murphy. acting vice presi
dent for student affairs, as a "be
knighted bigot." and later called him
a "sick man who should be put on
compulsory-sick leave." Murphy is the
man who the gags believe is responsible
for the suspension of the HOPS char
ter, which was obtained through regu
lar channels from the Undergraduate
Student Government Supreme Court
on April 20.
Kameny threatened legal action un
der the First Amendment if the Uni-
Black talent in Schwab
BLACK STUDENTS ASSEMBLED in Schwab last night for a talent show as part of the Black Arts Festival. Th•
festival will continue this week with workshops and black artists, performers and lecturers.
Lettuce boycotters ask support
for protest against University
By JOHN INBAGRAFF
Collegian Senior Reporter
The State College Lettuce Boycott
Committee has been attempting to
gain support for a boycott of lettuce
purchased by the University by leaf
letting in University dining halls this
week.
The University presently is serv
ing lettuce that does not carry the
label of the United Farm Workers
Union which was organized by Cesar
Chavez prior to the grape boycott last
spring, according to Nick Brink, co
organizer of the boycott committee.
In March a moratorium on the
lettuce boycott was called against
those growers who were negotiating
with the farm workers and the Team
sters Union to exact certain conditions
favorable to the farm workers. The
issues under contention had not been
included in a previous contract which
was issued solely by the Teamsters
Union.
However, according to Brink, the
moratorium does not apply to 12 grow
groups have donated beverages."
The Graduate Student Association
contributed $250 last night, to Add to
the S5OO the local American Legion
had donated previously.
Koontz said he thought people
were being so generous because "they
realize the University really isn't help
ing, neither is the state."
The purpose of bringing the vet
erans up here, Koontz continued, "is
to promote the vets getting back to
school."
"We're not interested in the vets
coming to Penn State," Koontz said,
"the idea is to interest them in going
to any school."
The veterans, including some who
are permanently disabled, tentatively
tvill arrive here tomorrow morning.
They will attend a luncheon in the
Hetzel Union Building at which Urn
versity President John W. Oswald may
"say a few words," according to Koontz.
They will tour the State College
area tomorrow afternoon. A dinner
will be held which Oswald and State
College Mayor Chauncy P. Lang will
attend. The dinner is tentatively sched
uled for the Nittany Lion Inn.
versity refused to immediately reinstate
the privileges to which HOPS is en
titled as a regular USG-chartered stu
dent activity, including use of Univer
sity facilities and access to student
activities funds.
Conferred With Oswald
During the harangue, Shapp con
ferred with Oswald in frantic whispers.
Replying, the Governor executed a deft
political put-down and then retreated
into Old Main visibly ruffled, cutting
short a question and answer period.
Stunned, the crowd dispersed quietly.
Kameny and HOPS, it appeared, had
won a tactical victory; they had made
their point.
This sort of confrontation is not
new to Kameny. who, at 46. is an aging
warrior in the Gay Liberation move
ment. A decade ago he founded the
Washington, D.C. chapter of the Mat
tachine Society—the NAACP of homo
sexual civil rights groups—and since
then, as a member of the American
Civil Liberties Union. he has waged a
continuing battle against employment
discrimination of homosexuals by the
Federal government and private indus
try.
Last year he ran for the District
of Columbia congressional scat as a
publically declared homosexual—the
first to his knowledge anywhere in the
world. He lost. but considers his de
feat a victory that will lead to the
"politicalization" of gays.
Harvard draduate
Balding and dressed in a rumpled
business sun. Kameny, who has a doc
torate in astronomy from Harvard. does
not fulfill the lisping. prancing stereo
type that has come to symbolize the
homosexual in American society. The
only clue to his sexual leanings is a
small "Gay is Good - button on his
lapel. He takes credit for coining the
phrase.
Kameny will preach the message
of homosexual equality to any willing
ear. In word choice and delivery, his
style borders on the evangelical.
Interviewed at a HOPS steering
comnittee meeting Saturday night,
Kameny spoke his mind on the new
gay militancy. "People are refusing to
hide, to cringe in corners." he ex
plained. "Homosexuals are first class
people, first class citizens. Homosexu
ality is not an affliction and by God,
we're going to enjoy it."
Kameny takes quick issue with the
ers who refused to participate in the
first contract talk with the Teamsters
Union or in the later negotiations in
which the farm workers were included.
Lettuce Shipment
Last week the University bought a
shipment of lettuce from a grower in
California who is among those who
remain absent from the negotiating
table. Brink said,
He added that the lettuce being
served this week is grown by a corpo
ration which is in the midst of nego
tiations but that the purchase of this
particular shipment was an accident
and not a manifestation of the Univer
sity's recognition of the United Farm
Worker's Union.
According to Brink, leafletting oc
cured at Rec Hall Saturday following
Julian Bond's speech, at the Hetzel
Union Building and dining halls in
Pollock and West Residence hall areas
on Monday. and in the dining halls at
East. North and Simmons Halls yes
terday.
The boycott committee has also pre-
Friday morning is reserved for a
tour of the campus. The veterans will
have the opportunity to visit various
departments they are interested in.
In the afternoon, the visitors will
go to classes with members of the
Penn State Veterans Organization.
"They will sit in on. a few classes
with us." Koontz said, "to see what
it is like."
The veterans also will have the
chance to talk to counselors and_ ad
missions personnel.
There will be a block party for
the guests Friday night 'near' the vet
eran's house on East Nittany Avenue.
Five bands will play continuously from
7 p.m. to midnight. The block party
is associated with the Renaissance
Festival.
Koontz said the Veterans Organiza
tion is trying to find girls to escort
the visitors around during their stay.
"They don't have much chance to talk
to girls at Valley Forge hospital,"
Koontz noted, it would be nice for
them.
Koontz said any individual willing
to help should contact the Penn State
Veterans Organization.
shed s
belief that homosexuals are sick and
in need of psychiatric treatment. Homo
sexuality. he explained, is simply a
preference, in no way inferior to hetero
sexuality. It has been labeled a sick
ness by "bad science" aimed at engi
neering social conformity and by the
"bias. bigotry and ineptitude" of the
psychiatric profession.
"Homosexuals are sick because a
sick society says they are sick," he
said.
Kaineny believes the courts can
be an effective battleground in the war
for homosexual rights, and he has ad
vised HOPS to seek a temporary court
injunction against the University that
would reinstate the organization's
privileges as a chartered student or
ganization. HOPS is presently investi
gating the legal procedure by which
this can be done,
Further, he has suggested that the
homophile group bring a charge of
criminal conspiracy against Murphy
and Oswald for conspiring to deprive
persons of their constitutional rights.
Homophile Organizations
Kameny is convinced the Univer
sity "does not have a legal leg to stand
on" in the HOPS case. He estimated
that between 50 and '75 campuses across
the country have homophile organiza
tions which are completely legal and
enjoy university approval.
As Karneny and HOPS continually
point out, there are no laws in the
state which make it illegal to be a
homosexual. There are laws which pro
hibit certain sex acts between two per
sons—even between man and wife—
but these laws are seldom enforced.
Kemeny discounted the argument
that the University administration—
fearing a ruckus in the state legislature
similar to the one raised last fall when
24-hour visitation in campus residence
halls Was made official—moved against
HOPS with one eye on the upcoming
appropriations fight. "You cannot make
people's rights contingent on the preju
dices of legislators. Rights are rights,
period."
Gay Leaders
Kemeny and other leaders of the
gay movement. Tina Mandel of Daugh
ters of Bilitis, Wayne Steinman of the
Gay Activist Alliance in New York and
Barbara Gettings of the Homophile
Action League in Philadelphia, were in
State College over the weekend to con-
sented University President John W.
Oswald, with a resolution passed by the
Graduate Student Association stating
their support for the purchase of farm
worker's lettuce, Brink said.
Brink said Oswald had given the
resolution to Ralph E. Zilly, vice presi
dent of business, for consideration but
that no actions have been taken as yet.
.He added that a petition is -being cir
culated to members of the University
staff and faculty asking them to voice
their opposition to the purchase of
lettuce without the farm worker's
label by the University.
The boycott committee is not only
calling for the purchase of farm work
ers lettuce but also for the display of
the union label so students will not be
deceived into eating lettuce grown by
corporations who refuse to make con
tract with Chavez's Farm Worker's
Union, Brink said.
Major Tactic
The major tactic that the boycott
committee is using to eliminate non
union lettuce from the dining halls,
according to Brink, is the application
of pressure on the Administration in
the form of resolutions and petitions
issued by various organizations in the
University.
According to. Irwin Weintraub, an
other organizer of the boycott, people
may become tired of continuous boy
cotting especially if a strawberry boy
cotting materializes after the lettuce
boycott.
"In oppressed groups who have no
funds to fight for their rights in court
they have in boycotts a great weapon,"
he said. He added that the boycott can
be used to "awaken the conscience
of industry" and emphasize the diffi
cult conditions under which they are
forced to live.
Brink emphasized the need for
students to become aware of the situ
ation in which the farm workers find
themselves. He said the American pub
lic is willing to send its food surplus to
foreign countries but is unwilling to
pay one more penny to improve the
condition of the farm workers calling
it "America's paradox."
Both Weintraub and Brink said
they would urge students to demand
to see the union label of all lettuce
in the dining halls. They said they
would be glad to express the ideas
of the boycott to any group that
quests such a presentation.
ecrecy
duct Colloquy workshops on homo
sexuality.
Their other reason for being here
was to provide moral support and tac
tical advice to HOPS. now facing its
first major challenge from the Univer
sity administration.
Miss Mandel, co-chairwoman of
the New York chapter of Daughters of
Bilitis, the oldest lesbian organization
in the country, saw Murphy's action as
an attempt by the administration to
shove the HOPS controversy aside,
hoping the organization will fall apart.
Vow Unify
HOPS members vowed this will
not happen. They said HOPS will not
become another Tau Epsilon Phi. (Tau
KAMENY
Epsilon Phi fraternity had its charter
revoked last terra after it initiated a
short-lived coed living program, which
crumbled after 10 weeks).
The HOPS steering committee has
made public its plans to work during
the summer for the establishment of
a Gay Liberation House off-campus.
The house, they said. will be a center
for gay social activities, disc:
about homosexuality and counseling oi
homosexuals.
The latter is necessary, they saie,
because rylrsninel in th.. Un'versity s
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