Editorial Police FRUSTRATION'may lead people into trying impractical,, useless methods to find a way out of a' dilemma. The problems of theft and general security in residence halls certainly is such a dilemma." ' But of residence hall personnel seems to be showing. Beginning this week, residents of Beaver Hall and all East Halls will have security receptionists in their lobbies at night to insure that everyone entering the hall either lives there or is a guest of a resident. .Charles C. Spence, director of residence hall programs, certainly was understating the case when he said “There will be some hassle” concerning student reaction to the new plan/ This new system may decrease,.,.to a small degree, the number of visitation violations. But“‘ it probably will have little effect on the violations which need to be stopped: thefts and “visitation” by Songs that con teach/something Health music' attracts nation's .atten iSFS There’s a new music newer.than Joni Mitchell, American Pie, the Taylor Family, and Mrs. King’s, rock Queen Carole. There’s a new neon-lighted music that makes Janis Joplin seem like just another pretty voice and? makes Frank Zappa the boy next door. This new multi-dimensional music is gaining impetus like the sound of umbilical cords snapping all around the country. In an era of environmental health, health foods and mental health, it’s only natural that there should be Health Music. Music often has been, used as a means toward •health. For'more than twenty years, psychologists have used music as a tool in treatment of mentally handicapped patients. Opera is well-known for its Mad Scenes. And many songs from Deutschland Über Alles to On, Wisconsin have provoked an emotional reaction in their listeners. But now, music is changing its tune. Penn State Studenti Faculty and Staff BAHAMAS Ml lj"°lgL Dnoffliior ACAPULCO HAWAII BERMUDA Sonesta Hotel Holiday Inn"- Meals SAN JUAN JAMAICA Larry Gordon 865-4831 Joel Frankel 865-8285 or call 212-JJB6-4452 215-879-1620 Intercollegiate Holidays Limited Opinion iiiimmiiimimiiiimiijiiiimii State ■persons who have no real business bein| in residence halls. THE BACK DOORS still will be opei alfday. Ncf preventative measures ar planned for the daytime. What is fc prevent a band of male students from taking .a tour of Simmons or McElwai some afternoon? The fact that thieves will have to worl in the daytime only .jnakes their worl more dificult; it will not deter them. Ani what will prevent thefts which occur within one residence hall? In the meantime, residence ha, students, including others who visi them ’frequently, are unnecessaril; inconvenienced. This plan .is not'what i: needed, and further increasing th< receptionists' hours or forminj “daylight patrols” will only compoun< the folly. -i WHAT IS NEEDED is a new approacl to the problem; something short 01 establishing a residence hall police state. It all began about five years ago with Arthur'" Janov’s controversial Primal Scream therapy. • Neurosis, Janov says, is frozen childhood pain. All neuroses are symptoms for releasing that Primal Pain, brought about by unfulfilling childhood ex periences relating to parents. He points to a single cure: The neurotic person must dismantle his defenses and return to where he made the decisions to act out expectations of others rather than his own feelings. Janov’s theory is complex but, briefly, the Primal patient must re-live pain to remove “the -1 , ‘cufse”“in order" to understand his neurotic tensions. Naturally, Mother and Father are an intregal part of the therapy. The Primal J patient is urged to call out his parents and, as he does so, the patient often begins screaming long and sorrowful sobs. This is the Primal Scream. by Rick Mitz -> But now, Primal Scream Mothers and Fathers have found their way to the phonograph. Dr. Janov’s best-known patient is John Lennon, former Beatle. Lennon’s latest two albums underscore his therapeutic involvements. In a song called “Mother,” he musically -writhes ..in - pain-, screaming: “Mother, you had me, but I never had you; I wanted you, but you didn’t want me ... Good byeee.” He ends the album with a short and snappy song to the tune of Three Blind Mice: “My Mum my’s dead; I can’t get it through my head; I can’t explain; so much pain; my Mummy’s dead.” March 26 - April 2 Philadelphia Departure Cheek our low rotes! Call §Sfinformation' " Two new songwriters are writing creatively cathartic music as they revel and reveal through musically “meaningful” experiences. In his album, Lennon has creatively attempted to work out his Mother Thing, yelling at and 'for her at the beginning of the record .... putting her to rest forever at the end. There is a blurred photograph of Lennon as a young boy on the albumfcover. Dory Previn’s musicis of the same genre. When her husband, Andre Previn, left her for Mia o Farrow, Dory’s psyche cracked. She was in stitutionalized. ‘.‘While I was in the hospital,” she has said, “I started writing to get some order out of chaos. What I’ve tried to do is bring the madness out in the open.” And she’s succeeded. Maybe too well. Her three -albums-contain more Mad Songs~than all opera combined. In one song, she reUves“her~four-month long sanitarium experience. But mostly she sings about herjiarents. _ This dedicated to her father: “The telephone rang;_my_sister calling; Dad is dead?; when did it happen?; six a.m. she said; did he ask for me?; what did you say?.; never mind r .. God is kind.” Health Music affects the listener, too. It’s easier to work out” our own problems through someone else’s efforts. And sing along. We can easily play audio voyeurs and eavesdropson”otherrpeople -■ working out their neuroses. And some of ours surely overlap. This Health Music has been called names from Freudian to Fraudulant but it’s a music that can teach us something. Between Previn and Lennon, there are five albums to show for it. Might .just be the perfect gift for your parents’ anniversary. 8 days $155.00 8 days $249.00 8 days $299.00 $266.00 - $280.00 $759.00 $239.00 7ch Bin Bin Pekinger! ‘The Hospital' rti- . I _ _ .; Medical madness By GLENN LOVELL Collegian Film Critic' Of late, the medical profession and its operating rooms have been taking quite a battering in Hollywood cutting rooms. After years of clean-cut interns in TV soap operas, the screen has shifted to the opposite ex treme by presenting the hospital as a bureaucratic nightmare staffed with white frocked lunatics who do more, to invent 1 disorders than cure them. Robert Altman’s “MASH” got in a few well directed jabs at military field clinics before it deflated in conventional slapstick, and Otto Preminger’s “Such Good Friends” managed a few moments of effective satire before deteriorating into mawkish sentimentality. -The most recent movie.to take the pulse of our medical institutions is Arthur Hiller’s “The Hospital,” based on an original script by Paddy Chayesfsky. Filmed on location in New York,hospitals, this is a- sort of one-day-in-th'e-life melodrama about the insanity inherent in our health centers. More specifically, it traces chief surgeon Herb Bock’s (George C. Scott) journey from frustrated indifference to recommitment.- Suffering from what he diagnoses as _ “menopausal melancholia,” Bock is the,, quintessential victim of middle age neuroses. Estranged from his wife and family, fearing impotency, and questioning the importance ”of his work, he..is a prime candidate .for I suicide; and as much an inmate of this | C 111 modern bedjam as he is its overseer. If this plot line • sounds a bit- 'too tragic- and moralistic to be effective satire, that’s because it is. For black comedy to work as social criticism, the-artist must possess the con viction to carry out his absurdities to the end, as did Kubrick in his devastatingly funny “Dr, Strangelove.” Lacking this stubborn singlemindedness, “The Hospital” gains its momentum, from a few well-placed shocks (“If they brought in Jesus Christ fresh off the cross, I couldn’t get him a private room,” explains one intern), and then resolves itself in tame, pro-establishment terms. ROBERT J. McHUGH DRUEHAYDT Editor Business Manager ' Opinions expressed by the editors and staff of The Daily Collegian are not necessarily those of the University Administration, faculty or student body. I. Mail subscription price: $13.00 a year. Mailing Address Box 467, State College, Pa., 16801 Editorial and Business Office Basement of Sackett < North End) ' Phone—B6s-2531 Business office hours: Monday'through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Board of Editors: Managing Editor rD\>ug Struck; Editorial Editor, Paul Schafer; City Editor, Jim Wiggins; Assistant City Editors, Stephanie Foti, Theresa Villa; Copy Editors, Andyßeierle, Tina Hondras. Mary EllertlThompson; Feature EditoTrKaren Carnabucci- Satig (Sollpnran Successor to The Free Lance, est. 1887 Member of the Associated Press Q. Is the Next Door the only place In town to get a hoagle? . A. No, Just the besfl The Next Door (Next door , to Herlochers) "Ski for Cancer” at Oregon Ski Hill - (Sun. March sth) .Snow Queen. Contest Lift Tickets " Raffle 2 pr. Skis. Transportation On jsale this week at Record Room Centre Sports People's Notional Bank 238=9144 All proceeds go to the American Cancer Society New SHRIAAP shipment has arrived ALL YOU CAN EAT 8 -12 PM •i- Mon Thur ,$2.00 NITTANY LODGE Now serving hoagies Jewish, Ham and cheese, roast beef, tunajfish. „ The basic flaw in “Hospital” is Chayesf sky’s talky, over-serious screenplay. At the drop of a scalpel his characters disgress into true-life confessions, and soap floods the corridors. Not really sure of What he is about, Chayesfsky wavers .back and forth between' an indictment of modern society’s-growing insensitivity in the face of= technological progress and a public relations tract for New York hospitals. While theatre audiences might delight in Chayesfsky’s use of the emergency waiting room as a Styx-like underworld where lost souls are “forgotten to death,” this add other contrived metaphors unravel ineffectually on the screen. As in Chayesfsky’s earlier scripts (“Marty,” “The Goddess”), this one _is directed at the ear rather than the eye. But as long as Chayesfsky maintains his status as the author of popular, humanistic kitsch, few commercial minded movie makers will force him to change his old habits, least of all a director as inept and conventional as Arthur,. Hiller. Lacking anything resembling a personal vision r of reality, Hiller seems more than content to photograph someone else’s speeches. As the wizened, gin-swilling Bock, Scott is properly red-eyed' and desperate; but riot even he can rescue this character from Chayesfsky’s gushing, misdirected rhetoric. Like Rod Steiger, Scott is a character actor of awesome potential whose talent must be submitted to the type of stringent discipline that director Hiller is unable to supply.' ...However, Scott’s brilliance as a comedian does occasionally escape as he slips into the foolish grin of boyish guilt-he used to such good effect in “Dr. Strangelove.” After cardboard radicals have-laid seige to the hospital and a patient posing as avenging angel has sacrificed three doctors to the machinery of modern medicine, Bock decides to stay and face the music; and the medical profession survives Hiller- Chayesfsky’s operation with prestige intact. Maybe the Hippocratic Oath has something ‘ appropriate to say about artistic malprac tice. ... .
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