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Jack the Rapper
WHATEVER HAPPENED to
Jack the Rapper?
'ln phis first year as University
president, John W. Oswald acquired
a reputation as a man who might be
seen just about anywhere. He would
rap with students around campus
and hold informal meetings in
residence halls and the Hetzel Union
Building with anyone who cared to
show up. ~ »
Generally,-he was accompanied
by several administrative aides,
including one or both of his student
assistants, positions which were
treated with. much fanfare about
Oswald’s commitment to students.
Oswald presented a striking
picture at these sessions. With his
tie lossened and his jacket thrown
aside, the man' up front answering
questions just didn’t seem like the
president of a major university. At
least, he didn’t act the way students
expected such a man to act Tin turn,- MANY OF-THESE things can be
the students appreciated him. overlooked because Oswald was
THE ATMOSPHERE on campus, recovering from a serious health
particularly among those students ~problem. But that recovery period
who had to deal with the ad- is now over. And Oswald’s reluc-
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Registering to vote
TO THE EDITOR: In 1972,25 million Americans who were too
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Pennsylvania’s voter registration deadline is March 6. We
urge all students to register to vote today
Poorly researched
TO THE EDITOR: This is a'response to Doug Struck’s poorly
researched article on PiRG in the March 1 issue of .-.The
Collegian. First Struck questioned the need for student-funded
professionals and whether or not issues existed here which
warrant professional researching.
As examples of-such-issues:-Oneman distributes every
piece of printed news within a forty mile radius of State
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ministratio.n,« was , brightened
considerably/ And even those
students who eventually came to see
through Oswald’s act and to
discover his main purpose was
more to placate • students than to
listen to them realized that we were
much better off than before.
Then came Oswald’s heart-attack
last June, and things changed.
When he returned to work last fall,
his restricted schedule prohibited
him from doing some of the things
he did in his first year at Penn State.
He appeared, at meetings for an
hour here, an hour.there; rarely did
he work closely witlrstudentsirrthe
way he had .previously.
Soon- only students in high
positi'ons and politicos saw him with
any regularity. And very quietly
original student assistants, were
never replaced.
Sen. Hugh Scott (R-Pa.)
Sen. Richard Schweiker (D.Pa.)
. Washington, D.C.
East College at Garner
IT’S HARD TO escape the con
clusion that Oswald has not restored
the raps because he realizes by now
that ignoring the students probably,
will not cause them to arise in
violent revolt. But if he’s sincere
about helping Penn State, perhaps
he should give some thought' to the
other valid reasons for talking with
students.
the Editor
near monopoly and needs to be investigated. Secondly, three
-professors have left or will be leavingthis University “as - a
result of political hiring and firing by the administration since
Fall Term a practice surely deserving professional
scrutiny. Thirdly, the number of law suits against area
apartments, and the condition of some of these buildings
which are - blatantly violating building specifications arid
safety codes seem to indicate that public action is needed in
that area also. These actions could be undertaken by PIRG
professionals. . .
As for the professionals having “comfortable, continuous
"jobs,” if you would take the time to familiarize yourself with
any of the existing PIRG groups you would discover that these
people work for minimal salaries at jobs requiring a
tremendous amount of dedication. Their areas of concern are
also chosen directly by students. Certainly such work is
neither comfortable nor indefinitely continuous.
If you can hire people without money, then perhaps the
horse does proceed the cart. But perhaps you should learn the
facts before you attempt to report them. That, or confine your
opinions to bathroom walls. Jf. you’ll extend your 30 lines per
letter limit to'-twice that length, I’ll do you the favor of
documenting this whole bloody letter.
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tance to renew old techniques
becomes doubly serious because his
raps, had become symbolic of an
administration that for whatever
reasons had decided to com
municate with students. Oswald has
stopped this, and so has the rest of
the administration.-^
The result is that students how are
little better off than they were under
the Eric Walker -administration.
Very little communication is going
on; instead, this has become a
period of confrontation. The HOPS
situation is just one example of this,
and of the administration’s refusal
even to justify its actions to
students."
John David McCall
(Bth-English-Philadelphia)
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'Pocket Money'
Good idea gone astray
ByGLENN LOVELL
• Collegian Film Critic
“Pocket Money,” a non-violent, modern
day Western put together with’plenty of spit
and no'polish by director Stuart Rosenberg, is
an admirable idea gone astray. Few would
argue against the need for an alternative to
the apocalytic; over-serious visions Kubrick,
Peckinpah and Seigel have given us recen
tly; unfortunately, “Pocket Money” does not
fit the bill. >
Over-reacting to the present popularity of
screen mayhem, and cardful not to estrange
that heterogeneous mass known as the
family audience, Rosenberg has put together
a lower than Mow key comedy about two
dolting, down and out cowboys looking for a
break in their endless string of bad luck. Set
in the dry Southwest, it chronicles the trials
and tribulations of rounders Jim Kane (Paul
NewmaniandLeonardtLeeMarvin ras they
attempt to fill a contract for rodeo steers in
Mexico.
Running into obstacle after obstacle while
bartering with uncooperative cattle owners,
they humorously disprove all axioms about
American business ingenuity. After the
cattle have been bought and delivered the
two discover they have been swindled by a
none too reputable Northern buyer (Strother
Martin).
With this uninspired, skeleton script by
Terry Malick and some obtrusive, hazy
photography by Laslo Kovacs, this tale is not
even occasionally diverting. It is casual to
the point of. being lifeless, causing the most
peaceloving movie-goer to fantasize about
something as passe as a climactic con
frontation. Bypassing every opportunity to
depict the bawdy, picaresque lifestyle of the
contemporary cowboy v “Pocket Money”
instead, opts for a colorless series of semi
improvisational skits, some embarassingly
belabored gags, and that perfunctory
romantic promenade into the"setting~sun
which Newman has been making ever since
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”
Espousing homilies and guffawing end-
9aUy ©oUroian
ROBERTJ. McHUGH
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Friday-Sunday, March 3-5
Friday, March 3 Folklore Society' concert by Doc Watson and son, Merle, 8 p.m.
Schwab. ■ ’
Saturday,.March 4. Artists Series program by the Vienna Symphony‘Orchestra.
8:30 p.m,,_Rec Hall. « . .
Saturday, March 4 Basketball, vs. Rutgers, 2 p.m., Rec Hall.
Saturday, March 4 —.Women’s fencing, vs. Trenton State College, Goucher, and
. Cornell, 10a.m.; bowling vs. Cornell, noon; gymnastics vs. Towson State, 2 p.m ••
all in White Building.
Sunday, March 5 University Chapel Service, 11 a.m., Music Building recital hall
Dr. Rustum Roy, Materials, Research Laboratory director.
' Friday, March 3 WPSX-TV, Channel 3 “Film Odyssey” series, 8:30 p.m.,
Steps,” 1935 Alfred Hitchcock classic of suspense. ’
Friday-Saturday, March 3-4 Student SF film, “Village „of the Damned ” with
George Sanders, 7 and 8:30 and 10 p.m., HUB assembly room.
Sunday, March 5 UUB "Nickleodeon Nights,” 7 and 9 p.m., HUB assembly room
Friday, March 3 Informal seminar by Dr. Richmond Lattimore, Bryn Mawr
retired professor of Greek, on “Problems of Translating Homer,” 11:10 a m
Room-1-Sparks. ■' " ” ”
INTEREST GROUPS -
Saturday, March 4 Ice Hockey Club, 4:30 p.m., Ice Rink; game with Duquesne
Saturday, March 4—Table Tennis Club, 1-5 p.m., White Building.
Sunday, March 5 Interlandia Folk Dance, 7 p.m., HUB ballroom.
Sunday, March 5 Free University organization meeting for “Festival of Life”
program, 7 p.m., Room S-207 Human Development.
Chambers Gallery Drawings and paintings of Cynthias Bauer and clay art works
<g[ Toshiko Fukuyama.
Arts Building Photos of Kathie Shaw.
HUB Gallery Sculptures of Robert Sibbison, assistant professor of art
Visual Arts Building—Sculptures of Robert Walker, M.F.A. candidate in art
Pattee Library ‘ ‘Penn State Debate since 1898, ’ ’ Main Lobby '
Kern Graduate Building Beginning March 5, “Cityscapes” of Vijay Kumar
lessly, Jim and Leonard are without the
spirited rebellion which could have given this
film some much needed life.' They converse
about their experiences with the opposite sex
in a literal,, occasionally philosophical
„ manner as if the production code had its ear
to the wall.
As the slow-thinking, gullible Jim Kane
(known for some unexplained reason as the
“Chihuahua Express.”), Newman gives vent
to his flairing temper by assaulting a variety
of inanimate objects. Kicking cars and
garbage cans, he goes out of his way to avoid
any violent incidents and is in many ways a
refreshing rarity in this age of pushy, amoral
heroes Q This pacifity provides a nice moment'
when he is forced to-grapple with a drunk
Mexican; the encounter has all the clumsy"
spontaneity lacking in most choreographed
fights.
R6senberg:s„handling_of_his-actors is
completely undisciplined. -He allows
Newman and Marvin to get away with some
of the most mannered, self-conscious
mugging I can remember in recent film.
Both shamelessly overact like a couple, of
amateurs in center stage for the first time,
trying to upstage each other. As usual,
Strother Martin’s character portrayal steals
. the show. His nervous, sloth-like manner as
the crooked cattle speculator continues to
reflect his forte for a fascinating blend of
corruption and greasy vulnerability.
Carole’ King’s theme song is melodic and
pleasing to the ear even if it is used in all the
wrong places to bolster the waning action.
But Alex North’s score, like the: rest of the
film, is uninspired and eclectic. Why he uses
Dixieland music to accompany the- cattle
drive is anyone’s guess; a Scottish jig would
have been just as appropriate.
It is more than obvious that good film
making need not be synonymous with ex
traordinary heroics or dramatic hystrionics;
but nor does it mean the boredom - and
- careless artlessness Rosenberg has given us.
If the trend toward “clean,” non-violent
entertainment means more slipshod films'
like “Pocket Money,” please pass the trash.
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