Writer John Brunner speaks
God appears on
By RICH GRANT
Collegian Senior Editor
God appeared on campus Thursday night, performing his
poetry, warning his audience in South Human Development
that "we HAVE got to set our planetary house in order,”
showing off his interdisciplinary omniscience
What more could one ask from John Brunner, the English
poet and w riter of science fiction? That he has the enthusiasm
of Graham Kerr and the authority of God?
"The main ingredient of the mix is me,” Brunner said. I
DETEST being categorize 1 ”
Brunner, the poet, launched into verbal pyrotechnics, giving
each word its own vibration and form
He tossed off parodies of poetry by Kipling, Sandburg and
others, speaking in Middle English, his accent changing. The
parodies served as introductions to chapters in his newest
novel, "The Sheep Look Up ”
He read his poem about children literally driven mad by the
fighting in Ireland
"If anybody has been wondering why I have been so
pessimistic in my work, it is because of the nature of the times
we live in." Brunner said. 'T wish the world was furnishing
something more ENCOURAGING, more optimistic for my
material.”
Brunner's best known work is "Stand on Zanzibar,” a novel
dealing with the population explosion which won him the 1969
Hugo Award for best novel Hugos are awarded by science
fiction readers at conventions
Set m the 21st century, with several billion humans alive,
the novel tells "What it's like to live in a huge hive that has its
own kind of hysteria and bursting point,” according to Philip
Klass. associate professor of English and writer of science
fiction under the name of William Tenn.
Brunner has written about 60 other works, mainly science
fiction, including general fiction, spy thrillers and two
\olumes of poetry
"I'm a writer,” Brunner said at a press conference earlier
that day. "to have attempted a much wider range of material
gives me a wider choice of tools ”
Later, he stated, "What would happen when ALL science
fiction writers felt the way I do'’ It would HASTEN the
crumbling of the artificial barriers between science fiction
and literature."
Brunner treats his creativity like an investor, learning new
skills, trying new angles, waiting out the low's, constantly
exercising, constantly.
"Writing is ALMOST a job that never stops,” Brunner said.
"From breakfast to bedtime, feeling, seeing, walking may
give you ideas ”
COP concerned
By TANVA McCLURE
and MITCH CHERNOFF
of the Collegian Staff
A Faculty Advisory
Committee has been formed
to improve instruction and
advising at the Com
monwealth Campuses.
At a Council of Presidents
meeting Saturday. Dean of
Academic Instruction for
Commonwealth Campuses
Bob Quinn said the new ad
vising system "should be
running by next fall, and will
provide “as high quality
advising as possible.”
The committee was formed
because many of the Com
monwealth Campus Student
Government Association
presidents said they felt
students at their campuses
are not getting proper
guidance from advisers.
Hazelton SGA President
Bob Henry complained that
some of the Hazelton students
didn't have advisers. Ogontz
President Joe Kaplan added
some advisers were unwilling
to advise students
Quinn said the SGA's could
take these problems to the
faculty member on the ad
visory committee. He added
the committee will compare
new ways to teach courses.
They also are redoing course
television tapes over which
'Brecht on Brecht' set
The Department of Theater Loneliest Afternoon of the
Arts' Experimental Theatre Year."
will present two per- Tickets are required for
formances of “Brecht on both performances, although
Brecht" today and tomorrow admission is free. Tickets can
at 8 p.m in the Pavilion. be obtained at the Playhouse
The production consists of jj 0X office from Ito 6 p.m. or
six characters taking parts in at th e p av jijon at 7 p.m but
renderings of the German on jy on the same d a y 0 f the
writer's song and prose. . nerfnrman „ p There are no
Jerrv James, a master of performance. mere are o
fine arts candidate whtr telephone reservations
directed ‘‘The Overland
Rooms" tor Five O’clock
Theater, will direct the
production. James has
directed two plays for the
Kern Graduate Center,
“Botticelli" and “The
students will have veto
Director of Student Ac
tivities Mel Klein told the
Council his office presently is
looking for a Leadership
Development and
Educational Program
Specialist to help with the
developmental needs of
organizations on this campus.
Klein said the person
selected for the job will deal
with building effective
communication skills, con
flicts within an organization
and integrating new officers
in the organization.
Klein added that the tickets to Commonwealth
specialist will serve as “a Campus students. Many of
resource person for student the Commonwealth Campus
organizations and for the students said that it was
professional staff of Student difficult to obtain tickets
Activities." away from the University and
He said upon hiring this said they felt that a certain
person, a leadership con- number of tickets should be
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And: "There are no problems of ideas for a writer. There is
only a problem of expression. I am lucky I have a well
developed conscience which will ONLY present me an idea
when there is a form for it.’’
That night, Brunner’s inner confidence appeared as
arrogance. After he performed his poems, he answered
questions from the audience, instantly, elegantly, a British
version of the Shell Answer Man.
T feel that we are the species which could take control of
our destiny, but we haven’t measured the consequence of our
own meddling,’’ Brunner said. 1
"No other creature has the ability to realize what never
happened and make it happen,” he told his audience.
Maybe Brunner wasn’t God. Maybe he didn’t even own the
planet But, for a while there, it felt like it.
about adv
will be held under the
direction of this person to
teach them how to run their
student governments more
effectively and to improve
communications.
The Council elected a
student to the Academic
Advisory Board for Un
dergraduate Studies Ann
Reveria, from Delaware
Campus, was elected to the
board which evaluates
alternative means of
education such as internships
and small group instruction
The Council also discussed
the availability of concert
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Commonwealth Campuses.
The argument against this
was that money from
Associated Student Activities
is given to University Park
for University students only.
The Council presidents plan
to talk to the Concert Com
mittee to obtain a certain
percentage of tickets from
each concert for Com
monwealth Campus students.
SGA ’ President from
Behrend Walker Moore
suggested a committee to
investigate the funding of the
University since many of the
Commonwealth Campuses
said they felt they weren’t
receiving enough money. An
ad hoc committee was set up
and will work with the Un
dergraduate Student
Government.
Discrepancies in
By BETH NISSLEY
Collegian Staff Writer
Many discrepancies
surround the assault and
battery charge filed by
William G. Snyder, student
patrolman, against James
Lomax, University Concert
Committee member and
Black Caucus chairman.
The charge was filed
Thursday after an incident at
the West, Bruce and Laing
concert Nov. 11.
The charge claimed that
Lomax attempted to enter
Uec Hall without a concert
ticket or written authori
zation, pushed Snyder to the
floor, tore his uniform jacket,
inflicted a two and one half
inch scratch on his right wrist
and threatened him with a
wooden board from the
handles of a set of doors.
Lomax denied the charges
and said he plans to hire an
attorney for his hearing
Friday at which he said he
will enter a plea of not guilty.
Lomax claimed that he tore
Snyder’s jacket accidentally
as he reached out to steady
himself after Snyder had
pushed him. He said he
picked up a small wooden
doorstop in self-defense after
another student patrolman
tried to hit him with a
flashlight.
“They never bothered to
ask me for the two tickets or
identification I had,” Lomax
said. “Finally, the officer
whose jacket I tore (Snyder)
entered the door with me and
was with me when I 'found
Mike Shields (Undergraduate
Student Government
president) who verified my
identity,” he added.
Snyder said Lomax’s story
in the Nov 17 Daily Collegian
had a “lot of fallacies in it.
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just know he’s the president
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“I never talked with him and
wouldn’t recognize him if I
saw him.”
Snyder claimed he finally
let Lomax enter the door
because it “was just easier to
let him get in than stand there
arguing. So Lomax and Lutz
went to find one of the
sergeants or corporals while I
stayed at the door,” he said.
“Once inside they met up
with Corporal (Andrew)
Spisak. Perhaps there they
talked to Shields, but I can’t
personally say because I
don’t know,” Snyder said.
Clifford Lutz, another
student patrolman, also
claimed it was he and not
Snyder who entered the door
with Lomax “Together
Lomax and I found Corporal
Spisak,” he said.
Spisak told The Collegian
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which officer I talked to. It’s a
closed matter and I can’t
make any statements until
after the investigation,” he
said
Lt Kirk Trate, commander
of Student Patrol, said,
“From the reports I saw I
couldn’t determine which one
went in, although I do recall
that one ol the officers did go
in with Lomax.”
Shields said he was inside
the front entrance and saw
Lomax engaged in some kind
of debate “Lomax asked me
to identify him and I did. The
officers were saying he had
just rushed in without a
ticket, so 1 told them he was
on the concert committee and
reassured them that he didn’t
need a ticket,” he said.
“I wasn't even aware of
anything that had happened,
like a tom uniform, but
The Daily Collegian Monday, November 20, 1972—1
assault case
realized that it was a very
hostile situation,” he said.
“My part in the affair was
really only identifying
Lomax.”
Shields said he didn’t know
which officers were with
Lomax when he met them,
but added that they knew
him
A State College man who
wished to be unidentified told
The Collegian that he saw the
incident between Lomax and
the police
“The two officers were the
most abrupt rude bastards I
ever saw I was playing
paddleball with my nine-year
old son at the time and they
wouldn’t even let us through
to get a drink,” he said He
further described the officers
as “bitter ”
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to get in They got him
started He does have a
temper,” the man said. He
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to do "They ought to get rid
of the other guy," he said
He said Lomax was not the
only one treated rudely and
said people going up to the
door were treated with “no
tact whatsoever "
He said that when the band
finally arrived the officers
refused to help them find the
dressing room "They
wouldn't even give the band
the time of dav "
He said "shoving" began
when Lomax attempted to
enter and was grabbed by the
officer He said he saw
shoving but that no one, as far
as he could tell, hit anyone
else
He said Lomax's account
published previously in the
Collegian coincided with what
he saw
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