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For most people the word
"meditation" conjures up visions of
bearded gurus hunched in caves, waiting
for enlightenment. We hear promises of
paradise, nirvana, and eternal peace
from Eastern mouths, but what does all
this mean to us Westerners who are still
floundering in the work-a-day world of
calendars and telephone bills?
Many Eastern mystics speak of a
dedication which requires twenty years
of soul-searching before self realization
comes. The Western mind refuses to
wait that long. It is not so much that we
want enlightenment any less than our
Eastern neighbors, it's only that we want
it now, like this afternoon, if possible.
One Ea i sterner has made an attempt to
scale those spiritual aspirations down to
Western standards.
The story goes that some years ago an
Eastern mystic came down from the
Mountains with a plan "to achieve the
spiritual goals of mankind" and correct
"all behavior which brings sadness to
the Family of Man." The answer was a
simplE, natural method of dissolving
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Peddling his spiritual wares in a highly
skeptical America, The Maharishi,
nonetheless, achieved a following that
spanned the nation from Haight-Ashbury
to the homes of the very rich in New
York. His promise was that if one would
meditate twice a day, for twenty minutes
each time, between five and eight years
later they would reach the state of
Cosmic Consciousness, in which a
person is operating at his fullest
potential, living and loving life to the
fullest.
As one of 16 Penn State students who
recently completed a course in Tran
scendental Meditation, I think I can draw
a few conclusions from my brief ex
perience with T.M.
I have - been meditating twice a day for
six day's and, yes, I do feel that some
sort of change has come over me. I feel
more energetic and I believe my con
centration has sharpened. I find that I
can stay at my typewriter longer and,
although my editor may disagree, I feel I
am writing more clearly and cleanly than
before.
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Letters
Wounded Knee
TO THE EDITOR: Too often a nation searches for stability
and comfort as the easier means to attaining longevity; the
ideals of truth and understanding usually fade with time; the
culture begins to lack unity and purpose; and the people grow
complacent and mindless in purpose. In effect, the flower wilts
because there is no ground to stand upon.
It was said in a letter to this paper April 5 that the Indian
uprising at Wounded Knee is not only a-"national disgrace" but
an example of a serious societal malady. Perhaps he is right in
his analysis but a malady of this nature is deemed evil because
it is an open threat to the pride, status or stability of society.
In contrast, the forces that constantly mold and remodel
society, but cannot be seen or directly confronted, are of
usually little consequence to its people. Consequently, the
people see change but no cause conflict but no goal; so,
repress the open, visual confrontation, and the problem is in
some measure alleviated.
This has been past means of control, effective in that fear of
reprisal is an important human function. But there are points
of tolerance also a point in which fear within the individual
becomes secondary to cause. If the channels are not available
or effective, the individual either attempts some form of action
or is personally, mentally subjugated.
At Wounded Knee a group of men have stood against a force
they know to be far more powerful in guns than their small
band. Their forefathers realized this more than a century ago.
That small group has presented themselves with guns instead
of words or pieces of paper in an attempt for government
action to meet their needs.
In our familiar perspective we look little at purposes and
reasons and react only to violent action or threat. Some look
at this as a strength and the "humanitarian" search for un
derlying causes as a weakness for society. I cannot feel or
think this way. It is strength to look closer and attempt to
I know of no other major changes
which could have influenced my life in
the last week. This would lead me to
believe that this is either a coincidence
of insane proportions or that maybe
there really is something to this
meditation business.
Six days experience with T.M. is not
enough. I feel I have only scratched the
surface. The real test will be my feelings
on T.M. in five months or five years.
If I have the discipline and desire to
continue meditating twice a day for the
next 1,800 days and I actually do achieve
a state of Cosmic Consciousness, then I
will have a judgement to make. Until
then, I am only a lowly newspaper
reporter fascinated with a new in
tellectual exercise.
I have no plans for sainthood in the
future, certainly not in the next five
years, but, just as the teachings of T.M.
suggest, I plan to let whatever happens
happen.
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Tickets:
I hope there isn't a statute on the
books that says State College can
repossess my car after I've gotten six or
seven hundred parking tickets.
If so, poor Horace is in trouble.
It's amazing. To park downtown for
any length of time, or any number of
consecutive days, requires either a
fortune in change for those omnipotent
meters (I think they're considering
putting one in my garage), or that the
driver be very brave and willing to take
the chance he will never see his car
again.
State College has it down to a science.
The tickets themselves are com
puterized, with four copies made of
each; one to the victim, one to the police
and two to the FBI. And local policemen
compete with each other for the shortest
time spent at any vehicle. The record is
four seconds. That officer was
disqualified, however, when it was
discovered the car he ticketed was a
chronic repeater, and that he had,
through habit, written out the ticket the
day before.
Exaggerations aside, it is becoming
financially unfeasible to park any closer
to campus than Harrisburg.
I, you see, am an engineer. Thus, to
avoid an infinite march to Hammond
from parking lot 80, for which (ha!) they
try to get me to pay $lO each term, I seek
out spots in town.
As you might imagine, as an engineer,
I am basically an unobtrusive guy; I
don't give anyone any trouble. But I must
resent any conspiracy on the part of
understand; even though the knowledge of understanding
diminishes the impulse to control or overpower. The dominant
force often stands the chance of losing something in the
process, something America is unacquainted with.
We must live today with the effects of the past. For one, we
have succeeded in destroying the way of life of a people; first,
in separating the Indian from their land, then from their
culture.
The issue is not the disgrace of a nation for we have
realistically little pride to lose. We shall no longer gain it in
conquest either; the world now looks for leadership, not blind
power and control.
Intellectual seed
TO THE EDITOR: Realizing that this Spring Term will be the
culmination of a grand undergraduate experience at the
Pennsylvania State University, I feel it incumbent upon myself
(being a political science major) to assist in the articulation of
public opinion central to the experience (I would hope) of every
student at the University Park campus.
In an attempt to assert our political potency upon what I
perceive to be an oppressive state of affairs, let us resolve to
clear the atmosphere of the obfuscating fog of absurdity that
rolls in from Harrisburg.
With the Pennsylvania state legislature's most recent at
tempt at legislation intended to interrupt us, I lift my voice to
the soaring cry of others in studentdom and wait in all the
aridity for another grand tutor and a revised new syllabus.
Surely someone will come to point the way past the en
compassing insanity clause at the bottom of the contract we
apparently have with the Harrisburg Hasslers' Fog Factory.
Lest anyone think this letter a mere gesture in
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Engineer can't escape police;
Horace may face impoundment
State College and the PSU Security
Patrol to destroy me.
I used to park Horace in lot 80, until I
got a . ticket for some obscure violation
and found I was consistently late for
class by three or, on bad days, four
periods.
So I moved to a convenient lot hidden
near the engineering buildings (having
stumbled upon it one day, hopelessly
lost), and was happily secure for a total
of two hours. Then, remembering my
crime at lot 80, the Patrol caught me
again, indignant, that I- should hijack a
place reserved for a professor, who most
likely was out of town on lecture
anyway.
I need not detail the punishment
decreed upon students who have three or
more campus tickets all future in
come is heavily taxed, and the death of
the first-born is decreed.
The final step was to Burrowes Street,
whose guardians cleverly let me park
there free for a full month before sud
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PATRICIA J. STEWART
Editor
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Business Office hours: Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tom Berwager
[l2th-community
development]
UNIVERSITY
Wednesday, April
SPECIAL EVENTS
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Jan Bialostocki, visiting fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, on
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denly striking with a barrage of computer
tickets.
That did it. I had just paid the rent and
spent my life savings on books, so seven
two-dollar tickets meant I wouldn't eat
for the next three weeks.
But that's not the worst of it. I had told
my roommate, a Kent State veteran, of
the advantages of parking on Burrowes
Street, and he agreed to try it, since he
had classes in Willard.
He, of course, was struck down too,
and proceeded to sack my closet and
siphon the gas out of Horace. He then
threatened to slice off the top of every
parking meter in the county.
So, the only warning I can offer is
this: if these unfair ticketing policies
continue, if the town and campus insist
on depriving needy students of parking
space, the city fathers should prepare for
the day when they won't have Horace to
kick around any more.
Successor to the Free Lance, est. 1887
Member of the Associated Press
Office: 126 Carnegie
facetiousness, consider the possible implications. If the state
declares fornication between unmarried adults (read students
here) to be illegal, is it not conceivable (oops!) that the state
may also attempt to prevent the University from disseminating
contraceptive devices to these same unmarried students? The
possibility is clear then that the state has acted to complete a
most unsatisfactory act.
My hope, finally is that this short statement on my part
deposits some intellectual seed for the creation of an in
telligent intercourse of thought in this student body.
ERA gives choice
TO THE EDITOR: In response to the article on Tuesday April
17, 1973 concerning the Equal Rights Amendment, it is ap
parent that Ms. Davison is also attempting to determine the
destiny of American women by opposing this amendment.
Davison states that if the bill is passed the "wife must take on
financial responsibility for the family." Actually, this bill
provides equal opportunity for a woman if and only if she
chooses to take on this responsibility. Davison has no right to
deny another Woman of making her own choice and granting
her an equal chance if she decides to go out into the "man's
world."
Davison also believes that the "masculine role as guider,
protector, and provider, be preserved." Women certainly
possess these qualities also, so why must we continue to
protect the masculine ego and psychological stability? We
think it due time that 52 per cent of the nation's population be
granted equal opportunities!
Karen I. Malessa
(12th—health, recreation and physical education]
CALENDAR
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Come to think of it, neither will I
JOHN J. TODD
Business Manager
Herbert A. Rainbird
[l2th-political science]
Kathryn R. Heidt
[6th—art history]
18, 1973
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