Editorial opinion
Don't hibernate
The pink slips are out. That's
usually a shock. If you are like
most students, you probably have
been living day to day, trying to
raise those C's to B's in the 10th
week. But pink slips are a definite,
omen that there will be a Winter
Term.
During the term break you are
going to have more-time to think
about it while getting reacquainted
with your family and eating turkey
and whatever else you do.
This term break, relax. But don't
hibernate Winter Term. Winter is
follow-up time. Marty things will be
happening that will affect you;
many things could happen that will
help you.
A lot of projects have been
started. A lot of promises have
been made.
Penn State appropriations are
still being held up in the House-
Senate conference committee.
While the University pays $5,000
interest each day on money it has
borrowed to meet payrolls, Rep.
Jack Seltzer stubbornly refuses to
compromise.
The University has pretented
a plan to centralize all faculty
tenure and promotion policies un
der University President John W.
Oswald. Jan. 1 is the proposed im
plementation date. This op
portunistic power-grab is two
pronged: axing faculty when the"
University budget is cut and
destroying any hope of a faculty
union.
After ,thinking it over the
trustee selection committee
decided that the brightest and best
Reorganizing the University
By JOHN A. JOHNSON
7th-psychology and biology
Is the Pennsylvania State University
actually an institute for higher learning?
After studying this question for over two
years. I have come to the conclusion that
the potential for higher learning is there,
but right now the University is a mesh.
This university is the most mixed-up
hodgepodge of philosophies, goals,
purposes and lifestyles I have ever seen.
According to the University Bulletin,
the purpose of the resident education
Collegitm forum
program is "to guide each undergraduate
student toward achieving a mature and
Well-balanced personality." However,
the prime purpose of the University is
stated as serving "the interests of the
Commonwealth and the nation."
Perhaps it is my fault tors selecting a
state university, but when I entered
school I never intended to sell my soul to
servitude. I would have attended a
training school if I wanted to do tkiat. I
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Behind THE TRAIN STATION
had not applied to fill Benson
Lichtig's position as the only
student on the Board of Trustees,
The new deadline for applicants
was Wednesday; a new deadline
for choosing nominees is needed.
The "Greetings" letter in your
mailbox will not be from Selective
Service, but from the County Com
missioners. They put you on the
tax rolls because you are a
resident of the county. However, if
your income is under $l,BOO, you
can get a tax exoneration form
from the borough tax collector or
USG.
On Tuesday students helped
elect a Democratic mayor and a
Democratic majority on the
Borough Council. In general,
students supported candidates
who favored using revenue
sharing funds for social services,
and creating a publicly-owned
mass transit system, a consumer
protection agency and ordinances
(if not state laws) on landlord
tenant relations.
All of these issues will have to be
nurtured. If you go back to your
studies, they may end up tabled or
committeed.
State College will soon make a
decision on whether to join a mass
transit system. It depends on
where the money comes from and
who else joins. Push it. The alter
native is Fullington.
This fait the demand for bike
racks and bike paths escalated.
Local officials were looking into the
problem. Are they finished?
At a Senate subcommittee
came here with the intention to learn
because I love learning.
• My idea of a university as an institute
for higher learning is not a factory for
turning out useful citizens. If one is
serious about learning and learns for
learning's sake at a quality university, he
will become a useful citizen. In fact, he
will become a better citizen than the
student who is merely, after a degree and
a job, for he wilt haie learned the true
meaning of citizenship.
That's assuming he attends a quality
university, of course.
If I had the opportunity to change the
Pennsylvania •State University into a
quality institute for higher learning, I
would have to make some drastic
changes. Understand that this is only an
idealization, because things like state
money, power politics and the like
wouldn't atiow for it, but here goes.,
The first step is to remove six
extraneous colleges and merge the other
four into one. The Colleges of Arts and
Architecture, Earth and Mineral
Sciences, the Liberal Arts, and Science
would be made one college and be
renamed the College of Arts, Liberal Arts
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hearing, OTIS President Bruce
Kelly testified that housing
problems exist downtown
"code violations, security
deposits, needed repairs,
sublease-assignment difficulties,
furniture, lease units not being
completed in time for tenant oc
cupancy."
What will prevent Senate Bill
1079 a bill increasing tenant
rights from being defeated by
landlords andtheir lawyers? Your
constant support.
For weeks, the financial state
of On Drugs, Inc. has become diz
zyingly complicated. Winter is the
time to get the full story. If OD
needs the funds, it should get
them.
With rising prices, the need
for the proposed OTIS food co-op
is as G evident as your empty
refrigerator. The Unviersity ad
ministration is taking its time
checking out every possible angle
of the operation. Don't let the co
op disappear insidepld Main.
Two out of three isn't bad?
The Ritenour Advisory Board has
begun to meet. The Shields Ad
visory Board has been organized.
But USG has not "Convinced the
University that a Safety Advisory
Board is needed. Try harder.
Colloquy, now an all-year
program organizer, has succeeded
twice at getting speakers on the
spur of the moment, once with
science-fiction writers and most
recently with Congressman Don
Riegle. Are they ready for winter?
Are you ready for Winter?
and Sciences. The College would award
one degree, a Bachelor of Arts and
Sciences degree.
A student who understands the
philosophy of the new university would
naturally choose courses in all areas of
the arts, humanities and sciences, for he
is learning for learning's sake. The
inevitable result is a"mature and well
balanced personality." Of course there
would be no required courses; they are
all equally important and relevant.
Perhaps it might take a few extra years to
master all these areas of study, but that
doesn't matter. Learning is fun, isn't it?
Four colleges were thrown out
because they are more career-oriented
than learning-oriented. They are the
Colleges of Agriculture, Business
Administration, Education, ' and
Engineering. I don't like to be mean, but
when's the last time you saw a business
administration student really getting
irvolved in his OBA homework because
he loved OBA for its own sake? Ail of
these colleges can go off somewhere
and form an institute for higher training.
The two other colleges are enigmas to
me. I know that quite a few people in
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TO THE EDITOR: After reading the letter by Joan
Schweinsberger in the Oct. 29 issue of The Daily Collegian, I
realized I was not alone in my feelings about the USG Senate.
I was the author of the bill that was Introduced in the USG
Senate Oct. 8 urging impeachment of a criminal from the office
of the Presidency. I was there when it was killed in committee
and when it was refused debate.
Some of the reasons given by members of the USG Senate
for refusing to act responsiblyim this issue:
"I'm a registered Republicarf,',, and I'm afraid that if this
passes it might hurt the chances of Republican candidates
running somewhere."
"It might rub the legislators in Harrisburg the wrong way."
"It's not our problem, none of our business:"
Two weeks later, that same bill was made as inoffensive as
possible, sponsored by tour less than a majority and passed.
Then I heard, "Lookee, we're not phony liberals after all."
It seems that the USG Senate refused to take a stand until it
was individually expedient for each member to do so.
I think a major educatioilal_effort is needed to show the
students at this school what a - Ntorthless, spineless, pack of
apathetic people make up the overwhelming majority of that
sickeningly irresponsible - body bf fair weather liberal
apologists known as the USG Senate.
It is high time the USG Senate acted responsibly as the voice
Of the student body.
After the Oct. 8 USG Senate meeting, I knew fun well what
was meant by the Students' Rights Party's last year's slogan
"Let's kick out the country club." •
This year let's get together and do it!
Like World War 1
TO THE EDITOR: The whirlwind of events presently
developing in the Mideast reminds one of the events
preceeding World War I whose conclusion is recalled on
November 11.
There was this Serbian secret society called the Black
Hand—fiercely nationalistic and terrorist. It wanted Serbia out
of the Austrian empire. So when Archduke Ferdinand, the heir
to the Austrian throne, comes to Sarajeoo in Serbia on a state
visit, the Black Hand shoots him dead along with his wite,
Sophie, as they drive through the streets in an open car.
The German Kaiser promised to support Austria against
Serbia, then promptly leaves for a holiday on his yacht—where
he can't be reached. No radio in those days.
in the meantime, Austria bombs the city of Belgrade in
Serbia. This angers the Russians who, as Slays, have a natural
affinity with the Slays of Serbia. The Russian czar orders
mobilization of the Russian army.
human development don't know what's
going on either, especially after they
graduate. Perhaps they should Join up
with the recreation andyarks people and
the sociology department (I'm kicking
them out of liberal arts) and form an
institute for social improvement.
I guess the other phys. ed, majors
could join the College of Education if
they want to teach, or form a special
athletic school, if they're using the
college as a z front for their intention of
becoming professional athletes. My new
university would have an intramural plan
in which everyone would participate, but
no nationally-ranked football team, I'm
afraid.
In closing, I would like to remark that I
did not ,mean to belittle any 4 part of the
now-existing University. I think that
these factions which I would exclude are
valid in their-Own sight, but don't belong
in my university. I know it's much more
convenient the way _it is now, but
convenience should never interfere with
progress toward the ideal.
Oh yeah, my new university sponsors
only basic scientific research, faculty
members. Long=, live youthful idealism.
Kerry G. Hixenbaugh
7th-anthropology and history
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UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
Friday-Sunday, November 9-11
SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday-Saturday, Nov. 9-10 University Theatre, "One Flew Over the Cockoo's
Nest," 8 p.m., The Playhouse.
Friday, Nov. 9 Five O'Clock Theatre, "Silverstein & C 0.," 7:20 p.m., Pavilion
Theatre.
Friday, Nov. 9 —Sports: Soccer, vs. Temple, 7 P.m.
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Friday, Nov. 9 Commonplace Coffeehouse, 8 p.m. Room 102 Kern.
Friday,•Nov. 9 Free-U social event, 7:30p.m., HUB ballroon.
Saturday, Nov. 10 —PSU Symphony Orchestra, 8 p.m., Schwab.
Saturday, Nov. 10 Sports : Football, vs. North Carolina State, 1:30 p.m.; Rugby, vs.
Chesapeake, :2 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 11 Penn State Glee Club, 3 p.m., Music Bldg. recital hall.
Sunday, Nov. 11 Chapel Service, 11 a.m., Eisenhower Chapel. Dr. Richard
Jungkuntz, Provost, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington.
Sunday, Nov. 11 Black Christian Fellowship worship service, 11 a.m., Black
Cultural Center.
Sunday, Nov. 11 - Road Rally, sponsored by Acacia Fraternity, starting at 1 p.m.
from 234 Locust Lane; for benefit of On Drugs. Registration fee $5; final
applications Friday, Nov. 9.
Friday, Nov. 9 Chemical Engineering, 9:35 a.m., Room 101 Althouse. Dr. Douglas
J. Wilde, Stanford University, on "Optimization, Fluidized Reactors, and
Machine Tolerances."
Friday, Nov. 9 Statistics, 4 p.m., Room 73 Willard. Robert Clickner, Temple
University, on "Excessive Deviations and Efficiency."
Friday-Saturday, Nov. 9-10 Student SF Films, 7 and 9 p.m., HUB assembly room.
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 9-10—North Halls Films, 7 and 9:30 p.m., Room 102 Forum. "A
Man Called Horse."
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 9-11— Pollock Films, Friday and Saturday 7 and 11 p.m., PUB
Rec Room ; Sunday, 1:30 and 8 p.m., Forum. "Gone with the Wind."
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 9-11 South Halls Films, 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Redifer Room
Friday-Sunday, Nov. 9-11 West Halls Films, 7:3o.and 10 p.m., Waring Liiunge
"Five Easy Pieces."
Badminton Club, Fridays, 6:15 p.m. ' Rec Hall.
Interlandia Folk Dancers, Sundays, 7:30 p.m., HUB ballroom
LECTURES
Saturday, Nov. 10 Dr. Linus Pauling . , sponsored by University Committee on
International Programs, on "Vitamins and International Health," 8:30 p.m.,
Room 112 Kern.
e Editor
While all this is going on, the French prime minister returns
home from Russia where he has been visiting the czar 'to
negotiate a loan. As an ally of Russia, France declares war on'
Germany.
Germany, thinking to knock France out in a couple of weeks,
then turns its army against Russia (Hitler tried the same tactics
?.5 years later), crosses the border into neutral Belgium.
Now, England has guaranteed Belgium's neutrality, so Great
Britain declares war on Germany. As the British Empire
includes Canada, Australia, Africa, India, etc., suddenly most
of the world is involved in a war triggered by a group of Serbian
terrorists.
The parallel to recent tragic events in the Mideast is
obvious—but with one difference. The finger on the button in
Washington is matched by the finger on button in Moscow.
in due respect to Dr. Strangelove, World War fil could still be
started by an accident.
En garde
TO THE EDITOR: In this space on October 23 I was criticized
by Professor Richard L. Frautschi, Chairman of the French
Department, for a statement I made to a Daily Collegian
reporter that the present system of language requirements is
not beneficial to B.A, students and that it most often
accomplishes only a lowering of the student's grade point
average.
However I strongly object to the language requirement as it
is presently constituted which coerces all B.A. students into
completing the 12-credit level of a language. Most students
and language instructors, I think, would agree that students
not voluntarily taking a series of language courses do not learn
the language. The valid objectives for exposure to a foreign
language, such as examining another culture and gaining an
increased understanding of the English language, could be
better achieved with a more flexible approach.
I tallied some grade averages on 165 randomly chosen
transcripts of non-language majors who graduated from the
Liberal Arts College in Spring, 1973. Of them, 63 per cent had
foreign language grades below their cumulative grade point
average. The average student's foreign language grades was
one third of a full grade point lower than his cumulative
average. I must stand by my staten?ent.
John Casciotti, president
Liberal Arts Student Council
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