Editorial opinion Pa. delegation to Congress U.S. SENATORS Address letters to. Senate Office Building Washington, D C. 20510 Richard S. Schweiker Hugh Scott U.S. REPRESENTATIVES by district Address letters to. House Office Building Washington. D C. 20515 William A. Barrett Part of the City of Phila delphia Robert N.C. Nix Part of the City of Phila delphia 2nd William J. Green Part of the City of Phila delphia Joshua Eitberg Part of the City of Phila deiphia John H. Ware, 111 Parts of Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties Gus Yatron Berks and Schuylkill counties and part of Northumberland County Lawrence G. Williams Part of Delaware County Edward G. Biester Bucks County anct part of Montgomery County E.G. Shuster Bedford, Blair. Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, rr BECAME NECESSARY ib DESIVIDY'INE EMAtitAMENf lb SAVE i 1... Acting on instructions of the local school board, a custodian at the Drake, N.D., high school recently burned 32 paperback copies of Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Slaughterhouse Five." The incident set off a firestorm of denunciation from liberal spokemen, among them The New York . Times. Permit me to contribute a bucket of cooling water. Mind you, it was a stupid thing that the school board did. It appears that a young instructor in English had assigned the Vonnegut novel to his sophomore class. This was a reasdnable literary judgment on his part. Vonnegut may not represent the richest harvest of contemporary American letters, but with the exception of Norman Mailer, the pickings are slim. An awareness of Vonnegut, if not indispensable to the education of high school students, is at least defensible. The school board did not see it that way. By unanimous vote, the board ordered that the offending copies of "Slaughterhouse Five" be disposed of "like other trash." The custodian obediently burned them. The Authors League, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association and the Times, MA snooty little editorial, thereupon instructed the school board of Drake, N.D., in the meaning of academic freedom and the rights of man. Very well. I have been running these bases a long time. Some years ago, a few of us at the Richmond (Va.) NeWs Leader founded the Beadle Bumble Fund. When James J. Kilpatrick Book burning by any name Mifflin, Perry and Snyder counties and part of Cumberland County Joseph M. McDade Bradford, Lackawanna, Monroe, Pike, Susque hanna, Tioga, Wayne and Wyoming counties Daniel J. Flood Carbon, Columbia, Luzerne, Montour and Sullivan counties John P. Saylor Armstrong, Cambria, Indiana, Jefferson and Somerset counties and part of Clarion County R. Lawrence Coughlin Part of Montgomery County and the 21st ward in Phila delphia city William S. Moorhead Part of Pittsburgh city and part of Allegheny County Fred B. Rooney Lehigh and Northampton counties Edwin D. Eshleman Lancaster County and parts of Chester and Lebanon counties Herman T. Schneebell Dauphin, Lycoming and Union counties and parts of Lebanon and Northumber land counties H. John Heinz, 111 Part of Pittsburgh city and part of Megheny County George A. Goodling Adams and York counties and part of Cumberland County the school board of neighboring Hanover County undertook to ban "To Kill a Mockingbird," the Fund, which exists to combat the asininity of public officials, promptly offered a free paperback copy _to any Hanover student who wrote in and requested one.' I am authorized to say that the Fund now extends the same offer to sophomore students of Drake, N.D., as to "Slaughterhouse Five." Considering the publicity, and considering the insatiable curiosity of sophomores contemplating a putatively dirty book, most of them probably have copies already. They will survive the experience. The point worth making is that book burning goes on all the time. The practice is seldom seen literally, as in North Dakota, but in one form o( another it Is a defensible and indeed an inescapableaSpect of running a school system, a library, a televised news program or a daily paper. Someone has to make a decision that a particular book, or a particular news item, is worth shelving or worth printing. That responsibility embraces the authority to say that a book is worthless or an item is not fit to print. It is a thin smoky pall that separates "book burning" from "editorial judgment." We saw an example of this last sp s ring. On May 29, the U.S. Supreme Court entered a routine order in Case No. 72-1365, refusing for want of a "substantial constitutional question" to consider an appeal sought by Mrs. Lillian Bellison Alexanderson in a F‘atemity 20th Joseph M. Gaydos Part of Pittsburgh city and part of Allegheny County 21st John H. Dent Westmoreland County and part of Allegheny County 22nd Thomas E, Morgan Fayette, Green and Washington counties and part of Allegheny County 23rd Albert W. Johnson Cameron„ Centre, Clear field, Clinton, Elk, Forest, McKean, Potter, Venango and Warren counties and part of Clarion County 24th Joseptt P. Vigorian Crawford, Erie and Mercer counties 25th Frank M. Clark Beaver, Butler and Law rence counties and part of Allegheny County Univers President of the Board Michael Baker, Jr. (1976) P.O. Box 260 Beaver, Pa. 15009 Office: 412-495-7711, Home: 412-774-4748 Milton J. Shapp' Governor of the Commonwealth 225 Capitol Building Harrisburg, Pa. 17120 Office: 717-787-2500 Residence: 717-787-T965 John W. Oswald, President The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 16802 Office: 865-7611 Home: 238-0898 James A. McHale Secretary of Agriculture 2301 N. Cameron St. Harrisburg, Pa. 17120 Office: 717-7874737 Home: 717-564-3913 F. Bruce Baldwin, Jr 4141 Orchard Lane ' Philadelphia, Pa. 19154 Office: 215-PE 5-6195 Home: 215-NE 7-7887 Fletcher L. Byrom (1973) Koppers Company, Inc. 436 Seventh Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15219 Office: 412-391-3300 Home: 412-281-2255 H. Jesse Arnelle (1975) 1166 Kearny St. San Francisco, Cal. 94133 Home: 415-398-7512 Frederick J. Close II (1974) 6189 Shore Drive North Madison, Ohio 44057 Home: 216-428-1639 From the Canadian to the Mexican border, from Bellingham, Washington, to San Diego, the conversational pattern is the same up and down the Pacific Coast. First they ask you if you've seen the bumperstickers, next they make a joke about the tapes, then they speculate on how much the oil companies paid Nixon to let them have a shortage, and after that they ask who you think is going to be the next President. It's easier to say who ,shouldn't be. The only qualification most of the leading contenders for the office have is that they haven't been convicted of a felony. Ronald Reagan would have to go into the campaign where Nixon leaves off explaining his income tax payments. Charles Percy is a closet Democrat who will never be nominated by any Republican convention. Rockefeller would be nearly 70, a spendthrift governor who has worked every side of every issue. Howard Baker's only achievement is tieing allowed to sit next to Sam Ervin when the TV canieras go on. The Democrats have little more to offer. Humphrey is no longer worth the time to denounce; Muskie has been publicly exposed as being exactly what he appears to be; only 5 per cent of the electorate can still remember McGovern's name, and after him come the truly flashy candidates, Bayh of Indiana, that other Senator from Minnesota who's rumored to be so good, the governor of Illinois and assorted long shots. Standing to one side is Teddy, a man who has had to bear so many sorrows it's hard to tell him that he'd be doing himself and the rest of us a favor if he'd get out of the race now Perhaps the only ones who will tell him so are those who fear that if he runs he will also be cut down by the Kennedy curse. They say they'll vote against him to protect him. • Millions more will vote against him because they think Chappaquiddick showed him to be a man who, at the very feast, cracks under pressure. Believe what you want about him, but any Kennedy Presidential campaign will draw forth our ugliest side. Worst would be a Connally-Kennedy contest. While each was racing for the Presidency by telling the dreadful truth about each other the electorate would be racing for the bathroom. Then the degradation of our politics would be.complete. It need not be so. There is one man in public life who is clean enough, who has stature enough to restore respect for politics and public office, and that's Ralph Nader, our national ombudsman, the one person who is admired even when he is disagreed with. Nader has always fled the imputation he would ever run for office, for fear it would make his work more difficult. If he is a member of either political party It is only nominally. In a period when parties are generally regarded as packs of marauding thieves and housebreakers, Nader's distance from these disreputable associations only serves to make him look better. ity Board of Vice President of the Board William K. Ulerich•(l973) P.O. Box 291 Clearfield, Pa. 16830 Office: 814-765-5051 Home: 814-765-4563 Members 'Ex-Officio Maurice K. Goddatd Secretary of Environmental Resources 518 South Office Building Harrisburg, Pa. 17120 Office: 717-787-2814 Home: 717-737-6873 John C. Pittenger Secretary of Education 317 Education Building Harrisburg, Pa. 17120 Office: 717-787-5820 Home: 717-232-6081 'Governor's Representative: Ronald 0. Lench Secretary of Administration 425 Main Capitol Building Harrisburg, Pa. 17120 Office: 717-787-5440 Home: 717-652-1771 Appointed by the Governor Helen Davies 7053 McCallum St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19119 Office: 215-594-8733 Home: 215-247-9179 Hardy Williams 11-12 Market St. Philadelphia, Pa. 19143 Home: 215-GR 6-6155 Office: 215-LO 3-2935 Harrisburg: 717-787-6564 Elected by Alumni George H. Dieke, Jr. (1976) 1066 Blackridge Rd. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15235 Home: 412-731-6786 Charles T. Douds (1976) 2902 Russell Rd. Camp Hill, Pa. 17011 Home: 717-737-1300 suit. The defendant in the suit was Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times. According to the pleadings, without admitting paternity, he had provided support for the plaintiff's illegitimate son until the boy's 16th birthday. The Times killed the story. It carried not one word.on the Supreme Court's action. If the Court's order of May 29 was not "news" news of interest to readers of the Times I have wasted 33 years in the news business. Of course it' was news. The Times' managing editor, A.M. Rosenthal, had a tough decision to make, and he blew it. Taking into account Me sophistication of the Tiros editors, compared to the sophistication of the Dike, N.D., school board, which act of book burning was the greater blunder? Perhaps it depends on whose Ochs Is gored. In the same fashion, Waltgr Cronkite every afternoon effectively If metaphoricallybunr hundreds of stories before putting together the CBS evening news. I discard hundreds 'of column ideas every year as not worth discussion. Every editor, libnarisn, teacher and publisher in the land goes through the same decision making process every day. The Drake board members still think they were right. Abe Rosenthal still thinks he was right. - I think they both were wrong. But : if such difficult decisions are to be attacked with snooty denunciation's, suppose we spread the snootiness around. Nicholas Vort Hofrman Nader for President There is no man who could be elected to the Presidency who knows more about how the United States government works on every level. He has fought it and studied it throtigh nearly every department and agency as no other political figure in our time. Not only is his knowledge unique but he has trained scores of men and women who could be brought into a Nader administration to help run it. Nobody else can attract this kind of talent. Since Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms our Presidents have been primarily occupied with foreign affairs, but the last ten years have shown that ultimately foreign success rests on domestic success, A discredited, dishonored President with a debased currency presiding over a citizenry that doesn't trust him enough to follow him has little choice but to take refuge in the Kremlin as Nixon has done. When Nixon says that he was too busy running his foreign policy to know what his own staff was doing he is making something of the same point Whether it is oil, gold, wheat or bombers, his incapacity to govern effectively at home is bringing him to grief here and abroad You can't have a foreign policy if you don't have a country, and Nixon has lost his. Nader, on the other hand, has a studied program and approach on everything from taxes to monopoly. He can tpii you exactly not in the generalities they usually feed us what he would do and how he would go about it. He knows what he thinks is needed and he knows how to communicate his ideas to Our people He's been doing it for ten years now without a public relations man or an advertising agency Can you imagine what a different and better place this would be with Ralph Nader picking the members of the Federal regulatory agencies for eight years. Nobody'born with a belly button is perfect Ralph Nader can be an abrasive unpolitic man; a stubborn character who sometimes disdains the most innocent, ethical and necessary of the political arts. He is the proud prototypical anti-baby kisser, but we're ready to accept that vice. We're ready for the troubles that a man of his lack of flexibility can bring on himself. We'll take that as the price you have to pay for a President who has two suits to his name,: wears a brush cut and a 1957 narrow tie, but who will stay put in the White House. get up at 6 o'clock in the morning and work, and work 111 midnight With Nader there'll be no golf, no pompous dances and theatricals, no Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis. no unseemly weddings. no pilfered Western White Houses, and the only people indicted may be the oil company executives. With Nader in the White HouSe we as a,nation will not again have to bear the shame of hearing our President plead with us to believe he is not a crook. Ralph Nader is the one man whom we would buy a used car from but he won't sell us one Trustees Ralph Hetzel (1974) Ridge Riley (1974) College of Fine and Professional Arts Box 314 Kent State University Boalsburg, Pa. 16827 Kent, Ohio 44240 Office: 216-653-8277 Charles P. Neidig (1975) 334 Grays Lane Haverford, Pa. 19041 Office: 215-643-0400 Home: 215-649-9580 J. Lin Huber (1974) Lindell Farms R.R. 1 St. Thomas, Pa. 17252 Home: 717-328-2979 Milk Marketing Board John M. Phillips (1974) Fruit Acres Farms Box 507 North East, Pa. 16428 Home: 814-7254757 John R. Pitzer (1976) R.D. 1 Aspers, Pa. 17304 Home: 717-677-8618 A. Wayne Readinger (1975) R.D. 1 Fleetwood, Pa. 19522 Office: 717-234-5001 Home: 215-987-6160 Harry R. Ulrich (1975) Blue Ribbon EGG Farms R.D. 2, Box 120 Hummelstown, Pa. 17036 Home: 717-534-1260 Egg Processing Plant: 717-469-2580 NOTE: The date in parentheses following each name indicates year in I,vnich the term will expire. Trustees appointed by the Governor serve until their successors have been appointed and qualified. =Collegian PATRICIA J. STEWART Editor Successor to the Free Lance, est. 1887 Member of the Associated Press Charter member of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Media Association Editorial policy is determined by the Editor. Opinions expresed by the editors and staff of The Daily Collegian are not necessarily those of the University administration, faculty or students. Editorial Staff: 865-1828 Sports Staff : 865-1820 Business Staff: 865-2531 COLLEGIAN EDITORS: MANAGING EDITOR, Steve Ivey; EDITORIAL EDITOR, Rich Grant; NEWS EDITORS, Pat Hunkele, Diane Nottle; LAYOUT EDITORS, Betty Holman, Sheryl Stern; COPY EDITORS, Maureen Keeiy, Nancy Postrel, Terry Walker; SPORTS EDITOR, Ray McAllister; ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS, Mark Simonson, Rick Starr; PHOTO EDITOR, Randy Woodbury; ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR, Joe Rudick; GRAPHIC ARTIST, Jennie Atty; CARTOONISTS, Tom Gibh, Peter McElhinney; WEATHERMAN, Brian Thomas. BOARD OF MANAGERS: ADVERTISING MANAGER, Ed Todd; ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGERS, Cindy Ashear, Jan Franklin; NATIONAL ADVERTISING MANAGER, Steve Wetherbee. The Daily Collegian is published by Collegian, Inc., a private, non-profit corporatibn which bearslgal and financial responsibility for the newspaper. The Board of Directors of Col o lan, Inc., is the - controlling body of the corporation. The Board is composed of three undergraduate students, one graduate student, three faculty members, two professional members, the editor and the business manager. The paper's adviser also serves as executive secretary to the Board, a non-voting position. Home: 814-466-6574 Helen Wise 11975) 1127 South Allen St. State College. Pa. 16801 Home: 238-2090 Elected by Delegates from Societies J. Lewis Williams (1976) 25 Ridgeview brave Uniontown, Pa. 15401 Home: 412-437-4066 H. Thomas Haliowell, Jr. (1974) 916 The Benson East Jenkintown. Pa. 19046 Office: 215-TU 4-7300 Home: 215-TU 6-8883 717-787-4308 Samuel F Hinkle (1975) 112 Para Ave Hershey. Pa. 17033 Home 717-533-2568 Charles E. Oakes (1976) 1436 Hamilton St Allentown, Pa 18105 Home: 215-432-2601 John L. Romig 11974) R.D. 2 Kennett Square, Pa. 19348 Home. 215-444-4619 John H. 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