Editorial opinion First a group of student leaders picks six names to form a com mittee. Next, that committee gets together and picks five to seven names to form another committee. Then the second committee picks three to five names to send to the state secretary of education, who picks from the last group a student nominee for the University Board of Trustees. At first the entire process seems like nothing but one big lottery. At other times it appears that the name of the game is little league politics. But neither of these descriptions now applies to the student trustee selection process. The USG-GSA joint committee to choose a trustee selection committee has . developed a workaole plan to tegin the selection. As proposed, the selection com -tffittee will consist of five to seven people, a group large enough to And here they come, ladies and gentlemen, closely stuff, a bit of parsley on the pornography. The readers followed by television cameramen, inquiring reporters, want to know if this is a trend.” columnists, psychiatrists and serious social thinkers. Next, Harry, discovered on the Quad, is running step- And there they go, and now you’ve had it, a small in- for-step with a young nudie, as he explains that, “My terlude of old-fashioned fun and ritual. So enjoy it, and editor wants to know if your socio-ethnic-economic remember that at any given moment, day or night, the group makes a distinction between flashing and chances are that no collegdvstudent is streaking. streaking?" Alright, Officer Jones, if you’ll speak into the “Look,” says the breathless boy in reply, microphone, we'd like to ask if you’ve seen any here because you are.” streakers around here? “Not yet.” Is the Department “Well, I’m only here because you are,” reporter Harry prepared just in case? And if so what will you do? “If it’s answers back, and the two curve away from each other; girl streakers, [ we’ll take their pictures, and if it's boy the boy to get dressed and figure out what the hell got streakers, we’ll flick their butts with the end of a wet into him, and Harry to go back to the office with his towel.” i story and pictures which the editor will say need to have Now, Dr. Big Shrink, could we ask you if streaking is the pubic hair air-brushed out. akin to gold-fish swallowing, or is there a deeper The avant-garde clergy, however, wants to know why significance? “Mr. Interviewer, to give you a fast answer mooning never caught on the way streaking has. There right off the top off my data, I’d have to tell you we were some vivid shots of mooners in “American wouldn't have |any streakers if our institutions weren’t Grafitti,” but by and large mooning has gone un- J hat a . re P or,er ~ anci -pn°tographer team can un so confining. Streaking is a non-verbal form of asking commented on and unreported in the mass media. The failingly find some young uns to romp around in the adult society for fewer rules. I predict they'll soon be reason may be that the mooner comes close to making a altogether proves it isn t true there are no more good, streaking in the exercise yard at Attica.” social statement. He or she, who sticks a perfectly obedient kids. There a tp a lot of them and, if some of Possibly, but only if some assignment editor sends undressed fanny out the window of a moving car and them can be gotten to perform any act on command of a somebody out to cover it. “Harry, listen, the next time points it at well-dressed strangers, is struggling to thnd-party, it may offer a little forgetfulness to older those kids drop their pants, let's get a profile of one. express some pretty sentiment. people who fear the best years may be behind their You know, farrjily background, a little socio-economic On the other hand, the streaker was discovered, children before theyve lived them. jpooe^"' | HELP US HELP YOU { • • * Apartment Problems • Consumer Complaints* l surveys have aided the student shopper. OTIS offers • # other services as well, but we cannot continue to # { maintain our current programs without your help. J • • 1 We need you! 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The committee has wisely taken this into consideration and included a member of Academic Assembly on the selec tion committee. The committee has not forgot ten women, minorities or special interest groups. Nine major student groups will be guaranteed an interview for their represen tatives before the selection com mittee is named. Nor has the committee left out in dividual students who- do not represent organizations twit who wish to participate in the selection Housing Information process. Any student may apply for a seat on the committee. Such bureaucratic devices as ap plications and interviews may seem absurd in choosing a selec tion committee. But they are not nearly so. absurd as leaving students unrepresented on the Board of Trustees for six months while student groups quibble over the selection process. Any student or student group who feels the committee’s proposal is unfair must protest the plan now, before the selection committee begins its work. But the plan to select the selec tion -committee is fair and con siders the interests of all the students. Now it is up to student groups to approve the plan and start the trustee selection. No more time can be wasted on deciding the mechanics of the process. “I’m only Letters to the Editor Is Nixon possessed? TO THE EDITOR: I like to make the analogy between the current public appetite for entertainment, such as what “The Exorcist" has to offer, and the current public sentiment toward the quality of our political life, and the state of our President. The scars of Watergate are most evident to me in the long lines of people waiting to endure the epoch of a demonic possession. They wait in quiet resolution, expecting to be emersed in a uniquely horrifying and despicable, experience. Is little Regan the product of Nixonian possession? Are we not burdened, nationally, with the almost demonic possession of the presidency? Are we all being submitted to daily horror and spectacle that seems to cast an aura of evil inbalance, disequilibrium and political possession over the Richard Nixon we keep locked away and hidden? The president is in desperate need of an exorcist. The people need the burden 3f this demon lifted from their shoulders! The fake “happy" image that our possessed president tries to sell, refusing to admit to his own deviant brand of possession is a sight as despicable and degrading as Regan’s fits of demonic pleasure. The faci that an analogy between two such newsworthy and powerful characters, personalities and images coincides together in time and with such unique juxtaposition makes one marvel at the present state of Western culture. Tickets sales TO THE EDITOR: Though I haven’t been at Penn State very long, I have noticed several procedures [which impress me as being surprisingly inefficient. However,! one procedure shows developed and pushed by the same assignment editors who gag and turn white in the face when you tell them you’ve taken their daughters to see 1 “Deep Throat." Pause and consider. After a decade of nudity everywhere, on stage and screen, copulating in front of the White House, splashing in the reflecting pools in front of Congress, a hundred-thousand strong and stoned at Woodstock, after all of that, how can a few impromptu sprints be considered news? The answer is that what editors say is news is news. And they’ve made this news to reassure themselves that the age of thinking youth has receded, and that juveniles are back in the sandbox. All the other nudity we’ve had in the past 10 years has meant something radical politics, sex, fun, contempt, humor—but this is perfect; its only content is a belittling debasement by the nudies of themselves. Century Towers 710 S. 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I’m sure people have been suggesting remedies for the long lines as long as they’ve existed and I think that these suggestions should be considered: First: rather than two ticket sellers at one point in the HUB, designate several locations around campus, perhaps each residence hall area or other areas around campus, where a certain amount of tickers will be sold. This would decrease both the crowds and the wait a tremendous amount. Second: if the first suggestion can't be arranged, set up three or four ticket lines in the HUB rather than the one line now employed. This will facilitate movement a great deal and cut down the length of time in line for everyone. It seems quite practical to use one of these two methods. Either will decrease the wait in line and keep student areas like the HUB uncongested. sCollegian DIANE M. NOTTLE CYNTHIA A. 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