Editorial opiniop
Bicycles on sidewalks hitting
pedestrians. Bicycles on streets
being hit by cars. Bicycles chained
to trees because there are
_no
racks. When will it Wend?
It could end soon. The Student
Environment Counseling Organ
ization (SECO) has given State
College Borough Council its
final report on bicycle problems in
State College. SECO recommends
such changes for State College as
creating bikeways along parts of
Allen Street, Route 322 and Route
26 and providing clustered bic - ycle
parking facilities several places
downtown.
Borough Council wants to know
England: culture shock
Editor's note: The author recently completed an eight -week
stay in England as part of Penn State's "Mass Media in Great
Britain" study abroad program.
By JEFF DeBRAY
of the Collegian Staff
Be prepared to experience a certain amount of "culture
shock - if you are planning to visit England soon, or hope to
some day.
Sure. there are many similarities between England and the
United States, so that in many ways England cannot really be
considered a foreign country. But be forewarned: there are
enough differences, too, that most Americans may not realize.
.For starters, there is the language, which can be a barrier if
you are unfamiliar with certain common English terms. If you
are offered a "fag" by an Englishman, don't be alarmed he's
only offering you a cigarette. And don't ask anyone where
the subway is they call it the "underground" or "Tube." And
when someone there says he is going to get "pissed" he only
means he's aoing to get drunk.
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DIANE M. NOTTLE
Editor
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The end?
what you think of SECO's report. It
wants to know:'
—if you think the bikeways in
the places SECO recommends are
unnecessary or unquestionably
needed
—if you think some routes for
bikeways SECO did not mention
are very much needed.
—where you think bicycle racks
should be placed.
—if you think the SECO plan is
too expensive to be worthwhile for
State College.
—how you feel about bicycles in
general—should they be outlawed
or should bicycle travel be en
couraged in State College?
CYNTHIA ASHEAR
Business Manager
There are a host of other English terms different from ours,
including certain regional terminology, but, in time, most of it
is relatlvely easy to pick up.
When you go into a restaurant, don't be surprised or of
fended if you're not immegiately given a glass of ice water over
which to deliberate your choice of meals. If you want water
you'll have to ask for it and consider yourself extremely
lucky if you get ice in it.
The English tend to drink things much warmer than most
Americans are accustomed to. So either .get used to warm
(soda, pop), mixed drinks and water, or else bring your own ice
along. It would probably just be easier for you to get used to it,
though.
This is mainly because many English don't have
refrigerators (or showers, for that matter) in their flats. Their
flat is more or less the equivalent of our apartment, but without
certain things we usually take for granted like central
heating. Instead, there are often small plug-in heaters or,
worse yet for Americans, heaters which require you to insert a
shilling (five new pence, or about 12 cents) in order to get heat,
light and sometimes hot water.
If you're used to having cable television and your choice of
about 10 different channels, you'll have to settle for a mere
three in Great Britain. There's the British Broadcasting Cor
poration (BBC) one and two, which are funded by the govern
ment. There is also an independent televisiqn - (ITV) station with
13 regional branches. Only on ITV are commercials allowed,
and then there are usually less frequent program interruptions,
with maybe a group of five or six minutes of commercials at a
time.
And of course if you are used to looking left, then right
before crossing the street, you better do the reverse in "merry
olde England," because the English drive on the opposite side
of the street.
Of course there are other differences, too, such as the
telephone system (just be sure to have enough two pence
pieces), the radio stations, and drinking and eating habits, to
name a few. But instead of spoiling all the fun you'll have in
making adjustments to them, just find out for yourself. It will
be an experience you'll never forget.
—what you think is needed to
make bicycle travel safe in State
College.
Borough Council is giving you a
chance to have a voice in the
future of cyclists in State College
by holding a public hearing on the
SECO report 7:30 tonight at the
State College Municipal Building.
Council must know whot you
think before it passes ordinances
that- would 'encourage or
discourage bicycling in State
College.
Don't miss this meeting. It may
help end the local war between
cyclists and non-cyclists.
Awaiting the i
The almost simultaneous resignations
of German Chancellor Willy Brandt and
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trucieau
establish the fact that almost all major
governments in the capitalist world, the
notable exceptions being,Japan and the
United States, have fallen within the last
three months.
The underlying reason is not all that
difficult to explicate. The nightmare of
bourgeois political economists,
unemployment combined with
skyrocketing inflation, is the stark and
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potentially hideous reality. Each and
every capitalist government is faced with
the horror of an immediately impending
national and international Weimar.
Consequently Bonapartist, strong-arm
regimes are installed in some countries,
while in others the offensive of the
working classes (England and Portugal)
has created the death-trap of the 1930'5,
the Popular Front.
The possibility of a political general
strike against a minority labor govern
ment in Britain, was averted on May 8
when the industrialists delivered
$156,000 to the Amalgamated Union of
Engineering Workers, is revolutionary in
all of its implications. And, although
postponed for the moment through the
combined efforts of the British
bourgeoisie, Harold Wilson and Jack
Jones, the very possibility of a- Soviet
Britain is now immediately distinct.
The right and the military, of course,
are hardly oblivious. The London police
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have been armed, all of the left parties
have been heavily infiltrated and ; the
fascist group, National Front, openly
calls, for the dismemberment of the
Trades Union Congress and grows by
leaps and bounds. Needless to say, the
American Central Intelligence Agency is
also quite active in Britain, according to
allegations published in The New York
Times.
The coup which recently toppled the
fascist Caetano regime in Portugal was,
in certain terms, an acknowledgement
on the part of the Portugese capitalist
class and its military of the tremendous
strength of the Portugese proletariet and
the guerilla movements in the colonies
of Mozambique, Angola and the now
virtually independent Guianna-Bissau.
However, Antonio Spinola, with whom
the Socialist and Communist Parties of
Portugal are so eager to form a govern
ment, has a rather anti-democratic
background, to say the least. Spinola
lead a detachment of Portugese
volunteers to fight with the fascist
Franco during the Spanish Civil War.
Spinola also headed a group of Por
lugese soldiers who participated in the
Nazi army's seige of Leningrad in 1942.
For these parties to call on the Por
tugese workers to do anything other than
seize this man and his entrourage and
shoot them all is criminal. To form a
oovernment with this cutthroat at the
helm is to consciously create the
•conditions for a fascist coup perhaps
even bloodier than the Chilean coup of
September 1973. Have Soares and
Cunhal, the leader§. of the Portugese
Socialist and Co - mmunist Parties,
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simultaneously taken leave of their
senses or is this simply another act of
Stalinist treachery? I tend to assume that
the latter is the case.
In the United States, a wage offensive
on the part of the labor movement is
imminent. Also, the possibility of a
national, general strike, directed against
the Nixon government, is a real
possibility. And neither are the right and
the military at home oblivious to the
situation.
The transcripts reveal not simply, as
Senator Scott would have it, Nixon's
"shabby and disgusting " methods of
rule. The conversations, recorded on
tape and printed (and thoroughly edited,
Y might add) reveal a broad, sinister and
on-going attempt to eliminate
democratic rights which are supposedly
nuaranteed by the Bill of Rights. These
transcripts lay bare the fact that dic
tatorial methods of rule are planned for
the working class in the United States!
Behind the drawn-out facade of the
impeachment proceedings lurks the ugly
military, ready, willing and able to
declare martial law in order to preserve
"national security" (sound familiar?),
suspend the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights, and begin to systematically
round up leftists and trade unionists.
New presidential elections must
immediately be called and a new
political party, based on the unions and
pledged to socialist policies must be
formed to enter candidates and fight for
worker's power. There is absolutely no
other just solution to the crisis of
American bourgeois society. Put an end
to it!
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