Editorial opinion Once upon a time there was Happy Valley where the joy of 30, was guarded by 32 trustees. None of the students in Happy speak or hear or see. The trustee; if the students could hear and sei the problems in the world, thi unhappy. So the trustees did all the seeirn in Happy Valley and listened only talking about them. But because there were 30,( and only 32 trustees the trustees the problems and solutions. The students were not really hi they could experience probler unable to see or hear if the trustee anything to solve them. The students begged again and student newspaper, which wa; Collegian DIANE M. NOTTLE Editor $6.00 per term - Fall, Winter, Spring— $4.50 per Summer Term On-Canipus - $13.00 per year $3.50 per term - Fall, Winter, Spring $3.00 per Summer Term Mailing Address: Box 467, State College, Pa. 16801 Office: 126 Carnegie Editorial Staff. 865-1828 Sports Staff 865-1820 Business Staff 865-2531 BOARD OF MANAGERS: ADVERTISING MANAGER, David Lang; ASSISTANT ADVER TISING MANAGERS, Susan Voytovich, Kim Batey; NATIONAL ADVERTISING MANAGER, Bob Rosner; ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER, Heather Walden; BILLING, Sandy Pollock, Michele Reilly; DELIVERY, Steve Straley. Jorene Proper; ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES, Rob Moffet, Jeff Berney, Tom Tull, Ellen Clair, Steve Wallach. Summit meeting TO THE EDITOR: In reference to Patrick Sokas’ article Botching the -Presidency" in Wednesday’s Collegian, the writer appears to be missing the point entirely. Sokas claims that the economic summit meeting was called ‘‘to say silly things they had ail said before and smile prjetty for the cameras." In fact, this is the first major conference on the economy at the executive level in years, and according to all ihose concerned, it is bringing out more opinions that President Ford might work with. Attacking Ford for "allowing infighting amoung his staff" is simply ignorant of an historic process. Anytime there is a presidential succession, other than after an election, the transition is much more difficult. In order, for a smooth tran sition. the new President must retain a number of the fornjer President's aides to instruct the new aides to White Hoqse procedure. Infighting between the new aides and the holdovers is inevitable as witnessed by the difficult Kennedy to Johnson transition. v 1 ' The writer also criticizes Ford for his handling of the amnesty issue by saying he has "waffled on it for weeks,” in addition to commenting on his love for "surprises.” Did he expect Ford to wait until he had the entire amnesty plan for mulated before making it public? If so, that really would have been a surprise. In' waiting, he realized the public reaction and was able to then formulate a plan acceptable to the largest number. It is sad he did not follow this plan in the Nixon case. Richard J. Cinqulno 10th-political science Greyhound warning TO THE EDITOR: I am writing this letter as a warning to any citizen or student of State College or.any person, who utilizes the Greyhound Bus Lines. A Greyhound customer may be able to "leave the driving..." to Greyhound but not the scheduling of the trip. My experience with Greyhound on a trip from Richmond, Virginia to State College included an overnight wait (10!hours) at the Harrisburg terminal and consequently, a missed class at Penn State. These circumstances occurred because two different Greyhound employes at Richmond gave.me incorrect scheduling information. * smwmrr mi* 5ame.,,,., i mm wr tx-MM A fairy tale? *, jIiHTWI i j Bikn a* , a land called braille, that they be given sight and hearing problems the students experienced/they also I f mi Jl , . i,OOO students and speech so that they could help! solve all saw and heard that trustees were trying to S ; \ •'! 1 !l|i3| i jjj the problems they experienced. solve some problems in ways the students did I [ |S3SE~ ■ • lT Valley could But the trustees were deaf to the pleas. not like. I ■ | IfflWKs'ff «. ||H| ijj ;s thought that The legislature of ’ the land saw i that the But the students could not tell the trustees N[ «, IHW 9 ie and discuss students were unhappy in Happy Valley and iheir problems and or suggest proper solutions ' I 9 ley would be passed a law they hoped would bring joy back to problems because the trustees would not let j Ig BTOk * ■ ig of problems must grant the students the powers of .sight and Happy Valley was filled with much unhap- .' | to each other hearing. The legislators thought that; if the piness. The student newspaper begged the 1 " ■! IBM I students could see and hear that the trustees trustees to give the students the power of Ml I : ,000 students were trying to solve the problems, the students speech. | did not see all would be happy, knowing that soon there But the trustees thought 'giving the students would be no more problems. the power bf speech would only add to the tappy because There was much rejoicing in Happy Valley unhappiness they believed the legislature had sms but were when the law was passed. Evjeryone thbught caused by giving the students the powers of ■es were doing the law would-keep Happy Valley happy. hearing and sight. But it did not. The students went to the And so the newspaper pleaded, the trustees again in their trustees'meetings and could hear and see that acted, deaf and dumb, and the students is written in the trustees were not workinr 1 me of the remained unh; in H; —Valley. * Ttesarssr Successorto the Free Lance, est. 1 88 J Member of the Associated Press Charter member of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Media Association New subscription rates Off-Campus - $22.00 per year Letters to the Editor CYNTHIA A. ASHEAR Business Manager . Business Office Hours: \ Monday through Friday 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. I was told to take a 5:45 p.rr. bus out of Richmond to arrive at State College at 5:25 a.m. When I arrived at Harrisburg at 12:45 a.m. I was informed that the next bus tc State College would not leave until that morning. Thus, I would arrive in State College at 12:35 p.m.4-seven hours later than the arrival time the Richmond employees gave me. Scheduling is not [Greyhound's only problem. Baggage does not always arrive at' the destination with-the traveler. On- my trip into Richmond I had to wait an extra hour at the terminal for my baggage to arrive because it was put on a later bus. When I phoned th[e terminal [for information,'! was told the cost of my trip would be $15.25. When I purchased my ticket the.actual price was $17.60. j One customer had to wai Harrisburg terminal because thi bus departure. Apparently Greyhound, whiq America's Bus lines, is not of give. Hopefully, this letter will that Greyhound's services may but also will inform Greyhov company is needed. Forced to c TO THE EDITOR: It's distressing to think that two young women so far along in their ec ucation : could compose such a mismash of misconceptions as “Control over women.” It is so rooted in non-secquitors one doesn’t know where to begin but the following assertions cannot go unchallenged. Whitley and Kinsinger claim that because of the new Pennsylvania abortion law men now"have a hand over women by forcing us to have that are unwanted.” Is there a group of male chauyanists foaming the countryside im pregnating women without theif- knowledge or consent? If not, who is forcing them, or any woqian, to conceive? In the same context, they write: "We, as women, have plans for our lives... Becoming pregnant, whether married jor un married, will interfere! with these plans.” With the easy availability of contraceptive devices, any woman, married or unmarried, who becomes pregrjant when she doesn't want to (excluding rape) is a poor planner and stupid to boot. They score on one point.. A woman does have the respon sibility over the fetus, but the responsibility entails nuturing ig ;on sot The national amendment game IBy PATRICK CLOONAN ' j oflhe Collegian Stall Recently, in response to the pardon of. Richard M. Nixon by President Ford, Sen. F. Mondale, (D-Minn), proposed a constitutional amendment, which if approved would require two thirds’ approval of ! the Senate for all future presidential pardons. The move is a noyel one, though it probabl/ strike's the:casual observer as an act cf closing the! barn door after the hprse has escaped. At any rat§, it is just another episode in' a rather popular nations.l “Amend The Con stitution," which is as old as the Republic itself I Ever since libertarian-minded delegates to that jfirst Constitutional Convention managep to push khe Bill of Rights through, Americans have always responded to irregular moments in national! history by | proposing amend ments to their Constitution, a novel document which has endured the ages and has served as ja model for other nations'! legal codes! Some of those proposed amendments have been disregarded, while only a select fifteen managed to get through the complicated amending process since an extra twb hours at the company failed to announce a p operates a near-monopoly of Ifering the service it claims to serve not only to warn'travelers not match their expectations, ind that improvement in the ndeive? /j vo on -mR 1791, when the original 10 amendments were ratified by 11 of the young states. Indeed, those tervwere part of what was a 12 amendment package. Thus, even in the beginning the process was a closed sort that allowed only those amend ments thought in the best public j in terest. That process’ was written into the original seven-article document- Article V and it has helped to keep the whole document strong, while making it flexible enough to take account of changes in the national attitude. Fdn an amendment to become law, approval first is needed from either two thirds vote in both houses! of Congress or two-thirds of the states (voting in special convention), then approval of either the legislature or a[ special con vention in each of three-fourths of the states. Amendments are not necessarily per manent several have Themselves been amended, and one,' the Eighteenth (Prohibition) Amendment, was super seded by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933. Today, amendment is actually in the process of being approved. The EquaP Rights Amendment (ERA), and caring for it, not killing it. As far as the rest of their arguments go, my wife will tell them it takes 100 percent of her time to care for our three-month-old persop, and they lightly dismiss, without empirical evidence, the father's role in the family. **' Not surprisingly, they save their biggest fallacy for last. It’s true there are myths aboiit childbearing that need destroying but they would substitute an even bigger and more dangerous myth: that motherhood and womanhood 1 are, for some unexplainable reason, mutually exclusive. The Bible on abortion TO THE EDITOR: I feel constrained to make some reply to the three letters published on September 19 and 20 pertaining to abortion. None of the three makes any reference to God, who can be the only author of an objective morality. If Christianity is false, then there is no reason why one would care about others at all, if one can evade being penalized for such. Fortunately, Christianity is true, and God has ordained that everyone will reap the fruits of his own actions (Gal. 6:7&8), with the way to happiness and fulfillment lying through self denial, self discipline, and self giving (Lk 9:23-25, Gal 5:23). Mr. Oluf makes an excellent point in stating that women desiring abortions are attempting to evade the consequences of their.own actions, to, in effect, have pleasure without having to bear any responsibility a point not answerable, and thus unanswered by Ms. Whitley and Ms. Beck-Ramsay. 4 Patrice Giancola 7th-journallsm In view of Genesis 1:28 and Timothy 2:15s birth control methods other than celibacy must be considered dubious at best, and Oluf’s mention of them only allowed Whitley the opportunity to criticize their effectiveness. Every woman has the option not to yield to sexual desire; abortion, in addition to being murder, is also an attempt to evade responsibility. The attitude that child-bearing is burdensome is typical of the selfishness of the aborters and is due to lack of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Children are a blessing from God, intended for our happiness (Ps. 127:3-5). Having them is an opportunity for self-giving which always leads to one’s moral improvement, if taken. When a mother thus refuses to engage in feticide, she not only avoids God’s wrath, but also receives the positive blessing of childbearing (Tim 2:15), making anti-abortion laws entirely to the benefit of women. I might be asked why I seem so concerned about immorality among women when there is also so much among men. The answer, of course, is that the Bible condemns indolence, The preregistration blues Wejl, I guess you've just about had your of registration horror stories (though pre-registration horror stories are still in the making), and far be it from me to[ bore you with still one more, but my friend's case just seems so out standingly typical ... well, read on. i CHARACTERS — known to his friendis as “Kinky." SECRETARY only distinguishing feature was sharp, apparently filed incisors. SCENE An office. Keith enters Sec: I can help you Kink: Excuse me? Sec: Can I help you?- "Kink: Yes, certainly. I need a number 2 card for Advanced Mashed Potatoes.' Home ec major, you know. And I've seen ! my adviser, seen him four times in fact, running between him and three different secretaries located in Shields, Rec Hall By JOHN JOHNSON of the Collegian Staff whicn nas only five states to go before reaching the three-fourths’ mark and becoming law, would provide for the elimination of many restrictions now affecting women. However, at least one national group has risen in opposition to it, and the ERA in some states still possible reversal of earlier-won approval. Beside the Ivlondale proposal, several other proposed amendments are now facing the Congress. Among these are two bills dealing with abortion and the famous (or infamous, depending on your moral view) Supreme Court decision permitting a national liberalized policy on abortion. One was proposed by a Catholic senator'and six Protestant colleagues, which would more or less reverse the Court’s action. The other, to be released in the near future by President Ford, would hand the problem back to the states. ~ Other amendments now being proposed in one manner or another include prayer-in-public-buildings apd due-process-for-all, as well as an anti busing proposal (which would be ac cepted happily in such cities as Detroit, Boston, and Richmc|nd these days). The Daily Collegian encourages comments on news coverage, editorial policyand campu£ and 6ff-campus affairs. Letters should be typewritten, double spaced, signed by no more than two persons and no longer than 30 lines. Students’ letters should include thej name, term and major of the writer. Letters should be brought to the Collegian office, 126 Carnegie, in person so proper identification of the writer can be made, although namesj wHI be withheld on request. If letters are received by mail, the po’&egian will contact the signer for verification before publication. Letters cannot be returned. ; Michael Elliott h3th-Journalism and the Altoona campus. Sec: What's your number? Kink: Keith Malinson. Sec: Your STUDENT NUMBER! Kink: (Jumps to his feet, terrffied): 117- 48-1037! * Sec: 37 what? . Kink: just 37, ma’am'. Sec: 117-48-1037? Has a good ring to it. Mind if I call you 48? Kink: Uh, go right ahead. Sec: Very good. Now, 48, you realize that this class Is only given first, second, and third periods on Saturday, no absences permitted? Kink: You're kidding. Sec: Well, of course. How do you expect to mash potatoes in oijie period op a weekday? It seems to me young man, that you have come to'this University with some quite unreal expectations. Kink: Unreal expectations. Well, I never. Sec: And you probably never will, smelling like mashed potatoes all weekend. Kink: Well, excuse me. The Constitution is not changed by tight measure, though it is not so in flexible that it doesn't allow for change. This mixture of durability and flexibility, insured by the wisdom of those who wrote Article V. kgeps the wacky articles out. while assuring that only the most worthwhile legislation legislation with true national — gets through. However, this is not to say that it is perfect. Certainly the Eighteenth Amendment was a mistake—Prohibition was a joke to the* booze-happy fans of ‘speakeasies'.' that covered the entire nation. And some people have more than enough reason to question the merits of the, Twenty-Fifth Amendment, an amendment which in effect denied the people the right to elect potential presidents (though the people also have no say in election of the Speaker of the House, who is also a potential president). But with its lengthy tradition, a tradition shared with the long democratic heritage of our Republic, the Constitution stiUs stands as one of the most worthy.legll documents, as well as one of the mostforceful and influential, in the modern history of mankind. irresponsibility and murder among men as well as women, but l have not read any letters in the Collegian advocating such a program of action for men. If I do, the proper time will then have arisen for its criticism. Misleading article TO THE EDITOR: We would like to clarify some misleading statements which appeared in the Sept. 18 issue of the Daily Collegian in an article entitled “ARHS blasts USG allocation." Citing a resolution by the Association of Residence Hall Students to “frown upon United (sic) Student Government's decision to allocate $lOO for a specific gubernatorial can didate," the Collegian stated that “the USG Senate voted to pay a representative of the Socialist party’s gubernatorial candidate to speak at the University." In fact, the USG Senate voted to join other campus groups in helping to pay for a speaking engagement by Maceo Dixon on Sept. 26 at Penn Sitate on the topic “Why the system won’t work: Nixon's gone, problems remain.” Although Maceo Dixon is the National Co-Chairman of the Socialist Workers Party Campaign Committee, the purpose of his talk is to show why capitalism cannot meet the needs of the American people rather than to get Roberta Scherr the Socialist Workers' Party gubernatorial candidate elected. Maceo Dixon is neither a candidate himself nor is he a representative of Roberta Scherr. As for ARHS, which is now knitting its brow disapprovingly upon the decision to allocate ,$lOO for a specific gubernatorial candidate, it can frown as much as it pleases, for such a decision was never made. While such uninformed opinions can be expected from, a “student organization" which passes legislation binding upon dorni residents who in many cases never got to vote for these “representatives,” we expect the Collegian to’ be more accurate. It is interesting that the Ciollegian refrained from reporting on Maceo Dixon’s ap pearance in the article on the USG Senate meeting in question, and waited until ARHS “blasted" the decision before writing anything about it. The fact that the name of the political party involved was not' even recorded accurately also seems lamentably characteristic of both ARHS’ and the Collegian’s handling of the story. Sec: Just the fact that you stand before me is quite enough evidence that I already have. Kink: Now, wait a minute. Sec: I do not wait. You wait, 48. You are but an egg and if you think you are going to hatch without my help, you might as well go fertilize yourself. Kink: Please, could I just have my number 2 card? I’m just a kid, can’t you see? Sec: You've touched my heart. Enjoy your class. Kink: Saturday? -Sec: Saturday. Now according to Keith, it went like this. She handed him the card, pushed him out the door muttering something about lunch (it was 2:30). He looked at the card, saw it was a No. 3, and they found him some three hours later, saying "Can’t-idiocy-not-deny yumberscrum (phonetic spelling),” his sweaty hands still locked around the doorknob of a totally dark office. Better luck next term, Kinky. Henry A. Christoph,Jr. Graduate-history Corky Boake 9th-psychology Paul Elliot Grad~i{nathematics
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