Editorial opinion' The queen is dead long live equality The Hetzel Union Board has reported a recent murder oi l campus. The victim, 22-year old Homecoming Queen Tradition, has died of blows administered, by campus women's groups and lack of medical attention by the Het zel Union Board Last year the Assocetton for Women Stu dents brutally beat Homecoming - Queen Tradi tion with charges of sexism filed with the Un dergraduate Student Government Supreme Court The court left tradition in critical condition by cutting off her special medical treatment (the 1973 Queen contest) with the specification that treatment could be renewed with non sexist widelines approved by the court. The Hetzel Union Board recently evolved from the University Union Board, which used to Ford needs some be By PATRICK SOKAS of the Collegian Stall ,Oli Pre;adent Ford revealed Tuesday his l)(11 r h nsive and almost in • miprehensible plan to• combat in- Hi• presented as a c9ordinatpd r.u - h,u)r• a poorly coordinated and self- grab bag of proposals. f iird said in tits speech that tie "will pl,iy 'politics - with America's future. - he said it, he denied the • ,iiciTiorit ,v,th his action Tuesday's ~ ,n ,tpon proposal was obviously more AnotLir,inces sake - than directed real progress bunching unrelated programs and ,ruing them a package.:Ford clearly has pat Congress on the spot It Congress ws not pass all the provisions and it iikeh, that it will not -- Ford will be able to point an accusing finger and say. I -, not my fault They dicin t pass my r.ichage. E More importantly. (Ford's package rovealed dearly his orientation toward rig business and against the average American. Hr , proposed investment tax credits tnch would allow corporations and I;,messmen to save almost S 9 billion 1 The Daily Collegian encourages comments on news coverage, editorial policy, and campus and off-campus affairs. .., Letters should be typ written, double spaced, signed by no . . ' more than two person and no longer than 30 lines. Students' • , letters should include the name, term and major of the writer. Letters- t 0 . . Letters should be brought to the Collegian office, 126 Carrie ie, in person so p roper identification of the writer can g i be made, although narres will be withheld on request. If letters ' 1 are received by mail, qie Collegian will contact the signer for 1 verification before publication. Letters cannot be returned. I Hockey fever TO THE EDITOR: I ye been following the letters concerning ice hockey here at PSU and thought my personal experience could • : , (Irt some support tor this relatively new sport on campus. I am a native Pennsylvanian who thoroughly enjoyed her tech school foOtball games and football in general. Then I hose to attenctthe University of New Hampshire. from which I haw transferred this term. and my sport enthusiasm center tied :o ice hotkey At first I was quite reluctant to attend the cones but friends' encouragement got me going and to my owns° the hockey fever struck me to the point of attending over, home game last season so encouraged to know there is interest in ice hockey here and t think it s, an exciting challenge to be able to help , liouuh spectator support to develop a varsity team for PSU l - I,lmpshire started small and has slowly risen into tominence with last year being number one in the East: it can 1.no:•. what hockey s all about..and I challedge my fellow thienls and faculty to do the same, Concert choices TO THE EDITOR. Vt'eli. they have done it againl Once again y•. ~Hiversitv Concert Committee has 817 own poor , cari:ation ano lack of foresight in planning for the Hcmecornino Concert The choice of Forrest Green and two her i.oualty obscure groups has reflected the' committee's ii•eotimfe in selecting top-name artists for University con .,r, In past years Homecoming weekend has represented a feed and clothe the queen (run the contest) -- decided to ingore tradition this year, now •that its duties have narrowed from University-wide to HUB-wide matters. said homecoming queens should be women The queen's death comes pt a time when the rather than homecoming "royal persons," State Board of Education has just passed new which could be men -- because "the foOtball health and physical educatiori l i regulations which team is out there representing the men." state "no rules may be imp red that exclude - .. The death of Homecoming Queen Tradition is girls from trying out for, part cipatingwith and a baby step on the road to the end of sexism. competing on a boys' interscholastic team." The passage of the Title IX regulations would The regulations will go into effect for Penn- be a giant step. sylvania elementary and secondary schools on July f 1975. Hopefully in the very near future there will be At the same time, ,the U.S. Department of no - need for a "queen" to represent women Health Education apd Welfare is holding • because women will have tackled the pedestals hearings on Title IX, which would, if passed, im- ' they used to stand on, and the football team will pose the same tyr4 of regulations on all be out there repiesenting both men and colleges and universities receiving federal, women. funds. ! Long live the liberated woman! At' the same time he is advocating a pcirsonal income tax surcharge. Houk cutting taxes for businesses and raising razes for individuals will curb in-:, flation is anybody's guess. Even his calls for voluntary action reveal a basic insensitivity to the poor„ * Helcalled on , those who cannot buy 5 per cent less food and there are many in that sftuation today to make up that 5 per cent by eating what they used to i thr w in the garbage. The idea would be lau hable if it had not come from the Pre ident of the United States. If he shows little sensitivity, he does demonstrate %in te a flare for semantics. The package included a proposal for 'special unemployment Insurance" for laid; oft workers whose insurance ran out or who :never bothered to subscribe. Apparen ly welfare by any other name would smelt much sweeter Ford also used the occasion to suggest that environmental restrictions be relaxed so that coal - and nuclear power could be used to replace oil. Included in his energy proposals were some good long-range suggestwns. such as developing solar and geothermal energy resources But the President also asked that Leslie LYp-Muhlhauser 7th-food service and housing administration ter ideas natur a l gas be 'deregulated,' a move which by all " - accounts would push the price up considerably. Again', it ip dif ficult to see how such a proposal could be fitted into an anti-inflation "package" except by a man who numbers among his best friends lobbyists for large corporations. a ! The report was probably more im portant for what it did not include. There was no request for price con :,..,owers or power to allocate c two measures which could have • very real effect on inflation_ Instead Ford has chosen the traditional Republican stand of letting well enough alone. even if it's pretty poor. Unfortunately. Congress is hardly fit lo impose more powerful medicine over the head of a President who does not want to administer it. Congress will merely be able to cut some. of Ford's more harmful proposals and add some small measures of its There is an often-used political cliche about trying to kill a fly with a sledgehammer In, the case of inflation, Gerald Ford obviously thinks that he can flail an angry bear into submission with a flyswatter He'll either come to his senes or be torn to pieces. time when Penn State students. alumni. and friends come up to State College for what is supposedly orke of the „biggest weekends of the year We have been lea to expect that Homecoming Concerts usually include well-known artists who have already established reputations and barely need any publicity to sell out There are a lot of popular groups touring the. East Coast at the present time. and I donft see why with better leadership. and a little intliative a first rate concert could have been scheduled. Perhaps the Concert Committee should spend less time boasting about the groups they might be getting and spend more time in serious negotiations with prospective artists who are available Does anybody remember Jefferson Airplane? Ron Shaffer 7th-political science ,Z\ The Collage plot TO THE EDITOR: This is addressed to the Seiberlich- Messerschmidt Gang. This time i you have gone too far. You have betrayed Collage, Motherhood and Apple Pie. You speak of subversives to remove suspicion from yourselves. You are the real subversives You demand justice, fair play and ef ficiency Where do you think you are, off campus? You _should know better than to expect positive action here. It is our af firmed purpose to form organizations to "bilk" money from the USG and cancel meet+ngs. Collage was one of our more , successful operations. At least it was until you blew the whistle Now our Collage people might have to 40 some honest work and planning. They might even have to krish the - thought) hold meetings. Gentlemen, you will surely pay for this dastardly deed. You see, I was that pencil-selling orphan you ran across. Ya, you will pay for zisi Alias Special Agent Orphan Penn State Intelligence Agency This side of the truth Welcome to the Twilight By JACK JACKSON of the Collegian Staff There's a voice in the back of my mind Ihat sounds-like Rod Setting. It keeps saying "You're in the Twilight Zone." I looked around at all my friends, some of my enemies and the guy who's been following me around campus ever since I started writing these columns. I wondered: could I really be in the midst of another dimension where everything is different and unexplainable? "You're about to embark on a strange tourney." Rod Serling tells me. "One that will take you from the inner mind to its outer limits." I thought the Twilight Zone might be a disease. so I , went to Ritenour for a check-up. The doctor looked at me and - hummphed" twice. Then he (took his s,tethOscope and listened to me. Then he made a fist and thumped all over my back and listened again. Last year while the women's groups were beating up Homecoming Queen Tradition, a member of the Homecoming Queen Committee Warped Webster? perhaps not perfectly responsive to student needs. But can anyone seriously believe that in the absence of the Senate the remaining powers. NEA and the administration, will be more TO THE EDITOR: In response to the remark made by Richard responsive"> S. Webster, accusing Chris Bahr of "choking" in the Navy I believe that NEA-PSUPA can now be clearly seen as the upset, I wish to comment. Unfortunately, our society is such threat it truly represents to all of us: students, faculty and that when we fail, we search one individual upon which tisi staff alike. I urge students to keep alive the issue that place blame. In this instance, it was the warped mind of l educational quality and NEA are incompatible. I urge faculty Webster that chose Bahr as his scapegoat. Webster probably and staff members who have signed, authorization cards to found, relief in insulting Bahr. If I were Chris Bahr, I would) express their disapproval of NEA's attempt to degrade definitely investigate the possibility'of filing a suit of slander, ' education at Penn State by revoking those authorizations I naming Webster as the defendant In any event, I hope that urge those who have not yet signed authorization cards to Webster realrzes how recklessly irresponsible his actions were think over this issue before allowing a dues-hungry union to and will refrain from any further display otignorance. I deStroy quality_education at Penn State. -",› l ! Don't sign the TO THE EDITOR: Up to a few weeks ago, it had been easy to view the NEA-PSUPA union as a group of misguided, indeed sometimes comical, individuals who were seemingly incapable 'J DIANE M. NOTTLE of doing the majority of the Penn State community any Editor significant 13,arm. After all, it is difficult to believe that NEA would be abje to muster sufficient staff and faculty suppoii at Penn State-when NEA's record of achievement is so dismal at the unionized universities. It has always been quite clear to me that NEA is far more interested in collecting union dues than in ' protecting 'students or, for that matter, faculty. But now look what they've gone and done to us. According to the Oct. 9th Collegian, the NEA may well be on its way to ilt disbanding the University Faculty Senate. Fantastic. Just ditorial Staff: 865-1828 think—all of the decisions concerning the academic programs I ports Staff: 865-1820 Business Staff: 865-2531 of students will have to be made elsewhere. The Senate is 1 11 Robert Mattes " You're ripe," he announced as he proceeded to sprinkle salt allover me. I ran out of Ritenour to the Un dergraduate Student Government meeting, where I was sure one of the senators could tell me how to end the Twilight Zone. My mind was growing more agitated.. I entered the meeting room as the master of ceremonies was saying, "All right, do we agree that so far we've agreed on nothing?" Every hand in the room except one shot into the air. , "No. no, disagree," he yelled. "You can't disagree on nothing. You've got to disagree on ANYTHING." 1 ran out of •the room, growingi more uncontrollable every minute. The guy following me was.having trouble keeping up. so I slowed down just outside of a classroom where the lecturer was talking about the truth-in-packaging Act. "All products must be labeled clearly and list the ingredients and expiration 'Don't hit him, you brute: Cer two usca, very By 2 of the ': D MONTINI _ .:allegian Staff Most meals excluding breakfast) are 101)(1m:we to cifunversation. Some, at tribute this to q conjecture that talking is eminently prA t ferable to sitting quietly ,ind thinking - abciut the food. Al any rale I 4./4s among a group of 10 students sitlingtaround one of the large tables in PollatA Dining Room C one lunch when we Were having mostaccioli. Having no idea what mostaccioll was. I had enter4o into the meal with, at best. a health ' scepticism and an eagerness lo co verse I was immedia ely put off by the first topic of conversation the mushy mostaccioh: So I began to daydream. The very moment I was about to publish the Great American Novel.• 1 was awakened by the question. "Do you think he'll be im peachecP" There was an unnerving, silencg , as all . eyes fixed upon a dimpled co-ed in overalls sitting across the table from me She nodded her head affirmatively,. There was -a solemn element to her movement He's only a growing boy.' David M. Sullivan I I 2nd-pre-law cards date Because of this, all applications for admission to this University will henceforth carry the inscription: 'College has been shown to be a decay- preventive mentafnce when used in a conscientious program of moral hygiene and regular professorial care.' " I ran back home. I was panting, that's how women are. I know life would gasping and dirty. I needed a shave (it be quieter without women, but I don't was the first even-numbered Thursday know if my. ears could stand it. this month), so I pulled out my new I dialed her number. My phone didn't double-edged razor shaving System With work. At least something was going twolwin blades. Both blades are slightly right. Rod Serling was talking about duller than single edge blades so that Jacques Cousteau and the Galapagos cuts draw less blood. Islands. I ran back outside, frenzied. delerious, half psychotic, wild eyed, looking like I just got up for first period and screamed at the Clouds, "Why are you doing this?" I stopped for a second. A girl walked by me wearing a short skirt. The wind picked up and she hit an updraft. Makes the whole damn Zone worth while. The guy following me finally caught up as I finished shaving. He, was wearing a gray trench coat, a Sherlock Holmes hat and a Groucrici Marx glasses mustache-nose combiration. "Who are you, anyway?" I asked him. "I'm with campus security," he said. Noticing how I was staling at his face he mostaccioli: bad She's a senator.' the person next to me said. while some of the others began nodding along I think it's all a big ioke. - blurted a stocky ag ed major. who was eating his third plate of mostaccioh. The senator registered a political poker face of contemplation, but her hate for apathy flashed beneath it like a neon sign under cellophane. 'Well." she said calmly, "If that's the way you look at it, then you can look at everything that way like a loke " Following the lead of her undaunted logic. I said. If everything is a Joke. then why aren't we all laughing''" As the group ahhhhed at the revelation. I picked up my tray and left. feeling inwardly content Back at my room I related - my story to a friend. in order to feed my con tentment 'The stocky guy was right, you know and so was the senator." he said 'Everything is a joke." But it everything is a joke. then why aren t we all laughing?" I asked - Because." he said. 'lt's a very bad joke " Ahhhhhhhhhhhh =Collegian Successor to the Free Lance, est 1887 • Member of the Associated Press Charter member of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Media Association Zone mumbled something about "standard disguise" and then told me that all the columnists have shadows, "lust to keep you guys honest." Hysterical over my shad Ow. I tried calling up a girl who I could confide in. She always yells and screams at me, but jokes 5024 .4L0f FRTTesr, R. E. Bruneau Instructor in mineral economics CYNTHIA A. ASHEAR Business Manager Business Office Hours: Monday through Friday 9:30 am to 4 p rn.
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