Editorial opinion
The ilniversity administration is taking full ad
vantage of the idea that all is fair in love and
war. While its battle with faculty union
proponents over the Faculty Senate as a com
pany union has quieted, its battle over the use
of the University mailing service has flared up
again.
University President John W. Oswald used
the service to send the faculty a letter saying
that he opposes unionization and that faculty
members should study the good and bad, points
of Unionization before making a decision. The
administration also used the service to mail
three other letters concerning unionization to
the faculty.
However, the administration; will not permit
the American Association of University Pro
fessors or the Pennsylvania State University
Professional Association to use the mails. A
paradox. Oswald wants the faculty members to
find out about unionization, but he does not
want the union organizers to use the mails to in
form them. That’s his weapon.
University Provost Russell Larson claims,
“The administration does not wish to restrict
the flow of ideas.” It’s just University policy that
the mailing system cannot be used for personal
or profitable reasons, he explains. This is a
logical policy, since it prevents faculty mem
bers from receiving loads of junk mail.
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But it is hard to understand now AAUP and
PSUPA’s use of the mail service to explain their
viewpoint would be using it for personal or
profitable reasons if the administration’s use of
the mail service to explain its viewpoint is not
using it for a personal or profitable reason.
It is also hard to believe that the ad
ministration does not wish to restrict the flow of
ideas. Since AAUP and PSUPA were forbidden
to use the mail service, organizers were forced
to stuff faculty mailboxes by hand.,. But in Oc
tober AAUP' newsletters were taken out of
faculty mailboxes in the College of Agriculture,
and last spring PSUPA newsletters disap
peared from mailboxes in the colleges of Earth
and Mineral Sciences and Human Develop
ment. All these newsletters were returned later,
but these incidents show that certain ad
ministrators do wish to slow, if not halt,,the free
flow of ideas and that hand-mailing is un
satisfactory.
It is not as if the administration permits only
University organizations to use the mail service.
The administration allowed the United Fund to
solicit contributions from the faculty with letters
mailed by the University service.
William Rabinowitz of AAUP, recommended
to the Faculty Senate that it recommend to
Oswald new guidelines for the use of the mail
Dining hall record
TO THE EDITOR: In response to the many complaints I’ve
heard about dining hall food. I wanted.to lake this Opportunity
o defend rhe poor cooks.-Their food is great. Home-cooked
u s not. but by dormitory standards the meals here at Penn
S are are in a class all their own.
One reason is variety. Where else but at Penn State can you
get meals ranging from crisp mock drumsticks (that taste real
but lack ••roublesofre bones) sauteed with piping hot tomato
and rmishroom sauce, to tendej chunks of beef fricasefe
cooked in their own juices and geiTtlyJaid on firm non-sticking
rice 9 You get sumptious dishes like these three times a day
with not one. but two main courses each meal. To top it off,
you can eat as much as your little stomach desires. Can you
mothers beat that?
Another 'hing .that impresses me is dining hall economics,
or how to get the most out of something. The University saves
us students a lot of money by recycling perfectly good food
hat wasn't quite used up in one meal. A typical day’s menu is
as follows. For breakfast they serve a main course of
scrambled eggs. The main attraction at lunchf time i.s, you
guessed it. egg salad, and for dinner they servg meat pies
madejfrom yesterday’s leftover sloppy joes, whiqfi were in turn
make from leftover hamburger from two days ago. Mk Strubel,
I'm sorry o say this, but you co,didn’t have done any better.
Byjnow you can see that dining at Penn Sta(e is better than
ea:jng at home. The clincher, and the last point I want to bring
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service which would allow AAUP and PSUPA to
use it. But since Oswald already has come out
against faculty unionization, it is doubtful that he
would ever approve a policy giving the union
organizers this opportunity to explain the good
points of unionization to the faculty.
The administration has set up a committee to
review the policy on the use of the mail service
to see if changes are possible. This is. just
another stalling tactic, i
If the War were played fairly, the union
organizers would be able to use the mailing ser
vices without a change in the policy.
Larson says the service can be used only for
official University business, which he describes
as "education, research and expansion."
By using the mails to express their view
points on faculty unionization, AAUP'and
PSUPA would be educating the faculty and ex
panding their knowledge of the subject. AAUP
and PSUPA would be making research on the
topic much easier for faculty members—all
they would have to do is read the newsletters
from PSUPA and AAUP along with the letters
from the' administration that they received in
their mailboxes.
Didn’t your mother ever tell you to play nice,
President Oswald? Be fair. Let your opponents
use the rAail service, too.
up. is :he dining hall safety record. No one has died from
eanng in one yet this year. What more could you ask?
Yes, we have no ribs
TO THE EDITOR: Finally the day has arrived. I've trudged all
over Stale College for the last three hours and I’m really
dragging. However, it is 5:35 p.m., and as l move towards the
PUB for dinner my gait picks up and I am consumed by a
heated, almost passionate desire. Why is today so different?
It's because I know what lies ahead, what I’ve craved for the
last wo days: barbecued spareribs! It's not that the ordinary
cuisine of :he dining halls isn't exquisite, but even the most
delicious of delicacies can lose the magic touch after repeated
consumption. I know it is hard to match such excellent fare as
chicken steaks, Welsh rarebit and beef patties (recycled
Caines Burgers?), but spareribs are considered by many to be
superb, matchless, in fact, almost edible!: Now I’m ap
proaching the counter. My taste buds’arel tingling-and my
ongue is convulsing in wild undulating movements. Disaster
strikes' "My God, where are they?" I see a tray of yesterday’s
roast beef and today's turkey a la king, but no ribs! As the girl
answers in response to my puzzled expression that the ribs are
gone. I caq feel tears come to my eyes and a cold sweat break
out on my forehead. In bewildered, frustrated anguish, I sit for
a half hour staring at the mangled slab of leather on my tray
and then leave in a state of total disillusionment.:
I'm noi greedy, Mr. Mueller, but I plead with you to try and
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gram us the simple things of life which we are promised. I
know you operate under a great deal of constraints and we
can't expect chicken steaks every day. but please have mercy.
After all. we are only prisoners ot ouremotions.
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DIANE M. NOTTLE
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