Editorial opinion Voter In a little over a month students registered in State College will vote in primaries for county of fices. The primaries decide little but they’re important for students because it’s one of the only ways candidates have of knowing how many stbdents are concerned about local government. The Collegian receives many let- ' ters speaking for the State College Human Relations Ordinance. Or: complaining about landlords or • bike regulations downtown. But, students, because most of them ■ Letters to the Editor Love doesn't conquer oil , make the world revolve By EARL DAVIS Collegian Columnist A coed died last week and Pehn Towers added another unfortunate notch on its continuing reputation as the Happy Valley version of-the Golden Gate Bridge. I didn't haapen to know the young lady in question But I didn't-have to. Her desperate action has. in itself. told me much more about her now that she’s no longer here to do that (or herself. Only a power higher than ours can deduce, after thle tragic fact, why she fell—or threw—herself off that balcony. Care to take an unenlightened stab .at the answer? Fear? Anger? Frustration, maybe? Any or all. Or others unknown. What we’re left with is the unfortunate Known Quantity, that] of one spontaneous plunge into oblivion. Or, for gdl we know..:.peace. Did anyone of you bother to let this girl’s death affect you? Once you heard it or read about it, were you moved to some emotion? Of condolence? Or mercy? Compassion, even? In short, simply that woefully lacking quality in ourj society called: sensitivity? Or was it, in your mind, another given of college life? i ; A young man was killed a few years ago in that vary same apartment building in the very same fashion. But I kjnow the song, so what else is new, right - ’ What is new, and will] keep on being new until some outraged soul starts to sit! up and WILLOW CREEK FARM RIDING STABLE will reopen for the season on Saturday, April 12, and will remain open for weekend business for the month of April from 10:00 a.mi'to 7:00 p.m. Effective May 1, the stable will open froiji 10:00 - 6:00 week days and 9:00 - 7:00 on weekends (earlier or later by reservation only). We again make available to you this year all of the following: Hourly Trail Rides Lessons : Boarding Blacksmith Pony Rides Sales Horses, Tack Breaking & Training Registered Appaloosa Stud Service Available again this year also are all those special group rides which you enjoyed so much in the past seasons such as the Breakfast Rides Overnight Campouts Moonlight Trail Rides & Steak Dinner Trail Ride & Weiner Roast: New this year is our membership program which for a membership fee of $lO.OO fbr individual or $25.00 for families offers you all of the following: • 1) Riding rates of $3.50 per person instead of the usual $5.00 per hour fee -2) Ten percent discount of sale of horses 3) Five percent discount of sale of ta'ck 4) Five percent discount on special group rides £ 5) Five percent discount on boarding or training fees For horseback riding pleasure, remember the name CREEK FARMS j— located on route #350 north of Water Street Intersection/ registration onlyspend four years here, don’t register to vote in State College to try to improve conditions. Students don’t seem to realize what a great potential voting bloc they have. No candidate will defy thousands of voters lobbying for him to prqtect their interests. They know a thousand votes make all the difference in many elections. The USG elections discouraged many students from voting because they knew USG couldn’t change legislate their problems away quickly. But local govern Fun City TO THE EDITOR: My thanks to Mr. Guthlein for pointing out a few unkn’own facts about New York City in his article ap pearing in the Collegian of April 7th. Having lived in and around. New York for 20 years, I had no ideas that we held a monopoly on the world’s oldest profession. What a fool I've been; all this time using my father’s credit card for gasoline. Shouldn't something be done about this? Someone-should bring an anti-trust suit against the city of New York. Why should New Yorkers have all the. fun? Share the wealth! I ,imagine that eventually we could even franchise it to less fortunate and less imrporal folks around the country. What about this Master-Charge commercial done by Rod Serling? Agreed, Master-Charge evidently did not originally intend their credit cards to be.used to pay for “services ren dered," but suppose that Jack Webb had done the commercial. Would people be using travelers checks? Meanwhile, I'm justj waiting for the end of May to roll around. Sodom and Gomorrah? “Fun City" must be !the un derstatement of the decade. ! A fair chance TO THE EDITOR: 1 am appealing to someone, anyone, to answer a question that has been bothering me for quite sometime. In all activities at PSU where there are a limited number of students who can be on the team or squad there is a competitive selection- process that an individual must go through successfully in order to be awarded a ■position. If an individual is lucky enough to make the squad and is still eligible the following year, he or she must again compete to regain his position. This, to me, is only fair and logical since the possibility does exist that there may be people trying out decipher the undertones of acts like these, is that the act didn’t occur at this young woman's home. Or her hometown church. Or eyen in her hometown, period. It occurred —right here. In so-called Happy Valley. Does that say something to anyone besides me? There are those among us (few in number, I grant you) who have the crazy idea that a student’s life is made up of pure gravy. I mean, let's examine this: grants to live by (for.those fortunate enough to receive them), food stamps to eat by (by those needy enough to deserve them) and swell apartment houses to live in (often more elaborate and better equipped than many of the mortgaged ones our parents live in). s The best of all possible worlds, as some seer once said.. We, the lemming-like students, have got it made. The more of us that come, the more luxuries are bestowed upon our fun loving, don't give a damn, free and easy, sexually emancipated selves. After all, all we have to do is get up, go to class, go to labs, study for exams, keep the cums in the stratosphere and finally, begorra, graduate. And woe be the hapless (forget that he or she may be crying out for help) individual who, amidst all this accumulated bliss and honey, dares to be.-..different. Out of line. Angry. Hurt. Betrayed. Ignored. Unlived. Unwanted. Frustrated. , | Why? Oh, perhaps because people, especially young people, are prone to put their faith in what they're told are ment doesn’t have to answer to administrators. And if students are concerned enough to vote for can didates they know can represent their interests well, things can : im prove a lot in State College. But if students don’t register, no Candidate will look at student voters as a powerful lobby ] and conditions will not change. Let the League of Women Voters make you a registered voter this week in Glehland Building. Give yourself a chance to improve State College. Two Cultures Dialogue, 12 noon, Room 189 Materials Research Laboratory. “Assessment of Creative Endeavor; Research in the Arts and Humanities.” Dr. John B. Smith, english, and Dr. Verene, philosophy. • Noontime Concert, Saxaphone Quartet, 12:15 p.m., lobby of Kern. The Spanish Theatre Repertory Company of New York in “El lugar donde mueren los mamiferos” (The Place Where the Mammals Die), 8 p.m., Schwab. The per formance is sponsored by the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Phi Delta j Kappa initiation ceremony for fifty new members, 5 p.m., HUB auditorium, conducted by International President Howard M. Sewell. Speaker, College of Education Dean Henry J. -Hermanowicz, on “Social Ecology in Education.” USG panel discussion on “Mid-East Peace Possibilities,” 8 p.m., HUB assembly room. . [ “Noondays,” devotibnal service, 12 noon, Eisenhower Chapel. Rev. Donal Davies. Alard Stririg Quartet, 8 30 p.m., Music Bldg, recital hall. Artists Series film, Charles Chaplin in “Limelight,” 8:30 p.m., University Auditorium. Sports: Baseball, vs. Lafayette, 3:30 p.m, FSHA 410 dinner, 5:30 p.m., Maple Room, Human Development. “Early France,” reservations required, 865-7441. ! SEMINARS Remote 1 Sensing, 2:30 p.m., Room 225 Electrical Engineering West. Dr. Harmar A. ' Weeden, civil engineering, on “A First Look at Skylab Photography.” Biochemistry, 4 p.m.. Room 101 Althouse. Ross D. Brown, 4r., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, on “The Cellulase System of Trichoderma Viride.” Penn State Mining Engineering p.m., Room 26 Mineral Sciences. D.C. Torre;-vice-president for marketing, Long-Airdox Company, on “Long-Airdox Continuous Face Haulage System.” Commonsplace Theatre, “The Maltese Falcon,” 7:30 and 9:30 p.m., Room 112 Kern. Museum of Art—Works by Will Barnet, Gallery A. Selections from the Permanent Collection, Gallery B. Lee Krasner, Collages and Works on Paper, Gallery C. Zoller Gallery—"lnvisions 1975”—faculty-student portfolio. Eadweard Muybridge, a traveling exhibition. Pattee Library Photgraphs, “Faces of Prague,” by Cynthia Begnal. Chambers Gallery Brent Wilson, Leon Alters, art education, Painting and Sculpture. i Photographyt Gallery, 212 A Arts Bldg. Walker Evans Portfolio. Kern Gallery Prints, Drawings, Photographs by graduate students. HUB Gallery “French Cheeses and Wine,” French Embassy Exhibit. Pollock Lounge—Origami, opening April 9. that are better than the previous squad. However, I do find one exception—in cheerleading, which perhaps is one of the more glamorous and prestigious activities. Why is it that the cheerleaders do not have to try out each year? Why are they extended this privilege which others are not? Some of the explanations I have been given in the past donit seem valid. For instance, they need the old cheerleaders to teach the cheers and dances to those who are trying out. Baloney! Other organizations learn new routines and strategies every year for try-outs and seem to cope with the situation. To make matters even worse, the old cheerleaders have a say in who gets eliminated and who doesn't, at least for the first two cuts. Don't you think they might be just a little biased? No, 1 am not orie of the unfortunate, frustrated people who has been through this ordeal. However, I have observed the try-outs and questioned the system with no justifiable answers as of yet. I realize what I am proposing may make cheerleading try-outs a more difficult task but at least it would give everyone a fair chance. Sexist photo William Purkins 6th-psychology TO THE EDITOR: Your paper on April 4 was clearly an exercise in bad taste. For some time now I have been under the impression that it is a newspaper's responsibility to serve the needs of its readers. Obviously the Collegian doesn't think so. To devote alpiost half a page to a blatantly sexist picture and in the same issue cut to shreds a story dealing with women’s interests is certainly not serving anyone's needs. Or presenting :women in the context they wish to be seen. Not just as-pretty pictures to dress up your page but as real people who.move, talk, function creatively. -Which is exactly what the women's art festival hoped to show. Vickt Warren tried to'Sxplain this in her article “Woman’s Festival Lacks Funds" but all of that was somehow lost in the things that’ll never turn on them, as if such wondrous creations exist in this finite vale. We put our values in everything everyone except ourselves. We-always nurture and build up someone else’s self esteem and confidence and ego before we perform that complex service to ourselves.' We keep on valued faith into things. Never people. Realpeople. Pfeople who don’t go through life as if all is peaches and cream,' people who get depressed and shot ind taken advantage of and left alone in a world already far too impersonal for its own ultimate good. And yet, these people...they are the ones who will go on. And strive. And, once in a very great while, achieve. And affect your life profoundly. Things are just that —things. Things are transient. They don’t last:' They don't bleed. They don’t really give a damn. And when students run up against things that don’t respond student lash out. One way. Or the other. Bob wherever r you are, it may please you to know that your frustrated lashing out, however vicariously, at a system you were emotionally constipated by—has “had sonrte effect. Afterrthe fact, of course. You made a real dent, Bob, old boy (aside from the obvious ones, I mean). For, out at Shields last w„eek, in the - waning days of drop-add and pre-registration, there were a stack of yellow packets detailing the why’s and wherefores of dropping, adding and repeating a course. So no UNIVERSITY CALENDAR Wednesday, April 9 SPECIAL EVENTS MEETING EXHIBITS skeleton copy you chose to print It is a shame whoever edited that particular article did not go one step further and cut he£ name, for the story as it appeared was not what she written. I was lucky to read it at the Collegian before it was edited, rearranged and remade into a blase bit of information - 1 It is obvious that the Collegian has chosen to tiptoe their way arounij any isslie which smacks of controversy and I think the time has come tfor you to re-evaluate your position. Are you going to be a viable .force responsive to students needs and interests or a stage jfor sexist staff member Eric Felack to show off his shots? j Using a half page to run a posed picture shot with a pre conceived notion o| displaying a woman as a sex object is both deceptive and degrading and has no place in any newspaper let alone a newspaper! staffed by students who are supposedly enlightened, and above the sexist sickness that l>a,s prevailed for centuries. ! ’ Name Withheld JERRY.SCHWARTZ Editor Successor to the Free Lance est 1887 Member of the Associated Press Editorial policy is determined by the Editor Opinions expressed b$ the editors and staff of The Daily Collegian ■are not necessarily those of the University administration faculty or : students ■ one else will ever, hopefully, repeat'your action You were frustrated. Bob Ross, and—right or wrong, rationally or irrationally, physically or intellectually—you got rid of that frustration. But you paid the price for it. As did that young student last week. Yet the question must be asked for both of you: at what price were the consequences of your actions? Expulsion for one. Death for the other. See, I happen to disagree with that archaic notion—however one wants to romantically subscribe to it—that love conquers all and makes the world revolve. I believe the most powerful human emotion is anger. Because people dan resist and deny love; they can physically remove themselves, if they wish, from any manifestations of affection. But no!one can escape the consequences of anger, externally or internally, publically or privately, near or far Frustration is simply the other side of it. If you don’t buy my thesis, then look at the world outside of us and then tell’ me what reflection is to be found there. If that’s a representation of love, include me out. I may be excessively biased in my belief. Indeed, some will say that everybody is frustrated, from Oswald on down, it’s possible, in varying degrees. However, correct me if I'm wrong but...when was the last time you heard of an administrator or professor taking dp sky-diving—without the chute? That’s what I thought Mailing Address -Box 467, State College. Pa 16801 Office 126 Carnegie . Linda Skyrnt 9th-spanisti ROBERT MOFFETT Business Manager
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