Editorial opinion
Double je:i r pfar's)'#••'
Double jeopardy, said even in a
low whisper, makes the Univer
sity's Office of Conduct Standards
wince. People constantly accuse ,
Conduct Standards of placing'
students in double jeokardy i a
system by which one person
tried in two different courts for the
same crime.
Conduct Standards winces
because it says it operates under
"dual jurisdiction," not •double
jeopardy. But people still get con
fused and yeN "double jeopardy"
at Conduct Standards. 'Maybe
because for all intents ,and pur
poses, they mean the same thing.
There have been other cases of
"dual jurisdiction" in past years,
but the most recent one involVes
an alleged rape at Phi - Gamma
Delta fraternity. In this case, there
is triple jurisdiction with the In
terfraternity Council even taking a
hand in the Matter.
State College police have an in
vestigation going, after which the
HANUICKAII— ISRAEL CELSEUZATES Ilag Ricer9F LIGeiTS
Letters to .
M3-b
TO THE EDITOR: There is something inherently wrong with
your editorial stand on recent Senate action to eliminate
course repeats and to extend the drop period through the
eighth week of the term. The fallacy of your position resides in
your mistaken assumption that the! moral he a rt of Penn State is
internally sound.
i
Through the failure of the now inactive Senate regulations,
which based similar hopes on the integrity of students and . 1 1 1 \ 1 , I
- De c .,
faculty, it is apparent that good intentions are not enough. A TO THE EDITOR: Margaret Miller's letter of De s:des4
large portion of faculty any students seem to believe that some comment. Those 'of Ms.! Miller& ilk like to throi
Senate rules are made to Ibe broken. Loopholes in such words racism and oppression around quite itiosely.:;
benevolent. regulations as the course repeat 14341 invariably beyond comprehension that n intelligent person I
appear, and they do not go unnoticed. In the year that M3-b has support a country that conceiv t e Gulag Archipelago,
oppression around
in effect, the num,ber op filed course repeats has swelled gobbled up half of Europe and al l recentiy as 1968 drove ti
unbelievably. - , - . . into a neighboring country. It is b yqnd cqrnprehension thi
Recent Senate action to deny students, he privilege of M3-b intelligent person could support the bloc of Arab countries
, •
a ,
N i(3o CA ITTAtc3.,i
t
,
r- .." 1 ^- ''s V 1
case will probably go to court.
That's the state's trial an the only
necessary one since tite alleged
crime was a state offense. _
The University for sortie reason,
felt it necessary to conduct its own
hearings. ' Supposedly, this is to
protect stUdents at. the University.
But students at the UniVers!ty, are
also residents of Per nsylvania.
Since the state laws pro:ecti them,
the University% hearings are un
necessary and unfair. j
The University even Stet: s that
federal and I state laws! ap • ly' on
campus in its "Policies and Rules
for Students" booklet: "As c tizens
of the ComefTtlinwealth - • the
Nation, m6mbers of the Uni, ersity
community enjoy the same basic
rights an'd are bound by the same
responsibilities to respect the
rights of others, as are all ctizens.
The carnpuS is not a sanctuary
from the general law."
Assuming that's true, then the
University bears the same respon
was both inevitable and desirable. It Is time that this in
stitution stop making excuses for poor scholarship and turn,
instead, to the fulfillment of its educational objectives In the
Classroom.
The real pigs
,
1 1
sibility as the state toward th
charged with Committing state of ''
fenses. Those accused will go : 1 1
through the courts and emerge
guitty.or innocent. 'The University; :1
in accord wits constitutional law /
could wait u til a court, verdict
were pronounced to , ' pas 6 ,
judgment on ,the accused. .
Instead, asl with the current Phi
Gamma Deltalcase, the University
holds its own peedy hearings:ad- "!
ministers justice, and has the
whole thing I washed from the
University in I no time flat. The
charged fraternity brothers could
be found guilty by the University,
innocent later by'a state court and
guilty again by IFC. ,
Such a ;system confuses
everybody, includiOg tho§e found
guilty, innocent and' guilty. The
daenal code is t dedigned, to bring
criminals to jUstice. But how can -1
we be sure if the accused Is a
criminal if heis both guilty and in
nocent?
English columnist
and samples Woonsocket sherry
By NICK BRETT
Collegian Columnist
Tuesday
Two days to blast off and I'm not really
sure that I ,want to go. They told me
about culture shock before I left
England, bLit this - could be the biggest
trip of the lot, the ultimate In
assimilation l l and acceptance. Would
the "cute" jaccent carry me through?
Would they Ifloor me with one of those
weird Ameriban words 'caboose,
condominium, cabriole, cymatium?
, In two days we'll be meeting around a
turkey me and 27 relatives by marriage
in Boston, Mass.
Paranoia coming on real strong - now
as one more piece of plea bargaining
with Alice fails "What if I was to do
the washing up single-handed for the
next six months?", ... "Laundry?" ...
"Couldn't you say I'm a Seventh Day
Adventist and disagree with
Thanksgiving on moral 'grounds?" ...
"Jehovah's Witness?" ... "I c9u Id always
give thanks bver the phone?"
Wednesday
Friends drop by our apartment on
Tussey MoLintain and I spill all my fears.
To end my babbling they , tell me all
about the W alton's
i TV Thanksgiving last
fall. Apparently Jim-Bob and the rest
recite -in turn what they're thankful for.
Do Seventh IDay Adventists really oppose
Thanksgivirig on moral grounds?
Midnight( and the paranoia's really
digging in.[This insane feeling that I'm
John-boy reincarnated in Happy Valley.
It all fits sleeveless sweaters, wire
rims, the desire to a journalist. 'We
learnt many,thinigs on the Mountain, not
least the meaning of Thanksgiving spent
the Editor
with the ones we loved most dearly
Good night, John-boy.
Thursday
No listing for Seventh Day Adventists
in the phone book. A nice lady at
telephonene information assures me
that the Plymouth Brethren do celebrate
Thanksgiving. remember Jerry
Schwartz telling me not to buy him a
Christmas {resent a mad fleeting
moment of 11opei Does Jerry eat turkey,
pump Kin pie, peanut butter (and jelly)?
Maybe tone of those pint posts who eat
Palestinian rice (Deut. 11:44)' and write
those endless boring letters to the
Collegian (Kings 23:16) can tell me if
turkeys are kosher (Ecc. 19:31)? Sanity
briefly restored as I decide agqjnst
circumcision as a way of dodging
Thanksgiving.
Positively no way out now. Noon and
we're cruising through limerick country
Pawtucket, Nantucket, Woonsocket,
Squibnocket. Mentally note that I'd
better not mention over dinner where
we've' been. Botind to get tongue-tied
and come out wrong.
No possible escape now. There they
all are 27 varieties of instant family:
Glasses steam' up and I become
hopelessly embroiled in one of those
endless courtesy exchanges ... "I-Now do
you do?" ... 'Very well, thAnk you"
"That's nice" .... "Yes indeed." Probably
one of my worst moments since I got
stuck in a rut of 15 "Thank yous" and
"Your Welcomes" with a waitress in
Burger King.
Fortunately my brother-in-law, God
bless. him, comes to the rescue. With
teenage cunning he suggests showing
would just as'soon puke on their Palestinian "brothers" as help
them out, or support a country which expels all ,those of a
different race such as Uganda, or torture and brainwash all
those who disagree with the ruling class, as in China.
The real pig and oppressors are working dVertime to spread
their message, usually by force. And they have been suc
cessful. Because with all the horrible injustice in the world,
Ms. Miller can't see any farther than to attack about the only
two countries left in the world where the average man can find
a place in the sun, even if he has to overcome disorimination.
i The bedraggled remains of a truly oppressed peoPle have put
together a working nation, and this causes her to wallow in
self-righteous indignation.
Before the last remains of freedom and dignity on this earth
;go down the drain, I suggest Ms. Miller put herself down where
!she, can join her friends the Russians and Ugalndans and'
:perhaps find out what oppression really means.
Mikei Antisko
041•Encil ish
the
lit is
' r ould
and
tanks
iat an
si that
Ws a funny thing about the free marketplace of ideas.
Sonietimes it's glutted; sometimes the stalls are empty.
We need Some help in restoring a little trade to the
marketPlsce. We're looking for some people to write columns
for the editoiial page, to share ideas and opinions with the
University community.
Qualifications are few. Columnists must be students, and
must be prepared to write columns on a weekly basis.
More impOrtantly, columnists should have an interesting
perspective on issues, lifestytes and ideas. And abOve
proppective columnists must -be able 'to write in O.clear, in
teresting aft hopeful ly eotertaining way ideas are nothing if
nobody bothers to read.them.
Columnists doltot hatm to be journalism students we'd
like a variedLsarnpling 'of people. Most of all, we want to; im
prove and expand debate and discussion among our readers.
If you'd liket to help out, stop into the Collegian office, 128
.Pamegie Su d ay or Monday night, -and talk to Sheila
McCauley. If , kdssible, bring a sample column or sample-of
Your writing.
-t
~~
The Daily Collegian encourages comments on news coverage, editorial policy and campus
and off-campus affairs. betters should be typewritten, double spaced, signed by no more
than two persons and .io, longer than 30 lines. Students' letters should include the name.
term and major of the vijriter.
Letters should be brought to the Collegian office, 126 Carnegie, in person so proper
identification of the writ4r can be made, although names can be withheld on request. If
letters are received by mail, the Collegian will contact the signer for verification before
publication. Letters canriot be returned.
(Wanted
• "
•
eets relatives
me up to my room. Safe behind locked
doors he produces a bottly of liberated
sherry and begins administering it in
large' doses. One empty bottle later I
come to the conclusion it was brewed in
Woonsocket. He runs through the
relatives one by one sketching in their
hob6le4 jobs,' peculiarities etc.
Everything begins to get blurred
Woohsooket's done its job and I'm
having Problems remembering if it's
Uncle Ben who played defense for Navy
or' wrote "A Connecticut Guide to
Mosses and Lichens."
I'm I dragged screaming and
hallucinating from the bedroom and by
God —'!Take not the Lord's name in
vain." (Gen. 12:42), Name Withheld —,
there itl is, a turkey the size of Frank
Cannon
Som+ody mentions the bicentennial
nd 27 pairs of eyes home in one me. Try
rguing`that I'm half-Welsh, but they're
not having any. I realize that ,ir‘l'm to
escape Ithis holiday with my life I had
ietter h mor them. I refer frequently and
, espect ully to the American Revolution
in every unbiised English school
book i's called the War with the
Coloni and omit the fact that
=renchea power won the war.
Wave of hot and cold Woonsocket
pass o er me interspersed with this
insane lclesire to leap up and toast the
iueen. ',Paranoia now totally -in control,
s the table begins a death spin, hurtling
out of focus, and . 27 grunting
Masticating faces leer at me across the
table.
, Suddenly it's t?iere on my plate a
huge pile of psychedelic orange matter:
Michael Berlin M.D.
University Health Services
The kind of thing they'd eat on Star Trek. ~
Should I stage a faint? Decide against
this for two reasons the chances of a'
genuine faint in the near future are very -
real considering I've been mixing'
Woonsocket with cider and, secondly,
maybe I'll need my phony faint later t• -
stall the pumpkin pie. The word' comes
down the table that it's sweet potatoes. I
praise the Lord that it isn't sweet
potatoe-pancakes-with-mapl e-syrup
and-marshmallow and take a tentative
nibble. A veteran of 14 years of English
schools dinners (VOESD), I can now
reveal that sweet potatoes rank better
than tripe and worse than casserole of -
heart.
Curious sensation in my neck,
possibly early signs of botulism brought ,
on §,y sweet potatoes. Realize that I can't
turn my head. Snatches of conversation
float by. To my right the Connecticut
Uncle is explaining to my brother-in-law ,
the difference between a Dartmouth type
and a Cornell type. I notice with real ~
pleasure the look of total bewilderment ,
on my brother-in-law's face obviously
the Woonsocket has been getting to him
too. Maybe even, the sweet potatoes.
Ta my left two MIT relatives ar
dismissing some experiment involving a
revolving plate of sweet potatoes and
Scotch tape. Maybe I could join and
accidentally drop my sweet potatoes?
Well that .does it. Coming down the
table towards me is a piece of pumpkin
pie the,size of a roof, tile. In a moment of
sheer genius prompted I'm sure by the
buzz you get off Woonsocket I grabbed
at the Scotch tape. "Have you seen this
one?"
Definitions
TO THE EDITOR: Rubin's letter in the Collegian of 12-9-75
quotes the unabridged Webster's dictionary definition of
Zionism as "A theory, plan, or movement for setting up 'a
Jewish national. or religious community in Palestine." The
dictionary says, in fact, something quite different: "Among
the modern Jews, a theory, plan, or movement for colonizing
their own race in Palestine, the land of Zion, either for religious
or nationalizing purposes." Evidently Mr. Rubin found it
necessary to twist the above definition in his letter in order to
obscure the obvious racism and colonialism of Zionism. One
must question the right of the Zionist movement to create a
national Jewish state in a Palestine already inhabited by '-
others. .
The Zionist movement, which seeks exclusive possession of•
Palestine for the Jews, caused the majority of the U.N.
members to recognize and coidemn its racist nature.
A„growing number of the Jewish people have also realized
the racism inherent in Zionism and are turning away from it,
e.g. the Matzpen party of Israel.
The continuing isolation of Israel and the growing support
for the PLO and its practical solution of a secular (non
religious, non-racist) state in Palestine is the true hope for a
lasting peace in the Middle East.
:Collegian
JERRY SCHWARTZ
Editor
Mailing Address: Box 467, State College, Pa. 16801
1 Office: 126 Carnegie
BOARIYOF EDITORS: MANAGING EDITOR, Dave Morris: EDITORIAL
EDITOR. Sheila McCauley: EDITORIAI. ASSISTANT, Karen Fiscrter.
NEWS iTOR, Kuhnhena; ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR, Paula
Gochnour; WIRE IiDITOR,44in
,Seinger, COPY EDITORS, Maria
Green. Deannp Finley, Elm* Turner:. FEATURES EDITOR, Cathy
Cipola; SPORTS EDITOR, rJeff Young; ASSISTANT SPORTS
EDITORS, Gorden' Rain, Brian Mier; PHOTO EDITOR, Eric Fetack:
ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITORS, Juie Cipolla.Tcp Peters. •
I • )
• • I,
Sabah A. Wall
graduate-physiology
ROBERT A. MOFFETT
Business Manager