Editorial opinio It's not at all surprising that some members of Gov. Shapp's House Labor Relations Committee are making not-so-wisecracks about gays. Any legislature narrow enough to refuse 18-year-olds alcoholic beverages, ist bound to be -equally intolerant towards homosexuals. Ralph Garzia, D-Delaware, was the most eloqiient. "I think it's best not havin"em nowhere. Let's get rid of 'em," he philosoptezed last week. His remarks typified the slurs made by other committee members. The committee has nothing to do with whether gays should or should not exist in Pennsylvania. The committee's job is to consider only whether gays should be ban From the editor Personally, it' By JERRY SCHWARTZ Collegian Editor The chairperson of the Doomsday Society last night said that unless personkind changes drastically, life as we.know it is doomed ... Check the dictionary. There is no such word as chairperson. just as there is no such word as personkind. One doesn't person a lifeboat, nor does one yell 'person alive!" An exaggeration? Yes. But there are people, mostly ardent believers in womens' liberation, who would change the language you read in the newspaper to suit their political aims whether or not that change is warranted. The change is not warranted; Words like mankind, chairman and spokesman do not imply masculinity as Theodore Bernstein, copy editor for the NeW York Times wrote recently, "We should realize that 'man't'in one meaningways has been and still is a generic term for numan being and when used as such carries no sense of masculinfty." There you have it. "Man" is often used in a neuter way, much in the spirit of German "mensch." A spokesman is not necessarily a man: mankind is not the socieo 9tof men. Letters to Naughty allovied to travel out of their ghettoes without military passes, - they are not alldwed to serve in government or civil service TO THE EDITOR: I feel compelled to respond to Sabah Wall's (ther are Arabs 'even within the, Israeli Parliament), and are letter of 12-12-75 regarding definitions. Sabah, you have been cont nually ha sed in a manner reminiscent 'of Nazi Ger very naughty! It's against the laws of civilized man (woman) to manyi,for docu ented evidence of this, and other examples of lie I looked up the definitio of Zionism, arid found Rubin's racism in the is mic Arab nations, urge you to write Sehator quote true to Webster's ren ring. Your definition, however, Church in Washi gton, D.C: looks as though it was to n straight from the PLO (Sic) YOu ask us to sieve that the invitation of Yassir Arafat and handbook on inciting riots, racism, and generally 'not nice his band of tern ists, to the land of Israel, will bring peace. things.' Evidently you found - lit necessary to take your Please be serious! Look at his rec d. Thrbwn out of Egypt, definition from 'yellow material,' as no modern, free thinking throWn out of Jordan, and now, broiled, in a battle to the press, uses the phrase 'colonizing their own race' in reference death of all Christians in Lebanon. hese, are his true feelings taZionism. fora secular state in the Holy Lan . On Oct. 20, 1973, while The implication in your 'definition' (Sic) is, of course, speaking in Arabic tole delegation f Palestinian (Sic) leaders , racism. I defy you to show me a paragraph, sentence,pr even he skated, "We shall never have pea -ID long as there is even one word in Zionist literature or ideaology, which is Implicitly, one alive in occupied Palest' e_n (makes no qualms blatently: or even subtly racist. Now, If you must see racism, about the fact tbat should he ever possession of the-West look' at those countries which ;voted for the , so-called UN Rank - of 'the Jordan River, he will eit es.a springboard for resolution which is aimed at the debasement of Jews all anat.k on, the State of Israel,' with t aim of total destrublion. around the world (camouflaged by using the word Zionist). In ,Alprace loving-n;n? ; I Uganda. idi Amin has Ilauolitered up to 250,000 human beings tSabaho urge ou t remember t t Israel was cre4d by a for being non-Ugandan_ In Saudi Arabia, they have .forbiltdeh voter in the UN, hot some cone ring Jewish army plowing American companies working there to hire American Women, through the Holy with , supersbnic Arai, and tanks. It Dark Ages ned frorh working as state policemen, prison guards or at other state institutions) The issue is an old one. Gov. Shapp slready vetoed a biN that would have banned suph state em ployment. But the I legislature wdritgto have another go at elimin ating gays from the state payroN.. The fear is that gays will use their , authority as state poficemen whatever, to get sexual favors. Whatever the outcome of this latest attempt, it's_going to upset a lot of people, gays and' heterosexuals both. And because the issue is such a sensitive one, thoughtful, objective' legislators should deal with thej bill. Instead, we have blatantly prejUdiced . com- I mittee members who show no I think our readers understand that, just as most people! understand that. Yet the mass media have felt pressure from some parts of the com munity to change the langpage In some way to avoid the suffix "-man," or any other letter combination that smacks of sexism to them. George Orwell called it politicization of the English language. Any time the language is perverted for political encia, whether it be for "preventive reaction strikes" or personkind, there is an at tempt underway to mold minds. Humpty Dumpty, in "Alice in Vonderland," claims that the meaning oa word isn't important 7 - just what he wants. it to mean. These people agree and they want, to be the masters of both the meaning of. words and working of mind a. ~ This is riot to 'say that t he language shouldn't change it ch nges all the time to met the needs ,df a changing world. • Bul newspapers and political groups shouldn't dictate! change: Change should come when the people who read the language and ! speak it male the change— not before. i 'And this is not to say that women are at all unjustified in proteatinnale- E TI dominated society. As Be steiwitee, "Women have enough r al issues of reasoning in prefer . to general ra problem exi • Most tis, laws change when attitudes change. ;The r dedriminali lion "of marijuana 'in many state r t, has come about as a result of attitude changes about the harmfulness of grass, The, 18- year-old drinking age comes about in states where legislatures realize society now considers 18-year olds to be responsible citizens. The Penhsylvania legislature, however, I has consistently remained i a Dark Age when it comes, to attitude changes. This • final slur: against gays may very well keep it there. One cynic's 'tidy Mlle sunbeam' Memo to Sheila and Jerry You wanna know what it is 1 ; 0 1 really like to do in one of my upcoming columns? Just for a switch, you un derstand,. only for a change, simply as a radical re evaluation of everything under our sun. I would really get off trying to write a positive assessment l for once. A communique as devoid of cynicism as I could possibly make it.`Digg I'm sure you catch my drift. A pice. on the holiday spirit, perhaps, or maybe even a tidy little sunbeam bereft of..my usual and.customarr societal gripes and grumblings.l Something almost intimately sincere, if you will. Risky? Hell, yes. Worth a try, though, methinks . W h at's the verdict, gang? Think It'll play? Before I go any further, I feet towe you two some sort of explanation for this suddenly intense desire to repent in print. Seel Sheila and Jerry (I would put you first, Jer, but you knoW how finicky females are these days about billings and such), what happened 'was thusly no, wait, lemme back up a sec. See, I was out at the Mall the other day and ... well, something hit me. Matter of fact, it smacked me right upside the head. No, it wasn't the usual Archie Bunker-isms that ordinarily abound up here (and without Carroll O'Connor's redemming qualities, too, Fright add). No, this was something completely different. It was an . event that only comes around once a year. Right about now, to be nit-pickingly exact about it. 'Twas a voice. A soothing voice. Quite pleaiant. Almost irresistible. Of a man (and nyahhhh to you there, Sheila, babeeee). The gentleman has since departed this cosmically moital spitball we call Earth; in fact, he died almost &decade ago. But that's the glorious thing I about talent, any kind of talent: if it's genuine, there's really no such thing astverstaying its welcome. He's a siriger, by-the way. An original. Now, naturally, I'm aware that you rarely find bdth descrip tions in the same sentence, usually with good reason. ridiculous equality that they are justified in fighting fcir withourdevoting energy to such trivia .... Above all, let's not make the Times look silly." Let's not make women look silly, either. Let's drop these perversions of the language. We ran a very depressing story on the frpnt page Friday. It wad about students and the holidays and aboi.it the suicide that sometimes occurs on festivals like Christmas. IWe received a call the next day from a Woman in town. She had read the story and she was very concerned. She wanted to help by taking in several students for the holidays, l giving them Christmas dinner and making their lives a let more bearable. We referred her to some people who could help her out. Sometimes, working on a newspaper can be a very rewarding experience. A note on our columnists: Articles on this page are the opinions of the authors. This extends even to the editorials, which are my opinion. None of the columnists can claim to be the voiceof the Collegian. And we don't censor our columnists' ideas we edit t heir writing. he e ditor ican JeWs, or American Blacks. In- Syria, Jews are not , tII ; - their remarks mdirno ack gay existence in er than deciding if a ts. By EARL DAVIS Collegian Columnist 1 1[ L. 1)- , EXcusE ME., V\F V'RE.kb\DE.I , IT.. \5 \T cry mt\G\RATio‘4,,cß. Do WE To THE 'R\G\-\\•?' But this guy definitely deserves t sincerely so. Who is he? Now, n telling, wouldn't it? Patience; peo virtue worth discovering. Sea, when I heard this fellow's voil I felt 6. wee bit better. Amazingly, e more sense than it had only a few - problems didn't saem as pressing minutes earlier. And, l'il be dam downright genial. So genial, in fa guess what I did next. Intrigued? Dr• -I stopped in my tracks. And th that's rather rare for me I start LOUD, for, God's sake. NO doubt emanating from me brought a bevy c stares my. way, and might even haw in-bred suspicions about the race I But you wanna know something els'? Truth to tell, I really didn't give a damn. 'Cause for a fantastically swift second; Came of could possibly become a reality. Oh, not in ourprh , not egen - sorry, Ei Prez Ford in our children's children's. But ... eventually, maybe„in some apprwpmation. Yep, Man had his purpose Earth, for once, its future. And, crazy as it may sound, I even had the ridiculous sen sation that we might muddle through our mortal in securities some day. And even emerge what? Oh, I ', suppose enlightened will do. 1 I'm not kidding you, Jerry, it was a helluva scary sensation. I mean, do you realize what it is for a card carrying cynical romanticist to actually admit to the world at large that he momentarily forgot the warts and actually contemplated what little significant wonders abound in this world? I tell you, if this keeps up, I may even start believing we might gain the wisdom NOT to commit global genocide in the namOof our all-righteous , 1 national security. Sure makes a man I, l vonder don't it? Well, Sheila, I'll let you go now; I know you've got a stackibeager articles awaiting yoiir attention. But do the a feirvor, willya? Leave me a note on the billboard or-- was the Arabs who chose not to abide by this d: therefore they have no one to blame but themsel problems (Palestinian etc...). Don't forget that 800,600 Jewsliving in Arab lands before 1948, all t was confiscated by those Arab governments, an. thrown out. Israel, who is of a great deal less m: , 'Arabi managed to settle'all of their Jewish brethr Arabs not do the same for their own? These.falis ideas you have about Jews and Zion doubt, ingrained into you as , a child. I urge you to d immature prajudices, and perhaps, Sabah, we w 'peace in our time.' Shalom. I . • Members)nf the University community who ish to file formal gri Ces over any content of the Collegian should address c ndancel to the Collegian's Committee on .Accuracy Fair! Play I n care of the executive secretary of pillleiglan, I publisher of the The Daily Collegian. Formal gri ees maybe sent to Linda Quigley; Collegian; Inc. axecuti I secretary, Sox 467, State College, Pa 16861. • I •.;:.• " • tr l i • 'l l I ,1 • ; I • r hat dual accolade, ow, that would be :le, patience; it's a ;e, believe it or not, erything made a bit econds before, and as they'd appeared ed, I actually felt 1, ,that you'll never fp down a bit. en :n I did something ed humming. OUT the unholy noise curiosity-plagued e confirmed certain irbitrarily represent. ourages comments on news coverage, editorial policy and campus Letters should be typewritten, double spaced, signed by no more longer than 30 lines. Students' letters should include the name. riter. The Daily Collegian en' and off-campus affairs. than two persons and .., term and major of - the 11 ught to the Collegian office, 126 Carnegie, in person so proper er can be made, although names can be withheld on request. If ail, the Collegian will contact the signer for verification before of be returned. Letters should be br , identification of the wr letters are received by publication. Letters ca , B. Da 2nd-poll Ell Nt-(4.a e , e. 3 4.4) in my mailbox hey, wait a minute, I just remem bered.: I don't even HAVE a mailbox; let's get on thc ball down there, Carnegie re my question, hokay! You know, abut the merits of a positive column, I mean.: I don't really think it'll go over up here, the way most student, faculty and administrators are these days with their know-it-all selves. Too idealistic in tone for them, probably. Wager you wouldn't even get a single letter in response, to boot. Nah, not worth our time, your paper, their ink or my thought. So just forget the whole thing, okay? ;,‘ I won't write it, I mean. No, no, no, no, my mind's made up. Uh-uh, no way. And nothin' you say or do is gonna make me change my tstance one iota, either. I don't WANT a furlishginner roast beef sandwich from Arby's, Sheila; they taste like Trigger, anyway. Hey, Jerry, come on, be real, willa? For why? Truly and sincerely: what for? I mean, took, do you really honestly now expect these edjicated folks to admit that part of the recurrent Christmas spirit has to do, in some crucially subtle manner, with the mellow voice of Nat King Cole? Hell; these morons proliably believe it's Johnny Mathis ci? some damn body. No, I don't think I'll write it, after all. ' t Yeah, - that's it; just chalk it all up to me fantasizing out loud again, another in the increasingly long line of insignificant Davis Doodlings. No merit, no muscle, no residual memories. Right. Nobody'll pay any attention, anyway; they never do. There you go, fella, that's it, kid; you're there all over again. Feel that old familiar acid creep back Into your veins? Ah, yes, cynicism: opLum for the modern man. Cut the mirages out. Your mind just played a doozie of a con job on your emotions, Davis, that's all. You only THOUGHT you felt what you did. Fleeting illusion, fast sensation. Pure and simple. I don't know, Sheila. Bedt's me Jerry. Can't explain it. I got no answers ... I must be comin' down witb - somethin'. I guess diagnosis, Doctors? =Collegian ision, and es for their I there were r properly they were s than the . Can the JERRY SCHWARTZ Editor m were no rd these I both see Editorial policy is;deterrnried by the Editor Opinions expresiecl by the editors and staff of The Daily Collegian are not necessanbi those of the University adrninistration. faculty or students + .1 fEEE BOARD OF EDITORS: MANAGING EDITOR, Dave Morris: EDITORIAL EDITOR, Sheila M4Cauley; EDITORIAL ASSISTANT, Karen Fischer; NEWS EDITOR, Jim Kuhnhenri; ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR, Paula Goohnour; WIRE EDITOR, I Jan Seinger; COPY EDITORS, Mario Green, Deanna Finley, Brenda Turner - , FEATURES EDITOR, Cathy Cipolla;i SeORTSi EDITOR, Jett Young; ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS, Gonien'Slain, Brian Miller, PHOTO 'EDITOR, Eric Felsol ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITCHIELAie Cipola, Torn Peters. 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