Editorial opinion
Rights
Rights to live where you want,
work at what you want, love who
you want.
Rights. They are violated
regularly and legally in State
College.
If you are black, female, foreign
or poor, laws have been passed to
protect your rights. If you are un
married or homosexual, however,
you are at the mercy of employers
and landlords.
A law prohibiting discrimination
on the basis of sexual orientation,
marital status, political ideology
and age was proposed two years
ago to the State College Borough
Council.
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Young cynic's
cOrifessibns...
By JEFF BIRNBAUM
Editor's note: This Is reprinted from The
Daily Pennsylvanian newspaper at the
University of Pennsylvania.
I am a cut-throat pre-law
The quest for the "A" is the sole
purpose of my life. Everything I do and
everything I have done, besides trying to
attain a 4.0, was and is intended to look
good • on a law school application.
Nothing more.
Any wisdom I have amassed is merely
an accident of my obsessive, overkill
study habits. Even when I am physically
exhausted and mentally drained, the
gripping fear that I have not studied
enough to "do well" plunges my body,
like an automation, into even more hours
of work.
My only motivation for action is
driving ambition. All things are
subordinate to the activities which might
advance me further along the road to the
law school of my choice. My social life is
little more than a waste of time, my
dinner conversations are perfunctory
exercises that preserve for me at least a
facade of humanity before my peers.
Nothing more.
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Right away
This human rights ordinance
was kicked around council cham
bers while members bickered over
whether to pass it, amend it or get
rid of the whole thing. They finally
decided they couldn't decide and
handed the ball to Mayor Jo Hays.
Hays has been accepting and
compiling complaints of
discrimination since last May. It
looks as if he may report back to
council on Monday.
That leaves you two days to file
any complaints you may have. If
you have been refused housing or
employment in State College
because you are living with
someone out of wedlock or you
are a homosexual, go see Hays.
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Any minor importance my day to day
life might have once had, has suc
cumbed to my struggle to succeed. My
labor is arduous, my pain Is often in
sufferable, yet I still go on.
What is more, I am proud of my tor
ment because I am certain there is no
more direct way to fulfillment. I have
consciously chosen to willfully submit
to this course, because I am convinced it
is right. And nothing more.
Indeed, where else can I find hap
piness?
My confidence stems from the fact
that I am not alone in my beliefs. All of
my pre-professional colleagues act as I
do.
I harbor no illusions about learning.
All of, the knowledge in the world is but
for naught, if, in its acquisition, the
universally accepted measure of
achievement is sacrificed. I, therefore,
predicate any education I might receive
on the procuring of good grades and
nothing more.
We are controlled by a system which
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Letters to the Editor
Off the streets
TO THE EDITOR: Henry Myers' letter of 3-30 in the Collegian
names, among organizations, street hockey clubs as unfairly
using the Intramural Building facilities. I would like to present
the other side of this story.
All the members of our organization are Penn State
students. We do pay tuition, you know. We paid for the
facilities, too; why shouldn't we have the right to use them?
For a whole two hours a week, the street hockey players get
use of one of the gyms. If six half-court basketball'games were
being played instead, all of 60 to 70 students would be In
volved. Our organization has 160 members.
The people of the Athletic Department have graciously
allowed us space indoors, as this is the safest and most
suitable place to play. We would appreciate other students
showing a little understanding of their decision.
Comments, please
TO THE EDITOR: I'm hoping this isn't a widespread phenom
enon (although I know it has happened to others as well) but
as of late I've been suffering from a "grade deficiency" of sorts.
I'm referring to those teachers who attempt to satisfy their
students with nothing more than a mark. In picking up three
papers and essay exams I had Winter Term, I discovered that I
Have all the facts on hand and
be as specific as you can. Your
case will be prepared as a legal af
fidavit which you will be expected
to sign. Hays will keep your iden
tification confidential.
A file full of discriminations is
needed to prove to the council that
discrimination does exist, even.
here in Happy Valley.
Go see Hays in his office on S.
Fraser Street. Your case may help
pass the human rights ordinance
and end some inhUman
discrimination.
It's only right
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demands conformity, To prove ourselves
worthy of advancement within the
system, we must acquire the symbols
which are its measures of quality. These
measures are grades and the faster we
realize their importance, the better-off
we shall be. Nothing more.
What people call humanity, I view as
mere vanity, because for all their
thinking and brooding, I shall get farther
than they.
I am more willing to sacrifice myself
because I know I am right in wanting to
be a lawyer and I know that because of
my sacrifices I shall, in the end, suc
ceed.
I shall be accepted and will attend an
Ivy League law school.
I shall do nothing but work In law
school and shall be appointed to the law
review as a reward. •
I shall graduate from law school at
least in the top quarter of my class and
will procure a job in a prestigious law
firm.
I shall earn $20,000 a year until I am
promoted, at which time, I shall make
substantially more money.
After decades of service and sub
sequent promotions, I shall become a
senior law partner and make an enor
mous amount of money annually.
I shall retire at the age of 65 and shall
tour the world with my wife. ,I shall, In
short, begin io enjoy the money I have
accumulated after' my many years. of
hard work.
I shall be happy, yes, quite happy, in
the end.
All of this, but nothing more
Thomas Andress
Pres., East Halls Street Hockey
League
6th-nuclear engineering
Beating the competition
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Washington Press Club's program this
week featured a panel discussion on
"Selling Presidential Candidates on TV."
I wasn't there, so I don't know what
techniques the panel members
recommended. But several possibilities
spring to mind.
SPOT ONE:Two women, one young,
the other in the wisdom of her middle
years, are pushing grocery carts through
a supermarket. They meet in the canned
fruit aisle.
"What's wrong, Marge? You seem so
dull and listless. Is occasional
irregularity getting you down?"
"No, it isn't irregularity; it's the
presidential candidate I'm backing. He
doesn't make the issues sharp and clear.
With my candidate, the issues come out
all fuzzy and glossed over."
The older woman smiles knowingly,
reaches into her shopping bag and
extracts a Henry Jackson campaign
button.
"Here. Try mine."
...reveal fool's paradise
.
I hear them all the time, in the halls,
In the library, walking across the
parking lot. They are serious people;
they sometimes smile,. but only in
recounting their triumph over
Professor So-and-so or the result of
their last week-long study' session.
Just like the cut-throat pre-law,
their conversations are perfunctory.
They mumble a great deal "He
started at 12.7 ... But she was offered
13.5 ... Can you believe it, 14.8 i"
12.7. 13.5. 14.8. They repeat them
over and over, like a private prayer to a
mercenary god. And when you hear
them, you know that they have sold
their soul for an affluent, comfortable
future, a future that is far beyond the
horizon.
To them,. college is just an ob
stacle, a kind of merry-go-round with
dire consequences. The brass ring, a
4.0, entitles the bearer to a free ride to
law school or grad school or a fat pay
check. As the cut-throat pre-law says,
echoing Poe's Raven, nothing more.
Nothing more. They never talk to
anybody, because they have nothing
to say (except 12.7, 13.5 and 14.8).
Their lives are confined to the ar
tifically-lit world of the classroom,
and any other world is trivial or at
least useless.
They have nothing but contempt for
people who appreciate beauty,
because beauty has never gotten
was given either an "A" or a "B" with no comments or
criticisms of any kind other than the letter scribbled at the
bottom of a page.
It's possible, and even probable, that these professors were
working under the pressures of time but this is a poor excuse
for sacrificing the quality of education. Experiences at PSU
have taught me that its present grading system is an
inadequate measure of both one's performance and un
derstanding. This new form of irresponsibility on the part of
some teachers only reinforces my discontent. A student must
be challenged through criticisms, suggestions; and comments
if he is to profit from the college classroom. A mark, without
the accompaniment of these essential tools, means little. If
the present grading system here at Penn State is to have any
value, a progressive step can be made through a genuine in
terest on the part of the teacher for the development of the
pupil.
Rhode to freedom
TO THE EDITOR: Tom Gibb's cartoon (Collegian 3-30) of a
huge, enraged black Rhodesian pinning the white minority
against the wall epitomizes America's (and the U.N.'s)
misunderstanding of politics in southern Africa.
Unlike our pioneers, the white colonists in southern Africa
did not wage genocide against the native people. Rather, they
adopted policies respecting the native culture and village life
styles, allowing the more primitive society to develop and
evolve independently (through apartheid or "separate-ness").
While travelling through Africa I've observed that white rule
"Scoop Jackson, eh? Does he explain
the issues so that they become pointed
and well-defined?"
"Believe me, Marge, Switch to
Jackson and you'll never again have to
worry about your candidate obscuring
the issues."
SPOT TWO: A pornographic movie
theater. Two bald-headed men In
raincoats in the front row staring intently
at the screen. During a particularly
passionate sequence, one man turns to
the other.
"What does your presidential can
didate say about resuming military aid to
Egypt?" he asks sotto voce. •
The other man looks around furtively
and cups a hand to his mouth.
"Well, my candidate Is Morris Udall,
,and Morris Udall says . . . "
Other members of the audience Im
mediately lose Interest in the film and
lean, forward to try , to catch the rest of
the comment. Then we hear an off
camera voice.
"When Morris Udall speaks, people
listen."
anytiody an A. Those who give their
time to charity are equally con
temptible it is far more profitable to
spend one's time preparing to make
money. Anybody who doesn't worry
about the future and the salary it will
bring is naive, childish and foolhardy.
They connive, cheat, and learn by
rote, all to get to the top of their class.
They make contacts and use "pull."
Ethics are for the unambitious
anything is acceptable, as long as it is
a step toward the ultimate goal of
success. People are there to be used,
friends to be duped. Nobody ever said
that one had to be successful and
popular. .
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Jerry
Schwartz
The rest of their lives are a
foregone conclusion. They will
marry, have two children and buy a
nice house in the suburbs. The wife,
kids and house are required ac
cessories if you want to make it big.
Perhaps they'll even convince
Joe McElwee
9th-English
Nothin'g more. No pleasant
memories, no inspiration, no
imagination, no dreams. If it seems to
you a wasted life, well, they knew
what they were getting into when they
started.
Confront them with all of this and
they will tell you that they didn't make
the rules. If they are in some way
devient, they will tell you it is the fault
of a society that places so much
emphasis on success.
But somehovi, it Is all un
convincing. If they are society's
Frankenstein monsters, they are
monsters by choice. Others do not
choose to succeed in that fashion,
and it is those people who qualify as
heroes, not the cut-throat pre-laws,
engineers and businessmen. -
They are .a miserable, wretched,
tragic group of sub-humans, doomed
to spend lives of unending conformity'
and deceit. They deserve pity from
anyone who can stomach them. _
But God help me, I hope I never
have one of them for a lawyer.
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benefits black nationals in many ways, especially
economically. Black nationals working in white cities (where
white rule is majority rule) earn the highest wages anywhere in
Africa. On the other hand, they are free to choose the
traditional village and herding way of life, in which case they
receive much more money for livestock, art work and other
products than nationals of black African states.
White rule has unified tribes into nations and provided in
ternal order and protection within the international com
munity.
No, the pressure doesn't ''come from the Rhodesian
nationals, but rather from guerillas, trained and supplied in
Zambia and Mozambique, who would have little interest : ln
"liberating" anyone were he not first blinded by propaganda
and then booted across the border with a carbine in his back.
We fools who've "liberated" Chile and those fools who've
"liberated" eastern Europe must realize our isolation and
ignorance and spare southern Africa the atrocities of
"liberation".
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SHEILA McCAULEY
Editor
BOARD OF MANAGERS: LOCAL ADVERTISING MANAGER, Joan
Kirschner: ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGER, Peter Sichel:
NATIONAL ADVERTISING MANAGER, Kim Batey;
. OFFICE PER
SONNEL MANAGER, Andi Krantz.
SPOT THREE: A western landscape.
A lone figure walking down a ravine. A .
camera zooms In and we see 'it Is
President, Ford. He unwraps a stick , of
gum and puts it in his mouth.
Suddenly we hear the thunder, of
hoofbeats. A large herd of bulls comes
stampeding down the ravine. Ford starts
to flee but stumbles over his own feet.
When the dust settles, he is nowhere to
be seen.
An off-camera voice is heard as the
hoofbeats fade in the distance.
"Ronald Reagan is bullish on
America."
SPOT FOUR: Meanwhile, back at the
supermarket, Jimmy Carter, who is
campaigning in the shopping center,
stops In for a bag of peanuts. Several
women rush over and throw their arms
around him. Attracted by the clamor, the
manager,•a fussy little man, runs up.
"Ladles, ladles," he Implores. "Please
don't squeeze the candidate."
"But, Mr. Whipple," they squeal. "His
campaign promises are so sensible we
can't resist it."
themselves that they are happy, but
more probably they will -merely see
this as another step toward that goal,
a comfortable retirement.
There is some Irony in the fact that
many of them will never make it to age'
65. Many will fall to , heart attacks,
leaving rich widows and the legacy of '
12.7,13.5 and 14.8.
NADINE KINSEY
Business Manager
Michael Ludwig
grad-ecology