-Editorial opinion r, Trust The University Board of Luckily, the board's general organization, especially a univer- Trustees will meet one week after meeting has been open for several sity. the last Penn State student has years. But several trustees and Some, angry at the board's gone home for the summer. student groups are fighting to get refusal to open committee the board to open its committee meetings, have said anyone who is It seems a tradition to schedule meetings to the public. At the afraid to let the public know his these board meetings at times January meeting 13 trustees, in- opinion should be retired into when there can only be low cluding University President John private life. student participation. Yet this W. Oswald, board president W.K. The opportunity to remove board meeting may decide the Ulerich and Stewart, voted for the some of the recalcitrant trustees is level of tuition increase next year. motion. Thirteen trustees voted in the hands of thousands of Penn Dion Stewart, the youngest against it, however, and killed the State alumni who recently trustee and the one appointed possibility of open committee received ballots for the election of specifically to represent student meetings. three board members. interests, lives in State College and Opponents of open committee If students voice their concerns is easily accessible. It would be a meetings argued that public at- to trustees who care and alumni good idea to call Stewart and tell tendance would intimidate trus- elect new trustees who will him what you would like to see tees and prod them into perform- respond to the entire public, we done with the tuition hike. If he ing theatrics to get their names may see some real progress in the knew how many students want the , into print. But there probably has board's policy. trustees to go easy on the in- never been a case where the pub- Right now we'll settle for open crease, it might pull some weight in lic knew too much about the committee meetings and a the meeting. operations of a state-related moderate tuition increase. Al u s t, we ar Here are some thoughts I had after seeing a movie this past acoustic guitar and sang powerful, loud lyrics, softly. Crosby, weekend. Stills and Nash were scared "shitless," as was much of the The movie was about a city called Woodstock. The city's nation. only industries were producing music and having fun. They Many people feared what they did not understand. The said in the movie that it was the third largest city in the world, music and the fun at Woodstock puzzled many citizens. They and, like any other large city, there were problems. Lack of heard the noise from Woodstock but they could not extract any food, poor sanitation facilities and poor accommodations were meaning from it. The music had also failed to communicate. some of the difficulties, but the Inhabitants of Woodstock overcame them. They shared. Sharing was an unusual way for „ ~3 Yi•'!"."--""'"4 ' " 4.11 , _..-- . •*, humans to cope with such problems. It was unheard of. The 7i ~.i ,0r...,...-. %:,' traditional procedure for dealing with hunger, sewage and sub- ,;„, ghetto conditions was to forget about them or to somehow , I% , hide them. However, traditions were as worthless as $2O bills GO / ,•/., at Woodstock. ..../ jr Rich , Woodstock created sadness, sickness, anger, garbage, ~ ,:,, ili nudity and misunderstanding. New York City creates the same Ziemba things with the addition of violence and crime. Some people rL: , i ' att . )1 , ' ii,#, ; • , came to Woodstock for the Industries. Some people were ile - A 1 ... looking for an answer of some kind,. although none of them knew what the question was. Some people wanted the world to notice them, so they gathered together and tried to form one However, the Woodstockians understood the music. Bet large vocal chord. But the vocal chord didn't quite know what ween songs the vocal chord sounded its approval by making a to say. Even if it did, it had no lips that would enable it to noise that sounded like air rushing from a 200-mile long tear in communicate with those in power. So the music industry an earth-size, air-filled balloon. The, only sound that was spoke in behalf of the vocal chord. Joe Cocker shouted. The greater than this was Country Joe's "Fish" cheer, which Who frenzied. Ten Years After rocked. Joan Baez strummed an smacked of Adolph Hitler's mass rallies and "Sieg Heil," to U.S. MARINIE coRPoSE From the editor . . 11 .. \ \\ i' \\ \ ~ \* , ' .\ ,N, „:...,., Hey buddy, got 50 bucks? Yeah, you \ " • you've got 50 bucks I can fix you up with :,• J ..-/ . • some Penn State-Ohio, State football ., tickets. • • • ''' 0 \ , Tell you what, buddy. Talk to the 091 g). .sO A."- ! : • Ticket Office In Rec Hall. For $5O in the 10 , it ..1.• , poffj Vilpi\ . ._. , ... name of Levi Lamb, they'll fix you up real? l I .l o' ..... . • A),) good. Yeah, real good. Don't bother trying for tickets if you're just a poor ,VS / * ' slob who graduated from here and who 4 ./1 II t ,: 4/itc;" loves the place. They'll laugh in your .11n.., ,1,• i 7 • V --••• poor old face. No, the Ohio State game I ••••=-' - ai.. • is for high rollers only. \ .1.- . . 1 4 inill3,lo,' 1 Unless you can afford season tickets !. i • •4 7 .f..1. ,-, , 7-4,.....,•:?Lq •- ($56) or a contribution to the Levi Lamb . i .z .. 4. .... e , .... t t I p iv 'k. 'Al t) :,,,\ (, athletic scholarship fund ($5O, $lOO, ',I iT,2,- „„k ' --;_.,. f tr. ssoo, or $1,000), you'll have to suffer •-• I ip , • . through the hype of aTV account of the -; i ;.' igt - \ \ LI / _.......‹. . ,9 game. , irt ~„. pi ~ ,4 1 , iir _ t,lyi . 7 ' , Those are the rules set up by the Ticket Office for the Ohio State game. r • ,i . 7N 4 1. ..4` .. •t° . 1 - 07 . 7,.. ! , • First of all, no tickets to the general - • • .. ~- .., a ,:' • 1..1.t) public. Secondly, the 3,800 or so left "7:-...' .1 . - - ..,-. l i , . . 0 .." It :* .. 7 ..., \ Ir..' - ; - i after student and season tickets, go to •4, - - • "Il il if • 1 ..... I. • , A '/- hillak % ' t "1 8 .. Itk- • -1105-'6‘ members of the Nittany Lion Club, v. _ 7 • 17 ; 6, . 04:. _ , •Mir5k 5 :,.......i • Ai i,•-w, __ ie __ - i cy ,* V , AAA , wit contributors to the Levi Laml? fund. For , . " w Oft- - ~ only $l,OOO, if you don't hold a season 4 7;e °141 •IIIr • ' Ir 7 W • d om of the ages Being that lam a graduating senior It is as bulky as the best basilica and their advisors would be to move the fully blossomed in wisdom, age and wealthy catholics would pay millions to latters' offices to Zeno's and the grace, I feel I should impart some see and touch the good Mr. P. . Rathskeller. Not only would these suggestions as to the improvement of There are several ways that academic gentlemen keep their office hours, but this campus before I leave. standards could be raised at this in- they'd much more likely think straighter Since the University is in financial stitution. as well. straits, it might be a good idea for the Socially, I would suggest that all Board of Trustees to gather together all fraternities be disbanded. There is no their excuses for raising tuition and room for brothers in a town full of package them like baseball cards. These mothers. . cards could be distributed nationwide to i I•M Finally, there is one suggestion that I kids who could collect them, swap them .4-,..1.,'"", • feel would do immeasurable good to and best understand them. Mike both the moral atmosphere and safety of The university has a wealth of the student body. buildings which could be put to work. DeSimone This deals with two water towers on Also Shields alone is a goldmine. campus that resemble a pair of female A soap opera based on the life at pectorals when viewed aerially, and have Shields would have enough twists and trick endings to last several years, and Firstly all engineering and biology student body. Campus religious would interest housewives much more lectures should be transferred to organizations have crusaded against this than any trivial secret divorces, un- Ritenour, where adrenalin shots could disgrace for years to no avail. It is no wanted pregnancies and adulterous be made available to the students, and accident that females are now using nitroglycerin lo the instructors. these two structures as a model for their affairs. Majors of study in the college of dress code and lewd behavior. Also, this college's dormitories and Liberal Arts should become more career I feel that a large aluminum mesh dining halls would be a perfect backdrop oriented than at present. Majors like "bra" be secured to these structures, if for a feature film on Attica. Music Ed., Motel Management, Russian for no other reason than to give them This University could avoid a tuition and Refrigeration should be offered. support when they approach middle age, hike simply by canonizing Joe Paterno A good way to reduce friction for and protect passersby underneath from and transforming Rec Hall into a shrine. students who have problems finding unwarranted lactation. . ......t...- - -I , . , t • „,1 ---"It '•=4":42, ----- '-...----1, • #i","? ) ___•----------- • a: ,,,,, ./,,y, , ,vj F - ' r•-% r - , ,r, ff,,,,, ~.....,. F.,H! ~., , a_. is TWAT ENOUGH ~=_'' ..... - -s - N,CO CL I ._..'..4...., t -----....„.. (7 -- : .) l f r ) v% m --, N . \ -1—=.1.. AIR FoR •tou, ,r,,',„` , t., 1 ) 1 , DRONE,,.. V " ‘ ) t a ,/ `f"...))1/ ) ",, 1 vf„ 17S-46•41.46? i ) - •t,./ ''.i:..'...4 4.) #l i ..._...,_.• 41 1 7,,,r / /1/ .1L) ...:1, ir - ' --- - -- - -' - - GASP- II e t; 14 /..; ''' '''' - 1 LI '' I / . a i ,4 r I • C t t ; l I> 1 O a % . 3\ 4 ;Z 4 ) 4 ) TWEET a. '1 ~ ' I il :- v 4 . .. .1401 i‘: I- A mimineenamml 1 Wu_ AR, I•. I, 1 WILLARD• i ,i ' ' 1414 I E tifUl. COLLEbtraa Su \s.fII.ROS ;, 1 ,-- We are stardust, we are golden, we are hated No poor slobs at '76 Ohio game some people. The "some people" I speak of were represented In the movie by an elderly couple who happened to live near Woodstock and a man, about my parents' age, who believed everyone living in and going to Woodstock was "high on pot." The elderly couple's lives had been drastically changed by the fact that Woodstock had sprung up only a few miles from their backyard. They were irritable and angry. Their phone was dead and young kids were swarming all over their lawn. They blamed Woodstock for these two calamities. Their car had broken down and it was sitting in the driveway, a useless hunk of metal. The couple labored over it like two surgeons trying desperately to save someone's life. They called the whole event a "damned mess." World Wars I and 11, Hiroshima and Dresden in 1945, and the grand destruction derby on the nation's highways also have been called "damned messes," not by the elderly couple, but by me. The elderly couple might have called these particular occurrences necessary of un fortunate, but that would be putting words in their mouths. As for the man who thought marijuana was the culprit for all this madness, he should think about something that one member of his generation said. This other member was run ning a drive to collect food and distribute it to the people of Woodstock. The other member didn't think that all the young people were "high on pot" and he didn't really care if they were. He realized that they needed food, so he was trying to help. The first man was content to let them all die of starvation. The ticket, you'll be given 10 tickets. Five hundred dollars will get you six tickets, $lOOO will get you four, $5O will get .you two. But five'll geTt you ten the unofficial scalpers charge a lot less in the fall. Sheila McCauley In addition, the $l,OOO contributors have a chance to expand their season ticket total from 10 to 16. When the last non-season ticketholder in the Nittany Lion Club has his Ohio State seats, the season ticketers all get a shot at buying more. Maybe the mathematics of the game confuses you as much as it did me at Letters to the Editor Plaque plague TO THE EDITOR: Give Me Back The Plaque. To cause an unfortunate incident is human, to refuse to make amends to that incident is an unnecessary hassle. On April 18, the State College police confiscated a birthday present given to me by a close friend. The Collegian ran an article with a picture of the present (a plaque coated in liquid plastic). The picture shbwed the two small leaves of un weighable, unsmokeable marijuana at the top and bottom of the plaque. Since that time I have talked to many people and organizations that include: PSORML, the District Magistrate, the Assistant District Attorney, the USG Department of Legal Affairs, and Investigating Officer Abernathy. Although most of these people were sympathetic, I still don't have my plaque. This is not so much a personal matter as it is an issue involving the students and residents of State College. The fact that the officer even bothered to confiscate the plaque is bad enough. Now Police Chief Williams insists that in order to get my gift back I must go to court (which means paying court cost and attorney fees). This is a gross injustice. I can only speculate as• to the reason for this, because I was told that no charges would be brought against me. I think it might have something to do with the police having a little too much Pride, Integrity, and Guts. Downtown steps TO THE EDITOR: At present, a handicapped student is relatively free to move around the University Park campus, but his mobility stops when he reaches College Avenue. As students in Speech 250, we have been studying architectural barriers to the handicapped. While the University has been taking steps to alleviate the architectural barriers through curb ramps and other proposed changes, comparable steps have not been taken downtown. Imagine the trip downtown through the eyes of a handi capped student: no curb ramps for wheelchairs; limited or no access to downtown stores. Most of us don't know what it's like to have to be carried over a curb, or to feel the frustration first. But a spokesman at the Ticket Office made everything clear in just a few words. There weren't many tickets to go around, he said, so the Athletic Department adopted priorities "categories," he called them. The lowest "category" was the poor slob who roots for Penn State only because he likes Joe Paterno or hates Woody Hayes. He was followed by alumni some 104,000 strong. That was the cut-off. The top rungs, the department decided, belong to members of the Nittany Lion Club, the people who will see the game live. The spokesman told me the club members are the most concerned about Penn State football and therefore deserve a shot at hoarding 16 or 10 or even 4 tickets to the Ohio State game. The number of tickets distributed to Nittany Lion Club members in all compared to the 50,000 going to students and season ticketholders does not account for a sizeable chunk. David Luc SHEILA McCAULEY Editor 9th-finance other member said something to the effect of, what would happen if 500,000 adults with 500,000 fifths of Jim Beam were assembled into one area. The consequences would surely bea damned mess. ~ The city quickly died because the industries stopped. Thoe who wanted to see if Woodstock had al tered i the world in any way left in haste. Behind them was who-knows-how-many tons of garbage spread evenly over the landscape. The people who knew better stayed and cleaned up. They had a sense of ecology and a sense that told the world had not changed, at least not for the better. One man, who I call the shit man, had the unpopular job of cleaning out the portable latrines. He had never had so many "Porto-Sans" to clean in all his life. Every day he came with his truck, attached a hose to a pump on the truck, walked into every "Porto-San" and sucked out all the sewage. He would also fill the soap and paper towel dispensers and spray some disinfectant-deodorant around. He said of the spray, "It make s the latrines a little more pleasant for the kids." Even though he was in his early fifties, shit man, and not some rock star, wm the hero of the movie. He was the hero because of three sentences he uttered. When asked what he thought of Woodstock he said, "I think it's great. My 19-year-old is here at the concert. My other boy is in Vietnam." When you think about it, that is as much shit as anyone can take. Even a shit man. of not being able to shop in certain stores. The list could go on, but these are Just two of the points that we can do something about. Write to Senator Joseph Ammerman, (The Senate, Harrisburg, Pa. 17120) in support of House Bill 501, which would require curb ramps on new or reconstructed cross walks. .-• Also, let him know you're in favor of Public Law 459. As tilk law stands, it requires access for the handicapped to all new ca renovated department stores, theatres, retail stores, sports arenas or buildings built with public funds. Presently, the laik is being threatened by an amendment which would weaken its effectiveness. Voice your opinion by writing, and let the handicapped have more of the same benefits that you enjoy =Collegian BOARD OF EDITORS: MANAGING EDITOR, Janice Selinger: EDITORIAL EDITOR, Brenda Turner; EDITORIAL ASSISTANT,: Sherrie Spangler; NEWS EDITOR, Bill Hannegan; ASSISTANT NEWS., EDITOR, Pamela Reasner; STATE NATIONAL NEWS EDITOR, Laurie' Peacher; CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, Jerry Schwartz; COPY EDITORS, Deanna Finley, Mike Joseph, Phil Storey; FEATURES F.VITOR, Janie Musala; SPORTS EDITOR, Brian Miller; ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS, Dave Morris, Barb Parmer; PHOTO EDITOR, Julie Cipolla; ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITORS, Eric Felack, Tom Peters; GRAPHICS 41 EDITOR, Lynne Maimed; WEATHERMAN, Tom Ross NI Mailing Address: Box 467, State College, Pa. 16801 Office: 126 Carnegie 7gvev .- -7,2= But what disturbs me no, disgustb me is that the ticket fight leaves mots bodies on the field than the game itself:. The game will be a letdown for all thR greedy people who killed themselves and their rivals by going ape over the pile of tickets up for grabs. The Nittany Lio Club has 1,000 new members this year, many of whom the Ticket office suspect joined the club just to get into the Chip State game. Whatever the reasons, we'll see , a pathetic mixture in Beaver Stadium thit day. Thousands of students decked ojit in their denim finest, will sit opposite the football aristocracy. No midd% ground that day, no poor slobs who simply enjoy good Penn State football and like to spend $6 or $7 bucks to see it. I wonder what Howard Cosell would say about all of this. Last weekend he condemned big-time sports for their politics, their economics and their hypocrisy. "Kids, this is like it really is and you deserve to know it," he said. :, Well, you're much too late, Cosell. 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