Editorial opinion
Credit overdue
Hold on a second there, County
Commissioners! Not so fast.
Yesterday you proudly ac
cepted a plaque proclaiming Cen
tre County as the first recipient of
the “Pennsylvania Voter Registra
tion Award.” Apparently this coun
ty has been recognized for achiev
ing the largest percentage in
crease of registered voters in the
state last year.
But think back a few years. Who
was it that was fighting student
voter registration? Who was it that
opposed voter registration on
campus? It was you, county poli
ticos, and now you are basking in
an undeserved glory.
You were not responsible for
the better part of those 10,883
Destruction
The Moonies are coming. The Moonles are coming.
Yes, at long last, that religious army of crazy idiots who
make a nuisance of themselves in many major American cities
as well as college campuses has arrived in State College.
Just last weekend, Moonies, also known as the religious
disciples of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, were being shown
the door in several bars for trying to sell flowers to patrons.
So, the Moonies took to the street' corners and shopping
center parking lots instead, and if they’re not selling flowers,
they’re selling candy.
Why do people become Moonies? What is it about their
belief that makes them so determined to beg and grovel on
American streets? What is it about the Moonies that has
allowed their beloved Korean founder to reap millions of
American dollars?
Moonies look alike. They speak alike. They also must think
alike. Once they open their mouths preaching the word, as
they probably like to think of it, their is no distinction among
them. One could substitute for the other without any great loss
to humanity.
I asked a Moonie over the weekend what his thoughts were
on the* recent California case involving parents’ petitions to
have their children declared incompetent, placing them in their
custody for a period of thirty days to undergo deprogramming.
Down to the very last syllable, his response was exactly that
of newspaper accounts quoting lawyers for the Rev. Moon.
They were 24 years old, he said. They were being kidnaped,
he said. Their parents were sinners, evil creatures, he said.
They were guaranteed the right to practice whatever religion
appealed to them.
In many ways this is an opinion reiterated by the American
Letters to the Editor
Sensationalism
TO THE EDITOR: See the happy Campus Crusaders. See their
Black robes, ghost white faces and coffin. See their gravestone
T-shirts as they spread the word of death. See the morbidity
and sensationalism which they constrew to be the work of
Christ.
Hard sell religion
TO THE EDITOR: We delivered the following letter to Sherman
Brand, director of Campus Crusade for Christ on Mar. 30 and
now must publish it in order to announce God’s judgment:
"Brothers, We have followed your advertising campaign for
‘lf I Should Die’ with grief. The Lord has brought the following
points to our attention which must be shared with you.
“You are employing music by groups which are demonized
and glorify Satan especially Black Sabbath.
“Your poster proclaims ‘Multi-media wizardry.’ Wizardry is
defined in the dictionary as sorcery, magic, cleverness all of
which are an abomination to God. God will not allow Himself
to be glorified in this manner.
“Your effort is to lead people to God by employing ungodly
means fear of the devil, trickery by advertising enticement.
“You are using satanic forces in your.evangelism. We are not
saying you are not intending to preach the gospel, but that you
are mixing ungodly elements with the gospel. We are to lift up
Jesus Christ, not death and the fear of the devil.
“The Lord God opposes you. The truth of Jesus Christ is
compromised.
" ‘Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate,
saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will
receive you.’ (II Cor. 6:17.)
“ ‘Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us
cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit,
perfecting holiness in the fear of God.’ (II Cor. 7:1.)
“Repent! Seek the approval of'God rather than men. Humble
yourselves by losing public face, cancel this presentation and
seek the Lord's power for revival.
"For thus saith the Lord, ‘Cursed be he that doeth the work
of the Lord deceitfully.' (Jer. 48:10.)
“Do this and you will do well. If you proceed, judgment is
upon you.
“ ‘For the time is come that judgment must begin at the
house of God and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of
them that obey not the gospel of God.’ (I Peter 4:17.)”
We call upon all Christians to seek the Lord by prayers and
fastings for a revival by Holy Spirit Power!
Well, done
TO THE EDITOR: I have been a student at this fair University
since September 1973, and during this time I've found many
opportunities to find fault with the Collegian.
' For once, I admit I agree with the Collegian whole-heartedly.
The Daily Collegian’s endorsement of Tom Heitzenrater was an
intelligent, well-reasoned support of a superb candidate.
Although he only came in third, he was by far the best man
running. To Tom and the Daily Collegian we would like to say
“well done." To Grant Ackerman we'd like to say, "What are
you going to do for women almost half of this campus?"
Eva C. Whitley
12th-general arts and sciences
Action for escape
TO THE EDITOR: After reading the tear-stained, pleading
entreaty by James Smith and Gregory Hanks in the Collegian’s
Mar. 28 issue, (the one that went something like “a third party
couldn’t prove it, so it didn’t happen”), I felt it would be ap
propriate, under the circumstances; to'offer some advice to
new county voters. In fact, most-of as large as the student population
them were students registered in Centre County deserves more
through the efforts of the Under- acknowledgement than they re
graduate Student Government and , ceived in this latest display of your
other interested student organiza- ingratitude. Students are a very
tions. These organizations put in real, perhaps dominant force in this
many long hours coaxing uninter- county. It’s time you realized the
ested students to exercise their influence that about 25 per cent of
rights. Obviously their diligence the registered voters in Centre
had a great effect on registration . County can have on the future
here. political outlook.
But how can you explain the
fact that no students or student
leaders were invited to the recep
tion where the award was given?
How come students were not
recognized for their efforts at the
banquet?
Let’s give credit where credit is
due. It seems that a political bloc
of family
Civil Liberties union. The Moonies in the California case were
beyond the age of consent, the ACLU sbid. It is the Moonies’
right to select the religious discipline of their choice, and any
attempts to infringe on that right is a violation of their civil
libertiesraccording to the ACLU.
Parents of the five Moonies petitioned the court, as the
parents said, because their children had been brainwashed and
they were no.longer capable of making responsible decisions
for themselves.
The initial ruling by a California State Superior Court judge
went in favor of the parents. Judge S. Lee Vavuris ruled that
the Moonies could be placed in the custody of their parents for
purposes of being “I know of no greater love
than parents for their children,” the judge said, “and I am sure
they would not submit their children to harm.”
The ruling was appealed, and Vavuris’ decision was modified
pending another trial. The Moonies are to remain in the
custody of their parents, but they cannot be transferred to
deprogramming facilities. If any deprogramming is to be at-
any PSU woman who, at a loss for anything else to do, might
decide to go to a frat anyway.
Should you be afraid of finding yourself (or actually DO find
yourself) in the same situation as someone else did in Fall
Term, 1975, (i.e., being raped) there IS something you can do:
a)-stay calm, b)-grab a football (should be plenty lying around)
and maybe even a few jockstraps for good measure and throw
it all into the waiting crowd. In the resultant euphoric con
fusion, it should be easy to makegood your escape.
Kerry Hlxenbaugh
12th-anthrolology and history
Paul Leadem
12th-biology
Dragnet '77
TO THE EDITOR: The city is State College. The place is
Hamilton Hall. A lot of noise goes on here, and it’s my job to
keep it down. My name is Ron, and I carry an ear.
It was Friday night, Mar. 25, and me and my partner, Burr
were working the noise watch out of Cedar House.
Strategically positioned in our room, we could hear most
noises, loud or soft. The night was going to be particularly
rough since I had first period through sixth on Fridays, and I
had G.R.E.’s the next morning. My partner Burr-r-r was no
better off, he had just sung Angry Young Man 50 times.
10:26.2 p.m. I settle down to bed remaining alert through
the night. My partner, Burr-r-r, would follow one hour later.
2:10 a.m. Saturday morning we hear noise. Big Bob,
ruthless noise maker, whispers to his roommate, Pittsburgh
Pat, “Pat, are you getting up for breakfast?" That was it; I
moved.
2:11 a.m. I proceeded to their door and knocked. "Knock,
knock." No answer. I opened their door and saw the two
suspects drinking beer and eating stale hoagies. I said, "Can
you keep it down, I have G.R.E.’s in the morning?"
2:12 a.m. An arrest was no problem now.
9:00 a.m. Burr-r-r enters their room and says, “You
almost got up at 7:00a.m.!” He proceeded to make the arrest.
The follow up— later Saturday Chief Crowfoot cites Big Bob
and Pittsburgh Pat for attempted noise making. Each was
sentenced to listen to my partner, Burr-r-r, sing his favorite
song 30 times.
The names were not changed to protect the innocent.
Name Withheld
Food for thought
TO THE EDITOR: I was distressed to read Mr. Chandler’s letter
to the editor on Apr. 4 which assessed the inevitability of
hunger and malnutrition in the world and professed a curious
twist of morality that it is more humane for Americans to
not postporte this inevitability.
I agree with Mr. Chandler that there is no simple solution to
world hunger. It would be naive in the extreme to assert that
the answer is for Americans to eat less and redistribute our
surplus to other parts of the world. Even nutritionists are not
so single-minded as to have overlooked that food is only one of
many resources that we Americans profligately overconsume.
There’s a conspicuous lack of justice in requiring that the
"developing" world shoulder a guilty burden for overpopulating
the world when the consequences of environmental rape and
pollution are equally serious and challenging.
Even the issue of threatened food shortages cannot be laid
off on these countries. The American meat based diet is
strikingly inefficient and costly in food resources. We con
sume six times the amount of grains and cereals as "third
world” residents 80 per cent of which we never even see as it
is fed first to livestock, poultry, etc., to be converted to flesh or
other products. Increasingly, as American food preferences
(i.e. animal protein) are exported to affluent segments of other
societies, the effect of "affluence" accounts for a larger
percentage of the extra agricultural yields needed annually to
keep pace with demand.
I am an advocate of the "archaic" philosophy that there are
no real solutions to world problems that Americans don’t
genuinely share In. We live in the world and must share in its
problems both their creation and their solutions.
Steven Michaels
Bro Cope
Students deserve to be recog
nized during non-election years,
It has become very obvious that
student needs are addressed
before polling time, but are other
wise neglected.
So how about it? When are stu
dents going to get the recognition
they have fought for?'
dark side of AAobnie faith
tempted, the parents must be present in the room with their
children.
It was a significant victory for the parents in that they still
.have the opportunity to deprogram their children, though not
at the facilities' which deprogramming experts maintain are
fool-proof unconverters.
The case is by no means resolved. Moon promises to appeal
to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. And he will press his
case on the basis of the Bill of Rights’ guarantees of free
speech and religion.
Unfortunately, when all is said and done, this is not really at
issue in this case. Americans pride themselves on the
historical traditions of free speech and religion. American law
stipulates that anyone may practice whatever religion they so
choose. x
The question, however, is related to the brainwashing
techniques allegedly used to convert young people into
Moonie disciples. Even though they have willingly submitted
themselves to such brainwashing, does not society have a
responsibility to intervene and insure that these same people
have an equal opportunity to extricate themselves from the
religious organization?
A full scale investigation is long overdue. Congress has
been investigating the financial dealings of the Rev. Moon for
some time now with no conclusive results. It is more important
that what happens in Moonie camps is known.
Surely, the group would attempt to put the best face on their
operations, but one bit of evidende will never be hidden by the
group their own members.
If you walk down College Avenue some time and come
Taking responsibility for our part of the solutions may be
painful. It may prolong indeed it may exacerbate the
problem of overpopulation in the immediate instance. Failing
to accept that responsibility can, I fear, hasten the time when
there is no solution except the ecological collapse and
catastrophic depopulation predicted by Forrester and his
colleagues at M.I.T.
These are extremely complex issues and difficult to deal
with in an introductory level nutrition elective the content of
which inspired Mr. Chandler's original polemic. Nevertheless, I
invite Mr. Chandler to come and advance his knowledge about
these issues by taking another nutrition course.
Carole Christopher
assistant professor of nutrition
Off the grass
TO THE EDITOR: This “grass” does not' refer to the kind
people smoke but rather to the grass they walk on or, as in
many cases used to walk on. So what did happen to the
grass? To put it bluntly, much of it is being trampled to death
by students who are simply too lazy to use the walk-ways
provided by the University. I am not referring to the HUB, Old
Main or athletic turfs used for recreation, but to the ‘rat tracks’
found in front of the Terrace Room, all around Althouse Lab,
behind the HUB and a countless number of other places on
campus, created by people who wish to cut a few measly
-..seconds off their traveling time between classes. (At this time
of year I’d think people would want to remain outdoors as long
as possible.)
Some students trample because “it feels good under my
feet.” However, I question them as to how good it feels after a
spring rain and after a few thousand students have walked on
that grass during the week leaving nothing but a concrete hard
soil which the University must now spend their time and your
money to reclaim, put up temporary wire fences (which are
only torn down and stepped over), or black top the damaged
area (as has been done between East Pattee and Weaver Bldg.)
making the grounds look like the Dwight D. Eisenhower
Interchange outside of Harrisburg.
For some, shortcuts across the grass aren’t enough. Many
students find it more rewarding to trample the flower beds
such as at the ground floor entrance to the HUB. I obviously
can’t speak for everyone, but I personally prefer green
vegetation in the spring to those hideous wire fences and mud
brown and, or black-topped foot paths. So stay off the grassl
Dennis S. Rentschler
9th-envlronmental resource management
Farr from truth
TO THE EDITOR: I am writing in response to an editorial about
Jo Ann Farr which appeared In the Collegian, Apr. 4. This
editorial suggested that Dr. Farr was not being rehired by the
Psychology Department because she is a controversial figure
who is too outspoken and liberal to be tolerated at the
University., The author of this extraordinarily inaccurate piece
of Journalism would have benefited greatly from looking at the
facts of the situation.
The Psychology Department has a limited number of con
tinuing (tenure track) positions in clinical psychology. All of
those positions are currently filled and have been for about
five years. Occasionally, because full-time faculty members
are on leave, noncontinuing positions are opened up to Insure
that all of the undergraduate psychology courses can be of
fered on a regular basis.
Jo Ann Farr has, for the last two years, filled one of these
adjunct positions. Next year, for the first time in several years,
all of the clinical psychology faculty members will be on
campus. Thus, there Is no need for, and no money for, an
additional staff membef. Because of this financial situation
(not because of job discrimination or politics) Dr. Farr's
contract will not be renewed next year. Dr. Farr was un
dpubtedly aware that her job would be temporary when she
agreed to teach in the Psychology Department.
Undeniably, Dr. Farr is a fine educator and clinician. She is
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across a Moonie, stare into his eyes and try to have a con
versation with him. Ask him about his parents or ask him to
comment on the world around him. You can be sure he will
have little to say.
When coming in contact with a Moonie, a friend of mine
thought at first the young girl was mentally retarded. That was
before the girl said she was a member of Moon’s Unification
Church. •
Yet, that description is what probably best describes the
Moonies’ pathetic situation. Their minds have stopped func
tioning. Such a theory may be devoid 6f any supporting
empirical scientific data, but it is a reality nonetheless.
It’s a very sad reality, indeed. When I see a Moonie, I think of
his family, especially his parents.
Though I am sympathetic to their feelings of hopelessness
and desolation, in no way can I fufly realize what it means to be
rejected and despised by something which. I have helped
create. >
Judge Vavuris said it best of all. “We are talking about the
essence of civilization mother, father and children." It is not
proper for them to be separated so unnaturally. ■
For those people who pride themselves on their tolerance,
especially in regard to religion, the Moonies present an eerie
dilemma. It is not a rational nor logical dilemma. It is one bred
in emotion. It is one dedicated to the destruction of the
Unification Church, extra-legally if necessary.
It is one in which it is hoped that men like Moon, who take
advantage of the naivete of youth to fatten their pocketbooks
at the expense of individual liberty, independent thinking,and
family relationships, will someday get theirdue.
respected by faculty and students alike and will be missed. It
is unfortunate that Jo Ann Farr is not being rehired but the
fact that she is not being rehired has absolutely nothing to do
with politics only money.
Victim of politics
TO THE EDITOR: Last summer I wrote Dr. Nobel a letter ex
pressing my thanks to the Psychology Department for in
cluding Dr. Jo Ann Farr’s Psychology of Human Sexuality
course in its course offerings Spring 197.6. In that letter I also
praised Dr. Farr’s teaching performance.
In a reply to that letter, Dr. Nobel acknowledged that Dr. Jo
Ann Farr is indeed a "fine teacher.” I would like to add that her
concern for undergraduates in psychology is somewhat unique
in a department that appears to be geared more and more
toward graduate students. In this case I truly do not believe
that trading Dr. Jo Ann Farr for a few graduate assistanceships
in the Mental Health Center is supported by many un
dergraduates that will be denied her general orientation in
psychology and her human sexuality course in specific.
May I suggest that if any “trades” are to occur, that they be
determined by course evaluations, rather than by inter
departmental policies?
Not true
TO THE EDITOR: I am saddened for the slight damage your
latest editorial about Jo Ann Farr (excerpted faithfully below)
may have done to the distinguished academic department in
which I work, it is not true that some of her colleagues con
sider her methods “to be unorthodox, irresponsible and even
dirty." It is not true that “somebody upstairs thought she was
more trouble than she was worth.” It is not true that non
continuing positions are “reserved for untried rookies.” It is
not true that “she has been snubbed by her superiors
. . .because she is blessed with the courage of her con
victions." It is not true that the "University has stepped in to
protect our prurient interests" whatever that means.
You may express any opinion you wish about Professor Jo
Ann Farr’s position but your readers including Jo Ann expect
that your view should not be founded on pure invention or
gross distortion of fact.
Collegian
JEFFREY HAWKES
Editor
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