Editorial opinion
Commendation
The' Daily Collegian
commends University Pres
ident John W. Oswald for
agreeing to regularly meet
with the press.
Last Wednesday was the
first of what probably will be
regularly scheduled press
conferences to be held three
times a year during months
when the University Board of
Trustees is not scheduled to
meet.
Oswald entertained all ques
tions Wednesday. Nothing was
off-the-record.
Oswald's new policy is a
great improvement over the
way newspapers had to get
information from him in the
past. To get a statement from
Oswald, reporters have first
had to ask his executive sec
Corrections
I want to make a couple of corrections regarding the article
in the Wednesday issue of The Daily Collegian about the
selections for the student trustee. In the article it mentioned
that I "said the committee decided that it was not necessary
for a candidate to be a student and could have graduated from
the University." The Committee actually followed the
suggested criteria of the Governor in a letter to USG and GSA
earlier this year. • .t
' I supplied the Collegian with a copy of that letter with the
criteria, and I said in my statement at that time that the
Committee had followed the - Governor's recommendations.
The Student Trustee Selection Committee did not
unilaterally swerve away from the original criteria. A
majority of the Committee agreed with the names submitted
to the Secretary of Education, and I am confident that
Secretary Kline will choose the student best able to actively
and aggressively represent day-to-day and long-term con
cerns of students. _
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Three and one-half
counting til the 'BO
Since the early smells of spring were
in the air, millions of fans have resigned
themselves to watching NBC's "Game
of the Week" on Saturday afternoons.
The familiar commercials. of beer,
getting a good woman to stroke you in
the morning and the gyrations of Farrah
Fawcett-Majors entice the irenic
baseball fans deeper and deeper into
their easy chairs where the only voice
that can be heard is that of NBC.
"You know, Tony," Joe Garagiola said
during one such afternoon, "it's only
three and one-half years away from the
1980 Olympic games in Moscow."
"And NBC will be there with complete
coverage," Kubek said, without miffing
a single line from the cue card.
Regardless of whatever network
claims your allegiance, it seems a bit
premature to begin trumpeting for the
1980 games. One can only calculate by
slide-rule the amount of ranting and
raving that NBC will be doing when the
time ticks down to T-minus three years
and counting.
If we learned anything from last
year's Bicentennial, besides a lot of
obscur
tidbits of h istory, it was how
retary. The secretary then
would ask the president the
questions and relay his an
swers back to the reporter. In
effect, Oswald is using the
executive secretary as his
personal press secretary.
This procedure to obtain
information is understand
able. Oswald is a busy man
and should not have to waste
time personally answering
every question a reporter
wants answered.
By setting up periodic gess
conferences, however, re
porters now have an oppor
tunity to ask Oswald any
question they want and to get
a reply straight from the
horse's mouth so to speak.
The editor of the Centre
Daily Times, Jerome
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Letters to the Editor
nauseating overkill techniques can be.
But as soon as the ghosts of
Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln have
been packed with mothballs and carted
away, another extravaganza is creeping
into the American scene.
What the NBC network hopes to ac
complish is to create wide audience
appeal for the games. That is why with
three and one-half years before the start
of the Olympics or six months after the
'76 games we are already being gently
guided along.
Bill
DePaolo
From now until the Olympic flame is
lit, the viewing public will be bombarded
with bits and pieces of promotion about
the games, Moscow, Leonid Brezhnev,
Zeus and anything else remotely related
to the sporting event. „
The story of Creatidn according to a
Kenyan news release:
In the beginning, Idiamin created the
heavens and the earth; And the earth
was a formless mass in central Africa.
And darkness covered the abyss, for
Idiamin stood in front of the sun.
Idiamin said, "Let there be light," and
press photographers came unto him and
flashed flashbulbs in his face and there
was light. Idiamin saw that the light was
good. He separated the light from the
dark, calling the light Day and the
darkness Night, and he stepped on an
archbishop and called it an Accident.
And there was evening and morning the
first day.
Then Idiamin said, "Let there be a
firmament to separate the waters above
and below "and he created Heaven. And
Heaven was a formless mass in central
Africa. And there was evening and
morning the second day.
Then Idiamin „grew weary from his
labors. He munched upon some finger
sandwiches, read two chapters of "How
One other comment which was left out of the article
regarded the attitude of the Committee during the selection
process. The members of the Committee were very fair and
objective in their interview techniques, and I do not feel that
any subjectivity entered into the post-interview analysis of the
applicants.
Because of the limited amount of time in which the Com
mittee could accomplish its work, we did not have the number
of applicants that we would have liked. The Committee will,
therefore, be submitting a final report suggesting recom
mendations for the future selection process to the Student
Advisory Board emphasizing .the time factor as a major
concern which may have hindered the number of possible
undergraduate, graduate, and Commonwealth Campus ap
plicants. .
I trust that the Secretary of Education will make a selection
from the current three candidates. If the Secretary requests
more names I shall seek a consensus of the Committee
members. I believe, though, that the Committee deserves
praise from the University community for its hours of hard
work during the finals period in Spring Term. The applicants,
too, deserve praise for their understanding about the in
terview schedule and their willingness to travel many miles
for the interview or to otherwise re-arrange schedules at the
last minute. It was a difficult task, and, in view of the time
period, very well done,
Alexander W. Holt,
Chairman PSU Student Trustee Selection Committee
Slap in the face
The most recent tuition increase passed by the Penn State
University Board of Trustees is another slag in the face to
students. The trustees believe that a tuition increase is
necessary. They also believe the easiest way of acquiring
funds is to take it out of the students' pocket. The 9.9 per cent
increase is higher than the annual rate of inflation. A state
education is surely becoming financially unreachable.
years and
Olympics
Weinstein, deserves credit for
suggesting the idea of periodic
press conferences: He, too,
realized the reporters' frus
tration in not being able to
directly query the president.
Let's hope that the press
conferences are an indication
that Oswald will attempt to be
more accessible, not only to
the press, but also to students,
faculty, alumni and
taxpayers.
Accessibility is a virtue for
a public figure.
Now, if the president would
just learn to answer questions
concisely, more questions
could be asked within the hour
time limit of the press confer
ence.
The Idi Amin story of Creation
The necessity for building the games
to Herculean proportions stems from the
deal the' network made with the
Russians. In cash terms, the National
Broadcasting Corp. paid for the 1976
Olympics. To realize any kind of profit,
NBC will have to guarantee advertisers
huge numbers to inflate commercial
minutes.
To add more Olympic commercials,
NBC plans to double the amount of
viewing hours to 150. This will insure the
inveterate sports fanatic not only the
major events but also the lesser events
like bike riding, pogo-sticking and coin
flipping.
So now with three and one-half years
to go we are sprinting toward a 16-day
event that NBC dubs "The biggest in
ternational sports event in history." The
only thing that lies between here and
that monumental spectacular are three
world series, three superbowls, 1000 golf
and tennis tournaments and at least two
more fights of the century.
An NBC executive for programming
was heard to have said: "I just hope that
will tide them over."
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and went to sleep.
On the fourth day, Idiamin awoke with
indigestion, for the finger sandwiches
had been made with real fingers. And
Idiamin created the sun, moon, and
stars and called them "Idiamin." And he
saw that it was good, and there was
evening and morning the fourth day.
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Then Idiamin said, "Let the earth and
the waters abound with . life," and he
created the creatures of the earth and
large creatures of the water called
crocodiles which were given no food but
were told to wait until man was created.
There was no evening or morning the
fifth day, for Idiamin ate them.
Students who have to take time off away from school in order
to pay for their tuition are not able to catch up. Families that
are already in economic peril, and can't qualify for financial
aid cannot send their children to a state school.
It is apparent that the only concern of the University is to get
its money by the most convenient means. When the Board of
Trustees can appropriate $4.5 million for improvement of
Beaver Stadium, while not providing equal financial support
to educational services, and students trying to achieve that
education, then something is grossly wrong.
The confrontation between the University and the students
will become inevitable. When the University trustees come to ,
realize that they are in the business of education, first, and all
others second then it •will set its priorities straight. If they
cannot come to realization, then the students will show them
the way.
Fair treatment
This is not meant as a rebuttal of Mr. Hann's letter printed
on June 22 concerning his near collision with a bicyclist, but an
appeal to motorists for fair treatment on the roads. Every day
I pedal my bicycle to and from PSU about two miles each way,
and not a day has gone by when I have not had at least one
"near hit."
In particular, Sunday evening, well before dark, I was
riding my bike south on Atherton approaching Westerly Park
way. I had been signaling for a right turn onto Westerly for at
least 500 feet. As I began to execute my turn, an automobile
travelling north on Atherton also turned onto Westerly ( I saw
no signal). This would have been fine under normal cir
cumstances, however my bicycle and myself were totally
ignored and forced into a somewhat controlled slide as I
squeezed my brakes for a quick stop.
The point I am trying to make is that many motorists choose
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On the sixth day, Idiamin traced his
roots. He found his grandfather to have
been Vlad the Impaler and his grand
mother to have been a syphilitic iguana.
And Idiamin .was displeased ' so he
consumed Alex Haley ( with three or folk
crocodiles as a chaser). And there was
evening and morning the sixth day.
On the seven day, Idiamin saw that he
had not carried out Creation as fast as
God had, and he became enraged. He fell
to the floor in a tantrum which caused
an earthquake felt in Kenya, Tanzania,
the Congo, and parts of Poughkeepsi.
And so, Idiamin created mankind in his
image male and female he - made
them: And he said to man, "Be fruitful
and multiply, and teach all the people to
worship only me. You will bear me on
your shoulders whenever the
you
strikes me. In return, I will give you the
use of every vehicle on the earth. But
there is one Limousine you must not
touch.
But when mankind saw they had been
created in Idiamin's image, they all had
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to think of bicyclists as intruders upon their roads. (For,
tunately, most choose peaceful coexistence with self-propelled
vehicles). Bicyclists• have as much right to the roads in Stare
College as do motorists, providing, of course, they obey the
rules concerning their mode of transportation.
I am making this plea to those motorists who through'
negligence or just plain malice fail to acknowledge the pres
ence of bicyclists. Please consider the limitations;,
vulnerability, and mostly the rights of persons riding bicycles:"
Michael J. Firkp,
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Limosene with tiny projectiles.
And then to man Idiamin said,
"Because you have disobeyed me, yciu
will be banished from this formless mass
in central Africa. This was the
thousandth being so banished, and so
pleased was Idiamin that he created-a
medal for himself. fl.f
And Idiamin went on a honeymoon arid
hid (just barely) behind a billboard f,gr
seven days. Idiamin called 12 different
persons and told them 12 different
stories as to his divine whereabouts. AO
those people told the world. And there
was evening and morning the seventh
day. • ..,
On the eighth day the press rested. It
decided to ignore Idiamin. Mankind no
longer knew what strange activities the
creator was indulging in. After a few
violent tantrums Idiamin was heard
from no 'more. And suddenly, no o*
seemed to care. And mankind carriedvn
without incident, and it was good.
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