PSU racism on
Covert racism affects both races
By WAYNE JOHNSON
Collegian Staff Writer
"Racism is definitely prevalent at
Penn State, but it's unconscious
racism," David Allen, president of
Black Caucus, said.
Racism here is passive because many
whites simply ignore blacks, Allen said.
Sandra Dungee, a resident assistant,
said, "It's more on the individual level
here than institutionalized racism."
"Racism isn't open, but it's there all
the same," said John Wilson (7th-
business administration). "It's not only
the students, but the faculty and the
administration."
"You can deal with one-on-one
racism," said Charles Kennedy, "but
you can't deal with the whole
bureaucracy."
The reason there are not more racial
incidents here is because of the small
number of blacks, Michael Morris, a
white resident assistant, said. •
If more blacks came to Penn State,
Morris said, some whites would hesitate
to come here.
It's not that blacks are much different
from whites, Allen said, but whites have
Congress votes to cancel own pay hike
, WASHINGTON ( AP) House
members, skittish about the $12,900 pay
raise they voted themselves earlier this
year, cancelled on yesterday a cost-of
living raise amounting to about $3,500 for
members of Congress and top federal
officials.
The 397-to-20 vote was only the curtain
raiser in a major struggle over whether
to roll back the pay raise members have
been receiving since March 1. The test
on that issue begins today when the
House takes up the legislative ap
propriations bill.
An amendment will be offered to that
measure denying funds to , continue the
pay raise for senators, representatives,
high executive officials such as cabinet
members and the top brackets of the
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a stigma about blacks and they can't
deal with them.
If Penn State had more blacks, Morris
said,' whites could learn how to 'deal with
them.
"The kind of racism I've come in
contact with," Morris said, "are from
whites who haven't had to deal with
blacks before."
civil service. Those categories total
more than 20,000 persons.
The Senate already had voted to
cancel the cost-of-living increase.
The Democratic leadership is fighting
to preserve the pay raise. Opponents
charged yesterday that scheduling of the
cancellation vote on the cost-of-living
adjustment 'was a ploy to enable
members to claim an anti-pay-raise vote
one day while voting against the rollback
on the next.
However, Rep. Stephen J. Solarz, D-
N.Y., handling the bill, told the House "it
would be politically obscene for mem
bers of Congress at such a time to get
two pay raises in a year."
The bill, which now goes to President
Carter, denies the cost-of-living increase
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Many whites merely want to, be left
alone by blacks, and don't attempt to
socialize with blacks, Morris said.
Resident assistants, Morris.saik have
no resources to call on to helpi.hem. deal
with minority problems, sincejnost of
them have not dealt with blacki...
Though most blacks have dealt with
whites in the past they 'must adapt to
living on a campus where whites far
outnumber blacks.
Blacks from the inner city have dif
ficulty adjusting, Allen said.
"You can't avoid white culture," said
Lloyd Brown (12th-political science),
"because white culture is all around."
More racial awareness workshops are
planned by the University for Fall Term
to attempt to ease racial tensions,
Morris'said.
The University itself is not racist, but
many students are, Morris said.
But some blacks don't agree.
"Racism is a tricky thing," Kennedy
said, "it comes from the top down."
Racism at Penn State is in
stitutionalized, Allen said, with the
administration taking a laissez faire
attitude toward recruiting black.
While Pennsylvania's population is 11
to those who received the bigger raise in
March, including senators, represen
tatives, the vice president, cabinet
members and other high executive of
ficials, top civil servants and federal
judges. The great majority of federal
employees remain eligible for the an
nual adjustment. It has not yet been
computed, but is expected to be about 6.3
per cent.
The March raise came about through
the operation of a different law, under
which a commission ,reviews ‘ top
government salaries every four years
and recommends adjustments. The
President sends them to Congress,
amended if he sees fit, and in the past
they have gone into 'effect unless
Congress voted them down.
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per cent black, they represent less than 1,
per cent of Penn State's enrollment.
"They may try to bring blacks up
here, but they don't try to keep them
here," Allen said.
• "Institutionalized racism more than
individual racism keeps the status quo,"
Dungee said.
Many administrative programs, such
as raising tuition and not increasing
financial aid, • though not aimed
specifically at blacks, primarily affects
blacks, she said.
Many poor whites still feel that they
are superior to all blacks, said Berchard
Suber (10th-art), because they can't deal
with them.
"We as black people can't deal with
the white system," said Kenhedy,
"because it's geared against us."
Black people have become too content,
said Dungee, and what they've ac
complished is being taken away.
Blacks are regressing and losing
many of the rights they fought for, said
Dungee, not because they're not needed,
but because blacks haven't continued to
put pressure on the administration.
As a result, said Dungee, "the system
is becoming more blatantly racist."
Congress never voted on the raise this
year, but subsequently passed a
measure intended to guarantee an up
or-down vote on increases in the future.
In shaping strategy to save the raise,
leaders devised a procedure under
which the only compensation-related
amendment to the legislative ap
propriation that could be considered
would rescind the raise, not only for
Congress, but also for all the other
recipients except judges. The Con
stitution provides that a judge's com
pensation may not be reduced during his
term.
Under this procedure, the House would
not be able to vote separately on rolling
back the congressional raise.
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A series of French films, in the
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The films are "Chronicle of a Summer
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Priest" (July 29), and "Cleo from 5 to 7"
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All films will be shown at 112 Kern at 7
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Newton-John's LP
given two reviews
MAKING A GOOD THING BETTER
by Olivia Newton-John (MCA)
There are two ways to handle this
Here they are.
The Polite Review
I remember Olivia Newton-John
best for her debut single, the pseudo
country "If You Love Me (Let Me
Know)." I must confess, in all
honesty, that Ms. Newton-John's
brand of music is not the type I
normally enjoy.
However, she is endowed with a
rather pleasant little-girl voice and
her choice of material reflects an ear
for the popular taste. If further
evidence that she is in touch with her
public is required, one need only point
to her string of hit singles and her
three Grammy awards. She has also
received awards from Billboard,
Cashbox, and the National
Association of Retail Merchandisers,
who should know.
Those more demanding will
dismiss Ms. Newton-John as a pretty
voice in sea - rch of something in
teresting to sing about. However,
they are missing the point entirely.
She is already endowed with a legion
of fans, and who would argue with
that kind of success? Those who have
enjoyed her work in the past may
very well discover that she is, indeed,
making a good thing better.
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The Honest Review
Let me be kind. Olivia Newton-John
would be more blarid than that other
Australian import, Helen Reddy, if
she could.
Her music consists mostly of
syrupy orchestrations which can't
hide the fact that she has absolutely
nothing of substance to offer.
album review
Occasionally she allows an electric
or steel guitar to slip through the
saccharine textures, but of course she
would be afraid to alienate her
middle-of-the-road audience with
anything resembling real rock, folk
or country. The whole point to music
like this is to fill the gaps . between
disco singles and soft-drink corn
mercials.
Supposedly Olivia Newton-John is
singing about love and loneliness and
all that other emotional stuff, but for
all the impact her music carries, she
just might as well be singing about
frozen yogurt.
And while we're talking about food,
you'd get a similar rush from
shovelling tapioca into your ears.
"Making a Good Thing Better" is
music to shoot Novacaine by.
By Tom Marcinko
The Penn State University Choirs are
looking for members. Those interested
should call Ellen Rathfon at 238-6916 or
865-6548.
Festival Theatre is offering free
tickets and transportation to persons
with low incomes, and free trans
portation and half-price tickets to senior
citizens.
The program is being funded by the
National Endowment for the Arts. Those
interested should call Deborah
Schreifels at 863-0381.
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