Editorial opinio
Landlords beware.
There is the beginnin
movement in this tow;
may just put students
equal footing with the o
of high rises and tenemei
Tuesday’s Daily Col
reported on a meetin
tween Laurel Glen tei
and management call
solve problems of sno 1
ice removal in that com;
Today’s Collegian i
story about tenants of
gate who may have to
class action suit to get
imately $60,000 in deposi
rent money the Ear
Apartment Management
poration skipped town w ?
Sensitivity
Beirig a fifth term law enforcement and corrections major, I
am bombarded with a lot of reading assignments. This is not
unique except that I am constantly finding myself reading
about black people. One example is a quotation by a white
police' officer in Newark, “I’m sorry, but after you’ve seen
What I’ve seen Negroes looting, burning, yelling—they just
seem to be a bunch of animals.’’
Now, I understand the police officer’s feelings to a certain
extent, but while reading these statements, I can’t help feeling
that a white person would act the same way under the same
conditions. Then I go to my sociology class, and I am faced
with the same thing.
For instance, a homosexual spoke to our class about
societies norms, and to illustrate his point, he used the topic of
black discrimination several times. Several unspoken
responses by the students, myself included, was, “Would you
get off of blacks and talk about homosexuals.”
Now, these little illustrations are no big deal except that
blacks get to hear, read and talk about inequality and
discrimination all the time, which we know quite a lot about.
This sensitive area is just that,' sensitive, and it hurts.
I know that blacks are not the only group of people being
discriminated against, but that is just the topic that is given
the most attention. A lot more could probably be said, but it is
very hard to put these feelings into words and into the
newspaper. Who cares? I certainly do.
Mains treaming
' A very important and controversial topic in the last several
months has been the new so called “help” for mentally
retarded children mainstreaming.
For years, the mentally retarded have remained segregated
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Soup kitchen education offered
Where does it say “taxpayers give
kids a free ride?” Why should the
state be held responsible for the
education of its citizens?
The students of this state have
taken their free ride as far as it is
going to go. The state is not running
glorified soup kitchens for twenty
year olds. If they want to get an
education and better our society, let
them work for it. Six years down a
mine will give them a better ap
preciation of the education to which
they’re entitled because America is a
free country.
Why should old folks, orphans, and
widows be taxed so the sons and
daughters of the middle-class can
learn etymology? It is about time the
state put its proverbial foot down and
quit providing these over-age juvenile
deliquents with tennis courts and
greenhouses.
Enough is enough. The state never
had any obligation to provide these
people a means to escape the draft
which has outlived its usefulness.
How can they be upset that the gifts
are no longer coming. They should be
grateful for what they once had. The
idea that they not pay this increase is
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Denise Lewis
sth-law enforcement and corrections
Jan. 22
absurd and childish. They lost at the
game of politics when their lobbying
effort failed, and are now too much
sore losers to pay the price.
The students have a distorted sense
of values, anyway. Don’t they realize
that you get what you pay for? That a
quality education is expensive? The
names of Harvard, Yale, and Prince
ton mean nothing without the
price. People are not impressed with
the name or the high quality in
struction, but that the student worked
to pay that price. Students should not
complain about the current tuition
increase, but rather look forward to a
time when their school will cost as
much to attend as the Ivy League,
and its name will carry the same
respect and dignity.
Letters to the Editor
in special classes and schools; but now with recent federal
legislation, handicapped children must be educated within
public school systems to the greatest extent possible.
Most schools, because of depleted funds, do not have the
equipment or the teachers to provide all the hardicapped
children with an education equivalent to regular classes. In
order for schools to fulfill the requirements of the new
legislation, handicapped children needing special care will be
ousted from special classes and situated into regular
classroom settings. Some children can benefit from regular
classroom activities, but others need special attention which a
regular classroom cannot give them. The regular teacher does
not have the time or the education to properly educate these
children.
If this legislation had been implemented in a succession of
years, schools could have made appropriations to uphold the
act; but with standards that say three to 18-year-olds have to
be educated to the greatest extent by 1978 and children up to
the age of 21 by 1982, it is impossible.
In order for the schools to meet these regulations, the
children must suffer. The new generation of our future?
Cindy Dougherty
2nd-education
Jan. 23
Protect and serve
Friday morning, while seated in the third floor of East
Pattee looking out one of the windows which faced a parking
lot, I witnessed a disgraceful act or rather, lack of action.
The snow was falling swiftly, and a man in an Oldsmobile
slid into the parking lot. He found an open spot in the corner of
the lot and departed from his parked vehicle, neglecting to
turn off.his headlights
A few minutes later a campus patrol car entered the lot and
parked next to the car. Expecting the officer to get out and
turn out the lights, I waited to see if he would succeed. A few
more minutes passed, but no door opened.
The police car then backed up and parked about 30 feet from
Jew
By RABBI ROBERT A. KAUFMAN
State College Resident
In the Jan. 17th edition of the Collegian there appeared
a very interesting article called “Jews for Jesus.”
Much of the discussion in the article centered around
pro and con statements on Jewish prophecy in the Old
Testament. It seemed to be most important to Jewish
Messianics that Yeshua (Jesus) is the messiah of the
Jewish prophets. There is, however, another school of
thought which rejects completely the idea that Jewish
prophets predicted any kind of a ‘superhuman’ God
annointed messiah . . . Jesus or anyone else.
This school of thought holds that the Jewish belief in
the coming of a messiah is strictly post-Biblical in its
development. The messianic movement among Jews
had its major development in the time of the Roman
Empire.
Jews were a subject people living under the
domination of Rome. They had lost their political in
dependence and their political freedom. They longed for
a change. Unable to change things themselves they
looked toward the day when a God would send a
redeemer to save them, just as He had done in ancient
Egypt with Moses.
Onpe this movement took hold among Jews, many of
them read back into the scriptures the idea and
prediction of a superhuman Messiah who would bring
deliverance to the Jews at the behest of God. To the
early Christian Jews, who were the first followers of
Jesus, this Messiah was the “Christ,” which in Greek
means “the anointed.”
To the Jews who did not accept Jesus, the messiah
Thirty-five dollars a term? What’s
that anyway? 280 pinball games.
That’s all it means to them. For most
students there will be only the in
convience of hitting up the old man
for an extra few bucks, or getting a
state grant or loan so we, the tax
payers, are burdened again, anyway.
Why don’t the students quit their
grumbling and do something worth
while. If they put as much effort
into something constructive as they
do into complaining, they might get
somewhere. They want this great
country of ours handed to them on a
silver platter. Well the taxpayers are
tired of giving handouts. What’s the
sense of their crying over spilled
milk, anyway? Sooner or later, they
have to be weaned and awakened to
the harsh, cold facts of life that
money doesn’t grow on trees, and that
in this land of plenty every person is
entitled to learn all that they desire—
provided they can afford it. Anything
that’s worth having is worth working
for.
I say three cheers for the state
legislature on a job well done. Now if
they could only do something about
those goldbricks on welfare.
the Oldsmobile. Two men emerged from the car. To my
amazement they did not walk towards the car but walked
away from it. I presumed the policemen had seen that the
doors were locked when they pulled up near the car and thus
could do nothing.
My presumption proved false. Minutes later, another car
slid into the parking lot and parked near the Oldsmobile. The
: driver got out, opened the Oldsmobile’s door and turned off the
headlights.
The moral of the story is: Don’t expect a cop to get out of his
nice warm car and go into a blizzard to turn off your lights.
Police.are all too ready to protect (handing out parking
tickets), but when it comes to service, performing a simple act
of courtesy, they are quite apathetic.
Miscarriage
You’ve heard there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Each
has its good and bad points. If the University’s ultimate goal is
to prepare us for society qs thinking individuals, then what is a
professor who only accepts his suggested method a grade
dictator. Or is he trying to stiffle American ingenuity? They
failed Einstein too!
PSU blows
Penn State, you really blew it Friday. You needlessly en
dangered the lives of thousands of people. I do not know which
is worse, your stubborness or your ignorance. Stubborn
because you have an attitude that Penn State must never
close. Ignorant because you did not realize the full extent of
the storm.
sh belief
was someone yet to come. After the destruction of the is no basis in the Bible for this concept. To the Biblical
Temple by the Romans in 70 A.D., this belief in a Jew the idea that an innocent person should suffer3K>r|
messiah and its grounding in scriptures took even a the sins of the guilty, thereby cleansing the guilty of gjjjij
greater hold. would be the greatest injustice of all. ««*
Dr. Harry M. Orlinsky, a professor of Bible at the Even though I speak as a Reform Rabbi and a forffier
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in student of Dr. Orlinsky, I feel that most modern Jlgtts
New York, is recognized as one of the world’s out- would agree with,Dr. Orlinsky and the school of thought
standing Biblical scholars. This recognition comes from he represents. S*
both Jewish and Christian sources. Dr. Orlinsky in his j n my y ears 0 f experience in the rabbiniate I found
book Ancient Israel states as follows: many Christian clergymen who would agree withjfor.|
“Not only did Jews of the first and second century Orlinsky’s view on the prophets and his findings onjjjje
read in the prophets a prediction of the new exile and a post-Biblical nature of the messianic movement. As one j
second restoration, but the early Christians found in the Christian minister I knew once put it, “The role of Jesus
same source predictions of the coming of Jesus and his in Christianity must stand or fall upon its own merit£.
messianic role. But just as the dubious quality of Either one accepts Jesus as the messiah based on'thfc
prediction was only retroactively associated with the New Testament account or he does not accept him. IFJs
prophetic writings, so too was the concept of a ,as simple as all that.” He told me further that he wdpjd
messianism improperly projected back into the never try to use Jewish scripture to support his beliefrin
prophetic writings. ’ ’ Jesus. He did not feel that it was necessary. 25 !
Dr. Orlinsky feels that the greatness of the prophets Jn conclusion I would say that many Jews, including
of Israel is not found in the area of prediction, but in myself, feel that Jesus as a great teacher and per
their role as spokesmen for the godly ideals that their sonality has an important place in Jewish history, jjjit
people were supposed to uphold. Thus the prophets we feel that he holds this place not as a messiah or as»a
cried out against social injustice and hypocricy, and divine. person, but as a great human being, and
were often persecuted for their stand. So when in the therefore a great Jew.
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53rd chapter of Isaiah the prophet speaks of the “suf
fering servant of the Lord,” he is speaking of his own
suffering.
I often heard Dr. Orlinsky in class speak of the 53rd
chapter and tiow early Christians read into it the idea of
“vicarious atonement.” He stated, however, that there
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Legislature teams with apathy
Students get 35 dollar reminder
Thank you, Mr. State Legislator,
Just what I needed.
Hell, what do I have to complain
about? What can an extra $35 a term
do to me? I only have a few minor
expenses to worry about. Little
things. Frivolous things. Like food,
for instance.
I only live in an apartment that
costs twice what it’s worth and has a
heating system (that I pay for) which
heats the outside more than the in
side.
I can always figure out some new
way to finance things like clothes. I’d
sell my Mom, but she had to go at the
beginning of the term for books.
But I’m not bitter. Oh no. In a way I
suppose I deserved it.
I deserved it because like 30,000
other students, instead of screaming
my lungs out and keeping you bozos in
line, I buried my nose in my books
and my work, confident that if I paid
no attention, the tuition problem
would just go away.
I made the sad mistake in assuming
Paul A. Tomasofsky
2nd-political science
Jan. 23
Ted Metrose
Bth-agricultural engineering
Jan. 19
in messiah traced!
that Math 420 was more important
than keeping a bunch of self
interested politicians under some
code of ethics. My friend Jan thought
his meteo lab was more important.
Kim thought her geology was more
important. Mike and Roz, well, they
had each other to worry about.
But I don’t want to tly off the
handle. State legislators need money
for other things besides'universities.
Think of your typical legislator and of
what else he needs taxpayer money
for. Henry Cianfrani for example.
He’s pleaded no contest to a charge
You tailed to listen to Penn State’s meteorologists and other|
professionals who knew at 11:30 p.m. Thursday that State!
College was headed for 10 to 15 inches of new snow by {
afternoon. That is more than enough snow to warrant the®
closing of any university. §
So wise up, Penn State; if the weather situation looks
potentially dangerous, close the University. Classes can al
ways be made up. Lives can not
Role reversal
Mr. Micklo, in your Jan. 24 letter, you state you.cannot
understand the magnitude of the female reaction to rape. The
“hole,” as you so glibly call it, is not a device women uSJe
against men as you seem to think. Rather it is ap intimate part
of a woman’s body. The trauma, in rape, comes from tne.
Violation, which js on a different plane than that of being best
up and robbed. £
Perhaps if you were set upon by a thug (or thugs), and
castrated, you would appreciate the trauma a rape victigi
undergoes
Jeffrey Hawkes
Editor
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It also can be said that the need for a personal l
messiah no longer exists for most Jews as it once isd.
Instead Judaism tends today to emphasize the idealpfla
messianic age in mankind’s future. It will be a time
when, as stated in one of our prayers, “mankind wilJDjje
one and God will be One throughout the world. ’ ’
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that he paid his girlfriend wittgj
taxpayer money. Who else should pay™
it but the taxpayers? Legislators needS
secretaries arid
sometimes need girlfriends too. It™
sounds like he was just trying to sav<£»
some money.
Yeah. . . sure. gjj-
Obviously these legislators,
politicians, these people who are®
supposed to be looking out for and»
representing us, are simply not doingJJ
their job. As citizens, we haven’t beeigj
doing ours.
Now, every three mohths, we’re--"
going to get an extra $35 reminded
that we screwed up. That ought to bfgj
enough to carry us to the next elec*™
tion. ' g
Instead of some sparkling Marxist
revolutionary slogan to drive the*
masses of Penn State students oiffi
though, I can only think of something**
Scotty once said on Star Trek: tan
“Fool me once, shame on you. Foo£S
me twice, shame on me.” ,
See you at the polls. . '
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Rich Burkhart
llth-meteprology]
Jan. 23]
Tim Milleri
llth-animal science;
Jan. 24
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