Editorial opinion
Arming the enemy
Sticker tactics inappropriate for anti-vandalism campaign
The past few days,
residents of the Centre Region
have been bombarded by
requests to "Put the breaks
on vandalism." A noble
thought indeed. However, the
recent media blitz will cost
somewhere in the vicinity of
$lO,OOO for the first year,
acccording. to J. Steven
Dershimer, chairman of the
Centre County Anti-
Vandalism Committee.
One big problem with
the campaign is it's cost
notably $lO,OOO from the
private sector. Dershimer
said about $5,000 has been
donated by local businesses,
with more money coming in
from collection cans located
around town. Not all of the
money is going toward anti
vandalism advertising. Part
of it is being used to educate
War: big business benefit
By MICHAEL J. SCHIRRA
11th-economics
(Editor's Note: Michael J. Schirra is a former member of the
82nd Airborne, 25th Infantry Division. He served in Vietnam
from 1969-70.)
While reading the March 11 issue of The Daily Collegian, I
was shocked out of the fetid torpor into which many 'Nam vets
have fallen. Thank you to all those who contributed to the
Letters to the Editor and Op-ed sections for shaking me out of
my lethargy.
Pertaining to Robert Leslie Brown's letter, "At any cost,"
what lesson Vietnam?
Speaking from bitter experience, I can suggest not to fight
for the Big Buisness economy. The Vietnam War was the first
"catered" war in American history. All the buildings, oil (gas,
diesel fuel, etc.) and electrical power, were supplied by a
civilian concern, Pacific Architects and Engineers (P.A.& E.).
Guess which ex-president's wife was the major stockholder for:
P.A. & E., as well as being a major stockholder in Bell
helicopter? None other than LBJ's.
Another trivia question: Which major aerospace company,
after making a fortune on the war, claimed to be broke when
the war wound down, only to be subsidized at public expense?
Check your business directory.
Brown mentions author Alexandr Solzhynitsyn's ("The
Gulag Archipelago") arrest for criticizing Stalin in a letter to a
friend. During the Vietnam conflict, many. American soldiers
were busted, in essence, for the same thing. It was a crime to
write F.T.A. (F--- the Army)-or F.T.W. (F---the War), even as
initials. (I still have my F.T.W. tatoo)
Brown goes on to say that "unfortunately Solzhynitsyn's
story is commonplace." Unfortunately yes, all over the world!
I suggest Mr. Brown read Eldridge Cleaver's "Soul On Ice"
which my gunner, a future Chicago Blackstone Ranger, turned
me on to while we were in 'Nam. To round out Mr. Brown's
literary education, he should also read (since he indicated that
he sat long enough to read "The Gulag Archipelago," not just
skim it) "Fear and Loathing Along the Campaign Trail" by
Hunter S. Thompson and "Trial" by Tom Hayden.
The French philosopher Merleau-Ponty, a Communist
sympathizer after World War 11, realized in the early 1950 s
that Stalin's Russia was as imperialistic and manipulative of
its people as the capitalist and fascist states. It's all the same
to those in power the people suffer and pay the price of the
government's policies.
John Gochenour's letter, "Worth dying for," was an in
teresting, if misguided, piece. Come on John do you really
believe that "the U.S. would shudder under the economic
strain caused by the ensuing oil shortage?" What ever hap
pened to Yankee ingenuity? The multi-nationals and the large
corporations use oil as a lever to extort exorbitant revenues
and promises of patriotic insanity from those duped by the
need for "more energy" consumption per capita.
QUOTOGRAPHS
A LOOK AT OPINION. IN THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY
Question: In view of the upcoming Undergraduate Student Government
elections: What do ou think USG's function is? Will you be voting?
"I don't know what they do here. Usually,
from other schools I have been to, they
haven't been too effective." (voting)
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"I personally don't really know what the
USG is up to. I haven't found out or seen
any evidence of things they have been up
to or things that the organization does."
(voting)
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"I don't know. It's not really clear because
no one ever really came out and said, 'This
Is what we do and II you have a complaint,
you come to us and go to see these
people about it.' That's what I assume they
do. I'm not sure." (voting)
Bill Smedly,
sth environmental
research management
Jill Josephson,
4th-petroleum and
natural gas engineering
school children and the public
in the Centre Region about the
evils of vandalism.
These children, after being
told why vandalism is bad,
will probably go out with their
new red, black and white
"Put the breaks on van
dalism" bumper stickers and
thinking they are doing a
good deed will help put the
breaks on vandalism. How?
By putting the stickers on
everything from school
lockers to store windows.
The story on campus will
not be. much different.
Already, the stickers have
made their way to dormitory
doors, blackboards and other
undesirable places.
No matter how good the
cause, bumper stickers on
University and private
property is not an intelligent
Joel Toner,
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"Are they Involved In ASA? Is ASA a part of
student government? I guess they lust
work with the faculty and staff running the
University to try to make the atmosphere
better for students. Whether they do a
good Job or not, I don't know. I really don't
know that much about the UGS (sic)."
(voting)
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Marta Johnson,
4th-psychology
"I think they offer a service to the
students. I'm not really sure exactly what
they do. I don't know if it's their fault or my
fault for not checking into it." (voting)
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method of promotion. How
can the fight against van
dalism be waged if we are
arming the vandals?
The crusade against van
dalism is undoubtably a good
cause, however, the tactics
are questionable. If the public
is indeed willing to donate
$lO,OOO to the fight against
vandalism so buttons, ad
vertisements, posters and
bumper stickers can be
bought and distributed, the
public would probably be
willing to donate the same
amount of money for stepped
up police coverage.
And increased police
coverage has advantages
over posters, buttons and
bumper stickers. With that,
we are not arming the enemy.
We are confronting him:
As for Gochenour's comment that "Draft registration is not
the first step toward war; quite the contrary it is the first step
toward continued peace," show me just one instance in which
a war has not closely followed the institution of a draft. I ap
preciate Gochenour's willingness "to fight," but I abhor the
use of misguided patriotism, especially at the beck and call of
the multi-nationals' and a military industrial complex which
knows war is good for business
Randolph Caldwell. states in his letter "Don't come back"
that "a marked majOrity of Happy Valley residents appear to
be against serving their country through serving in the
military." I personally believe they refuse to be taken in by the
lies served up as patriotism.
Caldwell goes on to say that "being a U.S. citizen . . en
titles us to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the
right to vote. Americans can choose their own occupation and
where they wish to live." •
But does freedom of speech literally mean freedom of
speech, or what the powers that be want to hear or condone?
The Supreme Court recently ruled that a former CIA agent
could not write about his experiences. This decision affects the
future of presidential memoirs, as well as those of other civil
servants. As for freedom of the press have you forgotten the
member of the New York Press who went to jail rather than
reveal the source of confidential information?
In the letter "Cold hard fac.ts,!!-,the,authors claim "there is a
serious deficiency in the educational level of the present ar
med forces."A wide variety of studies have shown this to be
true.
To remedy this, the military will be looking for the "new
breed" of draftee, the individual who has a high degree of
technological competence and a higher degree of education.
College students are at the top of the list of those who are
first to go. In the past, if Mommy , and Daddy had the money to
put Junior in college, Junior received a deferment and the poor
and the lower-middle class fought the war. This time kids,
Uncle Sam wants YOU. Are you willing to rush off to protect
Rockefeller's interest in the Persian Gulf area?
As for freeing the hostages in Iran: why not trade them
Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and David Rockefeller? It
was their double-dealing that put America in this awkward
position. Now, the young people of this country are once again
expected to bail-out big business with their lives.
The Vietnam Vets were treated rather shabbily by the
society they were supposedly sent to protect. The Veteran's
Administration still refuses to acknowledge health problems
due to Agent Orange, a chemical defolient used in Southeast
Asia. The old G.I. bill is dead with nothing to replace it.
After such a raw deal was handed out to the veterans of the
last war, all I can say to those screaming for action in the next
one is, "Good luck." I'll not be fool enough to be taken in again
and neither will my family. I will hold blameless any who feel
the political climate is brighter in Canada or Sweden.
The best defense
As a feminist, I take exception to the March 18
editorial, "Rape," which masqueraded a patriarchal,
guilt-inducing attitude as an enlightened, educated
opinion.
What I find most astonishing about articles urging
women to "protect themselves" is that the rapist, a
man, is continually an absentee. He is never mentioned
as the core of the crime; the societal mores that
created him are never questioned.
The most naive assertion of the editorial was that
women "shouldn't be paranoid about rape," but they
should simultaneously flee to buses or enlist male
chaperones with every move they make after "raping
hour "
If the author thinks this is a progressive opinion, I
should like to point out to him or her that rape, aside
from the potential to happen to any woman, can
happen at any time. Dusk does not a rapist make.
Logically then, to avoid rape, a woman would have to
constantly take crowded roads or walk astride om
nipotent, protected males.
"Women do not have to , walk alone," the author
offers. According to this plan, women needn't do
anything alone.
"A good defense is the best offense," we are also
told. The best defense is to eliminate the problem the
rapist. I am eternally sick of seeing women saddled
with the hardships of potential threat before, and the
results after, of this male crime. But I am even more
disgusted by the subtle argument that because women
are inherently vulnerable by virtue of their vaginas,
they should remember at all times that they are not
safe and it is their responsibility to "protect
themselves."
I am not arguing the prudency of self-protection. But
rape is not a disease that seizes upon unsuspecting
women in the deep of the night. I should like to see far
more articles that cease preaching and start
examining the roots of aggression and violence that
this society has planted in rapists.
New budget's 'teeth' may lead
to tasty bite of economic pie
Teeth are something we easily
associate with Jimmy Carter. But until
last Wednesday, they were con
spicuously absent from his anti-inflation
policies.
With his package of budget reductions,
oil import fees and, most importantly,
restrictions on consumer credit ex
pansion, the President has finally taken
some substansive steps to put the skids
on inflation. Now, amid wailing and
gnashing of teeth, comes the hope that
these steps will slow the rush to rewrite
the economic textbooks changing
rampant inflation from a variable to a
constant.
In the last ten years, we have fought
the symptoms, but not the disease, of
inflation. In particular, the Carter ad
ministration's stop-and-go, speed-a nd
qualude policies which have confused
buisnessmen and aggravated prevailing
economic cycles. .
The inevitable, creeping-closer
election day 1980 has apparently The balanced budget benefit will be a
awakened President Carter to the psychological one: it will indicate
detriments of runaway Keynsian in- government is "straining" to live within
tervention theory, and at long last its staggeringly enormous means (for
convinced him that too much govern- fiscal 1981, almost $6OO billion dollars).
ment spending is merely destabilizing. In turn, this shows the importance of
Through his budget actions, the credit restriction. Business analysts
president has opened new vistas for estimate there was $55 billion in out-
Webster's dictionary. He heralded his standing consumer credit at 1979's close.
fiscal 1981 budget as "lean and austere" That was accomplished with between 600
when he introduced it in January .
' million and 700 million credit cards, the
evidently "lean and austere" means average being eight per owner.
enough fat for $l5 billion in cutbacks.
Further, yesterday a group of Those little plastic cards burn easily
Democrats suggested an alternative and profusely. Analagously, they have
budget plan which would shave $2l . helped stoke and sustain , the fires of
billion from federal spending. This is to inflation by giving consumers excess
say nothing of the federal fiscal blood the - --buying-power way out of line with their
Republicans would spill if in power. own economic resources.
Letters to the Editor
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Diane Salvatore
7th-journalism
March 19
Just one time
As I read through the March 18 issue of The Daily
Collegian, I noticed something that I just could not
believe. Our beloved President has decided to finally
cut our federal budget by a wonderful $l3 billion. But
wait, good ole Jimmy has decided that those cuts shall
be taken out of education, solar , energy and youth
employment programs.
Sure, I'm a good old red-blooded American; but I can
not comprehend how anyone in his right mind would
want to cut funds to these vitally needed programs.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, our government
continually spends billions, upon billions, UPON
BILLIONS of dollars on our national defense program.
How can that be morally justified?
What is this nation coming to?
Are we to believe that spending money on items that
could destroy the human race is more important thatn
finding and creating jobs for our youth? Is it more
important to educate our children or to blow our
children off the face of the earth? Should Americans sit
back and watch the oil of the world disappear in an
estimated 40 years or should our great country take the
initiative and try to develop alternate sources of power
for our children and their children?
Who cares if the United States could blow up the
Soviet Union seven times over? All it takes is just one
time.
If Congress' is going to spend money on military
items, most of which just sit around and gather dust or
become outdated in a few years, we better ask our
selves whether we were put on this earth to destroy
each other or to live naturally with each other.
Cathy Lalko
6th-speech communications
March 19
The budget cuts themselves, ac
cording to Congressional Budget Chief
Alice Rivlin, will mean only a .5 per cent
reduction in inflation. However, they
will put a crease in monetary growth,
specifically the volume of "funny
money" the Federal Reserve can create
to cover government's deficit. Funny
money is those government bonds whose
superior rate of return dries up funds for
private investment, with no goods and
service but the government's profligacy
to back them up.
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The run around
This past Saturday, a group of us went to the LM.
Building with the intention of having an informal sf,reet
hockey game.
We started off in Gym 2, but we were informed that
we could only play hockey in Gym 3. After finally
getting space in Gym 3, we were once again informed
that we could not play in the gym as long as there were
people waiting to play basketball, and we were asked
to leave.
We were under the impression that the I.M. facilities
are for all students to use and not just for those with
more popular interests. We hockey players feel we
should have as much right to use a gym as any other
sports enthusiasts.
Paul Jendrowski, 9th-meteorology
Carl Rosenberger, 9th-broadcasting
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Friday, March 21, 1980— Page 2
Betsy Long
Editor
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In this writer's opinion, revolting
credit lines have, more than anything
else, contributed to delaying the long
forecast recession. Consumers have
circumvented the limitations of liquidity
by putting off paying the bills, and
rolling over credit obligations.
Credit expansion may point up rko i st
boldly the fundamental problem our
economy faces. The only way Americans
can sustain their standard of living, with
government at all levels preempting‘ 40
percent of their income, is through
credit.
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Government could easily avoid tiiis
problem by simply leaving more motley
in consumer's pockets on pay day. There
would be no need for such a prodigious
expansion of "pay-later-ism." flut
reduced taxes would also mean
diminished planning discretion for lhe
self-anointed social
,engineers on he
banks of the Potomac.
I contend people have a better idea of
what is good for them than government.
Government policy harasses business
while redistributing income and
preaching the economic pie has reacted
its growth limits. It urges conservaTion
of static energy sources, rather than
creation and exploration of dynathic
ones. -„
And as the government. planners,:so
shamefully proved last week when they
caved in to big oil and rejected plans. to,
use windfall profits revenue to 'end
mass transit, they are too-painfully,
nakedly susceptible to whoring them
selves to the highest special intemt
bidder.
This kind of economic and political
leadership must be changed. The
American people must themsehles
retake control of their economic degisiny,
and budget reductions and credit con
trols are a good first step.
Campaign 'BO rolls on. Each month, as
the consumer price index 'figures begin
to approach the hostage count in ab
solute magnitude, the American people
are slowly turning their attention td'the
issues that really matter.
No society has ever survived inflation
the intensity of which we are now ex
periencing. "Live for today" economic
policies and toothless anti-inflation
solutions are far more immediately
dangerous than any Soviet lankf,- in
Kabul.
But congratulations, Mr. President.
Your anti-inflation PhaSe (what number
is this one, anyway? I lost count.) is a
bold step in the right direction.
Brian Golden is a 14th-term journalism
and political science major and ti a
columnist for The Daily Collegian.
Kathy Matheity
Business Manager
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Hoover secures high standards
Sightless secretary enjoys work
By LISA MORANO
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
If happiness is a challenge then
Peggy Hoover is one very happy person.
Hoover is 23 years old, a 1979 graduate
*Thiel College in Greenville, Pa., and a
secretary for the office of Associate
Dean, for Continuing Education and
Commonwealth Campuses in the College
of Human Development.
And she's has been blind since birth
,"Coping with my situation is a
challenge. I set high standards for the
things I want to do and wouldn't be
happy without a challenge," Hoover
said.
Hoover does not wear her handicap
like a badge, but cheerfully accepts it as
a way of life. Hoover said she likes to
observe the attitudes of others, han
dicapped or not, and finds some tend to
"wallow in self-pity" or "feel sorry for
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Hoover's job entails answering
phones, typing and filing, plus being
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"I used to transcribe interviews with
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said. Her present duties still require
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typing speed of 60 words per minute.
"I'm shooting for 75," she said.
"My first day here was so hectic and I
thought I'd never know all I had to,"
Hoover said. "Now (10 months later) I
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When not at the office, Hoover said she
enjoys church activities, sports and
listening to music.
"I can't wait until baseball season
starts. I love those Pirates."
During her college years, Hoover said
"happy hours" were a favorite pastime,
but bar situations made her un
comfortable. She said she now prefers a
more quiet lifestyle.
Hoover's attitude is an example of one
who does not retreat when the going gets
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Her personality and sense of humor are
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Kim Hoover
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