Editorial Opinion
Publish or perish?
Good teachers should not be lost for sake of tenure policy
It does seem to be a paradox. One of the bet
ter teachers in the University the recipient of
this year’s College of Education Outstanding
Teaching, Award will no longer be able to
teach at the University.
Helen B. Volz, assistant professor of speech
pathology, was deemed unworthy of tenure in
Spring Term 1980 and University policy re
quires she leave her position by the following
year. The exact reasons for the denial are con
fidential, but most people in the department
assume it was because she didn’t spend enough
time in research and scholarly activity fac
tors that figure heavily in tenure decisions.
Research is essential. The University needs a
good research reputation and is making an ef
fort to improve the quality and quantity of
research good idea. But fine teaching should
not be forsaken for the sake of a research
reputation. A university’s teaching reputation
is just as important, especially when the
University will be heavily recruiting students in
the 1980 s.
Volz is not an incompetent researcher. She is
not just some nice person who likes to talk to
college kids and ignores the happenings in her
Military budget better spent on human needs
By RICHARD DEVON, assistant professor and for nerve gas, a Rapid Deployment Force, carries enough warheads to destroy every large economic expansion of the U.S. business.
College of Education the death of Salt II and a new clic in Washington and medium-sized city in the Soviet Union. Our The militarism of the containment policy was
With respect to the recent exchanges in The where the talk is now of “counterforce,” deterrent is overwhelming.” well-expressed by Representative Richard
Daily Collegian on the new militarism, I wish to “preparedness” and “power projection.” This is quite an understatement. In fact, by Ichord in his support for the appropriation for
offer the following contribution. Somehow, the invasion of Afghanistan means 1974 the combined explosive power of the United the developement of nerve gas last month.
After the Vietnam debacle, militarism was throwing up the pillboxes and the barbed wire on States and Soviet nuclear warheads was over one Ichord condemned the “misplaced logic” that
accorded a reduced role in U.S. foreign policy for New Jersey’s beaches. It is time to get behind million times that which destroyed Hiroshima has “taken us from strategic superiority to
most of the 19705, and U.S. interests abroad were the saber-rattling rhetoric and look at the facts. and it has grown several-fold since then. One MX parity today the edge of strategic
pursued by non-interventionist means, e.g., In 1945, the United States dropped two atomic missile, if deployed, will carry more explosive inferiority.”
detente with the Soviet Union, and a bombs in Hiroshima and .Nagasaki, killing power than all the bombs dropped m World -War So long as parity is unacceptable to the United
rapprochement with China. Carter embellished 200,000 people. We refused to disarm our nuclear II and the Korean War. States the race is still on for the Soviets are also
this “Nixon Doctrine” with a strong rhetorical capability and four years later the Soviets had Deterrent? If 100 warheads don’t deter, why faced bv a hostile Western EuroDe and a hostile
commitment to human rights. . the capability. should 1,000 or 10,000 (which is where we are ChTna Strategic inferiority is of eourse a
However, no shift was made in who was In 1948 we - started developing strategic . now)? particularly nasty way of saying working for
considered an ally of the United States. Many intercontinental bombers and deployed all-jet "■ peace since the United States could move behind
U.S. allies are military dictatorships which bombers by 1955. The Soviets followed suit. , j n the arms race and still maintain a massive
function by repression and which do.not feel In 1954, we exploded an H-bomb. In 1955, the defensive capability. This would constitute a
comfortable with a soft U.S. foreign policy. Soviets exploded an H-bomb. JLULAJL major peaceful initiative.
These dictatorships in Chile, the Fhilippines, In 1960, we produced a submarine-launched The other characteristic of the Cold War policy
Thailand, Brazil, Pakistan, South Korea, Zaire missile system. The Soviets had it by 1968. TfYl*Hl‘Yl is promotion of U.S. business through developing
and Boliva have felt very uncomfortable and Multiheaded missiles came in 1966 to the capitalist sectors in other countries. Given the
have taken offense with the new policy. United States and in 1968 to the Soviet Union. The ; logic 0 f g row th in capitalism, this has been an
The late shah of Iran explicitly blamed the multiple independently-targeted warhead In the meantime, while we are grateful for inevitable development, at least U.S. policy-
United States for his downfall. Yet one way or appeared in the United States in 1970 and in the each day without a nuclear holocaust, the Third makers have viewed it that way, and business
io receive ciTOSiaerapie Support. Otilyfin three Cases afivelop a It is taking place in/ the Third World. An markets, to raw materials and cheap
v: For example,- four-countries-where military. • war technology,first..Of these, one was a defense • ' estimated 25 million people have died in these"‘labor. -i and‘h ;'haven from taxes, unions and
dictatorship emerged in s|- Ujgjanti- & 6W§rs. A great many of these conflicts have of the most repressive
.Argentina, Chile, the Philippines ana Uruguay ballistic missile. a product of the Cold War. regimes have been the most receptive to the
had received seven-fold increases in World Bank a second was the satellite in orbit, again a Most have been fought using weapons and interests of the multi-nationals,
loans by 1979. technology that has bee used only for defensive training supplied by the West and the Soviets. The business impulse, however, has a second
But despite the continued economic support purposes spying. In fact, the only time that the Since 1960, military expenditures have risen connection to the process of world militarization,
the overriding logic of the Cold War, three Soviets were ahead of the United States with an four-fold (in constant prices) in the Third World Total world military expenditures were
decades of militarism and the loss of Iran and aggression technology was ip 1957 with the and risen to an increase of 44 percent in the approximately $4B million per hour in 1978.
Nicaragua (where dictators were overthrown by successful testing of intercontinental ballistic developed world. Procurement sales, which mean profits in
rebellions fostered by the repressive regimes missile system. The United States followed the More than three-fourths of world arms exports capitalist economies, were $l2O billion
that we had supported) have had a compelling next year. are by the United States and the Soviet Union, worldwide in 1978 and only 10 countries had
influence. ... By 1979, the United States had carried out 60 more than one-half by the United States. This Gross National Product larger than this.
■The U.S. business elite by the spring of 1979, in percent more nuclear weapons, tests and had process is fostered by the developement of In the United States, weapons development is
the words of a Business Week editorial, was over 80 percent more intercontinental nuclear military dictatorships (now approximately 40 peculiarily dependent on the private sector -
pressing for a “reassertion of U.S. influence weapons than the Soviets. percent) in Third World nations. which may account for much of the energy
around the world. ’ In that year Carter stated, “Just one of our \y e have led the way in the arms race and we behind the arms race and arms exports as well
Earlier this year, Carter finally embraced the relatively invulnerable Poseidon submarines have led the way in Arms exports. This has been as the lack of investment in maintenance and
new militarism. We now have bigger military less than 2 percent of our total nuclear forces of done as part of our two-fold cold war policy since skilled workers which characterizes the U.S.
budgets, ago ahead foi the MX missile systems submarines, aircraft and land-based missiles War II containment of the Soviets and military
Distorted views
Although Paul E. Lane’s attack on Allen Reeder’s editorial
column, printed in the Oct. 17 issue of The Daily Collegian, con
cerning the military possessed some good points, I feel he con
veys some rather distorted views of .Jesus Christ and his pur
pose on this planet.
Before I continue, 1 must say that I do not necessarily agree
with Reeder’s position on the military.
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research she has done, while not high in quanti
ty, has been high in quality and received na
tional recognition.
Volz has been involved with the field of
speech pathology for her entire career and
started working for the University in 1966. She
received her bachelor’s, master’s and doc
torate degrees at this University. She knows the
workings of her department. She is a
knowledgeable and experienced teacher.
Her first priority, however, does not lie in
writing articles. She doesn’t ignore research,
but Volz knows she can make a better contribu
tion to the University by concentrating on
teaching and advising.
It is highly unlikely that her tenure decision
will ever be reversed. But she should be allowed
to teach. The speech pathology department is
losing an extremely talented individual and the
University is hurting itself by having a tenure
policy that requires all professors denied
tenure to leave their positions.
Good teachers with an extensive working
knowledge of their field are hard to find.
In his letter, Lane suggests that Christ was an idealistic and
unrealistic dreamer who was rewarded with an agonizing
death for his courageous efforts. It seems that Lane feels that
Christ failed in his plan or mission during his earthly stay.
This could not be further from the truth. Christ died on the
cross to save all mankind, but not from political oppression or
any other physical thing. Christ’s death and resurrection is
God’s assurance to us that our being does not end in the grave
“But the truth is that Christ has been raised from death, as
the guarantee that those that sleep in death will also be rais
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Christ died to “set free thpse who were slaves all their lives
because of their fear of death.”— Hebrews 2:15.
Lane also states, “Peace and war have always been and will
always be with us, but it is sheer folly to believe that either can
be eliminated.” I fail to see the logic in his reasoning.
Are we to fallaciously assume that since war has been with
us in the past, that it must necessarily be with us in the future?
If such is the case, then our physical existence on this planet
will probably end shortly.
As a whole, our personal spiritual development has fallen far
short of our technological advances, and the capabilities and
responsibilities that go along with them.
We are like children playing with dynamite. Gen. Douglas
MacArthur put it very well when he said on the deck of the bat
tleship Missouri at the close of World War II: “The problem is
basically theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence
and improvement of human character that will synchronize
with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature,
and all material and cultural developments of the past 2,000
years. It must be the spirit if we are to save the flesh.”
Philip P. Calvert 111, 7th-biology
Oct. 24
Cowardly support
Allen Reeder’s article titled “Our Best Defense is No
Defense” made two incorrect Biblical allusions.
The first one, “blessed are the peacemakers” and “love
your enemy,” are from the New Testament. Although these
are both true, at times when these methods are not effective,
true Christians must take a stance for God’s righteousness.
An example is when Christ cleansed His Father’s House
from gamblers, money lenders and other sinners. They would
not listen to His (Christ’s) preaching or warnings so he took ac
tion. God’s righteousness must be preserved, therefore, God
threw them out.
A second point Christ said that greater love hath no man
than this, that a man lay down his life for a friend. Under this
command, should we not fight and possibly die for a friend?
The second allusion came from the Old Testament; thou
shalt not kill. Although this is true, under certain cir
cumstances, in order to protect God’s righteousness, Jews
(God’s chosen people) were to go to battle. Two examples are
David and Goliath, and the conquering of the Promised Land
from a heathenous, God-rejecting people.
I ask, if the Soviets conquered the United States, would we be
free to worship God? No, as a matter of fact, God’s people
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would be killed. Killed Christians do not spread God’s Word.
Christians should protect God’s presence in our country ajid
ultimately, defend God’s righteousness.
My whole point is that you are free to keep your pacifispi,
but don’t use the Bible to support your cowardice. - ! W
Thomas T. Ledford, lst-human development
Oct. 24
Keep sight
I found Allen Reeder’s Oct. 17 article very amusing. Whfat
concerns me is that he apparently believes that our best
defense is no military.
If he had his way, Reeder would do away with the defence
department tomorrow. If the Soviets were to invade this coun
try, Reeder would answer with “so be it.” If they were jo
plunder our resources, he says, “let them.” 1
There are times when individuals who perceive themselves*'
as intelligent become caught up in their own subjective con
tingencies and therefore lose sight of reality. |
To Reeder and those who share his views - war is an ugly
thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing|s
worth war, is much worse. ' ' »
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to figKjjt,
nothing he cares more about than his own personal safety, is-a
miserable creature who has no chance of being freei, unless
made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
James A. Kazin, lOth-pre-law
Oct. 24
sCollegian
Wednesday Oct. 29, 1980—Page 2
Betsy Long
Editor
BOARD OF MANAGERS: Sales Manager, Marc A. Brownstein, Assjs
tant Sales Manager, Debby B. Vinokur; Office Manager, Kim Schify
Assistant Office Manager, Michelle Forner; Marketing Manager,
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The priorities are clearly wrong. In the United (l
States, the strongest military nation in the worid,
there are 25 million people who ate
malnourished and 10 million children who hav.e
never seen a doctor. . ' :i
In the Third World, half a billion people are
malnourished, yet their governments spent $9O
billion on military expenditures in 1979. V'-
Two-thirds of the world live without safe '
water. Contaminated water is responsible for
four out of five infectious diseases. Diarrhea
diseases are the most common couse of death in
young children. Waterborne diseases are
estimated to kill more than 25,000 people daiiyj
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Approximately one percent of the annual
world military budget could provide safe waiter
for almost everybody within a decade. Thus,
even without a shot being fired, excessive
military expenditures mean suffering and death
on a massive scale. i
In the upcoming elections, the major
candidates all offer positions which only differ in(
minor ways compared- to extent of the
miHtarizatjpnrrisis Iwhereby.mare. achieving
ever greater insecurity at ever greater
expense). For example, even beinglqr.SAL/lsll
is being forlaii in nuclear
albeit a lesser increase than is
expected to take place. - , . *
For those who fight for a sane world, it?is r
refreshing to learn of the Citizen Party position
on militarism. They oppose the nuclear arms
race as suicidal, the oppose the developmentlof
weapons system such as the MX, and
condemn the corporate profiteering ajid
inflationary impact of present military policies.
When you consider that almost half .(he//
engineers and scientists in this country devote
their skills to military research and development
it is good to read their observation, with whicft I
will conclude, that “it is a tragedy that tjie
productive genius and power of the American
people have been diverted from urgent human
needs and bent toward waste and destruction!” ’
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Co-op offers lower food prices
By TRACY YATES
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
In the battle to beat the high cost of
food, many State College residents are
turning to an alternative market Our
Store, a local food cooperative.
Located in a modest basement bet
ween Calder Alley and College Avenue
next to the Tavern Restaurant, Our
Store Inc., like other food co-ops, is
designed to offer lower food prices by
cutting out.the.middle man and purchas
ing directly from the producers and
wholesalers, Jay Sletson, president the
co-op said. .
c ‘ ‘But the real beauty of the co-op is the
love shared between the members,”
Sletson said. “They are a group of people
working together for the good of the
whole. It's an oasis on College Avenue.”
This idea of members working
together is the basis of the whole
cooperative philosophy. Mother Earth
News, a monthly consumer magazine,
described comps as a consumer-owned
food store guided by the principle of
“food for people not for profit:” The
co-op members themselves create,
shape, and regulate the organization, an
article in the publication said.
Our Store’s development is typical of
how co-ops grow. It began eight years
ago in a Unversity faculty member’s
basement as a buying club, Sletson said.
: A buying club is a small group of con
sumers who order food in bulk from
wholesalers. These bulk rates are 15 to
20 percent cheaper than supermarket
prices, according to the 1980 Fall issue of
Changing Times magazine.
Our Store has grown into a storefront
co-op with $250,000 in business annually
•and approximately 1,000 members (450
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households). Every member helps run
and manage the store, Sletson said.
Members help run Our Store by work
ing as shift workers or store managers,
or by serving on the board of directors.
These jobs are outlined in the corpora
tions’ information pamphlet.
The largest number of people work as
shift workers. Shiftworkers do the every
day running of the store. They sign up to
work in three-hour shifts, with six or
seven people per shift. Their duties in
clude stocking the shelves, cleaning the
store, making delivery runs, repairing
things and other small jobs.
Each shift is run by a manager.
Members who serve as managers
benefit by paying no markup on food
prices. Regular workers pay a 15 per
cent markup to cover the cost of running
the store. Cashiers and food buyers
qualify for manager’s status and also
pay no markup. '
“We’re looking for people willing to
give in order to receive - the survival of
the co-op depends on give and take,”
Sletson said.
A staff coordinator oversees the
managers and is the only paid member.
He works 35 hours per week and pro
vides continuity for the daily operation
of the store. The staff coordinator is
hired by a board of directors.
The board of directors is composed of
12 members who are elected by popular
vote. A president, vice-president,
secretary and treasurer are elected to
this board.
Board members meet monthly to
review and make store policies which
originate from the standing committees
of the board. The committees are
chaired by board members and are
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made up of co-op members who receive
work credit for serving on them.
All members meet twice a year to hear
the board report on past activities and
future plans. Members may voice their
opinions at this meeting.
The basic membership unit is the
household. A household, in the coop’s
definition, is any group of persons living
together. Only persons older than 17
years are counted as members. Each
household in Our Store pays a refun
dable deposit of $l5 plus $5 for each addi
tional member. A $2 fee per member is
charged as annual dues and is used to in
crease inventory and sales capacity.
To maintain membership, each
household must work a certain number
of three-hour shifts. For example, a one
member household works one shift
every other month. A five-member
household must work two shifts every
month. i
“People can get great experience
that’s very marketable in the outside
world,” Sletson said.
The State College co-op is unique,
because it emphasizes volunteerism
more than most other co-ops, he said.
Other storefront co-ops of Our Store’s
size employ four to eight paid full-time
staff members; Our Store pays only one,
he said.
“Our Store is really run by the general
membership,” Sletson said.“ That’s the
key difference between a co-op and a
supermarket. You own it. If something
breaks, you fix it yourself.”
The general membership is made up
of a stable core of local residents and
faculty members plus a large transient
student membership. “Students pro-
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membership,” Sletson said.
Sletson describes the co-op members
as people who are more concerned about
the quality of food than the average per
son is. They’re more nutritionally aware
and want some control over what they
eat, he said.
“Members also tend to be more social
ly responsible. They care more about
what happens in the community,” Slet
son said. “There’s a good feeling of be
ing part of the store and of the
community.”
Jenny Twitchell, a recent graduate in
psychology and a resident of State Col
lege, said she likes the idea of working
for what you get.
“I also like the food supply at the co
op. It’s good quality food that you can’t
find anywhere else,” she said.
Although Our Store carries mostly
organic food, some processed foods are
available. Whenever possible, produce,
dairy products and meat are purchased
from local farms which are officially in
spected, Sletson said. Only meat from
animals that have not been fed
chemicals is stocked. Ground beef, fish,
chicken and pork are available
periodically.
A delivery run to Walnut Acres is
made every two weeks for items like
peanut butter, oil, bread, cake and cann
ed goods. Another run is made every two
weeks to a grain mill in Cocolamus for
organic grains. These grains are very in
expensive, Sletson said.
Items like peanut butter and flour are
stocked in large barrels. Members must
bring their own containers for these
items. Our Store offers the largest varie-
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The Our Store sign, inset, actually hangs outside of the door of the cooperative
located between College Avenue and Calder Alley, next to the Tavern
Restaurant. The co-op offers members savings of up to 20 percent off super
market prices.
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