the daily collegian editorial opinion 'Bodies' and 'Holocaust' back on shelves, but potential problems remain Who has die. ..right to decide what you can and cannot read in a library? At the State College Area High School library, this decision now rests with the school board, with advisory input from a review board. At Schlow Membrial Li brary, the library board makes the choice, based on criteria now under scrutiny. A library board, a citizens group, and a school board -- someone seems to have forgotten the reader. The University Ukrainian Club donated ,_ ....." ..----- --- ' ~......:,.. . . , ii .... . ...,, , \ .'\'',N;... N ...; --,..,N. ......"/".- ..„••• N ' ` , ...x.,, , ,,.,: ,, ,, z - NN , ,• , •. • • r • , ...,-...,,,,,,,,,,,,::::,-,;..,-,...• . , • •••'',,'. 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"If he doesn't On April 12, the Undergraduate Student Gov -12: Sunday was far from "flat and dull." get rid of it, he'll have to kill it so he can move ernment Supreme Court granted to the "Jews for In the story of Adam and Eve, Adam did not Rebecca Clark should first learn about the into that apartment," said two other students in Jesus" group probationary status as a campus force Eve into making a decision. Eve could type of music and the instrument featured in the the HUB cafeteria a few weeks ago. organization. This is what prompts me to make have said "no" to the forbidden fruit, but she did work before she pretends to be a music critic. So What a simple-minded and superficial attitude the following remarks. not because she wanted it! According to your often the Collegian prints music reviews by it is to describe pets as disposable items, like The principles of morality and justice prevail logic, Eve is less evil for accepting the fruit than unknowledgeable writers, who read the public to wornout shoes or toilet paper. If this is the ing in our society are mainly derived from Moses Glasner, associate professor of math she would, have beeu bad she said . 4 . 4 n0.'!_ If ,you _ _think-the.performances were- poon--I-personally --- - attitude in a supposed place of higher education,_,.., ancient teachings...Thus_ the- basic ..distinctign„..._ematics_ ~ .. ~,,„ , ..,„.,. ..., . . st) try to defend yourself by stating that the "devil feel that the Collegian should 'only accept re- I cringe at what must he, going on elsewhere. —bet Ween J u d aism arid 'Christianity is "Soinewhat April 15 made her do it," and he is a male figure, then you views of musical performances from writers The first solution to the pet-dumping problem muted today. Christians believe that Jesus was are not only a sexist but a hypocrite.,, ..„.... _-. , whG know something about-Music.; —•- L't' Is prevention. If one student doesn't take the the Messiah and Jews believe that the messianic If men and women want mudwrestling, then On behalf of everyone at Sunday's concert, I animal, another student with the time to take era has yet to come. Christians consider the let them have it. If you think that is "dirty" and would like to congratulate Peggy and Erik on care of the dog or cat probably, will. And even if Messiah to be the Savior whereas for Jews the if it offends you, then do not participate in it. At fine performances they can both be proud of. nobody does adopt the pet, the Society for the belief in a messianic era is simply an expression the rate you are going, your next editorial will Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a far superi- of hope and optimism that a time will come when probably be on the subject of why Mister Rogers Elizabeth E. Fritz, 12th-music education or fate than the horrible death by starvation, "the wolf shall dwell with the lamb" (Isaiah is sexist because he puts boys before girls when April 14 gangrene or predation that would occur when the 11:6) and "swords shall be turned into he says, "Hello boys and girls." unwanted animal is dumped. plowshears" (Isaiah 2:4). Though the word If you have a pet right now and realize the "messiah" is used by both religions, the mean animal absolutely cannot be kept over the sum- ings given to the word reflect significantly differ mer, please call PAWS now. We need time to ent, if not diametrically opposed, views 'of the locate people who will adopt your pet. PAWS also nature of man and the universe. needs foster parents to take care of unwanted Since the beginning of Christianity, Christians animals for a short period until permanent have tried to make Jews believe in Jesus, some homes can be found. Foster parents will espe- times by persuasion but more often by inquisi cially be needed in the next few weeks. The tion. Recently on our campus a new movement number to call in either case is 238-7719. appeared, "Jews for Jesus." Its theme is that Jewish ritual and observance can be combined with a belief in Jesus. The appearance of this movement does not mark the birth of a new religion. It is simply a new scheme to trap naive Dominic Mashcheri, 6th-administration of jus tice April 14 Not flat On Sunday afternoon, the Penn State Concert Blue Band performed its spring concert with two featured soloists, Peggy Shipley and Erik Edvar. According to The Daily Collegian's staff writer Rebecca Clark, both Peggy and Erik detracted from the success of the concert. Peggy's perfor- An education is here... Penn State is a university, an institution of higher education. Profes sors are here because of what they know; students are here to gain knowledge from those professors. But a college education does not , have to be a mediocre event or just a stage between high school and "the real world." Many students seem to come to college with the idea that professors exist to serve up topics in class, test on those topics and pass the students along to the next level. If the professor is in any way unique in his or her teaching or testing method.s, the students, on the whole, rebel. 'You're not being fair to those of us who can't do essay tests," or "How are we supposed to understand what you mean when you don't give us specifics?" Students, for the most part, also crit icize the teacher who does not make the topic interesting. If a professor can get up in front of the class and keep the students interested without their having to take the initiative to get interested, the teacher is a good teacher. But if an all-knowing professor cannot package the course in an interesting way for the class, he or she is considered a bad teacher and the class is far from exciting. Ideally, a student should be interested enough in the topic to find his or her own motivation without having to depend on the teacher to make the course "sexy." But many courses are required for grad uation and are not necessarily taken out of interest in the topic. Motivation does opinions Volume verdicts Saving pets Congratulations to Suzanne Downs for a long needed article on the dumping of pets at the end of Spring Term. Judging from some student comments heard over the past several months that foreshadow spring dumping intentions, the upcoming annual spring dump may be worse than PAWS members fear. We hope, of course, it won't even occur, because there are alterna tives. Pet abandoners are a sterotyped group easily not come easily in those courses. Therein lies the paradox. If the student is not motivated and sits in class with no interest, the professor is hardly encour aged to make things interesting. So he or she feeds the information to the students, tests them on it and hands out the grade. Satisfactory for the majority, right? No, because that is such a waste of both sides. The students lose out on a real grasp of the material and the professors lose out on the chance to really show their stuff. It is definitely to the advantage of a professor if his or her natural teaching technique is one of enthusiasm, even if the class is not interested, because the students will eventually perk up and join in, in spite of themselves. But if a professor gives up right away and just gives textbook lectures, or an nounces that anyone may leave at any time during the class, the entire term will be one of listlessness on both sides. However, if the professor seems to go too far the other way, seems to care too much and is rather radical in his or her approach to the topic without giving the usual list of facts and figures to be learned for the midterm, then the stu dents feel cheated. Many students are apparently unaccustomed to such a tac tic and do not know how to react in class or on a test. I have seen professors accused by students in the class of being too ambigu ous or hard on tests because the test question was an essay and one which the student could not answer by just regurgi tating notes. Aren't we here to think? Or are we here just to get through so we can go on to the next phase of life? Those questions really are not as crazy as they sound. From what I hear, life is not a multiple-choice test where one can spit up notes to fit the situation. Life is definitely more like an essay test where no one answer is correct and people want fresh thoughts, not memorized information. "The Other Holocaust" to Schlow last• May. The book deals with the extermina tion of non-Jevs during World War 11. The library rejected it, saying it did not meet acceptance criteria. A . book containing chapters dealing with female sexuality, "Our Bodies, Our selves," was taken out of general circula tion and put on reserve at the high school library in January following a complaint by Suzanne Glasow, president of the Centre County chapter of Citizens Con cerned for Human Life. This week, however, Schlow accepted "The Other Holocaust," and the school board put "Our Bodies, Ourselves" back into general circulation. Both decisions come as a relief but both carry potential problems The school board's new policy, which limits reserve status to books either in great demand or designated to specific class use, may make it too easy to throw a controversial book into the furnace. One successful complaint could cause a book's permanent removal from the library. The reserve shelf was at least a safe guard against such permanent censorship. Kit Reich, 7th-earth science PAWS and Eco-Action member April 15 If a professor chooses to teach in an unenthusiastic way, then the students should not give up on the course. They should try challenging the professor and see what happens. The teacher is not the only one who can make a course interest ing. It works both ways. And, on the other hand, students should not be averse to a professor who presents a challenge. That is why we are here. All I can add is that I hope you didn't read this during a class. Cindy Deskins is a 12th-term journalism major and a news editor for The Daily Collegian. At a public library like Schlow, censorship affects the entire community, not just students. The library now says it is reviewing its selection policy, which ex amines a book's timeliness and reputation. If Schlow chooses to accept or reject books on the basis of "reputation," books containing dissident views can be kept from the public. And all libraries have a duty to protect the free exchange of ideas. There are categories of expression that add nothing to the trade of ideas obscen ity and defamation, for example. And the library board, representing the commu nity, is qualified to reject such books. But beyond these areas, it does not, and should not, have the right to decide which ideas are unworthy of public scrutiny. In both the school and the library, someone has to decide whdt books are accepted. But no matter what policy is used to make these decisions, they must be made with utmost deference to the right to read. The Daily Collegian's editorial opinion is deter mined by its Board of Opinion, with the editor-in-chief holding final responsibility. M I but do we get it? By STEVE RIPP 6th-foreign service/international politics The Pennsylvania State University. The name alone invokes visions of a large, prestigious school that has a repu tation for turning out quality, educated graduates. Companies, both nationwide and international, flock to Penn State to recruit its students. Its educational di versity is well known, having 10 separate colleges, ranging from The Liberal Arts, to Arts and Architecture, to Engineering and the highly acclaimed College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. The Univer sity is represented by students from all 50 states, as well as from over 100 foreign countries. It sounds great. Hell, why should any one complain about such a setup? The reason why is that Penn State, with all its acclaim, has one big problem. It is training students for a job rather than giving them an education. By an education, I mean not only knowing a diMMMIMMI =h2=zi great deal in one area of study, such as the physical sciences; rather, an educa tion should include a broad variety of 'subject matter, such as literature, art or even other cultures. It is to this end that I feel that Penn State is shirking its duty as a credible instituition of higher learning. Examine the facts. In the past few years, there has been a drastic change in our entire educational system in re sponse to the economy. The job market has been veering toward technically oriented careers. Engineers, computer science majors and applied science grad uates have been in high demand while jobs in the broader based liberal arts have dropped dramatically. forum Students realize this fact. In the past decade, from 1971 to 1981, freshmen baccalaureate applicants have shifted in response to the situation. For example, applicants to the College of The Liberal Arts has dropped from 30 percent in 1971 to about 18 percent in 1981. Yet, in the College of Business, application has al most doubled from 8 percent in 1971 to over 15 percent in 1981. In the College of Engineering, the rise has been even more dramatic, rising from only 8 per cent in 1971 to a huge 22 percent in 1981. That's a lot of students we're talking about. What do these figures show? In es sence, they prove that students today are under pressure, perhaps more pressure than ever, to find a job once they grad uate. And in today's economy, the surest way of accomplishing that goal is by majoring in technical career. Yet, when we are training thse stu dents for these highly technical, narrow ly directed fields, we make two assumptions: 1. We, Penn State University, have the Jews into believing in Jesus. Of course, only people whose religious identities are weak could succumb to such a simplistic plot. But "remem ber what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Eygpt; how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear" (Deuteronomy 25:17). dtzCollegian Thursday April 16, 1981—Page 2 © l9Bl Collegian Inc. Paula Froke Debby Vinokur Editor Business Manager BUSINESS COORDINATORS: Layout, Cathy Norris, Mike Conklin, Teresa Dorr; Special Projects,• Jay Goldberg, Sam Sample. ABOUT THE COLLEGIAN: The Daily Collegian and 1! The Weekly Collegian are published by Collegian Inc., a non-profit corporation with a board of directors com posed of students, faculty and professionals. Students of The Pennsylvania State University write and edit both papers and solicit advertising material for them. The Daily Collegian is published Monday through Friday and distributed at the University Park campus. The Weekly Collegian is mailed to Commonwealth campus students, parents of students, alumni and other sub- 0 ' scribers who want to keep abreast of University news. proper program for training and ultima tely placing students within their chosen area of study, whether it be business logistics or aerospace engineering. 2. We, Penn State University, are as suming that those students will find a job in that field and will not find the job c market closed and be displaced or forced into the ranks of the unemployed. Suppose for instance, that a nuclear engineer that graduates in 1983 finds public sentiment has changed and the United States will no longer follow a course of nuclear dependency. In es sence, the job market in nuclear engi-3 neering has dried up. Will Penn State, our University, have provided that stu dent with a broad enough education that he will be able to apply his skills and training in some other areas? Or rather, because of his narrow training, will he or she be forced into the unemployment* line? Sure, we all know that IBM. or Hughes Engineering doesn't recruit many philos ophy majors from the campus. Still, Penn State, as a major progressive uni versity, should take a long look at the way it educates its student population. Before we graduate with our sheepskin in hand from Penn State, we should be sure than we have received an education from a University rather than training from a large, prestigious vo-tech school. By allowing students in the technical majors to have a broad choice of elec tives, rather than just three to nine credits over a four-year period, the uni versity would go a long way toward providing its students with a true educa tion. A degree from Penn State has always been highly valued by its holders. The University president, provost and the* Board of Trustees and most impor tantly, we, as the 30,000-plus students attending this University -- should real ize that students are here for an educa tion rather than a four-year training program. Library computers to improve service, cut cos By SHARON TAYLOR Daily Collegian Staff Writer Computerized cataloging at Pattee may improve the library's services while decreasing its costs, the assistant dean of libraries said. Gordan W.' Rawlins said the on-line catalog access will decrease the labor and the time it initially took the staff to process books. • "With the on-line catalog access our staff can accomplish 70 percent of their work at the terminal. This system will speed up processing a book will be controlled within 24 hours and ready to be shelved. When processing was done manually, it took three to five months," he said. Because the staff has been converting to computerized cataloging during the past three years, the system will not increase costs substantially. "We have managed our resources so we would not have to dip into added support," Rawlins said. Since the on-line system is a more efficient system, many universities are opening it for public use this summer. However, because it is complicated to use, Rawlins said Pattee's system will be Judge denies injunction against University By IRIS NAAR Daily Collegian Staff Writer • A federal judge has denied a request for, a prelimi nary injunction against Penn State in the latest chapter of a retail sales corporation's suit against University residence hall policy. U.S. District Court Judge Malcolm Muir earlier this month denied the request of American Future Systems Inc., which claims a University regulation prohibiting sales demonstrations in dormitory rooms violates its right of free speech. Edward Satell, president of the Bryn Mawr-based company, said the company will appeal the denial of the preliminary 'injunction because students are being prohibited from making up their own minds. American Future Systems is described as a corpora tion • that sells "table china, tableware, crystal and cookware through demonstrations of its merchandise at colleges throughout the United States," according to Muir's opinion. The opinion goes on to say that the company wishes "to present sales demonstrations at the invitation of individual students in the common areas and dormitory rooms within the residence halls of Penn State, 'to disseminate commercial information to groups of stu dents through sales demonstrations at the invitation of individual host students in their individual dormitory rooms and to consummate sales to individual students in the student hosts' rooms in residence halls at Penn State." This new suit, filed in January, includes six students acting as plaintiffs for the company. perfected before before it is opened to the public. "We think the general public will have too much difficulty learning on the on line system. We want an end product that does the job properly," he said. Rawlins explained the on-line system is more difficult for the public to use because to find a book's call number, the patron must call up on the computer either the Library of Congress number or the exact wording of the title, author and subject of the book. "Right now the system is word-order dependent," he said. After the system is perfected, the pa tron will be able to call up a subject of interest and the computer will list a number of books under that subject head ing, Rawlins said. "We want to eliminate the difficulties of current library techniques for our patrons we don't want to frustrate the users," he said. To also help the public, Rawlins said access will be restricted to the campus on which the student is located. "If the student is using a terminal at the engineering library, he will only have access to books located in the engi- M. Lee Uperaft, director. of Residential Life, said American Future Systems first contacted the Universi ty during the fall of 1979 and asked to reserve study lounges for sales demonstrations using a student host. Uperaft said he told the company that such demonstra tions were against University policy. Policy states that University facilities cannot be used for commercial purposes, he said. Satell said the company's First Amendment right of free speech was being violated, and sent people from his company to conduct programs, Uperaft said. The demonstrations were shut down when found, he said. "He then sued us in a federal court alleging the violation of free speech and the student's right to free speech," Uperaft said. Muir said free speech was not being violated, Up craft said, but the case was appealed. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed Muir's opinion. Satell then appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which refused to hear the case, Uperaft said. Satell said he thinks the University is not following the decision of the appeals court because they now say they will allow demonstrations only in public areas. The constitutional questions in the case are the privacy rights of students and the company's right of free speech, he said. "Our company is arguing that there is no place in the University for censorship of free speech," he said. Even more important than that is the right of privacy, Satell said. Now, commercial activities can be conducted indi vidually, he said, but if a person wants to conduct neering library. However, if the student wishes to have access to the other librar ies, we will have a built in system that will allow them to do so," he said. Rawlins said he hopes to have the system open to the public in 1984 or 1985. "By 1985, we would like to have 40 to 50 terminals (located in the card catalog room) and one or two terminals in each of the branch libraries," he said. Though there will be terminals instead of a card catalog, Rawlins said the small number of terminals should not pose a problem. "Because the terminal allows the stu dent to call up material much faster, I don't think there will be a problem. But, if patrons don't want to wait in line for a terminal, they can use the computer output microfilm (COM) catalog, a com puterized printout." Since the staff is no longer adding cards to the card catalog, patrons will use COM to gain access to materials processed before the computerized sys tem is perfected for public use. When the system is in use, COM will serve as a backup for the system if it should fail, he said. commercial activities with friends, he is subject to disciplinary action. This disciplinary action in the privacy of a room is censorship, he said. Satell asked whether the University could subject a person to disciplinary action solely because of the content of a presentation. "We're only talking about invited speech," he said. He said the case is basically a students' right case. "I think the case will go on until students gain the rights they think are theirs," Satell said. The case is slated for trial at the U.S. District Court in Williamsport in September: Uperaft said that at first, the issue was whether group could be permitted in common areas. Now the company wants to hold demonstrations in residence hall rooms, he said, but the University says it is not permissible for an individual to invite people to a residence hall room to conduct sales. "Then in effect you're running a business out of your room and that's not the purpose of the residence halls," Uperaft said. Uperaft said that for approval of the preliminary injunction to be granted, the company would have had to have proven that prohibition of the demonstrations would have caused harm to the students. Mark Faulkner, an attorney with the firm represent ing the University, said the first suit challenged the University's policy regarding commercial transactions in the dorms. The Official Penn State Rings from the Official Bookstore on Campus IM MI 1111 NWII 0 lIMI IM IOW 111/11 lIM OM IMIN /NW OW Mlll Mr /11111011/11111111111111111W1011MW IT ell MI 0 1111 INW MN MB 11111 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1. I I I I I I I I I I I Colorado I Seahawk I Classic I /I am am am em me ma me maim me lion me on me ma on 11111 . 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