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WDFM, the student-run public radio station,
has become State College's first noticeable
victim of President Reagan's economic blood
letting.
The station needs an immediate transfusion
of money to continue National Public Radio
programs which are a much-needed
addition to the State College radio scene. The
federal money that went to NPR has
diminished considerably, forcing NPR to raise
its rates, and the already financially strapped
WDFM cannot afford the programs unless .
listeners support them.
"Challenge '81" challenges listeners to
realize that a contribution to commercial-free
WDFM will benefit them. The theme of
"Challege '81" is not, "Give your money to us
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Hiroshima
Tomorrow marks, perhaps, the most impor
tant anniversary of any single occurence in the
history of man. It was 36 years ago, August 6,
1945, that our country ushered in the nuclear age
with the bombing of Hiroshima.
The nuclear weapon that was dropped more
.than three decades ago would be the equivalent
of a pea-shooter in today's overkill arsenals. But
we continue to produce more and more such
weapons of death and destruction. Haven't we
The persecution of Baha'is
By IRWIN ANOLIK
For the Baha'is of State College
The recent and often tragic developments in
Iran are far removed from many who will read
- this. However, for members of the Baha'i faith
around the world, the continuing reports of disap
pearances and executions have been of the utmost
• concern.
Of the hundreds of people executed in Iran since
the revolution, many have been Baha'is. The
- persecution of the Baha'i community in Iran has
been bitter and prolonged since the faith's incep
tion in that country in 1844 and there is no
. immediate end in sight. Thus it was with an
guished hearts that we received the news that
• seven more prominent members of the Iranian
Baha'i community were executed at dawn on
:June 14, 1981, after having been tortured.
The Baha'is are not the only religious minority
in Iran there are also Christians, Jews and
- Zoroastrians but the Baha'is are the largest of
:the minorities, with approximately 500,000 adher
ents in Iran. Unlike other religious minorities, the
- Baha'is have not been recognized as such by the
recently drafted Islamic constitution. In fact,
-Baha'is have traditionally been stripped of many
of the rights that we take for granted. Baha'i
:schools have been closed, Baha'i property confis
-cated, Baha'i cemeteries and holy places dese
crated and Baha'i leaders imprisoned, tortured
'and executed.
opinions
For the public
Contribute to WDFM and hear the results
creative types so we can advance our careers
in radio." The people at WDFM are serious
about providing quality radio for State
College; they are not a bunch of kids playing in
a rock 'n' roll sandbox.
So far, the response to "Challenge '81" has
been encouraging. As of last night, more than
$2,000 has been pledged, and the goal of $5,000
may be in reach. But "Challenge '81" is not a
one-shot deal. Although WDFM receives
money from the University, the allotment is
not enough to allow the station to continue its
special programming. No one at WDFM
expects the University to come through with
much more money.
If the public wants public radio if it doesn't
want to be assaulted by nauseating
commercials, if it wants to be able to suggest:.
programming (and be listened to) the public
must open its collective wallet.
The public's money will be well-spent at
WDFM.
The Daily Collegian's editorial opinion is determined by its
Board of Opinion, with the editor-in-chief holding final
responsibility.
learned what a monster we have created? Will
we ever 'regain control over it? Or will we all
perish due to our insistent refusal to learn from
the past?
To help foster this needed reflection, Eco-
Action will present free films on the nuclear
weapons issue with a special focus of the bomb
ings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These films
will be shown at dusk tonight on the lawn outside
of Kern Building and starting at 7 tomorrow
night in the HUB Assembly Hall. Also, informa
tion and petitions of the arms race will be
Those who would like to dim the rising star of
this new world faith have falsely charged that the
Baha'is are collaborators with "World Zionism,"
enemies of God and His Prophet Mohammed, and
committers of adultery and prostitution.
Any open-minded perusal of the Baha'i faith
and its main tenets will show, however, the utter
falseness of these charges.
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Our world center is, in fact, located in Haifa,
Isreal, atop Mount Carmel and we, along with
Jews, Christians and Moslems, regard Isreal as a
holy land to where thousands of Baha'is annually
make pilgrimage. But there has never been any
collaboration with a so-called "World Zionist
Movement" as has been suggested. In reality,
Baha'is are forbidden to belong to any other
religious or political organizations.
Implicit in the Baha'i teaching of progressive
revelation is the belief that God has revealed
Himself at different times throughout history by
means of Messengers or Manifestations. It is
through these divine Souls that mankind is able to
progress spiritually and civilization is able to
avaliable on tomorrow at a table located outside
Willard Building.
Finally, one man's thoughts on nuclear tech
nology and its effect on the human race needs
urgent review:
"The splitting of the atom has changed every
thing, save our way of thinking, and thus we drift
toward unparalleled catastrophe." Albert
Einstein
Chris O'Brien
Eco-Action member
Free Choice
What if one held an organizational meeting and
nobody came? I experienced that ultimate com
munity activist nightmare when a meeting of
Penn State Catholics for a Free Choice was
called earlier this summer and the turnout
consisted of me. I speculate that the causes as a
mixture of apathy, lack of knowledge about
CFFC, and poor scheduling on my part.
Did you know that the Roman Catholic Church
has no dogma or doctrine against abortion or
family planning? Did you know that many of the
Church's great theologians, both ancient and
modern, from Sts. Jerome, Augustine and Thom
as Aquinas to Teilhard de Chardin and Hans
Kung; have rejected the hierarchal anti-choice
philosophy? Did you know that dissension from
the hierarchy's view is permissable, that 77
percent of American Catholics are pro-choice
and believe that reproductive freedom is a
matter of private conscience? This is contrary to
what almost all churchman, including the Most
Rev. James J. Hogan (Bishop of our diocese),
would have you believe.
The goals of CFFC are to uphold the principle
of separation of church and state, and to insure
that women of all faiths are not compelled to
bear children against their will. We advocate the
right of Americans to privacy and self-determin
ation in making their family decisions, as well as
access to medically safe abortion to all women
regardless of their ability to pay. We also believe
in minimization of the need for abortion through
expanded programs on contraception, sex 'edu
cation and child care. Yet folks like Tom Forr
(president of the nine-county Citizen's Con
cerned For Human Life) and Suzanne Glasow
(local spokesperson) will say CFFC is pro-abor
tion.
• flourish and develop as a whole. Thus we recog
nize all of the Prophet-Founders of the world's
great religions, including Mohammed, Christ and
Moses, as, divinely inspired Messengers of God.
The accusation that we are enemies of God and
His Prophet Mohammed is, therefore, evidence of
misunderstanding and ignorance toward the ba
sic tenets of our faith.
As far as the accusation of prostitution and
adultery among Baha'is, it must be realized that
Baha'i marriages are not recognized under pre
sent Islamic law in Iran.
The persecution of Iranian Baha'is is not a
recent phenomenon. It has been an ongoing trage
dy since the two Prophet-Founders of our faith
The Bab and Baha'u'llah first inspired the
early believers to spread the progressive teach
ings of the New Day in order to unite humanity so
that a divinely inspired, peaceful world order
could come into being.
It is our belief that the abolition of all forms of
prejudice racial, religious and social must
come about in order for universal peace and unity
to be established. The persecution of Baha'is, or
the persecution of any group because of race,
religion or nationality, will only serve as an
obstacle to the establishment of a peaceful world
order.
This idea may be obvious to many, but it is an
idea that has too seldom been put into action to
which a crumbling world order testifies.
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I felt pride in being Catholic when Pope John
Paul II stood on the same stage as Filipino
despot Ferdinand MarcOs and condemned his
dictatorial disregard for human rights, but when
the Holy Father speaks out against abortion, I
adopt a pro-choice stance just as solidly.
If you feel that you are part of the 77 percent
majority reported in the 1980 Gallup Poll, if you
are outraged by the Omnibus Pro-Life legislation
recently inrtroduced by our state representative,
if you are upset about anti-choice rumblings on
Capitol Hill, join me at the next Penn State CFFC
meeting at 7:30 p.m., Aug. 17, in 225 HUB. Hope
to see some of you readers there.
Douglas M. Mason
Pa. Representative, CFFC
August 4
Solidarity
I wish to express my support for the air traffic
controllers strike. Daily, controllers must safely
guide hundreds of planes with thousands of
people on board they quite literally have the
lives of those people delicately balanced in their
hands. The work environment of an air traffic
controller is one of intense psychological stress.
As was pointed out in "60 Minutes" a few years
ago, the effects of this stress are destructive to
the individuals who must endure it: It seems only
Children all over the world are born inno
cent. The social environment has a consider
able effect on an individual's behavior and the
ways he acts and reacts towards others.
Man's biological nature is neither good nor
bad, aggressive nor submissive,, warlike nor
peaceful, but neutral in these aspects. He is
capable of developing in either direction,
depending on what he is compelled to learn by
his environment and by his culture.
War as a historical instrument for resolving
international conflict has negative effects on
the world economy. One of the most concise
and revealing means of measuring national
priorities is the allocation of public resources
through government budgeting. By this stan
dard, the expenditure of public funds in the
world today shows a preoccupation with na
tional military power that dominates all other
concern of world governments.
In a period relatively free of major wars,
nations were spending $240 billion a year on
defense, each presumably in anticipation of
military attack by some members of the
world community. R.L. Sivard, in his book
"World Military and Social Expenditures,"
estimated that $3 trillion was spent for the
military from 1960 to 1975. With inflation, the
16-year outlay is closer to $4.5 trillion the
equivalent of the entire product of five years
of labor by the 2.9 billion people in the devel
oping countries of the world.
The two superpowers are in a class by
themselves; they still spend almost 60 percent
of the world military outlay. Their combined
annual military expenditures substantially
exceed the value of the annual product of
Africa with its 350 million people.
R. Roberts, in his book "Human Nature and
the Quest for Peace: Issues and Perspec
tives," said that one of the outstanding char
acteristics of the evolution of war, especially
the technology of war, has been its "See-Saw"
nature the development of a defense
against it, the development of a countertactic
or of a defense to nullify the tactic.
This question still seeks an answer: What
Should Be Done To Change The Mentality
Universities must be
the spreaders of peace
By MAGDY M. TAIIA
Chairman, American Foreign Students Com
mittee
BARRY,EIiOnU -RYE
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reasonable that the controllers are demanding a
shorter work week with more benefits they
deserve it.
As far as breaking the law is concerned,
remember that it was illegal for the Polish
workers to strike as of last summer should
they have obeyed their laws? It should be the 41
right of all workers to strike when they feel they
are being treated unjustly. It is one of the
strengths of our system.
President Reagan and Transportation Secre
tary Drew Lewis have adopted the dangerous
arm-bending tactics of rhetoric and threat. Their
effOrts to end the strike are totally counter ?
productive, if not totalitarian in spirit. •
I am behind the air traffic controllers 100
percent and wish them luck, patience and solida
rity.
Jeff Dooling, graduate-electrical engineering
Aug 4
dtzCollegian
Wednesday August 5, 1981—Page 2 1981 Collegian Ind io,
Paula Froke Debby Vinokur
Editor Business Manager
That Uses The Technological Development
For Mass Violence And Self-destruction? The
problem is not to shift from war to peace
under an atmosphere of fear or inability to
confront the other party; the problem is to
move frorri war to a peaceful mentality of
thoughts and actions.
If this is the case, How Can We Create These
Thoughts And Actions? I do believe that the
educational institutions whether national or
international have the power to achive that
goal.
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If one of the desired objectives is to prepare
citizens to believe and behave in such a
manner 'that supports peaceful resolution of
conflict whether it is on the standard of
interpersonal, intergroup or international
we should structure our educational institu
tions to encourage such behavior. Four prob
lem areas should be emphasized in school
systems. These can be expressed as world
order values: peace, economic well-being,
social and political justice, and ecological
balance.
Indeed, if education had sufficient moral
awareness, courage and intellgence, it would
reorganize its curriculum and methodology
around the importance of peaceful attitudes in
the age of nuclear intimidation. It would be
perverse if this mentality could only emerge
from the rubble of nuclear holocaust.
I do not consider distributing literature,
holding seminars and lectures to be effective
unless a peaceful mentality, recognized as
one of the preferred educational goals around
the world is first created. Although well-inten
tioned, without the creation of a receptive
atmosphere these materials are simply
thrown into the garbage. This atmosphere
could be particularly in .turbulent areas to
determine which factors influence people's
attitudes towards war and peace.
As a student at Penn State, I hope that in the
near future I will see our university as a
pioneer in this task.
In an effort to raise money for WDFM, assistant general manager Max Beahm, Chris Murray,
a member of the fine arts and announcing staff, and program director Michele Rossi staff a
donations booth on College Avenue.
Listeners show support , for WDFM
By JUDD A. BLOUCH
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Area listeners are rallying to support the stu
dent-run radio station WDFM, if the first two days
are an indication of the success of its fund-raising
campaign "Challenge '81."
As of yesterday at 5:30 p.m., phone pledges and
personal donations had reached almost $2,000, far
ahead of schedule, program director Michele
Rossi said.
"It's better than we expected, but it's not
enough," Rossi said.
The 5 p.m. total for yesterday was $790, an
amount that surprised development director Dan
iel G. Mushalko, coordinator of the event.
"For one day in a first-time fundraiser, it's
terrific," he said.
Sunday, at the beginning of the week-long
campaign, Mushalko was tense and a little wary
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"We got one donation from a guy from New
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By DIANNE GARYANTES
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
The walls and floor of the house vibrated
with sound as the subscribers of the Hare
Krishna faith played their instruments and
chanted before their Sunday meal.
Suddenly the chanting became much louder
and all of the members knelt down and kissed
the floor as Satsvarupa dasa Goswami, one of
the 11 spiritual masters of the International
Society of Hare Krishna Consciencesness,
walked through the door to the center of the
room.
A lei of roses was placed around his neck
and the spiritual master rocked back and
forth, playing his drum and leading the
chants. For the next half an hour, the group
joyously sang, sometimes low and controlled,
other times almost frenzied.
Soon everyone stopped singing at once and
gathered around to listen to what their guru,
or guide, had to say.
The pale, slim, rather young-looking man
cleared his throat and began his talk with a
story from the Bhagavad-gita. The story had
to do with a king telling his sons about life.
The king was trying to point out to his sons
that life is not only for sense gratification
eating, sleeping, mating and defending
which is living like the other animals in the
kingdom. Humans, instead, should live for
much more.
"If sense gratification is all, the exclusive
goal of life, than man is no better than a dog or
a hog," Goswami said during his discussion.
"This is a revolutionary thought," he said.
"That I shouldn't use my life to try and please
my senses."
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Goswami said that when a man satisfies his
senses, he does not satify himself. Eventually
he becomes frustrated and commits acts
which are harmful to his karma.
"He doesn't see that everything belongs to
God," he said.
People should go through three steps to find
satifaction in life, he said. They are not using
life for sense gratification, practicing austeri
ty and rendering service to God to become
purified. Only then can a person true hapiness
(which you cannot find unless you are pu
rified).
A society which does not satisfy people can
only agitate them instead, Gosviiami said. The
practice of austerity is actually a relief from a
society which does not satify, he said.
, "There's no love like the love of God," he
said. "It makes you not dependent on any
thing else."
Once people achieve absolute happiness,
they will no longer look for the Vale pleasures
of material things in life to satisfy because
these ultimately disappoint, he said.
"Human life is for spiritual realization," he
said. "Humans have limited themselves to the
small circle of sense gratification and don't
have expanded consciences."
Satsvarupa dasa Goswami is one of 11
devoted disciples of the founder of the Hare
Krishna movement in the United States, A.C.
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The swa
mi came to New York City in 1966 and died in
1977, leaving 11 masters to serve as gurus for
the Hare Krishna people.
Gurus serve as guides to the people involved
in the religion, and are especially helpful to
new members, Goswami said. He goes to
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with members.
"After you become serious about (the reli
gion) and you become initiated, you need a
guru to help get you through," he said.
Goswami said that Swami Bhaktivedanta
became his spiritual master in 1966 when the
swami first arrived in New York City.
"He was all alone on 22nd Avenue in Man
hattan," Goswami said. "He was telling us of
these things.
"I was attracted to this religion because of
his person," he said. "I heard him speak day
after day from the Bhagavad-gita. He would
cook for us and began to share his vision with
us and we tried to serve him."
Goswami has written two volumes on the
biography of Swami Bhaktivedanta, a third is
waiting to be published and he is starting, to
write his fourth volume.
"(The biography) gives people a chance to
see inside," he said.
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