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Blasting Def Lepfitird at 3 a.m. is one
r.thing. Playing Sammlr Davis Jr.'s "The
Candy Man" before 11 p.m. is another.
Yet apparently -to some State College
'-'officials, they are the qame. On Oct. 20, two
'State College Municrpal Police oh' 'ers
drove past Phi Kappa Tau fraternity, 406 '.
'Fairmount Ave., in an unmarked police car,
noted that the fraterriity was playing music
t . through an open door, and at 10:59 p.m.,
',took a noise level reading, which indicated
the strains of "The Candy Man" were
exceeding the 60-&eibel limit by 10 deci
'bels.
Last Friday, District Magistrate Clifford
H. Yorks found the fraternity guilty of
violating the nbise ordinance and fined it $25
for violating the ordinatice and $25 for court
costs.
The fraternity was not fined the $78.50 fee
usually issued to firstltime offenders, but
the fact that it was fined at all is still
'disturbing.
For the fraternity, :has this strange
agreement with its neighbors in which the
neighbors have only to pick up their tele
phones and complain once when the frater
nity is making too much noise and the noise
will be lowered did it's based .on a
strange concept courtesy. But strange as
such an arrangement may seem to some, it
has worked in the past..
However, on 'the evening of Oct. 20, the
fraternity received no complaints and so the
members assumed that all was in order.
eader opi,pion
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, interest what .appears to be 'paradox in response to the
I , 'Huck Finn" and the Penn State students for Palestine
lAsues.
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, Ori the one hand, we hear: ries against "censorship" of
i:Ailark Twain's work, and on tKesther, there are calls for a
worm of censorship of the Penn State Association for
t palestine. The obvious hypocrisy in these two not so
unrelated phenomenona should escape no one. The appar
antipathy for these isstter k py most in the community
; s ipeaks volumes for and about the commmunity.
r i Lest we lose any kind of real perspective, we should be
ieminded that there is an active, well-funded and not
lnsuccessful campaign to cen4or school books going on
across this country. Those v.rritffs being censored include
',Langston Hughes, Richard M V
light and John Howard
liPriffin
•
The fact is that textbook selection in and of itself is a
dorm of exclusion and often-thedecision of whether to
4 ,pclude or exclude a book depfnds on the portrayal of
p lamiliar images. There is no doubt that to many, "Nigger
tlim" is a familiar, therefore comfortable, image. Por
prayal of American society as racist however, is not only
`unfamiliar but downrightAil-American and is easily
mitted from any academic cideration.
•
This applies also to the American mentality on the issue
If Palestine. We have grown so comfortable with the
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And it probably would have been had the
police not decided to drop by.
All that the fraternity members were
doing was practicing a routine for the
Homecoming parade. No wild screaming,
no wild music, no wild partiers on the frOnt
lawn just Sammy Davis Jr.
Two neighbors testified at Friday's hear
ing in support of the fraternity, but to no.
avail. No one complained Oct. 20 and no one
complained save the police officers at
Friday's hearing. But the fraternity was
fined nonetheless.
A lot of campaign rhetoric has circulated
throughout the borough in the past several
weeks about solutions to the noise problem
in State College. Words like "cooperation,"
"good neighborliness" and "understand
ing" have surfaced frequently.
However, in cases like these, it seems
they are only words.
For when students such as the residents of
Phi Kappa Tau fraternity come forward
halfway in compromise, they find the bo
rough still hanging back from the center.
This incident involving Phi Kappa Tau
casts doubt on the future of compromise as
a viable solution to the noise problem in the
borough. And that's sad. Because it is ob
vious that there are some State College
residents willing to compromise. And it is
obvious that there are some students who
are willing to compromise.
Unfortunately, it is also obvious that too
many municipal officials have not yet been
schooled in the art.
image of Palestine as "terrorists" that our memory (and
media) won't remind us that both Shamir and Begin were
wanted criminals in the 1940 s for acts of terrorism like
blowing up the King David Hotel and the Dir Yassin
Massacre.
Our image of the Israeli is that of the victim of the
Holocaust, a freedom fighter determined to survive. It is
perhaps disturbing to our sense of perspective to picture
Israelis providing active and covert support to the racist
regime in South Africa. It should not leave our memory
that Andrew Young was hounded out of his United Nations
post by Jewish interests for raising the issue of dialogue
with the Palestines.
. It was ironic to note that in the very same issue of The
Daily Collegian with letters calling for the censorship of
the Palestinians, there was an item on the town of
Nazareth, hometown of Jesus, which told how the Jews
there are fighting to maintain Jewish/Arab segregation. A
Jewish leader, Avrahan Cohen, is quoted as saying, "NO
one here would like his daughter to marry an Arab . . ."
The explicitly racist nature of such a comment should be
more than disturbing to most Americans.
That some would find the symbolic representation of the
Sabra and Shattila massacre to be "offensive" and in bad
taste is of interest. However, an equal case could be made
for "bad taste" and offensiveness for Israel's failed
attempt at a final solution to the "Palestinian problem,"
that has now placed American forces once termed as too
black by Moshe Dayan, as surrogates for our anti-commu
nist surrogate Israel.
Advice for thinking on one's feet
Today is Wednesday and, here at The
Daily Collegian, Wednesday is Staff Column
Day. (Wednesday is also forum day for
readers, but only when there aren't any
staff columns.)
Any member of the Collegian news staff
may submit a column for publication on the
editorial page as long as that column doesn't
deal with news that the contributor is cover
ing. I recently became town editor, so I can
write on just about anything I want to write
about.
I originally intended to write a somewhat
boring but necessary piece about news cov
erage of ideas and/or events especially as it
relates to available time and space require
ments. After about two hours and 15 inches
of words to cure insomnia, I bagged it.
News coverage is more an issue for the
Collegian's reader representative anyway.
However, the decision not to write on news
coverage wasn't as easy to make as . it.
seems. I had already promised the editorial
editor I would have a column for the next
day's paper. I had already exceded deadline
by about an hour. I had already started
worrying that I had bitten off more than I
could chew and was choking on it.
I've had to make a few such spur-of-the
moment decisions since ascending from my
position as senior reporter about two weeks
ago. And every time I make one of those ,
decisions I have to think "on my feet." You
know solve problems that I don't have
any experience in solving.
It sounds difficult, but thinking "on your
feet" really isn't. I can do it, so it follows
that you can do it (or at least you should be
able to do it).
It's basically a three-step process. You
must have the ability to quickly organize
your thoughts, keep the situation in perspec
tive and, most of all, sound like you're
saying something when actually all you're
doing is organizing your thoughts and keep-
Collegian
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1983
Suzanne M. Cassidy
Editor
Goldman points out that he is disturbed by the possibili
ty that a Palestinian bullet may kill American Marines.
No doubt he was more disturbed when Israeli aircraft and
torpedo boats fired on the USS/Liberty in 1967 and in a
two-hour period killed 34 Americans and wounded 171
others, including the machine gunning of life rafts. Inci
dentally, Israeli aircraft bear the Star of David.
Attempts to offer different points of view to prevailing
and familiar images, of "Nigger Jim" and "Nigger
Ahmed" are met with equally unsympathetic and insensi
tive rebuffs. The fact that these issues, relative to the
nature of compassion and justice within free socieites are
not more openly and broadly discussed should give us all
reason to pause, for nothing more divide's people than
foreclosing opportunities and avenues for discussion and
debate. Alas, it appears young America is much more
enthralled with "making a living" than living an exam- i
fined life.
Lawrence W. Young, director
Paul Robeson Cultural Center
Oct. 20
Gratified
I was gratified to see Anne Conners' article on being
gay. As a straight woman, I'm not directly affected by the
attitudes of the Penn State' community toward its homo-
01983 Collegian Inc.
Judith Smith
Business Manager
ing the situation in perspective.
I'm doing it now. (I had a political science
professor who called it "waxing eloquent
ly," but I was never really sure what "wax
ing" had to do with thinking on one's feet.)
I think I know what I would like to say in
this column, but I'm not really sure how to
accomplish it successfully and I'm worrying
about whether what I have to say, if I
actually end up saying it, really means
beans to anyone out there. '
So here I am organizing my thoughts,
keeping the situation in perspective but,
most of all, sounding like I'm saying some
thing when actually all I'm doing is organiz
ing my thoughts and keeping the situation in
perspective.
One good way to organize thoughts is to
keep a chronology of the events that led to
the situation.
What led to the situation in which I find
myself? It's a very long story, but the facts
start with a complaint from a news source
that he wasn't given adequate coverage by
the Collegian. From there, the events pro
gress (in chronological order, of course) to a
plea from the editorial editor for more staff
columns, my less-than-brilliant idea that it's
actually my place to disclose the inner
workings of the Collegian and, finally, my
decision to volunteer to write this week's
staff column.
(You can add in the complications of a
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sity Park campus.
sexual members. It enrages me, however, to observe the
intolerance and outright cruelty displayed ,by those who
feel they have the right to pass judgment on others.
My accidental introduction to the gay subculture oc
curred several years ago, when I moved to a new city and
unwittingly chose an apartment in the "gay neighbor
hood" of the area.
I considered it one of the most fortunate mistakes I've
ever made. The friends I made while I lived there are
among my dearest and most enduring. The warmth of my
welcome, and the helpfulness of my new neighbors has
been unequaled by any "straight" neighborhood I've
moved into since.
Frain my gay friends, I learned a lot about emotional
strength, tolerance and acceptance, friendship and
more than I wanted to know about the utter frustration
suffered by the victims of prejudice. I got more love and
support from these non-sexual friends than some women
get from a husband or lover.
I feel that we could all avoid causing a lot of pain for
others if we stopped labeling every person we meet by
- their race, religion or sexual orientation. Instead of
knowing "a black, two Jews and a faggot," we would be
pleased to extend friendship to "a Comp Sci major, two
OTIS members and a track star."
Tracy Brant, freshman-man-environment
relations
Nov. 7
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The Daily Collegian
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 1983
late Monday night spent drinking and
watching football, a busy day of being town
editor and a slow recovery from Monday
night, but they really have little bearing on
the actual problem at hand fulfilling a
promise to write this week's staff column.)
So there it is. A chronology of the events
that led to this situation. (Reporters have a
knack for making i 1;: -- :;! story short or
anyway, they should.)
Now, from that, and therefore from any
other chronology of events, I can draw
logical conclusions that might help me solve
the problem at hand, as long as I can think
clearly.
In order to think clearly I have to keep the
situation in prespective. Let's face it: the
world will not end if I don't write the staff
column for tomorrow. In fact, it's safe to say
the Middle East crisis isn't going to be
solved if no one reads what I've written or if
everyone reads what I've written, unless
some diplpmat doesn't prepare for some
summit meeting and is forced to think on his
feet. (It's really easy to keep things in
perspective when you think about them in
this context. How certain situations affect
certain individuals may be a little tougher to
deal with.)
There. The situation is in perspective, at
least in a broad sense, and all I have to do is
address the third guideline for thinking on
your feet: sounding like you're actually
saying something when in fact you're only
organizing your thoughts and keeping the
situation in perspective.
But I've already done that. And you've
been spared the agony of yet another forum
on Euromissiles or, worse yet, news cover
age.
S.A. Miller is a senior majoring in journa
lism and was chosen as town editor for The
Daily Collegian for his ability to think on his
feet.
reader opinion
Political 'Games'
Carol Frank's letter Nov. 2 brought up two
interesting points about how the Olympic
Games have been politicized and commercia
lized.
The "Munich Massacre" of 1972 was indeed
a shock to the world and perhaps the most
overt expression of politics in the history of
the Olympics.
People wonder if this helped to bring atten
tion to the plight of the Palestinians. Review
ing their current status still no "homeland"
and still not being welcomed by any of the
Arab countries I doubt that anything was
achieved.
Perhaps this is also due to the fact that
members of the "civilized world" (and I use
that term loosely, considering the various
methods of destruction at our disposal today
-- civilized implies rationality and having a
better means than killing off one another to
resolve political differences) don't recognize
terrorism as a means to express a point of
view. • •
Others often wonder if the U.S. boycott of
the 1980 games accomplished anything, save
for a "slap on the Soviets' wrists," telling
them that they should not have invaded
Afghanistan.
What is interesting about Olympic history is
that when it was time for the Olympicd in
ancient Greece, the warring parties (Athens
and Sparta) declared a truce which lasted for
the duration of the games. Supposedly not a
person was killed or injured during this time
(that is, no breach of the truce) and neither
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side used the games as a way of expressing
their political ideologies.
In this respect, it appears that mankind has
regressed rather than evolved.
Glenn S. Berman
graduate-public administration
Nov. 2
Masquerade
I find it hard to believe that The Daily
Collegian allows writers such as John Protevi
and Kelly Fracassa to masquerade as respon
sible spokesmen for the Euromissiles issues,
or any other issue that they have misunder
stood.
The only point that they have succeeded in
getting across is that they both have a
marked lack of understanding of the issues
that they discuss. They distort facts, make
unsupportable assumptions and grossly inac
curate generalizations. All of which succeed
only in showing how little they really under
stand.
The Collegian's one page limit for letters
prohibits any attempt to refute coherently all
the errors in these columns. The claim to keep
letters to one page because they are easier to
read is ridiculous. If I can read a four-page
forum, it certainly isn't more difficult to read
a two-page letter (especially when the quality
of the letters is much greater than most of the
forums); A forum is not the place to point out
the errors and distortions of a previous fo
rum.
Please reconsider your limit on letters so
Mk MOM
that the issues can be properly presented. Or
preferably, find columnists who don't try to
rearrange reality to comply with their lack of
understanding.
King W. Wieman, graduate-acoustics
Nov. 4
Like father,
I wholeheartedly agree with Freddie
Stark's edit on federal employment.
Who in their right mind would want to work
for the federal government? Help other pea—
ple? Help the country? My God, 40 hours a
week? That's outrageous!
I can't believe my own father has wasted
the last 10 years working for the government
and worked before that for 20 years as an
officer in the U.S. Army. I'm so ashamed!
He claims to be happy at his work but how
could he be? I don't think he's made a million
dollars in his whole worthless life, never mind
in one year.
Brother. I must be as dumb as he is for
joining the Navy ROTC. I could graduate and
get a job in big business and line my pockets
with money made sitting on my butt behind a
big desk dreaming up ways to avoid paying
taxes. '
But n 00000000! Now I have to go into the
Navy and risk getting my ass shot off in
Beirut or wherever to protect the freedom of
the rest of you screwheads have to sit around
and make money.
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I must be insane. I could do worse though. I
could be a school teacher or a social worker.
Todd Gunerman, junior-management
Nov. 7
Coming home
The University wants me to go home for
Thanksgiving.
My family wants me to come home for
Thanksgiving.
I want to go home for Thanksgiving.
However, I have a class that evening of the
23rd.
The:dorms are scheduled to close at 7 that
evening. Since my class runs past that time, I
can't even return to my room to pick things up
afterwards.
I am sure many other students are in the
same situation.
To accommodate students with evening
classes, the University should close the dorm's
one half-hour after the last class ends.
Another alternative would be to cancel
classes for that evening (or even the whole
day!) and to reschedule them for a later date.
Students should not have sacrafice allotted
class time because of a scheduling oversight
on the part of the University.
Perhaps the University can remedy this
oversight before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Hilary Welliver, junior-secondary education
Nov. 7
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True blue
This is addressed to Greg Hanson and
Michael Murphy whose letter appeared on
this page Nov. 2.
I'm appalled at their arrogance and their
blatant lack of understanding of what it is to
be an American. They wrote, "This letter
goes out to all those Americans (?) who have
written idiotic statements about the invasion
of Grenada and the presence of American
troops in Lebanon." Apparently, the wisdom
of putting American troops in action is un
clear to only an un-American idiot.
Too bad we don't have some place like
Siberia where we can put all those idiots and
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