TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1968 SDS Adviser Calls Students Apath By LARRY REIBSTEIN Collegian Staff Writer Seeing Wells Keddie for the first time can wreck one’s image of a radical; missing are the sideburns,' long hair, patched-up dungarees and rough exterior. Instead, here is a soft-spoken man who, In a suit, could easily be mistaken for a co. official. In casual attire, Ked die, who is assistant professor of labor studies, appears to be the outdoor type who could be found relaxing in front of a fire with his dog sleeping peacefully by his side. Keddie’s ideas, though, are far from passive. He echoes Dick Gregory in cal ling our society "corrupt”; he asserts that the amount of hypocrisy in the coun try is “enormous”; charges that members of our society are too concem ed with “the fatness of their wallets”. He 'Ah, Wilderness' Mood Reflects O'Neill's Past By ELAINE LIEB These antitheses are the theme Collegian Staff Writer °* P* a y* , A Eugene O'Neill biographer The small-town, middle class on campus said of “Ah, Wil- American family at the turn of derness!”, “I think it is centur y was - f° r O Neill, perhaps one of the most dif- . the essence of a peculiarly ficult (O'Neill) plays to do A mcrl ?? n s P‘ nt ' according to really well ” Miss Alexander. The political “Ah, Wilderness!” will open t \ alue ? were libe rty and lolera at the Playhouse Oct. 31, and ove was defined as con will play through Nov. 2 and cern *°£.. anot " er p ,? rson : Nov. 7-9. The student preview responsibility for him, and will be Oct. 30; tickets lor this «! eals „ o£ behavior towards are on sale at the Playhouse him, all common to the old and box office beginning at noon new generations alike. Wednesday. Tickets for The play was conceived regular performances may be while O’Neill was writing obtained from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Days Without End” in 1932. Doris Alexander, visiting His difficulty in developing an Professor of English, contin- affirmation of the life of con ued, “If the play is to be at temporary values brought a all exciting to us it must pre- nostalgia for the life he knew sent a dynamic contrast with in his early childhood, our own broken values and our Miss Alexander said the pro inability to give real love.” fessional productions of “Ah, Comedy Nov. 4 Here's George By JANET KELLY Collegian Staff Writer “By George,” a three-act comedy by Michael Voysey, will be presented Monday at the Playhouse for one performance only. •This original production of the London-Broadway stage com edy hit will be shown through the sponsorship of TRW, Inc., a major diversified manufacturer. Performance of the play has been offered free to about 40 selected U.S. colleges throughout the country. This ten-week tour of some of the nation’s leading colleges was described as “a new approach in educational relations” by Simon Ramo, vice chairman of TRW. Ramo states two objectives of the tour are “to dramatize to students and faculty that a modem corporation like TRW is interested..in, -and -concerned.with,, the-cultural aspects of the. society in which we live; and to help broaden student appre ciation of the arts.” TEW specializes in products, systems, and services for elec tronics, space, aircraft, defense, automotive and related in dustrial markets. “By George” is the first hour of its kind sponsored by an industrial company. Based on the life and .works of playwright-critic George Ber nard Shaw, “By George” stars the British actor Max Adrian. In the role of Bernard Shaw, Adrian recreates his recent successes on London and Broadway stages. He' travels the gamut of ages and emotions as he depicts Shaw in the context of the Irishman’s early struggles and achievements. Bom in Ireland, Adrian performs regularly in films, on television and at England’s National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company. Prior to the TEW college tour, Adrian appeared in “By George” in theaters throughout England.. Among the colleges participating in the program are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, Cornell Univer sity, Princeton University, and Syracuse University. Tickets to “By George”- are being offered as a bonus to University Theatre season subscribers. General ticket sales will begin tomorrow at the Playhouse box office. IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY HARBOUR TOWERS 710 S. Atherton St. Slate College* Pa. STUDIO APARTMENTS Furnished or Unfurnished 1 Bedroom Apartments -Cali Alex Gregory Associates, Inc. 238-5081 SUITE 102 HOLIDAY INN For information and application to HOLD AH APARTMEHT FOR YOU! admonishes his colleagues not to “sup port the status quo without thinking about it”; he calls the student body “apa thetic,” and he accuses the town mer chants of “exploiting the students.” Keddie’s opinions were nurtured and clarified throughout his schooling. He went to Stanford for undergraduate school and to Berkeley for graduate work. When he got married, he quit school and pursued jobs ranging from worker on an auto assembly line to small businessman. After working for five years he resumed graduate school at Claremont College in California, where he received his masters and doctorate degrees in economics. In Fall, 1966, the Students for a Demo cratic Society was chartered at Penn State, and Keddie was asked to be faculty adviser. He described the beginning of SDS as “chaotic, turbulent.” “It looked as if it wasn’t going to sur- Wilderness!” displeased the was sent to a convent school playwright because traditional- when his father’s show went on ly a star was cast as the the road. Here, the tolerant father, including George M. and loving God of his family Cohan, the famous song and became punishirig and dance man, and humorist Will vengeful. At this early age, O’- Rodgers. Through cutting, the Neill began to question his play was distorted to make the values. star have the lead role, though the script actually placed Richard Miller, the son, as the central character, and the others equal in the family rela- tionship. Born in 1888, O’Neill was the son of James O’Neill, who played the lead in “The Count of Monte Cristo” for close to 35 years. At seven years, O’Neill The Catalyst, newspaper of lawn, the Free Speech Movement, “We feel we have to reach was distributed for the first more than the 100 or so peo time Sunday. pie who come to Old Main lawn The five-page issue defined on Sundays,” he said, its purpose as providing “a The paper will accept all ar place for students and faculty tides. Samuels said, “We hope to air their views on campus this will be an open forum for issues.” students, faculty and adminis- The Catalyst is scheduled to tration.” be printed every two weeks, Articles may be submitted at with a circulation of 3,500. It the HUB desk or in 206 HUB. will be available on the ground floor of the Hetzel Union Build ing. According to Stanley Sa- ing on the paper. The FSM, muels (7th-general arts and which started as a protest sciences-Phila.), a staff mem- against the housing shortage ber, the paper was started to and evolved into a general pro reach a greater number of test against the administration, people than have attended the will meet again Sunday at 2 weekly gathering on Old Main p.m. Your story about our Fun Shirt of Creslan®may win it. Based on a tetter from a sweater-shirt enthusiast who claimed that the Fun Shirt of Creslan acrylic fiber has changed his life, we decided to hold Don’t tell us how sophisticated or color-terrific our fleece-lined, sweater-type Fun Shirts are. Or how % they’re pleasure-bent on softness (even after endless washings.} Or even how tfcoqomica! they are (you can fjuy three Fun Shirts fpr the price of one sweater.) Merely tell us about the dramatic way it changed your life and how much fun you’re now having as a result The best answer in 25 words or more gets the two hundred and fifty. 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Corvf test ia subtect to applicable Federal. State and local Sl“*Vit°t7for Federal. State end local taerx Imposed upon the prise is the sole responsibility of the winner, i) The price winner will be notified by mall en or be* fore January l. 1969 . . SI Name of winner mar be obtained won reowsi by tendme e sell addreited. stomped envelope to Fametl 8 Associates, Inc . 2 W. S9th St. Hew Tort. W.T. 10018. PLEASE BE EFULij Only you prevent . est fires! | IK, PENNSYLVANIA one may talk and every view is dis cussed. The unique thing about SDS is that fo* the first time, all left wing factions can come together,” Keddie said. •Keddie believes that there is a dif ference in SDS now. “SDS is relating events that happen off-campus to those that happen on campus,” he said. On the bookstore issue Keddie said, “We must concentrate on Dower relation ships. The University could support a bookstore but its role is not to compete with the town. If it did so, it would be breaking tradition.” Keddie favors a boy cott of the bookstores Winter Term. He is also concerned with the alleged exploitation of students by the mer chants. “The necessities of life are controlled by a small group—an oligopoly. Opportu nities for consumers are limited. There is Chamber Symphony Disbands The Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia, which was to perform in an Artists* Series program Friday night, disbanded this week, forcing the company to bow out of-its University engagement. A substitute for the per formance will be announced this week, according to Nina Brown, director of the Artists’ Series. The University Theatre is of fering a preview performance, for students only, of each ma jor production. At the Play house tomorrow. “Ah, Wilderness”, Eugene O’Neill’s comedy of remembrance, will open the new season. Per formances begin at 8:00 p.m. The Wednesday night pre view system entitles students to view the plays at half price. General admission tickets go on sale at the box office at 1:30 on the day of the preview. One lane of traffic on Bigler Road will be closed today be cause of the installation of a gas line. The line will be installed above the intersection of Bigler and McKean Roads. Bob Solomon ('55) will be interviewing at Penn State on November 5 for Kurt Salmon Associates, management consultants. Contact University Placement Service, Orange Building, for an appointment. Humphrey and Muskie and Student Coalition Humphrey & Muskie Willard Wirtz United States Secretary of Labor Today 4:00 p.m. HUB Ballroom no pressure downward on prices/’ Keddie But Keddie believes involvement is not said. He charged that consumers are heavy here as it is at other campuses, ‘leaned on” by merchants. 0 n Faculty apathy, Keddie said, “The Keddie does not favor the seizure of majority of faculty members are held campus buildings or marching on Old back from participating in issues because Main. of cautiousness.’* “As a planned course of action, it is bad tactics. Everyone who has power is mobilized against you,” Keddie said. The events at Columbia University was a “spontantous event,” according to Ked die. “Events were triggered by a special set of circumstances,’’ he said. Could Columbia ever occur here? “It could never happen here,” he said. “If it did it would be under extreme pro vocation.” Keddie labeled Penn State a “dull, apa- This conformity forces faculty to re thetic campus,” but he sees a surge of in- main silent on issues, Keddie said. ‘"Hie terest this year. He called the attendance faculty is afraid of events in which they at the Dick Gregory speech “amazing.” don’t know the outcome,” he said. Collegian Notes The Undergraduate Student Government Supreme Court will meet today from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. in 216 Hetzel Union Building. There will be a Science Stu dent Council lecture at 7:30 p.m. today in the assembly hall of the HUB. The Junior Resident Execu tive Board will meet from 6:30 to 8:00 tonight in 214 HUB. Young Americans for Free dom will meet 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. today in 215 HUB. There will be a meeting of the Intervarsity Christian Fel lowship tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 in 216 HUB . The USG Administrative Ac tion Committee will hold a meeting at 9 p.m. today in 216 HUB. The Liberal Arts Student Council will meet tonight at 7:30 in 217-218 HUB. Professors for There will be a meeting of the Students for a Democratic Society at 7:30 tonight in 203 HUB. A lecture on “Prehistoric Paintings of F ance, Spain and the Sahara” will be given tomorrow at 8 p.m. in 108 Forum. The lecture will be given by Douglas Mazonowicz, an English artist who has de voted many years to the study and recording of prehistoric cave paintings. There will be a meeting of the White Liberation Front Thursday night at 8 o’clock in S-209 Human Development. The staff area of Parking Lot Blue D between Shortlidge and Bigler Roads will be closed to overnight parking Friday. The staff section will be re served for buses transporting COCKROACHES STAR PERFORMER TOM SMYTH WHEN? Oct. 29. 7:30 p.m. WHERE?-Assembly Rm. HUB WHY? To entertain and enlighten Science Student Council for present etic Keddie believes this “cautiousness” . pervades the instructor’s entire outlook on life, and is probably most prevalent in *- the attitude faculty members take con-t? ceming publication of research. “It is easier to get things published // that aren’t controversial than those which a.e. Academia is conditioned to take a **'• safe route. Doing something different from the norm is an alien thought,” Ked die said. approximately 800 West Point Cadets to the Universit}' for Saturday’s Homecoming Game at Beaver Stadium. The Campus Patrol said the reserved student parking sec tion will not be affected by the shutdown. The staff section will be reopened for parking at 6 p.m. Saturday. Charles H. Brown, professor of journalism, is on* of the contributors to Di gest Handbook of Article Writ ing,” edited by Frank A. Dick son and published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York. Brown’s contribution is “The People in Your Articles/* It emphasizes the importance of good characterization in non fiction writing and explains techniques for describing and conveying the personality of people. PAGE NINE
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