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anian- Vol. LXXXV No. 53 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Copyright 1969 The Daily Pennsylvanian Wednesday, October 8, 1969

is GEORGE SCHOTT

OVER 800 PEOPLE joined in Irvine Auditorium Tuesday night to support the lowering of the flag and the establishment of a sanctuary. Above, Jim Hively, one of the meeting's chairmen, surveys the proceed- ings.

Plenum votes HH sanctuary

By JONATHAN B. TALMADGE

GEORGE SCHOTT

Dick Gregory is... uh...Dick Gregory

By ARNOLD HOLLAND GLENSIDE, Pa.—Dick Gregory-

black militant, comedian, unsuccess- ful Presidential candidate, track star, vegetarian and one-time car washer— Tuesday night lectured, joked and harangued a cheering overflow crowd at Beaver College on social problem's ranging from the draft to mothers' '' lies'' about Santa Claus.

"You've got to understand how strong you youngsters are," Gregory said. " Lyndon Johnson was the number one tyrant the world has seen since Julius Caeser, and you kids ran him all the way back to Texas."

The former Freedom and Peace Party Presidential candidate urged students to take part in the Oct. 15th

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national antiwar protest. ' Let's show Nixon that his law office in New York is not far away from where he is now."

About 300 persons overflowed Murphy Chapel at this small women's college, filling the aisles, blocking the exits, and sitting on the stage, as the 37-year-old comic-turned poli- tician spoke on "America's Social Problems." Greeted by a standing ovation as he stepped up to the micro- phone, Gregory started his speech by attacking capital punishment. ''If we're going to be a nation that permits capital punishment, we ought to do it right," he asserted. "Instead of killing people every day, we should pick one day a year for the big killing." Gregory suggested Christmas Eve for this purpose, and went on to suggest that all the wires from all the electric chairs should be brought to one switch, which would be situated on the White House lawn. Gregory then said President Nixon and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird should pull the switch together. "If we can't do it that way, we ought to abolish capital punishment," he added.

Gregory then spoke on the problems of the Catholics in Northern Ireland.

"The Irish Catholics should start acting more like black folks—they should be more patient," he said, his voice dripping sarcasm.

"Harlem wasn't built in a day," he added.

Gregory's recurring theme during the evening was that today's young people "have a big job ahead of you." His generation, he said, "not only didn't solve all the problems, we used up all the tricks." He said the college students of today have a hard job a- head, "not only because you have to solve problems that you had no part in creating, but because you have no tricks left."

Today's most important problem, he said, is "moral pollution." He said older people "lie all the time, and when you kids catch us we call it the generation gap." Gregory said he pre- ferred to call it the "moralgap," and suggested that it probably starts with Santa Claus — "If your mother can lie to you, anyone can." He added that "black kids don't believe in Santa Claus as much as white kids, because we know no white cat was comin' to our neighborhood after midnight."

Gregory said it was the job of young people to "give America her sanity back; to find out what the cancer is and cut it out."

Another recurring theme was the plight of the American Indian. ' This will never be a beautiful country,"

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GEORGE SAWYER JUDY GORDON

The Plenum of the University of Pennsylvania Community of Students voted 347 to 324 Tuesday night to establish a "sanctuary" for draft resisters and AWOL servicemen in Houston Hall.

The Plenum then voted, however, to hold a referendum among the student body on the sanctuary motion, apparently because of the small margin by which it passed. The vote to hold the referendum was 395 to 238.

The Plenum also resolved, 556 to 135, that the University's American flags should be lowered to half mast at noon on Oct. 15 in mourning over Vietnam war dead "until a similar mass convocationof students and faculty asks that they be raised."

Tuesday night's meeting was a continuation of the Plenum's first session, last Thursday. The Plenum, a general meeting of the student body, was instituted as the basis of the University's student government in a referendum last spring.

Despite the steering committee of the Plenum's attempt to resolve pro- cedural problems before the meeting, parliamentary hassles plagued the session. Shouting matches between the co-chairman of the meeting, Andy Wolk and Jim Hively, and the floor occured several times during the meeting. Rulings from the Plenum's parliamentarian, Bill Tortu, were frequently greeted with a loud combination of boos and cheers from the actively partisan audience.

At one point in the meeting, the chair attempted to exclude the votes of non- University students by ruling that each person must show his matriculation card in order to vote. After the floor overturned the decision of the chair, Dorian Dale, a College sophomore, stood up, thrust his arm into the air, a burning matric card in his fist. Most of the 800 persons in Irvine Auditorium cheered Dale's action.

Dale told a reporter that he took this action to protest "the ludicrousy of the entire event. This is a circus," he continued 'caused by the small minority of assholes on both sides who insist on being ridiculous."

The Plenum also passed: —a demand for the withdrawal of all U.S. and occupation forces from Viet-

nam. This was passed overwhelmingly with about 50 persons dissenting. —A motion calling for the establishment of productive jobs to be supplied

to GI's after their discharge from the service. The vote was 357 to 289 with 112 abstentions.

However, by 70 votes the Plenum voted down a motion calling for the "Immediate conversion of the war and war-related industries to modern, socially useful production."

In addition, the Plenum defeated two motions calling for referendums on the proposals of the lowering of the flag to half mast and on supplying jobs to GI's upon their discharge from the service.

In both of these cases several students charged that a referendum was necessary to "determine the true opinion of the University community."

However, opponents of the referendum retorted asserting that "the Plenum is the place for people decide." Merle Silver, a Wharton junior, added that "we delegated power to ourselves by showing up. We would be condoning apathy by bringing it to a referendum.''

Stuart Madden, who proposed the sanctuary motion, said that although the concept of sanctuary has no legal basis in American law, " it is the logical and necessary function of the members of a university to seek morality beyond judicial law."


Army,Navy officer enrollment declines

By ARNOLD EISEN Freshman enrollment in the Re-

serve Officer TrainingCorps(ROTC) and Naval ROTC programs at the University has dropped sharply this fall, the directors of the programs said Monday.

Twenty-five freshman are pre- sently taking Army ROTC courses, compared to 48 last fall, and 76 the year before. The number of freshmen in NROTC has decreased from 33 last year to 23 this semester. Overall enrollment has also declined, from 257 to 200 (Army), and 154 to 140 (Navy).

Somewhat compensating for the overall decline was an increase in the number of seniors in the programs as a result of students entering the programs in their junior year.

Capt. C.A. Turner, the NROTC director said, that the draft is a more immediate concern to juniors than to freshmen, and that many juniors

therefore decide on ROTC as an al- ternative.

Col. George Sawyer, head of Army ROTC, expressed concern about the drop in freshman enrollment, but said he "can't think of anything we're not doing already" to try to increase enrollment. "It certainly is not a local problem, but a national one," he con-

tinued. "The great unpopularity of the war is certainly a factor, though not the only one." He said he does not believe that the decline can be attributed to the decision by the Col- lege and Wharton to end credit for solely military ROTC courses as of next fall.

Turner agreed, citing the "general mood of the country" against the military, and pointing out that enrollment in ROTC declined almost without exception throughout the U.S., though the decreases were most appreciable in Ivy League schools. "We have no special plans to combat this drop," he added. "We just hope that when the Vietnam War hysteria goes away, so will the drop in enrollment."

Despite the fact that he sees no connection between the elimination of credit and the decline in enrollment, Turner did express concern with the credit withdrawl. He said he felt the University made a mistake in withdrawing credit without first evaluating individual courses and instructors. "Some of our courses are just as challenging as those in the College or in Wharton," he remarked. While many ROTC and NROTC instructors lack advanced


Open major idea sent back to Committee on Instruction

By JOHN RILEY

The College faculty decided Tuesday to return a proposal for open admission into majors to theCommittee on Instruc- tion for further elucidation of specifics before voting on it.

Dr. Bernard Wailes, chairman of the instruction committee, commented, "The main objections were that the faculty required a clearer notionas to what would be implied by the proposal."

Wailes said questioning had centered around whether students would need prerequisites for acceptance into the major, and what grade average would be required to main- tain the major status. Sandy Colb, who was appointed as a student member of the instruction committee Tuesday, said he thought the faculty was "hung up" on prerequisites. Colb remarked, "Being accepted into a major only means you are assigned a major advisor. What does it matter whether you take the prerequisites before or after you get an advisor."

Wailes said that students would be allowed to remain in their major departments as long as they preserved a C average in major and major related courses. He noted that if any department wanted to raise that average, the change had to be submitted to the instruction committee before it

could be instituted.

The faculty also discussed the instruction committee's decision to only "request" an open admissions policy for departments, rather than to require it.

Wailes explained, "We don't know what will happen by just requesting. We decided to use the word initially, and if the departments are happy and agreeable there may be no need to change. However, at a later time, we may be forced to change it to require."

Colb said he thought a lot of pressure would be put on departments that didn't comply with the "request."

"In my highly subjective opinion," Wailes commented, "I think the majority of the faculty is on the whole in agreement with the main thrust of the proposal. They don't want people left sculling around without a proper major. The major disagreements were with loose ends."

William Stephens, dean of the College, said the faculty would not vote on the proposal of Dr. Herbert Wilf, professor of mathematics for condemnation of the Vietnam war, until after Oct. 15.

The bespectacled dean also noted that no action would be taken on Wilfs black studies proposal until a University wide group had presented a black studies recommendation.

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10/8/69

Local FORMER HEAD OF JORDANIAN ARMY SPEAKS TONIGHT

Sir John Glubb, once the appointed chief-of-staff of the Jordanian army, and author on Near-Eastern affairs, will speak on the history, current trends, and significance of tensions in that area tonight in Irvine Auditorium at 8 P.M. Raised and educated in England, Glubb served in World War I where he was wounded three times in action. From 1932-39 he was commanding officer- Desert Area, Trans Jordan. He was appointed Chief-of-staff, of the Arab legion (the Jordan Army) in 1939. The King was the titular commander-in- chief; Glubb was really commander. He served in this capacity until his dismissal by the Jordanian government in 1956. He returned to England to devote his energies to writing. Among the most recent of his books are, "The Middle East Crisis," and "A Short History of the Arab Peoples." Glubb* s lecture, which is open free to the public, is sponsored by the International Affairs Association.

International By United Press International

COMMUNIST CHINESE, SOVIETS TO DISCUSS BORDER DISPUTES HONG KONG—Communist China Tuesday announced major proposals to the

Soviet Union aimed at defusing the Sino-Soviet border crisis, including withdrawal of troops from trouble spots and resumption of negotiations. Peking said there was no reason for war. A government statement broadcast by Peking radio said Moscow had agreed to new border talks in Peking at the level of Deputy foreign ministers, and that a date was now under discussion. The statement advocating peaceful coexistence said the proposals grew out of the meeting in Peking Sept. 11 between Premiers Chou En-Lai and Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin. Both sides have lost troops in major border battles this year. Fighting erupted in March on the Ussuri River between Siberia and Manchuria, and on the Sinkiang-Kazakhstan frontier in Central Asia in August. The Soviets claim there were 488 lesser incidents along the border between June and mid-August.

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Gregory said, "as long as there's one Indian locked up on the ieserva- tion."

Gregory spoke of honesty as a virtue foreign to the older generation, and asserted that "three days after the Chicago convention the whole establishment tried to convince you you didn't see what you saw on T.V." He then said that if the government were to "put tanks in front of the churches," saying that no one was to enter them, parents would say "God is everywhere — let's pray at home," while "even the kids who haven't beer, to church in years would be there trying to get in."

Gregory praised those students who are "trying to change the system," but emphasized that "I do not advocate the overthrow of the capitalistic system." He said "all we need is the Constitution," but asserted that the Constitution is not being properly enforced. "The capitalists should get behind the Consti- tution instead of in front of it. They should not be running the government."

Gregory suggested that students use the capitalists to obtain their ends. If youngsters want to vote at age 18, they should threaten a two year boycott of the recording industry, he said, adding that the record com- panies would lobby in Congress until the age was lowered. His own opinion about the voting age, however, was not that it should be lowered to 18. "If young people have to be drafted and fight wars at 18, they better lower the age to 17," Gregory said amidst loud applause.

Gregory also sharply criticized the government's anti-marjuana drive, saying the government is trying to stop marijuana, but is leaving heroin alone. "You got to bust heroin before you stop marijuana," he said. He then asserted that the reason behind the anti-grass drive is that the government "wants the kids to start mainlining."

He also threw quick barbs at labor unions and Congress, the former for "disgracing the country," the latter

from page 1) for refusing to pass gun-control laws. "They make me get a prescription for medicine but not for a gun. I'm not going to hit someone with my cough syrup."

Gregory said he'd like to use the draft to draft people up to 75 years old. "If they want to fight a war, let them do it themselves. It would save a lot of money on medicare, anyway."

Gregory had a few ideas for in- tensification of the Oct. 15 antiwar offensive. He suggested tht' every- body make long-distance phone calls to wrong numbers all day. "Do you know how much inconvenience this would cause?" he asked.

Gregory told the mostly white audience, "We don't hate white folks. We just hate your stinking, white, racist institutions." But he added that white people are responsible for the ' white institutions." "If my dog bites you, are you going to sue me or my dog?"

Gregory criticized whites who say that blacks "dirty up the ghetto. How can you say that we dirty up the ghetto, when you dirty up the rivers, the oceans, the air, and you leave all that junk on the moon? You got to be the super-nigger," he said.

Gregory briefly commented on the lack of riots this past summer, saying, 'You ask where we were during riot season. We went underground this year and studied Consumer Reports. When the riot season opens up again, we ain't stealin' any more Motorolas."

Alluding to the Boston Tea Party, Gregory asked "How can you get mad just because we got enough sense to take it home with us instead of dump- ing it all into the sea?"

Several times he repeated, "We're tired of these insults." At one of these times he mentioned the fact that "blacks have 20 percent illegiti- mate babies in the ghetto while whites have only about 3 percent. ''What can I say except we've had fun in the ghetto?"

But he added, "You lend us your white abortion credit cards and we'll be down to 2 percent too."

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One person who identified himself as a lawyer, asserted that the establishment of the resolution was illegal. "You would be complicit with breaking the Selective Service law, if you set up the sanctuary," he claimed.

Several students spoke out against the sanctuary contending its illegality. Other opponents of the sanctuary asserted that it would "give the police

a chance to come to the Perm campus." One student charged that the "people who are supporting this motion are trying to have a confrontation with Frank Rizzo (the Philadelphia Police commissioner) and to turn Penn into a battle- ground. This won't be the U of P as we once knew it."

Because of the closeness of the vote, a recount was taken on the proposal to make Houston Hall a sanctuary. However, despite pleas from the chair that students remain and vote the same way on recount, a number walked out and others entered before the second tally. The Plenum voted 364 to 324 for the sanctuary in the recount, which represented a 20 vote increase in the margin of passage from the first vote on the motion.

The motion read.* "To further demonstrate our opposition to the war, be it resolved that we students of U- of R offer Houston Hall, the Student Union building, as a sanctuary for all those who as a matter of conscience can no longer participate in the selective service or Armed forces of this country."

Votes were counted by dividing the auditorium into sections, each one with a counter appointed by the steering committee of the Plenum. Students indicated their votes by raising their hands or by standing up.

At the close of the meeting one student who opposed the results of the meeting commented, "Student government has given us circuses. Now all we need is for the dining service to improve so we'll have bread."

Kennedy says inflation battle will increase unemployment

By United Press International

WASHINGTON — Treasury Se- cretary David M. Kennedy candidly told Congress today that the administration's fight against inflation is going to put more people out of work.

But he refused to say how much more unemployment the Nixon Ad- ministration would tolerate. If he cited any specific level, he said, it would be "shouted all over the roof- tops and become a complete em- barrassment."

Administration economists say that a cooling of the economy may be indicated by the sharpest increase in unemployment in nine years. The jobless level rose five-tenths of 1 per cent between August and Septem- ber, it was disclosed Monday.

Kennedy, testifying before a sub- committee of the Joint House-Senate Economic Committee, was asked by Sen. Stuart Symington, D-Mo.: "Are we planning for a recession as a way to handle inflation?" "No," the Treasury chief replied softly. "We are watching these things to make sure that does not happen."

University to close 38th Street

The University will close 37th and 39th Streets to traffic between Walnut and Spruce late next year, Titus Hewryk, Principal Planner in the department of planning and design, said Wednesday.

The closings will take place, Hewryk explained, as soon as the State Highway Department has completed the depression and widening of 38th Street enabling it to accomodate the increased flow of two-way traffic. A pedestrian overpass will be con- structed over 38th Street by the Re- development Authority at Locust, which will be closed to 39th Street.

Once the housing construction now underway between 38th and 39th Streets is completed, Hewryk added, the entire area will be landscaped with trees and benches in the same manner as Locust Walk. Landscaped walks closed to traffic will then extend throughout a 12-square-block area bounded by Walnut, Spruce, 34th, and 40th Sts.

Only the most optimistic of eco- an overheated, over employed condi- nomists have felt the inflated economy could be cooled down without some increase in unemployment. But there are wide differences of opinion as to how much unemployment is an ac- ceptable price to pay.

The Labor Department said Mon- day 2.95 million persons were out of work in September, 365,000 more than would have been unemployed if the August rate had continued.

The increase in joblessness hit hardest the young, white industrial workers, the shock troops of growing anti-black resentment. These newly unemployed whites join on the streets black youths who still have the largest unemployment rate of any group.

Unemployment rose from 3.5 per cent in August to 4 per cent in September. The rate was the high- est in 'Si months and the increase was the sharpest since October, 1960. President Nixon has said the 1960 increase, just before the November Election, may have cost him the election against John F. Kennedy.

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by a House Armed Services subcom- mittee. Rep. F. Edward Hebert, chairman of the group, said the Pentagon should force the nation's colleges, especially Ivy League schools, to meet the Pentagon's standards on credit for ROTC. He recommended that ROTC programs be withdrawn from schools which refuse to do so, along with all Defense Edu- cation Funds.

Hebert's proposal would especially affect Harvard, Dartmouth, and Columbia, all of which are currently disbanding their military science programs. Under this proposal, money would be withdrawn from defense-funded scholarships for law, medical, and language students. Na- tional Defense Education loans, however, would not be affected, and military research currently being conducted on the campuses would not be halted, under Hebert's re- commendations.

is seeking qualified Juniors and Se- niors from each of the University's six undergraduate schools to fill positions on the Board. Students interested should hand in resumes to 106 College Hall no later than 5 PJvI. Friday. The resume should include the student's name, address, phone no., and a short statement as to why he feels qualified to fill this position.

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STUDENT MEDITATION: Second introductory lecture on Transcenden- tal Meditation. Previous attendance at first lecture not necessary. To- morrow, 8 PJvI. B-21 Steitler Hall.

WHARTON SCUE: Soliciting gripes, 10 AJvl. - 2 PJvI. today Dietrich Hall basement.

ACTIVITY NOTICES

BIOLOGY MAJOR EVALUATION COMMITTEE: Biology Majors and Prospective Majors: meeting to ex- plain and discuss tentative curriculum reforms and place students on Departmental curriculum committee. Thursday , 7:30 Steitler C-10.

BRIDGE CLUB: Regular game today at 6:45 PJvI. Houston Hall West Lounge.

CAMPUS CHEST: Meeting for Sophomore Men and Women, Wed- nesday 7 PJvI. Houston Hall.

CIC SUBURBAN ISSUES PRO- JECT: Meeting tonight (Wed. Oct. 8th) 8 PJvl. Steitler Hall C-16. Any- one interested in planning and par- ticipating in seminars with adults of the Phil, suburban community please attend this meetng.

CJ.C. Task Force: There will be a meeting of the CJ.C. Task Force at 7:30 PJvl. Thursday in room 1 Houston Hall.

EXTRA ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMM. ADMISSIONS COMMITTEE: Meeting today 3:30 in the Commun- ity of Students Office of Admissions Committee for all interested in the Admissions Committee and in car- rying out a study of the University's Admissions policy.

FRIARS: Meeting Wednesday, at 8 PJvI. at 3940 Spruce St.

HILLEL RUSSIAN JEWRY DE- MONSTRATION: Meeting of all who have signed up or others who are interested in being a Marshal for Oct. 11 rally at 4 PJvl. today at Hillel Foundation. If cannot at-

tend, please call 7391 for information. IJ*. GRADUATE STUDENT AS-

SOCIATION: International Relations graduates andundergraduates.Crisis Meeting Friday at 3 PJvl. Dietrich Hall E-13.

KAPPA ALPHA THETA: Meeting for all members. 7 PJvl. today. Roorr 600 Hamilton Motor Inn.

KITE AND KEY SOCIETY: There will be a members meeting at 7 PJvl. on Thursday in the Penniman Room of Houston Hall.

LATIN AMERICAN STUDENT SO- CIETY: General meeting for all members and interested persons; at 7 PJvI. Thursday Oct. 9 in the Christ- ian Assoc. Bldg. (36th and Locust Walk).

PENN STUDENTS FOR LINDSAY: All students interested in canvassing in New York City for John Lindsay please stop by our table in front of the Van Pelt Library or call EV 2- 5846.

PENNSYLVANIA PUNCHBOWL: Urgent workshop meeting for all staff members: get your butt up to 405 Potter Hall tonight at 9. Discus- sion of Fall issue, the Cambridge Heist Affair and trip to Mad Maga- zine.

RIPCORD CLUB: MeetingThurs- day 7:30 PJvl. in Stiteler HallC-17 for anyone interested in parachuting.

RUSSIAN JEWRY DEMONSTRAT- ION: Are we the Jews of Silence? If not be at Art Museum, Saturday night, at 8:15. To protest social and cultural persecution against soviet Jews. For more information, call 7391.

SMC: Build the fall offensive! Meeting to plan Oct. 15 Moratorium, Nov. 14 Strike, Nov. 15 March on Washington will be tomorrow, 7:30 Stiteler Hall B-21.

TALKING POINT: HASSLED? HUNG UP? Visit the Talking Point. Sun. - Thurs. 8 PJvl. - II PJvl. at Hill Hall, Houston Hall, or McClel- land Hall. Or call anytime 839- 3437.

UNDERGRADUATE ANTHROPO- LOGY: Meeting tomorrow, 7:30p.m. Steitler Hall C-16 bring suggestions. If unable to attend, call Kent EV 2- 6268.

U. OF P. WIND ENSEMBLE: The first rehearsal of the new Wind Ensemble of the University will be held tonight at 7:30 in the H.H. Re- hearsal Room. Info. 594-8719.

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MEET- ING: Any women interested, please come to FAB B-2 at 7:30 PJvl. today; Connie Firmerty will be there.

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Plenum II The decision by the Plenum last night by

an overwhelming vote, to call for a lowering of flags on October 15 is one which we fully support.

The resolution adopted by last night's Plenum states that the half-mast flag will serve ' 'to symbolize (student) committment to peace and to the principle of self-determination of peoples, as well as our deep sorrow over the deaths in the Vietnamese War of millions of Vietnamese and tens of thousands of Americans, including alumni of this University."

The flag has only been a symbol of re- spect in America; the students of this Uni- versity voted last night to honor the 40,000 Americans who have died fighting an un- ustified and unjustifiable war in Southeast Asia.

The Plenum's other major act—the en- dorsement of a sanctuary in Houston Hall as a place "for all those who as a matter of conscience can no longer participate in the Selective Services or Armed forces of this country"—is a symbolic, and hopefully realistic gesture of opposition to the justi-

fication of slavery euphemistically titled the Selective Service system.

We urge that the campus community support the sanctuary question in the upcoming referendum on that question.

We call on the appropriate persons in the administration to cooperate in lowering the flag; we demand that students be allowed to use the student union building according to student wishes.

The Plenum, which holds u 11 i m a t e authority under the constitution of the Commu- nity of Students, has taken a strong stand of opposition to the war in Vietnam—a war that is daily claiming the lives of both Americans and Vietnamese in the interest of political and moral cowardice.

While we accept the Plenum's decision, we are disappointed in the turnout. The strength of the Community of Students rests on participation, yet only 800 out of over 14,000 eligible to vote attended the meeting. Also, the proliferation of parliamentary haggling detracted from the seriousness of the evening.

But even in spite of these two problems, last night's Plenum proved that differences of opinion do not destroy a community.

Commentary

Are we the Jews of silence? By ARNIE RACHLIS

On Saturday night, October 11th the youth of Philadelphia will hold a rally to demonstrate their solidarity with the Jews of Russia. For the Jews of the Soviet Union are dying. They are being systematically ex- terminated. Three million Jews - the second largest population in world Jewry -are being starved by their government. This death, extermi- nation and starvation is not physical, though; it is spiritual and cultural murder. The Jews of the Soviet Union have been deprived of minority group rights granted to other religious and ethnic groups. TheSovietConstitution "encourages nationalities, whether territorially dispersed or concen- trated to perpetuate their group's existence through cultural anc* educa- tional institutions and activities in their own language."

Yet, the Russian government has closed the Jewish publishing houses, and the Jewish State Theater of Mos- cow, and the Yiddish schools. No classes in Hebrew or Yiddish exist. No courses are permitted in which Jewish history, culture or literature may be taught. No Jewish art, periodicals or theaters flourish.

Perhaps this also happens to other nationalities? Quite the contrary,for despite Russia's ideological atheism, other groups are allowed to have

formal ties with co-religionists abroad. They can print periodicals and prayer books and produce ritual articles and devotional literature. But for the Jews, there is nothing. While there were 450 synagogues in 1956 there are 70 today. If even half of the Jews wanted to worship, that would leave one synagogue for every 22,000 Jews! There are no function- ing seminaries so the future of religious Judaism is dead.

As Bertrand Russel stated: "A comparison with other Soviet nationalities exposes the basic injustice of their (Soviet Jewry's) situation, for even the smallest nationality groups in the Soviet Union are given the opportunity to pursue a cultural social and political life of their own denied to Soviet Jews." Cultural and spiritual strangulation is disgusting, physical death is worse. The Inter- national Commission of Jusists declared that the Soviet Union used Jews as scapegoats in a campaign against economic practises. Anti-Semitic propaganda filled the press at the time of their trials and more than half of those executed were Jews.

Somehow ....Somehow Jewish con- sciousness still lives. Books and prayer shawls, Bibles and periodicals are smuggled in. The greatest emo- tional thrill (as recorded in Eli Wiesel's book "The Jews of Silence")

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is the ecstatic celebration on the Jewish holiday Simchat Torah. On that day thousands of Jews young and old, religious and secular - jam the synagogues and fill the streets with singing and dancing. Without even understanding the Jewishness that gives this holiday meaning, they revel in joy and forget Russian dis- crimination. And in this very act, they give Simchat Torah a new meaning, one which we, on the out- side, must learn.

This is a cause to which Jews must react. To curse Hitler's Germany and overlook today's Russia is an unforgivable crime. But this is not a cause for Jews alone. The Young People's Socialist League has en- dorsed the right for Soviet Jews to spiritual and cultural self-determination. People from all ethnic back- grounds and religious faiths must struggle against this blatant injustice.

We'll have an opportunity to express our empathy with the cause this Saturday night at 8:15 P.M. at a Demonstration of Solidarity with Soviet Jewry. On October 11th a torchlight parade, speeches and a dramatic presentation will nighlight the problems and show support for the Jewish community of Russia. To be absent is to be delinquent in your moral obligations.

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Letters to the Editor

A CA DEMIC PR I NCI PL ES

Sin The DJ>. editorial (Sept. 26) on Black studies implies that once an individual has taken a position, that individual is no longer capable of further objective evaluation and change of position when confronted by new facts and superior arguments. Such a position runs directly counter to the principles of the academic

community, where advocacy and dia- logue are the main means of clarify- ing issues and arriving at solutions. Thus, to imply that members of the Rieber Committee, because they filed an interim report, have deserted their academic principles, is rather simple-minded.

But the issue is confounded much further than this by seeking to exclude Rieber Committee members from the new Black Studies Com- mittee. This "conflict of interest"

exclusion, if carried out logically, would also exclude members of the Black community because they have natural, direct and immediate interest and biases as regards Black studies and can hardly be expected to be "objective." Naturally, the DP

will vigorously deny any such intention. Suppose, however. Black students should conclude that their own interests are best served by having the strongest experts as their repre- sentatives on the Black studies

committee so as to most adequately express their views. If some or all of these were members of the Rieber committee, would their exclusion not deny the Black community effective participation in deciding its own fate? In what way would such an action be distinguishable from less subtle forms of racism?

Unfortunately, the DP position also contains yet another subtle form of racism related to dual standards.

The issue before the new committee is the scope and form of a Black studies program. Suppose, instead, the issue was the establishment of a new "School of Urban Environmen- tal Studies," which would necessarily cross many departmental and pro- grammatic lines and ruffle many feathers. Would the DP, the Uni- versity Council or anyone else be satisfied with anything but the most competent, panel of experts to decide this issue. Yet, the Black Studies issue is as complex and as important as any single is sue facing the Univer- sity today and relates directly to the entire problem of racism, a problem literally capable of destroying our society. Why then should any other standard than producing the soundest, most expert analysis of the Black studies issue be invoked?

Robert Rutman Professor of Biochemistry

FORM AN ON ISRAEL

Sir: James Forman's statements on Jewish business in the ghetto and on Israel, as reported in the Daily Pennsylvanian, demonstrate a lack of understanding on his part of the history of a revolutionary people whose tragic intimacy with oppression is unparalleled in the history of man.

While I join Mr. Forman in con- demning the injustices of racism, capitalism and imperialism, I would remind him that:

1) Modern Israel's formation 21 years ago was not a "mistake."

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Jews have lived in Palestine continuously for thousands of years. When the U.N. partitioned the land into Jewish and Arab areas, it was the Arabs who rejected this equitable solution. It was the Arabs who went to war.

2) It is true that many of the small businessmen and landlords in the ghetto are Jews and that marry of them may act as unsympathetic oppressors. Historically, however, Jews were forced into such voca-

tions (both in Europe and America) by the same racist prejudice now directed against Blacks. This should be recognized in assessing the unfortunate and sometimes involuntary position of Jewish business in the ghetto.

3) Forman called Israel "an extension of American imperialism and designed to create a white buffer zone" in the Mideast. During my visits to Israel, I saw many black, brown and yellow Jews as well as people of all religions. Israel's aid to black African countries is propor- tionally greater than that of any other nation. Is this a white buffer? Consi- dering the independence of Israeli foreign and domestic policies and considering the substantial U.S. aid to the Arab countries as well as to Israel, it is obviously misleading to call Israel America's "extension." Israelis would laugh at the very suggestion.

David Ferleger

College 1969 Law 1972

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Sir: I read with pleasure and pride Dr. Goddard's Commentary, "In a Matter of Conscience," which appeared in the October 2 issue of the Daily Pennsylvanian. I commend the Daily Pennsylvanian for its support of Dr. Goddard in its editorial,' 'Con- science," which appeared in the Daily Pennsylvanian of October 3.

I share the views expressed by Dr. Goddard and you, both as to the war in Vietnam and the University's role. Those of use who believe that American participation in that war Is execrable should speak out and exercise our personal and political influences to terminate that participation. At the same time, we must preserve the University, its integrity and its mission.

To call on the University as an institution to assert a political position or a "moral" one (reflecting a majority of individual views of right and wrong) is to ask the University to denigrate and diminish itself. If the University were to respond affir- matively to such a call it would be setting a precedent which could lead to its destruction as the one institution in our society which creates and protects the environment in which every scholar (student and professor) may express himself freely and fear- lessly and may pursue truth in his own way, by his own light.

As Messrs. Hoffman and Riley failed to appreciate in their comment in the Daily Pennsylvanian of October 3, even the United States Senate is prohibited from acting in certain areas by majority vote, or by unanimous vote. The Bill of Rights protects minorities from the coercive effect of a temporal majority in control of the legislative ma- chinery. Just as the Bill of Rights prevents Congress from interfering with free expression or the free exercise (or refusal to exercise) reli- gion, so the University must act to prevent the assertion of an establishment or majority position on issues of politics or morality which is likely to have a coercive, intimidating and ostracizing effect on the faculty and students who at any given time do not accept the political or moral views of the majority. Universities must remain the sanctuary in society where one is not treated as outcast or dubbed "minority" because he is offensive, a radical, a kook, a re- actionary, or even a long-hair.

Fifteen or so years ago, during the McCarthy period, the morality of the times was anti-Communism. Some universities took majoritarian positions in accordance with that temporal morality. The result was the supression and coercion of the left. At least one institution of high learning in this city went so far as to discharge professors who did not conform with the majority of the

times. The University of Pennsyl- vania remained true to its mission. It asserted no position on this political or so-called moral issue. Its faculty radicals were not coerced, and this University made appointments to its faculty from the ranks of those who had been dismissed by other institutions for their "im- moral" political views.

I hope that everyone will speak out as Dr. Goddard has; that the Convoca- tion on October 15 will demonstrate to President Nixon and to the world that thousands of our faculty and students abhor the war and demand American withdrawal. I hope, too, that we will assert to the world that this University remains free; that academic freedom and integrity will not bend under the weight of the Vietnam crisis and depression. If the Convocation adopts strong re- solutions against American participation in the war and does not call on the University as an institution or on any of the bodies which participate in University governance (such as the Council and Senate) to take similar positions, we will display the extraordinary strength of this University and the deep conviction and determination of its members.

Bernard Wolfman Professor of Law

FORMAN'S RACISM

Sir: Mr. Forman's Anti-Semitic reputation preceeded him. However, his use of a university forum to advance his racist views was particularly repugnant. Mr. Forman has stated that "Jews were the main oppressors of blacks In the ghetto" - that is "Jews qua Jews" not Jews as whites. Especially repulsive was his remark that "Israel is a white buffer zone In the Middle East'' - this despite the fact that 55% of Israelis are Oriental Jews who certainly are as black as any Arabs in the area. Perhaps Mr. Forman does not include these Jews among the ranks of the oppressed - though they had been subjected to pogroms, discrimina- tions and a literal forced r e m o v a 1 from the lands of their birth. Nor may he regard the Iraqi and Syrian genocide against the Kurds as Im- perialism; nor the Arab-black conflict in the Sudan as racism, nor the use of Egyptian pilots flying Soviet Migs against the Biafran population as interventionist. However, the New York Times and Atlas Magazine both do so. Perhaps Mr. Forman would do well to answer the question of how he can support the Arab states as progressive when the sole remaining active center of slavery and the slave trade lies in the Arab heartland.

Jay Blum Sandy Colb

FORMAN ON ISRAEL

Sin James Forman's statements on Jewish business In the ghetto and on Israel, as reported in The Daily Pennsylvanian, demonstrate a lack of understanding on his part of the history of a revolutionary people whose tragic intimacy with oppression is unparalleled in the history of man.

While I join Mr. Forman in con- demning the Injustices of racism, capitalism and imperialism, I would remind him that:

1) Modern Israel's formation 21 years ago was not a' mistake." Jews have lived in Palestine continuously for thousands of years. When the U. N. partitioned the land into Jewish and Arab areas, it was the Arabs who rejected this equitable solution. It was the Arabs who went to war.

2) It is true that many of the small businessmen and landlords in the ghetto are Jews and that many of them may act as unsympathetic oppressors. Historically, however, Jews were forced into such vocations (both In Europe and America) by the same racist prejudice now directed against Blacks. This should be recognized in assessing the unfortunate and sometimes involuntary position of Jewish business in the ghetto.

3) Forman called Israel "an extension of American imperialism and designed to create a white buffer zone" in the Mideast. During my

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visits to Israel, I saw many black, brown and yellow Jews as well as people of all religions. Israel's aid to black African countries is propor- tionally greater than that of any other nation. Is this a white buffer? Con- sidering the Independence of Israeli foreign and domestic policies and considering the substantial U.S. aid to the Arab countries as well as to Israel, it is obviously misleading to call Israel America's "extension." Israelis would laugh at the very suggestion.

David Ferleger College '69 Law '72

MID-EAST PEACE

Sir: At a time when rhetoric flies high those who would like a clear definition of the word hypo- crite need not refer to their Funk and Wagnall's. They need only listen to the statements of James For- man.

In one breath he calls Israel a "mistake" and denounces Jews as the worst oppressors of the black man in the ghetto. He inhales again and demands reparations for Injus- tices done to Blacks during the past centuries of their life in America.

Mr. Forman, justice does not only belong to the black man. It applies to other peoples as well.

Jews were in need of reparations for centuries of injustice also. Jew- ish ghettos in Europe were not a 20th century invention. Jews were mur- dered in Spain during the Inquisition merely because they refused to become Christians. In the last century Jewish blood was again spilled in the pogroms of Eastern Europe. The idea of reparations in the form of a return to their homeland came about long before there were six million less to return.

If Israel is a "mistake," it is a mistake to supply Mr. Forman with reparations.

Mr. Forman also claims that Jews are the worst oppressors of Blacks in the ghetto. This type of irresponsible statement seriously detracts from his position as a leader of the black man's cause. Yes, merchants In the ghettos are among the worst oppressors of the black man, and many of them are Jews. But let no one forget that of those whites actively trying to help the Blacks' struggle, Jews are represented many' time's over in proportion to their numbers . In society. One need not look any further for a manifestation of this here at Penn than the Community Involvement Council.

Israel is not a mistake. Mr. For- man, your irresponsible statements are.

Al Zager American Students for Israel

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Intramural athletics -- better all the time

By GARY HOFFMAN

"Intramurals is a large, important, increasing program," said Boo Morcum, head of the intramural program, Tuesday — and this year he's not kidding.

For example, 125 teams have signed up to play intramural football, three times as many teams as last year. If one considers that at least six individuals comprise a team, that's a lot of participants.

In the past, football competition had been double elimination, but in spite the increase in the number of squads, each team will be able to play six or seven games.

There will be an intramural volleyball program this year, and softball will not only be limited to the fraternities.

The expansion is largely due to improving facilities. With the addition of AstroTurf on Franklin Field, there are more fields open for football and softball. Lights will soon be installed in Franklin Field so that the area can be used to full advantage. Also helping the program is student participation; students are organizing the leagues.

Looking into the future, Morcum said, "Eventually we would hope to have shirts and officials for every match."

"The main purpose of intramurals is for the enjoyment of the participants, to give these boys something to look forward to and to make people enjoy being here at Pennsylvania. It also gives the boys who don't have the ability or time to participate in intercollegiate sports the opportunity to ta!:e part in athletics at the university."

Touch football and volleyball leagues have already begun this year. Water polo will begin in October. Doubles squash and swimming relays

associating with sports Wednesday, October 8, 1969

FRESHMEN SHOW THEIR gridiron AstroTurf during the Franklin Field are planned for November. The basketball league will begin in Janu-

,ary and a free throw contest is sche- duled for early February. In that same month, singles squash and hand- ball are planned. The volleyball and softball leagues get underway in March, along with the wrestling tournament. Tennis and golf begin in early April, and track starts in late April.

Team managers gain experience

By BILL TRIESTER In college, the team manager is no longer a waterboy, running onto the fields

during timeouts. He's no longer a maid, picking up grimy uniforms from the locker room floor. Instead, he's a busy administrator invaluable to team and coach.

On practice days, a manager has much to do, especially if an away contest is upcoming. Prior to any away game, he makes the transportation and eating arrangements. He must contact the home-team manager and specify how many players are coming, making sure a large enough locker room, enough towels, enough food, can be provided. If a team is playing here, the Penn manager becomes responsible for the opposition's welfare, and that includes providing the enemy with shoes for the AstroTurf.

Before the game, the manager hands out uniforms and equipment, but his responsibilities don't end there. In some sports, such as soccer, manager's are responsible for keeping the official time. In others, such as basketball, they keep the official score and a record of substitutions.

"Managing is my sixth course at Penn which takes 35 hours a week," says David Kluxen, varsity football manager. I've learned more from managing than I have from all my courses put together. After I leave Penn, I know that I'll be a much more responsible person," he comments in full agreement with the contention of Charlie Scott, associate director of recreation and athletics, that "managing a team on the university levelgives an individual a great deal of experience which is part of one's overall education."

"A manager does everything but coach and play," asserts DP associate sports editor Mark Pearlman, former cross-country manager.

The turnout of managers the last few years has been poor. Ten or 15 years ago, there may have been 20 heelers for one position; Now there may be only two heelers for five positions.

"Look at it this way," says Pearlman. "I was spending 25 hours a week for a sport (cross-country) which had very little equipment and few team members. You get a lot of grief, even if it's a good experience. Believe me, it's a tough way to earn a varsity letter."

prowess during activities on the Turf Carnival last month.

Recreational facilities are also available during noon hours, evenings, weekends, and vacations. Other sports in which recreation facilities are available include badminton, fencing, gymnastics, judo, karate, and weight lifting. Coed volleyball already exists, and more coed intramurals are on the drawing board.

A full track carnival will be held for men at Franklin Field this Satur- day. Like other events in the intramural program, trophies will be presented, with only varsity letter- winners ineligible. Entries close today.

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(First of a three-part series)

Don't let Drs. Rieber and Riasanovsky fool you, Nicho- las II isn't really dead; he just moved his palace from St. Petersburg to Kansas City and changed his name to Walter Byers, or maybe it just seems that way.

By any criteria Byers, whose official title is the Executive Director of the NCAA, is a czar in the best (or worst, depending on your point of view) tradition of the old Russian monarchs.

In more than one instance he has ignored the constitution of the body he rules and has entered into open war with the AAU over the control of amateur athletics in this country without regard to the welfare of the college athletes that he is supposedly safeguarding.

In the early sixties under Byers' direction, the NCAA formed the United States Track and Field Federation to wrest control of this sport from the AAU. This fight did not reach a critical point until 1965 when the USTFF tried to prevent collegiate athletes from entering the AAU championships that year.

This move was intended to embarrass the AAU because the meet had been named the qualifying event for the USA-USSR contest that summer. However, some top collegians, notably Tom Farrell of St. Johns and Gerry Lindgren of Washington State, ignored the USTFF ban and qualified for and competed in the international meet.

This whole conflict between the two giants of amateur athletics created such an uproar that both groups were called before a senate investigating committee. Nothing really came out of that investigation other than a temporary truce and much revealing testimony such as former West Point football coach, Colonel Earl (Red) Blaik's statement:

' 'The NCAA is more interested in power over athletes than it is in education ... It has able, energetic leaders who understand the power of television money and have become Napoleanic, unreasonable, and uncompromising."

The nationwide uproar died down eventually and remained dormant for the next four years until early last summer when Byers and company revealed how well they had been doing their homework for the past few years.

This time the NCAA had formed the Basketball Feder- ation of the United States to dominate that sport and the helpless victims of the war between the athletic conglo- merants were the seven collegiate basketball players who had been chosen for the United States representative in the Maccabiah Games in Israel.

The seven, Ed Fogler of North Carolina, Jack Ajzner of Cincinnati, Andy Hill of UCLA, Steve Kaplan of Rutgers, Eric Minkin of Davidson, and Pennsylvanians Steve Bil- sky and Alan Cotler, were chosen late last spring, had given up their summer jobs, and had raised $1500 each to make the trip.

Then the axe fell. Byers and the rest of the executive committee refused to sanction the participation of these athletes in the games and threatened to proclaim them

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ineligible under rule number 10-C of the NCAA bylaws, a rule drawn up to ban out of season play by collegiate basketball players following the point-shaving scandal of 1953.

The entire situation was particularly disappointing for Ajzner, an Israeli citizen who had moved to the United States only a few years ago and who faced not only loss of eligibility but also his scholarship if he decided to make the trip.

None of the athletic directors at the six schools, including Fred Shabel at Penn, were willing to risk openly defying Byers, and it looked like the ex-UPI writer would succeed in embarrassing the AAU which was spon- soring the Maccabiah entry without getting too much bad publicity.

However, Delaney Kiphuth, the Yale AD, stood up to Byers and encouraged Jack Langer, an Eli junior, to go to Israel as a replacement for one of the seven other collegians and play in the games.

As it turned out, Langer played for the U.S. squad which lost its first game ever in Maccabiah competition to finish second behind the host Israeli team. He Is currently awaiting the action of the NCAA eligibility committee after being declared ineligible by the EC AC, the eastern arm of the NCAA.

No matter what the action of this committee may be, Kiphuth, who was ironically the chairman of the ECAC committee which wrote rule number 10-C, has vowed that Langer will play for Yale this winter if he makes the team.

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