The Collegian Vol. XXI - No. 23 Grove City College, Grove City, Pa. Friday, May 18, 1962 CONCERT IN CRAWFORD GREEK SINGERS PRACTICE DIANE JUDT MAY QUEEN MAN OF THE YEAR RECOGNIZED ROTC IN REVIEW Page Two THE COLLEGIAN Friday, May 18, 1962 LETTERS The egian On Bombshelter Philosophy Dear Editor. By Meridith P. St. Clair In one of the letters to the editor in the May 11th issue of I noticed a rather interesting advertisement in the news- the "Collegian" there was a paper the: other day. The object of the half-page spread was to attract the consumer to a business proposition under the sentence The denial of absolute Editor-in-chief Joanna Hartley Jones guise of all-to-familiar "Community service label. The con- truths is a socialistic. doctrine Business Manager Dave Tudor struction firm was offering basement bombshelters, guaranteed, News Editor Emerson E. Shaw derived from the Hegelian Dia- of all things, to preserve its occupants against atomic attack. Feature Editor Pete Dimaggio lectic.' This may be a true Included were such novel features as a radiation counter, a Society Editor Sue Yoder statement: I do not know, nor week's supply of canned food, and a battery radio. Such a Arts and Theatre Editor Pat Maits do I particularly care. To me. shelter for six people was just $19,500.00. There can be but Sports Editors Dave Blackmore, Bill Evans this statement intimates that if one motive for such an advertisement. and that motive is Photographer Emerson E. Shaw one denies absolute truth, one fear. Fear has led us to embrace a stifling. backward looking Files Supervisor bombshelter philosophy. Sally Brown Head Proofreader RaeBelle Burch accepts the Hegelian Dialectic, Head Typist and therefore one is by impli- William Faulkner said in his acceptance address of the Dee Gabrenas Nobel Prize for literature in 1950 in Stolkholm: Layout Editor Sue Monk cation a socialist or a commu- Advertising Manager James Marner nist (which I understand some Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so Credit Chairman Karl Peterson people insist are one and the long substained by now that we can even bear it. There are Ad Layout Melvin Barr same), that the only way one no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question; Distribution When will we be grown up? Raymond Myers may avoid being called a social- STAFF ist or a communist is to be- This statement was made some twelve years age but it NEWS Pat Blake, Judy Blakely, Gordon Bloom. Anyce Breisford, Jean Horensky, Gloria Powell. Shiela Ragen. Gall Ryan. Bob Scolf, Heather Swan, lieve in absolute truth and be still holds true today - and today it is even more meaningful. Gloria Vaughan. Carl Welsiger. Sue Westergreen. Tom Whiting. Dave Zima. a conservative. America as a nation has embraced a bombshelter philosophy, FEATURE Ellen Egbert. Nancy Hathaway. Carl Hull. David Kilpatrick, Maureen Nicholson. Sue Poe. Emerson Shaw. Dan Zerioss. Meredith St. Clair. which has resulted in a tragic suffocation of the very attitude ARTS AND THEATRE Mary Baldwin. Janet Grey, Mary Jane Harper. To me this presents a that helped to build America the mightiest nation ever known. Mary McCart Donna Ulmer Joy Widaw. paradox. To believe in an abso- SPORTS Ellen Egbert. Terry Hogue. Al Carlson. Scott. Brown, John lute truth. or truths, inherently No. I'm not flaquent, or worse yet an alarmist, or one of Vierthaler, Joseph B. Davis, Tom Johnson. Clem Lausberg. SOCIETY Carol Menges. Nancy Whitecar. Suzanne Atwell. Linda Hast. limits one's freedom. Absolute those super patriots - God forbid; My complaint is that all- TYPISTS Lealle Wilmot. Carolyn Pucci. Janet Blum. Barb Withrow, Jane connotes to me something that too-familiar cloud has obliterated the sky. and we have be. Paulson. Judy Lindsay, Diane Ellerman, Betsy Brown, Tom Whiting, Suc Crocker. Chris Webster. tolerates no deviation from the come afraid. digging our holes - or better yet, graves in the BUSINESS Mervin Davis. Charles Rankin, William Huff. ADVERTISING Cook. Doug Morey. Doug Morse, Dan Simpson. norm. Truth. or anything else ground. The retreat to mother-earth is a false, vain attempt PROOF READERS Gloria Powell. Linda Neuman. Sally Belle, Barbara that tolerates no deviation from to return to the womb for protection and survival. Bennet and Betty Medsger the norm provokes in my mind The final and most exacting test of maturity is the ability one question. Why is no devia- Lately on the Grove City campus there has been an in- to live with fear. Naturally that sounds like double talk and termittent controversy concerning the religious convictions of tion permitted? Perhaps. it is be- ambiguity. But, just the same, this ability. which is so lacking Grove City students. One feels that perhaps this concern has cause the strength of the abso- the America philosophy. is what distinguishes the American produced some very excellent CSL meetings and interest to even lute lies in this fact. the abso- from the German, the Turk, or the Finn. whose homes are aetheists. such as Mr. Kauffmann's talk on the meaning of lute cannot be questioned for within walking distance of Soviet troops. the Christ symbol in literature. fear that it will be found to be It was Aristotle who wrote in Book II of his famous Rhetoric: Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. The action of certain students reminds one of a Salvation not so absolute after all, there- Army meeting she had attended last summer. The Salvation fore weakened, and to eventual- And we Americans have anticipated - building mass com. Army building was a dilapidated. musty old building on a ly fade into the obscurity of the munity bombshelters. spending millions on civilian defense. all in the nervous expectation of an attack that will probably never side street. It was a small Army Post, with only three officers, past. If this is the strength of come: and if it does come, our efforts will be useless in a Brigadier General. a Lieutenant, and a Sergeant, all women. the absolute, then what good is the face of it. Of course. I realize one must not criticize civil The officers were all well educated women, but in the service they reduced Christianity to a simple formula. The Brigadier an absolute truth, if blind ac- defense, just as one must not walk on the great green god kept asking people: what blessings did Ja-ee-zhus Cau-ryust ceptance is the only way it may called grass. Our player has become: Lead us into the bring you this week? Finally when she asked those who wished be supported? I cannot be blind- bomb shelter and thus deliver us from evil." If this new na- to be saved to come forward. no one came. The Army tried ly obedient to anything, wheth- tional characteristic of fear stopped here - that is, our great and tried, sang and sang. but the sinners in the audience seem- civilian defense projects it might be excused. But it goes er or not it: is supposedly an even deeper into the sinews of the American, for this fear ed quite content to be hot shots in the ever burning fires, in fact absolute truth: I am too rebel- has demolished our self-confidence: the American dream. or drunks in the back giggled curiously at the Sunday evening day parly. The Army was quite serious but lost again. lious, too cynical, or perhaps, ideal if you prefer. has been shattered. and we have become I am too individualistic. rigid in our attitudes. Even the current orbits by Col. Glenn So it seems that the more religiously - students, Perhaps I am a socialist or a are mainly for military purposes, and not for human explora- full of possessing zeal, tend to try to make religion simplé tion. so the yucks can get it. Those on the other side seem to take communist for not believing in I said that this fear has had deep effects. This fear has a vicious pleasure in cutting the "believers' down. It is about absolute truth: I do not know. led to a shocking retreat. which began in the past world-war enought to make one want to bash someone over the head But the paradox remains. Since disillusionment of the 1920's. Today's expression is the bomb- with a tambourine. Oh well, follow the fold! conservatism rests upon abso- shelter. It has also led to the witch-hunt of the McCarthy era, lute truth. since an absolute tol- and. believe it or not, to the extreme anti-American John Letter To The Editor view are over-estimating the erates no deviation, then con- Birch Society It is an agency of fear, anticipating an evil, Dear Editor: student's gullibility and under- servatism tolerates no deviation. while creating a witch-hunt and a greater evil for humanity. Conserve! Conserve! Conservatism! The hue and cry of fear rating his intellectual satisfac- This is the paradox. Conserva- ridden individuals who feel that to "hold the line' and swear I think it is quite presumptu- ous on the part of the Conserva- tion. In doing so here. I feel tives extol individuality and on the Constitution, impeach Earl Warren Jack Kennedy, and that the conservative cause has freedom of the individual, but Nelson Rockefeller, exile Eisenhower for his Communism, and tives student to believe that made itself less effective. As the foundation of their philoso- Harry S. while you are at it save the truth and America they have found "the Absolute Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes phy denies the individual free- before the liberals kill it and the Communists bury it - but truth" in economic and politi- once said, "The best test of dom simply by equivocally re- note their methods: rend and tear, pull down and burn, and cal matters. It is absurd to dig in. Where has the old American confidence gone? think that one department in truth is the power of the thought lating socialism or communism the school offers the student to get itself accepted in the com- to a lack of faith in absolute I think the best example, and most shocking of all, of petition of the market." I feel truth. It seems ironic that the the effects of this fear is illustrated in the American attitude that for which education has toward sex. Sex has become cheapened and deteriorated, a mere been forever striving. As stu- the free trade of thoughts has Russian Communist Party "in- refuge from boredom. I hesitate to mention that word, sex. dents, we are not doing justice been thwarted in a certain area variably acts upon, the Truth. certainly do not want to offend the virgin ears of that to our academic pursuit if we of the college. Harry Tomlinson illustrious educator who dwells in the R Building. I Note For the benefit of those hope that he will forgive me, but I feel that the truth must accept blindly one doctrine, *McClosky H., Turner J. E., who feel that one must have be made human in spite of the Puritans. God bless him! whether it be liberal or con- servative, without a thorough, some knowledge of conserva- The Soviet Dictatorship, Mc- Perhaps you do not believe me? Then let me illustrate. When tism before one says anything Graw Hill, 1961, p. 199. the rebellion against Victorian mortality broke into the open in honest study of both. about it, I would like to say that the twenties, a supposed "new morality, a tolerance, took Just as students at so called I have taken a course in eco- Dear Editor its place. The road blocks were pulled down, the fears dis- "liberal" institutions are suppos- placed as sex lost its taboos. This in itself was good. But, ed to be reacting negatively to nomics, have attended two Con- I wish someone would define however, it led to tragic results. The proverbial pendulum the views of their "collectivistic" servative Club meetings and the goals of the conservatives swung to the other extreme - that in making sex free we professors, so it is possible that have read several conservative in a way that didn't sound sus- have made it cheap and ubiquitous. It has become a refuge a similar reaction could take publications. piciously like a return to the from the mundane, a panacea, a common thing now held in place at Grove City against the Edward Lesser good old days along with Mitch. contempt. I attribute this deterioration to fear. The preoccupa- tion with survival has turned us inward until we have attacked 4 dominant conservative view. Any history students among you the very fiber that has kept us alive. In our destruction of the point. Those who would expose WHO'S WHOSE Conservatives? Not SO keen on traditional, nothing any longer exists that can be respected; the students to only one point of Kay Beswick, Delta Delta Tau, history, eh? Well, try an eco- consequently, a certain contempt for the good and beautiful nomics problem. Picture what has filtered into American thought. keyed to "Duz" Hill, Sigma Alpha Sigma. would happen if the government To a large extent the public media are responsible for much Claudia Dunwiddle pinned to ceased to "interfere" with our of this problem; they have exploited a situation under the Ed's Bob Stewart, Sigma Alpha economy in the area of military name of "freedom of the press, but actually in order to sell Sigma. expenses alone? Try the Fed- more copy. I submit that such motion pictures as Sex Kittens' Nancy Hathaway pinned to Bob eral Reserve. What would hap- The Nudist Story' or Love Island' transgress, if nothing Men's Shop pen if that pernicious interfer- else, good taste. The bedroom has been moved into the street Quindlen, Sigma Alpha Sig- for all to watch, and with it sex into the gutter! ence were exercised? ma. Carolyn Hayes pinned to Skip Bob Redman Television commercials are also to blame for their insidious Quality At way of advertising female undergarments and the very Graham, Phi Theta Epsilon, tails of the feminine toilette. Fair Prices Penn State College of Optom- The late James Thurber, on a sleepless night before his etry. 139 So. Broad St. Sandy Willison, Sigma Sigma the Old Timer death, began retitling certain plays to fit modern: thought - this is what he came up with: Grove City, Pa. Sigma, pinned to Tom De- "Ned Macabre's Daughter Dismember Mama "The Grange, Phi Delta Theta, Al- Manic Who Came to Dinner 'The Glands Menagerie" and legheny College. pungently "Oklahomosexual" Let your eye roam over the titles of the paper backs in the newstand: Call Girl Expose, Murder by Twilight, Lovers SWIM SUITS by Hotel, or Sex Was My God, is what you will find. CATALINA and JANTZEN Where do we go from here? I don't know the answer. "You can tell some fellows In summation I submit this statement by the eminent British GROVE CITY STORE aren't afraid of work-by the novelist and scientist, C.P. Snow: way they fight it." 'Unless we clear our eyes, there is not going to be a recognizable future at all" Let's not dig in, let's dig out!