West Virginia University - Monticola Yearbook (Morgantown, WV)

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Students Speaking Out A University education has as its primary purpose the role of preparing a nation ' s youth to assert their individual talents in planning for its future growth; however, a more important function is the learning process it involves in allowing each of us to discover ourselves in the context of an ever-changing environment. — Rose Ann Ferrelli political science senior Partly due to the press, the word discrimination has taken on bad connotations. Discrimination seems to be more related to bra-burning and anti-femininity than to the fact that there are very relevant areas where women need to be equalized with men. — Margaret Mastalerz AWS president The parlies arc the real killers. The social parties, that is. You know the kind. Stray beasts ramming you in the chest because you ' re supposed to be a rising political star. Handshakes that jar your shoulder joints. Watered down drinks. The scent of cheap cologne drowned out by the scent of cheaper sweat. A cheap smell for a cheap affair. . . . Nothing is more pathetic than a young and enterprising college student doing his best to imitate his elders. Nothing is more pathetic than a hack in the making. Drink at the right time. Laugh at the right time. Wear a phony grin. Sell your goddamned soul! And sell mine right along with it! . . . You see, it will be these types who make it politically. It will be they who thirty years from now will be paying lip service to human misery. It will be they who perpetuate a god-awful existence for thousands of West Virginians. And they ' ll smile that cheap smile, drink that cheap drink, and smell that cheap smell the whole damn time. — Peter Kalis student body president Mr. Charlie is my shepherd, I shall not want He maketh me to deceive my brothers He leadeth me to imperialistic universities He leadeth me in the paths of mass demonstration Yea though I walk through the paths of oppression I shall fear no pig, for Charlie is with me He prepareth a table for me in the presence of racists He anointeth my head with anti-nap hair straighteners My Eldorado tank runneth over Surely American slavery will follow me all the days of m oppressed life. And I shall dwell in the urban ghetto forever . . . Amen. — Phil Mack blacks editor I ' m sick to death of the emphasis on unimportant things in our society. Black lights, sports cars, holiday cruises, and the finest champagne available are absurdly trite. How can you dare worry about getting your dime back in the phone booth when hundreds of families so close to this University are starving and cold? — Beverly Ammar public relations These days it has become commonplace to cruelly criticize others ' attitudes, ideas, and lifestyles. Apparently, respect for the feelings of one ' s fellow man has disappeared. Ho pefully, our generation will not only learn to tolerate one anothers ' views; but more importantly, through honest discourse between those persons having conflicting beliefs, our generation will be able to solve the myriad of problems facing us. — Tom Tinder third year law student

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SPEAK OUT You ' re lucky I didn ' t choose Memories of ' 72 or That Was the Year That Was for the theme of the 1972 Monticola. Not that I ever would have seriously considered anything so trite, but I did almost stick you with To Our Children ' s Children Children. (Wouldn ' t that have pleased the Moody Blues?) But I decided that that theme was unworkable journalistically and terribly irrelevant. Speak Out just came as a brilliant brainstorm . . . something like what Sir Isaac Newton must have had when he came upon gravity. The more I thought about it and discussed it with my staff, the better I liked it. Sooner or later you ' re going to have to . . . speak out, that is. You take your daily dose of frustration, prejudice, and disappointment, so you ' re entitled to something besides sulking. Speaking out isn ' t the gift of all, but expression wears many robes. Perhaps Express Thyself might have worked out better as a theme. Signs, graffiti, actions, lack of action — all express something about you. Now there ' s an interesting point. Lack of action, not expressing thyself, is a fairly clear indication of where you stand. Silence isn ' t golden, my dear fellow student; it ' s agreement. You ' re giving your OK to the status quo. Now if that ' s where you stand, fine; if not, however, you ' d better get your carcass out of the cor- ner and express thyself. Thank goodness, I ' m somewhat encouraged that the death of apathy is coming to campus. Some of you are beginning to speak out in classes, circulate petitions, join interest groups, and even write to your congress- man. But we have so far to go! As of January 1972 WV-SPIRG is having to bend over backwards for support; well-qualified students are being turned away from graduate and professional schools because they are women; our students are being discriminated against with high rent and ridiculously expensive clothing; and our coeds cannot even feel safe walking from the Library to their rooms. So what are you doing about it? Sitting around waiting for it to come closer to home? Do you have to be ac- costed on Willey Street or thrown out of your apartment to start speaking out? It ' s too late then. Now is the time. The D.A. is co-operative; so are the hundreds of political interest groups. Start a group yourself. Rap with people about your gripe. Set it up. Stick to yourself. Truck on. Speak out! — Beverly Ammar editor-in-chief

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This campus will not have a real student government until first, a majority of students realize we don ' t have one now, and sec- ondly, students begin to speak out and unify. Until this happens we will continue to have a student administration, not govern- ment, another controlled arm of the University administration. . . . The problem of government of the past is a failure to follow through. I ' ve learned you can ' t let down, you can ' t give in when you face the opposition. You can ' t make a lot of promises that look good on paper and then forget why the students elected you. — Dave Kostelansky speaker of Student Legislature Others Speaking Out If peaceful revolution is made impossible then violent revolution is made inevitable. — John F. Kennedy In peace children bury their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children. — Herodotus Common Sense will tell you that the power which hath endeavored to subdue us is of all others the most improper to defend us. — Thomas Paine And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am un- grateful to those teachers. — Kahlil Gibran Making jazz swing in seventeen syllables AIN ' T no square poet ' s job. — Etheridge Knight One more song about movin ' along the highway: Can ' t say much of anything that ' s new. If I could only work this life out my way . . . — Carole King Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. — Proverbs 26: 4. By leaning on someone you love, you help to hold them up. — Rod M Kuen I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged b) the color of their skin but by the content of their character. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beauti- ful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pra together, to struggle together, to go to jail to- gether, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. — Martin Luther King. Jr.