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PAGE TWO THE ARGUS The Univcndty of Buffalo ARGUS Publication Office, Norton Union, University Campus, Buffalo 14, N. Y. Tlie ARGUS is an officied publication of the University of Buffalo written for and by the students. Editor.............................................................Stanley Pfohl Managing Editor . .......................... Herbert Wilkov News Editor..........................................Howard Leker ' Feature Editor^ ............... ; .................. David Reisman Sports Editor.....................................Julian D. Rivo Business & Advertising Manager ..... Ted Weiksnar Copy Editor .......... ............................ Seth J. Siskin Circulation Manager...........................................Bob Frasier Secretary ........................................................ Jeanne Danat Faculty Adviser ........... Dr. Henry Ten Eyck Perry ------ Staff------- Harvey Resnik, Edward Spector, Mary Alice Smtih, Marty Fried, Kenneth Newton, George Hartman, Robert Weiss, Wilbur Trammel, Stephen Yurano- vitch, Hubert Roy, Joseph Tartaro, Herbert Stern, Edward Kopf, Ralph Segman and Bob Prouty. Without expression, freedom of eiqpression Is meaningless. No Seduction For Us! If ever UB was provided with clinching evidence why the campus newspapers should not be merged, and why if there must be but one newspaper on this campus it should not be the tabloid down the hall, last Friday’s edition of the BEE provided that evidence. ;\Ve refer you to that prize piece of journalism which appeared on the first page, third column of that day’s BEE. Under a heavy black headline the BEE informed the world, “Voters To Elect Shapely Darling For Prom Queen.” The second sentence of the story’s second para graph went on to say, “Due to the insufficient number of candidates for the honor there will be no voting this year and all five candidates will be judged next Friday night by six impartial judges.” After telling readers to “see the ARGUS next Monday for details” (!) the next sentence told us where and when to vote for the Prom Queen who will be picked by judges! Then we are told that the three winners chosen by the student election will be introduced on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. This will be a neat trick. But we doubt if it can be done inasmuch as time moves forward and not backwards, and those judges don’t go to work until this Friday night. Actually the ARGUS is sure that UB students see through this muddle as presented by the BEE. We are sure they surmised that we will not vote for the Prom Queen. ’The ARGUS believes, however, that the inexcus ably sloppy manner in which the BEE handled this not too-complicated story indicates the validity of the edi torial in the last issue of the ARGUS. That editorial said we believed the BEE was experiencing difficulties in meeting its weekly schedule. The ARGUS is sure of it now. In rei eply to editorial of last Monday, Mr. Hinckley, present '^ditor-in-Chief” of the BEE, chided us for stressing the utterances of two former “Editor-in-Chiefs” of the BEE, saying that things are different these days. This we doubt. We are sure you see why. The ARGUS holds to the belief that a campus news-, paper should publish news and articles of interest to its readers. The ARGUS believes there should be no arbi trary standard of publication except interest-value to the people on this campus, public morality and reason able facility with the English language. We believe that opinions must express ideas that are worth your consi deration : we follow no “party line” in making decisions here. When it comes to reporting news events, whether the news be of the activities of our campus fraternities or the doings of the UN, and both have a place in our newspaper, it must be news, and the reports must be correct. For these reasons we oppose merger with the BEE. CAMPUS BRIEFS A gold key with initials O.TdI. engraved on the back baa been turned in to the Engineering office in the Engineering Building. Ibe owner may claim it there. TO Joseph B. English, supervising labor mediator of the Buffalo Re gional Office of the State Board of Mediation, will address the stu dent body of the University of Buffalo and the Society for the Advancement of Management, on Tuesday at 8 pan. in Morton Hall. Mr. Englirfi will q>eak on *Vedi- atioa and 8jWtrafion Taehaitpies.” ■■•i\ ' '.v. Hillel is holding its Hearth Hour Tuesday, March 2 at 8 pjn. at the home of Miss Rose Kloner, 44 Traymore Ave. The topic of dis cussion wiil be “Israel Holds Elec tions.” hfr. David Reifer, promi nent in local Zionist activities, will lead the discussion. UB The UB Personnel Office has in formation concerning Civil Service openings for Technical Writers, Physicists and Engineers. Salaries range from $3727 to 6235 per an num Interested parties should consult the Civil Service Bulletin Board in the Personnel Office in Hayes Hall. POINT OF VIEW By MARTY FRIED “Look,” said George as we swung into the cafeteria line in Norton, “why bother with that Civil Liber ties issue now, anyway? We aren’t faced with any problems here on campus .now, nor are we likely to be. If you must concern yourself with political matters, why don’t you say something about lowering the prices in the cafeteria or about turning the* bookstore into a co-op? Those are problems that directly concern the students — more so than a lot of generalized and vague declarations in favor of civil lib erties.” George, of course, had appoint and I told him so. Vague general izations are easily enough made. '■But it seems to me,”. I said, “that at the present time the whole question of civU liberties is inti mately tied up with the more spe cific problem of academic freedom and that is a question that directly concerns the student body of any academic institution.” George is not a man easily put off—and this time was no excep tion. “You know we have one of the most liberal administrative setups of any university in the country. Our professors have never complained about being restricted in what they wanted to say — the student press has been allowed to print anything it pleases — and there have been no restrictions whatever on campus organizations. Why then, do you want to even talk about civil liberties as a “problem?” For once I waSj glad that the cafeteria line wasj moving at its usual pace. “Yojj’re right, of course,” I replied, i“when you say that in its liberal traditions, UB is probably second to none. But for the first time in this country we are being faced with problems of academic freedom on a rather large scale. But we here cannot remain complacent and indifferent to what is occurring in other uni versities. Do you really believe. George, that we can remain as an island of academic freedom while the waves of reaction threaten on all sides?” “Well, I don*t know about any threatening waves, but if you’re referring to the couple of Com munist professors who were kicked out of their jobs recently, I don’t mind telling you that Tm opposed to any kind of totalitarianism. But look here, wasn’t it you that I heard the other day condemning the Mindszenty trial as a frameup and talking about slave labor in Russia?” “Now weVe getting closer to the point,” I answered. “Sure, I am agrainst frameup trials and slave labor. And -what’s more, I believe the ideas and methods of the Com munist Party to be as totalitarian as .Hitler’s. But we’re getting to a pretty sad state when university professors can be fired for their political opinions. Think back into history and ask yourself if you would have considered firing from their university posts such men as Kant or Hegel because you dif fered with them politically? The list can be indefinitely extended. Are college students so incapable of analyzing the ideas of their in structors that they can be so easily misled? But it iin’t merely a ques tion of a “couple of Communist professors” out in Wadiington. In the Olivet case, for example, that you read about in the ARGUS last week, the faculty members: that were fired included a promi nent member of the Sodalisl Party and liberals of varying degrees. And these professors were fired 172 Vandervoort Street North Tonawanda, N. Y. February 20, 1949 University of Buffalo Buffalo, New York Dear Editor: I read with interest your review of JOAN OF ARC in the February 7th issue of the ARGUS. It seems to me that, in this particular in stance, you were a little harsh on Hollywood. According to my read ing of the historical records con cerning Joan and her trial, the movie version was fairly accurate. Have you been reading Shaw’s preface to SAINT JOAN lately? He would agree with you perfect ly, especially in regard to Cauch- on, whom you seem to feel Holly wood has maligned. The facts about Cauchon would appear to be these. He received his wealth and honor from the English; therefore he wished the English to be victorious. Joan was seriously interfering with the suc cess of the English army; accord ingly, Cauchon wished to get rid of her. I list a few of the positions which Cauchon held from the English. 1. He was made ecclestical peer of the realm by favor of, Philippe le Bon who was present at his investiture. 2. He followed Henry V to Paris. 3. He was an executor of the will of Charles VI, and counselor of Henry VI with a salary of 1,000 iivres. 4. He was guardian of the privy seal in the absence of the chan cellor. 5. He fled from Beauvais with the English at the advance of the French to that place, .and the En glish indemnified him for the loss of his revenues. ■6. He was placed in charge of special missions, one of which was the trial of Joan. You speak with scorn of the ar rest of the priest who had spoken against the method of conducting the trial of Joan. But one girl in Paris was burned because she had dared to defend the Maid. One priest, who defended her a little later said: “On account of these things and many others, the En glish and their officers threatened me terribly; so that, had I not kept silence, they would have thrown me into the Seine.” On the whole, I feel that Holly wood treated Cauchon and War wick, the representative of the English, with admirable restraint. Very truly yours, Patricia Petrie. only because they differed with the newly-installed administration politically. But we don’t have to go so far from home. Remember the Dushane case right here in Buffalo last year — that phoney ‘sick leave* Miss Dushane was given, because she gave some stu dents the newspaper, ‘PM’ and made some comments\ in class that were at the worst ‘question able’? In totalitarian states, it’s to be expected that opinions that do not jibe with the administration’s whether it be the administration of a university or of the state, subject the person who expresses them to reprisals. But that’s pre cisely what you’re supposed to be against.” “OK,” said George, “but what can we here at UB do about all this stuff?” “Just this,” I replied. “We can voice our protest against any arbi trary dismissals for political opin ions anywhere they are made after a proper in\.^g«tlon «f the ease. Passion Play Here For 3 Week Stand Headed by Josef Meier and a cast of 100 players, the original Passion play came to Buffalo for a three-week engagement last Wed nesday. Depicting the story of the last seven days in the life of Christ, the 22-scene production covers the triumphal entry into Jerusalem through the Crucifixion and the Ascension. Josef Meier, who portrays the Christus, is the seventh generation in his family to play this most difficult role during the past 200 years. The role of Mary the Mother is played by Clare Hume Meier, in private life Mrs. Meier. Brought to Buffalo by the Ki- wanis Club, the play has completed a tour of the West Coast, where record breaking audiences saw and acclaimed the age - old Biblical di’ama. Reserved seat tickets for all per- fomances are on sale at the Er- langer Theatre box office, and stu dent tickets for the March 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 and 9 performances are avail able at the lobby counter of Nor ton Hall. A POME? By JEANNE DANAT I gazed upon her lovely form, so cool She beckoned, I heard and gave myself to such welcome relief. Looking back g\iiltily I though, how could I deface her— Her so trusting But what has to be, has to be. Woof! And on to another fire hydrant. There will be a meeting of the ARGUS staff on Wednesday at 3:30 in the ARGUS office. naturally. We can educate all of our fellow students in the neces sity of maintaining our liberal standards and academic freedom here. And we can be prepared to oppose any violations in the fu ture. Next week Wednesday for example, the PIC is going to dis cuss the Olivet situation. Why don’t you come down?” George promised he would as we reached the salad coxmter.
