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PAGE TWO THE ARGUS The Unwersity o f Buffalo ARGUS Publication Office, Norton Union, University Campus, Buffalo 14, N. Y. The ARGUS is an official publication of the University of Bt^alo written for and by the students. Editor ....................................... Stanley Pfohl Managing Editor . ...........................Herbert Wilkov News Editor.................................................. Howard Leker Feature Editor........................'. .... iG^rge Hartman Sports Editor .............. . ......... , .......... Jiriian D^fRivo Business & Advertising Manager ..... Ted WeSksnar Copy Editor .......................................Seth J. Siskin Circulation Manager .......................................... Bob Frasier Secretary .......... . .................... :. .......... Jeanne Danat Faculty Adviser ........... Dr. Henry Ten Eyck Perry ---- - S t a f f ------- Harvey Resnik, Edward Spector, Mary Alice Smith, Marty Fried, Kenneth Newton, George Hartman, ‘\Robert Weiss, Wilbur Trammel, Stephen Yurano- ') vitch, Hubert Roy, Joseph Tartaro, Herbert Stern, Edward Kopf, Ralph Segman, Paul Killinger, Wil liam Goetzman, Irene O’Connor, Gerald Cohen, Lucille Lewandowski, Harvey Pleskpw, Irwin Gins berg, Jonah D. Margulis, Kenneth Leve, and David Reisman. Without expression, freedom of expression is meaningless. Drop the Brush, Louie... Last week the Buffalo Evening News carried a partial account of the UB Committee for Civil Liberties. In that story it was announced that Mr. Barton Bean and Mr. Theodore Goldberg had been elected as officers of this organization. A few words were quoted from Mr. Bean to outline the aims and purposes for which the Committee was formed. The rest of the story was red baiting—pure and simple. The rest of the story ex plained that Mr. Goldberg had been the last President of the UB Chapter of American Youth for Democracy, better known as A.Y.D. In explaining Mr. Goldberg’s connections with A.Y.D. the Buffalo Evening News went out of its way, it seems to us, to declare that Attorney-General Tom Clark has placed A.Y.D. on the list of organizations which he considers subversive to the welfare of the United States. The ARGUS does not challenge the right of the News to disclose what the Attorney-General of the United States has decided with regard to A.Y.D. The ARGUS does question, however, the ethics of an edit orial policy which apparently seeks to establish an asso ciation between organizations on this campus and an alleged subversive group because of the past activities of one student whose loyalty to his people has been adequately demonstrated in the past war. The ARGUS feels the students on this campus have a right and a duty to complain of a policy which seems bent to portray the members of this University as a set of gullible dupes, all too eager to accept the teachings V. of the first group of subversives who come our way. ^All too often the local newspapers have exhibited an indecent haste to exploit a phoney red issue on this campus, to create what does not exist in reality for the sake of cheap sensationalism or to fulfill a self-assumed role of defender of public morals where no defense is asked or needed. That Mr. Goldberg was once an officer of A.Y.D. can have no bearing on the activities of this campus today, we say. We do not care for red-baiting, we despise it when its target is an institution such as this where the day to day emphasis is upon an inculca tion of democratic principles into its associates. JWe wish the News would put down its paint brush. mm Dear Sir: * It has long been the custom of DB to grarit its full-time em ployees anything up to twelve semester hours tuition, for free, at MJ.C. All that was required was a IS.00 registration fae, plus books and lab fees of course. Ihe rest depraded upon the student’s abil ity to keep up his grades. Sometime in January a resolu tion was passed permitting em ployees only four semester hours on the school. However, until now it has been kept a Jealously guard ed secret Consequently, probably lie poorest paid gro£p of em ployees in these parts, registered for courses not knowing of the new ruling. Now they tell them! Education is a luxury impossible for most of thaaa people on the salaries they receive, but, they arc going to pay for it this semester no matter how great a hardship it works on them.’ No mention of the new ruling was made to them at the beginning ■ of the semester. They are being billed retroactively to the tune of $70.00, or what ever their particular balance might be. I You know what will happen toj their jobs if they squawk, don’t you.? We have no doubt about th( brand of ethics displayed here, buti what about the legality? Can, you sell . a commodity for $5.00 and upon delivery demand twenty times the contract price? Sincerely yours. Interested Student! The Management in the Nor ton cafeteria desires students to leave the cafeteria as soon as possible after eating during the rush hours. POINT OF VIEW By MAB'TY FRIED First Olivet, then Washington, and now the case of the Oregon State College professors. Several weeks ago, R. Spitzer of the Chemistry Department, and L. R. La Vallee of the Economics De partment were fired from their posts at the College for no specific reason (’Time Magazine, March 7). These men wete not charged with inefficiency, unbecoming conduct or anything else. Both were active supporters of Henry Wallace in the last election. Neither was ac cused of membership in the Com munist Party. Neither was accused of anything. When protests began to mount in the form of letters to the local press and student meet ings, the only official statement was made by the President of Oregon State to the effect that Mr. Spitzer had supported the Russian biologist Lysenko’s genetics theo ries and had claimed that they had not been adequately presented in this country. No mention was made of the Economics Professor. Said Presi dent A. L. Strand;\. . .Any scientist who has such poor power of dis crimination as to choose to support Lysenko’s. . .genetics against all the weight of evidence against it, is not much of a scientist, or, a priori, has lost the freedom that an instructor or investigator should possess.” Without discussing the merits of the dispute between those biolo gists of the Lysenko persuasion and their bpponents, this column believes it shbqld certainiy be the democratic rigm>rf...scientists and professors to decide for themselves the correctness of any proffered scientific theories—without fear of recrimination from administrative heads. In the Soviet Union, those men of science who disagreed with Lysenko and the currently “offi cial” biological theories got the axe—both figuratively and literally speaking. Have we reached a simi lar situation, where non-accept ance of the currently, popular views (popular in this country, that is) may lead to loss of liveli hood and general condemnation? This latest action at Oregon State College smacks entirely too much of the brand of totalitarianism currently practised in Russia. Unfortunately, there are many liberals in the country who are in favor of firing from teaching staffs Communist Party members, al though they generally draw the line at firing sympathizers and fellow-travelers, on the theory that the latter are more flexible politically a n d may therefore change their mind without being bound to follow rigid party lines. The argument continues that Com munist Party members violate academic freedom by adhering to the Party line, whicfi originates in totalitarian Russfa. (For a rather complete presentation of this point of view, the reader is referred to Professor Sidney Hook’s article in the New York Times Magazine Section of February 27, 1949.) This argument may seem con vincing to some at first, but fhe joker is this: when you start firing professors from jobs for ideas which you consider reactionary, where do you stop? Cannot this same procedure be applied to pro fessors with religious beliefs that conflict with the majority’s ideas? Should, for example, a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses be barred from entering an academic career? If our schools are really per forming their function, then they should be turning out students (Continued'on Page 4, Column 1) ELECTRON ’SCOPE SEES INVISIBLE INCREASES UB’s SCIENCE POTENTIAL By SETH SISKIN Can you imagine what one inch divided into more than 10 million parts would look like?'Or better still, Can you imagine seeing something that was ho longer than a few of those super sub-divisions of that inch? It can be done and it has been done—right here on the UB cam pus, too. What kind of instnunent will do that, you may ask. The answer is—an electron microscope. The new electronic marvel is a product of the Radio Corporation of America. Dismantled, it arrived at the University last-fall and only recently was assembled and tested. It occupies an enclosed 8’ by 10’ corner in a room in the basement of Foster Hall and at present is being used by a research techni cian from a well-known industrial firm located in Buffalo. The in strument was purchased for ap proximately $15,000 and is of the latest type. ’The name “electron microscope” comes from the fact that electrons in their “free” state produce a form of radiation similar t o the radiation of light. We can see light because its waves are just the right length for die structures in our eyes. Extra long “light” waves are radio waves and infra-red waves. Extra short “light” waves are the untraviolet, the X-rays and also the electron waves. ’These extremely short electron waves are able to detect extremely small particles of matter — smaller par ticles than can be detected by the longer light waves. Therefore the electron microscope is called that because it uses electron waves to magnify just as a light microscope uses light to magnify. ’This is what it .looks like. The entire mechanism is six feet high, about four feet' long, and about two feet wide.' In Ae extreme rear of Ae instrument is an enclosed box, which takes up about half of Ae total area of Ae microscope. In Ais is electrical equipment which converts the regular 110 volt alternating cur rent into Ae high-voitage 50,000 volts current needed to operate Ae microscope. ’The front half of the machine is composed of ^ ’tall, narrow Abe, 6 or 8 Aches A di ameter, (which corresponds A Ae barrel of an optical microscope), an instrument panel, and an en closed mercury vacuum pump. Auxiliary equipment includes a floor model vacuum pump which is connected to Ae Abe. At Ae extreme top of Ae barrel or Abe is a tungsten filament which emits electrons travelling 70.000 miles per second when Ae 50.000 volts is turned on. Because these electrons are deflected by collisions wxA atoms such as Aose . A air, Ae entire portion of the barrel must be a complete vacuum. ’That is Ae purpose of Ae two vacuum pumps. WiA a total ab sence of air, Ae stream of elec trons from Ae filament is focused on Ae specimen by a magnetic coil “lens” which corresponds to Ae substage lens of an optical microscope. The specimen, mount ed on a thA plastic film about millionAs of an inch thick, is penetrated by Ae electron beam and Ae beam passesJietween two more xna^etic coil **Ienses*’ wliosc Atensity can be varied so Aat Ae image of Ae specimen can be en larged to 20,000 diameters and. be in sharp focus. This enlarged im age is dAected to a' fluorescent screen, which stops Ae electrons and hiAerto unknown details of a specimen can be seen wiA Ae naked eye. By photographing Ae unage and. by suitable photogra phic enlargement, an Atra - tAy portion of Ae specimen can be TWO CAMPUS PAPERS: By PAUL E. KILUNGEB I strongly believe in the worth of two separate UmverSlty of Buf falo newspapers. And Aough I be lieve this way, I do not Aink such a beiief shouid a biind one. What Aen are Ae reasons behind such a belief? I. ) The physical space in one newspaper is always limited. Re gardless of a paper’s policy of liberalism or non-liberalism, it may often leave out worAwhile news and columns because of limi tations of space. II. ) The mere existence of two newspapers A any locality makes Aem competitors of one or an other sense. An isolated news paper may honestly believe it prints all Ae news Aere is, but all trite pAases of Ae freedom of the press put aside, it will be seen Aat a sAgle newspaper just does not print all Ae news. Competi tion is Ae real guardian of free dom of Ae press. HI.) The Umversity of Buffalo is a large and progressive school. To really believe Aat one news paper can mimster to Ae needs of ail students is to be blAd to the reality of individuai differences. The BEE is a very good paper from the viewpoint of the groups and ideas to which it caters. And the same must be said of the ARGUS. The ARGUS policy is a wide one, and it seeks to make its columns available to all stodents. The ARGUS, Tm sure, is the type of newspaper Aat is as much an open forum as it is a NEWSpaper. This should be a function of ail newspapers. rV.) Adividual viewpoints are as much a part of the news of the world as is Ae latest disgustAg attempt of a group of SouAemers to lynch a Negro. ■V.) There is oniy partial democ racy being expressed when Ae Board of Managers sets up only alternatives for vote by students in the forAcoming referendum. The point is, as I see it, Aat freedom of expression should be encour aged. If Norton Umon is Aort of Ands for support of two papers, why not draw from oAer sources of which Ae Book Store might be an example. ’There is noAAg so precious as Ae right to express opinions freely. I do Aerefore Aink it is to Ae advantage of Ae Umversity of Buffalo to continue boA the ARGUS and the BlA. An institution the size of Ais one can certainly find funds to support these two papers, if it values free dom of expression as it Aould A a democracy. VI.) And Aat brings me to my final argument. Ateresting news to one person is Acer boredom to anoAer person. Editorial policies differ among different newspapers. Therefore, A order to bring Ae varied news Aat interests a varied student body we defimtely need two papers. If sAdents are NOT to remain apaAetic and are to ex press AeA views, Aey must have ADEQUATE means of expression. I am sure Aere are many oAer reasons for two newspapers on Ae campus of Ae Umversity of Buf falo. I have tried only to express my own ideas, and have Aereby paUaken of some of Ae freedom of expression of wAA I speak. It (Continued on P.go 4 , Column 4 ) | (Continued on Page 4, Column 2)
