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PAGE TWO THE ARGUS The UnivCTsity of Buffalo ARGUS Publication Office, Norton Union, University Campus, Buffalo 14, N. y. The ARGUS is an official publication of the University of Buffalo written for and by the students. Editor ......... . ........................................ Stanley Pfohl Managring Editor J. ...................................... Herbert Wilkov News Editor ............................ Howard Leker Feature Editor...............................George Hartman Sports Editor ......................... Julian D. Rivo Business & Advertising Manager ..... Ted Weiksnar Copy Editor .....................................Seth J. Siskin Circulation Manager ............................. Bob Frasier 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 Pleskow, Irwin Gins berg. Jonah D. Margulis, Kenneth Leve, David Reisman, and Henry Braun. \ Without expression, freedom of expression is meaningless. POINT OF VIEW By MAKTY FRIED Seek and Ye Shall Find Today is the first day of Religious Emphasis Week on the UB Campus, and the theme which has been selected is “The Students Responsibility in the Modern World.” You, the students of UB are offered an inter esting religious program through the efforts of the Ex ecutive Committee, which is composed of the heads of the various Religious groups on Campus. Each student is asked to take advantage of this I)rogram. This Executive Committee is concerned with our spiritual education. We certainly should be con cerned with our own spiritual education. Our religious responsibility is not ended with a weekly effort once a year. The Religious Executive Committee does not in tend that we shall be satisfied with a one week effort. Religious Emphasis Week is an invitation to accept our Religious responsibility. It is just the beginning in what should be a continuous educational process. Religious responsibility is not a mimeographed list of rules. Partially it is a bond which exists between all people who believe in Diety. When we expressed our belief in a Divine Power, we also accepted a religious responsibility. If we reject that responsibility we are rejecting Diety. Each of us must determine our reli gious responsibility and may do so if we appeal to the Divine Power and seek the guidance of our religious advisors. “SEEK AND YE SHALL FIND ” Monday Morning Wash By HERB WILKOV The air is loaded with election fever and the candidates are vying for favor. Oliver Swansworth wants to improve the cafeteria, Minerva Pious wants to bring back some of that old time religion. But, let’s face it, do they tell us how? , Nah! Here is the platform I’d run under, if only to get out of the rain. If any of our hustling politi cians can meet these planks, I’ll vote for them all day. 1. Cafeteria—First, I’d release all the women in the cafeteria at n pension of twice their present salary so that they’d have enough to live on, all except the two cashiers for whom I reinain totally admirationless. Then I’d hire all the losers of the Miss America contest for counter work, savip^ Miss America for cashier so that the line would move. Their uni forms would be grass skirts well mowed. The food prices would be halved and the portions doubled. Not only that, but as a special offer to sandwich customers, free lettuce. 2. The sub-basement mess would be converted to a cocktail lounge with free sleeping accommodations for those who can’t make it home. The lounge would feature 5c beers and 25c double bourbons. As en tertainment, an accordian player- would play such soft lilting melo dies as “As Time Goes By” and “Who Cares.” Hostesses are pro vided for consolation and retreat. 3. Latrines — Will be decorated with pictures by Varga, some select remarks and appropriate sayings punctuated by “depend able” names and telephone num bers. This project is designed to appeal to the esthetic and save certain imaginative artists the trouble of creating art only to be erased by the janitors. 4. Co-ed dorms—As long as we sit in classes together, I see no reason why students of both sexes cannot live in the same dorms and get to know each other better. This setup would do much to increase the enrollment and would save many needless telephone calls re sulting in much time saved for such luxuries as studying. 5. Instructor ratings—Any in structor failing more than 4 % of a class shall be tried by two mem bers of the faculty, two students and me. If due cause cannot be shown for this cold blooded act. the defendant will be required to take a course in statistics., A sec ond offense is punishable by hav ing to listen to a recording of their lectures to be played ten times. A plea of mercy shall be taken into consideration by the court. Tliis array of planks is a mere sample of what we can do to im prove ol’ BU. A vote for me is a vote for corruption, vice, lethargy, and do nothing. My spitoon is in the ring. Spit where you see the X. — UB —** Veteran students who first registered at LTB in January of this year may now pick up their $25. deposit refunds at Hayes 139. Secretary of. Defense James Forrestal is vacating his office shortly. In one of his last state ments in an official capacity, he lifted the lid, after three ye;ars of secrecy, on the subject of biologi cal warfare. In early 1946, a report drawn up by George W. Merck, chemical manufacturer, told of preparations that were made dur ing the last war for the eventual jMDSsibility of germ warfare — ex pected to be initiated, of course, by the Axis powers. (The United States was content with the atom bomb for the time being.) This rer port, which was issued by the War Department, created a tremendous amount of public discussion—need less to add that the picture of germ-filled missiles being dropped on civilian populations did not go over too well with the general public so soon after the conclusion of World War II. But three years have elapsed since then, three years' of cold' war and hot verbal battles on both sides. In this country during the last three years, we have seen in creased military preparations, peacetime universal conscription for the first time in the country’s history, and the nation’s scientists engaged in research on newer and more efficient methods of destruc tion. Why then, was the report withdrawn in 1§46, only to be re leased now? The answer should be rather clear. In 1946, the memory of the gigantic blood-letting was still too fresh in the minds of the American people—in 1949, . that memory* has become somewhat dulled. The War Department ap parently feels that the time is ripe for the people to be told of its recent—and still horrifying re search—in the field of biological warfare. Accordingly, the chief of the Army Chemical Corps, Major Gen eral Alden H. Waitt stated that the United States was “as far ad vanced as any^nation in the world” in the study of germ-warfare possibilities, and probably “ahead.” (All quotations taken from the N.Y. TIMES, March 13,1949.) As modest as most U. S. generals, he continued: “I think we have the best scientists in the world work ing on this problem. At the end of World War II, we were far ahead of any of our enemies.” The General stated that he had no doubt of the “practicability” of ths type fo warfare. What the General means by “practicability” is elucidated—: a food poison, technically ' labelled Clostridium botulinum, non - technically la belled the “most poisonous thing known to man” may be placed into water mains by saboteurs; under the “right” conditions, one ounce of the toxin could kill ap proximately 150,000,000 people. Secretary Fprrestal’s statement on re-publication of the sup pressed report, made clear that it had been withdrawn originally be cause of the \exaggerations” and unduly spectacular articles that were being written about it at the time. But General Waitt’s above remarks are the rather under played comments issued the same day as Forrestal’s statements. And so the struggle against totalitarian Russia goes on—a new weapon is forged in the name of democracy—a weapon that does not destroy factories, airports, or military bases, but rather, live stock, poultry, food, farm crops—' and human beings. Campus Comments Patronixe Our Advertisers By KENNETH NEWTON QUESTION: Are you in favor of the awarding of athletic scholar ships at the University of Buffalo? Hugh Metzger, B. A.. ’51; Yes, if those receiving the scholarships have a high scholastic standing. A few scholarships would bring no financial drain on the treasury and would give us a good athletic team as well as give a good athlete a chance to get a college education. Mary Price, Nursing: Yes and no. It really depends on the case. If a student majors in Phys. Ed., it’s all right. But if someone is a science-major and gets a scholarship merely because he or she is a good athlete it would be carrying the thing too far. If it adds to the prestige of the school by getting a good team, I would say, YES. But if it proves to be a loophole for students who otherwise have shown no justifi cation for obtaining a scholarship or even a college education at all, definitely: NO. Paul Flierl, A&S, ’49: Yes; with a professional program in physical education fully organ ized it is only logical that athletic scholarships should become a fea ture of the University’s policy. The gain for varsity athletics which this would bring about would be merely a necessary by-product of the gains to the physical education school itself. Robert Popper, A&S, ’50: The main function of a univer sity is to provide scholastic educa tion. It is true that sports should be encouraged and in some cases help to create a better community spirit. However, in a university like ours, where there is already a shortage of funds for purely scholastic purposes, scholarships for sports should not be given. To be sure, I am not against them to athletes, but sports should not be the requisite. James Farber, Eng., ’50: I believe, that our University with its high standing can afford to give athletic scholarships even if it should mean that a few stu dents with a lower scholastic average get a chance to get a col lege education. The total average of the student body could not pos sibly be lowered by that! Joan Snyder, B. A., ’50: That is really very hard to say. If such a program is started to any larger extent, I am afraid that it will lower the scholastic average of the student body. On the other side\ it is very important for the students’ pride that our school gets good teams in all major sports. If this can only be achieved by giving athletic scholarships, I believe that it should be tried. Robert S. Kurtz, A&S, ’50: No! Although it would probably make the University of Buffalo a ‘name’ school, in doing so, it might decrease the high scholastic stand ing which it has retained over the years. At present, taking all things into consideration, I strongly feel that the subsidizing of Athletics would hurt the happy medium be, tween athletic and scholastic ac complishments which our school has reached. I feel this way in spite of the fact that I participate, and strongly believe in sports of all kinds. ROSE SPEAKS ON STUDENT GOVT By HENRY ROSE > Students are a part of and as necessary as the faculty or ad ministrative officers are to a uni versity. To you, who spare the few moments necessary to read this piece, the above statement probably appears to be beyond question. And yet it 1 b only in re cent years and the result of much effort, that student bodies are gaining their due recognition, as partners in a joint enterprise. The process is a gradual one. An obsolete, now democratic, means of selecting student leaders, such as the use of a nominating committee, is likely to make the gaining of proper recognition more remote. This is one of the reasons why I have worked so hard during the past year to remove the power, of nominating members of the Board of Managers, from a small closed committee room and to place that important power in the' hands of all students. My effort?\ were the subject of, many com- ments of which the most common was that I placed too much faith in the average student. I did not agree then and am still uncon vinced on that point. Equality of opportunity is a basic element of any concept of democracy. Many persons, including a sur prising number of so-called stu dent leaders maintain that we stu dents cannot do anything about such problems as the bookstore, cafeteria, etc. This is true only to the extent that an individual member of our student governing board cannot, usually, accomplish very much, no matter how good his intentiop;s. But, if an active group of ' student leaders were elected to|^ the Board, of Managers with a mandate to adopt a speci fied forward-looking program, I feel sure that they would find that the liberal atmosphere of our uni versity provides fertile ground for the seeds of student initiative. This in brief in my opinion is the fundamental reason for the formation of the Committee for Active Student Government. Student Apathy is the result of concurrent causes, not the least important of which are inertia on the part of the individual student and lack of stimulation by the stu dent government. Let’s remedy both: Vote on election day; vote for active student government. — UB — All veteran students who expect to graduate this June should no tify Veteran Bursar Office (Hayes 139) in order that the $10 gradua tion fee be attached to their train ing vouchers. Problem o f Farm Labor Discussed “Some Aspects of The Political, Social, and Economic Problems of Migratory Farm Workers” was the topic for discussion at the last meeting of the Economics Club. The discussion period was opened with a short but comprehensive address by Mr. Kaufman of the UB Economics Department. Mr. Kaufman, who formerly was a government economist assigned to the Farm Security Board, pre sented the thesis that these m ina tory workers are actually \second- class” citizens. His airmg of the problems con cerning this particular aspect of the general field of Agriculture, was particularly enlightening be cause at present, there is no course offered in the Economics Depart ment which is devoted to the economics of Agriculture. The next meeting of the Econo mics ClubrwUl be held Thursday, March 24, 7:30 P.M. at Norton Hall. The discussion period at this meeting will he based on a debate /between four members of the De bating Club on the TAFT-HA^T- UBY la w . All those interested are urged to attend.
