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PAGE TWO THE SPECTRUM Friday, December 1, 1950 ■&S 7 SPECTRUM Official Student Publication of the University of Buffalo Ratmul AdverthngServke, Inc. 4 A O MADISON A v c . NSW YOSK. N . Y. > •o«ro« • L o t A a t i t i t • S * a ffiAacitco Z4M4 Member ftssocided GoUediote Press Oistributor of Golle6iote Di6e^ EDITORIAL BOARD JACK 'KKLLER ..............................................................................Edltor-in-CMet RICHARD C. WALLACE ........................................................ Managing Editor HMANUEL C. SALEMI ........................................................Business Manager KENNETH K. NEWTON ................................................................News Editor KENNETH J. KNEPFLAR ........................................................Campus Editor CHARLBiS PARTRIDGE ...........................................................Feature Editor JOHN R. SHARPE ..........................................................................Sports Editor WILLIAM HICKS ........................................................................Re-wrlte Editor EilLBEN COCKER .................................. Copy Editor GERALD FOX ...........................................' ................... „...Advertlslng Manager DONALD KNOCHE ........................................................ Circulation Manager a further statement . . . In this paper’s last editorial it was the intention to convey to the student body “Where We Stand” as regards editorial policy and interpretation. Evidently this was misconstrued by many interested individuals. This editorial therefore will be dir ected towards a clarification of the position of THE SPECTRUM. The Board of Managers as the elected governing body of the students has the delegated power to direct the use of funds granted by S. A. C. to any student organizations. It was within this power that the board of managers directed that the following three points be the purpose of the new student newspaper: 1. To provide an organ for he presentation to the Univer sity community, information covering all phases of University life and such phases of life outside the University proper as are possesed of interet to the community body: 2. To provide an organ through which student opinion can express itself: 3. To provide a channel for developing leadership among the students. It is the opinion of the editors that the establishment and current interpretation of the policy of THE SPECTRUM be left entirely up to the editorial hoard. Whenever it is felt the Board of Managers or any other group on Campus deserves censure THE SPECTRUM will be the first to champion such a movement. dear mr. brownjohn . . . We are in general agreement with your letter in regards to a fuller newspaper and one \worth the distinction of being the University of Buffalo’s official student publication.’’ However, the goal is not as easily attained as you have indicated in your letter. The Spectrum does not have ALL the funds formerly al located to the Bee and Argus. Actually at this time it has none of the appropriations since the debts of the former newspapers must be first retired before any funds can be finally allocated to us. Because of this “most important” fact it should be ap parent to you that we can not formulate a budget which would include a printer’s contract, photographs or even paper clips. In addition, having lacked a formal name, we have been unable to complete National Advertising Contracts until this issue. ' Your opinion as to the value of the material used is of in terest from the standpoint of student attitudes. However, we recognize the fact, as you must, that no one person will be com pletely satisfied with an entire issue. You state the organization was poor and implore the Spectrum not to become a “half breed paper.” It is not the intent of this newspaper to be a “half breed” but if the former newspapers possessed qualities worth retaining then these attributes will not be disregarded merely because they were formerly used. After all we can’t print upsidedown and backward because it’s new and different.” Certain sound, basic newspaper principles must be retained. 3 a c J l ^ P rofile Things American delight him generally, but when it comes to cooking. Dr. Henri Roddler pre fers his wife’s. And who can blame him? Flench women are known the world over for that inimitable touch that can turn an ordinary dish Into a gourmet’s dream — but when the French woman is al so a domestic science teacher, ooh la la! While Dr. Roddler is a t the Univ ersity of Buffalo this sem ester, as visiting professor of French Lit erature, his wife, Renee, keeps right on preparing his favorite dishes in the kitchenette of their Hotel Stuyvesant apartment, the same as she has always done In Paris. With them is their 14-year -old son, Francois, who is enthus iastic about everything in this country from the skyscrapers to ceramics, which he Is taking up In addition to his other ninth- grade studies at Park School. Dr. Roddler is a member of the faculty of the University of Lyons and also the Sorbonne in Paris, and Mme. Roddler teaches at the Ecole Normale de Filles, the equiv alent of our teachers’ college. In Paris. When they get back to France, Dr. Roddler Is all for hav ing his wife retire. He spends half of each week in Paris, half In Ly ons, and three hundred m iles be tween him and his w'ife —• and all that good cooking — is just too much. His activities in the Underground during the German Occupation, he passes off with a shrug: “It was nothing. Everybody did It.” The “nothing” consisted of sheltering resistance leaders in his apart ment, distributing propaganda, and collecting funds for the resistance movement. He was a teacher at the Lycee Janson de Sallly in Par is at that time. Because their apartm e n t was very near a w ar factory, the Rod- diers sought safer quarters. The building was bombed later, killing many of its occupants. “When it looked like troops might arrive from the South and possible danger for our son In the country, at Arnayle Due, we went to him as fast as possible,” Dr. Roddler reminisced. “Bombings had destroyed train travel, so we went the 200 miles by bicycle. It took us three days. Another time, I made It alone in two days.” “Bicycle travel,” he explained, “was really the safest mode of transportation, since It is much easier to throw down a bicycle and jump for the side of the road than it is to avoid a strafing plane when you are in an automobile. “When the troops finally did ar rive and we were liberated, every one w a s a little sad because the troops w e re French instead of the expected Am ericans. I couldn’t um d erstand It. People are funny.” Dr. Roddler, born in 189^ In Par is tau g h t In th a t city’s elem entary schools during World W ar I, then entered m ilitary service. He was w o u n d ed n e a r Belleau Wood. He later tau g h t a t the Higher School of C o m m erce in. Cairo, Egypt, and at th e U n iversity of Edinburgh, Scotland. - In 1940, he served for a tim e as secretary at the British section of the FVench Ministry of Inform a tion. A fter receiving a fel lowship a t the Centre National de la R e c h e rche Scientlflque la 1946- 1947, he passed his Doctoral es L e ttres in 1948, awarded by the Jury w ith “m ention tres honor able.” At th e U n iversity of Buffalo, Dr. Roddler holds the chair sponsored by the Mrs. Joseph T. Jones Poupd- ation w h ich, since 1932, has en abled th e U n iversity to bring out standing French scholars here for courses and lectures. In addition to tw o courses presented In FVench a t th e U n iversity, Dr. Roddler has been lecturing each W ednesday evening In English on the general topic “A Century of L iterary In tercourse Betw een FVance and Am erica” a t the Albright Art Gallery. Next W e d n e sday’s lecture at 8:15 p. m. a t th e Gallery will conclude the series. All of Dr. Roddler’s lectuires are open to the public w ithout charge. LETTERS TO THE EDITORS Dear Sir: As a result of the dissolution of the ARGUS I was requested to join the staff of the new student publi cation in the capacity of feature editor. I reluctantly accepted the post with hopes that this new pub lication would be, among other things, non-partisan with respect to the two former publications. My hopes were obviously in vain. Through the ill-conceived editorials Stand, you state that the Board of Managers should dictate the policy of this paper. I quote: “That the elected student governing body should dictate the policy of this, the official student newspaper,, is considered by many to be a fitting and proper step in the formation of the paper.” If this is the case, it should logi cally follow that the sentiments ex pressed in the editorials of the first issue reflect the sentiments of the Board of Managers. This seems unlikely considering the fact that the ARGUS was denied funds in a vote by the Board of Managers which resulted in a tie and neces sitated the vote of the President of the Board who in turn cast the deciding ballot. The above mentioned editorial was nothing more than a misguided effort to sling mud at an already “defunct” group. And the alibi that the policy set forth in these editorials is dictated by “the elected student governing body” is nothing more than a dime store jewel to shine in the eyes of the unwary reader. In view of the above situation I find it impossible to continue as feature editor of this paper. Good luck for your future issues. Sincerely yours, RONALD LEY. it is regretable Mr. Ley found his position as feature editor on the Spectrum untenable in this, the formative stage of a nerospaper. His knowledge and understanding of newspaper work would have been a valuable asset. — Ed. Dear Sir: 'Thank you tor the copies of your first edition, which I found In my mailbox Friday afternoon. I wish to commend you for your front page new coverage, for your sports page, and for the elim ina tion (I hope tor good)) of some of the arch columns which gave the Bee the air of a rhapsody by a sub-dob sorority girl chewing the polish off her nails to spice the half-submerged eroticism of her gossip. It was a disappointment to find your editorials so largely devoted to kicking out the teeth of your — to use your phrase —• “now de funct” rival, the Argus (I find no gloating over a defunct Bee). It would have been more reassuring if your Where We Stand had giv en us a thorough and convincing reply to the Argus’ charge that the new press will be a controlled press, and th a t therefore It will not be free. If you are sincerely looking tor the best models for your new pub lication, I believe that you are making the m istake of greatly un derestim ating the Argus’ worth. The Argus started publication the year I came to U. B., and for three years I read both the Argus and the Bee — the Argus always with respect for its m aturity of prose style and for its m anifestation of an I. Q. seldom sinking to the level of the sophomorlc; the Bee seldom without boredom, sometimes with nausea, and often with em b a rrass ment when I considered th a t a college’s newspaper is one Index to the outside world of the Intel ligence of Us student body. Since It seems definite that there will from now on be only one campus paper, I wish you luck. At the same time I want to commend the past staffs of the Argus for their Integrity and vigor, and to recommend that you profit from their example. Sincerely yours, Lyle Glazier P. S. For the title of your paper I hesitantly suggest THE BULL PEN or THE UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO BULL PEN, or pos sibly THE LARIAT. L e tter to the Editor . . . T h e new official stfudent pub lication of the University of Buf falo, w h ich cam e out FViday, No vem b e r 17, was a very disappoint ing piece of journalism. M any of the members of the stu dent body w e re under the Impres sion th a t th e new paper would in corporate the best features of both previous papers, but In effect. It appears th a t It has not success fully achieved th a t goal. Som e of the articles seemed to be m e rely “fill In” articles neces sary to m e e t the publication dead line. T h e size of the paper, print types, and general organization of m a terial w a s also very disappoint ing, I think the paper could be vastly im p roved w ith an increase in sizb and by a g r e a ter variety of story content. If we assume It to be true th a t w ith the abolition of the two previous campus papers you now receive the funds formerly alloted to them , then It appears th a t yo'U have, in the Initial Issue (and m o st Im p o rtant), failed ''to m ake th e m o st of a golden oppor tunity. You could use more photo graphs, especially on the front page and pertinent to a major article, a few good cartoons, some intercollegiate news, much more cam p u s new s (after all, th a t’s the m ain purpose of the paper), frat ernity and sorority news In a sep a r a t e colum n , and a different lo cation for the sports section. You have a t your disposal all tlie m e a n s and advantages neces sary to produce a first rate cam pus paper. You have no competi tion on cam p u s, a greater source of w r iters to choose from, more funds, and an intercollegiate news service. L e t’s not have a half- breed paper whose parents, the BEE and the ARGUS, are dead. L e t’s see you put out an entirely new, different, and vastly Im proved paper, which will be w o rth th e distinction of being the U n iversity of Buffalo’s official student publication.
