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Youth Requires Vote
JACKIE SNYDER
The Daily Collegian,
Penn State
A few weeks ago, State
Sen. Albert R. Pechan of Ford
; City, the Republican whip, an
nounced that he would intro
duce in the legislature a pro
posed amendment to the State
Constitution which would low
er the age required for voting
in the Commonwealth from 21
to 18.
For the amendment to go
into effect it would have to be
approved by two sessions of
the legislature and by the
voters.
Four states already have a
voting age lower than 21. In
Georgia (admittedly a poor
example for anything- and
Kentucky, 18 - year - olds
may vote. In Alaska, the re
quired is 19 and Hawai, 20.
In my opinion, 18 - year -
olds are old enough to have a
voice in the affairs of ' their ;
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gued that if government ,
officials can order teenagers
to defend their country, then
teenagers should have a right
to say who those government
officials are.
But without resorting to that
argument, there is a lot to be
said for lowering the voting
age. As Sen. Pechan said, "It's
not only by belief that if
you're old enough to fight you
are old enough to vote!
teenagers are smarter today
and take a much greater in
terest in Government and pub
lic affairs."
There is a need for an in
formed electorate today (as
evidenced by the results of re
cent gubernatorial elections
in places like California and
Alabama), and most high
school and college students are
better informed about election
issues and candidates than
their parents are if only be
cause they have been forced
to learn about them by civics
teachers.
It seems, too, that students
are often more interested than
their elders in elections. This
summer, I spent ten weeks
working for a county political
organization where one of my
duties was to direct volun
teers. Ironically, most of the
volunteers were high school
and college students who
were "too young" to vote, but
who were interested enough
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to want to take some part in
the electoral process.
College age students are ca
pable st choosing their lead
ers. They are perhaps better
suited than their elders to
make an unbiased decision
based solely on the issues and
candidates involved.
Most of them haven't as yet
formed strong biases which
would cause them to vote
against someone because he is
a divorcee or a Catholic or
doesn't give enough money
to the Jewish charities. A
number of them probably do
not realize that if you live in
Community A and want to
succeed socially you'd better
register the same way as ev
erybody else or maybe
they're too independent to
care. A lot of young people
wouldn't be duped into in
noring the absence of a con
crete discussion of issues by
a. confession of love for apple
,'pie mother and the flag.
'Aritf'fchere's anotlier ansle to
the argument for lowering the
voting age especially in
Pennsylvania. Many 18-year-olf
high school graduates need
jobs, and since state and lo
cal governments employ ap
proximately 400,000 people in
Pennsylvania, one would think
the government would be a
good source of jobs for re
cent high school grads.
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Of UNC-Basketba
To The Editor:
I am writing to take excep
tion to Dennis Sanders' edi
torial in Thursday's Tar Heel.
Mr. Sanders apparently does
not understand the nature of
sport when he complains that
"basketball has lost her vir
ginity." Spectator sports (with a
few exceptions) depend for
survival upon attendance re
ceipts. If fans stopped com
ing, the sports would die.
Therefore, it is impossible to
describe or discuss a game
without considering the spec
tators. In the past decade or so,
the great sports in America
(football, basketball, and ice
hockey) have evolved into
something more than a sim
ple athletic contest. Specta
tors actively enter into the
spirit of the game, as anyone
who has ever been to a Caro
lina basketball game can at
test. Their response can influ
ence the outcome of a game,
either by intimidating the of
ficials (as Harlan Svare com
plained of last year of Balti
more) or by psychologically
boosting the home team (most
notably in the Palestra).
To be a pro football or bas
ketball fan means more than
to know a few statistics and
to follow the course of a team,
just as an aficiando is more
than someone who knows a
lot about bullfighting, and an
artist is more than someone
who has painted a picture or
written a song.
To the football fan, the
sight of Willie Davis outbat
tling an opposing lineman to
drop the quarterback with a
hard blindside tackle is every
bit as "pretty" as a 50-yard,
touchdown run; the play the
basketball fan comes to see is
not the unguarded 30 - foot
jump, but is instead the sight
of Larry Miller shedding op
ponents and fighting to get
the rebound. The fan realizes
that, while football is a team
sport, the margin of victory
depends on the individual
duels (Herb Adderly vs. Jim
my Orr; Billy Lilly vs. Fuzzy
-Thurston). The fan vicarious
ly experiences the . anguish
and' triumph -of this combat.
r ; Those who deplore this as
pect of sport should stay home
and listen to games on the
radio, or. better still, divorce
themselves entirely from
sports. For to attend a basket
ball game means to unleash
hostilities and to unshackle in
hibitions; to watch a pro
football game means to be
caught up in the single-mind-
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ed object of victory at any
cost. And the fan realizes that
part of the game is cheating
and escaping detection.
Mr. Sanders, who apparent
ly prefers that sports be of
the tyte attributed to the Gay
90's of the Blue Ribbon com
mercials ("A pleasant way to
spend a summer afternoon
was cheering your favorite
sculler on to victor y"),
mourns that basketball is "a
hollow skeleton of what James
Na i s m i t h felt would be a
sport." Mr. Sanders was born
a few years too late, and
should try, as sports have
done, to change with the
times.
When UNC has a basketball
game, I will go and cheer. I
hope we win, by fair means
or foul, and I don't really care
if a little blood is spilled in
the process.
Charles D. Cunningham
To the Student Body: 1:
A college team can be nei
ther better nor worse than the
school it represents. If the
school thinks negatively, so
will its team. How many times
did we hear, "The 'Heeis are a
good ball club, but they can't
beat Duke at home"? Was it
because of us, then, or in spite
of us that Duke was defeated
on January 7?
If the school thinks in small
terms, so will its team. Why
should we be so awe-stricken
at a "national ranking"
why should it be spoken of soft
ly, as a thing to be protected?
Aren't we good enough, or big
enough, or proud enough to be
so ranked? When we feel de
feat before the fact "UCLA
are you kidding me"
when we are speechless to see
nationally-known reporters on
our campus how can we
blame our team for the same
feeling? Why shouldn't they
feel the groaning, hopeless
pressure and finally lose.
It isn't over yet, though:
we, the Tar Heels, can still be
Number One yes, ONE at
the Very End. There are tour
naments to play, and teams to
beat before we're through.
There is a national ranking
-to fight for, and to win. But
we can only have it if we
' want it enough, and believe in
it, and in ourselves.
W. E. Lasher
When I was still in
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(Editor's note: This week
the nation celebrates Negro
History week. In recognition
of this event, the DTH pre
sents the first of three arti
cles dealing with the culture
of the American Negro. In a
somewhat chronological order,
the articles will cover the
American Negro's heritage,
growth, and future.)
BY SYLVIA JONES
THE AFRICA NHERITAGE
Barbarism and savagery are
generally believed to be the
most applicable terms used to
describe the home of the Afri
cans brought to America in
1619.
Until the recent emergence
of African countries, even most
noted historians wrote that the
black men came from a con
tinent having no history, no
literature, no "reasonable" re
ligion, Emd no traditions other
'than the eery sounds of the
wild jungle. These pieces of
human property brought to
their new home not only re
markable strength and strange
languages, but a culture with
backgrounds in prehistory
and medieval history compar
able to those of Europen na
tions of the time.
As early as 3000 BC Afri
cans of many racial types
were trading in gold, ivory,
and bronze, and using copper.
By 600 BC they were smelting
iron.
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can states and governments
compared favorably with the
contemporary kingdoms in
Europe. These were stable sys
tems, yet unique in their char
acteristic civilizations, forms
of government, and patterns
of everyday life. Africa had
glorious and brilliant leaders
ruling her states and king
doms as well as laws govern
ing industrial and economic
systems.
Ghana in 300 AD was typi
cal of these, for it began as
a trade center and expanded
from Niger westward to the
Sahara northward. By 1075,
this kindgom had buildings of
wood and stone with windows
of glass. The luxurious gar
dens which surrounded these
structures were a symbol of
Ghana's immense wealth.
The Mandign Kingdom,
achieving its peak in the
twelfth century, extended from
the eleventh to the seventeenth
century as a federated king
dom and occupied the valleys
of the Niger, the Gambia, and
the Senegal. Here cotton was
cultivated and other agricul
tural crops were encouraged.
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the empire were displayed
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through the erection of palaces,
mosques, and schools.
Similarly, the Songhai Em
pire was at the height of its
power between 14-33 and 1531.
Its contributions to African civ
ilization include the University
of Sankore of West Africa as
well as the intellectual cen
ters of Goa. Walata, Timbuk
tu, and Jenne. Negro students,
taught by Negro teachers, stu
died law, geography, literature,
surgery and science. So great
was the African love of knowl
edge that students who seem
ed to be slow learners were
often placed in the stocks as
a means of punishment; this
was at a time when Northern
Europe was largely illiterate.
Military expeditions, wars,
civil disorder, and unworthy
rulers heralded the decline of
these kingdoms which were to
suffer the fates of the Greek
and Roman Empires before
them. With invasions came de
solation and eventually the in
heritors of this once great cul
ture were sold as slaves.
Many of these Negroes found
their new home in the south
eastern United States; with
them came many intangible
remnants of their culture which
were perpetuated in the days
of slavery. Black children
were taught African virtues
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of love of justice, chairty, and
kindness. These were convey
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were placed in the care oi
blacks.
Because there were laws pre
venting the slaves from speak
ing in their native languages,
having meetings, or learning
things other than were taught
by the masters, elaborate code
systems were devised, such as
the slave song. By this means,
blacks could communicate with
their kinsmen without the
knowledge of the whites. The
message was Freedom it
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