A SHORT THOUGHT
Little minds are
wounded by, little things.
;VOLUME 3
NOBBS.SAYS YES
T0..18-YEAR OLDS
"If we can say 'no' to the 18-
year-old Pennsylvanian who
Wants to vote then we must re
.
examine our entire educational
system."
The challenge was flung in. a
ipeech by State Senator Freder-
Ick H. Hobbs of Pottsville to a
youthful audience at Philadelphia
Community College.
Hobbs, who voted for the sen
ate bill lowering the voting age
.to 18, said, "We. live in the mid
st of a revoluntioaary era.
"We are witnessing changes in
*very sphere of society, in reli
_gion, in the arts, in the political
environment.
"To imagine for one moment
that, this revolution has, not touch
ed our young people is to be
blind to reality," said the sena
tor.
Hobbs, a 35-year-old second
term senator who represents
Carbon and Schuylkill counties,
said it was especially important
, to enlist the young adults -in to
morrow s society, especially
these in our metropolitan areas.
,"These young people are doub
ly disfranchised," he said. "It is
stnall wonder that they mount
'the barricades, for they have no
voice whatsoever in the conduct
of their society."
He urged the adoption of the
bill currently before the General
Assembly which- would grant the
'fianchise to 18-year-old residents.
Having spoken recently to num
erous young people who are !in
volved', Senator Hobbs again
counseled his audience to direct
their energies to working within
the system, and most importantly
recruit others to become involved
by working. within the system.
"I far 0a, ,, he said, "would
rather see their hand on the vot
'Mg machine than the molotov
cocktail."
THE f 4! G : 44c,Rs.
COLLEGIAN
THE HIGHACRES COILFIGIAN, HAZLETON CAMPUS, APRIL, 1969
George R. Cube'. Appointed
University Park, Pa. -- George
R. Culmer, a planning consultant
for the Model Cities Program in
Philadelphia, has been named to
the staff of the director of aca
demic services at The Pennsyl
vania State University as admis
sions director, special projects.
Announcing the appointment,
Dr. T. Sherman Stanford, direc
tor of academic services, explain
ed that Mr. Culmer will be con
cerned with identifying and re
cruiting disadvantaged, including
Black applicants, for admission
to Penn State. He will work
closely with the coordinator of
the University Programs for the
Disadvantaged.
His duties also will entail
working with Penn State students
who are visiting secondary
schools to assist in pro
mating programs to encour
age students to continue their ed:
ucation beyond the secondary
school level. •
Dr. Stanford said also that Mr.
Culrner will be assisting in es
tablishing criteria which may be
used in addition to the regular
adinissions criteria in the case
of disadvantaged students.
A graduate of Benjamin Frank
lin high school in Philadelphia,
Mr. Culmer holds the bachelor
of arts degree in sociology from
Lincoln University and also has
taken graduate work toward the
master of arts degree in urban
sociology at Temple University.
Mr. Calmer in 1967-68 was di
rector of the Independent Urban
Education Program in Philadel
phia which involved college stud
ents from Swarthmore, Haver
ford, and Bryn Mawr; who work
ee. 'n the Kearney School in Phil
adelphia as tutors.
His experience also includes
positions as assistant director of
a •Headstart prograrn in Chester
and -also as, a counselor with the
Goodstart Program in Chester.
e also was an administrative
unselor, with the Youth Deve
irnent Center of Philadelphia,
been with the
and earlier
GEOR
CULMER
Youth Study Center and the De
partment of Public Assistance in
Philadelphia.
He served with the U. S. Army
prior to his enrollment at Lin
coln University in 1958.
HELP!
A card party sponsored by
the Women's Auxiliary of the
Hazleton Campus of Penn
State University will be held
April 16, at 8:00 p. m. in the
S. U. B.
All proceeds will go into a
scholarship loan fund for de
serving students. Theta Sigma
Pi Sorority and S. G. A. unl
der the direction of Jerry No
taro and John Barletta are
completing arrangements.
Any students available Wed.
afternoon and willing to help
set up the S. U. B. are asked
to contact an S. G. A. repre
sentative.
Spring Is Here!
By Nancy Anchacski
Spring arrived in Hazleton on
March 20, 1969. Spring Term-be
gan at Highacres on March 25,
1969. The correlation between
these two dates is quite obvious,
but are there any other connec
tions between the season of
spring and Spring Term at the
Hazleton Campus? In the spring
time the world wakes up.'
Wouldn't it be nice if Highacres - "
would wake up? In the spring- -
time everything is alive and
growing. Shouldn't everybody at
Highacres become alive (really'
alive!) and start growing? 4
Wake up! Come alive! Start
growing! This is all you (every:.
one!) have to Lio in order
make this "spring" term. If each
student at Highacres would be.
come more aware of himself add
the world around him, spring
would not only be within us.
There is no special formula for
this new awareness. Although,
waking up does mean more than
getting out of bed in the morn
ing. Try waking up to a new ex
perience! You cannot come alive
simply by drinking - "Pepsi".
Start doing something with your
life (in your life). Please, do not
expect to sprout up like flowers.
Now your growing has something
to do with knowing.
I .cannot (do not want to) tell
you how to enjoy spring. Just
enjoy spring! Enjoy spring as
much as E. E. Cummings enjoys
it. Cummings . wrote about spring
in this way:
—it's Anril . . . it's spring
—alive, we're alive . .
—and it's spring. .-.,
now the mountains are dancing
all the mountains are dancing.
Let's make our mountain
dance, too.