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VOLUME 8, NUMBER 4
HIGHACRES READING
FESTIVAL
On April 27, eighteen
students participated in the
Fifteenth Annual Dramatic
Reading Festival. For the first
time in its history, the festivities
were held in the new campus
library.
Silver trophies were presented
to the winners: Peggy Troup,
Prose, "Room 406" edited by
William Huney; Patricia Mullen,
Prose, JONATHAN
LIVINGSTON SEAGULL by
Richard Bach; Dale Walck,
Prose, "Diary of Adam" by
Mark Twain; and Christopher
Amaker, Drama, "Hamlet" by
William Shakespere.
Other contestants in the
program were: Suszanne
Rodriguez, Poetry, "Between
Night and Morning" by Kahlil
Gib ran; Jean Hudak, Prose,
"Sixteen" by Maureen Daly;
Anthony Seo, Prose, "The War
Prayer" by Mark Twain; Monica
Bauer, Drama, "Our Town" by
'Morton Wilder; Mary Frances
Postupack, Poetry, "Friendship
and Giving" by Kahlil Gibran;
Carol Ann Sonich, Poetry, "The
Courtship of Miles Standish" by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow;
Paul Stadnik, Drama, "The
American Dream" by Edward
Albee; Marietta Sist, Poetry,
"Even This Will Pass Away' by
inside the collegian
editorial comments page two
edna pa.two
entertainment page four
fabulous freaks Page five
features page two
sound page four
sports page eight
PUBLISHED BY STUDENTS OF THE HAZLETON CAMPUS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
HELD
Theodore Tilton; Marian Payne,
Poetry, "The Creation" by
James W. Johnson; Ava Faltz,
Drama, "Bad Seed" by Mazwell
Anderson; Brenda Bilek, Poetry,
"Univac to Univac" by Louis B.
Salmon; Kathi Salkind, Poetry,
"Anabelle Lee" be Edgar Allan
Poe; Dennis Robbins, Drama,
"Barrets of Wimpole Street" by
Rusolf Besier; and Lynne
Horner, Poetry, "Awakening"
by Lynne Horner.
Gene Collins, Fine Arts
Council, acting as chairman of
the judges, presented the awards.
Other judges were Miss Helen
Dossenbach, faculty West
Hazleton Hlgh School; Miss
Nancy Martzen, Hazleton Area
School District; Dr. Michael
Santulli, faculty Hazleton
Campus; Miss Gladys Schwartz,
Great Book Society; and Miss
Letitia Valleri, Secretary, Board
of Governors, Hazleton Art
League.
Welcoming remarks were
bestowed upon the audience by
Professor Andrew Kafka, faculty
advisor, and Wayne Funk,
president of Belles-Lettres
Society. For the first time, a
female chairman, Miss Elizabeth
DeSilva, presided over the
program.
Goals and Objectives Page 5
YOUR VOTE TODAY!
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Is pot a smokescreen to divert
lice attention from the real
ug problem? Is organized
'mebusiness strictly for
fiosas? Will crime replace
;eball in the great American
;am? These and many other
-estions were explored
byLeslie Waller, syndicated
journalist and best-selling
author, in a fast-moving and
informative lecture delivered
April in C-1.
Mr. Waller described the
present situation in American
society today. Waller drew on
his years of experience as a
crime reporter in Chicago to
detail the history and
present-day function of
organized crime. He started with
the Mafia and detailed its
beginnings in the fourteenth
century; however, he
emphasized that most organized
crime is no longer run by the
Italian and Sicilian factions. He
did, in fact, term the mob a
"perfect United Nations of
organized crime."
The problem of organized
crime got its foothold in 1920
with the beginning of
Prohibition as ethnic groups
banded together coast-to-coast
to solve the dificult problem of
transportation and distribution
of illegal materials. The mob's
power g;iew steadily during the
war years, until today it is
termed the "fourth largest
conglomerate in the United
States."
This fantastic revenue is
accomplished through a number
of operations, some that are
legal and some that are not. This
has caused an image change for
organized crime. Today, as Mr.
Waller pointed out, "adding
machines and ball point pens are
the real weapons of organized
crime."
The mob's favorite illegal
traffic is in drugs. The mob deals
primarily in heroin and cocaine
(two large markup items) and
not in marijuana which is a low
markup item and is
non-addictive. This has led many
narcotics investigators to believe
that the pot controversy is being
used as a decoy to divert police
energy and money away from
organized crime. Aside from
protecting the mob's big
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Journalist Speaks on
Crime in America
by Tricia Fisher
investments, Mr. Waller pointed
out that this controversy also
induces disrespect for the law,
widens the generation gap, and
introduces a counter culture
where contact with real
organized 'crime is inevitable.
Mr. Waller also pointed to
organized crime in politics.
Firstly, he stated, organized
crime induces corruption in all
levels of law enforcement. It
further enables mob-linked
individuals to capture and
control the political strings in
local communities; this leads to
further corruption and to more
organized crime. This spread of,
crime leaps into the lives of the
everyday Joe Normal. He may
work for a mob-controlled
company, belong to a
mob-controlled union, get drawn
into the organization itself, or
buy mob-supplied goods.
Twenty percent of the adult
population is in some way
connected with the mob, and
usually they realize they are
dealing with the syndicate. Mr.
Waller explained that this is
creating an "open wound in our
morality."
Mr. Waller outlined a few
steps to be taken to cure this
"moral pollution." He advised
the citizenry to inform
themselves on the problem, to
stop patronizing the goods and
services supplied by the mob,
and to use to their best
advantage the only real tool
against organized crime—their
vote.
Mr. Waller ended his lecture
with a half-hour question and
answer period that generated
much interest. One of the
attending faculty members
expressed her appreciation of
what she termed Mr. Waller's
"professionalism" in handling all
questions. She described him as
a "well-versed lecturer without
the sensationalism often
accompanying journalists."
The lecture was attended by
approximately thirty people
from both the campus and the
local communities. When asked
to comment on the attendance,
Mr. Fogelson termed it
"typical." He expressed concern
over the low attendance and
hoped that the next event, A
NIGHT OF SILENT FILMS,
would be better attended.
MAY 8, 1973
SPECIAL
APPRECIATION
Behind the - scenes of a
campus newspaper are the
campus paper supperters, who
end a hand or advice to the
staff. The COLLEGIAN would
like to thank the following
people for their assistance: Mr.
Biggers, Mr. Bobby, Mark
Colman and Prof. Kafka. A
special thanks to Mrs. Deidre
Jago for help above and beyond
the call of duty.
LIBRARY HOURS
The Library is now open
from 8 to 5 and 6:30 to 10
Monday through Friday. The
seminar rooms and the Highacres
room are available for group
meetings by appoinment. Both
floors are now open and at the
disposal of the entire campus.
'SU students
fight fire
Students from Penn State's
Hazleton Campus provided a
public service to the area by
offering their services on April
26 to combat a raging fire that
destroyed sixty acres of
woodland between Interstate 81
and Humbolt.
The fire, spread by gusty
winds, was reportedly spotted
by a State Police helicopter.
State Police immediately
notified the Hazleton Fire
station at the Hazleton
Municipal Airport which alerted
five crews from the State Bureau
of Forestry.
This series of events set the
stage for the student volunteers,
twenty-six in number, to help
extinguish this hazard. They
received rough fire-fighting
instructions form forest
inspector Andrew McLovich
before reaching the fire scene.
We wish to commend those
students for their aid to the
community. Studnets of this
caliber give the Penn State
University a better public image
and lead the way for better
community relations. More
actions of the type are needed
when warranted. Surely actions
such as these help the students,
faculty and Penn State become
(in the eyes of the general
public) much more than a haven
for "Radical hippie subversives,"
but can produce, instead, an
understanding of students as
adults, and see the result of the
education of these adults as a
meaningful and worhty
experience.