Highacres campus
receives $18,511
for reading lab
This fall 40 Associate Degree
students are participating in a
reading lab to improve their
reading skills. The program is be
ing offered at Highacres for the
first time this fall under the
direction of Mrs. Norma Moyer.
The laboratory is designed to
help improve a student's reading
rate, vocabulary, understanding
of content, and general reading
and study efficiency. Mrs. Moyer
stated, "Any college student can
improve his reading skills
through a reading development
program." The program is self
paced and self-instructional.
Each student keeps his own
record of progress by testing
reading rate and comprehension
and checking his work with keys
found in the books used. There
are a required textbook for the
program and supplementary tex
tbooks which help a student tailor
the program to his own specific
problems and needs. Each person
participates in the lab one class
period a week.
The program was begun as the
result of a general discussion by
the Highacres faculty, who ex
pressed their belief that many
students have reading problems
that prevent them from com
prehending reading materials
assigned by professors. This was
particularly evident in the
science and social studies
courses. As a result, Mr. White,
Dr. Staudenmeier, and the
English faculty of Highacres
wrote a proposal for a vocational
grant to begin a reading
laboratory at Highacres. A grant
of $18,591 was approved. Mrs.
Moyer is currently conducting
the lab. Six work-study students
are assisting her by reviewing
the reading and study skills books
used in the program and by work
ing with individual students.
The associate degree students
Northeast water crisis affects campus
The effects of the critical water
shortage in the Hazleton area
have now reached the Highacres
Campus. The Campus received a
request from the Hazleton City
Authority Water Department
(HCA) to restrict water usage in
general and, also, curtail swimm
ing pool operation. The Campus
complied with the HCA request
by closing the swimming pool in
the Physical Education Building
on October 21. The pool will re
main closed until further notice.
The pool closing has lead to the
cancellation of winter term
swimming and water safety
courses.
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considerable amount of makeup
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currently enrolled in the program
are fulfilling a requirement of
English 4 or English 10. During
the final exam period this fall, ad
ditional freshmen will be tested
for reading skills. In the future a
reading skills test may be in
corporated as part of the place
ment testing that all incoming
freshmen take each year. Place
ment testing, however, will not be
the only way a student will
become involved in the reading
laboratory. Anyone interested in
reading improvement will be
able to enroll.
In the middle of October, Penn
State approved an additional
grant of $6,967 for the conti
nuance and expansion of the pro
gram to include Baccalaureate
degree students of the reading
laboratory. This came about
because of a proposal written by
Mr. White, Dr. Staudenmeier,
and Mrs. Moyer. This additional
money will aid in the improve
ment of the lab. Mrs. Moyer
hopes to utilize filmstrips and
cassettes to aid the readers. She
also hopes to use a tachistoscope
which flashes a phrase on a
screen and helps to train readers
for a faster reading rate.
Highacres is also presently
advertising for a part-time
reading specialist to join the pro
gram in the Winter term. Books
on reading skills reviewed by the
work-study students are being
ordered for the Library so all
students and faculty. will have ac
cess to them.
Colleges are now attempting to
meet the needs of students who
probably have not had a reading
course beyond the elementary
school level. The reading
laboratory at Highacres is the
beginning of a long-range, larger
reading skills project similar to
those offered by universities
across the country.
water is required to compensate
for evaporative losses and losses
involved in the backwashing of
the filtering system.
The critical water shorage has
developed due to an extremely
small amount of rainfall during
the summer and early fall mon
ths. Rainfall since May has been
the lowest amount for a fiire
month period in 11 years. Thus,
water supplies in local reservoirs
have dwindled to nearly Y 4 of
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HEC caters to campus needs
By George Yanoshik, Jr.
Although students may be
unaware of its function, the
Hazleton Educational Council
(HEC) is an independent
organization which caters to the
needs of higher education
facilities in the Hazleton area.
The HEC is not financially depen
dent on the University and,
therefore, its projects should not
be confused with its University
funded counterparts.
Some students have been com
plaining that Ilighacres needs
another parking area on campus
and they are irritated at the fact
that a new front entrance instead
of another parking lot is being put
in by the University. In actuality,
the HEC is the sponsor of the new
entrance project, not the Univer
sity.
Projects such as the 1949 ac
quisition of the property on which
Highacres is now located, the
1959 funding for construction of
the "Commons" building, and the
1966 drive for funds to construct
the classroom building are all
services the HEC has provided to
the University through donations
from private community sources.
These funds were matched both
on the state and federal levels,
and the building was erected.
"Although no funds were ac
tually contributed towards the
library and physical education
building by the HEC, it encourag
ed the state of Pennsylvania to in
clude these buildings in its
capital budget," said Paul
Cerula, HEC secretary and cam
pus business manager, "and
through the state's Department
of General Services, these
buildings were constructed."
The HEC, which has been func
tioning since before World War
11, was actually organized in 1937.
Today, 30 directors from the com
munity continue the tradition of
the HEC is originating, con
tributing to, and carrying out
many campus improvement pro
jects. All facets of the communi
ty, including representatives
their capacity. Local com
munities, such as Hazleton and
West Hazleton, have adopted or
dinances restricting any non
essential use of water such as car
washing and lawn watering.
Highacres, along with all the
schools in the Hazleton Area
School District, was requested to
close its swimming pool as part of
a total community effort to con
serve water.
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from labor, industry, business,
education, professional, etc.
careers, are represented and
united to provide services to the
campus. Members to the council
are elected for three-year terms,
with 10 members being rotated
each year.
This chartered, non-profit
organization has a new project in
the study stage at this time. In
the future, the HEC may make
the expansion of the Commons
building a reality.
The threat of decreasing enroll- .
ment in both secondary and post
secondary educational institu
tions could hinder the HEC in ob
taining as much community fun
ding as it once had. But, faculty
and staff members, students and
the HEC advisory board in con
junction with one another are still
actively improving the campus
and encouraging higher educa
tion. The Frank C. Kostos award,
which is presented to the highest
ranking Baccalaureate and
Remember our servicemen
For almost a year, American
diplomatic personnel, civilian as
well as military, have been held
hostage in a foreign land. Some of
these military personnel are
young people away from home
for the first time. In 1979 we saw
the American people respond to
the plight of these hostages, with
each receiving many thousands
of pieces of Christmas mail.
On the other hand, the U.S. had
many thousands of young
military people on duty in the
U.S. and around the world who
received little or no mail during
the Christmas season.
That's what Armed Forces
Mail Call is all about. The sixth
annual Christmas Mail Call is
now being conducted for our
young military personnel who
will be away from home during
the Holiday Season, many for the
first time, thus unable to be with
families and friends. Mail Call
distributes the mail it receives
through facilities of the Depart
ment of Defense as well as
various private organizations
(hospitals, chaplains, Armed Ser
vices, YMCAs, .USOs, ser-
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Associate depee students with a
cash award each year, is one
such example of the educational
encouragement of the HEC.
Although not all projects are
funded in their entirety by the
HEC, this organization strongly
encourages and invites the state
and federal governments to sub
sidize funding for educational
buildings, etc. on campus. The
HEC and state and federal
governments do not provide
financial aid for projects that are
of an income - producing nature
at the Penn State campuses. This
same situation prevails for dor
mitories and dining halls.
In the final analysis, a new
parking lot will have to be built
by the University with University
funds, since parking lots are in
come - producing projects.
Students must pay a fee for park
ing permits and these fees collec
tively go towards construction
and maintenance, of these park
ing lots.
vicemen's centers, etc.) across
the U.S. and around the world,
reminding our young service pea
ple that the American public has
not forgotten them. Whether or
not one agrees with the Ad
ministration's foreign and
domestic policies, these young
people do not make those
policies. Rather, they go
wherever they are sent, in the
U.S. or overseas, serving our
great country.
This is an ideal project for
families, school classes, and
organizations, as well as in
dividuals. For complete informa
tion on how you or your group
may have an active part in this
very worthwhile program, please
write to Armed Forced Mail Call,
2170 West Broadway #514,
Anaheim, California 92804. Thank
you!
P.S. If you have a friend or
relative in military service who
would appreciate extra mail at
Christmas, please send their
name and address to Mail Call,
and some mail will be sent to
them.