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Editorial Opi n ion
Visitation
Once Again
More good news or bad news depending on your position is
filtering down from the Administration Building these days con
cerning visitation. It appears that a massive extension is in the
works for visitation hours. This is largely due to the hard work of
the Joint Resident Council and the Student Affairs staff. All in
dications at this moment are hopeful for the passage of the proposal
as it stands.
This addition to visitation hours is the first real major step
towards a realistic visitation policy to meet the needs of the
Behrend resident student population. However, at the moment
there may be doubts as to • whether or not this same student
population can adequately handle the responsibility that the new
hours will demand.
During the past year there have been some reservations on the
part of campus administrators, both here at Behrend and at
University Park over the issue of visitation. The charges leveled
against it rested on the assumption that the resident students were
not mature enough to handle the responsibility of visitation.
Almost to a man, all students devoutly insisted that they could
handle any amount of visitation hours, up to and including 24 hours,
seven days a week. The number of hours given last year were
substantially less than 24 hours, but the students took what was
given, and in the opinion of many, proved that they could carry the
responsibility easily. There may be some doubt cast upon that
image at the moment.
Many of the residents in the dormitories at the present time seem
to take the idea of visitation for granted; almost to the point of
abuse. There appears to be little regard for the sign-in and sign-out
sheets. Noise levels in the halls on weekends make it almost im
possible for some to study. People often roam the halls making
personal privacy a hard thing to maintain. Continuation of actions
such as these could cast grave doubts upon the passage of the new
visitation policy, and possibly even on the renewal of what little
visitation the resident students now enjoy.
The entire concept of intervisitation is based upon the respect of
the students for the regulations that come with visitation and
respect for the other students living in the dorms. Without this, the
entire idea comes apart at the seams. It is assumed that at the very
least, the resident student population has the maturity neccessary
to implement without difficulties what visitation we now have and
what we hope to gain in the near future. If we don't, what are we
doing in college?
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I am writing to say that I feel
the size of student enrollment at
Behrend, should be limited,
because I'm afraid expansion
would mean irreparable loss of
the humane scale on this campus.
Many university ad
ministrations repeatedly speak of
their responsibilities to expand
to the state and nation, to
qualified students, to education,
to the 'fullest development of our
most valuable asset, human
resources.'
My attitude is that this campus
- by expanding-,- would fail in
these responsibilities, not fulfill
them. It would be of no service to
bring students onto a campus
which could not support them
physically, educationally or
humanely. There is no benefits to
education in overcrowded con
ditions, and undermining prin
ciples on which the campus might
have been founded. There is no
improvement in developing
Grateful
New Sounds-Old Style
by Charles Eschweiler
Staff writer
Those of you who have seen the
Dead recently know that they are
into a straight hard rock thing.
This is a reversion to their early
• sound and up until now the best
representation of the group has
been on a live album made in
1966, (Vintage Dead, Sunflower
records). The Dead's current
style has alienated a lot of their
old fans from the period when
they were into long iin
provisationals filtered through a
lot of acid and general flower
punk mysticism.
It sees that sometime between
the release of Live Dead and
Workingman's Dead Garcia and
his boys got turned onto beer and
steel guitars; it was a great
gimthick for Workingman's Dead
and the image of the group as
post psychedelic era rednecks
served as a decent vehicle for
Jerry Garcia's steel guitar and
Bob Weir's background
tomes...unfortunately the boys
took it to heart and recorded an
album full of bucolic whimsy
called American Beauty.
American Beauty did and still
does sound like out takes from
Workingman's Dead.
These days Jerry Garcia has his
spin-off group, New Riders of the
Purple Sage, as an outlet for his
pickin' and grinnin', and Bob
Weir has been listening to. old
R&B 45's. The result is on the
group's new album, Grateful
Dead, which is _such a
reminiscence trip it's enough to
scare you off (The title and
personnel are the same as their
first disc, and the cover is a
reproduction fo 1966 Avalon
Ballroom poster.)
Instead of just a memory exer
cise, the new Dead album is a
logical extension of everything
they have done, well...you see,
there's a few long im
provisations, and there's easy to
take folksy stuff for all the new
fans...and then by the time the
second album in the double set
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Behrend Collegian
Letters to the Editor
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human resourves by making
people" face alienation,
frustration, and overcrowding, or
by contributing to the decline of
our honor system. It would be of
no service to our state or to Penn
State University to decrease the
status of Behrend Campus.
Thank you,
Barbara Goetz
(4th.. E- North East)
Dear Students,
You should have observed by
this time that it is impossible for
any working organization to exist
at Behrend without student in
volvement. Obviously, a club
without members is. a club in
name only. The same holds true
for your representative govern
ment. The SGA can do nothing
without an interested and in
volved student body supporting
it. The best way for you, the
individual, to suppbrt your
government is to become, or at
least attempt to be come, a
member of it. If a large number
Dead Return;
comes on and things start to drag Stewart's new album is more
'Jerry Garcia hits a damn famous is because it's very
familiar riff and jesus christ if commercial and elementary
the whole band doesn't play the shuck as compared to his two
hardest sounding Johnny B previous discs.
Goode since the Steve Miller MOMENTS: Boz - Scaggs. Steve
Band backed up Chuck Berry in Miller fired Scaggs back in 69
67... things go uphill from then on, because Scaggs is a better
and it sounds better the second -- musician, it's obvious on this
time. album. The songs on Moments
The album should be titled The
Grateful Dead Play Hard
Rock...and they play it as good
as anyone else_ The new Dead
album and the Allman
Brothers' live album are the only
two indispensable sets I've heard
yet this year, no doubt about it,
everyone has to hear them once_
ONE LEVER QUICKIES. -
It's an American institution to
save time and space by ripping
off a quickie, so: •
EVERY PICTURE TELLS A
STORY: Rod Stewart. Buy the
first Rod Stewart album, or
Gasoline Alley...the reason
Speak Easy
by Gary Cochran
Q. When the Beach Boys were
asked about drugs, they said no
way, they do meditation. What's
that? (R.G.)
A. Under the guidance of Guru
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,
Transcendental Meditation has
emerged from the Himalayan
Mountains where it has
flourished for many years. Its
followers say it promotes inner
peace, self-understanding, and
god consciousness. T.M. is
popular among college students
throughout the U.S. and many
campuses have local chapters.
Q. What's the digging behind
Lawrence Hall? (Dormie)
A. That is the beginning of
parking lot "F". The new lot will
have sidewalks and lighting,
making it safer to park your car
and expect the tape deck to still
be there when you return. Robert
October 7,1971
of students do this it will be proof
that the student body is behind
the SGA. -
Applications for candidacy in
the Fall Elections are now
available at the RUB desk. They
must be filled out and returned to
the desk no later than Monday,
Octoberll. -
As well as the position of 2nd
Vice-Pres., there are 15
representative positions open.
We hope to have a large number
of people attempt to get these
positions.
Remember, it is up to you the
students to decide whether the
SGA becomes a well-rounded
working force, representing the
student, or it becomes a
powerless organization.
For your own well-being, I
sincerely hope that you become
an involved student body which
will turn out a large number of
people who are willing to become
members of the SGA.
- - Joe Zani
(4th-L.A.-Kersey)
are in a Frisco Latin bag (San
tana with horns) and there's
nothing bad about that at all.
OSMONDS. This is a real
classic all right, but what hap
pens when Donny reaches
puberty and loses his little high
pitched voice? Really, try and
read the liner notes on some
tyke's copy of this album, they
are hilarious... "Donny never has
a bad thought about anyone..."
etc. You come away from the
Osmpnd's album and Bobby
Sherman seems almost Byronic
in comparison, the comedy disc
of this year at last.
Baughman, Business Manager,
hopes it will also relieve the
overcrowded conditions in Reed
lot. Dorm students should park in
the new lots, opening up Reed lot
to visitors and faculty. Facility
should be completed soon.
Q. Is it posSible that I. Kochel
is putting off' the students
regarding their requests or is he
uninformed or just uninterested
in their continual annoyance?
(P.Oed)
A. Maybe, doubtful, and
possibly, in that order.
"SPEAK EASY" will reply to
questions of general interest to
students and faculty at Behrend
Campus. Any questions you have
can be addressed to this column.
You may not get satisfactory
answers but SPEAK EASY will
listen.
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