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Editorial Opinion
University Exists
For Students
Behrend is an autonomous college community composed of
administration, faculty, and students. Somewhere along the line,
an ordained and proscribed method for .the administration of a
college campus was established. This method called for the ad
ministration to administer, the faculty to teach, and the students to
learn. The administration was placed on the top of the totem pole,
with the faculty and student body vying for the second and third
place respectively. They are usually tied for the second place spot.
To any onlooker, it is rather obvious that is was an administrator
or someone with administrative tendencies who wrote the rule book
originally. It is also rather obvious that the system of education is
formulated backwards. The university exists for the students not
for the administration. If people did not apply to Pennsylvania
State University, Penn State would cease to exist.
If the university exists for the students, who exists for the welfare
of the students? Obviously the faculty and the administration, but
in what order? Probably the faculty, on the basis as they have the
closest contact with the student population.
This leaves the administration to referee the situation along with
handling the myriad and minute problems that crop up in the
operation of a university. However, the question of the century is
just what problems should the administration deal with and what is
left for the faculty and students to work with. That is specifically
the question of curriculum and the hiring of faculty members.
It is common knowledge that the faculty has the closest contact
with the student body. They are the ones that are most likely to
know the preferences of the students in the line of curriculum. The
faculty is also more likely to understand the acadmeic needs of the
campus. They are the ones who know who is doing the best job of
instruction, and what is needed to improve the quality of education
that the student body is paying for.
Instead however, the administration at Behrend is now the sole
body engaged in choosing the curriculum and faculty -for the
campus. There are many who feel that the handling of the situation
is somewhat lacking.
The majority of the faculty that was hired at the beginning of the
year is now teaching requirement courses. This is fine for those
who want to transfer to University Park, but what of those who
would like to remain at Behrend? 400 level courses are few and far
between for many. Heaven help those who miss a course that is to
be taken in sequence; an entire year may be lost in the process.
How many of the courses that are advertised as being offered
actually make it to the final courses sheet, and what of those that
are ultimately canceled? It would appear that the four-year image
is being ignored and by those who are trying to promote it at that.
Perhaps one of these days some degree of authority may evolve
in hands of those that the : - _thrend Campus and Pennsylvania State
University actually exists
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Ray Geiger
Editor-in-chief
Jack Richenbacher
Business Manager
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Two-Step A Hit
Neil Shulman, of The Aztec Two-Step, kicks off the Coffee
House Circuit at Behrend. There will be two more coffee
houses in the circuit this term.
Music
CJ Bri
by Charles Eschweiler
Staff Writer
I'll begin this little diatribe with
a word for those of you not from
the Erie area. The following piece
of writing concerns a concert
which took place last Sunday at a
political rally sponsored by a
group of West Bth Street mer
chants. Since the 300 and 400 block
of West Bth is now the "hip"
section of Erie, the rally was
engineered by "hip" concerned
young people :with nothing better
to do than play at being radical or
liberals secure in the knowledge
that mommy or daddy can
always front the bread to bail
them out of jail if some cop
should have the sadistic urge to
break their head open after they
have called him and his mother
several rather spicy names. If
you get the 'impression I'm a
trifle cynical about politically
oriented local youths, you're
right.. . being that Iknow most of
the local radicals (all three of
them) I feel quite comfortable in
thinking unkindly of them. All
right, so last Sunday the folks put
on a political rally. The reason
was to give all the local can
didates for city council, judges,
dog catchers, etc. a chance to
speak to a crowd of "concerned
youth." What it really was, was a
rock concert with Isaac Aaron
and CJ Bri each playing a set
between speeches. . . I didn't see
anyone there who looked like they
gave a damn about any of the
candidates (except one or two
persons who will remain
anonymous, that had been sen
tenced at various times by one of
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Scene at Erie Rally
Going, Going, Gone
the judiciary candidates). The
crowd was made up of various
hippies, liberals, dope fiends,
bikers, weirdos, and several
faggots prancing about jamming
up a cluster of acidheads. . . The
politicians spoke, and everyone
called for more music; this so
irritated Pat Mertens, Erie's own
token liberal, that the one time
city council candidate chided the
crowd for lack of respect. No one
could hear him over the front
rows, so much for the local scene.
I got to the rally too late to hear
Isaac Aaron's set, which didn't
put me in any great mood since I
only took the trouble of going to
the rally to hear the group. I was
about to leave when I learned that
after thirty minutes of speeches,
CJ Bri was going on.
C J Bri has been around for
merely two years. The group was
formed in January of '7O after the
split of Simon Grace and the
Tuesday Blues, a great old rock
and roll band if there ever was
one. Some members of the
Tuesday Blues and some other
unattached musicians fammed
and it ended up turning into C J
Bri, with the old Tuesday Blues
organist John Novello, sharing
the leads with local "personality"
John Ims, who does the best
imitation of a rock and folk singer
this area has ever seem. Bri
could have made it out of Erie
had they not had Ims to contend
with, and when they announced a
string of final concerts most of the
knowledgeable local musicians
blamed the groups breakup on
personality clashes caused by
Ims. It was assumed that if Bri
was ever put back together,
October 21, 1971
Harmonies
Blended at
Behrend
by Carol Hughes
Stzff Writer
Rex Fowler and Neal Shulman,
collectively known as the Aztec
Two-Step, put on the best 10c
show seen at Behrend this year.
The duo gave the show all they
had, singing their own special
brand of soft folk, a blend of
contemporary, spiritual, and
country-western music.
Their songs, mostly original
work with just a touch of James
Taylor and a hint of Simon and
Garfunkel, ranged from the light,
You Do the Bakin' and I'll do the
Makin' to the serious such as the
Infidel. The subjects of their
songs are based on their personal
experiences, both emotional and
intellectual, as in the songs
Joshua Lighthouse and Put On
Your Dressing Gown.
Their perfect harmony,
similiar to. that of Crosby, Stills,
Nash, and Young, was expressed
in such songs as Yankee Lady and
Follow Me. This harmony
combined with the beautifully
written words and music made a
great coffeehouse. Anyone who
didn't see at least one show,
missed a beautiful musical ex
perience.
Novello would have better sense
than to get another singer of Ims'
type, so when I heard that the
"NEW C J BRI" would be playing
I was really anxious to hear
them. The only thing new is a
very fine electric pianist named
Jack Coleman, and Ims is back. .
. still doing his imitation of a rock
singer, still damn near breaking
his arms hugging himself, and
still singing "da blooze" so badly
any black kid with respect for his
racial heritage should make it his
duty to set Ims straight.
Those with strong enough
stomachs to get past Ims all
agreed that Npvello's
arrangements of piano-organ
leads were great, and a few times
Ims was drowned out by some
razor sharp interplay between
Novello and Coleman. All Ims
could do at such moments was
feign "getting into the sound"
until he lost composure and fell
into his customary pout.
Unfortunately the instances of
Bri's straight ahead playing were
few and far between. . . . maybe
next time.
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