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Volume XXIII N 0.5
Kochel Suggests
Student-Faculty
Concerned Faculty
Approximately sixty faculty members of the Behrend Campus were in attendance at a
faculty meeting called October 26 by Irvin H. Kochel. Input, and the lack of it was one of
the points discussed at the meeting.
Bill Seigal Wins Second VP;
Voter Turnout Disappointing
by Carolyn Beck
Staff Reporter
The Student Government
Associatiofi elections resulted in
the election of Bill "Buggsy"
Seigal to the office of Second-Vice
President. The fifteen new SGA
representatives are:
Reese Friedman (316 votes),
Kim Anderson (222), Link Myers
(210) Al Davis (199), Doug Russel
(181) Larry Bayle (172), Barb
Beatles
On Film
At Warner
"Beatles: Away with Words"
will be coming to the Warner
Theater on November 4.
Showtimes are at 4-7-9:30 p.m.
There will be a free bus leaving
Behrend for the 9:30 show.
Admission is $1.50 for students
with activity cards and $2.00 for
others. Tickets will be on sale at
the Rub desk.
"Away With Words" tries to
capture the essence of the
English rock gock group which
dominated the music of the 60's.
Much of a generation has grown
up with the Beatles, and the film
makes the group a metaphor for
a youth society looking for
salvation_
"Away With Words" is one of
the "mind zappingest light shows
of all time" (Milwaukee Sen
tinel). It is billed as a multi
media montage and requires
three motion picture projectors,
21 slide projectors and ten
speakers_ It is a boggling work
which took more than a year to
edit and put together.
Slingland (172), Amy Bishop
(171), Becky LaPlante (169),
Lauren O'Leary (167), Rick Frost
(166), Sue Lawrie (166), Mark
Bodycombe (164). Randy Seid
man (163), Bette Greene (155).
Al Quinlan, SGA president,
declared that he was very
satisfied with the people elected.
"They all seem to be good, hard
workers. We should have a lot of
action, possibly the best SGA
ever." Al did express disap
pointment over voter turnout.
"Voter turnout was very
disheartening, even worse than in
the spring. And this is the
beginning of the year when en
thusiasm should be the highest. I
don't know what the problem
was—publicity for the rally and
the candidates was covered well
enough, but the voter percentage
was very disappointing."
Joe Zani, SGA vice-president
was also pleased with the new
representatives. "We got a lot of
good
_people, a lot of good
workers. A lot of these people
want to work in the community,
and we hope they back up their
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Highlights
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New Academic Structure;
Cooperation Requested
statements with action. Also, I
hope to work for more free
universities, maybe every week,
if we could."
Joe mentioned that voter
turnout was "atrocious, lower
than the spring percentage; 482
ballots were cast out of 1500
students enrolled: That's only
about 33 per cent.
Joe offered two alternatives to
the 20 odd losers of the election.
"Dr. Tomsic needs three students
on each of five faculty com
mittees. Each student would have
full voting rights. We could get a
lot of things done through these
committees. Applications are
still available. Also, the Student
Judiciary still has room for six
members and four alternates,
and applications are now being
taken. We would like to see a few
of the people who lost get a
second chance, and these com
mittees could be the op
portunity."
Bill Seigal, newly-elected
second-vice president of the
Student Government Association,
is looking forward• to occupying
the position. "I'll now have the
chance, with the help of Al
Quinlan, the SGA members, the
faculty and administration to
initiate summer encampment
suggestions concerning resident
students, commuters, and
Behrend government."
Dean Lane was pleased with
the outcome of the SGA elections.
"I was generally encouraged by
it. Nationally, student govern
ment enthusiasm is low. So I was
pleased with the turnout at
Behrend. Last spring they
worried about filling the offices at
all, and this was not the case.
Generally, I would say it was a
very positive thing."
Over 60 faculty members and
administrators met with Irvin H.
Kochel, Director of Behrend
Campus to discuss concerns
expressed by several segments of
the academic community on
Tuesday, October 26, during the
common hour (12:15 p.m.). "I
would like to see well developed
guidelines and objectives for
academic development from both
students and faculty in agreement
with each other...l don't really
have that now," Kochel said
during the one and one-half hour
meeting in the Otto Behrend
Building, Room 101,
The Director suggested a new
academic structure that would
create the positions of Dean of
Instruction, and two associates,
one in science and one in general
arts and science. "This concept
must be set up by next year," he
said, indicating that this is
essential to Behrend's academic
development.
This plan, discussed by the
executive committee and Kochel
last year, suggested that the
Dean of Instruction would be
responsible for all academic
matters. He would be assisted by
two associate deans. Stressing
inter-disciplinary -action among
the different colleges, the
suggested plan does not envision a
departmental organization
followed at University Park as
being necessary.
Kochel went on to say that there
is no specific and thorough plan
for academic development
through 1975. Although general
guidelines for Benrencrs
academic development were
formulated last year, specific
course and personnel needs are to
be defined, and new area studies
and major studies must be
considered.
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These specific proposals
require greater faculty and
student involvement in academic
planning as Kochel noted, "The
academic destiny of Behrend
depends on the thorough input of
both faculty and students."
However the Director further
stated, "There has not been ef-
Students Cast Ballots
Several Behrend students cast their ballots at one of the
voting booths in the Otto Behrend Building. Approximately
500 students turned out at the polls to elect a second vice
president and 15 members at large to the Student Govern
ment Association during the elections held last week.
by Ray Geiger
Editor in chief
and
Carol Turkington
Ass' t Managing Editor
Thursday, October 28, 1971
fective input in the 1969-70 or 1970-
71 academic years. I hope this
won't be the case this year."
To overcome this problem,
Kochel called for greater student
involvement, and improved
faculty and administrative
direction. "I don't think this
campus can make progress
without effective administrative
leadership," Kochel said, again
indicating that more input is
needed for effective ad
ministrative decisions. Kochel
reiterated again and again that
the channels for input are indeed
open, and that the faculty and
students have not been im
plementing these opportunities.
Several faculty members as
well as Kochel expressed a
disappointment in the lack of
student input on faculty com
mittees. Davis P. Giersch,
chairman of the student services
committee said, "I'm extremely
disappointed and confused over
the absence of students at our
meetings. We've had two
meetings already and the
representative students from the
Student Government Association
have not been present."
In addition to Kochel's com
ments on a new academic
structure and improved faculty
student input, he also reviewed
the physical development of the
campus. Due to the financial
chaos of the state legislature only
$310,000 have been funded for
Behrend through Bill 1304 (March
1970) which is being used for the
construction of a standpipe on
Jordan Road to service the
dormitories. The proposed
academic building and library
have been presented via this bill,
but because of lack of monies
they have not been funded, while
buildings on other campuses have
been. James A. Flaherty, in
structor in Theater Arts, said, "I
was satisified to hear Mr.
Kochel's response to why certain
buildings were funded and
Behrend's weren't." He went on
to note however that this may
effect further academic planning
if these buildings aren't begun
soon. Kochel also said in regard
to Behrend's physical develop
ment, "We're running two years
behind," pointing to the financial
bind that the entire University
and state legislature are facing.
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