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itoria Opinion
Input Necessary:
Who's To Blame?
It has been previously stated that the Behrend Campus is
a complete academic community composed of ad
ministration, faculty and students. Each plays an important
and very valuable role in the management and develop
ment of the campus.
However, the system calls for each segment of the
community to play its role to the fullest extent. If either of
the three fail in any aspect of its duties, the result is a
detraction from the other two. A breakdown of the campus
community is imminent.
Part of the duties that each of the three facets of the
campus share in an intercommunication of ideas. This
input -output is necessary so that each of the other
segments know of the problems that face each other. With
knowledge of the problems, appropriate steps can be
initiated to resolve them. It is a lack of intercommunication
that is presently hindering the Behrend Campus.
Organizations and committees have been established to
provide for proper exchange of ideas. These include many
of the sub-committees of the Faculty Senate. These sub
committees are to be filled by faculty, and in some instances,
at least one student. However, at the moment there is no full
membership in many of the committees. Student members
are especially lacking.
As a result of this, the administration, and to some extent,
the faculty, has no real idea of the complaints and problems
among the student body. The channels have been
established, but there is no one able or willing at the moment
among the student body to provide the administration and
the faculty, who are perfectly able and willing to listen—and
to act—with the necessary information.
What is even more ironic and perhaps more disconcerting
is the fact that much of the student body complains about
the shortcomings and lack of response on the Behrend
Campus. On the other hand, the common cry among the
student population is that of, "get involved," and, "student
participation."
It would appear that while many of the students shout for
involvement and participation, the opportunity for such
exists right before them. Hopefully, some of the students at
Behrend will heed their own advice of involvement and
participation, and take advantage of what is already here
before asking for more.
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Managing Editor Business Manager
Assistant managing editor, Carol Turkington; Sports editor, Dave
Ruef; Assistant sports editor, Tony Alo; Photo editor, Rege Becker;
Reporters: Pam Babcock, Kathy Baker, Carolyn Beck, Garry
Cochran, Charles Eschweiler, Jeannie Gray, Tom Harvey, Carol
Hughes, Carol Jamison, Rebbeca La Plante, Terri Rich, Mike Tucker;
Staff: Bonnie Angevine, Barb Bent, Rosie Chimente, Rosanne Cox,
Peggy Doney, Sally Gorman, Marilyn Gracon, Mary Lee Heckman,
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Mike Loren; Advertising manager Bob Moulin; Circulation manager,
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Member of
Ray Geiger
Editor-in-chief
Questioned
To the Editor,
Most of the students on campus
just received the right to vote in
State and Federal elections. - If
their way and means of voting for
S.G.A. members is any indication
of the way they are to vote in
Federal elections - God save the
country!
To make a proper evaluation of
a candidate for an office, the
voter must at least become
aware of the candidate's views on
the different subjects.
On Tuesday, October 19, a
meeting was held for candidates
running for S.G.A. to air their
opinions and views. This meeting
was open to all Behrend students,
and out of 1,400, about 50 students
showed up.
My only question is how the hell
do the voters know for whom and
why they are voting?.
This campus in itself is a
community and if one does not
take the time and interest of
seeing how it is governed, I
question if they will take the time
and interest when they get out
into the real community they will
eventually live in.
Sincerely,
Marnie Fischer
(1-Poli Sci-Brackney )
a concerned student
and citizen.
Dear Editor,
If Mr_ Charles Eschweiler,
staff reporter, had any jour
nalistic code of ethics he would
avoid the use of the same
rhetorical devices which he
demeans the promoters of
"Political Prance" for sup
posedly using.
Briefly. Reporter Eschweiler
uses the devices of namecalling,
guilt-by-association, and the old
time favorite, the red herring. It
is not clear whether the article
entitled, "Music Scene at Erie
Rally CJ Bri Going, Going,
Gone," was a) deliberately
headed in an unintelligible
collection of words or b) sup
posedly news misplaced on the
editorial page, or c) an attempt to
slap together a 100 per cent
negative editorial in an overt
attempt to gain student response,
thus demonstrating to the student
funding organization that
students really do read the
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1) Name-calling. There is
virtually no sentence in the ar
ticle that does not contain tired,
worn-out cliches. I won't bore
you with a complete list. Some of
the goodies include "Various
hippies," liberals," "dope
fiends," and "Weirdos." These
may be the words out of Mr.
Eschweiler's personal argot; but
for a periodical representative of
an institution of higher learning,
the use of such an article violates
the ideal of precision of language.
Such precision of- language is
rarely attained but flaunting its
opposite typifies more immature
ventures that make no pretense
about their inability to analyze
social change mor make clear
judgements on musical
presentations without resorting
to personality attacks on the
performers.
2) Guilt-by-association.
Assuming that once we deter
mine that the list of types present
at the crowd are all detrimental,
there is no room for straight
politicians, neighborhood types
who wanted to get a look at what
was happening in what they once
thought was a quiet, residential
area, or those who desire the
right not to be labeled. Those
people who consider themselves
uninvolved, or political con
servatives or anything tother
than those listed are not con
sidered; thus if one is to believe
the shoddy writing of your
reporter the A&P Parking Lot at
Bth and Walnut St. last Sunday all
present were social drop-outs.
Thus we come to the most im
portant of the writer's rhetorical
devices, the red herring.
otherwise known as drawing
attention away from the real
issue of the day.
3) Thus your reporter discusses
the impression he had of the
crowd and his personal dislike of
the leader of the second rock
group that volunteered its ser
vices. If Mr. Eschweiler had
taken the time to do some good
journalism he would have at least
talked with some of the people
Speak Easy
by Garry Cochran
Staff Writer
Q—Why are tickets given out to
students who park in the
Dobbins Parking lot? 6 tickets
A—According to parking
regulations in the student
handbook you can not park in
the immediate area of the
dorms unless you are a short
time visitor. If you feel the
tickets were unjust see the
security officer and discuss it
with the officer. You may
appeal them if you are still not
satisfied. Your fines will go to
Student Government: not
security, so Al Quinlan,
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involved. The issue was that for
the first time in anybody's recent
memory all kinds of disparate
elements of the population got
together and agreed to do a thing
of political importance. Mr. E
can say all he wants that no one
there cared about the politicians
and he may be right. But the fact
remains that those who cared
about politics and not about
music got together with those
music got together with those
that cared about music and not
about politics. And that in itself
is a political event. For politics is
the contest where those who feel
on the outs decide to remedy that
situation. Mr. Eschweiler by his
style apparently belongs to that
group of people. So if nothing
more was accomplished on that
barren blacktop parking lot is
that a lot of people got to know
how straight politicians relate to
them. I am the first to agree that
many politicians didn't have the
foggiest notion of how to address
young people. But now they have
the power to do something about
it. Not really, because of the
young people had no say in the
primary elections which
determined who is running now.
But come next year. those young
people will know what they'll be
up against if they just sit back
and figure that complaining and
name-calling and discussing
personalties rathern tha issues.
• And one small error of fact- . -I
was candidate for the democratic
nomination for representative to
the state legislature not, as your
writer stated "one time city
council candidate. - I know that's
a tough thing to get across the
reason being that hardly anyone
is concerned with what goes on
other than right under their
noses. Well, that's the subject of
another letter. One other point—l
don't consider myself "Erie's
own token liberal." I stand on my
performance alone; each
situation must be met with
flexibility and depth of un
derstanding. That goes with
journalists as well.
Yours sincerely,
Patrick Mertens
President, thanks you for your
donations.
(4—Why isn't the Behrend
Collegian distributed at
Gannon? S.O.
A—Well, let's get this
straightened out right now.
Each week, because of a price
break, we get thousands of
Behrend Collegians, but we
don't believe in polluting the
environment so we keep most
of them well hidden in a
remote spot here on campus.
Incidentally, these bundles
make fine footstools; would
you be interested in pur
chasing several novel
hassocks, cheap?
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