TI, tit re tt it: Tollegiatt
Volume XXI I I No. 13
SUB Plans Winter Weekend
The Student Union Board reveiws plans for the upcoming
Winter Weekend at Behrend, included are the semi -formal,
Tobaggan races, snow sculpturing, coffee house and movie.
Fifth Winter Weekend
Begins February 4th
The Fifth Annual Winter
Weekend of the Behrend Campus
will begin with a semi-formal
dance in the Ramada Inn on
Route 90, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
February 4. Music will be
provided by Adonis, a rock group
from Pittsburgh. Tickets will be
available at the RUB desk at the
cost of $3.50 per couple with an
activity card, and $4.50 without:
Refreshments will be served
The Snow Sculpture Contest
will begin bright and early
Saturday morning kom 10 a.m.
until 3 p.m. Registration forms
can be picked up at the RUB
desk ; cost is 50 cents per teams of
an unlimited number.
Holderman Repudiates
Ogontz SGA Allegations
University Park ( APS)—
Responding to "second-class"
allegations initiated by the
Ogontz Campus Student
Government Association last
November, Kenneth L. Holder
man, vice president for Com
monwealth Campuses, said he
feels that "due to geographic
distances alone, Commonwealth
Campuses often have the ten
dency to view themselves as the
forgotten people."
According to Holderman,
University Park does not get the
"cream of the academic crop,"
as argued by Joe Landis, Student
Government President at Ogontz.
Holderman stressed the fact that
when applying to Penn State,
students are given preference
concerning where they would like
to study.
Ralph DeShong, assistant dean
of student affairs for Com
monwealth Campuses and ad
visor to the Keystone Society,
also reiterated Holderman's
statement that student choice is
among the first . criterion for
student placement by the
Admissions Office. He cited the
time at which the application is
sent, the number of spaces
available, etc., which determine
where the student will enter the
Penn Statesystem.
DeShong said that he feels few
students realize what criterion is
used for placement. Giving the
example of the high school
graduate with 1600 on his college
boards, and "A" average, and
Ogontz as his first choice,
DeShong emphatically said that
the student would be placed at
Ogontz (which, incidently, fills up
Saturday evening's activity will
focus on a Coffee House of local
talent in the RUB dining hall,
from 9 p.m. until ? The evening is
free with an activity card, and 25
cents without.
Tobaggan Races will be held
Sunday, February 6 at 2 p.m. on
the Ski Slope. There is a limit to
four members per team; entry
fees are 50 cents with an activity
card, $l.OO without. Teams must
bring their own toboggan.
The weekly Sunday movie will
wrap up the weekend events,
starring Mick Jagger, in "The
Performance", showing at 7 and 9
p.m. in the RUB.
faster than University Park,
according to Holderman).
DeShong admitted that dif
ferences have existed in relation
to special activities (e.g., All-U
Day). Although all students are
able to obtain football tickets, All-
U Day game gets the greatest
Commonwealth Campus at
tendance.
"One possibility I deem
feasable is utilization of the Arch
Chapter of the Keystone Society,
comprised solely of former
students from Commonwealth
Campuses," DeShong said. Its
members should be aware of the
problems they faced while at
their respective campuses and
serve to facilitate a more
equitable treatment. He also said
this kind of operation would
necessarily need a "Great deal of
co-operation."
DeShong said that presently
"student activities are not geared
for a systemized, comprehensive
series" which would include all
the branch campuses.
However, the recent Council of
Presidents (COP) meeting last
Saturday proposed a Ticketron
system for social events which
would change the localized nature
of student affairs, affording a
greater interaction among the
campuses as well as between the
campuses and University Park.
The COP agenda was marked
by a need to step up Corn
momvealth Campus-University
Park unity and co-operation.
Concerning the almost 18,000
students at Penn State's C6m
monwealth Campuses, Landis
said "We are a minority, but a
very large minority."
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Commonwealth Campus
Criticizes Grubb Report
University Park ( APS)—
Recommendations concerning the
Grubb Report and Penn PIRG
highlighted the meeting of the
Council of Presidents (COP), held
January 22 at University Park.
Presidents of Commonwealth
Campus Student Government
Associations (SGA) attending the
conference discussed possible
recommendations to the
University administration con
cerning the Grubb Report, which
deals with the organization and
operation of the Commonwealth
Campuses.
The report, which was con
ducted as part of the University's
present long-range planning
program, was criticized by the
council as being vague and
ambiguous. "There are very few
people in the University who
understand the report," said
Terry Wimmer, Capitol Campus
president. "Something is terrible
wrong with this document," he
added, concerning its clarity.
COP members said they felt
that the Grubb Report neglected
views on many of the campuses,
with little or no student in
terviews conducted during the
Grubb committee's research.
Representatives of Penn PIRG,
Pennsylvania Public Interest
Group, introduced their concept
to the council, and asked for
Commonwealth Campus help in
supporting and organizing the
group.
Penn PIRG is a student
directed public interest group in
Pennsylvania aimed at tapping
student energy and research
potential, and channeling it into
constructive action in the areas of
corporate irresponsibility,
consumer fraud, race and sex
discrimination and environmental
pollution.
The basic concept behind Penn
Kochel Expresses A Need
For Community Participation
Throughout this term, a
number of- members of the
campus community will be in
terviewed concerning their
thoughts and actions in com
munity affairs. As is usually the
case, the bulk of Behrend's in
volvement in the Erie area is
unknown to the vast majority of
Behrendites. These articles, then,
will seek to unveil some of the
participation in the community
which would otherwise go un
noticed.
The logical person with whom
to begin is the Director -of the
Campus, who discussed why a
person should get involved in
community work, and what ac
tivities he has contributed his
time and efforts to over the past
years.
Kochel believes that every
person possesses a set of talents.
When that person recognizes a
need which exists in the com
munity, he may be moved to
apply those talents toward the
resolution of the problem. "To
give something of yourself to
others is an education,
broadening and enriching ex
perience that you will long
remember. Volunteering one's
services prepares and developes
those talents for future ex
periences."
A resume of Mr. Kochel's civic.
PIRG is to combine energy, the
student base, and $3 and $4 a
student to build a powerful action
organization. A majority of
students on campus can petition
the University Board of Trustees
to increase activity fees by one
dollar a term.
This money can then be used to
hire a staff of lawyers, scientists,
and engineers to work full-time on
behalf of students. An elected
board of student directors would
direct the professional staff,
while enabling students to con
tribute to social problems in a
manner which benefits, rather
than interrupts, their education.
According to Penn PIRG
representatives, the signatures of
more than 54 per cent of the
University students ire needed to
provide the group with enough
student support to ask the
University Board of Trustees for
approval_ Upon approval, one
dollar would be added to each
student's activity fee, which is
part of the tuition sum, a term.
Commonwealth Campuses can
benefit from Penn PIRG through
the proposed state organization
which would divide Pennsylvania
into three regions—Western,
Central and Eastern—with
campuses working in their
region's activities, through funds
channeled back to them from the
University collection.
"This is not a Commonwealth
Campus and Old Main
organization," said Penn PIRG
member James McClure. "It is a
Penn State concept with every
campus working together."
Commonwealth Campuses
would probably be represented in
Penn PIRG through COP, or a
similar operation.
The definition of the mission of
participation would cover the
better part of this page. His most
important endeavors have been of
committees in the field of
education. Among these are: the
initiation and development of the
Associate Degree Program in
Business at Behrend to meet a
voiced community need; the
founding of WQLN, Erie's
educational television station; the
institution of Great Lakes
Research Institutes (which is
presently engaged in research in
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Thursday, February 3, 1972
COP
the University was also brought
upon further discussion dealing
with the Grubb Report, and COP
members said they felt this, in
addition to recommendations
concerning security and health
services at the Commonwealth
Campuses, needed further
clarification.
Joe Landis, Ogontz SGA
president, called for "concrete
recommendations in the areas
which Dr. Grubb has stressed,"
by the council. Individual
Commonwealth Campuses will
send recommendations to Landis
for further evaluation of the
Grubb Report in February.
Hazleton President Paul
Yanoshik asked for discussion on
Senate Rule 111-D-3, dealing with
the publishing and distributing of
student publications. The Senate
rule states that material
published by students of the
University may be sold on
campus only if it is produced or
sold by a chartered student
organization.
The question arose over the
publication of an underground
newspaper, "Guerrilla", at the
Hazleton Campus, at the
December meeting of COP,
where the original resolution was
defeated. At this week's meeting,
however, the council tabled a
similar resolution for a review of
rules governing the student
publications until copies of the
resolution and existing rules
become available.
In other business, Ogontz
President Joe Landis was ap
pointed by acclamation as the
council's additional represen
tative to the University's
Academic Planning Commission.
Terry Wimmer, Capitol
president, was appointed by the
council to the commission last
December.
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In the final comment, Mr.
Kochel revealed his thoughts on
our campus's involvement in the
community. "Education must, in
order. to make a great con
tribution to the community in
which they reside, must become,
through the people who occupy
those insitutions, part of the
mainstream of life of that
community.
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