Tlehrtril (tolleglait Volume XXIII N 0.17 New Agenda Discussed at S.G.A. The Behrend Student Government Association kept up its momentum at a meeting on Monday night, with extended discussion on many multifaceted problems and plans at Behrend. Concepts under consideration include: keeping part of the RUB open 24 hours, faculty ideas of evaluation, and screening applicants for Student Affairs. USG Asks for CC Representation (APS) Students at the Com monwealth Campuses may soon be represented on the Executive Branch of the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at University Park, according to a proposal outlined at this week's USG Senate meeting. Bob Lukasik, former Scranton SGA president and one of the initiators of the proposed amendment of the Student Ser vices Act passed by the USG Senate in 1971, said the amend ment would set up "a separate department on the same level as the other functional depart ments" in the USG Executive Branch. Lukasik stressed the fact that the new department would work with the Council of Presidents (COP). "We hope to bring the idea to the March COP meeting for their reaction," he said. "We don't intend to force this on anyone in any way. It is up to the individual SGA and COP to consider, it," Lukasik said. As a "service-oriented, not legislative" department, the new addition to USG would "act as a clearing house to correlate in formation relevant to the cam puses," according to Lukasik. He said that the new depart ment would probably work Clubs Need Participation The various service organizations on campus such as the Cwens, Circle K, and the Student Service Committee request the cooperation and participation of students and faculty members in their two current projects. Their first project is to publish a daily bulletin to keep the students and faculty informed of the various activities. The second is the bi weekly .student faculty social hour. This is about the only chance for students and faculty to get together to rap. The Social hour is from 2:30-4:30. The clubs cordially invite everyone to at tend as student support is necessary for the implementation of the fulfilled campus services. through the SGA's to distribute information to the campuses. From there, he said, it would be up the individual SGA's to distribute the material to _the campus population. Lukasik included the areas of information and assistance on the Penn State Artist Series, voting in Centre Company, living in sororities, fraternities and dormitories, .consumer-price guides, orientation, concerts, special events and specifically, a bureau to obtain block tickets for Commonwealth campus students wishing to come to University Park events. Stressing that the department would work with COP and other service organizations on campus like the Organization for Town Independent Students, Lukasik said that he hoped people would listen to - thorough, factual ac counts and invstigations" done when complaints are brought to the department. "In addition, we meant to act as a co-ordinator between USG and COP," he added. "We don't in tend to infringe on COP func tions." "Last year's experience as a SGA president has convinced me that there is a real need for such a department," Lukasik said. "The driving force behind our in tentions is to enable the Com monwealth Campus student to leave his 'second-class citizen' status and get more of the benefits that our University has to offer them." he added. The next step, according to Lukasik, is for the Rules Com mittee of USG to consider the proposed amendment. After it reaches the floor of the USG Senate, a vote would be taken. If the amendment passes, it would be up to USG President Benson Lichtig to appoint a secretary for the new department Final Exam Schedule See. Page 2 Published by the Studentsof the Behrend Campus of the Pennsylvania State University Station Road, Erie, Pa. 16510 PSU Student Norman Brown Speaks for Harrisburg Seven by Beckie LaPlante Staff Reporter Norman Brown will speak Wednesday, March 8 at 7 p.m. in the RUB Lecture Hall; on the trial of the Harrisburg Seven. Who are the Harrisburg Seven? Three of them are Roman Catholic priests; one is a nun who teaches art history. Still another is a gentle lucid Pakistani scholar, an authority on Third World nationalism. Finally, a couple: a former priest, son of a Congressman, and a former nun, a Fbright scholar in French. They are Eqbal Ahmad, Father Philip Berrigan, Sister Elizabeth McAlister, Father Neil McLaughlin, Anthony and Mary Scoblick, and Father Joseph Wenderoth. Seven people who hate war. The Department of Justice has invested thousands of agent manhours in this case. It has been charged that they have coerced dozens of witnesses, made free and brazen use of wiretapping, manipulated a grand jury for a period of five full months. All this .ab'or produced an enormously complex, subtly fashioned in dictment. Brown believes that the Harrisburg Seven are not, as the government charges, con spirators or bombers or kid napers, but are indeed resisters; some of them have gone past deploring the war to the point of direct action against its tools. Because they interfered with the draft, the government chose to prosecute them. These seven men and women, whether guilty or not, appeal powerfully to the roots of American conscience. Nobody knows who'll win in court—Brown feels that the government will lose if the actual result of the trial is a widening of the community of conscience, a Play Opens March 10 "The Investigation", by Peter Weiss, author of "Marat Sade", will be opening at the Erie Playhouse on March 10. John Dornberg, writing in the New York Times, called "The Investigation", the "Ultimate refinement of a new style that has brought back to the German stage a breath of the controversy and messianic spirit of the 1920'5." The new style that he referred to was the documentary drama as introduced by Rolf Hochhuth with his play, "The Deputy". "The - Investigation" is scheduled to play eight per formances, March 10 through 19. There will be performances each night except Monday and Tuesday. Tickets are priced at $3.25 for Wednesday and Thursday per formances and $3.75 for Friday, Saturday and Sunday per formances. Student Discount prices are $2.50 for Wednesday and Thursday at $3. for Sundays. SUB Presents Coffee House The Student Union Board of the Behrend Campus will present a Coffee House at 8:30 p.m. Friday. March 3. in the Reed Union Building Dining Room. Local talent will be featured. deepening of the spirit of resistance. Those who support the Harrisburg Seven believe that man can no longer remain in the silent darkness of an environment which is suppressing its own humanity. Brown wants to create an air of awareness of the Harrisburg Seven among the student body and the entire community—who they are, what they support and what the trial is really all about. Brown will also give an in troduction to the Berrigan Brothers. The supporters of the Harrisburg Seven have also launched a campaign entitled "Pilgrimage for Freedom". Various Proposals Submitted to SGA The nineteenth meeting of the Student Government Association took place on Monday, February 28, in the Reed Seminar Room. Walker Moore will talk to Dean Benjamin A. Lane about keeping the upstairs RUB open twenty four how's. The SGA approved his proposal. Gary Fairchild asked for a volunteer co-chairman of the Hot Line, so some of the problems will be taken from him. Ken Mushrush (8-Gn-As-Erie) came to SGA with a list of suggestions for the Hot Line. These suggestions will be worked on if they already haven't been taken care of. rrlr. Daniel, Instructor in History, commented that the faculty evaluation will not be of any help to the teaching methodg of the - faculty. The faculty would rather be evaluated by 100 students, rather than 40. The fact of publishing the evaluation was discussed at lengths. It was decided that the SGA publish the results of the evaluation for preregistration in the Spring, and combine the results of two terms of evaluations, to be published for next Fall. The evaluation answer sheets were explained to all members. The deadline for turning in the sheets is March 10. Black Week at Behrend, will be Music Nostalgia Old tunes and music was the theme at the concert in Erie Hall last Saturday night as Your Father's Mustache regaled Behrend students with the sounds that our parents and grandparents listened to. Thursday March 2, 1972 This mass pilgrimage will take place in Harrisburg during Holy Week (March 25 through April 2) The purpose of this march is to revitalize the peace movement and focus attention on the Harrisburg trial. Terry Provance, seminarian from Pittsburgh and head of the Pittsburgh Defense Committee for the Harrisburg Seven, will be a guest speaker at Immaculate Conception Church, 233 E. 16 street in Erie on Monday, March 7, 1972, at 8 p.m. He is coming to Erie to discuss with interested members of the clergy as well as concerned citizens the specific activities which are being planned for Harrisburg during Holy Week. from April 9-15. The Black Student Union came to SGA asking for the underwriting of Dr. Wright who is going tb speak at Behrend on April 11. The cost is $3OO. The SUB will take care of publicity and his cost of tran sportation, and the SGA will pay for him out of the SGA fund. Jim Lyons (Hum Dev-McKees Rocks) announced that next Tuesday, Norm Brown, a Penn State University senior, will come out to Behrend and speak if he will be sponsored by the SGA. He is going to speak on the Harrisburg Seven. The SGA will also publicize this. President Al Quinlan spoke to Dean Lane about freshman women having to live on the Behrend Campus. The rule has been dropped from the books. Miss Carroll (assistant to the Dean of Student Affairs) and Dan Fiorentino (resident coor dinator) positions will be open this year. Dean Lane would like students on the committee that screens the applicants for these jobs. It was decided that the SGA appoint three students to serve on this committee. The recom mendations were that two dorm students (one female and one male) and one commuter be appointed. The students ap pointed were: Ken Mushrush, Debbie Lomax, and Walker Moore..
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