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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..