lehrenii Collegian
Volume X.
w No. 8
Hanging of the Greens
Walker Moore and Father Pat participate in the annual
Hanging of the Greens ceremony, by placing the wreath at
the chapel.
Annual Xmas Ceremony
The annual Christmas years. An opening sentence was
ceremony, the Hanging of the given by Greg Leo, who also led a
Green, was held at the Win- responsive reading. Christmas
tergreen Gorge Cemetery to hymns were sung and the
celebrate the coming holiday Christmas Story was read by
season with the end of the Fall Mark Coates and Ramona Cwon.
term. The program also com- Walker Moore, the Student
memorated the Behrend family,
who donated their estate to the
Pennsylvania State University.
Taking place in the Behrend
Family Chapel Monday night, the
service began with an in
troduction by Dean Benjamin
Lane on the tradition which has
been going on for twenty-four
Behrend Hosts PSU Deans
sequences along with course
requirements.
An open session was held for
students to discuss any issue with
R.G. Quinn, Dean of Academic
Instruction for Commonwealth
Campuses.
Many students questioned the
reason one must schedule sub
jects that are “so-called
requirements” for their major -
such as taking a language to
fullfill a Liberal Arts
requirement. The answer was
given that Liberal Arts is
basically a cultural background,
and by taking a language, part of
the cultural background is
fulfilled.
Another question posed was
that of Behrend not having a
library sufficient enough to
handle a four year academic
program. The reason for this is
because of lack of appropriate
funding. It was mentioned that
each book put on the shelf costs
$25 and Behrend needs ap
proximately 40,000 more books to
have a sufficient library.
Questions concerning par
ticular courses were answered at
a later session when students met
with deans of their respective
colleges.
The schedule for make-up
of classes missed during the
Thanksgiving Holiday should
be as follows:
Wednesday afternoon, Nov.
22 classes will meet as
scheduled on Wednesday
afternoon, Dec. 6;
Thursday, Nov. 23 classes
will meet as scheduled on
Tuesday Dec. 5;
Friday, Nov. 24 classes will
meet as scheduled on
Monday, Dec. 4:
Saturday, Nov. 25 classes
will meet as scheduled on
Wednesday, morning,
Dec. 6
Government Association
President, extended holiday best
wishes to the students, and
remarks were made by Father
Guy Patrick. The Hanging of the
Greens is a campus tradition
placing a wreath on the Behrend
grave.
Deans of all colleges of the
University visited Behrend this
past week to answer student
questions concerning program
curriculums and course
Sub Committees Outlined
by Pauline Jackson
Staff Writer
The Senate Sub Committees
that function under the Faculty
Senate at Behrend, are concerned
in making recommendations and
reports to the Senate and they
serve as the investigative arm of
the Senate.
The members composing these
seven Sub Committees are all
full-time academic personnel
such as Professors, Associate
Professors, Assistant Professors
and Instructors in which one
member serves as its chairman.
They are concerned with
providing a beneficial and in
teresting academic environment
for both faculty and students at
Behrend. These committees
include the following: Campus
Development Committee,
Academic Planning Committee,
Student Services, Library,
Improvement of Teaching, and
the Faculty Affairs Committee.
The Campus Development
Committee, with seven faculty
members, is headed by Dr. Mary
Chisholm, Assistant Professor of
Chemistry. This committee
concerns itself with the physical
aspects of Behrend including
plants and the development of
buildings.
Dr. David Daniel, Instructor in
History, is chairman of the
Academic Planning Committee.
This committees’, chief purpose is
to deal with all matters con
cerning the academic life at
Behrend. It works to create and
emphasize a whole academic
program that is attractive to the
students. It examines Behrends.
present curriculum and is
Published by the Students of the Behrend Campus
of the
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Task Force Approves Academ
Proposals, But Funding Neede
by Beckie La Plante
Editor-in-Cheif
Development of Behrend’s
four-year Bacculaureate
programs have been further
assured in an announcement
made by Irvin Kochel, Director of
Behrend Campus, concerning the
Task Force report.
John W. Oswald, President of
Penn State University has ac
cepted the Task Force report
which was in the planning stages
since early 1972. The unique
opportunities and advantages of
the Erie Community and the
Behrend. Campus, local, state,
and national educational needs,
money and available facilities
have all been analyzed.
Phase I of the report calls for
the expansion of Behrend’s
student enrollment to 2,000 by
1976. Recommendations for
numerous new faculty and
several administrative heads to
aid in this expansion have been
submitted to the Faculty Senate.
Kochel is very pleased with the
acceptance of the long-awaited
plan, however; many major
points of the plan are still con
fidential, pending action by the
Board of Trustees in January.
More students, new buildings
and an expansion of the teaching
staff are called for in the report,
but funds of any kind for the
University are being held up in
the Pennsylvania legislature.
Oswald presented 'a bare
minimum budget last spring
requesting $86.5 million. This is
the lowest the University can go
without cutting back student
programs.
The request was then cut to
$81.7 million by the Office of the
Secretary of Education.
The amount was later raised to
$83.7 million when the bill went to
the Senate. The bill is now tied up
in a conference committee where
working to develop the four year
program at Behrend. It also
evaluates requests for new
faculty positions.
The Student Services Com
mittee, with Mrs. Marion
Flaherty, instructor in Speech as
chairman, concerns itself with all
aspects of student life which
relate to Behrends educational
process.
The Library Committee deals
with the use and development of
library facilities and is headed by
Mr. Ronald Rossi, Instructor in
Mathematics.
The Improvement of Teaching
Committee with Dr. Robert
Tauber, Assistant Professor of
Education as chairman, concerns
itself with the development of
new teaching techniques, the use
of visual aids and other matters
concerning effective teaching at
Behrend. This committee has
recently unveiled the Audio-
Visual Aids Pre-view Room in the
Behrend Building.
The Committee on Faculty
Affairs with Dr. Ernest
Weckesser as Chairman is
concerned with the cultural,
social, and material welfare of
the faculty and matters
associated with the educational
environment in which the faculty
works.
These committees are not able
to make policies but can make
proposals to the Faculty Senate
concerning any issue which may
arise within any particular
committee. Being that it is early
in the academic year, the com
mittees have had only a few
sessions but more meetings are
expected to take place next term.
it appears it will remain for quite
some time.
Sen. Benjamin R. Donolow,
Chairman of the Senate
Appropriations Committee plans
to block Penn State’s budget until
the University publicly accounts
for 24 recommendations of a
special committee set up by Gov.
Shapp to find ways of saving
money.
Hopefully the' legislators will
decide their position on the Penn
State budget before ad
journment in January; at
which time the newly elected
legislators will return.
Behrend is finally moving
toward its goal of a four-year
Kochel Has Yet To OK
New Positions In Faculty
The Academic Planning
Committee has recommended the
establishment of a substantial
number of new faculty positions
to the Faculty Senate.
Recommendations for these
positions were based on the four
major divisions of faculty as
viewed by the Task Force. The
divisions at this time include:
Arts and Humanities, Social and
Behavioral Sciences, Natural
Science and the Associate Degree
Programs.
The Academic Planning
Committee prioritized at their
Nov. 14 meeting using earlier
Fall Activities End
A light schedule of SUB ac
tivities closes out the fall term
this weekend. The Friday night
Coffeehouse and a movie crime
thriller provided the on-campus
entertainment for the final
weekend.
On Sunday, Dec. 3, the award
winning “Shaft” will have two
showings at 7 and 9 p.m. in the
RUB Lecture Hall. This action
packed thriller starts Richard
Roundtree as Shaft and is
directed by Gordon Parks.
“Shaft” was the recipient of an
Academy Award for its title song
and has also won plaudits from
the New York Film Critics.
Tough, black, private eye Shaft
is hired to find the daughter of a
black underworld leader kid
napped in a power struggle to
Santa Claus Comes to Behrend
Mike Marsh played Santa Claus at the dorm party in
Lawrence HaU, upon the return of Behrend students from
their Thanksgiving break
Saturday December 2,1972
institution but it can not be ex
pected to function, muchless
expand without funds.
The members of the Task
Force worked many months
planning every aspect for
Behrend’s expansion. Faculty,
student’s and administration
have been awaiting the approval
of this program. It seems entirely
possible that his report will be
filed away until the University
collects its requested budget of
$86.5 million. Unless the
legislators can come to a speedy
agreement the University will
have to continue operating on
loans resulting in more interest
payments on these loans.
established guidelines to for
mulate their recommendations.
The tentative recommendations
were approved by the Committee
and forwarded to the Faculty
Senate.
The Faculty Senate at its Nov.
30 meeting modified these plans.
They will then send their results
to Irvin Kochel, Director,
Behrend Campus, for further
approval.
The new positions, if approved
will aid in furthering the ex
pansion of Behrend's teaching
staff.
control the drug, prostitution, and
numbers rackets in Harlem.
Discovering that she has been
kidnapped by the Mafia, Shaft
tries to rescue her without first
setting off a major gang war.
Using an underground of “in
visible” black waiters taxi
drivers, hotel employees, and
other, Shaft locates the girl and
effects her release with the aid of
a black revolutionary and his
buddies. Admission prices for
this comtemporary adventure
film are 35 cents with an activity
card and one dollar without.
Special thanks goes out to
Student Union Board Director
Bruce Zimmerman for his efforts
to provide students with a variety
of entertainment activities this
term.
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