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Volume XXIV No. 14
SGA Starts
To Dispute
By Jim Benner
Whether a student is aware of it
or not, the amount paid to Penn
State for his education is
essentially controlled by politics.
Since both Federal and state
education budgets are either
remaining the same or being cut
back, and the cost of providing
education keeps going up, it is the
student, through increased
tuition, who picks up the tab. It is
not President Oswald, who ac
tually is fighting against these
increases, causing the rise, it is
the men in Harrisburg.
Therefore, "political in
volvement", perhaps a by-word
of the sixties, has come at last to
Behrend College, here in the
seventies. A tentative program
was outlined at the Monday night
meeting of SGA in Niagara
Lobby.
Tuition is scheduled to go up, as
A Supply
Of Blood
Required
Dr. E-: Mastellar has arranged
for the Mobile Unit of the Com
munity Blood Bank to visit our
college campus. The new $20,000
unit will make its maiden voyage
to Behrend and will be parked in
the Reed Parking Lot Thursday,
March 8, 1973, from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. This year parental per
mission -is not required unless
your age is under 18.
The blood collected helps both
the local community and the
campus. If someone at Behrend
had need for a transfusion, the
blood would be given free
because of our participation. In
the community, the local
hospitals are always in need of a
blood supply. Your donation gives
many people a new lease on life.
It is used for maintaining those
with chronic kidney disease on
the artificial kidney machine and
for both open and closed heart
surgery. It is used for exchange
transfusions in newborn babies
with an Rh incompatibility. It is
also used for accident victims and
for many routine surgeries.
Call Mrs. "K" and make an
appointment for March 8; 1973,
from
.9 a.m. to 4 p.m. An ap
pointment will keep the waiting
period to a minimum.
Please abstain from taking any
type of drug for 24-48 hours before
donating blood to insure the ill
person who receives your pint of
blood a healthy recovery.
If you have any questions
concerning your eligibility con
tact the dispensary, extension
217.
Third Annual Banana Eating Contest
During last Wednesday's home basketball game, - the JRC
sponsored their third annual Banana Eating Contest, with
hilarious results. Have you ever tried to stuff your mouth
and say at the same time: "Banananananan!"
Letter Campaign
Tuition Raise
admitted by President Oswald,
for next year. However, if
students and parents can be
mobilized to express their
displeasure to the people who
really hold the purse-strings for
Penn State, perhaps an end to the
cycle of lower budgets and higher
tuitions can be achieved. These
people are Governor Shapp and
the local representatives from
the student's voting district. It is
possible to hear them say how
much they support continued low
cost education, but when the
budgets are formulated those
words are as dust in the wind.
The SGA has decided to em
bark on a campaign to flood
Harrisburg with letters from
students and parents tp their
representatives and senators.
Already telegrams have been
sent to Governor Shapp from
SGA, questioning his in
consistency, and to President
Oswald supporting his stand
against the rising costs.
During the next week general
guidelines for writing the letters
will be formulated and given to
the JRC members and RA's.
Then on Tuesday, March 6,
starting at 9 p.m. in Perry lobby
dorm meetings will be held to
inform students of the guidelines
and how to get their parents, who
often feel the weight of the in-
Mis - sed Laughs for
Behrend Students
Last Saturday night, most of
Behrend College missed a fan
tastic display of comic genius in
action. This came in the form of
the widely acclaimed comedy
group, the "Portable Circus."
Under the direction of George
Sherman, who also wrote most of
the group's material, the Por
table Circus, consisting of Chip
Keyes, Mark Williams, Jeff
Lippa, and Janet Blake, tore
across the stage of Erie Hall for
two hours, cutting up the
cherished American institution of
television in quick viniettas of
witty, almost brutally comic
satire. The time went all too fast.
This was, however, another in a
long list of disappointments for
the Student Union Board, who
sponsored the group's ap
pearance at Behrend. Only fofty
nine people showed up for the
single performance, and most of
these were not from the campus
at all. As a result, the SUB lost
over eleven hundred dollars. But
the saddest part of the entire
evening was that more people
would not share the intense,
entirely original, and ex
cruciatingly funny antics of the
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creases too, involved in the
campaign. The meetings will
follow at 10 p.m. and ap
proximately 11 p.m. in Niagara
and Lawrence halls respectively.
Any questions students have
about the campaign will be an
swered at these meetings. Lists
indicating names and addresses
of representatives and senators
from the districts of the state will
also be available for students not
sure of who to - write to.
Faculty members, too, might
get interested especially aware
that without additional funds,
salary increases will be im
possible. And too, the desire that
many faculty have for more
academic facilities right here at
Behrend could instill interest in
the campaign.
It is useless to complain about
tuition going up each year without
at least trying to do something to
stop it. Legislators do usually
value individual letters from
their constituency. They know an
aware, involved group of voters
can watch for their activity in
office and if unsatisfied, take that
office away from them. It is
hoped the campaign will inspire a
positive reaction in Harrisburg
and education will assume its
proper status. high on the
priorities list.
"Portable Circus." Remember
the name and regret the night you
didn't bother to let them entertain
you.
Additions
At Behren
New baccalaureate programs
will be offered at Behrend
College, hopefully beginning in
1976.
The Task Force analyses in
dicates that selected bac
calaureate majors can be offered
by this campus—a tentative list
has been suggested, although
changes may occur, but it is
reasonable to expect that these
majors will be included among
those offered by 1976.
The programs include majors
in Arts and Humanities, Social
Behavioral Sciences and Natural
Sciences.
The student at Behrend College
would also have the option to
enroll in a contemporary issue
emphasis program.
Examples of such programs
have been suggested—such as
Environmental Studies, Science
Technology and Society,
Individual as Consumer and
Citizen, Human Service and the
Communication Arts.
Majors would include regular
course work, individual studies,
tutorial services, seminars,
workshops and community
projects.
Hopefully, 12 additional faculty
will be appointed by the end of
1973 and a total of 30 new faculty
members by 1976 to take care of
the additional programs.
The Task Force has also
recommended that the University
pursue appropriation of funds for
the development of needed
academic facilities at Behrend
The "Argir Group" Headlines SUB
Appearing as members of the Coffee House Circuit will be
the new folk-rock group, the "Argir Group", a trio of young
singers and guitarists from deep in the heart of Texas. The
group will appear in the RUB March 8,9, and 10 at 9 p.m.
Admission to see the Argir Group will be a nominal twenty
five cents with activity card, fifty without.
Argir Group Sponsored
At Rub's Coffee House
For March 8, 9 and 10
Headlining the SUB activities
for the days ahead will be an
appearance of The Argir Group,
members of the Coffee House
Circuit.
Before starting The Argir
Group, Fred Argir toured ex
tensively as a solo singer
songwriter and recorded two
albums, both of which enjoyed
"mild success." He organized his
group after meeting Betsy
Bernard, known throughout folk
circles as "The Denver Thrush,"
at the Red Lion Coffee House in
Austin, Texas. With the addition
of a bassist, the trio embarked
I Majors
d in 1976
College. This would include an
additional 92,676 square feet by
1976.
The University is also to ex
plore the possibilities and means
for providing additional housing
facilities for students enrolling at
Behrend College from outside the
Erie area.
Everyone is looking forward to
the expansion of Behrend both
academically, and physically,
but with the cutback in State
Appropriations, it appears that
these expansions will be "put on
the shelf" for quite some time.
Hufnagel Receives
Yet Another Award
John Hufnagel, Penn State's
All-American football quar
terback, has been named as the
1972 winner of Football Roundup
Magazine's "Exemplary Player
Awzl rd. "
Fl uf na gel, a senior from
Coraopolis. Pa., will accept the
award at a dinner at the Down
town Athletic Club in New York
City on April 4.
Joe Carbone, a defensive end at
the University of Delaware, will
receive a similar award for
college division players. Both
awards will be presented by
Adrian B. Lopez, publisher of
Football Roundup, an annual
preview magazine.
Previous winners of the award
Thursday, March 1, 1973
upon a tour of the Southwest and
Texas, where they gained im
mediate acceptance by audiences
in those areas. An audition flr the
Coffee House Circuit at New
York's Bitter End Cafe was
successful, and the group has
toured on that national college
circuit since then.
The Argir Group has changed
much since those initial per
formances. The newest member
of the trio is singer -bassist James
Lanpley from Texas.
Instrumentation has added to the
basic acoustic guitar sound with
twelve-string, electric guitar, and
amplified acoustic guitars
augmented by harmonica, kazoo,
and all combinations of their
three voices.
Performances by The Argir
Group will take place March 8,9,
and 10 at 9 p.m. in the RUB.
Prices for the Coffee House on
these three evenings will be
twenty-five cents with an activity
card and fifty cents without.
The most successful film of the
current nostalgia kick, "Summer
of '42", will be shown Sunday
night at 7 and 9 p.m. in the RUB
Lecture Hall. Although chances
are that most people have either
seen or heard about "Summer of
'42", it's one of those films which
can be seen many times over and
still be entertaining, probably
because the story itself is
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in the major college division are
Mike Phipps, Purdue; Joe
Theismann, Notre Dame; and
Jerry Tagge, Nebraska. College
division winners include Chip
Bennett, Abiline Christian; Mike
Potchad, Kansas State (Pitt
sburg) ; and John Hill, Lehigh.
Hufnagel set 16 school passing
and total offense records during a
brilliant career at Penn State. He
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