iHT:,1'..,tt1in.n...1:....,..:.,...:......,•,,,-..:011e......i...•.:0 - ,,,.-11. Volume XXVI No. 2 Capt. Paul J. Weitz will be at Behrend, October 7 where he will receive the first Behrend College Medallion. Faculty and students can purchase tickets to attend the luncheon. Medallion Homecoming of Captain Paul J. Weitz is scheduled for October 6, 7 and 8, 1973. An airport reception at 10 a.m. on Saturday October 6 will start the festivities. At 2 p.m. that same day a parade will march from 26 Street to 12 and French in honor of Captain Weitz. That evening a Testimonial Dinner is to be served in the Harborcreek High School Cafeteria. On Sunday Captain Weitz will come to Behrend Campus for a luncheon where he will receive the first Behrend College Medallion. The luncheon is to be held at 12:30 in the RUB cafeteria lounge. Any faculty member or student . wishing to purchase SGA Elections Underway The Student Government Association better known as SGA will be holding their elections this week. The elections, which shall,be from 9 to 4 on Thursday and Friday September 27 and 28, are held in the RUB in front of the Nittany Lion. Additional voting will continue during the supper hour in Dobbins from 4:30 to 6:30 on Thursday. Elections officially close at 4 on Friday. Those running tor positions as SGA officers are: President Mike Chiric uzio, Bill MacTaggart. Ist Vice President... Vic J. Kopnitsky, Suzanne McMillen. 2nd Vice President... Darla Berkey. Sec. Treasurer.... John Lammers. Candidates are reminded that there is to be no cam paigning in the voting area of the RUB lobby or in Dobbins. Published by the Students of the Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University Thursday, September 27, 1973 Awarded tickets can obtain them for $2.50 at the Reed Union desk. Tickets will not be available after October 1. After the Behreiltl luncheon the captain and his family will participate in an Ecumenical Church service which shall be in the Harborcreek Stadium at 3 p.m. Immediately following the service will be the dedication and renaming of the football field. Early Sunday evening a class reunion will climax the busy day. Monday, Skylab Astronaut Weitz will tour the Harbor creek schools where he will hold assemblies thus giving students an op portunity to meet the captain. Students are to remember that when voting they only vote for the officers plus the dorm and commuter reps of their own respective class. Voting for all prospective candidates is not permissible for any student. Trip to Falls Being Organized A trip to Niagara Falls on Saturday October 13, is being sponsored by Behrend's Resident assistants. The cost will be $5.25, which includes bus transportation and a boxed lunch. Any interested student is asked to sign up with an R.A. Your fee is to be paid when you register and no money will be refunded. Buses will leave Behrend at 1 p.m. and return at midnight. There will be no organized tours or planned schedule. Academic Dean Behrend College has achieved much status as a four year in stitution. With the addition of new faculty members, new academic courses, and greater student enrollment, Behrend' s an ticipated growth will continue slowly and gradually, eventually leading to that of a fine academic liberal arts college. For the future growth plan of Behrend to continue, thirteen new faculty positions were opened, along with the position of an academic dean of faculty. For Behrend to have been considered as a college by Pennsylvania State University, a few provisions had to be met. A committee known as the Task Force was established. Dean David Spalding of Behrend was chairman of the committee along with Behrend faculty and PSU faculty as members. The Task Force spent a year studying individual colleges in New York and other states to achieve a broad analysis of what constitutes a four year institution. After many ideas and proposals, it, was decided to reconstruct one of the PSU commonwealth campuses into a four year college. Behrend campus was chosen over the other campuses for specific reasons. Behrend has an excellent physical plan with room for expansion. Erie, being the third Transvestite to Two of the Behrend Student Union Board's biggest attractions of the year will be making their appearances this week on campus. A lecture featuring Christine Jorgenson and a mini concert starring Gove Scrivenor will highlight the week's agenda. Christine Jorgenson's ap pearance at Erie Hall on Tuesday, October 2 at 8 p.m. could very well be the most unusual program presented at Behrend this year. Christine gained notoriety for becoming one of the first persons in the world to have a sex change. This startling occurrence skyrocketed her into becoming America's number one topic of discussion during the fifties. She is credited with receiving more newspaper space than any other individual in the history of journalism. Despite the snickering and outrage, Miss Jorgenson has handled her fame admirable. She has appeared on TV, in night clubs, Broadway, and summer stock. During her lectures she touches on the subject of trans sexuality, homosexuality, transvestism, and gender identity problems. She fields most any question and her lectures prove to be lively and informative. Tickets for Christine Jorgenson's lecture are priced at a dollat with an activity card and two dollars without a card. Two days later on October 4, Gove Scrivenor and his dog Fella will be featured in a mini-concert in the RUB Lecture Hall starting at 8 p.m. A country and blues singer-guitarist, Scrivenor is a spontaneous performer who is quick to establish a rapport with largest city in Pennsylvania accounted for another point in Behrend's favor. Tenative enrollment of students would probably be higher, because Erie is such a large city. Behrend also had a great number of faculty in residence of high quality stan ding. Because of these attributes Behrend was given the green light in January of 1973 to become an independent four year school under PSU. To fulfill the position of academic dean, a search com mittee was organized. Two of Behrend's faculty members, Dr. Edwin Masteller and Dr. Ernest Weckesser served on this com mittee. The duties were to accept applications from qualified in dividuals and screen the ap plicants. A total of 220 ap plications were filed. Thes ap plications came from thirty different states and five nations: Candidates from highly reputable schools such as Harvard and Yale applied for the dean position. All candidates applying for the position were not slighted in any way whether it be for sex, race or age. All candidates screened were selected by strict guidelines and rules with the search com mittee scrupulously following set procedures. Two candidates applying for the position visited the campus this summer for an extensive his audience. Although he is a talented and humorous per former, Gove Scrivenor has been upstaged more than once by the antics of his dog Fella. The two of them make for an unusual and quite entertaining duo. Gove has a recording contract with Uni Records and is preparing material for a new album. His first album, on the TRX label was entitled "Heavy Cowboy" but Gove dislikes it mainly because he felt it was Christine Jorgenson, sponsored by SUB Sought tour. Behrend's faculty is quite in favor of having an academic dean, now that Behrend is beginning to become an established four year college. Union Board Shows Movie This weekend's featured movie will be - "Man in the Wilderness" starring Richard Harris. The movie concerns the story of a party of expeditionaries trapping and stealing furs in the land of the hostile Arikara Indians. Harris portrays Zachary Bass, who is mangled by a grizzly bear and left to die by his companions who are fleeing from the Indians. His indomitable will helps him come to terms with nature and survive the ferocious winter of the un charted Northwest Territories. "Man in the Wilderness" will be shown on Saturday, September 29 at 9 p.m. in the RUB Lecture Hall and on Sunday, September 30 at 7 and 9 p.m. Prices for the movie are fifty cents with an activity card and $1.25 without a card. On Friday, September 28 there will be a Coffee House starting at 9 p.m. Local talent will be featured. Prices for the Coffee House remain a dime with an activity card and a quarter without one. Speak over-orchestrated. Scrivenor has appeared on concert bills with such rock notables as The Alkhan Brothers, Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Lee Michaels, and Kris Kristofferson. Prices for Gove Scrivenor are a dollar with an activity card and $1.50 without a card. Looking ahead to the weekend of October 5-7, the SUB's Autumn Weekend will take place. Many activities, including a semi formal are planned on these days.
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