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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.