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Editorial Opinion
Complaints And Pleasures!
Editorial: Random
Paragraphs on becoming
executive editor:
Writing is an art. All too often
art tends to be empty expression.
It is there, it is pretty, it is nice to
look at, it does nothing. Art can
inform, conform, and reform.
This column will serve as a
forum, to discuss and solve
complaints and pleasures here on
campus. They should be and
hopefully will be, your problems
and concerns, good or bad. I will
attempt, as that is all I can do—
attempt—to make the problems
worth reading about and get the
problems solved. Create
construct-perfect art.
Oil the commuter coffee crisis:
tAs of the last SGA meeting the
coffee crisis alone is now too
small a subject to talk about. It
seems a showdown is coming
Something
Different
- Sat. Nov. 10
Upstairs RUB
1-5 p.m.
First Annual
Craft Festival
Featuring:
Candle-making,
Macrame,
Ceramics,
Leathercrafts,
and More!
It's FREE!!
Tlehrtntilitgian
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Executive Editor
Jeffrey Matson
Editor-in-Chief
Lynne Phillips
Moniving Editor
Georgean Gaydosh
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staff reserves the right to correct
between hungry students and Mr.
Finley and major changes in the
whole food service organization is
being called for. Thanks for the
letter though (buy a thermos; in
the long run it's cheaper).
On ecology :
This will be short because we
have all read about as much as
we can stand about ecology. (Bi.
Sci. we love you, really). As we
look around us, we should see a
cleaner Behrerxi College. How
does it look?
On an earlier editorial: •
Dear Rosa: Perhaps I can
clarify a few things for you and
other people about that editorial.
I do not believe that in love a
person becomes vulnerable but
that he wants to be ,vulnerable. I
agree, people have to know
themselves first and often this
gets in the way of people. Also, we
must understand that hurt does
Millions Die From Deadly Air.
Such a headline is indeed possible
at the rate man is polluting the
air. Although the topic of air
pollution has been stressed so
many times in the past, people
still do not realize the potential
danger it possesses toward all
mankind.
Air pollution itself is defined
as: "contamination of the air by
waste products from the ac
tivities of man." Some of the more
major sources of air pollution are
chemical plants, iron mills,
smelters, and power plants, with
the number one cause being the
automobile. As a result of these
contaminents, man is faced with
problems of crop destruction,
metal corrosion, paint chipping
and discoloring, and moreover
danger to human health.
In the area of vegetagion, man
faces a financial, as well as
physical, loss 'from air pollution.
Data taken from a 1969 Air
Environment Studies of PSU
reports that $3.5 million was lost
in direct crop destruction while
another $8 million was used in the
substitution and relocation of
crops. The major pollutants
which cause the most harm to
Member of
Sports Editor
Dave Lojewski
Policy
Editorial
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Behrend Collegian.
Millions Die From Deadly Air
News Editor
Linda Johnson
Behrend Collegian
not always mean harm, people
who love absorb the shocks, the
hurts, of those they love. In this
kind of relationship, there can be
no harm, only a continual growth
of the relationship. OK?
Here I mist talk from many
roles at once. Word has reached
me, second hand of course, that
there has been some question
about the way try-outs were
organized. The officers who had
to serve on the casting committee
as well as try-out were not all that
happy about it either. But that
was how it was. We were as
objective as we could be and the
final word was Mr. Selco's. This
is the way he works his auditions.
If anyone has any complaint
aboqt the results of the try-outs
they should 'talk to the people
involved, not around us.
Till next term, good luck, peace
and think snow!!
plants are oxidants ( °zones ,
PANS, nitrogen dioxide), sulfur
and lead oxides, and particulates.
These pollutants cause the leaf
tissue to collapse, with a
reduction in chlorophyll due to
discoloration as well as a
reduction in growth.
Pollution has a marked effect
on human health. The respiratory
system is most affected with
bronchitis, emphysema, and lung
or esophagus cancer often oc
curring. Sulfur oxides, the major
pollutant from steel mills, can
cause allergenic reactions, and
auto and smokers' emissions may
cause defects in brain functions
by producing dizziness, nausea,
brain fatigue, memory loss. As
most people know, the common
site for cancer is in the lungs.
Smoking and sulfur dioxide, the
major contributors, interfere
with the cleaning process of the
lungs, and thus the chances of
cancer are increased.
Our own city of Erie has a clean
Air Committee which has been
influential in combating air
pollution in the past. They
brought forth the "No-Burning
Ordinance", which allows the
people in the city to burn only on
Saturday between 9 and 5. But as
in most cases, there are many
violators because of the difficulty
in enforcing such a law. Erie can
be said to be a comparatively
clean city (as far as air quality
goes), because much_work is
Councils View on Drugs
• Starting with this issue of the
Collegian there will be a series of
articles relating to various drugs.
These articles are supplied by the
Erie County Drug Council in an
effort to give information
regarding rehabilitation agency
referrals, legal and illegal drugs
to the students.
METHAQUALONE
Sopors and quaalides are
common names that refer to the
drug methaqualone. It is a non
barbituate hypnotic sedative,
useful in the treatment of in
somnia. Doctors prescribe it as a
sleeping pill or tranquilizer.
Metaqualone had been promoted
and described as being com
pletely safe and non-addictive
drug.
The effects of methaqualone
are very pleasurable. Unfor
tunately, they can also be very
dangerous. Especially so if
you've been led
_to believe
otherwise, or are not aware of the
dangers.
being done to purify the air. Yet in
the near future, a steel mill will
be constructed near the bay.
Whose benefit is this mill going to
be for if our air is affected?
Food Drive
Next Week
Well, it's Thanksgiving time
and that means it's a time to be
thankful for all the things that you
have been provided with. But
what about all the people who
have nothing? Some students at
Behrend have been thinking about
this question and have decided to
do something about it.
A food drive! Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week,
November 12, 13 and 14, Behrend
students along with students from
Gannon, Mercyhurst and Villa
Maria will be going from door to
door to all the houses of Erie and
Wesleyville collecting cans of
food. The collection will be given
to the Charities Offices in Erie
who will distribute them to needy
families.
What can you do? They need
cars and workers. Just come
down to the lounge in front of the
mailboxes in the RUB on any of
the nights •mentioned and give a
hand.
If you have any questions
please contact Candy Bosch in 145
Perry Hall, 899-9064.
November 8, 1973
Methaqualane releases
inhibitions and can be
psychologically and physically
addictive. With prolonged abuse
of the drug, a person will build up
physical tolerance that will
produce severe withdrawal
symptoms when use is
cuscontinued. This may result in
delirium and can produce a near
coma state without interferring
greatly with pulse, respiration or
pain response. Methaqualone is
particularly dangerous when
used in conjunction with alcohol.
Used together abusively the two
drugs may restrict respiration
and rause death.
The amount of methaqualone
needed for an overdose does not
increase correspondingly with a
user's tolerance, so that while it
takes increasing amounts to
reach the same state of being
"stoned", the amount it takes to
overdose .remains .the same.
Heavy users, eventually may get
to the point where they overdose
before they get off.
Coming Soon!
lee Skating Rink
at Basketball
Courts
by Perry Hall
Sponsored by
Keystone Society
Pros & Cons
...Behrend College's police
and safety service is once
again the security depart
ment.
...the eternal dryer in the
Lawrence laundry room has
finally flickered out.
...this is the last
COLLEGIAN this term.
...something is finally
being done about the poor
cafeteria. services on
campus.
...think snow.
...the Halloween party in
the Niagara recreation room
was a great success.
" ...a beautiful queen and
handsome king crowned at
Homecoming.
...one more week of classes
left of fall term.