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The scene above shows the fire in the garbage
dumpster behind Dobbins Hall. At 1:55 a.m., January
8, the fire was reported by night assistant, Bruce
Gibson. Soon after, Lawrence Hall had to be
evacuated by all students.
WINTER_WEEKEND COMING
Behrend's annual Winter
Weekend takes place January 18-
20, with a semi-formal dance and
a movie featured as Student
Union Board-sponsored ac
tivities.
The Winter Weekend Semi-
Formal - will be held Friday,
January 18 from 9 p.m. till 1 am:
at the Downtown Holiday Inn.
Band members from Chuck
Ventrello's group will provide the
music. Tickets for the dance are
priced at $3.00 per couple with an
activity card and $3.50 per couple
without a card. They may be
obtained at the RUB Desk.
Winter Weekend's special
movie will be the much
acclaimed "Dr. Zhivago." Boris
Pa.sternak's Nobel Prize-winning
Performers Behind The Scene
While rehearsals for the
coming Behrend Players
production of "The Drunkard"
are continuing, much work is
going on behind the scenes as
well. Perhaps it should be said
that the scenes are being made so
that the stage crew will have
something to work behind. The
set crew is working to complete
several drops as well as a few set
pieces which will be used to
suggest the various locales
needed in the show. Other crews
are at work clearing out the
Studio so that seating can be set
up. The Studio will also have a
complete set of new curtains
which will remain as a permanent
addition to the Studio facility.
Dave Baumgarten is coor
dinating the musical end of the
production which will include
many original as well as tradition
themes which will comment on
the action of the play as in a silent
movie. The prop crew has begun
the difficult job of collecting the
many period props that will be
needed for the show. Also, Sue
Montineli's graphics crew is
putting the final touches on the
tickets and posters that Mary
Allen's publicity crew will begin
distributing soon. The publicity
crew is also in the process of
contacting local newspapers and
radio stations in order to notify
the public outside of Behrend of
the production.
The lighting crew has had the
difficult job of restoring some
very antiquated equipment into
useable shape, but under the able
direction of Bob Allen a well
lighted show is assured.
Costumes and make-up- are a
major concern, especially in a
novel was transformed into a
three-hour film which beautifully
captures the chaos and
devastation of the Russian
Revolution, mixed with a highly
personal love story. "Dr.
Zhivago" is directed by David
Lean, and .stars Omar Sharif,
Yulie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin,
Rod Steiger, and Alec Guinness.
Special times and prices will be
in effect this week only for the
movie because of its length and
rental_ cost. There will be a
Saturday matinee starting at 1:30
as well as a 10 p.m. showing that
evening. Sunday's times for the
film will be 1:30 and 7 p.m.
Special prices for this movie only
will be 60 cents with an activity
card and $1.35 without a card.
by Jeff Matson
Executive Editor
period piece such as "The
Drunkard", and these crews are
working to find the right
costumes and are designing
special make-ups to be used in the
unique theatre being setup in the
Studio.
Mr. Selco is very pleased with
the progress the various crews
are making and is sure that the
production end of the show will
complete their work in time and
well_
Please remember that seating
in the Studio is very limited and
that tickets will be sold for each
night in advance. As there will
only be fifty tickets available for
each performance be sure to get
your tickets early. They can be
obtained from any member of the
Behrend Players and will be
available in the RUB the week
before the play opens. Watch for
further notices on ticket sales.
Performing their Christmas Concert in Reed
Lecture Hall is the Behrend chorus under the
- direction of Mr. David Giersch. The chorus sang
many Christmas selections along with one written by
Ms. Frankforter, wife of a faculty member. The
audience also participated in a carol sing-along.
Published by the Students of the Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University
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Behrend Secures WEN
by Georgean Gaydosh
Managing Editor
On Friday afternoon from 1 to 2
p.m., WQLM radio station
presents the Behrend College
Radio Series. WQLN-FM is
Erie's one year old National
Public Radio Station and is found
at 91.3 on your radio dial.
WQLN's David Roland,
director of radio programming,
indictated to Mr. Kochel that he
would make one hour of radio
time available to Behrend
College to use as desired. Mr.
Kochel in turn ask Mr. Arno Selco
and Mr. Davis Giersch to co
ordinate the program. The
program was organized by the
College of Arts and Architecture
and is moderated by Mr. Selco
RUB Parking Lot Available
For Students This Weekend
Changes in the parking
regulations will enable students
to use the RUB parking lot on
weekends and on Monday nights.
The new rule will allow students
to use the lot on Friday nights
from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. and from 1
p.m. until 2 a.m. on Saturdays. On
Monday nights, students at
tending the SGA meeting will be_
allowed to park in the RUB
parking lot providing they place
an SGA sticker on the windshield.
Other changes in the roadways
on campus include the
repositioning of the stop signs
near the tennis courts. The new
signs will be placed so that
persons leaving from the RUB
parking lot will have to stop at the
intersection. Those persons
leaving from the lower parking
areas will be able to keep moving.
-A stop sign will also be placed at
the intersection so people
traveling west wishing to turn left
will have to stop and those
traveling straight through will
keep moving.
Also covered at Monday's SGA
meeting was the extension of
library hours. Starting January
19, the library will be open for
checkout and study purposes on
Saturday afternoons until 5 p.m.
It had previously been hoped
that the library could be opened
on Friday nights until possibly 9
p.m. and on other nights until .
midnight. However, Mr. Stuart
Stiffler, who is in charge of
library personnel, was hesitant
about this idea but agreed to
allow the library to extend its
hours without - the aid of any
professional librarians on a
temporary basis. If the students
show enough interest to use the
library on Saturday afternoons,
and Mr. Giersch. _
Mr. Selco and Mr. Giersch
proceeded to send out
preliminary questionnaires
asking faculty, staff and students
to respond if they could utilize
any radio time. The response was
encouraging that, "we felt we
could form an interesting and
varied schedule from beginning
of winter term to the end of spring
term," stated Mr. Selco. With the
tremendous amount of freedom
they were permitted, the par
ticipants could plan programs
about interests, courses or
projects. Although generally
there was a connection between
the subject and some aspect of
life or studies at Behrend. The
programs hope to reveal areas,
by Bud Ore
Staff Writer
then the hours will probably
remain next term.
The possibility of chartered
buses to Pittsburgh has been
almost brought to a standstill,
due to the inconvenience that the
bus lines would cause. Students
would save only two or three
dollars and would have to meet as
a group and leave at a designated
time and place. However,
students going to the Philadelphia
area would save almost twenty
dollars and could leave at their
own convenience.
A commuter representative is
needed for the SGA. Anyone in
terested should stop by the SGA
offices and let whoever is there at
the time know that you are in
terested.
The SGA will also sponsor a
karate course and demonstration.
The cost of the course would be $2
per person per lesson. Dates and
times of the demonstration and
course have not been made at this
time.
In other activities, the Fresh
man class will sponsor a coffee
house Friday night, January 18,
in the faculty dining area from
8:30 a.m. until midnight. The
sophomore class is planning a
record dance on January 25 in the
RUB cafeteria. A definite time
has not been set. Tickets will be
sold in advance. One can see Jim
Armstrong for tickets.
Next week's SGA meeting will
be held in the Perry Hall lounge
at 7:30 p.m. All students will be
welcome.
Sororities Show Change
University Park, Pa., Jan.
"Sororities have to be more
perceptive of the wants and needs
of today's woman," says Carol
Ann Cabrey, president of the
Panhellenic Council at the
Pennsylvania State University.
Ms. Cabrey, of Rosemont, a
senior majoring in American
studies and journalism, further
believes that sororities must
make other changes if they want
to survive.
"Sororities are no longer a
social necessity on campus. They
should emphasize, therefore, the
small-group living experience the
members enjoy and cease being
socially confining," she explains.
While sorority membership at
Penn State has decreased, with
this year's membership at 800
women, national membership has
inereajed.
Thursday, January 17, 1974
Radio Time
both academic and social, with
which most people are un
familiar.
The radio series provides
Behrend with an opportunity to
work in radio which is a major
form of communication.
Secondly, radio is experiencing a
revival axxl Behrend is able to
participate' in this revival.
Finally it is a potential way to
communicate ideas, which
concern us, to a very wide
audience.
The series is running very
smoothly and successfully. Both
co-ordinators enjoyed the project
along with receiving an education
in radio programming. They hope
that this success will open a road
for next year with a lengthening
of broadcasting to 36 weeks.
Their schedule for this year is full
but anyone, including past par
ticipants, is asked to work on any
othenprogram for the future. .
Station WQLN staff in
collaboration with Tom Doyle,
Behrend's instructional services
specialist, are cooperating in
order to make cassettes of each
program done in the series. These
tapes are and will be available in
the library.
A schedule of the radio
programs is on page 2.
Safety Committee
Expresses Concern
A new committee has been
established at Behrend for the
safety of the students, faculty and
administration. The Safety
Committee has many concerns to
deal with and has met to discuss a
few of these topics. Fire
prevention and snow removal
were the major concern at the
first meeting. Other topics
discussed were emergencies that
would arise concerning both
commuters and resident
students.
The committee has six
members at present. Dr. Cun
ningham and Ms. Melody
Laudensack represent the
faculty. The administration is
represented by Ms. Barbara
Kuligowski, nurse and Mr.
Baughman, Business Manager.
Mr. Gene Johnson, Chief of
Security, represents his depart
ment and the students'
representative is J.T. Duke.
If any student has any com
plaint or would like to suggest any
ideas pertaining to the safety of
all on campus, see one of the
committee members. They will
welcome any suggestions you
may have.
As president of the Panhellenic
Council, Ms. Cabrey's duties
include heading committee
policy-making for the 18
sororities on campus, rush
programming, and the en
couragement of inter-sorority
social activities.
"Sororoties have become in
creasingly informal. Formal rush
was eliminated in Fall, 1971, and
now to join a sorority, a female
student doesn't have to be on any
select list. The Panhellenic
Council also has a strict policy of
no discrimination, and, every girl
has the opportunity to join a
sorority," Ms. Cabrey explained.
She also noted another
promising sign for the future of
sororities. The current Winter
Term drop-out rate for new
member sign-ups is only one per
cent.