February 21, 1974
Cubettes Want Revenge
What the girls basketball team
really needs for this Thursday's
home game against Edinboro is
the "snake pit." Smaller gyms,
such as Erie Hall, when capacity
can echo and reverberate the
sentiments of the majority crowd
to the point where the term
"snake pit" is an understatement.
Behrend lost to Edinboro in a
preseason exhibition game by 8
points at Edinboro. "They had a
lot of kids there when we played
them," stated center Ginger
Brown, who went on to say that a
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"If the Cubs are to win they will
have to control the boards, and
also take the good percentage
shot to win the game," stated
Coach Roger Sweeting before
Behrend's last game. Coach
Sweeting also employs the
pressure defense, but the officials
called fouls close, easily, and
often which resulted in a high
emotional, body contact tempo
which sparked a rhubarb.
The Cubs' playmaker, Larry
McAleer, was ejected from the
game. With our floor leader gone,
Eisenhower's Kromer,
Lesperance, Mather and
Rainbow sloviwed up our running
game and changed the tempo of
the game which forced the Cubs
Males Challenged?
On Thursday evening, Feb. 21,
Mr. Gordon Irvine, Executive
Director of Christian Associates
of Metropolitan Erie. will present
a talk,Eroding of the Masculine
Myth, at 7:30 p.m. in 101 I3ehrend
Building.
The talk will focus on the
typically masculine values to
which men are slaves, and the
process of freeing themselves
from these values and will offer
suggestions for a creative ex
pression of new personhood for
men. Experts from a radio
program 'Masculinity Myth' will
also be included. Following the
program there will be refresh
Sororities
New Image
University Park, Pa., Feb.—
Move over Billie Jean, Bella, and
you other "libbers"—the sorority
girls are coming.
While the more vocal members
of the Women's Liberation
movement might not be accepting
them with open arms, the
sorority sisters at The Penn
sylvania State University are
participating in the female rights
crusade, says the new president
of the Panhellenic Council.
Pat Wesner, of Danville, a very
attractive 20-year-old junior,
thinks sororities, those bastions
of propriety and tradition, can be
significant leaders in the fight for
sexual equality.
"Most sorority girls, I guess,
are conservative" observes Pat,
recently elected to head the body
that oversees Penn Sate's 22
sororities. "But just because we
don't go in for radical displays,
like bra burnings, doesn't mean
that we aren't believers in
defending a woman's place in the
world."
There is no need for a sorority
girl to apologize for this low-key
approach to Women's Lib, says
Pat, a member of Delta Delta
Delta sorority.
She points out that sororities
were pioneering the thrust for
women's rights long before the
movement became recognized. In
fact, sororities were founded out
of necessity to fight male
domination at predominantly
male colleges. she adds.
large crowd at tonight's game
could be a big help.
The girls ran their record - to 9-0
by thrashing Villa last Monday
and Thiel last Saturday. The girls
ended Thiel's 33 game win streak
last Saturday with 33-19 win,
marking the first time Behrend
has defeated Thiel.
Although Behrend led all the
way, the game was close until
about the last five minutes when
Thiel went into a wide open zone
defense in an attempt to halt the
girls' stalling tactics. This left
to take some bad shots and shoot
39 per cent from the field.
Eisenhower shot a phenomenal
59 per cent from the field. Also.
Kromer of Eisenhower poured in
15 points in the final minutes
which put out the Cubs' spark of
hope. Still the Cubs had five
men nit scoring in double figures.
Jim Davis with 18 points, Jack
NW had 12, Jack Weber with 11
points, and Jeff Gilette along with
Larry Szoszorek tossing in ten
apiece.
Coach Sweeting went on to say
that the winner should be the
team which is the more
aggressive and controls the,
rebounds, but the winner is also
the team which puts the most
points on the scoreboard; 86 for
Eisenhower and 77 for Behrend.
ments and a chance for, an in
formal exchange among the
participants.
The Woman's Awareness
Group of Behrend College is
sponsoring this program and it is
a statement to the community
that we are concerned , with
women liberating ourselves and
men from the stereotypes that
oppress us. If women liberate
themselves they will perforce
their oppressors" (Germaine
Greer, The Female Eunuch).
All members of the campus and
the Erie Community are
welcome.
Voice
However, Pat feels that
sororities must soon erase a
damaging stereotype created by
"social climbing" sisters who
were involved in little else
besides sorority affairs—a
stereotype which she admits has
some basis in fact.
"Sorority members are more
aware people today, "she says.
"We aren't as socially inclined as
were girls in the mid-60's, for
example. And we are more
concerned with ourselves as
individual persons."
The "live and die for the
'sorority" attitude faded away
few years ago, assures Pat. And
along with this attitude went
some highly criticized facets of
sorority life.
Pat claims that sorority
members no longer try to out
dress each other ; the sisters don't
restrict their friendships to other
sorority girls and fraternity men,
a policy which h is gaining new
respect for Greeks among "in
dependents"; and there no longer
is an adversary relationship
among the various sororities.
"The catty stuff is gone," says
Pat, a labor studies major. "One
of my main goals is to work on
inter-sororities relationships."
So, it looks like sororities have
a unique opportunity to assume a
leadership role in the 1970'5. Pat
Wesner thinks the sororities will
accept the call.
"We are now a voice that is
listened to." she says. There is
strength in our numbers."
Behrend Collegian
center Ginger Brown open to
some sharp passes under the
boards. Miss Brown was high
scorer for Behrend with 17 points,
but she is quick to shift credit to
her teammates who took ad
vantage of Thiel's open zone
defense with some excellent
passes. • _
The Cubs on the other hand,
stayed on a tight 1-3-1 zone
defense. In doing so, Behrend shut
off Thiel's 6 foot center and their
main scoring threat. "She
couldn't get any inside shots,"
Miss Brown stated.
To make things interesting,
Thiel beat Edinboro and Belarend
beat Thiel. This Thursday's game
means a lot to the girls who want
to average their preseason loss.
Edinboro beat Behrend in soccer,
basketball and wrestling, this is
Behrend's chance for revenge and
a full gym would help.
Instructional Improvement
Explains Initial Overview
The improvement of instruction
is certainly not a new idea.
Throughout the Pennsylvania
State University, on every
campus and in every college and
department, efforts to enrich and
refine learning experiences for
students are continuous.
University Faculty Senate
records attest to the ongoing and
constant search for ways to
enhance the quality of education
offered at Penn State.
Nor is the idea of providing
financial incentives for in
structional improvement new.
For a number of years, there
existed at Penn State a Central
Fund for the Improvement of
Teaching which provided modest
grants of $2OO-$3OO to assist in
dividual instructors who in
troduced new methods or
materials in their classrooms.
When that fund terminated
several years ago, the practice
was continued on a smaller scale
by many of the colleges.
What IS new is the University's
Instructional Improvement
program.
Initiated in 1972 by Dr. Robert
E. Dunham, vice president for
undergraduate studies, this
program represents a sizable
annual financial commitment, not
for full-scale course
redevelopment efforts.
According to Leslie P.
Greenhill, who heads the
program's advisory committee,
"The idea of Instructional
Improvement is to provide funds
to redo courses from the ground
up. We're trying to achieve a
systematic approach to the
redesign and restructuring of
courses, to benefit students with
different kinds of learning skills
and different interests."
The already completed course
revision projects funded by the
office of the Vice President for
Undergraduate Studies in 1972
illustrate Mr. Greenhill's words.
The English 1 program has
been revised specifically to meet
the needs of students from a wide
range of educational
backgrounds. The new materials
developed for French 11, 21, and
31-32 were prepared to help
students with varying degrees of
skill in learning a second
language. And speech 200 has
been adapted to encourage
student interest in a variety of
speech communication
techniques.
Mr. Greenhill, who is assistant
vice president for academic
services and director of the
University's Division and
Instructional Services, explained
that the advisory committee has
established a number of criteria
for Instructional Improvement
course revision projects.
"We're interested primarily in
assisting with the redevelopment
of basic courses which serve
large numbers of students and
which are offered at Com
monwealth Campuses as well as
University Park," he said. "We
also ask that more than one
A Behrend wrestler exhibits fine grappling style at a
recent home match. The Cubs have ended a terrific season
and they are looking forward to the NAIA Championships to
be held at Waynesburg College, March 1 and 2.
faculty member be interested,
qualified, and available to work
on the project and we require a
departmental and college
commitment to it."
The extent of this commitment
is perhaps one of the most im
portant elements in determining
the success of an overall course
revision.
As Dr. Dunham pointed out, the
funds available through the
Instructional Improvement
program can't begin to cover the
entire cost of an extensive
project, and they aren't intended
to finance operating expenses of a
revised course.
But while Instructional
Improvement funds can't pay the
entire cost of redevelopment,
they can provide assistance with
and impetus for changes already
conceded to be necessary.
French 1.1, 21, 31-32 and
Geological Sciences 20, for
example, were already un
dergoing revision when they were
approved for Instructional
Improvement aid. In both cases,
resources provided by the
program permitted expansion of
the original projects to benefit
additional groups_ of students.
But Dr. Charles L. Hosier, dean
of the College of Earth and
Mineral Sciences, noted, "Unless
special funds are set aside,
projects as extensive as the G. Sc.
20 revision just won't get done. A
department simply doesn't have
the time or the resources to at
tempt anything so complex."
Dr. Herman Cohen, head of the
speech department, agreed.
"We've been committed to
revising Speech 200 for at least
four years," he said, "but we just
didn't have the time to develop a
new program. The Instructional
Improvement funds bought us the
released faculty time we needed
to restructure the course com
pletely."
Another feature of the
Instructional Improvement
program is its potential impact on
Commonwealth Campus
students.
Program criteria stipulate that
courses approved for assistance
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must be offered at several
locations, and Commonwealth
Campus faculty representatives
are expected to participate in
revision efforts. The result, as in
. the French 11, 21, and 31-32 series
and in English 1, is that the
courses offered at various
campuses are now more like
those given at University Park.
For example, Dr. Isabelle
Armitage, assistance professor of
French sequence, emphasized
that Commonwealth Campus
students may now transfer to
University Park (or to any other
Penn State campus) and proceed
smoothly to the next level of
French without penalty or stress.
Evaluations of the revised
French courses indicated an
average difference of only five
points between students' grades
at University Park and other
campuses, she said.
The course redevelopment
projects funded by the Instruc
tional Improvement progam in
1972 underwent various testing
and experimental phases during
the past year and were all fully
operative by fall term 1973.
The Instructional Improvement
program obviously represents an
import ant commitment to
educational excellence in basic
courses. But Dr. Dunham, for
one, looks for more wide-ranging
benefits.
"Through this program, we're
supporting and encouraging, the
redevelopment of specific
courses," he said. "But we're
hoping that the processes of
revision will be ongoing, ensuing a
continuing high quality of in
struction not only in these courses
but in these courses throughout
the university."
The results achieved through
the program so far make that
hope seem realistic.
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