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Dear Editor :
Spring has sprung. Love is
stirred in the hearts of men. Birds
sing in the open air and the sun's
rays warm the ground. The
hibernation is over. This sudden
change may prompt a quick rally
of nature and new hopes in the
sportsman's mind. - To which I
would reprove our Happy Heretic
of his misguided attentions.
He needs a study in her
meneutics and his method of
pulling verses out of context is
one to which I am equally adept.
Before I get around to his case, I
would remind him of another
found in Mk. 2:2-15. This involves
a young man whose insanity
drove him to self-abuse and
running wildly in the nude. Jesus
cast out many demons from this
man and afterward they found
him "clothed and in his right
mind."
The man in this case was ob
viously in a hurry to escape and
wasn't parading. The Inter
preter's Bible Commentary says
that "Naked doesn't mean
without any clothing, but clad
only in his under garment or tunic
(cf. Jn 21:7)." I'm sure we don't
PSU Offers Degree
in Ceramic Science
Ceramics, to many, are
decorative pottery of utilitarian
bricks.
Many forget about the
multitude of ceramic items that
make life today more com
fortable, more convenient, and
safer.
Some of the ceramics on which
we depend every day include such
items as glass cookware, elec
tronic components in stereo and
television sets, insulators used in
power transmission, spark plugs
and emission control devices in
our cars, and jet engine parts.
Designing and developing these
ceramic items is the work of
ceramic scientists and
engineers—people trained to
work with inorganic materials
other than metals whose
properties change with the ap
plication of heat.
At the Pennsylvania State
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Editor-in-Chief
Linda Johnson
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find the apostles advocating such
behavior after Pentecost.
The exhibitionist lacks self
confidence and needs to reassure
himself of his identity as a man
through intimidation and shock.
Aggravated Apologetic
Misquoted?
Dear Editor,
In regard to an article which
appeared in last week's
Collegian's "Letters to the
Editor" - This article leads one to
directly believe that I feel the
Commuters are totally unin
volved in any facet of this college.
If I have left this impression, well
not so, not so at all.
My statement (which was not in
quotes, nor was placed to the
topic of discussion) was that,
hard work, input, and continuous
activities on the part of the Joint
Residence Council should be
recognized. By this I meant that
the JRC should obtain a seat and
indeed become a voting member
of the SGA. This was not at all nor
in any way brought out in that
article.
University, the ceramic science
undergraduate major in the
College of Earth and Mineral
Sciences is fully accredited as an
engineering curriculum by the
Engineers Council for
Professional Development.
Penn State is the only univer
sity in Pennsylvania and one of
only a dozen in the country that
offers degree in ceramic science,
reports Dr. Guy Rindone, head of
the ceramic science section of the
Department of Material Sciences.
Undergraduate enrollment in
the ceramic science major
averages 65 to 75 students but
current demand and, Dr. Rindone
says, could easily accommodate
three times this number. There
are few modern industries, he
says, that do not hire ceramic
scientists and engineers, and the
demand is not being met.
Member of
Executive Editor
Jeffrey Matson
Sports Editor
Jim Conc elman
Editorial Policy
Behrend Collegian
If in the future anyone sho
have any trouble interpreting
anything I have said, I will be
more than happy to further ex
plain myself. Thank you.
Brian Ferris
President of the
Freshman Class
To Bud
To Bud Ore concerning last
week's editorial :
C'mon Bud, defending corn- journalism majors may work on
muter apathy (and this does not the staff.
say that dormies are not Assuming some students are
apathetic too) because they live laboring under this misconception
off campus is like defending the I sincerely apologize to each and
forty to sixty per cent of every one of you. A point in fact is
America's silent majority that that I personally am not a jour
don't live at the polls and are too nalism major; in fact, I am a
busy to vote. Give credit where math major enrolled in the
credit is due and when someone College of Education. Surely if I
needs criticism, give it. am capable of devoting my time
To Brian Ferris concerning his to this paper, which has little if
"rather pointed statement": Way any bearing on my major, some
to go Brian, what we need is of you can.
someone who isn't afraid to speak Most of the students who do
up. (Even if you're not always 100 work on the paper presently will
per cent right, at least you're not be on the staff next year. In
stimulating things around order to start a paper next
Behrend. ) September I need people who will
Jack King be willing to learn now.
Editorial Opinion
by Jeff Matson
A letter from a discouraged but job came along, I took it with an
not beaten editor will take the air of great optimism and
place of the usual editorial this idealism. Well, after a few weeks
week. of: "Did you see my article?"
Dear Reader
You are not the one this letter week what was it on?", I got
will be directed to, the people who disillusioned. But now the paper
have discouraged this editor are is more than just a place for me to
the non-readers. The people who exercise my writing, it has
complain about something and become important and when I see
then you have to tell them that the my work lying around each week
problem had been solved and that I begin to wonder if anyone else
it was in this week's Collegian. It cares about the paper at all. If no
is very disheartening to walk one cares whether the paper is
through the Mail room and see there at all, maybe they should
hundreds of copies of the all say so and those of us who do
Collegian just lying around. We care and think there is a chance
publish just enough so everyone can just stop banging our heads
should be able to get one copy, but against the wall and give up.
hundreds of copies are just However, if there is someone out
brought back to the Collegian there who would like to continue
office each week and hundreds seeing a paper here at Behrend,
more are swept up each night in someone who realizes the izn
.the RUB. portance of a paper, and someone
I joined the newspaper because who would like to help the
it 'was logical for someone who Collegian. we would like to hear
wanted to write to get some ex- from you also.
Have you a story idea you know what to do?
would like us to check out? Maybe w e can give you a
Someone giving you a hassle? helping hand, and give you some
Having a problem with some advice.
sort of academic affairs and don't Call 899-3101, ext. 238.
To the Students of Behrend
College;
I am conceding to you, that this
newspaper is far from working up
to its potential. Yet how can it
become anything close to being
great when no one except the
proverbial handful of students is
interested enough to work on the
staff.
In a meeting with S.G.A.
president Mike Chiricuzio this
past week to cover this and
several other major problems
affecting the newspaper
Chiricuzio felt that the students
might have the idea that only
perience writing. When the editor
"Well, no I missed the paper this
You Call Us
From the Editor's Desk
April 4, 1974
To those students who attended
Behrend last year and read the
many editorials on student
apathy until they were sick of it, I
want to point out that this line has
not been used once this year until
now.
If any of you feel that there is
any legitimate reason for such
disinterested students I would be
happy to hear it. This offer stands
in print or in talking with me
personally.
This paper can only improve if
you are willing to help_ I have
personally asked people to join
the staff as well as in print and I
have received little or no
response. This is another appeal.
If the results are the same as in
the past, it will not be my last
appeal.
Respectfully,
Linda Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Pros & Cons
Is it Spring yet'
Doors opened between
sides....
Fire alarms in early mor-
Winning a bottle of S.S
Greased toilets....
Security slamming the S.O
giveaway....
Rope-tied doors with a
million knots....
The new messed up stop
signs.
April Ist.
Lights
on tfie tennis
courts?...
Brushing your teeth with hot
water....
Mons Joyce putting Perry
Ball to bed at midnite....
Water battles....
Cleaning up from water
battles....
Gorge time again....
Going to breakfast in
pajamas....
Seven weeks left of class
There will be a meeting for
the Behrend literary
magazine on Thursday, April
11, during common hour
(10:50 - 12:05) in Turnball
204_ The purpose of the
meeting is to make initial
contact with people in
terested in working on this
year's "Illusions"; either by
contributing writing, art
work of photography or by
working on the production,
advertising or management
of the work.