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The Student Union Board
Behrend Students, Faculty,
and Administrators
To A Birthday Party
Celebrating The Reed
Union Building's Sixth Year
On Friday, May 3, 11:45 a.m.
In The Reed Union Buildtng
Cake and Ice Cream Will Be Served
Letter To The Editoim
Dear Editor, the other. Exhibit B was then
This is the hall. rolled towards Exhibit A. A
Perry Hall of the Behrend simple operation—yet effective.
Campus. Soon the whole dorm was hooked.
It's a rough place to live—a All those young boys getting high
rougher place to work. on "beer can bowling". I solved
I'm Mike Voice. I'm a cop-er the case and took immediate
ah, Resident Coordinator action. I told them to go to bed. I
Assistant, whatever that is. didn't bust them because for
It's my job to enforce the laws many it was their first offense
of this school, whatever they are. and Hike to think I'm a nice guy.
I-go by the book; no exceptions, Then there was the 'famous
no special cases. Why? Because I tennis ball hockey caper, another
wrote the book. simple operation. But T.J. and I
This is my partner, Detective
Sergeant Redneck T.J. Puke.
Together we patrol the halls of
Per
It's.
rya
jungle out there. A jungle
full of junkies and addicts all
hooked on trying to have some
fun—trying to make Behrend
livable.
My partner and I are after the
pusher, not the occasional user,
but the hard-core mainliner of
fun. Take for example the famous
beer can bowling case :
It was a simple operation—a
few empty beer caris . gt one end of
the hall, Exhibit A-.; and a junkie
with a basketball, Exhibit B, at
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were after the Big Bust, the hard
stuff, the head man. Yes, that's
right, ruiner° uno, the master
mind behind all the keggers in
Perry.
April 24, 9:30 p.m.—Our break
came. I walked into T.J.'s room
on the second floor to investigate
a possible party directly below on
the first floor. I closed the door,
T.J. closed the windows. We
listened. Nothing. Then T.J.
brought out his special electronic
listening equipment and turned it
up full volume. Suddenly I heard
the barely audible sound of a beer
can being opened. Ah-Ha. It was a
party. We were hoping for a
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fxeristive Editor
Jeffrey Matson
Behrend Collegian
Editorial Opinion
There is no way I can even
pretend to write this article
without there being a certain
sense of bias. It concerns the
Behrend Players, and being
the current president of that
organization I cannot but have
some bias when I talk about
it. Still, I feel that what the
Players are doing under the
direction of Mr. Selco warrant
comment from my other
desk, that of Executive
editor.
Often I ask myself, "What
is going on here that I can
write about", (right lynn?)
and I almost never come up
with any kind of usable idea.
But the Players are doing
something that is interesting
and important for the college
as a whole and it should be
pointed out.
The Players work within
kegger but cam would be OK,
especially since we told them
they could have as many cases as
they wanted.
Ruthless? Maybe, but in this
world you just don't mess around
with Mike Voice. I have a job to
do and I'm going to do it right.
They may hate me now for it but
later on they'll thank me. Oh
these poor innocent kids.. .
Now all we needed was a
complaint. We asked around but
nobody would admit that the
party bothered them. These
criminals all stick together.
Completely out of character,
T.J. came up with a good idea.
"Sir, If I listen real, real hard, I
can hear the party", he said,
"and I've been listening so hard, I
can't study. So I'll go down and
tell them to turn it down because I
can't study".
The plan was a good one. T.J.
went down stairs and quickly
returned. "I did my best sir, but
they turned the stereo down".
A minor setback.
Now it's my turn. I'll go and tell
them to turn it down and when
they refuse; BANG! I'll bust
them from one end of Perry to the
other. I'll teach them. They'll
never have another party in
Perry again. I'll set the example.
Soon the other dorms will follow.
Today Perry, tomorrow the
world. I can see it now.. .
I went to the room in question
and relayed my orders.
They complied.
They have no couth.
Another set back.
A decision had to be made. I
took command and issued the
neceessary directives. Reason or
not, I was determined to bust that
party—just like in Nam, the Big
war. Ah, I can remember the old
days.. interrogating helpless
prisoners. Come on T.J., let's get
those gooks.
Knock Knock
"Who is it?"
Open up it's the poli-ah your
RCA.
"Who?"
Your Resident Coordinator
Assistant.
"Who?"
Mike Voice, your dorm mom.
"Oh yeah, come on in Mick".
That's ah Mike, Mike
remember? Never mind, your
busted. (Tremendous, Hilarious,
sidesplitting laughter)
12:00 p.m. same night—"l sent
T.J. to bed and started filling out
the forms, all twenty. I got'em. I
GOT'EM.
That's one small step for Mike
Voice; one giant leap for dorm
motherhood.
(All the facts in DRAGNET '74
are not real; but probably pretty
close. The names were changed
to protect the guilty.)
Now that I've got your at
tention, perhaps you will read on
a might bit farther to find out
From Two Seats
Jeff Matson
Executive Editor
limitations. The Studio is
small and awkward as a
theatre space, seating is
difficult and sightlines are
often poor; there are elec
trical "eccentricities" and
there is limited money. In
spite of the limitations the
Players have brought good
theatre to Behrend. The
success of "The Drunkard"
was the first step - in
establishing a new theatre
program and plans are
already underway for
remodeling of the studio into a
more functional theatre
space.
But that is not the im
portant thing. The really
important thing is the fact
that it worked within and
made the best of limitations,
something we all could do
more of. We are all
what is really happening.
The point of this blasphemous
mess is to point out to some one, I
don't really know who, the
despondent helplessness of the
student in this situation. The
student has no way of fighting
back; of offering his side of the
story. There are no checks and
balances in the house mother-RA
set up. There is no place for the
student to go and say "we are
being dealt with unfairly". What
the RA says, goes. No questions
asked, no and if's or but's. It is a
dictatorial system.
Anyone who thinks the SGA or
the Student Standards Board
represents the students has his
underwear on backwards.
The SGA is so tied up in its own
bureaucracy that it doesn't know
its head from its. . .never mind.
For a student to accomplish
anything, especially of this
measure, through the GA—well it
would be easier to fly a kite in the
gorge.
The reason I speak so
detrimentally of the SSB is
because I've yet to experience
something good that they have
accomplished. They are a flacid
underling of the administration.
But they are trying to motivate
some changes yet their hands are
tied by the administration.
Some things you might not
have known about the famous
food battle case:
1) Finley had no idea who was
throwing food. Of the multitude of
offenders, he only guessed at a
few names that might be in
volved. In fact, he reported Jim
Armstrong for throwing food, but
Jim Armstrong was selling
tickets for some event and had
proof positive that he was not
involved. It only goes to show that
Finley pulled a few names out of
the air. And the SSB let him get
away with such prejudiced
persecution.
2) Two of the cases were
postponed. When they did come
un for trial, Finley's witness was
nowhere to be found. Why should
Finley care anyway. He had his
power play, he threw a few
Christians to the lions. He made
his example. And the SSB backed
him all the way. Of course it has
happened before in history;
Hitler versus the Jews etc.
3) Q—Did you throw food?
A—Yes but so did forty other
people. _
Q—That's not the case at hand.
Did you throw food?
- A—Yes...But.... • -
Q—Guilty.
Of course it's not the case at
hand. It's not the administrations
case or Finley's case. It was only
the entire base that the students
built their case on. But it wasn't
the case at hand: Funny, I
surrounded by certain
limitations to the things we
may want to do and often
these limitation bind us in.
Instead of letting your
limitations bind you in, they
should provide you something
to build from. We cannot
escape limitations, they will
always be there, we can learn
to work within - our
limitations. Students at
Behrend College are limited
in a lot of ways, there are a lot
of things needed and a lot of
things that could be done if we
weren't so worried about how
limited things are here. We
should be concerned with
what can be done, not what is.
The Players are an
example of a group that do
this,.can all of us say we do
the same?
thought the Students Standards
Board was supposed to listen to
BOTH sides of the story.
So where does this all lead us?
The student in Perry are tired
of being pushed. A few of them
are talking about pushing back.
Of course there is no way to push
back or be heard through the
administration, legally; so it has
been decided that perhaps the
only way to get our side of the
story across is to take matter into
our own hands.
The Perry students feel that the
party was more than reasonable.
We checked with any one who
might be disturbed and no one
complained. Certain - Perry
students feel "The Big Bust" was
a power play by the Resident
Coordinator Assistant and RA.
The students feel totally helpless
and powerless in their own
defense.
I shouldn't say powerless
because if pushed far enough, the
students will retaliate. After all,
there is more than one way to
skin a cat.
Jim Concelman
Editor's Note: This letter does
not reflect the opinion of the staff
of the Behrend Collegian. The
Letters to the Editor column has
been established to give students
a chance to air their gripes if they
so desire. This is right is also
given to any of the staff of the
newspaper. When written in this
form it becomes the direct
opinion of the writer.
Thaniks !
To the students of Behrend
College.
I would first like to thank all
those students who voted for me
in the recent election and I only
hope that I can live up to your
expectations.
Secondly I would like to have
the support of all the students
returning next year in hopes of
making Behrend a better place to
live for everybody. I feel if we all
pull together at the beginning of
the year we can accomplish this
goal. Believe it or not Behrend
College has a lot of growth
potential to become a better
place to get an education as well
as gaining social insight.
To even begin to tackle this
problem we have to have student
involvement from all areas
concerned. This includes the
dorm-commuter areas,
academic areas, and class
representation. So please if you
have any interest in Behrend at
all run for some sort of position in
any of these areas next fall.
Jim Armstrong
May 2, 1974