1 1 1 : t, ten' --41 gilts tart Volume XXIII No. Student Government Ready and Willing by Rosa Myers Staff Writer• The Student Government Association held its first meeting September 9. Officers present were: Jim Armstrong, president; Dave Scypinski, first vice president; Gina Myers, second vice-president; Barbara Jolly. secretary; and Barb Frank, who is resigning her post as treasurer, due to her responsibilities as a Resident Assistant. (Ballots for the seiction of a new treasurer are available at the RUB desk.) The possibility of selecting a student to serve on the Penn sylvania Postsecondary Planning Commission was discussed. The commission's purpose is to develop a plan for a com prehensive system of post secondary education and to ad vice the State Board of Education along with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The plan will provide opportunities and programs for those in the Commonwealth who are in terested in pursuing a higher education. It will appoint task forces and subcommittees to develop programs for selected areas and to make recom mendations. All expenses ac crued by members will be reimburSed. Interested students are asked to submit their resumes as soon as possible since the SGA must submit its recommendation no- later_ than September 30. Students who apply are asked to profess a sincere interest in planning for a comprehensive post in secondary education in Pennsylvania and to be articulate and talented. At the May 18. 1974 meeting of the Council of Presidents, a new constitution was- approved. In the future the council is to be referred to as: The Council of Branch Campus Student Governments. The new con stitution concerns itself with the issues of organization, university representation, meetings, annual assessment, and a method of amending. The purpose of the Council is to represent the concerns of students attending the branch campuses, to provide a means for the exchange of ideas in different areas of student concern, and to represent the interests of the SGA of the branch campuses. The Council consists of SGA presidents of each University branch campus ; a student representative from each branch campus who shall be elected by Change for the Better by Jody Reed the . Residence Community , Among the many changes that Coordinator, John Giesmann, and have taken place at Behrend this Area Coordinators Jay DiFrank year is the change of and Beverly Romberger. housemothers to the new housing ' One of the reasons for the staff. This new staff consists of replacement of the housemothers Shown here is Mr. Giesmann, the new Residence Area Coordinator in his new office in Lawrence Hall. Published by the students of the Behrend College, Pennsylvania State Unibersity the SGA and a Council Coor dinator whose duties are clearly outlined. Also under revision was the SGA constitution and the changes are as follows: Section I Article 111 The number of representatives is hereby set at seventeen (17) in cluding five (5) executive board members; three (3) members one from each of the academic divisions; one (1) commuter member; one (1) dorm member; three (3) at large representatives of the student body: four (4) members of class standing, one from each of the four classes. (a) The election of the executive board consisting of a president, first vice president, second vice president, secretary, and ,treasurer shall be open to all full time students. This election shall be held Spring term. (b) The election of class representatives shall be open only to current members of - that class; to be determined by term stan ding. (c) Each class shall be represented on SGA by their class president. (d) The election of academic representatives shall be open to current members of that academic division under which their college falls. There will be one member from each of the following academic areas : Arts and Humanities Social and Behavioral Sciences Natural Sciences. This election shall be held during Spring term. (e) The election of the commuter representative shall be open to all full-time commuters. (f) The dorm representative shall be the chairman of the Joint Residence Council. (g) The election of the three at large representatives shall be open to all full-time students. (h) All elections except those otherwise designated shall be held during Fall term. Voting. for class officers this Fall term will take place on September 25, 26, 27 from 11:30 until 2. Commuter and Dorm representative elections will take place October 2,3, and 4th from 11:30 until 2:00. Presently needed by the SGA are the names of those persons willing to serve on the faculty committee. Dean Lane suggested an application and interview procedure to screen future members willing to work with the faculty on areas of academic interest. Along similar lines the Christian Associates of Metropolitan Erie are seeking students to volunteer one hour a week every week beginning the first week of October and ending in May. For further information contact: Ms. Barbara C. Irvine, coordinator of Project SHARE, Post office box 1194, 235 West Sixth street. Erie, Pa. 16512. WQLN has asked Behrend to continue its radio series. Students who can offer suggestions for upcoming programs are asked to contact Arno Selco. All campus organizations are asked to submit their prospective budgets for the year no later than September 30. Production Underway by Chuck Little Staff Writer On Wednesday. October 30. the Behrend Players will once again open the doors of the Studio Theater to welcome a new production. Under the direction of Arlo Selco. the Players will present David Rabe's Tony Award winning "Sticks and Bones." The Behrend Players, headed by officers Cathy Lipinski. - Chuck Little - . and Jennifer Gregor have already begun work on the production. Last season the Players presented two full-length productions. The winter production was the melodrama "The Drunkard." The play was scheduled for five performances. Due to the overwhelming demand for tickets "The Drunkard" was sold out for two weeks before it opened. Subsequently, two extra performances were added, and these too sold out ahead of time. The second production opened in the Spring. This time the Players presented John Guare's. "House of Blue Leaves". Seating was increased to sixty. However, once again, additional per formances had to be scheduled. The Players performed "The House of Blue Leaves" nine times. The problem of limited seating may be alleviated in the near future by the Studio Theater refurbishment project. After last year's productive theater season. Behrend College was invited to join the Erie with the area coordinators is that the new staff is much closer in age to the students and has had professional training in coun seling and speech and com munications. The house mothers of the previous years were required by federal law to work only certain hours. This year. the housing staff is paid a salary so that they are always available to the students. Mr. Giesmann feels that the new staff is interested and dedicated to their jobs. The staff will be having a program survey in the near future to determine the resident' students interests as far as activities and educational programs are concerned. On Saturday. October 5. the staff, with ahe help of student affairs, is going to sponsor a trip to see the Pir-ates. Overall this could be the start of a new and very different year for the resident students at Behrend. Mike Hanley and Jennifer Gregor in the process of trying out for the Behrend Players' new show "Sticks and Bones". Theater Arts Institute and the Arts Council of Erie. The four producing theaters that are members of the_ Erie Theater Arts Institute include Behrend College. The Erie Playhouse. The Village Dinner Theater and Gannon College. Our membership in these two groups. as Mr. Selco said, "should increase our theater audience tremendously." "Sticks and Bones" opened on Broadway in March of 1972. It had a lot of qualities of Black Humor, but really it is a very serious play about American values. It is very controversial yet significant because of its subject matter. The play deals with the son who returns home from Viet Nam in 1968. He has been blinded during the war. His harrowing war experiences have completely changed him, and neither the family nor he can cope with the situation. In his book, "The Theater: An Introduction," Oscar Brockett. the Dean of American Academic Theater, choses "Sticks • and Bones" as the one play that Godspell by Alan Kirk You readers who had looked forward to a well-written critical analysis of Sunday night's movie. "Godspell", in this issue are asked to be patient. However. many of us here have been quite concerned by the mass con versions which have been oc curring across the country. It was quite repulsive when our stalwart Charles Colson committed the Judicial Anew / ultimate, he was enlightened. Is an Age of Faith upon us or S Second Breath what? No sooner had God died than it became necessary to mass i for Students produce Him. It may or may not by Amy Loeffler be unfortunate that we are now Staff Writer deluged with movies such as „ No student is going to get "Godspell." The movie itself is in shaftedhere " ...at least Dean the so-called rock musical model Lane doesn't think so. W should and comes highly acclaimed. It is he? Supported by Penn hy State's supposed to be an experience, but Discipline System, which in no one told me of what or how. Now don't start squirming eludes the relatively new Student around in your seats because we h St a a ra to challenge his statement.ndards Board, it'd be pretty mentioned that word religion. But ,Although the system has look at it this way. If you had fled .- k ways provided a very churches, with their mad gothic horrors of feudal Europe's always provided judicial branch, _ have streamlined campus seventeen centuries vou would demands of eating the flesh of a several recent policy changes carpenter who had been dead for Judicial procedures considerably. 'have insisted on freedom of Last fall, the Student Standards religion and gone to Los Angeles. Board became a part of the So before you render it unto sy jury—hearing cases andstem.. It was to serve as a Caesar, take a look at that dollar recommending punishment when in your hand. What is that indicated; and was to consist cabalistic Rosicrucian clashing of i symbols portrayed on the back? Thursday, September 19, 1974 represents contemporary American Theater and Drama. He does a complete analysis of the play in the recent new edition of his book. Joseph Papp. the Czar of New York Theater, considers Rabe. "Our greatest playwright today." David Rabe spent 11 months in Viet Nam. Out of his experiences he wrote three full length plays. Rabe's, "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and "The Orphrn" as well as "Sticks and Bones". He signed his name D. William Rabe because he didn't want people to connect his own first name with that of the main character who is also named "David." Tickets for the Behiend Players Fall production of "Sticks and Bones" go on sale in the Reed Building on October 23. Tickets cost $2.50 for the public and $1.50 for Behrend College Students, faculty and staff. Again, only 60 tickets are available for each performance. Cometh Godspell will be seen Sunday night. September 22, the times and ticket prices are stir, the same. So we'll see you there. Peace. One-Way. Love. Jim Croce. Krishna. Mellow and here don't forget your coloring book, brother.
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