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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.