Pogo Two
In the past weeks I have talked
about different problems con
cerning this institution. Included
in these articles were those with
students, the university ad
ministration, and conditions here
at Behrend. This week I would
like to review something that
touches a little closer to home.
That being of the Board of
Publications here.
At this you may ask "What do. I
care about the Board of
Publications?" thinking that it
has nothing to do with YOU. This is
wrong! The Board of Publications
appoints the officers of the
organizations involved, have the
final say as to who is put onto or
taken off of the staffs of these
organizations, handles libel
cases, and takes on various other
duties concerning the
organizations. This effects you,
the student, by controlling the
student-published material that
you read.
When I think of this so called
"board" I have to chuckle a bit.
The Board of Publications, here,
consists of two people: Dr.
Tomsic, advisor to the Collegian,
and Linda Johnson, Editor-in-
SGA's Man in 'Power'
by Tim Grosser
Power- when used in connection
with government and men, can
kindle unwielding ambition and
imagination in even the most
democratic of human beings. In
addition one might reason that
the office of a 'president would
carry along with it inevitable
opportunities for the
manipulation of men with power,
a position truly hazardous to a
free thinking democratic society.
When applied to Behrend,
however, power in government
simPly means responsibility in
government. The office of
president becomes the office of
mediator and organizer. Within
the SGA, the man in "power" is
David J. Scypinski. Originally,
Dave was elected first Vice-
President, and only after James
Armstrong left Behrend did Dave
rise to the position of President.
Dave believes that as SGA
President he must truly know
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Managing Editor
Bob Wetmore
News Editor
Business Manager: Alan Shrout
Ad Manager: Taffey Wayland
Circulation Manager: Carol Reed
Reporters: Alan Kirk, Chuck Little, Ron Wayne, Mary Beth Zabel,
Rosa Myers, Marsha Young, Tim Grosser, Joe Grisanti, Jo Packer,
Carol Von Zastrow, Mark Reese, Muriel Hykes, Elaine Grove
Sports Staff: J. P. Roach
Cartoonist: V. Becker
Photographer: Rick Malkin
Business Staff: Ed Janus
Typist: Michele Crotty
Mailing Address- Behrend Campus, Station Road, Erie, Pa. 16510
Office- Student Offices, Reed Union Building
Office Hours: 9:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
Phone: 899-3101 Ext. 238.
Opinions expressed by the editors and staff of the Behrend
Collegian are not necessarily those of the University
Administration, faculty, or the student bod .
Published every Thursday throughout the Fall, Winter, and
Spring Terms, with exclusions for holidays and term breaks.
The editorials appearing in this
newspaper will be opinionated
and therefore subject to
criticism. All letters that are
typewritten of 200 words or less,
and submitted to the newspaper
staff will be printed with the
exception of those that are
repetitions or in poor taste. The
staff reserves the right to correct
Chief of the Collegian. Of these
two people, only Ms. Johnson is a
voting member. It seems that the
original plan for this board was to
include the advisors of the clubs
and organizations concerned and
their highest officers. The only
organization, as such, remaining
at Behrend is the Collegian. How
can we progress with the, ob
viously biased, ideas of just one
person?
The position of Editor-in-Chief
of the newspaper will be open
soon and will bring a problem
with relation to what I have been
writing about. The Board of
Publications must appoint this
person. The way things look, as of
now, the appointing will be up to
one person, possibly two. No
matter how objective a person is,
there are still the personal
favorites in a group. Personality
clashes, and such, are natural
and a biased selection is
inevitable.
Most industries are run by a
board of directors consisting of a
large number of people. The
university that we are attending
is governed by such a group as
well as the country in which we
the members of the SGA, and be
able to use the art of com
munication effectively in order to
keep them enlightened and up to
date with the concerns of the
student body. Also a President
must organize the topics of
discussions for the meetings, in
categories such as new business,
old business and open business.
In Dave's opinion, Behrend is a
hard • community in which to
develope good student govern
ment; student government being
the major link between the ad
ministration and the' students.
One reason for the difficulty in
achieving good student govern
ment is the classic problem of
student unresponsiveness. There
is also a problem with a vague
constitution which hampers the
SGA's effectiveness in ac
complishing the tasks it sets out
to do.
Like any Vice-President who is
called upon to take over where his
Member of
Linda Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
Tom Stanger Jay Schonthaler
Entertainment Editor Sports Editor
Editorial Policy
or delete portions of all letters for
publication purposes.
All letters must be signed, but
names will be withheld upon
request. Term standing, major,
and hometown must be included.
Signed columns represent the
view of the author only and do not
necessarily reflect the Editorial
policy of the Behrend Collegian.
Executive Editor
Paul Corbran
Executive Editor
Behrend Collegian
live (although, at times, it doesn't
seem so). More productive ideas
are attained through a larger
group. In such a field as
publications it should be con
sidered as very important.
Publications are the principal
means of communication between
groups.
I believe that further in
vestigation should be made into
this situation and that the rules of
membership to the Board of
Publications should be changed.
The number of representatives
from each organization on the
board should be expanded as well
as the possibility of other
students, not members of con
cerned organizations, on the
board.
Hopefully this will lead to a
wide variety of publications and
those of better quality for the
student body.
Next Week: The Collegian
"Which issue is it?"
Editor's Note: This editorial is
not an attack on the members of
the board. It is only a hopeful
stimulus, to those involved, to
improve the system.
former President left off, Dave
feels the pinch. He expressed a
wish that he would like to have
had more experience before
becoming President in order to
help him carry out his respon
sibilities better. If you wish to
find out more about your student
government and its distribution of
power, stop in at the seminar
room in the R.U.B. any Monday
night at 7:30.
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Note: This is the eighth in a series of
weekly articles.
Aries
The Aries person comes in one of two
packages. He is either gregarious,
cheerful, and dynamic, or reserved,
aloof, and difficult to know well. But
whatever the wrapping he is head
strong, volatile and temperamental.
He is frank, sometimes too open, but
always direct in his actions. He says
what he feels, talks back to anyone and
is not afraid of life. Whether male or
female he abhors weakness of any
kind and seeks always to emulate
strength.
He is sometimes referred to as the
"baby" of the Zodiac. Like a baby, he
is preoccupied with himself; _how he
thinks, what he feels and what he
believes. This often makes for a
personality which is rough on others,
but he really doesn't mean any harm.
He is just not aware of the discomfort
he causes others. The last thing he
wants to do is to hurt another fellow
human being.
He is extremely sensitive and very
vulnerable. He `acts tough, ignores
people, smiles a lot, or laughs loudly
to shield himself. It takes very little to
hurt him. He fears rejection and it
wounds him to be around cold,
negative people. He looks for warmth,
compassion and emotional feedback.
He is very much an ego person (this
includes women also). In his brighter
moments, Aries feels he is the
greatest. This can lead to arrogance
and conceit. Aries' sense of worth has
nothing to do with his ac
complishments. He just thinks he is
pretty special. But at the same time
he can be painfully aware of his
shortcomings. If you can make an
Aries feel-good about himself when he
is down and out and the rest of the
world is tearing him apart, you will
never lose his friendship or his love.
Often in life, the people who appear to
not give a damn about anything, or
who appear to be able to stand alone,
or weather all kinds of storms, are the
ones who most need protection, con
cern, and love. Aries is such a person.
But oddly enough he rarely realizes
this.
The Aries man is a romantic
idealist. A great deal of impulsiveness
colors his love life. When Kahlil
Gibran wrote: "every man loves two
women: the one is the creation of his
imagination and the other is not
born.", he must have been thinking of
the Aries man. In his youth he roams
from woman to woman. He thnks he's
making conquests but he is actually
searching for his ideal love. When in
the throes of love he is like an
adolescent. He wants to shout to all of
the world that scmeone nas chosen to
love nim.
Molkie Cole Burns
Hot fiery coals. Blazing heat
emitting from within blasting
furnaces. Steel on steel. Cold
metal, hard and shiny, like
jackhammers pounding at my
brain. Clanging, banging,
crashing at my inner soul. Light,
blinding, cascades down from the
darkness baking my eyes. Faces.
Horrible faces, painted like
pictures, dancing to way-out
whirling music. Shaking the
walls, muting my ears. The
sound, it hums, it breathes down
my back, like tigers. Burning,
seething like hot coals, or coles.
Molkie Cole. That's how my
friend described it to me. But
being more sensible than
Howard, I adopted a different
view towards Molkie Cole
Saturday night at Erie Hall. They
were cold metal all right, and
they were loud, hard and shiny.
My eyes were baked and I
couldn't hear a damn thing when I
The Behrend College Radio
Series will feature Dr. Calrein
Spector in "Biological Clocks:
Nature Takes Care of Its Own."
The program on Thursday,
January 30, 1975 will be moderated
by Mr. Davis Giersch. As always,
it will be at 7 p.m. on station 91.3,
WQLN-FM.
The Behrend Faculty
Women and Wives is spon
soring a showing of the film,
"The Great American
Funeral," Monday, at 8:00
PM in 101 Behrend. After
wards, panel members
representing various
viewpoints on the subject
will react to the film. Par
ticipants will be Mr. David
Burton, from Burton's
Funeral Home: Mr.
Pritindra Chowdheir,
founder of the local
Thanatopsis Society: and
Ms. Linda Colvin, a nurse's
aide at St. Vincent's.
Students, faculty and
general public are welcome!
Slat Comet
by Rosa Myers
The Aries woman is passionate and
deeply sentimental. She is one of those
women who can get along quite well
without a man. She's very self
sufficient. But she loves the ex
citement of romance. When she
decides to love, she looks for someone
she can respect. She doesn't play
games, so you'll always know where
you stand with her and what she thinks
of you. Since she is not known to excel
at marriage, perhaps her self
sufficiency is a good thing. In her
lifetime, many men will be attracted
to her but few will be able to withstand
her aggressive, combustible tem
perament for long.
A word of advice: If you are in love
January 30, 1975
got out. Hot coals
The Cole machine cranks out
greasy oily metal music with the
blended precision of a finely tuned
Mack diesel. Their theatrics
resemble those of the Flying
Bumbinos. Their faces were
horrible. And for two beans it was
a bargain fo catch a good show.
(one bean W.A.C.).
Molkie • Cole brought joy into
every little heart of every girl and
boy at Behrend. So, you see, it is
now time to thank Behrend
College especially the S.U.B.
(Scott Taylor,) and all of those
who made that great night
possible, and we want to thank
Molkie Cole and the students who
brought all the money down. And
as for Howard, I always liked
the kid, but he's got weird ideas.
PHEAA Aid
Available
Representative David S. Hayes
announced he has available
Pennsylvania Higher Education
Assistance Agency applications
for financial aid for those
students who plan to attend post
secondary institutions during the
1975-76 school year. He will be
glad to furnish them to interested
students upon request.
Hayes pointed out that if a
student has already filed an
application for next year, he need
not file a duplicate and that this
would just delay the final
processing of the original.
Filing deadlines have been
modified and all new and renewal
applicants must file on or before
May 1, 1975. Those interested in
receiving applications and
brochures should write to Rep.
Hayes at: House of Represen
tatives, Room E-8, Main Capitol
Building, Harrisburg, Pa. 17120
or Box 33, Fairview, Pa. 16415.
with an Aries, don't let yourself be run
over. Stand up to him (or her) and
don't always bend over backwards.
Hold your ground and hang onto your
own self. And be honest with your
Aries, above all.
Some Aries people: AI Carter,
Debra Vector, Michael Morocco,
Mary Beth Finke, Rosa Myers, King
Kong, Sue Simonian, Cynthia Krishna,
and Mr. Irvin H. Kochel.
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On Jan. 29, 1970, three men
were indicted in the slaying of
United Mine Workers official
Joseph A. Yablonski.
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