Pogo Two
By Paul Corbran
Executive Editor
Where are you Behrend? In the
five weeks I have had an article in
this space, I have received a very
small amount of letters to the
editor. I hear, time and time
again, complaints of various
facets of the University, yet they
are all oral. Here's your chance
to express yourselves to the
college and two letters are
written. I'm sure that most of you
have time to sit down and write
one or two paragraphs.
What did you think of the coffee
house last week? How did you
like the lecture? What are your
gripes? How about that article in
last week's Collegian? There are
a number of topics you can write
on. YOU can tell Behrend College
what you think, whether it be
criticism or praise. Just a crazy
idea you had the other morning
while you were brushing your
teeth. Even though your name,
term standing and major must
accompany your letter, this in
formation will be withheld upon
request.
Theatre 'Trip'
By Chuck Little
The Behrend Players, along
with other faculty, students, and
staff of Behrend had another
delightful trip to the Cleveland
Playhouse.
Landford Wilson's "Hot I
Baltimore" is just a tremendous
piece of art. While sitting wat
ching the show, many became
completely overwhelmed by the
reality of the characters. This
reality that each character had
was what made them so credible.
They were people that we have
either seen or known in our
everyday lives. The audience,
being able to make this type of
association with the characters
made the play; Wilson being able
to accomplish this task shows
great ability.
Take for instance the character
"Girl." She just wanders
aimlessly around, but is always
talking about anything and
everything. She just doesn't stop
talking. We've all seen people like
her during our lives. I know I've
seen a few here at Behrend. Then
there was April Green. She was
"climb (fallegian
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Where are you?
Moving on. . .last week there
was a question posed in that issue
of the Collegian "Will the
Behrend Collegian be forced to
discontinue publication?" ap
peared in the SGA article on page
one. As I said before in this space.
this paper is already an award
winning publication and is getting
better. I have noticed that many
more students are reading the
Collegian also. The piles that you
used to see on Friday mornings
have decreased to a few scat
tered issues here and there. I
would like to thank the student
body and faculty for this support.
Now I am asking for another type
of support. What we need is a
more active support. The
Collegian has been running in the
red since I started here and
heaven knows how long before
that. We need people to help us
find advertisers. All you com
muters out there who live in
various parts of the community
could help us immensely and earn
money at the same time. The
Collegian pays a 10 per cent
commission on all ads. Adver
tisements are the only other
on top of everything (no pun in
tended) and always coming back
at you with those razor-sharp
remarks. Throughout the show,
one sees these people, recognizes
them, and in the end you begin
feeling sorry for them knowing
that they would always be the
same. They never stood the
chance of a "snowball in hell."
A question and answer session
was held after the performance.
This proved stimulating, and was
enjoyed by all.
The U.S. Air Force Officer
Selection Team will be in the
Seminar Room, Reed Union
Building, on Wednesday,
February 12th, from 9:30
a.m. to 4 p.m.
They will be interviewing
young men and women for
the highly competitive jobs
available in the Air Force.
For an appointment,
contact the Placement
Director, or come by the
Seminar Room on the above
date and time.
Member of
Linda Johnson
Editor-in-Chief
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 *le Editorial
policy of the Behrenui Collegian.
Paul Corbran
Executive Editor
lAahrencl Collegian
source of income besides the SGA
for the newspaper.
Another type of active support
that we need is your written
support. Letters would help us by
putting pressure in some needed
areas. Increased funding for
activities from UP, as mentioned
in previous articles, would be a
great place to start pushing. This
would not only help the Collegian
but other activities as well. If
nothing else, a letter to the paper
would show us that you're still
interested.
Linda Johnson and her staff
have worked hard to make this
newspaper what it is. To shut
down Behrend's last literary
organization and publication
would be a great disappointment
and, possibly, disaster. Because
of the gap at Behrend, being
almost half and half commuter
and resident students, the shut
down of the paper would diminish
the already poor communication.
Lastly, I would like to stress the
point on the letters to the editor.
In order for a newspaper to
function well, it needs reaction
from its readers. We have to
know what you want to read
before we can put it in the
publication. We want to know
what you think!
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Apathy, Visitation, Vandalism
Dear Editor,
I would like at this moment to
criticize those individuals who
take it upon themselves to
comdemn the so called
"apathetic" students. After
hearing numerous complaints
about Behrend, I took it upon
myself to make these grievances
known. Presently, I'm a member
of Lawrence Dorm Council and
JRC and just recently had the
opportunity to experience one of
the numerous causes of apathy.
The cause of apathy I speak of
is the "puppet show" which we as
students participate in, when
dealing with the administration. I
too realize that the two
organizations which I associate
with are excellent when dealing
with minor changes such as the
extension of the lunch period and
sponsoring activities such as jam
sessions. However, the strive in
changes—as in visitation—l found
were quite useless, since the
results of everyone's efforts was
to receive what I call a "token
gesture." When 80 per cent of the
resident students prefer a more
lenient change during the week
than from 6 p.m. - 12 a.m. or in
other words 9 extra hours, and
even the approval from certain,
members from the ad
ministration, I thought possibly
we succeeded in our efforts. This
was short lived of course, only to
find that the means in which we
were told to go to see this change
Poetry Recital
By Joe Grisanti
A poetry recital, featuring
black poetess Ramona Austin,
was presented Monday evening,
February 3, in the RUB Lecture
Hall. Ramona is a prime example
of a - newer breed of poets in
filtrating the literary culture of
black America.
Her recital clearly depicted the.
unity of feelings common to the
Harlem black, a social class
stifled by their ignorance of the
oppression pressed upon them by
a higher, educated white class of
Americans. Ramona talked of
every aspect of blackness; the
hopeless feelings, the hate and
vengeance, the knowledge that
the world holds no future or goals
for "a dumb nigger." She told of
the blues, the paints, the reds.
Also, of a black mother, bearing
child,—who dreams of some type
of life for her son,—knowing full
well that his future is filled with
the same darkness which will
make him proud of his blackness.
She whined and cried of pigeons
in Harlem, and the familiar trail
they leave behind. There was
pain in her voice.
"Life is suffering," she said.
"A little liquor, a little gin, helps
'ya fo'get the fix yo' in. A man
was cut short by Director Kochel.
The final decision in which he
made was without consideration
of the 80 per cent in favor of a
change, but was made on per
sonal bias. I felt also the final
judgement was determined un
fairly and that it was
narrowminded and rather
illogical. I said narrowminded
because Director Kochel refuses
to believe that the security of the
dorms will be as safe as before in
spite of proposals to correct the
problem. I said previously that
his reasoning was illogical, that is
because of his imaginary law
which says that somewhere
between 12:01 and 7 a.m. there
must be 5 hours of no visitation.
This law was unable to be found in
our Behrend handbook and to
many this is considered the
Behrend Bible. The reason for
enforcement of this law is so that
students will have some privacy.
Does he forget that is only one
night a week that all night
visitation 80 per cent of the
students wanted it? I didn't feel
that having one night a week of all
night visitation was too extreme
but others must have.
So because there is reason to be
apathetic, I don't condone it; but I
won't criticize it either. I con
demn those who criticize the
apathetic because they have
reason to be.
Sincerely,
Jeffery Johnston
February 6, 1975
born in a black cloak enters the
arms of pain."
Ramona Austin knows hope
also. She told of the times she has
seen black hands clenched in
uprising, of the hands which piled
the goods higher and higher, and
of the blacks hands which beat at
the bosses.
Yet, all her pain was buried
beneath a sublime humor which
could not be hidden. Ramona was
funky, skin-tight, kick it round,
get down, high-heeled, gangster
walled; black.
"I am black." She called me
her European brother. And she
talked of love. All kinds Love of
family, self, home, friends, and
mother country.
When asked of herself, Ramona
replied that she had studied
drama, and she was now teaching
English to seventh and twelth
graders in Minneapolis. Her
future goal is to , continue writing
literature conceruing the op
pression and restriction put upon
the private citizen in America.
She is witnessing the loss of civil
freedom.
"I am black. Let all black poets
die as trumpets."
As I left, I hoped she did not
hate me for what I had done to
her.
Dear Editor,
I wish to voice a complaint
about some of my fellow students.
Recently, the 810 Club placed a
receptacle upstairs in the RUB to
collect empty cans, which would
be recycled. Also with the
receptacle were appropriate
signs, made at the artist's ex
pense. Granted, the conservation
of resources seems to be out of
vogue (froth the response) but
filling the receptacle with candy
wrappers and other trash and
tearing down the signs is just
plain hostile in a juvenile way.
Why do this to a group of students
who are concerned about a
problem and have gone out of
their way to do someting about it?
Behrend is a great place to live
and learn, but it takes only a few
people to hurt a good effort. It's a
sorry situation which un
fortunately occurs everywhere
all too frequently. At last report,
the RIO Club is giving it a final
try, but the receptacles have been
relocated in the Nick Building and
Erie Hall.
Craig Caldwell
Dr. Kazmi's hours for
February:
Mon. and Wed., Feb. 10 and
12: 1-3 p.m.
Mon. and Wed., Feb. 17 and
19: 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Mon. and Wed., Feb. 24 and
26: 1-3 p.m.