A pri I 24, 1975 analysis Athletic Funds By Jim Martin Executive Editor The athlete, the recruit, is a bedazzled teenager. The kid, of course, is the innocent victim. He is 18, just graduating from high school. He is in love with a 17- year old cheerleader who thinks he is a great and wants to marry. He is,-generally lower-to-middle class. He has been `shooting hoops" on a dirt court at a broken rim and no net. Or he's the kid who has driven golf balls with "wooden shafts" and has per formed wonders beyond ex pectations. Maybe he's the boy with the cauliflower ears and undefeated in four years of competition. All the boys have earned and won trophy after trophy; they are assured star dom. They will, if money for college was within the families' means ! But. suddenly here come these coaches, riding up in big cars and wearing fine suits, and promising All American and NAIA or NCAA championships and a pro career. He is bewildered by the attention. The colleges and universities these coaches come from span the entire United States. THE ENTIRE United States. These schools are the "Biggies". They have prolific athletic programs and funds to offer these athletes. These schools own the records, the championships, the Public Relations. And what is the kid going to say if some coach quietly offers him a car and his father the cash to open a much needed corner store? Recently, the Dapper Dan Cage Classic was held. Pennsylvania stars were everywhere as well as the United States All - Star Team, (they played in the 11th annual Rotuxiball Classic). Among the U.S. stars was 6'7" Phil Hubbard of McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio_ He averaged 26.7 points per game last season in helping his team to a 15-2 record and state runner-up finish. And guess what? Ohio State Coach Fred Taylor scouted Hubbard earlier this season and came away with a glowing report. "I'll take him back with me tonight and l'll start him tomorrow" Taylor said. "He's the best high school player I've seen this season." And I bet the coach would have, if it were easily feasible. Pennsylvania standouts such as Dave Berkon, Wayne Williams, Bill Keys, Kelvin Smith and numerous other stars throughout the states are scouted. College recruiting is "Big Time" and it will be for many years to come. The pro-boom has leveled somewhat, the college recruiting boom will not. At Behrend College, the entire picture being developed by the administration, is one that offers an easy transition to college life from high school. The picture is one that "combines the per sonalization and flexibility of a small liberal arts college with the resources andprestige of a major land grant university." (On this point my opinion is that Behrend must become a Major College which Penn State University fully recognizing and backing. I have previously alluded to this and other such points. ) What Behrend College offers in the way of combating the many huge prestigiouS colleges and to enhance Behrend College's athletic program is this "easy picture" and the Warren Behrend Athletic Fund. The fund itself is 2 - 3 years in the making. Simply, its - purpose is to provide financial aid for Behrend College students - athletes in the form of grant-in aid. This is how Behrend College can grow athletically and com pete evenly with the other area colleges. Behrend Was just declared (1971) a "college" a 4- The Collegian year higher institution of lear: ning. The area colleges have been 4-year colleges longer and have established athletic programs throughout that particular college itself and - or with many funds allocated to them. I should add that tax revenues are not permitted as athletic funds_ Also, Behrend College academic monies are continuing to be lessened by UP The Behrend athletic fund is just beginning . The Warren Behrend Athletic Fund consists of contributions from friends, faculty, and alumni of Behrend College. Here, I feel much more participation of Behrend Alumni should take part in furthering Behrend's athletics. This " means the , two-year Associate Degree Majors; Bacculaureate graduates and the two year students at Behrend completing their final years at UP must also accept the responsibility of making con tributions. The Behrend Booster Club, a Polanski's world is much more student organization, also has complicated than Huston's. In made deposits. They have my Robert Towne's superlative thanks and the College's ap- screenplay, the villian and crime predation, as do all contributors, are indeterminate. Is Noah Cross Continued deposits to the Fund the mastermind of the dam may be made by any interested swindle or is there a conspiracy? person. If you are such a persn, If a conspiracy exists, who are its contributions and further in- members? To what extent is formation concerning the Fund each involved and how aware is can be directed to our esteemed each of the conspiracy's true Athletic Director, Coach proportions? Is the audience Sweeting. • aware of its try.-2 proportions? To '.. ,. .•;. , ...: . .,: . ..; - .••:.',.i.L:.e.ftett'..:: . ....t0i . ',.4 .: t.:. - '...'..:E...'i it . : i t..•:,:•...::.,...'...: Dear Editor: . Hey, you people out there, it's Kirk and Farren again. You remember, the two guys who ran for SGA executive offices? We just thought we'd explain our motive behind all that. You see, we talked to some of the people who had executive positions, and they thought it was a joke. We went to a few meetings, and, from our viewpoint anyway, there was a lot of big words and fancy language (i.e, "specifically," and "per se") but no one was doing really anything. About the only thing they had going for them was the Spring Arts Festival. Not only that, but hardly anyone was at these meetings. And half the students around here either didn't care what went on around here. Three people care enough to run, and, the way things were going, three people would have voted. So we decided to create some interest in something around here. Sure, our campaign was off beat, inane, and at times, un called for, but how do you launch a campaign around here? There were no issues. So we ran what we thought was the proper campaign for a race with no issues, can didates, or voters. In. our estimation, it worked. People either voted for Mike Woods out of spite against our calling this a joke, or because of our funny poster. But they voted. At least 300, and some more that would have liked to but couldn't find the polls or something. We'd like to say to all 76 of the people that voted for us, a heart felt "thanks" and give them our sign (thumb on nose, fingers extended out to the world). To all you people that tore down our posters, called us names, and all that other stuff, we hope your Late Breaker mother catches you the next time you're in the closet with your "Religious Movements and the sister. Oh, and we weren't just College Scene" is this Thursday's gonna do nothing once we got in topic for the Behrend College there. We were gonna do things. radio series. The moderator will Like fire Iry Kochel and take the be .Cathy Mester and guests in money from his salary and buy dude Brad Evans, Keith library books. (We don't really ' Hagenbuck, Drew DeCrease, and think he exists, anyway. They Beth Coleman. have a stamp with his name on it, It will be broadcast at 7:00, but have any of you ever talked to April 24 from WQLN FM Stereo him?) And we wanted to sponsor 91.3. Peter Bogdanovitch's 30s films are amusing. but insubstantial idylls. George Roy Hill's 30s film is just Paul Newman and Robert Redford playing dress-up again. Roman Polanski's 30$ film, Chinatown is different; it's pure 70s. Chinatown is an unmistakable stylistic companion to The Maltese Falcon. J. J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is a shrewdly conceived confrere to, rather than imitator of, Sam Spade, (Humphrey Bogart). Faye Dunaway (Everlyn Mu'ray) is Polanski's answer to Mary Astor. Marty, the rotund morgue em ployee, could pass for Sydney Greenstreet. John Huston's (Noah Cross) first directorial assignment was The Maltese Falcon. The relationship between the two films can be drawn tighter and tighter, but ultimately, the films' basic differences will become evident: Houston's belongs to the 30s, Polanski's to the 70s. Comedians some fun things around instead of car washes and that other high school rot. We had in mind something like "Topless Day", and you don't haireto have a 4.0 to figure out what that would in volve. But seriously, we were gonna work on some problems. Like the students around here said the major problem is that this place is too much like high school. But they're standing there telling us that with their high school lettermen's jackets on. From the class of '7O no less. So, that was our attempt at getting involved. We're leaving the rest up to you and the Progressive party. Stay involved. After all, we did break - down some barricades. And you can all call us names and stuff, you know, "fools, idiot, asses" etc., we don't care. W e 're too busy working on the next thing we're gonna pull. To all you people that are leaving old BC we say "so long." To all you people that stay, we'll try to have some fun. Don't' be so serious all the time. Don't divide yourself into little cliques and groups. Have fun with everybody. College is your last fun stop. After this, you get sent out to the other world, where you get paid for doing stuff and only comedians are funny. We're not sorry we didn't get elected. We won't say that Mike Woods had his name put on the top of the ballot because he's a Psych. major and knows all about the primacy effect. Later. John C. Farren Alan F. Kirk P.S. —We won't even say that Woods stuffed the ballot box in his favor. But we won't stop you from thinking about it, either. Progressive, per se. Behrend Collegian urrent Cinema By Robert Brett Curtiss compound the indeterminacy of the situation, the different characters are concerned with a variety of crimes: Lieutenant Escobar is investigating the murder of Hollis Mulray; Noah Cross wants his granddaughter located; Evelyn Mulray wishes to know (among other things,) who has impersonated her; Mr. Gittes is on the trail of Hollis Mufray's "girlfriend" the woman who has caused him a lawsuit, the mur derer of Hollis Mulray, the skeleton in Mrs. Muiray's closet, the bank executive who forecloses mortgages, and the dam swindle. . The inability to solve the crime once perceived, and to expose the crime once solved is frustrating and pessimistic. This is another difference between the two films. The 30s were optimistic; wrong doers were punished, wrongs were righted and the innocent victims were recompensed. The 70s are pessimistic wrong-doers profit, wrongs remain unknown or are not rectified, and victims and observers can only helplessly look on. Chinatown is the inevitable product of the Watergate era. (I am em-- barrassed to point out the tran sparent symbol of the "watergate" over which Gittes climbs to escape his pursuers at the Oak Pass Resevoir ). Chinatown is a metaphor for the moral malaise that affects us all. Too many difficultues create a pervasive feeling of impotence and indifference. J. J. Gittes hoped that he had left Chinatown oehind, but it is everywhere. There is neither recourse nor respite, not even in the future, as Noah Cross informs the -jaded detective. We must all swim in SO President Interview Reveals Quotable Insight By Muriel !tykes Q: How to you plan to over come the puppet government, that is, the red-tape bureaucracy with Director Kochel? A : First of all, I don't perceive the situation as being_ a puppet government, although it may seem that way. The SGA just hasn't been as effective this year, but in reality, Kochel hasn't in terfered. The issue of dorm visitation was not Student Government Business. In other words, .the SGA was not con troversial this year. I hope that next year it ( the SGA) will be concerned with such issues that would attract the ad ministration's attention. I feel this is important. Q: What can we do to get Shapp to release impounded funds for Behrend's library? A: Other than letter writing, I only know of one avenue, but it needs student support. That avenue is the Pennsylvania Student Lobby. (Mr. Woods is our student representative for the lobby. He's's been pushing for its acceptance on this campus.) The PSL is directly concerned with lobbying for legislative action. To become a member would cost Behrend $7O, about 5c per person. The SGA can't allocate the money because of an article in the constitution which says that they can't use University funds to influence legislative action. I am thinking of having a fund-raising activity this spring, possibly a car wash. Q: Given that Behrend is a two year "stopover" for most students, what can we do to promote more group identity for this college? A: Ahh... that's a big problem. Behrend has a high transference rate, which seems to encourage apathy. I have no real solution for that problem. One thing, though, a'np... im.___ M the same polluted waters that are the 70s Clearly, Chinatown is a look at the 30s, through a 70s con sciousness. The film begins with black and white credits and opening shot. The rest is filmed in muted colors that convey the impression of temporal distance. Each frame of this visually exquisite movie is carefully composed by Polanski and captured by John Alonzo's camera. Alonzo displays his virtuosity with some pleasing shots: an iris shot achieved with a mirror image of Hollis Mulray as seen by J. J. Gittes in his car, a scene between Hollis Mulray and Catherine seen in J. J. Gittes' camera lens and numerous deep focuses with a succession of receding doorways framing the scene's principal character. One of the film's more rewarding shots shows Gittes and his two operatives in their office: Alternating stripes of black and white, caused by the shadow of the venetian blinds, pour over the soft colors of the room, its con tents and inhabitants. The sweltering summer heat and its attendant lethargy are evoked by flies buzzng and breezes blowing in counterpoint to the musical score, and in the final scene, by the crackle of street dirt under the shoes of the running men and the hollow wail of Evelyn Mulray's car horn hanging in the humid night air. The production design is prodigious and exacting as well. We even get a glimpse of a two dollar bill and a green Lucky Strike pack. All in all, this is a flattering tribute to John Huston, and more. ". .. it's Chinatown." that was brought out in the visitation controversy; it seems that only negative issues bring people together. Once the issue is resolved, they revert to apathy. At the follow-up meeting over the visitation policy, only seven people attended. Q: What, in your opinion, delayed the budgets so long this year? What would you do to get them done earlier? A: In due respect to Mr. Chircuzio, who was an excellent president, but_got too involved in Spring Arts, the elections were held too late. If elected, I would hope to have an organizational meeting before the end of the year so that officers could familiarize themselves with their duties. This also affords an op portunity to sit in on this year's meetings. I also would' request that organizations who are requesting funds for next year should submit their budget requests before the end of this year. This would free the SGA to address themselves to other problems next year. Q: There's common question that I almost hate to ask again. What can be done to imprbve commuter-dorm relations? A: Ah, I'm glad you asked that. It's a difficult problem. First, I'd like to offer my apologies for running (for Jr. Class president) on that platform. This is because all the commuters I know were too over-involved to establish a commuter council. (Woods is an ex-commuter). My biggest problem is that I didn't know enough commuters and possibly didn't know the right ones. I hope to establish a task force specifically dedicated to establishing a Commuter Council with a commuting member of the SGA in charge of it who would be Page Three (Continued on Page 6)
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