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A guest editorial
Politics
By George Spiegel
Back when I was a burned-out
hippie. I voted anyway. I didn't
even know whom I was going to
cast my vote for. Calling upon my
formal education and personal
observations. I realized that no
one else knew who they were
voting for either. The only thing I
fully realized was that the
balloting stations were totally run
by old-straight people. Therefore,
being an activist hippie. I became
a firm believer in voting, if only to
ive those straight, upper-strata,
poll runners a "RUSH' a damn
rush.
Over a period of time, par
ticipation in any process usually
brings with it additional
knowledge to the people par
ticipating: I call this political
osmosis. Once in a while.
Club hit
Dear Fellow-Behroxlites.
At the SGA meeting last
Monday night. three members of
ROTC. accompanied by a
military officer. sat in and
presented a charter for the
Behrend College ROTC
Adventure Club - , To say the
least. was outraged to the max.
Just the week before. ROTC
came to the SGA -to ask for ad
mission to the Awards Banquet
-text Monday. A half-hour debate
ensued that night, and a vote by
•he SGA turned down their
request. and for obvious reasons.
I rne of which was the fact that
ROTC is not a student-run
organization. and they are
alreadl!, funded by the U.S.
4evernrnent
This week. they hit us with the
tit)Tc Viventure Club. Their
Just a few words here to our
devoted readers about different
topics of varying importance.
First of all. Nancy Mullen's
minute-by-minute account of
ROTC's trip to Georgia failed to
make last week's issue. as it did
'his week. It's timeliness is long
gone (the trip v as from April 3 to
April 7). but I think it will make
for some interesting. light
reading if I put it in next week
'otally unedited. I know you want
to know what ROTC is up to.
Secondly. last week I was
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Beh rend Collegian.
someone does win or loose by one
vote: And I for one wouldn't mind
being the person to have cast that
vote for progress• especially if
my favorite candidate is the
person who happens to be one
vote up instead of one vote down.
Throughout the United States,
there are about 1,375,000 eligible
voters between the ages of 18 and
25, few of these people vote. Dr.
Q-stick-in-the-mud-Orlando just
won his primary by around .400
votes. That is one reason I felt
impelled to write this article.
Another reason is that I would
hate to wake-up someday with "a
bayonet up my ass. Also if you
vote, you are qualified to make
vacuous statements just like the
politicians do. And finally, non
voters are political virgins, and
who wants to be a virgin.
Letters
varying viewpoints
charter looked like a study sheet
from my G. Sci. class; one page
of nonsense. It was as vague as
the Nixon transcripts, and as
useful as tiolet paper in a rain
storm. "The purpose of this club
is to provide an outlet and means
for adventure type training".
This can range from surviving for
two weeks on an island in Lake
Erie. to a trip to a whorehoue at
sth and State.
More seriously, the "Adventure
Club" seems like a front for the
ROTC to be recognized by the
SGA, and to extract funds from
us, the already impoverished
student body. Their activities, as
they described them, seem to
coincide with those of the Outing
Club. It seems to me that this
would only serve as competition
for the Outing Club to acquire
adequate membership and
From the desk of the Editor
talking to Pond (our newly
elected SGA Vice-President ), and
he mentioned the Gentle Thurs
day that they have down at U.P.
At the time I had no idea what he
was talking about. Well, there
was a front-page article on it in
the Daily Collegian last Friday. It
sounds like a really good idea.
More on this later.
By Dan McKay
Editor-in-Chick
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By Jerry Glass
"It happened so fast! Suddenly
there they were, all over me. I
was just walking through the
bushes. It was horrible!" so
relates a co-ed of Behrend, the
latest victim of one of the most
deadly menaces ever faced by the
populace of the Big 8.. This
terrible enemy of us all is
potentially Behrend College's
most devastating - foe, more
devastating than a tuition in
crease letter - from President J.
Oswald. Although this menace
has only recently come to light. it
has been brewing all spring. This
great adversary is none other
funding next year.
Outraged,
Lenny Young
3rd term ERM
A desperate Pilml
To whom it may concern.
The Behrendt College Bridge
Club has been staggering along
and is now in 'intensive care'. Will
anyone -who has the interests of
student activity at heart please
sign up on the list on the bulletin
board opposite Room 13613ehrerxi
signifying his-her pledge to attend
7:30p.m. Monday evening.
The game will only take place if
a sufficient number of people sign
up.
Dr Bernard Scott
Assistant Professor of
Physics
Finally. next week is the last
time until next fall that you_will
gleefully pick up a copy of the
Collegian. Don't everyone cry
now, because we are going to do
our best to make it an issue to
remember. Along with Nancy's
story we'll have other sorts of
informative, entertaining
reading. 'Till then...
commentary
than the evil, deadly procreating
rabbits of Behrend's bushes. Yes,
those cute little bunnies you see
on your way to class, the darling
rabbits you see on your way to
dinner, the adorable little hares
you see when you go for a walk.
the little furry creatures you see,
everywhere you look have
become a problem.
And Behrend's mighty Security
Force has been charged with
stopping this blight, one . of the
largest, awesome, and most
Important responsibilities it has
aver had to deal with. Gone are
the days when Behrend's happy
go-lucky Security Force only had
to worry about an occasional
vicious illegally parked car, or a
rabid stickerless automobile, or
perhaps an annoyed jaywalker.
yes, gone too are the days when
an officer's life was as carefree
as sitting down and watching
"Happy Days". Now a Security
officer lives with death close by,
conscious that at any moment he
may be next to go as he stalks the
deadly multiplying bunnies.
One of Behiend's brave
Security officers, who would
probably rather remain
anonymous, acquainted me with
the problem last week and went
on to describe what it was like to
be on the Security force now.
"Well, before all this started life
used to be simple. You did your
job. gave out a few tickets. and
that was all. Now I don't even
know if I'll be alive from one
moment to the next.. Those little
bunnies are dangerous. Officer J..
as I will call him, went on further
to describe how our Security
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force is trying to break up these
dangerous, amorous little
animals. in the bushes. He
described how these fearless
fighters of ferocious fornicating
furry creatures tromp stealthily
through the bushes at Behrend at
night, Security officers are ar
med only with a flashlight and a
prayer, hunting for the cunning
cottontails to break them up from
their unholy alliances. An un
savory. task, at-best. -
However, this task is not as
simple as it at first- appears.
These wily creatures, weighing
up to three pounds, have been
known to mug and kill creatures
smaller and less intelligent than
themselves, and attack just about
anything when in a crazed state of
heat, which is just about all the
time. Some unconfirmed reports
state that several students have
been injured when they wandered
into the bushes and surprised the
small creatures in the middle of
what they were doing. "I- wish
that everyone would stay out of
the bushes here on campus until
we get this thing cleared up" said
one Security spokesman.
"There's just no telling what
those little bunnies are capable
of!"
I think our diligent Security
force deserves a vote of thanks
from all of us as they perform
this most dangerous task. For we
can all sleep soundly in our beck;
tonight knowing that somewhere
out there in the darkness a
flashlight is flashing and an of
ficer is risking all so that Behrend
is a little safer for us all and a
nice place to live and raise kids.
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May 6, 1976