FEBRUARY 15, 1979
Mark
Spies
Good
Mark Porterfield, Cultural
Chairperson of the Student Union
Board (SUB), is primarily
responsible for much of the en
tertainment on Behrend campus
this year. As with the
Recreational, Social, and Special
Events Chairpersons, Mark
works with a committee to
arrange cultural entertainment
events. He also works closely
with Jay DiFrank, who oversees
Mark Porterfield (R) with
George Fischoff
the entire activities program at
school.
Mark is a sophomore who plans
to graduate from Behrend as a
Policitcal Science major. Last
year as a freshman he was ac
tively involved as a committee
member —enough so to -be
Chairperson this year.
Asked if he liked his job, Mark
replied “I like responsibility.
When you’re on the Board, you
have to help everybody. I need to
have extra activities.”
He makes no allusions to the
infringements on free time his
job carries with it. “I learned to
adapt to my study time. Setting
your priorities is the main thing.”
Mark’s job will take hin. to
Kansas City from February 13 to
the 19th, to attend the national
NECAA convention. There he will
represent Behrend as one among
2,500 colleges bidding for top
INVISIBLE COMMUTERS
There has been a cry of apathy
at Behrend College concerning
the commuter students. Since the
first dormitory was constructed
and functioning, there has been a
visible division of the dormitory
residents and the commuting
students. It’s not that the two
divisions want to be two separate
functioning bodies; it has just
worked out that way. It is true
that most activities are geared to
benefit the dorm students rather
than the commuters.
A commuter meeting was at
tempted recently in which we had
an astounding turnout of two
commuters. We would like to
believe that the commuting
Porterfield
Entertainment
entertainment acts. All colleges
attending must pay annual dues
to earn the priveledge of securing
any act. There are thousands of
different acts, with showcases,
booths, and exhibits open around
the clock. “You have to keep your
audience in mind when you
consider an act,” Mark said when
remembering last year’s con
vention at Bowling Green.
His experience and aptitude for
choosing good entertainment was
demonstrated well by the George
Fischoff concert held two weeks
ago here at Behrend. There are
special problems associated with
publicizing such an act.
“Pianist?” Mark chided.
“What’s a pianist? George was
more than ‘just a pianist.’ Yet
people had to know that there are
other things than classical
pianists. That’s why I had him do
some of his things around
campus, so people, eould see that
he had more than one side.”
It was suggested that, in a
general sense, people tend to
narrow their view of en
tertainment; it can be hard to
arouse curiosity for anything
different or new. Mark addressed
the problem with the following
words: “The students need tc
know that there are other forn s
of entertainment besides hard
rock—which I really like
myself—but that’s not the only
form. I’d like to show then, the
other side... .If I only get one
person at a program, I’n. happy,
because I made that person
happy—that’s the whole idea.”
There are other factors besides
the usual apathy to consider
when the problem of bringing
good entertainment to can.pus
comes up. Inadequate facilities
hamper good programming.
“Think of the acts we could bring
in if we had an auditorium of
some sort,” Mark said.
Funds must always be con
sidered. The budget must be
constantly assessed and spending
anticipated when scheduling
entertainment. Mark is bon -
barded by advertising mail all
the time with only one purpose in
mind—to get him to contract for
entertainment.
“We’re not so much into
money-making as we are into
providing,” Mark says of the
SUB’s intentions. Their priorities
seem to be in order.
students are a faction here at
Behrend which would like to be
organized.
The commuter faction,
naturally, is the largest group
represented on Behrend Campus.
This representation comes in the
form of the Commuter Council
which operates as part of the
S.G.A. However, without input
from the commuters we cannot
know their problems, concerns,
and needs. Therefore we will hold
another commuter meeting Mon
day, Feb. 19 in the Reed Lecture
Hall during the lunch period.
Please make every effort to at
tend.
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; BEHREND COLLEGIAN
Patemo’s Team
Recognized
With Awards
Penn State’s football team won
unprecedented acclaim in 1978.
In addition to earning the number
one ranking during the regular
season for the first time in the
school’s 92-year football history,
the Nittany Lions won numerous
individual honors.
Coach Joe Paterno was
selected as Coach of the Year by
the American Football Coaches
Association and the , Football
Writers Association of America.
Paterno, who has a 13-year
record of 123 wins, 25 lossses and
a tie, also won the Joseph M.
Sheehan Award as the out
standing major college coach in
the East for the fourth time in the
11 years the award has been
presented by the New York
Football Writers Association.
Paterno is the only coach to win
the Sheehan Award more than
once.
Paterno was also named Coach
of the Year by the prestigious
Washington Touchdown Club,
which selected Penn State as its
Team of the year and quar
terback Chuck Fusina as its
Player of the Year.
The Washington Touchdow n
Club Award was one of many for
Fusina, who also became Penn
Slate’s fifth recipient of the
Maxwell Award as the nation’s
Outstanding Collegiate Player.
Fusina, who holds 18 Penn State
passing and total offense records,
also won the Wiseman Trophy.
Fusina was one of six Penr.
State players to win first-tean
All-America honors. The Lion
offensive captain was named to
six All-America teams.
Offensive'tackle Keith Dorney
was a first team selection on
seven squads and also earned
$1,500 for the scholarship fund by
being named first tean
Academic All-America by the
College Sports Information
Directors of America.
Defensive tackle Bruce Clark
and kicker Matt Bahr both were
named to five All-America
learns, defensive tackle Matt
Millen was selected for two
teams and safety Pete Harris
was picked on one All-An.erica
squad. Clark, a 6- 1 -, 268-pound
junior, won the Lombardi Award,
given annually to the nation’s
outstanding lineman or
linebacker.
The Lions had seven players
compete in All-Star games after
the Sugar Bowl. Fusina, Bahr
and split end Scott Fitzkee
competed in the Hula Bov 1 in
Honolulu and the Japan Bowl in
Tokyo.
Correal, Dorney and guard
Erie Cunningham participated in
the East-West Shrine Game in
San Francisco and were joined b>
fullback Bob Torrey for the
Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alaban a.
Torrey scored all three touch
downs for the North team in the
Senior Bowl.
Clark, Harris and Millen are
among the six defensive starters
the Lions will have returning for
the 1979 season. The others are
end Larry Kubin, who led the
team in quarterback sacks (12);
linebacker Lance Mehl, who led
the team in tackles (96); and
halfback Karl McCoy, whose five
interceptions rankeid second to
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tuality. We shouldn’t sacrifice the
right of our posterity to the
liberties we enjoy today. We
cannot delegate the respon
sibility to defend our way of life to
others, for if we do, they can do
the same with the result that
nobody ever assumes the
responsibility.
Americans have allowed the
mistakes we made in Vietnan to
cloud our vision of a-time just tw o
decades before. It was at this
time that Adolf Hitler and his war
machine devised a new concept
in mechanized warfare, the
Blitzkrieg. A few years later,
another Axis power, Japan,
unleashed a ruthless attack on
our naval base at Pearl Harbor.
The horror stories of Bataan.
Harris’ 10 steals.
The Lions, who finished the
season with an 11-1 record, will
have five offensive starters
returning tight end Irv
Pankey, tackle Jim Brown,
guard Jim Romano, fullback
Matt Suhey and tailbacks Mike
Guman and Booker Moore.
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Peninsula Eluded
By Storms
Presque Isle is sinking into the
sea.
If the next time you are on the
beach is next summer, then what
you may see will be the end
product of this past winter’s
devastation. Certain stretches of
the peninsula beachfront are
eroded badly, large chunks of
trees and land collapsing into the
lake.
A length of beach eight has
been eaten by waves, picnic
tables sliding seaward to meet
the iron jetties already bent
beneath the power of Lake Erie
storms.
Eight now the lake is frozen,
the inactivity a lull of momentary
calm. Spring storms are sure to
worsen the condition, and swim
ming is highly unlikely on more
beach area next summer.
Corriggdor, and the Philippines
were grim testimony to our lack
of readiness, American vowed
never again to be a vulnerable as
it was in 1941. We achieved this
goal until the Vietnam incident
made us lose our perspective of
potential attack.
We cannot forget Vietnan , for
it teaches us many things. It
taught us how government can
usurp power at the greatest levels
It taught us that fighting a con
tainment or defensive war is
futile. Most of all, it taught us
that the old adage “My country,
right or wrong, my country,” no
longer holds water. We n ust
have a purpose, a valid purpose
to fight. And if this purpose
presents itself, America will fight
to protect what is hers. But what
we must forget about the Viet
nam era is that patriotisn and
military service are not
pejorative concepts, but
necessary and honorable
responsibilities that must be
borne by all of us if we are to
continue our present lifestyles.
Maybe this is jingoistic thought,
but it is also reality with in -
mediate applications.
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