Dungeons And Dragons
For Sale
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, the
fantasy adventure game that has
become a national addiction and
has recently been featured in
such publications as Newsweek,
Us, The New York Times, and
The Los Angeles. Times, has been
distributed to the book trade by
Random House, effective
January 1.
Called "the most popular
fantasy game of the decade" by
Games Magazine, DUNGEONS &
DRAGONS has no board, no
cards, no play money, and no
winners and losers. It is a game
of the imagination in which
players assume mythical
characters and,. with the
guidance of a "Dungeon Master"
an experienced player who
sets the scene and plots the
details of the game embark
upon a dangerous quest which
can involve dungeons, monsters,
hidden treasure, and obstacles
whose limits are boundless since
they originate in the minds of the
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(Editor's Note: The following
articles have been taken from
two main News services -
Collegiate Redline's Campus
Wire and Beim:ors Newsletter,
The Bulletin edited by Josie
Eyer. Each has been identified
by CH and Bu respectively. )
Janet Ketchum and Peter
Segal, flute and guitar artists,
performed in a concert on
Tuesday, March 18 at 8 pan. in
the Reed Lecture Hall.
As a duo, they have combined
their talents and energies to
expand the flute and guitar
literature through research of
older works (some have been
republished by Ketchum and
Segal for the first time in 150
years ); other compositions have
been transcribed and find an
exciting setting in the com
bination of two instruments. They
have also sought'works by con
temporary composers to include
in their programs. (Bu ).
Patrick K. Sedlak, a junior
majoring in management and
communications, was recently
chosen student representative to
the Behrend College Advisory
Board.-He is currently a student
senator and President of the
Student Union Board.
The student representative to
the Advisory Board is selected
from a panel of students by the
President of the Advisory Board,
the Dean of Student Affairs, and
the Director of the College. (Bu )
Timothy R. Burke, Adviser-
Consultant, Division of Under
graduate Studies has resigned his
position effective March 28, 1980.
Tim accepted a position as
Coordinator of Academic
Advising at Saginaw Valley State
College in University Center,
Michigan. He will be responsible
for coordination of faculty
players themselves.
The game was created in 1974
by Gary Gygax, a game en
thusiast who had long been
fascinated by fairy tales and
medieval romance. Gygax
estimates that "D&D", as it is
popularly known, now has 500,000
players in this country • and
100,000 overseas. It is most
popular with college students and
teenagers, and appeals
especially to fans of Tolkien's
Middle Earth, sci-fi enthusiasts,
computer science students and
all those who love games of
strategy.
Random House will distribute
the D&D Basic Set, which in
cludes instructions, dice and
adventure module ($10.00), the
Advanced D&D Player Handbook
($12.00), the Advanced D&D
Monster Manual ($12.00),
Advanced D&D Dunge4
Master's Guide ($15.00), and
advanced adventure modules,
which range in price from $4.50 to
$6.00.
professional advising, operation
of the Advisement Center, and
the establishment of a career
development program. (Bu )
Director Irvin Roche] reports
that at the most recent meeting of
the Board of Trustees, they ap
proved plans to build a two story
multi-tier bookstack in The
Behrend College Library. The
multi-tier shelf will hold the
entire book collection and give us
an additional capacity of 32,760
additional volumes. A bookloft
will be installed within 'the multi
tier bookstack for transportation
of materials between levels. In
addition, perhaps 'as Many as 40
to 60 seats would be added to the
area southwest section of the
present Library where - stacks
will be removed. Plans for the
multi-tier bookstack are now
being developed and it is hoped
that construction will begin upon
the conclusion of the Spring
Term, and work will be corn=
pleted prior to the opening of the
Fall Term 1980.
In addition, funds have also
been approved to place an office
trailer in the macadam area
between the Faculty Office
Building and the maintenance
sheds. This project may 'be
completed before the end of the
Spring Term. Parking spaces in
the general area of the Faculty
Office Building would necessarily
have to be eliminated once the
work begins to put the trailer in
place.
Both these projects may cause
some temporary inconvenience
but should improve study and
working conditions upon the
completion of the projects. (Bu )
Mrs. Janet Roland, a former
editor for the Erie Times, is now
working part time as Behrend's
public information person. She
,as a ma •x in the
Administration .:wilding. News
items should be directed to Mrs.
Roland or to Director Kochel.
(Bu )
MARTIN, Term (CH) - Just
like George Burns. Turner
Kirkland is "going in style."
The founder of an in
ternationally famous antique gun
supply house didn't let his age-59-
stop him from getting the collgge
education he dropped to fight in
World War 11, or from having
some fun along the way. Kirkland
recently became the oldest Alpha
Tau Omega pledge in the history
of the national fraternity, when
joined at the University of
Tennesee-Martin.
Like other pledges, Kirkland
performs menial chores at the
ATO house, but unlike other
pledges, he doesn't climb on roofs
or participate in rope-pulling
contests.
Nor does he date co-eds . . . but
that's more in deference to his
wife than his age.
BERKELEY, Calif. (CH )-
After 70 years, the "Sather Gate
Eight" is finally coming out of
the closet.
The eight nude figures, por
trayed in bas-relief panels, were
originally erected in January,
1910, as part of the Sather Gate
entrance to the University of
California-Berkeley. When Jane
Sather, who donated $45,000 to
build the gate, saw the nudes, she
was mortified, insisting that such
things 'were for "uncultivated
people." The panels were taken
down and put into storage.
A student' petition got them
reinserted in Sather -Gate this
year, possibly confirming Mrs.
Sather's contention that
"University students are - and
always will be largely of this
(uncultivated) class."
STANFORD, Calif. (CH) -A
Northwestern University
sociologist has recommended
linking fdderal "aid - to college
students with a national volun
tary service program.
Such a program could help cure
the ills of the volunteer army,
which could be one of several
service alternatives, said
Professor Charles C. Moskos Jr.
at a national conference on the
All Volunteer Army. The
program could also provide such
needed services as care for the
aged.
Moskos says today's army fails
to deliver on its promise to teach
skills useful in civilian life and so
has a "shockingly high" attrition
rate. He recommends a two-track
army personnel system - for
"citizen soldiers" and "career
soldiers" - and says those not
planning to stay in the army
could serve two years of low-skill
duty at low pay but be guaran
teed a college education or
vocational training later. Such
benefits would be linked with
reserve obligations following
active duty, he adds, thus
providing a trained military
without making the army solely
"a recourse for dead-end youth."
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland
(CH) - University of Maryland
student government leaders are
singing the blues now that the
county liquor board says it won't
grant liquor licenses for events
featuring punk rock bands.
At least one student
organization is already scram
bling to replace a musical group
under contract.
The move to eliminate punk
rock bands from campus area
events and night clubs is an
outgrowth of the liquor board's
efforts to ease recent violence
and vandalism in College Park
streets. The board maintains
punk rock- bands—defined , as
"acid rock or rock and roll bands
that play at a high-decibel level,
that play in a frenzied hard-rock
manner, that use charac
terizations by painting their
bodies, that use offensive names
apd that convey into their music
and their actions that they ap
prove of the drug culture"
encourage violent behavior
among concert-goers.
One campus area nightclub
owner has already moved to
contest the limitations in court.
While the dispute awaits set
tlement, local rock groups are
finding their bookings down.
Before long, - they, too, may be
singing the blues.
MISSOULA, Mont. (CH) (-
Bertha didn't miss the Foresters'
Ball, but it took five bottles of
beer to get her there.
Bertha is a stuffed moose head
that hangs on the U. of Montana
Forestry Building, serving as the
'forestry students' mascot and
matron-saint of their annual
ball. This year, as often in the
past, she was kidnapped by non
forestry students and held ran
som for five bottles of beer (three
dark and two light) and five
tickets to the ball.
The kidnappers, who call
themselves the People's Front
for the Liberation of Stuffed
Animal Heads, said they
wiginally planned to release
Bertha in the wild, but found her
years on the wall had weakened
her natural foraging instincts,
and that she's suffering from an
identity crisis because, said a
spokesman "She's a female with
Huge Horns."
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