the Penn State-Behrend
APRIL 3, 1986
TV of future takes shape
at Penn State-Behrend
by Greg Rathbun
Collegian Staff Writer
Television has come a long way in its relatively short existence.
Orginally designed for radar screens, the cathode ray tube was put to
better use for entertainment, education, viewing sporting events, and as
an impronnu dinner companion.
In recent years its capabilities have increased with cable and satellite
TV, but no one has taken the time to build a better tube—that is, until
now.
Behrend professors Dr_ Robert Marande and Dr. Alan Jircitano
working in conjunction with Michael Reidenger, president of Tru-Lyte
systems have developed the television of tomorrow, today at Behrend.
One year ago the team started work on a liquid crystal cell television
which uses fiber optic strands to enlarge the picture on the television
screen. This system makes the cathode ray tube obsolete and the ap
proach offers a lighter weight television, requiring less maintenance,
less expensive, and a clearer picture.
The liquid crystal cells are bunched together to make an image plate
which produces an image of varying intensity and color that is transfer
red and magnified on the screen via fiber optic strands.
Marande, Jircitano, and Reidinger hope to produce a large screen
stadium monitor within three years. continued on page 4
Behrend's
by Paula Mans
Collegian Editor
A proposal by Behrend College
for the implementation of an ac
tivities fee was apparently denied
last week by University Park's
Budget Task Force.
This marks the second year in a
row the propcisal has been turned
down. The denial comes in the
face of University sardies in
dicating Behrend has the greatest
need for additional student life
funding than all University
campuses.
Of the Pennsylvania State
University's 19 undergraduate
campuses, Behrend is the only
location funding student life ac
tivities with a voluntary $4O activi
ty card in addition to a Student
Government allocation and some
funding by the Office of Student
Affairs.
Currently, Behrend, Capital
College (formerly Capitol Cam
pus), and University Park
Inside This Issue...
Behrend expands with apartments p. 2
Academic advising contract created p. 2
Students sold in "Slave Auction" p. 8
Music video on Behrend campus p. 8
Baseball season preview p. 11
attempt to
students pay the same tuition
amounts.
Other PSU campuses pay a
lesser amount. However, the
University is moving toward a
uniform undergraduate tuition
rate, said Dohn Harshbarger,
dean of student affairs.
Most of the additional funds
(generated through the tuition in
creases) at the 17 two-year cam
puses will be invested in student
life. The result is better student
life funding at the 17 two-year
campuses.
Behrend additionally
distinguishes itself from other
commonwealth campuses in that
it grants four-year and graduate
degrees. All the commonwealth
campuses serve underclassmen
exclusively.
With a continuing increase of
enrollment and upperclassmen at
Behrend, the expectations of the
student body increase also.
"Behrend's current level of fun
ding is inadequate to meet the new
demands for student services and
ollegian
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implement
programming," said Student
Government President Doug
Gerow.
At Behrend College, student
life funds itself through an SGA
allocation of $23,000, Student
Programming Council's sale of
270 activity cards, and annual
support of about $lB,OOO from
the Office of Student Activities.
This comes to a total of $51,800,
equalling about $23 per student.
Behrend's push for a fee of $5O
per semester would improve the
quality of student programming;
Levi's survey finds most students
prefer sleeping to dating
CHICAGO, IL (CPS)—It doesn't have much to do
with their high-living image, but college students
probably perfer sleeping to dating, a new Levi
Strauss Co. survey of collegiate attitudes has found.
Dating, in fact, was only students' sixth-favorite
activity.
Attending parties topped the survey of student
preferences.
"Partying is definitely a verb on campus," says
Julie Boyle, a company spokeswoman.
Of the more than 6,500 students surveyed, 70 per
cent listed partying as one of their five favorite
activities.
Listening to records came in second, with 63 per
cent of those questioned rating it as one of their
favorite pastimes.
Sleeping was third, with 56 percent, followed by
going to movies and eating.
Only 42 percent of the respondents said dating was
activities fee denied
and would fund clubs, organiza
tions, intramurals and wages so
various facilities could remain
open for longer and more conve
nient hours.
The need 'at Behrend is evident
because of limited student activity
funding and "...we are competing
with area colleges with activities
fees," Harshbarger said.
The 1985 proposal was turned
down in part due to "timing" and
Harshbarger explained that there
apparently is not enough support
at University Park to implement
There were, of course, regional differences in ex
tracurricular tastes. Students in the East and South,
for example, felt dating was more important than did
Midwestern and Western students
Only about a third of the Westerners listed dating
as a favorite pastime.
Levi Strauss calls the study its "501 Survey"
because the company is researching why traditional
jeans are gaining favor again on campuses, Boyle
explains.
In fact, "jeans are more popular than ever with
college students," Boyle says, adding students who
have jeans wear them 75 percent of the time. '
Company executives theorize singer Bruce Spr
ingsteen may be partially responsible for keeping
jeans so popular on campuses, Boyle adds.
The study, Boyle says, "gives the company an
overview of the habits of consumers. Students are a
prime target (market) for our jeans."
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the activties fee this year.
Although 75 percent of colleges
and universities in the USA have
activities fees, PSU discontinued
theirs about 25 years ago, Har
shbarger noted.
If this tentative decision holds,
Behrend will be the only campus
of the PSU system whose student
life funding will be significantly
less than all the other University
campuses.
"That is intolerable," said Pro
vost and Dean, Dr. John Lilley.