October 30, 1970
How About A
Book Exchange
Next Term?
by Skip Lewis
Anyone who has his ear remotely
to the ground cannot but know the
complexities that now trouble our
SGA, but with all dark skies, there
are some rays of sunshine that we
can all be thankful for. Judy Jen
nings is one of those rays. She is a
Junior who, untroubled by overall
problems, decided that a book ex
change was in order and decided to
take her idea to SGA President Lee
Levan. Lee was very receptive to
the formation of such a service for
the student body.
Three things are needed: a place
in which to operate, and, of course,
materials. As usual the “time hang
up” comes with the acquisition of
materials; but a plan has been de
veloped. Here is how the Book Ex
change will work. Let’s say you have
a book from one of last year’s endea
vors that you wish to turn into
money. Fine. You go to the Book
Exchange. The little lady behind the
counter gives you a card which you
fill out with some pertinent data a
bout the book. The card goes on file
with the Book Exchange. Now you
wait until Joe or Mary is in need of
the book you are selling and comes to
the Book Exchange in search of a
good second-hand text. They are
given your name and address, and
their name is put on the prospect
portion of your card. Taking the
prospect’s names enables the Book
Exchange to keep a running account
of what books have been sold so they
don't keep old cards on file for an ex
cessive time and don’t inconvenience
buyers as well as sellers. It will of
course be the responsibility of the
sellers to check with the Book Ex
change periodically for progress re
ports on their particular book.
AWARENESS
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ness and support.
The Student Awareness Commit
tee is now initiating their combined
group plans for the Saturday, Oct.
31, 1970 mass rally and peace mora
torium to be held in Harrisburg.
Capitol Campus will be the hub from
which all peace activities will stem
for the Harrisburg area. A major
concern has been in stimulating and
mounting support from the neighbor
ing colleges and high schools.
In general, plans seem to be run
ning smoothly for the Awareness
Committee. Jim Benn said “I think
this could be the biggest thing Har
risburg has ever seen.” Personally,
I think his prediction is quite possible
and would like to see it happen, but
without the student body’s support,
we could fail. Actually, if this at
tempt fails, you will fail.
The Student Awareness Commit
tee wishes to convey its gratitude to
all its members and wants to offer
new membership to all interested and
competent students. Take an active
role in our community. This is our
world now and I hope we can do
something more constructive than
World War 11, Korea, and Vietnam.
It’s up to you! PEACE.
THE CAPITALIST
Capitol Campus Head Shop
Comes Alive
by Lee Nell
A couple of weeks ago, several stu
dents got together with Iris Prager,
Toni Jennings, Pat Murphy and
Marian Kreiger to plan a comprehen
sive drug program for Capitol Cam
pus. Since Iris, Toni, Pat and Marian
are employed by the University, you
may assume correctly that this drug
program will not include dispensing
of pills, acid, grass, et al. This may
be bad news to some of you, but it
should be good news too. The Univer
sity has taken steps to sponsor a stu
dent-planned program with emphasis
on interest, education and help for
one and all.
The program will include two major
aspects education and rescue.
Some of the details on the rescue
aspect have not been settled yet, but
the main idea is to have one tele-;
phone number where anyone can call
if he is on a bummer and needs help.
What has been decided is as follows:
the telephone line should be open 24
hours a day; the rescue staff will be
there to help and to help alone; the
staff will include students and con
cerned faculty members; everything
will be confidential and no narcotics
squads will be involved in any way
at any time. We hope to help this
way but even at its worst, we can
offer a willing ear for someone to
talk to. The main thing is that we
will be helping each other. And we
can use your help.
We can use your help also with the
education aspect of the Head Shop
program. The plans so far are to
have speakers and seminars during
the period of November 10 through
18. More suggestions for speakers
and help in the seminars are needed.
The only prerequisite is that you
care. We can get together on this
and learn by sharing. With the
speakers we want to examine all
drugs the best and the worst of
them and of their effects. With the
seminars we want to have students
share with students some of the ex
periences, problems and questions
which arise with the subject of
drugs.
Although final plans have-not been
made, some of the speakers who have
been suggested include Chris Owen,
who studied LSD with Dr. Leary,
and John R. Snedden, a narc working
out of Bellefonte, Pa. Also suggest
ed were Walter Pahnke, who has
done research on the theraputic as
pects of controversial drugs; Father
Edward Loughran and Some ex-ad
dicts (by force and by choice) from
“The Bridge,” a halfway house in
Philadelphia; a man who is doing re
search on opiates here at Capitol
Campus, our own Dr. Nichols; Leroy
Zimmerman, District Attorney for
Dauphin County, who is quite ob
jective considering his position, and
several others from health and men
tal health organizations. These
speakers have been suggested, in
part, by the students involved and
will be invited to speak only with
student approval.
That’s it, folks. We can be happy
that the Head Shop is to be conduct
ed by students. But we also, then,
have a responsibility. This program
is designed to help you or your broth
er here in the college community. If
we don’t get your support, your help,
then we might as well turn in our
marbles. This has got to be a com
munity effort, and we can make it
work. As soon as they are finalized,
the schedule for speakers and sem
inars and the rescue telephone num
ber will be publicized. Until then,
go see Iris, Toni, Pat or Marian. They
are lovely people who will be happy
to talk with you. Or come to see us
at 836 Jones Drive, in Meade Heights
on Monday evenings at 8:00. We’ve
got a good thing started here so let’s
not blow it.
NOV. 2nd, 1970
ARTIST LECTURE SERIES
KOLO CLUB “MARIAN”
CROATION SONGS and
DANCES