Page 2 GUEST EDITORIAL Polarization: WHAT WE CAN DO Majiy students, I am sure, are aware that polarization exists on cam pus. The question is what we the'students want to do about it. Also, to make conditions between black and white students on campus better, we have to first of all want to change our way of thinking. For those of you white students who want to do something about polarization on campus, abandon, or at least try to abandon your stereo type views of blacks and try to learn and understand us as we really are. One way you can help to change conditions on campus is by making 1 yourself known to any blacks on campus. The other way is to take a course in black literature. In any event you are not going to make the situation better by going around wishing you could do something about it. Get involved, communi cate with the blacks and we will answer any problem you might have con cerning our race. No one will know how you feel unless you make your feelings known. Then if after you’ve communicated with the blacks, and you conversed with them, you will know at least, that there is no valididty for your stero type beliefs. Who Knows The SGA? Anyone? Do you know your senator ? Who’s representing you in the SGA? Recently, a few of us have been running around Meade Heights, the dorms, vehderville, asking these questions. And what have we come up with? You can get the picture from these few examples. Q. “Do you know who the SGA president is?” A. “Lenny Thompson.” Q. “Wrong. Think harder. Who is he?” A. “Neil Madonic.” Still another gem. Q. “Do you know who the SGA president is ?” A. “Levan Wolf.” Onward we searched. Q. “Do you know who your SGA senator is?” A. “Hugh Scott.” Q. “No. Who is your senator from Capitol Campus representing you?” A. “What senator.” Q. “Your SGA senator. Who is it?” A. “I don’t think they have them in my curriculum.” We kept trying. Q. “Have, you ever been to an SGA meeting?” A. “Yes.” Q. “What did you get out of it?” A. “A lot of laughs. It was a circus.” Isn’t this amazing? Isn’t this tru ly amazing? These are only a few examples. We have many, many Staff of the CAPITOLIST Editor: Sports: RO SCANLON TONY McGOVERN . . . .. Coatributors: Assistant Editors: ANN OSTROSKI LEE NELL LU ANN BERULIS TOM HAGAN MISSY ROTUNDARO MICHAEL RIX Business Managers: BILL WINKLER RICHARD MARX £HARL IE BUSSISON DON DAVIS ROGER HAWKINS SKIP LEWIS Photographers: TERRY WIMMER JOHN FANELLY RICHARD POLUN ERIC MURRAY CHANDLER WOLF by Roger L. Hawkins by Missy Rotondaro more similiar to these. But who’s to blame? Are you? You who complain about SGA, but sit home and do absolutely nothing. You who refuse to go to a meeting, refuse to talk to a senator because you say it will do no good. Isn’t this just an excuse? On the other hand, you SGA members can’t go without question either. Have you made the same effort now in communicating with students as you did before you were elected? Were you simply put into office and forgot who you were representing? Is it possible that some effort, a lot of effort, can be displayed by both students and SGA. If you don’t know the president, if you don’t know your senator, ASK. And if they don’t come to you, SGA, GO TO THEM. Maybe then, answers like “Levan Wolf” will be no more. Freaking Out? The Head Shop Hot Line Can Help 944-1033 8 p.m. - 8 a.m. THE CAPITOLIST November 20, 1970 Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: I would like to thank those of you who voted for me. I am pleased to be the Junior Business Senator. There is one, thing that irks me. There were less than 200 Juniors who voted out of approximately 700 Jun iors. The majority of you still do not know me so I am going to have office hours from 1 to 1:30 Mondays in the SGA office W-104. I’ll be there to hear your complaints and ideas, but also I’ll be there to meet you. Come by just to get acquainted. For anyone who cannot make it to see me on Monday, my address is 1706 Penn Street, Harrisburg, and my phone number is 234-4304. Steve Wesley Jr. Bus. Senator Dear Editor; There have been many criticisms made this term about the Student Government. Obviously, some are and some are not justified. Without starting a “who’s to blame” campaign, I want to offer each and every student a chance to “do your bit” for the SGA. I now need people to serve on nu merous committees with various du ties. Of all the readers of this art icle, there must be a few who are wil ling to contribute to the betterment of both Capitol Campus and the SGA. If it’s really so bad, why not help to make it better ? Lee Levan SGA President Dear Editor: I have been attending Penn State, Capitol Campus for five terms and can discuss with a certain degree of critical accuracy, the quality of our faculty. It is one of the best. Most of the faculty are true experts in their respective fields and just as many are thought provoking. But I am not writing this somewhat brief article about them, although an ar ticle should be published in order to give them credit, for truly they do deserve credit. This article is about a relatively small faction of the faculty who are presently teaching courses in which; they have relatively little knowledge about, they either plan their lectures or discussions improperly or not at all, and in short do not give a damn whether or not their students actual ly learn anything in their courses. It' is the responsibility of the de partment heads and the administra tion to provide the students with tea chers who are expert in their fields, who have the desire to teach and ul timately have the students best in terest in mind. It is with this in mind, that I suggest that a faculty review board be made up of both stu dents, faculty and administration and be formed as quickly as possible in order to solve this problem.- During the time that this committee is final ly formed, it is the right and respon sibility of the student to go to the ap propriate department head and dis cuss and complain about these tea chers. Remember! you can do some thing to make this school better. Concerned Student Ed. Note: Letters must be signed. Names witheld upon request.
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