EDITORIAL
Apathy? What Else Is New?
For the first time since the
Eisenhower years (which we
don’t remember anyway), all’s
quiet on the campus scene.
Recent polls taken say that we
are becoming apolitical. They
say we didn’t bother to register
when the eighteen-year-old vote
was passed. Magazines and
newspapers devoted a great deal
of space to the candidates we
didn’t work for in November.
This can’t possibly be
happening at Capitol Campus!
Did Apathy sneak in while we
were enjoying summer vacation?
Did it sneak on Campus while
we were in Philadelphia for
Christmas? It couldn’t happen in
a college that was so involved
during Spring term...could it?
Where did the Spring enthusiasm
for change go? What happened
to all the ideas?
Apathy has destroyed the
ideas, and the changes, and the
involvement. Many students
blame it on many different
things. A Temple student said
that students are so affected by
the economy that it is hard
enough to stay alive, let alone be
activists. That’s true. Most
students at Capitol hold jobs
that preclude time-consuming
politics.
Many students who
participated in the Strike are
disillusioned by the entire
political scene. They’ve worked
so hard to bring peace in Viet
Nam by organizing marches and
rallies, that they are discouraged
by our government’s failure to
take action.
But the great majority of
students at Capitol who are
apathetic and uninvolved, are
that way because they are “into
their own thing”. They are
concerned with their personal
development, or their studies, or
their rej M an
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Faculty Committee
Appointments
The following students have
been appointed to Faculty
Committees, it was announced
today by SGA President Lee
Levan. All students are urged to
contact them if they have an
interest or problem in any of the
respective areas.
Academic, Admission, and
Athletic Standards-Linda
Chisick; Academic Affairs-Doe
Perkowska; Bookstore-Alan
Gallagher; Community
Con t acts-Tony Bernardi;
Co mpu ter - John Seiler;
Li b rary-Renee DeTemple;
Physical Plant-Rick Greenburg;
Social-Cheryl Johnstonbaugh;
Student Affairs-Joe Kowalski
and Steve Wesley; and Tenure,
Promotion, and Welfare-Greta
Gibson and Kathy Malek. Also
appointed was Louise Szollosy,
as the student representative to
all faculty meetings.
STAFF OF the CAPITOLIST:
EDITOR: Rosemary Scanlon
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Lee Nell
Tom Hagan
BUSINESS MANAGERS:
Richard Marx
Roger Hawkins
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
John Fannely
Don Davis
Eric Murray
asked a friend about his political
views. He answered “I’m an
artist!” His sentiments speak for
most of us at Capitol. We all
consider ourselves something,
and we leave politics to the
politicians.
What a dangerous attitude!
We must make the politics. We
must express our views. We must
let our voices be heard,
especially now at the beginning
of a new State Government!
Someone here must organize an
active campus team to end the
war that has been going on far
too long. Someone within the
range of this newspaper must be
disgusted with this apathy. And
someone MUST end it.
But don’t ask me to
help...l’m a Lit major.
IK CHUN
Hold Back the
Pepto-Bismal!
by Terry Wimmer
If you would have been able
to see this reporter on Sunday
evening, January 10th, you
would have found me writing
this column aptly entitled
“Bring on the Pepto-Bismal.”
But alas, our stomach and
intestinal tracts may be saved.
Following the evening meal
on January 10th, the crisis
surrounding the Housing and
Food Service finally snowballed
into a confrontation between
the students and HFS. A
meeting between approximately
65 students, Blair Hefkin,
manager of HFS, and James
“lerry' : South, Assistant Dean
of Student Affairs was held in
Church Hall’s second floor
lounge to discuss the problems.
Both the students and Hefkin
made honest attempts in
appraising the situation and we
all went from the meeting with a
hopeful feeling, cautious, but
still hopeful that something
would be done.
The following Friday,
January 15, a six-page report
outlining the various problems
of HFS and containing
seventy-one complaints filed by
the students was presented to
Hefkin. The report, written by
this reporter with the assistance
of Nancy Smith and Karen
Beatty was well received by
Hefkin.
As is the case with many
reports, they are read and
forgotten. Blair Hefkin though,
has taken head of this one. Many
students can tell that something
has been done. But has there
been an improvement or has
Hefkin, in the words of Bill
Winkler of 218 Church, “Just
done away with some of the
really bad things.”
Time, as usual, will tell.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Lu Ann Berulis
Missy Rotundaro
Ann Ostroski
Bill Winkler
Michael Rix
Terry Wimmer
Dan Durante
Chandler Wolf
Tony McGovern
Skip Lewis
Charlie Bussison
THE CAPITOLIST
Letters To The
Dear Editor:
One of the serious problems
in college and university life
today is the lack of attention to
the personality needs of
students. Suicide is the second
most important cause of death
on the campus, topped only by
automobile accidents; but those
who have studied the subject
believe that half of the latter are
“concealed suicides”; thus
suicide actually leads the list. Dr.
Howard A. Rusk of the New
York University Medical Center
collected estimates that 90,000
students will threaten suicide
each year, one in ten will make
the attempt, and that there will
be 1,000 actual deaths resulting.
Beyond this, he calculates that
among six million students,
“some 600,000 have emotional
problems for which they need
professional assistance.” The
National Institute of Mental
Health finds that the “factor of
human isolation and
withdrawal” appears to be
critical; and the colleges
recognize the serious problem
created by these “loners” and
are trying to provide help but
admit (in hundreds of letters to
us from deans) that they do not
have adequate solutions.
This waste of some of the
nation’s finest young people is
intolerable. Since for every
actual death, nearly a hundred
have felt so desperate as to
threaten it, much light could be
thrown on the subject by
learning what factors enabled
the fortunate ones to work out
their difficulties and keep going.
With the help of a friend who
is vitally interested in this
subject, the American Institute
of Family Relations is carrying
out a nationwide study of what
is being done and what could
and should be done. We need to
hear from as many students and
former students as possible who
have faced such a crisis. What
pulled them out of it? Was it aid
furnished by the college or
university? or other community
organization? or by a friend? a
religion? a reading? Just how did
they save themselves?
We will not publish the names
of any individuals or schools; the
information will be handled
statistically and anonymously. If
you can call the attention of
your readers to this study and
ask for volunteers who will write
their experiences to me
“personal” at this address: The
American Institute of Family
Relations, 5287 Sunset
Boulevard, Los Angeles,
California 90027, it may
contribute toward saving
valuable lives.
We shall certainly be. most
grateful for any help you can
give.
Cordially yours,
Paul Popenoe, Sc.D.-President
AROUND THE CAMPUS. .
Craft Work Shop
To Begin
The Meade Heights Board of
Governors is sponsoring a Craft
Workshop. This is an excellent
opportunity for people with
creative potential to express
themselves through the use of
their hands, rather than just the
use of their heads.
The work shop will handle
such things as leather work,
candle making, knitting,
crocheting, painting, and clothes
making. ’Hie first meeting of the
workshop will be held on
Wednesday, January 28th, at 7
p.m. in the Coffeehouse.
If you have an interest in
learning crafts or in teaching
others the skills, contact Peter
Editor:
Dear Faculty:
All I have to offer...is
encouragement. I hope it will be
reassuring to learn that at least
one irascible alumnus has had
steady work since graduation
last June. That should prove at
least two things:
1. Graduates of Capitol
Campus are NOT totally
unemployable (despite some
messianic tendencies).
2. You must do something
right.
Hoping to be of service in any
way possible, I look forward to
seeing Capitol Campus graduates
in all facets of government.
Perhaps, together we can make a
difference.
If I’m not out of town or on
the Hill, I can usually be found
in Room 3H30, H.S. Civil
Service Commission Building,
1900 E Street NW, Washington,
D.C. Phone 202-632-5598.
Send me your tired, your
poor, your huddled masses, etc.
Or come in person, we’re
surprisingly open-minded.
Harry A. Wolf
1970 Social Science Graduate
Random
Notes
PUBLIC LECTURES UN
THE ENVIRONMENT
Capitol Campus students,
faculty, staff and the public are
invited to attend four
presentations in a series of
public lectures. They are
sponsored by the environmental
committee.
The four lectures are offered
on Tuesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. in
Room E 247, Capitol’s Main
Building. Part of each session is
reserved for discussion.
Attendance is free of charge.
Associate Professor Ambrose
Klien is in charge of the series.
PAUL HANEY-On Monday,
Capitol was host to the "Voice
of Apollo" from NASA, as part
of the Artist Lecture Series.
Here, Mr. Haney gets acquainted
with our Nittany Lion.
Dunn and attend the meeting.
Tools and materials will be made
available for the various crafts
and also an outlet for the sale of
finished products. If you cannot
make the meeting call Pete at his
home, 944-1089.
Volunteers Needed
The Middletown Child
Development Center conducted
by the Dauphin County Child
Care Service would like to open
their center on February 15th.
But we’ve got to help them!
They need plenty of volunteers
to help paint the building and
sew aprons for the kids. People
are needed to help with
everything. It’s located on the
Olmsted Air Force Base, at the
NCOClub.
CAPITOLIST
STAFF
contact:
Ko
ENVIRONMENTAL
NEWS
The Environmental
Committee needs assistance
from the student body and
faculty to gather reference
materials. If you have any ideas
or materials, books, magazine
articles, statistics, films, etc.,
please drop them off in the
Environmental Committee
Office in room El 14, or at 823
B Nelson Drive. If no one is in
the office, just walk in and drop
the materials on the desk.
Meetings of the Environmental
Committee will be held weekly
on Tuesday evenings at the
coffeehouse in Meade Heights at
7 p.m. If you would like to do
your part in the fight against
environmental decay, the place
to be is at the coffeehouse. Free
coffee and fresh air will be
served.
ENVIRONMENTAL FILM
LISTINGS. . .
CLIP AND SAVE!
All films will be shown in the
auditorium at 12 noon. Keep
this schedule on the bulletin
board: January 21—“ Multiply
and Subdue the Earth”;
February 4-“ What is Ecology”,
“Problem With Water is People”;
February 11-“ The Third
Pollution”, “The River”;
February 25-“ Between the
Tides”, “Peace and Voices in the
Wilderness”; March 4-“ What
Goes UP”, “Green City”; and
March 11—“ A Nation of
Spoilers”, “Noisy Landscape”,
“Nuclear Radiation”. Alternate
showings are: Thursday
following each of the above
mentioned dates inroom 211 at
7 p.m. Friday following each of
the above mentioned dates in
room W 337 at 3:50 p.m.
The center plans a new
concept in child day care. All
children from a family will be
there while their mother works,
so they also need help with
tutoring.
Miss Kendall and Mr. Shaffer
are desperate for help. If you
can spare a few hours, contact
them at 238-9486.
Ouen Pot
Every Thursday, the Student
Affairs Office will sponsor a
Coffee Hour—“ The Open Coffee
Pot”. The coffee pot will be full
from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m.,
every Thursday morning.*
All students, faculty, and
staff are invited for the free
coffee and conversation in room
W-101. Come in and rap, bitch,
or just drink coffee.