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EDITORIAL
What Was That Again?
by Lee Nell
Does anyone know why the
pretty blonde chick was here the
other day? She, and presumably
others, are being considered for
the position of Assistant Dean of
Student Affairs next year. This
would be a supervisory position
over our own Pat Murphy and
Steve Millman-the Assistants to
the Deam of Student
Affairs-Residence. In addition,
another position is open for
Student Activities coordinator.
That responsibility is held now
by Mr. South, who will be on
sabatical leave after fall term
next year.
But wait. The requirements
for both of these positions are
that the applicant have an M.A.
and two years of experience.
Miss Murphy and Mr. Millman
meet these qualifications. And in
fact, for a good part of this year
they have been helping out with
student activities in addition to
their residence duties.
Admittedly, we do not know
the whole story. But some
questions can be raised. Do we
need a new supervisor in the
Office of Student Affairs?
Perhaps. But where? Will she (or
he) be a real asset to the
students here or merely a
bureaucratic paper-shuffler?
Are Pat Murphy and Steve
Millman doing their jobs? Do
they get along with the
students? In Miss Murphy’s case,
the “Nittany Screw” affair
seems to suggest that some of us
AROUND THE CAMPUS
WZAP PLANS
TO
HIT THE AIR
On April 7, 1971, students
interested in the operation and
airing of Capitol radio station
WZAP assembled. Early in the
evening some ten new DJ’s
signed up for air time, this term
to range from 8 a.m. until near 2
a.m. Outside FM stations will be
monitored on unused air time.
Station manager John Musto
made a plea to all interested
students to contact him, as final
slots for DJ’s and working hours,
not to mention the schedule for
training of new DJ’s must be
worked out. It was also
announced that WZAP would air
over three frequencies. An
appeal has also been made to the
FCC to allow WZAP to convert
to an AM station. The FCC will
monitor our station over the
next term in consideration of
this request.
STAFF OF
unmisi:
EDITOR: Rosemary Scanlon CONTRIBUTORS:
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Lu Ann Berulis
Lee Nell Missy Rotundaro
Tom Hagan Doug Megla
BUSINESS MANAGERS: Bill Winkler
Richard Marx Michael Rix
Roger Hawkins Terry Wimmer
PHOTOGRAPHER: Dan Durante
Chandler Wolf
Cliff Balson Ton V McGovern
Skip Lewis
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: Charlie Bussison
Jim Benn Paul Snyder
Tom Ogden
here like what she’s doing. And
Mr. Millman undoubtedly would
find that he has at least a few
friends here, too.
Is this action another turn of
the Screw? That whole hassle
was not about merely keeping
Pat Murphy around. We need
people like her and Mr. Millman
who can advise, relate to and
listen to students, true. But they
must have with that the power
to see that action can be taken
to help students whenever
possible.
If their present effectiveness
can be maintained, fine. Hire
some-spread the wealth. But we
really don’t want to see possible
action, goals or requests get lost,
in an organizational network.
Will this move bring Pat Murphy
and Steve Millman closer to the
students? Or will it push them,
and through them the students,
one more step away from the
decision making in student
affairs?
As noted before, we do not
have the whole story. But we’d
really, really like to hear it. How
much and in what ways will the
organization of the student
affairs office affect the students
and our concerns? And how
much and in what ways can the ■
students affect student affairs?
This is a sincere attempt to find
out what is going on in our
Student Affairs Office.
Senators? Faculty?
Administration? Anyone?
Hello??
WHERE IS
1.C.T.5.?
For the past year or so several
people including students and
faculty as well as administration
have been toying with the idea
of having some sort of campus
transportation to and from the
Main Building. In fact just this
year a futile attempt to provide
such a system was made, only to
find that there was a tremendous
lack of support. However, I
along with my peers feel that
such a system can work and we
wouldn’t like to see this project
scrapped. Therefore an intensive
study of the matter is being
made with hopes that the birth
of the Intra-Campus
Transportation System (ICTS)
will become a reality.
HOT LINE
944-1033
THE CAPITOLIST
THE COLUMN
Nasty Nemesis
in The Dorms
by Terry K. Wimmer
During the past few weeks,
we have all been affected by the
warm air and sunshine that
Mother Nature has supplied with
the arrival of Spring. Some of us
have taken advantage of the
weather to attempt to rid
ourselves of the flabby muscles
and bulges that Winter so
generously inflicted upon us.
Some of us took the
opportunity to get a head start
on that summer tan.
Every Spring though affects
the college campuses throughout
the country in a unique,
refreshing and totally rewarding
fashion. Although many of us
would like to be elsewhere at
this beautiful time of year, there
are an- equal amount of those
who wouldn’t have it any other
way.
Spring seems to affect us all
differnetly. Those of us who
profess to be liberal-minded,
become even more so during.the
Spring. Likewise, my
Engineering friends seemingly
become less conservative, indeed
a welcome feeling for us all.
Classes suddenly sprawl onto the
grass in front of the Ad Building,
the anti-war movement
gratifyingly becomes more
pronounced and enthusiastic,
and our own personal plans on
beautifying Starship Earth begin
to take on new dimensions.
There are those however who
are still bothered by the
problems that straggled into
Spring unresolved. A case in
point is that nasty nemesis,
soundproofing the dorms. A
group of second-floor Wrisberg
residents got together and
composed a letter to Blair
Hefkin, Manager of the
Department of Food and
Housing Services. It appears
below in its entirety.
“We would like to thank you
very much for soundproofing
the lockers in the dorm. Please
feel free to come over anytime
to hear the unchanged noise and
we will gladly slam the locker
doors in your face! We have not
been appeased by your kind
gesture, but have found out
what you think of us.
“Our complaints were about
footsteps in the hall, voices
carrying from fire escape to fire
escape and getting burned in the
shower, so you put foam rubber
strips on locker doors.
“If you are going to do
something, do it right. It may
save time and MONEY.
“Again, thanks for nothing.”
As you can see Barney,
you’ve got some angry residents
on your hands. That’s not the
only problem either. We’ve got
loose paint falling on us and a
filthy mold-like blob staring us
in the face while we take a
shower. To coin a phrase, “Is
this any way to run a dorm?”
You bet your sweet.... it sure as
hell isn’t! I cordially invite Mr.
Hefkin to reply to the topics of
concern as expressed in this
article.
What makes the above letter
heartrending is that the residents
know that nothing will be done
this year in the way of
soundproofing, etc. Their
concern is with the unfortunate
individuals who will occupy
Church and Wrisberg Halls in the
Fall. They are to be commended
for their sincerity and concern
with the welfare of incoming
students they don’t even know.
It is examples like these that
make me glad I’m here. How
‘bout the rest of us?
Letters To The Editor:
BEAUTY
AND THE PHOSPHATES
NOTE: Tish Clever, a Capitol
Campus graduate, shares her
annoyance with VOGUE
magazine and with us...lf you
agree with Tish...write a letter to
VOGUE yourself!
Editor:
Listen, we’re concerned
about living...about getting the
world into some sort of an
unpolluted state so that our kids
can someday walk in a clean
stream and play in a
fresh-smelling, gorgeous
park...then, let’s just do
something...we can, you know.
Let’s start with VOGUE
magazine. VOGUE’s issue of
March 1 states in a four point
list of ways to help your beauty
plan...beauty of the skin, rather
than the beauty of the earth,
that is...the Beauty Editor
bubbles, “OH BEST OF ALL:
Have a water-conditioning device
installed, which will
automatically remove the
curd-making calcium and
magnesium from the water
before it comes out of the
faucet.”...and after the faucet, it
plunges into our waterways...and
water-softeners, as you may not
know, cause 50% phosphates.
Phosphates act as nutrients and
cause a huge growth of algae.
‘Eutrophication’ then begins,
this complex process eventually
pollutes lakes and rivers. I wrote
to the all-powerful beauty
editor, the hip-beauty-guru to
the rich. ..or
would-like-to-be-rich segment of
our so-called ‘concerned’
population. I told her of the
effects water conditioners could
have, and I felt that if her
magazine were going to be
involved in the ‘romantic cycle,
set rolling by the young, who are
overwhelmed by a hunger for
what is (in the true sense)
innocent, and in a state of
nature.’ This little right-on,
hey-kiddos-I-am-with-it
statement from the editor Miss
Dear Capitol Campus,
(I am illiterate, therefore the
pen that writes this letter is of
the one whom loves and
understands me most, my friend
Barry.)
I used to love Capitol Campus
for three terms, I pranced
around Meade Heights, visiting
houses...getting crazy on
Tuesday nights...visiting Duchess
across the street...being
horny...and enjoying the
delusions of freedom at Capitol
Campus.
But two occurances changed
my life. One day I innocently
followed E.P. (remember him?)
and ate some pretty flowers in
front of the ad building. The
next thing I knew, a man with a
hat slipped a noose around my
neck and took'me away to a two
by four pen. I was bewildered.
But Barry rescued me in the
morning.
I didn’t go for many walks
after that. I was confined to my
room where I got increasingly
lonely and horny. One morning
outside my house, I barked at
another man with a hat (a
mailman) because I was afraid.
Of course I wouldn’t bite him—l
love people too much for
that-but he thought I wanted to
hurt him. He squirted me with
something that made my eyes
burn, so I rolled in the grass to
make it stop stinging. Half an
hour later, more uniformed men
came. The Lower Swatara Police
and Super Snooper, and, of
course our Local Meade Heights
Ass’t. to the Dean of Student
Wednesday, April 21, 1971
Canne really made me
gag...imagine how ‘innocent’
poisoning waterways is! Yes, and
think of the ‘romantic’ trip back
to nature...only to find a real
bum-trip on your hands when
there is no nature left! Well, I
mentioned this to Jessica Canne
in a letter...and her little flip,
snide reply which in essence
states, “ BULLSHIT”...reaIIy
told me where her, and possibly
the entire magazine’s head is. SO
LISTEN! LET’S TELL HER
WHAT WE THINK! Please, write
to that unbelievably egomanical
Miss Canne. It always seemed to
me that VOGUE tried to float
with the hot air of
approval...hippie,
yesterday...ecology-true-blue
today...only not so
true-blue...only truly blowing
the whole thing for a lot of
crumbs-following geese-like
women who seem to need a
flock to protect them from
being real people. PLEASE, I am
concerned...won’t you read the
reply, then decide if this woman
should be given a real
letter-writing talking-to...please
...let’s get it together...and help
get some other people that
way...
Thanks...
peace,
tish clever
Dear Miss Clever
Many thanks for your letter
and for stating your viewpoint
on water pollution so clearly.
We are very aware of the
dangers of phosphates in
washing powders. However, we
don’t think that our advice for
purely beauty reasons is going to
add any hazards to our
environmental problems.
Again, we are grateful to you
for taking the time to write us
and for your interest in VOGUE.
Jessica Canne
Beauty Editor
VOGUE
GOODBYE...
Affairs. They stood there,
staring at me, frightened me
until I barked—but, when Barry
rescued, me I thought I was safe.
But the noose was around my
neck. Captured again.
Afterward, I knew I must
leave Capitol Campus and
because Barry loved me he knew
I must leave also, and he found
me a big house—lots of friendly
people-lots of room to run—and
I can be free again.
And to you Mr. Millman, feel
free to take your hands out of
your pockets now—l never
would bite anyone-and least of
all-waste my time on you.
I am a dog, and people are
animals, too!
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