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EDITORIAL
One of the complaints heard
around campus as SGA
election-time draws near is: “It
doesn’t matter who I vote
for...they’re all the same!” On
May 11, students at Capitol will
be facing an election in which
one presidential candidate does
stand out above the rest, a
candidate who is a little more
involved...a little more
concerned. That candidate is
Terry Wimmer.
Terry’s involvement during
his junior year at Capitol has
reflected his concern about all
aspects of student government.
His weekly column in the
CAPITOLIST has dealt with
national government and student
politics. He was a member of the
student senate, and is currently
on the Resident Student
Council. He is also a member of
Delta, Tau Kappa, the social
science honor fraternity.
One of Terry’s most
important qualifications is that
he is a student leader with a
conscience. His voice was heard
during the Nittany Screw Affair,
he has taken an active personal
interest in the problems of food
and housing in the residence
halls, and his current attack is
the lack of student participation
in the selection of the new
Provost.
March On The Library?
by Tom Ogden
Depending upon your prior to 1965.
dedication to the fine art of The check-out system
research and/or the search for
great reading pleasure, you may
have run up against one of the
biggest obstacles in our Super
System that is Penn State-the
Capitol Campus Library.
Granted the library staff is
doing the best they can with a
frustrating system? What other
campus can boast of having
students fill out those funny
little cards with our names,
addresses, classification, number,
shoe si/.c...? I guess after a while
it’s not so bad, unless you have
to take out a book.
Our periodical room is also
very impressive...looking. But
have you tried to find a
magazine lately? Apparently the
Campus does not believe that
anything happened in magazines
SUPPOSE THEY GAVE A WAR...
BUT suppose they gave an
ELECTION and nobody came!
There are about 1,000
students on campus, let’s say.
0.K., scratch one-half of them
who couldn’t be bothered to
vote even if it were to close
down the University. (Don’t
laugh; it almost happened once!)
That leaves five hundred
dedicated (?) students. Subtract
another half who forget which
day the voting is. (Hey, Lee,
what’s that date again?) That
leaves two hundred and fifty.
Drop off one-half who never
find the room to vote, wherever
it may be (the secret of the
century, at the time of this
writing), leaving a total of
one-twenty-five who will
eventually make it to the polls.
Drop off that twenty-five for
those smart alecks who write in
“Spiro Agnew," “Mr. Provost,”
EDITOR: Rosemary Scanlon
ASSOCIATE EDITORS:
Lee Nell
Tom Hagan
BUSINESS MANAGERS
Richard Marx
Roger Hawkins
PHOTOGRAPHER
Cliff Balson
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT:
Jim Benn
WIMMER FOR PRESIDENT
Terry’s program includes
many goals...and they all reflect
the students’ interest. He would
like at least one seat for students
on the Search Committee to
convince the faculty council that
students have been neglected too
long. As SGA president, Terry
would work closely with the
Student Affairs Advisory
Committee. He will build a new
SGA, a responsive SGA, that will
enhance student welfare on
campus.
Terry believes that
committees can accomplish
things if there is enough student
input. He plans to reactivate the
Reporting Committee, and turn
it into a public relations
system...students would be
better informed of what is
happening at SGA, and around
the campus. Terry also plans to
ease some of the hassle on
faculty committees by calling
for student co-chairmanship,
with full voting rights on all
faculty committees dealing with
academic affairs.
Terry has pledged his support
to you...the student. He has
pledged to listen to what you
want...to enact what you want
to see.
Help Terry work for the
students at Capitol. Give him
your vote on May 11. And after
he’s elected, give him your help.
broken into two parts, however:
this signing for the books in
blood, and then the Inquisition.
Certainly briefcases must be
checked, but when one merely
walks in the room to return a
book? Dedicated devils, eh?
The following steps are
recommended for a successful
boycott of the library:
(1) Don’t take out any books.
If you must, certainly not more
than one, or you’ll die of old age
before the cards are filled out.
(2) Don’t even try to do
research or find a magazine.
(3) If you must go into the
library, go nude and carry no
books. Give ‘cm a thrill as they
search you for stolen microfilms.
(4) Above all, find another
library!
“Rock-Picker” or the like; and
we are left with one hundred
students who will vote.
Speaking from a mouth of
experience (ahem) last year’s
S.G.A. President at the Berks
Campus, P.S.U., won by a clear
plu rarity of seventeen whole
votes. The Veep was a shoe-in
with a three vote lead. Get
ready; cliche coming: Who says
your vote doesn’t count?
I’m certain my figures are a
bit conservative. I was a
Goldwatcr fan. Then, too, I
probably counted wrong. I’m
not a math major. But 1 do urge
you all-wherever the election is
to be, whenever it is, and
whatever it’s for-to vote.
Suppose they gave that
election and EVERYBODY
came!
(They’d shit; that’s what!)
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CONTRIBUTORS:
Lu Ann Berulis
Missy Rotundaro
Doug Megla
Bill Winkler
Tom Ogden
Terry Wimmer
Dan Durante
Chandler Wolf
Tony McGovern
Skip Lewis
Charlie Bussison
Paul Snyder
THE CAPITOLIST
The Right To
Editorial Endorsement
Few will argue that the rights
and responsibilities of any
communications medium are
complex. The debate arises when
attempts are made to define
them. With the elections for
Student Government Offices at
hand, the position of THE
C APITOLIST should be
reiterated.
First and foremost is the duty
to urge all students to take every
opportunity to become
informed on the candidates’
platforms. It may be a
hackneyed statement, but it still
holds that unless you are aware
of “the issues” and express your
opinion through voting, you
have no right to bitch about
what is wrong. It is too
convenient to say that one vote
won’t make any difference, or to
rationalize that “they’re all alike
anyway.” Maybe just this once,
there are a few sincere
individuals who have the
students’ interests in mind.
Maybe a greater concern and
involvement by the student
population will force the office
seekers to keep those interests in
mind, even after the elections.
In recognition of its
responsibility to present “all the
news that fits,” THE
CAPITOLIST has published
interviews with all of the S.G.A.
presidential candidates.
PEACE VS.
PATIENCE
by Roger L. Hawkins
I am sure there was no doubt
in anyone’s mind by the
tremendous turnout to the Peace
March on April 24, that the
American people are sick and
tired of the Vietnam war. They
are sick of the ugliness that has
been brought on by it.
The price of peace to the
American people is by no means
an unattainable goal. Bring the
troops home now, try to save
lives instead of killing more.
These are prevalent cries today.
For the American people
have had to pay quite heavily for
this war. Americans have had to
suffer such deficits as:
unemployment, inflation, poor
housing, urban blight, pollution,
personal exploitation and rising
taxes.
It is no wonder that people
are boiling over. While the
government can spend billions of
dollars in Vietnam, the domestic
problems reach an all-time high.
The government fails to listen. It
fails to reach a compromise with
it’s own people. America has
grown impatient because its
government has stopped
listening.
Patience, I wonder if the
American people have given it
any thought. The people can
stop war just as the people in
Montgomery stopped
discrimination on buses in 1955
by boycotting the transit
company. But we now need
100% cooperation.
The people are angry enough
now to take matters into their
own hands. Now don’t get me
wrong, I am not advocating
violence. I am only suggesting
peaceful assertion of the
people’s beliefs by a complete
boycott of the Vietnam War.
If the people’s convictions are
as strong as they seemed on
Saturday, then they can still
maintain their peaceful
commission and fuck the system
at the same time. Understand!
Chances are running out,
patience is running out, and at
the rate things are going, people
will be running out. What do
you say people? End the war in
the name of peace.
In addition, the editor has
endorsed that presidential
candidate who is deemed to have
both the best qualifications and
platform. Some may argue that
since there is only one
newspaper on campus, THE
CAPITOLIST is introducing a
prejudice into the elections.
Students should realize that this
publication has the same right as
any individual to express a
viewpoint on any issue. To agree
or disagree is the privilege of
each student.
As
The
Association
Turns
by Missy Rotondaro
Let me begin by taking you
to “SGA” and meeting our little
family. We start off with
President Lee Levan, bright,
young, honest, and hardworking.
Next Vice-President Chandler
Wolf, dedicated and ambitious.
Our Recording Secretary is Sue
Ferrence and our Treasurer is
Lucian Cross. Both are willing to
try.
And here come our Senior
Senators, Amy Neuman, Eric
Murray, Bill Ducassoux, Kathy
Wilson, Bernie Schonbach, John
Fanelly, Steve Forman, and
Chips Frank.
It starts off a fine, well
meaning family. But one day
Treasurer Lucian Cross resigns
and the race is on. Lucian is
replaced by Patty Patterson.
“Oh what a tangled web we
weave when first we practice to
deceive.”
Election time and we have
some new members in our little
family. Newly elected Junior
Senators are Terry Wimmer,
Vicki Ward, Ed Miceli, Neil
Madonick, Tom Black, Frank
Dulisse, Lenny Thompson and
Steve Wesley.
Unusual things begin to
happen.
We start loosing people, no
one comes anymore. Junior
Senator Terry Wimmer resigns
and Steve Wesley leaves his
business seat to take over the
Treasurer job because Patty is
student teaching? Senior
Senators Bill Ducassoux and
Steve Forman are recalled and
voted out of the Senate. John
Fanelly graduates and leaves.
Then comes a special election
and who enters our faimly but
Gary Gold, replacing Steve
Wesley, Dave Stacks, replacing
Terry Wimmer and Russ
Matthews as Treasurer, taking
Steve Wesley’s place because
Steve never really was the
official Treasurer?
And then Sue Ferrence
resigns and Missy Rotondaro
enters the SGA family as
Recording Secretary. And of
course Mary Lovelick is
Corresponding Secretary.
Then Bill Freeman, Missy
D’Alessandro and Alan Gallagher
replace John Fanelly, Steve
Forman and Bill Ducassoux.
Have you followed up to this
point?
Is it any wonder SGA was in
such a hum? Really now, SGA
spent so much time recalling,
replacing and holding elections
that there was no time to
“represent”.
PLEASE, don’t let this
happen again. Don’t let SGA
become a soap opera with new
people and new problems every
week. Don't insult yourself. On
May 11th. for once vote
seriously, as if your life
depended on it.
May,
The Editor.
Dear College Editor:
The most important anti-war
offensive ever attempted is being
organized for the end of April
and the first week in May. For
the first time in American
history, the anti-war movement
is attempting to use the force of
massive, non-violent action to
confront the power of the
war-makers. Our plans call for
disruption of governmental
operations in Washington, D.C.
and a national moratorium.
Unfortunately, the national
media has blacked out
information on this offensive
and distorted the rest. Our only
hope is that you can convey to
students on your campus the
importance of what we have
planned.
Many of the people who
came to Washington for the
peace march April 24 have
remained behind to begin an
intensive People’s Lobby. We are
urging government workers to
join us in our actions the first
week in May, to strike against
the government and protest the
war. This coming weekend, May
Ist and 2nd, there will be a
massive assembly in Washington
at which Ralph Abernathy,
Benjamin Spock and Cesar
Chavez will speak, Tim Harding,
Arlo Guthrie and Johnny Winter
will perform, and workshops will
be held to prepare everyone for
participation in non-violent
direct action. People should
proceed directly to Washington
Monument that weekend,
permits have been secured.
Dn Monday, May 3, we will
begin massive, non-violent
disruption of the war-machine
throughout Washington,
focusing on Monday at the
Pentagon, on Tuesday at the
Justice Department. On
Wednesday, May 5, there will be
a national moratorium on
business as usual, coupled with
student strikes in the high
schools and colleges around the
country. In Washington D.C., we
will shut down the entire
governmental operation of the
city, culminating in non-violent
civil disobedience at the Capitol
Building.
President Nixon has made it
clear that he has no intention of
ending U.S. involvement in the
war. On April 16 he told the
country that Americans would
remain until the Thieu regime
was sufficiently stable to be
self-sufficient, i.e. for the next
decade at least. And he promised
continued Air Force bombings
and Army operations.
Nixon knows that the
majority oppose the war, but he
thinks that this sentiment can be
manipulated into controllable
channels in mass marches and
electoral activity. We must
create the conditions under
which Nixon is forced to end the
war. We are therefore asking all
students who recognize the
power of massive, non-violent
action to join us in Washington:
come by May 2nd and spend
three days demonstrating the
depth of our opposition to the
continuing murder in Southeast
Asia. For those who Cannot
come to Washington, that
commitment must be directed to
organizing for the nationwide
moratorium and work stoppage
on May sth.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Dave Dellinger
Jane Fonda
Rennie Davis
VOTE !
VOTE/
VOTE/
i, 1971