That's Bes
Stowaway—fly away.
Somedays I feel like I don't
belong on this campus, in this
town, on this continent, in this
age. Sometimes I feel like I'd be
more comfortable in Victorian
England, sipping tea with the
Duchess of Double-dutch, or
hunting with hounds, riding
sidesaddle, long skirts keeping
counter-rhythm with the gallop,
slapping the side of the horse,
the organdy scratching my
knees. Getting up at noon,
dressing until one-thirty, visiting
until five, resting until nine,
dining at ten, dancing until
three. Being presented to the
queen, falling in love with the
second son of a country
gentleman.
Or—sneaking into the
pavilion, hiding behind a pillar,
straining to hear every word that
Socrates has to say. Scared to
admit to my parents why a
ten-year-old disappears every
day after cleaning up the leather
shop and eating my piece of
bread for breakfast. Hard to tell
them where I go since girls aren't
supposed to have the capacity to
understand men's talk. But
Socrates puts things so plainly
that even I can understand the
general idea that he's trying to
work out.
Or—starting with the heel and
rolling my foot onto the ground
so that the toe is the last part to
touch the dirt. Learning to stalk
a buffalo without disturbing the
birds that keep watch for the
herd. Preparing my body and my
spirit for the walk in the sky
that will show the tribe that I
can join the young hunters
without bringing shame to my
family. Meeting Green-feather
by the stream, talking of the old
days when the spirits came and
visited our tribe and helped us
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Rah Ra
make good laws. Drying gut in
the sun for a new bow-string.
Or—Lifting my arms in
celebration of the new day. The
Nile has receded and soon the
people will plant and food will
again be plentiful for everyone.
Trying to pick just the right
words for the prayer in the
ceremony tomorrow. Something
that will show our Pharoah is the
son of Ra, and therefor
responsible for the good omens
that indicate such a prosperous
year. Time for the morning
chant RA, SON OF THE
SUN, WATCHER FOR OUR
PEOPLE, LET YOUR WISDOM
SHINE ON US, LET YOUR
RADIANCE BE SHOWN
THROUGHOUT THE LAND.
(The rays sparkle on the sand)
LET YOUR BLESSINGS FALL
ON US AS DOES YOUR
WARMTH (and makes the black
hair on my uplifted arms turn to
brightest obsidian) LET THIS
SEASON BE FULL OF FOOD
AND HAPPINESS (dazzles my
eyes) AND FORTUNE FOR
THE PHARAOH (and I lift my
mind to the sky) AND FOR HIS
PRIESTS (let it start to ride
through time) AND ALL HIS
PEOPLE (through the
hurricane's eye, through the
center of the poppy, through the
sun) AND MAY PEACE BE
KEPT WITHIN OUR LAND
(upwards and inwards to another
body) AND WITH OUR
NEIGHBORING LANDS (the
body of a young woman sitting
in a square building and thinking
of me) MAY THE GOODNESS
OF YOUR RAYS MAKE THIS
A BETTER DAY (and
wondering how I felt during my
time as Ra's priest, but she
doesn't realize that she is me and
I am her and together with the
sun, we can be a universe.
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Ratings
UNIVERSITY PARK (APS)
Results of a survey on
academic advising from 11 of
18 Commonwealth Campuses
show a "vigorous spirit of
advising" which is lacking at the
campus level, according to John
Casciotti, University Council
member from the Altoona
Campus.
Rating their advisors, 19% of
the students classified their
advisors as Excellent; 35% as
Fair; 15% as Poor; and 3% as
Terrible. According to Casciotti,
the mean is 3.46 midway
between Fair and Good when
the results are put on a 5-4-3-2-1
scale for comparison.
61% of the students surveyed
said their advisor was helpful in
determining what courses to
schedule; 30% said they were
not helpful; the remainder were
unsure.
In discussing career
possibilities, 32% said their
advisors were helpful while 50%
said they were not. The
remainder were undecided.
A greater majority (55%) said
their advisors were not helpful in
discussing other academic or
non-academic problems; 33%
said their advisors were helpful;
the remainder were unsure.
As an overall observation by
the students surveyed, 18% said
their campus put a good deal of
emphasis on quality academic
advising; 36% classified their
campus emphasis as "some";
46% said "not nearly enough"
emphases was being given at
their campus.
C a sciotti also surveyed
students, looking for opinion
differences according to class,
degree candidacy, college,
campus and sex. He said that
sophomores were "more critical
of their advisor's help in
scheduling courses and giving
career advice, but many fewer
freshmen were helped with other
academic or non-academic
problems."
There was very little
difference between
baccalaureate and associate
degree students, according to the
survey.
66% of the males surveyed
said they felt their advisor was
helpful in determining courses.
Females reacted with 43%
feeling that their advisors were
of help.
Casciotti said that the
students from the College of
Engineering and College of
Liberal Arts generally were
"noticably below the other
colleges" surveyed (Engineering,
Science, Liberal Arts, Education,
Business Administration and
Human Development).
From the result 1 of the
survey, Casciotti concluded that
"the largest one or two and the
smallest one or two campuses
almost always ranked below the
others ..."
Casciotti said he took the
survey in conjunction with the
University Council's study of
academic advising.
"I see the results not as proof
or disproof of anything, but
simply as general indicators to
consider," he said.
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NM Vie FOP convention seats
by Yvonne Pearson
Yvonne Pearson is Dispatch's
correspondent in Washington.
Washington, D.C.-DNSI--
Youth now control the
Democratic machinery of at
least two of Alaska's four
districts, according to Senator
Mike Gravel's (D. Alaska) office,
and may control the entire state
delegation by the time they get
to Miami. The spokesman said:
"The youth caught everybody
with their mouth's hanging
open."
All over the country young
people are becoming convention
delegates in unprecedented
numbers. They are not
handpicked by regular party
officials, but people "elected by
the grass roots process, the likes
of which we've never seen in this
country," said the director of
the McGovern Commission on
Party Structure and Delegate
Selection, Bob Nelson.
Set up in 1968, the
Commission is the key to
youth's new access to the party's
nominating machinery. It calls
for proportional representation
of persons' under thirty,
officially termed "youth", in
each state's delegation to the
national convention.
The results have been no more
dramatic than in Alaska.
"In ten days in March the
entire structure of the
Democratic Party was changed,"
said Bob Allen, President of the
Young Democratic Clubs of
American, after an on the scene
inspection of the selection
process. Allen was called to
Alaska by Alaska's young
Democrats to observe a Juneau
precinct caucus meeting in case
of credential challenges.
When party regulars
discovered they were
outnumbered by youth two to
one at an earlier caucus, they
closed the meeting and asked
police to clear the floor. "Many
felt it was Chicago again," said
one of the youth leaders.
Party regulars recruited an
extra 100 people for the
rescheduled meeting, only to
find that the youth had also
doubled their numbers.
Other states are feeling the
youth's power in their delegate
selection as well.
One-third of Arizona's
delegation to the Democratic
convention in Miami is under 30,
the youngest 17, according to
Bob Allen. There were no people
under 30 in this delegation in
the last convention.
In Georgia the state chairman
of the Democratic party,
traditionally a convention
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delegate, was not elected a
delegate this year.
Although many feel that
participation by youth will
create confusion at July's
convention and weaken the
Democratic party, they say the
result will be a stronger and
better party to meet the '76
elections.
Mike Cole, former Voting
Rights National Coordinator for
Common Cause who has
overseen many youth
registration challenges in court,
said that some young people
may be turned off by this year's
confusion of new by-laws and
rules, but most of these
questions will be resolved by '76
and the infusion of new blood
will strengthen the party.
Pollution
Control
The Capitol Campus of The
Pennsylvania State University
will host a water pollution
control seminar on Friday, April
28.
The seminar, open to the
public, will be presented by the
Water Management Division of
Calgon Corp. at 9:00 a.m. in the
campus auditorium.
The presentations will include
"The Pragmatics of Water
Pollution," "New Techniques
and Processes in Water
Pollution" and "Pros and Cons
of the Turkney Approach in
Water Pollution Control."
Engineers and others
interested in water pollution
control are invited to attend.
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