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Letter
to the Editor
Thanks G.P.P.
For H.R.F. II
To: Mike Bauer, Don Lewis,
Rich Vanore, Chas Marcarelli,
Sam Randazzo, Mike Beckner,
Mike Kelly, Tom Herrity, Denny
Hassler, Phil Wexler, Paul
Mirabile and all members of
G.P.P. and the Head Shop.
The success of the recent
Rock Festival can be attributed
directly to your efforts. The
event was a terrifically complex
one to plan and coordinate. The
fact that so many people were
able to spend an enjoyable day
should give you satisfaction for
the effort you devoted to the
festival.
James D. South
ED NOTE: The Capitolist staff
certainly echoes Mr. South's
gratitude to all those who
worked so hard to make the
festival a success. G.P.P., The
Head Shop and many others put
in literally thousands of hours
on the project. We think the
campus and even the entire
University should be grateful for
your efforts. Thank you.
DTK Forum
With
Dr. McDermott
On Tuesday, June 6, Delta
Tau Kappa, the international
social science honor society, will
sponsor a forum with Provost
Robert E. McDermott. The
discussion is open to everyone in
the Capitol community and will
take place in the Gallery Lounge,
beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Dr. McDermott is the new
chief executive officer of Capitol
Campus, having assumed his post
in February. He is the former
Dean of the Graduate School at
the University of Arkansas. He
recently returned from an
extensive business trip to
Germany.
All students are invited to
come and hear the new Provost.
It is an opportunity to discover
his opinions on a wide range of
topics relating to student affairs.
'IIOT LINE -944-1033
Placement
Office
Services
The Placement Office reports
that job offers to Capitol
Campus seniors are running
about 15% ahead of last year at
this time, a sign of an improving
economic situation as it pertains
to the entire country.
Notifications of employment
offers by school districts and
government agencies are just
beginning to come in and should
pick up during the next three or
four weeks. It would appear that
between 60% and 70% of the
class will have firm job offers at
Commencement time, according
to the office.
The Placement Office will
offer a post-baccalaureate
service. Students in search of
jobs and uncommitted at the
time of Commencement, are
urged to register with the
Placement Office and to notify
it of their unemployed status.
During the course of the summer
months and early fall, the
Placement Office will receive
calls indicating the availability of
positions for holders of specific
degrees.
Graduates on the unemployed
list residing in Pennsylvania will
be notified of available positions
by telephone. Graduates living
outside of the state will be
notified by mail. It will be the
responsibility of the individual
to follow up on such leads. More
than forty graduates found
positions last year through this
service. There is no fee for the
service.
Rummage Sale
The Meade Heights Board of
Governors is having a rummage
sale on Wednesday, June 7th, at
1:00 p.m.
It will be held at the
recreation area in Meade
Heights. The sale is designed for
seniors and for anybody else
who has anything they would
like to sell. This could include
rugs, pans, pots, bikes, books
and TV's.
Articles can be brought to
834 A Nelson Dr. or you can
bring them the day of the sale.
For any information call
944-7764.
The Board of Governors will
reserve 10 percent of the sale
price. Refreshments will also be
served.
THE CAPITOLIST
Graduation
Time!
This year's Commencement
activities will begin at 4:00 p.m.
on June 24, 1972.
The graduation ceremonies
will take place on the lawn in
front of the classroom building,
weather permitting. The
alternate site for the activities is
the Harrisburg Farm Show
Arena on Cameron Street. If the
decision to switch the
ceremonies from the front lawn
to the Farm Show Building is
necessitated, students will be
notified several hours in
advance.
The wearing of the traditional
cap and gown is optional. Father
Ronald Stiscia will give the
invocation. Father Stiscia has
served as chaplain of Capitol
Campus for much of this year.
Dr. Roger B. Saylor,
Commencement Marshall,
announces that instructions for
student participation will soon
be available. Included in the
instructions are where and when
students should check in and
their seating assignments. All
students who graduated from
Capitol during the Fall, Winter
and Spring Terms, 1971-1972
are eligible.
Prof. William Aungst and
Prof. Ralph Frey will serve as
Assist. Commencement
Marshalls. Mr. Walter Slygh and
Dr. Susan Richman are
designated Honorary Marshalls
for their parts in the graduation
ceremonies. Mr. Slygh is credited
with much of the staging for the
event and Dr. Richman is editing
the Commencement program
book.
Admission to the graduation
ceremonies is open to the public.
Free
Graduation
Gift
A notice from the Office of
Placement and Alumni Relations
indicates that all seniors to
graduate in the Class of '72 will
be "gifted" by the Penn State
Alumni Association with, in the
words commonly used in
conferring degrees, "all the
rights and privileges pertaining
thereto.
Membership in the Penn State
Alumni Association is the key to
membership in the Capitol
Campus Alumni Association.
The gift of membership in the
former is at the same time, a gift
of membership in the latter.
Because of the constituent
relationship of the Capitol
Campus Alumni Association to
the Penn State Alumni
Association, renewal of
membership in the former is
renewal of membership in the
latter. Billing for renewed
membership after the initial year
will be by the Penn State
Alumni Association out of the
Alumni Office at University
Park.
The office hopes a substantial
number of Capitol graduates will
be interested in actively
participating in the affairs of the
Capitol Campus Alumni
Association, now that total
membership is approaching the
2000 mark. If you'd like to
volunteer your services as a
member of one of the various
committees, drop a line to the
president, Jim Geubtner, 315-D
Brern ..)d Dr., York, Pa.,
17403.
The Barbarous U.S. Bombing
of Indo-China
Pacific News
Our current bombing
campaign in Indo-China is
something almost entirely new
in the history of warfare. The
Nazis' bombing in support of
Franco's forces in the Spanish
Civil War the campaign that
lifted the curtain on the age
_of
modern aerial warfare is the
only other instance of a great
power's supporting one side in a
civil war almost exclusively
through bombing.
But the present American
campaign is really in a class by
itself, if only because of its
magnitude: our air force over
Indo-China is the most powerful
ever assembled in a single theatre
of war, and the theatre is a small
one. Moreover, this latest form
of intervention in the
Indo-China war represents a
culmination of our century's
tendency toward mechanized
killing.
In this campaign, the growing
official American indifference to
human life reaches almost
perfection, outstripping by far
our performance during the
massacres in Bengal, when we
were only mute observers and
indirect supporters of the killing,
rather than mute perpetrators.
Nearly all the flaws have been
ironed out of the machine. The
government has made the
invaluable discovery that an air
force will go on fighting long
after the ground troops have
balked, especially when there is
virtually no air force in the sky
to oppose it.
Changes in the way our
political system works have
eliminated the public and the
Congress from participation.
Initially, they, along with the
ground troops, were given the
role of supporting the war
effort, but they were found to
be defective elements in the war
machine, and were shut out.
Newsmen, too, have been shut
out, in part because in this kind
of massive, indiscriminate
bombing of large areas no one
knows where the bombs are
going or whom they are falling
The
Jimmey
$5OO SCHOLARSHIP TO A RETURNING STUDENT WHO
DEMONSTRATES ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AND FINANCIAL
NEED.
APPLICATIONS NOW AVAILABLE IN E-106
DEADLINE - JUNE 9, 1972.
(STUDENTS WHO HAVE APPLIED FOR ALCOA FOUNDATION
& DEITZLER SCHOLARSHIPS NEED NOT RE-APPLY AS THESE
APPLICATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED.)
FREE
Movie:
"I Love You Alice B. Toklas"
Outdoors at the Student Center
Friday Night, June 9 9 PM
Beginning on July 1, 1972,
two jobs will be open to
students. The positions pay
$1.90 per hour as Parking
Control Security Patrolmen.
Thursday, June 1, 1972
on they simply drop out of
sight. And even such meagre
information as the officials do
have they now withhold, under
the pretense of maintaining
security.
The assembling of this
machine has done away with one
of the most fundamental
restraints on warmaking. It used
to be that those who would kill
also had to be ready to die. Even
large armies facing small armies
knew this and felt it, and, by
extension, the societies they
belonged to knew it and felt 'it.
There was a feeling of equality
before death in wartime that
touched both sides and formed
the basis for whatever codes of
honor may have appeared in
war. Sometimes it even formed
the basis for the paradoxical
expressions of brotherhood
between opposing armies that
have regularly appeared in the
history of war.
The nearness and sureness of
death in war gave war its
solemnity, its feeling of great
weight for an army or a people.
It could not be undertaken
casually not for very long,
anyway. But the present policy
aims precisely at making the
waging of war casual and
acceptable. It confronts the
innocent and the supposed foe
alike with an army of machines,
and rests on the assumption
that, although we don't like to
die, we don't mind killing.
The war that this country is
waging now is war trivialized.
Never has a nation unleashed so
much violence with so little risk
to itself. It's the government's
way of waging a war without
support in their own country,
for the people have gradually
turned against the war. No
doubt they have assumed that
the withdrawal of their support
would bring our withdrawal
from the war. Who could have
guessed that, after all that had
already happened, there would
be the dishonor of going on with
the killing in a cause we were no
longer willing to die for?
Jordan
Scholarship
Summer Jobs
Hours worked include 5:30 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m., Monday through
Friday. Interested students may
contact Miss Jennings, E-106,
for applications and further
details.