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Letters to
Book Exchange
Begins
To Catch On
To The Editors,
The Book Exchange, opened
for the first two weeks of the
Winter term, was a great success
for quite a few students.
The Human Awareness
Committee reports, though, that
its success was only partial. More
students could have taken
advantage of the services of the
Book Exchange. Many members
of the H.A.C. felt that the idea
of the Book Exchange was
foreign to many of the students.
That is, no profit was made
except by the individual student,
thus cutting out the middle man.
The H.A.C. does not feel that
limited participation was caused
by an "I don't care about other
students" additude. It just needs
time to catch on. Perhaps by the
Spring term it will be a complete
success.
Human Awareness
Committee
Yearbook on Sale
On Monday, January 29, the
1973 edition of the campus
yearbook, The Capitolite, will go
on sale for the first time in the
new year. The sale will last
through Friday, February 2.
Student salesmen for the
campus publication will be on
hand from the second through
the six periods at the table in
Vendorville.
Editor Jan Marks states that
"Yearbook production is going
well, and it promises to be an
excellent book." The staff on The
Capitolite was greatly encouraged
by the overwhelming sign-up for
senior portraits, over 400
students.
The staff signals that "many
surprises" are in store for those
who are wise enough to purchase
an annual. The 1973 Capitolite
sells for seven dollars.
the Editor
Business Program
Defines Rules
We wish to call your
attention to the following
Capitol Campus rules on
schedule changes. (Rules J-2 and
J-3).
"J-2 With his adviser's
approval (on the regular change
of schedule form, with payment
of a fee of $2) a student may
add a course during the first ten
calendar days of a term and may
drop a course during the first
twenty-one calendar days of a
term.
"J-3 A student may not add a
course to his schedule after the
first ten calendar days of a term.
Under extenuating
circumstances a student may
drop a course after the first
twenth-one calendar days of a
term and then only upon the
approval of the Division Head.
(The regular change of schedule
forms and the $2 fee are
required.)"
The faculty of the Division of
Administration and Business has
voted to accept a liberal
definition of "extenuating
circumstances" through the 7th
week. After the 7th week,
acceptable "extenuating
circumstances" will be limited to
proven non-academic situations
such as medical, financial or
other disasters. In keeping with
overall Capitol Campus rules any
course drop after 21 days must
be signed by the advisor and the
Program Chairman acting for the
Division Head.
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Efforts are being made to form
a Soccer Club at Capitol. Anyone
interested in playing please
contact: Dan Fichtner 3674474
or Barry Deacon 944-0205 or
Bob Stanley at the Athletic/Rec
Center.
Tom Ogden
Dr. Ralph W. Frey
Dr. Wayne Lee
THE CAPITO LIST
FROM
YOUR
EDITOR
Now is the
Time
by R. W. Bonaker
Well, it looks as though we will
have a spring "music-arts" festival
after all.
On Monday night,
approximately 40 persons
gathered in the Gallery Lounge to
view slides from last year's
"Harrisburg Rock Festival II"
and sign up for the various
production committees which
include the stage crew,
concession, Head Shop,
publicity, trash, and traffic
marshalls.
Yet, much more in the way of
a plan must be finalized in order
to make the three-day event
work. As of now, indecision
reigns. As far as I can see, the only
aspect that is definite is that we
will have a weekend spectacle of
rock and folk music, art
presentations, and the like.
Details are missing.
As we undertake the
monumental task of organizing
such an event, we must realize
that it will not be on a scale as
large as last year's rock festival.
At "Harrisburg Rock Festival ll,"
nearly 30,000 people gathered on
campus. A great majority of them
were junior and senior high
school students, with all the drug
problems and trash problems
involved. The site for the event
will be changed, and speculation
has the new site on a location
between the University
Apartments and the engineering
laboratories.
Those of us who participated
last year realize what a difficult
task it was to TRY to control the
festival. Conceivably, many of
our juniors do not realize how
challenging it was. The organizers
of last year's concert worked
night and day for several weeks to
finalize plans.
In order to avoid us becoming
physical and mental wrecks,let us
begin NOW to organize the event.
And we must move quickly. 40
people are not enough. In the
end, 100 may not be sufficient. It
will take all of our efforts to pull
off a successful event.
SGA ( from page 1)
administration. Perhaps the
senate can alter the wording and
vote on it again in the future.
Due to the resignation of a
senior business senator, Mike Dini
proposed, and the senate agreed,
that that vacency should be filled
by a senior senator at-large, Bob
Thompson, who had the next
highest number of votes in the
student elections for that seat.
Dini also nominated Marilyn
Levin to fill the vacancy provided
in the senior senator at-large
position. The senate will vote on
the latter next week. Ron Snyder
opposed the whole Thompson
switch, saying that he felt it was
unconstitutional•and he intended
to take it to the student court.
(yawn...sorry, , couldn't help it.)
The senate also passed a
motion to donate $52 to the
hospital which was bombed in
Hanoi on Christmas day. This
figure represents twice that which
was collected from students in
Vendorville last week.
Calendar of events
JANUARY 25-- Lecture and discussion: "EcKanKar, Ancient
Science of Soul Travel," 3 PM, Auditorium. At 3:15, the Christian
Science organization will meet in room W-202. The Pennsylvania
Society of Professional Engineers (PSPE) meets at 7 PM in room
E-310. Finally, the Cultural Programs Committee presents the film
"Outcasts of Poker Flat" at 8 PM in the Auditorium. A discussion
about the film precedes the showing at 7:30. The movie will also be
presented in the social science course "Westward Movements" during
the second and third periods. Admission is free.
JANUARY 26-- The XGIs stage another Keggar from 9 PM to 1
AM at the American Legion, Middletown. Also, the Social Affairs
Committee had planned a "Surprise Weekend."
JANUARY 27-- The Social Committee presents "Flap," starring
Anthony Quinn, at 8 PM in the Auditorium.
JANUARY 28-- At 3:45 PM, a Mass will be held in the Student
Center.
JANUARY 29-- The campus yearbook, The Capitolite, will
conduct a sale all week from 9:15 AM to 4:30 PM in Vendorville.
The Cheerleading Squad conducts a regular practice session in the
Student Center at 6 PM. The Head Shop meets in the New Birth,
946 A Kirtland Ave. in the Heights, at 6:30. The Student
Government Association meets at 6:30 in room E-335.
JANUARY 30-- Delta Tau Kappa, the international social science
honor society, stages a conference in the T.V. Lounge at 7 PM.
JANUARY 31-- The Capitolist, Capitol's infamous newspaper,
holds a staff meeting at 7 PM in the staff offices, W-104, with
pictures for the yearbook to be taken. At 8 PM, there will be a
"Faculty Rap" in the New Birth, the guest to be announced at a
later date.
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FACT - A structural change
took place so that Dr. Grimm, our
dean of students, no longer will
have a direct line between the
student body and Dr.
McDermott. He is reporting
through Mr. Dressler to the
provost instead.
All of the above facts were
disclosed at Monday night's SGA
meeting. The following consists
of speculation and questioning on
my part when dealing with those
facts, some separately and as a
"package." Please keep in mind
two things as you read: (1) items
such as these do tend to be
relative and (2) that this is
speculation, it may or may not be
the "reality." (For myself, I
much prefer to believe the latter
but feel that there is enough
validity to be at least partially the
former).
This particular campus of PSU
is suffering from growing pangs.
We need more money. Some
sources for such money are the
allocation of funds received by
PSU from the government, then
handed to us,possible donations
from interested parties (that's
why the elaboratiness of, Dr.
McDermott's installation),
possible separate alumni
associations, and trution
increases (which includes
inflation and additional
enrollment of students). The
common denominator of these
sources rests with the reputation
of this campus.
There is another way to
increase funds, and that is by
"cutting corners" of what we
have now. I do not question this
practice in/of itself. My quarrel is
with who suffers by suchcuts. In
this particular case, it appears
that the Student Affairs Office
will suffer first, but the
undergraduate students will
suffer in the long run.
When you add the facts
together, it appears that the
Student Affairs Office, if not
phased out of existence
completely, will be cut enough
that there will be an ever wider
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communication gap between the
student body and the
administration than there is
presently. The non-filling ofKathy
King's position "immediately"
(we are a 2-year school,
"immediately" could be
stretched to 2 years) points to
this, as does the possibility of
Housing and Food Services being
relocated here. (Much of Student
Affairs Office operation deals
with Housing and Food. The
remainder of their work could
conceivably be shifted to both
the counseling office and
academic services).
Now let's take a look at Dr.
Grimm's position. He is now in
the middle of two conflicting
bodies. Also, his power (and our
means of communicating our
needs) has gone to an
"administrative officer." The job
of an administrative officer is just
what it says....administrate! This
chain of command has also
dropped the undergraduate
students' position on the
organizational chart by one
notch...which is below everyone
else. What will this do to our
needs? Our power as a group?
Could Student Affairs be
following administrative orders
(doing that part of their jobs) that
could tend to get the student
body so upset with that office so
that we might not care at all if it
should be phased out•
completely?
No doubt I am missing some
details. Those and any more I
continue to search for, in the
hope that if all this is the case, it
might be stopped or altered and
also that if I am dead wrong, I
may at least learn what is indeed
so and report it to you.
One final note: I have
purposely left some facts out of
this report that again bring up the
idea of moral obligation on my
part. Due to that and the nature
of this report ( its possible
rcp.scvs Ions), I cannot and will
not disclose those missing facts or
any of my sources concerning
them or others in my report. I am
assuming full responsibility for
the content of this report and any
further ones of the same nature.