deaden, SfrotliyAtb Conditions in Meade Heights Front and center in the Spotlight is the condition of the houses in Meade Heights. The disgusting rundown and unpainted appearance of the houses has been shoved in the corner too long. As you drive into the Heights, many of the houses have newly painted sheds in a rainbow of colors. The lawns are well trimmed and any visitor would be very impressed. As you drive to the other end of the Meade Heights, the houses are noticeably more rundown and many of the sheds are not painted or if they are, simply painted white. It also troubled the C.C. Reader that the time involved to repaint the sheds is quite long. Does it really take one to two days to paint a shed? Well, that is the time the painters are taking. If twenty sheds have to be painted, it would take forty days to complete the task, barring any bad weather. Forty days? The world was destroyed by a flood in forty days. Ironical isn’t it. The condition of the external areas of many of the houses also needs improvement. One house has a huge poison ivy vine covering the corner as one steps out the door. Another is missing half of its screens. And yet, another has a pile of dead foliage behind it. Brown streaks cover the ceilings; marks and cracks cover the walls; huge discolored areas cover the floors in many of the houses. A good painting job would cover a multitude of the ugly problems. Several students have become so sicken by their environments, that they resorted to repainting part of the house by themselves. Housing supplied all the needed material but offered no other help. Many of the lights are burnt out or lamps are missing. The silverware is usually handed down from the people who previously lived there or one has to supply his own. The dishes are cracked and useless. The garbage disposal stinks. No cable for the TV. Housing blames students - students blame housing. The Reader feels that there should be more improvements made in the Heights by Housing. The entire place does not quite measure up to the yardstick given in the lease description of living facilities. Many of the students feel that they pay quite a large sum each term. A house of four people pay $220 per month for that house. At this price, students should expect more than what they are given - which is not much. One suggestion the Reader can give to Housing may solve some of the complaints. Many students are earnestly seeking for on-campus employment. If Housing needs help to improve the Heights, why not hire several of these students to repaint the houses, and do some repair work. This solution would benefit both sides. Something has to be done. This problem has gone to long ignored. ** * * What? The first comprehensive evaluation of the spray irrigation method of disposing of sewage effluent, under study at The Pennsylvania State University for more than ten years, now is available in print. *• * • SJSA Elections Commg Up By Bob Hetzel Student Government Association elections for Junior department and at large Senate seats are slated to be held Thursday, October 25 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Gallery Lounge. There arc 9 seats to be filled; 6 department seats (Math-Science, Social Science, Education, Humanities, Engineering and Business) and 3 at-large seats. Each individual must run as a candidate for his or her department’s seat. Those individuals who receive the highest number of votes in each department will be designated that department’s Senator. The remaining candidates will then be listed in order of the number of votes received, regardless of A Plea for Mass - Transit By Jim Bollinger Last spring, after years in the red, the Harrisburg Railways Company decided to fold its problem-plagued bus service, apparently curtailing the only mass-transit system available in the Harrisburg Area. Realizing the enormity of the situation, Mayor Swenson seized this development as an opportunity to further a personal dream of his - to create a municipally-owned mass-transit system to serve the Metro-Harrisburg Area. After a relatively short period of deliberations with Dauphin and Cumberland County representatives, the Capitol Area Transit System was born. CATS was formed to supplant the obsolete privately-owned bus system with a publicly-owned system designed to fit the needs of the Dauphin-Cumberland metropolitan area, and to ease the traffic congestion choking the city and suburbs every work-day. Since its inception, the Authority’s programs have all been aimed at only bus transportation. They have promoted and even attempted to improve it. They have instituted almost no really major changes in the system itself, which has gone nearly unchanged for the past 20 or so years. Many of these minor programs have at least satisfactorily met their goals, as far as they’ve gone. THAT, however, is the main point; they haven’t gone far enough. Having now achieved their primary objective of keeping the buses running, it is now time to take more dynamic action to Get a Job University Park, Pa. - The liberal arts student would do well to gain some practical experience in his future career field before his graduation from college. The advice comes from 1970 graduates of the College of the Liberal Arts at The Pennsylvania State University, polled in a survey conducted by the Liberal Arts Student Council. John A. Casciotti, of Altoona, a senior in political science, said that the survey brought response from almost one-third of the class of 1970 graduates. Internships, practicums, independent study projects, summer jobs, student activities, and volunteer work were all named as valuable supplements to classroom education and also impressive to prospective employers. The respondents also suggested including some business knowledge in their liberal arts education, especially in such fields as accounting, October 11,1973 his or her department standing. The highest 3 will then be designated as the Junior at-large Senator. There is one at-large seat for each 200 Junior undergraduate students. The current Junior undergraduate enrollment is 731. The main requirement for all candidates is that he or she be registered as a full-time Junior term undergraduate. Candidates also are required to submit a petition of 25 signatures. In signing the Senatorial petitions, Junior and Senior undergraduates are not permitted to sign more than one petition from each department. The petitions can be picked up in the S.G.A. room W-104 or from any member of the Election-Screening Committee. give Harrisburg a truly adequate mass-transit system. The Harrisburg area is most fortunate in that, having once been a major rail center, it has been left with a fine foundation for the type of mass transit which has been most successful in the big cities, rapid rail transit. For those of us who must drive to and from school every day, getting here can be one big pain-in-the-neck. The bus service provided to Middletown is both rare and expensive (65 cents one way), and travel by car can be both time- and gas- consuming. However, we have right here on campus the vestiges of the rail system which once served the old Olmstead A. F. base. This, coupled with the other railway facilities left to CATS provides an excellent base for a superb metropolitan transit system. Rail transit has long been a solution to the problem of getting thru crowded metro areas quickly and easily. With railroad beds criss-crossing the countryside and rolling right thru the areas of the city, all that remains is to put some trains into service and all the rest should come easily. This, however, is what CATS has apparently failed to recognize, and as a result, the whole area must suffer. With effective rail service, the journey from Capitol Campus to almost any part of the metro area would be greatly facilitated, providing quick and hopefully inexpensive transportation to and from school for commuting students, and giving resident students greater access to the attractions of the Capitol City, such as they are. management, administration. and business Over 90 per cent of the respondents were satisfied with their jobs, finding them exciting, rewarding” 8 ’ 3 ” d financial,y & & @ale*td