December 7,1973
Editorials
HUNTING
IN THE HEIGHTS
What has happened to the quiet woods surrounding Meade
Heights? It has turned into a favorite hunting place for all the local
hunters.
A student walking down the path in the Heights may become a
pheasant in flight. What if there is an early morning fog and a
student is'walking to an 8 o'clock class. The chances of him being
mistaken for an animal is extremely high.
This hunting has to be stopped. Often times the hunters are seen
as close as 10 - 15 yards from a house, gun in hand. What is to
prevent him from shooting at a pheasant in someone's backyard?
It is not the hunter's intention to shot wildly at an animal and to
find that he has shot a person. But hunting so close to a highly
populated area is not a comforting thought.
The security patrol has enough on their hands catching students
running stop signs; but there is a great need for someone to patrol
the area and to put a stop to hunting so close to Meade Heights. The
security patrol has alot of responsibilty on their hands already but
who is to do the job?
Some alternate preventions that are suggested by the Reader may
be innovated. One, signs could be posted on the trees where most of
the hunters are entering the woods. The way that they enter the area'
remains unknown. They may have been hunting in the woods that
surround the campus and do not realize that they are on University
property.
Secondly, the Security could keep a watchful eye in the area of
the Heights to catch the violaters. The students can aid Security be
reporting each time that they sight a hunter.
There are many students who live on campus that may enjoy
hunting themselves. They may have even hunted in Meade Heights.
Maybe they should realize that their pleasure may be diasterous if an
accident would occur due to carelessness. They should be aware that
fellow students are close by; either walking along the path or near
the woods behind their house.
The Reader feels that it is a very serious and dangerous situation
and a problem that should be attended to immediately. The Reader
fears that an accident will occur before anything is done about it. We
hope not.
The Financial Aid Office
has been informed by the
Faculty Women’s Club that
Student LOANS will be
available to help with
expenses for Winter and
Spring terms. These loans
are interest free if they are
paid by one year from the
date of graduation. After
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The Capitol Campus Reader
The C.C. Reader is published by the students of
the Pennsylvania State University at Capitol Campus,
Middletown, Pa., and is printed by the West Shore
Times during the Fall, Winter and Spring Terms.
Opinions expressed by the editors and staff are not
necessarily those of the University Administration,
Faculty or Students.
.. Frank DeSantis & Charlie Holeczy
Jim Bollinger, Doug Gibboney
Wanda Burkholder, Mike Nonnemacher,
John Bradford Langdon, and all graduate
Co-Editors .
Staff .
and Under-graduate students
With special help from Gerhard Reich and lots of
moral support from Bob Hetzel, Tim Jacobs and Bill
Matthews.
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LOANS
this period, interest is 6%.
Loan Applications are
available from the
Admissions/Financial Aid
Office. Deadline for return
of these applications is
December 7. Applicants will
be notified about loan
decisions after the middle
of January.
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C.C.Reader
Letters
To all Faculty Members
The proposed procedure for
the Fall Term 1973
Teacher/Course Evaluation has
been a metter of great concern
to the SGA Senate. The Senate
understands that the results of
each faculty member’s course
evaluation will be given to each
instructor and NOT MADE
AVAILABLE TO THE
STUDENT BODY. This state of
affairs has prompted the
Teacher/Course Evaluation
Committee of the SGA Senate
to meet with Dr. George Wolf
and Faculty Council. Both Dr.
Wolf and Faculty Council
unequivocally supported the
re commendation of the
Teacher/Course Evaluation
Committee that called for the
results of the Fall Term 1973
Teacher/Course Evaluation to be
made available to the student
body through its representatives
in the Senate. The SGA Senate
hopes that you will not offer
any objections when efforts are
made by SGA members to
collect the evaluation results.
Thses individual evaluation
results will then be compiled
into a master evaluation results
form for the use of the student
body.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Robert L. Hetzel
Co-Chairperson
Teacher/Course Evaluation
Committee
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Dear People,
Recently WZAP has had the
misfortune of losing a number of
albums. These albums were
enjoyed by everyone. Someone
now enjoys- them on their own -
very selfishly, I might add.
The staff and management of
WZAP would appreciate the
return of these albums. No
questions asked - of course. Just
return them to WZAP.
PLEASE!!
Have some respect for your
fellow student’s enjoyment.
Thank you,
Frank Bellini
Station Manager
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CLASSIFIED POLICY
All the classifieds that
have been published in the
Reader this term will be
terminated this issue.
The Reader wishes to
express a thanks to those
who advertized in the paper
and hopes that they gained
some results.
Next term, the Reader
ads will run only on a two
week minimum. This means
all classified ads. If the
advertiser wishes to extend
the time for his ad to be
printed, he may do so by
contacting the Reader
office.
If any one who had an
ad in this term and would
like it to continue for the
next term, please contact
the Reader office before the
term break. The ad will
have to be resubmitted for
publication in the next
term.
All ads must be
submitted a week before
the paper is to be published.
We have deadlines to meet.
HOT LINE
will close at 8 a.m,
on Saturday, December 8,
RUMINATING
THRU FALL
(Look that up in your Funk & Wagnall’s)
Because this is the last issue of the Fall term, I have been asked to
comment on this term's accomplishments. As it turns out,
accomplishments have been relatively few, while attempts to
accomplish have been many. Although I still consider myself a
newcomer to this campus, I am not a newcomer to the mood of this
place.
The Reader has attempted all term to prompt a little action in
something (anything) at Capitol, but has met with naught but
resounding failure. Along these lines, I, myself, have attempted to
throw at least a small spark of controversy, if not action, into the
foray. Although the subject of my first editorial, rail-transit, is a bit
out of our hands (and in the hands of a truly senseless race - the
local politicians), the possibility of having our parking fees lowered
definitely is not. But even here, in an issue which should hit home
with at least 80 percent of our students, we have apparently struck
out.
The Student Government Association (the name should sound
familiar to anyone who went to HACC) held elections ,
in October, but prudently waited until late November to make
public any sort of explanations, however light, as to its purpose and
its existence. The end result was that most Senators were elected by
ridiculous "majorities" of fifty, thirty, and even fewer votes. The
fault, however, doesn't completely lie with SGA; we must also
apportion some of the blame to the candidates themselves. All of
them ran campaigns which consisted of a plethora of posters
wall-papering the entire building. No personal appearances
whatsoever; it reminded me a great deal of the propaganda posters
one sees on newsreels from Red China. The big difference here,
however, is that the Chinese at least have the decency to put
photographs of their subjects on their posters. Thus, thru anonymity
and absence of information concerning our governing body, I, felt
the only recourse was a healthy helping of apathy: it only seemed
fair. Three cheers for the local democratic process!
Just recently, the Reader editorialized on the Organizational Fair,
blasting just about the entire student body for not showing any
interest. In defense of our rather extensive and varied student
population, I can only remark that the editors (and that means my
bosses) should know better then to try to tell adults (in age, at
least), what to do with their time. However, I agree that somebody
should get involved in the various campus groups, if only for the hell
of it. The answer, however, does not lie in chastising students, but
rather in a shifting of priorities. As things are set up on campus now,
most activities, like the Organizational Fair and many meetings, are
held in the evenings. This is asking many students to give up time
that they may have already apportioned to more important matters
(important to them, at least). And in many instances, it may also be
at the time when many students are out earning a living, or at least
an existence. However, this procedure is most unfair to the
commuter, who must travel perhaps 20 miles just to get to school.
Asking him to return at night for what are essentially irrelevant
activities, especially with the current gas crisis, is a bit too much.
I think that the only unilaterally fair proposal would be to have
more activities scheduled during the course of the normal school
day; perhaps we could even borrow an idea from our (if you'll
pardon the expression) sister school HACC, and leave the noon hour
open on certain days for most student activities. Of course, this
would probably mean a major change in administrative policy: a
change, no doubt, which is impossible. I suppose that, even if
Capitol administration wanted to change, Big Brother in University
Park would never sanction it. So, I guess no matter how you slice the
pie, it still turns out to be pretty moldy.
Hmmmm...., then again, maybe everyone around here doesn't
have such a bad idea. The way things seem to work at Capitol, a
person could get discouraged quite easily if he/she tries to get
anything done. In view of the circumstances, maybe the best idea is
to "go to class, get high, and graduate," after all, that's what we pay
our money for, and, like a famous wise man once said, "Give the
suckers what they came for," or some such thing. So we all may as
well toss our lots in with the rest, 'cause, after all, if you can't beat
'em, ignore 'em!
P.S. -- Try to stay high enough to have a
MERRY CHRISTMAS
and a
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Editor s note - Jim is a first term junior at Capitol and commutes
each day to school.
by Jim Bollinger
of the Reader Staff
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