Vol. II No. 2
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Highwoods Stringband
The Highwood Stringband
consists of Walt Koken and Bob
Potts, Fiddles; Mac Benford,
banjo, Doug Dorschung, guitar;
and Jenny Cleland, bass fiddle.
All the members have spent
many years absorbing and
performing old-time string
ihusic, playing in such groups as
the New Tranquility Stringband,
the Busted Toe Mudthumpers,
and most notably, the Fat City
Stringband. In the spring of
1972,' they joined together as
the Highwoods Stringband, and
since that time they have
become one of the best young
stringbands in the country;
winning numerous prizes at
fiddle conventions throughout
the country; giving concerts in
Boston, New York, Philadelphia,
and Washington; appearing at
the Smithsonian, the Old
Domimion, the Philadelphia, and
the National Folk Festivals; and
touring colleges across the
country as part of the
Smithsonian Institution’s
Touring Performance Service.
Hie band can be heard on their
recent record “Fire on the
Mountain” (Rounder 0023) ,
and they are currently working
on a sequel.
The music played by the
Highwoods Stringband is
Attention Students
Telephone Directory
to be published
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TELEPHONE DIRECTORY
WILL BE PUBLISHED ONCE
AGAIN THIS YEAR. IF
THERE ARE ANY STUDENTS
WHO WOULD LIKE THEIR
NAME LEFT UNPUBLISHED,
PLEASE CONTACT NANCY
WILT AT (944-9714 OR SKIP
LARONTONDA AT 944-0280).
THE DIRECTORY WILL BE
ON SALE IN VENDORVILLE
IN APPROXIMATELY ONE
WEEK FOR 25 CENTS PER
COPY.
** * *
Instant help
Instant Help for home sewers
and needlework enthusiasts is
now as close as the telephone,
thanks to a new,toll-free service.
Called Coats & Clark’s
“HELP-LINE”, the service is
staffed by knowledgeable
consultants who can answer
questions about sewing and
needlework projects. Introduced
for the first time in the
Northeast, “HELP-LINE” is
staffed from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Monday through Friday. After
business hours calls are recorded
and a consultant returns the call.
Coats & Clark’s
“HELP LINE” toll free number
is (800) 223-5063.
Whether the question
concerns thread, zippers, tapes
and trims, yarn or their many
uses, Coats & Clark’s
“HELP-LINE” consultants are
able to assist callers. If
additional information is
necessary, callers are sent copies
of folders and leaflets containing
step-by-step directions with
illustrations.
“Help-LINE” is designed to
bring greater enjoyment to home
sewing and needlework projects
and to provide guidance just a
phone call away.
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Music
comprised of the old ballads and
dance tunes that have flourished
in the Southern Highlands for
hundreds of years. They also
perform many of the songs
which were popular in the region
during the 1920’s and 1930’s
and show the increasing
influence of the world outstide
the mountains. By the late
1950’5, media and
transportation had developed to
the point where the members of
the band could begin to learn
the music of an area not of their
birth - through tapes, records,
and extensive travels.
The band makes little
attempt to mimic their many
traditional sources but instead
concentrates on capturing the
authentic spirit of mountain
music. With their particular
blend of instruments, the band
makes this music come alive
today. Their talents as musicians,
interpreters, and entertainers
insure that this country’s great
traditions of old-time string
music is in no danger of
becoming a relic of the past.
The Highwoods Stringband
will appear in the auditorium, on
Tuesday, January 29, at 1:30
and 8:00 p.m. The concerts are
free and everyone is invited to
join in the festivities.
Course repeat
filing period
extension made
Reprinted from the Penn
State Intercom.
University students who
missed the filing deadline for
course repeat forms because of
misinformation about the rule
may appeal for an extension of
the filing period.
The Administrative
Committee for Resident
Education Procedures has
established a subcommittee to
review appeals from students
who missed the filing deadline
during the 1973 Spring, Summer
and Fall Terms.
Appeals for courses
previously repeated during any
one of these three terms will be
considered by the committee if
received before Feb. 27.
Under present rules, a student
may repeat a course in which he
receives a grade of D or F, with
the later grade used to calculate
his grade-point ’average. All
grades earned, however, remain
on the student’s academic
record.
According to Martha A.
Adams, subcommittee chairman,
a written description of the
reason for appeal should be
submitted by the student to his
dean or campus director with a
complete “Course Repeat
Notice” form.
If approval is granted, the
approved statement should be
forewarded, along with the
student’s wirtten appeal,
completed course repeat form
and a $3.00 filing fee, to Mr.
Thorne, Room W-101.
The student and the
appropriate dean or director’s
office will be informed of the
committee’s final review by the
Records Office. If the appeal is
not granted, the filing fee will be
returned.
Students will follow the
normal University procedures
for filing course repeat forms for
courses repeated during the
current Winter Term.
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C. C. Reader
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By Bob Hetzel
Are you majoring in
Education, International
Studies or Social Science? Do
you have an interest in debating
or a desire to “get involved?” If
you answered “yes”, then this
article may interest you.
The staff for the Second
Annual Capitol Campus Model
United Nations is now being
formed. Chairpersons,
rapporteurs, parliamentarians,
pages and other positions need
to be filled - especially by
juniors.
Mr. Clem Gilpin (Inst.
Afro-American studies W 262) is
recruiting the staff and will be
using the members in organizing
and running the Model U.N. The
convention is scheduled for two
days in early March and
approximately 30 highschools
will be participating.
Each participating school will
send a ‘deligation’ that has been
assigned to represent a particular
nation of the U.N. Most of the
delegations will be presenting
resolutions that call upon the
U.N. to deal with specific
international problems. All
comments made during the
debates on the resolutions and
the resolutions themselves
should mirror the actual foreign
policy of the nations being
represented.
In essence the Model U N is
an exercise in scholarship and
role playing on the part of the
delegation members. The staff
will be charged with the orderly
running of the various debating
sessions. If you need any more
information or want to join the
staff please contact Mr. Clem
Gilpin W-262 or Bob Hetzel in
the S.G.A. room WlO4 or at 829
B Nelson Ave., Phone 944-0844.
** * *
Motion QQ
Picture Hj
Production
The Art Association of
Harrisburg is adding to its art
education program a class in
MOTION PICTURE
PRODUCTION, which will be
taught by John P. Hudak,
Executive Vice-President, Walter
G. O'Connor Company,
Hershey. Mr. Hudak was
formerly Director of
Audio-Visual Program
Development for the National
Geographic Society, Washington,
D.C., and the Art Association is
proud to have him join its
faculty to teach this course.
The class will provide a broad
perspective and understanding of
the motion picture medium and
is designed to familiarize the
student with the elements and
techniques required for
production of a sound motion
picture. As a result of this
course, the student should gain
an appreciation and
understanding of the motion
picture as an art form and as a
communication tool, and should
gain an anatomical insight into
its structure.
Motion Picture Production is
especially planned for those
whose work sometimes involved
the motion picture business,
such as, public relations
personnel, advertising
executives, students, and
television personnel.
The class will be held at the
Art Association of Harrisburg,
21 North Front Street, on
Wednesday evenings from
February 6 to May 22, 1974,
from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuition
for the class is $25.00 for the
term. To register for Motion
Picture Production interested
students should contact the Art
Association at 236.1432.
** * *
OK DAY
Pouring over $5OO into a
gigantic effort to give campus
organizations a much-needed
boost, OK DAY organizers
delivered a great party, but there
were very few persons who
joined any organizations.
Before UPROAR had begun
its first set, nearly 150 people
were present. However,
recruitment efforts were at first
stymied, then just plain ignored
as the more appealing aspects of
beer and rock dancing took over
the action.
Although one-half of the
tables I visited lacked sign-up
sheets or descriptive
paraphenalia, the Aviation Club
and Scuba Club drew the most
visible interest. The Aviation
Club display featured a
video-tape film, which showed
students training under
simulated flying conditions. The
Scuba Club had a few air tanks,
fins, and masks protectively
stored on a shelf.
The Social committee’s
poster arrangement featured
vestiges of last year’s most
illustrious undertakings, such as
the white-water raft trip near
Pittsburgh, the Rock/Folk
Festival, (A Good People’s
Production) and the Marathon
Dance from Nostalgia Week.
When asked about crowd
response to recruitment efforts,
SC president Bob Brannan said,
“Nothing doing.” Harold Brown,
Scuba Club promoter stated,
“There’s noting wrong with it (
the combination of the band and
beer), except that it defeats the
organizations’ purpose
(recruitment.” I talked with the
fellow from the Ski Shop and he
felt the same way.
Statements like “Two whole
yearbooks were sold” and “Got
a couple of signatures” were
indicative of the solicitors’
CALE
THURSDAY, JANUARY 24
- Noon & 8:00 p.m. Appalachian
Film Series (Aud.)
8:00 p.m. Yearbook meeting
(8338 Nelson)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 25 -
7:30 p.m. Donkey Basketball
(Main St. Gym)
SATURDAY, JANUARY 26
- 6:15 p.m. Basketball - Capitol
vs. Lebanon Valley (JV)
Annville, Pa.
MONDAY, JANUARY 28 -
6:30 p.m. Head Shop (Middle
Earth).
TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 -
1:30 & 8:00 p.m. Symposium
on American Music and Culture -
Highwood String Band (Aud.)
1:40 p.m. Mr. William W.
Adams, guest lecturer on
International Marketing
Problems and Solutions Room
E 316.
6:30 p.m. - DTK open house
for new members (Gallery
Lounge).
7:00 p.m. Meade Heights
Board of Governors (Middle
Earth)
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
30 - 6:15 p.m. Basketball
Capitol vs. Bloomsburg State
(JV) Bloomsburg, Pa.
8:00 p.m. - Movie - “Sacco &
Vanzetti” (Student Center)
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31
- Noon & 8:00 p.m. -
Appalachian Film Series . (Aud.)
** * *
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January 24,1974
John Bradford Langdon
efforts.
Despite the apparent
enlistment failures, the OK DAY
organizers exposed
approximately three to four
hundred students to the campus
organizations, through the
advertisements of free beer and
dancing. It is hoped by tthe
various clubs leaders that
sign-ups will increase throughout
the term as a result.
Throughout the evening, Jim
Taggart, Mark Krom and many
others were kept busy shuttling
some eleven half-kegs of beer to
satisfy the fast and heavy
drinking crowd.
The party was one of the best
in our customarily drab Student
Center, and the Band, UPROAR,
undoubtedly helped tp bring it
off. Led by Bill Murnin (piano,
organ, lead vocal), UPROAR
opened their first set with
throbbing sounds from the
MOODY BLUES, LED
ZEPPLIN, JO JO GUNNE.
Playing until the beer ran out.
the five-member unit slammed
into songs by YES, DOOBIE
BROS., DEEP PURPLE,
EDGAR WINTER, J. GEILS,
DAVID BOWIE and other
groups.
UPROAR’s other members
include Tom Zito (piano, organ,
moog synthesizer, vocal), Curt
Evans (lead guitar, vocal), Steve
Badesso (bass guitar, vocal), and
Ken Schroth (drums). Calling
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania home,
UPROAR tours the Northeast
including Vermont, Rochester,
N.Y., and shore points. They
will be at Martini’s Exit Club
February 18 - 23.
Other OK Day participants
were the SGA, C.C. Reader,
Yearbook, Head Shop and the
recently merged Beta Chi
Society for the Advancement of
Mathmatics.
DAR
A career information session
is scheduled for Tuesday,
January 29, in the auditorium,
and beginning at 3:15 p.m. This
session should hold more
interest for students from the
humanities, social science and
education since it is not geared
to the same level of specialized
knowledge in a relatively narrow
field as was the previous session.
Featured speakers will be
representatives of such areas as
package good manufacturers,
insurance companies, major
retailers, real estate firms, etc.,
and will be largely concerned
with marketing. For the record,
“Package goods” in many parts
of the country is synonymous
with “booze” - which isn’t what
Dr. Lee had in mind when he
mentioned “package good
manufacturers” in telling us
about the program - or, maybe
he did.
Attention! Attention!
Students! Faculty!
Staff!!
The first Meade Height's
Board of Governor's
PINOCHLE
TOURNAMENT
Feb. 4th to 19th
Cash Prizes
Watch for Further
Details
Notice