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Spotlights
Bitching
at courses
Many students have looked at
the course selection for the
spring term. The reaction is a
groan and a sigh of boredom.
It seems that students are
very unhappy with the courses
offered at Capitol Campus. More
often then not, a student finds
fault with the course material in
every course he takes in a term.
If students want to change
the courses that they can take,
they should have a voice in the
formation of future courses. An
ambitious student can do just
that.
There are several faculty
committees that welcome
student interest and opinions.
The faculty have asked students
many times to their
meetings-but no one seems
interested enough to attend.
Students should seek out the
means to change their choice of
courses. There are many ways.
One just has to search for them.
Next time a student bitches
about course selection, maybe
he should think of what he did
to change the courses. If he did
nothing, then he should not
bitch about it.
The following is an example
of an experimental course
started up at University Park.
The same can be done at
Capitol, if the students want it.
Students have to show the
administration what they want -
it is as simple as that. So. quit
bitching.
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Course
in Death
Media - V 7 hen students in the
beginning psychology course are
assigned an open choice term
paper, nearly half choose to
research and write about suicide.
Because of this apparent
fascination with death among
college students in their classes,
two instructors at the Delaware
County Campus of The
Pennsylvania State University
here have developed a new
experimental course to be taught
at the campus in the Spring
Term. The course is entitled
“The Meanings of Death.”
The course will be
team-taught by the two
professors and will study death
in all its forms from both the
individual and societal aspects.
Some of the topics to be covered
are the preparation for and
attitudes toward death among
elderly people; violent death,
especially suicide and murder;
death as treated in literature and
art; euthanasia; death in the
family; and the institution of the
funeral.
A comparison of death in the
United States as compared to
how death is viewed in
“death-oriented” cultures will
also be included.
“The course is not meant to
be therapeutic in terms of
assuring people that death is
nothing to worry about,”
Kinman said. “Rather, we hope
that by taking the course,
students will be able to face
more realistically the idea of
mortality and will recognize that
death is part of living.”
Kinman also noted a growing
interest in thanatology, the
study of death, among
sociologists and increased
emphasis on the subject in
psychology and sociology classes
on the college level.
Davis pointed out that in one
branch of psychiatry, the
existential therapist treats
patients with the viewpoint that
the basic fear of death is at the
core of most of man s anxieties.
«* * *
by Bob Hetzel
There are approximately 15
positions to be filled in the
upcoming Spring Term S.G.A.
elections. Capitol Campus
students will be voting for
President, Vice President,
Recording Secretary,
Corresponding Secretary
Treasurer, Senior Senators and
the Dr. James A. Jordan Award
for teaching. These elections are
tentatively slated for April 4 with
swearing in of the new S.G.A.
Vol. II No. 4
February 21, 1974
c.c. reader
notfonol
engineers
week • f
By Joseph C. Davis,
National Bureau
of Standards
How many times have most
of us noticed how hot the water
in a garden hose gets when we
leave the hose sprawled all over
the lawn on a hot summer
afternoon? And we tell ourselves
how uneconomical it is to waste
this hot water. There must be
some practical way to harness
this heat from the sun and save
on our hot water heating bill or
heat our house, we say.
This great surge of interest
was not always with us. In the
1950’5, technical people were
indifferent about our future
energy needs. Little was said
about the shortgage of fossil
fuels while a good deal was said
about nuclear energy and almost
nothing about solar energy.
There were exceptions to this
lack of interest. As always, there
were pioneers, like Dr. Maria
Telkes, an outstanding engineer
who toured the university circuit
and establishments like the
Bureau of Standards espousing
the cause of solar energy. Dr.
Telkes specialized particularly in
exotic types of liquids and solids
for storing heat for use on days
when the level of sunlight was
low.
And then there was the
American Society for Solar
Heating, an Arizona-based
organization that furnished
speakers and published books
about the new way of harnessing
energy the society knew would
be popular and practical some
day.
One never knows in which
direction the development of a
new concept in our
technological society will
eventually take; solar houses
may not be the houses of the
future. Their asymmetrical,
one-sided, and sloping roofs do
not have the beauty of the more
symmetrical asphalt or
slate-shingled roofs. The
average housewife probably
would have nothing to do with
such designs” Perhaps the solar
powered home of the future will
SGA Presidential Elections
members to take place at the
third S.G.A. meeting of Spring
term.
All candidates are required to
submit a petition of 25
signatures to the Election /
Screening Committee by March
1 and must maintain a 2.0 GPA.
The petitions are available in the
S.G.A. room W-104 and should
be returned to Bob Hetzel’s mail
box in W-104.
Any full-time undergraduate
may run for the offices of
b 17-23
be operated by electricity
generated by solar energy at a
station many miles removed
from the home.
to find ways to power a
generated station by energy
from the sun. One of the most
promising and interesting
methods was conceived by Dr.
and Mrs. Aden B. Meinel of the
University of Arizona. They
envisioned a large horizontal
grill-work of steel pipes coated
with silicon and silver, covering
many square miles in arid and
semi-arid areas, which would
trap the sun’s heat. Nitrogen,
flowing through the pipes would
capture the heat and transport it
to tanks of molten salts that
would store the heat.
As power was needed, it
could be used in a conventional
turbine generator system making
electricity. The large grid could
be placed high enough that if it
were used on grazing land, cattle
and sheep could walk freely
underneath it.
Another possible method for
future conversion involves a
satellite which could receive a
much higher level of solar energy
than is available on any
terrestrial spot in the United
States. On ths satellite, solar
cells would convert the powerful
supply of energy to microwave
energy, which in turn would be
directed by an antenna and
beamed to a receiving station on
earth. This radio energy would
then be converted to electricity
and transported by wire to
homes, office buildings, and
factories for use with
conventional heating and cooling
systems. This concept captures
the imagination, but at the
present level of technology it
poses many problems.
Widespread use of the sun’s
energy depends not only on the
results of all the research that is
taking place but on acceptance
by the building industry and
their willingness to put the
results into mass production.
There’s no telling when this
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President, Vice President,
Recording Secretary,
Corresponding Secretary or
Treasurer. The Senior Senate
seats are restricted to
undergraduates who will have
senior standing for the 1974-75
academic year. Senatorial
candidates must run for the
Senate seat allocated to their
academic division. There are six
academic divisions; Social
Science, Humanities,
Engineering, Education, Math /
DANCE MARATHON
Starts 9:00 FRIDAY, rEBRUkRV 22
PRESENTED BYWZAP i SOCIAL COMMITTEE
"Get in and win"
$200.00 first place 100.00
$50.00 3rd place
a bottle cold duck for 4th, sth, & 6th places
SI6N UP OUTSIDE STUDENT ACTIVITIES
AND DOWN IN VENDONVIUE
MIDNIGHT SURPRISE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22 Marathon Dance
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Marathon Dance Cont'd
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Old Movies
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Ice Cream Social
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 Movie - "The Devils'
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Day of Rest
FRIDAY, MARCH 1 "Greaser Keggar"
Calendar of Events
THURSDAY,FEBRUARY 21
12:00 and 8:00 Appalachian
Movies - "Music Fair," "In the
Old-Fashioned Way," "Tomorrow's
8:00 Yearbook meeting at 833 B Nelson.
9:00 Young Democrats at 845 A Kirtland
Ski Club Bake Sale in Vendorville.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22
9:00 Dance Marathon
NOSTALGIA WEEK --
FEBRUARY 22- MARCH 1
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25
4:30 SGA meeting in the Gallery Lounge
7:30 Head Shop meeting in the Coffee House.
Martial Arts Class.
- Capitol vs. Stevens Trade
School at the Main St. Gym
8:00 Photo Club in E-247.
Basketball
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26
1:30 and 8:00 Henrietta Hock in the auditorium
7:00 Meade Heights Board of Governors in the
Coffee House.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27
12:00 Chess Club
1:00 Judo
8:00 Movie "The Devils" admission is 70 cents
at the Student Center.
THURSDAY,FEBRUARY 28
12 :00 and 8:00 Appalachian Film Series
Movie "From Folk to Jazz and Pop"
Science, and Business.
The voting for the Senior
Senate seats will be by academic
division with the candidates
receiving the highest number of
votes in each division being
accorded that Senior Senate
seat. The remaining Senatorial
candidates will then be ranked
according to the number of
votes received and the highest 3
will be designated Senior
Senator at-large. One Senior
at-large seat is provided for every
200 senior undergraduates.
Nostalgia Week
** * *
2nd place
500 admission
free if greased
Film Serie
Good