VOL. 11l NO. 3
Reader
Spotlights
ART EXHIBIT
Messrs. Jerry Miss and Rob
Reeps are presently exhibiting in
the Gallery/Lounge at Capitol
Campus, Penn State University.
Both artists recently participated
in a young artist group show at
Capitol Campus which was a
collection of drawings, prints,
paintings, sculptures and
constructions.
ED. NOTE: Anyone wishing
to review this exhibit is welcome
to submit there view to the
Reader in WlO4.
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A guided tour of picturesque
Harrisburg is being conducted by
Dr. Irwin Richman, Social
Science, and Professor Ambrose
Klain, Regional Planning. Dr.
Richman will guide the
participants through the
landmarks of Harrisburg and
Professor Klain will relate to
urban issues.
The date is Saturday, June 1,
1974. The group will meet at 9
a.m. at the corner of Second
Street and Holiday Inn Town,
downtown Harrisburg. The tour
should be completed by 11:30
a.m.
Ample parking is available,
free of charge, on the City
Island, (enter the Island via the
Market Street Bridge) Plan to
attend a lunch after the tour.
Bring you family and friends,
there is no cost, it’s free. For
more information contact John
Stiehler, 8198 Weaver Avenue,
Middletown, 944-0843.
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Recreation
-Athletics
Building Hours
Effective immediately, the Base
Gym hours for Wednesdays will be
from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. The gym
will not open at 2 p.m. on
Wednesdays for the duration of the
Spring Term.
ALSO: The Recreation/ Athletics
Building and the Base Gym will be
closed Saturday & Sunday, May 18
and 19 for the Music Festival.
Golf Team
The April showers have been quite
a deterent to the Capitol Campus
Golf Team. Even practice sessions
have been rained out; however, they
are trying. Their first 3 opening
matches were all played at York, Pa.
Monday, April 22 the golf team
went to York for a tri-match with
Salisbury and York College, but were
unable to come up with a win in this
competition.
Student Golfing
The student golfing rates for
Sunset Golf Course will be in effect
during the Spring Term. All students
wishing to take advantage of this
reduced rate must stop by the
Recreation/ Athletics Building to
pick up an authorization card. The
special rate will not be given without
it!
Baseball
The Capitol Campus baseball team
scored another victory Saturday,
April 20 when they defeated the Air
National Guard with a score 11 to 8.
Dennis Hallman was the starting
pitcher. The game was clinched with
a grand slam by Barry Bauer and the
effective relief pitching of Paul Wills.
Pitcher Dennis Hlavaty ended the
game with a save.
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Aviation Day
May 15
by Jim Bollinger
For those of you on campus unenlightened on the subject, then
is presently an Aviation Club on campus being run under the
auspices of Mr. Lee H. Pugh. Furthermore, the Club is sponsoring aa
Aviation Day for Capitol Campus on Wednesday, May 15, 1974,
from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
In order to enlighten myself and the rest of the campus as to their
existence and activities, I interviewed their fearless leader, Mr. Pugh.
Mr. Pugh, an electrical engineering instructor, has a passionate
interest in flying, and last Fall term, he decided to put it to good use
by forming an Aviation Club. There was one such other club on
campus in 1970, but it apparently fell victim to Capitol’s traditional
chronic apathy and just faded out.
Mr. Pugh approached his pet project with vigor and hope. The
culmination of his organizational energies was a first meeting in
which 25 people (a major turnout for Capitol) showed up for the
club’s inaugural run. His first project was the setting up of a
ground-training program (which would prepare prospective pilots for
flight training), which met with unanimous approval from the dub’s
members. This ground-training program would formally cost about
$l2O.
They began immediately, and thru the rest of the Fall term, the
club’s membership averaged around 17, which is rather
extraordinary for this school. Attendance fell in the Winter term,
and now, with the ground-training nearing its completion, average
membership is about ten actively involved in the club.
The Aviation Club is open to all faculty, staff, students, and
attendants’ wives. The vast majority of the members do not have
pilots’ licenses, but maintain a strong interest in aviation, which
explains why they’ve been studying so hard in the ground-training
course, which will culminate in a four-hour-long examination for
certification.
Most of the members have taken at least an introductory ride in
an airplane. This was back in Fall when they took advantage of a $5
intro-ride lesson which lasted about 20-30 minutes for each member
(they paid their own ways). Formal flight-training costs around
$BOO, which explains its absense in the club repertoire, although a
few members are actively working on this phase of pilot’s training.
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A dm of Thru Mil Island from tf» air.
To promote interest in the club on Campus, Mr. Pugh & Co. have
devised Aviation Day. On May 15, from 10 in the morning until 3 in
the afternoon, there will be a number of interesting activities taking
place. Two of the major activities will come at no charge to the
student, while two other major events will cost you a very minimal
fee. The two freebies are:
1. Tours of the air traffic control tower at nearby Harrisburg
International Airport.
2. Tours of a DC-8 airliner (provided by Pegasus Travel Agency).
There will be a shuttle running from the campus to the airport for
the events. The events which tap your wallet are:
1. Airplane rides around the local Middletown area. The entire
metro-Harrisburg area should be visible from the air. The actual
range of the rides will depend largely on where Hbg. International
says the plane can go. Mr. Pugh urges participants to bring their
cameras. The rides will be fairly long. Cost only $3 per person.
2. Also offered will be the $5 introductory flight in which you
will get a chance to fly the plane yourself. Never fear, Mr. Pugh says,
the qualified instructor on board will see to it that you don’t meek
the aeroplane. This looks like a real bargain. Besides, the time you
log in flight counts towards fulfillment of qualifications for a pilot’s
license. And there will be a Polariod available so you can have your
picture taken with “your” plane.
The three- aiid five-dollar rides require advance reservations. The
club will be signing people up on Monday and Tuesday, May 13 and
14; the two days prior to the big Event. A one-dollar deposit is
required.
Everyone at Capitol Campus is invited. Also invited are the
students from HACC, where another similar club is in the process of
forming, with Mr. Pugh as special consultant. Mr. Pugh points out
that flying can be of great value to all majors, and especially Business
and Technology students. He also would like to extend a personal
invitation to all interested juniors to get involved with the club. It
will be starting up again next Fall, and all the present members an
Seniors. Be that as it may; come one, come all to Aviation Day, May
15. A splendid time is guaranteed for all.
More Photos on Page 3
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Friday, April 26 is a fine Spring day in our nation’s capitol, and
dozens of camera-toting tourists mill about the white marble shrines
of the city’s southwest quarters. The Lincoln Memorial, Washington
Monument and Smithsonian Institute draw big crowds but, before
its noon closing, the White House is the most popular. The visitors,
mostly sun-glassed refugees of the silent majority, wrap themselves
alongside the iron fence that circles the Presidential mansion, in
anticipation of being escorted through the outer fringes of the inner
sac turn of glory
A few hundred yards away another crowd gathers, about a half
, dozen long-haired kids dressed in various types of motley. Next to
them is an oblong thing, made of wood and wire and wrapped in
black plastic. Occassionally some of the tourists wander across the
Ellipse to ask what it is all abut. They explain they are Yippies and
they are watching Nixon through their homemade representation of
a telescope. If the middle Americans hang around much longer; they
find out these kids are the vanguard of what organizers hope will be
a million persons march to impeach the President.
Impeachment? A year ago is was unheard of - even unpatriotic -
but in this Spring of ‘74, the specter of impeachment seems to draw
nearer everyday. Indeed, polls show a majority of Americans favor
impeachment as a means of resolving the entire Watergate mess and,
on the highways, Impeach Nixon stickers are as common as those
from Disneyworld. No doubt this upsets the President - probably
more than Saturday’s mass demonstration - for it means he has lost
the backbone of his support, a thing which is crushing even though
he has run in his . last election.
But about the demonstration; despite another day of beautiful
weather, the 9,000 people gathered around the Lincoln Memorial are
less than the organizers of the National Campaign to Impeach
Richard Nixon has hoped for and that number is far below the
amount who came for the Counter-Inaugural 14 months earlier. Still,
they are an impressive sight and, to the visiting tourists who are
having a great time snapping pictures of the scene, the demonstrators
resemble the Teutonic Tribes preparing to sack Rome.
By 12:15, parade marshalls have organized the hordes and the
procession starts down Constitution Avenue toward the Capitol. The
atmosphere is festive, a cross between a Halloween parade and a
birthday party, as people stroll past, strumming guitars and banjos
and chanting any of a dozen anti-Nixon slogans. Pamphleteers
distribute copies of the DAILY WORLD, the YIPSTER T/MESand
Other alternative papers. Nearing the White House, Hie column is
Joined by several hundred people who were watching the Yippie
activities on the Ellipse. With them, they bring an Edsel which tows
a caged Richard Nixon. The car bears the vice-presidential seal and
the legend: “Don’t trade a lemon for a used Ford.”
The Capitol comes into sight as the march moves onto
Pennsylvania Avenue. Traffic in the opposite lane honks in approval
or gives one finger salutes. Ice cream vendors keep pace with the
■lob, finding them an even better market than the tourists.
By 1 o'clock, the demonstrators reach the mall, directly in front
Of the Capitol, where a platform has been built. Ted Glick, one of
the original defendants in the Harrisburg 8 conspiracy trial, reads a
long list of speakers, including anti-war activist Dave Dellinger,
Oongressperson Parren Mitchell and Dolores Huerta of the United
Farmworkers. Their speeches are short, all advocating impeachment
and all raising the question of what can be done about Ford.
Dellinger feels forced to comment on the small turnout but says it is
understandable for “impeachment is in its early stages, like the
anti-war movement in *63 or *64.
Folksinger Phil Ochs does a short set. At the end of “How High’s
the Watergate, Poppa?” a dozen streakers, wearing only Nixon
Masks, jump from the back of the Yippies’ U-Haul truck. As they
dash past the stage, Ochs says, “Come on. Let’s get back to
impeachment.” and he resumes singing.
After Ochs, the crowd begins to drift away, some of them pausing
to look through the Impeachment Fair that has been set up on one
side. Twenty tables contain literature and information from the
entire grab bag of New Left causes, ranging from the Farmworkers
to Welfare Rights to the Peoples’ Bicentennial Commission.
Another group present is Attica Brigade. Throughout the day,
they have distributed leaflets urging protestors to gather at the rear
of the fair around 3 p.m. As the broadside says they intend to have
another demonstration “to show as clearly as possible that the fight
goes beyond Nixon” and gathering 700 people, they sweep toward
the Justice Department, chanting their slogan, “Fight Back!” At the
Department, they begin throwing rocks through 12 plate glass
windows. A cluster of police are on hand, but they wait quietly until
re-enforcements arrive on Vespa motorscooters. They charge the
crowd with nightsticks and the protestors flee. Two are arrested and
one is injured in the only violence of a peaceful day.
By 6, the mall is empty with most of the people heading home or
toward parties in Georgetown. As the busses rumble out onto the
inter-state an 18 year old, who has jsut been to her first protest turns
“Do ya think we did any good?”
He is quiet for a while and then nods as if trying to convince
himself.
MAY 2. 1974
by Doug Gibboney
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