VOL. IV, NO. 3
First Convocation Marks Capitol's Ninth Year
Convocation Ceremonies
By Richard Marold
MIDDLETOWN, PA. -- The
yellow tinged hills over the
Susquehanna River provided
background for the Con
vocation and formal opening of
the 1974-75 academic year at
Penn State-Capitol Campus on
Tuesday, October 8.
Four hundred students,
faculty, staff and guests
gathered on a crisp Indian
summer morning on the front
lawn of the campus to hear an
address by Mr. Hugh Sidey,
one of the nation's top jour
nalists and writer with TIME
MAGAZINE.
The students were welcomed
by Dr. Robert McDermott,
provost of the university. Dr.
Emerson Jacob, associate
librarian, presented Dr. Mc-
Dermott with the 100,000 th
volume to the library.
Mr. Sidey then gave his
address on "American
Leadership". He spoke from
his rich experience of covering
the White House for TIME
MAGAZINE during the past
fourteen years. His warm talk
brought the presently tattered
office of Presidency into
perspective and pieced
together the mosaic of
democracy in America with its
enduring need of leadership.
Mr. Sidey emphasized the
background of a President to
know his style of Presidency.
Whether that background be
Texas sage brush country on
Lyndon Johnscn and the
Grant Available
The Greater Harrisburg
Area Penn State Alumni Club
has established the Mildred
Ride Dunlap Grant Fund for
the benefit of students at the
Penn State-Capitol Campus.
The fund is named in honor
of Mildred Ride Dunlap, of the
Class of 1914, who was Penn
State's first May Queen. Mrs.
Dunlap resides in Camp Hill.
The grant of $3OO is to be
made for one year but may be
renewed at the discretion of the
selection committee if the
recipient continues to qualify.
The award will be made to a
full-time student at the Penn
State-Capitol Campus whose
legal residence is and has been
in the Greater Harrisburg
Area on the basis of
satisfactory academic
achievement and evidence of
financial need.
Recipients will be selected
by the Scholarship Committee
of the Penn State-Capitol
Campus with the approval of
the Office of Student Aid.
ego (I), Mr
at the Alamo crying for help, or
the rampant commercialism of
southern California on Richard
Nixon and the loneliness of a
second team football player,
Sidey related the roots of early
life to the decisions of the past
six presidents.
After a press conference for
radio, newspaper and TV
people, Sidey held an open
forum for students. In a period
of four hours, he focused the
academic life of a university
within the broader life of a
quickly changing planet. The
ninth year of Penn State.
Capitol Campus was launched.
LOANS
A loan fund for Pennsylvania
State University Capitol
Campus students has been
established by the Harrisburg
Branch of the American
Association of University
Women, to be known as the
A.A.U.W. Capitol Campus
Loan Fund.
Loans made from the fund
may be long- or short-term, but
the maximum amount is to be
$l,OOO per year per student.
To be eligible for a loan, a
student must be enrolled as a
full-time junior or senior
baccalaureate candidate at the
Penn State-Capitol Campus.
The student must also be a
resident of the Harrisburg
area, in need of a loan to meet
necessary college - expenses,
and of good moral character.
Recipients will be the
responsibility of appropriate
officers of the Penn State-
Capitol Campus with the ap
proval of the Office of Student
Aid.
C. C. READER
by Bollinger-Gibboney
On Tuesday, October 8, Hugh
Sidey of Time magazine's
Washington Bureau visited
Capitol Campus. After ad
dressing students at the
Campus's first convocation,
Sidey held a press conference
in the Gallery Lounge of the
Main Building for local news
media, including W'FPA-TV,
WSBA radio and WGAL-TV.
Later Sidey spoke at an open
forum in the auditorium of the
Main Building where he fielded
questions from faculty and
students.
C.C. Goes
To England
MIDDLETOWN, PA. --Penn
State-Capitol Campus has
tentatively planned to offer a
six semester-hour education
course next summer which will
include a two week trip to
England. The course will start
with the summer term and the
two week trip will be taken
from June 16 through July 1,
1975.
The purpose of the trip will
be to observe and participate
in open classroom practices of
England. Students on the trip
will then explore British
Teaching methods for possible
use in American classrooms.
According to Dr. David
Ongiri, assistant professor of
education at Penn State-
Capitol Campus, the
arrangements for the trip are
being made in conjunction with
Millersville State College.
Each institution expects to
have 45 students participate in
the trip. The chartered flight
will go by TWA from
Harrisburg International
Airport to London and back.
People interested in this
unique course should contact
Dr. David Ongiri at Penn
State-Capitol Campus in
Middletown for additional
details.
stir over:
Hugh Sidey, con
vocation speaker
by Fred Prouser
Press-Conference & Forum
One of Sidey's main themes
through the day was that many
of the nation's present
problems stem from the
assasination of John Kennedy.
The journalist, who was
present that day in Dallas,
claimed both Johnson and
Nixon were men who would
never made the presidency in a
more orderly era.
Johnson was described as a
proud man who hoped to "hang
the coonskin on the wall"
through a military victory in
Viet Nam. Sidey said the
Agnes Green, Coordinator of
Student Activities since July
1973 has accepted a position as
Assistant Dean of Students at
the University of Delaware
located in Newark, Delaware,
and will resign her job here,
effective today. Her new duties
will include responsibility for
commuter students as well as
liason from Student Affairs for
Womans Studies.
While qt Capitol Campus,
Agnes has tried "to get student
organizations to do long range
planning for cultural and social
events". The Gallery lounge is
now booked with exhibits for
the entire year and such
planning gives more of a
composite of activities rather
than everything happening on
a Tuesday night plus the added
benefit of enough time to
adequately publicize events.
The most challenging aspect
of her time at Capitol as Agnes
puts it was, "finding out what
plem.ami
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former president was a
"chronic liar", skilled as a
legislator but a poor chief
executive.
Sidey expressed the belief
that Richard Nixon knew of the
Watergate Affair from the
very beginning and possibly
ordered the bugging of
Democratic headquarters.
Although Sidey thinks Nixon
needs a "confession to clear his
soul", he doubts the full truth
of the scandal will ever be
known unless a Haldeman or a
Mitchell cracks.
President Ford's pardon of
Nixon "could have been
handled better" but overall
Sidey said, "maybe Ford was
more right than we are".
Ford's choice of Rockefeller
for vice-president he termed as
"excellent".
The journalist sounded a
bleak note when discussing the
future. He said, "We face some
fundamental changes in our
way of life" and that
"capitalism, as we know it, is
going to have to be altered". In
the future, Sidey predicted,
"government will be the ad
ministration of scarcity".
Sidey was joined in the open
forum by Doctors Bresler,
Murti and Skok of the campus
staff.
'Student Government
!Association YOU ARE IT,
!active or not WE must be
icollective if we•are to be ef
fective.
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are the commuter students like
in terms of programming and
how do you schedule activities
to be of interest to them". She
feels that at Capitol, "we have
a four year school's student
activities philosophy", and she
thinks there must be a balance
between residence and com
muter students.
Unfortunately, she feels
community college students
have been programmed to
view education as em
ployment, in by 9 out by 5. To
remedy this situation she
suggests two year schools have
to develop a new model for,
student activities. One way
would be to try to get in
dependent studies integrated
with student activities as
extensions of classroom
learning.
In addition to her new duties,
Agnes hopes to continue work
towards her doctorate.
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