Oct. 9, 1975
EDITORIAL
Bring Back
Convocation
Last year Capitol supposedly began a tradition:
convocation, the formal opening of the academic year.
This year we may not have one.
According to Provost Robert McDermott, it’s a
question of money. He says, however, the possibility
of having convocation later this term will be discussed.
Yes, Capitol is a non-traditional school, and the
students certainly do not conform to the traditional
“Joe College” image with the average age of a Capitol
student being 27 while 70 per cent of the student body
are commuters and 27 per cent are veterans.
Yet there are some aspects of the traditional college
experience that should be saved. Convocation is one
because it brings students, faculty and staff together
to get the year off to a good start and helps build a
sense of unity.
Unity is not well known at Capitol. Program and
option unity, perhaps, but not campus unity. There are
six undergraduate programs here, and we all have a
tendency to get locked into our own program and even
further into our particular option. If a student is not
involved in a club or organization ’)and how many of us
have the time with classes, work and family
responsibilities?), it’s difficult for he or she to grasp
some sense of a campus identity.
Convocation last year was special with the keynote
address by Hugh Sidey, Washington Bureau chief for
Time magazine. The total cost was $2,240. And with
the help of Francine Taylor, public information officer,
we had Sidey for the day at a reasonable fee of $1,500.
The remaining $740 went for chair rentals, sound
system and tent. . .
The $1,500 is the flexible amount. We certainly
should be able to get someone for less than that to
speak on a topic as relevant and interesting as Sidey s
remarks on the Presidency. ■
The question of money is understandable, but let s
not pass up this chance to buitd some tradition into
this non-traditional academic community because we
can’t afford someone with Sidey’s national prestige.
Maya Schock Memorial
Capitol Campus is the
poorer for having lost, on
September 17th, its fore
most advocate and ambas
sador in the Harrisburg art
community. She had been
orphaned by the bombing of
Tokyo, had been an actress
for a time, married an
American, came to this area
where she rejoiced in the
people, the landscape and
the response she found. In
one of her last letters, when
Maya Schock was taking
stock of her life and her
talents, she summed up by
saying: “I am a painter first,
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teacher second and director
of a gallery third.”
As a painter, she had won
awards both in Japan, where
she graduated with honors
from Baika College, and in
America, where she gradu
ated with the A.I. Watts
Award from York Academy
of the Arts. She had won
over a dozen prizes at juried
exhibits in central Pennsyl
vania, had had one-woman
exhibitions in Delaware,
Philadelphia and elsewhere.
Her work is represented in
the holdings of the William
Penn Museum in Harrisburg,
... Phyllis Schaeffer
... Mark Switzer
... Mark Feldman
... Tom Grogan
... Robert H. Bennett
... Gerry Achenbach, Jean Beatty, Rick
Heinbach. Sherry Lukoski, Rebecca Rebok,
Keitha Kessler , Virginia Lehman, Deborah
Young, William Kane, Vern Martin, John
Leierzapf, Mike Barnett, Frank Daloisio,
Cliff Eshbach, John Stanchak, Patty
Stanchak, Maureen Griffin
Paul Bailie, Social Committee Chairman
James Ferrier
Dr. Melvyn Haber
Deborah Young, Mike Barnett, Gerry
Achenbach, Rick Heinbach
C.C* Reader
Family Planning Is
Plotting Joy
My wife and I did not have a
‘surprise” the other day.
Instead, we got proof that a
plot we had been hatching
was now making its own
way: we are due to have a
baby in a few months.
Procreation, in itself, is
certainly nothing to be proud
of, as it only emphasizes
how much one is just a
carrier and a spectator in a
process outside one’s own
invention. But it is, just as
certainly, something one
may be joyful about. When
conception has been pur
posely prevented for years,
and then purposely engaged,
the joy is doubled for the
success of both willful acts.
For while everything around
us continues to lose control
of itself or end badly,
daring to plot to have a child
or daring to plot not to have „ „
a child may be one of the over ' Ho ! e m V ' i
last acts of power left to us. becomes an altogether awe-
At least the daringdeserves sorr)e| critical event. it
respect in either case. underlines what histories
each of us has had, and what
Besides the joy, we now f u t ures we may sponsor if
have a keen sense of simple wa choose to. Feckless
genealogy. We estimate that procreation may someday
roughly five thousand gen- overwhelm us all, of course,
erations of our ancestors are measured procreation
somehow encoded in an mus t occur, we know, so
organism, and, hence, with race ma y survive
any luck, another five w S ome decency, which
thousand generations of p e no mean achievement,
descendants stand a chance Jane and I are waiting now
of likewise enjoying them- t 0 ma k e Q ur contribution to
selves. Such a lineal end, and, more practi
coupling Is, like procreation, ca \\y and personally, simply
also nothing to be arrogant enjoy and complicate
about. On a large scale it ourselves with a baby. We
occurs every few seconds all adore and raise it
together, and tell it, frankly
and confidently, what we
want it to become, some
thing, in fact, much like us,
two persons who have had
great, good fortune so far.
Graduate School
Exams
International House in Phil
adelphia, Lebanon Valley
College and in many other
public and private collec
tions. Her last exhibit-in
acrylics—at Capitol
displayed her great technical
ability, her personal sym
bolism, her union of Eastern
and Western cultures and
her great creativity.
As a teacher, she worked
with individual students and
with classes in Harrisburg
and in York. Our students
found her an exciting,
demanding, articulate,
exuberant teacher. Her last
student evaluation was
25.0-the highest possible.
Most of the Harrisburg
Community will remember
her for her founding of the
Gallery Do—shi (meaning
brotherhood or comradeship
in Japanese). The beautiful
little gallery, with its series
of carefully selected,
talented artists, stands as a
monument to her high
critical standards.
Although we admired the
painter, teacher and gallery
director, we loved the
person: the devoted wife,
the warm friend, the
dynamic and witty woman.
We were truly blessed to
have had such a vibrant
human being in our midst—
and we will miss Maya.
Dr. Nancy M. Tischler
Program Mapd>,
Humanities Department
Drs. Michael and Jane Barton
In order to help those
students who are consider
ing graduate school, the
Counseling Center will peri
odically publish in the C.C.
Reader the registration
deadlines and testing dates
for up-coming graduate and
professional school admis
sion examinations.
Counselors are available
to assist in this process.
Applications for tests listed
below are available in the
Counseling Center, W-117.
Test Closing Date
Graduate Record for Application
Examination 9/22/75
11/12/75
Graduate Management
.Admission Test
Law School
Admission Test
National Teacher
Examination
SGA Announces
Election Results
The results of the election
concerning revisions of the
SGA constitution are as
follows: Articles VIII and X
giving graduate and under
graduate students equal
voting and committee mem
bership status-246 yes, 15
no; ArticleVlll changing the
election time for SGA
officers and senators-254
yes, 3 no, and 4 abstentions.
The child will have an old
name that we have plagiar
ized from the fine, strong
people who plotted for us in
the past.
who plotted for us in the
past.
So I expect to be absent
for awhile near the end of
May next year, and perhaps
occasionally afterwards. I
will not feign to excuse
myself, for I will be
watching, on tiptoes, our
genealogy, our plot, and our
joy continue. However, I ask
you to forgive this adver
tisement, and I beg to take
your best wishes with us.
Activities Cards
This year the Capitol
Campus Social Committee
will be instituting the use of
an Activities Card. This
Activities Card is deemed
necessary due to the
constant rise of the cost for
talent and entertainment
used to plan and schedule a
wide variety of Social
Committee activities for the
campus.
With the card you will be
able to gain entrance into
any activity sponsored by
the Social Committee free of
charge; without an Activities
Card a student can pay
admission to any activity
except a KEGGAR. Al
though due to the Pennsyl
vania Liquor Law we do not
charge admission for keg
gars, in order for an
individual to be admitted to a
keggar he or she must have
an Activities Card or be a
guest of the card holder. A
card holder can admit one
free guest to any activity.
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