Activities Card Worth It? By John L. Leierzapf Staff Writer Are students getting their money’s worth out of the activities card? According to Joe Grant, SGA senator, some Capitol Campus stu dents don’t think so. The activities card question was discussed at length during last week’s SGA meeting. Grant said he did not feel the cards had proven of any merit and that the Social Committee had not come up with any good way to sell the card. Many SGA members present agreed that keggars were the most popular social activity on campus. How ever, Pennsylvania State Liquor Laws prohibit clubs and social groups from charging admission. This means activities card money helps pay the bill, and students with activities cards get free beer. Paul Bailie, chairman of the social committee, asked Racial Tension Story Students By Randy Fee Staff Writer The following student response is the result of last week’s Reader article con cerning racial tension on campus. Each student listed be low was asked, “What is your response to last week’s article on racial tension?” The replies: “The article struck me as poorly written. As a result, I wonder if the incidents were presented in the correct context. I am also concerned with the balance in view point.” “If an issue is to be resolved, it must be ap proached objectively and thoroughly. Care must be taken when labeling inci dents.” if it was his job to have only keggars or to have a well-rounded activities pro gram for everyone. Most SGA members thought a well-rounded activities pro gram was stilt needed. Treasurer Jack Henry suggested a questionaire be used to poll students’ opinion on the types of activities they would be willing to buy an activities card for.' Roberta McLeod, coordinator of student ac tivities, pointed out that this was done last year and students indicated they wanted a wide variety of activities. However, McLeod said, the kinds of activities Review Article “I suggest that a sociol ogy professor, graduate student or someone pro fessionally competent in dealing with issues should offer his or her services—for the sake of clarity as regards the racial situation.” (Keith Ward, Bth term, social science) “I feel people should get to know people for them selves. But, I believe that ignorance has been pre valent on this campus. No one has a right to do something that offends another. When someone has destroyed a sign that is descriptive of what someone has achieved, such as defacing the sign at the Black Cultural Arts Center, or has placed a sign on someone’s lawn that re iscusses It students chose were poorly attended. Case in point, The Britton Sisters. Further discussion of activities was then put aside until more information was available. Because of complaints that Chief James Paul, director of campus security, allegedly stopped student vehicles off campus, SGA President Scott Deardorf, outlined Chief Paul’s re sponsibilities. He said: “Chief Paul is not authorized by the campus to conduct law enforcement activities off campus. However, for the same reason that allows Discusses British Racism British Sociologist By P*Mte Stench** and Karan Piekana Staff Writer* England is beginning to realize that she is behind the United States when it comes to human rights, freedom and equality. In fact, England is much like the United States of fifty years ago. British sociologist, Sheila Allen, expressed these views in her conver sation, “Racism: English and American Style.” The Social Science department and the Cultural Committee arranged the event, which was held on February 3 in the Gallery Lounge of Capitol Campus. British racism encom passes a broader group of people than American rac- minds them of ignorant acts in the past when people were not as educated, it is really something that every person has to straighten out in his own mind. The question one must ask, is whether to go to college to become educated or spend a lot of money to become ignorant!” (Janice Southerland, 10th term, elememtary education) “I feel a certain amount of racial tension exists anywhere there are different ethnic groups interacting. To make an issue out of incidents which may have been simple disagreements is uncalled for. Tempers usually flair up at basketball games, and blaming such incidents on racism is stretching the issue. I think S*a Pag* 8 t Last State Police to cross state lines in pursuit of violaters, he is authorized to pursue, off campus, violators of campus security regula tions.” Jack T. Ward was recommended by the Elec tions Screening Committee and accepted by the SGA to a senate position last week. Ward, a social science major in public policy, is a resident of Meade Heights and a native of Lebanon. Treasurer Jack Henry announced the SGA’s pro posed expenditures for 1976-77 total $29,500. He said they are requesting Ism. Anyone who is not a native Briton is labeled immigrant and this word becomes a racist statement. The word immigrant is used without regards to color. Even descendents of West Indians, who first migrated to England 300 years ago are called immigrants, she said. According to Allen, most of the minority, group members or immigrants work at semiskilled jobs. Although it is difficult for an immigrant to move out of his social station, it does happen. These professional level immigrants are treated differently because they are part of the elite, she said. Sipping tea and moving into an all white suburb are benifits allowed the immi grant who has reached the professional level. This mobility is permissible be cause on the English concern with an individual’s Dean Sheila Allen- Sociologist eeting Visits Campus $24,000 and expect to make up the remaining $5,500 from parking fines and vending machine sales. A breakdown of the budget is below. Income: Vending and Parking Fines-$5,500 Clubs Social Committee $8,500 Spring Concert $4,500 Black Arts Festival $3,000 Newspaper $3,000 Yearbook $2,500 S.G.A. Operations $2,000 21 other clubs $4,000 1976-77 new organizations $2,000 $29,500 class in society Inherent in British so ciety is the concern with an individual’s position or class in the social order. Ac cording to Allen, people belong to different classes and are treated accordingly. It becomes difficult for anyone of any ethnic origin to move out of his inherited class. But the situation is changing, said Allen. The use of the word immigrant is no longer considered polite. English Blacks have demon strated in support of the Black movement in America. And Parliament has passed laws that say everbody is equal. Allen concluded her apperance at Capitol with a discussion of “Sexism: English and American Style” and a presentation entitled, “Sociological Analysis in Contemporary Society.”
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