EDITORIAL
Its Going Around
A philosophical movement has achieved much
more than random support here in our school and is
threatening to undermine the entire educational
system with its base saturation.
Many people are beginning to ask themselves:
"What am I doing inside studying while I could be out
somewhere else enjoying?"
Indeed, it seems that at the ushering of every
Spring season this revolutionary tendency
(anti-studying) surfaces. Usually, though, there is no
formal unified front whose sole purpose is to promote
these teachings. But now we are rapidly moving in
that direction. The proportion of which students are
flocking away from schoolwork is astronomical!
This thread of association is like a wave getting
everyone in its path to join along.
This needs to be changed. Let's organize; let's
create an official agency with elected officials to
further spread this liberating philosophy. Those
chosen should be proponents of this tendency year
round not merely in the Spring ; in order to show us of
their unflinching certitude. We do not want those
leading us to be less than 100% in favor of these
teachings.
Goals, plans, reasons for existence? A livable
campus community. An organized effort by all clubs
and organizations to do something other than the
grand fiesta known as the Spring Concert which is
scheduled to end at 8:00 p.m. Our administration has
seen to it making sure this annual bash doesn't get
too big. Everything has strictly defined guidelines so
as not to be too much fun.
When the clubs and organizations of this school
sit back and hoard their money, only spending it on
themselves nothing gets going. It's too bad this isn't
a four year school. It takes a year to get initiated.
Then in the second year you're aware of how things
work but find no merit in changing them, thinking it
will all be over soon enough. How many days left?
Somewhere around 20?
With all this talk about tuition increases for next
year and strict rules on the way monies are spent by
student clubs and organizations; the money you've
got sitting in your account doing nothing might be
better off being spent.
Club and organization leaders are usually seniors.
Spend your money, and make times good for your
junior members who'll face even more restrictions
next year.
Noiable Quotes
Oh, how one wishes
sometimes to escape from the
meaningless dullness of human
eloquence, from all those
sublime phrases, to take refuge
in nature, apparently so
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A welcome visit to Wilkes-Barre
By Cliff &Moth
I want to depart from what I
said I would write about this
week, "The Studyholic", to
something I experienced last
week. Hopefully, you will find it
more worthwhile than some
gibberish about these students
who are surgically attached to
their books.'
On Friday, April 22, my
good friend and likable R.A.,
John Leierzapf, and I made a
trip to the land of our Associate
Degrees. We went back to
Penn State's Wilkes-Barre
campus to see how old friends
were doing, and to participate
in celebrating that campus'
sixtieth anniversary.
It was refreshing to see that
Penn State's reputation for
being impersonal has not
damaged that campus as much
as it has here.
Anyway, as we were coming
home on 1-81, I got to thinking
about what I observed there.
And how that campus and
Capitol differ.
A Great Less
By Ray Martin
Last Thursday, this campus
suffered a great loss. Dr. James
G. McAree died.
True, professors live and die
just like the rest of us. For me
at least, though, Dr. McAree
had a very special meaning. So
I feel the need to comment on
his passing.
I was once honored with
seeing a very large asteroid
pass very close to the earth. It
was not expected; you could not
plan to see it. You might be, as I
was, standing in an open field in
Massachusetts, when a sense of
something exceptional told you
to look up. It was a dramatic,
beautiful and awe-inspiring
sight. A spherical green fire
with flecks of many other colors
burning through it. It might
have been my imagination, but
I could swear that it made a
quiet and yet powerful "swosh
ing" noise as it passed.
I wish I had been atop a high
mountain or in an aircraft, so
that I could have watched it for
many minutes. But I was
standing next to an acre of
cranberries and only watched it
for seconds. I know I shall
never see anything like it again.
I did not come to this
campus to take the courses of
James G. McAree. Finding him
here was most unexpected. But
once again I was in the right
place at the right time.
His memory was uncanny
to the point of being
entertaining. He could recite
word for word from what he had
read a decade ago. I don't know
how many languages he spoke,
but their number was many
He was well travelled and had
learned deeply from his travels.
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Since I graduated from
there in 1975, I've made several
visits back, and each time I left,
I felt that there were some
differences between these two
campuses besides location and
size. I think I finally hit on it.
During my visits, I ob
served students and their clubs
and organizations working
together a lot. They weren't
worried about who was going to
get the last of Student
People ore going los
fest in the Noighir
By Carol Andress
We have a serious situation
on campus that could explode
any minute. A lot of people,
living in and visiting the Meade
Heights area, are unaware that
there are kids on campus. The
nice weather is here now and
the kids are outside playing and
crossing streets to visit their
friends.
As a member of the
newspaper staff, I've volun
teered to write this article as
I'm also mother of two of those
kids.
I have to let them cross the
street to play with their friends
and I can't always be outside
with them. I can and have spent
a lot of time teaching them to
cross safely and use the back
yards, when possible, instead of
the front yards. They're
absolutely forbidden to play in
the street and they know I'm
always checking. •
All the mothers here have
set strict rules for their kids
and these rules are enforced.
We've all done our best to make
the kids realize that they could
be badly hurt or even killed if
they're hit by a car. But how do
you explain death to a child?
Kids are kids-- and there's
always the danger that they'll
forget for a moment and chase a
ball that's headed for the street
or some other foolishness.
Bugs Bugs
Since it seems like the only
xay to get results in this school
is to write to the paper, here
goes.
Meade Heights is not only a
fine place to live while
acquiring an education, it is also
the ideal place to live if you like
bugs.
Recently, I had the unex
pected pleasure of dining with
two ants daily, and for the past
five weeks I've lived with a
family of bugs of a different
sort.
These guys or girls as the
case may be, are anywhere
from 1 / 2 to 2 1 / 2 inches long, have
a hard black shell and like
moisture and darkness.
Unfortunately, the Meade
Heights living program offers
all these plus the added
Government's money.
I observed faculty members
actually interested in being
educators, rather than worry
ing if their latest article is going
to get published or whether
they will get tenure.
I observed administrators.
Well, administrators at all Penn
State campuses come from the
same mold. But at least the
administrators there let you
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Things like that can happen
even if a mother is standing
right there.
We've already had one
incident where a child was
cutting across the front yards
on a Big Wheel and was nearly
run over by a car backing down
the driveway. Neither child nor
driver saw each other because
of the sheds.
We can't stop driving
through Meade Heights be
cause of the kids... but, we can
drive a little slower and be
more aware that they are
around. They're not in any one
area; almost every block has a
family with children now, so
one could dart out from
anywhere anytime--- especially
during the day and early
evening.
If everybody obeyed the 20
mph speed limit in the Heights,
there probably wouldn't be a
problem. Some forget it
sometimes. Some forget it a lot.
If the kids always obeyed their
parents, there probably would
not be a problem. But kids
forget sometimes, too.
It's tragic to think what will
happen if some driver forgets
to obey the speed limit and hits
some kid who forgets to stay
out of the street.
How are you going to feel if
you're that driver? The kid may
no longer be able to feel
anything at all.
Bugs Bugs
attraction of doors that never
close properly, leaky pipes and
thin walls, designed to be in
Florida.
Admittedly, crumbs do fall
on the floor occasionally, but
maybe students would be more
careful not to "feed" their little
"friends" if the Housing and
Food Service did their part in
the crisis. Surely they're not
too busy to exterminate in the
houses that request it (and
request it and request it!)
As a good friend of mine
said, "It's no fun to put a pair of
pants on in the morning and
feel something crawling up
your leg," or as someone else
discovered, walk into your
room to find bugs in your
sheets.
Beth Kew