...And are we stack?
Capitol sends 90$ of the money which we pay for
parking stickers to U. Park, and our campus never receives
any of that money back—unless we need a new parking lot.
The cash which we need for maintaining our parking
facilities is part of the yearly maintenance budget. This
forces our campus to contract with outside companies to
keep our lots safe in the winter since the budget doesn t
allow for Capitol to buy its own equipment. Could this be
trUG |f this is the case, this situation is causing problems for
people trying to park without ramming into other cars, and
for people trying to walk without landing on their butts.
Unless there are 3 inches or more of ice and snow,
Capitol doesn’t call in the contracted companies. Is this
because the budget doesn't allow for it? Once again, our
money is disappearing into U. Park and never coming
back; we pay for nothing-worse than nothing.
What can be done? If U.Park would allow us to keep a
larger percentage of our parking sticker funds and to
handle our own budget for parking lot maintenance,
perhaps we would no longer have to slide into school—and
other things-on icy mornings.
To C.C. Reader Staff & Bob
Foster:
This comment is in regard
to your article “Opinion at a
Glance” in your January 25th
edition.
To a casual reader who was
not acquainted with Capitol
Campus, it would appear that
the ‘average’ student here is an
Bth term Humanities major,
which is not the case at all.
This article represents the
most biased sampling
technique I have ever come
across since I began here in the
fall of '77. Not only does 9
students and a canine not make
up a representative sample of
the campus due to the small
numbers involved (sample size
is much too small) but 8 of the
students were junior Human
ities majors out of the 10
interviewees. The only conclu-
Joy, butt out
Dear Editor,
This is a letter attempting
to publicly embarass Joy Ed
mundson for smoking on the no
smoking side of vendorville. As
she just put the cancer stick to
her lips we reminded her which
side she was on and not to
smoke, she defiantly said, “Just
watch me!” Then proceeded to
pollute the air with foul cigar
ette smoke. Joy, if you’re read
ing this please don’t smoke
c.c. reader de. 230
o fthe mhfcfietown, penna. 17057
Pennsylvania state unhenky office w-129
the capitol campus phone [7l7] 944-4970
editor, lyda baker; news editor, carol eveschild;
feature editor, sue girolami; sports editor, mike
cocciardi; photography editor, bob foster; copy edi
tor, louisa baskin; typesweater, ruth grady; staff, jane
reinstedt, joan klein, vito valvano, debbie morrow,
tony romeo, jeff drinnan, sue middleton, gayle
greenwald, sandy mancuso, lin sanderson, cartoonist,
joe horvath, jan; fiction, ruth lee; business manager,
ghartz washenki.
the views expressed in this paper are net necessarily those
sion I can reasonably be expec
ted to deduce is that Mr. Foster
is an Bth term Humanities
major, or that the staff of the
C.C. Reader does not want to
investigate the opinions of a
broader range of students,
thereby biasing the results of
their interview in a direction
favorable to them. Perhaps it
would be wise in the future to
keep these methodological con
siderations in mind when con
ducting future “Surveys”, oth
erwise they will become noth
ing more than a mouthpiece for
a particular segment of the
student population.
-Greg Verner
Term 11
PsSc
Thanks for the suggestion
where it’s prohibited. You
might not care about your
health, but don’t try to take us
to an early grave with you!
NON SMOKERS,
Paul E. Mitsch 11th BCT
William H. Boyd 11th BCT
Oran B. White 10th Bus.
Bemie Kuchera 11th BCT
Alan S. Kercher 11th BCT
reader opinion
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Greg; as you will see, this
issues “Opinion at a Glance’
contains a more representative
sample. When doing the last
feature, I tried to do the best l
could considering an encroach
ing deadline and the amazing
number of students who de-
clined comment concerning vi-
able changes they would like to
see here at Capitol. Of course,
should you or anyone else have
any further suggestions, you
are welcome to stop by W-129
and help us put out a better
letters
editor
corrections
In the Jan 25 issue of the
Reader, it was incorrectly stat
ed that Marilyn Carmen has
had only two poems published.
Actually, Carmen has been
published over 200 times in
anthologies and literary maga
zines. Sorry Marilyn.
Also, photo credits were in
correctly given to Bob Foster
for the photo of Provost Gross
(front page), and for Joe Hor
vath’s cartoon. Bob did not take
either of those...he' wishes he
did, but he didn’t.
In last issue’s “Engineering
Quiz,” page 10, Prof Kravitz
should replace Prof Schiller’s
name (P).
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ANI ,Thi..\
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It has come to the attention
of the CC. Reader that Capitol
Campus has no “Dean’s list”.
Students receive honors when
they graduate if they have a 3.4
Grade Point Average or better.
Although Capitol is innovative
in that it has a ceremony for its
fall, winter and spring gradu-
ating classes, we believe that
there is no reason to do away
with the “Dean’s list”. We
believe that students should be
acknowledged each term and
not just at graduation.
It is our recommendation
bob foster
Editor
The magnitude of the theft
and the maliciousness of the
vandalism committed by Penn
State students in our bar has
become so outrageous that a
letter of complaint to you is
warranted.
That Penn State students
are the guilty ones is evident
from the coincidence of the
campus calendar with rise and
fall of the incidence of theft and
vandalism.
Remarks I have heard stu
dents make indicate that they
even take a certain pride in
senseless destruction. Pranks
ter no longer describes these
students
No prankster needs to rip
apart wooden cafe doors for a
joke; no prankster needs inten
tionally to smash porcelin toil
ets; no prankster finds joy in
ripping plumbing fixtures from
the wall to flood the bathroom
and damage wooden floors; no
prankster needs to knock down
rain spouting night after night
to find fulfillment.
The unpleasantness, incon
venience, material harm, and
extra work that these people
cause for others puts them in
the category of the socially
unfit.
As a Penn State graduate
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Letter to Provost
Students found guilty
ow..
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that students with 12 or more
credits who achieve a 3.5 or
better 6.P.A. should be placed
on a “Dean’s list” and students
who achieve a 4.0 G.P.A.
should be sent certificates by
the provost of the college. It is
our opinion that Capitol should
not be one of the few colleges
that refuses to recognize its
students achievements each
term. Hopefully, Provost
Gross, you will share our senti-
ments and instutute a “Dean’s
list” at Capitol.
myself, I am especially embar
rassed to try to defend students
in general to those with whom I
work, for the bad behavior of
what I hope to be a few reflects
unfavorably not only on all
Penn State students, but on the
University as well.
I can only conclude that the
problem is caused by the arro
gant half-educated who place
themselves above the stan
dards of decent behavior.
Since the pilfering and de
stroying have exceeded the
limits of juvenile fun, we are
turning to you for help.
We would like to identify
the students who are causing
the problem and bar them from
our place of business. We are,
in addition, going to make ev
ery effort to catch the culprits.
If we catch them, we will not
waste time with warnings, but
will proceed against them le
gally in the hope that their
reputations will suffer civilly
and academically.
I hope that neither I nor the
majority of students who act
decently in public would have
to share the distinction of being
a Penn State graduate with
these sneaking vandals and
theives.
Clark Meader. Jr.
Lamp Post I®n