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Vol. 8 No. 14
Gratz Grabs Groceries
Gratz Washenlk, a junior at
Capitol Campus, recently won a
grocery shopping spree at the
Giant Food supermarket of
Middletown.
Besides taking all the meat
he could carry, Washenik also
grabbed two large-size Hershey
ars. Washenik confessed to
have examined the store’s in
ventory during a trial run.
The contest was sponsored
by the Meade Heights Board of
Governors, a student activities
organization at Capitol Cam
pus, in cooperation with Giant
Food Inc..
The university board and
the food store will split the cost
of the prize.
Washenik managed to grab
$l6B. worth of food during his
three minute spree. “It was a
thrill to grab all the things I
wouldn’t nave to pay for--aU in
one shot,” he said.
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W. Wilson Goods, Chairman of the Public Utility
Commission, a guest of Capitol Campus on April 26th.
by Jeff drinnan
W. Wilson Goode, chairman find out “Who done it?“
of the Public Utilities Commia- The purpose of the meeting,
sion (PUC) announced that the like any other PUC public
PUC will not make a decision on.. meetings, is to inform the pub
whether or not the commission answer questions people
will grant a rate hike to Metro- ma y have about the PUC and to
politan Edison. create a “dialogue" between the
The announcement was public and the PUC, Goodman
made at a meeting held in the exnlained.
Gallery Lounge on Thursday, _ . ... .
April 28. He stated that the ™e PUC regulates utilities,
PUC will decide on a rate hike which are a legal monopoly, in
only after an investigation to Pennsylvania.
“All the news that fits we print”
Sheldon ekes out win
Michael Sheldon was elect
ed president of the Student
Government Association! SGA)
in the spring election.
Michael Cocciardi was el
ected vice-president; Stacy
Brubaker, secretary, and the
position of treasurer is still not
filled.
The senatorial positions
were filled as follows. Douglas
Cook, senior senator; Jonathan
E. Hostler, senior senator-at
large, both candidates are in
the engineering department.
Samuel T. Bookheimer was e
lected social science senior sen
ator, Ernie Thakor, math sci
ence senator, Kimberly Benner,
business science senior senator.
Harrisburg takes
There will be a National
antinuclear demonstration and
march in Washington D.C. May
6th. The Harrisburg group will
lead the march. Speakers will
include: Helen Calaicott, M.D.;
Barry Commoner; Jane Fonda;
Ralph Nader; Maggie Kuhn,
and John Goff man, M.D..
Music will be provided by
Graham Nash, Dan Fogelberg
and John Hall. Jackson Browne
and the Grateful Dead are also
rumored to be appearing. Buses
will be leaving from City Island
in Harrisburg at 8:00 a.m..
Tickets cost $4.00 a
and John D. Brown, graduate
senator. SGA is looking for
three juniors who wish to be a
senior senator next year.
The student court denied
the rumor that spring election
ballots were thrown out be
cause they contained a vote for
student provost.
The counting procedure was
explained to the senate body on
Tuesday, April 24. Dave Dun
kee, who lost the presidency by
t'ust three votes, accepted the
•allot procedures.
Mike Sopata, chief justice,
stated only a candidate can
challenge the ballot counting
procedures by submitting a
letter to that effect. No candi
date has challenged the pro-
school bus seat and $B.OO for a
Greyhound. Tickets may be
purchased at a table near the
round table starting Monday,
April 30th or from Fran Cos
tanzi, Linda Morrow or Kathy
Strakosch on second floor
Wrisberg Hall. The phone
number of second floor Wris
berg is 944-9277.
Tickets may also be pur
chased at Three Mile Island
Alert, 815 Peffer St. in Harris
burg. Their phone number is
238-7897 or 288-3072.
If transportation to City
Island is a naisle, please call
May 3, 1979
cedures, according to Sopata.
Sopata said that ballots for
the presidency were counted
three times.
Keith Yundt, who counted
the ballots along with Sopata.
Craig Hocker and Tom Rod
gers, said “The court strongly
resents the attack on their
integrity.”
The voting ballot had two
halves: One half for voting for
executive officers, the other for
voting for senatorial candid
ates. Sopata said that one ballot
for voting for executive officers
was voided because it was
ripped in half. From the sena
torial half, 32 ballots were
voided because no major was
the lead
Fran, Linda, or Kathy.
On May 20th, there will be a
rally at Met Ed’s home office in
Reading, Pa., For more inform
ation contact Fran, Kathy, or
Linda or call Three Mile Island
Alert.
Also, the Governor’s En
ergy Council is sponsoring an
Alternative Energy Fair from
April 30th to May sth in the
Harrisburg East Mall. Anyone
who wants to help with any of
the above programs or has any
interesting anti-nuke ideas
should see Fran, Linda or
Kathy.