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Volume 12, No. 3
Student Service Series
Co-op Explained
By Susan M. Snell
Would you like to work with profes
sionals in your future career field?
Would you like to evaluate your goals
with some personal experience? Do you
need additional finances to help you
finish your education?
If these questions pertain to you, the
Cooperative Educations Program may
be the answer to them. The Career
Planning Center offers this unique pro
gram for students at Capitol. The pur-
Students, Police Meet
By Harry H. Moyer
A special meeting between Capitol
Campus students and police officers was
held Wednesday, October S r 1980 in the
Police Services Building (CRAGS). The
purpose of the meeting was for the
campus police and campus residents to
compare perceptions of the role of the
police on campus. Participants at the
meeting were Dr. Donald Alexander
(chair), Alan Foote, Jim Kerns, Harry
Moyer, Sue Wright, and the members of
Police Services.
The group agreed that police on
campus are not always the "bad guys
who go running around giving students
$15.00 parking tickets" that students
make them out to be. The group re
commwnded that students should make
use - of the educational services that
police services have to offer. These
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pose of the program is to allow students
to alternate periods of full-time study
with periods of full-time work. This
program gives students the oppurtunity
to receive on-the-job experience while
gaining a perspective on their career
goals and earning money. The co-op
program fits students into employment
that is most relevant to their field of
study.
Kathleen Laverty and Bob Hamill,
the coordinators of the Cooperative
Education Program, said that they keep
a "close-contact" situation with students
services include crimminal investigation,
breathalyzer demonstration (get drunk
and try to make the meter do strange
things), rape crisis prevention, rape
prevention, and the use of Identikits
(mark your property to discourage theft)
in crime prevention.
Two other important concerns that
were discussed at the meeting were
parking fines and guests. Students
should be reminded that the money from
parking fines goes to the Student Gov
ernment Association, where it is even
tually distributed among student or
ganizations. Students should also be
reminded that they are responsible for
their guests, including the guest's be
havior while on campus.
Students interested in participating
in a similar student-police meeting may
contact Dr. Donald Alexander, W-357
Main Building, by calling 948-6208.
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CURRENTS
A Publication for Faculty, Staff, and Friends of the
Capitol Campus of The Pennsylvania State University
September 17, 1980
Biography is Theme for Third Book Et Author Dinner
Biography military, literary, and political is
the theme for the third (treater Harrisburg Book
& Author Dinner, to be held Tuesday evening,
Oct. 21, at the Penn Harris Motor Inn, Camp
Hill. The event Is co-sponsored by The Capitol
Campus and Historical Times, Inc.
The speakers are Martin Blumenson. author
of The Patton Papers: Dr. Joanne Trautmann, co
editor of the multi-volume Letters of Virginia
Woolf. and Dr. George Wolf, author of William
Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania Statesman.
scheduled for publication by Penn State Press in
November.
Mr. Blumenson, • former senior historian
(195767) in the Office of the Chief of Military
History, Department of the Army, is the author
of numerous books on military history, particu
larly World War 11. Among them: The Duel for
France (1963); Kasserine Pass ( 1 96 7 ); Sicily:
Whose Victory? (1969); Eisenhower (1972); and
The Me Affair: Beginnings of the French Br
sistance (1977). His most recent work is [Thera
-1101, (with the editors of Time-Life Books, 1978).
Vol. I of The Patton Papers, 1885-1440, was
published by Houghton Mifflin In 1972; Vol. 11,
covering 1540-15, came two years afterward. The
New York Times termed Mr. Blumenson's as
sessment of Gen. Patton as being "extraordi
narily even-handed . . . On the one hand, he
gives full credit to Patton's genius . . . On the
other hand, he believes that Patton 'reflected a
parochial interpretation of . the non• American
World . • •'
Mr. Blumenson, who served u historical of
ficer from 1942-46 with the Third and Seventh
Armies in Europe, is now a profenorisl lecturer
in international relations at George Washington
University. He holds an A.B. from Bucknell and
A.M. degrees from both Bucknell and Harvard
universities.
Dr. Tischler Gets New Senate Post
In an unexpected turn
of events, Dr. Nancy
M. Mohler, professor
of English and hu
manities at Capitol
Campus, has been
elevated from secre
tary to interim chair
man-elect of the Uni
versity Faculty Senate
for l98:481.
The shift occurred
in early August when
the Senate's chairman-elect, Edward H. Kie
van', professor of nuclear engineering at Univer
sity Park, resigned in order to assume another
position in the University. In such a situation, the
Bylaws of the Senate call for the secretary to be
come interim chairman-elect.
"The news of Professor Klevans's resigna
tion came as a shock," Dr. Tischler recalls.
"However, the new position is going to be very
and companies to see that all of the
students are working in areas where
they are receiving experience. Accord
ing to Laverty and Hamill, the average
pay for co-op jobs is $5.00 an hour.
When asked whether the "dip" in our
country's economy in the past year has
effected the program, both coordinators
said that there was some impact but it
was not significant enough to cause
great concern. Laverty and Hamill said
that corporations such as Maslin Car
pets, AMP, HMW Enterprises, and
Olivetti did not hire any student workers
this year due to their company's eco
nomic situation.
Hamill, citing a specific example, said
that AMP usually hires 20 engineering
students for its summer training pro
gram. This past summer, however, AMP
hired only four students. Hamill said
that he believed the affects of the
New this year on campus is CURRENTS, the bi-weekly newspaper for
faculty, staff, and friends of the Capitol Campus of the Pennsylvania State
University. Roger Williams, the Director of Campus Relations, is the editor of the
publication.
economy on the program would not be as
relevant in January as they were this
summer.
There are presently 17 EDET (Elec
trical Design Engineering Technology)
students working under the Cooperative
Education program at various busines
ses ranging from Koppers in Pittsburgh
to Sperry Univac in Blue Bell, Penn
sylvania. Business co-op students are
presently employed at such places as
Rite Aid Corporations in Harrisburg and
the U.S. Treasury Department in Wash
ington D.C.
Students who are interested in the
program or would like further informa
tion can contact:
Kathleen Laverty or Bob Hamill
Career Planning Center
Multi-Purpose Building
948-6260
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Dr. Trautmann is professor of humanities
and director of the Center for Humanistic Medi.
tine at Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical
With Nigel Nicolson. she has edited five vol.
umes (1975, '76. '77, '7B and '79) of The Letters
of Virginia Woolf published by Harcourt, Brace,
Jovanovich. Vol. VI is in press. The editing of the
most recent volume of The Letters has been
judged "as good as ever, which is high praise."
by The Economist of London.
Dr. Trautmann also is co-author of Litens
tare and Medicine: Topics. Tides and Notes
(1975) and is editor of and contributor to The
Healing Arts: Literature and Medicine. to be
published in 1981. She earned her B.A. at the
University of Wisconsin and her M.A. and Ph.D.
at Purdue University.
Dr. Wolf is professor of American Studies
and History and former dean of faculty at Capitol
Campus, arriving in 1966 as its first faculty
member. In addition to a number of journal arti•
interesting and kind of fun. You get to know the
whole University the way the committees real.
ly work in a way you never did before."
Her duties as interim chairman-elect will be
to convene the offkers and the chairmen of the
Senate's standing committees at least once each
term for the purpose of exchanging information
about committee activities. The chairman•elect
also assumes the duties of the chairman when
the latter is absent.
Normally, the chairman-elect automatically
succeeds to the chairmanship. Under these cir
cumstances, however, the Senate will choose a
new chairman, chairman-elect and secretary next
May.
At this point, Dr. Tischler is uncertain as to
whether she'll stand for election to say of the
posts. "I'll have to see how my family responds
to my increased activities this year." she says.
Dr. Tischler served in her new post at the
Senate's Sept. 9 meeting.
9 October 1980
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des, his books include: The Fair Play Settlers of
the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 (1969) and
Constitutional Revision in Pennsylvania (1969),
resulting from his work as historian to the Penn
sylvania Constitutional Convention in 1967-68.
Dr. Wolf served as special assistant for pro
gram development to Gov. Scranton, with re
sponsibilities in speechwriting, policy papers,
Governor's conferences and general public rela
tions work. He earned his B.A. in Muskingum
College, an M.A. at Bucknell and the Ph.D. in
American Civilization from the University of
Pennsylvania.
The event begins with cocktails (cash bar)
and dinner at 5:30, followed by the speakers'
program at 7:30. Tickets for the entire affair are
515 per person or 525 per couple. Tables for eight
persons also may be reserved for 5100. For per
sons wishing to attend only the speakers' pro
gram, the cost is S 5. Tickets may be obtained by
calling the Office of Campus Relations at 948-
6000.
A New Look
With this issue we introduce CURRENTS, the
new biweekly newspaper of the Capitol Campus.
The design and typography have been chosen to
enhance visual appeal, readability and photo re
production.
Many of the features From the Provost,
Faculty Forum, and Perspectives are being
carried over from This Week. Capitol Calendar
has been added to give everyone a fair idea of
what's going on; items should be submitted to
the Office of Campus Relations, W-205 Main
Bldg., at least a week before publication.
CURRENTS must serve the needs of faculty
and staff members, so we will be receptive to
story ideas and other suggestions. To that end,
an editorial advisory board representing the sis
faculty divisions and various staff levels is being
formed. Above all else, CURRENTS will try to
reflect accurately the dynamics of a growing Uni
versity presence in this region for us on cam
pus and for our friends in the community.
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Roger Williams. editor