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Jan Tray ers/Editor
A Call For Alcohol Education
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Jan Travers/Editor
Guess Who's Griping Now
Recently, 50 of Penn State Harrisburg's student leaders met for a
weekend of leadership training. Expertly run by the Student Affairs staff, the
conference gave us a chance to evaluate ourselves in both individual and group
settings.
The conclusion of the weekend was an open discussion with Ruth
Leventhal, Robert Graham, and Jerry South, our administrators. The rules
were simple. Six chairs were placed in a circle in the middle of the room.
Three were occupied by the administrators and three by students. Only those
in the inner circle could speak. Therefore, when a student from outside the
circle wanted to speak, he or she had to replace a student already there.
We had our gripes ready. We fired questions in rapid succession to
the three. In most instances we got what I considered satisfactory answers.
However, there were some areas that the Big 3 said they would have to check
into.
The ironic part of the whole discussion was that, believe it or not,
not only students have gripes. The Big 3 also had gripes and guess who they
were aimed at? Do you believe it? You mean we're not the only ones with
ptoblems?
Communication seemed to be the basis of their complaints. They
wanted to know why many students don't know what's going on when there
are 50 bulletin boards in Olmsted and numerous pamphlets and publications,
including This Week. "What more can we do to inform you of campus
happenings?" they asked.
We couldn't explain why many students don't take the time to be
informed. Can You? .
On Being a Woman
by Vicki Koon
Although I have wanted to write a column with a feminine
viewpoint, I have struggled with calling myself a woman. Even though I'm
over 30, I still feel like a girl. I don't dress properly or fix my hair right to be
a woman. But then neither does Linda Ellerbee.
All my life I have wondered if I would know when it happened.
What is it that separates the women from the girls? The first time I shaved
my legs I thought I had made the great transition. That is, until I walked out
of the bathroom to find my cousin waiting for me to go bike riding. It was
the same thing with the first menstration, the first kiss, and the first pair of
tummy-control pantyhose. There was alwiys something there to pull me
back into girlhood.
The one aspect of being a woman that I have never bought is using
the feminine wiles. I've always seen it as a game that eventually must come
to an unpleasant end. Like my high school friend Jane, who was dangling
Bob on 'one hand and John on the other, with a separate personality for each.
One day she got mixed up and found herself on prom night in front of the TV.
But being so adamant about not dangling my sex in front of me like
a carrot has not always proved, shall I say, fruitful. Last May I was stopped
by a police officer for making a right hand turn at a red light which didn't
allow it. It was three o'clock in the morning and I was driving employees
home in three different directions in Harrisburg before I staited my own trek to
Carlisle. I was very tired. We didn't smell like booze, we reeked of french
fries and burgers.
But I didn't say anything to the cop. Nothing. I was angry for being
stopped. I was so angry that when I mailed out the check for the District
Justice, I mailed it to the wrong address. It took three months for the check to
be returned to me, during which time I accrued a $25 late fee. Because I didn't
beg for mercy, it cost me $77.50.
The moral of this story is that I have learned there are certain
instances where the feminine wiles could be of great use to me. I now know
that I really am a woman.
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meeting on Friday, September 18 at
12:00 in Room W-129. Assignments
will be made at this time.
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