Penn State System Linked for
By Michele Hart
The celebration of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.'s birthday Jan. 18 was a
historic one for the campuses of Penn
State University.
All of the Commonwealth
Campuses including Capital College
were linked by satellite to University
Park, and university President Jordan
cancelled all classes from 4 p.m. to 5
p.m. so that all students and faculty in
the Penn State system could enjoy a
speech delivered by former California
Congresswoman Yvonne Burke.
Burke, the first black woman
elected to the House of Representitives
and voted Woman of the Year by the Los
Angeles Times told the university-wide
audience that King's birthday is "not just
a recognition of a person's birthday, but
recognition of a man who did something
in our country--social change without
Around Capital College
By Judy L. Hricak
What was the $64,000 question for this issue? I asked students
around campus,"lf you won a million dollars, would it alter your career
plans?"
I'll admit I was surprised by the answers
In an age when students talk about BMWs (or "beamers" as Yuppies
affectionatly call them), big bucks, and easy living, I've come to the
realization that it's only talk.
In my survey 76 percent of the students polled said that winning the
big bucks wouldn't change their career plans.
Not to say that there are no free spirits at Capital. Carl Brown , a
HCOMM major said,"Damn right it would change my career plans. I'd quit
school, buy a sailboat, and sail around the world." At least someone still has
the spirit of adventure.
One female student here has the spirit of spending. She said winning
a million dollars wouldn't change her career plans because a million dollars
wouldn't last that long. (I don't want to know what she does with her
All in all, I think that people shouldn't be too quick to judge the
college students of today. We're not as materialistic as everyone thinks.
If you won a million dollars would it alter your career
plans?
Joan Churillo-"No, but I wouldn't work while attending college."
Josette Kloker- "No"
Teresa Shultz- "No"
Michelle Sutton- "No, but I'd buy a bassett hound."
Michelle Price-"No"
Deann Hess- "No it would only expand them."
Tammy Jordan- "If I won a million dollars I would take off school
and travel."
Greg Tyler- "Yea, the money would change my plans. I'd go to school,
but not worry about it."
Maria Rusynyk- "If I won a million dollars I would open my own business
right away."
Jeff Leiby- "No it wouldn't change my plans. I want to be a stock broker
so it would only help."
Marty Jordan- "Yes it would, I'd run my own business."
Pat Gaffey- "It sure would. I'd do what I want instead of what other people
want. I would also donate $lO,OOO towards OALISM (the disease of filling in
every circle on a written page.)
Mark Jordan- "If I won a million dollars, I'd quit school in an eyelash and
move to Vegas."
Ed Mimnagh- "rd finish school, and then invest the money."
Mike Seibert- "If I won a million dollars I'd become a monk and give the
violence."
Burke said that she enjoyed the
time she spent on the civil rights
movement because she participated in
solving problems not just intellectually,
but by reaching within herself and
King Day
finding the means to solve them. The
ability to do that was just one of many
things that King taught to people in his
lifetime she said.
King also taught us that things
that we would like to see change are
possible to change Burke said. "The
most tragic thing that can happen to
people is to sleep through change, Dr.
King once said," she said.
If King were still alive, Burke
said, he would be very interested in
education. "Education isn't on the
priority list as much today," she said.
The gains of the 1970 s are being eroded,
according to Burke, becuase of the lack
of grants and the increasing costs of
getting an education.
Burke said that she knows that
students have a feeling of helplessness;
that they don't know what they can do
about the economic realities of getting
an education. But, she said that King
would tell students that they cannot be
apethetic about the problems they face.
"Students can make a
difference," she said.
Burke credited this nation's
rising fight against apartheid in South
Africa to students. "Student's started
talking to trustees," she said, forcing
President Reagan to pick up on the ideal.
"King was certainly a believer
in the politcal process," Burke said, and
young people cannot afford to not
participate in that process.
She said that blacks have made
great gains in the political process,
especially in the south, since the 19605.
Jesse Jackson is one politician who has
helped to make those changes, Burke
said, by changing the political debates of
the 1988 election.
Burke said that students have an
obligation to continue that change. "Be
a voice for the type of change that Dr.
Martin Luther King talked about," she
said.
"If we can learn anything from
[his] dream, it will be a different world
that our children inherit," she said.
Excellence in Student Journalism
Awards Announced
The Capital Times has created an awards program to
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recognize student journalists.
"Excellence in Student Journalism Awards" will be
presented at the end of each semester to the three top entries.
An appointed panel will review each issue of the the
student newspaper and choose the three best submissions
that appeared during that semester. The winners will be
awarded certificates of recognition and a monetary
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First place, $5O, Second Place , $ 25 9 and Third place,
This program is open to all students of Penn State
Harrisburg. Staff membership is not a prerequisite for
consideration for an award.
Look for details of this program
n' . the bulletin boards or in the Capital Times office, room
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WICI Offers
Communications
Scholarship
By Laura Karinch
A $5OO scholarship will be
awarded this spring to an area
communication arts major by The
Central Pennsylvania Chapter of Women
in Communications, Inc. (WICI).
Candidates specializing in print or
electronic medium will be considered
from 14 area colleges and universities,
including Penn State Harrisburg. Three
students have been awarded the
scholarship since 1982. The last
recipient was Jan Travers, a student from
this campus.
To be considered, an applicant
should be completing the junior year
with a minimum of 3.0 in
communication arts subjects. He or she
must submit a portfolio of original work
and a letter stating qualifications and
career plans. Board members of the ten
year-old Central Pennsylvania Chapter of
WICI will serve as judges for the award.
More details are available in the Capital
Times office regarding application.
Deadline is March 14, 1988.
Any communications major is
invited to join WICI, and in doing so
automatically becomes a professional
member upon graduation. Two years of
professional experience is required of
those wanting to join who have not been
student members.
WICI holds informal discussion
meetings and formal dinner meetings
regularly, and interested students are
invited to attend these meetings.
According to Ms. Leah Fudem,
Scholarship Chair, this is a great
opportunity for students to meet with
professionals and learn of job
opportunities in the field of
communications. Students interested in
joining WICI or attending a meeting
should contact Ms. Lisa Robinson,
Membership Chair, at 717-948-8197.