Pa le 4 March 16 1988 Ca
Students Must Act
IBy Michele E. Hart Editor-in-Chief
Students who use room 216 were not particularly pleased by the Task
orce on the Improvement of Teaching Facilities' report.
Memos and signs have been posted throughout the room calling for students
to voice their opinion.
Memos and signs are a good start, but they certainly are not enough
If any member of the campus community has an opinion on the proposals
made by the task force, now is the time for he or she to speak up, especially if
that person is a student.
The students of this campus are notorious for their ability to moan
and groan about things they do not care for. When it comes time for action,
however, it is always the same small handful of students who actually act.
If these same students are the only ones who react to the task force's
report their concerns will be listened to, but the concerns will not have as
much weight unless all students concerned put forth an effort to be heard.
The Capital Times has already expressed our opposition to the plan.
The issue is now in the hands of the students.
**************************************************************
Was it just us or was it spring for a few days here last week?
Looking out of the office window we could have sworn we saw blooming
plants in the boxes in front of the Science and Technology building.
There was also an interesting aroma coming out of one of the
classrooms on the first floor. Could it have been freshly-baked bread?
Strange how these phenomena coincided •with the visit to the campus
by the Board of Trustees.
The next meeting of the Capital
Times staff is Thdrs. Mar. 17, at
1:00 p.m. in W-129. Please plan to
attend or stop by the office to pick up
story assignments. The next deadline
for publication in Mon. Mar. 28,
2:00 p.m. No exceptions!
Capital. Times
Editor-in-Chief..Michele Hart
News Editor... Kimberly Anastas
Photography Editor... Kyle Weaver
Graphic Artist& Production... Joe Kupec
Sports Editor... Bernie Mixon
••••••• • • • • • • •
Staff: Cindi Greenawalt, C.W. Heiser, Judy Hricak, Laura Karinch,Levette Parish,
Lisa Ridley, Michelle Sutton, Jan Travers, Dina Walker, Andrea Willard. Distribution-
Ron Pollard
The Capital Times is published by the students of Penn State Harrisburg. Concerns about content of any issue
should be directed to the Editor in Room 212, Olmsted Building. Any opinions expressed are those of the autho
and are not representative of the college administration, faculty or student body. The Capital Times does not
endorse its advertisers. The Capital Times welcomes signed letters from readers. Unsigned letters cannot be
printed; however, a writer's name may be withheld upon request.
ital Times
Advisor—Peter Parisi
CARE Does Care About Students
Dear Editor:
Your editorial in the February
24 issue of the Capital Times caused me
great concern. There may have been a
number of reasons why you portrayed
some faculty and the administration as
engaged in a battle without concern for
the students, but the bottom line is you
have made several faulty assumptions.
Your first assumption is faulty
if you believe "students will not be
affected." Any reorganization plan in an
educational institution with limited
resources will certainly affect the
students. Let us take, for example, one
proposal that was made to omit one
division head but to add three department
heads. Let's assume that the salary of
the lost division head equals the salary
needed to pay the three department heads.
Because those department - heads will
have reduced teaching loads, each
program could lose from two to six
courses per year. That development
alone means a total of six to eighteen
courses will be lost to the students of
the new Liberal Studies division.
Your second assumption is that
there is no faculty concern for students.
CARE"s concern for academic
responsibility is primarily student
oriented. My own feeling is that if the
program in which I am teaching is not
providing students the best education
possible then I no longer want to be part
of it. If you check the reputations of the
faculty members involved with CARE
you will find that students' welfare has
always been a priority.
Your third assumption is that
the faculty and administration are
engaged in a political struggle. The
faculty and administration each have a
role in a democratic institution called the
university. Just as members of families
have disagreements so, too, do elements
of organizations. The healthy sign is
~ Q od~
.. k\ta ft-
Z) ,gc
11••• •
/1/4>%
svuoisor6 6. zits':o w
To JA LL -11 *. tiger Pleas
Go De 14455 612mauierel
that people are willing to ask questions
such as : "Why? "What will be the
impact?" and "How will it affect the
resources of programs?" These questions
are all relative to the impact a
reorganization will have on students.
There was a tone in your
editorial which suggested that the faculty
should fall into line and follow the
administration much like lemmings do.
I would prefer to think of CARE as the
grain of sand which enters the oyster.
The grain of sand causes some
discomfort at first, but the outcome
figures to be a pearl.
Incidentally, the faculty and Dr.
[Robert] Graham will be meeting
together on March 8 as reported by Ms
Anastas in the same issue of your
newspaper.
Robert Lesniak
Faculty Member
Should be Mont,
Not Mt.
Dear Editor,
I wish to point out a correction
that should be made concerning the
abbreviation of Mont Alto Campus in
your-Feb. 24 article. The article "Lady
Lions Bury Mt. Alto," should read Mont
Alto. As an alumni of the PSU branch
campus located in Mont Alto, PA, I
wanted to let you know it was incorrect
to use the MT. as in mountain for Mont
Alto. Thank You.
Sally Seyla
upex- Web