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A Very Special Thank You
One of the contributing factors to the success of this year's
Health Fair, according to Health Center Nurse Jean Kresge, was
the amount of time student volunteers gave to the fair. Students
served as greeters, clowns, and filled helium balloons.
Kresge would like to extend a special thanks to those
students who gave their time and energy to the fair.
-"I could depend on them," she said, "and that was really
important."
Need More
Than Empty Promises
by Bernie Mixon
When and if you have heard that
phrase "We are Penn State!" and I would
hope that you have, it brings to mind, to
my mind at least, the vision of unity.
But the events of this past month are
telling me otherwise.
Students were arrested for non
violent protest. Gathering to protest
racism at a University that has said that
it is committed to the fight against those
same very acts that it is accused of.
As we recognized the
assasination of Dr. Martin Luther King,
only the week before the sit-in and as we
will be embarking on the 20th
anniversary of the march on
Washington, we should ask a question of
ourselves; how far have we come as a
society? One that is so proud to be able
to say that it thrives as a democratic one.
In order to know where we are
going we have to know our history. In
order to grow we have to understand the
mistakes of the past and learn from
them.
The times of the marches, sit
ins, speeches and rallies for justice
should be over. The things that people
like Martin Luther King went through
should not have to be repeated. They
went through it so that we would not
have to go through it.
In order for Penn State to
overcome this scar on its reputation, it
is going to have to make a concerted
effort to show all of its minorities that
there is more for them at Penn State
than empty promises and wishful
thinking.
Ca ital Times, Airil 27, 1988, Pa: e 7
The Best and Worst of the
Preachers--Which Ones Not to
Send Donations to
By C. W. Heiser
Our lesson for today comes from the second chapter of the Second
Epistle of Peter, the third verse: "And through covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
know--this column was supposed to be the second half of my
favorite movies, but something happened on the road to damn classes.
Instead, we'll look at my five favorite Television Evangelists. (In deference to
Robertson, we won't examine "Religious Broadcasters" today.
Ernest Angsley:
This guy wears the worst toupee in the business. He manages to
make Shatner's look good. When Angsley preaches, the camera always starts
with him up at the pulpit alone and then cuts to a packed house, without ever
an establishing shot of him and the audience together. Kind of the Bob Hope
of the God-game, I think Ernie buys his audience reactions from Billy
Graham.
Peter Popoff:
Popoff soulds like Walter Mondale on helium, and when he gets
excited it's worse. When The Great Randi exposed his use of a radio receiver
hidden in his ear to receive messages about the people he was allegedly
healing, Popoff claimed he had a hearing problem. This is the wunderkind I'd
want laying hands on me.
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Oral Roberts:
I'm sure you remember last year this time when Oral claimed he
needed a cool three million or God would call him home. The money was to
be earmarked for full scholarships to go to those students who would study
medicine•in plans of being medical missionaries. What you might now know
is that Oral got the money, but, just a few weeks ago, he canceled thd
scholarship .program. I guess God has a short memory--that, or He doesn't
want the ol' loudmouth underfoot either. Oral's son, Richard, has taken over
most of the family broadcasting duties as of late, and Richard's hair is even
better than Angsley's. It's real, but you, could launch an F-4 off his pomp.
Jim 'n Tammy Bakker:
The Imelda and Ferdinand of the God-biz. Jim likes fancy cars, and,
like any self-respecting religious guru, he goes in for monstrous gas-guzzlers.
To counter this, Tammy says she does all her shopping at K-Mart. I believe
her--the woman looks like she theses in the dark. But how anyone could
spend five hundred thousand dollars a year at K-Mart is something only the
Big Guy upstairs knows.
Jimmy Swaggart
Where do these guys find their wives? When Jimmy blubbered on
about his sexual transgressions, his wife looked •at him like maybe he'd
forgotten to fix the toaster like she'd asked. When Bakker did Jessica Hahn,
Tammy did her eyes. I need a woman like this. I've seen Blondie get angrier
at Dagwood for falling asleep on the couch. Only last year Swaggart was
pontificating about how preachers caught in compromising positions should
stop preaching for at a least a year, but for himself he's cut-rating it to three
months. If we think of reality as a bus, then anyone who sends this man
money has missed the express and is riding the local.
Don't forget to come to the Capiltal Times final
eeting and luncheon Thurs. Apr. 28, 12:30 p.m.
in room W -129.
by C.W. Heiser