Friday, October 7, 1960
Yanqui Gringo
By DON KOOKEN and
JOHN REEDER
Plagiarizing the tune from
“Yankee Doodle Dandy,” we have
attempted to write a song in com
memoration of Fidel Castro’s re
cent visit to New York City. If
there are any Cuban terrorists on
campus, please remember this is
all in fun.
Verse one:
Fidel Castro came to town
In a Constellation.
Yanqui sheriff impound plane,
He walk to United Nation.
Chorus:
Yanqui Gringo keep it up,
Yanqui Gringo Dandy.
Yanqui Gringo keep it up,
And with Fidel be handy.
Verse two:
Fidel Castro made a speech
And lit a cigarette.
He started out a week ago, .
And he ain’t finished yet.
(Chorus)
Verse three:
Fidel comes to St. Theresa,
Moldy beard and all.
He beat all night on hotel wall
And had himself a ball.
Verse four:
Fidel meets with Mr. K,
They talk about good will.
Fidel wants some foreign aid
To pay his hotel bill.
This is the first of a series of editorials designed to stimulate and
entertain the minds of Behrend men and women as they begin their
career road. The ideas herein are not new in the sense of time but are,
perhaps, points of view from the cliches of everyday life and everyday
thinking. Its theme will be world-wide in event, emotion and/or philos
ophy, because the thinking of all young citizens going through college
is becoming broader and more understandable. And, though its pre
tense seems to be literary commentation, Career Road’s purpose is the
stimulation of ideas through entertaining description and criticism.
Most of us haven’t seen any wisdom in college as yet; the fresh
men have been harassed and the sophomores avenged, the professors
have lectured and we have taken notes or drawn leaves, the candidates
for student council have hung their signs rustically around our barn
like structure, the swimming pool looks infested and, above all, the
early morning looks so strange, unfamiliar and so uninviting.
Be that as it may, we are here to learn (we can’t help it if the
school looks like a riding academy). So we soon resign ourselves to
the fact that college is not like high school where we were taught with
a pointer at every major idea; here we are our own information. We
listen to lectures that may be delivered with humorous, lively inflections
or with serious, dull monotones—and then go home to find in our notes
that we have discovered a new type of stenography.-But, all in all, we
come up with a slight disappointment because, contrary to our expec
tations, the first week hasn’t been very profound. Oh, it’s been fun, it’s
been co-educational, it’s been reasonably knowledgeable, but our eager
ness seems somewhat let-down—until we realize that our career roads
are sometimes steep, sometimes curved and that they ever so often
have rests. Thus, we understand that life (school or personal) should
not be expected to be one consistent haul or, of course, one consistent
rest, but a combination which allows for every human desire.
Behrend Clubs Organize
This year on Behrend Campus a various projects
total of twelve groups signified a year.
desire to form clubs. Already The yearbook, also supervised
underway is the Nittany Cub by Mr . Pa tterson, will be meeting
which, under the direction of Mr. Shortly to select an editor and to
Son Thomas and a staff of 15 stu- i ay pi ans f or the publication of the
dents, will publish a bi-weekly i 9 60-61 “Bits of Behrend.”
(Chorus)
paper.
The Photography Club, headed The other clubs formulating are
by -Mr. Patterson, met a week ago _ Science Club, Business Ad-
Tuesday and began organizing its ministration Club, Bridge Club,
meetings and tentative plans for Astronomy Club, Dramatics- Club,
Behrend Choir, Speech Choir, En
gineers Club and the Literary
Club.
(Chorus)
Career Road
TIE NITTANY CUB
Members of the Soccer Team: (1. to r., front row) vant, C. Munno, D. Fileman, R. Riggs. Back row
S. Brindle, R. Hipsley, B. Johnson, L. Larson, D. —D. Detisch, J. Flanagan, D. Ziolkowski, F. Doo-
Conrath, K. Tracy, H. Milne, D. Buresch, E. han, D. Gross, C. Gilmore, T. Smith, W. Burk-
Nutter. Middle row—C. Lewis, J. Shielding, B. hard, J. Gallagher, D. Moniat, Coach Gallagher.
Wicldes, T. Widerman, A. Winschel, B. Sturde-
The Behrend Dramatic Club
usually presents two performances
which are done in an arena-type
setting due- to the success of simi-
lar productions adopted by the Student: Brotherly love.
THE NITTANY CUB
Established October 26,- 1948, as the official publication for the
student body of Pennsylvania State University, Behrend Campus,
Erie, Pennsylvania.
Published by the Lake Erie Printing Co., 1115 Powell Ave.,
Erie, Pennsylvania.
Co-Editors Diane Janowski, Mary Lloyd
Associate Editor Gene Nutter
Reporters:. Joe Bennett, Don Detisch, Jo-Anne Kisiel,
Don.Kooken, Anita McCallister, Dick Merriman,
Harry Milne, Pat Narducci, John Reeder, Marilyn
Sponsler, Art Winschel
Cleveland, Erie and Buffalo profes
sional organizations.
Please remember also, that Mr.
Baker and his star-gazers will soon
be at the observatory taking in the
heavenly bodies of the midnight
skies.
throughout
So, any student who has not yet
met with one of these groups and
wishes to do so, should contact his
advisor as soon as possible.
A football game is where the
spectators get four quarters to
polish off a fifth.
Prof: If
beating
would I
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I stopped a man from
a donkey, what virtue
be showing?-