VOLUME No. 2
Parking Lots
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Workers put the final touches on the new parking lot.
Mock Election
Picks Nixon
By PAT NARDUCCI
If the mock election held at
Behrend Campus on October 11 is
any indication of the country as a
whole, Eichard Milhous Nixon will
succeed Dwight Eisenhower as the
next president by capturing'6l.2%
of the ballots cast.
However, if Behrend again is to
be. used as a gauge of the tempera
ment of the American voter we
have cause for alarm. Only 41.6%
of the campus population bothered
voting at all. You may say, “So
what.” But when just 48% of eli
gible voters turned out for the Erie
primaries it is indicative of the
apathy of the so-called average
American.
Nevertheless, the mock election
was not without its humor. Those
who found fault with both Mr.
Kennedy and Mr. Nixon found
some degree of comfort by voting
for Nixol, Nixion, Kenady, Nixson,
Kendy, Nixen, Kendey, Kenedy,
Nixton, and Nickson.
Students backing either candi
date will wait with the nation for
November 8 to see whether or not
this campus qualifies as an accu
rate cross-section of the American
public.
OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION
BEHREND CAMPUS—Pennsylvania State University
Help make the
"PRESIDENTIAL
PRANCE"
a stomping success
November 5?
Ecstasy
His toes curled in the black soil.
It was marvelous to feel the good,
cool earth beneath his feet again.
He bent down and tenderly
crumbled a piece of sod between
his fingers. A man was a fool to
leave the land. He thought of the
city with loathing. All it had
brought him was unhappiness and
sorrow, but that was over. He was
back to his first love —the earth.
For a while he was motionless
then in silent contemplation; a
prayer of thanksgiving rose from
his heart. Once more he was a part
of nature and not just a shadow in
the city. A voice called, “Dinner’s
ready.” Slowly and reluctantly, he
took his foot out of the flower pot.
Of Problems
The Sea Of Macadam
Receives Its Tide Of Cars
The new parking lot opens next week and, as usual, students will
be handed the proverbial set of provisions and regulations without
which no facility could be properly maintained. The main provisions
define eligibility as being any student who possesses, maintains or
operates a motor vehicle, including motorcycles, motor bikes, motor
scooters, and any other motor driven vehicle (they have you any way
you look at it unless you plan to bicycle), on the Behrend Campus. If
you fall into this category, you are obliged to register such vehicle with
the Business Office in the Main Building where you will be issued either
a parking permit allowing the ve
hicle to be parked in a legal park
ing area Monday through Thurs
day and Sundays from 7 a.m. to
10:30 p.m. and on Friday and Sat
urday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. or a
registration sticker to students
who are not issued a permit but
who drive on campus for dances
and/or other activities.
A legal parking area is defined
(the document is virtually a The
saurus of definitions) as either the
macadam lot to the north or the
gravel lot to the south of Erie Hall
and in arriving at these lots the
speed of any given vehicle is lim
ited to 15 m.pJi. (for those who
can’t read, there are signs).
Because of the delay while they
built the parking lot, the fee for
this semester will begin with the
seventh week and will be at the
rate of 50d a week for the remain
ing 11 weeks (for those who can’t
multiply, that would be ... aah ...
approximately... $5.50 or so).
Four-Term Year
Begins June 15
A four-term academic year has
been adopted by the University
foreseeing the need of an acceler
ated educational program commen
surate with the times. The new
system will be effective June 15,
1961 for the Summer session.
The new plan will eliminate the
present academic year of two 15-
week semesters and replace them
with four terms of ten weeks
each. This will also mean a reorga
nization of a three-credit class
into thirty 75-minute periods
rather than the present 45 to 50-
minute periods. The principal rea
sons for a change in the academic
calendar are (1) to provide a more
flexible program of studies and one
more readily adaptable to the
needs of the rapidly increasing
number of students, and (2) to in
crease the year-round utilization of
the resources of the University.
■The new system will necessitate
no change in the present tuition
fees. The cost of $4BO for the
present semester plan will be
spread over the four terms, making
each term $l6O. The present sched
ule, course organization, credit
structure and credit cost will re
main the same.
A typical calendar year, there
fore, will consist of the Fall Term
which will extend from October 2
to December 12, preceded by the
traditional one-week, orientation
registration period and including a
one-day Thanksgiving vacation;
the Winter Term from January 3
to March- 13; the Spring Term
from March 21 to May 31, includ-
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By GENE NUTTER
LAST DAY
TO REGISTER
Also, be it known that $1 registra
tion fee will be charged. (Oh, come
on, now, there has to be a registra
tion fee. Where do you think they
get the-paper?)
The last portion of the regula
tions is just chock full of little fi
nancial threats like failure to
register a vehicle will cost a fine
of $25 per offense, failure to dis
play permit or sticker will cost a
fine of $5 per offense, operation
of unregistered vehicle on Campus
after announced registration dates
(you must sign your car up; after
all, your car is going to college too,
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Friday, October 28, 1960