The Nifiany Narrator
By Dave Craley, Nittany Cub Sports Editor
Their is at least one student of the Behrend Campus who is
bewildered. He is bewildered not because the assignments are
overpowering him, and not because he is unable to successfully meet
the responsibilities that college demands, but because what he thought
was supposed to be outstanding asset of college life, what was sup
posed to be the vital spark, the protoplasm of campus life, namely,
"collegiate enthusiasm," has failed to coagulate at Behrend.
The student disposition at our Penn State Commonwealth Cam
pus is greatly lacking in spirited essence. It is a hollow frame
work with no internal organs to keep it healthfully progressive.
Nearly everything abotit Behrend Campus is held in very high
regard by this student. But the stillborn spirit of the Campus
is a bewilderment and a disappointment.
In the words of Coach Gallagher, athletics is seventy-five per
cent of the extracurricular activity on the Behrend Campus. And
it is here that the lack of spirit is most apparent. Past Nittany
I r fub athletic teams have ranged from poor or mediocre. Most
people would say it was due primarily to the teams themselves,
but the truth may be more than the eye can perceive. Attendance
at Behrend athletic events has been more than just -disgusting.
This is especially true for basketball where the home crowd can and
does play a tremendous part in the eventual outcomes of the contests.
Any true sports fan fully realizes what the presence of an enthusias
tic, foot-stomping, partisan crowd can do to or for a usually medio-
cre ball team. Needless to say, it can work wonders. It can lift a
faltering team off the floor of defeat and push it on to new heights
never before attainable. It instills desire to win. It makes playing
the game so much more worthwhile.
Perhaps a bit of tongue-in-cheek composition is what is needed
to encourage the student body on to action:
The Drift of Behrend Alacrity
We are a dormant lot, we are. The older and wiser folks
call us the younger generation, the restless, sensitive, new breed.
They say we have grown up in an age of fear and uncertainty.
They say we are not building for the future, that we are trying
to jam our entire lifetimes into a few fast-paced years. They
say we have an inexorable zest for life, an eagerness for the
spirited, an affluent enthusiasm and a patriotism for that which we
feel is our and of us. But when it comes to ourselves, we here
at Behrend is in a state of quiescence. It is disappointing; it is be
, don't go in for that sort of spirited thing. We are a dormant
lot, we are.
But then, perhaps such an editorial would be much too blunt.
Nevertheless, at least the desire to do something about the situation
is there if the reader would scan between the lines, so to speak. And
~then again, perhaps we are a dormant lot after all. Let us hope
'not. But for the time being, we have to admit that the college spirit
at Behrend is in a state of quiescence. I is disappointing; it is be
wildering—but it is conquerable.
New TV Course
In Operation
In October, 1961, the worst cri
sis in fifteen years shook the Beh
rend Campus! The world series
was. about to begin and the tele
vision set in Erie Hall was not
working. This situation deman
ded quick decision and fast action.
A rented television replaced the
broken one, and the "T V Majors"
were able to watch the series.
While the World Series was on,
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negotiations were- in process for
the purchase of a new, better tele-
OUR PERPLEXING DEFICIENCY
vision set. The result is the beau
tiful Zenith console now in the
lounge. It was procured for the
campus by the Student Affairs
Fund of the University.
This set is now the center of
attraction on the campus. From
the beginning of "Morning Star
Time" to the end of "American
Bandstand" it blares forth full
force. It provides essential enter
tainment between classes for the
students who do not choose to
spend their time in the library
(heaven forbid). The set is for
the use of all the students, and
those who watch it should do so
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1961-1962 BEHREND CAMPUS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE
(Asterisk denotes a league game)
DATE OPPONENT
Nov. 17 • Jamestown
Nov. 25 *Johnstown
Dec. 1 Ashtabula
Dec. 2 *Dußois
Dec. 8 Dyke College
Jan. 12 Jamestown
Jan. 17 Ashtabula
Jan. 20 Penn State Fr.
Jan. 25 Bryant-Stratton
Jan. 27 *Johnstown
Feb. 2 *McKeesport
Feb. 3 *Altoona
Feb. 7 Bryant-Stratton
Feb. 9 *Altoona
Feb. 10 *Dußois
Feb. 16 *McKeesport
Mar. 3 Penn State Fr.
DAY
Friday
Saturday
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Wednesday
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Saturday
Behrend Basketball
Outlook
COACH GALLAGHER'S NIT
TANY CUBS take to the hard
woods this evening at Jamestown
in what represents the vestibult
to the 1961-62 Behrend basketball
season. With lettermen George
Buszinski, Bruce Clark, and Tom
Woodring forming the Nittany
nucleus, the Cubs face a skyscrap
er Jamestown Community College
five in the city YMCA at 7:30
P. M.
Although the Cubs are short on
height, Coach Gallagher feels the
team has increased speed and hus
tle this year, just the qualities
needed to surprise the tall James
town squad..
BIG "0"
The big man on the hosting
Lakers' five is 6'B" Randy Otan
der, a Panama (New York High
School extract. Otander played in
the Western New York Class "C"
League last year and led his
school to the tri-county playoff
championship in Buffalo's Me
morial Auditorium.
Last season the Nittany Cubs
compiled a record of three victories
against fourteen losses, two of
those defeats being against James
town. An enthusiastic cheerlead
ing squad coupled with a good stu
dent body turnout at the home
games could sway the percentage
toward the more respectable this
year.
The tallest man on the Behrend
caucus is freshman Ron Felten
berger who stands 6'3". Sophs
George Buszinski and Denny Con
rath are both 6'l" while Bruce
Clark measures 6'2". Frosh Buck
McKee and Larry Loftus check in
at an even six feet as does sopho-
Friday, November 17, 1961
more Sam Heller. Returning let
terman Toni Woodring stands 5'7"
as opposed to freshman Doug Pro
zan's 5'10". Prozan played at
McDowell High last year, Loftus
at Academy, and McKee at Wes
leyville.
30 PLUS 50 EQUALS 80
After their opening tilt at
Jamestown tonight the Cubs will
play their home opener on Satur
day, November 25, at 2:00 o'clock.
The opponent will be the Universi
ty of Pittsburgh's junior college
at Jamestown. This will also be
the Cub's first of eight league
games with league members—Beh
rend, Altoona, Dubois, Johnstown,
and McKeesport. A total of se
venteen games comprises the win
ter schedule with perhaps the
Penn State rosh being the best
overall team and Johnstown rank
ing as the top league crew. The
Pittsburghers have on their squad
a boy by the name of Carl Roman
who scored eighty points against
Behrend last year. His thirty in
the initial meeting of the two
clubs was outstanding in itself,
but he came back to pump in
fifty markers the second time
around in leading his team to a
runaway victory. Obviously, this
will be a boy to watch when Johns
twon invades the Behrend Campus
on the twenty-fifth.
The present Cub basketball at
mosphere is that of optimism_ The
players will do their best; it is
up to th estudent body to urge
them to do even better.
(Ed. note: Sophomores Todd Cook
and Bob Bausch are recent addi
tions to the Nittany Cub roster.
Coach Gallagher is counting on
both men as key men in Behrend
playmaking.)
PLACE TIME
away 7:30
home 2:00
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home 8:00
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