Tuesday, December 5, 1961 CHRISTMAS OR XMAS The schools had let out for the holiday. Hundreds of children joined the influx of college students home for their vacations. The downtown district was aglow with glittering signs and flashing lights. Thousands of shoppers pushed and shoved their way through crowds to get that certain item they had forgotten. Mailmen could be seen on the residen tial streets, struggling under the weight of mailbags crammed with printed cards, sent out hundreds at a time by many people. The line in the state liquor store was thirty deep with people getting their "holi day cheer." When the big day finally would arrive, a legendary old man would "visit" each home with toys and games for the children. Everyone would seek to outdo each other in the number of gifts given and received. Then, to climax this gala holiday, people would gather to gorge them selves with huge turkey or chicken dinners. What was the reason for these festivities? Was it some national holiday? Were the people holding some • gala winter festival or carni val? No, they were celebrating the anniversary of the coming of the Prince of Peace into the world. But did they think of this? Will you? John Thompson Letter to the Editor No collegiate enthusiasm at Behrend? I say there is! What do these people who claim there is no Behrend spirit really expect? I think it is unfair to judge us Behrend students in such a way after only nine weeks. With a whopping 69% of us being freshmen, college is a new experience adjustment takes time. Also, 67% of us are commuting students students who often cannot attend athletic and social events because of home responsibilities or part-time jobs. With less than 100 students living on or near the Campus, how much spirit can you reasonably expect? No, I'm not convinced that Behrend cannot develop more "collegiate enthusiasm." Give us good athletic teams, responsible S.G.A. leader ship, and—most of all—at least another half-term and, I believe, Beh rend Campus will take a back seat to no similar college in student enthusiasm. Commonwealth Campus Briefs YORK CAMPUS . . . A new club at the York Campus is the PSYA RO (Penn State-York Amateur Radio Organization). Its members are primarily drafting and design tech, production tech, and electri technology students who are -in terested in radio transmitters and receivers and who desire to earn their amateur radio licenses .... The major activities that compose York's social side this year are the Halloween, Christmas, Spring and St. Patrick's Day dances; Monte Carlo Night (as opposed to State's Las Vegas Night and Behrend's Mardi Gras) ; the spring picnic; and special ' events days held in termittently throughout the year. On these days classes are cut short, and intramural sports pro grams are conducted. DUBOIS CAMPUS . . . On No vember twenty-first the Dußois Theatre Class and the Delta Psi Omega Dramatic Fraternity will present a series of one-act plays THE NITTANY CUB John Thompson on the Dußois stage. The plays will be: "Where the Cross Is Made," "The Valiant," and a scene from "Anastasia." . . . As a result of the student referendum, coffee breaks will be held on Wednesdays at the Dußois Cam pus . . . As a guest speaker of the Dußois Biology Club, Dr, Leonard Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Bacteriology on the University Park Campus, presen ted a program on "Bacterial Mu tations" on October twenty-fourth . . •. . The Dußois basketball "Dukes" open their cage season at the Behrend Campus on December second. OGONTZ CAMPUS . . . Although it is the largest extension campus in the Penn State system, Ogontz will have no inter-campus sports program this year because it does not have the necessary facilities. . . . .During the first term, four ROTC activities will function on the Ogontz Campus. They are: Pershing Rifles, Rangers, Rifle Team, and Public Information Of fice. . . .Outstanding motion pic tures are presently being shown at Ogontz. The films, presented for student education and enjoy- ment, are represented by such noteworthies as "Pather Panchali" and "Death of a Salesman." . . . Thirty-six students combined to make the chartered bus trip to the Penn State-Syracuse football game a roaring success. More such excursions are in the making . . . .On November seventeenth Ogontz Campuspl ayed host to a wandering balladeer, George Britton, as a student entertain ment activity. Britton concen trated on French, German, Penn sylvania Dutch, Italian, and Eng lish folk music . . . Ogontz has a unique extension campus facility in the campus radio station, WOG. WOG is on the air during all class breaks from 8:00 a.m. to 5:10 p.m. For this the Ogontz students are to be envied . . . Ogontz SGA president, Lou Huber, reports that while there was a de finite increase in the number of students voting in the recent elec tion as compared with last year's voting, fifty per cent of the en rolled Ogontz students remained apathetic during this year's elec tion. This "situation of dishonor" is not unique to the Ogontz Cam pus, however. Similar voting percentages are vernacular to nearly all of the P. S. U. exten sion campuses. It is tragic. NEW KENSINGTON .. A Christ mas Dance, a Spring Dance, and a Graduation-Dinner Dance are the New Kensington Center's ma jor activities for the 1961-62 school year ... The Tau Epsilon Chi So ciety sponsored an unscheduled Halloween Dance on October 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 Editor Assistant Editor Sports Editor. Reporters Photography twenty-sixth. ALLE NT OWN On October twenty-sixth - Allentown sponsored a program entitled "What to Ex pect at College" at the Lehigh Valley Dairy Auditorium The color film: "Introducing Penn State" was also shown . . . Allen town has an extensive inter-cam pus bowling-chess-table tennis pro gram in operation this year. The first match found Wyomissing visi ting Allentown on November twen ty-seventh. WYOMISSING . . . . Wyomissing Campus has its own radio program every other Satur*y morning over radio station WHUM in Wyo missing. Only faculty and staff members participate . . . Th e Wyomissing SGA, presided over by Stanley Love, held its first meeting on October twelfth . . .An enrollment increase of 76% (from 247 to 436) took place at the Wyomissing Campus this year. HIGHACRES AZLET 0 N) CAMPUS . . . The Hazleton Cam pus played host to the advisory members of the Pennsylvania State University junior colleges on October twenty-first . . . High acres students have received nearly $5OOO in scholarship awards for the 1961-62 year . . . . A football dance and a Talent Night have al ready highlighted the Highacres social program for the first term. A hayride was held on October sixth, and a beatnik dance was held on October twenty-seventh . . . . The controversial film "Opera tion Abolition" was recently shown at the Hazleton Campus. THE NITTANY CUB ..... _ ..-74,-- - 7 ---- -s i I,Zi. - -•-•..,,, I. , - 1 41, f 0 i 4 4 ' 4- ' iv , $ t. 4 I c A : 1 i4g. ..W 1.• 1 : 1 ft I I .... -'•.P.A.'---. '''` I 0 ° +: . t................t g 1i f: 'S 1 85 6 .9. . Dave Maynard John Thompson ...Dave Craley Mary Jean Ferguson, Lyn Fink, Georgia Kephart, Alan McAllister, Ray Morin, Bob Ropelewski, Mel Ross; Mary Gene Shea, Bob Williams Dave Alcox, Bob Heiges, Ed Paauwe
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