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EDITORIAL
ONLY YESTERDAY
Only yesterday we were infants, high school seniors
listening to the graduation speaker telling us the world was
ours. Only yesterday we were asking the study hall monitor
for a lavatory pass, or signing our names to the office check
our list to go home for lunch. Only yesterday we were for the
Centaurs or against the Ramblers, pro Grapepickers or con
Yellow Jackets. We paid our class dues. We had a crush on
the history teacher. We elected the football hero senior class
president. Only yesterday most of us had never even heard
of Behrend Campus or its student council—the SGA. All of
this was only yesterday.
And what are we today? Infants, that's what we are.
But we are about to do some fast growing because college
will not suckle infants. We will find ourselves in one short
week sans homeroom teacher, sans lavatory pass, sans free
text books, sans old friends. We will find it necessary to re
arrange our lives so that we fit into the slot that reads "col
lege students in good standing here."
Good standing usually refers to scholastic achievement.
If a student's All-University average slips below a 2.00, he
is not in good scholastic standing. There is also a discipline
angle; if a student is convicted of cheating or involves him
self in someother unsavory matter, the University no long
er considers him in good standing and the proper discipline
will follow. These are conditions in regard to good standing
that subscribe directly to University policy.
But there is another circumstance of good standing that
students will not find in the Senate Handbook or in communi
cations from the office or on his term grade report. This
good standing is the one whereby a student lends his abili
ties and his complete support to the many varied activities
produced throughout the year by the Student Government
Association and the Student Affairs Office. Each year the
SGA spends thousands of dollars . . . that's right : thousands
. . . and incalculable effort and hours to provide this campus
with the finest activities program in the entire Penn State
Commonwealth Campus system all fourteen campuses
worth. In return, all this organization expects from us is an
appreciation and support of their efforts, efforts that are too
often maligned or worse: ignored again and again by
students who have no conception of the services rendered
or the problems faced by the SGA.
This year the SGA and Student Affairs will again pre
sent an exciting activities program for our participation,
enjoyment, benefit. Homecoming, Winter Carnival, Thurs
day morning common hour programs, Thanksgiving Ball,
spring and Easter plays, the newspaper and yearbook, Erie
Hall recreation, the Spring Prom, evening lectures and
motion pictures—all these are but a few of the events that
will need our participation in the coming terms. We are pay
ing for them. We owe it to ourselves and to the campus
to take part. Of course we are not expected to attend every
thing. There are only so many hours in the day and profes
sors are fond of A students. But we should try to parti
cipate as often as possible. Let's get involved in things—it's
the only way to gain the full benefits that college offers.
There is one more point. Returning to the campus this
year are four sophomore students who will form the nucleus
of the Student Government Association. These four were
elected last year by their fellow students and will serve on
the SGA all year. Let me point them out to you: 808
COOK is our president. You can't miss him—he's the tall,
goodlooking kid with the gold plated hair. PAULA HARRIS
is our treasurer. She's from Houston and often greets
friends with "Howdy!" RAY ELDER is the man with the
receding hairline. MIKE ROPELEWSKI is the tall one with
the bushy crewcut. Mike has more of what Ray has less of.
Bob, Paula, Ray and Mike are the Big Four. But there's
a lot of work ahead this year—a lot of prestige to be earned
—and the Big Four can't do it alone. In just four short
weeks the SGA will hold its fall elections and eight vacan
cies in the student government will be filled. SGA is the
most importat student organization on campus. The students
on the twelve-member council automatically occupy the
highest positions of influence, prestige, and responsibility.
SGA requires hard work, enthusiasm, intelligence, sincerity,
responsibility, time. Sometimes it is a headache. Often it is a
joy. Always it is fascinating.
To be elected to SGA all one need do is secure the
proper petition from the SGA office in the basement of Erie
Hall and have it endorsed by ten friends, place a few cam
paign posters around campus informing students how much
they need you, make a three minute speech on election day,
and pray for enough votes. It's that simple And the Big
Four need you.
So here we are in college with a lot of hard work and
good times ahead. And we feel pretty grown-up because we
don't need a lavatory pass. One year from now we'll look back
over our first three terms and marvel at how much we've
learned, how we've improved as a leader and an individual
since being elected to SGA, how much we've matured, and
how we were infants only yesterday.
THE NITTANY CUB
A Brief History of
Behrend Campus
Originally the Behrend Campus
was the 420 acre summer estate
of the late Ernest Behrend, one
of the founders of the Hammer
mill Paper Company in Erie.
When Mr. Behrend died, his
widow Mary E. Behrend, decided
that the estate would make a
beautiful non-sectarian college
campus and a fitting memorial
for her husband. The Pennsyl
vania State University offered to
purchase the land from Mrs. Beh
rend but she declined and instead
aid that she would give it to the
University. In July of 1948 the
old Behrend estate officially be
came the Behrend Center of The
Pennsylvania State University. A
few years later the name legally
was changed to the Behrend
Campus.
The house looks much the same
today as it did when the Behrends
lived here and entertained visi
tors from all over the world. Low
ell Thomas was a frequent guest.
The present reception room and
lobby was once a patio. This was
enclosed to make an office for
the secretarial staff and offices
for Dean Lane, Director Kochel,
and Dr. Knadler, Assistant Dir
ector for Instruction. In the
southwestern wing of the house
there are quarters for the Dis
pensary, and in the southeastern
wing, the dormitory lounge is now
located where the cafeteria used
to be. The upstairs of the house
now accomodates about twenty
five women students.
The barn was converted into
classroom facilities and faculty
offices. However, just last year
following the fall term, the en
tire top floor of Turnbull Hall
was reconverted into a new li
brary and the ground floor be
came the cafeteria. Turnbull Hall
was so named after the late
Thomas Turnbull who was a de
voted history professor at the
Campus in its early years. In its
original state, Turnbull Hall was
the horse stable and garage on
the estate.
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BEHREND IN THE WINTERTIME. The Administration Build
ing, formerly the Behrend's home, now houses the secretarial
offices, dispensary, offices of Director Kochel and Dean Lane,
domitory facilities, and the Behrend Memorial Room.
FIGHT ON STATE
Fight on State, Fight on State,
Strike your gait and win,
Victory we predict for thee,
We're ever true to you, dear old
White and Blue,
Onward State, onward State,
Roar, Lions, roar
We'll hit that line, roll up the
score,
Fight on to victory evermore,
Fight on, on,
On, on, on,
Fight on, on,
It is always a pleasure to welcome entering students to the
joys and challenges of a college education, but I would also like to
welcome you to the exhilirating experience of assuming your full
responsibility as an intelligent and enlightened human being. You
will become an educated person only to the extent that you assume
moral, social and intellectual responsibility.
I hope, therefore, that your experience at Behrend will be a
fruitful one because you will have shouldered the considerable re
sponsibilities that go with a college education.
Dean Benjamin A. Lane
Dean of Student Affairs
What Is OM?
The Organization of Student
Government Associations is the
central organization to which the
SGA's of all the Penn State Cam
puses belong. For example, just
as the University is the whole of
the Penn State system, OSGA is
the whole of the fifteen Student
Government Associations.
At the present time the Under
graduate Student Government
(USG) at University Park is the
most important and influential
voice of Penn State students. But
one day OSGA will attain that
position because theoretically
though not yet actually, it is the
true representative of all Penn
State students, not merely those
at the two-year campuses.
OSGA holds three major con
ferences annually in addition to
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winter meetings in the three sec
tions of the state: Western, Po-
cono, Southeastern. Each SGA
sends to University Park or to
various Commonwealth Campuses
about four representatives who
participate in discussions on cam
pus problems, listen to important
people in the University, engage
in social programs, solidify cam
pus and personal friendships, and
generally gain new ideas and try
to solve the many problems that
confronts the campuses and their
SGA's.
OSGA has student officers who
are elected from the various cam
puses during the spring confer
ence. Last spring at the confer
ence at Behrend, students from
Ogontz near Philadelphia, Beh
rend, Scranton, and McKeesport
Campuses were elected to office.
OSGA is moving ahead and
would like your help. Support
your own SGA and learn all you
can about OSGA.
SENATOR CLARK
VISITS CAMPUS
Approximately forty students
heard Senator Joseph Clark out
line his political doctrine last
fall when the Senator paid the
Campus a visit on a tour of wes
tern Pennsylvania. One of the in
teresting points of the Senator's
speech came when several of the
students present questioned the
prudence of his stand in regard
to his comments on the Cuban
situation. Senator Clark took a
firm stand against United States
intervention. He said that Ameri
can military forces were not large
enough at the time to allow the
U. S. to invade Cuba and still be
militarily capable of dealing with
situations which might arise in
other parts of the world.
Senator Clark was not the only
notable to visit Behrend recent
ly. Richardson Dilworth, on his
campaign for the Governorship,
visited Behrend and held an in
teresting conference. Last spring
Dr. Robert Bernreuter, Dean of
Admissions and Registrar and
Special Assistant to the President
on Student Affairs, and Dean
Merle Campbell, Dean of Student
Affairs of the Commonwealth
Campuses, visited Behrend for
the Organization of Student Gov
erment Associations Conference.
Also in attendance at that time
were George Jackson and Donald
Morabito, President and Vice
President respectively of the Un-
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