LETTERS, Cont. initiative recently took it upon herself to organize a yearbook staff, arm it appears that this year Behrend will have a yearbook p put out by students. But what happens if no student takes the initiative, as has been the case the previous three years? The ques tion is easily answered. Each year in the spring term the SGA should take it upon itself to select the editor for the next year's yearbook, thus forming a basis for the next year's staff. The assumption of such repponsibility is the ype of thing the SGA should be doing. It causes it to rise one more step above deciding what color of sherbet to put in the punch bowl. And may the yearbook rise with it. Dear Mr. Editor: The S3A has set a goal of one thousand dollars for the school fund raising drive. There is no reason that we can't surpass this _'oal. As Was mentioned in a previous article in your newspaper, no one can force any student to contribute to the fund. Pledging a donation i. uo to the individual. However, this is not what my letter is concerned with. I would like to propose that the money from the class funds be donated to the general building,. fund. The freshamn class gift fund is yet un touched. The sophomore class purchased a trophy case for the shhool, but still has money left. It seems to me that the best way this -oney cou3d be utilized would be in helping to build the new Study and Learning Center. Rut this is only my opinion. Would it be possible for the SGA to conduct a school-wide poll in order to find out the opinions of others? The S?,-A will conduct a shhool-wide poll on Monday. The cu-stion will be whether or not the studetn feels that the class gift fund should be given to the gift fund. I feel that the building fund would be a very g-od way to utilize the class gift funds. However, I think it should be pointed out that there are alternatives. Last year the gift fund was used for a trophy case. Perhaps the fresharnn class has another idea in mind to which they would like to place their gift fund. A Student RE LY SCI-T LARSFIP A Behrend freshman in the College of Engineering has been named the re cipient of the 1966 Scholarshir Award of the Erie Engineering Societies Council. Larry Messenger, chosen by the Scholarship Committee of the Behrend Campus Committee on Student Affairs from among nineteen other candidates is the second student to win this award. The award was initiated in 1965 during Mr. Louis Balmer's (a Behrend instructor) presidency of the Society. It is presented each year to a needy student in a local college who is working toward a dggree in engineering or science. The 1965 award was won by a Gannon College student. Larry was officially presented the award Thursday evening, Febraury 24, at the Engineer's Week Banquet by E. H. Van Houten, chairman of the 1966 Scholarship Committee of the Erie Engineering Societies Council. We of the Yittany Cub staff, on behalf of the rest of the student body, extend our congratualtions to Larry. 171 .r.A.La. TI ON FORMS The SGA requested all participants of the Summer Conference for Student Govennment to fill in an evaluation sheet last fall. Few of these forms were returned but the SGA is still interested in compiling the information If conference members still have the forms, please return them completed to the SGA office as soon as possible OS GA C 01\r7 ER Elv - C E On 7 ebruary 19 and 19 the Common wealth Camr)::.ses of the Western part of the state participated in an OSGA conference held at the Mcßeesport Carn.us. The Campuses in attondance mere Altoona, Deaver, Ne- Kensington, Fayette, Shenango Valley, Dubois, McKeesport and Behrend. The topic of the conference was "The Purpose and Function of OSGA." The talks were devoted to what specific changes
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