Please do not trouble your inquiring minds
for the answer. It is really quite obvious.
If the windows were opened, there is always the
chance that a strong wind would sweep all the
garbage that adorns our lovely cafeteria about
the surrounding suburbs. True, that would solve
This small' college student-faculty re's•• the problem of keeping the cafeteria clean; but
tionship at the Behrend Campus was fully demon- Erie has enough problems without the addition
strated by the single (1) faculty member present of more rubbish around the City Hall. So,
the
at the Coffee House after the last basketball windows remain closed', and the City of Erie
game. One faculty member represented both the remains clean.
entire faculty and administration. There seems However, Mr. Kochel,our campus director
to be a consensus among faculty members that is also.concerned about sanitation. His special
student functions are generally conducted with interest lies with our campus and in partiCular
poor taste, and are unworthy of faculty partic- with the RUB cafeteria and/or lounge. It seems
ipation. This is not true as was clearly dem.. that all the trash on campus has been limited
onstrated by a previous Nittany Cub functien, to one central point..ZUß cafeteria.between
the Christmas Dance, said by our peers and the the hours of 12:00p.m. and 3:00p.m., the RtIB
faculty present, "to have been one of the can be-compared to New York City during the
nicest dances to be held at Behrend in a long SanlApion Workers strike. Mr. Kochel is
time." The Cub would like to apologize for no so much concerned vith how tb..keep the
not having invitations printed'and mailed to lounge clean as he is with why the place is so
inform all faculty of our plans for the coffee filthy in the first place. (There has not been
house, but more than adequate publicity was • a sanitation problem at Behrend since the sew
given this event to welcome faculty participation. age plant backed-up.) He does not understand
Does the work of the faculty member ene that the average college student is not capable
in the classroom: If the answer to this ques.. of cleaning up his own mess. There is a good
tion is no, then that is where the education chance, also, that he would not believe that
of the Penn State student ends, and this is most mature, responsible college students like - _
most unlikely. The learning process does not to eat their lunches in senic places; such as
stop outside of the classroom, and valuable rubbish heaps. (After all, home is where you
knowledge can be gained from general converse- hang your trash.)
tions. - , This conversation, As one can see, the director of this cam
does not always have to pertain to the in. pui and the head of food and housing are in quite
struetors' major fields. The value of a dilemnii,; - If anyone can suggest a solution
the faculty's experience and education, however, to this problem, please do so. Two possible
can not be fully utilized by the student unless resolutions have alreaft been turned in: 1.
more interaction between students and faculty Supply each student With a personal - maid, or 2.
occurs. Turn Erie Hall into a hinge play pen--that way
When arguments ere presented for attend
ing a small college, or as it is at Behrend,
a branch campus, one can hear the administra:i
tion preaching to the unwary candidateii."Better
student-faculty relation Ships." at a small col••
lege.
The coffee house party was a success, and
it was an example of the typical Behrendite
out of the classroom situation. It is a damn
shame that the students must lose in the end
due to the facultyls generally un-cooperative
attitude,
The whole point of the matter is the feet
that the faculty refuse to meet the students
on a mutual ground of understanding ® The col•
ution lies within the attitudes of the faculty
membere r ite? it is time for them to shed their
mcsdmic shells (keep the scedemic..shed the
shell). If this molting process occurs, then
a meeting of minds of the two factions can oco
cur on a common mental ground.
Many students probably wonder why the wini.
do=gs in the RUB lounge are always closed. Nor.
Finley has very good reasons for maintaining this
policy. Being a very civic-minded person, gr.
Finley has a great 'concernfor his fellow
Erieites, i.e.he understands that sanitation can
be quite a burden to a growing metropolis. NOw,
the question is whathas sanitation got to do
with keeping the windows closed in the RUB lounge?
Carla Bloom. Typist
HIGH WThD OVER THE RUB ?
only one person would have to attend to the stu
dents while they - ere eating.
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