November 14, 1969 The "haunted" chair in Administration Bldg. Memorial Room. Who is Johnson? Ghost of Behrend Haunts The Campus Part II: Strange Spirit by Charly Lee It was stated in the last arti cle, that Warren Behrend was killed on Station Road. However, upon researching this fact it was found that the boy was not even in Erie when he died. Warren attended Deerfield Academy in New England. One Christmas he decided to visit his parents in their winter resort in Sea Island, Georgia, so he got s in his car and proceeded to travel south. It was on this trip that Warren was to meet his fate. He was somewhere, presumably in Georgia, when in order to avoid a collision with a school bus and prevent-possible injury to the stu dents, he ran his car off the side of the road, sacrificing his life for the sake of the others. To honor their valiant son, the Behrend family had a cross erect ed at the site of the accident. Several years ago, it was neces sary for the cross to be removed as the road was to be widened. The cross was then transported to Erie where it was re-erected at its present site in Wintergreen Gorge. If there is a ghost that haunts the Administration building, the automatic writing that I receiv ed last Wednesday night hinted that it was someone other than Warren. To make good a prom; ise that I made in the last arti cle, I tried again to contact the spirit in the Memorial Room. Again I used automatic writing. This is a process in which a per son goes into a trance, and hold ing a pencil lightly in one hand, lets the spirit, through psychic energy-release, write the answer to the questions the medium has asked. The spirit, you see, must use a medium because it is al most impossible for ghosts to engage in actual physical acti vity. It usually takes years of practice to become a good -.med ium. As a beginner, _I found- it Brookside Dairy - -• ". ART'S . AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE Store :''',Garners-lunoco Groceries, Sundries . -, • . School Supplies ' 4790 Station - Road _ Open 11 a.m. - to 11 p.m. - ' Complete Seri/160; Repairs 3110 ,Station Road- , ; . 899-8711. —, -- 899-6143- • - , . rather difficult to remain in .a state of deep concentration for more than a few minutes at a time. Being as it may, I spent an hour and a half in the room des perately trying to maintain a thought-wave link with the ghost. The writings were sparatic. As opposed .to the first time I tried the communication, this time I received mostly scribblings. There was, however, one distinguishable word among the stray marks. Af ter an hour of deep concentra tion, I was thoroughly exhausted so I decided to end the trance and look at the paper. Upon ex amining it only one word ap peared_ Right in the middle of the page were the letters J O H N S O N. This puzzled. me. Why did I get only one wordi this week when last week I got! six? Anyone - who is familiar with' psychic phenomena knows that it is often necessary to piece frag ments of information together in order to get an understandable message. This is why the article did not appear in last week's issue; I just did not know what to make of it. But now I have pieced the information together and have come up with a suit able explanation of the two dan gling communications. After find ing out the true story concerning the death ,of Warren Behrend, I propose the hypotheis that a stray poltergeist is frequenting the building. He may have se lected the Behrend House at random or maybe not. It is hard to say . Seeping in mind the questions that I repeated in the trance, I may have discovered the name of the real ghost that haunts the Administration Build ing. My questions were: "Spirit, - what is your name? Who are you? Are there more than one of you." To these questions he has replied, in two separate com munications: THE ONLY ONE THAT THERE - IS—JOHNSON. Believe It or not the fact remains THE NIT TANY CUB "CHRIST YOU KNOW IT AIN'T EASY" The five Byrds were the first group anywhere to successfully do folk rock. In their doing so, they raised the level of rock from an adolescent life style to real pop culture. Today the Byrds have only Rog er (Jim) McGuinn left from the• original group. Dave Crosby is working with Steve Stills, Graham _Nash, and Neil Young, Gene Clark has a group with Doug Dillard, Chris Hillman is with the Flying Burritto Brothers, and Michael Clarke has run off to who knows where. • The. Byrds have gone from a quintet to a auartet to a trio and back to a quintet. They have never equaled their first three albums, and as far as most people are concerned they aren't the Byrds anymore, they are McGuinn and Who ever happens to be in the studio that day. The current Byrds are McGuinn, Clarence White, John York,. and Roger Parsons. It is a pity they don't have any of the old Byrds' "gets go out and stun the folks" style. • (I remember seeing the Byrds when they were the trio of McGuinn, Hillman, and Clarke. McGuinn took a bit of time tun- that I found out about Warren's true story after I received the communication. What do you think? Announcing! Klassified Want Ads In The Nittany CUB If you are looking for a ride home, selling books, buying skis, or have any thing that you want to buy, or sell, or trade, ad vertise in the CUB. The rates? 50c per line per in stallment. Forms available -at- the Union Desk or in - CUB office. Deadline 10:30 a.m. of Wednesday before publication. ing a string, and when the aud ience started to get noisy he said, "We tune because we care", that was a • great statement.) The discovery of anything that you thought couldn't exist but se cretly wished for is a jOY. so Byrd people YOU can rejoice. The first tapes the original Byrds ever made have been found and press ed into an album (PREFLYTE, Together Records STT 1001). The historical perspective of this album, made from some August 1964 sessions is mind boggling. In mid '64 the Beatles were still doing their Everly Brothers' cop- ies, the Stones were still doing their versions of Chicago blue, but the B.yrds were locked up in the World Pacific studios singing mu sic as complex and meaningful as anything that is being done to day, or will be done in the future. Songs like You Showed me (For- , OlDoweetweic ' • , 0 4 :4 4 4 • .4' • • 4 41k - ' • • , • :' 11". : *1 014- 411' ft: 0 WHAT IN THE WORLD WILL YOU DO WHEN YOU GRADUATE? WE INyt - r-E you, , LClOlcit4ila THE WORtil OF' BECTON -Meta MGM-. a world ''or challenge . , responsibility- and-achievement. Today, "B -D is,one, or the leading AnanutiCturers of _- medl4l","SurgiCachosoiCal and:electronic products. To keep'_ pace , with our ,dYriarnic graevith, challenging career opportunities-are' e divexsified'as the individu als we - seek to fill them. - - ." " • NV : 611L1) EIKE To TALK ;WITH YOU!! - • _ if _von are majoring -Finance; General Business. Sainceor Engineering.':, representatiVe will conduct intervieWs on Wedn' bt,±.,,..i§; 1969. ', . ~` . An -Eir.rat rtzeuty Emp yet- * - .4600411410644640040.0.46.0011100 get the Turtles Crumby versioi You Moving, She Had a W. About Her, and especially The A port Song would have- - been electric in '64 that they wouldi have sold (Perhaps that's w: World Pacific never released t tapes.) This album is a necessity f anyone who pretends to be a se ious listener of contempora music: I'd like to see it sell a , mil ion copies; Together Records dl serves congratulations. In the days of oretentious Al Kooper ar Mike Bloomfield garbage, opiPre sively heavy Led Zepplins, and in interesting Blind Faiths, hearir. the old Byrds again is like fine ing out old friends you've thoug. gone for years have always:bee with you God Bless Jim McGuinn, DaN, Crosby, Gene Clark, Chris Hil: man, and Mike Clarke. BECTONLpIqKiNsON AD-CO?tinktsri :"Ep:ahteoird;. Mix :-.3m;el: , • MIMZIII Page Tbr
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