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Lack of Funds
Hurls Students
According to current theory, Behrend is a four-year in
stitution of higher learning. At least that is what we are told.
What then is the problem involved in making the change to
this status?
Plain and simple, it is money. Any Behrend administrator
will tell you that the difficulty in making the change is the
current fiscal problems in the state legislature. There
simply is no money available to Behrend to build the
buildings, and hire the faculty that we need.
Actually, the only building that we need is the proposed
library, and possibly, some new dormitories to ac
commodate new resident students. The only other addition
necessary is new faculty members for the added influx of
students. Behrend administrators have said that this
campus can easily hold 1500 students with a new library and
added faculty, but as small as these requests are against
what is needed for the whole. University system, there is not
any money for them.
What is necessary then is for students to write their
representatives in Harrisburg. Some of The Pennsylvania
State University administrators at University Park could
easily be included in the list. Actually the problem is not
only here, but throughout the entire University system.
Although a student does not necessarily remain here, the
same problem will face him at other campuses. It is our
educational future, and we should do something about it.
Upper Division
Increases Size
Mr. Claridge reports that at the moment there are 40 Behrend
students who indicate that they will remain at Behrend for their
Junior year. It appears that there will be about 50 present Behrend
students and approximately 15 transfers from other campuses in
the Behrend upper-division in the Fall.
Positions Open For
Business Administration Grads
There are several sales positions open with the Weber-Knapp
Company of Jamestown, New York. Anyone interested should
contact the office of Student Affairs.
Veterans of Campus
Mr. Fryer, academic advisor to the Veterans on Campus
organization has announced that the organization has developed a
constitution which will be submitted to the Student Government
Association for approval. There are approximately 100 veterans on
campus enrolled in either Bachelor, or Associate Degree
programs. This organization will act as an information center on
veteran’s affairs. One of the first goals of this organization will be
to seek out veterans who are not making use of the GI Bill in terms
of post-high school education.
S.U.B. Appointments.
The Student Union Control Board approved the appointments of
1971-1972 Student Union Board. Flo Szymanski, President; Debbi
Guilford, Social; Nelson Smith, Cultural; Jill Kurytnak, Dance;
and Bob Wheeler, Recreation.
Keystone Society
Watch for the Keystone Society car wash May 19 and 26.
Pre-registration
Mr. Goetz would like to remind all students to please see their
advisors and pre-register for Fall Term. This is the only time you
will have to meet with your advisors this term.
Students are reminded that they must refrain from wearing cut
offs in the pool and must shower before entering. These rules were
made in order that the pool can remain open by meeting the state’s
regulation on bacteria count.
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Behrend
Aims To
'Educate'
Dear Mr. Geiger:
I would appreciate this op
portunity to clear up a number of
misconceptions regarding the
value of interdisciplinary majors
of the sort offered at the Behrend
Campus in its baccalaureate
program. In doing so, I realize
that I will traverse some of the
same ground'as Mr. Hohwald in
his letter of several weeks ago,
but I ask you to bear with me as I
think that this is of vital interest
to the future of a number of our
students.
The trend for the future seems
to be swinging away from
specialized undergraduate
majors. The reasons for this
swing are many, although
foremost among them is most
probably the increasing number
of “specialists” holding ad
vanced degrees in the job market
and the great number of students
holding baccalaureate degrees in
all specialized areas flooding the
present job market. Thus, the
employer of 1971 is in the rather
enviable position of being able to
select the most qualified ap
plicant from among scores of
college graduates applying for
positions. Such a person will
naturally choose the applicant
most qualified to fill a position of
responsibility in the ever
changing intellectual and
cultural milieu which constitutes
the American society of the
1970’5.
This brings me to my second
point—the fact that modern
society is so multifarious,
thereby requiring those in
positions of responsibility to
possess at least an elementary
grasp of as many aspects of
society as possible. Employers
feel that they can train any
moderately intelligent college
graduate to do a specific job in
their department. What they are
looking for in a prospective
employee is someone with as
broad background as possible in
as many areas as possible.
The same holds true with
regards to preparation for the
professional schools. Almost all
Medical, Dental and Law Schools
have abandoned the archaic
curricula in pre-medical, pre
legal and pre-dental studies on
the undergraduate level in favor
of the more diversified curricula
in General Science, American
Studies, etc. Again, the reasoning
is the same. Professional schools
are of the feeling that they can
train their students in the
idiosyncracies of their
profession, and they prefer the
much broader backgrounds of
fered in inter-disciplinary majors
on the undergraduate level. As
Case Western Reserve Univer
sity mentions in its notes to
students planning on a career in
dentistry, “Dentistry, like other
professions, should (ideally) be
made up of learned men who are
capable of interacting in our rich
intellectual and cultural matrix
as well as performing painless
extractions.” Obviously, this is a
sound piece of advice for people
in all pre-professional area.
Much the same thing could hold
true for Graduate School,
although the situation is
somewhat different since
Graduate students are pursuing a
very specialized program of
study on a academic level where
specialization at last becomes
realistic. The baccalaureate
programs in interdisciplinary
studies at the Behrend Campus
can more than adequately
prepare the ambitious student for
Graduate study in English or
American Literature, American-
Studies, Biology, History,
Mathematics, Psychology and
Sociology, while allowing the
student to “broaden his base”, to
be prepared for the complex
discussions taking place in
Graduate classrooms. Although a
potential graduate student should
not neglect an adequate
preparation in the field which he
intends to pursue, neither should
he neglect to pursue at least a
smattering of knowledge in as
many other disciplines as
possible.
When the Academic Planning
Committee first met to consider
the Expansion of the Behrend
Campus to include baccalaureate
programs, their intention was to
provide a unique concept in
education which would anticipate
the needs of the new generations
Demonstrators
Jailed in D.C.
By Al Quinlan
News Reporter
Fun, confrontation, and rage all
showed their faces in Washington;
D.C. on May 1-3. People who began the
weekend in good, partying moods
found themselves in angry,
discouraged moods by the time the
weekend was over.
May 1, proved to be an enjoyable
day for almost everyone, as the Beach
Boys, Phil Ochs, Linda Ronstadt,
Elephant's Memory, Mitch Ryder and
the Detroit Wheels, and Catfish
played and women's liberation spoke
out.
The concert was supposed to last
until 9:00 Sunday morning. However,
we received word at 5:00 Sunday
morning that the permit for West
Potomac Park, supposedly good until
May 9, had been revoked and
everyone had to leave the park by
noon Sunday. The reason given for
this was, an overabundance of nar
cotics in the park.
The first confrontation occurred at
about 10:30 Sunday morning. Police
lines were drawn and no one was
allowed to enter the park. About 400
peoplestood outside of the police line,
watching the people still in the park as
they left.
As we stood outside the police line.
By Shylock
We hear that Captain Skidmore
is making quite a splash on
campus these days. Has he come
up with the coin for a new pair of
pants?
Has Mr. Maloney ever gotten
his teeth replaced?
Looks like the picnic shelter is
going to cost a little bit more than
planned.
It appears that Mr. Gehrlein is
really into his annual Spring
affair.
The cigarette butts are flying
fast and thick on Second East
Perry.
Seeing is believing, eh Bob R.?
The cigarette machine around
here eats better than most of the
students!
of college graduates and best
prepare these graduates for life
on the outside. The world of 1971
is considerably more complex
than the world of the 1920’5. It is
no longer possible for one to
become a specialist upon mere
completion of the baccalaureate
degree, nor is it really desirable.
What we at Behrend are trying to
do essentially is to provide a
broad liberal education
preparing our graduates-to enter
society prepared to cope with the
new situations presented by an
ever changing environment. Our
graduates are, ideally, well
prepared to engage in the never
ending process of learning on
their own-whether in a career, in
a graduate or professional
school, or merely in their day-to
day-living.
I do realize that the above
letter contains, a number of
rather complex generalizations
which are almost certainly open
to considerable debate. My in
tention, however, was merely to
make our students aware of the
value of an inter-disciplinary
undergraduate curriculum of the
type now offered to students here
at Behrend. Statements which a
number of them have made
betray the fact that they do not
really understand the full
meaning of a college education
and all that is purports to do for
them. I would hope that they
would now have at least some
idea of the meaning behind the
baccalaureate programs which
are presently being offered at the
Behrend Campus.
Sincerely
Kenneth J. Goetz
Administrative Assistant
in Academic Affairs
three more busloads of police arrived
and stationed themselves behind us.
Then, without provocation, the police
charged us and arrested about 180
people. However, there was much
restraint on both sides as "police hit
very few people and few demon
stra tors resisted arrest.
Later in the afternoon, crowds
gathered at George Washington
University where May Day
headquarters were set up after
revocation of the park permit.
According to what I saw in the
morning. May 3 could sensibly be
called a ,day of war in Washington.
Before I left Washington at 9:00 in the
morning, I saw open warfare between
people and police at many spots. As
weapons, the people used garbage
cans and autos placed in the streets
while authorities used billy clubs, tear
gas and mace.
The police guarded the streets, the
Guardsmen guarded the main bridge
to the Pentagon with open bayonets
and 200 U.S. Marines guarded the
Washington Monument grounds.
The main object of the demon
strators, to stop Washington traffic,
was not attained in full, although
traffic was conjested in many places.
In all, 12,000 people were arrested on
Monday during the "Mayday"
disruption.
May 13,1971