October 10, 1955
Fight On State! - fl^OOOWorth
Before Student Council begins
serious consideration of the annual
budget there is a #4 000 problem
that you students can settlea In
the past few years approximately
that amount of money has been
wasted providing for the student
body top quality basketball teams
whose commendable performance has,
for the most part, been ignored by
our students. Financing a basket
ball team is no simple or inexpensive
undertaking, it entails bills for
purchase and dry cleaning of uniforms,
salaries for coaches, janitors
and other officials, and a considerable
sacrifice of valuable time on the
part of the players. What have we
received in return for these in
vestments the last few years?
1* Three years ago a strong
moving Hazleton team was
handicapped by havings its
numbers reduced to seven players.
2. Two years ago, the Penn
State five lost a play off game
to an inferior York team (whom
they had twice beaten) because
their squadron on account of
fouls was reduced to four
players for the final quarter.
3. Last year, the last four
basketball games had to be
forfeited because the champion
ship squad, after the semester
break, had only five players.
4. Last year an average of twenty
students attended the games to
boost their first place team.
This last item combined with the
other three leads us to the con
clusion that providing a basketball
team for an unenthuslastic college
is a serious waste of the students'
funds.
HAZLETON COLLEGIAN
Our newly-elected Student C
should seriously study the ;
before taking any rash acti.i
Rather than pay for ■
students to watch a baskets
game, Student Council might
take to provi.de intra-mural
activities such as bowling £
tennis.
Editor Euss Brungard
Copy Editors and Proof R e ade
Bernie Steber
Larry Kowalski
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Fight on State! (con't)
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