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Highacres
“HAZLETON CAMPUS’ OWN NEWSPAPER”
Member of Intercollegiate Press Association
Published by the Journalism Club of the Hazleton Campus
of the Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
STAFF
Editor-In-Chief
Assistant Editor
Art Editor
REPORTERS
Joe Bolitsky Alex Lilje
Ed Ceol Mary L. Korba
Tom Clatch Francis Parano
Cathy Clyde Bob Perugini
Vic Cortez Sandy Pohlman
Barbara Jarick Joe Roberts
Barbara Letchko Pat Reteneller
Mary Lou Zukovich
Photographers .
Faculty Advisor
The "Cut" System At Highacres:
A question of debatable merit revolves around the “no
cut’’ policy currently enforced here at Highacres.
Administrators contend that the “cut” system invites
unnecessary absences while students argue that the “no cut”
program questions their maturity in so far as it removes the
prerogative, considered by many to be an inalienable right, to
skip a class or two, and that it adds regimentation to college
that characterized high school days. This may be true. We
reject the “no cut” attitude for another reason.
Since confessing to an intentional cut is hardly expected,
in explaining absence partially in deference to the instruc
tor’s feelings but mainly to preserve the integrity of his
■own academic status, the student turns to the questionable
excuse. These excuses, invariably girdled in propriety, serve
only in varying degrees to mollify the instructor’s misgivings
that it was not by deliberate choice that a class was missed
(unthinkable, even though one might expect a rash of
absentees on the first day of deer season each year—allowing,
of course, for the benevolent nature of unattended grand
mothers in suffering annual illnesses during the later days
iof November) but rather than a more imperative demand
required bis presence elsewhere.
Excuses as a matter of course are accepted by most
instructors without question, thereby making the “no cut”
system amenable to chronic exploitation by those of us who
think little of “making excuses.” (Our profound apologies to
students who are above this sort of thing.)
We feel strongly for a policy of three legitimate cuts.
After all, honesty is a fine virtue, even in collegians!
NEVER TOO LATE FOR
A COLLEGE EDUCATION
By Isadore Brody
What is a college student’s
outlook on studies after a ten
years’ absence after graduating
from high school ? It is one thing
•going to college soon after
graduating from high school
when one’s mind is fresh and
disciplined and still atuned to
study habits. It is another thing
being away from formal schooling
and then returning to adjust to
college.
I realized that coming back to
school would be a completely new
and different experience for me
and would also mean many
sacrifices of things to which I had
grown accustomed, for in ten
years’ absence from formal edu
cation, one certainly can change
his values as to what is and what
is not important.
The friendliness of my fellow
students and the assistance of the
instructors have helped me be
come acclimated to the situation.
Perhaps, the fact that Highacres
provides a friendly atmosphere
may also have helped put me at
ease.
The instructors have given me
helpful ideas on how high school
.and college are different. For
'example, my chemistry instructor
■once told our class that in high
school, the teacher generally
taught with emphasis on the text
book, whereas in college the
reverse is usually true. In other
words, you are taught to think
for yourself. Another instructor,
when asked by students if they
should take notes on a particular
subject, replied that if they want
to, they may, and if not, they need
not. He said, “I don’t care. That’s
up to you.” His last words remind
PRO AND CON
By Joe Roberls
me of the advice of the guidance
counselor who said, “You must
ask yourself this question: ‘Why
am I in school?’” Indeed, a
truthful answer will certainly set
one’s mind at ease.
One of the things I have learned
to put aside are my social activi
ties. No one staying up until two
o’clock, “living it up with the
crowd,” and oh, how I miss those
good-looking dolls! On a cold
winter night, no more curling up
in front of my television set
enjoying all my favorite cowboy
shows. Now, I settle down to an
evening enjoying myself with
such intriguing characters as
endoerinal glands, exponential
numbers, and the polar bonding
tendencies of diatomic molecules.
Yet, all in all, I hope that when
I have my degree, I can look back
and say this: It certainly was
worth every minute.
Main Campus Prof.
To Speak Here
February 10
Professor Philip Young of the
P. S. U. University Park Campus
English Department will speak
here at the Student Union
Building on February 10
(Wednesday evening 7:30) on
“Hemingway and I; the Vicissi
tudes of Being an Author.”
The Belles-Lettres Society, Col
lege Arts Society, and the
Hazleton Campus Women’s Aux
iliary are sponsoring Professor
Young’s visit. All students are
invited to attend. Admission is
free. Bring your friends.
Collegian
Nancy Bradney
Bob Zelnick
. Claudia Laux
Matt Ogorzalek
Stephen Goldian
Professor Andrew Kafka
HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE RED CROSS
BLOOD ASSURANCE PROGRAM?
To insure adequate blood for
distribution in our hospitals, the
Red Cross in Northeastern Penn
sylvania set up a blood assurance
program on January 1, 1957.
To belong to the blood assurance
program, quotas of 10% for six
months, or 20% for a year of the
enrollment figure of any organiza
tion assures the members of said
organization of a blood receipt
available for any member of their
immediate family when needed.
These receipts are always avail
able and are in the office of the
Chairman of the blood recruitment
committee, our nurse, Mrs. Leah
Kostenbauder.
This qestion may arise: What if
a student of our college or a mem
ber of his family is outside of the
northeastern district and meets
with an accident and needs blood?
Your chairman contacts the Red
Cross who in turn sends the neces-
:ary credentials to the hospital and
then the patient can receive dona
tions—regardless of location. Re
cently a member of the Hazleton
Red Cross blood assurance plan
received blood in a Miami, Florida,
hospital.
The potential for such a blood
program plan was early recognized
by our chairman at the time it was
formulated and she organized our
students to be the first in the Haz
leton area to launch this plan.
Since then it has proven to be
the answer to blood need in our
local hospitals as well as all north
eastern hospitals, in addition to
being one of the finest public rela
tions with the city Red Cross and
the College.
The following students and
members of the faculty are the
people who have made it possible
DISSECTING IS FUN?
If you happen to be walking
through the Main Building be
tween 2:00 p. m. and 4:00 p. m
some afternoon and you hear a
voice shout, “I’m not going to
touch that thing!” you’ll know
that it is some freshman prepar
ing to perform his or her
dissection in the Zoo Lab.
Perhaps a stranger to the lab
would find the fumes of the
formaldehyde somewhat overpow
ering. But each year’s brave
group of incoming freshmen man
age to add a humorous note to
the interesting but otherwise gory
proceedings. This “humor” is
found in the names attached to
the specimens. This year’s orig
inal group consists of “Fearless
Fidel,” “Freddy the Freeloader,”
“Leaping Lill,” “Jumping Jill,”
“Symantha” as well as various
professors’ first names better left
unmentioned.
RICHARD L. SCHATZ, dissecting
frogs in Zoology Lab
Tentative Examination
Schedule Announced
A tentative final examination
schedule has just been released by
Mr. Schneider.
Thursday, January 21
All math and accounting.
Also general psychology, indus
trial organization and
management.
Friday, January 22
All chemistry.
Also principles of marketing,
elements of physics, advanced
engineering and drawing, ad
vanced German 3, sociology and
direct current machines.
Saturday, January 23
All English composition.
Also business law and alternat
ing current circuits.
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for our membership to participate
and receive donor receipts for the
fall semester:
List of Donors 1959:
Jonathan Kaercher, Alma Ernst,
Andrew Yanochko, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bodenstein, Francis Sullivan, Louis
Perotti, Joseph Roberts, Bob Pera
gini, Lee Melatti, David Sanuto,
Matthew Ogorzalek, Robert Swee
ney, Thomas Brennan, Joseph
Woitko, Robert Weiss, William J.
Smith, John Baradziej, Mrs. Mary
Ferry Alex Lilje, Mrs. Anne See
ley, Mr. Harold Michaels, Robert
Wagner, John Rusnack, Orr Smith,
Samuel Lloyd, Thomas Canfield,
Levi Kishbaugh, Dennis Miller,
Victor Mills, Joseph Chesonis, Mr.
Richard McKinstry.
Blood Recruitment Committee
Mr. Thomas Kidd, Mr. Victor
Mills, Mr. Joseph Bolitsky, Mrs.
Mary Ferry, Mrs. Leah Kosten
bauder, chairman.
These receipts will expire in
May we will be calling for
donors in April for a May blood
mobile, before final examinations.
Join the honor roll for 1959-
1960. You may receive your donor
cards and parental releases from
the committee at any time.
Have You Read •••?
Have you read these articles to
be found in current periodicals in
the Hazleton Campus library?
1. “Onr Counseling System Is
Paying Off” Dr. Zeigler in
Penn State Alumni News of
November 13, 1959.
2. “Research Associate Designs
New Sub-Critical Reactor”—
Penn State Alumni News of
November 13, 1959.
Mr. John Penkala is photo
graphed in front of the
reactor. John graduated from
Highacres in June, 1959.
3. “Some Call It Guts”—Frank
Walser (faculty member of
Hazleton Campus) in Today’s
Speech, September, 1959.
4. “Computer Music” Lejaria
A. Hiller in Scientific Amer
ican of December, 1959.
5. “To Alaska Through a
Rugged Frontier” in For
tune, December, 1959.
6. “Penn State’s Amateur Radio
Station” S. S. Kletzien in
Penn State Engineer, Novem
ber, 1959.
7. “Materials for Environmental
Extremes” - G. Sideris in
Electronics, December 4, 1959.
9. “The Southward Currents
Under Huck Finn’s Raft”
Louis J. Budd in Mississippi
Valley Historical Review,
September, 1959.
10. “The Future Uses of Histo
ry”—J. Jameson in
The American Historical Re
view, October, 1959.
11. “I Have Supped Full on
Horrors” P. C. Johnson in
American Heritage, October,
1959.
12. “The Importance of the In
dividual” Eric Johnson in
Vital Speeches, November 15,
1959.
13. “Russia as I Saw It”
Richar M. Nixon in National
Geographic of December,
1959.
14. “Red China,” Atlantic, De
cember, 1959.
Monday, January 25
All public speaking, engineering
mechanics, engineering calcula
tions, kinematics, and general
physics.
Tuesday, January 26
Direct current circuits, strength
and properties of materials, el
ementary electronics, political sci
ence and English literature.
Wednesday, January 27
Zoology, history, beginning
German.
Thursday, January 28
Music appreciation.
JANUARY 14, 1960
VICTOR VOLUME
DISCOVERS HI-FI
Victor Volume enters his Hi-Fi
room after reading the latest
issue of “The Highest of Fi,” (the
well-known magazine for Hi-Fi
lovers everywhere) which has
sown seeds of anxiety and
discontent in his unstable mind.
He selects one of his Super Hi-Fi
records and places it reverently
on the turn-table platter. Next,
Victor gingerly turns on the
amplifier to flat response, and
listens for the first sounds
acting not as a man anticipating
pleasure, but as a man awaiting
a jail sentence.
Since no one is in the house,
full volume sounds issue forth
from all eleven speakers. “Crash,
SMASH, BANG, Pooooooow”
this melodious ditty echoes
throughout the house and
throughout a four block radius of
the Volume homestead.
Victor knows that his tweeters
aren’t tweeting high enough and
that his woofers aren’t woofing
low enough, nevertheless, he is
shocked and pained to hear his
woofers picking up an ominous
rumble which indicates that his
Dizzy Spin Turn Table, model
X 5930-48 was $75 worth of junk.
Next, Victor discovers his four
amplifiers are delivering a muddy
mid-range sound which also in
dicates another $450 unwisely
spent. The pick-up arm starts to
jump across Victor's new $6.99
Super Hi-Fi disc as though it had
a hot foot. His $B5 diamond
needled cartridge begins to gouge
out grooves on this irreplaceable
recording.
Victor has come to the bitter
conclusion that there is something
definitely wrong with his Hi-Fi
system. Will the next issue of
“The Highest of Fi” (the well
known, magazine for Hi-Fi lovers
everywhere) solve Victor Vol
ume’s problems ?
The Moralist
a short story
by bob pe rug ini
Gloria sat in front of the
typewriter in her study, and
picked at the raised metal keys
with a forefinger nail. One by one
she dug at them collecting the
dried eraser crumbs and flicking
them into the wastebasket in the
corner. This was getting her
nowhere, she realized. What she
needed was an idea for a story.
She had to concentrate on writing.
No writing, no money; no money,
no extra luxuries, she thought,
and then became irked with
herself for continuing to waste
time instead of sitting down and
writing.
But the Idea wouldn’t come, so
she continued cleaning the type
writer keys the hard way. When
she had finished, she remembered
that she had heard the phone ring
a few minutes back. She could still
hear her husband’s muffled voice
in the living room. She lifted the
extension on her desk and held it
to her ear.
“ . . . . about Lucille. Suppose
she finds out?” her husband, Sam,
was saying.
“I’ve thought of
voice started to answer
“Just a minute,” Sam inter
rupted hastily. “Gloria, are you
on that extension?” His voice
sounded annoyed.
“Guilty,” Gloria admitted.
“I don’t think that’s funny. Am
I not entitled to some privacy?
What right do you have to
eavesdrop ? This conversation is
private!”
‘‘Now, dear,” Gloria said sar
castically, “We have no secrets
from each other, do we?”
“You’re darn tootin’ we do!
Now get off that phone!”
“ ’Bye Henry, my sweet-ling,”
said Gloria to the party on the
other end of the phone.
“ ‘Bye, you poor overworked
housewife,” Henry giggled.
Gloria replaced the receiver,
and turned her attention to the
typewriter. She inserted a blank
sheet of paper and typed steadily
for the next hour. Then, she
stopped, read over what she had
written, savagely wripped up the
sheets, and tossed them into the
wastebasket.
She wandered into the kitchen.
“Coffee?” she asked her husband.
“Okay,” he said, as he turned on
the electric percolator.
Gloria questioned Sam about the
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