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Highacres Collegian
“HAZLETON CAMPUS’ OWN NEWSPAPER”
Published by the Journalism Club of the Hazleton Campus
of the Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
STAFF
Editor Charles Dickinson
Business Manager Fred Mathews
Distributions Rosemary Carey
Head Typist Jill Faux
REPORTERS
Sally Switij, Caroline Egger, Eugene Riley, Frank Saul,
June Fiel, Loren Bittner, Georgine Chernesky
Faculty Advisor Mr. Thomas Price
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WHAT PRICE FOR FREEDOM?
EDITORIAL
By CHARLES DICKINSON
In this day of nuclear bombs which are capable of
destroying large segments of population, we must ask
ourselves this question: "What price must we pay to
maintain our hard-won freedom?"
This question can be best answered by looking at
our adversary, communism.. The aim of the Commu
nists is to overthrow democracy in the world. And they
are doing it. Today they are in control of a third of the
world's people and over one quarter of the earth's sur
face. This they have accomplished jn only 43 years.
What have we been doing to combat this? We have
been pouring foreign aid into countries which become
Communist Russia's satellites anyway. We have merely
sent threatening letters when Russia gobbles up one
country after another. We have listened to their ti
rades in the U.N. and have tried not to cross Khrush
chev too often—only when he attacks us personally.
There is only one course left to us at this late hour.
That is action. We must keep men in office who won't
whimper in front of a crude barbarian such as Khrush
chev. We must make the individual in America inde
pendent of government aid. We must build up our mil
itary so that the Communists will think twice before
attacking us, or any democracy. We must enforce our
laws that deal with the Communists in America—let
them know we mean business, if we really do. And last
of all, we must be willing to pay the price of personal
sacrifice.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Friday, November 3, Mr. Daniel
Flood, a member of the House of
Representatives, spoke at
Highacres...
Notices had been posted in the
HUB, announcements had been
made over the loud-speaker for
days fai advance, and members of
I.C.C. and Student Government
had “talked it up.” We hoped for
a good turnout at this lecture.
Approximately twenty students
were present. To this writer, this
was an atrocious abuse of the
right to meet, discuss, and take
an active interest in our
government...
HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
There is a great disparity be
tween the attendance at any dance
and the attendance at a lecture or
a movie. The reason for this dis
parity is that most students feel
that their education ends with the
4:40 bell. Any events which are
held in the evening must be simply
a chance to let oif steam. Obvi
ously, steam can be let off by
doing the “Bristol Stomp,” the
“Pony,” and the "Fly," but not by
hearing Daniel Flood, seeing Op
eration Abolition, or All the King’s
Men.
Come on, kids! One of the many
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Ward Discusses
Mr. Gilbert Ward, Associate
Professor of Physics at Highacres,
spoke recently before the Hazleton
branch of the American Institute
of Electrical Engineers. Ward,
who is also a member of the High
acres faculty committee for Civil
Defense affairs, discussed the
problem of radioactive fallout.
Fallout, Ward pointed out, is
the principal danger to those re
siding beyond a radius of approx
imately twenty miles from the
point of a nuclear explosion.
Those within the radius will be
destroyed by immediate blast and
heat effect at the moment of ex
plosion. For those beyond the ra
dius, though, the fallout is the
major danger.
As might be expected, the radi
ation dose is most dangerous near
est the explosion itself; however,
wind currents Can carry deadly
material for long distances beyond
this point. It is upon the direction
of the wind that much of the fall
out destruction will depend.
Because of the effects of the
wind, areas up-wind from a blast
should experience little fallout be
yond the twenty-mile radius
formed by the blast wind. Cross
winds should not greatly increase
the distribution of fallout either,
but those living down-wind from
a blast will be in real danger from
the effects.
Fallout danger would vary with
the strength and direction of the
wind,, for while strong wind would
increase the area covered by the
rain of radioactive material from
the heavens, it would also diminish
UNIVERSITY PARK
PROFESSOR TALKS
ON MODERN LIT.
Dr. Bernard Oldsey, assistant
professor of English at the Penn
sylvania State University, spoke
at the Hazleton Campus on Fri
day, November-17.
He talked on “Aspects of
Fiction,” discussing good and bad
fiction.
The lecture was one of the Fac
ulty Artists Series arranged by
the University to stimulate stu
dent interest in the areas of art,
music, drama, and literature.
Dr. Oldsey is a native of Wilkes-
Barre and a Penh State graduate.
He was appointed instructor at the
University in 1950 and was named
assistant professor in 1955. He
obtained master of arts and doctor
of philosophy degrees from Penn
state also.
His general research has been
in the area of war literature and
he is currently working on a book
concerning war novels. His mas
ter’s thesis was written on Ste
phen Crane's “Red Badge of
Courage” and his doctoral disser
tation was titled “Aspects of Com
bat in the Novel —1900-1950.” He
was a combat infantryman in the
U.S. Army and two of his three
years of service were spent in
Italy.
DECEMBER 7, 1961
Fallout Problems
some of the fallout intensity by
dispersing it over a wider area.
Ward noted.
Actual prediction of the direc
tion and intensity of fallout after
given bomb bursts would vary so
greatly with each individual burst
and with the topographical fea
tures of the surrounding terrain
that attempting to make detailed
specific estimations of the areas
probably affected by a blast would
be extremely difficult. Roughly,
however, it might be expected that
the Hazleton area would probably
be affected to some degree by fall
out originating from a burst in
the Pittsburgh or Harrisburg
areas.
Although Philadelphia is admit
tedly the nearest of the more
major metropolitan areas, Ward
pointed out, the prevailing wind
patterns generally run from west
to east, thus placing the Hazleton
area in a more or less up-wind
position in relation to
Philadelphia.
Regardless of fallout source,
protection against the radiation
danger would be taking shelter
wherever possible. The A.E.C., for
example, has concluded that even
an ordinary house, since it would
get the individual out of the open,
would provide considerable protec
tion. Since dust would settle
chiefly on the roof, the cellar
would of course offer most pro
tection in normal circumstances.
In circumstances- where the
householder is located downwind
of a potentially important military
or inductrial target, Or a major
population area, it becomes requi
site to install some form of ad
ditional shelter for protection,
since the combination of downwind
drift and geographical location
produce the probability of more
severe fallout.
HAVE YOU READ?
Many students are unaware of
the variety of periodicals available
in the Highacres library. Mrs.
Ferry, our librarian, has made up
a general list of articles appearing
in these periodicals. The list is
varied in content in order to ap
peal to all students. The list for
this issue of the Collegian is:
"What College Students Read”
—Saturday Review, November 18,
1961.
“The Economy Can Survive Nu
clear Attack”—Fortune, Novem
ber 1961.
“Picasso and His Public”—Ho
rizon, November 1961.
“Deterrence and Shelter”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,
November 1961.
“Cartier-Bresson on Photogra
phy”—Photography, Nov., 1961.
“Chromosomes and Disease”
Scientific American, Nov., 1961.
“Fiorello’s Finest Hour” —-
American Heritage, Oct., 1961.
“Beyond Berlin” —Commentary.
Nov., 1961.