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Help the Viet Cong
Does the above headline startle you ? It should, because
that is exactly what a group of students at Haverford College
in Eastern Pennsylvania is doing. Two students confirmed the
existence of a “Student Committee To Send Medical Aid to the
Front of National 1 Liberation of South Viet Nam.” Naming
three other students as members, they added that the move
ment had spread to eight other colleges.
George E. Hartman, Pennsylvania Commander of the Vet
erans of Foreign Wars called on U. S. Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy to investigate the activities of the Committee and
prevent a communication! of funds to the Communists.
It is, indeed, most horrifying to know that educated Amer
icans are acting in such an irrational manner as to give ma
terial aid and omfort to a nation whose ideals are diametric
cally opposed to those upon which this nation was founded,
and which is dedicated to the total, final, economic, and phys
ical destruction of our nation and our way of life. The hard
truth of the matter is that these very people are enjoying the
fruits of a society to whose destruction they are contributing.
Americans are fighting and dying to preserve the nation
of South Viet Nam from a Communist takeover. Other Amer
icansl materially support the enemy.
It is about time for the students of American Universities
to become a positive, active factor in the formation of public
opinion in foreign and domestic matters. Let us not, by our
silence, let the few lead the many. Let us not, in our apathy,
think that things will pass and 1 everything will be as it was.
Let not the few lose for us, by proxy, oiur dignity and our
freedom.
LETTER TO
THE EDITOR
New parking lot ? Is there any
apparent difference between the
old lower and the new lot we now
occupy? The muddy or dusty con
ditions of the old lot are com
pounded in the new lot by the ad
dition of sharp, tire-splitting
stones. It was a long walk from
the old lot; however, the series
of paths from the new lot to the
SUB are nothing more than moun
tain goat trails. Now, as a pre
climatlic move, our administrators
have made it compulsory for stu
dents to use this unlighted com
bination mud-hold, dust bowl for
a parking lot on the night of a
dance or movie. Wake up, stu
dents ! ! ! We are now paying
$7.50 for the same privileges that
were previously offered free of
charge.
Hlghacres Collegian
, '‘HAZLETON CAMPUS’ OWN NEWSPAPER”
Published by the Journalism Club of the Hazleton Campus
of the Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Philip Jefferies
Carmen Lombardo
Janet Mihal
Staff Joseph Broyan, Richard Grovich, Marcia Juda, Karen
Kreitzberger, Tony Gennaro, Carol Yurkovic.
Faculty Advisor Mr - T* l " Price
Co-Editors
EDITORIAL
Chem. Tech. Program
As of last week, fifteen students
had been admitted to the newly
initiated two-year Chemical Tech
nology Program at Highacres.
This number is considered to be
a better start than other campuses
initiating the same program have
had.
It is hoped to have twenty-five
registered students in this pro
gram for the Fall Term.
This program is also being
offered at the McKeesport and
Wyomissing Commonwealth Cam
puses.
Editor’s Note: The above article
does not necessarily reflect the
attitude of this paper; it is merely
the opinion of one student. It is
left to the reader’s discretion to
agree or disagree.
HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN
49,000 Students by
Penn State must be prepared to
increase its present 28,000-student
enrollment to 42,000 students by
1975 and to 49,000 by 1980 if the
Commonwealth is to meet its edu
cational obligations.
This statement has been made
by President Eric A. Walker in
the University’s annual report to
the people of the Commonwealth.
The theme of the report, which
covers the 1962-63 academic year*
is the University’s preparation for
the avalanche of students which
will descend on college and uni
versity campuses during the next
few years,
This period, the most difficult
in the educational history of the
Commonwealth, will begin when
the first large post-war crop of
babies knocks on college doors this
Fall. It will proceed at an accel
erating rate for the next decade
and longer as the number of stu
dents of college age increases and
the percentage seeking higher ed
ucation grows as well.
As an example of the mounting
pressure, President Walker said
that admission requests at Penn
State are running 47 per cent
higher than just one year ago.
Dr. Walker indicated that the
long range projections assume
that Penn State will continue to
enroll about 10 per cent of all
Peace Corps Programs Call For
Two-Year College
“New opportunities will open
this summer for graduates of two
year colleges to fill more than 900
jobs as Peace Corps Volunteers in
Latin America, Asia, and Africa,”
announced Robert L. Gale, Di
rector of Recruiting for the Peace
Corps.
“Holders of Associate Degrees
or trainees in specialized vo
cational skills,” said Mr. Gale,
“have the background and train-
ing urgently needed in Peace
Corps programs in Iran, Venezue
la, Tanganyika, Honduras, Brazil,
Ecuador, Nigeria, Panama, Thai
land, Peru, Nepal, British Hondu
ras, Tunisia, Nyasaland, Philip
pines, Columbia, Sabah, Sarawak,
and Senegal.”
So great and varied are the
needs of these host countries that
almost any type of background
and training can be useful; from
liberal arts to agriculture; from
secretarial skills and coaching to
auto repair.
New programs planned for
Venezuela illustrate the wide
range of opportunities this sum
mer for two-year college gradu-
Volunteers are needed to help
set up children’s parks and recre
ation programs to serve the mush
rooming slums which ring Vene
zuela’s large cities.
May 6, 1964
1980
college and university students in
the Commonwealth, as it has for
the past several years. The Uni
versity’s long range studies pre
dict a total college population for
the Commonwealth of 451,000 in
1975 and 483,000 in 1980.
The bulk of the University’s
growth will be in graduate stu
dents and in the final two years
of the baccalaureate program
particularly with the imminent
formation of many community
colleges providing the first two
years of the baccalaureate pro
gram.
Penn State can meet the num
ber problem if its growth rate
continues as it has for the past
decade, but the problems of ac
commodating larger numbers of
upperclassmen and graduate stu
dents is more difficult—and more
expensive, the annual report
notes.
Major steps already taken by
the University to prepare for
larger enrollments include better
academic and curriculum organi
zation, improved student selection
procedures, better use of learning
resources to make maximum use
of “the inelastic supply of good
teachers,” and better use of state
wide resources, particularly in the
expansion of campuses throughout
the Commonwealth.
Graduates
They are needed to organize and
coach sports clubs in basketball,
volleyball, and baseball, as part of
urban community development
programs.
They are needed to teach and
demonstrate plumbing, masonry,
surveying, road construction, self-
help home improvement, and the
techniques required to obtain safe
water supplies and build sanitary
facilities. i
In Iran, Volunteers will teach
in eighteen vocational schools
throughout the country, demon
strating the skills so familiar to
them, but strange to those who
have had no opportunity to learn
about electrical equipment repair,
metal machining, and auto me
chanics. The Iranian government
regards this project as so import
tant that it plans to convert a
number of secondary schools to
vocational training institutions in
order to overcome the critical
shortage of technically trained
manpower.
Volunteers with nursing skills
will be needed in Tanganyika and
Honduras, and Brazil has called
for laboratory technicians.
Ecuador, Nigeria, Panama,
Thailand, and Peru have asked for
help in agricultural extension and
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