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EDITORIAL OPINION
Our newest building for student use at the Hazleton Campus is
the student Union Building. It is a modem building providing
facilities for eating, lounging, and recreating. Because it so provides
for all their needs, students do indeed appreciate it. Why, though,
don’t they show this appreciation instead of misusing or ignoring it?
A beautifully clean and neat cafeteria greets the students every
morning. How often though, does this sight turn into a messy one
because students leave dishes or papers to clutter up tables ? Unfor
tunately, the answer is all too often. There is no excuse for this dis
play of carelessness since dishes and papers can be easily disposed of
by walking only a few steps. Besides the mistreatment of this area
of the building, students have also been warned about some recent
displays of juvenile behavior in the game room. Healthy, wholesome,
sociable recreation should be the purpose of this room to the student
who enters it. He should be thankful for such a place—a temporary
haven from his studies. Also, just as he would take special care of
his own property, so too should he be careful with the sporting
equipment he uses. If taken proper care of, it will serve its purpose
again and again for student upon student. Students are not asked
to leave anything to future students at our campus, but they are
asked to leave what has been thoughtfully planned for them in the
Student Union Building, as they found it—clean, neat, and in good
condition.
American
Foreign Policy
By ILLOYNA SOTACK
In the past months American
embassies have been stoned, dem
onstrations have been made
against the United States, and
protest letters have been received
from small neutralists. These ac
tions give rise to the questions:
What’s wrong and what can be
done?
A confusion of word meanings
leads to a problem. People try to
use separate words as synonyms.
For example, the United States
enjoys a relative degree of securi
ty now, but does she have peace?
No! She is involved in some four
or five brushfire wars.
Collegian
“HAZLETON CAMPUS’ OWN NEWSPAPER”
Published by the Journalism Club of the Hazleton Campus
of the Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, Pennsylvania
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor
Photographer .......
Business arid Publicity
Sports Editor
Reporters
. Sabatirii Monatesti
Marcia Juda, Esther Summer, Illoyna Sotack,
Nancy Israel, Cathy Deflna, Tom Potance,
Kenneth Hughes, Ann Marie Petras, Karen
Kreitzberger, Kandi Tremble, Tom Veale.
Faculty Advisor Mr - Thomas Price
HIGH ACRES COLLEGIAN
The only solution is education—
the people must be shown that se
curity does not mean peace and
security cannot be sacrificed for
something as nebulous as peace.
The most dangerous problem is
the contention that since the
people have a puritanical con
science their country must, too.
This trouble can never be com
pletely erased as a nation without
a conscience would be worse than
Nazi Germany, but the United
States’ conscience must be re
duced, somewhat. However, there
have been no plausible solutions
offered for this problem.
Some problems have been stated
and the possible cures—the rest is
up to the people ...
Paul Marino
~ Barbara Mondik
Robert White
Anthony Gennaro
Walker Arouses
Muck Discussion
With Criticisms
Recently, there was widespread
concern over President Eric A.
Walker’s comments in a speech
delivered to a Philadelphia alumni
group December 10, 1964.
Perhaps Walker’s most con
troversial comment was the fol
lowing statement. “I don’t under
stand it. Some professors just
want to be different. If you tell
them a wall is black, they’ll insist
it’s white. Perhaps that goes with
being creative.”
ROTC Program For
Transfer Students
Beginning this year, freshman
and sophomore students in the
baccalaureate degree program will
be able to enroll in Air Force
ROTC.
Heretofore, transfer students
from campuses such as ours have
been unable to enroll in the Air
ROTC program unless they had
been participating in the basic
ROTC program -offered at the ■
freshman and sophomore levels at
University Park and a few of the
commonwealth campuses.
Now, however, there is a two
year Air ROTC program covering
the Junior and Senior years which
is open to all students who have
had no ROTC training in their
first two years.
Regardless of the school the
student plans to attend, he can
apply for admission to the Pro
fessor of Aerospace Studies.
Lt. Colonel Charles E. Barnett,
Room 109, Wagner Building, will
process any application. Applica
tions should be submitted in suf
ficient time for administrative
processing and completion of the
mental or physical examination of
the applicant.
If accepted, the applicant will
attend a six-week field training
course at Keesler Air Force Base,
Mississippi, or Maxwell Air Force
Base, Alabama, during the sum
mer preceding his junior year.
Cadets receive travel pay of six
cents per mile and approximately
one hundred and twenty dollars
during the training period. Upon
successful completion of the
course, he will be enlisted on the
Air Force Reserve and enrolled in
Air Force ROTC advanced pro
gram. During the following two
years, as an advanced cadet, he
will receive forty dollars per
month.
March 12, 1965
One of the forms of protest to
Walker’s statement was a letter
to him from a local chapter of the
American Association of Univer
sity Professors. In it, the ex
ecutive committee claims that
Walker’s remarks “cast a serious
reflection on the integrity of the
entire academic community and
are destructive of public con
fidence in our colleges and uni
versities.” Walker made no re
sponsive reply to the letter.
Representatives of the executive
committee of the Greater Phil
adelphia's Club defended Walker’s
comments on January 8. They ex
pressed their view that too much
had been made out of the issue
and that nothing derogatory was
meant by the president. Wilbur
H. Hamilton, Jr., club secretary,
said that Walker “wasn't knocking
University professors, but was
supporting the independent think
ing of University professors.”
On January 20, the president did
apologize to members of the
University faculty for the un
pleaSantries which resulted from
his comments to the Philadelphia
group. He said, “If I have dam
aged your reputation, or the rep
utation of the profession, let me
at least say it was not my intent
to do so. I am sorry, and I offer
you my most sincere apologies.”
President Walker
Notes Expansion Of
Continuing Education
Continuing Education has long
been a prime concern. Dr. Eric
Walker, President of the Univer
sity, recently devoted time in his
annual report to the activities of
the Continuing Education. The re
port indicated that Continuing Ed
ucation, like the rest of the Uni
versity, is continuously growing.
The fundamental purpose of the
University, Dr. Walker feels, is to
serve those adults who need and
want continuing education, both in
their personal development and in
their constructive pursuits, to the
extent that they can profit from
such instruction and that it is
within the capabilities and re
sources of the University.
Too, Dr. Walker pointed out
that during the year, 67,446 en
rollees participated in one or more
of the over 1,000 formal, informal,
and correspondence courses con
ducted by the Continuing Ed
ucation in 176 locations in Penn
sylvania.
Credit courses were offered in
the late afternoon and evening at
84 locations throughout the Com
monwealth for individuals who
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