Page Two EDITORIAL OPINION FOREIGN POLICY After considering the article on American Foreign Policy in the last issue of the Highacres Collegian, one would probably ask what foreign policy has to do with us, college students. It has a great deal to do with our lives and affects us every day. The success or the fail ure of American foreign policy may very well decide whether the United States will live or die within the next ten years. After all, the United States is OUR country, each and every one of us, and we have lived here most of our lives. If the country is affected by some disaster, all of us are affected. For example, if our present policy concerning the containment of Communism fails, the United States will be seriously affected and may fall prey to the Reds. If this should happen, then we may all have to live under totalitarian Com munism! Another reason for the college student’s interest and awareness of foreign affairs and policy is the possibility of a war. For instance, if the two major aspects of United States policy, dip lomacy and international aid, fail in Viet Nam, that little brush war would not be little for long—it could stir up a third world war. The population would be affected by an increase in the draft, the break ing upof families, and the discontinuation of our college career. Then, there is the possibility that there would not be a world left when the war was ovtr. One can see the terrible possibilities of a future foreign policy failure from the aforementioned predictions. Also, one can see the affects of a policy success today. A successful foreign policy will prevent such disasters from happening. One might even say that our future depends greatly of the success or failure of our American foreign policy today. SGA ELECTIONS . . . (Continued from Page One) if a student feels that he is fit to run, then SGA has no right to stop him. Kapes tried to point out that no student would be told that he could not run, and went on to say that the board would merely listen to the students platform. Miss Hahn felt that a training session during which the candi dates are informed of their duties and the SGA constitution would be more appropriate and made a mo tion to this effect. This proposal was passed. Kapes stated that the training session would be held on Tuesday, April 20, and Wednesday and Thursday would be set aside for the candidates campaigns. The 4 Highacres “HAZLETON CAMPUS’ OWN NEWSPAPER" Published by the Journalism Club of the Hazleton Campus of the Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton. Pennsylvania Editor-in-Chief .. Assistant Editor Sports Editor Reporters Paul Marino Kenneth Hughes Sabatini Monatesti Karen Kreitzberger, Nancy Israel, Illona Sotack, Thomas Veale, Thomas Potance. Mr. Thomas Price Faculty Advisor By ILLOYNA SOTACK SGA members also agreed that each candidate for office would be required to post a picture and his platform so that all the -student body would be aware of his ob jectives. Another spirited controversy de veloped over whether or not SGA members should publicly endorse a candidate or candidates. It was finally decided that SGA members would be asked to refrain from voicing opinions as to who should or should not win an election. The meeting was then adjourned and Jerome Kapes announced that the time of the next meeting would be posted on the bulletin board in the Student Union Build ing. Collegian STAFF HIGH ACRES COLLEGIAN Hazleton Campus Library Obtains Self-Tutoring Machine Recently The Highacres library has re cently received a teaching machine which is available for use by the student body. Three courses are available punctuation, algebra, and spelling. The self-tutoring course in punctuation teaches the conven tional use of capital letters, end punctuation, comma, semi-colon, colon, dash, parenthesis, apostro- phe, quotation marks, ellipsis marks, and hyphen. The student learns to punctuate a large num ber of sentences of varying com plexity. Also, numerous examples are given in which the student de tects and corrects incorrect punc tuation, in order to improve skill in proofreading. The algebra refresher course is designed to be used by college stu dents who have had one year of algebra and who need review be fore progressing to more advanced mathematics courses. Also, this course can be used as a sup plement to second year work by CARD PARTY . . . (Continued from Page One) try, Mrs. Harold Aurand and Mrs, J. Richard Mattem. Arrangements Mrs. Joseph McCallus and Miss Barbara Kos tos. Refreshments—Mrs. Howard F. Gleim, Mrs. Frederick Lane and Mrs. Leslie Seely. Prizes Mrs. Richard Bigelow, Mrs. Harvey Lewis and Miss Mar garet Bellezza. Publicity Mrs. Elizabeth Bod enstein and Miss Betty Harlor. At the auxiliary spring term meeting Mrs. Ferry explained the various types of interest-free loans available to students from the fund. Mrs. Dennis Cimino, president, conducted the business session. BLOODMOBILE . . . (Continued from Page One) dent body donates blood, all faculty, students, and their fam ilies will be covered to receive blood till October, 1965, without replacing or paying the hospital for it. If the quota is not met, only those who have donated blood may receive the benefits of coverage. Hence, the value of meeting the quota at Highacres can be easily observed. “The Red Cross Blood Program is a public service dedicated to serving you ... Like every public service, it’s as effective as your participation and support make it.” Students who wish to donate blood May 19, at Saint Gabriel’s High School in Hazleton, may ob tain their donor slips at the Li brary or Mrs. Tamea’s office. college students. Some of the specific topics covered in this course are the following: a discus sion of various number systems, exponents and radicals, products and factoring, fractions, the solu tion of linear and quadratic equa tions, the solution of verbal prob lems, rectangular coordinates and graphs, systems of linear and quadratic equations, ratio and proportion, and logarithms. The emphasis throughout is an under standing of operations and appli cations. Thus, the numbers used in the problems are for the most part simple, since it is felt that the use of complicated numerical problems does not aid the student to grasp algebra. Although it is assumed that the student will have some previous knowledge of algebra, little de tailed recollection of the subject is necessary for the course. The course takes from 50 to 75 hours to complete. The third self-tutoring course, spelling rules, begins by teaching the student vowel-consonant dis crimination, with emphasis on vowel sounds. It deals extensively with familiar doubling of the final consonant and dropping the final e when adding suffices; excep ionst in consonant sound rules; proofreading; contractions; and homonyms. The course also teaches the miscellaneous words such as the days of the week and the names of the months. The student is required to spell 400 complete words and significant parts ofhundreds more. Times for completion for the entire course are as low as 15 hours. It is plain to see that these courses are valuable to all the stu dent body and can be used by ask ing Mrs. Ferry in the library. Widow Donates Book to Library Mrs. Arthur Clark has donated a book, The Continent We Live On by Ivan T. Sanderson, to the High acres library in memory of- her husband, the late Mr. Arthur Clark. A butler on the Markle Estate before Highacres was pur chased by the Pennsylvania State University, Mr. Clark emigrated from England and served as butler for a period of forty years. While working here, Mr. and Mrs. Clark lived in the cottage where our cus todian, Mr. Coyne resides pres ently. Because her husband spent the, greater part of his life here at Highacres, Mrs. Clark felt that our library should have something in memory of her deceased hus band. May 4, 1965
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