PAGE TWO EDITORAL: Do We Choose. Failure? Failure is the one thing in life that people fear most. It is both defeating and discourging to those who experience it. It can ruin people, but it can also build people . . . success from failure is not impossible. Our campus was faced with failure last term when the Highacres Collegian was forced to "shut-down" because of its inability to produce a college-level newspaper. The fail ure was cast upon the campus, and a shadow of dismerit loomed over us, pushing our pride into the dirt. What can be done about failure? Where does one begin to pick up the pieces? Which way do we turn to make F-A-I-L- U-R-E spell SUCCESS? We turn to you the student body— each one of you. First, the staff must ask several things of you as students. We need readers with open minds: If each time a paper is published, the student body is going to remember past is sues rather than present efforts, failure will be assured a permanent dwelling place at Highacres. In addition, it must be realized by our readers that the Collegian is an old name with a new image . . . a new editor, a new staff, and a new concept of journalism. Notice that the name Collegian has not been changed. The name was kept, not because it is go ing to be the same old paper, but because it identifies with the old readers. The old readers are wanted . . . but, with a new outlook. This paper needs readers with open minds, readers who can forget past failures and help make a NEW paper. If sug gestions develop in the minds of the students or faculty, the staff is willing to cooperate with you in the development of these ideas, if they are valid and constructive. The paper also needs the honesty of its readers in the form of feedback so it can realize its inadequacies or its successfullness. To sum things up, success will only be assured by a uni fied endeavor on the part of everyone here at the Hazleton Campus. The efforts of the staff along with the open minds of you, the readers, will provide the Collegian with a chance for pride and respect once again. It's going to be quite a job, but we'll make it. COLLEGIAN STAFF Editor-in-Chief ... Assistant Editors . Art Editor Layout Editor .... Reporters Advisor Staff .. Barb Sipler Helen Fuller, Pasco Pecora Gwenn Cronk Marian Sipler Elaine Pataki, Mary Kamerdze, Anne Marouchoc, Nancy Ancharski Mel Topf Bill Barlow, JoAnne Volosky THE HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN Dean Gel!horn of the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE announces the enlargement and admitfance of more students this fall to the school in hope of alleviating the national doctor shortage. PENN STATE President Eric A. Walker will become an honor ary member of the Penn State Keystone Society at its Spring Term Conference at University Park. COLLEGE MISERICORDIA of Dallas, Pa., will sponsor its tenth annual reading conference to be held on that campus April 18 and 19. CAMPUS: DATELINE The University Board of Trustees of THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY has approved the change in policy pertaining to the housing of transfer students from the Commonwealth Camp uses. Under the new ruling, all male transfer students and all coeds who are twenty-one or older will be permitted to live off campus. The predominantly Negro LANE COLLEGE in Jackson, Tennes see, saw its latest racial unrest last week when authorities sug gested a touch of arson in the fire which totally destroyed the cam. pus' science building. The BEHREND CAMPUS of PENN STATE has become the initial site for OSGA's Project Reach-Out. This, program is aimed, at help ing more black students gain adtuissions to the university. A program has beeri launched at the UNIVERSITY OF PENN -SYLVANIA. to delve into the possibilities of academic studies on African and Afro-American life and culture. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY was the site of a boycott of cla*es late last week by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)qor the purpose of opposing the present academic studies, "Your Manual", an anonymously written pamphlet, was found circulating among members of the SDS on the campus of the UNI VERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. The pamphlet consisted of instruc tions and illustrations for means of agitation. A new approach to resolving campus d;sputes will be tried at UNIVERSITY PARK, PENN STATE by the process of mediation headed by Theodore W. Kheel, a nationally known labor mediator. Harrisburg has issued the statement that students receiving the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA) scholarships will not receive further help from the state if found breaking the law during campus demonstrations. THE PENNSYLVANIA ITATE UNIVERSITY has received a 4 T0,000 grant from the Pennsylvania Coal Research Board for the development of a device to measure coal dust in hopes of the pre ”enticn of black lung disease. I=l I=l = CEMZI I=3 APRIL /969
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