THE. HIGHACRES
A SHORT THOUGHT
Feilure is the line of
least persistence.
VOLUME 3
Sipler And Caccese Head SGA
Barbara Sipler and Tom Cac
cese will head the Student Gov
ernment Association at Highacres
next year. At the election that
was • held April 16, Sipler was
CACCESE and SIPLER
Approve Phy. Ed.
Unkrersity Park The Board
of Trustees of The Pennsylvania
Sla'e University has approved
- sketch plans for construction of
$1,045,000 physical education
building at the Beaver Campus
of. the University. -
The multi-purpose structure,
featuring . a 15,300 square-foot
gyrrrnasinm, will be built by the
General S'ate Authority after pre
liminary and final plans are com
pleted and approved.
The sketch plans call for the
build'ng to include, in addition to
the gym and baseketball court:
An 800-square foot classroom;
two auxiliary areas for either
classroom or athletic instruction;
men, woolen and team or faculty
locker rms; laundry facilities,
equipment storage, first aid and
THE HIGHACRES COJEFGIAN, HAZLETON CAMPUS, APRIL, 1969
named President of the orpliiza
tion and Caccese was designated
as Vice President.
When asked to comment on the
election, the newly elected presi
dent replied, "I will attempt to
be representative of all the stud
ents. I realize the importance of
S. G. A. on _campus. I only wish
the student body would become
more concerned with its funct
ions." She added, "I VII have a
real fine group to work with . . .
I know they are as enthused as I
am for the prospects of the com
ing year." Barb is a third term
student in edli - ration and is editor
of the `Collegian.'
Tom Caccese, who is a third
term student in EET, and when
asked to comment on his new
position said, "I am proud to be
a •part of the Highacres Student
Government Association and I
will endeavor, with the help of
the student body, to uphold the
social and scholastic standards
of the Hazleton Campus."
Building Plans
training room; faculty office
space; and a 1,300-square foot
civil defense shelter and storage
area. .
The build'ng could also be used
for large assemblies, lecture and
artist engagements, or related
extracurricular activities.
The gymnasium, to be located
in the southwest " co.rner of the
camnus, will become the hub of
the Beaver recreation area,
whhh also will in' lude a large
atbletir field and basketball,
handball and tennis courts, ex
plains Dr. Joseph P. Giusti, dir
ector of the Campus.
Two new buildings presenity
are under construction at the
campus -- a $l.l million resi
dence ball and a $713,000 food
service - building.
TOPE ACCEPTS
Mel Topf, instructor in English
at Highacres, announced that he
has accepted a position at the
newly constructed Roger Wil
liams Liberal Arts College in
Bristol, R. I.
When asked his reason for
leaving the Hazleton Campus,
Topf replied, "My main profes
sional reason for leaving is the
lack of opportunity to tach ad
vanced literature courses here."
Mr. Topf, who has been at the
Hazlet-n Campus for the past two
ye ors. commented on the student
body. "They are, much worse as
students than those at University
Park, but they are much more
interesting as individuals, more
worth getting to know."
"They have no class," he add
ed.
Mr. Topf is from Brooklyn, N.
Y. He is an alumnus of Long Is
land University and New York
Un'vPrs'ty. He will receive his
Ph. D. in English. this June from
Penn State. His special area of
interest is the 18th century Bri
tish novel.
Mr. Topf has chosen to- accept
PUSEY DEFENDS OUSTER ACTION
(Standard-Speaker) occupiers had already begun to
rifle and duplicate the twilit"
personnel files and financial re
cords."
The president of Harvard Uni
versity Friday defended his call
for police to oust student demon
strators from' a school building.
Thursday as 20 per cent of the
Ivy League school's student body
attended a rally to prOtest the
action.
Some 400 police were called to
clear University Hall. Almost 200
students were arrested and more
than three dozen hurt.
Earl er, Franklin L. Ford, dean
of the faculty, said reproductions
President Nathan M. Pusey of confidential documents in
said the students head broken in- eluding some involving the Cen
to confidential files and "did not tral Intelligence Agency were
Wend to bargain."
published in an underground
The de-relopme Its a+ Harvard newspaper.
marked a day of nationw'de stud Ford said one of the letters
dent disorders in which under- stolen, from the file was that of
graduates at one school called a Harvard headmaster informing
for the resignation of the college Ford that he was a consultant, to
precident and youths at another the CIA. Another was a copy of
revealed plans for a boycott of a proposal by Harvard to the
the student union. CIA for a project to be carried
At Harvard, Pusey said, "The N out by Harvard.
NEW POSITION
the new position at Roger Wil
liams College because "It's an
all-new college, and I can help
design the English curriculum
there."
In his evaluation of Highacres,
Topf stated, "It has enormous
potential."
MR. MEL TOPE