PAGE TWO EDITORAL: Hitting A Challenge Headon Eleven Student Government Representatives were placed into offices last week at an uncontested election. Since then, comments have been made concerning the election of these people because of the one-sided slate of candidates offered to the voters. I sympathize with the students who cared enough to run for offices. They are hitting a challenge head-on as they en ter into their new positions. To put it simply, they are fac ing a student body that is overridden with indifference. Oddly enough, the students who know the least about poli cies and activities here on campus, will be the loudest crit ics of those who attempt to carry on the roles of govern ment. The students who will repudiate the efforts of •the leaders are those who are synonomous with "APATHY". When there is work to be done . . . they are not available. They excel best at criticizing, but they offer little or abso lutely no solutions or suggestions to ease the qualms of campus life. From the sidelines of the arena they shout for changes . . . for , action. But exactly what is it that they desire chang ed? Do 'they assist in effecting reforms? Chances are they do not. For them, campus life becomes a lofty seat of judg ment wfiere they can, at best, "sound off" but "do nothing". They htirl spears of degradation at the students who at tempt to execute routine campus affairs and even the pro fessors be . come victims of assinine criticism. I wholeheartedly support, suggestions from conscientious students -- those who are willing to offer constructive crit icisms . . . plausible alternatives, but to those who make a farce of our educational system through their indifference, I offer these few words, `;,Solutions display intelligence: un founded criticisms displays ignorance." The S .U. B. at Highacres is a second home to most of us. We spend hours sharing past everiences with our friends, contemplating the future of the world, or even studying for the up-coming English Exam. The S. U. B. reflects the student body at the Hazleton Campus. If the students would take the time to look at the S. U. 8., they would see that the S. U. B. also reflects the city dump. Do empty trays, dirty dishes, and miscellaneous garbage reflect the charac'er of our student body? Are the students a part of the mess in the S. U. 8., a part that , is able to remove itself at will? The only way the students are going : to prove •their responsiblity and maturity is to take care of the things they have at their disposal. Remerhtier, thle next time you sit down at a table and discover your sleeve simiking up the remains of the •morning coffee, ask yourself, • "S. U. B. or dump?" THE HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor, This is not an irate condemna tion, nor is it a frantic appeal to incite the masses.' Neither do I wish to insult anyone. IVI3I only hope is to bring into the open a few points that, to date, Most of us students, myself in eluded, have ignored. We, the almighty students, are never wrong. _ We call Hibacres a Day-Camp, criticize the curric ulum, insult the professors be hind their backs (and in some cases to their faces), and do our utmost to make life miserable for ourselves. Is Highacres a Day - Camp? Perhaps. But I sincerely doubt that conditions here are much different from other places. One boy I know cannot stand Univer sity Park any longer than five days a week; another transferred back to Schuylkill Campus for much the same reason. My best friend at East Stroudsburg writes about her "lousy campus", and my "brother" at Valley Forge lives for his few alloted days off, to come home. We seem to forget that High acres is only a small branch of a large university: it is virtually impossible to schedule courses at the whims of one or two people. The small classrooms only accomodate a few ample per sections and most professors do not want to take on four or five sections a term. This is their right-after all, they have to prepare for these classes. If they were to come to a class on prepared we would be the first to give tontine to thle fact, com plaining Hea.-)en to. C,Pnyngharn that "we was robbed". As for insulting the professors Editor-in-Chief ... Assistant Editors , Art Editor Layout Editor ... Reporters Advisor Staff ... April 16, 1969 COLLEGIAN STAFF Marian Sipler Elaine Pataki, Mary Kamerdze, Anne Marouchoc, Nancy Anch,arski Mel Topf Toyce Rupp, JoAnne Volosky APRIL, 1969, - who , are we to mimic these men and women when they hold two or three degrees to our none? These same students who imitate the mannerisms of the "profs". have not really spent ' much time trying to know them as people. I am not saying that a degreg F ivings automatic respect for tfle.fierson, but it does war:. rant our respect to their pro fessorship and authority if noth ing more. We are the students, they are the teachers and as long as we are still working for our degree this line line must be drawn and kept. Until this past weekend, I felt a certain animosity for Highacres. I did a pretty good job of cutting her to shreds, too. Then, a very wise man sat me down and re minded me of the past year and how hard I cried for fear of being refused admittance. "When you first went there, you were glad to, be admitted on the terms at khe'r discre tion. Suppose, in the light of your past few statements, you vtrere be refused admittance next year. You would feel pretty rank abOuti that, would you not? Being refused admit+ance for next year is not likely and yet it makes one: think. I strongly recommend (to those who feel that they can not stand High acres any longer) transferring to some other campus. It is sure bet better that conditions .will remain much' the same. It will not be the campus or the professors or the administration who is at fault. Our feelings of disgust and, futility stem, not from the university, but fmm un happiness within ourselves. Sincerely, Joanne L' Volasicy Barb Sipler. Helen Fuller, Pasco Pecora Gwenn Cronk
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