..,1( , T,..,,, „:"..T..:,,,„ ...., ..,,,;„„,„ • : .., . A' SHORT THOUGHT Beware the fury of •a patient man . . VOLUME 4 SUCHY NAMED COLLEGIAN EDITOR Dave Suchy, a first term Associate degree student in engineering has been named clitor-inchief of the Highacres Colleiian for the 1969-70 academic year. Suchy, who gradu ated from Palmyra high school, had gained journalistic experience by working for several auto racing newspapers. He will replace Barb Sipler who resigned as editor-in chief upon usurping her office as SI.G.A. president. DAVID _G. SUC'HY • Dave, an avid race car enthusiast, plans to secure a rewarding position following vaduation, when he hopes to get married. Modified stock car and sprint car.: racing are his great est interests. To him this sport: is more than just a pastime; he hopes to follow his interest by building and racing a.modified stock car some day. - When asked to comment on his new appointment Dave replied, "I'm looking forward. to a fine year for the Collegian -I have a very coma petant staff to work with and we are all looking to a position of high es teem for the Collegian on this cam pus." COLLEGIAN THE HIGHACRES COLLEGIAN, HAZLETON CAMPUS, OCTOBER, 1969 DORM AND FOOD TO BE BUILT SERVICE BUILDINGS The Pennsylvania State University has been authorized by its Board Of Trustees to accept bids for con struction of a new dormitory and food service building at the Hazleton Campus. Work on the two structures is ex pected to begin this Fall in con junction with the scheduled con struction of a classroom-laboratory building on the campus by the Genr eral State Authority. The dormitory and food, service buildings are to be funded by the University on a self-amortizing bas is. The classroom laboratory is to be constructed from a combination of federal-state-local funds. The dual- winged residence hall is to have a housing capacity of 200 men and women students while the, food service building is to be cap able of serving 500 students. The classroom-laboratory is to in clude laboratories for biology, chem istry, physics, computer, electrical, electronic and language studies as well as the usual classroom, office and storage space. All three structures- are scheduled for completion by the Fall of 1971. In addition, a $965,000 campus li brary now is being designed for con struction by the GSA. -- The Board of Trustees also au thorized the expenditure of $2115,000 for utility line extension and ad ditional site work at Hazleton in connection with the new construc tion. T.G.I.F. DEBATE On Friday, October 4, a T.G.I.F. (thank God it's Friday) discussed the issues and causes of the Vietnam (Cont'd On Page Six) THE HIGHACRES A joint meeting of the Student Government Association and the Stu dent Union Board was held October 6th in the SGA office. The body unanimously agreed that they would not support the theme of the Viet Nam War MOritodium. SGA re quests that those students who are concerned with the issues involved with the war attend the lecture that is scheduled for Oct. 15th in the SUB lounge. Two representatives from the State Department will conduct the lectures and students will have an opportunity to pose questions and present ideas concerning the war. At the meeting, SGA representa tive, Joyce Rupp, presented evalu ations and recommendations relat ing to the feasability of conducting Ogontz. Group Seeks Abolishment UNIVERSITY PARK (APS) A student faculty advisory council at the University's Ogontz Campus has petitioned the University Senate to abolish Rule -W-20 which regulates the sale and distribution of all pub lications on all University campuses. The request for the rule's abolish- ent was made during the summer in a. letter sent to Senate Chairman Arthur 0. Lewis by Ernest R. Betcke, chairman of the Ogontz Campus Council. Lewis referred the letter to the Senate Committee on Undergradu ate Student Affairs which will re examine the rule. In his letter Betcke explained that he was representing the. Campus Council and members of fthe Ogontz Campus student body who voted for the rule's abolishment during a special meeting of the Council last Spring Term. pen a nB z yeiton *Campus rary, vanza State University S. G. A. NEWS Of Senate Rule W-20 an intensive investigation into the Associate Degree program. Upon hearing the report, the Student Gov ernment Association voted to, decline support of such an investigation on a state-wide level. In other action taken, President Barbara Sillier appointed represent atives Don Jacoby and Joe Esposito to the screening committee for the Student Court. She also defined briefly the duties of SGA and Student Union Board members and called for a more unified effort of the two groups in conducting campus af fairs. Representatives absent: Uve Lay man, Eileen Gibson, Kathy Romano, and Medirith Coopey. The meeting was held after am off-campus publication was banned from campusdistribution by Dean of Student Affairs Robert T. Clappier. He used Rule W-20 because of an alleged obsenity on the cover, after student complaints. Clappir said he banned the pub liCation because in his opinion, the banned publication was not compat able with University standards. But he added, "I think that W-20 is unworkable as it stands. It's much ton vague." The OGONTZ CAMPUS NEWS re ported the incident and intended to print some of the objectionable lan guage. The newspaper's printer re fused to print it and the campus ad- Ministration upheld the opinion, ac cotding to Sue Stephenson, former editor-in-chief. The staff rewrote the material, but inserted a flyer with the issue. NO. 1
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers