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edna: the
poor students
philosopher
It is time fornend of
term panic" when many students
minds begin to roam in the
hopes of escaping from final
exams. For a moment of day
dreaming, consider these quest
ions...
Is it true that the
Liberal Arts Majors are plan
ning to impeach the Scheduling
Committee, but the EdUcation
Majors prefer hanging them?
Have you noticed that two
sections of Women's Phys Ed
are "running away" with the
course?
Eigtmaps Tollpgian
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
John Busher...Editor-in-Chief
Maria Rovito.Executive editor
Dale Walok..Business manager
Linda Gallagher. Managing editor
Fred Kolet.Production manager
Lawrence auhre.Faculty advisor
STAFF
NEWS: L. Gallagher-editor. D.
Berger, C. Kokinda, N. Heiser,
M.J. Rovito, C. Tito.
ENTERTAINMENT: J. Yatsko -editor
T. Seo.
FEATURE: D. Berger-editor. J.
zderick, Edna, T. Urosevich.
EDITORIAL: M.J. Rovito -editor.
A. Prichard.
ADVERTISING: D. Walck-manager.
L. Gallagher, J. Hoppey.
PHOTOGRAPHY: M. Denke, C. Tito.
SPORTS: M.A. Delazio-editor.
B. Michael, C. Shenosky.
COMPOSITION: P. Kolet- manager.
D. Bauer, L. Gallagher, R.
Herschel, J. Hoppey, M.J.
Rovito, D. Serfass, D. Walck.
The COLLEGIAN is located in
the Publications office in
the S.U.B. game room.
Could the communists
booby trap the pinball
machines so that they read
"BORSCHT" instead of "TILT"?
Did you know that DDT may
be killing you now?
Is it possible that
pinochle may have an important
sociological function in the
lives of those who partake of
this unusual sport of
.throwing cards one upon the
other?
Why not give a copy of
DAS CAPITAL to your employer
for Christmas?
Who picked the lovely
red shade for the new water tower?
Will the University ever
let Janilou Maderick transfer
to U -Park?
Do you get frustrated
when you argue with a doorknob?
If your answers were a
mere grunt or groan, your
time has come. Finish your finals
take two aspirins and go home
for two weeks of hibernation.
'efore you realize it,"beginning
of term trauma" will be uron us
GREAT BOOKS
SOCIETY
The Great Books Society
of Greater Hazleton Area will
be conducting its meetings the
second Tuesday of each month
in the Hazleton Public Library.
The main purpose of the
Society is to examine great
books of the past and the sig
nificant contemporary books
in order to study the nature of
knowledge, man's thought, his
creativity and the cultural
fabric that he creates as seen
through the authoi-s of these
books.
Books to be discussed at
future meetings are Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol; The Labyrinth
of Solitude by Octavio P
Washington
Square by Henry
James; Rosmershoim by Henrik
Ibsen; and Warr, of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler.
Professor Andrew Kafka is
Moderator of the Society. Pro
fessor Kafka also takes a great
literary interest towards stu
dent activities on campus. He
serves as advisor for the
Belles-Lettres Society and the
New Horizons Literary Magazine.
HUMPTY
DUMPTY
by Debbie Berger
Things are not as they
rased to be. It used to be that
college students had a cer
tain "image" to live up to.
Jtemember? You had to keep a
!you
in your room--whether
!you could play it or not--col
lect sandals and protest but
tons, live on food that was no
good for yon, talk about "hap
penings," and have a severe
'ldentity Crisis. If you were
!male, you had to have a beard,
and if you were female you had
to have pierced ears. I have
noticed that the cliche is
fading out. We no longery for
the most part, wear jeans for
the sake of wearing jeans (have
you observed the increasing
number of skirts lately, fel
las?) and we no longer protest
indiscriminately. The idea of
the "In Crowd" has virtually
lost its popularity.
However, I am not advocat
ing giving outsiders the im
pression that we are "finally
coming to our senses." I ser
iously believe that a college
student's main defense against
everything in general is a bit
of healthy insanity. After we
protest ouietly and intelligent
ly; after we refuse to give in
to fads; after we prove that
we can accept responsibiliti.es,
and all that—then. we have the
right to decide not to be per
manently and completely "grown
up" if we so choose. I suggest
being a little silly now and
then. I don't mean refusing
to accept the Freshman of the
Year Award in opposition to the
reading list for your history
course. I mean harmless non
sense.
For example, you can twist
around common platitudes in
the presence of company. Sub
stitute Humpy Dumpty in every
expression or cliche that re
fers to Rome: Humpty Dumpty
wasn't put together in a day,
you know; When with Humpty
Dumpty, do as Humpty Dumpty
does; don't fiddle while Humpty
Dumpty burns. Aside from the
rise and fall of Humpty Dumpty,
there are other little things you
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