Fags 6 - The Highacres Cellegias, Feb. 6, 1975 UNPAVING PARADISE By James Germley It seems to be happening all over. In different places and localities there are dif ferent colloquial expressions for the process. For example, in San Francisco, they refer to it as "Manhattanization" and point the finger at Bechtel, FG&W, and the Examiner. Far ther to the East in the moun tains of Colorado the sane process is refered to as "Cal ifornication" and the rituals are the same, the objects dif fer. Basically "it" is growth or development or whatever wes tern civilisation is doing these days that seems to be pissing people off. Speci fically it's not that what passes for civilization is growing, it's the style of the growth. • . quite akin to an ill mannered tumor. Highacres seems to be having growing pains too. A library here, a classless building there, here a hole, there a gym. * . People are beginning to feel the pains of the "manhattanization" of Highacres. She natural ten dency of those afflicted is to succumb to 'the pain and aar asaa and sort of nope around asking occasional funky con sents about the sorry, and worsening, state of things. Eliot Eisenberg, High acres engineering professor, was and is still suffering fro* the Highacres version of "sanhattanlzati on.". , . the new gys construction. Initially upset about the extent to which vegetation was being sacrificed to the project, Hr. Eisenberg*s aesthetic and practical ideals WALDEN BOOKSTORE LAUREL HALL HAZLETON \ GREAT BOOK VALUES V' SALETBOOKS V were further outraged by the the Biology Club, proposed extension of the side- The central idea of Hr. walk from the library - "the Eisenberg* s proposition re wind tunnel." mains to examine and do some- After putting up with this'thing about the local impact situation for a term, Mr. of growth - principally at Eisenberg decided to do some- Highacres and the sprawl of thing. As chairman of the the Conyngham Valley. Tenta- Student Relations Committee, tive activities for the week he proposed that a week of established at a preliminary spring term be devoted to the planning meeting center aroun* theme "Our relation to the * picnic/replanting fest on environment," the idea being Sunday, May 4. The site of to combine the usual ecologi- is the area between cal rhetoric with some actual th ® Classroom Building and remedial action. Though the the Library (i.e., the wind ti "Eisenberg Proposition" is Likel y sources of seed still in the planning stage, «e considered to be th< it has secured support from Commonwealth of Pa. and the Student Relations Committee, !**?*»* “ urB<n i iBa \ * the Student Union Board, and addition to the picnic/plant- darner jewelers W -/ 37 EAST BROAD STREET HAZLETON, PENNA. 18201 Jim Hamer, 8.5., P.S.U. 1968, Owner VALENTINE’S DAY 1975 LET HER KNOW YOU LOVE HER WITH A GIFT FROM HARN.HR JEWELERS. And remember, Hamer's is still offering a 10% discount to all Penn State students, faculty, and members of the administration. 455-0241
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