Faculty Association
selects chairman
The Hazleton Campus Faculty
General Assembly (FGA) has
elected Dr. Alan Price as its new
chairman for the current
academic year. Elected to serve
office with Dr. Price were the
following: Tom Caccese Vice
Chairman, Norma Moyer
Secretary, and Jim Boyle
Treasurer.
The FGA is an organization
that serves not only the members
of the faculty, but the entire
Highacres campus and student
body as well.
The membership of the
Assembly is made up of all full
time faculty, key administrators
and staff, and members of the
student body delegated by the
SGA including Mike Ford, SGA
President. Six major committees
serve as consultative and ad
visory bodies to the Campus
Director and other university ad
ministrators on campus affairs.
They are the Committee on
Academic Affairs; the Commit
tee on Committees, Planning,
and Rules; the Committee on
Community Relations; the Com
mittee on Faculty Affairs; the
Committee 'on Library and In
formation; and the Committee on
Student Relations. The FGA also
maintains a liaison with the
Faculty Senate at University
Park and with other Penn State
faculty organizations.
The Assembly sponsors other
activities as well. For example,
rather than exchange Christmas
Aurand, Caliva, cited
Two . professors of the Penn
sylvania State University,
Highacres Campus, ' won best
teaching and best advising
awards. The awards were given
to Dr. Aurand and Mr. Caliva by
the AMOCO corporation and
University Park.
Dr. Aurand won the AMOCO
Outstanding Teacher Award,
which entitled him to a certificate
and 1,000 dollars. Dr. Aurand was
very surprised when he received
a telephone call about winning
the award one Sunday. "I thought
one of my colleagues was playing
a joke," he said. Three others
received the same award. Two
were from University Park, and
cards every year, the members
of the Assembly decided to col
lect and use that money to sup
port a foster child on a southeast
Indian reservation. The
Assembly also plans a faculty
outing each year.
Major issues of concern before
the Assembly at this time are the
shortage of adequate parking
facilities on campus, the tremen
dous increase in enrollment, the
large number of books being
stolen from the library, and the
proposed change in the school
calendar in 1984 to 2 15-week
_semesters instead of the present 8
10-week terms.
Dr. Price was elected to his
position by the members of the
Assembly. His duties include run
ning the Assembly meetings, ac
ting as a member of all the major
committees, and, generally, to
oversee the operation of the
Assembly.
Dr. Price attended Lafayette
College, the University of Lon
don, Edinburgh, and Earlham
Colleges before receiving his
master's degree from Penn
State. He returned to England
and studied at Oxford University.
Dr. Price received his PhD from
the University of Rochester in
New York and has since done
follow-up research at Yale
Univearsity and the University of
Pennsylvania. He has been a
member of the Highacres faculty
for the past 13 years.
one was from a commonwealth
campus.
Mr. Caliva t a professor in the
College of Engineering, won the
University-wide award for best
advisor. On May 8,1980 he attend
ed the ceremony for his award at
the Sheraton Penn State Hotel at
University Park, and received a
certificate and 500 dollars. Mr.
Caliva's advising ability was
described as unparalleled. After
letters of recommendation from
students, campus directors, and
associates, he was chosen for the
award. This was the first time a
professor in the College of
Engineering received the honor
since 1968.
New entrance tabled
The New Front Entrance pro
ject, funded by The Hazleton
Educational Council, has been
tabled at the present time due to
an increase in construction costs
not anticipated by the Council.
Unfortunately, the final plans
for the project were delayed
when John Miorelli, the architect
who was personally supervising
the project, suffered an illness
and died. Bids on the project
finally came in at two times the
original anticipated cost of
$35,000. This was due largely to a
huge increase in construction
costs and to the nature of the pro
ject itself, which is a highly
sophisticated one requiring much
custom cutting and carving of
stone.
The new front entrance was to
consist of two stone walls on both
sides of the roadway leading into
the campus, each carved with the
Due to complications, work on the front entrance has been
delayed.
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name "Hazleton Campus of the
Pennsylvania State University"
and each including a replica of
the Nittany Lion. Lighting, land
scaping, and sidewalks were to
be included also.
Two phases of the project, the
relocation of telephone poles and
the installation of a drainage
system, were completed during
the spring term of 1980. Until ad
ditional funds tan be raised,
however, the project is at a stand
still. John J. Yamulla, chairman
of the project committee and
president of the HEC, along with
the HEC, is exploring the
possibility of completing the pro
ject in individual phases. A
report on this possibility is ex
pected by October 3.
Mr. Cerulla, Business
Manager, when commenting on
the project said, "The project
will eventually, definitely be
completed."
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The Highacres Collegian-
Books stolen from library'
Even with the installation of a
$9,000 book detecting system, the
Highacres Library suffered a loss
of 90 books last year, according to
head librarian Mary Ferry.
Although Mrs. Ferry considers
the security system to be "a very
good one," students continue to
find ways of carrying out un
checked books.
The check-point system is sen
sitive to a metal plate within the
book's sign-out card. If a student
attempts to take an unchecked
book through the exit, the device
should sound an audible "beep"
tone and lock the turnstyle. Books
most commonly stolen are in the
subjects of math and science,
although the variety of subjects is
widening. To replace them, the
University must pay approx
imately $lO per book to process
the various paperwork, in addi
tion to the cost of the book itself.
To fight further theft attempts,
the library staff plant to enforce
its security system. "I have a
responsibility to the students to
discourage the minority of those
with 'selfish attitudes' from tak
ing books from those who need
them."
Mrs. Ferry said that any per
son who has stolen a book can
return it anonymously by
dropping it in the book drop.
Hopefully, in this way, the library
can retrieve some of the books
that have been stolen.
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