• Artist donates panel by Jane Bugda In addition, 'an arts and crafts studio has also been opened on campus, funded through a $1,600 grant from the Gifts and En dowments office at the Universi ty. The grant was used to pur chase art • and photographic materials and equipment and may be used by staff and students at the Hazleton Campus. A Hazleton artist has created an art panel which was recently donated to the Hazleton Campus of Penn State and which is cur rently on display , permanently outside of the library, on campus. Salvatore DeFazio, a for Mer Hazleton Campus student whose original choral work has also been performed at the campus, donated his art .panel "Mind: Body: Spirit," during dedication ceremonies at the Hazleton Cam, pus as part of the 125th =dyer sary festivities at University. The work is composed of,black and gold paint on a four by. foar foot steel panel.- Other .of DeFazio's sculptural .pieces are displayed at, Mining and Mechanical Institute in Freeland, and St. John' the Divinep a thedral in New York. DeFazio also com memorated the visit of Pope John , Paul ll's visit .to America. in sculpture. • STS course offered Winter _term STS (Science, Technology, and Society) is a new Course being of fered Winter term' at Highacres. The course will be taught by Dr. Frankel and Dr. Marchesani. The course objective iS to make' us more aware of the impact that Science and Technology- have on. our lives by drawing its concepts from biology and.the philosophies of science. The course includes new holistic interpretations of evolution stressing , the role of symbiosis .and cooperation in nature. Scientific essays and a selec tion of seienceaction stories will be used to illustrate ideas develoed in the course. ,Basket ballactivities videotaped A broadcast started last year by the Hazleton Campus Video will be continued again this year on Channel 13. The program will be shown at the Jatest a week later than it was taped. Last, year's program consisted of the entire basketball game. , "This year we hope to include interviews with the players and other activities around the cam Highacres Chorus will present its annual Medieval- Feaste January , and February 1. Student admission is $9; adult admission, $13.50. The Feaste will be held at Stefanisko's Hall on the Hazleton-McAdoo Hwy. For more information contact Dr. Jumpeter (office in S-bldg.) rims Price Bell preterit research Dr. James ,Staudenmeier, Associate .Director of the Hazleton . Campus of, The Penn sylvania State . University, an •nounced that two campus faculty members recently gave presen tations before a national conven tion of English teachers in Cincin nati, Ohio. Dr. Alan Price, Assis tant Professor of English, and Dr. Eric Bell, Assistant Pro fessor of. EducatiOnal Psychology,. presented 'research into theeffects of anxiety on col lege composition students. Their study sought to determine whether students showed greater motivation and improvement in composition courses when grades were withheld. Dr. Price and Dr. Bell par ticipated in the session "Anxiety:, Its Use (And Abuse) in the Com position, Process" as, part of the. annual convention.of the National Council -of Teachers of English. Other panel members included Dr. Bruce Smith of 'Georgetown University, Dr. John Daly of the University of Texas, Dr. Richard .Veit of the University of North Carolina, and Dr. Dawn Wilson of Kent State University. pus, instead of just the games," said Mr. Barry Jais, club ad= visor. • The club's most important feat this year was the building of their new studio in the Physical Educa tion Building. Plans for other pro jects are still undecided. New members are still welcome and interested persons should see Mr. Jais, Mr. James Methot, or Finn Peterson. MU= Iwo SGA, holds dance, sale The two major SGA events for the month of December were the Semi-Formal Banquet and the Christmas Candy Sale. The se cond annual SGA Semi-Formal Banquet was held on December 12, 1980, at Gus Genetti's. The buffet meal began at 8:00 p.m., and was enjoyed by all. Enter tainment was provided by The Marty Edwards Band which began to perform at 9:30 p.m. The entire crowd danced Until 12:30 cm. The Christmas Candy Sale was very successful again this year. Over $700.00 worth of candy was sold by the' SGA members. The thairmen, Alita Rovito, Dee Hartman, Marybeth Powell, and Richard Prewitt, did a very good job in organizing this year's sale. Highwres Ai dub ready for slopes Since the first day of school, the ski club hag been busy planning its activities for the year. They have already held a ski movie and a ski tune-up and swap shop for good, used equipment. Also planned is a visit from ski shop and ski resort people to explain their programs such as inter- - collegiate ski , 'racing and night skiing programs: Professor Con cannon, the advisor, is also checking into ski areas for a possible trip during spring break. On their immediate schedule, the ski club plans to do some night •skiing. or, Camel, Back. Ski Area and Big Boulder Ski Area. There might also be a weekend trip to Greek Peak in New York. Any member' of the ski club receives a 1096 discount on pur chases at Alpine Ski Shop (Route 940, white Haven) - and . Michael's Timberline Ski Shop (Route 940, Blakeslee). There are currently over 160 members. Professor Concannon Welcomes more to join. Officers are: President Jim Concannon, Vice President Mike Buczynski, Treasurer Carol Pozda, and Secretary Marlene Steber. N 41.11111 Drama club presents play by Jim Bagley The Highacres production of Gore Vidal's The Best Man was presented on October 28, 29, 30, and November 1 in the Commons. Attendance for the show totaled about 400 with a capacity au dience every night. The play was directed by Dr. Carl Frankel with assistance from Martha Beharry: The cast of characters includ ed: Dale Rhine as Dick Jensen; Tim Kelly as William Russell; Chris McNab as Mrs Gamadge; Joe.LeMonic:a as .Art Hocksteader;• Mandy. Amsell as Mabel Cantwell; Greg Reinsmith as Bill Blades; Eric Peterson as Joseph Cantwell; Beth Howard as Senator Carlin; Bill Warg as Dr. Artinion; and Enoch Zelinski as Sheldon Marcus. Playing reporters- Were .Jenßae Diane hunter, Judd Buskirk and Lisa Betley. Also in the play were Karen Seltzer, George Rodriguez, Dagmar Shaup, Chris Nash, Francis Roman, Dave Ex-student politician wins libel suit against student newspaper A former U. of California-Santa Barbara student politican recent ly won $lB,OOO in punitive and compensatory damages in a five year-old libel suit against the stu dent newspaper. Former Daily Nexus Editor James Minow was ordered to pay $3,000 in personal punitive damages while the U. of Califor nia Regents, as publishers of the paper, were ordered to pay ;15,000 in compensatory damages to Murvin Glass, a 1975 student government presidential can didate. Glass filed the suit claim ing Minow and the Daily Nexus libeled him in a series of editorials, articles and cartoons. The libel suit centered around two controversial cartoons that ran in the Nexus during Glass' campaign for external president of the UCSB Associated Students in 1975. One depicted a small black boy, wearing a M.G. but ton, sitting on a throne and say ing, "And to think I owe it all to voter apathy." The second show ed three black students stealing copies of the Nexus from a box and referred to the theft of 8,000 copies of the Nexus issue that en dorsed Glass' opponent. .Glass claims those two cartoons and stories within the Nexus in sinuated he was responsible for The Highaeres Collegian- e cast o Wertzel, and George Schwartz. There were many behind-the scenes jobs that helped make the show a success. Dr. Frankel had this to say on the play: "The quality of the pro was very good. -The- ac tors did themselves proud. • Overall, I was very pleased with how they worked through rough spots without them showing." He added how timely the production was with the election so close to the performances and that this play was performed by quite a few people at election time. "It showed a lot of the influences that are at work in the political world. What happened November 4 (Election. Day) showed that truth is sorne4tmes: str4ngerothaA tier tion. The play correctly forecast the demise of liberal Senators such as McGovern, Bayh, and Church who were all elected out of office." the newspaper theft and caused him to lose the election by 300 votes. The trial also revealed a longtime rivalry between Glass and Minow, stemming back to their competition for Pally Nexus editor in 1974. Minow won that race by one vote. Glass, a former Nexus minority affairs editor, continued working for the paper until he was fired in 1975 for allegedly failing to produce his quota of articles. The current Nexus carried daily reports of the libel suit, but was otherwise detached from its out come. "There's a certain amount of shame in the sense that it was our organization that was ruled at fault," says Editor Jerry Corn field. "But that all happened five years ago there's no one on the staff now that was here then. We see James Minow on campus (as editor of an alumni publication) and we know who he is, but that's about it." Cornfield doesn't think the court's ruling will affect the Regents' policies toward the paper. "We do not anticipate any repercussions in terms of more oversight by the Regents," he says. "But then we were surpris ed by the decision, and in the short .11 1 Pt it ' s hard to .tell.what the impact will be."
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