{7,717,1 animal shelter is a home for many MARCY MARGIM'S Hair Design Specializing in precision cuts... for men and women 868 Peace Street Hazleton Phone 454-0347 Hours By Appointment Only PREGNANT? NEED HELP? Pregnancy Testing Confidential Counseling Abortion Birth Control Gynecological Services ALLENTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER 215.264-5657 OS 4C 1 e* *l 6%Q ) e ffr 4 t% q"3 AZS# By Jerry Trently, Jr. A car's horn blows. Two blasts, just enough to arouse the attention of Jean Dem shock as she works at her desk at the Hazleton animal shelter. Outside, a man paces impa tiently near the fence sur rounding the shelter. She goes out to meet him and explains the story she has heard many times before. "Gee, I'd like to keep them myself, but ah, I'm at work all day, sometimes until late at night, ya know, and I just couldn't give them a good home." He continues to rattle off his story as Dem shock ponders the question of what to do with the stray pup pies waiting in the back of the man's car. "I almost ran them over the other night, they were near my house," he pauses a moment, then, almost as if pleading to her, "There were only these two. I tried to find them a good home. I asked the guys at work and all, but nobody wants them. You know how it is." Jean Demshock knows how it is. She started working at the shelter as a volunteer. Volunteers are an integral part of the Hazleton animal shelter, but good ones are hard to find. As she explains, "Once, about forty kids came in here and said that they would like to help out, and within a couple of weeks, they gradually disappeared. Few of them ever stick it out here." Margaret Ferrence, a Math course drops termed "excessive" By Terry McCarthy During, the first few weeks of the previous term, it ap peared that many students in Math 120 were dropping the course as if it were a bad habit. What were the reasons for such an unusual rate of Waschko's Pharmacy 257 N. Wyoming St. Hazleton, PA 18201 "Meg Famitg-euged likatugaB at ifilteite A Stitch In Time Rt. 93 Valley Plaza Conyngham I Phone 788-4911 along side Goulds' IGA SINGER sopnemore at Penn State's Hazleton Campus, is a shelter volunteer. "She is one who has stuck it out here," praises Demshock. ~"She's very con cerned about the animals, and even keeps me informed through animal literature she reads." The work is messy, and, the shelter volunteer does end up being the unsung hero. There are - cages to be cleaned, lit ters to be changed, dogs to be walked, and the list of chores adds up. The glorification comes in the real story, the animals themselves. At first, a visitor to the shelter is greeted by "Tut," the shelter's mascot. Tut usually barks in anticipation of a visitor, then pours on the smiling and tail-wagging. He is a warm sight, especially with his red railroader's han dkerchief on his neck. "We're selective about who we allow to adopt our animals." Jean Demshock Inside the shelter the mood changes, it is a mixed at mosphere. Half of the animals are glad for com pany, friendly enough to pick up and hold. The other half are contrastingly timid, afraid of invasion, perhaps from being beaten when they were younger. As Demshock explains, "Sometimes they're beaten, or thrown out of cars and it sticks with them." A walk into the back room and a door operated by a wire withdrawals and even failures by the end of the term for a math course that is not as challenging as many math courses offered at Penn State? According to Pro fessor Ernest Hausleer, the reason for the higher rate of withdrawals from the Math 120 program is due to the fact that the university has chang- Monte's Pizza and Ice Crearh Parlor ' t. 93 Conynghom Near Brookhill Center Pizza, Lasagna. Italian Hoagies Stromboli, etc.. Come In & Try Us! opens. "Jumbles," a one year-old female dog, runs in. Slke appears happy, loves the notion of a visitor, yet her chances of-finding a home are getting slimmer as she gets older. The present shelter was built in 1972, and is run on donations. When an animal is adopted, a donation is ac cepted to help cover the cost of shots and keeping the animal at the shelter. 'Peo ple just don't realize all it takes," says Demsock. "We have to supply food for our animals, litters for our cats, and none of this is donated or given to us at a discount. We pay the same for our animal supplies as the average pet owner." "We're also selective about who we allow to adopt our animal." She displays a notebook full of people who are denied an animal • adop tion because of their previous record with the shelter. "We won't allow someone to adopt an animal when we know he'll be back the next day, or mistreat the animal." The shelter is located at the intersection of Poplar and Hemlock streets in Hazleton. Adoption hours are on weeknights from 4:30 until about 10:00 or 11:00 or at the preferred hours from 2:00 to 4:00 on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. The shelter can be reached by phone at 454- 0640. Students are welcome to adopt animals, but as Dem shock warns, "Students must keep in mind that the animal will probably live long after ed the degree requirements for business majors. "In the past, it was required that business majors take Math 120 and 121. Starting this year only one math was necessary. It was easier to drop one of the courses (Math 120) now because the student would not fall that far behind in re quired classes." Professor Hausleer also stated, "In the past we did a little more reviewing. Now with only one math required, certain material had to be omitted." At the beginning of the se cond term, there were two sections of Math 120 classes, each with fifty-one students. By the end of the term 24% of the students had dropped the course and 7 % of the students tailed: It appears that the students - who were in section one suffered more than the students in section two. In section one 45% of the students either failed or withdrew while only 18% did not receive credit for Math 120 in section two. Many students were more concern ed about the difference in dif ficulty between the two sec tions than in the content of the two classes. The response by one freshman seemed to reflect the opinion of many students who were in section one. "I feel the math depart- their four years , in college. Why some cats can live to be 25 years old. This does not mean that they have to plan the next 25 years of their lives around pet adoption, but these kind of things do have to be considered." As a sidelight, HCV is cur rently producing the "Pet of the Week" with Carol Clar ton. Carol, a sophomore at Penn State, features a dif ferent animal each week on this segment, which is part of HCV's News View 13 pro gam. went is very unfair. For one person to go into the final test with a failing grade and get a "C" is not right. It is not fair that one teacher does not want to fail people and the other teacher to fail at least 25 people. If those 25 people had the other teacher, they In section one, 45% of the students either failed or withdrew while only 18% did not receive credit for Math 120 in section two. would not have failed. The system (mathematic depart ment) really is unfair." The high rate of student withdrawal affects not only the student but his fellow students who must cope with overcrowded classes next year. Headaches are also be ing felt by advisors and ad ministration people who must fill out drop forms and deal with notices of failure. If students . feel that a change is needed in the math program, they must join ' together and let their t thoughts be known by both the math department and ad ministration.
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