News The Student Government is in the proceSs of planning several events as the year comes to a close at Highacres. On April 30, the association is sponsoring the 12th annual Awards Banquet at Gus Genetti's Best Western Motor Lodge. The expected attendance is somewhere around 200 peo ple, comprised of students and faculty from the Hazleton Campus. The actual banquet will be held in the Washington Room in Genetti's Hall of Presidents. The meal, which consists of a choice of oven roast beef or steak savoy with a baked potato, vegetables, a tossed salad and a parfait dessert, will be served at 6:30. At about Inside the SGA... By Alita Rovito 7:00, the awards ceremony will begin, and the Herman James Band will then per form from 9:00 to 1:00. Diana Photo Graphics will also be available to take pictures from 6:00 to 7:30. The cost of the banquet is $22.00 per couple, $12.00 per person, and pictures cost $7.00. On April 17 and 18, the SGA sponsored a leadership conference at the Split Rock Lodge, near Lake Harmony in the Poconos. The con ference is conducted each year as a learning ex perience for freshmen at the Hazleton Campus preparing for roles as leaders of campus organizations for the com ing schoolyear. On April 25, HCAC work ed in conjunction with the March-of-Dimes' Walk America. Walk- America involves a thirty kilometer walk through a route that goes around the Hazleton area. As of press time, over 110 walkers were registered for the walk, and that figure far exceeds last yar's total number of walkers. Monies are raised through pledges walkers obtain from various sponsors, and all proceeds benefit the March of-Dimes. On May 7,8, and 9, the Greater Hazleton Fine Arts Council is sponsoring the Annual Fine Arts Festival, here at Highacres. Ice cream will be sold by the SGA, and various other food items will be sold by the Student Union Board. Ex hibits of all types of art work, such as Metal craft, silk screening, and various types of paintings and woodwork will be on display. Hazleton's three-year champs For three consecutive years, Hazleton has held a world title (even a trophy) and no one seems to know about it! Dr. Carl Frankel has organized a street (ball) hockey "league," and it's Hazleton's only recognized international sports championship. Students from Hazleton bat tle enthusiastically against the entire world in order to retain the coveted "Stanley Can" trophy. -For three years in a row now, Hazleton has emerged vic torious from this "bitterly contested, but cleanly fought" championship series. The season began on April 13, 1982 and will be capped on an undetermined date by the Stanley Can Classic a veritable war for the most-loved, dented beer can in the world. The ball hockey's approximate ly six teams will battle each Tuesday and Thursday evening at 5:30 on the lower parking lot. Here is the best part of all! Anyone can be involved in this "all volunteer, all spontaneous, all fun" ac tivity. It is not an organized intramural league, which means you can't get a letter or an award at the Awafds Ban I uet etc. But this Page 10 doesn't detract from-the im portance of this world championship, the thrill of victory or the agony Of defeat. Girls are welcome to join as well. "Teams are always willing to have addi tions," said Frankel. See him if you are interested in dodging and weaving down in the parking lot, in feeling the rush of joy when the ball ' skids into the net, or if you just like hockey. Bring you own sticks, and - the balls and nets will be provided. One final word of assurance to all the wary-spectators at bloody professional ice hockey games: this league is so non-violent that there isn't even an official, only a timekee er. - Swimmers Collegian photographer Tom Topoleski caught swim mers in action during a recent swim meet in Pe Highacres' pool. The team is now well into its 1982 season, as this photo shows the start of a recent meet.
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