News
High school students start college
By Debby Schott
Some of you may be
wondering who the new
faces are that are roam
ing the campus. Well, the
fact is that there are
fifty-two new students
that have joined our
Highacres community as
of this spring term. The
newcomers streamed in
from local high schools
and took on the role of
college freshmen, , even
though they had not yet
()Wally graduated!
Mile talking to Carol
Yupko from Southern
Columbia Area High
School and Lisa Won
doloski from Our Lady of
Lourdes Regional High
School, I tried to find out
exactly what change in
the social security act
forced them to enter col
lege so early. According
The Student Govern
ment Association has
finally come to a close
for the 1981-1982 school
year. After the annual
Awards Banquet- that
was held at Genetti's
Best Western Motor
Lodge on April 30, the on
ly major activity for the
club was the Greater
Hazleton Fine Arts
Festival. The Arts
Festival was held right
here on campus. The
Festival was held on
May 7,8, and 9. Ice
cream was sold by the
SGA and donuts and cof
fee by the Student Union
Board. There were per
forming arts and visual
arts at the festival. Area
performers and artists
to the dormitory room
mates, any high school
senior who was receiving
social security benefits
and was not enrolled as a
full-time college student
by May 1 would have
their funds cut complete
ly! The old policy, which
states that anyone 18
years of age and not fur
thering his education
beyond the twelfth grade
will not be supported by
the government through
the social security pro
gram, does not seem to
apply any longer.
For Carol and Lisa,
taking the step from high
school into college was
not difficult at all.
"Everyone was very
friendly, and took us in
like any other person
that would have moved
in to start the new term,"
commented Lisa.
"Besides," added Carol,
"we knew a few people
that introduced us to
Inside the SGA...
By Alita Rovito
were on campus to ex
hibit their crafts.
The 12th Annual
Awards , Banquet was a
success, with approx
imately 130 peoplOn at
tendance. Scigpral
awards were given - by
the SGA. Judd Buskirk
presented Gravy
Strausser . and Sue
Kostenbader with pla
ques representing the
school participation and
spirit in the WC Dance
.Marathon at University
Park. Gary and Sue rais
ed over $lOOO
Chris
presented Nadia Puhak
with the HCAC award for,
outstanding attitude and
participation. Alita
Rovito and Chris McNab
presented certificates to.
SGA senators and club
officers. Miss Rovito,
Miss McNab, Lori Folk
everybody and also
showed us around."
The application pro
cess for Penn State SS in
comers was no different
than any incoming
freshmen, exluding one
minor detail. Upon ac
ceptance to the Universi
ty, the seniors were
referred to the campus
located closest to their
hometown (for their first
term) whether it was one
of their choices or not.
After their first term is
completed, they can
transfer to the campus of
their acceptance or re
main at their present
campus if they agree to
take night classes until
their third term, unless
informed otherwise.
Like all new freshmen,
they soon realized that
class assignments re
quire a lot more of one's
time, especially lots of
reading, in comparison
to high school work.
and Dee Hartman were
presented Nittany Lions
for their work all year.
Jim Bagely was
recognized as the SGA's
outstanding Sophomore
senator and Mike Moyer
was recognized as the
outstanding Freshman
senator.
As was mentioned in
the last issue of the Col
legian, the SGA
presidential elections
were re-held. Alan Smith
and David Barchik were
again voted into office.
Smith was sworn in at
the Awards Banquet and
has officially taken over
the position. SGA
Unatorial elections were
'alio held and five new
senators have been
elected; they are Laurie
Shea, Cathy Szido, Sue
Hower, Dave Thomsen,
and Andy Villaruz.
McNab
early
Carol told me that the
basic . difference is the
freedom you have at col
lege. "You have to more
or less 'train' yourself to
go to class," she said.
One thing, however, that
separates the SS
students from actual
freshmen is their
scheduled classes. Since
they still aren't con
sidered "official"
freshmen, they can only
engage in night courses.
But night courses do con
sist of a large percentage
of regular pupils, so the
SS additions are just in-
termingled with
everyone else and not
kept in specific groups.
When I asked them
what they thought of dor
mitory life, Lisa ex
claimed, "We love it! It's
like one big house, and
very convenient because
everyone is here to do
things with." She con
tinued, "There is .always
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something going on and
when there isn't, you
can always make
something." Because of
`particular' social ac
tivities that occur off
campus, meeting non
dormies poses no pro
blem. Although certain
groups may. tend to stay
together, the Hazleton
Campus as a whole
seems to be quite unified,
and the fact that some
students live on campus
and others do not makes
no difference. This, of
course, was their im
pression of the student
body. The two also
agreed that the social at
mosphere is very lively
because the majority of
students seems to be
especially close.
Whenever you want to do
something, you can
because "everyone is
here."
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