S TUDEN UNION T3O kP:O " CHRISTMAS SPIRT 1 " Laughter and excitement rang throughout the Commons on Sunday Dec. 11, as the Student Union Board sponsored the Annual Christ mas party for underprivileged children. The day began at noon, as 40 children swarmed The Commons and made themselves at home. 25 student volunteers gladly helped in entertaining the children throughout the day. A cartoon was shown and games were played, but the most exciting part of the day Occurred when Santa, played by Alan Roman, arrived with six elves. Santa's little helpers were por trayed by Sandy Wayne, Noel Burke, Traci Watson, Ann Marie Gentilesco, Mitch Brown, and Art Gross. The The bells are ringing, but gifts for the children were donated Christmas carols are heard now, by Boscovs, H-Mart, Peoples First the snow begins to fall softly on Bank, Strohemans, Hazleton National the campus grounds, signifying the Bank, Belltrami, and "The Standard Speaker." Valley Transit provided coming of Christmas break, and more the transportation for the child- importantly, the end of the semest er. Students are busily trying to ren to and from the Salvation Army predict their grade point averages free of charge. Mr. Chrone kindly The University uses the system helped with the food expense also. of assigning a specific amount of The Christmas spirit was evi- points for each letter grade. For dent, as all that participated in example, an A equals four points, the festivities graciously donated a B equals three points, a C two gifts, time, and money for the points, a D one point, and an F benefit of the children. constitutes zero points. The number of credits per course multiplied by the grade points equals the grade points for each course. For example, a grade of a B in a three credit course equals 9 points. The semester average equals the semester total of grade points divided by the total num ber of credits received. The cum ulative average is calculated by dividing thr: total number of cred its scheduled in all semesters in to the total grade points. A student must have a C average or 2.0 in order to graduate. If a student's grades fall below 2.0, that student should consider him i or herself in academic difficulty. The Dean's List requires a 3.5 G.P.A., figured for each semester separately. Grades will be sent to the SEMI - - - F ; ORM L TO TAL---E,\LOYMEN T The S.G.A sponsored this year's annual ChristmasSemi-Formal, whibh took place at the Lobitz Safari Room Friday, December 9. Smiling couples arrived at 6:30 to have their pictures taken by Diana Photographers. The festivi ties commenced with a family -style dinner at 7:30. Sufficiently stuffed, the crowd of 162 was ready to rock. A soda bar was set up, then Rogue performed from 9:00 to 1:00 a.m. The enthusiastic crowd cheered them on and danced -------,74:-*;;'ao-or -"Ur-PC 1 ' `"•C -3 L / 4 \ 5 ‘ C -4 /r i i oosz.) ) I 0 .., ./ Ll 7-1 ce r,,,e,i LL.,-ur.N . ( 7 - SPONWRS' G.P.4 . [MAT: IS I 7?
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