The Pennsylvania State University Delaware County Campus Vol. I, No. 1 November, 1968 EDITORS NAIED 10 FILL POTS ON LION'S EYE Ten students have been se- lected as temporary editors on the staff of THE LION’S EYE. The students were selected by Mr. Bis- contini through interviews and submission of written material. Permanent editors for each sec- |: tion, as well as an editor-in-chief and a business manager, will be selected by the staff members themselves when the newspaper becomes a chartered organization. It is now functioning as a com- mittee of the SGA. The staff members LION’S EYE are: News: Joan Scanlon, editor; John Capice, Joe DeCostanza, Naomi Gifford, Beth Pfeffer, Nancy Nipon, Joanne Freedman, Phyllis Taylor, and Eileen Moran. Editorial: Nancy Stoicovich, Maria Infante, Dave Berger, edi- tors; Joe Bacanskas, Earl Smith, Paula Levin, Linda Ryncavage, ‘and Dom Iacono. Photography: George Lewis and Sol Cooperson, editors; Bill Smith, Jim West, Barbara Rozy- cki, Edgar Hollingsworth, Jac- queline Wiggins, Sharon Miles, and Barry McLaughlin. Sports: Vaughn Morrison and Tim Rumsey, editors; Harry Triolo, Barry Reddish, Gerald ~ Hansel, and Don McCormick. Arts and Entertainment: Yvonne Butler, editor; Carolyn Hayward, Fred Schray, Irene Hancox, Mike Weintraub, and John Powell. Features and Layout: Sandra Morgan, editor; Chris Watson, Nora Anderson, Ginny Roberts, Frank Gorbey, Sally Petrosky, Trena Hamlet and Maureen Fine ley. JOB DIRECTORY WILL BE IN LIBRARY The Delaware County Campus is in the process of compiling a directory which contains the names of business firms needing part-time employees. The types of jobs available will be listed along with the necessary information for contacting spe- cific employers. The directory will be placed in the library for student use and will not be charged out. Students interested in summer or part-time work in specific areas might make suggestions to the administration that these areas be included in the directory. ENGINEERING GRANT The campus received its first grant in the sum of $3,000 from United Engineers and Construec- tion Company of Philadelphia. The grant was for the develop- ment and support of a mechanical engineering technology program at the campus. Plans for use of the money are now being formu- lated by the engineering faculty. of THE THIS COULD BE THE START OF SOMETHING BIG: Architect's sketch for the first building of the new Delaware County Campus in Middletown Township. Architect is Harbeson, Hough, Livingston and Larson of Philadelphia. President Walker Attends Groundbreaking ANNE KARNATZ NAMED ASSISTANT 10 DEAN LINDER Mrs. Anne Karmatz, a former teacher at Collingdale High School, has been named assistant to the dean of student affairs. Mrs. Anne Karmatz Before accepting the new posi- tion, Mrs. Karmatz had been an administrative assistant to the director of the Delaware County Campus. As assistant to Dean Linder, Mrs. Karmatz will be responsible for coordinating extracurricular student activities and for work- ing closely with women students on problems of an academic nature. The Penn State Family Day was highlighted by President Walker's appearance at the groundbreaking ceremonies for the new campus site in Middletown Township. President Walker joined other : University = officials and well- known county figures in throwing the first spades of dirt, signaling the beginning of the new con- struction project. The actual work on construction of the first building was scheduled to begin several days after the ground- breaking. Joining President Walker in wishing the new campus well were Judge Louis A. Bloom, presi- dent of the campus advisory board; Frank Snear, chairman of the county commissioners; John D. Vairo, director of the campus; Arthur I. Martindale, chairman of the faculty, and Vincent Simoni, president of the Student Govern: ment Association. About 200 people attended the ceremony. Later in the day, several hun- dred people visited the Chester campus where they had the oppor- tunity to tour the present facility and meet with faculty and staff members. The first building for the new campus, scheduled for completion by the Fall of 1970, will be a three-story brick structure hous- ing classrooms and administrative offices, a library, auditorium and science laboratories. Additional buildings scheduled for the site include a library, gymnasium, student union build- ing and more classroom buildings. The building will accommodate about 1,500 students. The 50-acre tract of land was given to the University by the county commissioners last year. PATTEE'S WEALTH MINUTES AWAY [1h TELECOPIER New telefacsimile devices now link the library at the Delaware County Campus with Pattee Li- brary at University Park, enab- ling local students to receive material quickly from the vast resources at the .larger library. The network is the first in the country to be considered com- pletely successful. The Telecopier, recently in- stalled here, can transmit or re- ceive a standard size document at the rate of one page every six minutes. A page placed in a ma- chine at one location is repro- duced exactly at another location. The message is transmitted over telephone lines. The Pattee Library and its branches at University Park con- tain more than one million vol- umes. By using the telefacsimile device, material néeded at a Commonwealth campus is rapidly made available to students at dis- tant locations. The machines have now been installed at 18 of the 20 Commonwealth Campuses. Most of the transmitting origi- nates at the University Park Li- brary facilities since most of the needed material is in the one- million volume collection at Pat- tee. It is possible, however, for one Commonwealth Campus to contact another. The facilities are also available to industry through the Pennsyl- vania Technical Assistance pro- | gram (PENNTAP), at Pattee Library. administered LOW BIDDERS SET 10 BEGIN WORK ON NEW GAMPUS Two contractors from Delaware County and two from Philadelphia are the apparent low bidders on construction projects for the new campus of The Pennsylvania State University’s Delaware County Campus. Bids were re- ceived October 3 by the University and were opened October 10 at the campus. : The apparent low bidders and the bids they submitted are The Welsbach Corp., Philadelphia, gen- aral contracting, $964,900; H. Gold, Inc., Philadelphia, plumbing, $189,576; Randeb, Inc., Springfield, heating, $266,810; and Rite-Way flectric, Media, electrical, $161,- 390. Thirty firms submitted bids on the various aspects of the con- struction of the new campus. Har- beson, Hough, Livingston and Larson, a Philadelphia firm, is the architect for the building. Groundbreaking for the building was held on Noveniber 17 campus administration officials hope that construction will begin shortly. The three-story brick building will include classrooms, tories, general administrative of- fices, an auditorium and a library. It will be built on a 50-acre tract at Middletown and Yearsley Mill Roads, Middletown Township. The land was deeded to Penn State by the Delaware County commis- sioners last year. LION'S EYE IS LATE: POLICIES ESTABLISHED The first issue of THE LION’S EYE is late so we'd best get the apologies out of the way early. The lateness is due to the fact that the campus had no money to support the journalistic ven- ture. The appointment of Mr. Biscontini as public information officer at the campus, did not come until mid-summer, much too late to submit a request for funds. Until his appointment, it was doubtful that student journalists would have an academic advisor for a newspaper who was experi- enced in such matters. The second reason for the late- ness is that practically none of the student writers had any jour- nalistic training. We're learning as we go and we'll be calling our- selves professionals in no time. Editorial Policy Explained Some of our contributors sport sideburns, beards, sandals and long hair; others wear well- pressed shirts and Y.A.F. buttons. We're a “liberal” newspaper in the true sense of the world. We want to hear (and print) every- one’s thoughts and philosophies. The only stipulations we make are that the contributor’s contri- butions are factual, in good taste and professionally executed. There are no censors on THE LION’S EYE staff. We'll leave (Continued on page 4) and labora-
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