SEPTEMBER 25, 1973 THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY DELAWARE COUNTY CAMPUS, MEDIA, PA. PAPER ~ POLLS STUDENTS by Mike DeSimone ~ On Thursday, September 13, the Lion’s Eye polled nine people concerning their opinions about registration this term. Four of the group worked on regis- . tration itself while the other five are assorted Freshmen and Soph- omores who went through the registration lines. The question asked was: What did you think of Registration and what was the biggest hassle concerning it? The Registration Workers: Gary Keyes: “I was work- ing on the second floor giving out those giftpaks and my main prob- lem was running out of cards for* the people to sign. All in all,- everyone was cooperative.” : Sandy Mehnert: “Registra- tion, in my opinion went quickly considering the number of people involved. The majority were co- operative. There was, however, a lack of communication at the student personnel card station where I was working.” Ellen Jones: “The students were uninformed about a lot of the procedure; otherwise it was fun.” Dory Piccard: “I was work- ing for a private club, Keystone Society, and I felt that the peo- ple who especially were helping out Dean Linder should have been paid. I thought registration went pretty smoothly, although I wish more people were inter- ested in clubs.” The Registrees: " Rita Modesti, Freshman: “I thought I was being processed, though it was organized. The worst part was on the second floor, for 1 got a battery of everything from the clubs. In- stead of getting information be- forehand and deciding what I wanted to do, I had to decide everything then and there. We were told, ‘Here it is, ya wanna sign up for it?’ We couldn’t take time to decide and work it into our schedules. Upstairs went fast, but clubs were a hassle.” Joe Krivan, Sophomore: - “Nothing much can be done a- bout registration for most of the things are necessary. But one thing that can be changed is the fact that when classes are closed or people can’t be fitted into a particular class, they should be notified a few days before regis- | tration so they can iron problems out before they get to the regis- tration line. It’s a pain in the ass going halfway through registra- + tion and then finding out some- thing’s wrong, which means run- _ ning back to find advisors and all / that bullshit, then going back in line again at the bottom of the Bd 4 819, Approved Orientation On Friday, September 8, the SGA handed out a questionnaire to the freshmen in order to find out what they thought about orienta- tion. You remember, the blue paper you had to fill out before you could get your grubby hands on those free gift packs on the floor. Five hundred questionnaires were tabulated; the results are as follows: When asked if they felt that orientation answered most of the ques- tions they had about college, 81.5% of the freshmen said yes, while the other 18.5% didn’t think orientation was so hot. Concerning the most liked by Mike DeSimone part of orientation, the meetings with the upperclassmen led the group with 39.4% of the students, followed by the picnic which 34.4% preferred, the student club representation which got 20.4% of the vote, and finally the movie which got a measly 12.4% despite the fact that the auditorium was packed for both showings of “Play Misty for Me”, and that the entire audience clapped like hell when Clint Eastwood punched nutty Evelyn in the face, knocking her over the cliff. When asked about what they liked least about orientation, the freshmen gave such answers as the heat, long waits for place- ment exams, and long, boring lectures. : Finally the freshmen were quizzed over what goals they thought orientation best fulfilled; 45.6% thought it better acquainted them with the university, 13.6% believed that it. made adjusting to college life easier, and 14.6% thought that it promoted the students to get to know one another better. About 12.4% didn’t think it succeeded in any of its goals, but 19.6% believed it fulfilled all of them. For those of you who were counting up the percentages and got 106.4% instead of 100%, the kink was caused by some people who must have been smoking something other than tobacco because many question- naires had two or three answers for one question. stairs. So if that could be ironed out a couple of days before, it would make things much easier.” Richard Venberg, Sopho- more: “The biggest problem that I found going through the regis- tration lines, was that I had to drop three courses and add two others. It took me three hours to go through the line for that rea- son. Somehow they should make it easier to switch courses a- round.” Mike Rocklin, second term Freshman: “It was ridiculous. There ’s nothing else to say. I was taking pictures of it and every- thing was like, “What do I do. next?” as they were going through the lines. I didn’t observe too much of Freshman registration, so that must have been awful since the Sophomores were bad enough. Before I even started 1 had to go through Mr. Rogel (station 1) four times and that’s beforelstarted. At first I thought “Oh yeah, just go upstairs and get registered.” but what hap- pened was that I wound up go- ing back and forth for different cards.” : Rick Toy, Freshman: “It’s just a necessary evil. I really don’t have any big gripes.” PSU STUDY REVEA INFANT ABUSE University Park, Pa. Sept. - A disturbing tale of mistreated babies has resulted from research on teen-age parents, conducted by Dr. Vladimir de Lissovoy, pro- . fessor of child development and family relations at The Pennsyl- vania State University. His three-year study on the problems of 48 teen-age married couples, 46 of whom were ex- pecting children at the time of their marriage, shows, says the re- searcher, “that it is evident that these young parents were not fa- miliar with developmental norms of their children.’ “It is my conclusion that the children of many adolescent marriages have a high risk of joining the number of battered and abused babies.” Dr. de Lissovoy’s study in- - volved mothers who averaged 16/2 years of age and fathers who av- eraged just over 17 years in age. 41 of the mothers and 35 of the fathers were high school drop- Keep the lounge clean . . . please? You don’t find any emp- ty cups and wrappers in pig stys, "so what's your excuse? Showers Being Built by Dominic Oteri John D. Vairo, Campus di- rector, informed us of the show- ers which are now being built at the top of the hill. This is the first stage of a five stage building complex, and will be equipped with storage rooms, offices, and five showerheads. Mr. Vairo stated that in the future there will be a large gym, more classrooms, officespace and an indoor swimming pool. All this will come, assuming that funds are provided. He added that this will be an excellent addition to the physical education pro- grams. The showers will not be opened to the General Public, only to the students and staff of Penn State. We also went out to inter- view Mr. Alshouse & Son, the general contractors of this pro- ject. Mr. Alshouse said that it would be finished around the end of November, but the building will be up by the end of October. This, he explained, is because the rest of the equipment will not be in until November. Mr. Alshouse added that no strikes are likely to develop to hold back the progress. outs, and they came from fam- ilies described as “rural working class.” Dr. de Lissovoy points out that each of the couples was visited and interviewed at least five times at specific intervals during the three years. “There is little question that these young parents were undergoing severe frustrations,” he says. “Their lack of know- ledge and experience, their un- Rat expectations of child de- velopment, their general disap- [iota ment in their lives and their ack of economic resourcesserved to raise their irritability and low- er their threshold of tolerance.” The effects of this situation were often alarming. : “To the question ‘How of- ten do you spank?’ the mothers’ replies included, ‘When he de- serves it,” and ‘When I can’t take it any longer,” reports Dr. de Lissovoy. ers when they expected their child to sit up for the first time without support, how often did they think the baby would cry for no reason, or how did they plan to feed the baby food he needed if the baby did not like it — showed poor comprehen- sion of normal child develop- ment, says Dr. de Lissovoy. Marital problems concern- ing finances, in-law relationships, and social activities were also problems of these young parents. “The parents’ personal, so- cial and economic frustrations, which contributed to disenchant- ment in their marriage relation- ships, also affected their behavior toward their children,” advises Dr. de Lissovoy. One of Dr. de Lissovoy’s criticisms is that people who should have been helping the teen-age parents were not doing their duty. Parents of the young couples too often advised them to “let the baby cry” or told them “‘you’ll find out (for your- self) soon enough,’ he says. Doctors, too, were often at fault he adds. Many times the doctors would try to solve the problems of the young family by handing the mother a mimeo- graphed list of things like for- mula preparations and food sup- plements. Dr. de Lissovoy cautions that generalizations cannot be made about all teen-age parents from this study. “Because the sample was an atypical one, the results must be noted with caution,” he warns. “Nevertheless, the findings merit the attention of those who work with adolescents in schools or in community agencies.” LS ; Answers to some other | questions — like asking the moth-
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