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
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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.”
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