Page 2 — LION'S EYE — August 25, 1983 ; ] = Vol. XV, No.1 August 25, 1983 C Pp t Get N HH id g Bditorin Chief ......................... Christopher Conti d m u S 0 ew : u ! : n ; Managing Editor .................. rhe Denise Weaver Advertising/Business Editor ............... Pat Matkowski quetball courts, a weight room, cost seventy dollars a sq. foot. Entertainment Editor ....................... Helen Cohen by Christopher Conti locker rooms, showers, Which comes out to roughly 3.2 Staff... .... oc. iis ss Antonette D'Orazio classrooms and offices. Thereis million dollars for the actual SpertsBditor ......................ch. nh. Ella Manis The Pennsylvania Depart- also talk of it housing an construction. The project was Club Liaison Editors ............. Pam Kelly, Carol Stocku ment of General Services has auditorium, a full cafeteria, and approved by Gov. Thornburgh Graphic’s Editor .................... Adrienne Delvecchio begun planning our campus’s possibly even a new bookstore. late in 1981 as part of the Feature Edtior ...........coovivueeennn. Gordon Cameron new building.. The new multi- The building will be approx- capital construction bill. The re- layout... .................-; Rachel Reed, Denise Weaver purpose structure is being imately 48,000 to 50,000 sq. quest for the new campus HYpist.... i. aie, Julie Regan designed by the architectural feet and will be located between building was co-sponsored by Adviser... ...... cai Dr. Carol Kessler firm of John S. Sabatino the modulars and the present Sen. Clarence Bell and Rep. Miller. Write To: General Staff: Karen Feilke, Tina Rapattoni, Shawn Mec- ‘Carey, Bernard Bozeman, Dave Smith, Steve Geary, Luthor Opinions expressed in the Lion's Eye are not necessarily the views of the University, Administration, Faculty, or Students. Letters, comments, and editorials are welcome. THE LION'S EYE Penn State University Delaware County Campus Media, Pa. 19063 REPRESENTED FOR NATIONAL ADVERTISING BY CASS Student Advertising, Incorportated 1633 West Central St. Evanston, Illinois 60201 Editorial This Is Not A Welcome Letter Well another vacation draws to a close, and we must once again end the merriment of our summer solace and begin our enlightened journey down that brightly lit scholastic corridor in our search for knowledge. And I'm sure a tired few of you in desperate hopes of escaping - the tedious routine of registra: tion and orientation, have in some quiet part of the lounge or under the shade of the apple or- chard turned to my editorial for a few moments of diversion, knowing full well in your heart that this is sure to be yet another “warm welcome” to our illustrious campus. Well it ain’t! I’m sorry, but I just couldn’t : bring my-self to do it. You see, whether you know it or not you've just completed the last summer of your youth. I'hose irresponsibilities that were once frowned upon and waved off as the innocence of youth are now viewed in much harsher terms. And no matter what you hear, college does change you (whether for better or worse is for you to decide), as the excited red glow of your senior year turns to a rose colored haze, your out-look on life takes some pretty nasty blows. And here you sit, more than a little ap- prehensive as to what your future holds and strangers keep coming up to you with forced ~ smiles telling you ‘your gonna love it here” and I know your feeling slightly nauseous. Which is why this is not a welcome letter, because it does the image of this paper no good if the faculty sees students ~ throwing up onto the editorial page. So I won't tell you of the wonderful time you'll have here, nor shall I talk of the com- petent faculty and staff that is on our campus. And I won't even mention our modern facilities and outstanding academic record. I'll even go so far as not to tempt you with mouthwatering details of the occasional parties our students are known to throw. No, you'll get none of that from me, ‘cause this isn’t a welcome letter; in-_ stead this is a sort of survival letter. Oh, I know you got a student : hand book to “inform you of ‘school policy” but they didn’t give you quite enough informa- tion. They didn’t tell you those little details like: If you want change and your in the lounge, forget it! If your allergic to dust and you want to sit in the lounge, forget it! (just slap one of the couches and you'll see what I mean) If your going to register late and really believe that you'll get all the classes you want well . . . “To dream the impossible dream . . .”’. they also left out such important in- formation as: Every Tuesday Burger King has Whoppers for half price. And always pick up a sheet of coupons (located in the front of every entrance to the mall) when you go to Granite Run (there's always a good deal from Scotto’s). The coffee in the cafeteria is three times better than that in the vending machines. And, until we get the new building, that little brick shedlike building next to the tennis courts is our physical education building. They didn’t tell you not to ask anyone why there is electric bell music on every hour and half hour; no one seems to know. And finally, something I'm sure was puzzl- ing you: Gordon Cameron is president of the U.S.A. and R. Reagan is president of the U.S.A. . . . one is pres. of the United States of America and the other is pres. of the Under- graduate Student Association (we'll let you figure out which is which) and they are not to be confused. So there you have it, some of the more pressing matters of college life (food, beverage, and entertainment). I'm sure you’ll find some I didn’t add (I don’t want to take away all the fun of finding these things out first hand) and some I couldn’t add, but these should get you through the first few weeks of your ordeal. Now go out there and get ready for registration (remember here the alphabet begins with P (how tricky) which confuses the hell out of us here at the newspaper) and have a good year. Oh, and come see me at the ‘Lions Eye’ sign up table. Good luck . . . the Editor. University, - Bluford graduated in 1964 with a B.S. in aerospace engineering, Associates, of Philadelphia, and tentatively may include, a main gym (of 15000 sq. feet), an aux- iliary gym (of 3600 sq. feet), rac- Physical Education Building (thankfully the apple orchard will not be destroyed). The project is expected to Joseph Loeper. A starting date for actual work has not bee set. : — Letter to the Editor — Actually that title is a tad misleading, this is a Letter From Your Editor. You see I think that over the years some of my predessors have forgot- ten exactly why we have a school newspaper. Its to better serve the student body, and we can’t-do that if we don’t know your views. So if you have "a legitimate ‘gripe’, complaint, or compliment we’ll print it, and not only will we print it but we'll do every thing in our power to find an answer to your problem. We need your views and ideas to survive so please do not hesitate write. If you do have a letter to the editor you can place it in the Lions Eye mail box located in the mail room (the mail room is in the main building across from the admissions office and next to the nurses office). Your letter does not have to be typed but it would save us alot of trouble if you did. : Thank you Christopher Conti Editor-in-Chief Pennsylvania Native 1st Black Astronaut University Park, PA — Penn- sylvania native Guion S. Blu- ford Jr. will be the first black astronaut ever to fly in space next month, and his under- graduate alma mater is making sure the event won't lack sym- bolic value. The Pennsylvania State from which Col. is sending along two football jerseys emblazoned with Col.l Bluford’s name and year of graduation. A cassette of Penn State fight songs has been sub- mitted for Col. Bluford’s wakeup calls on the shuttlecraft Challenger. In addition, Penn State has submitted a copy of the Morrill Act signed into law by Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1862. The Morrill Act donated “public lands to the several » States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts,” giving rise to the 70 U.S. land-grant colleges and universities such as Penn State. “Because you exemplify the pioneering spirit in which our University was founded, we are sending along with you an ar- chive copy of the original Mor- rill Land-Grant Act,” Penn State President Bryce Jordan wrote in a letter to Col. Bluford. Dr. Jordan noted that *. . . the Morrill Act democratized higher education by encourag:- ing men and women of the so- called ‘industrial classes’ to at- tend the new land-grant col- leges. In promoting practical as well as liberal education, in- stitutions such as Penn State and the other great land-grant universities have played a ma- jor role in establishing our na- tion’s agricultural, scientific and technological leadership. “The land-grant university movement, in addition to research and instruction, has emphasized the importance of serving the American public,” Dr. Jordan concluded. “In a very real sense, your mission in space is an extension of the land-grant university spirit because it is a profound service to humanity.” Aboard the next shuttle flight, scheduled for mid to late August, Col. Bluford will be a flight engineering or mission specialist between commander Richard Truly and co-pilot Dan Brandenstein. It is the same job performed by Sally Ride, “America’s first woman to fly in space, during the seventh shut- tle mission, which ended June 24 with a perfect landing in California. Col. Bluford’s main respon- sibilities on mission eight will be to launch an Indian com- munications satellite and operate a space medicine ex- periment that will test live pro- teins. In addition to carrying the first black American into space, the mission will feature another first — a night launch and night landing. In mid-December, Col. Bluford visited Penn State and was given the Outstanding Alumnus Award of its College of Engineering. In early June, he was made a Distinguished Alumnus of the University — the highest honor Penn State bestows. Col. Bluford, a native of Philadelphia and a 1960 graduate of Overbrook High School, came to Penn State with a clear goal in mind: “I wanted to be an aerospace engineer,’ he says. “That was a dream I had even when I was in elementary school. Penn State was one of the few state schools that had a good aerospace engineering program, so it was my number one choice when I was looking at colleges.” : He came to Penn State when the University enrolled very few blacks. Despite having a black roommate for two years, he found a very slim support network for minority students. ‘““You really had to make it on your own,’ Col. Bluford recalls. “The academics were tough and there were so few of us out there that you were really isolated. And the only time you got together was at weekly social functions at black fraternities. One of the things I'm pleased about now is that there's a Black Caucus for students, a system where they can support: each other.” Col. Bluford, who enrolled in Air Force ROTC at Penn State, found that minorities were underrepresented in the profes- sional world when he graduated in 1964. “I remember working in the flight dynamics lab. There were 600 engineers. Of the 600 engineers, 15 of us were black. Of those 15 blacks, two of us were in supervisory posi- tions.” Title Changes by Christopher Conti If during the course of the year something arises which causes you to seek out the Cam- pus Director, or the Dean of Student Affairs, or any one in Student Affairs for that matter, forget it they don’t exist. Now before you go off flaunting your new found freedom, I think I should clarify my statement a little. It’s not that the people don’t exist its just that the titles have been changed. In fact in all the Penn State cam- pus’s across the commonwealth titles have been changed in order to more accurately reflect the duties of the individuals. So John Vairo Campus Direc- tor is now Campus Executive Officer John Vairo. And Ed- ward Linder Dean of Student Affairs is now Director of Stu- dent Programs and Services (the entire Student Affairs has been changed to Student Pro- grams and Services). Among other title changes are Edward Tomesko who changed from Associate Director for Student Affairs to Director of Academic Affairs, and Joseph Biscontini who is now Director of Univer- sity Relations. These title changes do not en- tail extra work or respon- sibilities. They are simply to help clarify the jobs of these in- dividuals.
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