SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1970 Glimpses of Penn State . . . University's Daily Collegian promises to 'Sackett to you' What is used to wrap garbage, line birdcages, clean win dows, find roommates, sell motorcycles and find out what's happening on campus? If you haven't figured it out yet, the answer will become ob vious in the coming weeks. Like Dr. Pepper, The Daily Collegian probably is the most misunderstood element on campus. It is published entirely for and by University students and is completely independent of any other University organization. The Collegian is not under the control of the Administration. the faculty or any student group. It is chartered by the University in order that it may be considered a student organization. The Collegian publishes Tuesdays through Saturdays for nine weeks of the term. The Summer Collegian publishes once a week. The purpose of The Collegian is to disseminate information throughout the campus. Although the paper runs a digest of world, national and state events almost daily, the purpose of Collegian is to report campus news and news relevant to the UniverSity community. The publisher of the Collegian is Collegian, Inc., a group OSGA established as communication medium The Organization of Student Government Associations was established to represent the Commonwealth Campuses in matters of concern to the whole University. ' The OSGA helps to improve communications within the University and aids in keeping the campuses an active part of the University. The Student Government Associations are the governing bodies on each of the Commonwealth Campuses. The SGA members meet regularly at their own campuses, and, at least once a year, they hold a regional meeting at the University Park Campus. A representative of each Commonwealth Campus, a stu dent representative selected by each SGA, and the officers of the OSGA make up the OSGA General Assembly. The OSGA has regular representatives to the University Senate and on several Senate Committees. One of the things OSGA , arranges is All-University Day, where students from all the Commonwealth Campuses come to University Park for a football game and other activities. The campuses' bands perform at half-time. The president of OSGA this year is Pat Keaveny (9th journalism•Sharon), and the vice president is Sam Wood, for mer Ogontz SGA president. Direct yourself to r 9 Baßestaurani Relaxing Atmosphere Appetizing Meals Cocktails for the over 21 set 210 W. College Avenue ... State College (across from Hammond Building) Penn State Outing nl aTheve - colsulb Club efion campus First meeting next Tuesday, September 29, 7:30 p.m. ROOM 115 EEW CANOE HIKING & TRAIL CONVERSATION MOUNTAIN CLIMBING EQUESTRIAN SKI A STROLL ACROSS the University's campus brings the sights and sounds of a mini world all its own. It's a world of changes, and one of things that never change. It's a place of contrasts, and one of Similarity. It's colorful, drab, beautiful, ugly, quiet, noisy. familiar, strange ... Publishes Daily THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, composed of appointees from the University Senate, the Graduate Student Association, the Undergraduate Democratic Government, the University's School of Journalism, the Col legian editor-In-chief and business manager and the executive secretary, who serves as the Collegian adviser. The Collegian adviser is the liaison between the publishers and the student staff. The position of adviser is a full-time, paid job and the adviser must have had professional journ alism experience prior to accepting the position. Editor-in-Chief The Collegian editor-in-chief is a full-time undergraduate student, selected in the spring of each year by Collegian, Inc. based on an application and an interview. The editor-in-chief is responsible for all editorial (non-advertising) content ap pearing in the paper. The Collegian editor does not have to be in a journalism cur iculum. The current editor-in-chief, Rob McHugh, is a comp uter science major. The business staff counterpart to the editor-in-chief is the business manager, who is responsible for all advertising con tent. preparing The Collegian's budget requests, and ap proving all expenditures. The Associated Student Activities provides less than 20 per cent of The Collegian's operating budget. The remaining funds come from advertising and subscription rates. The Daily Col legian is free of charge to students. Undergraduate Volunteers Both the editorial and the business staffs are composed of full-time undergraduate students who volunteer several even ings a week to publish the paper. The Collegian holds training sessions each term for students interested in joining the staff. Prospective Collegian reporters and business staff members are taught the fundamentals of news gathering and style or the basic skills needed to take local, national and classified advertisements. Most Collegian work is volunteer, but grants-in-aid from the Associated Student Activities are given to students in editorial and managerial posts. Also, junior and senior reporter grants are awarded to students who show excellent writing talent on the editorial staff. Because The Collegian is incorporated, it has the power to enter into contracts, to initiate lawsuits and to be sued. Acting as a check on the editorial content of the paper is Collegian. Inc.'s Committee on Accuracy and Fair Play. Com ments and complaints about the editorial content of The Col legian are directed to that committee for study and recom mendations. Editorial•content of The Collegian reflects the opinion of the Board of Editors of The Daily Collegian and does not purport to speak for the students, faculty or administration of the University. As a former Collegian editor once said, "There are no win dows in The Collegian office, but as a staff member you will see parts of the University many 12th-terrners never knew ex isted." Your Nittan ... will beCome an indispensable convenience to you as a student. Checks make bill paying easier and provide an accurate account of your expenditures. Deposits may be mailed directly to the bank, from the folks at home, and your College Checking Account will eliminate the problem of "out of town" checks. You will find your Nittany Lion checks easy to cash and welcomed by local merchants Just step across the street to our College Avenue office-234 College Avenue. ei NEED - S TAT E BANK and TRUST COMPANY IVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA Hair' to be let down Series The Broadway musical "Hair," an original three.day folk festival, and pianist Arthur Rubinstein, are only a few of the headline performances scheduled as part of this year's Artists Series. Offering the "finest in the arts over a four-year period," the Series was initiated in 1957 to broaden the students' college experience by exposing them to the many varied phases of the arts, including concerts and experi mental music, dance, theatre, and art forms of other cul tures. Following this policy, 18 regular presentations have been scheduled, plus two special events. Admission to the concerts is free with the exception of those four to be held in Rec Hall. They include L'Orchestre National Francais, conducted by the famous Jean Martinon and Les Ballets Africains, a company , of 45 Africain dancers from the Repubic of New Guinea. According to the New York Times, the dancers put on "a stylish and tremendously exciting show." The Pitts burgh Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gunther Schul ler and featuring pianist John Browning, and Rubenstein also will perform in Rec Hall. Charge for Specials There also will be a charge for the two special pro ductions, "Hair" performed by the Chicago company, and the folk festival. The remainder of the schedued events will be pre sented free of charge. Headlining these will be the Penn sylvania Ballet, returning to perform "Carmine Burana," a medieval dance orgy with a combined chorus and sym phony orchestra and John Eaton, who will present his concert of live electronic and contemporary compositions. Also being presented are the NOH Theatre of Japan in which, according to a release, "priceless masks and Independents depend on TIM for assistance A small, glass-partitioned of fice located at 203 G Hetzel Union Building houses the student-run Town Independent Men's Council, the organization which serves to represent and advise approximately 14,000 off-campus, non-fraternity stu dents. Beginning this week the of fice will be manned from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and a recorded message system has been set up for after-hours visitors. TIM serves off-campus stu dents in a number of ways. Students with apartments or houses find roommates through the office, and others without a place to stay off campus can find one. A social committe organizes intramural sport, casino nights and other activities. A housing com mittee is compiling a per manent listing service of off campus housing that will let students know just what kind of accommodations are available at what price. Survey Computerized This survey was begun last year and, according to TIM President Ned Schwartz, will be computerized and catalogued this year. In the meantime charts in the TIM office give a good deal of information about the larger housing units in the State College Area. The most valuable TIM ser vice is taken care of through th e organization's Legal Awareness Committee. Schwartz said the off ic e receives some 50 calls a week from off-campus students com plaining about difficulties that arise between them and their landlords or other townpeople. According to Sc hw a rt z, members of this committee, many of whom are pre-law students, have developed "ex pertise" in mediating lessor lessee conflicts. Schw a rtz claimed that few of the pro blems of this type handled by TIM ever go to court. Impartially Handled A resolution endorsed by the TIM Council provides that TIM impartially handle any com plaints that it gets. "We're not just trouble-shooting for the students," Schwartz said. Lion Last year's season was designated the best so far with over 35,000 people attending the presentations. Attend ance this year depends on the students' moods and tastes, Gingrich said. "It is student-oriented and we try to engage the best artists we can hoping the students will react favorably to the schedule and be interested enough to come." Quite a few requests from students and other patrons were considered this year by the Artists Series Commit tee. Under jurisdiction of the Dean of the College of Arts and Architecture the committee is administered by Nina Brown and includes among its membership undergraduate and graduate students and faculty members. Subsidized by the University, the Series can afford to present top TlM's philosophy, he said, is to artists at a minimum cost to the University community. "facilitate communications Season student and general sales tickets are available between student tenants and for $4 and $lO respectively. They may be obtained by mail landlords with regard t o or in the Hetzel Union Building, beginning Monday, and in equitable leases." Rec Hall during Registration. Tickets for the entire Artists Schwartz said he believes the Series, including free concerts, are $3O. organization has worked hard Tickets for the remaining free performances will be to get good support with land- distributed one per person on a "first come" basis at the lords and that now it has good HUB Desk. Official times and dates of ticket distributions foundations to work on. With and performances are listed in the Artists Series brochures, this, he said he plans to see on the local media, including The Daily Collegian. the organization branch out and Further information can be obtained by contacting handle complaints about the Artists Series in 202 Schwab. merchants and impr ov e relations between townspeople • and students on all levels this year. Ictu re essay featured TIM also is planning to establish a bail bond fund and / i to hire a lawyer on a part-time a s La Vies lifeline consultation basis. So far they have had difficulty implement- ing this program, Schwartz LaVie, the University undergraduate yearbook, will said, because the University change its format this year to incorporate more candid pic will not permit TIM to use tures. their allocation for such a Published each June, the book will include the usual senior purpose. Nevertheless, he said, section and sports section. The remainder will be a melange of TIM hopes to start the pro- candid photos —"A picture essay of the school year," Larry gram by Winter Term, using Winter, 1971 LaVie managing editor said. non-university funds. This format is a considerable switch from the traditional The organization will give pages of fraternities, sororities and other organizations advice on any area of concern photographed in the "lined-up" fashion. to the student living off- Plans call for more colored photogranhs, creative writing, campus. In addition a booklet poems and descriptive captions, according to Midge Streeter, jointly published by TIM and the 1971 editor. the Graduate Student Another change for next spring's LaVie is the reduction in Association is available in the the number of pages down to 300 as compared to the usual 500 TIM office and gives a good to 600 due to a cutback in the budget. La Vie is funded by the deal of information about liv- Associated Student Activities from the students' tuition. ing off-campus. Some sub- The resulting lower cost will make the yearbook available topics include "Le g a I to undergraduate students for $7 to $B, as compared to $l4 to Aspects," "Criminal Law," Sl6 last year. Seniors will have to pay $1 for their copies. "Tax Responsibilities " and The 1971 staff hopes to launch an all-out campaign to sell "Social Life." . the yearbook to the undergraduate students, banking on the Membership on the council is new candid format to appeal to more students. Miss Streeter open to any town independent said. For the first time subscriptions will be sold in advance. man or woman; self - nominating petitions are First in Music Stereo 91 available in the TIM office. elaborate costumes are worn in all performances of the highly symbolic theatre form," and two comedies which still are running on Broadway: "Adaptation" bj Elaine May and "Next" by Terence McNally. They were de scribed by the New York Times as "extraordinarly funny comedies." Copies of the entire season schedule are avail able from the Artists Series. Devotes Much Time According to John Gingrich, a graduate assistant who devotes much of his time helping to coordinate the Artists Series, too many students regard the fine arts as being "deadly dull." He said he feels that most of this stems from unfavorable past experiences with the spinsterly neighborhood piano teacher and a distasteful impression of "a group of people wearing suits who go to a hall to watch a man in a tux, during which they devote all their energy to looking interested." His primary concern in working with the Series. he said, is to give students a chance to see "exciting, mature artists and productions" in a relaxed rather than stifled atmosphere so that they can form their own opinions and perhaps "spark an interest and whet their appetites" for fine arts after graduation. In Gingrich's opinion, college should be a well-rounded exposure to events; a concert by Rubinstein, watching his ageless fingers literally run across the keys with the sheer enjoyment of merely playing the piano is just as fasci nating and exciting as watching the Nittany Lions take on Navy in the football season opener. Designated Best PAGE SEVEN
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