Editorial opini7n When movie stars win Academy Awards, they usually smile and thank all the "little people behind the scenes" who helped them achieve success. Quite a few student groups deserve_an award for their achievements this term. All the stu dents who worked behind the scenes in those groups deserve thanks from all the University students they have served. Three of those organizations Colloquy, the University Concert Committee and the Artists Series have provided you with excellent programs to attend while trapped in the hin terland of University Park. The Artists Series has provided you with op portunities to see everything from movies to modern dance and hear everything from Beethoven, courtesy of the Pittsburgh Sym phony Orchestra, to "When the Saints Come Marching In" by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. This term alone Colloquy has brought in, free of charge, Dick Cavett to joke with you, Robin Morgan to help you understand women's problems, Daniel Ellsburg to tell you about the government's problems and Dustin Hoffman at 50 cents to help the Renaissance Fund. UCC has done its best to satisfy students' widely varied music tastes, providing musicians who played music to sway by and music to Letters the Editor i k&a l #/tr GROK WOULD LIKt, TO SAY THANK 9011 JOUR SUPPORT WiTS4 AN APPAICIAT Al ilatitcr Coats, fitr-sn, Yats s - Belt -3 R 0)( a faceless croup inside Old Main, is to change the present term system to a semester system. I, for one,.4rn more than satisfied with our term system. Envision, if y 6 will fellow students, taking a 13-credit term and consider'ng yourself O It lucky because you have a "light" load. Ttiat would happen with the semester system. Penn State, sometime in the not-too / distant past, decided that it was easier to concentrate on a limited number of courses than to juggle up to six courses for one semester. I acree. ‘ 5 / 1 1,E 'WETNESPkg THRU OAT-UR-Mg Thank you dance by. This term students had their choice of Three Dog Night, Ellen Mcllwaine, Graham Central Station and more. To make your life in Happy Valley livable be tween entertainment programs, several student groups have provided you with valuable ser vices. The Free University has offered you con sistently excellent courses to supplement your academic work. Free U also has organized such programs as Gentle Thursday and the Bike Rally. Panhellenic Council, Interfratemity Council and their affiliated greek groups provided two services in one Spring Week: .a contribution to the Renaissance Fund and a carnival for your entertainment. The fraternities also made spring in State College prettier with their help on clean-up day. The Association of Residence Hall Students continued work on a faster snow removal ser vice and obtained money from Housing for projects in every dorm house even while under pressure from the Undergraduate Student Government Supreme Court to hold open elec tions. The Homophiles of Penn State last fall initiated work by several student organizations on the human relations ordinance completed thid - term. If State College Borough Council passes the or dinance, it will help end discrimination locally in Term or semester? TO THE EDITOR: I can't help but feel that my university is out .o put the screws to the student body again. Last year about this time I was rather startled to hear that some faceless group in the bowels of Old Main had passed on recommendations to tamper with a term system which coincided extraordinarily well with a variety of holidays. The results? We're going to get out in May instead of June. Whoopee. From what those on high tell us that's uspposed to give us a better chance for a summer job,' the -problem is though, that our summer job competitors from other schools are getting out in the first week of May instead of the last week of May. So much for the last "improvement" that was dumped on the student body. Our latest improvement, which has again been produced by What alarms me most however, is not so much that in the Fall of 1975 Penn Staters could be struggling with a semester system. but that neither I, nor anyone who I know is representing my interests, have been directly or indirectly involved in formulating pis "impiovement." What's wrong with allowing the students who attend this University the right to 2 1, 0 7 -C F ). Vjt II A, ,l fsafht.r awdr t i iQL litester strett ,„ 13attmnt jktr°SS irOlk Tx*Stpre EVER 9 NITC atm SATIMAS such areas .as housing on such grounds as color, sex and marital status. The Student Environmental Counseling Organization has started the wheels rolling to improve conditions for cyclists in State College. It has completed a bicycle study begun before Christmas and has recom mended to Borough Council such im provements as bicycle lanes and racks. The Association for Women Students and the Ritenour Student Advisory Board, have started a contraceptive counseling program at Ritenour this term, among other services, to help speed that service to women. The Organization of Town Independent Students has taken some giant steps forward this term. Through Town Day, it made the distance between the town and campus side of College Avenue one giant step rather than a lot of little reluctant steps for. both State College residents and students. And OTIS has taken a step in the right direction toward helping students get a better deal through its food co op program. Last but not least, USG has filed a suit against the .county to_ try to make sure students whd s cannot afford 'its per capita tax are not forced not to register to vote in State College in order to be exonerated. USG also is fiercely fighting the proposed tuition increase. Thank you, everyone. Keep up the good work IME Foy choose the form of academic system they will be studying under") Surely something as simple as a referendum on the matter would be more than appropriate. Biology machines 10 THE EDITOR: I should like to take this opportunity to reply .o the letter by Jeffrey Heilman in which he makes several statements concerning the department of biology here at the Un tversi ty I find it very disheartening to see that in a few terms when Heilman oraduates. he will be no more than a "regurgitating machine." I can only say that it is unfortunate that in four years of higher education. Heilman has never seen it to his ad vantane to take the knowledge presented to him in his courses and assimilate it and utilize it. I can only assume that he has never learned the cognitive process of thinking. Heilman refers to biology oraduates "never being forced into the library or into original research papers." I can only refer him to his 1974-75 Undergraduate Catalog to see that the biology department offers several courses encouraging un deroraduates to undertake special problems and intensive individual or croup study. These avenues are open to those students motivated to pursue such interests. I find it regret table that Heilman did not have the initiative to enoage in such courses and only wishes that he could have been forced into it in order to reap their advantages. The biolooy department here at Penn State is a fine one, and Free U Day Sun. May 19 1-5 A chance to see what Free U Demonstrations is all about Workshops Workshops will and Exhibits include: Terrarium - Demonstration &Workshop Body Massage Macrame Figure Drawing Life Saving Rugby Backpacking Frisbee Experts Fingeitpainting Esperahto Foraging Vegeterian Feasting Bonsai Stereo workshop and many many more Join Us and Bring Friends If it rains -still come - to the Ground Floor of the HUB Mark S. Colman 9th-psychology Hub Lawn i IT WAS A FORD yam A PRO-Nixosi gopipEß Sti aCER!* hope .hat underoraduate biology majors don't find Heilman's leiter all :oo discouracino. Collegian DIANE M. NOTTLE Editoi Successor to the Free Lance, est. 1887 Member of the Associated Press Charter member of the Pennsylvania Collegiate Media Association Editorial policy is determined by the Editor Opinions expressed by the editors and staff of The Daily Collegian are not necessarily those of the University administration, faculty or students. BOARD OF EDITORS: MANAGING EDITOR, Steve Ostrosky; EDITORIAL. EDITOR, Barb White; NEWS EDITOR, Glenda Gephart; ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR, Ben Weller; LAYOUT EDITOR, Cathy Cipolla; COPY EDITORS, Steve Auerweck, Nancy Postrel, Terry Walker; SPORTS EDITOR, Rick Starr; ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS, Tim Panaccio, Jeff Young; PHOTO EDITOR, Ed Golomb; ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR, Ed Palsa; CARTOONIST, Tom Gibb. WEATHER REPORTER, Bnan Thomas. CYNTHIA A. ASHEAR Business Manager 4; 5 Alan Bedrick 12th-biology
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