Editorial opinion You have the chance to vote three days in a row this year. if you didn't vote yesterday, you blew one chance. Academic Assembly is providing you with the two other chances today and tomorrow in a student referendum on the calen dar system. To change or inot to change that is the quqstion. Academic Assembly wants your answer. It is not a simple_ question to answer, though Many features of the dif ferent calendar systems_must be weighed Would you prefer the shorter class periods of the semester system to those during which you often nod i off now? Would you prefer the semester Side orders How colum By BILL SPANGLER of the Collegian Stall A v.orna%l know once asked me where yr•t my ideas for this column. I'd like to se this space to answer because I didn't e her a very good reply at the time, trld there might be others who have :sundered the Same thing. I get my ideas at a store on Calder Alley The store is called Ideas Unlimited, and' it's part of a national him that also serves people like Art huchwald and Garry Trudeau, who draws D3onesbury " Since I've started doing this column, Je become close friends with the _.tore s proprietor. George Spigoft. When I stopped at his store the other d t ;Z Collegian DIANE M. NOTTLE Editor Ed tonal Staff 865-1828 Sports Staff 865-1820 Business Staff. 865-2531 white cork x 2' 2.541 2' x4' • 94C '-• • it's really polystyrene : *:". • . : dark cork I.x 2' 90C • • x 3' 1.20 T it's really cork • . • • •. 1 .• • sofa & chair 127 e beaver 237-6611 Vote today system, in which one week's illness would mean missing only one-fifteenth of the time rather than one-tenth of it? Or do'you like the term system better because, if illness forces , you to drop out for a term, you miss only one-tfiird of the schbol year .rather thari the one-half of it you would miss if you were forced to drop out for a semester? Would you prefer to get t# know your good instructors better durir)g a 15-week period or get rid of the bad ones fast in the present 10- week term? Do you think you are under more pressure taking 9 to 12 credits in 10 weeks than you would be taking 12 to 18 credits in 15 weeks? day, he greeted I'm glad you received a new, nusca satires." replied. "You can't fool me. I know Tom Gibb was in here already. He's probably got all the good ones." "Gibb was in here," Spigott admitted, 'but there are still plenty of good 'ldeas left." A lot of Spigott's Cernusca ideas were recycled Nixon jokes, but.there was one in the corner that seemed in- teresting. It began. "I understand, George . Cernusca was here, selling health in- surance." "That's right." "Did you buy some?" ni .z sts me with, "Ah, Spangler, dropped by. I've just batch of George Cer- CYNTHIA A. ABHOR Business Manager Business Office Hours: Monday through Friday 9:30 am. to 4 p.m. Remember EIJIIEKA!? Well; there's still gold in them thar hills! Panhel invites all undergraduate women to discover sororities. Register for winter term's rush now in 212 HUB or during class regitration on Dec. 3 and 4. SEMESTERS or E RMS • We want YOUR opinion! We need YOUR opinion! The ACADEMIC ASSEMBLY is conducting a campus-wide poll to solicit your opinions on the calendar, to be presented to the • University community. When: Wednesday, Nov 6 and Thursday, Nov. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Where: HUB ground floor, Chambers Bldg i and = dining halls of each dorm area - NOw's Your Chance! Don't Blow NH' Under which system do you think you can get the best quality education? This isthe'rmost im portant question, since an ex cellent education is what you are paying your tuition for. Consider these questions and all the other ramifications of a change. And vote. You can pick up a form and vote in all the dining halls, the HUB ground floor and in Chambers. Academic Assembly will present the results of the poll to the Calen dar Commission, which will recom mend a calendar to University PreSident John W. Oswald, Oho will ultimately decide on one. Make sure Oswald and the Com mission know what you want. get their ideas "Had to. He said it wouldn't be healthy ) if I didn't." , I thanked Spigott but told him it wasn't what 1 was looking,for. "I see," he replied. "How about a parody of dining hall food?" "Dining hall food is a parody." Spigott sighed. "Well, then. How about a nice paranoid fantasy?" .He walked down an aisle and pointed to a little blue one, cowering on a shelf. "It's all about ICE," he explained. "Ice?" I repeated. "Not ice. ICE. The International; Conspiracy of• Everything." I picked up the idea and rolled it around for a few moments. Spigott said, "If you're interested, I'd \ advise you to buy it now, Jack Jack Son was in here looking at it this morning.: It did have a nice heft to it, but I put it back on the shelf. "Just what are you looking 'for?" Spigott asked. "I'm not sure, exactly, btit it has to be something special.. I'm working on my last column, you see. I'm going to graduate this term." "Really? Congratulations." "Thanks. I think." "I really wish you had mentioned it earlier, though. I could have sent off for a special order about job hunting and alumni associations." Letters to the editor Who rates who ? TO THE EDITOR: This is in response toth<column "A Bad Case of Jammy-itls" in the Oct. 28 Collegian In reading thru Jammy-itis we noticed a blatant lack of male rationalization From our point of view. the women are lust as guilty. if not more guilty of rating men at jammies. The major difference is in the placing of the tape measure. The jammy. as we see it. isnot a throw-back to high school dances, but more a throw-back to the pioneer days on the prairie with the women gathering in defensive circles while the wild, drunken fraternity savages circle for the attack. He selects his prey and notices that while she only rates a seven on the 'Richter" scale. she may move up to a -nine after a couple more beers. Although she thoroughly enjoys his suggestive gazes. she will asst like Morris the Cat, finicky. But once the cans open and the meat is out, she will find a way to get you upstairs for 30 minutes of frustrating attempts. Success often leads to disappointment as you find that getting a drunken female in bed is as satisfying as carrying on an intellectual conversation with a dead goldfish, And besides, she might throw up. After she passes, and the savage showers. he returns to the golden-flowing tap for some of the best draught beer this side of Munich. As the Tammy ends. the drunken savages clean their home and plan for another week of philanthropic, academic, and "You mean you don't have anything in stock?" I asked. I was beginning to get nervous "I didn't say that. I think we can cannibalize some things from my used ideas:: He started to walk around the store, occasionally stopping to look at some premise or one-liner. "It's always good to thank people in last columns," he said. "You do have people you want to thank, don't you?" "Dozens. Harris Abrams, Jack Jackson, Lifw King, Jan Komarnicki, Diane Nottle, Randy Oppenheimer, Andy Smookler, Barb White hell, I'll probably forget most of the names." "Well, you've got the right idea. Another thing you can do is make some 'type of statement about Penn State." - "I've been making statements about Penn State all term," I replied. "Or trying to, :anyway." "I know that, but the reader'll expect you to make some sort of parting shot. Something about how you never liked it here to begin with," I "I don't know if I can do that. I liked `being here. It's a good place to get an education." "Really?" "Yeah. You can even learn things in classrooms." "Spangler," Spigott said, beyond my help." 'Now I would like to introduce to you a man who I believe can continue the Cernusca government...My new vice president...' ommunht\ ,letion events. the little mentioned. but major part ,f F- ralerni:), life Beware of food 10 IHE EDITOR: We would like to inform all residents eating in he dining halls to be on the lookout for worms On Monday. 2iv ve were having lunch at Findlay Dining Hall. when a 'Hind and neighbor of ours screamed. 'A worm , We 010c:ceded 10 inspect her beet barbeque and realized that it was in fact a worm. We took the sandwich back to the cafeteria .inendent. at which point, she gs.4ed the plate away and - said. his is not 'a worm." And when- asked what it was she . did not give ar ve,xplanahon. While talking with several of our peers. we found that we are not alone in these discoveries of bug infested meals More than one of our acquaintances has found flies in his soup or bugs in his -lel tuce. if shis is any example of the sanitary conditions of:University ki.chens. we feel compelled to demand better sanitation And ,Ni• would like to inform the rest of the student body who eat in he dining halls to beware , Barbara Braham 2nd-art education Deborah Oliver 2nd-theatre lAm, 5 tradition of vigorous, energetic Bill Mayo 10th-insurance and real estate Ed Kennedy 10th-law enforcement and corrections
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