Happiness is possible only to a rational man,
the man who seeks nothing but rational
goals, seeks nothing but rational values and
finds his j o y in nothing but rational actions.
Ayn Rand

Higher education forgoes
classics for interest groups

Honors
forum to
convene

"Opening the Mind" will be the
conference theme for the State System of Higher Education Northeast
Honors Symposium to be held at the
Hotel Ma"gee and hosted by
Bloomsburg University on April 7
and 8.
Nearly 75 faculty members and
students from four ,state universities
will be exploring the purpose, value,
and operations of honors programs at
broad-based public universities.
Featured symposium speakers are
Allan Bloom of the University of
Chicago, author of the best seller
"The Closing of the American Mind ",
and Ann Raia of the College of New
Rochelle.
Bloom is scheduled to speak at 8
p.m. on April 7 in Carver Auditorium
on "Liberal Education and the Political Community".He will also participate in a panel discussion of the issues
raisedinhisbookat9:30a.m. on April
8 at the Alvina Krause Theater. Both
sessions are open to the public.
Raia will deliver the symposium
keynote address entitled, "Can Honors Open the Mind?"

Allan Bloom, author of "The Closing of the American Mind" ;,will be speaking in the
final BU Provost's lecture of the semester.

General knowledge tested

Are today's college students short
on general knowledge of their cultural heritage?
That's the claim made recently by
University of Chicago Professor Allan Bloom, who will speak in the
Provost's Lecture Series on April 7.
In his best-selling book "The Closing of the American Mind" , Bloom
asserts that without a broad background knowledge of the Western
cultural tradition , a college student
can't fully benefit from college
courses.

His claim is seconded by another
recent best-seller, Cultural Literacy
by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Hirsch's book lists
hundreds of terms that "every high
school graduate" should be familiar
with.
Here's a sample to test your own
CLQ (Cultural Literacy Quotient).
See how many of these items you can
identify.
For example, if the item were "met
in Waterloo", you would recognize
Napoleon 's final defeat by allied
forces near Waterloo in 1815. •

Cultural Literacy Quotient Quiz:

I. Anthony, Susan B.; 2. Basal Metabolism; 3. Capacitor; 4. Congress of
Vienna; 5. Danton; 6. Doric Order (of
architecture); 7. Ethyl Alcohol; 8.
Flying Buttress; 9. Cut the Gordian
Knot; 10. Hector; 11. The Invisible
Hand; 12. Lord Kelvin; 13. Lima (not
the bean); 14. Manifest Destiny; 15.
Mont Blanc; 16. Noble Gas; 17. Jesse
Owens; 18. prevailing westerlies; 19.
shibboleth.
See CLQ ANSWERS page 3

by Martin M. Gildea
for The Voice
In his best selling book, "The Closing of the American Mind," Allan
Bloom charges that higher education
in our top 20 to 30 universities since
the late 1960s is "impovishering the
souls" of our best and brightest youth
by stifling their natural need to know
answers to importan t questions while
simultaneousl y turning them into
narrow specialists.
More importantly, our best colleges are depriving our frag ile democratic polity of the virtuous leaders it
requires to endure historicism , relativism , and mediocrity lurking in
modern democracy. These trends,
argues Bloom , were exaggerated after World War II by the 19th-century
thought flooding our best universities , inexorably pushing us towards
the abyss of nihilism , aided and abetted by the student radicals of the late
1960s.
Bloom reports impressionistic evidence for this sorry situation at the
finest American universities by saying that students he teaches are selfccntered , intellectually shallow, rootless, numbed and misled by the barbaric appeal of rock music. He also
claims they seem short-sighted and
narrow to cultural relativism, leading
to indifference rather than an openness to transcendent, timeless truth.
For those whose souls are not nourished by higher education , but are
undermined by the sexual revolution ,
feminism and affirmative action, relationships replace love; there is a
contempt for the heroic; the taste for
reading is lost while students pursue a
perfect body, but do not know what a
perfect soul is.
Next, Bloom perceptively traces
the origin and evolution of this situation to Machiavelli; the Enlighten-

ment thinkers, Thomas Hobbes, John
Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
whose natural rights ideas were corrupted by the thought of John Stuart
Mill and John Dewey; and especially,
the thought of 19th-century German
thinkers such as Max Weber ,
Sigmund Freud and Friedrich
Nietzsche, who gave our universities
corrupting ideas like historicism and
relativism and a corrupting vocabulary to communicate these ideas.
"Self replaces soul, and "values"
replaces morality.
Bloom sees "vulgarian", student
radicals pushing these ideas at our
finest universities in the late 1960s.
Overly fascinated by power, these
self-serving radicals initiated academic leveling and other ills that are
still prevalent, which fragmented ,
guilt-ridden faculty members too
hastily approved.
Bloom asserts that the best universities were overwhelmed by the societal problems, corrupting their
function in the process. For Bloom, as
for his beloved mentor, Leo Strauss,
an inevitable and necessary tension
must exist between the university and
civil society if both are to endure.
The best universities must distance
themselves from the democratic polity and its everyday problems in order
to save democracy. Bloom says that
when universities are radicalized and
politicized, they subvert their essential role for providing proper leaders
and standards for our culture, society
and polity.
Bloom sees anarchy in the curriculum because we no longer have a
vision of what an educated person
should know. Instead, courses and
programs are multiplied , offering the
perplexed student a smorgasbord
with no hints on how to choose. Because a true general education pro-

gram cannot be implemented, academic disciplines bargain , compromise and trade off current courses like
special interest groups, and call the
result a "core curriculum". Administrators package this core and call it
academic excellence.
Thirdly, Bloom offers a way out of
this soul-and-polity threatening fix by
suggesting a return to true liberal
education, consisting of studying the
great old books containing the profoundest thoughts about the true nature of man and how he ought to live.
Bloom sees the great books not
only as an integrating force for what
one studies, but more importantly as
the means of liberating the intellectual and moral experience that no
leader should be without. Additionally, they provide common thought
required to sustain a common traditional culture, one in which knowledge replaces openness to cultural
relativism.
But Bloom evidently does not think
universities below the top 20 or 30 can
successfully study the great books as
needed. He does not have much hope
that the best universities will study
them because, he reports, the natural
sciences are indifferent, the social sciences are hostile, and the humanities
twist these books to satisfy modernity
rather than being studied as their authors intended.
His concern for the great books is
partly the reason Bloom questions
efforts by feminist and black groups
who seek to democratize the humanities' curricula by attacking them for
racism and sexism, and then try to
replace them with books by feminist
and black authors. For Bloom , these
are merely efforts of special interest
groups with their own political and
ideological agendas.
See BLOOM page 3

International students have
problems rooming on break

by Dawn M. D'Aries
Staff Writer
Imagine that you are a foreign student living on campus.
The campus is shutting down because of an upcoming
holiday and you have no place to sleep because you aren't
returning to your native country.
This is a dilemna that faces the growing number of
Bloomsburg University's international students.
Dean of Student Life Robert Norton said that international housing is a problem that is starting to surface.
"We are attracting more international students. As a
result there is more of a need to look at ways of accomodating their needs," Norton said.
"I feel it's an important issue that the institution needs
to address," said BU President Harry Ausprich.
According to Alex Schillemans, president of the International Relations Club (IRC), said that foreign students
would like to have a place of their own where they don 't
feel as if they are imposing on anyone and have their own

belongings around them. He suggested that perhaps all the
international students be put in one dorm , such as North
Hall, and have that dorm keptopen during short breaks like
as Thanksgiving and Easter.
Jennie Carpenter, Residence Life director, said keeping
a dorm open would entail tremendous costs and would be
unfair to other students.
"We have to consider costs such as utilities, maintenance, and custodial services," she said.
Carpenter explained that she could not justify allowing
international students who are freshman to live in a coed
dorm as it is university policy that students must have
sophomore standing to live in coed dorms.
Despite her criticism of the dorm idea, Carpenter acknowledged that, "there's no question that a solution has
to be found."
Carpenter suggested that a possible solution might be
for the university to buy a house near campus for international students.

Computer programs save time

In the manufacturing business, it
normally takes two days or so for
someone to take a blueprint of a
machine part and from that write the
instructions for the part to be manufactured.
Paul Hartung, a mathematics and
computer science professor at
Bloomsburg University, says the
whole process can be done in an hour
with the help of computer-aided design and computer^assisted manufacturing, also known as CAD/CAM.
And if that part of the process can
be done in a shorter time,more people
can be hired to produce more parts.
Hartung and colleagues Dennis
Huthnance and Ed Kerlin, also from
the mathematics and computer science department, are working with
the cooperation of George Forese,
owner of S & B Foundry and Columbia Precision Machine Tools in
Bloomsburg, to prove what CAD/
CAM can do.
Forese's businesses are part of a
two-step process, casting and ma-

chining, to create finished metal
machine part from recycled railroad
tracks. The casting is done at the
foundry, using sand to create molds
into which molten iron is poured.
A typical product may be a motor
mount with a top and bottom piece
that must fit together perfectly, Hartung said. After it is cast, the part must
be machined - holes are drilled and
surfaces made smooth - so the parts
can fit together as they should.
CAD permits a blueprint of a product to be drawn on a computer screen
using three-dimensional coordinate
geometry and rotating the image of
the product.
Once that is done, the computer
assists in writing the instruction for
machining the part. From those instructions, Hartung said, the computer produces a paper tape wi(h holes
punched in it, each hole a part of a
code, calleda G-code,that will tell the
milling tool where and how to move
to machine the final product.
Hartung, his colleagues and several

of his students are working with
Forese to cut down on the time it takes
from blueprint to G-code.
"We're hoping to move it down to
something like an hour," he said, "by
writing computer programs that will
tell the comnputer what G-codes to
use for each part of the machining
process."
The process begins when a customer comes in with either a sample
of the part to be made or the blueprints
of the part, Hartung said.
"After-several hours of very exact
calculations of maching time, an estimate can be given to the prospective
client," he said. "If the client accepts
the estimate - and only about 1 in 30
are accepted - then the steps in the
machining process must be converted
to the computer number codes, the Gcodes, that drive the machining tool."
The machining, which is automated via G-codes on the paper tape
telling the tool what to do at each step,
takes about an hour for a machine part
such as a motor mount, Hartung said.

Dennis Wilson, David (Davy?) Jones, Brian Rose and Jim Pollard arc friends indeed, and seem to be enjoying the spring weather
which hit BU earlier this week.
Photo by ChriiLower

Jap an debates BU

Sitting under the hot lights of Studio A in McCormick Human Services
Center, Japanese and Bloomsburg
University students debated about
whether or not the United States
should substantially alter its trade and
tariff policy with Japan.
Debate coordinator Mr. James
Tomlinson, chairman of the Communication Studies department, called
the event an "educational debate"
which was meant to inform people
rather than be competitive.
Akira Ikeya, Tokyo, and Yuzuro
Yamashita , Hiroshima , debated
against/BU sophomores and University Scholars Lisa Cellini and Daniel
Kornegay at 1 p.m. this past Tuesday.
Cellini spoke for the first affirmative position, stating that Japan
should remove formal and informal
trade barriers which prevent compa-

rable American goods from entering
the Japanese market. She also said
that Japan should follow the free trade
tenets which have provided much of
Japan's wealth and America's deficit.
Outlining a plan of "retaliation ",
Cellini and Kornegay said that a revised trading plan would alert the
Japanese to the seriousness of the
trade imbalance. They also mentioned that Japan depends on the U.S.
to import 40 percent of its exports.
Ikeya and Yamashita countered
these arguments by stating that Japanese consumers are not interested in
buying American products because
they lack quality and Japanese consumers do not spend as much money
as Americans. They said that the policy suggested by the BU team would
cause a trade war, and drag the world
into a recession like the 1930s.

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INXS finds success

No thanks to fans in Bloomsburg
To the Editor
"Welcome to the beginning of our
world tour. We thought we'd come
sec ya now , before we don 't get a
chance to again." — Michael Hutchence at last semester's INXS concert.
"Hutchcncc 's prediction of international supcrslardom for INXS may
well lead to the rudest awakening of
his life. INXS couldn 't even sell out
the Nelson Ficldhousc. I don 't suppose the next stop is J.F.K . for these
guys. Uh....na , 1 don 't think so."
"...INXS arc on the downswing of
their popularity, as well as their .ca-

reers." — Ken Kirsch in the Oct. 29
issue of The Voice.
Nice call Ken. INXS didn 't play
J.F.K. on this lour. They decided to
play Stabler Arena on March 23 and
The Spectrum on March 25 instead.
They 've sold out all over the world
and have had two singles in the top 40
this year while selling millions of
records worldwide.
These career "downswings" can be
pretty "rude."
The poor turnout at the INXS concert was hardl y a reflection on the
band. Why do bands like INXS and

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'til Tuesday play here at all? It's because they 've heard that if you can
play to nobody at BU, you are assured
of success. If you can also get an unfavorable write-up in The Voice , it 's
superstar time.
I wonder how a "real" artist like
Tiffany would be received here? I
shudder to think!
Moral: If we arc luck y enough to
get a good band here, let's support
them this time around.
Mike Hoover

Voice fails to give IMAGE the 'respect it deserves

Editors should know it all!
To the Editor
I am writing in regard to what I
must deem ignorance on the part of
The Voice for insuffici ent or totally
non-cxislant coverage of the recent
IMAGE show.
For two consecutive semesters,
the members of IMAGE have
worked for month s to put together a
show we could be proud of. Both of
our shows have proved to be extremel y successful , and we have
received rave reviews from students , faculty and members of the
community.
Unfortunatel y, for two semesters
The Voice has decided that there is
just not enoug h space in their paper
for even a small story about IMAGE. Wh y is this?
Docs the Voice staff feel that
IMAGE is not as professional as
other performing groups on campus?
The 12 members of IMAGE work
many long hours to put together a

show. The members of IMAGE select
all of their own songs, devise skits to
each song, direct the entire show ,
collect props and costumes and put in
as many hours as it takes to make IMAGE what it is — uni que.
In addition to our two perform ances in Haas, we also perform for
man y other audiences. This semester
we have shows scheduled in New
York , New Jersey, Bethlehem and
Wilkes-Barrc .
In addition , we arc very honored to
be the main entertainment at the
Pennsylvania Speech and Hearing
Association (PSHA) convention in
Harrisburg . Speech and hearing clinicians from throughout the state, including Bloomsburg , will witness the
unique show that onl y IMAGE can
perform.
IMAGE has not only created a
name for itself , but we also help to
promote respect for BU. We are very
proud of our group and the fact that
BU would sponsor such a group. Our

show is seen by hundreds of people
every semester. These people, ranging from small children to older
adults , thoroug hly enjoy our show
and trul y appreciate the university 's
support of this type of performing
group.
(Incidentall y, IMAGE draws
more audience members during
their two performances in Haas than
any other performing group on
campus.)
It is obvious that IMAGE is very
well-respected and well-know. But
I should not have to tell you that. It
is your job as the major campus pub lication and source of information
to know about campus events and
share information with your readership. Get with it! Give IMAGE the
respect we deserve here at the
school that sponsors our activities.
We should not have to go else
where.
Sincerely
IMAGE

Newspaper neglected IMA GE
To the Editor
On Sunday, March 27 at 2 p.m.
and Monday March 28 at 8 p.m.,
IMAGE performed their semester
show at Haas. This semester's show
was extraordinary , and worth remarking, which I must say so myself on behalf of IMAGE because
The Voice neglected to cover our
show. Let me also note that you
neglected to cover our show last
semester.
Instead of covering this campus
event featuring full-time undergraduate students of various majors
— which I thought was the sole
purpose of the student newspaper
— you chose to publish pictures
about the weather and the continued
reconstruction around campus. The
students know about these obvious
events and do not need to read it in
the paper.
It is asinine to continually cover
these same topics over and over
again. No wonder The Voice ends

up cluttered all over the Commons
floor
Since you disregarded to run a press
release on IMAGE or probably attend
the show, you arc not informed nor
can you inform the studen t body of
what IMAGE is doing this semester.
IMAGE'S purpose is to entertain , to
inform and to promote. IMAGE is a
sign-song group that entertains with
skits to various kinds of songs while
using sign language. Using this form
of communication, IMAGE informs
the public , hearing and non-hearing
alike, of the deaf culture while promoting BU.
IMAGE not only performs on
campus, but to other areas as well .
This semester IMAGE will be performing in the Bloomsburg area,
Coming, New York; Ringtown , Allen town , Harrisburg and Midland
Park, New Jersey.
As a part of this semester's show,
IMAGE is raising money for the
benefit of BU student Ruth Nice, who

recentl y received a kidney transplant. Thus far, we have raised a
sizable amount for her at our Haas
show and will continue to do so at
our other shows.
However, we could have used
the publicity fro m The Voice to
help our cause.
Incidcntl y, if anyone would like
to donate money on Ruth' s behalf ,
it can be sent to Joanne Jackowski,
IMAGE advisor , Navy Hall.
Thanks to your inadequate coverage, many students missed our
show. Any publicity that was found
in The Voice was submitted by a
member of IMAGE.
Instead of always hi ghlighing
the negative aspects that happen at
BU, try covering something positive for a change. Then again , you
wouldn 't know — you weren 't
there.
Amy Herbener
Member of IMAGE

About last night...
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To special friends
This may not be the proper place to
say this, but at least I have your attention and I'll be able to finish my
sentence.
Yes, I said I was a bit upset that
someone said things will get better
when all of the older brothers leave.
Of course I was upset. I pledged with
people who are now older brothers. I
pledged under older brothers. I AM an
older brother.
But (and but always means no!) I
didn 't want to criticize someone for
saying what they feel. I have no right
to put them down considering I was
inactive when it was said. Are you
following this? Good!
What I wanted to say is I'm glad
that, old and new, things are getting
back to normal and our brotherhood
means something to us. I pledged this
fraternity because I loved the close-

Send a letter, save the post off ic e

by Ellen Goodman
Editorial Columnist
BOSTON — I am standing in a post
office, behind 14 other Americans
who share my zip code and my astute
consumer judgement. We are the
people who stocked up on books of
22-cent stamps just before the rates
went up to a quarter. We are now
queuing for our three cents worth .
This is at least the third or fourth
time I have performed the same ritual
in honor of postal inflation . But today,
as the line inches toward the window ,
I have time to consider what else has
changed since the WPA architect
built this monument to public postal
service. Take, for example, the mail.
Remember when the Commission
on Privatization recendy put the post
officeon their hit list? They suggested
that mail delivery might be turned
over to private business. Did Americans rise up and defend the one govenment service that touches home and
hearth in rain , sleet, and you know
what? There was nary a murmur.
Now, in this three-cent line, I've
finally figured out why the postal

service is no longer as cherished an
American institution.
It 's not that the post office closes
too early. It's not that it can take a
week to get mai l from Boston to New
York . The problem is that the post
office no longer gives American citizens a product they like. Mail. The
last time that word stirred the soul of
the average American was when he or
she was in the army, or summer camp,
or in love.
Last year, more than 160 billion
pieces of mail were delivered , but few
of them communicated anything
more meaningful than a threat to our
line of credit.
The heart of the postal service, the
reason it warranted a special place in
the Constitution, was that it kept
Americans together across vast distances. We exchanged our lives
through letters. They were the way —
the only way — we stayed in contact
with each other.
The letters that come down to us
from 18th-century diplomats and
19th-century pioneers are testimonies to distance and a longing and

loneliness that are rare in this mobile
and verbal generation.
Last month , a very modern young
friend , watching The Color Purple on
cable television, was merely confused by the image of a woman waiting hungrily for a letter from her sister.
"Why," she asked her mother,
"didn 't the sister just call?"
Even in my childhood , long-distance relatives kept in contact by mail.
My gandparehts answered any crosscountry phone call by instinctively
asking, "What's wrong?" Now we
reach out and touch someone by
Touchtone. The telephone company
sells us "guilt calls." We chat on the
phone and use the mail for sending
careful hard news.
The wonderful , storytelling narrative of letters, the heft and feel of pen
and paper have been replaced by the
ephemeral dialogue of the telephone.
It's an exchange that leaves us with
nothing more to hold onto than a dial
tone. And in our mail slot, the letter
has been replaced by the phone bill.
What does a so-called letter carrier

deliver to my household? What is the
end product of this heralded passage
through rain and snow? Bills, magazines, catalogs, advertisements, fundraising requests. A ton of impersonal
mail for every ounce of personal communication .
Mail , which was preciously protected, has become junk. Even our
greeting cards are not usually written
by us but by some commercial ghostwriter. We merely sign and send
them. On many days, the closest thing
to a personal touch in a home mailbox
is the robolype on a fund-raising letter.
The stamps I purchase today will
send my best regards to bill collectors.
It is not a though to send goose bumps
up my arms. In the American mailbag, as in much of American life, the,
personal has been replaced by the
commercial.
But all this suggests to me a decent
rally ing cry for an endangered species
of public service: Save the Post Office
— Write Someone a Letter. (And
don 't forget the extra three-cent
stamp.)

ness. I didn 't mean to offend anyone.
I just wanted a chance to communicate. Obviously I am much better at
communicating in print.
Those who are reading this and not
understanding, that's OK. This letter
was ment for a very special group of
people.
But there is something for all to
learn from it. First, communication is
the key. Don 't cut someone off when
they are talking and assume you know
what they ment. Also, don 't collect
your marbles and go home when
things don 't go your way. Stick
around until they do.
Well guys, hopefull y you understand. I love you guys! See ya in the
jaccuzi!
An older brother
with a bad temper

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Kehr Union Building
Bloomsburg University
Bloomsburg, PA 17815

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CLQ Answers

from pa ge J
ANSWERS to Cultural Literacy Quiz:
L American women 's rights leader (1820-1906); on dollar coin
- 2. The lowest rate of energy use required to maintain vital
functions in an organism at rest
3. Ah electric circuit device used to store energy temporarily
4. European conference of 1814-15 which redrew national
borders
5. French revolutionary leader (1759-94)
6. One of three architectura l styles of ancient Greece
7. Tt's the stuff you may drink; methyl alcohol is poisonous
8. A masonry prop that transfers a building 's thrust outward to
another part of the structure (especially in Gothic cathedrals)
9. To solve a difficulty at once, as Alexander the Great undid an
Intricate knot by cutting it with his sword
10. A Trojan prii.ee killed by Achilles in Homer 's Iliad
H. In economics, Hie unseen force of market pressures (from the
Bible story of an unseen hand that wrote a message of doom
on the wall of Belshazzar 's palace)
12. British ph ysicist (1824-1907) for whom is named the temperature scale beginning at "absolute zero "
13. Capital of Peru
t4. A U.St, policy ol imperialistic expansion viewed as necessary
or inevitable
15. Mountain in the Alps on the French-Italian border
ltf.lnaclive or inert gas which does not combine easily with other
elements
17.American black athlete (1913-80), winner of track medals at
1936 Olympics
18. Winds from the west, the prevalent wind-direction in the
latitudes from 30 to 60 degrees (e.g., the north Atlantic)
19. Any linguistic usage or item which distinguishes members of
one group from another (from a Biblical story in which
inability to pronounce this word led to immediate death by
an enemy group)
How did you do? To rate your CLQ, multiply the number of correct answers by ten.
160-200 Culture Vulture; 120-150 Trivial Pursuit Ace; 80-110
Average; 40-70 Below Average; 0-40 Discover Books.
What does knowledge of .such trivia have to do with a liberal education? To find out , hear Allan Bloom speak on Tnursday, April 7
at 8 p.m. in Carver Auditorium ,

Bloom perceives
education failing

from page 1
Bloom, like Strauss, believes that
modem democracy, as Plato and
Nietzsche pointed out, may easily
degenerate into anumbing mediocrity
with stifling conformity without the
"counter-poison", as Strauss put it of
a liberally educated corps of our best
and brightest students to wisely and
sensitively lead and to set standards.
His attacks on self-centered youth ,
orgiastic rock music , unnatural feminism , self-defeating affirmative action and wrong-headed higher education seem at the very least to be exaggerations.
Do we in the colleges and universities, though not in the top 20 to 30, at
least debate his charges seriously or
do we simply become defensive? Are
our universities as bad as Bloom de-

scribes, and for the reasons he offers?
If they are, can the great books or
anything else save them? Finally, why
is Bloom 's difficult and disturbing
book a best seller?
One suggestion is that every time
there is a perception of a serious cultural crisis or a serious fear of our
economic decline, prophets arise to
admonish us to mend our ways by
going back to the oldtime religion , as
to fundamentalist preachers.
Hence the charge that Bloom 's
book is "fundamentalism for the
right."
While other criticisms exist, the
fact remains that Bloom 's book has
stirred the nation and its universities
to consider current education and the
future of America.

Summer Arts Academv

Lifeguards are needed for summer sessions for the recreational
swimming program at Nelson
and Centennial. Contact Dave
Rider at Nelson Field House.
Attention all Communication
Disorders majors and interested
students. The last National Student Speech, Language Hearing
Association (NSSLHA) meeting
of the year will be Tuesday, April
12 at 9:15 p.m. in Navy Hall Auditorium. Elections will be held
for 1988-89 school year. A guest
speaker on laryngectomees and
esophageal speech will be there.
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The University Store will be
holding a continous Book Sale
during the entire month of April to
reduce excess inventory before
the end of the year. Over 1,000
childrcns books, classics and a
wide variety of interest-books.
Books arc priced for clearance.

June 1, 1988 is the deadline for
the McDonald' s Literary
Achievement Awards for Writing
on the Black Experience in America. Categories include Fiction ,
Poetry and Playwriting. Winners
may receive an honorarium of
$2,000, a trip to New York and a
literary reception . For more information contact The Voice office.

fessional theater career, will participate in this nine-week experience for
college credit.
Under the direction of S wartz, Jack
Wade and Karen Anselm , they will be
enrolled in at least three college
courses and be involved in both the
technical and performance areas of
three Bloomsburg Players ' productions.
In addition to classroom, studio and

Tickets for the performance of
the NE Philharmonic with Richard Slolzman will be available
beginning April 14 at noon.
Community Activities card holders may pick up their ticket(s) at
the Kehr Union Information
Desk for the April 28 performance.
All tickets are limited and are
available on a first come-first
serve basis.

Allan Bloom , author of the
best selling book The Closing of
the American Mind , will be on
campus at 8 p.m. tonight , to talk
about "Liberal Education and the
Political Community " in Carver
Auditorium . At9:30 a.m .April 8,
he will speak on "Bloom 's Challenge to American Education " in
conjunction with the State System of Hi gher Education 's
Northeast Honors Symposium
scheduled for the Alvina Krausc
Theatr e
in
downtown
Bloomsburg.

University President , Dr.
Harry Ausprich will hold open
visiting hours on April 25 from
1:30 - 4 p.m. in the Gold Room,
Kehr Union Building. All students are welcome to stop by.

The Student Internship Service
offers you listings of summer internships in your major fields.
Placements are available with
sponsoring companies in New'
York City and Long Island, N.Y.
Many of these internships are either salaried or offer stipends.
Write for further information:
Student Internship Service, P.O.
Box 1053, Kings Park, NY,
11754.

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The Bloomsburg University
administration has determined
that for the upcoming summer
and fall semesters, fees must be
paid for all prior balances.
Holds will be placed on students' accounts which will prevent registration, transcripts and
diploma. In order to gain a release, students mustpay in full all
outstanding debts or have documentation in writing supporting
financial aid.

Scholarships ranging from
SI500 to $2000 for 1988-89 are
available to dependents of honorably discharged American veterans
and dependents of active duty,
guard or reserve military pcrsonel .
Applicants must be age 22 or
younger as of Jul y 1, 1988, a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0, sophomore or junior
standing and be enrolled full-time
in an accredited four-year institution of hi gher education in the
United States or an accredited twoyear program leading to a f ourycar undergraduate degree.
Application deadline in July 1,
1988. and are available in the Financial aid Office, 19 Ben Franklin Hall.

WBSC/ WBUQ has announced openings for the 198889 Executive Staff. Positions
available include; Program Director, News Director, Chief
Eng ineer, Asst. Sports Director,
Asst. Music Director , Production
Director , Personnel Director ,
Traffic Director, Public Affairs
Director, Advertising Director,
Promotion Director and Asst.
Remote Director.
These positions arc open to all
BU students. For more information and job description contact
WBUQ office , Rm. 1250
McCormick Center or call 3894686.

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The Voice is looking for people
who arc interested in writing political commentaries about presidential candidates. Call 4457 for
more information.

Researchers seek heart growth controllers
by Phillip A. Farber
for The Voice
The president of the American
Heart Association (AHA) will speak
here on April 8 about research currently underway at the Weis Center
for Research at the Geisinger Medical
Center, Danville.
Dr. Howard E. Morgan , director of
Geisinger's research center and AHA
head , will address the 19th annual
meeting of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania University in Hartline
Hall. Dr. Morgan 's topic will deal
with research of the heart and associated blood vessels.
Scientists have been unable to determine why the left ventricle grows

Service
project for
SCJ
members
April 19,
1988
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Visual art experience planned

Aspiring young visual and performing artists can strengthen their
skills in theater, music and art during
a Summer Arts Academy sponsored
by Bloomsburg University.
Participants will be able to develop
their talents while being exposed to a
college environment, according to
JodyLynn Swartz of BU's communication studies department.
The individual two-week sessions
in art and music, from June 20 to July
1, will focus on small groups and
personal instruction.
Thirty students can participate in
visual art experiences available in
photography, painting, multi-media
and computer/graphics under the direction of art professors Gary Clark
and Rome Hanks.
They will have the opportunity to
take a non-credit course in stage,
costume and scene design in preparation for a Bloomsburg Players' summer production.
Field trips to museums and galleries also will be included.
The music experience is for 20
string musicians who will be given the
opportunity to take private lesson/
master classes and to play in ensembles.
They also will be able to study and
perform with members of the Lehigh
Quartet. BU music professor Mark
Jelinek is the director.
The theater session , June 13 to
August 14, will be affiliated with the
Bloomsburg Players ' repertory.
Seven high school and 14 college
students, who are interested in a pro-

Students who are Massachusetts residents may obtain an
application for Massachusetts
Grants and Scholarship by contacting Mrs. Kishbaugh in the
Financial Aid Office, 19 Ben
Franklin Hall. The application
deadline is May 1, 1988.

stage experiences, the academy s
participants will have the option to
live in a residence hall or commute
from home.
They can engage in a variety of
extracurricular activities including
tennis, swimming and other recreational and social events.
Additional information can be obtained by contacting Swartz at 3894827.

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more rapidly than the right ventricle
of newborn hearts. S tudies of the heart
involve identifying the mechanical
changes which are responsible.
Scientists working with Dr. Morgan are trying to determine if faster
growth is due to development of
hi gher blood pressure in the left ventricle, hi gher oxygen consumption
and metabolism or greater stretch of
the left ventricular chamber.
As part of the meeting, students and

faculty will have an opportunity to
tour the Weis Research Center on
April 9, where demonstrations will be
presented in the various laboratories
such as cell physiology, biochemistry, electron microscopy and tissue
culture .
Researchers are identif ying the intracellular messengers that transfer
mechanical stimuli into faster rates of
protein synthesis.
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can plan treatment to sustain optiminal heart activity for patients following a heart attack.
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Partying can be
a risky business

by Bridget Sullivan
Staff Writer
Parlies arc a major aspect of social
life at many colleges , and
Bloomsburg University is no exception. Although parties do seem to be
popular social events on campus ,
many students realize that sometimes parlies have ncgaiivc aspects ,
too.
For one thing, partying, besides
being illegal for ihc majority of college-age students , can be an expensive aclivky. At Bloomsburg , the
average "cover charge" to gel in is
S3. Paying to get into parties is ihe
biggest objection students have lo
them. One BU freshman who is
"personall y try ing to blow the party
scene," claims , "It 's a*waste of
money, waste of time. "
Another aspect of parties which
students don 't like is when people
get obnoxious from the effects of
alcohol. Sharon , also a freshman ,
dislikes "bogus people," referring to
violent or cocky drunks.
However, the fact that people
sometimes gel obnoxious by drinking alcohol docs not deter most students from going to parties.
Freshman Kim Rcuter says that
parties are for "meeting new people
and for having good times with
friends you already have." Another
BU freshman says , "I like to go to
parties because I like to socialize and
drink. "
Even though meeting new people
is a major reason students go to partics, that same reason can also be a
drawback. Rcuter says she doesn 't
like that , "When you talk lo a guy (at
a party), the guy automatic ally thinks
you want to sleep with him. You
can 't just be friends. B y the same
token , one male student doesn 't like
"the macho image some guys try lo
display ... (and) all the smooth guys
picking up girls. "

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Another aspect of parties at BU is
that they are off-campus , due to
Bloomsburg being a "dry campus."
Rcute r says, "I don 't mind that the
parties arc off-campus . . . but (BU)
has a much stricter alcohol policy
than other colleges I' ve been to."
Heidi Boyer, a non-party-going
BU freshman , explains , "I don 't go to
parties because I don ' t want to. I don 't
feel I have to go." She also points out
that drinking alcohol is illegal for
students her age.
A non-party ing BU sophomore,
who wishes to be known onl y as
"Greg," agrees with Boyer. "I don 't
feel the urge to drink ."' (; reg also says
that because of the many friends he
has , "I don 't have to go to parties
because we always have something
else to do."
Another reason Boyer chooses not
to party is that she knows people who
have gotten into auto mobile accidents as a result of drinking and driving. "That really scared me, so I never
really wanted to get involved with it. "
Even though Bloomsburg's Beta
Sigma Delta fraternity was raided by
Pennsylvania State Police and the
Liquor Control Board , none of the
students asked were worried about
the parties they go to getting
"busted. " Sharon says, "If it happens,
it happens ."
One party-going student admits
that "peer expectations ," as opposed
to peer pressure, are also a factor in
his decision to go to parties. Although
he docs not go to parties against his
will , this student feels, "my friends
expect me to go." Rcuter , on the other
hand , is not affected by peer pressure.
"I do what I want , when I want; not
when people tell me to."
There are many reasons lo parly
and not to party while in college. As
much as il is a social activity , it 's also
illegal for those under 21. The choice
is yours, and yours alone.

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When Joe Vaughan tells someone
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On the contrary', Vaughan , the current owner of Grandmaster Kites ,
Mifflinville , hopes to promote kite
flying as a recreation.
"Kite fl ying is a breeze," says the
retired Bloomsburg Univer sity biology professor.
He adds that tin' s activity can also
be healthy.
"You can 't smoke a cigarette while
flying a kite. It 's an opportunity to
think about things. It allows you to
place things into perspective."
Vaughan is trying to spread the
tranquilizing effect of kite H ying to
this area. Grandmaster Kite company
is an international kite retailer.
Although he points out that lie has
sold more kites in Germany than in
Columbia County , Vaughan says he
is trying to target his m arketing towards college students.
To attract the college crowd ,
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castle, he converted some of the
castle's rooms into dormitories for
his hikers.
Schirrmann's idea spread, and by
1910 there were 17 hostels in Germany. People began donating money
and furniture to the hostels.
The first youth hostel in America
was established in 1934 by two teachers, Isabel and Monroe Smith , in
North field, Massachussettes. The
Smiths then founded American
Youth Hostels, Inc. (AYH) which is
according to the American Youth
Hostels 1987 Handbook, a "nonprofit association organized as a
community service to provide year
round opportunities for outdoor recreation and inexpensive travel."
By 1940, there were 243 hostels in
the U.S. and 13,000 AYH members.
Membership grew to 57,000 in the
1960's, and in 1987, there were more
than 90,000 official hostelers, and
268 U.S. hostels. There are now more
than 5,000 hostels in 63 differen t
countries worldwide.
So, if you 'd like to see the world
through hosteling, the way Christopher Sullivan has, send your name,
address, telephone number , date of
birth and planned departure date to
American Youth Hostels, Data Processing.P.O. Box 37613, Washington,
D. C. 20013-7613.
Or you can buy a year-long hostel
membership for $20 at most youth
hostels. The membershi p is valid
from January to January , and allows
you to stay in any American or International Youth Hostel.
Then you too can know "how it
feels... to be a rollin' stone."

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tions on campus and has even had
Hy ing exhibitions inside Nelson
Field House.
"Indoor kite flying is an uncx ploitcd activity ," explains Vaughan .
He points out that one model he
sells , the one-ounce fast kite , can be
flown indoors by constantly pulling
on the the line and creating an air
current.
Vaughan 's interest in kites started
12 years ago as a hobby.
Vaughan 's interest grew further
when his late wife gave him a Grandmaster kite for a Christmas present.
Vaughan also met the original
owners of Grandmaster Kites, Merry
Jo MacKinnon and James Lambrakis. "Both were skilled kite
fl yers ," he recalls.
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The type of kite Vaughan sells is
the brainchild of MacKinnon and
Lambrakis , who designed and manufactured the kites in the late 1960s.
The single-line , fighter-sty le kites are
a combination of traditional orient
design and contemporary material s
such as fiberglass and Mylar plastic.
In the late 1970s, Grandmaster
Kites signed an agreement with the
Tientsin Arts and Crafts Corporation
in Tientsin , China.
The Chinese agreed to produce the
kites according to Grandmaster 's
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mind living with 10 (or more) strangStaff Writer
ers," Sullivan says.
These well-known Bob Dylan lyrIt was that youth hostel in Boston
ics can be used to describe the life of that enabled Sullivan to travel to
a travcler-or a hosteler, like Christo- Canada and back, seeing much of the
pher Sullivan.
United States on his way.
"How does it feel to be on your
Sullivan got a job cleaning at the
own . . . with no direction home ... hostel, which allowed him to earn
like a complete unknown . . . like a money while at the same time saving
rollin ' stone?"
him the $9 cost of room and board
Sullivan left his home in suburban every ni ght. (Hostel overnight
Philadelphia with a duffel bag of charges vary from $5 to $10, accordclothes, a dented 1976Buick LeSabre ing to their locations."
that had a rear bumper attached to the
He sold the old Buick for $25 to a
car with duck tape, and S300 in his "bum who was going to use it as an
wallet. His destination was Vancou- apartment." And by working a secver, Canada , to see the World' s Fair. ond job at a nearby bar, Sullivan
In New York City , he managed to earned $400 in six weeks. That was
spend S100 in 12 hours . At this rate, enough to get him to Vancouver in
he would never make it to Vancouver time for the last day of the fair, and
in time for the fair, which was two back to Philadelphia , with $5 to
months away. He headed to Boston , spare.
where he found the answer to his
"If it weren't for youth hostels, the
troubles at the Boston International Boston Hostel especially, I never
Youth Hostel at 12th and Hemenway could have made that trip . . . and the
Streets in downtown Boston.
other trips," says Sullivan. He has
Hostels are safe overnight accom- stayed in hostels in New York, Bosmodations located in scenic, cultural, ton, Portland, Vancouver, Minneapoand historic areas. They provide trav- lis, New Orleans, Virginia Beach,
elers with a place to eat, sleep, bathe Alburquerque, Memphis and The
and socialize at an inexpensive price. Hostel in the Forest in Georgia ,
Bunk beds are located in separate which says Sullivan is a tree house.
rooms for each sex, and the kitchen is "You have to climb a tree to get into
at the hostelers' disposal , as long as it."
they do at least one chore, such as
The word hostel comes from the
sweeping the floor, to help keep the Latin word "hospitale," which means
hostel clean .
hospital. A German school teacher
The only thing that hostelers must named Richard Schirrmann origibring with them is a sheet sleeping nated the idea of youth hostels.
sack, which is a sanitary device that
He would lead his students on hikes
protects the mattresses, pillows and into the countryside and look for inblankets provided by the hostels.
expensive shelter for his groups'
Hostelers must also "like meeting overnight excursions. When he was
many different people. . .and not appointed administrator of a museum

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are several commonly used, intelligent questions that must be asked.
First, ask the obvious, "Was the
class hard?"
Next, move into the more difficult
question , "Were the tests all multiple'
choice or were they essay?"
If the answers have led you to believe the class may be the type you are
looking for , then ask, "Well, what
grade did you get in the class?" If you
know the person, then it is easy to
judge how you will do by measuring
his or her intelligence to your own.
When finished with these essential
steps of class scheduling there are
still a few areas that should be considered. These additional areas apply to
the personality of the student. One
factor that may be of interest involves
the shy student. It is strongly recommended that students who are quiet or
shy check the class participation or
oral report areas of the class. Many
professors put oral reports into their
classes to improve the students' ability to deal with people. Don 't be
fooled by this method. The student
must keep in mind that learning and
growing must not come before high
grade point averages and less work in
class.
One final note to remember when
scheduling is to avoid common
myths about course selection. There
are many undocumented methods
that have been attempted with little or
no success. Here are a few:
Nice Name Selection: This method
involves selection of a course by the
catchy title il has. This proves to be
ineffective, as names can be deceptive. Advanced Calculus Number 7
may sound easy but it is not a freshman level course.
I Had That In High School Selection: In this scheduling method, the
student decides that the course work
will be the same as the class taken in
ninth grade.
Maybe I Could Actually Learn
Something Selection: This method
seems to be the oddest of all scheduling myths. It seems that when students actually become interested in a
course for academic value, they lose
focus on whether it is easy or not.
Although the general student body
does not approve of this method, the
students with hi gh grades use it frequently when scheduling classes.
Course selection is an important
part of academic life. The courses
taken in college effect the lives of the
students after graduation. It is necessary to take classes with this in mind.
So remember, when making a decision between Basketweaving 101 and
Political Science, decide which
course you will actually use in life.

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by John Thomas
for The Voice
As scheduling time draws near,
students will find it necessary to
choose beneficial classes for the next
semester. The student is interested in
getting the best grade possible, while,
of course, doing the least work possible. To gain insight toward which
classes meet this category, there arc
several paths that a student can take.
One cannot survive on the course
description booklet alone.
The key to choosing courses is to
start early. Last minute scheduling
can put the student in aposition where
class selection is limited and consequently, all the easy classes are taken.
It is essential to have a good knowledge of what classes arc required for
the student 's major and the amount of
clcctivcs available.
For example , if the student is a
business major, there may be three
classes which are required to fill the
major curriculum for that semester. If
the student is taking 15 credits, that
would leave six credits of absolute
free choice. These six credits are the
ones that should be used for the easiest classes available.
The student must realize, however,
that scheduling late will limit choice
in the "easiest class" category.
There are several areas that students tend to review when looking for
easy classes. One item of great importance is required attendance. If a class
does not have required attendance, it
is usually considered to be a great
attribute to the flexibility of the
course. The non-required attendance
classes are used mainly for Monday
mornings after long weekends and for
sunny mid-week afternoons when
class is not the logical place to go.
Another area that should be given
careful examination is the amount of
written work required by the class.
Unless the student happens to be a
journalism major , extensive writing
is usuall y frowned upon by the course
choosing populous.
Still another area for. the student to
explore while scheduling is the number of students taking the course. If
there are three students signed up for
a class that seats 30, it is obvious that
someone knows facts about the class
that you do not. Although all courses
with poor student interest are not
necessarily ones that require extensive work and thought, the best advice is not to take a chance.
The most frequentl y used, and perhaps the most effective method of
course selection, is by word-ofmouth. Ask friends , acquaintances,
or people passing by if they've had
the course you 're interested in. There

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by Lisa Mack
it's easy to join with other small businesses to share the
for The Voice
costs.
Mostwomen who work an eight-hour day, make that 12
Treadmills, exercise bikes and rowing machines don 't
or 14 hours after cooking dinner and catching up on require much space and can be leased, which often carries
laundry, can't find time to exercise. Starting an exercise a tax advantage.
program at work can solve that problem.
Some businesses have even arranged to install a portDr. Richard Kcclor, president of the Association for able unit in their parking lots, and portable showers can
Fitness in 1iusincss, points out that the effects of employee turn the employee washroom into a locker room.
health and fitness programs can 't always be measured in
If the company is short of space and funds, it can make
term s of cost.
some changes in the office that can lead to a healthier
Based on his work with thousands of companies, he working environment.
believes that the impact on employees and their improved
1) Invite a consultant to organize fitness breaks and
fitness may be better indicators .For employers, the poten- exercise classes.
tial benefits outweigh the costs.
2) Post a company log to record progress and offer
Just because huge corporations have taken the lead in many incentives.
developing employee health and fitness programs doesn 't
3) Organize teams to compete in a weight loss promean that a small firm can 't benefit from bringing exer- gram.
cise programs into the workplace.
4) Make healthful snacks available instead of vending
A company may not have a budget for a fitness pro- food machines.
gram , but elaborate facilities are not -*s important as pro5) Designate certain smoking areas.
gram desi gn.
You can stretch money on a shoestring budget,but don 't
Some key elements, such as motivation and leadership, do it when it comes to professional help. Many organizawon 't cost a cent.
tions, such as the YMC A or community recreation departThe basics of a fitness progra m can be done with a ments, have certified , trained fitness professionals availshoestring budget. One way is for a company to negotiate able for hire. Certified aerobic-dance instructors, for
a program with a nearby health club.
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Academy Awards have an unusual history

by Mike Moyer
Staff Writer
Monday, April 11 marks the 60lh
anniversary of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarding the Academy Awards, also
known as the Oscars.
In the 60 years of the Academy 's
existence, membership has grown
from 36 initial members to 4,200
members. At first , the award show
was a very informal affair , but today
it is the film induslrics trade show.
The awarding of the Oscars is the
highlight of the Academy, but the
Academy contributes far more to the
film industry oilier than handing out
the coveted Oscars.
The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences was founded in
1927 by influential film producer
Louis B. Mayer to "raise the cultural ,
educational and scientific standard s
of film " that was tarnished during the
1920s amid Hollywood scandals and

amid the uneasy transition from silent
to sound film.
From the beginning, the Academy
dealt with problems confronting the
film industry. In the summer of 1927,
the head movie studios tried to impose a 10 percent salary cut against
their cmployccs.Thc Academy intervened and withdrew the pay cut. A
few years later in 1933, President
Roosevelt declared a national bank
holiday. Holl ywood panicked , and
some studios cither suspended salaries or considered closing.
The Academy formed an Emergency Committee that adopted a
temporary 50 percent salary cut instead of a complete closing.
In the earl y 1940s, the Academy
created an Academic Foundation to
supervise educational and cultural
activities of the film industry.
One of- the first projects was the
restoration ' of several films in the
Library of Congress.

Senior s concept
becomes a reality

WBUQ-FM and BUTV are proud to announce that they will broadcast a
dance video show titled Studio A Dance Party.
The show will air on April 27, 1988 and will be rebroadcast on Service
Electric Cable Channel 13 in Bloomsburg, Berwick Cable Channel 10 and will
be simulcast on WBUQ.
The show is a non-profit educational experience and will be totally student
run .
The dance party is the brain-child of senior mass communication major ,
Bob Duthaler. "It's really a great experience for all involved , and an opportunity for those who like to dance to strut their stuff on T.V.," Duthaler said.
The idea of the show is to produce a similar quality show to that of MTV' s
Club MTV, which is where Duthaler originally got the idea.
He then approached director of Radio and T.V. Services, Tom Joseph, who
at first was reluctant to approve the idea for reasons of wear and tear on the
equipment.
However, Duthaler submitted a detailed program proposal addressing
those concerns, and Joseph now totally supports the show. "The pilot, or
sample show, will air this semester then will hopefully become a weekly show
in the fall ," said Duthaler.
Dancers wishing to be on the Studio A Dance Party can pick up an
application at the desks of any Residence Hall or the Kehr Union Info Desk.
There will first be a taped rehearsal in which dancers will be asked to
audition. "We want people who can dance well, and who radiate their
personality . You don 't have to be John Travolta , you just have to like to have
fun , because after all this is really meant to be something that is fun for all
involved ," Duthaler added.
For more information on the Studio A Dance Party , stop by the WBUQ
office , Room 1250 McCormick Human Services Building or call the office at
389-4686.

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a tranquil hobby

from page 4
"Business went well ," says
Vaughan. "They (MacKinnon and
Lambrakis) turned to the Chinese
because they couldn 't keep up with
demand."
Following Lambraki' s death ,
McKinnon contacted Vaughan and
asked if he wanted to become the
owner of the company.
"It couldn't have come at a better
time," Vaughan said.
He explains the offer came at the
same time he retired from BU.
Vaughan had purchased the company and its inventory in August
1986 and brought it to Mifflinville.

Despite the hardships of learning
the ins and outs of a mail-order business, plus maintaining a working relationshi p with
the Chinese ,
Vaughan says he is "optimistic" that
business will thrive.
"I have loyal clientele," he says.
"I' m doing promotional trips to
demonstrate (the kites) .
Vaughan is curren tly participating
in a kite festival in Hamburg, Germany.
He has also traveled to China and
Italy to participate in kite exhibitions ,
and is planning another show at BU at
the end of the month.

During the 1950s, the Academy
blacklisted writers believed to be
communists by removing their names
from the credits of films they wrote.
The rule was revoked in 1959 , and the
authors ' names were listed in the
credits.In 1965, the Academy started
a scholarship for film students.
While the Academy has done much
to help the film industry , the annual
awarding of the Oscars at the presti gious Academ y Awards show is its
major contribution.
The first Academy Awards were
handed out in 1929 at the Roosevelt
Hotel in Hollywood. The winner for
best p icture of the year was Wings , the
onl y silent film ever to win.
The winners had been known for
three months in advancc.This continued for 12 years, but with the 1940
awards came sealed envelopes and
secrecy.
TO be eligible for an award , a
movie had to have been shown in a 12
month period named by the Acad-

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accepted as the period for eligible
movies.The process of nomination
and the eventual winners involves
many branches of the Academy.
First of all , movie studios usually
refresh Academy members' memories by sending each one a reminder
list of films released during the calender year.
Secondly, a special board of
judges vote on five nominations in
each category, such as Best Picture,
Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, etc.
Lastly, the final vote on the Oscar
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The Oscar award is a 13 and a half
inch tall, eight pound fi gure of a man
representing a kni ght holding a sword
standing on a reel of film.
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The Bloomsburg University tennis
team will end a 10-day break facing
four opponents in as many days including three home matches.
Coach Burt Reese's Huskies travel
to Rutgers today and then will return
home to meet its fifth-strai ght NCAA
Division I opponent , Temple, on Saturday, April 9. The Huskies will then
face a pair of matches on Sunday,
hosting Division II power Hampton at
10 a.m. followed by a 3 p.m. meeting
wilh Pennsylvania Conference foe
Shippensburg .
The Huskies have built an 8-4 record and are currentl y rated 14th nationally among Division II schools.
A strong showing by Bloomsburg
in the four-match span could boost the
Huskies' chances of receiving a team
invitation to the national champ ionships in May.
The match with Hampton will pit
the top two ranked teams in the

NCAA's Eastern Region.
Junior Mark Billone has led a strong
early season showing by the Huskies
in the top singles position building an
impressive record of 7-3 this spring.
He has won four-consecutive
matches, including three times during
the Huskies' last action - a threematch swing to New England , which
saw the club register wins over Big
East power Boston College as well as
Boston University and Connecticut.
A pair of newcomers, freshman
Roly Lam y and sophmore transfer
Lance Milner , have been impressive
at second and third singles recording
marks of 9-3 and 8-3, respectively,
and sophmore Mark Lupinacci is 7-4
at number four singles.
A foot injury leaves the status of the
squad' s fifth singles entrant , Matt
Qui gley, in doubt for the weekend's
action.
He has a 5-5 record this spring.

Another pair of transfer have split
time at number six singles and both
could be in the lineup with Quigley's
absence.
Dave Gilbert, a sophmore, has a 52 mark, while Jay Pheasant, also ft
second-year performer , has lost just
once in nine outings.
The Huskies' top two doubles

teams have struggled somewhat in the
spring season after turning in impressive performances in the fall campaign.
Lamy and Milner are 5-3 at number
one doubles, and the second doubles
unit Billone/Lulinacci is 3-2. Quigley
and Gilbert have a 5-2 mark in the
final doubles spot.

The Huskies golf team opened iheir
1988 season with a sixth place showing at the Lock Haven Invitational
played at the Clinton Country Club.
Rich Mohalick led the Huskies with
a round of 83, which included eight
pars and a birdie.
Other players placing for the Hus-

kies were Ken McAdams with an 85,
Bob Myers with an 87 and Jim Lucas
finished with a 93.
The teams standings were West
Chester, 319, LockHavcn , 320, Millersville, 320, East Stroudsburg, 322,
Shippensburg , 341, Bloomsburg,
348, Kutztown , 357.

Golf team captures
a sixth-p lace f inish

Albanese shines for Husky cycling club
Four Bloomsburg University cyclists traveled to Tufts and Harvard
University over Easter Break to compete against other collegiate teams.
Yale, Penn State, Princeton , University of Vermont , University of
New Hampshire, Boston College,
Boston University , Cornell , United
States Naval Academy, University of
Massachusetts and the sponsoring
teams rode in the event.
Representing BU were: Brian
Hager,junior; Phil Cable, sophomore;
Mike Albanese, sophomore and Bill
Irving, senior.
The first race, organized by Tufts
University , was held at Wompatuck
State Park, Massachusetts, on a 1.1
mile closed circuit citerium course.
Albanese, in his first collegiate
race, lead the team by riding a strategic and powerful race by sprinting to a
fourth-place finish against 85 other
competitive cyclists.
Irving finished sixth while Cable
and Hagar did not get a chance to
finish the race due to an eight-bikepile
up on the leave-strewn back stretch.
As a result, Hagar was unable to
compete the rest of the weekend.^
The following morning Cable and
Irving raced in a United States Cycling Federation training race.
Irving earned an award during a
prime sprint, while Cable developed
mechanical failure when his bike derailer misshifted.
In the afternoon , Cable, Albanese
and Irving controlled the front of the
collegiate pack with the University of
Massachusetts riders.
The event was held on an eighttenth of a mile crilerium course outside of Boston in an industrial park.
Albanese again demonstrated his

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men's and women's soccer and
badminton. AH entries must be
turned in to the Intramural Office by 3 p.m.

- Runners, the Intramural
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national Intramural, Sports,
and Recreation Association will
be sponsoring the 5K Run on
Saturday, April 16. Sign up in
the Intramural office.

All four club members, as well as
the rest of the Bloomsburg club racers,
are looking forward to the upcoming
race at Drew and Rutgers University
next weekend.
In addition to that meet, the club is
also looking forward to the Eastern
Collegiate Championships held at

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Throughout the 20lh century , the
New York Yankees and the Boston
Red Sox have had one of the most
intense rivalries in Major League
Baseball.
This rivalry didn 't exist only between the clubs. Fans were constantly comparing the greats from
each team.
Joe Dimaggio and Ted Williams
in the 1940's and earl y 50's. Mickey
Mantle and Tc,d Williams in thelate
50's and 60's. Then it was Bobby
Murccr and Carl Yastrzcmski in
the 70's.
Now it is between Don Mattingl y
and Wade Boggs.
Both the Yankee first baseman ,
Mattingl y, and the Red Sox third
baseman , Boggs are no doubt two
of the best five players in the majors
today. The numbers these men
have compiled carfnot be m atched
by any other players consistently.
Both Mattingl y and Boggs are
great hitters and consistently have
their averages well above .300, but
they are different type hitters .
Boggs is a line drive and ground
ball hitter , meaning he will hit the
ball where it is pitched.
Mattingly is a power hitter ,
meaning he gets more extra base
hits. As evidence of Mattingl y's
power, he has hit 30 or more homeruns for the last three seasons.
In 1987 he hit 30 homers and set
a record for the most grand slams in
a season with six.
He also tied the record set by
Dale Long in 1956 by homering in
eight straight games.
Boggs can't hit for power although he hit a career high of just
over fifteen.
Injuries can hurt the performance
of any ballplayer. Mattingly and
Boggs were both luck y until last
year.
A wristand back injury cost Mattingly over a month of the season,
while Boggs missed a month in
September due lo knee injury.
The 200-hit mark is one of the
hardest feats to consistentl y
achieve year after year, yet Boggs
currentl y has a five-year streak of
200-hit seasons since 1983 and
Mattingly ended a streak in 1987
that he began in 1984.
The big difference in styles between the two men is their patience
at the plate. Boggs is more willing
to take a walk than Mattingly.
Boggs gets a free trip to first
close to 100 times a season, while
Mattingly docs so about half as
many times.
Although he does swing at most
anything close to the plate, neither
he nor Boggs strike out often. Both
men usually keep that stat in the
low 30's.
Even when the Yankees are not
battling for the Division title, the
two ball players still do battle for
some of the post-season honors,
most especially I he batting championship.
In 1986, the pair were 1-2 in batting average heading into the last
weekend of the season. Boggs
pulled a hamstring and couldn't
play, with his average at .358.
Mattingly entered the series at
.349, with a lot of pressure. He
didn 't overtake the injured Boggs,
but finished the season at .352.
Boggs won the Batting Title, but
Mattingly won the MVP.
It isn't really fair to compare
these ballplayers. Both are different types of ballplayers and both do
different things well. One hits for
average and one hits for homeruns.
The greatest number or statistic
about Mattingly and Boggs is how
valuable they are to their teams.
When they are hurt, their teams'
play suffers.
Really, we shouldn't try to compare them. We should just sit back
and enjoy them.

Women move
Softball team splits with Lock Haven to
third place

Liz Dacey
Staff Write r
The Bloomsburg University softball team upped thicr record lo 17-3
yesterday splitting a pair with host
Lock Haven. The Huskies lost the
opener in 10 innings , 1-0 but captured
the second game by a score of 2-0.
The Huskies arc off lo their best
start ever with an early third place
ranking in NCAA Division II.

"It certainly looked like a rebuilding year due lo the loss off 11 players,
including seven of 10 starters," head
coach Jan Hutchinson said. "But this
may be our best offensive team (in
terms of hilling and bunting) we have
ever had." «.
Last year's learn ended the season
35-11 as PSAC champions and finished in the top eight in the Division II
National quarter- finals.

Susan Kocltor was the Husky 's ace last yea r but is with the team only in a coaching
capacity this year.
Voice file photo

This team included three AllAmcricans, none of which returned
this year.
Jean Millcn , two-lime All-American , played first base, Kate Dcnncny
played outfield and Susan Kocher,
also a two-time AU-Amctican ,
pitched.
Kocher is back to help out
Bloomsburg 's pitching game along
with a former player, Chris Moyer
who actsas assistant coach along with
Kocher.
Returning this year are two seniors,
Kim Fey at second base and AllAmcrican catcher Cindy Frccland.
Also returning are senior Kim
Vogcl in ccnterficld and sophomore
Cindy Slocum in lcftficld. The duo
shared lime in righlficld last season .
Paula Miller , who saw limited playing
time last year is starting in righlficld.
Two returning pitchers who both
received playing time last year are
Gina Lindcnmuth and Julie Robbins.
Robins threw a four-hitler last week in
a 5-0 win over West Chester.
Due to an excellent recruiting year,
Hutchinson had some early confidence headed into this season.
Two transfer pitchers are working
hard this year. Kirsten Upcraft was a
number two pitcher at Stephen F.
Auston , Texas for the team that won
the 1986 Division II National Championship.
She was here last year, but was
forced to sil out a year to satisfy a rule
concerning transfers.
Joanna Sulmonetli was the number
one pitcher last year for George Mason Univers ity, Virginia. She started
her career at Bloomsburg with a sixhit , 4-0 victory over West Chester a
week ago.
"Our pitching has strength and
depth ," said Hutchinson. "In fact,
defensivel y the team is as strong as
any team we've had ."

There are eight freshmen on the
team. Julie Wolfe and Janet Buckheit
both play shrtstop and are strong hitters. Although Wolfe is the starter
now, Hutchinson believes both arc
looking good.
Patli Camper and Sandy Herr play
first base and Herr also plays shortstop. Both arc strong and will sec
playing time, according to Hutchinson.
Terry Husicr will play behind Kim
Fey at second base. Diane Tufel and
Brcnda Lewis play third base although Lewis is injured right now.
Transfer student Helen Fausnaught
from Lock Haven is currently starting
at third base because she is also strong
offensively according to Hutchinson.
Freshman back-up catcher Lori
Shelly is a designated hitter and bats
fourth . She currentl y leads the team in
triples and homeruns.
She is an excellent hitter," Hutchinson commented on the freshman.
Also in action this year is Tracy
Nilles who redshirted last season.
Although the team lost its first two
games in Florida to Penn Slate, 3-1,
and Florida Southern , 3-1, they have
remained undefeated since then.
"Both games were lost on unearned
runs due to errors on our part ," said
Hutchinson .
The team has beaten three 'out of
four Division I opponents and all but
one Pennsylvania conference team so
far this season. They may well be
headed for another state championshi p.
The next home game for the Huskies is today at 5 p.m. against Division
I Bucknell and then again Sunday at
II a.m. against Army.

in Division II
national poll

The Bloomsburg University
softball team has moved up two
positions in the latest Division II
softball poll. The Huskies, rated
fifth in the preseason rankings,
moved into the third position behind defending national champion
California Statc-Northridge
which vaulted from the 10th position and 1987 runnerup Florida
Southern.
The Moccasins slipped one position in the ratings as they were on
top in the preseason rankings.
The comp lete top 20 NCAA Division II rankings:
1. Cal-State Northridge
2. Florida Southern
3. Bloomsburg
4. Wayne St. (Mich.)
5. Cal-State Bakersfield
6. Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
7. Cal-State Sacremento
8. Merrimac (Md.)
9. Sacred Heart (Conn.)
9. (T) Mankato State (Minn.)
11. Northeast Missouri St.
12. California Poly-San Luis
Obispo
13. Army
13. (T) Lock Haven
15 Nebraska-Omaha
16. Southeast Missouri St.
17. Chapman (Calif.)
18. Augustana (III.)
19. Cal-State Dominguez Hills
20. Barry (Fla.)

Men s lacrosse captures win

The Bloomsburg men 's lacrosse
club won it 's third game in a row
trouncing Lycoming 8-2 last Wednesday.
"I was reall y worried about our
defense," head coach William Acicrno said.
"We were weak on defenese because we were two men short. Our two
best defensive players , Neil Wcilcr
and Greg Tobias are both out with
injuries. "
Wciler was injured in the Juniata
game won by the Huskies 9-2. He is
suffering from a broken hand and will

be out for a "couple of weeks."
"That 's what he says, but I think
he '11 be out a few more,"Acicrno.said.
Tobias is out wilh a sepcra ted
shoulder , an injury he suffered during
practice.
"Our new guys played really well ,
they picked up the slack for our missing guys," Acicrno said.
One guy picking up the slack was
goalie Mark Burkholder who recorded 15 saves in the Lycoming
game lo add to his 12 in the Lycoming
game when Weilcr went out.
"He's tutoring under Dave Fredcr-

ickson who was all-evcry thing in high
school," Acicrno said of his goalie.
"He is coming around really well."
The Huskies have been getting very
balanced scoring out of their lineup
throughout the first three games of the
season.
If the Huskies can hang on for a few
victories until Tobias and Wciler can
return lo the lineup, it should prove to
be a good season for the young but
tough club team.
The key will be if Burkholder can
anchor the defense at goal until the
defensive players return.

The Husky baseball team dropped a pair of games to the defending conference chamw""° *> a i Lower
| pi on Shippensburg this week.
"'

Baseball team drops pair

The Bloomsburg University women's lacrosse team got off to a bad start in their quest for a third straight PSAC playoff spot by
dropping their opener against Slippery Rock , 14-13.
Voice f ilephoto

Lacrosse team drops opener

The Bloomsburg University
women 's lacrosse team opened its
1988 season with a tough loss to
Slippery Rock.
The Huskies lost the high-scoring affair by a final score of 14-13.
Although the Huskies outshot
the Rockets by a 32-22 margin,
they still came up on the short end
of the score.
Kelly Cuthbert, the Husky 's

leading scorer of a year ago, began
this year the same way as she led the
women in the scoring department.
Cuthbert netted five goals and
had an assist while three players
had two gaols a piece.
Cindy Daeche, Lisa Rhodes and
Cathy Samples each had a pair of
goals for the Huskies in the losing
effort.
The team is hoping it can repeat

their performance of the past two
years and again qualify for the
PSAC playoffs.
The loss drops the team to 0-1
and also 0-1 in the conference.
The next game for the Huskies
will be this Saturday at East
Stroudsburg and .then at Shippensburg on Tuesday before returning home to face Kutztown
next Thursday.

The Bloomsburg University baseball team traveled to Shippensburg
University Tuesday to take on the
defending conference champions and
came away empty handed.
In the opening game, the Huskies
jumped out to a four run lead in the
third inning before Shippensburg
came stroming back to take an 8-6
victory.
Despite the loss, the Huskies had
some outstanding offensive performances.
Steve Clemens was 3-3 with a
homerun and two RBI's, while Rob
Kirkpatrick was 2-4 with a double and
Matt Karchner added a homerun.
The Huskies continued to hit the
ball well in the second game, but again
came up short, losing the slugfest, 118.
Kirkpatrick led the Husky's offensive attack with a five RBI performance going 2-4. Three of his RBI' s
were on a three-run homerun.
Tim Pritchard added a two-run shot
while Karchner was 2-4 with another
double.
In the double header, the Huskies
committed four errors to bring the

season total to 43 in 18 games.
The Huskies, now 10-8, will takeon
Susquehanna today at Danny Litwiler
field before they travel to Mansfield
to battle the Mountaineers , Saturday.

BLOOMSBURG
SCOREBOARD
Women 's Softball:
Bloomsburg 0 1st game
Lock Haven 1 10 in.

Bloomsburg 2 2nd game
Lock Haven 0
Men 's Baseball:
Bloomsburg 6 1st game
Shippensburg 8
Bloomsburg 8 2nd game
Shippensburg 11
Women 's Lacrosse:
Bloomsburg 13
Slippery Rock 14