Tired President Raps on Retirement
by M a r i a n n e Waters
It w a s a tired and d i s i l l u s i o n e d
c o l l e g e p r e s i d e n t who f a c e d E A G L E
E Y E r e p o r t e r s Monday a f t e r n o o n t o
talk about his early retirement p l a n s .
" A lame-duck president isn't good
for a n e x t e n d e d period of t i m e , " com- '
m e n t e d R i c h a r d T . P a r s o n s , the p r e s ident of L o c k H a v e n S t a t e C o l l e g e
since 1942.

t h e v a n g u a r d of s t u d e n t a c t i v i t y but
the students
b l a m e me for lack of
rights."
Parsons, however, placed partial
b l a m e for h i s u n p o p u l a r i t y on the f a c u l t y . He s a i d , " S t u d e n t s a-e b l a m i n g

Miller situation
When a s k e d w h e t h e r the Harry 1.
Miller(a f a c u l t y member
dismissed
l a s t May) s i t u a t i o n had had any c o n n e c t i o n with h i s e a r l y r e t i r e m e n t .
Parsons replied, " N o , definitely not.
It h a d n o t h i n g to d o with my r e t i r e m e n t , but it did h a v e a g r e a t d e a l t o
d o with the a t t i t u d e of s t u d e n t s toward my o f f i c e . "

P a r s o n s , w h o is r e t i r i n g t h i s A u g u s t , a y e a r e a r l i e r than e x p e c t e d , a l s o
s t a t e d t h a t , " F o r the f i r s t time 1 felt
that 1 c o u l d n o t c o m m u n i c a t e
with
c e r t a i n s t u d e n t s . . . T h e r e s e e m s t o be
a great barrier between certain student l e a d e r s and their a t t i t u d e t o w a r d
my o f f i c e . "
Signs of fatigue
P a r s o n s , s h o w i n g o b v i o u s s i g n s of
fatigue, w e n t on to add t h a t , " i t h i n k
the c o l l e g e s h o u l d have s o m e new
president;

I'm n o t

getting along

too

w e l l . , a n d 1 j u s t d o n ' t h a v e the h e a r t
a n y m o r e . . . A l l my y e a r s I ' v e b e e n on

me w h e n the c o m m i t t e e s (faculty committees with student r e p r e s e n t a t i o n )
a r e formulated by the f a c u l t y . . . T h e
f a c u l t y i s to b l a m e for not c o n t i n u i n g
t h e p r o c e s s of u s i n g s t u d e n t s on c o m m i t t e e s , a p r o c e s s t h a t had long b e e n
a p o l i c y a t this i n s t i t u t i o n , "

Richard T. Parsons

C o m m e n t i n g e x t e n s i v e l y on the
Miller s i t u a t i o n , P a r s o n s s t i l l c l u n g
to the idea t h a t , " t h e r e was no c a r e ful e v a l u a t i o n of f a c t s in the Miller
c a s e on the part of c e r t a i n s t u d e n t
leaders and faculty m e m b e r s . "
He
a l s o c o n c l u d e d t h a t " t h e r e was a l o t
of e m o t i o n a l l e a d e r s h i p and not t r u i h . . .

1 d o n ' t t h i n k very many people
knew
the r e a l i s s u e s . "
He further s t a t e d ,
" t h e f a c u l t y n e v e r stood on their f e e t
in t i m e s of c r i s e s t o i n d i c a t e w h a t the
a d m i n i s t r a t i o n h a s b e e n like and what
the r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h s t u d e n t s h a s b e e n
here."
C o m m e n t i n g o n w h e t h e r he w i l l h a v e
a n y t h i n g t o d o with the e l e c t i o n of the
new p r e s i d e n t . P a r s o n s s t a t e d , ' ' d w i l l
not take p a r t in e l e c t i n g my s u c c e s s o r ;
1 w o n ' t h a v e a n y t h i n g to d o with
it."
The college p r e s i d e n t a l s o declared
" 1 don't expect to visit this c o l l e g e . "
After h i s r e t i r e m e n t P a r s o n s p l a n s
to t r a v e l t o S p a i n a n d G r e e c e b e c a u s e
he and h i s w i f e a r e i n t e r e s t e . n s e e ing a l i t t l e more of the w o r l d .
He
j o k i n g l y c o m m e n t e d t h a t he is ' n o t
p l a n n i n g to write my memoirs or a n y thing like t h a t . "
The

To Speak Here

Tomorrow the students of LHS
can help in the formation of the
first Chi Alpha Chapter on camp a s . An organizational meeting,
open to all interested s t u d e n t s ,
will be held at 7:30 p.m. in room
121 of the P a r s o n ' s Union Building. Paul J . Westlocky, district
C A . president of the Assemblies
of God, will be present to direct.
a group d i s c u s s i o n of the aims
and purposes of Chi Alpha. Social
a c t i v i t i e s , i n d u c i n g games and
refreshments, are a l s o planned.
Chi Alpha is a church related
student-led movement depending
on thq responsible initiative of
concerned s t u d e n t s .
The fjrst
college Chi Alpha .fellowship vas
initiated in 1948 at Southwest
Missouri State College in Springfield, Missouri. Since then Chi
Alpha has sparked the interest
of thousands of students s o that
today there are over 80 Chi Alpha
groupsf on campuses throughout
the UriIted:States.
Local efforts are geared to meet
a threefold emphasis of wrirship.

training, and fellowship. With liua s s i s t a n c e of a chaplain, Revti •
and Thomas E. Cline of the l.ixjk
Haven Assemblies of G group plans to provide a lullgospel witness to the student,'- i""
the LHS campus.
The immediate focu.s of chi
Alpha is every Christian student
interested in the contemporary
move of God's Holy Spirit. It ha.s
been estimated that over 90 pe.'cent of the college students in
the U.S. have no active personal
contact Afith the church. There
is an urgent need for trained and
effective Christian
leadership
today. C h i Alpha hopes lo fill
this need.
The name Chi Alpha is .oased
on the words " C h r i s t o u Apostoloi
(Christ's Ambassadors). Chi
Alpha is the name of the nationa l organization. E a c h chapter
after organization, is issued its
own Greek letter chapter name-

WATER AGAIN: The picture above s h o w s
the pump in front of Smith Hall which w a s
temporarily i n s t a l l e d t o j a j d j i n the pumping
of water to North and Mclntire H a l l s , Both

D I D Y O U KNOW T H A T :
The first
Roman
Catholic
p r i e s t to serve I n C o n g r e s s
was
Gobrlel
Richard,
who
s e r v e d a s a d e l e g a t e from
M i c h i g a n T e r r i t o r y in the 18th
C o n o ' e s s , . from
March
4,
1 8 2 3 , to M a r c h 3 , 1 8 2 5

dorms h a d b e e n _ w i t h o u t water ^ a r l y l a s t
w e e k b e c a u s e of a leak in a p i p e n e a r
Boom Isl and.

in

will

produce

an empty h e a d
defamation.

Every summer the Millbrook
Playhouse furnishes room and
board for the members of their
company. During these months,
however , Millbrook often has
difficulty finding rfioms. there—
I'ore, to alleviate this problem
Millbrook is looking for i n t e r e s t ed studenls or faculty who might
be willing to suble apartments
during the summer months. In
this way. members of the
college would a l s o be a s s u r e d
of having a place to live when
Ihey return in the fall.

I i.)inoi lou . the social science
inlernaliiinal relations club will
present Mahmoud El-Okdah, chief
of research Un (he Arab StaiCs
Delegations Office. The meeting
will be held in the PUB al 7:30
p.11!. Ihc topic of discussion will
center around the Arab-Israeli
Lont'licl.
.Anyone interested in subletting
Mahmoiind I-I-Okilah holds a
hi.s apartment should contact
B..\ and an \ 1 . . \ . degicc in pollVincent Stewart in Raub 3 0 3 .
Mt al science troni Cairo Univcis n \ antl is iu)w a Ph D candidate
tn mtcrriiit it^n.il relations at the
I'nivcrsitN tit l^ennsylvaiiia •
l-l-Okdah held a I-ulbright scholiii^hip the liillfiwing year. In 1961
lie wa.-N one til the students chosen
lo lie a I'ni cd .'^•ations trainee
thir ing I IK- suinnier.
l-'roin l^).'=i7 IO 19(,ll b:i-Okdali work
t-t! as a rept>rlcr in C a i m I'or Ihc
newspaper .X1-.Xklihar
and the
stMinnionlh 1\ pcruxlical FI'/\hram
I I/tt f'AOiioini.sl).
lie has been
lieati ot the research section of
llie Arab Stales Otiegalions OITicc

CANCELLED

A l a n Lomax,

T h e f i r s t u n i v e r s i t y in the
w o r l d was the U n i v e r s i t y of
S a l e r n o , founded in the ninth
century
T h e f i r s t w o m e n ' s c o l l e g e - III. c A p r i l n K i j
in A m e r i c a was Mount H o l y o k e Seminary, South H r d l e y ,
Humanities Film
M a s s a c h u s e t t e s , c h a r t e r e d in
1836
RASHOMON

Hey John Weigel of fhe
English department-did you
know (hat at ,^mii University
of Ohio there is also a professor John WeigaKthat's 'al')
who is in the English
department?? He recently presented a lecture on dirty books.

argument

than the most s u p e r f i c i a l

Arab El-Okdah

Chi Alpha to Organize

soundest

no m o r e c o n v i c t i o n

^

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folksinger,
will be

re-scheduled
Series

tonight 7:30 PUB

What's happening in Russell after hours?

W o l f ' s Whistle

Requiem for a Prerequisite
by Dick Wolfsie
AH, The prerequisite. The enigma of the
American college student. Courses like English composition, European civilization, and
freshmen biology (yesterday two girls fainted
after dissecting a maple leaf) all plague tod a y ' s young scholars.
What IS the origin of
the prerequisite? How do most colleges arrive
at their choice of required courses?
I disguised myself as an olive and slipped into a
cup of coffee at a recent faculty meeting.
" S t u d e n t s must take English four. Learning how to footnote a secondary source, which
was quoted from' a text whose author is unknown, that got its information from a book
whose author is not recognized by Bennet
Cerf, is a vital part of growing u p . "
" N O , NO, you're all wrong. Every student
must learn R u s s i a n . R u s s i a n , I say.
Our
young men and women must be able to speak
the Russian so we can send troops to Moscow
and prevent a Communist take-over."
"Il agree. We must have R u s s i a n , but we
need at least eight hours of intensive C h i n e s e .
T h a t way, no matter who wins over there, we
c a n ' t lose.
Not only that, think how you'll
impress your friends next time you eat at a
Chinese r e s t a u r a n t . "
"(German!!"
"iFrench!!"
"lYiddish!!"
" N O , NO, you are all crazy. Students must
have more humanities.
I say nine hours of
philosophy!!!"
"iPhilosophy is no good.
What in God's
name can you do with philosophy. . .open a
philosophy shop. We must have art, music. . . "
"iWe'U make you a d e a l .
You give us 6
hours of Spanish and Old Greek, and we'll let
you have all the appreciation courses you w a n t . "
"My God, has everyone lost their mind?
We must think logically, rationally, we must
not be led by b i a s . We must require witchcraft
and s o r c e r y . "
"lYou're all n u t s . How can man begin to
understand the world, until he studies his own
body. We must require the gross anatomy of
the pelvis and perineum."

" N o , the central nervous s y s t e m . "
" H e a d and N e c k . "
"Wpper E x t r e m i t i e s . "
"Circumpolar r e g i o n s . "
" T h a t ' s an anthropology course, you idiot.
Has everyone gone loco? Where would man be
without religion?
We must require the Old
Testament."
" T h e New T e s t a m e n t . "
" T h e Talmud."
" A s head of the anthropology department, I
must say that anthropology should be required
of every student.
Everyone must take my
c o u r s e . In fact, sometimes when I look at my
c l a s s , I think everyibody d o e s . "
"Anthropology is no good. Man must study
sociology. We must tequire every student to
take juvenile delinquency and criminology. . .
or something closely related ~ like marriage
and the family."
" 1 am amazed at my learned colleagues
that they will not admit to themselves that
English literature is by far the most fascinating and important intellectual endeavor. If it
were not for Shakespeare's t r a g e d i e s , comedies and errors, there would be little culture
in the world."
" I ' l l trade you Shakespeare for Homer."
" I ' l l give you the romantic movement, for
Victorian l i t e r a t u r e . "
"li'll give you the American short s t o r y . "
"Ii'U give you a punch in the n o s e . "
" I ' l l give you a kick in the f a c e . "
" A n d I'll break every bone in your damn
body."
"Gentlemen, gentlemen.
C a n ' t you stop
those ladies from fighting? This bickering is
getting us nowhere. We're mature, intelligent,
rational individuals, so l e t ' s stop acting like
teachers and get to work."
At this point i was forced to l e a v e , but 1
want to reassure my readers that everything
will work out for the b e s t .
Taking into account
the new
pass-fail
s y s t e m s , large lecture c l a s s e s with unlimited
c u t s , and the whole attitude of today's student, does it really matter what c l a s s e s you
don't have to go to.

opinion
To the editor:
In your publication of F e b . 2,
1970 you printed the following:
" T o m Wolfe, parliamentarian,
stated his view that 'this would
be insulting to the facultyl V
This statement is not correct.
I was not especially concerned
with the feelings of the faculty;
1 w a s referring to the students.
1 s t a t e d that 1 felt the 10% d i s count on books in the oookstore
to faculty members would be an
insult to the integrity of the s t u d e n t s . I further commented that
1 felt that the 10% discount, while
proposedly a jesture of good will
might take the appearance of try ing to " b u y l o v e " .
1 further
stated that 1 feel such a move
seemed to emphasize rather than
do away with the dichotomy b e tween students ana faculty which
I feel must be bridged for more
meaningful cooperation.
This
proposed bridging of the gap b e tween student and faculty by a
more general feeling of equality
would i » t in any s e n s e l e s s e n
feelings of r e s p e c t . On the contrary it would lead to a better
type or more profound degree of
resepect; that of a more persona!

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steaks

I'izza —
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nature.
Perhaps I am being too sensitive. I would be eager to hear
other comments (preferably from
non-SCC Board members.)
Thomas Wolfe
To the editor:
It has been called to my atlemtion that Sigma Sigma Sigma sor.
ority has been advised by their
advisor,Mrs. Martha Moore to ignore and discourage girls from
a " c e r t a i n geographical location'
on campus from rushing their sorority. I realize, of course, that
there are some girls who may not
fit into a certain sorority, but
i s n ' t this the reascn one holds
rush—to determine where one
feels most comfortable? No true
Greek •>'ould allow heresay or advice Dased on rumor to judge a
sifi before she knows her. .\ prejudgement of this type is totally
unfair and destroys the object of
rush and the entire Greek ideal!
Perhaps it is this type of action
that gives " G r e e k " the unappealing name it has seemed to acquire
lately. Therefore I ask out of
concern for all Greeks on this
campus, that evryone be given an
equal chance from the beginning.
In all probability the girls whom
you wish to ignore would not
want your sorority in the end.
However a pre-judgement of the
type displayed by this sorority is
unnecessary and ignorant. I ask
why a sorority of the quali ty of
Tri-Sigma would allow such a
thing to happen?
Name withheld for
obvious reasons.

meathnlls
subs

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T o the editor:

It seems that the sororities are
having trouble recruiting pledges
It really is a pity you know, that
this year many freshmen seem to
have a mind of their wordsfthey are independent thinkers, doers and do not wish to
become a member of a select social grqujg^ That is t o say a member of the very " e l i t e " of Lock
Haven Siate College!

Ih
But girls consider the advantages!
You can have 40 s i s t e r s ! You
ean all wear the same d r e s s e s .
Furthermore, you can all e a t dinner together. When in need your
s i s t e r s will be there to help—with
40»'arying opinions!
Since I have pixtrayed such a
pretty picture, I'm sure you're all
ready to join so...RUSH RUSH
RUSH GIRLS it will be the most
unforgettable experience ot youlife.
GDI's Forever

I hove learned to seek my
happiness
by
limiting my
desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill

IT'S

GREEK

TO ME

KAPPA DELTA RHO

James on her marriage to George
Monday night
Kappa Yanzuk and to Julie Bell on her
Delta Rho elected new officers. engagement to Carl Kirk.
They a r c :
President, Larry
ZETA TAU ALPHA
Schubert; Vice President, Larry
Shervanic; Pledge Master, Gene
The s i s t e r s would like to
T a x i s ; Treasurer, Jim MoUeca;
extend best wishes to two of our
Corresponding Secretary, Bruce
s i s t e r s who have recently beKilhefner; Secretary, .Mm Adels- come engaged. They are Holly
bergei; Chaplain, John Rech; Arnold, engaged to Steve Kuneck,
Centurian, Rich Seitz; Social
and Sandy R o s s , engaged to John
Chairman, Tom Losch;
Fire
Tippett.
Marshall, Tom Losch; House
Our pledge c l a s s and the
Manager, Dale Goodreau; Intrapledge r l a s s of lambda Chi
mural Chairman, Vic Campagna;
Alpha entertained at the Old
Academic Chairman, Paul MahoFolks Home recently.
ney; SCC Representatives, Larry
Several of our s i s t e r s disSchubert, Steve Bedford and
played their aquatic t a l e n t in the
Mike McCorkle; and IFC RepreAquafins show, Mimi Kramer is
s e n t a t i v e s , Larry Schubert, Dan
the president, and Melody ValSheaffer and John Ripoli.
mont i s the treasurer. Cathy Pelc
We would a l s o like to conis the student direr -. Also
gradulate the recently initiated
appearing in the s,.jw were
brothers of KDR. The c l a s s
Karen
Triel, Rosie Lehman,
included Scott Brooks, Mike
Barney Steffen, and Dottie H a a s .
CoUigan, Dale Goodreau, Charlie
Betty Jo Chitester, and Kathy
Hower, Mark Hutti, Mike LongenRanzinger helped with the producberger,
Paul
Mahoney,
Jim
tion. The Aquafins did a very
Rupp,
George
Sagan,
Dan
good j o b .
Sheaffer and Mike Shenkle. The
On December 8, at the Great
Brothers recently decorated the
Island Presbyterian Church, we
Old F o l k s Home here in Lock
initiated twelve new s i s t e r s .
Haven along with the Sisters of
Betty Jo Chitester, a sophomore
Alpha Sigma T a u . Even Santa
in liberal a r t s , chemistry, from
Clause (Loshe) helped u s !
Cochranton; Sue Crowley, a soph-'
omore in liberal a r t s , social serSIGMA SIGMA SIGMA
vice, from Pittsburgh; Dottie
The s i s t e r s of Sigma Sigma
H a a s , a sophomore in elementary,
Sigma are very happy to welcome
from Hatfield; Linda Harber, a
ten new s i s t e r s into their bonds.
sophomore in elementary, from
A l t o o n a ; Andy Kesselak, a sophInitiated on Sunday, December
omore in elementary and math,
14. 1969 were: Anne Bagley,
from Johnstown; Pam Mock, a
Susan Baum, Deb Davidson, Rosfreshman in physic_l education,
anne Farry, Sally Kidd, Susan
Roaring
Spring;
Trice
Kodad, Wendy Martikes, Ruth Anne from
O'Brien, a -freshman in seconSchade, Ann Welsh, and Karen
Wilt. Sally Kidd reeeivde t h e out- dary math, from Mohnton; Sandy
R o s s , a sophomore in elementary
standing pledge award. All of
from Hawk Run; Sue Saylor, a
them worked hard during the
sophomore in liberal a r t s , s o c i a l
pledge period-. The s i s t e r s want
s c i e n c e , from Somerset; Bobbi
to thank them for the party WedSlavin, a sophomore in elementnesday night, the favors, and the
ary, from Indian Head, Marylrnd;
beautiful trophy case which was
Kerry Smith, a sophomore in s e c their pledge project. Congratondary biology, from Oreland;
ulations to all of our new s i s t e r s .
and Margie Wolf, a sophomore in
We would a l s o like to consecondary English, from York.
gratulate all the other girls who
Kerry Sm'th was awarded the
were initiated into the Greek
best pledge award. They held
world during the pa.st week.
their Big and Little Sister party
Best w i s h e s to s i s t e r Diane recently. Congratulations girls!

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Moe, you stand in Russell and watch the girls awhile.
Larry, you go over to the PUB and get a cup of coffee.
Curley, you amble around campus and look like you'
re sleep walking. All right men. Dismissed!