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We Wan t Peace And We Want It Now !
Wednesday, May 5 was "May
Day " across the nation , It was
the result of the collective efforts
of thousands of Americans from
every walk of life. Washington ,
D.C. was the site of a new kind of
dissent. As many as 500,000
people went out of their way to
show their dissatisfaction with
the way America has made the
war or ignor ed it for "Business as
Usual " .
On the campus of BSC it was
the Second Annual Rally , or t o
some-thoug h not most , in my
est ima ti on , second Spr ing Break.
While framing pictures , I noti ced
a mark ed ly di fferen t a t mosp here
from last yea r 's rally .
The all-night dance , Tuesda y,
ma y have b een enj oy ed by t he
enthusiastic populus , but it was
bad for the rally . Morning lectures fizzled due to lack of atto
t endance.
I
t hou ght
the
admyself ,"Whoever
ministrator was who promoted
the dance , he knew wha t he was
doing. " I was too tired to do very
much pro testing the next day. I
Dr. Jordan Riehman spake at
just sat and listened and thought.
tha rall y en "Soc ialism
and
Fascism, Amtrlca at tha cross roadt " . A host of etliari con *
trlbutad.
The largest crowda appeared in
the early afternoon , none aa lar ge
as last year. Excitemen t was not
in the air , b u t f or a f ew momen ts ,
notably during the speech
presented by Dr. Jordan Richman , the artists and sunbathers
looked up to see wha t all the
shouting was about . At firs t
glance , it seemed that few were
in ter est ed i n t he cause at hand.
On ly after an hour or more of
eyei ng t he au di ence d id I change
my initial reaction to the event.
Earlier in the day, t he laugh ter
f rom the back of t he crowd had
rivaled the speakers for my attention . By late aftern oon an
eer ie silence had f allen over t he
rema i n i ng hundreds. At one
point , I t urned t o f ind out where
ever yone had gone. Expecting to
see a handful of sp ecta t ors , I was
shocked to find at least five
hundred people LISTENING
ATTENTIVELY to the soft
sp oken ora t or on t he p la t form.
Hard l y a soul mov ed , classes
should hav e such attention . I was
trul y im p ress ed.
What do they think abou t us
down t own ? Does ever y one
transfer the unfavorable impression made by t he few who
make t he headlines . This isn 't
Columbia or Berkeley , its good
old Bloomsburg. We aren ' t social
rejec ts , we are your children , the
one's who remember Mother 's
Day and will take care of you
when y ou 're old and grey .
Sa t urda y I was shocked by t he
attitude of someone totally unfamiliar with BSC . A guest at the
Foreign Language Internationa l
Day was sitting alone outside
Hartline 83. When I asked the
lad y wha t had ha pp ened t o t he
grou p t ha t was i nside earl ier , I
was t old tha t t hey had moved t o
Columbia Hall for the presentation of awards. She told me she
was afraid t o walk t he cam pus
alone and was wai ti ng for t he
school bus t ha t brough t her grou p
to BSC.
As straight-faced as possible, I
informed her t ha t t here was litt le
to fear , since Columb ia Hall was
only a shor t distance and accompanied her ther e . I wish there
was some wa y t o t ell ever yone
el se t ha t when there is a
dem ons t ra ti on aga i ns t t he war it
isn 't un-American (and be
heard ). Colleges are doing the
same t hings t hey have been doing
for y ears , telling t he country
where it strays from its ideals.
No person , nation , or thing is
perfect. Why can 't everyone
acce p t t ha t ?
Pea cemakers , the cause is still
there. Though the predomin ant
philosophy acro ss the coun try
has change d t o agree t hat we
should leave Viet N am , it isn 't
over yet. Americans ar e st ill
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dying need lessly. This year
rally was still necessary because
we are still ther e .
If you could see their faces at
the rally you would understan d.
Maybe next year we won't need a
rally .
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The war is over . You lost.
You lost some eight years ago,
when a peace candidate saw but
one way to achieve his Great
Society ,*one way to get a nation
out of a slump : war. You lost
I those eight years. The war has
become part of your life, like the
t.v. and the 11:00 news. You have
written about it, you have talked
about it , you have demonstrated
I (more or less ) about it.
I Something like 73 per cent of the
People want out of Viet Nam ;
we 're there still , supposedly
pulling out , but still there. We'll
be there forever, you feel it in
your dead aching bones. Eight
I years. Eight goddamned years.
I All those lives deadened. How
longer , you ask? How can
¦ much
this murdering still go on?...You
I remember Maxwell Taylor
', calling the Asian conflict a mere
I police action which would take
; but a few months, what's a few
' gooks in black pa jamas...The
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by John Stugrin
Last
Wednesday,
approximatelyone-thirteenth of the
student body at B.S.C. attended
the anti-war rally. Small groups
of people were scattered here and
there cm the grass, listening to
assorted speakers and singers .
Their gathering was quiet ,
peaceful , passive. The town
newsDapercalled it "orderly ." It '
wasall of those and worse. It was
empty and dead.
Downtown , people put out
American flags and asked each
other, "Where are the marchers?" The paranoia was unbelievable and, under the circumstances, ridiculous. Where
WERE the marchers? Where
WERE the 3700 other students?
usual, some of them slept the day
away, and others stared out of
their dormitory windows in
morbid fascination .
The word "apathy " is so worn
out that I hesitate to use it. But
denying that it exists is moronic .
I'll admit that it's a selective „
apathy...BSC students aren 't
total ly unconcerned about
everything . If they are, then how
can you explain the large turnouts Greek Week always
produces? Students take part in
Greek week activities because
it's a lot of fun . Even the rally
itself had^the atmosphere of a big
social gathering. A lot of students
who slept through the speeches
woke up when the folk singers
came on. Hardly a throat was
Many of them attended classes as silent when the big cheer went
VOU IL THE MAROON AND GOLD NO. 47
Bill Teittworth
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dor Remsen
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STAFF: Kate Calpin, Ji m Chapman , Carmon Clullo,
Lore Duckworth , Karen Kelnard , Cindy Mlchener; Tom
Sctiefi old, Glen SpotU , Sue Sprague , Frank Pluoli , Jesse
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Cherlnchak,
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Mike
Spellman ,
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¦lai n* Pongrati .
write rs,
A!l opinions «xpre «e4 by columnists and feature
tho seIncludin g tofter-to-t he-edltor , are not necessarily
•f the publica tion but of indi viduals.
CaM Ix t,
tO or
Write Ml
out .
Where were the 500 or so
students who showed up for last
May's rally? Where was the
spirit, the atmosphere of concern...of purpose? Where was the
seriousness of last year's event?
A year ago, no one sang funny
songs or delightedly screamed
"F-U-C-K." But last year, there
was Kent State and Jackson State
to protest. There were no student
killings this year and there's
nothing like six coffins to instill
some concerned interest in
people. But the flag-draped
coffins from Viet Nam haven't
stopped . What about them? "It
doesn't do any good...it's all been
said before ," one girl told me.
Maybe. But who was listening
before. Who is listening NOW?
The morning after the rally, I
was awakened by the sound of a
cracked voice coming over the
radio , saying how college
demonstrators bring down
"academic standards" and how
they should be lined up
against a wall and shot. But I
wa sn't angry . Those people were
unknowingl y
payi ng
we
d
emons
t
ra
t
or
s"
a
great
com"
pliment. They actually thought
we had enough student support ,
enough interest , and enough
passionate, intense belief in what
we were fighting for that we were
even w illi ng to go t o the extremes
of marchi ng on the town and
causing disruption to prov e our
point. We didn 't fulfill their expectations and in a way, I think
they were disappointed . SuperRadical at B.S.C. is a myth. If
there is ever another rally (i.e., if
we're handily provided with a
dead student or two ) , don 't myth
it. If you ha ve enough stamina to
drag y ourself out of bed to attend
some stupid tug-of-war , you
should be able to show enough
concern to protest a REAL war.
But if you don 't , typical BSC
student , if all you care about is
booze parties and field trips and
dances,then all I've got to say is ,
"Gimme «m F...!'
a figure walking
months festered into years, eight station , you seecoming
up the
you
,
years. You scream : how much toward
say
hill.
You
"Hey,
longer? You have no mouth and friendly Pr. Nossen?" u isn't
Naw ,
you must scream. Kafka said that guy
"It
is,
goldurnit.
't
be."
"
can
human
of
one
that the power
this
time
the
little
"
About
"Naw.
the
all
down
scream would tear
walls. The screams of hundreds man , way down the street, looks
of thousands of American dead, up: he sees you, all three of you .
the screams of hundreds of Whether he sees the red armthousands of Americans dying, bands or not you don 't know. But
screams of peasants , villagers , he does see you. As quick as
children, screams oi agony , rage, Nestle's he decides to cross to the
protest...all ignored. But Kafka opposite side of the street. "See,"
hears the cries ... listen on a still you say, "I told you it was
Nossen." But maybe you are
night, you 'll hear him laugh...
Bitter, aren 't you? You weren't being unfair...he does, after all ,
always this way, you think . Or welcome seeing any student.
were you ? Bitter , tired , Provided you walk across, the
disgusted , angry...angry at street and catch him...This walk
people , sometimes the very will prove an omen. Amen.
people you wish could live in
Another omen: at the rally the
peace...yeah, peace.
flag above Schuylkill flaps stiff
You are in the Union that night. throughout , sounding like a
The fourth of May. You have lost bomber overhead. On and off ,
so much on that date , so many depending on how your digust
people and loved ones. Four dead level
working,
you
is
in Ohio. Earlier in the day listen...listen to all sorts of
somebody kept play ing "Power arguments , pacifism , socialism ,
To the People" on the jukebox; Christianism. You hear all sorts
the guy was obviously trying to of songs, mostly standards for
be ironic...You listen to the this type of gathering...too bad
speakers, the stories of macings they don't do "Blowin' in the
and clubbings and 10,000 arrests Wind ," the way that flag sounds
in violation of all Constitutional like a deathplane...the answer is
rights, and you're frightened, in the wind , blowing up there on
scared snotless that such could that pole is why we're in Viet
nation 's Nam...blind stupid arrogance
happen
in
the
capital...not that you thought it which
some would call
COULDN'T happen , lately patriotism. You listen to the
anything bad that happens you standards, the singers are good,
expect, shrug off when it oc- the crowd , what there is of it.
curs...like when Bob Kennedy or responds. After all these years,
King got killed , there was no "Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die"
shock, just the feeling it HAD to sounds ominous... "Whoopee ,
happen ...Washington that week we're all gonna die." Maybe
had to happen, a necessity for so...maybe we already have.
both sides. But are you ever
There is no seriousness here,
scared...the
stories...and this rally. You yourself like to
frightened disgusted by the kids laugh. But lately ( eight years?)
who sit there gloating. The you been laughing just to keep
complaints of beatings and from crying. Seriousness bores,
clubbings are greeted with sure, but dammit, four people
"Serves ya right." When one frat died a year ago, and all those
boy is informed that the jailed kids , acne-fresh , proud they
had precious little food, he ac- were-strong, afraid weak, virgin
j
tually says "You could stand to corpses, Americans
and Vietlose some of that fat ," even namese...how many more? How
though the guy himself must much longer? And why ? These
weigh in at 450. It is announced things ARE serious, people are
that some B.S.C. kids are in D.C., dying . Look at that little kid
perhaps permanently , and that running across the terrace...does
Dave Benson , ex-sociology prof , she know, she's smiling, she can't
went to rescue them , all the way know what is going on, she's but
to D.C. just to help them out. ten years old...why does she have
And
some bruiser
next to know? What right has Nixon,
to you says "Least Ben- Acnew, GOD, to make her know
son son 't be around to help bombs screaming, towns burning
you
assholes
out
next maggots feeding? What right
year "...and he's right, Dave is have they to perpetrate these
gone, fired for as ridiculous a wrongs?
Are
they
just
reason as can be conceived, misdirected , or are they stupid,
perceived, deceived...not giv ing evil? Are they imperialists, are
a final...gone is a teacher who they racists? (Tricia Nixon once
used the methods the secondary sent a letter to Lester Maddox
ed people here tell you about but congratulating him on keeping
never use themselves. You hope blacks out of his restaurant...she
he finds those kids, hope YOUR was still a kid , like that kid
kids won't go to school here, hope laughing smiling beautifully
that us assholes won 't need any unaware on t he t errace , a
help next year , next Mayday, you kid...how else could Missy Nixon
hope there 'll b e no need f or more nouri sh such a f eeling unless her
demonstrations...you know parents.. .?but enough ) Wha t
better ...When a typical Unionite right?...Kids , it all lies wit h the
is told of black prisoners kept 5 kids...and here we are , singing
years without trial , he responds songs t ha t some t imes don't
with a heartfelt "Serves the apply...yo u get the feeling some
niggers right. " About this time of t hese peop le should have
you leave the building for the brough t a picnic lunch...and so
warm dark outside...black is many of t he dorms at e sleeping
beautiful in many ways ...and from last night at t he Union...against the wall two boozy people si ly songs , long speeches, and
grope at each other , forgetting still nothi ng to guarantee tha t
/
war , exploring themselves for the that little girl-child will grow
up
answer..not a bad idea..they see in a world of peace , in fac t no
you and stop, see y ou are guarant ee t hat she w il be
friendly, and the guy p roceeds to allowed to grow up at all...this is
once more tak e her h ome to serious , folks , and it is
Paw...Life goes on , yeah...ob-la- over.. . Artie White finishes saying
di , ob-la-death.
we have a proble m with this
Time shift. It is May 5 now. governmen t but we're going to
Strike time. You and two friends change all that...an d you wonder .
decid e to go downtown , have a A y ear ago you felt the same
few laughs , get a few Btares, ¦wa y...now you're not sure...and
count the flags . As you walk from
(Conti nued on page three)
Carver down toward the police
Washin gton , BSC
A week ago today there was a
rally for peace held on the
terraces of BSC. But many miles
away in Washington other BSC
students were showing their wish
for peace in a far more relevant
manner. Of the 12,000 protestors
arrested for blocking the streets
of Washington , a number were
BSC students. Two of these were
kind enough to give the M&G an
account of their hectic days in the
streets of Washington .
Saturday, May 1. After hitchhiking down to Washington,
our BSC students went to West
Potomac Park where a permit
had been secured for the use of
the park until May 9. There were v
rallies being held and leaders of
the protest spoke to the kids.
Each area in the park was
marked according to the home
location of the group, and so BSC
was assigned to Central Pa.
There were also representatives
from Gay Lib., and the Women's
Liberation Movement . There
were a lot of rock groups performing and it seems that a lot of
the kids who were there that
afternoon were there for the fun
nf it
That night , Bloomsburg's token
few spent the night with a couple
from Washington , D.C., who
welcomed them with open arms.
This made them lucky , since the
majority of the kids had to spend
the night in the park .
Sunday, May 2. Reports came
back that at 6 a.m. that morning
the park had been buzzed by
police helicopters. It seemed that
the permit had been revoked
and the kids had to be out of the
park by noon. It is believed that
this was done in order to break up
the organizational meetings
which were scheduled to take
place that afternoon. All of the
kids left except for a group of
approximately 150 who chose to
be arrested .
Sunday afternoon most of the
kids
wandered
around
Washington trying not to get
picked up. That night they went
over to George Washington
University and arbitrarily called
coeds at the college and asked
them to put them up. They
weren 't the first, so it took them a
while, but they finally got room .
It seems that most of the citizens
of D.C. were really friendly about
the whole thing, and really
wanted to help. At their
organizational meetings that
afternoon they had decided not to
change their original tactic1.,,
although their plans on where
they planned to attack had been
published in the Washington
newspapers. They saw no reason
to change since they felt that
information would leak out , too.
Monday, May 3. Early Monday
morning our BSC demonstrators
found themselves at their
destination — the intersection of
Pennsylvania and Constitution
Avenues, where the representatives from Central Pennsylvania had been assigned to go.
They were promptly arrested ,
maced (sprayed with a type of
gas which will blind if not washed
off immediately)) , herded into
char tered buses and maced
again.
They were then taken to what
they and others had properly
named a "concentration camp";
a football field with barbed wire
around the fences. Here they had
onl y the barest of sanitary
necessities and were not fed until
3:30 in the afternoon . They had
makeshift toilets and makeshift
tents, and even these were not
provided until late in the afternoon . They met some of the
kids who had been beaten by the
police, and were surprised at the
amount of bandaged heads. The
best thing about the camp,
however, was the attitude of
the kids. When they first arrived , they were greeted by a long reception
line of those who were
already there. They shook their
hands , introduced themselves
and led the group in singing and
chanting "Power to the People."
The overall feeling was one of
unity and sharing.
At 8:00 that night, they were
removed by paddy wagon to a
huge footbal l stadium , The
Coliseum. There were National
Guardsmen stationed, every five
feet around the arena , carrying
containers of tear gas, pepper
gas and mace. Also, on the sides
of the stadium were metal cages
which, I'm told v gave the impression of holding lions ,
characteristic with the name of
the stadium .
Tuesday, May 4. This day was
spent in the Coliseum. The
conditions were poor, but first aid
was brought in by the Red Cross.
They were fed baloney sandwiches three times that day,
which were thrown in on top of
the crowd . Water was scarce.
Wednesday, May 5. Very , very
early, at 3:30 a.m. they were
finally processed and permitted
to
leave ,
after » being
photographed and fingerprinted,
but not required to pay bail.
From there they went to spend
the night in the Union Methodist
Church. Later in the morning
they started for home and hitchhiked the distance in eight
hours. They had no trouble
getting rides , people were
friendly and interested in hearing
what had happened .
Today, May, 1971. It's all over
now, and the kids have had their
say. Twelve thousand were
arrested , and countless more
roamed the streets of Washington
during the period from April 24
until now. Comments made by
the two of BSC's participators,
were, "I'm not sure if it will
affect the government, but it
showed them that people were
willing to do more than just go to
'fun ' peace rallies." "If that
didn 't affect Nixon, nothing will."
"We didn't think it would work ,
but we had to try ."
But remember one of the
people's favorite chants, "You
can 't jail the revolution!"
Ins p ira ti on
by Elaine Pongratz
Inspiration is Forum , (May 7)
by John Stugrin. I was really
impressed. God bless you John
Stugrin , there is hope for the
world after all.
Anyhow , with inspiration in
hand, I think I'll talk a while. My
choice of topic for today is war ,
but before I get into that (Maybe
I shouldn 't , I noticed some people
have trouble getting out of it .)
I'm here listening to the news,
and it's almost funny , if you like
tragic comedy. The Mars space
shot, Mariner 8j was a failure
...and horrors , this may
delay
the
liftoff
of
Mariner 9, scheduled for May
18. For the mere cost of
$153 ,500,000 for both of them.
What a bargain! (with that
kind
of
money
we
might
have
been
able
to keep the war going a few more
years.) Anyhow I just thought
you might be interested in that bit
of trivia . ($153,500,000 worth of
trivia? )
I debated using this topic
because I heard a nasty rum or
that some people think that since
females do not fight wars, get
dra fted , nor huve the ability to
say "I was (here , war is Hell ,"
they should keep their high and
mighty opinions to themselves. I
decided to do it anyhow though ,
because a fter careful thought I
realized that the rumor doesn 't
have any bearing on me, for two
very good reusons — 1) my
opinion of war is not high and 2)
when you 're us short us I urn , you
really aren 't considered mighty .
Peace of mind prevails and I go
on.
War , there isn 't much you can
do with a word like that. It isn't
very impressive, in fact it's sort
of ughly. I guess that isn't a very
fair thing to say
the word
obviously
suffers
from
discrimination because of
definition . Maybe it is fair....after
all "A rose by any other name... "
(yeah you know how it goes) The
odor of this one would stink no
matter what you called it.
War affects women too . In
many ways. How would you like
to get one of those black edged
telegrams? Brother , husband ,
son. Our lives go on. With a big
empty hole in it. Deep, dark , and
infinite . You never qui te forget
and you never can quite figu re
out why...And it doesn 't have to
be a black-edged telegram. There
are still the helpless cripples , and
what about the girl who kissed a
beautiful , warm-hearted person
good-bye and got a cruel ,
sadistic , madman in return. Is
that fair?
Did you ever stop to think
what we may be losing? Definitely
too
many
lives.
But think about it. Maybe we lost the cure for
cancer , maybe we lost the answer to pollution problems and
overpopulation . We 'll never
kn ow. Who does know what was
in the minds of these who died
both willingly and unwillingly,
for a cause they did or did not
believe in? Nobody. Nobody
knows now and nobod y ever will.
It' s all gone , draped in an
American flag, (talk about
desecration — I don 't see
s .l .s .
anything more desecrating than
to cover someone who died for
something he didn 't believe in ,
with a flag. Desecration of the
character of the individual laying
beneath that flag and desecration
towards his family. "Here Ma 'm ,
sorry we took your son, but here's
a nice flag for you." Talk about
sick.)
We were asked once if the
American Revolution was right
or wrong. A conclusion was
drawn , most people feel it was
right. Why ? Because we won .
Will the Viet Nam war be
right if
we win?
and
tell
me , how
do they
plan on deciding whether we won
or not? Defeat the opposition?
Have the opposition surrender?
At the price we're paying is it
really winning?
I remember an idea from an
old "Hole in the Wall" column. It
concerned a boy asking his father
what school was and his father
explaining it. Well , I'm praying
for the day (and maybe it's too
much to ask ) when a child asks
what war was, and nobody can
explain it , because they don 't
remember
Huzza. Yip yi p.
Huzza
hoopla.
Hoopla
yahooie.
Hoianna in the highest. And
the
speakin g of highes t
Olympian is here. The off icial B.S.C. literary magtxin e
is on sale now , a mere 50c,
a me ager piffle for said publication . And when /a buy
your co py, give edito r Al
Mau r er hell fo r mak in g me
wri te t his a t 1:00 i n t he
mornin g.
ix TbatSi
A letter to the administration,
faculty , and students of
Bloomsburg State College:
A letter has been .sent to
President Nossen, Dean Hunsinger, Dean Jackson, and Miss!
Tolan concerning the Abolishment of Women's Hours. An
informal meeting with the administrators was also requested .
The letter was dated April 29,
1971. Now we can only await their
response.
Thank you M&G for making
this public.
Sincerely ,
B.F.; M.A.; S.G.; D.T.; M.E.;
M.Z. To: The Editor , Maroon & Gold
I enjoyed the punning title
"University Bound" of your 21
April 1971 Maroon and Gold
editorial on final exams. And
may I assure you that review of
the final exam policy, one of the
responsibilities of the Committee
on Academic Affairs, is on the
calendar for consideration. (The
present Committee will go out of
business as soon as a Senate
counterpart Committee is
elected. The successors will be
charged with picking up the
obligation.)
Your
editorial , though ,
describes the "order " to give a
final exam at a prescribed date
as "a typical act of a high school
administration closely 'riding
shotgun ' over the happenings and
procedures ."
Actually, whatever "ordering"
the Administration does in
regard to final
exams at
Bloomsburg State College, it is
only executing the will of the
Faculty.For the exam policywas
proposed by faculty members
some years ago (about 1965, I
believe) and prepared by a
faculty
committee
which
carefully considered opinions
expressed by all faculty members who chose to express
opinions.
Having just come to Bloomsburg State College from another
college where exam week wasthe
practice ; I was delighted in 1963
to find there was no such practice
here. I expressed arguments
against the proposal to create an
exam week but was out-argued
and out-voted by my. colleagues.
However, in this, as in. most
cases, policies are not all good or
all bad. I can live with this policy
because it has merit. So does the
practice of leaving the final
exams to the instructor.
At any rate, the policy was not
adopted capriciously by faculty
or administrators. It was thought
out , reasoned out , and decided
on.
As a corollary, I might observe
that your recomm endation for
Bloomsburg State College to
"lead the way" in creating a
"Voluntary final policy" really
means that we should gc back to
where we were in 1964, or
thereabouts. Perhaps we should.
Frequently in human activitie s
we go to the past to make
"progress."
Dr. LouisThompson
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Fift h Column
(Continued from page two)
the next night a Tug-of-War attracts a larger audience....
Yes, eight years is a long time.
Almost half your life. And your
life is threatened . The war has
saturated and drained you. You
find yourself thanking God that
your brother is so lucky, so
fortunate to have burned skingrafted legs with awful scars
...because that puckered white
purple skin is his ticket out of the
draf t . The war hits you at all
levels You get a far-too-low lottery number and find yourself
unable that night to make
love... may be because you feel
dead already , a ragged soldier
too physicall y emotionally
morally exhausted for ANY part
of his body to stand at attention...maybe you have died
already...and could be that the
war IS over , even though it will
go on forever , it is over...
A few years ago we had it
made. We were going to win. We
had our music, we had San
Francisco , Frodo and Bilbo ,
Dune and Stranger , our own
culture , a movement which
would shake the world before Mr.
Jones knew what was happening.
But Mr. Jones THOUGHT he
knew wha t was happening,
thought the world about to be
shaken over by freaks and
flowers and ( fer Chrissake )
LOVE , so Mr. Jones called his
Man and here we are...helpless.
Dead or dying. 45,000 of us dead
in a foreign land. Four dead here.
And those four are only the
WHITES...
Last year you had answers , you
thought. But both sides can make
mistakes , there are Weathermen.
And yet the Weathermen could
blow up every Capitol toilet in
existence and still not compensate for the OTHER side's
mistakes, what has been done to
villages ,, women , children... children...the little people with so
many questions to which we can
give no good answers...kinda like
you ,
no
answers...t h e
Weathermen aren't an answer ,
you know which way the wind
blows, it blows like that flag
sounding like a bombe r...and
peaceful demonstrations seem
just as ineffective, because those
little kids deserve something
better than what we got, a fear to
bring children into the world. ..
Answers? You don't kn ow any.
Maybe no one does. The answers
should be feelings, wanting to
help somebody, wanting to live
and let love. But not everybody
feels that way...some people
don 't feel at all . You got to
beware of those people, the
masters of war. There are 'man '
who bomb and pillage and rape to
earn medals. They
are the
reason for eight yearsof growing
up scared , scarred , they are why
you wake in the night with a start ,
they are the n igh tmares you had
us a kid , the nigh tmares t ha t
cause us to feel hop eless ,
helpless , victimized, shat on ,
disgusted, useless, t ired , conf u s e d ,
s c a r e d ,
pa ranoic.. .aged... .dying. ..dead.
(I don 't know a bout that fat frat
guy, his pals, or Nixon, but I want
to live. Want them to live too.
Long as they let me live...long as
they let that kid live...is that too
much to ask? to laugh and run
and cry and feel and breathe ?
I breathe out my life's blood; I
inhale apocalyps e.)
I am only 20 years old.
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Bob Becker , Gadfly editor, talked of his trip
to the Washington rally with Mike Carrol and
Tom Brennan. He related experiences withJhe
demonstrations
war.
Just a quick shot with the cam era revealed
the audience attending the rally Wedne sday.
Short hairs , long hairs ., stude nts and administrators wer e all in attendance.
Glenn Lang, President of the Black Student Society, spoke to
those assembled Wednesday afte rnoon on a continued ''battle "
to end the war.
May Th ere N ever
Be The Need For
Another Ra il *
Art White hat ••Id that wt have problems
Government and HWII fa* work ed out.
with this
Dr. Jordan Rlchman, formerly of the BIC
Inglish Department , talke d of the true mean.
Ing of sociali sm.
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Time Of Your Life - May 13-15
The Bloomsburg Players will
present their final production oi
the season , The Time of Your
life, on May 13, 14, and 15in Haas
Center for the Arts. The Time ol
Your Life is under the direction of
Mr. Robert ' D. Richey and is
staged managed by Jean
LeGates, a sophomore majoring in theatre. Mr. Richey and the
stage manager work together to
maintain efficient rehearsals and
to improv e communication
between the director and the
cast. During the evenings of the
performances the stage manager
remains behind the scenes to
coordinate light , sound , and
acting cues and to keep
everything running smoothly .
I The Time of Your Life, is one of
I a series of plays written by
i William Saroy an aimed at
| presenting a different view of the
I everyday lives of everyday
| people in pre World War II
\ America. The play, therefore,
I does not present a theme as much
I as it projects a mood, the mood of
|the common people being con|fronted with the common
I problem of impending war .
I Saryan carefully reproduces and
, faithfully captures every nuance
1 and habit common to the time
m and depicts the feeling of popular
confusion that existed because of
the strained situation in which
the world found itself.
The Time of Your Life is also a
; comedy. It takes up the wonr derful nostalgia of the 1930's,
' ' displaying it through its
characters and episodes, and
Tom Seriani , who plays tho paperboy in fho play, putt a coin
presents us with an appealing
sings
and
later
numbe
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for
Joe.
He
in tho j ukebox and plays
humorous over view of the
is asked to entert ain people in the bar.
Kerry Aycrs , in the
humanity.
bar, salutes
the
bartender
Nick
and
lifestyle of the time as well as
reinforcing the total mood that
Saroyan is showing us and involving us in. The play is about no
one particular person , nor does it
describe one particular situation .
Instead , it uses many characters
in varying episodes to search for
an intelluctual theme that you
must work to discern . You won 't
. find it. Instea d, you will come
away feeling the theme. It is
something you will know because
you have lived it everyday of
your life.
The stage crew , under the
supervision of Mr. Harry
Berkheiser,, has produced the
set for this show . The scenery
consists of one set to which
furniture and props will be added
and removed . It is suggestive of a
typical waterfront bar in San
Francisco, complete with rickety
piano , jukebo x , and pinball
machine. The set Mr. Berkheiser
is using, was originally designed
by Mordecai Gorelik for the
production in Biarritz , France. It
is designed to convey selectiverealism , and , like a blooming
flower , the realism is concentrated in the center stage and
becomes more expressionistic as
it moves outward. The biggest
problem Mr. Berkheiser has had
so far was in locating an old
jukebox and pinball machine.
The difficul ty was solved through
the generosity of the Automative
Service Company .
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Stove Weiss, is a dancer-comedian who draws few laugh s in
tho Willi am Saroy an play centered around the atmosph ere of
a small bar on the wrong side of town.
The lighting for The Time of
Your Life is under the supervision of John Robbins , a recent
graduate of BSC. The show will
use a general illumination with
special effects being needed for
the jukebox and pinball machine .
Ot her crews which will be
working behind the scenes to
make Tr . Time of Your Life a
John Decker portrays the Arab , another regular
The pinball wizard plays on in the background.
j t tho bar.
successf u l produc ti on i n clude their show . This is what
props , un d er t he d irec t ion of Gail educational theatre at BSC is all
Stank ; make-up, su p ervised by about.
Carol Schmid t;
cos t umes ,
Tickets for The Time of Your
headed by Dianne Doebler ; and
Sound by Jack Latshaw .
Getting a show off the ground is
a grou p effor t requiring the work
of all t hese people plus man y
more in various capacities. All
the people connected with the
production give of themselves
endlessly to insure the success of
Life can be obtained by writing to
thePlayers at Box 298, BSC, or by
calling 784-4660, ext. 317. Admission is $1.00 for adults and $.50
for stu dents and children , with a
special 10 per cent discount for
groups of ten or more . BSC
studen ts ar e admitted free on
their I.D. card .
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Held
"Special Olympics"
Proves People Care
BY JOHN HOFFMAN
In a fast paced world , in which
overpopulation is causing increased alienation of people, an
event like the "special Olympics"
held on May 8th in Centennial
Gym Pools showed that people
still take time to care for others
less fortunate than themselves.
This "special Olympics" swim
meet for Northeastern Pennsylvania , embracing a 15-county
thirty -nine
are^ , enabled
youngsters, ages 10-19, to prove
that competency is relative.
The swimmers participating in
the four events , 25-yard freestyle,
25-yard backstroke , 50-yard
freestyle swim , and the 10O-yard
relay, were : GIRLS — Patricia
Block , Julia Bowman , Stacy
Compton , Vistella Heintzelman ,
Rose Hillien , Debbie Hissom ,
Linda Kircher , Alice Kratzer ,
Diane Matzura , Evelyn Morris ,
Rosemary Opp, Lynn Robinson ,
and Mardell Saunders . BOYS —
Rod Baker , Ed Bedford , Frank
Berry , Robert Bonser , Tim
Carter , Dennis Counterman ,
Gary Cutter , David Davi§, John
Davis, Robert Davis, John Deats,
Joseph Gross, Floyd Heft, Tom
Johnston , Robert Jones, John
Marzek , Kevin McNulty , Tom
Mizeck, David Robinson , Wayne
Sanders, Charles Sowan, Fred
Tayl or , Robert Trent , Dale
Vanderer , Wayne Wilson .
Ribbons of achievement were
given to all who swam in each
race , a different colored ribbon
signified different placements
(i.e., blue-first place, red-second
place , yellow-third p lace) .
However insignificant these
prizes may seem to the average
person, they meant the world to
these kids, who really felt as
though they had accomplished
something great , and they had.
They gained the self-confidence
and faith in themselves which is
quite important regardless of
age.
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for helping to promote physical
fitness and sportsmanship to the
members of the special class and
also the Special Education
Department of BSC and all others
involved for making this "Special
Olympics" a day for these kids to
long remember and something to
look forward to in the future.
Diamonders
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Daley Goes To Pen n
Chuck Daley , basketball coach
The Bloomsburg State baseball
at
Boston College for the past two
team extended its losing streak to
eight in a row by dropping both years, was named as head coach
ends of a doubleheader to Lock of the University of PennHaven State, 7-6 and 11-5, last sylvania.
Daley , a former assistant at
Tuesday at the Lightstreet field.
In the opener a four-run rally in Duke , received a three-year
the last of the seventh highlighted con tract to succeed Dick Harter,
by two home runs by Bob Warner who resigned to accept a similar
post at the University of Oregon
fell short.
after guiding the Quakers to the
nightcap,
the
Bald
In the
finals of the NCAA eastern
and
Eagles pounded out 12 hits
regional
championship.
jumped out on top 9-0 through the
first two innings .
Daley , who succeeded former
Celtic great Bob Cousy at Boston
College, guided his teams to
records of 11-13 and 15-11.
Fred Shabel , director of
athletics at Penn , said the 40year-old Daley "has had success
on all levels of coaching and has
dealt with the same type of young
men that Pennsylvania is interested in. "
He said Daley accepted the
position today after Penn 's advisory committee approved his
selection last Monday.
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Coordinator of the event.
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Olympics are Miss Mary Lou
Nappi and Mr. John P. Sarrah
and Miss Joan B. White , ' Coordinator of Special Olympics for
Columbia-Montour Counties and
"Youth" in Columbia County
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note entered the Olympics when
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The
10
May
Championship held on
Park
Golf
and 11 at the Hershey
Course in Hershey appeared to
feature Slippery Rock and
Clasion State College.
Shippensburg golf coach , Dr.
Crist, noted that the "teams to
beat are Slippery Rock and
Clarion with Kutztown as the
dark horse."
A bit optimistic he also added ,
"though a young team , we should
finish in one of the top three
places."
Clarion officials are not as
optimistic as they report "the
team to beat is Slippery Rock,
and we should finish about fourth
or fifth. "
Also not to be counted out are
East Stroudsburg and Bloomsburg. Last year the ^Huskies
finished third with the Warriors
in fifth place.
The individual honors for the
tournament could go to any
number of ou tstanding competitors .
Shippensburg State 's John
Donahue "could win the tournament if he puts it all together
and plays up to his ability ,"
reports the coach .
On the other hand , Bloomsburg 's Jeff Hock and Ed Masich
are in contention "if they could
get their game together," added
their coach.
The top golfer for Clarion to get
a shot at the honor will be Scott
Smith while East Stroudsburg's
Tom Bartolacci is "potentially a
contender for the championship
honors" also.
Jeff Hock and Ed Masich will
be playing their last college
competition . Hock will graduate
in May and Masich in January ,
1972.
Both could be in contention for
individual honors with Rich
Jurbala also in contention . All
three are members of the Berwick Country Club.
Shabel said he and "the
committee feel fully confident
that Chuck will continue the
outstanding program built by
Dick Harter and his staff ."
Daley is a native of Kane, Pa.,
attended St. Bona venture and
was graduated from Bloomsburg
State, Pa. in 1952 with a degree in
Speech Therapy .
He received a Master's Degree
in educational administration
from Penn State in 1958 and also
did work toward a doctorate at
Penn State.
He was a basketball and golf
coach at Punxsutawney, Pa.
High School frohl 1955 till 1963
when he went to Duke , where he
remained un til he was named to
the Boston College post.
Daley , the 12th coach in Penn
history, inherits a team of nine
lettermen from a squad that
Sophomore driving ace, Brian
compiled a 28-0 record and the
Spewak
of Delta Omega Chi
Quakers' consecutive Ivy League
fraternity
received the Ben Hur
championship before losing to
Driving
Award
for his outBig Five rival Villanova in the
standing
performance
during the
eastern regional finals.
Greek Week Chariot race held
Saturday afternoon here at BSC.
Spewak , who hails from
Philadelphia , received his
Trophy at a banquet held at the
Black Bea uty Moter Lodge in
Hazelton , Saturday evening.
When asked about the race
Spewak commented , "I used to
drive a chariot in a circus side
show so it wasn 't a new experience to me , I only wish we
could have won the race. "
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Redma n
Trop hy
Wayne Smythe who rose from
the ranks of an unknown into the
national spotlight as a NAIA
wrestling champion was awarded
the Bob Redman Memorial
Trop hy as the outstanding athlete
at Bloomsburg State College at
the annual athletic awards dinner
held last Tuesday night at the
Scranton Commons on the BSC
campus.
Also for the first time in
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athle te had to be shared.
Trophies were presented to Floyd
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• tight end , who is the only
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The highlight of the affair was
the address by Pete Carlesimo,
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University and former athletic
director and coach at Scranton
University . Carlesimo is an after
dinner speaker and humorous
deluxe and his presentation not
only held the interest of the.
overflow crowd in the banquet
hall, but also had them rocking in
their chairs with laughter.
In the latter half of the
program, Athletic Director Russ
Houk congratulated the Husky
track team for their 15-0 record,
which is the greatest in our
history.
Houk, conducted presentations
of the annual special awards
voted on by a panel of coaches
prior to the banquet.
Smythe climaxed his four
years of wrestling competition by
copping the 142 lb. title in the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)
becoming a
Tournament ,
national champion and AilAmerican. During the past
season, he defeated such outstanding opponents as Don Dunn,
Iowa State ; Dick Pollock ,
Waynesburg College ; Tony
Petak , East Stroudsburg S.C.;
and Alray Johnson, West Chester
S.C.
Smythe was selected by a panel
of coaches for the Redman
Trophy . The late Bob Redman
was an outstanding Husky
football mentor in the late 40's
and early 50's. Also under cons id erat ion f or the awar d were
Mike Shull, wrestler , Newport;
Jim Platukis , Basketball ,
Fleeger,
Hazleton ;
Tom
baseball , Turbotville ; Jim
Cavellero, track , Metuc hen, New
Jerse y; Bruce Bi t tner , track ,
Catawissa; Steve Ryznar , track ,
Pottstown; and Bill Na gy,
football , Dunellen, New Jersey .
All-American
Gibas , an
swimmer at West Mifflin High
School, won the 50 yd. freestyle
event (established new record )
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Men 's Intramura ls
by Jesse James
The
Men 's
Intramural
Program is now going into the
last events of the year with
Spring Sports. These are now in
progress and include softball ,
tennis, horseshoes, and, coming
up, golf.
The most recent results are :
Water Polo — Lambda Chi, 1st;
Al's, 2nd ; North Hall, 3rd ; and
the Coal Crackers, 4th.
Table Tennis — Steve Dippery
(SOB) , 1st; Bob Roberts (SOB ) ,
2nd ; Tom Miller (COD) , 3rd; and
Jim Chapman ( Rare Earth ) , 4th.
Basketball — SIO , 1st;
Cougars, 2nd ; 2nd Eidition , 3rd;
and the Bandits, 4th .
Foul Shooting — 1st , Doug
Witmer of 2nd Edition, 46 (second
year winner) ; 2nd , Bob
McGinnis, Cougars , 45; 3rd, Bob
Vobas, Phi Sigma Epsilon, 43;
4th place (all tied ) Joe Lupia ,
Baggers ; David Snyder , 7th
Floor; and Harry Dowling, SOB,
all with a total of 42.
A listing of the top 20 teams to
date, are as follows (not including the badminton results ) :
SIO, Zetes, COD, Lambda Chi,
North Hall , Al's, Charger's, 2nd
Edition, SOB, Bandits 6, 7th
Floor;
America , Phi Sigma Epsilon,
Studs, Rare Earth, Baggers,
Sigma Pi , Coal Crackers, Digits,
DOC.
Rick Jubala carded a twounder par 69 for the Bloomsburg
State College golf team last
Thursday at the Briar Heights
Course, but it wasn't enough to
take medalist honors.
Jerry Janeski of Kings College
by way of Williamsport , fired a
four-under 67 to lead King's to a
10-8 win over BSC. The Huskies,
however, took Kutztown State, 171, in the other half of the match
and King's whipped Kutztown 162.
Other scores for Bloomsburg
were : Steve Neumeyer, 80; Ed
Masich, 75; Pete Betz, 76; Tom
Fudge, 75; and Dave Wisnosky,
78.
Kings 'sl0 BSC 8
Janeski (K ) def . Masich . 3-0.
Jurbala (B) def . Markowski , 3-0.
Neumeyer (B) def. Diken, 3-0.
Markowski (K) def. Betz, 3-0.
Fudge, (B) def. Harostak , 2-1.
Nicholls (K) def. Wisnosky/3-0.
BSC 17 KUTZTOWN 1
Masich (B) def . York. 2-1.
Jurbala (B) def. Barto. , 3-O.
Betz (B) def . Shaffer , 3-0. '
Fudge (B) def . Grey, 3-0.
Wisnosky (B) def . Herter , 3-0.
KING 'S 16 KUTZTOWN 2
Janeski (K) def. York , 3-0.
W. Markowski (K) def . Cannon,
ao.
Diken (K) def. Barto, 2%-%.
E. Markowski (K) def. Shaffer , 30.
Harostak (K) tied Grey . lte-lVfc .
Nicholes (K) def . Herter , 3-0.
GREEK NEWS
published and distributed to the
Brothers, Chapters, and Alumni,
marks 40 years of Phi Sigma Pi
National Honor Fraternity at
Bloomsburg State College. In
conjunction with this, reflections
on the past year were made at the
Banquet and also predictions and
hopes for the future were made.
Installation of the officers for
next year was then conducted.
To finish the evening;
Reverend Musser, a minister
from West Milton, Penna., entertained the Brothers with his
Magic Act. The art of illusion is a
hobby of Rev . Musser , and he
presents approximately thirty
such shows a year.
Zete's Find
Shown are several of the award winnin g Phi Sigma Pi brothers with their "fraternity sweetheart" , Al ice Mation.
Phi Sigma Pi
Saturday, May 1, was a busy
day for the Brothers of Phi Sigma
Pi. Things started at nine o'clock
in the morning when the
fraternity held its annual Car
Wash at the rear of the Bloomsburg
Firestone
Center.
Throughout the day, until four in
the afternoon , students, faculty,
and townspeople brought their
cars for the Fraternity 's "SuperDeluxe" Car Wash. The Brothers
encountered a new experience
this year when a camper was
brought to the scene. Thanks goes
out from the Fraternity to all who
brought their cars to be washed.
It was a huge success. The
proceeds from the Car Wash will
help to support the Fraternity 's
foster-child , Stanli Gamhram , in
India .
Starting at eight o'clock in the
evening, the Brothers held their
Spring Awards Banquet at the
Magee Hotel. Brothers, dates and
guests, which included Mr. and
Mrs. Warre n Johnson, Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Babineau, and
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wolfe,
enjoyed a smorgasbord dinner
followed by a program of Awards
and Entertainment. Mark Harlor
NESPOLI
j ewelers
Fine Jewelry and
Watch Repair
25 I
. Main St., Bloomsburg
received recognition as being
voted
"Most Outstanding
Pledge" of the spring pledge
class . Alice Mahon , the
Fraternity Sweetheart , was
presented with a Fraternity
jacket. Recognition pins were
given to Jim Damatt and Steve
Tellep for the great amount of
work done by them during the
first semester fund-raising event.
Service keys were merited by
Mike Bussacco, Jim Reese, Joe
Roinick, and Ed Stine. All four
are seniors and have held offices
in the Fraternity. Special
recognition was given to the
Fra ternity 's a d v isor , Mr.
Richard Donald , as the Brothers
presented him with an engraved
plaque for outs tanding and
uselfish service. The Fraternity
Newsletter was also dedicated to
Mr. Donald at the Banquet.
Following this, Mr. Donald was
presented wi th a Fraternity
jacket.
The Newsletter, soon to be
Fondest Remembrance
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The Pi Kappa Chapter of the
Zeta Psi Fraternity of North
America, Inc. is happy to announce the culmination and
signing of a lease agreement with
Mr. a.nd Mrs. Clyde Yohey, RD 2,
Bloomsburg , in which the
Wonderview Ski Lodge will serve
the chapter as a fraternity house.
The signing of the agreement has
ended the long search of housing
for Zeta Psi since its former
house burnt down in January ,
1970. The agreement will run
from Sept. 1, 1971, til May 31,
1972, and a copy of the lease is
available for any party concerned in the Dean of Men 's office.
We are proud to announce also
our new slate of officers for the
71-72 academic year: President,
Robert
Anderson ;
VicePresident , Thomas Parry ;
Treasure r , William Heim;
Recording Secretary , John
Woodward ; Corresponding
Secretary, William Lennartz ;
Sgt. at Arms , Robert Miers; and
Historian, William Dura. Bobby
Anderson , the new president, will
also be attending the annual
Convention of Zeta Psi to be held
this year in Halifax , Nova Scotia.
We wish the best for the Greeks
in our week and hope all concerned enjoy themselves in the
various activities .
May 15 a Day of Infamy .
lambda Alpha Mu
Lambda Alpha • Mu's Spring
Pledge Class of 1971 consisted of
seven pledges, three sophomores
and four freshmen. They were
Carole Bolton (president) , Janice
Ciccone, Carol Connor, Joanie
Platko, Susan Shaeffer , Karen
Strzelecki and Jean Yazgier. In
an attempt to promote both
pledge class unity and unity
between the sisters and the
pledges, such activities as coke
dates, dinners, and skits were
scheduled.
At the Spring Dinner Dance
held at the Holiday Inn in
Hazleton , on March 20th, the
pledges were honored in an
initiation ceremony . Recently the
sisters have joined with the
members of the Heart Fund and
Cancer Society in collecting for
their annual drives. Lambda also
sponsored a hoagie sale which
kept the sisters frantically busy
at the culinary arts of hoagie
making and turned out very
successfully.
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WORLDLY
JIM NALLO
Peking — The government
denounced the Nixon Administration for "Hostility to the
Chinese people " for its continued
support for the Nationalist
government in Taiwan.
Washington — The House
Education and Labor Committee
approved a bill that would give
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the power
to issue orders against
discrimination in employment by
industry or labor unions .
Philadelphia — The steering
committee of the bicentennial
exposition of the nations birthday
recommended the project be
abandoned due to lack of sufficient funds and a suitable site
for the project.
Canada — A small Quebec
village St. Jean de Vianney was
destroyed when a pit about a
quarter of a mile long and 70 feet
wide and more than 100 feet deep
engulfed 35 homes several cars,
and a bus. Two persons are
known dead and 29 are missing
and presumed dead.
West Germany — A government spokesman said that West
Germany would not reevaluate
the mark in that there are no
other countries who will
reevaluate wi th them . The six
nation European Economic
Community is passing through
one of the worst economic cries
since WWII.
Washington — Treasury
Secretary John Connally announced that President Nixon
would ask Congress for loan
guarantees to rescue the
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
from possible bankruptcy .
Chicago and New York —
Passenger will again link these
two cities because of the newly
formed Amtrak corporation in
cooperation with the two states,
Illinois and New York .
Egypt — Negotiations are now
taking place in the Suez Canal
dispute and the reopening of the
canal is a possibility. '
Washington — Unemploy ment
rose
slightly
for
the month of April but
the
job
situation
remained unchanged . While
joblessness has stopped it has not
shown a'ny improvement in
response to the growing
economy.
Washington — A judge of the
Superior Court of the District of
Columbia rules "that 600 persons
were arrested and held under
conditions that inflicted cruel and
unusual punishment.
Dr. Robert Miller, Chairman of
the Committee on International
Education, has announced that
there are still some openings for
Peace Corps volunteers in
programs that will begin training
this summer. Those areas in the
geographic regions that are
available are listed below :
Science, Chemistry, Physics, and
Business Education — openings
in all areas ot tne world for both
single males and females , Social
Work — Philippines (for male
only ) , and Business AdDr. Charles Carlson , Director of Graduate Stud ies spoke
briefly to the high school students in attenda nce at International fta y '71, sponsore d by fhe Forei gn Language Dept.
Awards were giv en for competitive events in severa l languaaes .
that abortion may lead to more
drastic means of population
control such as killing of the sick
and the aged , (4) the fetus is only
a part of the woman , making an
analogy with her other organs
such as tonsils, and if she wants
to, she can have it removed, and
(5) is abortion killing the innocent, only without malace?
Dr. Corson described some of
the methods of abortion. The first
one he said can be performed up
to the first 12 weeks of
pregnancy , and can be done in a
doctor 's office under a local
anesthetic. It is done simply by
dilating the cervix and scraping
out the placenta and other fetal
material. Another type of
abortion that can be performed
up un til 16 weeks of pregnancy is
one where the amneotic fluids are
removed from the baby's food
sac and a saline solution is introduced. The patient then goes
into a "mini" labor which is
followed by the expulsion of the
fetus and other birth material. A
third type is a hy sterectomy
which involves the removal of the
woman 's female organs as well
as the fetus and results in permanent sterility . Still another
type is something comparable to
a cesarean section birth, where
an incision is made in the abdomen and the fetus is removed.
This operation can be done after
12 weeks of pregnancy . Dr.
Corson believes that the Question
of abor t ion should be lef t up t o t he
pat ien t and her doctor with no
legal res traints.
Dr. Kroschewsk y outlined
some of t he stages of the
development of the human
embryo . He stated that at 8 weeks
the embryo can be recognized as
human ; at 9 weeks the internal
If any student is interested in
the Peace Corps please contact
Dr. Miller in Waller 222 or on
phone extension 330.
Are You Experienced ?
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jim sachetti
Two weeks ago, I did a column
on a little-known aspect of the
BSC
Teacher
Education
Program , namely Sophomore
Field Experience . The day it
appeared , Dr. Lee Aumiller,
director of the program , paid me
a visit. He tol d me that if I cared
to do a followup article on the
program , he'd be happy to
provide me with the information.
Recalling the fact that I had
never even heard of the program
until it was time for me to do it , I
decided to pay him a visit.
In case you don't know what
Sophomore Field Experience is,
be advised that it's an opportunity for Education majors
to get a first-hand look at what
teaching is all about—before they
have to Student Teach. It's a
chance to work with other
teachers, to get acquainted with
"Wha t Do You Kno w... "
by Nancy VanPelt
Wednesday, April 28 at 8:00
p.m. in the Student Union , the
freshman class sponsored an
awareness lecture entitled "What
Do You Know About Abortion?" .
The panel of guest speakers included Father Petrina , Catholic
Campus Minister; Dr. T. Clark
Corson , Gynecologist; Mr.
Richard Brook , BSC Philosophy
Department ,
Dr.
Julius
Kroschewsky , BSC Biology
Department; Mr. Leonard
Majikas , Director of the
Columbia
County
Family
Counciling Mental Health Clinic ;
Dr. Michael Daly, general
practitioner of family medicine
at Geisinger Medical Center;
with Mr. Charles Thomas, BSC
Guidance Counciling Department
acting as the moderator .
The program was conducted in
three parts . In the first portion
the panel members presented
their opinions on abortion in
conjunction with their positions.
The second segment of the
presentation consisted of an
interaction of ideas among the
speakers. And the final part
consisted of questions and answers from the audience.
Several of the different views
on abortion that were discussed
were the theological , medical ,
legal, and moral standpoints ;
and a poin t was made abou t t he
u ndef i ned t erms rela ti ng t o
aborti on .
Common argumen ts per ta ining
to abortion were discussed also.
They are : (1) the discriminatin g
laws agains t the poor ; the rich
can obtain an abortion if they
want to inspite of any obstacles ,
( 2) the belief that easily obtained
abortions may open the door to
sexual promiscuit y , (3) the fear
ministration — Ecuador and
• Honduras ( for male only).
sex organs are formed and organ
differientation is developing, at
11 weeks the fetu s can move, and
at 12 weeks higher functions
relating to the central nervous
system have begun. Prior to 16
weeks of pregnancy the mother is
unaware of the life inside her.
Father Petrina stated the
abortion is a matter of personal
conscience. His views included
the following: A human life has
ri ghts ; if something is not
human; it has no rights . The fact
that it was created by God gives
it rights beyond human law. The
relaxation of abortion laws in any
nation is wrong. The Catholic
attitude toward abortion is not
denominational , but is a feeling
shared by all of us who are
humanists at heart. We should
value the importance of life in all
forms and in all stages of
development.
It was brought up that the
question of abortion is social and
psychological . Will relaxed
a bort ion laws lea d to an eros ion
of respect of life in all forms?
Force d marr i ages , along with
guilt reactions and the inability to
adjust to the situation, and
maternity h omes are t he old
reme di es
f or
unwan t ed
pregnancies. Today there is too
much knowledge for anyone to
become pregnan t unless t hey
wan t to.
Another
conimportant
siderat ion is the future env ironmen t of the child and the
present and fu t ure sta t e of the
mother 's mental health. Emphas i s should be placed on
councillin g before and after the
bir th of the child or the abortion
whichever the case may be.
the tasks and problems that Program with Lavalle University
confront them, as well as the in Quebec. The program will
rewards. And most importantly , allow our Student Teachers
for those who have never had the majoring in French to do their
opportunity before , a chance to Student Teaching in French
whil e
Canadian
Schools ,
teach ; a chance to get up in front
of a dlass and assume the Lavalle's English majors come to
responsibilities you 've watched Pennsylvania .
The college is also endeavoring
so many others assume during
your years of schooling. And if to set up an exchange program
with Southern Universities in
you think it's easy...
Georgia
and
Sound interesting? There's a Mississippi ,
This
program
would
read
about
the
Virginia.
lot more. If you 've
problems of the inner city , if give Bloomsburg students an
¦'you 've seen TV documentaries on opportunity to study for one
the problems of immigrant semester in the unique social
'children in American schools, environment of the South. A
and if you care, then your Ex- college in Eastern Kentucky may
this plan.
!perience can be your first , first- also be included inthat
good old
We
all
know
hand
look
at
these
problems.
' Last year, seven BSC coeds Bloomsburg doesn 't exactly
offer
taught in the Washington a wide range of social climates,
Heights Area of New York City. and now the college is doing
Working at P.S. 115, an something about it . All these
elementary school which has an programs need are the students
annual student turnover of 1,000 to work within them. You can be
students, the girls encountered exDerienced.
the problems entailed in teaching
speaking
Spanish
young,
children ; children whose only
hope may be the quality of the
education they receive.
(continued from page seven)
Other future teachers have
taught in the inner-city and placed fourth in the 100 yard
Philadelphia schools, in schools freestyle event in the NAIA
in Canada with French speaking Tournament , thus becoming a
children , and in Southern schools. national champion and receiving
These experiences were true Ail-American recognition. He
educations in some of the also placed first in the 50 yard
toughest problems facing and 100 yard freestyle events in
the Pennsy lvania Conference
American education today.
(established new records in
meet
These problems can also be
both).
encoun tered in the BSC Student
Hitchock placed second at 177
Teaching Program. Nowadays,
lbs.
in the NAIA competition and
Student Teaching can be more
won
the Pennsylvania Conthan going to Danville High for a
ference
championship at that
semester. With
the enweight.
He
competed in all of
couragement of Dr. Nossen, the
college is endeavoring to set up a BSC's dual meets for the season
Student Teacher Exchange and compiled a 19-1 record .
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A CALL FOR
HELP FROM THE
COMMUNITY
On or about Ju no 4, a hearing will be htld at Magistrate Hotter '* Office on misde meanor cha rges against
Dean Robert Norton and Prof. Gerald Straus s for selling
"chain fetter s " to the student * and facult y of Bloom sbur g
State Colleg e in the Spring of 1949. Any member s of the
College or town community who witnessed , di rectly or
indirectly, the selling of letters by these two men are
urged to contact the prosecu tor of thi s case, D. O.
Por ter, by mail , at 3* E. Main St., Bloom sbu rg. It Is
estlnuted that up to $5,000 w as take n from members of
the Collige Community th rough the sale of " chain letters'' for the enrichment , not of the Community but of
a tiny group of outsiders wh o origina ted th e ''le tter " .
The sta tute of limitations has tolle d for all of you who
partici pated In the " chain fe tt er " sc heme of 1W9, except
for public officials . Furthermore, buyers of "chain letters " , even public official s, who voluntarily testify for
the prosecution by statut e, ( /Section 402 of the Criminal
¦
Code).
D. O. Por ter
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Wednesday, May 5 was "May
Day " across the nation , It was
the result of the collective efforts
of thousands of Americans from
every walk of life. Washington ,
D.C. was the site of a new kind of
dissent. As many as 500,000
people went out of their way to
show their dissatisfaction with
the way America has made the
war or ignor ed it for "Business as
Usual " .
On the campus of BSC it was
the Second Annual Rally , or t o
some-thoug h not most , in my
est ima ti on , second Spr ing Break.
While framing pictures , I noti ced
a mark ed ly di fferen t a t mosp here
from last yea r 's rally .
The all-night dance , Tuesda y,
ma y have b een enj oy ed by t he
enthusiastic populus , but it was
bad for the rally . Morning lectures fizzled due to lack of atto
t endance.
I
t hou ght
the
admyself ,"Whoever
ministrator was who promoted
the dance , he knew wha t he was
doing. " I was too tired to do very
much pro testing the next day. I
Dr. Jordan Riehman spake at
just sat and listened and thought.
tha rall y en "Soc ialism
and
Fascism, Amtrlca at tha cross roadt " . A host of etliari con *
trlbutad.
The largest crowda appeared in
the early afternoon , none aa lar ge
as last year. Excitemen t was not
in the air , b u t f or a f ew momen ts ,
notably during the speech
presented by Dr. Jordan Richman , the artists and sunbathers
looked up to see wha t all the
shouting was about . At firs t
glance , it seemed that few were
in ter est ed i n t he cause at hand.
On ly after an hour or more of
eyei ng t he au di ence d id I change
my initial reaction to the event.
Earlier in the day, t he laugh ter
f rom the back of t he crowd had
rivaled the speakers for my attention . By late aftern oon an
eer ie silence had f allen over t he
rema i n i ng hundreds. At one
point , I t urned t o f ind out where
ever yone had gone. Expecting to
see a handful of sp ecta t ors , I was
shocked to find at least five
hundred people LISTENING
ATTENTIVELY to the soft
sp oken ora t or on t he p la t form.
Hard l y a soul mov ed , classes
should hav e such attention . I was
trul y im p ress ed.
What do they think abou t us
down t own ? Does ever y one
transfer the unfavorable impression made by t he few who
make t he headlines . This isn 't
Columbia or Berkeley , its good
old Bloomsburg. We aren ' t social
rejec ts , we are your children , the
one's who remember Mother 's
Day and will take care of you
when y ou 're old and grey .
Sa t urda y I was shocked by t he
attitude of someone totally unfamiliar with BSC . A guest at the
Foreign Language Internationa l
Day was sitting alone outside
Hartline 83. When I asked the
lad y wha t had ha pp ened t o t he
grou p t ha t was i nside earl ier , I
was t old tha t t hey had moved t o
Columbia Hall for the presentation of awards. She told me she
was afraid t o walk t he cam pus
alone and was wai ti ng for t he
school bus t ha t brough t her grou p
to BSC.
As straight-faced as possible, I
informed her t ha t t here was litt le
to fear , since Columb ia Hall was
only a shor t distance and accompanied her ther e . I wish there
was some wa y t o t ell ever yone
el se t ha t when there is a
dem ons t ra ti on aga i ns t t he war it
isn 't un-American (and be
heard ). Colleges are doing the
same t hings t hey have been doing
for y ears , telling t he country
where it strays from its ideals.
No person , nation , or thing is
perfect. Why can 't everyone
acce p t t ha t ?
Pea cemakers , the cause is still
there. Though the predomin ant
philosophy acro ss the coun try
has change d t o agree t hat we
should leave Viet N am , it isn 't
over yet. Americans ar e st ill
* 's
dying need lessly. This year
rally was still necessary because
we are still ther e .
If you could see their faces at
the rally you would understan d.
Maybe next year we won't need a
rally .
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The war is over . You lost.
You lost some eight years ago,
when a peace candidate saw but
one way to achieve his Great
Society ,*one way to get a nation
out of a slump : war. You lost
I those eight years. The war has
become part of your life, like the
t.v. and the 11:00 news. You have
written about it, you have talked
about it , you have demonstrated
I (more or less ) about it.
I Something like 73 per cent of the
People want out of Viet Nam ;
we 're there still , supposedly
pulling out , but still there. We'll
be there forever, you feel it in
your dead aching bones. Eight
I years. Eight goddamned years.
I All those lives deadened. How
longer , you ask? How can
¦ much
this murdering still go on?...You
I remember Maxwell Taylor
', calling the Asian conflict a mere
I police action which would take
; but a few months, what's a few
' gooks in black pa jamas...The
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by John Stugrin
Last
Wednesday,
approximatelyone-thirteenth of the
student body at B.S.C. attended
the anti-war rally. Small groups
of people were scattered here and
there cm the grass, listening to
assorted speakers and singers .
Their gathering was quiet ,
peaceful , passive. The town
newsDapercalled it "orderly ." It '
wasall of those and worse. It was
empty and dead.
Downtown , people put out
American flags and asked each
other, "Where are the marchers?" The paranoia was unbelievable and, under the circumstances, ridiculous. Where
WERE the marchers? Where
WERE the 3700 other students?
usual, some of them slept the day
away, and others stared out of
their dormitory windows in
morbid fascination .
The word "apathy " is so worn
out that I hesitate to use it. But
denying that it exists is moronic .
I'll admit that it's a selective „
apathy...BSC students aren 't
total ly unconcerned about
everything . If they are, then how
can you explain the large turnouts Greek Week always
produces? Students take part in
Greek week activities because
it's a lot of fun . Even the rally
itself had^the atmosphere of a big
social gathering. A lot of students
who slept through the speeches
woke up when the folk singers
came on. Hardly a throat was
Many of them attended classes as silent when the big cheer went
VOU IL THE MAROON AND GOLD NO. 47
Bill Teittworth
Editor-in-Chief
Busin ess Ma na ger
dor Remsen
Managin g Editor
News Edi tor
Cfr Peature fditori
Tom Punk
3am T r a pane
Jim Sachetti
Terr y Bleu
Spor t s Edi t or
John Hoffma n
Copy Editor
Co-Clreula tlon Mgrg.
Linda Innlf
Pat Heller
Carol
Photo Idltor
Ar t Edi tor
Adver tising Manager
Klshba ugh
Mark Poucart
John ttti grln
Pam Hick ey
Kenne th C. Hoffman
AdvUo r
STAFF: Kate Calpin, Ji m Chapman , Carmon Clullo,
Lore Duckworth , Karen Kelnard , Cindy Mlchener; Tom
Sctiefi old, Glen SpotU , Sue Sprague , Frank Pluoli , Jesse
James, Dave Kelter , Donna Skomsk y, Mary Ann Petrusa ,
Cherlnchak,
A. Raknh t , Nancy Van Pelt Georgianna
Mike
Spellman ,
Mike Yarme y, Jim Hallo . Jo s Mlklos ,
¦lai n* Pongrati .
write rs,
A!l opinions «xpre «e4 by columnists and feature
tho seIncludin g tofter-to-t he-edltor , are not necessarily
•f the publica tion but of indi viduals.
CaM Ix t,
tO or
Write Ml
out .
Where were the 500 or so
students who showed up for last
May's rally? Where was the
spirit, the atmosphere of concern...of purpose? Where was the
seriousness of last year's event?
A year ago, no one sang funny
songs or delightedly screamed
"F-U-C-K." But last year, there
was Kent State and Jackson State
to protest. There were no student
killings this year and there's
nothing like six coffins to instill
some concerned interest in
people. But the flag-draped
coffins from Viet Nam haven't
stopped . What about them? "It
doesn't do any good...it's all been
said before ," one girl told me.
Maybe. But who was listening
before. Who is listening NOW?
The morning after the rally, I
was awakened by the sound of a
cracked voice coming over the
radio , saying how college
demonstrators bring down
"academic standards" and how
they should be lined up
against a wall and shot. But I
wa sn't angry . Those people were
unknowingl y
payi ng
we
d
emons
t
ra
t
or
s"
a
great
com"
pliment. They actually thought
we had enough student support ,
enough interest , and enough
passionate, intense belief in what
we were fighting for that we were
even w illi ng to go t o the extremes
of marchi ng on the town and
causing disruption to prov e our
point. We didn 't fulfill their expectations and in a way, I think
they were disappointed . SuperRadical at B.S.C. is a myth. If
there is ever another rally (i.e., if
we're handily provided with a
dead student or two ) , don 't myth
it. If you ha ve enough stamina to
drag y ourself out of bed to attend
some stupid tug-of-war , you
should be able to show enough
concern to protest a REAL war.
But if you don 't , typical BSC
student , if all you care about is
booze parties and field trips and
dances,then all I've got to say is ,
"Gimme «m F...!'
a figure walking
months festered into years, eight station , you seecoming
up the
you
,
years. You scream : how much toward
say
hill.
You
"Hey,
longer? You have no mouth and friendly Pr. Nossen?" u isn't
Naw ,
you must scream. Kafka said that guy
"It
is,
goldurnit.
't
be."
"
can
human
of
one
that the power
this
time
the
little
"
About
"Naw.
the
all
down
scream would tear
walls. The screams of hundreds man , way down the street, looks
of thousands of American dead, up: he sees you, all three of you .
the screams of hundreds of Whether he sees the red armthousands of Americans dying, bands or not you don 't know. But
screams of peasants , villagers , he does see you. As quick as
children, screams oi agony , rage, Nestle's he decides to cross to the
protest...all ignored. But Kafka opposite side of the street. "See,"
hears the cries ... listen on a still you say, "I told you it was
Nossen." But maybe you are
night, you 'll hear him laugh...
Bitter, aren 't you? You weren't being unfair...he does, after all ,
always this way, you think . Or welcome seeing any student.
were you ? Bitter , tired , Provided you walk across, the
disgusted , angry...angry at street and catch him...This walk
people , sometimes the very will prove an omen. Amen.
people you wish could live in
Another omen: at the rally the
peace...yeah, peace.
flag above Schuylkill flaps stiff
You are in the Union that night. throughout , sounding like a
The fourth of May. You have lost bomber overhead. On and off ,
so much on that date , so many depending on how your digust
people and loved ones. Four dead level
working,
you
is
in Ohio. Earlier in the day listen...listen to all sorts of
somebody kept play ing "Power arguments , pacifism , socialism ,
To the People" on the jukebox; Christianism. You hear all sorts
the guy was obviously trying to of songs, mostly standards for
be ironic...You listen to the this type of gathering...too bad
speakers, the stories of macings they don't do "Blowin' in the
and clubbings and 10,000 arrests Wind ," the way that flag sounds
in violation of all Constitutional like a deathplane...the answer is
rights, and you're frightened, in the wind , blowing up there on
scared snotless that such could that pole is why we're in Viet
nation 's Nam...blind stupid arrogance
happen
in
the
capital...not that you thought it which
some would call
COULDN'T happen , lately patriotism. You listen to the
anything bad that happens you standards, the singers are good,
expect, shrug off when it oc- the crowd , what there is of it.
curs...like when Bob Kennedy or responds. After all these years,
King got killed , there was no "Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-To-Die"
shock, just the feeling it HAD to sounds ominous... "Whoopee ,
happen ...Washington that week we're all gonna die." Maybe
had to happen, a necessity for so...maybe we already have.
both sides. But are you ever
There is no seriousness here,
scared...the
stories...and this rally. You yourself like to
frightened disgusted by the kids laugh. But lately ( eight years?)
who sit there gloating. The you been laughing just to keep
complaints of beatings and from crying. Seriousness bores,
clubbings are greeted with sure, but dammit, four people
"Serves ya right." When one frat died a year ago, and all those
boy is informed that the jailed kids , acne-fresh , proud they
had precious little food, he ac- were-strong, afraid weak, virgin
j
tually says "You could stand to corpses, Americans
and Vietlose some of that fat ," even namese...how many more? How
though the guy himself must much longer? And why ? These
weigh in at 450. It is announced things ARE serious, people are
that some B.S.C. kids are in D.C., dying . Look at that little kid
perhaps permanently , and that running across the terrace...does
Dave Benson , ex-sociology prof , she know, she's smiling, she can't
went to rescue them , all the way know what is going on, she's but
to D.C. just to help them out. ten years old...why does she have
And
some bruiser
next to know? What right has Nixon,
to you says "Least Ben- Acnew, GOD, to make her know
son son 't be around to help bombs screaming, towns burning
you
assholes
out
next maggots feeding? What right
year "...and he's right, Dave is have they to perpetrate these
gone, fired for as ridiculous a wrongs?
Are
they
just
reason as can be conceived, misdirected , or are they stupid,
perceived, deceived...not giv ing evil? Are they imperialists, are
a final...gone is a teacher who they racists? (Tricia Nixon once
used the methods the secondary sent a letter to Lester Maddox
ed people here tell you about but congratulating him on keeping
never use themselves. You hope blacks out of his restaurant...she
he finds those kids, hope YOUR was still a kid , like that kid
kids won't go to school here, hope laughing smiling beautifully
that us assholes won 't need any unaware on t he t errace , a
help next year , next Mayday, you kid...how else could Missy Nixon
hope there 'll b e no need f or more nouri sh such a f eeling unless her
demonstrations...you know parents.. .?but enough ) Wha t
better ...When a typical Unionite right?...Kids , it all lies wit h the
is told of black prisoners kept 5 kids...and here we are , singing
years without trial , he responds songs t ha t some t imes don't
with a heartfelt "Serves the apply...yo u get the feeling some
niggers right. " About this time of t hese peop le should have
you leave the building for the brough t a picnic lunch...and so
warm dark outside...black is many of t he dorms at e sleeping
beautiful in many ways ...and from last night at t he Union...against the wall two boozy people si ly songs , long speeches, and
grope at each other , forgetting still nothi ng to guarantee tha t
/
war , exploring themselves for the that little girl-child will grow
up
answer..not a bad idea..they see in a world of peace , in fac t no
you and stop, see y ou are guarant ee t hat she w il be
friendly, and the guy p roceeds to allowed to grow up at all...this is
once more tak e her h ome to serious , folks , and it is
Paw...Life goes on , yeah...ob-la- over.. . Artie White finishes saying
di , ob-la-death.
we have a proble m with this
Time shift. It is May 5 now. governmen t but we're going to
Strike time. You and two friends change all that...an d you wonder .
decid e to go downtown , have a A y ear ago you felt the same
few laughs , get a few Btares, ¦wa y...now you're not sure...and
count the flags . As you walk from
(Conti nued on page three)
Carver down toward the police
Washin gton , BSC
A week ago today there was a
rally for peace held on the
terraces of BSC. But many miles
away in Washington other BSC
students were showing their wish
for peace in a far more relevant
manner. Of the 12,000 protestors
arrested for blocking the streets
of Washington , a number were
BSC students. Two of these were
kind enough to give the M&G an
account of their hectic days in the
streets of Washington .
Saturday, May 1. After hitchhiking down to Washington,
our BSC students went to West
Potomac Park where a permit
had been secured for the use of
the park until May 9. There were v
rallies being held and leaders of
the protest spoke to the kids.
Each area in the park was
marked according to the home
location of the group, and so BSC
was assigned to Central Pa.
There were also representatives
from Gay Lib., and the Women's
Liberation Movement . There
were a lot of rock groups performing and it seems that a lot of
the kids who were there that
afternoon were there for the fun
nf it
That night , Bloomsburg's token
few spent the night with a couple
from Washington , D.C., who
welcomed them with open arms.
This made them lucky , since the
majority of the kids had to spend
the night in the park .
Sunday, May 2. Reports came
back that at 6 a.m. that morning
the park had been buzzed by
police helicopters. It seemed that
the permit had been revoked
and the kids had to be out of the
park by noon. It is believed that
this was done in order to break up
the organizational meetings
which were scheduled to take
place that afternoon. All of the
kids left except for a group of
approximately 150 who chose to
be arrested .
Sunday afternoon most of the
kids
wandered
around
Washington trying not to get
picked up. That night they went
over to George Washington
University and arbitrarily called
coeds at the college and asked
them to put them up. They
weren 't the first, so it took them a
while, but they finally got room .
It seems that most of the citizens
of D.C. were really friendly about
the whole thing, and really
wanted to help. At their
organizational meetings that
afternoon they had decided not to
change their original tactic1.,,
although their plans on where
they planned to attack had been
published in the Washington
newspapers. They saw no reason
to change since they felt that
information would leak out , too.
Monday, May 3. Early Monday
morning our BSC demonstrators
found themselves at their
destination — the intersection of
Pennsylvania and Constitution
Avenues, where the representatives from Central Pennsylvania had been assigned to go.
They were promptly arrested ,
maced (sprayed with a type of
gas which will blind if not washed
off immediately)) , herded into
char tered buses and maced
again.
They were then taken to what
they and others had properly
named a "concentration camp";
a football field with barbed wire
around the fences. Here they had
onl y the barest of sanitary
necessities and were not fed until
3:30 in the afternoon . They had
makeshift toilets and makeshift
tents, and even these were not
provided until late in the afternoon . They met some of the
kids who had been beaten by the
police, and were surprised at the
amount of bandaged heads. The
best thing about the camp,
however, was the attitude of
the kids. When they first arrived , they were greeted by a long reception
line of those who were
already there. They shook their
hands , introduced themselves
and led the group in singing and
chanting "Power to the People."
The overall feeling was one of
unity and sharing.
At 8:00 that night, they were
removed by paddy wagon to a
huge footbal l stadium , The
Coliseum. There were National
Guardsmen stationed, every five
feet around the arena , carrying
containers of tear gas, pepper
gas and mace. Also, on the sides
of the stadium were metal cages
which, I'm told v gave the impression of holding lions ,
characteristic with the name of
the stadium .
Tuesday, May 4. This day was
spent in the Coliseum. The
conditions were poor, but first aid
was brought in by the Red Cross.
They were fed baloney sandwiches three times that day,
which were thrown in on top of
the crowd . Water was scarce.
Wednesday, May 5. Very , very
early, at 3:30 a.m. they were
finally processed and permitted
to
leave ,
after » being
photographed and fingerprinted,
but not required to pay bail.
From there they went to spend
the night in the Union Methodist
Church. Later in the morning
they started for home and hitchhiked the distance in eight
hours. They had no trouble
getting rides , people were
friendly and interested in hearing
what had happened .
Today, May, 1971. It's all over
now, and the kids have had their
say. Twelve thousand were
arrested , and countless more
roamed the streets of Washington
during the period from April 24
until now. Comments made by
the two of BSC's participators,
were, "I'm not sure if it will
affect the government, but it
showed them that people were
willing to do more than just go to
'fun ' peace rallies." "If that
didn 't affect Nixon, nothing will."
"We didn't think it would work ,
but we had to try ."
But remember one of the
people's favorite chants, "You
can 't jail the revolution!"
Ins p ira ti on
by Elaine Pongratz
Inspiration is Forum , (May 7)
by John Stugrin. I was really
impressed. God bless you John
Stugrin , there is hope for the
world after all.
Anyhow , with inspiration in
hand, I think I'll talk a while. My
choice of topic for today is war ,
but before I get into that (Maybe
I shouldn 't , I noticed some people
have trouble getting out of it .)
I'm here listening to the news,
and it's almost funny , if you like
tragic comedy. The Mars space
shot, Mariner 8j was a failure
...and horrors , this may
delay
the
liftoff
of
Mariner 9, scheduled for May
18. For the mere cost of
$153 ,500,000 for both of them.
What a bargain! (with that
kind
of
money
we
might
have
been
able
to keep the war going a few more
years.) Anyhow I just thought
you might be interested in that bit
of trivia . ($153,500,000 worth of
trivia? )
I debated using this topic
because I heard a nasty rum or
that some people think that since
females do not fight wars, get
dra fted , nor huve the ability to
say "I was (here , war is Hell ,"
they should keep their high and
mighty opinions to themselves. I
decided to do it anyhow though ,
because a fter careful thought I
realized that the rumor doesn 't
have any bearing on me, for two
very good reusons — 1) my
opinion of war is not high and 2)
when you 're us short us I urn , you
really aren 't considered mighty .
Peace of mind prevails and I go
on.
War , there isn 't much you can
do with a word like that. It isn't
very impressive, in fact it's sort
of ughly. I guess that isn't a very
fair thing to say
the word
obviously
suffers
from
discrimination because of
definition . Maybe it is fair....after
all "A rose by any other name... "
(yeah you know how it goes) The
odor of this one would stink no
matter what you called it.
War affects women too . In
many ways. How would you like
to get one of those black edged
telegrams? Brother , husband ,
son. Our lives go on. With a big
empty hole in it. Deep, dark , and
infinite . You never qui te forget
and you never can quite figu re
out why...And it doesn 't have to
be a black-edged telegram. There
are still the helpless cripples , and
what about the girl who kissed a
beautiful , warm-hearted person
good-bye and got a cruel ,
sadistic , madman in return. Is
that fair?
Did you ever stop to think
what we may be losing? Definitely
too
many
lives.
But think about it. Maybe we lost the cure for
cancer , maybe we lost the answer to pollution problems and
overpopulation . We 'll never
kn ow. Who does know what was
in the minds of these who died
both willingly and unwillingly,
for a cause they did or did not
believe in? Nobody. Nobody
knows now and nobod y ever will.
It' s all gone , draped in an
American flag, (talk about
desecration — I don 't see
s .l .s .
anything more desecrating than
to cover someone who died for
something he didn 't believe in ,
with a flag. Desecration of the
character of the individual laying
beneath that flag and desecration
towards his family. "Here Ma 'm ,
sorry we took your son, but here's
a nice flag for you." Talk about
sick.)
We were asked once if the
American Revolution was right
or wrong. A conclusion was
drawn , most people feel it was
right. Why ? Because we won .
Will the Viet Nam war be
right if
we win?
and
tell
me , how
do they
plan on deciding whether we won
or not? Defeat the opposition?
Have the opposition surrender?
At the price we're paying is it
really winning?
I remember an idea from an
old "Hole in the Wall" column. It
concerned a boy asking his father
what school was and his father
explaining it. Well , I'm praying
for the day (and maybe it's too
much to ask ) when a child asks
what war was, and nobody can
explain it , because they don 't
remember
Huzza. Yip yi p.
Huzza
hoopla.
Hoopla
yahooie.
Hoianna in the highest. And
the
speakin g of highes t
Olympian is here. The off icial B.S.C. literary magtxin e
is on sale now , a mere 50c,
a me ager piffle for said publication . And when /a buy
your co py, give edito r Al
Mau r er hell fo r mak in g me
wri te t his a t 1:00 i n t he
mornin g.
ix TbatSi
A letter to the administration,
faculty , and students of
Bloomsburg State College:
A letter has been .sent to
President Nossen, Dean Hunsinger, Dean Jackson, and Miss!
Tolan concerning the Abolishment of Women's Hours. An
informal meeting with the administrators was also requested .
The letter was dated April 29,
1971. Now we can only await their
response.
Thank you M&G for making
this public.
Sincerely ,
B.F.; M.A.; S.G.; D.T.; M.E.;
M.Z. To: The Editor , Maroon & Gold
I enjoyed the punning title
"University Bound" of your 21
April 1971 Maroon and Gold
editorial on final exams. And
may I assure you that review of
the final exam policy, one of the
responsibilities of the Committee
on Academic Affairs, is on the
calendar for consideration. (The
present Committee will go out of
business as soon as a Senate
counterpart Committee is
elected. The successors will be
charged with picking up the
obligation.)
Your
editorial , though ,
describes the "order " to give a
final exam at a prescribed date
as "a typical act of a high school
administration closely 'riding
shotgun ' over the happenings and
procedures ."
Actually, whatever "ordering"
the Administration does in
regard to final
exams at
Bloomsburg State College, it is
only executing the will of the
Faculty.For the exam policywas
proposed by faculty members
some years ago (about 1965, I
believe) and prepared by a
faculty
committee
which
carefully considered opinions
expressed by all faculty members who chose to express
opinions.
Having just come to Bloomsburg State College from another
college where exam week wasthe
practice ; I was delighted in 1963
to find there was no such practice
here. I expressed arguments
against the proposal to create an
exam week but was out-argued
and out-voted by my. colleagues.
However, in this, as in. most
cases, policies are not all good or
all bad. I can live with this policy
because it has merit. So does the
practice of leaving the final
exams to the instructor.
At any rate, the policy was not
adopted capriciously by faculty
or administrators. It was thought
out , reasoned out , and decided
on.
As a corollary, I might observe
that your recomm endation for
Bloomsburg State College to
"lead the way" in creating a
"Voluntary final policy" really
means that we should gc back to
where we were in 1964, or
thereabouts. Perhaps we should.
Frequently in human activitie s
we go to the past to make
"progress."
Dr. LouisThompson
>
Fift h Column
(Continued from page two)
the next night a Tug-of-War attracts a larger audience....
Yes, eight years is a long time.
Almost half your life. And your
life is threatened . The war has
saturated and drained you. You
find yourself thanking God that
your brother is so lucky, so
fortunate to have burned skingrafted legs with awful scars
...because that puckered white
purple skin is his ticket out of the
draf t . The war hits you at all
levels You get a far-too-low lottery number and find yourself
unable that night to make
love... may be because you feel
dead already , a ragged soldier
too physicall y emotionally
morally exhausted for ANY part
of his body to stand at attention...maybe you have died
already...and could be that the
war IS over , even though it will
go on forever , it is over...
A few years ago we had it
made. We were going to win. We
had our music, we had San
Francisco , Frodo and Bilbo ,
Dune and Stranger , our own
culture , a movement which
would shake the world before Mr.
Jones knew what was happening.
But Mr. Jones THOUGHT he
knew wha t was happening,
thought the world about to be
shaken over by freaks and
flowers and ( fer Chrissake )
LOVE , so Mr. Jones called his
Man and here we are...helpless.
Dead or dying. 45,000 of us dead
in a foreign land. Four dead here.
And those four are only the
WHITES...
Last year you had answers , you
thought. But both sides can make
mistakes , there are Weathermen.
And yet the Weathermen could
blow up every Capitol toilet in
existence and still not compensate for the OTHER side's
mistakes, what has been done to
villages ,, women , children... children...the little people with so
many questions to which we can
give no good answers...kinda like
you ,
no
answers...t h e
Weathermen aren't an answer ,
you know which way the wind
blows, it blows like that flag
sounding like a bombe r...and
peaceful demonstrations seem
just as ineffective, because those
little kids deserve something
better than what we got, a fear to
bring children into the world. ..
Answers? You don't kn ow any.
Maybe no one does. The answers
should be feelings, wanting to
help somebody, wanting to live
and let love. But not everybody
feels that way...some people
don 't feel at all . You got to
beware of those people, the
masters of war. There are 'man '
who bomb and pillage and rape to
earn medals. They
are the
reason for eight yearsof growing
up scared , scarred , they are why
you wake in the night with a start ,
they are the n igh tmares you had
us a kid , the nigh tmares t ha t
cause us to feel hop eless ,
helpless , victimized, shat on ,
disgusted, useless, t ired , conf u s e d ,
s c a r e d ,
pa ranoic.. .aged... .dying. ..dead.
(I don 't know a bout that fat frat
guy, his pals, or Nixon, but I want
to live. Want them to live too.
Long as they let me live...long as
they let that kid live...is that too
much to ask? to laugh and run
and cry and feel and breathe ?
I breathe out my life's blood; I
inhale apocalyps e.)
I am only 20 years old.
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Bob Becker , Gadfly editor, talked of his trip
to the Washington rally with Mike Carrol and
Tom Brennan. He related experiences withJhe
demonstrations
war.
Just a quick shot with the cam era revealed
the audience attending the rally Wedne sday.
Short hairs , long hairs ., stude nts and administrators wer e all in attendance.
Glenn Lang, President of the Black Student Society, spoke to
those assembled Wednesday afte rnoon on a continued ''battle "
to end the war.
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Be The Need For
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Art White hat ••Id that wt have problems
Government and HWII fa* work ed out.
with this
Dr. Jordan Rlchman, formerly of the BIC
Inglish Department , talke d of the true mean.
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Time Of Your Life - May 13-15
The Bloomsburg Players will
present their final production oi
the season , The Time of Your
life, on May 13, 14, and 15in Haas
Center for the Arts. The Time ol
Your Life is under the direction of
Mr. Robert ' D. Richey and is
staged managed by Jean
LeGates, a sophomore majoring in theatre. Mr. Richey and the
stage manager work together to
maintain efficient rehearsals and
to improv e communication
between the director and the
cast. During the evenings of the
performances the stage manager
remains behind the scenes to
coordinate light , sound , and
acting cues and to keep
everything running smoothly .
I The Time of Your Life, is one of
I a series of plays written by
i William Saroy an aimed at
| presenting a different view of the
I everyday lives of everyday
| people in pre World War II
\ America. The play, therefore,
I does not present a theme as much
I as it projects a mood, the mood of
|the common people being con|fronted with the common
I problem of impending war .
I Saryan carefully reproduces and
, faithfully captures every nuance
1 and habit common to the time
m and depicts the feeling of popular
confusion that existed because of
the strained situation in which
the world found itself.
The Time of Your Life is also a
; comedy. It takes up the wonr derful nostalgia of the 1930's,
' ' displaying it through its
characters and episodes, and
Tom Seriani , who plays tho paperboy in fho play, putt a coin
presents us with an appealing
sings
and
later
numbe
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7
for
Joe.
He
in tho j ukebox and plays
humorous over view of the
is asked to entert ain people in the bar.
Kerry Aycrs , in the
humanity.
bar, salutes
the
bartender
Nick
and
lifestyle of the time as well as
reinforcing the total mood that
Saroyan is showing us and involving us in. The play is about no
one particular person , nor does it
describe one particular situation .
Instead , it uses many characters
in varying episodes to search for
an intelluctual theme that you
must work to discern . You won 't
. find it. Instea d, you will come
away feeling the theme. It is
something you will know because
you have lived it everyday of
your life.
The stage crew , under the
supervision of Mr. Harry
Berkheiser,, has produced the
set for this show . The scenery
consists of one set to which
furniture and props will be added
and removed . It is suggestive of a
typical waterfront bar in San
Francisco, complete with rickety
piano , jukebo x , and pinball
machine. The set Mr. Berkheiser
is using, was originally designed
by Mordecai Gorelik for the
production in Biarritz , France. It
is designed to convey selectiverealism , and , like a blooming
flower , the realism is concentrated in the center stage and
becomes more expressionistic as
it moves outward. The biggest
problem Mr. Berkheiser has had
so far was in locating an old
jukebox and pinball machine.
The difficul ty was solved through
the generosity of the Automative
Service Company .
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Stove Weiss, is a dancer-comedian who draws few laugh s in
tho Willi am Saroy an play centered around the atmosph ere of
a small bar on the wrong side of town.
The lighting for The Time of
Your Life is under the supervision of John Robbins , a recent
graduate of BSC. The show will
use a general illumination with
special effects being needed for
the jukebox and pinball machine .
Ot her crews which will be
working behind the scenes to
make Tr . Time of Your Life a
John Decker portrays the Arab , another regular
The pinball wizard plays on in the background.
j t tho bar.
successf u l produc ti on i n clude their show . This is what
props , un d er t he d irec t ion of Gail educational theatre at BSC is all
Stank ; make-up, su p ervised by about.
Carol Schmid t;
cos t umes ,
Tickets for The Time of Your
headed by Dianne Doebler ; and
Sound by Jack Latshaw .
Getting a show off the ground is
a grou p effor t requiring the work
of all t hese people plus man y
more in various capacities. All
the people connected with the
production give of themselves
endlessly to insure the success of
Life can be obtained by writing to
thePlayers at Box 298, BSC, or by
calling 784-4660, ext. 317. Admission is $1.00 for adults and $.50
for stu dents and children , with a
special 10 per cent discount for
groups of ten or more . BSC
studen ts ar e admitted free on
their I.D. card .
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Held
"Special Olympics"
Proves People Care
BY JOHN HOFFMAN
In a fast paced world , in which
overpopulation is causing increased alienation of people, an
event like the "special Olympics"
held on May 8th in Centennial
Gym Pools showed that people
still take time to care for others
less fortunate than themselves.
This "special Olympics" swim
meet for Northeastern Pennsylvania , embracing a 15-county
thirty -nine
are^ , enabled
youngsters, ages 10-19, to prove
that competency is relative.
The swimmers participating in
the four events , 25-yard freestyle,
25-yard backstroke , 50-yard
freestyle swim , and the 10O-yard
relay, were : GIRLS — Patricia
Block , Julia Bowman , Stacy
Compton , Vistella Heintzelman ,
Rose Hillien , Debbie Hissom ,
Linda Kircher , Alice Kratzer ,
Diane Matzura , Evelyn Morris ,
Rosemary Opp, Lynn Robinson ,
and Mardell Saunders . BOYS —
Rod Baker , Ed Bedford , Frank
Berry , Robert Bonser , Tim
Carter , Dennis Counterman ,
Gary Cutter , David Davi§, John
Davis, Robert Davis, John Deats,
Joseph Gross, Floyd Heft, Tom
Johnston , Robert Jones, John
Marzek , Kevin McNulty , Tom
Mizeck, David Robinson , Wayne
Sanders, Charles Sowan, Fred
Tayl or , Robert Trent , Dale
Vanderer , Wayne Wilson .
Ribbons of achievement were
given to all who swam in each
race , a different colored ribbon
signified different placements
(i.e., blue-first place, red-second
place , yellow-third p lace) .
However insignificant these
prizes may seem to the average
person, they meant the world to
these kids, who really felt as
though they had accomplished
something great , and they had.
They gained the self-confidence
and faith in themselves which is
quite important regardless of
age.
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fitness and sportsmanship to the
members of the special class and
also the Special Education
Department of BSC and all others
involved for making this "Special
Olympics" a day for these kids to
long remember and something to
look forward to in the future.
Diamonders
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Daley Goes To Pen n
Chuck Daley , basketball coach
The Bloomsburg State baseball
at
Boston College for the past two
team extended its losing streak to
eight in a row by dropping both years, was named as head coach
ends of a doubleheader to Lock of the University of PennHaven State, 7-6 and 11-5, last sylvania.
Daley , a former assistant at
Tuesday at the Lightstreet field.
In the opener a four-run rally in Duke , received a three-year
the last of the seventh highlighted con tract to succeed Dick Harter,
by two home runs by Bob Warner who resigned to accept a similar
post at the University of Oregon
fell short.
after guiding the Quakers to the
nightcap,
the
Bald
In the
finals of the NCAA eastern
and
Eagles pounded out 12 hits
regional
championship.
jumped out on top 9-0 through the
first two innings .
Daley , who succeeded former
Celtic great Bob Cousy at Boston
College, guided his teams to
records of 11-13 and 15-11.
Fred Shabel , director of
athletics at Penn , said the 40year-old Daley "has had success
on all levels of coaching and has
dealt with the same type of young
men that Pennsylvania is interested in. "
He said Daley accepted the
position today after Penn 's advisory committee approved his
selection last Monday.
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The
10
May
Championship held on
Park
Golf
and 11 at the Hershey
Course in Hershey appeared to
feature Slippery Rock and
Clasion State College.
Shippensburg golf coach , Dr.
Crist, noted that the "teams to
beat are Slippery Rock and
Clarion with Kutztown as the
dark horse."
A bit optimistic he also added ,
"though a young team , we should
finish in one of the top three
places."
Clarion officials are not as
optimistic as they report "the
team to beat is Slippery Rock,
and we should finish about fourth
or fifth. "
Also not to be counted out are
East Stroudsburg and Bloomsburg. Last year the ^Huskies
finished third with the Warriors
in fifth place.
The individual honors for the
tournament could go to any
number of ou tstanding competitors .
Shippensburg State 's John
Donahue "could win the tournament if he puts it all together
and plays up to his ability ,"
reports the coach .
On the other hand , Bloomsburg 's Jeff Hock and Ed Masich
are in contention "if they could
get their game together," added
their coach.
The top golfer for Clarion to get
a shot at the honor will be Scott
Smith while East Stroudsburg's
Tom Bartolacci is "potentially a
contender for the championship
honors" also.
Jeff Hock and Ed Masich will
be playing their last college
competition . Hock will graduate
in May and Masich in January ,
1972.
Both could be in contention for
individual honors with Rich
Jurbala also in contention . All
three are members of the Berwick Country Club.
Shabel said he and "the
committee feel fully confident
that Chuck will continue the
outstanding program built by
Dick Harter and his staff ."
Daley is a native of Kane, Pa.,
attended St. Bona venture and
was graduated from Bloomsburg
State, Pa. in 1952 with a degree in
Speech Therapy .
He received a Master's Degree
in educational administration
from Penn State in 1958 and also
did work toward a doctorate at
Penn State.
He was a basketball and golf
coach at Punxsutawney, Pa.
High School frohl 1955 till 1963
when he went to Duke , where he
remained un til he was named to
the Boston College post.
Daley , the 12th coach in Penn
history, inherits a team of nine
lettermen from a squad that
Sophomore driving ace, Brian
compiled a 28-0 record and the
Spewak
of Delta Omega Chi
Quakers' consecutive Ivy League
fraternity
received the Ben Hur
championship before losing to
Driving
Award
for his outBig Five rival Villanova in the
standing
performance
during the
eastern regional finals.
Greek Week Chariot race held
Saturday afternoon here at BSC.
Spewak , who hails from
Philadelphia , received his
Trophy at a banquet held at the
Black Bea uty Moter Lodge in
Hazelton , Saturday evening.
When asked about the race
Spewak commented , "I used to
drive a chariot in a circus side
show so it wasn 't a new experience to me , I only wish we
could have won the race. "
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Trop hy
Wayne Smythe who rose from
the ranks of an unknown into the
national spotlight as a NAIA
wrestling champion was awarded
the Bob Redman Memorial
Trop hy as the outstanding athlete
at Bloomsburg State College at
the annual athletic awards dinner
held last Tuesday night at the
Scranton Commons on the BSC
campus.
Also for the first time in
history , the ARA Services Award
Ito the best * underclassman
athle te had to be shared.
Trophies were presented to Floyd
Hitchcock ,
"Shorty "
a
sophomore wrestler , and Dave
Gibas , a sophomore swimmer,
who gained national prominence.
Special awards were also made
to Bob Tucker , New York Giants
• tight end , who is the only
Pioomsburg State product to ever
make the National Football
League. He was given an attache
case and cuff links.
The highlight of the affair was
the address by Pete Carlesimo,
athletic director at Fordham
University and former athletic
director and coach at Scranton
University . Carlesimo is an after
dinner speaker and humorous
deluxe and his presentation not
only held the interest of the.
overflow crowd in the banquet
hall, but also had them rocking in
their chairs with laughter.
In the latter half of the
program, Athletic Director Russ
Houk congratulated the Husky
track team for their 15-0 record,
which is the greatest in our
history.
Houk, conducted presentations
of the annual special awards
voted on by a panel of coaches
prior to the banquet.
Smythe climaxed his four
years of wrestling competition by
copping the 142 lb. title in the
National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)
becoming a
Tournament ,
national champion and AilAmerican. During the past
season, he defeated such outstanding opponents as Don Dunn,
Iowa State ; Dick Pollock ,
Waynesburg College ; Tony
Petak , East Stroudsburg S.C.;
and Alray Johnson, West Chester
S.C.
Smythe was selected by a panel
of coaches for the Redman
Trophy . The late Bob Redman
was an outstanding Husky
football mentor in the late 40's
and early 50's. Also under cons id erat ion f or the awar d were
Mike Shull, wrestler , Newport;
Jim Platukis , Basketball ,
Fleeger,
Hazleton ;
Tom
baseball , Turbotville ; Jim
Cavellero, track , Metuc hen, New
Jerse y; Bruce Bi t tner , track ,
Catawissa; Steve Ryznar , track ,
Pottstown; and Bill Na gy,
football , Dunellen, New Jersey .
All-American
Gibas , an
swimmer at West Mifflin High
School, won the 50 yd. freestyle
event (established new record )
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The
Men 's
Intramural
Program is now going into the
last events of the year with
Spring Sports. These are now in
progress and include softball ,
tennis, horseshoes, and, coming
up, golf.
The most recent results are :
Water Polo — Lambda Chi, 1st;
Al's, 2nd ; North Hall, 3rd ; and
the Coal Crackers, 4th.
Table Tennis — Steve Dippery
(SOB) , 1st; Bob Roberts (SOB ) ,
2nd ; Tom Miller (COD) , 3rd; and
Jim Chapman ( Rare Earth ) , 4th.
Basketball — SIO , 1st;
Cougars, 2nd ; 2nd Eidition , 3rd;
and the Bandits, 4th .
Foul Shooting — 1st , Doug
Witmer of 2nd Edition, 46 (second
year winner) ; 2nd , Bob
McGinnis, Cougars , 45; 3rd, Bob
Vobas, Phi Sigma Epsilon, 43;
4th place (all tied ) Joe Lupia ,
Baggers ; David Snyder , 7th
Floor; and Harry Dowling, SOB,
all with a total of 42.
A listing of the top 20 teams to
date, are as follows (not including the badminton results ) :
SIO, Zetes, COD, Lambda Chi,
North Hall , Al's, Charger's, 2nd
Edition, SOB, Bandits 6, 7th
Floor;
America , Phi Sigma Epsilon,
Studs, Rare Earth, Baggers,
Sigma Pi , Coal Crackers, Digits,
DOC.
Rick Jubala carded a twounder par 69 for the Bloomsburg
State College golf team last
Thursday at the Briar Heights
Course, but it wasn't enough to
take medalist honors.
Jerry Janeski of Kings College
by way of Williamsport , fired a
four-under 67 to lead King's to a
10-8 win over BSC. The Huskies,
however, took Kutztown State, 171, in the other half of the match
and King's whipped Kutztown 162.
Other scores for Bloomsburg
were : Steve Neumeyer, 80; Ed
Masich, 75; Pete Betz, 76; Tom
Fudge, 75; and Dave Wisnosky,
78.
Kings 'sl0 BSC 8
Janeski (K ) def . Masich . 3-0.
Jurbala (B) def . Markowski , 3-0.
Neumeyer (B) def. Diken, 3-0.
Markowski (K) def. Betz, 3-0.
Fudge, (B) def. Harostak , 2-1.
Nicholls (K) def. Wisnosky/3-0.
BSC 17 KUTZTOWN 1
Masich (B) def . York. 2-1.
Jurbala (B) def. Barto. , 3-O.
Betz (B) def . Shaffer , 3-0. '
Fudge (B) def . Grey, 3-0.
Wisnosky (B) def . Herter , 3-0.
KING 'S 16 KUTZTOWN 2
Janeski (K) def. York , 3-0.
W. Markowski (K) def . Cannon,
ao.
Diken (K) def. Barto, 2%-%.
E. Markowski (K) def. Shaffer , 30.
Harostak (K) tied Grey . lte-lVfc .
Nicholes (K) def . Herter , 3-0.
GREEK NEWS
published and distributed to the
Brothers, Chapters, and Alumni,
marks 40 years of Phi Sigma Pi
National Honor Fraternity at
Bloomsburg State College. In
conjunction with this, reflections
on the past year were made at the
Banquet and also predictions and
hopes for the future were made.
Installation of the officers for
next year was then conducted.
To finish the evening;
Reverend Musser, a minister
from West Milton, Penna., entertained the Brothers with his
Magic Act. The art of illusion is a
hobby of Rev . Musser , and he
presents approximately thirty
such shows a year.
Zete's Find
Shown are several of the award winnin g Phi Sigma Pi brothers with their "fraternity sweetheart" , Al ice Mation.
Phi Sigma Pi
Saturday, May 1, was a busy
day for the Brothers of Phi Sigma
Pi. Things started at nine o'clock
in the morning when the
fraternity held its annual Car
Wash at the rear of the Bloomsburg
Firestone
Center.
Throughout the day, until four in
the afternoon , students, faculty,
and townspeople brought their
cars for the Fraternity 's "SuperDeluxe" Car Wash. The Brothers
encountered a new experience
this year when a camper was
brought to the scene. Thanks goes
out from the Fraternity to all who
brought their cars to be washed.
It was a huge success. The
proceeds from the Car Wash will
help to support the Fraternity 's
foster-child , Stanli Gamhram , in
India .
Starting at eight o'clock in the
evening, the Brothers held their
Spring Awards Banquet at the
Magee Hotel. Brothers, dates and
guests, which included Mr. and
Mrs. Warre n Johnson, Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Babineau, and
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wolfe,
enjoyed a smorgasbord dinner
followed by a program of Awards
and Entertainment. Mark Harlor
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Pledge" of the spring pledge
class . Alice Mahon , the
Fraternity Sweetheart , was
presented with a Fraternity
jacket. Recognition pins were
given to Jim Damatt and Steve
Tellep for the great amount of
work done by them during the
first semester fund-raising event.
Service keys were merited by
Mike Bussacco, Jim Reese, Joe
Roinick, and Ed Stine. All four
are seniors and have held offices
in the Fraternity. Special
recognition was given to the
Fra ternity 's a d v isor , Mr.
Richard Donald , as the Brothers
presented him with an engraved
plaque for outs tanding and
uselfish service. The Fraternity
Newsletter was also dedicated to
Mr. Donald at the Banquet.
Following this, Mr. Donald was
presented wi th a Fraternity
jacket.
The Newsletter, soon to be
Fondest Remembrance
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The Pi Kappa Chapter of the
Zeta Psi Fraternity of North
America, Inc. is happy to announce the culmination and
signing of a lease agreement with
Mr. a.nd Mrs. Clyde Yohey, RD 2,
Bloomsburg , in which the
Wonderview Ski Lodge will serve
the chapter as a fraternity house.
The signing of the agreement has
ended the long search of housing
for Zeta Psi since its former
house burnt down in January ,
1970. The agreement will run
from Sept. 1, 1971, til May 31,
1972, and a copy of the lease is
available for any party concerned in the Dean of Men 's office.
We are proud to announce also
our new slate of officers for the
71-72 academic year: President,
Robert
Anderson ;
VicePresident , Thomas Parry ;
Treasure r , William Heim;
Recording Secretary , John
Woodward ; Corresponding
Secretary, William Lennartz ;
Sgt. at Arms , Robert Miers; and
Historian, William Dura. Bobby
Anderson , the new president, will
also be attending the annual
Convention of Zeta Psi to be held
this year in Halifax , Nova Scotia.
We wish the best for the Greeks
in our week and hope all concerned enjoy themselves in the
various activities .
May 15 a Day of Infamy .
lambda Alpha Mu
Lambda Alpha • Mu's Spring
Pledge Class of 1971 consisted of
seven pledges, three sophomores
and four freshmen. They were
Carole Bolton (president) , Janice
Ciccone, Carol Connor, Joanie
Platko, Susan Shaeffer , Karen
Strzelecki and Jean Yazgier. In
an attempt to promote both
pledge class unity and unity
between the sisters and the
pledges, such activities as coke
dates, dinners, and skits were
scheduled.
At the Spring Dinner Dance
held at the Holiday Inn in
Hazleton , on March 20th, the
pledges were honored in an
initiation ceremony . Recently the
sisters have joined with the
members of the Heart Fund and
Cancer Society in collecting for
their annual drives. Lambda also
sponsored a hoagie sale which
kept the sisters frantically busy
at the culinary arts of hoagie
making and turned out very
successfully.
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Peking — The government
denounced the Nixon Administration for "Hostility to the
Chinese people " for its continued
support for the Nationalist
government in Taiwan.
Washington — The House
Education and Labor Committee
approved a bill that would give
the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the power
to issue orders against
discrimination in employment by
industry or labor unions .
Philadelphia — The steering
committee of the bicentennial
exposition of the nations birthday
recommended the project be
abandoned due to lack of sufficient funds and a suitable site
for the project.
Canada — A small Quebec
village St. Jean de Vianney was
destroyed when a pit about a
quarter of a mile long and 70 feet
wide and more than 100 feet deep
engulfed 35 homes several cars,
and a bus. Two persons are
known dead and 29 are missing
and presumed dead.
West Germany — A government spokesman said that West
Germany would not reevaluate
the mark in that there are no
other countries who will
reevaluate wi th them . The six
nation European Economic
Community is passing through
one of the worst economic cries
since WWII.
Washington — Treasury
Secretary John Connally announced that President Nixon
would ask Congress for loan
guarantees to rescue the
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
from possible bankruptcy .
Chicago and New York —
Passenger will again link these
two cities because of the newly
formed Amtrak corporation in
cooperation with the two states,
Illinois and New York .
Egypt — Negotiations are now
taking place in the Suez Canal
dispute and the reopening of the
canal is a possibility. '
Washington — Unemploy ment
rose
slightly
for
the month of April but
the
job
situation
remained unchanged . While
joblessness has stopped it has not
shown a'ny improvement in
response to the growing
economy.
Washington — A judge of the
Superior Court of the District of
Columbia rules "that 600 persons
were arrested and held under
conditions that inflicted cruel and
unusual punishment.
Dr. Robert Miller, Chairman of
the Committee on International
Education, has announced that
there are still some openings for
Peace Corps volunteers in
programs that will begin training
this summer. Those areas in the
geographic regions that are
available are listed below :
Science, Chemistry, Physics, and
Business Education — openings
in all areas ot tne world for both
single males and females , Social
Work — Philippines (for male
only ) , and Business AdDr. Charles Carlson , Director of Graduate Stud ies spoke
briefly to the high school students in attenda nce at International fta y '71, sponsore d by fhe Forei gn Language Dept.
Awards were giv en for competitive events in severa l languaaes .
that abortion may lead to more
drastic means of population
control such as killing of the sick
and the aged , (4) the fetus is only
a part of the woman , making an
analogy with her other organs
such as tonsils, and if she wants
to, she can have it removed, and
(5) is abortion killing the innocent, only without malace?
Dr. Corson described some of
the methods of abortion. The first
one he said can be performed up
to the first 12 weeks of
pregnancy , and can be done in a
doctor 's office under a local
anesthetic. It is done simply by
dilating the cervix and scraping
out the placenta and other fetal
material. Another type of
abortion that can be performed
up un til 16 weeks of pregnancy is
one where the amneotic fluids are
removed from the baby's food
sac and a saline solution is introduced. The patient then goes
into a "mini" labor which is
followed by the expulsion of the
fetus and other birth material. A
third type is a hy sterectomy
which involves the removal of the
woman 's female organs as well
as the fetus and results in permanent sterility . Still another
type is something comparable to
a cesarean section birth, where
an incision is made in the abdomen and the fetus is removed.
This operation can be done after
12 weeks of pregnancy . Dr.
Corson believes that the Question
of abor t ion should be lef t up t o t he
pat ien t and her doctor with no
legal res traints.
Dr. Kroschewsk y outlined
some of t he stages of the
development of the human
embryo . He stated that at 8 weeks
the embryo can be recognized as
human ; at 9 weeks the internal
If any student is interested in
the Peace Corps please contact
Dr. Miller in Waller 222 or on
phone extension 330.
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Two weeks ago, I did a column
on a little-known aspect of the
BSC
Teacher
Education
Program , namely Sophomore
Field Experience . The day it
appeared , Dr. Lee Aumiller,
director of the program , paid me
a visit. He tol d me that if I cared
to do a followup article on the
program , he'd be happy to
provide me with the information.
Recalling the fact that I had
never even heard of the program
until it was time for me to do it , I
decided to pay him a visit.
In case you don't know what
Sophomore Field Experience is,
be advised that it's an opportunity for Education majors
to get a first-hand look at what
teaching is all about—before they
have to Student Teach. It's a
chance to work with other
teachers, to get acquainted with
"Wha t Do You Kno w... "
by Nancy VanPelt
Wednesday, April 28 at 8:00
p.m. in the Student Union , the
freshman class sponsored an
awareness lecture entitled "What
Do You Know About Abortion?" .
The panel of guest speakers included Father Petrina , Catholic
Campus Minister; Dr. T. Clark
Corson , Gynecologist; Mr.
Richard Brook , BSC Philosophy
Department ,
Dr.
Julius
Kroschewsky , BSC Biology
Department; Mr. Leonard
Majikas , Director of the
Columbia
County
Family
Counciling Mental Health Clinic ;
Dr. Michael Daly, general
practitioner of family medicine
at Geisinger Medical Center;
with Mr. Charles Thomas, BSC
Guidance Counciling Department
acting as the moderator .
The program was conducted in
three parts . In the first portion
the panel members presented
their opinions on abortion in
conjunction with their positions.
The second segment of the
presentation consisted of an
interaction of ideas among the
speakers. And the final part
consisted of questions and answers from the audience.
Several of the different views
on abortion that were discussed
were the theological , medical ,
legal, and moral standpoints ;
and a poin t was made abou t t he
u ndef i ned t erms rela ti ng t o
aborti on .
Common argumen ts per ta ining
to abortion were discussed also.
They are : (1) the discriminatin g
laws agains t the poor ; the rich
can obtain an abortion if they
want to inspite of any obstacles ,
( 2) the belief that easily obtained
abortions may open the door to
sexual promiscuit y , (3) the fear
ministration — Ecuador and
• Honduras ( for male only).
sex organs are formed and organ
differientation is developing, at
11 weeks the fetu s can move, and
at 12 weeks higher functions
relating to the central nervous
system have begun. Prior to 16
weeks of pregnancy the mother is
unaware of the life inside her.
Father Petrina stated the
abortion is a matter of personal
conscience. His views included
the following: A human life has
ri ghts ; if something is not
human; it has no rights . The fact
that it was created by God gives
it rights beyond human law. The
relaxation of abortion laws in any
nation is wrong. The Catholic
attitude toward abortion is not
denominational , but is a feeling
shared by all of us who are
humanists at heart. We should
value the importance of life in all
forms and in all stages of
development.
It was brought up that the
question of abortion is social and
psychological . Will relaxed
a bort ion laws lea d to an eros ion
of respect of life in all forms?
Force d marr i ages , along with
guilt reactions and the inability to
adjust to the situation, and
maternity h omes are t he old
reme di es
f or
unwan t ed
pregnancies. Today there is too
much knowledge for anyone to
become pregnan t unless t hey
wan t to.
Another
conimportant
siderat ion is the future env ironmen t of the child and the
present and fu t ure sta t e of the
mother 's mental health. Emphas i s should be placed on
councillin g before and after the
bir th of the child or the abortion
whichever the case may be.
the tasks and problems that Program with Lavalle University
confront them, as well as the in Quebec. The program will
rewards. And most importantly , allow our Student Teachers
for those who have never had the majoring in French to do their
opportunity before , a chance to Student Teaching in French
whil e
Canadian
Schools ,
teach ; a chance to get up in front
of a dlass and assume the Lavalle's English majors come to
responsibilities you 've watched Pennsylvania .
The college is also endeavoring
so many others assume during
your years of schooling. And if to set up an exchange program
with Southern Universities in
you think it's easy...
Georgia
and
Sound interesting? There's a Mississippi ,
This
program
would
read
about
the
Virginia.
lot more. If you 've
problems of the inner city , if give Bloomsburg students an
¦'you 've seen TV documentaries on opportunity to study for one
the problems of immigrant semester in the unique social
'children in American schools, environment of the South. A
and if you care, then your Ex- college in Eastern Kentucky may
this plan.
!perience can be your first , first- also be included inthat
good old
We
all
know
hand
look
at
these
problems.
' Last year, seven BSC coeds Bloomsburg doesn 't exactly
offer
taught in the Washington a wide range of social climates,
Heights Area of New York City. and now the college is doing
Working at P.S. 115, an something about it . All these
elementary school which has an programs need are the students
annual student turnover of 1,000 to work within them. You can be
students, the girls encountered exDerienced.
the problems entailed in teaching
speaking
Spanish
young,
children ; children whose only
hope may be the quality of the
education they receive.
(continued from page seven)
Other future teachers have
taught in the inner-city and placed fourth in the 100 yard
Philadelphia schools, in schools freestyle event in the NAIA
in Canada with French speaking Tournament , thus becoming a
children , and in Southern schools. national champion and receiving
These experiences were true Ail-American recognition. He
educations in some of the also placed first in the 50 yard
toughest problems facing and 100 yard freestyle events in
the Pennsy lvania Conference
American education today.
(established new records in
meet
These problems can also be
both).
encoun tered in the BSC Student
Hitchock placed second at 177
Teaching Program. Nowadays,
lbs.
in the NAIA competition and
Student Teaching can be more
won
the Pennsylvania Conthan going to Danville High for a
ference
championship at that
semester. With
the enweight.
He
competed in all of
couragement of Dr. Nossen, the
college is endeavoring to set up a BSC's dual meets for the season
Student Teacher Exchange and compiled a 19-1 record .
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Smythe
A CALL FOR
HELP FROM THE
COMMUNITY
On or about Ju no 4, a hearing will be htld at Magistrate Hotter '* Office on misde meanor cha rges against
Dean Robert Norton and Prof. Gerald Straus s for selling
"chain fetter s " to the student * and facult y of Bloom sbur g
State Colleg e in the Spring of 1949. Any member s of the
College or town community who witnessed , di rectly or
indirectly, the selling of letters by these two men are
urged to contact the prosecu tor of thi s case, D. O.
Por ter, by mail , at 3* E. Main St., Bloom sbu rg. It Is
estlnuted that up to $5,000 w as take n from members of
the Collige Community th rough the sale of " chain letters'' for the enrichment , not of the Community but of
a tiny group of outsiders wh o origina ted th e ''le tter " .
The sta tute of limitations has tolle d for all of you who
partici pated In the " chain fe tt er " sc heme of 1W9, except
for public officials . Furthermore, buyers of "chain letters " , even public official s, who voluntarily testify for
the prosecution by statut e, ( /Section 402 of the Criminal
¦
Code).
D. O. Por ter
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