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By Bob Parks will assume the past of Secre- of enthusiasm during the cam- Sharon Ke&tlfef," Marie 01ivent
Associate jEditor tary, while Karyn Smith, a paigning. His vigorous and hu- Bob Paries, Cannine Stiaftcale^
the long-awaited arrival of sophomore Elementary-Educa- morous campaign after the tied pre, Mtfjynn Souders. | £§
Spring term brings with it the tion major will serve as Trea- elections were marked byf such Sophomore Jt.U.S. Representa-
annual ritual of student govern- surer. % Logans as, 'What iif they^gave tives ^ 4
ment and class officer elections. .President-elect's {Program an$ election and'»nobody won" Renee' Clark, Ann Mashinic,
This yeaiy however, the elec- fietsy's platform %m be divid- and*"© at first you don't suc- Betsy McCarthy, Kathy Mc-
tions jwvecLto be a departure ed into four major areas: social, ceed, tie, tie and tie again. Carthy, Jackie Omiatek, Julie
from the ordinary. Three of the academic, athletic, Sand govern- /Other Elections Samick, Alexis Walker.
major ^elections, R.U.S. Presi- mental. The social aspect con- The complete list of election H Senior Class Officers
dent, Vice-President, and Trea- tains such ideas as a student winners is the fololwing: President, Jackie Caxneyj
surer, ended in fie votes. These activities director, and a social R.U.S. Executive Board Vice-President, Kathy Smith;
executivelpdsitions were finally guide. The academic part stress- President, Betsy Bierfeldt; Sec'y.-Treas., Ben Skcobncz.
deckled after another general es a student course evaluation Vice-Presddenti Ben Curreri; Junior Class Officers
election. % \ and a revised appeals board ^for *» Betsy 'Bierfeldt Secretary, Maureen Sullivan^ President, Janet Radanovich;
Elected President of^R.U.S. for grade disputes. The athletic Treasurer, Karyn Smith. ^ Vice-President, Gerry Fedor;
lWl-72|by|a wide( margin was plank of her platform calls for mittee, a publicity committee, Senior R.U.S. Representatives Secretary, Lauretta Caponeg
Betey;BienfeIdt, a* junior math the initiation of a pep club, and constitutional revisions*
»h Janet Adams, Banb Bradley, Treasurer, Banb Lyon. |
major.-Assisting Betsy as Vice- cheerleaders, and bus transpor- Vice President's Campaign Barb Baum, Bill Dopierala, Sue Sophomore! Class (Officers jr
President will be JBeni Curreri, tation to athletic functions. And . The Vice-PresMencjSctf R.U.S* McCulley, Ann Polito, Linda § President, Bob Pettinelli;
a junior "Elementary-Education lastly, nthe governmental chang- was won by Ben Curreri with a Ruddy. I . Vice-President^ Jack Riley;;
major. -^Maureen Sullivan, a es Betsy I would like to initiate slim victory margin. Ben show- Junior R.U.S. Representatives Secretary, James McPoland;]
sophomore liberal Arts major, include an election policy!com- ed possibly theigreatest amount Kathy;; Fennell, Suejh Hurley, Treasurer, Georgette Urgo.
ECOLOGYt THOUGHT
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Page Two MERCYHURST COLLEGE May 3, 1971
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News Editor . Bill \Sachse
Sports Editor
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OF SECURITY
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Rick \Lamb
usiness naffer .. . p %nc
trcu t on and Exclian lene^Stnith Monday night a number of rise since his arrival. peated that he was only trying
Layout Sta Fran earn ill Chio Binoculars were stolen from, the I talked to7*Carr myself and to meet the kids on their* own
\nn Potts astronomy lab. The next morn- hegtold me that he just meets ground: It's apparent that he is
a titers Audre osenthal) ing Siv Mathew reported the the kids "on their own level, trying to meet "thefkids" but
le- af re reiver* incident to her class remark- that's what they like". He con- I question his sincerity. It is
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Bill ictor m>lrom beiti ing that It was such incidents tinued saying: "»I ain't here to not hard to see that in order for
ie mu as this which necessitated po- harrass nobody." He then chal- m anyone to make any kind of
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to the United State Capital Building. We arrived ahead of the or-
Mercyhurst Mercyhurst* Represented ganized march in order to watch the masses of people come down
Pennsylvania Avenue to listen to the various speakers,
Participates At March y
bV Vince Doran
Earth Week A Contingent Vrom Mercyhurst College marched on the na-
tion's capital on April 24 to show their desire for "peace—now!"
Under* the guidance of three Tliis contingent included about fifty students and various faculty
ecoiogiy concerned faculty; Sis- members. I was part of that contingent and would* like to express
_J ter M. Christian, John Lin court, my {feelings concerning the entire endeavor.
and Sister£ Maura; Mercyhurst I was included .in a 13 men, 1 woman section of Mercyhurst's
% CoMege joined thousands of representatives. Bob Devine organized the group tha/t I traveled
^ other institutions across the with. The group included: GerryVBarron, Torn DiStefano, Joe Bar-
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y [country in, celebrating* OSarth botti, Dorothy Ostattek, Chuck Hayes, Bob- Gearhart, Jim Trom-
\ Week 71\ Mercyhurst's public betta, Mark Siimkiss, Bob Jancula, Make Moske, Ron^Mazonowski,
\j attempt to explore and deal with Rdy Feinbe^rg, and Bob^JDevine. Belteve i* or not, we all traveled
iri) ea^ironmehtat problems con sis- down to and back from Washington-in a 12 fooMJ-Hadl van.
dj ted of Earth Days I and II. k
§\ JFhe three. co-qhairaieii' began j
3 Earth Dayll, April 20, by Ian-
nouncing the two-*day schedule
& ofc eventsjtmd*explaining Pror&
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PR0PECT NOW
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^Jlof Human Ecology of Northwes- Part of {the 500,000. peace demonstrators ^listening of the
* tern seeflbn of "Pennsylvania, speakers on the Capitol steps,! .t
^* consists of fa number of ool- I have never seen so many people in my life. When the NPAO
legesf in the Northwester^ sec- (National Peace Action Coalition) marshals started the march,
Jtioni of Pennsylvania working Pennsylvania Avenue was a continuous river of people. I watched
™-together ^to achieve^a common them come Tor four hours and 3 never saw an end to the throngs of
^; goal. Their goal is to find a way marchers. At least % million people listened to Coretta King, Vance
^t-to? educate the peopie of North- Harke, ^RalphjAbernathy and many, many other dignitaries. They
' I western Pennsylvania now, spoke^ of fan immediate withdrawal of all American troops from
^albouto jthe ^human situation |as Viet Nam. They spoke of the immediate end to the repression of
^ftjpeally is|in the world today, ALL people in the U.S. They^ spoke of peaee and freedom. The
Mahout the issues {that «face us crowd listened. Did the? Government?
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in our region and our society, . After the speeches, an all;night rock-concert*was held at-the
* about the fpossible choices we Washington Monument. Some of the entertakters that performed
ibave in dealng with these is- were: Livingston Taylor, Alica|Cooper, Pete Seager*McKendree
^ sues and the possilble consequent Sprin 0
Bees ofeach choice. I The excited start of a long andipeaceful trip to Washington, D.C.
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4 The * crowdl was peaceful as^it had been>ithe entire day. I per-
| . They|also sipoke of tentative . .. " sonally think the reason for the lack of violence was the concern
j plans for three days of environ- r-«~^ ««w ^ worse part of our travels.srnecvan gave 'fork a peaceful demonstration by the majority of the crowd, the
rt mental'discussions during the us each a ver"y limited amount ofirobm to situate ourselves com- fine
Kat&demic year 1971-72* These fortabjy. To make matters^worse, weldecided ,to g|ye itwo-ahitchj Washington Police Department to assure ialquite weekend. k
1 discussions will be centered hifers a Kft*?from the Pittsburgh Turnpike Entrance to our d'es- I Our*van left Washington on Sunday aJter a peaceful but busy
ijj around the following areas: The i
tination, Needlesslo say, our>travel accommodations were not even weekend in Jthe nattion'gjjcapita.1.1 „ 1 . * | { L,
J PHilosophyi oft Fun (John tin- wor*thy*jof being called^the tourist section. (Perhaps a good anal- One final notch upon * our arrival at this college on Monday, I
(| court, coordinator); Aesthetics ogyfwould be the 'bagage compartoerit:) Regardless, the three day heard the statement: "Most of the students went to DX. tojhave
4andfrthe Environment (Sister M. commune did it's best to limit the number of complaints uttered. a good time.'$rw£
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I . Earth Payfl shared with about 400 other peace marchers. Unfortunately, our their concern for the end of the Viet Nam war—NOW!
following their fopening £re- concrete beds served uslfor only an hour; as we thoughmt necess-
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raarks, Sifter Maura introduced ary to start our four mile walkfto where the peace march assemble
th$. &rst>ef four speakers.-> edt ' ..f '} * " | F : Rated! X
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Michael E. Wargo, ^Superin^ 5 While walking to%he march, eighf of us decided to have break-
* tendent of Presque Isle; State fast. We marched aiito a corner stiore* where we^were^wai'ted^on^by Trash" Not
Park, opened the L symposium one of Washington D.C.'s fihest. Personally, Ifhavetnever before"*
J entitled "Let's Look at the- been^waited-ort ftjyf a police officer. I kneVfthe security wouldfbe Fort A l l
*J Prplblems'V %y | speaking |on tight dn that city but£... .^Wejl, itlturned out he was- only "heTrping- 1 .^^
BILL DOPIERALA
Sports! Editor The Mercyhurst tennis team Dave Kuhrt andfcJohn Christoph al NAIA Tournament to be held
kept "rolling" along on Itheir who will be Mercyhurst's third in Kan. City June 1-15. The Dist
unbeaten path Tuesday, with an doulbles entry at Districts, are Tournament has been the focal
8-1 victory over St. Bonaven- 1-0 in doubles. point for the Hurst players since
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J&m ture's. This victory followed 2 This Thursday and Friday, pflactice*jbegan earlyvjjn March,
Certain editorials that have appeared in this publi- consecutive 9-G victories over April 29th and 30th, will be the Strong competition is to be ex-
Ypungstown State and Canisus. "moment off truth" for the first- pected from Ediiboro, Califorl
cation, and the mimeographed "muck-raking" sheets year tennis squad. It isjon these nia State (Pa.) and JWestmins}
Individuals? who are still un-
(finallyivouched for) have basicallyjquestioned a person defeated in aid 4 matches are dates they play fin the NAIA ter.lThe Lakers, however, are
wanting to be athletic ^as wellfas a student. Criticism is Ed Manning, Steve Gutting and District 18 Tennis Tournament aisofgiven a J good chance to
anyth I Denny Kuhn in singles. Bill Do- at Westminister College in New bring back the recognition that
only ask-why these people don't want to give intercol- peirola and;! Steve Gutting also Wilmington, Pa. This ftourna- goes with being the District's
are 4-0 |in doubles. Tommy ment is the high point for the No. 1 team. H u S
legiate ^athletics a fair chance to be established on; this i
Thompson has a 2-0 recordj in district's ?N'AiEA-'afifiHated tennis Alfter the tournament, the
campus. Is it so wrong for any student, male or female, doulbles andvalong with Ed Man* teams. The winner of this tour- team will return to Mercyhurst
to want to participate in athletic competition, whether it ning, tis also 2-0; in doubles. nament qualifies for the Nation- for their first home encounter
be intramural or intercollegiate? ' Since April 2nd when they face
Youngstown Statefon Tuesday
I WORLD TREND
* First of all, I challenge the statement that the " jock-
Begins Sept. May 4th. JMBPSffi
manliness in every< aspect of his .existence. It happens, further encourage the baiccaiau«
reate training by cancelling the- Ahierican legal system, and complete fthe curriculum ty
this lis true, but to generalize about every person who criminal codei
competes athletically does this, is stereotyping an ath- student'sjlpre-service deibt by 25 studying the various facets of
lete. According to this logic, a man that has to prove percent ^[with each year of sei> ? The Hurst probation curricu* modern plant protection, m^ttj*
himself in the intellectual field, will! also keep trying to vice in police or probation worls lum—making the first such pro- ods employed to protect fa#"
prove himselfjin all the other! aspects of his life. followin^graduation, •£- gram within a?300|mile radius ties, security problems of re-
Thev President's- Act has a of Erie—roll be geared toward tail enterprises, and *the relajj
f Can anyone prove that a person who has to prove built-in bonus for persons al- counseling, understanding, and tionship between * -institutional
himself in the classroom isn't as "bad" as a person who ready working in the law en- knowledge. It will also?ofifer ami local police. •
feels jhe has to prove himself on the athletic field? Is it forcement* field. fSLocal police prospective probation officers in addition they woOW be re-
lessiari:evil that a person would go'around to prove? that and probation officers would be actual involvement with the quired to Upend 100 satisfactory
everyone is an intellectual inferior to himself, and a eligible §for grants^ up Ho i$600 parole jgand probation functions hours in service with the Meflf,
greater evil that a physical person wants to prove himself annually for studies' pursuied as senior year students in the hursfc College campus pofi<*\
the physical superior to all. It's-easyUo see that both are
extremes and just as bad (at least to me), but, of course,
I'm a "jock" and I'm supposed Ho be physically inclined.
In the final analysis, it seems thati people who are
criticizing the "jock-attitude" don't know what a "jock"
feels. Sure! there are those that are only jocks {just as
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those who are only*"intellects." Many athletes have been
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every year if not to underscore the development of a over $5.00 madeebefore May 9, 1971*
complete person. I realize that everyone isn't athletically
inclined, but why be down on anyone who wants to mix
sports with school, and life? The people at Mercy hurst
who want to have their "jock-attitudes";
are just as con-
cerned with; their total development as|those who aren't
interested? In > sports* As fargas I know, no tone has criti-
cized a person just wanting the intellectual experience 2 convenient locations' 14*
Mercyhurst goffers.? Why * can't wef just live together—Is * n
ft too much to ask even at such a petty level as between Summit Plaza WestiErie Plaza
"jocks"Iand\"intellects"?J"Jocks* fyant rtheir "world" 5033 r Peach Street -. -=1 ••*
to be as?peacefulvand meaningful as everyone else's. Why
not give us a chance to prove we are human too7P*