LCCC Clarion, October 8, 1968, Vol. 2, No. 2

              lEHIGH COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE LIBRARY
CLARION
Volume II LEHIGH COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OCTOBER 8, 1968 No.2
Faculty And Students Comment
On First Few Weeks At LCCC
The photographer caught the president and deans in a rare moment when the four were
together on campus. From left to right are President John Berrier, Dean of Technologies
George Elison, Dean of Instruction Warren Land, and Dean of Student Affairs Robert
Gebhardtsbauer.
"A Thurber Carnival" Selected
For Drama Club December Show
"A Thurber Carnival", a dramatic adap·
tation of James Thurber's class~ collection,
has been selected by the LCCC Drama
Club as its first major production this year.
The production will be staged Decembe~
13 and 14 in the Cedar Crest Auditorium.
Try·outs were held Monday for the
characters in the play. As the play is a
collection of skits and dramatizations of
many of the old favorite Thurber crea­tions,
characters are not named, but in­stead
are refe rred to by number. For in­stance,
in the original Broadway show of
"Thurber Carnival", Tom Bosley and Ed
Begley were first man and second man,
and Peggy Cass was the first woman.
These characters plus six--others play
various roles in the staging of such Thur­ber
favorites as "If Grant Had Been Drunk
At Appomattox", "The Night The Bed
Fell", ''The Unicorn In The Garden", and
others, within a framework of Thurber
quips, cartoons and sight jokes.
James Thurber, noted most as a feature
writer on The New Yorker during the twen­ties
and thirties, introduced the book in
1944 as "a selection of the stories and
drawings the old boy did in his prime, a
period which extended roughly from the
year Lindbergh flew the Atlantic to the
day coffee was rationed."
I n spite of the fact that this statement
tends to "date" Thurber's work, the play
version of "A Thurber Carnival" was first
produced to rave reviews and instant pop­ularity
in 1960. In fact the Drama Club
freely udmits that the biggest problem of
the production at this point appears to be
trying to "innovate" around such relative­ly
new theatrical as an on-stage treadmill
and a revolving stage.'
Mrs. Teresa Ammirati is the advisor for
the group.
New library Hours
Library Director F~ederick von Lang
has announced that the library hours
have been changed to the following:
Monday-7:50 - 5:00
Tuesday-7:50 - 9:00
Wednesday-7:50 - 9:00
Thursday-7:50 - 9:00
Friday-7:50 - 4:30
Library holdings
have now reached 9,750 books.
Are ideas, facts, definitions and princi­ples
piling up in your notebook so fast
that you wonder where they can all lead?
Are the hours of eight a.m. or p.m. mak­ing
Prof. Morpheus and his course on
sleep hard to avoid? Is that social mira­cle,
the mini-skirt, prooving a drag or a
boone to your education and, fung us is
big sister far worse than "Big Brother"
could ever be?
After three weeks of carnival atmos­phere,
THE CLARION presents itself as a
detailed and highly opinionated summary
of the past weeks that were.
"There are problems," said Dr. Warren
Land, Dean of Instruction, "but when you
view them in light of what is being ac­complished,
they are small and very
solvable."
The sophomores, with a year of running
into the problems head-on, a re leading the
crowd of those asking how L tri C can be
bettered. In many cases their judgements
and criticisms are sterner than the admini­stration's.
Everyone shares the crowding problem
equally. The enrollment schedule was ar­ranged
so that those with the greatest
distance to come had first chance to ar­range
their schedlJle to suit their needs.
It is the faculty that faces the load of
951 students and the problem of giving
each his share of attention. The Middle
States Association of Secondary Schools
and Colleges evaluation committee has
already paid the first of many visits to
give its experienced advise on easing the
load.
Until the space and convenience of the
new Schnecksville campus are available,
there are always available the library and
student lounge for hiding from it all.
And what about the student lounge?
After neatly side-stepping a partially re­movad
hand rail, Joe and Jane College
are faced with bull-dozing aside a moun-tain
of paper cups, if they can make it
past clever concentrations of cigarette
butts on the floor.
Why just bull-doze the rubble? Those
cigar-shaped things are hollow and are
meant to hold the trash. The lady who
makes sure the goodies come out when
the coins are inserted does not have to
clean off tables. She is employed by the
concessioner and is to be saluted for her
cleaning above and beyond the call of
duty.
However, the lounge furniture is college
property. To replace it, there is a budget
to fight.
At this point, the reader is invited to
the Editorial on page two about Student
Government work on the dress code. Our
columns are open to your views also, Pres.
Yashke.
The dress code was written by the SGA
with the advice of a few faculty members.
Its enforcement provisions are outlined in
the student handbook, which also makes
it clear that the restrictions are self­imposed.
"My feeling is that any dress code in
force should be enforced," said Dean G.,
"and I think the present code is much to
stringent."
Indeed, and is there any other reason
for having them unless they are play­things
put forth by a plaything govern­ment?
A note of caution:
As was pointed out by Dr. Land more
good than harm has been during the last
three weeks. The solution of these prob­lems
will put a lot of frosting on the cake.
The establishment is not stepping on any­one
or trying to step on anyone, so put
away the placards. Those"concerned about
their school and pride wil l consider what
has been said here and those who are
not are expected to ignore this article.
Capitol Campus Dean
Here For Recruiting
Thirty-four Students Give Blood For Vietnam
Walter Slygh, Director of Admissions at
the Capitol Campus of the Pennsylvania
State University, was on campus at Lehigh
County Community College, October 7.
He met with various students interested in
transferring to Capitol Campus following
graduation.
Capitol Campus offers the last two un­dergraduate
years at the former O lmsted
Air Force Base in Middletown, Pa. Most
of the general programs of Penn State
that are offered at the University Park
campus are also available at Capitol
Campus. One of last year's two graduates
in liberal arts, Gail Fiske, is studying there
at the present.
"It's all right; you'll be fine in a few weeks."
Janet Trinkle, Jean Melley and Kathy Rogers are lined up for temperatures before giving
blood last week. Linda Boykas is looking on.
Thirty-four Lehigh County Community
College Students gave blood at the Red
Cross Blood Day sponsored by the Gov­ernment
Association, September 30. A
spokesman for the association termed the
turnout for the project "very disappoint­ing"
as sixty students had pledged blood
for the occasion.
LCCC Blood Day, which received com­munity
recognition for the college, was
conceived last month as a means for stu­dents
to help the members of the U. S.
Army in Vietnam.
"People our age are giVing their lives
in Vietnam," SGA President Ray Kelly re­marked;
"giving our blood is the least we
can do."