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The Merciad, May 26, 1972
The Merciad, May 26, 1972
June 4th
129 GRADUATE
On Sunday, June 4, at 2:00 p.m. realization ? of the Mercyhurst members of Who's Who Among
this year's seniors will officially College motto, "Carpe Diem," — Students;in American Colleges
become alumni. "Seize the Opportunity.''# 1 4 and Universities. They are: Janet
This year's graduating class, Archbishop John Mark Gannon Marie jAdams, Dennis John
the largest in the history of the Award for General Scholastic Andres,*Mary E. .Bierfeldt,
school includes 15 men and 114 Excellence, awarded to the senior Kathleen Clare * Blieszner,
womea The forty-second annual who ranks first in his class. Jacqueline Marie Carney, Sheila
?$S&:?SSS S$mc*>&»*» mmm$mmmmmmmtmmm>. ceremony will see the presen- Leadership Award, to the senior Sullivan Coon, Mary Catherine
tation of Bachelor of Arts degrees who by vote of the ^faculty and Cosgrove, Vincent F. Doran,
in over fourteen areas of study. administration has demonstrated Florence Mary Golembeski,
Sr. M. Carolyn Herman, President of Mercyhurst for the The commencement exercise the highest calibre of leadership. Christine Marie Kosobucki, Mary
will be held in Tech Memorial The Senior 'Service jAward, F. O'Dowd, Beverly Marie
past 10 years, will step down from the office as of July 1. Auditorium. Speaking at* the presented by the ^Mercyhurst Skrobacz, Catherine Ann Smith,
ceremony will be his eminence Alumni Association and voted by Patricia Sutto, and Mary Janet
The
product was an important factor
in the Theses." j *;
"We* re "sure the Catholics >• do
too," we remarked. | £*»
The Rave
"My boy," he said, clapping his
hand on our shoulder; we also
Promises Polls
dary education majors who wish
ducted by Brian McHugh, problems of how to identify the to receive certification (K42) for
director! of the Mercyhurst exceptional child and what to do teaching the Edueable Mentally
? Special [Education program. about the exceptional child in the Retarded. ' • - .*.
McHugh comes to Mercyhurst regular classroom. § W® fj»v3g A total of six courses, including
THE IPEOPLE SPEAK plans). No, 1, score a 70 per cent (You're the purpose of making Mer-
(Continued from Page 2) dismay, we found our beloved cyhurst a better place. Maybe we
student union closed on Friday 2.) Mr. Herring was in Newii typical.) 4-i **T I can get all our heads together,
is&over. Maybe you can laugh a York doing his Job, (Yet isn't it' ; But the game doesn't end with and get involved, together; and
night, and again on Saturday his responsibility to make sure« the scoring. Just like in any other
little and not pay any attention to night. This situation led an make things a little better,
this article but I had to tell you someone will keep the union game, somebody wins*? and together. We've .got to try, we've
average student walking through open?) Pass the buck. 2 * | somebody loses. In our game, the
about this great feeling because I the desolate union to ask: ' 'How got nothing to lose. We CAN make
love you. fwas like you one day J 3.) Marty Keeny was a students are the losers, no matter it work. We WILL make it work..
can this happen to me?" Hence, member of the cast of MAMEj|j how you look at it. jfc
too but I stopped and had love for the birth of this game. Want to It looks like the last laugh of .. or don't you care? | ? J5?
lunch one day and I don't ever (Yet isn't it his responsibility to w Chuck Hayes
play ? Test yourself. | make sure someone will keep the this school year is on us, the
plan to leave the table. Well, First we start by asking a few students. We ve played right into
listen I gotta go now, but I won t questions: union open?) Pass the buck. their hands; we played the game
run maybe you will want to catch I.) Isn't our union run by a 4.) Not in the union doing his all of American is playing, yes,
me someday. § ••Professional" to giveMhe job. Pass the buck. 3 we're playing | "Apathy. 'f And Crew Coaches Thanked
The Radical Wing students quality entertainment? 5.) Bored, Frustrated, we're playing the game well,
2.) Where was Mr.£ Herring apathetic. Pass the Buck. we're getting more apathetic
Now the scoring: We would like to thank tBob
during the Shut-down?* everyday. - t $ Angelucci, Barry McAndrew,
Apathy At 'Hurst 3.) Where was the work-study 1.) If you were out^of town, Well friends, if you get some
score a 100 per cent. (You're very spare ?time this summer, try Jack Gartner, and Shel Potter for
• For those students who had the super viso £' £ smart.) , s % the time they spent with us this
good fortune of being away last 1 4.) Where ; was the student thinking about what 5 YOU'VE past rowing season. Your
2.). If you knew all the an- done to -combat^our many
weekend, things probably went who was assigned to work ^ ^ swers, score a 90 per cent. (At problems at "Mercyhurst. Ask assistance has helped us
fine all things considered. But <p evenings? *£ least you're alive.) i tremendously,? and has been
the small minority of studente f 5.) Where does this leave the your friends from other colleges greatly appreciated.
U 3.) If you didn't know any about what their school has to
who found themselves strandedin average student? answers, score a 80 per cent.;- < at offer the students. Think about
Erie again, things didn't, go quite Now lor the answ ^ ^ least you're honest) | -gL what you'd like to see done here. The Mercyhurst
so* well in fact, a disastrous I.) Theoretically, (see 4.) If you knew the answer to Then come back in the fall with Crew Team.
s i t u f f i arose. Much to our Merciad No. 3; "Herring has
PAGE 4 MERCYHURST COLLEGE MAY 26, 1972
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Mercyhurst's Drama under the direction of Paul C. College * through the station's
With the year almost at a close newest { weekends program
Department's final production Iddings; Dennis Andres and his we stop and thank those who try
wasv the hit musical MAME. "MercyhurstReports." |
gang who lived 'in the Little to make our stay here enjoyable. The30-minute program is aired
Opening night, $ May 11, offered Theatre construction sets; the Many thanks to Jim Casillo of the
Bob Parks will edit next at 12:30 p.m. each Sunday af-
excitment to its waiting public. Musical Director Cecily AV Department who supplied the ternoon over 1260 AM. HVuV E
Gallagher; and Jude Yablonsky, weekly flicks. These "free" films '£ Bob Cannon, the jplay-by-play
year's Merciad. p All fears were $ chased away have been on a much higher
from the start. Carl Stout's Director, who tied it all together announcer nor Sail I Laker
caliber than last year and we can basketball broadcasts, will also
smiling face and pert Didi Click making MAME a great memory only hope for the same results
assured the audience that their for 1972. I host "Mercyhurst Reports."
next fall — Thanks Jim.1 S»'• j? DickiFox kicked off the Mer-
Into Music
ft
Procol Harem9 Live And Well In Canada 9
99
By Denny Stevens
•j*. Having only just recently undergone their And theit sound came out rather awful,
third major personnel change in three years — seventy-two hours proving insufficient time in
guitarist Robin Trower leaving in the wake of a which to have devised a way to render the
disastrous tour of Italy, guitarist Dave Ball and group and orchestra acoustically, as well as
bassist Alan Cartwright joining, and Chris musically, sympathetic: from orchestra-level-
Copping taking up permanent residence behind center in the handsome Jubilee Auditorium the
the organ — Procol Harum surmised that in natty de Cameras and the subtler instruments
November, 1971, the wise thing to do would be could be seen but not heard, and the sound of
to retrace their musical steps of the preceding the orchestra and group playing with com-
three years. ml parable force atf the same time was ap-
Being a band of vision and lofty aspiration, proximately that of an Elton John record over a
though, Procol sought to make the tour more tiny car-radio speaker. '•
than merely a series of performances of oldies- Which led your correspondents — when, after
butrgoldies, but also a preparation for the an amazing standing ovation and an encore
recording of the sort of live album that befits a ("Repent Walpurgis"), Gary Brooker an-
hand of vision and lofty aspiration. nounced that the group was going to have
To make£such an album, one that would another crack at a couple of the numbers that
giorify as well as simply remind of earlier had gone bumpily at i the beginning of the
T
triumphs, they, being makers of music whose program — to make his way backstage to hear
majesty, intelligence, and emotional grandeur
VA^ » ~ f . . • . • -
how things were going on tape. Happily,
occasionally derives from and always evokes however mushy,* thin, and fuzzy the ^concert
the classics, would require the accompaniment may have -sounded in? the auditorium^it
Procol H a r e m . . . The "Whiter Shade Of Pale" Boys are sounded brilliant - £ clean, clear, iand well
of a symphony orchestra. | separated on" the sixteen-track recording
The Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Symphony back on tour. equipmentUhat Wally Heider had flown up
required no undue coaxing to accept the gig, from California, over which Chris Thomas and
someone of authority therein obviously Wally himself presided attentively.;
knowing that Procols alliance with brf
another
e * It might here be noted that even after being
Canadian orchestra ftwo ye«« or .On On the evening of the concert, three days after Procol had flown invited by Gary Brooker to go have a cigarette
Stratford's Shakespeare Festival) had resulted up right after a quiet college gig, The de Camera singers came out or even head homeward'when the performers
in great satisfaction for both partes and cm- wearing curious orange, lavender, and pink Tom Jones shirts.- | began to take their second (and, in the case of
barrassment for neither. To go one up on their Edmonton Symphony Orchestra conductor Leonard Lawrence " Whaling "Stories," whose first alternate take
K S S E l l w " neighbors, the Edmontoidans came outwearing an amiable smile and a friendly, jocular stage
even brought along a twenty-strong mixed manner, neither of which he would discard over the course of the
concert, at least one embarrassing catastrophe notwithstanding. (Continued on Page 5)
chorus. The de Camera Singers.
M A Y 26. 1972 MERCYHURST COLLEGE PAGE 5
SPORTS DOPE INTO M USIC
(Continued from Page 4) MERCYHURST |
Years came to an embarrassing halt
halfway through when the group
and orchestra lost track of one STUDENT HONORED
another, third) cracks at those
in selections they decided could J>e
done better, scarcely a person Kenneth Alfred Harris, a junior
sociology major at Mercyhurst
Perspective moved. Surveying this scene, one
got the distinct impression that,
had Procol gone into the wee
College, has been named to the
honors publication "Outstanding
Young Men of America." W> JF
small hours in an attempt to
By Bill Dopierala perfect its performance it would A native of Newark, N.J., he is
have been in front of the same full the son of Mr. and Mrs. James E.
$* Sports Editor house. Harris, 791S. llth St. * | T
1
What necessitated the group's 'Outstanding Young Men'' is an
Graduating seniors usually year's tennis season). Moments of taking second cracks was their annual awards publication which
take j. certain liberties upon hilarity (being stranded with the having originally arrived onstage recognizes men between the ages
themselves. This being the case, I basketball team in a snowstorm); extremely nervous. Through the of 21 and 135 who have
plan to disregard some rules of and moments of,despair (losing first few numbers Brooker's distinguished themselves by their
good journalism (not that I ever our first tennis match in2 years to voice, for instance, was-.a timid civic and professional
followed them). It is not proper to Edinboro, 5-4). I would never and occasionally even off-key achievements. 'i
write referring to yourself as "I". want to forget the friendships and shadow of its usual searing Harris is the first male student
However, in order for me to acquaintances I have made soulful self,-and B.J.Wilson, at Mercyhurst to I receive the
adequately sum up my feelings through athletics. As Sports customarily dynamic and brutal, awards citation. | * i
towards Mercyhurst and Editor, I have enjoyed watching attacked his drums as if they Ken is a graduate of West Side
athletics, if can only express the golf tea ml show tremendous were made of porcelain. high school, class of '68, and
myself in a very personal man- improvement; the crew team Then, gradually, the band got attended Essex County?^Com-
ner.*? V developing from infancy; and the out of neutral: jBrooker's voice munity College, where he was a
i When I first- took this job two great start of the basketball beginning to cut as cleanly and representative on the student
years ago, I never realized the program at Mercyhurst. As for sharply as usual, regaining its advisory committee.! He tran-
the tennis team, how could one ability to leap extremely difficult sferred to Mercyhurst in Sep-
difficulties that would he in- melodic intervals with assurance
volved. Being a rather forget the experiences and the and power; B.J., the mysterious tember 1970 as a sophomore
people he has practically "lived student. % Jj fKENNETH HARRIS
athletically-minded jperson I. bald spot on the left side of his
thought all people thought along and died" with for 2 years. I can head glistening dramatically in At the 'Hurst, Ken is the
say this much for athletics, but I Ken is currently the president
the same; lines., Mercyhurst the lights, walloping his drums director of the|Cultural Enrich- of Sigma Chi Gamma fraternity,
however, awoke me. I have heard know that other people have got with abandon, once again con- ment ^Program, which this year
the same type of experience in Alpha Chapter in ^Newark and
criticism of the athletic program fident^in his strange and unique involves 20 students from Erie participates in intramural
since my first day at this in- other areas. syncopated style; Cartwright and area high schools. He fwas
Copping, on bass and organ, basketball and football at Mer-
stitution. Sometimes, I think the The last statment leads to what awarded a $1,000 scholarship for cyhurst College J %
criticism was an over-reaction to I want to say in this, my last holaing the foundation secure; the 1971-72 academic year by
highly unlikely, possibilities. and Ball, wincing in his distinc- Harris —- who hopes to be a
journalistic endeavor. I have General Electric Company in probation worker Xfollowing
Other times, I think certain pointed out that athletics is but tive apologetic-looking fashion, recognition of his superior
criticisms were (and are) wringing terrified screams|and graduation next year — will be
one part of the college ex- angry sputters of sound from his leadership in the Enrichment head counselor at a camp this
justified. I * perience. There are many other program. summer.
little cherry Gibson.
Mercyhurst has neither the areas of college life in which a
physical nor financial resources student may participate if he so With the band in gear now and
to ever go into "big-time'* chooses. It is possible, fand the orchestra holding its own with
athletics. It (Mercyhurst) should
never lose its perspective of being
probable, that students could
become highly committed to one
the cogent sand intelligent
arrangements Brooker had
written for it (arrangements that
Spring Term Exam Schedule
a good academic institution. segment such as social activities,
Athletics shouldn't be allowed to cultural events or athletics. It is
at no time resembled the mushy, CLASS EXAM
melodramatic string-laden ex-
replace scholasticism, but'who also just as likely that a student cesses resorted to by most of the Tuesday,
ever proposed Chat? I agree that could be very caught up in his other rock people who have at-
y 30,! 1972
extremes have to be avoided in major field of academic con- tempted such an enterprise), the 8:00 Period
the athletic program, but,aren't centration-Art, History, English, listener*s attention was-| free to
8:00 a.m.
extremes bad in most cases? gg, etc. If such a person becomes too move from the early intrusive 2:00 Period f 10:00 a.m.
I wrote an article earlier this involved in one area, isn't it very tension of the band to the ex-
year concerning "non- possible his scholastic, or part of traordinary beauty and grace of 4:00 Period 1:00 p.m.
attendance" at basketball games. his scholastic development, will Brooker's Jmelodies. to the
suffer? I feel it is just as probableemotional power of Keith Reid's W e d n e s d a y , M a y 3 1 , 1972
Since then, | l have received for an athlete to become too in- words. i ^ i#
certain comments that make me volved in sports as it is for
want to justify my stand. First of b As always Procol made music 9:00 Period 8:00 a.m.
someone else to be too involved in to emotionally affect, $ to be
all, the article did not say that one social, cultural or * other \ extra- marvelled at for its elegance and
had to support athletics in order curricular activities. power. Some, like "Whaling 12:00 Period 10:00 a.m.
to enjoy the "total college ex- Stories," was chilling, eerie,
perience." I used athletics just as Will someone please explain- for boding. Some, like "Luskus 3:00 Period 1:00 p.m.
an example of -the prevalent why, then there is this pervasive Delp," was politely gentle. Some,
apathetic attitude towards attitude here that the athlete like, "Simple Sister," assaulted, Thursday, June 1 , 1972
EVERYTHING-which I felt then, lacks a well-rounded perspective. and some like "All This And
andffeel now, still exists. Social In this so-called "learned" More," cajoled, and some, like 10:00 Period f 8.00 a.m.
activities, cultural events, community of ours, isn't it rather "A Salty Dog," mourned. Some of
especially student government - strange that educated people it, like the carnival section of "In s 1:00 Period I 10:00 a.m.
all are areas in which the college should take this extremely Held Twasfln I" (during which
shows a lack of interest. There narrow point of view. If they are Gary's arrangement caDed for
so broad-minded why do some the de Camera singers to whistle, N O T E * Exams for evening classes will be held on Wednesday,!
are, of course, some who support shout, and generally have a grand
certain ventures wholeheartedly, hold athletes in contempt for old time), was even comic. May 31 for Ihe Monday & s Wednesday • %VW Thursday, June 1,for
but I will write about those people extremes which also occur in
later. | other areas! One wonders if the All of it was informed with the the Tuesday & Thursday I'tkYK atregularlyscheduled dass time.
|Any personjcan be highly en- critics fail to notice, or simply unique and potent vision that
thused about one area in which he refuse, because they themselves makes Procol Harum one of the
participates. I feel that way are guilty? three or four most splendid rock
towards athletics. I wouldn't bands in all the world, *
want to lose that which I have
gained while 'being engaged in
Even as you read this Chris
Thomas has painstakingly
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