Bloomsburg University - Obiter Yearbook (Bloomsburg, PA)

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Music is provided by WBSC, the college radio station, as early as 8 a. m. on the day of the protest to keep the spirits of the demonstrators moving and to make announcements, while below, the students gather at the library prior to the march about the campus and to the administration area. In addition to the protest, C. A. S. also sponsored two other events. One was a phone in day when students would go to the C. A. S. office and call Harrisburg and ask them not to raise the tuition. This was done to jam the telephone lines for one day. The other event was the signing of $50 monopoly money bills and sending them to Harrisburg, since the tuition would be raised by $50. The real victory came after a few days of the boycott when Secretary of Education Robert Scanlon told in a news conference that tuition would not be raised in the spring semester. C. A. S. had proved what students can really accomplish. Approximately 1,500 students joined the grand march around the campus and then to the administration building where the chanting became louder so that the administrators could hear through the windows. Even the husky, right, wears a sign protesting the cost of tuition. 25

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Luzerne Hall residents are hanging their banner expressing their feelings about the high cost of tuition In Pennsylvania. Class boycott and demonstration fight high cost of college tuition On October 24, students rallied in a demonstration against higher tuition for the spring semester. The protest was sponsored by C. A. S. (Commonwealth Association of Students) who urged, not forced, students to boycott their classes. According to C. A. S., the empty classroom symbolized three different events. First, the empty seats refered to students who will no longer be able to attend college due to rising costs. Secondly, no professor symbolized the personnel either retrenched or facing that fate. Finally, an empty classroom showed a dim picture of the possible deterioration of higher education. The day started out briskly; the picketers outside the classrooms walked, jumped, and stamped their feet to keep warm. They appeared at the classroom buildings at 7:45 a. m. Around 10 a. m. a large crowd gathered outside the library to chant and picket to the music of WBSC. A few of the members of the marching band also joined the demonstration and led the throngs in a grand march around the campus and then up to the administration building to show the administrators how the students felt. A small group of demonstrators went inside the dorms to get the rest of the students out of their beds. Later that afternoon approximately 1,500 students turned out to listen to faculty and officials state their feelings towards the boycott and the protest. Students were urged to phone into Harrlsburg and voice their opinions about tuition as a prelude to the actual demonstration on the 24th. 24

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Weekends seem to be the best time to sleep in until late in the afternoon. Students don ' t have to worry about classes or parents saying that they have slept long enough. Saturday ' s and Sunday ' s were made to be days where students did nothing or at least got caught up Irom the prior week. Those who are 21, or those who look like they are, visit the Good Old Days. Other popular bars are the well known Hess ' s and the Little Dutch Inn. After a day of hard classes it just seemed like the thing to do. Order a pitcher have a little something to eat, and waste an afternoon. Luigis, Two Boys or Debbies Kitchen are popular food places that delivered to help put an end to the weekend munchies. Party games begin as Darlene Harris deals Starting the second keg is Carroll Truran, another round of the drinking card game of the party continues. Most parties lasted 99. , as other people suggest the game of up until midnight or one in the morning. spoons or quarters. right, as at least 26