THE MERCYHURST COMMUNITY

Vol I—No. 9 • Week of Jan. 17-Jan. 24, 1972 • Published by the Office of the Dean • Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa. College Enrollment Over Report of Presidential 900 For Winter Search Committee Mercyhurst began the winter 1972 term with its en­ rollment well over the 900 mark. Enrollment figures re­ By Marilynn Jewell leased by the Office of the Registrar following registra­ tion for the winter term show the following statistics: Dir. of Service—Presidential Search Committee On Campus Students: (Editor's Note: In an earlier issue of the Mercyhurst Male: Female: Total: Community, the vitae of five candidates for the office 180 287 of president were presented. Since then all five have been Freshmen 107 carefully considered. The following- report was filed after Sophomores 73 114 187 a Search Committee meeting held last week.) Juniors 46 137 183 Seniors 17 117 131 The aim of the Presidential Search Committee 101 is to nominate one, two or possibly three candi­ Special 81 20 dates for the presidency. These candidates will Gannon 5 12 17 906 then be presented to the Board of Trustees for 329 577 the final decision. At this date the work of the Search Committee Off Campus Students: is in three phases: Cadets Seniors 4 1. One candidate has been fully approved by the Juniors 19 Committee, his name has been put before the Art students in ITALY 9 Board of Trustees, and he and his wife will be visiting the Mercyhurst camp.us for three Language students in SPAIN 1 days at the end of the month. During this time Language students in FRANCE 2 35 the candidate will be presented to the mem­ TOTAL ENROLLMENT .... 941 bers of the Board of Trustees. There will also be opportunities for him to meet and talk with members of the Mercyhurst community.

THIS WEEK AT MERCYHURST 2. Another candidate will be coming to the Mer­ Tuesday—January 18 cyhurst campus for one day for a preliminary interview with the Search Committee. This 3:00—Meeting—Faculty Affairs Committee candidate will also meet with various admin­ Board Room istrators. 7:30—Meeting—Executive Council Board Room Wednesday—January 19 3. The Committee members are examining fur­ 1:00—Meeting—Committee on Role of a Christian ther the credentials and reference of three College Faculty Research Room LRC additional candidates. Depending upon the out­ 1:00 •Meeting-—Academic Policies Egan 15 come of this investigation, any or all these 3:00 -Meeting-—Curriculum Committee candidates may also be invited to the Mercy­ Faculty Reserve Room hurst campus to meet the Search Committee. Thursday—January 20 There has been no problem as far as the num­ ber of applicants is concerned. Applications are 11:00—Meeting—Special Studies Committee still coming in, and the Committee is still accept­ Faculty Dining Room ing new candidates, at least during the month of Saturday—January 22 January. 1:00—Program—Ecology and Human Values At the present time the Search Committee is (• Zurn Recital Hall hopeful of completing the situation of the new Sunday—January 23 President within the next several months. The 8:00—Movie—Battle of Britain Zurn Recital Hall appointment will be a permanent one; as of now there is no question of seeking an acting president. A Personal Statement . . .

* • i Education and the Creative Arts by Joseph Pizzat We question. The Creative Arts are a record of the highest levels of We are all capable of creating and imagining. human experience and as such are concerned with human beings and their total behavior. They are a testament in We intuit. various modes of expression of one's responses to life We have unlimited potential. and nature. Education through the Arts attempts to unearth, en­ We human beings possess native intelligence, physical courage, and guide each person as a human being to be­ ability and an inner essence. come what each is capable of becoming. Education must, therefore, educate the entire being: our intellect, our We are socially oriented creatures yet we too are emotions and feelings, our aesthetic sensitivities, our uniquely Individual. sensory perceptions, our verbal and non-verbal faculties, our cognitive processes and our creative impulses. We verbalize yet some are primarily non-verbal. Education should lead to a higher level of human un­ We are pragmatic, yet we dream. derstanding: of sensitivity to one's self; and of one's We are rational, but we are non-rational. peers in our present society and people of past cultures as well. Such learning should give the person a greater All possess sensory faculties and yet most of us do not sense of being human. use them fully. Humane education must encompass these myriad and We possess emotions and feelings. often dichotomous human potentialities.

Band, Crew, and Library Receive Gift

Several areas in the College have benefited recently from the generosity of one of its trustees. Charles A. Dailey, Jr., having seen the College's pep band at the Lakers-Alleghany game, called Sister Caro­ lyn on the day following that game to inform her of his intention to donate $1,000 to outfit the band with uniforms and instruments. The results of that donation were in evidence at last Wednesday's game against Fed- ral City when the band appeared wearing navy blue bell-bottomed pants and white turtleneck shirts pur­ chased from P. A. Meyer & Son. Members also have blue nylon Mercyhurst jackets for traveling to and from the games. The Laker band was organized last fall by Carl Stout of the Music Department faculty. The group of seven men and one coed is led by student-conductor Bill Dill- muth. In the past, members had to provide their own instruments. However, thanks to trustee Charles Dailey, brass and woodwind instruments have now been pur­ chased for use by the band. Dailey has also given money to the crew team to aid in the construction of a boat house, to the College for use in the tennis program, and to the Library for the purchase of additional materials for the Children's Li- • brary section. Mr. Dailey joined the College Advisory Board in 1965, twice served as Board chairman, and was appointed chairman of the capital campaign for the Learning Re­ source Center. He was elected to the Board of Trustees CHARLES DAILEY in 1969. Mercyhurst Is on the Move ... Lakers Athletic Teams Making History! (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following story on the Mer­ Erie Women's Tournament champion—didn't reach ex­ cyhurst athletic teams has been appearing: in newspapers pectations, however. as an AP wire story. It was written by Jack Polancy of The youthful Lakes wound up with an overall 2-14 the ERIE MORNING NEWS without any assistance or record. consultation with college officials.) The big surprise came in crew. By JACK POLANCY Erie Morning News The team—working under the direction of a local news­ paperman as its coach—practiced without a shell for ERIE, Pa. (AP)—"Who'd ya beat . . , Mercyhurst?" two months. once was considered a funny line in this city. Finally, armed with a gift shell from the West Side Especially by someone who happened to be talking to Rowing Club of Buffalo, the Lakers took on Canisius in a member of an unusually weak team that had just scored a 1500-meter affair, and lost by a mere five lengths. a surprising upset victory in any sport. But they pulled off a stunning upset by trimming It isn't funny any more. Notre Dame in a 2,000 meter affair at South Bend by Mercyhurst College the ultraelite "school on the hill" a margin of three lengths and finished the season with had been one of the top colleges in the nation in the a 1-4 record. business of offering young ladies an education since 1926. Dick Fox, a successful high school cage mentor for 11 The college, located in the southeast section of Erie years, was given the job of molding a winning Laker with a rolling, lush 75-acre campus and picture-pretty basketball squad for the 1971-72 season. buildings, had been a favorite place for the daughters of families scattered throughout the United States. Fox, also named athletic director, recruited a club of Originally founded as a Roman Catholic institution by the Sisters of Mercy, the college offered a liberal arts course for women only. On Feb. 3, 1969 the Board of Trustees held a close- VJRST door session. For the first time in its history Mercyhurst was faced with a financial deficit at the close of its 1968-1969 fiscal year. * Outweighed by the increase in faculty salaries, main­ tenance and building costs—plus a decline in student registrations in 1968 and subsequently tuition receipts— the Board made what was then considered a daring de­ cision. It voted to change its status to that of a coeducational institution. With male students the next logical step had to be intercollegiate sports. Mercyhurst, however, wasn't interested in one of those long, slow and painful processes of being a doormat for any untold number of years to established institutions that had been featuring sports. With Bill Garvey appointed as Dean of Mercyhurst College in April 1970—the newly nicknamed Lakers were about to come into being. "We'll be ready to begin intercollegiate play in the spring of 1971 with tennis and golf," said Garvey. This was to be the start of a five-year sports program 15 and put together an ambitious 25-game slate despite laid out by Garvey—labeled unofficially as Phase One. the fact that the Lakers had no home court . . . and still don't. However, instead of starting with only two sports— the Lakers opened with three . . . tennis, golf and crew. An agreement opened its first basketball campaign by losing to Lock Haven, 90-77, but came back to run up Mercyhurst, with fine preparation, built the best in­ a six-game winning streak. door tennis facility in the area . . . and then went out and shocked its opponents. The string was snapped by Ohio Northern in the 1971 finale by a one-point margin. At the end of the tennis campaign Mercyhurst had its The Lakers resume their cage schedule Jan. 10 at Lock first unbeaten male intercollegiate sports team with a Haven. 12-0 card. And Mercyhurst, with an enrollment this year of 850 The golf team, under coach Jean Forsythian 11-time students—533 women and 317 men—is on the move. LIFE AT MERCYHURST . . . PROFESSIONAL, PERSONAL, AND OTHERWISE . . .

The Mercyhurst community is invited to participate in tng the presentation of the grant awarded Mercyhurst a program of Scripture Study. The informal discussion and Edinboro State College for use in their cooperative sessions will be held every Tuesday evening at 7:30 in Law Enforcement program. Presenting the funds to Sis­ the Campus Ministry Office, Old Main 211 .. . ter Carolyn and James Kinnane representing Mercy­

• • * hurst and Doctor Richard I. Gromen, chairman of the The January meeting of the Board of Directors of the ESC Social Sciences department representing Edinboro Erie County Historical Society was held recently in the was Karl Boyes who acted in behalf of the Governor's College Archives. Addressing the Group were DICK Justice Commission. Guests at the luncheon included KUBIAK and DON GRINDE who outlined the archival Mayor Louis J. Tullio, members of local law enforce­ program presently being developed at the College and ment agencies, and representatives of the area's news solicited the support of the Society in the project . . . media . , .

it A recital will be presented on Tuesday, January 18 at Ecology and Human Values," third and final program 8:15 p.m. in the Zurn Recital Hall. Soloist for the eve­ in the Ecology Symposium series sponsored by Project Now, ning will be lutenist, guitarist Joseph Bacon . . . will be held at Mercyhurst on Saturday afternoon, Jan­ uary 22 beginning at 1:00 p.m. in the Zurn Recital Hall. • • • The program, according to Sister Maura, general chair­ An article written by ED LIGNOWSKI appears in a man, will begin with a film prepared by Mercyhurst stu­ recent issue of Plant and Cell Physiology. The article is l4 dents as part of an ecology course taken during the entitled Triflurian and Root Growth." summer of 1971. The film will be followed by a panel, • * * chaired by Sister Mary Charles, which will explore urban New faces in the College's office personnel include: pro blems and possible solutions. Panelists include: BETH KARSCHNER in the Information Of ice; JOAN Thomas Graney, chairman of the Erie City Planning MASON in the Business Of ice; and VERA McKAY in Commission; William Darrin, of the Environmental De­ the Education Office. SANDRA HOWLES, formerly of sign Group; and Frank Hagan, assistant professor of the Information Office, has now joined the Business Of­ Sociology at Mercyhurst. Following the panel, participants fice staff . . . may choose among several films relating to the questions

• * • of ecology. Viewing of these films will be followed by Mercyhurst College last week hosted a luncheon mark- an open discussion . . .

Time Use Schedule ... INDOOR TENNIS - SAUNA INFORMATION For more effective management the personnel au­ are the permanent times alloted to them. thorized to use the Mercyhurst College Tennis/Sauna facility have been clustered into groups. Of these, Please note that there is ''other open time" avail­ group two and three include the Mercyhurst College able weekly for group two and three use. Such time community-students, faculty and staff. The following is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Group INDOOR COURT SAUNA BATH

Days Times Days Times

Group Two M.T.Th.F. 8:00 a.m.-10:00 M.T.Th.F. 8:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. College Women a.m. M.T.Th.F. 3:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. (Student/Staff)

Group Three M.T.Th.7. 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 M.T.Th.F. 1:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. College Men p*m. Wed. 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon (Student/Staff) Sat. 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Sat./Sun. 6:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. RULES AND REGULATIONS 1 Mercyhurst students, faculty, staff are encouraged to 3. The desk will inform the security patrol or other au­ to use the facilities during the scheduled times as desig­ thorized personnel to open and lock the tennis/sauna nated above. However, other open time may be available. facility. Please check with the information desk in Old Main. All persons in Group Two and Three must make reserva­ 4. Observation of the posted tennis regulations and sauna tions to use the tennis courts and/or sauna at the appro­ cautions are expected. priate times. Reservations are made at the information 5. Dr. Pizzat and his assistants have the authority to ask desk at least a day in advance. The desk is open from any player or non-player to leave the courts' or sauna, 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily and on week-ends. if necessary.