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FRIDAY, APRIL lt;28, 1967THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIAbridled Ass” after a Biblical quotation, but settled for “The Jawbone” because it was necessary tohave the coffee house chartered by the University Senate, she said. The .present Jawbone was built with materials from an old’house. LSA members ■ and several interns, Miss Sassaman explained, provided the labor. , iShe said that the Jaw, which opened in the j fall of 1963, has failed to attract the “really .controversial students”'since “all the people they (the , original LSA group) were really after are at the -Skeller or someplace like tfiat.”*It has also tended to become more dated, which. ‘‘shuts people off” , from the others, ‘she pointed out.One Jawbone project keeping with the origi-i nal idea for openness is the Tuesday night student-' faculty discussion pn controversial topics, Miss Sassaman said. Last year's Lutheran intern, Tom Chittick. originated the idea, which is continuing with topics questioning “The *Aim of Education: ; Social Adjustment or Human Liberation?” at ,8 p.m. every Tuesday.Show Businessi 1 1 *This year the Jawbone made, a record featuring the best entertainers at the coffee house.- Karen Lee, a senior resident in Easf Halls, took the• pictures making up the album * cover. Over a• hundred of the RCA Victor-pressed,records have I been sold at $3.95.A wide range of side uses have been made of the Jawbone. Students have made motion pictures, videotapes, speeches and term papers on the Jaw for anthropology and business education. , Such groups as the Pan-Hellenic Council, Graduate Student Association, the Philosophy Club and the Episcopal Student Association have held meetings there. Also. NBC Iradio did a presentation on the coffee house last year.When the Jawbone coffee house first opened,customers kept, asking “what’s your pitch,” the Rev. Mr. Seyda observed. The Jawbone is now accepted, without a pitch, as a place for students to talk, as its name implies. ;The Jawljone is not a true cross-section of students. Trettin said, but there is a “definite variety in students;who are different in background and otitlook.”; A few fraternity and sorority members, students ‘.‘just here for an education” and membersjof the, athletes’ crowd come to thecoffee house, he has Sfound.The Jaw appeals to people due to its “openness and freedom 'of expression,” Trettin observed. The jawbone menu has a quote by Dietrich Bonhoeitfer above its prices for Jawburgers, cheese platter's and b-presso coffee which says:“A Christian must plunge himself into the life of a Godless (world,; without attempting to gloss over its ungodlinessj with a veneer of religion or trying to transfigure'ft ... To be a Christian does not mean to be religious in a particular way . . . but to be a man.” :Cornell IdeaThe idea for a I coffee house appeared after members of the LSA visited “The Unmuzzled Ox” at Cornell University during winter term of 1963. Susan Sassanjan (graduate-clothing and lextiies-Harrisburg), a former LSA vice-president, said that those who went were “inspired” by the effectiveness of] this coffee house.The Ox served beer and attracted the “beatniks and hippies” ati Cornell. Miss Sassaman noted that the atmobphere( was “really cavey” with unfinished’ walls and orange crates for tables.The Pennj State! delegation was not very impressed with the “different clientele” at The Unmuzzled Ox until a drunken student got into a long discussion wiilv the Reverend Arthur R.Seyda.'a University! pastor, on “does God have a nave!?*’ Miss Sassaman said the student group talked until 4 in the morning discussing their beliefs with some atheistic students.The next Hay they discovered that girls wearing-black stockings and students with beards were attending the Lutheran church in the same building. |j'The' Unbridled Ass*After returning I to the University the groupproposed creating a coffee house called “The UnBy BETH SOLDER;Collegian Stafi Writer The Jawbone is a coffee house whose budget barely “breaks even”—fall term it was in the red.The most contact many students have had with it was at the beginning of [this Iterm, when “The Sounds of the Jawbone” wer^J blaring out on the ground floor of the Hetzel Unipn Building to advertise “the Jaw’s” new recording. However', enough students, and faculty members have discovered the Jawbone'to make standing room only-the rule during many of the Friday and Saturday right performances by folk singers,; poets; jug bands and assorted others. « 1c South of South Halls •The Jaw. which is “sduth of South Halls” at 415 East Foster Avenue, consists of three rooms which can hold a maximum of 100 people at its small round tables. Since a fan and hood oyer the large grill for “Jawburgers” fight a losingbattle with the .smoke, the rooms are also filled with authentic Jawbone “atmosphere! ”The walls hold modern art ;work loaned by student artists for a few-weeks at; a time. A microphone and stool for performers, or anyone with views to express are at the side of; the center room. The kitchen serves food paid for by donations. ‘I • •Why is there a Jawbone? The Jawbone coordinator. Larry’Trettin pointed put that while the coffee house “just about breaks; even,” the Jawbone wasn't meant to be a commercial success.Trettin. a liuthefan intern and Baptist theological student from Princeton University, said the Lutheran Student Association on campus saw a “need for an informal place for’students to congregate,” He said the Jaw is student operated, financed and oriented and is staffed entirely byvolunteers. j :Regulation, for Openness ;The Jawbone coordinator said the Jawbone “has developed! a reputation ‘for openness.” He cees it “as a place where ideas, both very conventional and radical, can be expressed fn the same room.” ’ !PEBFSherr(jjawfcLarry
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