Some declared victory and some acknowledged progress, while others quickly slipped from the public eye. My presidential colleagues at other universities report the same trend on their campuses. We certainly have seen more student activity this year than in my previous four years. One of the first public demonstrations came together for a cause that Spanier himself later supported. The signs, posters and photographs came down that week in response to orders from the District Post Office in Erie, which questioned the branch's quality of service and adherence to general standards.
Students here are pretty apathetic.
I think we need to show a little more activism. Two weeks later, many of the displays were allowed to return, after a meeting between postal officials and student representatives. After spending two years at Penn State Altoona College, Leto came to University Park disappointed with the amount of apathy. He considered transferring to the University of California at Berkeley, but ultimately decided to become involved at Penn State. Leto and more than 20 students marched into Spanier's office in Old Main to ask where the university stood, relative to the Feb. 20 arrest of protesters advocating the WRC for another Big Ten school, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.