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SPEAKER SERIES COM
MITTEE TO FORM IN
MARCH
The Speaker Series has always
brought big names on campus to
speak. In the past the list includes
former Vice President Dan Quayle,
Jesse Jackson, and Greg Louganis,
just to name a few.
Sometimes, maybe the names are
to big. When Greg Louganis came to
speak he was literally surrounded by
autograph seekers making it a chal
lenge to move things along. As Di
rector of Student Activities, Chris
Rizzo puts it, "It was like a scene from
a Hollywood opening night.” Al
though the very gracious Louganis
gave out many autographs and pho
tos to people at the lecture.
The Speaker Series will choose its
new committee for next year in
March, and students should expect
next year to bring the same quality
speakers as in the past. Meetings and
negotiations will start this summer.
Every year a new group of people
headed by Chris Rizzo, meet and
deeide who will come and speak at
Behrend. This year The Speaker Se-
Chatham Baroque
ries brought the likes of David Lauren
from Swing Magazine and Bob Wood
ward of the Washington Post. Al
though it sounds so easy there is a lot
more that goes into the process ol de
ciding who will be speaking at Behrend
each semester.
The Speaker Series has a budget of
around $60,000. It is funded by the
student activities fee and is also paid
for by affairs.
The committee is made up of a mix
of faculty, staff and students. Two
representatives from each school at
Behrend are chosen along with ap
proximately five to ten students and
three or four more staff members. In
vitations are sent out to the elected
committee members.
After the committee is set, the se
lection process can begin. The com
mittee will meet to brainstorm about
things like what theme they would
like to go for, as in what theme do
they want the speakers to hit on,
and who they might want to come
and speak. Proposals are then sent
out to about twenty nationally rec
ognized speaker agencies. Then ev
ery speaker from each proposal is
looked at in depth as a final decision
is then made on what proposal to
take.
Any student interested in being on
The Speaker Series committee is
greatly welcomed. To get informa
tion contact Chris Rizzo at
<clr4@psu.edu>.
APPLICATIONS FOR
SUMMER WORK STUDY
POSITIONS
The deadline for applying for
Summer work study is between
February 12. 1999, and March 20,
1999. For more information call
814-865-6301.
Events
CHATHAM BAROQUE
BRINGS SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY MUSIC TO
PENN STATE ERIE
The Pittsburgh-based chamber
music ensemble, Chatham Baroque,
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will bring its seventeenth century style
and sound to Penn State Erie, The Be
hrend College, at noon on Tuesday,
March 16, as Music at Noon: The Lo
gan Wintergarden Series continues.
Guests are invited to bring a brown-bag
lunch to the noontime performance,
which takes place in the spacious and
airy Wintergarden of the Reed Union
Building. This event is free and open
to the public.
Although the group has its roots in
Pittsburgh and is in residence at
Chatham College, Chatham Baroque
has earned a national reputation for the
talents of its members and the delight
ful programs it offers. The ensemble
received the prestigious Chamber Mu
sic America award in the summer of
1997 and has signed to make seven CDs
for Dorian Records
One of its premier programs is a
three-week elementary school resi
dency called the Chatham Baroque
Coronation Celebration. In the
program’s debut, students
at Colfax Elementary School in Pitts
burgh crowned their principal Queen of
the Kingdom penn state Erie/chatham
baroque of Colfax and re-enacted a ba
roque coronation, complete with mu
sic played by the students on violin and
recorder, students singing baroque mu
sic, and students dancing baroque minu
ets. In addition to serving young chil
dren, Chatham Baroque also offers
master classes, lectures, and demonstra
tions for high school and college stu
dents.
Members of the ensemble include
baroque violinist Julie Andrijeski, di
rector of the Baroque Orchestra at Case
Western Reserve University, who
as well as her musical talent. Emily
Davidson, also a baroque violinist,
Patricia Halverson, who plays the viola
dagamba, and Scott Pauley, who plays
the lute, theorbo, and baroque guitar,
round out the ensemble. Pauley is a re
cipient of the Celia Bizony Prize for
early music ensembles and winner of
the 1994 Van Wassenaer Competition
in Amsterdam.
Music at Noon: The Logan
Wintergarden Series at Penn State Erie
brings world-class musicians to the col
lege to perform in an informal setting.
The series is made possible through a
grant from the Harry A. Logan, Jr.
Foundation.
For more information, please con
tact the Penn State Erie Office of
Student Activities at 814/898-6171.
A PROVOST SPEAKER SE
RIES
Dr. Jack Young, a veteran of the re
search laboratory and the college
classroom, will continue the Provosts
Speaker Series at Penn State Erie, The
Behrend College, on Thursday, March
4 with “Higher Education at the Cross
roads: Need for a New Institutional
Model?” His lecture, which is free and
open to the public, will begin at noon
in the Reed Union Building Lecture
Hall.
Young, an associate professor of me
chanical engineering at Penn State Be
hrend, selected his topic on the basis
of its importance, timeliness, and gen
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eral interest to the community. He
notes that legislators, parents, stu
dents, and employers are increas
ingly concerned about undergradu
ate education and are challenging its
curricula, its funding, and its out
comes. To meet this challenge he
proposes a redefinition of higher
education, bringing community col
leges, mature students, new tech
nologies, and higher enrollments
into the equation.
In his presentation Young will re
view some of the major forces in
volved in this redefinition: the need
for increased student accessibility to
higher education; a changing student
population; doctoral training, the im
pact of the business model, and pub
lic accountability.
Young is the winner of the 1998
Penn State Erie Council of Fellows
Award for Excellence in Teaching.
After receiving his doctorate in
bioengineering from the University
of Michigan in 1972, he went on to
the University of Toronto to com
plete post-doctoral studies. Before
coming to Penn State Behrend in
1988, Young worked for fourteen
years at Steris (then known as
American Sterilizer) as the assistant
director and director of research. He
continues to consult to remain cur
rent with the needs and develop
ments of industry.
WATERGATE JOURNAL
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TO SPEAK AT PENN
STATE ERIE
Bob Woodward, one half of the
journalistic team that uncovered the
Watergate scandal which ended Ri
chard Nixon’s presidency, will speak
at Penn State Erie, The Behrend
College, on Thursday, March 18 at
7:30 p.m. Hisresentation, titled “Far
Left, Far Right: The Future of Lib
eralism and Conservatism", will take
place in the Reed Union Building
Commons. It is free and open to the
public.
Woodward is assistant managing
editor of the Washington Post. He
first came to national prominence for
his investigative reporting, with col
league Carl Bernstein, on the infa
mous Watergate break-in, for which
they were awarded the Pulitzer
Prize. Woodward has continued his
incisive reporting of Washington’s
inner workings in the same award
winning style.
Woodward’s coverage of impor
tant and highly visible news stories
has been the basis for several of his
best-selling non-fiction books. His
most recent books include The
Agenda: Inside the Clinton White
House and The Choice, an exami
nation of presidential candidates Bill
Clinton and Bob Dole during the
1996 presidential election.
Woodward also coauthored The
Brethern: Inside the Supreme Court,
a book about the decision-making
process of the United States Su
preme Court, and The Man Who
Would Be President: Dan Quayle.
His other books include Wired: The
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Short Life and Fast Times of John
Belushi; Veil: The Secret Wars of
the CIA; and The Commanders.
Woodward's presentation con
tinues the Penn State Behrend
Speaker Series, which is sponsored
by the Office of Student Affairs and
is partially funded by the John
Nesbit Rees and Sarah Henne Rees
Charitable Foundation and the PNC
Corporation. An interpreter for deaf
and hard-of-hearing audience mem
bers will be visible at the lecture,
and assistive listening devices are
available upon advance request
from the Office of Student Activi
ties at (814) 898-6171. These ser
vices are made possible through
funding from Penn State's Equal
Opportunity Planning Committee.
All lectures are also taped For broad
cast on AM 1450/WPSE, Penn State
Erie radio.
For more information about
the Speaker Series, please call the
Penn Slate Behrend switchboard at
(814) 898-6000.
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BLUE BUS: SPRING
BREAK INFORMATION
The Blue Bus will be running on
Friday, March 5. 1999 to take you to
the Greyhound Bus Terminal or the
Eric International Airport. The bus
will be departing the Reed Building
at B:2oam, 10:2()am, 12:20pm,
2:2opm. and 4:2opm. If you need to
be picked up from your room, please
notify Barb. You must prepay and
sign up at the RUB Desk (SI.OO for
Greyhound. $7.00 for airport. This
fee is nonrefundable.) Be sure to
save your white receipt to give to
Barb when you board. If you need to
be picked up from the Greyhound
Terminal or Airport on Sunday,
March 14, 1999, the Blue Bus will
be arriving at the Greyhound Station
at 1:00pm, 3:oopm, s:oopm and
7:oopm. Please be sure to sign up for
this also. Any questions, please ask
Barb. Have a great break and see you
when you come back.