The Behrend Beacon
Weekly Euents
Friday, march 31:
- Softball vs. Buffalo State
3:00 p.m
- Criminal Hearts in the Studio Theatre
8:00 p.m
8:30 p.m. - Comedian Gary Greenberg in Brunos,
sponsored by LEB
Saturday, April 1:
- Softball vs. Lake Erie
1:00 p.m
- Criminal Hearts in the Studio Theater
8:00 p.m
- Spring Fever in the Apartment Quad
8:00 p.m
Sunday, April 2:
- Criminal Hearts in the Studio Theater
2:30 p.m
monday April 3:
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Health Fair 2000 in Reed
Commons. Sponsored by the Health Advisory Board
Free food and prizes will be provided.
Tuesday April 4:
- Men’s Tennis vs. Alfred
3:30 p.m
7:30 p.m. - Speaker Series: Jane Bryant Quinn will
discuss ‘The Economy and Your Money’ in the Reed
Commons
- 3 p.m. - Safety Bug demonstration in the
9:00 a.m
Jordan Lot
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JANE BRYANT QUINN WILL DISCUSS
PERSONAL FINANCE AT BEHREND
Personal finance expert Jane Bryant Quinn will present "The
Economy and Your Money.com" at Penn State Erie, The Behrend
College, on Tuesday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Reed Union
Building Commons. Her lecture concludes the College's 1999-
2000 Speaker Series.
Quinn is the author of the best-selling Making the Most of Your
Money, a comprehensive guide to personal financial planning.
She is an award-winning Newsweek columnist, writing on both
personal and national economic issues, and millions read her
regular columns in The Washington Post, New York Daily News,
and Woman's Day.
Quinn also is an Emmy Award-winning television news
reporter. She appears twice weekly on ABC's "Home Show" and
is a frequent guest on "Good Morning America and Nightline."
Previously she hosted her own program, "Take Charge!' on PBS,
and was a featured correspondent on the "CBS Morning News"
and then on the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
In addition to winning an Emmy, Quinn received the John
Hancock Award for excellence in business and financial journal
ism. She is a three-time winner of the national Press Club Award
for Consumer Journalism.
All Speaker Series presentations are free and open to the
public. The series is sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs
and is partially funded by the John Nesbit Rees and Sarah Henne
Rees Foundation. It has twice won the National Association for
Campus Activities' Best Lecture Series Award.
An interpreter for deaf and hard-of-i
audience members will be visible at ei
lecture, and assistive listening devices
available upon advance request from
Office of Student Activities at (814) B'.
6171. These services are made possibl
through funding from Penn States Eqi
Opportunity Planning Committee. All
lectures are also taped for broadcast oi
AM1450/WPSE, Penn State Erie radio
For more information about the
Speaker Series, please call the Penn
State Behrend switchboard at (814)
898-6000.
April Fool’s Day
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TAKE A PERSIAN CARPET RIDE
WITH GABBEH AT PENN STATE BEHREND
The final film in the 2000 Women’s Film Series at Penn State Erie, The
Behrend College, is the Iranian film Gabbeh, directed by Mohsen
Makhmalbaf. The movie will be shown at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, in
the Reed Union Building Lecture Hall.
Gabbeh tells the timeless fable of Gabbeh, a beautiful young woman
who relates her tale to a memory-haunted old man. A member of a
nomadic desert tribe, she fell in love with a dashing horseman and
eloped. The self-assertion of the woman drives the story, but it is the
patriarchy of the tribe that dictates its “truth.” The film is as simple and
traditional as a fairy tale, yet multi-layered and modernist, unusual and
thought-provoking.
Makhmalbaf has stated that the Iranian national cinema stems more
directly from the tradition of poetic storytelling than from previous films
U.S. film critics place the filr on their top-ten film list.
All films in the Women’s 1 um Series are sponsored by the Office of
Student Affairs and are free and open to the public. For more
information, call (814) 898-6171.
Wednesday, April 5:
- Men’s Tennis vs. Edinboro
3:00 p.m
3:30 p.m. - Baseball vs. Fredonia St
7:00 p.m. - Unity Day Basketball Game in Erie Hall;
Faculty vs. Students.
- Pizza With the Provost, Ohio Hall Lobby
7:00 p.m
7:00 p.m. - The Art of Front Yards in the Reed Lecture
Hall
7:30 p.m. - The PSU Erie chapter of Amnesty Interna
tional will host George White, a nationally acclaimed
speaker against the death penalty. Following the pro
gram in Reed will be a candle light vigil. All are wel
come
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences has been awarded a
grant by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts to bring to campus Commonwealth Speaker Dr.
Kevin Melchionne. On Wednesday, April 5, at 7:00 p.m. in the Reed
Lecture Hall. He will be presenting the talk’The Art of Front Yards.”
This slide-illustrated presentation will explore the history of the front
yard as a form of aesthetic expression.
A painter and critic, Dr. Melchionne is curently the curator of Temple
University’s Tyler Gallery of Art. He holds a PhD in philosophy from
the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His particular area of
expertise is aesthetic theory.
The program will be so-sponsored with the Erie Art Museum. It is
free and open to the public. If you have any questions, please feel free
to contact John Champagne, Assistant Professor of English, at ext.
6331 or by e-mail atjgc4@psu.edu.
Thursday, April 6:
7:30 p.m. - Phil III&IV Read and Study, Sponsored by
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship in Reed 114.
7:00 p.m. - First Annual Greek Awards Banquet in Reed
Commons
1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.Spring Career Day 2000; Bryce Jordan
Center at University Park.
1:00 p.m. - Baseball vs. Hilbert
7:00 p.m. Creative Writers Speaker Series: A Creative Non
fiction Reading in Lecture Hall
Friday, April 7:
3:00 p.m. - Men’s Tennis vs. Waynesburg
4:00 p.m. - IM Deadline: Badminton
7:00 p.m. - Friday Fiesta
March 31, 2000
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THE ART OF FRONT YARDS
Unity Day
mark Your
Calendars
ULTIMATE PRAISE GOSPEL CHOIR
SPRING CONCERT 2000
Join Behrend’s own Ultimate Praise Gospel Choir in an evening of praise
and worship. On Saturday, April 8, 2000, the Gospel Choir will have their
Spring Concert in the Reed Lecture Hall. The Gospel Choir, who has been
on the move for God has traveled to a number of places, including Charlotte
North Carolina, and White Plains, New York, as well as performed at a
Women’s and Men's home basketball game, in order to minister to a variety
of people and express their enthusiasm for God as young Christians.
Also to be featured at this event is the Ultimate Praise Mime Troupe, a
ministry that has stemmed from the Gospel Choir under the direction ot
Jennifer Foulks. Other guest choirs will be present as well to help support
the choir in their evening of Ultimate Praise. Come out and show your
support for Gospel Choir President Danielle Marshall in her last Spring
Concert before she graduates
FELIX, THE RABBIT, COMING TO
THE BEHREND BOOKSTORE
Thoughts of springtime in Brie seem to re-energize everyone. To add to
this special feeling, the Penn State Behrend Bookstore will be bringing
Annette Langen’s much loved “Felix, the Rabbit” to town.
The well-known story of the toy rabbit who gets separated from his
owner and travels the world, sending letters home, is timeless.
On Saturday, April 8, 2000, from 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Felix will be
appearing at the bookstore. Cosmo Rose from Classy 100 will be on hand
for the program which will feature a story time, face painting by Mary Ann
Rose and a prize drawing. You are welcome to bring your camera and take
a picture with Felix!
Several of the Felix series will be available for purchase and autograph.
Admission is free, so don’t miss this opportunity to add some excitement to
your child's springtime memories. If you are unable to make it to the
Saturday program, Felix will also be appearing at the McCord Memorial
Library in North East.
AN EVENING OF DUBIOUS TASTE
Students are invited to bring poems, stories, songs, or skits 0f...we11, just
what the title says- dubious taste-to this event where they will be welcme
indeed encouraged!-to share with the audience. “Dubious Taste” is an
annual event English and Humanities majors look forward to every year.
Traditionally held on the evening of April Fool’s Day (clearly the most
appropriate day of the semester for such an event), this year the Spring
theater production and the fact that April 1 falls on a Saturday prevented the
tradition from continuing. Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by the Roundtable Society, this event will take place on
Monday, April 10, in the Studio Theater at 7:00 p.m.
The Behrend Lions Dance Team, who performs during basketball games
here at Behrend, is loking for new members. On April 16, 2000, the Dance
Team will hold a practice from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. to learn the dance for the
tryouts which will be held on April 17 from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Both events
will take place in Erie Hall. If you have any questions, feel free to contact
Becca at 898-7050 or Becky at 734-8096.
PIANIST JAMES TANNENBAUM
TO PERFORM AT BEHREND
Award-winning pianist and teacher James Tannenbaum will present a
recital Friday, April 7, at 7 p.m. at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
His performance, which will take place in the Reed Union Building
Wintergarden, is free and open to the public.
Tannenbaum is a member of the distinguished Cleveland Institute of
Music Conservatory piano faculty and is artist-in-residence at the
Willoughby School of Fine Arts. He has produced new recital programs for
25 seasons and appears regularly in concert and chamber music settings
throughout the country.
His 2000 recital performance includes several pieces by Chopin:
Polonaise in A Flat Minor; Nocturne in F Major; and Ballade in G Minor.
Also on the program are Sonata in E Flat Major by Beethoven and Pictures
at an Exhibition by Moussorgsky.
Among Tannenbaum’s honors and awards are the prestigious Berl
Rubenstein Memorial Scholarship for degree study at the Cleveland
Institute of Misic. His competition victories include first prize at the Battle
Creek International Competition and first prize in the Michigan State
University Concerto Competition.
Tannenbaum has been recognized by the Ohio House of Representatives
with a special proclamation celebrating his twenty-five year anniversary of
extraordinary contributions to music-making in Ohio.
For more information about Tannenbaum’s recital, contact the school of
Humanities and Social Sciences at (814) 898-6078.
OPEN HOUSE
On Saturday, April 1, 2000, from 10:30
a.m. until 2:00 p.m., the Admissions Office
will hold an Open House in the Reed
Union Building. This event is a great way
to introduce your organization to the
Behrend community and to recruit new
students that may be interested in joining
your organization this year.
BEHREND LIONS
DANCE TEAM TRYOUTS
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