A rainy day makes for a dry Cider Rock
by Jermaine Hardy
features co-editor
If you are reading this, you are more
than likely a student of Penn State
Behrend, and if you are a student of
Penn State Behrend, chances are you
weren't at this year's Cider Rock fes
tival. The festival held this past Sat
urday resulted in an extreme lack of
attendance. It was scheduled to he
held in the apartment quad but due to
bad weather, it was relocated to the
Reed Commons.
"The decision to move it down to
Reed had a significant impact on the
amount of attendance," said Patrick
Kiley co-founder of the annual Cider
Rock festival. The lack of attendance
at this year's Cider Rock was a dis
appointment, not only to its sponsors
and coordinators, but also to the three
bands and the few students who did
actually come out. "I was both sur
prised and disappointed," said Kiley.
The festival started at 5 p.m. with
activities held inside and outside of
the Reed Commons. Some of these
activities were Lawrence Hall
Council's face painting, Alpha Sigma
Tau's apple bobbing contest and Theta
Phi's "Throw a pie at a Theta Phi,"
which gave students the opportunity
to vent out their stresses by throwing
"Them's Fightin' Words" at the Studio Theatre
Actors in Ten Little Indians rehearse a fight scene in preparation for opening day
Fantasy sports are lanlastic
by Karl Benacci
features co-editor
Have you ever wondered what
would happen if Kobe Bryant and
Allen Iverson played for the same
team? Have you ever imagined your
self building a successful NHL team
that could win its division? What
would happen if you had the power
to draft NFL players? You can find
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and Sandbox's wide range of differ-
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whipped cream filled pies at the so
rority members. Although there
weren't many students to participate
in these various activities, one ma
jor attraction of the festival was the
climbing wall, which gave students
the opportunity to put their wall
climbing skills to the test on an air
filled wall of approximately 2 sto
ries high. Along with free food and
other activities, 102.3 The Point FM
provided music and gave away CDs
outside of the Reed Building.
The rock hand "Hear No Evil"
started the concert portion of the fes
tival at 6 p.m. inside the Reed Com
mons. At this time there was not a
considerable amount of students in
attendance, and as the night pro
gressed this considerable amount
never showed up. The brown, white,
and blue tiled floor of the Reed Com
mons could never he observed more
clearly. as empty as it remained
throughout the night. At 8 p.m.,
when the blues hand "Fat Vinny and
The Wise Guys" began to perform,
the night was still extremely dry.
The band's lonely music echoed
though the hall as each selection was
followed hythe empathetic applause
of the four Cider Rock staff in atten
dance.
While there wasn't a sufficient
ent games (www.sandbox.com).
Obtaining a fantasy sports team
is surprisingly easy. All an indi
vidual needs to do is 1) Log-on to a
website that has fantasy sports and
register, 2) Choose which fantasy
sport they'd like to participate in
(sometimes a certain sport is un
available due to it being out of sea
son), and 3) Choose what type of
league you'd like to be in. (Differ
ent leagues have different rules and
regulations.)
After all that is done, individuals
can draft their players, and when the
season starts (if it hasn't already be
gun), they can do anything from
trading players to choosing their
starters. Running a fantasy sports
team is basically like being the gen-
Check out the website to get
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need
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amount of people in attendance to ap
preciate the performances, this is not
to say that the performances were not
good. In fact the performances were
pretty good. It suffices to say that if
there were an audience present, they
would have enjoyed themselves. How
ever, the lack of attendance got so pa
thetic that the last band "Freudian Slip"
who was scheduled to perform at 10
p.m., didn't perform at all. It was de
cided after "Fat Vinny and the Wise
Guys" performed that "Freudian Slip,"
should not perform, ending the entire
festival at approximately 10 p.m. "It
was a tough decision," said Kiley.
"Most of the people left. It wasn't ethi
cal to have them play for virtually no
Compared to last year's Cider Rock
this year's festival was a drastic step
down as far as student attendance is
concerned. "It was astronomical last
year compared to this year," stated
Kiley.
As the lack of attendance in this
year's Cider Rock was probably due to
the relocation of the festival, Cider
Rock coordinators will be looking for
ways to avoid this problem in the fu
ture, as Cider Rock is still determined
to be an annual event that adds fun and
excitement to Behrend life.
eral manager of that team.
Fantasy Sports has even had an im
pact at Penn State Behrend. Rob
Wittman, the Coordinator of Intramu
ral and Recreational Programs, has of
fered fantasy sports to the Behrend
campus. "I think that it's been very
good. The students seem to show more
interest than I originally anticipated.
It gives the students another type of
competitive recreational opportunity
that they can do at their leisure. Plus,
it's free."
Andrew Markle, 09 Management
Information Systems, stated, "I par
ticipate in fantasy sports because I am
very competitive. The reward of ac
tively playing in fantasy sports is
worth it. If you are in the top couple
teams out of 10,000 it makes you feel
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2000
PHOTO BY NEELA DEY