Behrend
students
starve
themselves
for charity
by Andrea Bolton
staff writer
Fasting times 30 times 30 equals
over $12,000 for a great cause.
Thirty Behrend students willingly
“starved themselves” for 30 hours
on February 23 and 24 to raise
money for World Vision’s 30-Hour
Famine in support of humanitarian
efforts around the globe. Starting
at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, February
23, 30 Penn State Behrend
students began fasting until 4:00
p.m. on Saturday, February 24.
The students raised $12,092 for
less fortunate individuals
The clan stuck together
throughout their 30 hours of
fasting. At 5:00 p.m., all 30
students met at the R.U.B. Desk
and proceeded to the Mary Vale
House, home of Sister Mary
Drexler, advisor for the Catholic
Campus Ministry. There the
activities began. Some of the
evening events included ice
breaking activities to encourage
the students to get to know one
another, tie-dying T-shirts, games,
and guest speakers. The students
listened attentively to one of the
Sisters of St. Joseph while she
spoke of her experience as a
missionary in El Salvador. They
also heard from Father Jeff Lucas,
the catholic priest at Behrend, and
Pastor Wertz, pastor of Faith
Lutheran Church, both of whom
detailed why individuals should
fast, and informed them of the
benefits of this forgotten practice.
On Saturday the students started
the day off with a walk on Presque
Isle, and a short prayer. After their
wake-up activities, the students
separated into groups and
proceeded to take part in several
service projects. One of the
projects was at Health South, a
rehabilitation hospital, where
students visited with patients and
handed out carnations. The second
service project was an afternoon of
crafts with residents of Saint
Mary’s Nursing Home.
Some students spent the
morning with the Neighborhood
Network, cleaning elderly people’s
homes. Another service project
was completed at the Flourance
Crittendon Home, which is a home
for women and children. There,
■students scrubbed walls and
spring-cleaned the home. Many
students went to the Bethany
House, which is owned by Sisters
of St. Joseph, and painted the walls
of the home to add a fresh new air
to the rooms.
At the close of the famine, the
30 Behrend students went to Old
Country Buffet, who donated
meals for all 30 starving students
to fill their stomachs at the end of
30 hours without food.
Those hard-earned dollars for
the 30-Hour Famine went to
“Change Your World!,” the theme
for this years famine. Behrend’s
chapter of the 30-Hour Famine
was part of a world-wide event
sponsored by World Vision. World
Vision is a non-profit organization
dedicated to bettering the lives of
people around the globe. They are
a Christian organization supplying
disaster relief in many nations
around the world.
! The money from the famine
■ supports some of World Vision’s
; humanitarian efforts around the
! world. According to World Vision,
; “$3 can help provide a school meal
: to a student in Kenya, $lO will
help provide a Bible to a Christian
in Mozambique, $24 can provide
an education for three children in
Mongolia for one month, $5O can
help provide an education for three
children in Mongolia for one
month, $5O can help provide a
dairy goat for a child-headed
household in Rwanda, Burundi, or
Uganda, and $BO will provide
school materials for five students
in Peru."
Behrend the
community’s
by Breanna Bush
staff writer
Many students at Penn State Behrend are
able to attend college due to the scholar
ships that are given to them by the college.
But where do these monies come from ?
Who makes these students' dreams of
higher education possible'? The answer is
the generosity of others: individuals, com
panies, and foundations that have donated
money to Behrend.
At Behrend, thirty-live percent of stu
dents come from families with incomes of
less than $35,000 and of the nearly 4,(XX)
students who attend, approximately SO per
cent are eligible for financial aid. Behrend
students face an average unmet financial
need of $2,500 each year and many of the
students must work 20 to 40 hours per week
to finance their education, thus taking away
available time for their academic studies.
This is noticed, and help is out there for
those who qualify. Behrend students can
receive support varying from scholarships,
gifts, awards, or endowments.
The family of the late Ernie Fryer, who
had a 35-year career at Behrend. has cre
ated two endowments in his honor: 'lhe
Ernest and Bernice Fryer and Family Psy
chology Award Fund and the Ernest Fryer
Division of Undergraduate Studies Award
Fund.
The Ernest and Bernice Fryer and Fam
ily Psychology Award Fund was created
by Ernest Fryer’s wife, Bernice, and his
daughter, Linda Suroviec. This Award
Fund recognizes achievement by a Behrend
student in the psychology program. It has
a provision to consider students with v i
sion, speech, hearing and motor impair
ments.
Ernest Fryer’s nephew'. Charles Fiyer. his
wife, Irene, and his mother. Mary, estab
lished the Ernest Fryer Division of Under
graduate Studies Award Fund. This aw ard
recognizes outstanding achievement by a
freshman or sophomore in the Division of
Undergraduate Studies.
In 1998, Donald Blair, a member of
Behrend’s first class in 1948 and the first
editor of the Nittany Club. Behrend’s first
student newspaper, established the Donald
R. Blair Scholarship. He has now increased
the size ofhis scholarship endowment. This
scholarship is for outstanding students with
financial need. Mr. Blair was honored a.s a
Science professor explains the universe
by Mike Francis
staff writer
February 22’scloudy and snowy night
made it impossible to use the new obser
vatory, but the weather didn’t keep
people away from Dr. Roger Knacke’s
lecture on the “Evolution of the Universe.
The lecture hall in the 101 Otto Science
building was packed with people inter
ested in outer space.
Dr. Knacke, professor of physics and
astronomy and director of the School of
Science, opened with pictures taken by
the Hubble Space Telescope of different
nebulas and discussed how stars tire
formed. A cluster of matter called a
Globular is the oldest mass in space
known to man. It is approximately four
teen billion years old three times older
than the Earth.
Next, he explained how the universe
wasn’t ready for life yet, and how stars
played an important part by making en
ergy and changing the elements. When
a star evolves it makes the basic elements,
carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen. These are
the necessary elements for life. The ma
terials that make up people came from
stars many years ago.
The next part of Dr. Knacke’s lecture
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generosity
Penn State Alumni Fellow in November
of 2000.
Craig McClelland, former Hammermill
CEO, and his wife, Alice, have created a
SSOO,(XX) estate gift that will create the W.
Craig and Alice G. McClelland Leadership
Scholarship. This gift will be made through
their future estate and it will assist under
graduates with financial need. The eligible
students must demonstrate leadership abili
ties through their involvement in campus
organizations and activities.
The Erie Insurance Group pledged
$300,000 to endow the Erie Insurance
Group Leadership Scholarship at Behrend.
Eligible to apply for this scholarship are
outstanding undergraduates who are cur
rently enrolled or are planning to enroll in
the management information systems pro
gram or the mathematics programs. The
Erie Insurance Group endowed this schol
arship for students who have achieved su
perior academic records or those who show
promise of outstanding academic success.
This scholarship will be given for the first
time this spring and fust preference for the
scholarship will be given tochildren of Erie
Insurance Group employees.
To create the Thomas Lord Scholarship
at Behrend. officials of the Lord Corpora
tion have pledged S2OO,OCX). The scholar
ship is named for Thomas Lord, former
chairman of the Lord Corporation board
of directors. Lord was a leader in devel
oping the Lord Corporation as a technol
ogy-based corporation. This scholarship
will be used to attract and retain top aca
demic students enrolled in four-year pro
grams in ihe School of Science or the
Schtxil of Engineering and Engineering
Technology. First preference for the schol
arship will be given to the children of Lord
Corporation employees. Two-thirds of the
annual scholarship will be awarded to stu-
dents in Engineering and Engineering
Technology and Science. Finally, one-third
will go to students in any other major of
fered at Behrend.
Gifts of money, in whatever form, help
those who want to make their future a bet
ter one and help the region. Penn State re
ceives the lowest appropiiation per student
of any public university in the Common
wealth, and Pennsylvania ranks 48* in the
nation in support for public higher educa
tion.
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bon ibardmcnt of comets helped form the
Earth. The oceans tire believed to have
been formed from comets, since com
ets are primarily made of ice. The comet
would crash, melting the ice and leav
ing the water on the surface.
The lecture continued with the ques
tion about the formation of life on Earth.
Simple single-celled organisms formed
in hot pools, and about 500 million
years ago multi-celled organisms ap
ireared.
The study of life on Earth also assists
in the search for life elsewhere. Life be
gan in water, so scientists know to look
for places with similar conditions.
Europa, a moon of Jupiter, has ice that
moves, which suggests that there might
be water underneath it. Another place to
search for life is on Mars. Mars has po
lar ice caps and old waterways, similar
to rivers, which could suggest that life
could form on Mars or has in the past.,
The search for new life and planets is
an ongoing process; right now scientists
have discovered over 40 new planets
outside our solar system. In 2015,
NASA hopes to launch a new telescope
to find Earth-like planets that will receive
better pictures than the Hubble.
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