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Violence struck at New
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Mosh pits and crowd surfmg caused students injuries at the New Found Glory concert. Pictured above is the band per
forming to an outside crowd in California.
By Siobhan Conway
Students who attended the New Found Glory concert
March 31 may have been surprised by the chaos that
erupted during the show. Apparently, ignoring the signs
on the door warning "No Moshing," a mosh pit formed
and students were injured.
Students were allowed to crowd surf twice, although
they weren't advised of this rule. There was supposed to
be one person on each side of the stage who would put
slash marks with a red marker on anyone's hand that
decided to crowd surf. If a person had two slashes and
tried to crowd surf a third time, they were supposed to be
removed from the premises.
Because there was so much chaos at the front of the
stage, this procedure was not successful. It was almost
impossible to keep track of the students and the number
of times they crowd surfed. It was also difficult to con
trol the crowd because the band members were also
encouraging audience members to continue.
The Student Security Committee was told not to touch
anybody. They were informed that they could get in
trouble or the school could get sued if they confronted
anyone physically. The security committee was instruct
ed that Police and Safety would be in charge of any phys
ical violence.
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1 Actor Guinness
5 Subsides
9 Spread about
14 Sprint race
15 Member fees
16 Unpolished
17 Troubadour's
instrument
18 Relative of a
spritzer
20 Angry states
21 Over the hill
22 Francis or Dahl
23 Low tone
25 Barbara
Geddes
26 Downcast
27 Record label
29 Gullible dupes
33 Dressed like a
judge
36 Luigi's island
38 Op. (footnote
abbr.)
39 Conceited one
41 Actress Dietrich
43 It's c-c-c-cold!
44 Actress Della
46 Passover feast
47 Drain slowly
49 Jackie's second
50 Sentimental
drivel
51 Emigrant's subj.
53 Reading, as a
bar code
58 Carefree
61 Half a drum?
62 Leigh Hunt's "
Ben Adhem"
63 Posh Beverly
Hills street
65 Invitation letters
66 Worship
67 This on me!
68 Profound
69 Very cold
70 Penny
71 And nothing
more
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1 Improvise
2 Actress Dern
3 Park, CO
4 Box with four
knights?
5 Tim Burton film
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6 Constructed
7 Binges
8 NNW's
opposite
9 Make a basket
10 Fairy-tale
monsters
11 Dominate
12 Utopian garden
13 "Those the
Days"
19 Secret doctrine
24 Low point
28 Show up
30 Served
perfectly
31 Evergreen
32 Gang hanger
on?
33 R.E. Lee's
troops
34 Grimm creature
35 Dullsville
denizen
36 Latin way
37 Burning crime
40 Securely closed
42 Actor DiCaprio
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Police and Safety officers can't be in two places at
once and the physical violence and injuries were too
numerous for the officers to handle by themselves.
"Everybody got smashed to the front," said Mark
Walczak, MIS 04, a student on the security committee. "I
had to pick up a girl who passed out from being pushed.
I didn't want her to get hurt."
Another problem was with the placement of the stu
dent security members within the building. The larger
members should have been placed in front of the stage to
control the crowds.
Justin Curry, PSYCH 08, was in charge of the hospital
ity committee for the show. The possibility of violence
at the concert wasn't discussed with any committees
except for security, but he did notice the signs warning
against moshing at the doors.
"I don't think anyone expected the crowd surfing and
moshing to happen to the extent that it did. It seemed
like every three seconds someone new was crowd surf
ing," said Curry. "I believe this concert was an excellent
idea and the work that went into it as well as the turnout
was great. I hope the administration doesn't think so
badly about this that they wouldn't allow us to have
another concert."
Four people who attended the concert were taken away
in ambulances, including one girl from the student secu-
rity committee
Solutions
Vatican chapel
"Great" czar
Most plucky
Did a farrier's job
Witches' group
"Peer Gynt"
playwright
Original
Colorful
aquarium fish
Talk big
Mineral find
False god
Bird of myth
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Mr. & Miss Pagent underway
Alpha Sigma Tau (AST) will hold their third annual Mr. & Miss Penn State
Behrend Pageant on Thursday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. in McGarvey Commons.
Emily Waters, sister of Alpha Sigma Tau, began working on the pageant in
December. Since then, 20 students have been nominated, however, only ten will
compete in the actual pageant.
"[We have a] change war as part of the student vote to see which five girls and
guys will go on to the pageant from the 20 contestants," said Waters.
The 20 contestants will each have their own cups on a table outside of Bruno's
and students walking by can donate money into the cup of any person they wish
to see in the pageant. The five girls and five guys with the largest amount of
money in their cups will be the ones competing in the pageant.
Last year Isiah Meek and Katie Streaker were crowned Mr. & Miss Penn State
Behrend.
"It was a ton of fun," said Streaker, "I would definitely encourage anyone to do
it." Streaker and Meek will be present at this year's pageant to crown the new win
ners. According to Waters the title is basically just a title. There are no responsi
bilities for the winners.
The ten students who compete in the pageant will be judged in three categories;
beachwear, formalwear and casualwear. For the formalwear segment the ladies
will get to wear dresses from David's Bridal and the men will get to wear tuxes
from American Commodore.
During the forrnalwear segment, the contestants will be asked up to four ques
tions. Their answers to these questions will help the judges in making their deci-
sion on the winners
The judges are still to be announced
Not only will the ASTs raise money from the change war, they are also charg
ing a dollar donation at the door. All of the money raised is donated to Pine
Mountain Settlement School, AST's philanthropy.
"Last year the pageant raised over $300," said Maria Montana, AST president.
AST received a few awards last year for the success of their pageant.
"It has helped us to win an award at our National Covention [for philanthropy],"
said Waters, "and it won for best social event on campus last year. -
The sisters of AST are excited for this year's pageant.
"We have a lot of fun putting it together and feel that it's a fun and unique thing
to offer to the Behrend students," said Waters.
"I think it will turn out great," said Montana.
The pageant is not the only project that AST is working on. On April 23, they
will spend eight hours building a house as part of the Habitat for Humanity proj
ect and on May 1 they will be cleaning up the highway as part of the Adopt-a-
Highway project.
Ask ASCII:
Using two
monitors with a computer
By Logan Stack
staff writer
Dear ASCII,
Someone down the hall from me
has two monitors hooked up to one
computer. Other than looking cool,
why would someone do that? And can
you tell me how I can use the old
monitor sitting in my parents' base
ment to look cool too?
- Jealous
Dear Jealous,
Hooking up multiple monitors to
the same computer can be quite con
venient. You could use one screen to
display your English assignment and
the other to display a bunch of web
pages which you're referencing. You
could use one for browsing the
Internet, while the other has all your
'junk' on it, like AIM, Winamp, your
e-mail, etc. Or if you're feeling even
less productive, you could have a
game on one screen while the other
displayed hot-keys or cheat-codes.
On this sort of setup, your mouse is
able to move between the monitors as
though they weren't separate. You can
just drag applications from one moni
tor to the other, just as you would
move it about a single screen. (It's
really cool.)
You can put the monitors side-by
side, or one on top of the other. If you
have more than two, you can get cre
ative, making 'L' shapes and mimick
ing Tetris pieces. It's most common to
just have them all in a row.
All you need to set up multiple
monitors on your computer is an extra
monitor (obviously) and an extra
video card. Trace the cord on your
current monitor back to your comput
er, and unplug it. It was plugged into
a port on your video card. If you have
any other ports on the back of your
computer which look like that, you're
all set. If not, you'll need to buy a sec
ond video card.
Video cards can be as cheap or
expensive as wine. If you don't play
the latest games, then you don't need
an expensive one - something in the
$4O range should suffice. Make sure
you get one which plugs into a "PCI"
slot, and not an "AGP" slot. AGP is
better; but if your computer has it,
your current video card is almost cer
tainly plugged into the only one you
have. Installing your video card is
simple and painless, but it involves
Friday, April 8, 2005
By Courtney Straub
contributing writer
opening up your computer. If you've
never done this before, you should
probably have a technician or tech
savy friend help you out.
First, turn off and unplug your com
puter. Then open or remove your corn
puter's case. You probably need a
screw driver for this. Inside, the main
board, or mother board will then be
visible.
On your main board you may have
up to 3 different sorts of slots, some of
which may have cards in them
already. You will have more PCI slots
than any other sort. If you have other
sorts of slots, they'll be on the far ends
of the series of slots on your main
board. Find what you think is a PCI
slot, and remove the metal insert on
the case matching up to the slot.
Your PCI video card will only fit in
the correct sort of slot, so don't try to
force it. Gently press your card into it.
If it fits, fine. If it doesn't, move to the
next sort of slot and try again. Gently.
Once you've got it in the right slot, be
sure that it's in far enough that none of
the strips of gold are sticking up
above the slot where you can see
them. This may involve pushing down
on the card pretty hard, but only push
after you've got it lined up and already
in part of the way.
When you put in the video card, you
will have about a quarter inch of its
port sticking out of your computer
through the hole you created when
you removed the metal insert on the
case. Put the case back on and connect
your second monitor's plug into that
new port on the new video card. Then
plug in the computer, turn it on and
run the CD that came with the video
card.
There are a couple of limiting fac
tors on the number of monitors you
can have. The most obvious is running
out of space in your dorm room, fol
lowed quickly by running out of
money to buy monitors. Your comput
er has a limit too. It only has so many
PCI slots to stick cards into.
Fortunately, even if your computer is
very small and only has one slot, you
can have multiple monitors. Somc
video cards come with multiple ports
on them, up to four per card. That's
five monitors, with your original card!
Do you have a computer question?
Then Ask ASCII! Send an e-mail to
lwsllB@psu.edu with "Ask ASCII" in
the subject line, and you may see your
question in next week's paper.