THE BEHREND BEACON
Friday, October 20, 2006
“This season, we have tremen- “I’m already killing myself, so why
dous depth for a young team, and ~,1 should I care who comes along
I believe we have the ability to win mm l! w 'th me?”
our section and make it to the
playoffs for the first time in Tt m Tf w-v w**
Behrend’s lacrosse history.” 1N ffjF u
* 1 » l*ui« . ~ -Nick Underhill
- Senior captain A.J. Hopperstead UeRARV • Co-sports editor
Many Americans feel smoking should be
illegal while people are in public places.
Should smoking be banned in public?
•Nick Underhill points out why smoking
should be permitted in public areas.
Is English the only campus language?
•Ben Raymond writes about the growing use
of Pittsburghese in conversation on campus.
Radio station on Behrend's campus
•WPSE, the radion station here on campus
contributes to the Erie community.
Mike Sharkey/THE BEHREND BEACON
The REDC will be hosting a Speaker Series
School of Engineering Speakers
•Speakers talk about the partnership between
the School of Business and the School of
Engineering
Men’s Lacrosse
• Matt Waronker writes about the progres
sion of the lacrosse team this year.
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By Scott Muska
staff writer
The citizens of Darfur, Sudan are in
immediate danger. The government is
using its air force and militias occu
pied by Arabians to harm and kill the
blacks that live there.
Between 180,000 and 400,000
Sudanese have lost their lives during
this genocide. Along with the sub
stantial number of deaths, over
2,000,000 people have been chased
from or had their homes destroyed.
Many groups interested in stopping
the genocide by way of United States
or United Kingdom involvement
operate on the popular internet web
sites Facebook and MySpace. The
most well-known of these groups
comes from Facebook, and is an
advocacy group called “400,000
Faces." This group’s main goal is to
gain 400,000 group members, one
face for every person who has died in
Darfur. Once this goal is met, the
group administrators will print the
profile icon from each group member
and set the pages down on gym floors
across the country. Pictures of this
mural will be taken and sent to politi
cians in the hopes that aid will be sent
in some form to the struggling inhab
itants of Darfur.
The group’s goal has not been met
yet, though they are knocking at the
door of the halfway point. The total
amount of members currently sits at
just over 190,000 members, and some
of these members have predicted that
Most of the time, peo
ple in the western
world are ignorant to
what is going on in
third world countries.
-Sophia Appiaguye
eLion reduces the frustration
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Students
Advisers
Faculty
Parent/Other
Prospective Students
Above, eLion is the leading source for students to select
classes and find a degree audit for their particular majors,
By Lauren Weaver
staff writer
Registering for classes can be confusing and frus
trating. There are ways to make the process less
aggravating. Representatives in the Registrar’s
Office at Penn State Behrend suggest that one of the
best ways to beat the registration blues is to it make
full use of eLion. Dr. Mary Ellen Bayuk, College
Registrar, says, “Students should first-off go to
eLion and run a degree audit, and then take their
raise awareness of genocide
People in Sudan have struggled through a terrible genocide affecting hundreds of thousands of people. Above, these
Sudanese people suffer from hunger and desease. MySpace andFacebook are raising awareness for the Dartur cause
they will have reached their goal by
the beginning of the New Year.
MySpace has taken a different
angle in acting to end the barbaric
actions in Darfur. The website recent
ly announced several concerts called
“Rock for Darfur” that would serve to
raise money for relief to go to the cit
izens of the Sudan. Twenty shows
have been scheduled to be performed
on Oct. 21. Many artists from very
different genres will perform, includ
ing Switchfoot, Ziggy Marley, Atreyu
and Teddy Geiger. Though there will
be no concerts played in Erie’s imme
diate area, there will be a concert in
Philadelphia, and recently discovered
super-group The Fray will be playing
in Toronto, Ontario.
Students at Behrend have become
tc major.
Another serious problem students run
into when they fail to talk with their
elion.psu.edu assigned advisor is that they take bad
advice from fellow students pertaining to
what requirements they must meet to grad
uate. While peers seem to be a reputable
source, every student has a contract with the univer
sity for a particular program year. Every program
year varies slightly in requirements, so a senior in a
major may actually have different requirements
than what an underclassmen will have.
eLion is the easiest way to look for courses to
schedule. Search options allow the student to look
for specific courses, or perform an advanced search
to look for general education classes, honors, inter
national cultures, and U.S. cultures, a function that
it seems many students are unaware of. Many stu-
aware of the attempts by MySpace
and Facebook to raise awareness. “I
think it's a good idea that MySpace
and Facebook are raising awareness
because it’s about time people in other
parts of the world know what’s going
on in Africa,” says Sophomore
Biology major Sophia Appiagye.
“Most of the time, people in the west
ern world are ignorant to what is
going on in third world countries.
Raising awareness through MySpace
and Facebook is a great media
approach to educate youth especially"
The magnitude of the genocide in
Darfur is being compared to what
occurred during the Holocaust and in
Rwanda. Earlier this month, President
Bush sent an envoy to Sudan to dis
cuss issues with the government there
degree audit to their advisor and talk about
their schedule with them." Advisor infor
mation can also be found on eLion.
According to the Registrar’s Office, the
number one thing students neglect to do is
talk to their advisors. Should the student
have a problem with their advisor, that stu
dent can go to the college of their major
and someone will be available to reassign
them to a new advisor.
Speaking with the student’s own advisor is
also very important; many students attach
themselves to a member of the faculty for
advice and don’t meet with their own advi
sor. The problem with this is that the facul
ty advisor they are speaking with may be
helpful, but the assigned advisor is actually
trained to advise the student in their specif-
Vol. LIII No. VII
and to attempt to stem the rising death
toll.
To join this group visit
facebook.com and search the group
"400,000 Faces." More information
can be found about the benefits and
venues for these concerts, as well as
how to obtain tickets on
http://www.myspace.com/rockfordar
fur.
-For more information, visit
www.facebook. com or
of scheduling
dents also fail to
observe controls for
given courses,
which are also listed
on the schedule
(schedule.psu.edu)
Undergraduate
course changes will
be effective starting
this coming semes
ter. Course changes
pertain to a large list
of classes that will
be undergoing name
modification so that they correspond with the
names of the same courses at University Park.
These changes will be taking place for the next four
years on all Penn State campuses to make transfer
ring easier for students between branches. By
spreading the various name reassignments over a
four-year period, the university hopes to have a
working system that will make the transition
smooth.
As a general rule of thumb, schedule as soon as
you’re able to. Dr. Bayuk finds that the most valu
able aspect of eLion is that “It allows students to
access information on demand, nearly 24-7.
They’re no longer constrained to the hours we’re
[the Registrar’s office] open.”
This nearly unlimited access makes it possible
for students to schedule at 12:01 a.m. the day they
are allowed to schedule. Priority Scheduling began
October 16, regular registration started October 19
and the final deadline for scheduling is January 25,
2007.
wwvv. my space, com
Search options
allow you to look
for specific cours
es, or perform an
advanced search.