The Capital Times Campus News Briefs *WPSH plans to hit the airwaves next month - After several successful club meetings and working to place the station's transmitters, WPSH, or "The Reactor" as it has been known as in the past, is planning to begin broadcasting sometime in early November. For more information about the station contact Kimani Avent or Brad Moist at ext. 6396 or stop by W-343. *New stamp machine available on campus - The USPS and PSH have permitted the Middletown Post Office to place a new stamp machine in the vending machine room (basement) of the Olmsted Building. It carries 15-stamp booklets only. The cost is $4.80 per book, and the machine takes ones, fives and change. *Olll Gamma lota looking for blood - The XGl's are holding their blood drive on October 28, in the Gallery Lounge from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The drive is sponsored in conjunction with the Central Penn Blood Bank, and whenever necessary, the blood is used to help those in the Penn State Harrisburg community. "‘Public Policy Lecture Series at Downtown Center - A panel presentation featuring Drs. Steve Peterson, Mike Young and Robert Bresler from PSH, State Reprentative David Argali and Mark Singel will be held on November 5, Noon - 1:30 p.m. The title of the series is "The 1998 Elections: Reflections from the Front Lines." *Spring semester registration has begun - Registration for the Spring '99 semester began on October 5 for graduate students and seniors, October 12 for undergraduate juniors and October 26 for non-degree students. The course offer ings can be found on the Internet at: www.hbg.psu.edu. Printed copies will be available on October 30. Registration may be completed by using OASIS or by telephone at (814) 863-9000. News from Yemen The Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands—An interna tional arbitration panel ruled Friday in favor of Yemen in its dispute with Eritrea over three Red Sea islands, a quarrel that had threatened a major shipping route. Eritrea said it will abide by the decision. In the Eritrean capital of Asmara, Yemen’s acting ambassador, Ahmed Hassan, called the decision by the International Court of Arbi tration a "victory for Eritrea and Yemen." "You may lose something but you win something more important: living together in peace as good neighbors and setting an ex ample for others in the region," he said. Yemen and Eritrea both claimed the three islands, one of which, the Greater Hanish, was captured by Eritrea in a brief battle in December 1995. Yemen retained control of the other two, Lesser Hanish and Zuqar. The tribunal awarded all three major islands to Yemen and stipulated the decision should be complied with within 90 days. An Eritrean government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Eritrea will withdraw its troops from Greater Hanish. An Eritrean Foreign Ministiy statement said the tribunal gave Eritrea control of three mi nor islands and four islets. "This is the only civilized way of settling disputes," New Eritrea, a government news paper, said after the ruling. Hassan said the decision leaves Yemen free to develop the islands for tourism, scuba div ing, oil and other enterprises. The islands, where Yemen has granted oil concessions, sit across one of the world’s major shipping lanes, 100 miles north of the Bab el-Mandeb strait at the southern entrance to the Red Sea. Shipping security in the area is of vital im portance to Saudi Arabia, which has an oil export terminal in Yanbu further north, and to Egypt, whose revenues from the Suez Ca nal linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean are crucial to its economy. Eritrea and Yemen decided in 1996 to have the dispute settled by the International Court of Arbitration, a low-profile panel of inter national experts that is based in The Hague. The international court’s decisions are legally binding. The ICA, which arbitrates behind closed doors, is considered a more discreet way to settle disputes than the better-known Inter national Court of Justice, which is housed in the same building. VATICAN BEGINS DIPLOMATIC TIES WITH YEMEN: The Vatican and Yemen established diplomatic relations Mon day, six months after a ground-breaking visit by a Vatican delegation to the overwhelm ingly Muslim country. The 3,000 Catholics in Yemen are all for eign workers. The Vatican now has full dip lomatic ties with 168 countries. l vUi TV THON strives to help children Penn State students dance for cure during 48-hour marathon What is this thing called THON? Why is it causing such a stir throughout Penn State University? In 1972, fourteen year old Christopher Millard wrote an essay that symbolized his fight with cancer and his search for the “hope of a cure.” The essay entitled “The Four Dia monds” spoke of qualities courage, wis dom, honesty and strength necessary to fight cancer. After his death that same year, The Four Diamonds Fund was established to ease fi nancial burdens on families whose children are receiving treatment at the Milton S. Hershey Children’s Hospital. In addition to providing direct assistance to families the fund also provides money for clinical, edu cational and research programs related to childhood cancer. Since 1977, Penn State students have been dancing for The Four Diamonds Fund. To date, the IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon has raised over $10.5 million dollars. Last year alone THON raised more than $2 mil lion for the fund. THON is the largest student-run philan- By Stacie Wentzel For the Cap Times Monday, October 26,1998 3 thropy in the nation. For the past two years Penn State Harrisburg has not only contrib uted towards raising money for THON, but has also had students participate in the 48- hour dance marathon. The students' and volunteers' dedication culminates each February during the dance marathon itself. Over 540 students dance con tinuously for 48 hours, without sleeping or sitting, in an attempt to help the families of children afflicted with cancer. Despite sore feet, hallucinations and bouts of depression each dancer regards the marathon as an ex perience of a lifetime. Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Sente, who lost his battle with cancer in 1995, said: “THON is more than just 48 hours of dancing by over 500 students to raise over a million dollars each year. THON is students giving them selves to make others’ lives more livable. THON is a time when life-long friendships are made. THON is everybody working to gether the dancers, doctors, fund-raisers, patients and families for a single cause: to fight cancer in kids.” For more information on how to get in volved in THON stop by the Student Gov ernment Association office, room 216, Olmsted, or call 948-6137. Wentzel is a former member ofPSH's SGA and one of last year's dancers.
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