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Behrend Brie
“1 Know Why The Caged Bird Sings** will be shown
tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Petty Lobby. This movie is in the
series of “The Black Experience" presented by The Association of
Black Collegians.
ECDA Support Group: The next meeting of the Erie County
Diabetes Association’s Support group will be held at 10 a.m. mid
7 pjn. today, at the Battersby Convalescent Center 2686 Peach St.
Call 864-5794 for more information.
Daffodils Are Coming! Bunches erf H) or 3in a vase plus
daffodil suckers are for sale benefit the American Cancer Society.
Contact Sue Daley at 898-6164 or Pat Melzer at 898-6162 or stop
by the Winteigreen Cafe to place your order today, Wednesday, Feb,
22 and Tuesday, Feb. 28 from 11:00 am. to 1:00 p.m.
Resumes & Cover Letters will be held today at noon in the
Reed Conference Room. Sponsored by the Career Development
Center.
Learning' Assistance Center Workshop Series
Continues. The Best Way to Study: College-Level Study Skills
will be held on Monday, Feb. 20 from 5:15 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., and
on Tuesday, Feb. 21 from noon to 12:45 pm. in room 12, in die
Library.
Generation X: Crossroads of Change. Slackers, users,
devoid of morality-myths and media hype? Behrend students speak
out about who they are and what they need. Tuesday, Feb. 21 in dm
Reed Lecture Hall. Bring a friend and bring your voice!
Dress lor Success will be held Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 5:00 p.m.
in the Reed Conference Room. Sponsoring by the Career
Development Center.
The Returning Adult Student Organization (RASO) will
be meet at the Library in room 12 on Wednesday, Feb. 22 at
5:25 pm.
Coffee House in the Studio Theater with open mic on poetry,
philosophy, and abort fiction will be held on Wednesday, Ftf>. 22
from 7:00 pm. to 9:00 pm. Sponsored by The Round Table
Society. Bring your own mug.
The History Club will be sponsoring Dr. A. Daniel
Frankforter’s lecture, "History, Can We Make It Up?**, on
Thursday, Feb. 23 at 7:00 pm. in room 57 Academic as part its
history lecture series.
"Go Tell It On The Mountain** will be shown Thursday,
Feb. 23 at 9:00 p.m. in the Tigress Lobby. This movie is in the
series of The Black Experience” presented by the The Association
of Black Collegians.
Classes got you down? The -Learning Assistance
Center can help. Free individual tutoring is available at flexible
times. Contact Bob Patterson at x 6014.
Attention student clubs and organizations: are you
running out of time to fulfill your community service requirements?
The Behrend/Diehl Elementary School Adopt-A-Class Program has
just the project for you. Call Caryl Unsend at x 6014.
Make a difference. Tutors are needed for the Penn State-'
Behrend/Diehl Elementary School Adopt-A-School Program. Give
1 hour a week and you'll build your resume, and make a difference in
a child's life. Call Caryl Unsend at x 6014.
Spring Commencement wifi be held on Saturday, May 13 at
noon on the Reed Lawn, weather permitting. The deadline totxdor
GV *°d gown from the Bookstore >s Friday, M*ch 17.
Free HIV/AIDS Testing is pfibre** dra Wfttae*|
Center located in the Carriage House. Far m appotatn*aLcaff*»
Health ind Wellnear Center at x 6217.
News
Behrend bake-off
Photo by Dan Nowicki/ Collegian Photo Editor
Contest winners: Cookies: Linda Morris first place with her "Buried Chocolate Cherry
Cookie", Linda Suroviec second place with her "Chewy Brownie Cookies.” Brownies: Shirley
Shoop first place with, Michele Govekar second place. Eric Corty took first place in the misc.
category with his "Chooolate Pecan Pie." First place overall went to Shirley Shoop’s Brownies.
Heat or no heat - that is the question
by Jerry M. Bruno
CoUtgiaM Staff
When students at Penn State-
Behrend receive and fill out their
housing contracts they expect to
get heat in their rooms. This
was not the case when the winter
weather hit the Erie area two
weeks ago.
"When it gets -60 degrees wind
chill there is no way to get
warm," said Ed Mulfinger,
Manager of Housing & Food
Services.
There were approximately 15
rooms on the women's side of
Perry Hall that had no beat the
weekend of February 3-5,
specifically on Sunday night
when the temperatures dipped
into the single digits and the
wind chill was way below zero.
"The Perry Hall building is
very old and has steam heat
which was working on Tuesday.
We are unfortunately at the mercy
of the building," said Mulfinger,
"What is bad for the students is
that they will put many items in
Police & Sa,
February 9: A report of harrassment is under
investigation after a student reported receiving a letter from
persons known by the complain tan t.
February 10: A compaint of trespassing by motor
vehicle is under investigation after it was reported by a
staff member that someone had knocked down a light pole
between Lawrence and Niagara.
February 10: A complaint of a violation of Act 64 is
under investigation after students who live in the
apartments reported finding what is believed to be a
controlled substance.
February 11: Non-traffic citations were received for
disorderly conduct after a complaint of a loud party was
received from staff members in Niagara Hall on February
11, 1995.
February 14: A complaint of harassement by
communication is being investigated after a male student
reported receiving several harassing telephone (alls from a
female caller in ms room in Perry Hall.
front or on the radiators which
causes heat to not be properly get
throughout the room."
At the beginning of the school
year, students find the
microwave/refrigerator
combination in front of the
radiators.
Christine Gray, 2nd semester
business major, still has no heat
from her radiator. "There were
maintenance men in my room
seven times between Sunday and
Monday and it still does not work
at all. When I asked the man
fixing my heater when it would
be done he shrugged his shoulders
and walked out Finally on
Tuesday housing brought a space
heater for my room."
Gray's roommate. Heather
Young, expressed her
dissatisfaction with the chilly air
in her room, “I called housing
last semester when the heat first
came on because it did not work.
They did fix it but after the
semester break it did not work
again. They did fix it again but
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Thursday, February 16,1995
it only lasted a week and all we
have now is a space heater.”
"Before they brought me the
space heater the only difference
about being inside rather than
outside was that there was no
wind. What is really bad is that I
have been sick for 11 days now,”
Gray said.
Gray is not the only student to
be given a alternative heat source,
"20-25 space heaters were-given
to students but only to be used in
a emergency use only, whoa their
heat works the heaters are to be
given back to Housing,"
Mulfinger said.
Gray's heat is still not
working, "The space heater is
working but is extremely
annoying because it is large and
in the way."
"We have only three service
men to work on the problem and
we were notified about 9:00 p.m
Sunday night. They came in at
1:00 ajn. and bled the heaters. If
the students knew about the heat
on Friday, why did they wait
until late Sunday to call us?"
Mulfinger said.
Jacquett Wade, Coordinator,
Residence Life & Human
Relations Program, notified the
resident assistants in Perry Hall
to go room to room and ask the
students if the heat was working
properly.
ort
"I went to all the rooms and
there were only about five rooms
without heat Not everybody was
without heat, only a limited
few," said Jody Obrosky a RA in
Perry.
Derrice Ward, another RA in
Perry said, "There were about
seven rooms on my floor and I
could tell when I walked into
their rooms that there was no
heat."
Students that do not have heat
working properly are advised to
call Housing and Food Services
at 6161.