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Stop in the Financial Aid Office to learn
about the following scholarship pgrams: Presque Isle
Chapter of American Wman's A rc., Orville
Redenbacher's Second Start (for students.over 30 yrs.
old), Western PA Air & Waste Management . Assc.
(envimunanal science ; esginesehig or law), Minority -
Accounting Students, and Business and Professional
Woman's Foundation (woman over 25 yrs. old).
Spring Commencenient will be held on Satunlay,
May 13 at noon on the Reed Lawn, weather.pomoi'mng.
The deadline to order caps and gowns from the Books
is Friday, March 17.
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The Communication Club will kid starter,
night to feature opportunities in the radio,
,adyeashts,
television, and news media fields. On Wednisditiy
March 22 this special event will start;at 7:00 and
be held in the Glennhill Farmhouse ' Room, All
are welcome. •
How To Conduct A Job Senn* will be held
Thursday, March 23 at noon in the Reed Contemn*
mom. This workshop is sixutsepred by the Career
Development Center.
The First Annual Penn State-Behrend Career
and Internship Fair is scheduled for Wednesday,
March 29. The event will take place in the Reed Student
Union from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Fair is sponsored
by the Alumni Society and the Career Development
Center.
University Scholars Program Nominations Due
April 1. Sophomores (04 semester) can be nominated
by faculty to participate in the University Scholars
Program for their junior and senior years. Contact... Mari
Trenkle at x 6160.
The Penn State-Behrend/Diehl Adopt-a-school
Program is planning an Earth Day Celebration at Diehl
Elementary on April 22. If your club or organization can
help, contact Caryl Unseld at x 6014.
Classes got you down? The Learning
Assistance Centcr 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.
Free HIV/AIDS Testing is offered at the Health and
Wellness Center located in the Carriage House. For an
appointment, call the Health and Wellness Center at
x 6217.
The Accounting Club on Tuesday, March 21 at 5:30
in the Reed Conference room, a panel of CPA's will be
answering questions concerning careers in accounting.
Any juniors and seniors considering Accounting careers
are encouraged to attend.
News
DA visits Behrend
by Don Wagner
Contributing Writer
Several Behrend students had
the rare opportunity Wednesday,
March 15, to meet with, and
question, a candidate for Erie
County District Attorney.
Attorney Charles Barber was on
campus to speak to Dr. Gamble's
POLSC 297 A law school
decision-making class. The class
is made up mostly of Pre-law and
Political Science majors who are
considering attending law school.
Barber, 38, is an Erie native
and graduated with an MBA from
Penn State before attending
Villanova Law School. He is
Legalize marijuana?
by Danielle M. Murphy
Collegian Staff
A debate was held last night in
the Reed lecture hall concerning
the legalization of marijuana.
Loretta Russ and Brian Schaffer
were mediators and panelists
included freshman Carl Dupper,
Dr. Robert Speel, assistant
professor of Political Science at
Behrend, along with junior
Shawn Murphy.
The debate was filled with
audience participation in both
questions and statements.
Dupper, who was for the
legalization of marijuana,
explained his position,
"Marijuana has many uses that
would benefit our country as a
whole. It doesn't have to be
smoked."
Alternative uses for marijuana
include paper products, fuel,
clothing, and medicines for
glaucoma, AIDS, and
chemotherapy.
Murphy is against the
legalization of marijuana.
He explained, "I personally
don't believe in puffing foreign
substances into my body,
including alcohol. I don't agree
with those (for legalization) who
hide behind alternative uses for
marijuana. Most people don't
care about the other purposes."
Some audience members
brought up spiritual and
Police &Sa e Re
March 5: A complaint of trespassing is under
investigation after Police and Safety officers found three
students in the production studio of WPSE who were not
authorized to be in that area.
March 15: A complaint of harassment by
communication or address is under investigation after a
student in the apartments reported receiving obscene
telephone calls.
March 15: A male was issued a traffic citation for
trespassing by motor vehicle for attempting to drive across
the grass in the S lot. He was trying to drive between the
wooden posts when his car got stuck.
March 15: A complaint of theft and criminal mischief is
under investigation after a staff member reported a
sanitary napkin machine was broken into in the upstairs
restroom of the Hammermill/Zurn building.
opens up avenues in education,
business, and many other areas.
Barber fielded questions from
the class on a variety of issues.
He enjoys the area of criminal
law, and says that only criminal
attorneys spend any significant
amount of time in court. His
advice for students who want to
be lawyers is to begin making
contacts as soon as possible. If a
student knows what area they
want to practice in, they should
make as many contacts with
private law firms as they can. "It
is in the private firms," Barber
said," that today's law students
have their best chance of finding
relaxation purposes of marijuana
use.
Medicinal usage and marijuana
products were also points
suggested for supporting the
legalization of marijuana.
Comparisons of alcohol and
tobacco with marijuana were
made in support of either side.
Alcohol is the nation's number
one drug and causes many health
problems, including the killing
of brain cells. Alcohol-related
accidents claim many more lives
annually than marijuana use does.
According to studies, marijuana
does not kill brain cells and is
not usually a factor in
automobile fatalities. However,
marijuana does contributes to
short term memory loss and
contains four times as many
carcinogens as cigarettes. Unlike
alcohol and nicotine, marijuana is
not physically addictive. It is
psychologically addictive,
though.
The debate did grow heated near
the end with audience members
questioning why or why not
people smoke marijuana.
Some audience members were
not satisfied with reasons given
to them and the debate did
become argumentative. Other
points that were addressed were
drug awareness education and
accusations that some studies
with positive findings about
Thursday, March 16, 1995
good careers."
currently a full-time criminal
defense attorney and is a
Democratic., candidate for the
office of Elie County District
Attorney, left vacant by Rusty
Cunningham.
Barber opened with remarks to
the class by recalling his own
law school experiences. He
described law school as "a
training process of how to
think." Lawyers are taught how
to "boil down information to get
to the issue at hand," he said.
Because of this, Barber says he
encourages people to attend law
school. By teaching you how to
think, he says, a law degree
marijuana have been hidden by
the media and government.
Many studies used by the
government concerning marijuana
were done as long ago as the
1930's or have been proven
inaccurate.
In support of keeping
marijuana illegal, people brought
up that marijuana is a foreign
substance that creates an altered
state and does contribute to
crime.
Dr. Sped said about the debate,
"I thought it went really good.
Both sides brought up their
feelings and when students feel
strongly about something, they
are more likely to discuss a
political topic."
Poetry
prizes
to be
awarded
OWING MILLS,
MARYLAND-The National
Library of Poetry has announced
that $24,000 in prizes will be
awarded this year to over 250
poets in the North American
Open Poetry Contest. The
deadline for the contest is March
31, 1995. The contest is open
to everyone and entry is FREE.
Any poet, wither previously
published or not, can be a
winner. Every poem entered
also has a chance to be
published in a deluxe, hardbound
anthology.
To enter, send ONE original
poem, any subject and any
style, to the National Library of
Poetry, 11419 Cronridge Dr.,
P.O. Box 704-1983, Ownings
Mills, MD 21117. The poem
should be no more than 20
lines, and the poet's name and
address should appear on the top
of the page. Entries must be
postmarked by March 31, 1995.
A new contest opens April 1,
1995.
ort
The National Library of
Poetry, founded in 1982, is the
largest poetry organization in
the world.