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Commencement date set
BEHREND-Penn State-Bchrend’s spring commencement
ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 11 at noon on. the Reed
lawn, weather pennitting.
Cap and gown orders for those who would like to participate are
due in the bookstore by March 15. Prices are: Rental: masters,
$31.25: doctoral, $36.00. Keeper: bachelor of associate, $18.50;
masters, $38.00; doctoral, $48.75.
For more information, including better quality purchase prices,
please call the bookstore at x 6236.
Open houses scheduled
BEHREND-The Office of Admission at Penn State Erie, the
Bchrend College, will host an open house on Saturday, February 17
from 1 to 4 p.m. Prospective students nraf their families are invited
to the campus for a variety of sessions with information particularly
pertinent to students planning to attend college next fall.
During the open house, tours of the campus will leave from the
Reed Union Building porch every 15 minutes. Demonstrations and
information tables will be set up throughout the camps so that
participants will be able to discuss their question with current
students, faculty and staff at Bchrend. On-going tours will also be
given in library, Computer Center, and at the Child Care Center.
A welcome and overview will be given in the Reed Union
Building Commons at I p.m., immediately followed by an
admissions overview. At 1:30 p.m., officials will present an
introduction to financial aid followed by a 2 p.m. presentation for
students considering transfer admission.
At 2:30 p.m. the School of Engineering and Engineering
Technology will hold an introductory session in the Otto Science
Building, while a business careers alumni panel will speak in the
Reed Lecture Hall. Finally, at 3 p.m., there will be a session pre
physical therapy option in room 60, Academic Building; an
information session for the Honors and Scholars program in room 42
Academic Building; and a seminar, “Surfing the Net,” in room 101
Otto Behrend Science Building, , ,
Behrend will host another open house on Saturday, April 13. For
more information, contact the Office of Admissionsat 898-6100. ' '
Guys seem to be forever competing-in bench presses, cars,
women, careers and how much beer they can guzzle. Well, for die
average guy that is 11 beers a week.
The March issue of Men’s Health magazine, citing “reports,
surveys and reams of marketing data,” highlights in excruciating
detail the life of the average man. The magazine also offers dps for
men on rising above mediocrity.
Most men do not want to admit to being just an average Joe, but
almost all men would like to see where they stand in the grant,
scheme of things, said Greg Gutfeld, who wrote the article.
“We’re trying to show that maybe your perceptions aren’t exactly
what you think aid maybe you have an edge that you didn’t think
about,” said Gutfeld.
Here are the numbers, varying in their scientific reliability, so
you can start comparing yourself to the average guy, who:
•Is 5 feet, 9 inches (all and weighs 172 pounds;
•Can do 33 1/2 sit-ups in a mimite;.
•Loses his virginity at 17 and is married by 26;
•Spends $46 a month at the convenience store;
•Has sex with 5 to 10 partners during his lifetime;
•Spends 44 minutes a day arranging his hair and clothes;
•Watches 28 hours of television a week;
•Buys a frozen pizza four times a month.
Kato returns, behind
dosed doors
It’s an encore performance for Brian "Kato” Kaelin. Kaolin began
a closed-door deposition yesterday with lawyers for die families for
Nicole Biown Simpson andßonald Goldman.
The attorneys hope to get more information from OJ. Simpson’s
quirky houseguest about Simpson’s relationship with his ex-wife and
his activities on the nigbt of the slayings. Tire deposition should last
three days.
According to Michael Brewer, attorney for Sharon Rufo,
Goldman’s mother, comparisons will be made between KaeUn's
statements at the criminal trial and comments he made in tape
recorded interviews with Mare Elliot, who put them in a book, Koto
Kaelin: The Whole Truth.
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For guys only
News
Program helps with
hard courses
by Heather McMahon
Collegian Staff
Supplemental Instruction will
continue to be offered this
semester for eight historically
difficult courses. SI sessions are
offered at the Learning Assistance
Center, on the second floor of the
library.
SI is a series 'of weekly review
sessions for students to study
together. At the sessions,
students compare notes, discuss
important concepts, develop
strategies for studying, and test
themselves. At the sessions, SI
leaders guide the students through
the material.
Based on average exam and
Egyptian
micro
By Tim Farrand
Reuters
LONDON -- An Egyptologist,
two scientists and Britain's
largest brewer plan to brew an ale
from an Egyptian recipe over
3,500 years old.
Tutankhamun Ale will be
based on sediment from old jars
found in a brewery housed inside
the Sun Temple of Nefeititi,
queen of a pharoah called
Akhenaten who Egyptologists
believe was probably
Tutankhamun’s father.
Barry Kemp, an Egyptologist
at Cambridge University, who set
off to excavate the temple four
years ago, and Dr. Delwen
Samuel an archeo-botanist,
worked alongside brewer Scottish
and Newcastle to find out how
the beer was made.
The team has now gathered
enough of the right raw materials
to produce just 1,000 bottles of
the ale.
"We are about to unveil a great
Tutankhamun secret,” said Jim
Merrington, commercial director
at Newcastle Breweries.
"The liquid gold of the
pharoahs. It's a really amazing
inheritance they have left us, the
origins of beer itself."
"There is no doubt about it
that the ancient Egyptians were
obsessed with beer. It is said the
pyramids were built on a diet of
bread and beer,” said Merrington.
The beer will have an alochol
content of between 5 and 6
percent and be produced in two
months time, he said.
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hour groups participated in me
snow creature contest. “The
sculptures ranged from an
Egyptian theme, Easter Island in
Chile to dinosaurs,” said Tod
Allen, a charter member of the
advisory board and Police and
Safety officer.
The sculptures were judged and
final grades, students who
participated in SI last semester
earned half to whole letter grades
higher than those students not
participating in SI.
This semester, SI sessions arc
offered forChcm 012, Phys 201,
Math 088, Math 140, Math 141,
Phys 150, Mch Till and Acctg
211.
Professors that teach the
difficult classes recommend
students that have previously
taken the class and done well.
These students are notified of a
potential position as a SI leader
and are then interviewed through
the Learning Assistance Center.
“To implement SI the course
has to have a 30 percent rate of
-brew
The sediment was found to
contain a variety of wheat called
Emma which Samuel obtained a
sample of from Turkey and
managed to grow in Cambridge.
The team found, partly by
peering down electron
microscopes at starch cells and by
looking at tomb paintings of the
period, that the Egyptians malted
their wheat.
They excavated beer jars and
-brewing vessels which showed
the Egyptians brewed very
quickly in just three days, due to
the very hot climate, and in small
two-gallon jars.
Further analysis of sediment,
which had leaked from jars into
the sand, showed other
ingredients like coriander and
Naback fruit -- an Egyptian berry
-- may have been used to flavor
the beer. .
The brewery took samples of
water from a nearby well and will
try to copy it in the brewing
process.
The beer, which is slightly
cloudy with a golden hue, will be
bottled in clear, flint glass.
We wanted to see how the
mixture reacted in the pots so we
made replica pots. Clearly we
couldn't use die original 3,000-
year-old artifacts,” said
Merrington.
Most of the beer will be used
for tasting in the industry and the
rest will go to the Egypt
Exploration Society.
"Tas c is one of the big
unanswered questions. Well find
out in two months' time,” said
Samuel.
cont...
T-shirts were given to all
participants. 'The judging was
based on originality,
craftsmanship, and the degree of
difficulty,” said McMahon.
“The students picked out their
own pictures and used them as
guidelines for constructing their
sculptures. They did a good job
reconstructing the pictures,” said
Thursday, February 15, 1996
D’s, F’s, and withdrawals;
however due to funding not all
qualified courses were given SI
help,” said Debbie Burger of the
Learning Assistance Center
As SI leaders, the students
go to the class they are helping
with and take notes so they know
when tests are and when
homework assignments arc due.
SI sessions help develop a
better understanding of course
content as well as more effective
ways of studying.
SI is offered by the Office of
Provost and Dean with the
Learning Assistance Center.
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Ed Wittmann (06 MET) was
anc of the first students to use
the SGI It* after the theft.
believes inadequate
security is directly to blame.
“They don’t even lock (the
computers) down. They should
at least do that,” he said. “I pay
5250 a year for those.”
Wittmann also wants a
working card reader that restricts
access to the ltd).
“It’s not the engineers the)
have to weary about,” he said.
' <3tftfcer Alleh stiys that Polio
and Safety is leaning tow,
electronic security measures, l
video cameras in the lab.
Behrendis not die only schoi
in the area to fall victim tt
computer thefts itf recent months.
Over the winter break,
Mercyhurst College lost $B,OOO
in graphic arts computer
equipment A link between the
Mercyhurst and Behrcnd thefts
has not been established.
“We’re not sure because the
MO’s were different,” said
Mercyhurst security director
MerrilJe Dever. "Our burglary
was in the middle of the night.”
The stolen graphics ait
equipment could be used together
as a complete, functional
computer system. But the SGI
machines, which are network
dependent, would be of little use
to the thief, other than for
stripped down individeSl
components.
Camegi e-Mellon, She
University of Pittsburgh, and
iabm University of
have also suffered
.uyor computer tosses <w to
libeft over the past few months,
ceding to Oevet
Allen. “The dinosaur climbing
the tree was actually a child’s
idea, a very imaginative theme.”
The winning group received
gift certificates. Housing and
Food Services provided chili and
hot chocolate for participants.
On Wednesday, Marty
O’Connor, a classical guitarist,
entertained the lunch time crowd
in the Winteigreen Gorge. ‘lt’s
neat to have something to listen
to over my lunch hour, said
Stephanie Lewis, 02 nutrition.
“Especially on Valentine’s Dav.”