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Thursday, September 12, 1996
New
face on
campus
Logo under
scrutiny
A new "more aggressive"
Nittany Lion logo reared onto
campus this summer. Welcomed
by mixed reactions and severe
scrutiny, the logo has come under
fire.
New Nittany: Chipmunk or
rough and tumble aggressor?
According to employees at the
Penn Slate Behrend Bookstore,
the new logo is not very popular
among customers.
“I've heard a lot of people say
they don’t like it. But a few like
the aggressiveness of this one."
said Holly Beary, an employee at
the bookstore. “I think this one
looks more like a chipmunk than
the old one did.”
“I’ve heard a lot of people say
it’s not much different, they
thought it would be rougher
looking," said Helen
Tatomirovich, manager of the
bookstore. “Most people don’t
seem too thrilled with it.”
Kathy Ott, a bookstore
employee, said, “I haven’t sold
anything with the new logos, if
that says anything.”
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Collegian
Breaking the Surface
Public triumphs and private
agonies of Olympic great
by Danielle M. Murphy
Co-Editor in Chit/
Greg Louganis will make a
splash Monday, Sept. 16, at
Penn State-Behrend. His visit
kicks off the 1996-97 Speaker
Series.
Louganis* lecture "Breaking the
Surface" will include both his
public triumphs and his private
agonies, domestic violence and
living with AIDS. The lecture
will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the
Reed Union Building Commons.
Louganis, the world’s most
decorated diver, tested positive for
the HIV virus in March 1988,
five months before the Olympics
in Seoul and his near-disastrous
head injury.
The results were not disclosed
at that time and Louganis won
two gold medals, in springboard
and platform diving.
In June 1994, Louganis
competed in the Gay Games in
New York City, publicly
acknowledging his sexual
orientation.
Any further mystery
surrounding Louganis* private
life ended with the release of his
autobiography, “Breaking the
Students on
Faster Internet
by Kirsten Wright
CoUtgiott Staff
No one can call Penn State-
Behiend spineless now... The
ethemet has arrived. An internet
connection, all on-campus
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Surface,” co-authored by Eric
Marcus.
“For me, this book means no
more secrets,” Louganis writes in
the introduction.
“I want people to know who I
am and what I went through,” he
wrote. “Then if parents want
their kids to grow up to be like
me, I won’t have to wonder,
‘What if they really knew?’”
Louganis discusses how diving
became a way to compensate for
feelings of low self-esteem and
worthlessness.
Following his injury in the
preliminary event at Seoul,
Louganis writes, “I sometimes
can’t believe what I had to go
through to get to that point. And
it wasn’t just a bump on the
head, not just the HIV diagnosis,
but a lifetime of fear and pain and
always feeling that the next dive
would make it all right.”
At the age of 16, Louganis
won his First Olympic medal, a
silver medal in platform diving at
the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.
Louganis continued to
compete in the Olympics
winning four gold medals. He is
the only male diver to win two
students can now directly network
to Penn State’s computer
network from their rooms.
Some may be confused as to
what this is so here are the facts:
An ethemet card is a device that
connects you directly to the
:kbone of. the Penn State
/stem and on a bigger scale, to
' information super highway
This connection allows the
conveince of constantly being
connected to the system rather
than using a modem and tying up
phone lines
If interested, there are a few
steps necessary to have an
ethemet connection installed.
An ethemet card can be found
a computer store and cost
between $5O-$l 50.
After purchasing a card and
installing it into their computers,
students must go to housing and
food services to apply for a
connection to be activated.
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Breaking the Surface: Greg Louganis, the world's most
decorated diver, will be on campus Monday kicking of 1996-97
Speaker Series.
gold medals
Olympics.
Louganis also holds numerous
national titles and has won the
national championship diving
title Tive times.
Upon rcliring from diving,
Louganis pursued an acting career
in theater and television.
the backbone
access possible
Then students must take up to
seven formatted disks to the
computer center and get the
software that is necessary to
configure the card.
If problems arise while
configuring the card, the
computer center is available to
give phone support and in severe
eases, a sign up is available for a
staff member to come into the
jgpoms and assist with the
problem.
After installation, housing will
activate the connection and access
will begin.
Although this is a lengthy
process, many feel it is well
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Louganis’ lecture is part of the
Speaker Series which continues
throughout the school year.
Penn Stale-Bchrcnd's Speaker
Series is partially funded by the
John Ncsbil Rees and Sarah
Henne Rees Foundation and PNC
Corp., and sponsored by the
Office of Student Affairs.
consecutive
One student said, “I always
enjoyed the internet, but dialing
into the system was frustrating,
but now with the ethemcl
connection, I am always
connected and it makes surfing
much more fun.”
A student that doesn’t have an
ethemet card said “I think it
would be much simpler and it
would encourage me to learn
more about what is out there.”
Many Behrend students may
not think that this software
important to them, but next im.'
you try to dial in and a .
unsuccessful, rethink the clhcrm,
option.
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