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Thursday, November 6, 1997
INSIDE...
News
Prayer at graduation debated
Police and Safety
Bird loose in Nick Building
Editorial
Diehl teacher charged with
harassment.
National Campus News
Jiang jeered at Harvard
World and Nation
Pope condemns anti-semitism
Features
Film review: Boogie Nights
Women's volleyball wins four
straight
Women
by Sean Yarnall
staff writer
Last Monday, the Lady Lions
soccer team received good news
when they found out that they were
invited to their first ever Eastern
College Athletic Conference
playoffs. This comes in only the
it is an unbelievable
surprise and it will be a
great experience to
have fun and play
without pressure."
-Coach Dan Perritano
program's third year at the varsity
level.
"It is an unbelievable surprise
and it will be a great experience to
have fun and play without
pressure," said Coach Dan
Perritano. "It is a big surprise and
an added bonus to our great
season," added Cummings.
The other teams that will be
competing with Behrend are
SUNY-Brockport, Binghamton,
Skidmore, Vassar, and SUNY-
Plattsburgh. Behrend received the
second seed which awards them a
bye in the first round of the play
offs.
The Lady Lions will play their
semi-final match against the
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STUDENTS SPEAK OUT: SGA President Mike Zampetti, left, leads discussion at last night's SGA open forum. Student Government Association representatives sit to
Zampetti's left. Graduation prayer and food service prices were two of the issues discussed.
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Last night, a group of approximately
30-40 students came to the Reed
Lecture Hall for a successful student
forum sponsored by the Student
Government Association. The main
topics of discussion were graduation
prayers and the prices and variety of
food at Bruno's. Students also
brought up issues such as parking
rates, the lack of a Fall Break at Penn
State, and the need for more
businesses serving students in the
campus area.
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The prayer at graduation topic
provided the most heated discussion
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's soccer to play in ECAC tourney
winner of the Binghamton-
Vassar contest.
"We plan to play to win, but it
will be a great challenge with all
of the teams being outstanding,"
remarked Perritano.
The game is to be played on
Saturday, November Bth, with time
and place to be determined.
Behrend's record is 14-6 heading
into the ECAC play-offs.
The Behrend women's soccer
team, last weekend won the first
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate
Conference championship in the
first year of the conference's
existence. The tournament took
place at Behrend with the Lady
Lions having the home field
advantage thanks to their first
place finish in the regular season.
The championship match had
faced Behrend against the number
two seed, Frostburg State.
Frostburg advanced to the finals by
defeating Pitt-Bradford.
The Lady Lions took the early
lead on a goal in the third minute
from senior Lara Herrmann.
Freshman Katie Giles added a
second goal for Behrend in the
39th minute of play to give
Behrend a 2-0 advantage.
"The early goal put Frostburg on
their heels, which gave us the
advantage," said Coach Dan
Perritano.
Frostburg mustered a late goal
to make the game close as time
wound down. The Lady Lions
Students debate graduation prayer,
Bruno's prices at SGA forum
by Mike DeSantis
stall i•riter
of the evening. Students on both
sides of the discussion gave views
about why or why there shouldn't be
a prayer at graduation. Dr. Chris
Reber, Dean of Students, said even
though the students chosen to'give the
opening and closing remarks are
allowed to say whatever they want,
"a majority of students have chosen
prayers."
A formal survey has never been
done about whether students want a
prayer or not, but Mike Zampetti,
President of SGA, said that he did ask
some students informally and he got
about a half and half split for whether
or not to have the prayer.
The other hot topic of the night was
were able to defend a corner kick
with six minutes to play and fight
off a late attack from Frostburg to
win the championship by a 2-1
margin.
"I think we all played really well
because we wanted this win so
bad," said Freshman Bethany
Cummings.
In advancing to the final,
Behrend had to first take on the
fourth seed, Laßoche. The Lady
Lions were able to win by
destroying the Red Hawks
defense.
Behrend scored its goals by
bombarding Laßoche with 27
shots. Herrmann led the way with
two goals and an assist. According
to Herrmann, 07, Biology, "This
was an awesome way to end the
season because everybody on the
team participated and we really
wanted to win it."
Junior Jen Bargiband, senior
Shawn Morelli, freshman Terry
Lampman, and junior Lisa Fox
also contributed goals for the Lady
Lions. Mary Ann Rupp recorded
the shutout for Behrend.
"It was a good game for us to
prepare for the final against
Frostburg. It also gave us the
opportunity to rest people," said
Coach Perritano.
The Lady Lions look forward
now to the ECAC tournament this
weekend
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Food and Housing concerns. Students
learned that the Bruno's renovations
cost about $1 million. According to
Fred Fenstermaker, Assistant Manager
of Bruno's, no tuition or university
money was used for the,renovations.
Bruno's has a project fund that paid
for the changes.
Prices were also brought up by
students and defended by
Fenstermaker. He said that he had
actually been to other colleges in-state
and out and believes that most of
Bruno's prices are reasonable.
One student brought up the fact that
there wasn't much to do on campus.
This once again brought up the idea
of the SGA's Student Life Charge #1
The Behrend Lady Lions in action against Laßoche during the
AMCC tournament, which Behrend won. The women's soccer
team has just been invited for the first time ever to participate in the
Eastern College Athletic Conference post season tournament.
which is looking into how to attract
private businesses to the campus
area. The one thing that was
holding them back was how the
water was going to get to the area
since there are no lines under the
property.
Big news from Dr. John Lilley,
Provost and Dean, is that the water
lines are being put in under the land
within the next year.
On the whole the forum had good
discussion, but had to be let out
early, because of a speaker for
another program. Because of the
early dismissal, some students
didn't get to speak at the forum, but
were invited to come and talk to
photo by John Hodemy
photo by Jessica Trzeciakowski
SGA when they switched locations
to finish the meeting.
Zampetti said it "was a good
turnout, but next time we will have
to prepare better. Since this was the
first time, we see where we need to
make corrections. On the whole the
forum was good."
The forums are not the only time
students can "speak out." All SGA
meetings include a student forum
section where students may come
and speak about their concerns.
Meetings are held Wednesday nights
at 5:30 p.m. in Reed 114.
Gen Ed
requirements
may change
by Mike DeSantis
staff writer
As early as next year, the
general education requirement
for undergraduates may start to
change.
The unversity-wide Special
Committee on General Education
(SCGE) would likely keep the
number of general education (gen.
ed.) credits essentially the same. The
committee, made up of at least one
representative from each campus,
hopes the change in the requirement
will improve the gen. ed. experience
by focusing on active learning and
new methods of teaching.
Overall there were 10
recommendations made in the
committee's 32 page report. Some
of the recommendations' effects will
be more noticeable to students in
certain majors.
One of the major changes will be
that first year students will have to
take a seminar class. These classes
will have about 20 students and a full
time faculty member. They will
"introduce students to the
expectations of the university," said
Dr. Archie Loss, Professor of English
and American Studies, and the first
committee member from Behrend to
join the SCGE.
The new changes will hopefully
encourage incoming students to show
proficiencies in writing, language
please see GEN ED page 2