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conference room #3 is missing.
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Almy Hall all day and some rooms were down to 60 degrees.
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ankle to their vehicle to go to the emergency room.
Transport was granted.
0 1 / 2 7/98 Information on a possible stolen vehicle on this
campus was given by complainant.
The Collegian is
IQQking
for a new name.
...to clear up confusion with
the University Park's Collegian
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SUGGESTIONS
Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to
make suggestions. The Collegian will award $25 to
the author of the name chosen by the editors. We are
especially looking for names that might relate to
Behrend College or the Erie area.
Send your suggestions to
BEHRCOLLS@AOLCOM or mail them to the edi
tors at The Collegian in the Reed Building. The
deadline for receipt of name change ideas is Febru
ary 3.
Three students running
for Faculty Senate
by Andrea Zaffino
editor in chief
On February 4, Behrend students
have the opportunity to vote in an
election to determine their student
representative to the University Fac
ulty Senate.
Last Wednesday the applications
were due and the candidates were an
nounced. All full-time undergradu
ate students attending the Behrend
College were eligible for this position.
The three students who are running
are Gretchen Kline, Geoffrey Pieper,
and Jon Crowe. This is an annual
election and the winner will be replac
ing the current student representative,
Julie Cain, who will be graduating this
May.
According to Dr. Chris Reber, the
Dean of Student Affairs, the Univer
sity Faculty Senate is, "The Univer
sity-wide governing organization of
the faculty... it has lots of input on ev-
erything from student life to athlet
ics."
Julie Cain, 08, Applied Mathemat
ics, stated that "The Faculty Senate
of Penn State University operates very
much like the United States Senate."
The Faculty Senate is an organiza
tion of faculty and students which
breaks up into various committees to
cover different aspects of the Univer
sity. There are committees on student
life, undergraduate education, inter
collegiate athletics, and curricular af
fairs (course information), among
many others.
The meetings are held between
three and four times during each se
mester, always on a Tuesday. Cain
said of her experience, "Basically you
are an ambassador of the Behrend
College... what you do is you are a
voting member of the University Fac
ulty Senate."
Cain served on the Computing and
MCC strives for campus diversity
by 1k Chan Kang
staff writer
"Multi-cultures"... exactly what is
a multi-culturalism?
Every society, either large or small
in scale, possesses some form of
multi-culturally related events.
Throughout thousands of institutions
in the United States, the existence of
multi-cultural organizations is promi
nent. The Behrend College is not an
exception. There are a total of nine
organizations that are registered un
der Multi-Cultural Council (MCC) on
our own campus, supported by the
Student Government Association
(SGA).
The nine organizations that are reg
istered under Multi-Cultural Council
(MCC) are The National Society of
Black Engineers (NSBE), Women
Today, Organization of Latin Ameri
can Students (OLAS), Trigon, Return
ing Adult Student Organization
(RASO), Human Relations Program
ming Council (HRPC), Association of
Black Collegians (ABC), Asian Stu
dent Organization (ASO), and Jew
ish Student Organization (JSO). But
currently there are only eight active
organizations, due to an unexpected
decrease in members of BO (they are
considered a non-active organization
currently). So what are the basic pur
poses of these organizations and how
do they participate within the student
life on campus?
National Society of Black Engi
neers (NSBE) is an organization that
consists of a total of 5000 student
members in the country. Through pro
grams for recruitment, academic ex
cellence and successful academic life
that could bring success in fields of
science and engineering, they provide
a supportive environment for stu
dents. Their annual events include
Fall Regional Conference, Spring
Regional Conference, Study Session
Meetings, National Conference,
speakers, and social meetings and
gatherings.
Women Today is an organization
that takes focus mainly on women's
concerns, especially by providing a
great opportunity to organize research
and to take a deeper dimension in ex
amining women's concerns of today.
Their annual activities includes poetry
readings, Take Back the Night March,
and speakers.
The Organization of Latin Ameri
can Students (OLAS), through
multiculturalism, tries to establish a
Farm House, Turnbull Barn, the Car
riage House and the Theater across
from Turnbull. Glenhill Farm House
was used as a residence hall for the
women students as well as a cafete
ria with a dining room and a kitchen.
The downstairs of Turnbull was for
classes while the upstairs remained
a barn, and even before the property
was made into a college, the Carriage
Information Systems committee.
There is one student representative
elected from each of the Penn State
Colleges, making for 15 total student
representatives throughout the com
monwealth.
The three new candidates have the
next week to campaign for this posi
tion; the election will be held Wednes
day, February 4th, from 11:00am to
2:oopm.
Candidate Geoffrey Pieper, 06 Po
litical Science, is taking a nonchalant
strategy, "As far as campaigning, I'm
doing it pretty passively, mostly by
word of mouth."
Pieper said of the position on the
Faculty Senate that"it is an extremely
important job as we are representing
students at the major policymaking
body of the University."
Candidates Gretchen Kline and Jon
Crowe could not be reached for com
ment.
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self pride and confidence of minority
groups that could eventually bring
positive aspects to campus. Their an
nual activities include social meetings
and gatherings, speakers, and His
panic Heritage Month.
Trigon is an organization that
strongly supports gays, lesbian and bi
sexual people. Their primary goal is
to preserve the rights of gays, lesbi
ans, and bisexuals and make them
understand and love themselves
through the organization. The other
goal for Trigon is to educate the Be
hrend College about their issues.
Their annual activities include Ally
Day, National Coming Out Day, and
speakers.
Returning Adult Student Organiza
tion (RASO) is an organization that
basically provides support for return
ing adult students and their families.
Their annual activity includes the Fall
Orientation.
Human Relations Programming
Council (HRPC) mainly focuses their
ideas on human behaviors, such as is
sues of racism, sexism, prejudice, and
discrimination. By focusing on these
issues, they try to provide a form of
easier communication between
people with different characteristics
such as backgrounds and lifestyles.
Their annual activities includes fo
rums with topics such as Election '96,
sex, non-traditional families, environ
ment issues, gender issues, homopho
bia, and spirituality.
Greek rush continues
through
by Dan Plonski
Throughout this week the campus
Greek organizations will be holding
various rush events. Rush allows ifie
social fraternities and sororities to
showcase the positive aspects of be
coming a member of the various
groups. These activities are planned
to give non-Greek students a chance
to meet the Greeks.
The sororities, Alpha Sigma Alpha,
Alpha Sigma Tau, and Theta Phi Al
pha, all concluded the process on Sun
day. Formal bids were handed out
inviting new members to officially
House was the Behrend's garage, and
home to their chauffeur.
The working title of Lane's tran
script is "Behrend Remembered." It
is due out sometime in the next year.
He is unsure at this point whether it
will be published under the same
title. Not only will the subject of
the Behrend college itself be a topic
in Lane's written work, but also the
events leading up to Mary Behrend's
donation of the Glenhill Farm to
Penn State University.
Beginning in the 1860's in Ger
many the Behrend family owned a
paper mill by the name of
Varzinerpapierfabrik, Hammurmiihle
along with another mill the Behrends
ran under Count Otto Von Bismarck,
Fuchsmiihle, Hammiihle "which be
came one of the most premier paper
mills in Europe." Lane said.
The head of the family at this time
was a man named Moritz Behrend.
He had three sons, Ernst, Otto, and
Bernard Behrend, who Moritz
staff writer
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Association of Black Collegians
(ABC) is an organization which
stresses their main focus on African
culture and also work as a support
group for students who would be con
sidered as minorities on campus.
Their annual activities includes Mi
nority Gala, unity picnic, Kwanzaa
dinner, Kuumba Night, Dance Troop,
social events and gatherings, and
speakers.
Lastly the Asian Student Organiza
tion (ASO)'s main purpose is to sup
port Asian students on campus, who
could be from many nationalities,
with a feeling of comfort while pro
viding education to any students who
desire to learn about Asian cultures
at the same time. Their secondary
goal is to make students be aware of
the existence of Asian students on
campus. Their annual activities in
clude Chinese new year, trips around
the states, social events and gather
ings and speakers.
According to Shannon Jones, the
president of MCC, "There is a mis
conception that MCC is just MCC and
people don't realize that we are made
up of all the groups. All of these or
ganizations fall under MCC's purpose
to promote unity and awareness of
diverse cultures of Behrend. People
who join these organizations can be
expected to be educated about differ
ent cultures and various things that
make up these cultures."
Jones stated, "Don't let the name
this week
join the organizations. Julie Meyers,
03 Biology, a recent addition to Al
pha Sigma Alpha, said she joined to
meet new people and to experience
what sisterhood was all about.
fraternites belta Chi, Tau
Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Kappa Nu,
Kappa Delta Rho, Sigma Tau Gamma,
and Zeta Beta Tau, are all in the pro
cess of rushing new brothers. Each
fraternity highlighted the social, aca
demic and philanthropic benefits of
brotherhood. Neil Scarborough,
president of Zeta Beta Tau, 06 MIS,
explained rush as "the life blood of a
fraternity. Hey Bro, rush is basically
recruitment, and recruitment is vital
wanted to move to the United States.
Lane said this was because the
Behrends were a Jewish family and
even though they had converted to
Lutheranism there was a lot of anti
semitism building in Germany even
then."
The transcript will go into great
depth with topics such as these, and
many other things that have shaped
Behrend into the institution it has be
come at present. If Ben Lane's
progress continues on schedule, his
work will be a notable inclusion to
next year's commemoration.
stating that "all of the professors here
are doing research." The Dean be
lieves that all professors should be
"master teachers and great scholars."
Dean Lilley also emphasized that any
time there is a problem with a spe
cific professor, email the director of
that specific school and to send him
a copy as well.
fool you. If you truly care aboutihe
organization itself, name is meaning
less. Every organization we have is
open to anyone. You don't have to be
a black to be a member of Associa
tion of Black Collegians, and you
don't have to be an Asian to be a mem
ber of Asian Student Organization.
You can be a member of any organi
zation as long as you want to learn
something about that specific group."
The improvement of MCC took a
great turn just a couple of years ago.
They were provided with the office
at the student resource center. As they
were facilitated with the new office,
there were a lot of progress that was
made within the organizations. Any
one is open to freely enter the resource
center and utilize the services.
MCC holds a meeting every other
week on Tuesday with representatives
from each organization, concerning
new activities, policies, and up to date
information of each organization.
MCC is financially supported by the
Student Government Association
(SGA) through budget allocations.
MCC is not only for students. There
are also a handful of faculty mem
bers who participate."We get support
from the faculty, but I would like to
see more faculty and the administra
tion getting more involved with the
organization." Jones added. "Step out
of your 'comfort zone' and learn more
about others. Come and see what we
are all about.."
to any organization."
Rush events continue through Sat
urday. Tau Kappa Epsilon will be
holding a pizza party in Bruno's
Wednesday from 7 to 9 PM. Kappa
Deka 1:2Ao isipoisatint 1 ee4aier4ag.
To attend meet at the Rub dk at 8:30
Thursday. Delta Chi is holding a wt
together at their house. Zeta Beta Tau
is planning an all you can eat pasta
fest Friday from 9 to 11. Sigma
Kappa Nu is holding events on Satur
day from 12 to 2. Sigma Tau Gamma
are also planning a meeting at their
house Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4
pm.
The final issue discussed at the
forumwas campus social life. "What
is there to do on campus?" Many
students said most tend to go home
on the weekends instead of staying
on campus. There really is no diver
sity of activities on the weekends.
Most of the time when there is a band
or comedian in Bruno's, there are
very few students who attend.
One student, who happened to be
an R.A., stated that the events are not
advertised and promoted enough.
The R.A. also felt that there does not
really seem to be any pride or spirit
on our campus. Director of Student
Activities Chris Rizzo said that he is
conducting research on making more
activities available such as concerts.
Dean Lilley also mentioned the new
athletic facility which will be com
pleted around the summer of 2000.
Dean Lilley ended this session of
Coffee with the Provost stating that
he appreciated the questions as well
as the comments.