The Behrend College ,s e m 7 an 0 11 . 5t)11.4) April Fool's Day, 1998 Plans for $2O million to include free beer for business students by Oz ciaff Rriter An unusual turn of events took place over the past weekend involv ing the use and distribution of the anonymous $2O million gift given to the School of Business last Wednes day. A press conference was held on Saturday, March 28 in Erie Hall an nouncing the new plans for the dona tion involving three individuals in at tendance including Provost and Dean John Lilley and the Director of the School of Business Dr. John Magenau. The third person involved was of course, myself, Oz, in atten dance to cover the landmark, Dr. Roger Knacke, Director of the School of Science, has reacted to the Business School donation with his own fundraising drive. He announced that he will bring a donation box to all of his classroom lectures. "I collected $3.47 last Monday!" he annouced proudly. Collision to change name to a pork product The Behrend College B by Molly Ringworm stun writer Traditions come and go. Change is the only sure thing. Well at Penn State Behrend this is surely coming true, at least for the campus newspaper. The paper, which has gone by the name, the Behrend College Collision for about thirty years now is going to he referred to as the Behrend College Bacon beginning next year. Many of the members of the news paper staff agreed that it was time for a change. Anne Rajotte, the Manag ing Editor for the paper said, "Rumors are funny things and a name like the Bacon really says to me. 'hey you won't find any rumors here...just the truth.— Indeed the rest of the staff is happy about the change. Nathan Mitchell, the Collision layout editor, stated his personal feelings, "I think it's great! groundbreaking, climactic event The first order of business was for the three of us to hum the Penn State fight song in unison and then in rounds until one of us broke the chain. We did this to get ourselves fired up for the event. Apparently Dean Lilley couldn't keep up and passed out at half court after the fifteenth round leaving a grinning Dr. Magenau to make the historic presentation to the empty gymnasium over a newly in stalled public address system that was purchased with a portion of the money. Among the newly proposed plans is to utilize the natural resources Bacon is my favorite food you know!" Mitchell went on to say how proud he is to be a part of the newspaper staff at a time when such a monumen tal change is taking place. He said, "No one at Behrend will ever forget the Collision staff for the 1997-'9B "A name like the Bacon really says to me, hey you won't find any rumors here...just the truth." school year now! With our new name change we're unstoppable!" Mitchell is especially proud, being the one to create the masthead for the future The name the Bacon didn't come around campus (namely the Winter green Gorge) as a building block for new business students coming to Be hrend. According to Dr. Magenau, "the Gorge will be filled in with con crete and topped with asphalt to pro vide parking only for students in the School of Business." As a result, the trees in the area will have to be torn down and will be used in a new ice cream at the Creamery in University Park called "The Taste of Behrend." With the new parking facilities, spe cial passes will be issued to business students indicating that they are to be the only ones parking in the area. Shuttle buses will provide transpor- so easily for the staff; there was much indecisiveness in the beginning. Some people wanted the name the Behrend College Universal Weekly Times News, which was ruled out mainly for space reasons. Rajotte, who came up with the name, was per sonally somewhat disappointed in its being passed over for what she called, "such a trivial reason." Other names were the Behrend College Flake, The Behrend College Peeper, and the Behrend College Menu of Choice. In the end, both administration and the newspaper staff decided that the name the Be hrend College Bacon was the way to go. "It relates most to our student body and anyone who has any affiliation at all with bacon or similar pork prod ucts will want to read it," said Dr. Robert Speel, Collision advisor. Anne Rajotte managing editor Erie, PA 16563 Provbst and Dean John Utley passes out white showing his Penn State pride tation to and from the lot and a new division of Police and Safety will be formed to insure the ultimate safety of all business students. When Dean Lilley finally awoke from his slumber at center court, he announced that "a large portion of the donated money will he going to Oz even though he is not in the business curriculum." He then corrected him self in his groggy state and said, "all Campbell's Soup awarded exclusive food contract with Penn State by Bambi Lee Last Thursday, Penn State an nounced its plans to establish a new contract with Campbell's Soup. The decision was made following the success of the contract with Pepsi a few years ago. Penn State will receive $2l mil lion over a period of five years from Campbell's. Of the $2l million, $20,999,900 will stay at University Park to fund new uniforms and equipment for the football team. The remaining $lOO will he distributed to the remaining 21 campuses. Graham Spanicr, Penn State presi dent, stated, a great for all of Penn State." When asked why only $lOO was to be split among the campuses, Spanier k:cked State campus?" Though the football team will re ceive most of the money, there will be changes that all Penn State stu dents will notice. For example, the dining halls will only he allowed to serve Campbell's Soup for all meals. In addition, only Campbell's prod ucts will be allowed in all vending machines and dorm rooms. Students found with food products not manu factured by Campbell's will he re ferred and the food will he immedi ately be confiscated. Ed Mulfinger, Manager of Hous- .staff tvrtter This is Published initially by the students of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College business students will have catered room service by the Olive Garden 24 hours a day with free beer at all times.- At the end of the presentation I clapped in recognition and the Be hrend Lion even showed up for sup port. And although the proposed plan does not total $2O million, Dr. Magenau insisted that "the remaining money will be kept under (his) close ing and Food Services, commented, "This is a wonderful way for stu dents to watch their diets. Nobody will gain that freshman fifteen if they only cat soup! Besides, think of all of the money the football team is going to get. They are going to look great on the field with those new uniforms!" Support for the contract can he found among staff members who al ready believe that a monopoly is the best way to go. Ron Hoffman, Man ager of Network and Information Systems at the Behrend computer center, has applied this very concept to his labs, though Behrend does not receive any monetary compensation for their Microsoft monopoly. Hoffman enthusiastically stated, "I find that it is best students any choice. The new mo nopoly of Campbell's Soup will free students' minds of the burden of making choices for their meals and give them more time to learn how to use the Windows NT system and ONLY the Windows NT system. Penn State has made a brave deci sion with this contract and one that I am happy to say only backs up my long standing socialist beliefs." Students have mixed reactions to the contract with Campbell's. Michael Zampetti, Student Govern ment Association President, stated, supervision The reaction of Behrend students in the School of Business has been tremendous. Bill Do (06, manage ment) says that "it's about time that this university recognized business students as the leaders of the future, and gave us the superior treatment that we deserve." am outraged! This is a blatant vio lation of students' rights. Though I am too busy to make it to any Com monwealth Campus Student Gov- "The new monopoly of Campbell's Soup will free students' minds of the burden of making choices for their meals and give them more time to learn how to use the Windows NT system." Manager pl Netwot k and Information Systems at the Behrend computer center emment meetings, where one would normally express their disapproval, I will certainly send off an email to someone or another letting them know what I think." Jim Smith, 10 engineering, stated, "I just hope that they have a lot of chicken soup." Shelly O'Malley, 13 DUS, looked confused and simply said, "I don't really care. I don't think that it will really af fect me." ani i ir/‘ \4,00 ';\ ' c>/:; , - , e \ , \ "Please turn to the next page" Ron Hoffman
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