9 Thurs • lntervarsity Christian Fellowship meeting, 7:30-9:3opm, Reed 117 • SPC movie: "American Werewolf in Paris' 10. m 13Mon All submissions for the calendar should be made available to the Collegian by s:oopm on the Monday before publication. Please send via inter-office mail to the Collegian Calendar Editor, drop it off at the Collegian office, or send it to BEHRCOLL3@aoLcom. The Collegian cannot guarantee publication of events due to space constraints, The Collegian also reserves the right to edit any material submitted for publication. The calendar is intended Jr Behrend notices and events Events Andres Nader, Ph.D. candidate in German studies, will present "Poetry and Trauma: Writings from the Nazi Concentration Camps" on Thursday, April 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the Reed Lec ture Hall. The presentation is spon sored by the Mary Behrend Cultural Fund. Nader, a member of the Inter national Study Group on Trauma, Vio lence, and Genocide, will offer a read ing and discussion of poems written by inmates in the camps of Buchenwald, Dachau, and Theresienstadt. These previously untranslated poems offer insight into the daily experience of the victims of the Holocaust. Dr. Eric W Corty. Assistant Profes sor of Psychology, presents "Lessons from Psychology" on Wednesday, April 15 at noon in the Reed Lecture Hall. Dr. Corty is the Winner of the Penn State-Behrend Council of Fel lows Award for Excellence in Teach ing. The presentation is a continua tion of the Provost's Speaker Series. Notices Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meetings 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9 and Thursday, April 16, Reed 114. Student Government Association meeting 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, Reed 117. Trigon meeting, Tuesday, April 14, 5:00-6:00p.m. For location, call 898- 6030, stop by the Trigon office in the MCC, or trigon_behrend@hotmail.com Society of Undergraduate Economists meeting, Tuesday, April 14, 8:00 p.m., Academic 57. Faculty Appreciation Day is Thurs day, April 9. Lion Ambassadors will be providing cookies for the faculty and staff. Marijuana Madness open forum on NORML (National Organization of the Reform of Marijuana Legislation), Monday, April 20 at 6:30 p.m. in Reed 117. Any student can participate in the Penn State-Behrencl/Dield Elemen tal), Adopt-A-School for one or more semesters. Tutors must commit them- selves to tutoring at least once per week. After school tutors are needed from 2:30-3:40 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays with transportation pro vided from the Reed Lot. In school tutors who can provide their own transportation are welcome to sign up for one hour Monday through Thurs day from 9:00-11:00 a.m. or 12:30- 2:30 p.m. No prior experience is nec essary and all majors are welcome. You will he working with children kindergarten through grade six. Ap plications are available in the Office of Student Activities. Supplemental instruction, weekly re view sessions with a student tutor, are available for the following courses: Econ 002: Monday and Wednesday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., 206 Turnbull; Thurs day, 5:00-6:00 p.m., 117 Science Acctg 211: Monday, Wednesday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., 57 Academic; Friday, 12:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., 57 Academic Chem 012: Monday, 2:00-3:00 p.m., 40 Hammermill; Wednesday, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 40 Hammermill; Thursday, 1:00-2:00 p.m., 126 Sci ence Phys 201: Tuesday, 10:00-11:00 a.m., 40 Hammermill; Wednesday, 4:00- Calendar of Events 10F" • Bruno's: Annie Rapid-music, B:3opm • IM Deadline: badminton, 4pm • SPC movie: "American Werewolf in Paris" 10. m 14Tues • Trigon meeting, 5-6 pm • Society of Undergraduate Economists meeting, Bpm, Academic 57 5:00 p.m., 43 Academic; Thursday 7:M-8:00 p.m., 41 Academic Econ 004: Sunday, 501-6:00 p.m., 41 Academic; Tuesday, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., 55 Academic; Wednesday, 5:30- 6:30 p.m., 40 HaM unermill Drop-in tutoring is available for writ ing and math at: The Learning As.si.stance Center, 203 Library and the Math Lab, 131 Sci- ence. Call the L.A.C. at 898-6014 with questions The Computer Center has made tuto rials accessible from any PC con nected to the network. Tutorials in cluded are Windows NT 4, Word 97, and Excel 97. Tentatively, the tutori als for Powerpoint and the Access database will he available from the vendor later this semester. To use the tutorials in the lab, click on the Start button and then select the following items from the cascading menus: Pro grams/Utilities & Tutorials/Learnit Tutorials. It is recommended that new users select the tutorial lesson, Using ',emit Interactive Training, to get acquainted with the tutorial's naviga tion tools. If there are any questions concerning the use of the tutorials, the student consultants are available for assistance The Equal Opportunity Planning Committee of Penn State has an nounced funding for the 1998 Minor ity Advanced Placement Program/ Women in Science and Engineering Program (MAPP/WISE) at Behrend. In addition, International Paper has once again agreed to support this ini tiative. This will be the sixth summer of operation for MAPP/WISE at Be hrend. MAPP/WISE is a tree sum mer program for academically tal ented Erie-area high school students. Students enroll in a three-credit course with regularly enrolled University stu Calendar lt at • SPC movie: "American Werewolf in Paris" 10. m 15 Wed • S.G.A. meeting, s:3opm, Reed 117 • Provost's Speaker: Dr. Eric W. Corty, noon, Reed 117 dents during the College's eight-week summer session. The MAPP portion of the program includes students from underrepresented groups; the WISE portion of the program encourages female high school students to explore career possibilities in science, engi neering, and engineering technology. Students participating in MAPP/ WISE learn study techniques, test taking strategies, and writing skills that help prepare them for academic study at the college level. Students in the program receive career counsel ing and attend special lectures and field trips conducted by profession als in business, industry, human ser vices, and education. All applicants to the program must be high school juniors during the 1997-98 school year and have a grade-point average of 2.75 or higher. To obtain an appli cation, contact your high school guid ance counselor of the Office of Ad missions at (814) 898-6100. All full-time faculty and staff: We are now capturing, photos and signatures of all faculty and staff for new ID+ cards. Cards currently in circulation will not work beginning with Sum mer Session 1998. Phase out will begin as early as May 10. This ID card is needed for Dobbins Gazebo, Bruno's, the Library, and building and room access at all Commonwealth College locations and University Park. Banking options may be avail able as early as Fall 1998. Student photo capture will begin April 1, 1998. We strongly encourage all full time faculty and staff to have their photos taken prior to April 1 to avoid long lines in August. ID+ cards will he distributed April 27. If you have an interim ID from the new system (white card), it is not necessary to have your picture retaken, We will print your photo on the new stock and distribute it on April 27. The ID of fice is located on the second floor of - -_,___. _ -___ "....- -...- Thursday, April 9, 1998 - The Behrend College Collegian. - page 3 the Reed Building, overlooking the Wintergarden. It is open Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. If there are any questions, please phone 898-6035 or visit www.hfs.psu.eduJidcard/id+. Students will receive an offer from AT&T for a calling card number to be printed on the ID+ card. The post card must be returned to the ID office to indicate whether you want to par ticipate in the program. This is a I+ card for use anywhere in the world. This option will not replace the ACUS 0+ based systems now in place for residence hall students. Signing up for the calling card will give you $lO.OO free calling (for 60 days after sign up), and a free one year mem bership to the Student Advantage (a national student discount program). For the second time, Behrend will be offering AAAS 146: The Life and Thought of Martin Luther King Jr. during Fall 1998. The course, last taught during Spring 1997, was very popular with students. It fulfills ei ther the general humanities or the di versity requirement for graduation. The Spring 1998 Commencement ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 16 at noon. In case of inclement weather, two ceremonies will be held. The first will begin at noon in Erie Hall and the second will begin at 2:30 p.m. Seniors who intend to partici pate in the graduation ceremony must purchase a cap and gown from the bookstore. Prices are as follows: Baccalaureate (keeper) $22.75; Asso ciate (keeper) $22.75; Graduate (rental) cap, gown, hood $35.25; Graduate (keeper) cap, gown, hood $46.00. The deadline to order caps and gowns is April 10. Are you interested in belonging to SGA? Petitions are available in the e goA imit ter ftoß a *KM CUM DEFECTOR! 1.25" • SPC movie: "American Werewolf in Paris" 9pm 16 Thurs • Intervarsity Christian Fellowship meeting, 7:30-9:3opm, Reed 117 • Andres Nader, "Poetry and Trauma," 7pm, Reed 117 • SPC movie: "Jackie Brown" 10pm Student Government Office for the following positions: President/Vice- President, Secretary, and Senator. Petitions are due by 5:00 p.m. on Fri day, April 10. This spring Behrend has awarded twenty-three Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships for 1997/1998. The awards, which total $21,970, were presented to twenty-six under graduate students. In the fall of 1997, the College awarded twenty-five un dergraduate research grants totaling $13,587. The Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships bring the total awarded for undergraduate research in the 1997/98 academic year to $35,557. Undergraduates receiving research grants will pursue their projects with faculty during the sum mer of 1998. Grant money is used to offset students' research expenses such as travel, library loans, materi als, and photocopying. Research pro posals were funded in each of the four schools of the University. In the School of Humanities and Social Sci ences, proposals ranged from "The House of Morgan: Financiers of the Great War, 1914-1918," to "Theory of Mind and Self-Regulation in Chil dren." In the School of Business, "Generalization of an Expert Bidding Tool" was funded. In the School of Engineering and Engineering Tech nology, "Experimental System for Metal Cutting Dynamics and Control Research" received an award. Six teen Undergraduate Summer Re search Fellowships were awarded in the School of Science to proposals ranging from "The Culture and Kinet ics of Human Cancer Cells" to "De velopmental Analysis of Serotonin Receptors in Zebrafish." Research funding for the 1998/99 academic year will be announced in fall of 1998.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers