page 2 - The Behrend College Collegian. Thursday. April 23. 1998 Contest held to ename Creamery flavor by Ik Chan Kang news editor Penn State’s Creamery is renam ing one of their ice cream flavors in honor of Behrend’s fiftieth anniver sary. The new name will be decided by a contest open to the Behrend community. There are eight flavors that en- “We would love to see as many participants as possible. Why don’t all of you enter into the contest to kick off the anniversary in a good fashion?” Anne Marie Welsh Director of Public Relations trants can select in renaming the ice cream flavor. The flavors are: va nilla, chocolate, strawberry, peach, butter pecan, bittersweet mint, pea nut butter swirl, and coconut chip. It is open to anyone who is consid ered part of the Behrend commu nity. Using the theme for our anni versary year, “Penn State-Behrend at 50: A Golden Opportunity,” there are endless numbers of names that an entrant can come up with. En tries will be accepted by e-mail, mail, or fax. The addresses are: email: axw6@psu.edu, fax:(814)898-7116, and mailing ad dress: Ice Cream Contest, Office of Development and University Rela tions, Penn State-Behrend, Station Road, Erie, PA 16563 There are rewards for the winners whose ideas get selected. The win ner will receive free cones of the winning flavor for 10 friends. The final decision will be made by the members of the Anniversary Com mittee, who will serve as judges for the contest. As Anne Marie Welsh (Behrend Manager of Public Infor mation) states. “We would love to see as many participants as possible. Why don’t all of you enter into the contest to kick off the anniversary in a good fashion?” Students respond to Clinton’s Africa trip by Jon Tatalovic staff writer At the end of last month, President Clinton toured various parts of Africa. Some of the major stops along the way were Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, Botswana, and Senegal. At each stop, President Clinton spoke to crowds of people about a variety of subjects relating to their country. One of the topics was the African Cri sis Response Initiative (ACRI), a plan intended to train and supply equip ment for peacekeeping and humani tarian missions. Clinton also dis cussed African growth and opportu nity. He then argued for passage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, which would help bring about a reform in the economy. The idea of conflict prevention and resolution was also discussed in hopes that Africans will receive training in management Five students turmoil by Andrea ZafTino editor in chief Last night, five Behrend students served on a panel discussion de scribing the experiences they had with political and social problems in their home countries. The event was hosted by Dr. Zachary Irwin and sponsored and promoted by the Behrend chapter of Amnesty Inter national. It was in honor of the fif tieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration ofTlutttan Rights. Thi£~ document has no legal or binding force of any kind within interna tional law. The first student that spoke was Moye Mouline from South Africa. She began by explaining that in the town where she grew up there are eleven official languages, of which she is able to speak four. The larg est city near her is Johannesburg, which she explained is considered the crime capital of the world. “Ev ery 26 seconds a woman is raped, at least once every minute an auto- and peacekeeping. Clinton also went on to speak about education, health, human rights, and more on the economy. Some of the students here at Be hrend think that the president’s trip was a good idea and has accomplished something important. “I think it’s good that Clinton went to Africa.” Chad Shreckengost, 06 MET, said. He concluded with “I think it will help everyone in the long run.” Ron Romanski, 02 Communications, re acted differently to the topic, “Clinton should be more concerned about stuff in the U.S.” he said. It is hoped that President Clinton’s trip to Africa provided what was needed to initiate reform across most of the continent. Many of the ideas discussed may help countries better themselves and become more produc tive. in their home mobile is stolen, and people are shot constantly for no reason at all.” Mouline explained. She went on with a story about a student in Cape Town who stopped his car to change a tire and was shot and killed over $2O and a watch. Crimes like this go unpunished in South Africa. The reason for such crime, Mouline theorized, was be- cause of the sudden freedom to the people there. She said, “If you haven’t ever been free, you don’t know what it feels like.” Eighty percent of the citizens there have never voted in their entire lives, Mouline stated The people of South Africa are tak ing their newly found freedoms to extremes by committing these crimes. The reason these crimes go unpunished is because the defen dants claim their reason for commit ting them is apartheid, which has been long gone in South Africa, however it makes it difficult to pun News said “We lead regular lives; our kids go to swimming classes but we just don’t have regular jobs. I don’t know who said that money doesn’t grow on trees, they must have been look ing at the wrong trees.” Student participation was limited at the forum, and the panel of stu dents from Communications 305 was constantly trying to persuade stu dents to voice their opinions. A few students did offer different perspec tives, many were in favor of the le galization of marijuana. One student claimed since there is nothing better to do at Behrend, why shouldn’t stu dents be able to smoke marijuana at their own will? Timothy Tate, 06 Communica tions, stated “I was surprised to see the large turnout at the forum. In terms of legalization, I think the laws should definitely be reformed, whether you smoke marijuana or not, a change is needed in these laws that affect society.” Carmenlita Jarvis, 02 Biology, commented, “The forum was alright; it was interesting. It would have been more successful if more people had participated. People were afraid to respond” discuss ish those who use this as an excuse The next student to speak was Harris Tabakovic, from Bosnia. Tabakovic talked about the war that’s been going on since about “Every 26 seconds a woman is raped, at least once every minute an automobile is stolen and people are shot constantly for no reason at all.” 1992, when he was fifteen. Armies would come in and burn down buildings. Ethnic differences be came a very sensitive topic; many people were fired from work and denied their benefits due to the high inflation rate resulting from the war. Tabakovic told the audience, “I was only beat up two times so I was pretty lucky compared to some of my friends..” These problems were magnified, especially in the small Next week will be the last Collegian of the semester All calendar notices, letters to the editor, and advertisements are due by Tuesday, April 28, by 5 pm Have a great summer! political countries villages; people were killed, houses were burned down, women were raped. In the past six years over 300,()()() people were killed. He closed with a statement addressing Behrend student Moye Motlline, who is from South Africa the Declaration of Human Rights, the reason for the panel, “As far as the Human Rights Declaration goes, I think it’s a bunch of crap, nobody gives a damn about it.” The third student speaker was Brendan Soennecken from the former East Germany. His opening statement was, “As you know, Ger many is fairly good at violating hu man rights, you all know the story of World War Two.” Soennecken What should be SGA’s main priority next year? “Making sure that students don’t get kicked out for violations they had no involvement with.” “More suites.” “Funding for more organizational things.” “Get students to have fun.” “Get people to come to their meetings.” -Josh Wolf, 04, MET -Todd Pound, 02, Accounting -Mike Nimelli, 02, ME -Shana James, 04, BBH -Dan Pyewell, 02, MET explained how East Germany joined with West Germany in 1989, how ever from his point of view, this didn’t necessarily improve things for the country. Unemployment is on the increase and the West is run ning into its share of problems adopting the East. There is a cer tain amount of tension between the nationalities that make up the uni fied Germany; he explained that things can become rather violent at times. Soennecken’s closing com ment addressing these tensions was, “The Germans do a good job of keeping their racist/ ethnic opinions to themselves.” The second to last student was Karolina Niedobecka from Poland. She has lived in the United States for seven years. In Poland she lived in a small town and said she never really has experienced a withholding of human rights. However, she reflected on memo ries of her grandparents’ house with a hole used for hiding from the Ger mans during World War Two. Her grandparents also told her about life threatening predicaments they faced when confronted by German sol diers. One topic she spoke about was Chernobyl, which took place very close to where she lived as a child. Niedobecka talked about how the phones were turned off for about a week afterwards, and no one had heard about this life threaten ing situation until communication was restored. She explained that there are a lot of situations in Po land where the country is considered behind the times. An example she gave was that movies are released for years in the United States before they are viewed in Poland. The closing student was Pfatsala Saysana from Laos. She spoke about what she could remember from when she was four or five, before she moved to the United States. She told about how her fam ily was shot at while crossing a river in a canoe, and her mother was forced to plug the bullet hole in the canoe to keep them from sinking. Next Saysana talked about the dif ficulties with racism she and her family experienced when they ar rived in the United States. People would say to her, “Viet Cong - go home!” And her brother would of ten return home from school beat up. Even after these encounters, she said that people have left her country where they were doctors or teachers, and came to the United States to start over from scratch in menial jobs. However, the lack of freedom in Laos took so much from the quality of living. In Laos there’s no Medicare, very little food for the impoverished, people are not al lowed to visit imprisoned friends or family members, the average in come is around $3O per month and the penalty for making light of a public official is a jail sentence.
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