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
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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.