17 Thurs Soccer (W) vs. Mount Union - 4pm SPC Movie: "Can't Hardly Wait"- 10pm Harambee Dinner - 6pm Reed Commons 21m" All submissions for the calendar should be made available to the Beacon by s:oopm on the Monday before publication. Please send via inter-office mail to the Beacon Calendar Editor, drop it off at the Beacon office, or send, it to BEHRCOLL3@aoI.com. I pit 'in( g n•• • tot tf vpt • s 4 'it : • ••• er ht • • 'omit It, bn eq . r• •sn , • it, - lei of r:•Ir r• ot, v Events Behrend Astronomy Series Opens with "Oceans On Europa". The 1998-99 Open House Nights in As tronomy Series will begin Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. with an explo ration of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. Dr. Roger Knacke, professor of phys ics and director of the School of Sci- ence, will present a lecture summa rizing the results of the NASA Galileo Europa Mission (GEM). Open House Nights in Astronomy, which takes place in the Otto Behrend Science Lecture Hall, are free and open to the public. Astronomical observing will take place following the lectures, weather permitting. For more infor mation, contact the School of Science at 898-6105. The Lion Ambassadors will be hold ing two informational sessions in SPRING BREAK 99! Cancun * Nassau * Jamaica * Mazatlan * Acapulco * Bahamas Cruise * Florida * South Padre Travel Free and make lots of Cash ! Top reps are offered full-time staff jobs. Lowest price Guaranteed. Call now for details! www.classtravel.com 800/838-6411 Reed 113 next week. On September 22, the first meeting will take place and begin at 12:30 p.m. The follow ing day on September 23, a second meeting will be held at 5:00 p.m. Free food and prizes are available. Any one seeking further information re garding this organization or these meetings can contact the Lion Ambas sador office at 898-7211. The School of Science Seminar Se ries presents Dr. Pamela Silver Botts, Assistant Professor of Biology, on Thursday, September 17, from 1:00 p.m. - 1:50 p.m. in Reed 117. The title of Botts' talk is "Biological Pat terns in Heterogeneous Landscapes: Too Much of a Good Thing Can Be Bad." Organisms living in landscapes may experience differential costs and benefits that depend upon the spatial arrangement of resource patches. Patterns of abundance of stream dwelling invertebrates were measured in the field, and computer models were used to study possible mecha- Calendar of Events IWri IM Deadline: Golf - 4pm Tennis (W) vs. Pitt-Greensburg - spm SPC Movie: "Can't Hardly Wait"-10pm 22 Tues Lion Ambassadosr Information Session - 12:30pm Reed 113. nisms behind the patterns. Dr. Botts uses microlandscapes in the labora tory to examine underlying biologi cal mechanisms that determine how the spatial arrangement of resource patches influences life history traits of organisms. Chironomids often ex hibit strong competition among indi viduals for living space and for par ticles to use for construction of dwell ing tubes. Subdivision of resources appears to mitigate the costs of high density of larvae, thereby increasing the number of organisms that can live in a benthic landscape. Please plan on attending the first in a series of science seminars. All students, and faculty and staff are welcome. The Office of Catholic Campus Min istry would like to invite anyone, who is interested in attending, to their weekly Catholic Mass. Mass takes place in the Reed Commons every Sunday and begins at 8:00 p.m. All are welcome to attend. Read the Beacon ............... Every Thursday Calendar 19 Sat Bruno's: Band - "Igniters" - B:3opm Soccer (M&W) vs. Lake Erie - Ipm/3:3opm Tennis (W) - Penn State Behrend Invit. - 9am SPC Movie: "Can't Hardly Wait"- 10pm 23 Wed Lion Ambassadors Information Session - spm. Reed 113 'Each fat! season for lernA es, on campuses allover the country, thousands of young men, mast of them fresh out of high school, have formed college fraternities. 'The vast majority of these new pledge members, happy with their choice of fraternity, have enjoyed their weeks or months of p&dgeship and have been initiated into full active membership as a matter of course. Few of them have paused even for a moment to examine the reason, real or imagined, for adopting the badge of a particular Greekfetter organization, much less to ask, themselves why they pledged a fraternity at all. ?he generation today is different. Many young men of this age are still rjoining fraternities, but they are more thoughtful, more deaienru, more inclined to reject the caches once readily accepted as vatidators of fraternity membership. 'They are kss guided by the herd instinct, less enamored o f prospect of four undergraduate years o ffraternal heff-raising, more anxious to 'do their own thing'. 'They are not the image of the beer-guzziling, raccoon-coated, utterly irresponsible 'fro man or frat of an earlier day ( an image, by the way, some fraternity men richly deserved as a pathetic character, which it is. 'They sense nevertheless, that the fraternity experience may be worthwhile. At /east they hope so, yet they are not all sure. For many of them, joining a fraternity represents an act offaith. Let us first define what afnzurnity is. A coffege fraternity chapter is an organized group of undergraduate men bound together by tics of close friendship. Customarily the chapter is composed of pa4es, actives, and a body of alumni. A college fraternity e.tiset on the premise that man is by nature 4 social being and wants to associate with his feffow man. a fraternity provides a structure, an environment in which intimate friendships can flourish. fraternities are a pecul'iarl'y American institutions. White cornpara64 student organizations exist ahroad, the college fraternity in Me United Sates and Canada has grown up as a response to real' needs among students in American institutions of higher education. Students created them, and they will survive so long as Me serve Me needs of undergraduates. to make a commitment to something outside themselves, to something larger than themselves, In a fraternity the commitment is directed in part to the program of the organization, to the things the group does as agroup, but mostly it is a commitment to peop4. lb friends. Xituat is but one way of (Arming a fraternity's ideals and aspirations. Closely associated with it is symbolism. fraternities 1114, passi64 a unique mmrience in corporate living of Me same fraternity prove to 6e rernarkally Jivers in tastes and talents, in Mought and behavior. A fraternity can provide its numbers a means of findng a humanising experience in Me midst of Me crowds and masses of modern-day institutions of higher learning. 'But after all has been said and done, friendship, 6rotherflood in the context of a meaningful, rrusnagea64 group relationship is what fraternity is di about. It shouts( come as no surprise to anyone that a fraternity's rentarka64 capacity to foster the making and keeping of friends is the chief reason for its e.xistence and the best assurance for its survival: a college fraternity, not unfikr any other worthwhile human institution, encourages its metnbers A fraternity provides striking opportunities for self development. 'Upon examination, members Thursday, September 17,1998 - The Behrend College Beacon - pa Why fraternite 20sun Tennis (W) vs. Frostburg and Lake -fpm Soccer (W) vs. Mount Union - 3pm Catholic Mass - Bpm Reed Common SPC Movie: "Can't Hardly Wait" - 9p 24 Thurs Astronomy Open House - 7:3opm - Otto Behrend Science Building SPC Movie: "The Truman Show" - 1 Opm -Xpbert 'E. Capwdt paid for by IFC
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