Page 8 - The Behrend College Beacon ■ Thursday, November 12, 1998
Website of the week
By Mike Perkins
layout editor
Imagine controlling an entire
country yourself. You must set up
the government; will you be a dicta
tor, a king, a benevolent president or
the overlord of a communist society ?
What will your taxes be like? Will
you be a warring nation or one dedi
cated to the pursuit of peace?
You can have that control at the
free website chttp://
www.solariagames.com/earth>. At
this site you have the option of two
types of games, standard or tourna
ment. In the standard game you must
Serraffini’s: not quite up to par
By Roger Burlingame
staff writer
Recently 1 visited
ian restaurant (located on W. liih
street) because I heard it was the best
Italian restaurant in Erie. 1 was sadly
disappointed. If this is the best Ital
ian food Erie has to offer, then I sug
gest going to some other city for Ital
ian food. We sat at the bar for ten
minutes before someone came to
seat us. It was another ten minutes
until we were waited on. And to top
it off, they didn’t have the first three
drinks I ordered. This was to be the
sad story throughout our meal, with
an atmosphere that was more ori
ented toward quantity rather than
quality. With poor service, medio
cre food, and a limited selection, this
establishment proved to be no more
than an overpriced family restaurant.
The appetizers we had to choose
Waterboy a splash at opening
weekend
By Michael Coursey
staff writer
The Waterboy , the latest Touch
stone release starring Adam Sandler,
opened last Friday night with a sold
out theater at Erie’s own Tinsletown.
This lighthearted comedy also starred
Henry Winkler and Kathy Bates,
about a 31 year old Cajun waterboy
with an overprolective mother (Kathy
Bates).
The movie started out portraying
a slow, stuttering Bobby Boucher
(Adam Sandler) as the waterboy for
a fictional University of Louisiana’s
football team. The team’s players
were ruthless in their treatment of the
waterboy, staging pranks and poking
fun at him, until the coach finally fired
him. Feeling rejected, he went home
to his mother and told her of his plight.
He then ventured out to another
school. SCLSU, where he met another
football coach, played by Henry
Winkler. Bobby talked to (he coach
set up your country, and expand to
gain land and people. You need to
construct buildings to service your
people as well as research technolo
gies to make your nation more pow
erful. With hundreds or thousands
of other players trying to expand as
well, you must master the skills of
diplomacy, negotiating treaties and
alliance with other nations. And
where diplomacy fails, you must
gather your army to fight for sur
vival.
In the Tournament game, you
must also master all this skills but
the action proceeds faster. The
from were limited to deep tried
veggies or shrimp cocktail. So we
skipped the appetizers and 1 went
straight for-the french onion soup.
Hd&ever, tfsfenfcrf that they ha 3
mixed the old batch of soup in with
the new batch and put too much
salt in the lot of it. Next came the
salads, which were very ordinary;
but let me say that the house dress
ings were very good. Their Ital
ian dressing was excellent, as was
the blue cheese. However, I’m
sorry to say these two dressings
were the highlight of our meal.
The best chardonnay that they sell
by the glass is fair at best. The
huge selection of two wines was
what I had come to expect at this
point in the meal.
For the main course, I had the
veal marsala and my date had the
broiled scallops. Both were over
done. The marsala dressing was
about becoming the waterboy for
the football team, and he agreed.
Everything was going well at his
first practice with the new team,
until-the quarterback played a trick
on him and had a few players run
him over. The coach told him he
had to stand up for his rights, and
visualize his adversary as some
body that would irritate him to fire
him up and take action. After more
taunting by the team’s quarterback
he lashed out at him and tackled him
with a stunning hit.
The coach and team were quite
impressed and offered Bobby a
chance to join the team, along with
the Cajun hillbilly defensive coach,
who spoke in a unintelligible Cajun
dialect. Bobby’s natural instincts
made up for crude but enthusiastic
ability when they put him as line
backer, where he made a instant
impact. Although he was a tremen
dous asset on defense, they did not
utilize him on offense.
As Boucher started to develop
Tournament game, which holds less
players lasts a month, while the standard
game lasts for three.
The Earth game is a lot of fun, and
while it doesn’t have all sorts of fancy
graphics, it more than makes up for it
with strategy and enjoyment. Remem
ber the game is entirely free, and is not
weighted down with all sorts of adver
tisement banners that can be so annoy
ing.
Remember the website chttp://
www.solariagames.com/earth>.
The Beacon will be featuring a different
website every week
not bad, to be mild. My date’s scallops
had a rubbery texture, which happens
when scallops are overcooked. She
may have found maybe four good scal
■ l(jps rt However, she liked
the pasta marinara. I tasted it and
found it to be passable, although a little
bland.
For dessert we were offered all of
three basic choices: ice cream, choco
late cake, and cheese cake. They were
out of everything else, which came as
no surprise. I had one bite of the dry
cheesecake, and I passed on dessert. I
had coffee instead.
All in all, I would not suggest going
to Serrafini’s, "the best Italian restau
rant in town." I was so disappointed I
will most likely never go there again.
If any readers have any suggestions
for any other Italian restaurants in Erie
they would like for me to review,
please, E-mail it to the Beacon at
behrcolWtfl 1 aol.com.
a cult following among the “Mud Dog”
supporters, he kept his football a secret
from his mother, who disapproved of it.
His girlfriend Vicky came back to see
him and made some amorous advances
towards him, for a man that was all too
innocent for a3l year old man. Bobby
and the team continued to make strides
towards a bowl win after 40 consecutive
losses.
The movie continued with some pre
dictable but funny college scenes, and a
barbeque with baby alligators for the
main course among other things. The
use of the visual effects in the key scenes
proved key to the humor. Along with
the directing and composure of Adam
Sandler, the effective acting of Henry
Winkler and solid performance by Kathy
Bates, The Waterboy proved to be hilari
ous especially to Adam Sandler fans.
The entire theater was laughing con
tinuously throughout the movie. The
Waterbov is highly recommended for
people who have enjoyed Adam
Sandler’s other movies, and also to those
who have yet to see one of Sandler’s
comedies.
Features
Alumni return to offer advice t
communication majors
By Rose Forrest
layout editor
Everyone knows, especially the staff
of the Beacon, how disparaging it can
be going into the field of communica
tions. Communication majors aren’t
going to school for the money or the
availability of jobs.
This Tuesday, November 10, the
Communications Club helped a few
students out. For the second year now
they have invited Penn State Behrend
alumni with communication degrees to
talk about how they got started and
where they are now. Tuesday’s panel
was made of five new speakers this
year.
Randy Furgason graduated from
Behrend in 1994 with a Bachelors of
Arts in Communication. He considers
himself a non typical student because
he was married during college and
had a daughter in 1993. For this rea
son he wanted to find a paid intern
ship. He found a position in public re
lations at the Horizon Hospital. At the
end of his internship he receded a com
plimentary review stating pleasure
with the experience he brought from
Behrend, “a credit to Behrend,” he ex
plained.
After graduating, Furgason spent a
year editing an outdoor magazine then
decided to make a career move to a
hospital in Meadville. For the past
three years he has worked for
Channnelock as a communications di
rector.
Vicci Snyder, the district represen
tative for Congressman Phil English,
graduated a year earlier than Furgason
with a communications degree. She
started her career as a journalist and it
actually began here at Behrend with
ACROSS
Enthusiastic
Killer whale
Forces out
Mexican treat
Kyser and
Medford
Loosen laces
Lost one’s
balance on ice
Restless desire
Steak cut
With tasteful
beauty
Washed
Terrier type
Dogma dissent
Meadow mama
New Zealand
parrot
Stare
open-mouthed
No matter what
cost
Images of gods
Have regrets
Madrid mister
Party horn
Dancer Pavlova
Rim of a cup
Tennis shot
Joel of
“Sullivan’s
Travels”
Devoid of
inhabitants
Like a temp
committee
Female relatives
Ground grain
Old crones
Braided string
Film
Pot starter
Land measure
Rectify
Port on 5D
Burden
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1 Perplexed
2 Frankie of The 4
Seasons
3 More aloof
4 Move aside
5 Japanese island
6 Worn-out car
the Collegian where she was Editor
in Chief. She described it as, "an ex
perience I value."
She took her internship in her se
nior year at WJET TV. After work
ing for Jet TV she switched to WJET
radio for another year. The biggest
change in all three of these fields she
explains was the dillerence in writ
ing styles. For this reason she advises
it is, “important to learn different
styles of writing."
After the year she was fired with
five other people because of low rat
ings. Snyder didn't get discouraged,
however. She explains, "you have to
be prepared because that happens...
you have to pick yourself up and
move on ... It is part of this business
... Almost everyone in TV and radio
has been fired."
She took a job at WLKK w hich
she described as a “totally different
experience” until February i 997
when she was offered her position
with English where she can, "get into
the community to benefit the con
gressman."
Loretta Blakesley also graduated
in 1994 with a Bachelors of Com
munication and did her internship
with Senior Health Care Services.
Blakesley only worked on the Col
legian for a semester or two but she
says, “I wish I did more ... Its ben
eficial as hard copy" to show when
looking for a job. She also suggests
taking greater advantage of public
speaking and computer classes.
Sherri Reider is the front page and
makeup editor of the Times Publish
ing Company. She graduated from
Behrend in 1987 and served her in
ternship at the mall. She was discour
aged at first but ended up learning
many valuable skills and worked
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7 Full course
8 Drained of color
9 Jumps farther
10 Open a castle
door
11 Kitchen appliance
12 Fork prongs
13 Squalid
21 Curb-side quaff
24 Yo!
26 Skirt description
27 Tonic’s partner
28 Bother
29 Food from taro
30 Golfer Ernie
32 Northern sea
bird
33 “The Crying
Game” star
34 Country hotel
35 Opposing position
36 End of an
38 Chosen
42 Woody’s ex
43 Antarctic body of
water
47 Ship's front
there for a year after.
The next two years she spent at a
door and hardware supplier until she
realized it was not for her and took a
secretarial job where she could move
up. For this job she was tested on
grammar, punctuation and she could
not make one mistake. She feels this
proves how important school is.
She is very happy now' though and
explains, "it is different job every day.
something new happens."
Tammy Owens who graduated
from Behrend in 1991 agrees with the
importance of new experiences every
day. Owens, who works for Froggy
says, “everyday is different," when
she explains why she likes working
lor the radio station. Owens selected
the Behrend communication major
because she wanted to get into sales
and thought that interpersonal com
munication skills would help her more
than marketing class.
She leels she needs to know how
to talk, to present herself, PR skills,
and writing. One point she stressed
was that when students first start their
careers they do not get a textbook.
Sometimes there are training courses
but usually they are on their own
which is why taking advantage of the
classes here is so important. Owen's
also made four points of personal ad
vice. They are- getting grants because,
"every penny you don’t have to pay
back is a penny you have later," slay
home for as long as you can; stay
away from credit cards; and start sav
ing for retirement early.
Alter these Alumni shared their sto
ries students were allowed to ask
questions. The Alumni were able to
present them with relevant advice to
help get started.
48 Molten matter
49 Computer disk
50 Onion-flavored
seasoning
51 Pine sap product
52 Princess of
Wales
11/12/98
53 In the
neighborhood
54 Shell rival
55 _ cotta
(ceramic clay)
56 Concluded
58 Aga 111