25 Thurs • SPC Movie: “I Still Know What you did Last Summer 5 ’ Reed 117 9:oopm •Astronomy Open House: Otto Behrend 7:3opm • Spring Play “The Visit”, Studio Theatre -8:00pm rfUlllon • Women’s Film Series Reed 117 7:3opm • Spring Musical Auditions Reed 119 3:30-s:oopm 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. The Beacon cannot guarantee publication of events due to space constraints. The Beacon also reserves the right• to edit anv material submitted for publication. The calendar is intended for Behrend notices and events. CAREER DEVELOPMENT The Career Development Center at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will hold its first career fair for stu dents in Business, Humanities, and Science on Thursday, Feb. 25 from noon to 5 p.m. in the Reed Union Building Commons. More than 900 companies and organizations were in vited to attend the fair, and 50 compa nies have already confirmed their par ticipation. This event will be of inter est to freshmen and sophomores as well as junior and seniors, since em ployers will be seeking candidates for summer and intern positions as well as full time, permanent positions. In addition to Penn State Behrend students, this event is open to students from other Erie College Career Coop erative schools: Allegheny College, Edinboro University, Gannon Univer sity, and Mercyhurst College. For more information about this ca reer fair, visit the Web site http:// www.pserie.psu.edu/career/bfair.htm or call the Penn State Behrend Career Development Center at (814) 898- 6164. PENN STATE ERIE OF FERS SUMMER PRO GRAM IN ENGLAND Penn State Erie, The Behrend Col lege, is offering students an opportu nity to travel to England this summer July 6 through August 12 for study at the University College of Northampton (Nene College). Lo cated in the center of England, Nene College is just one hour from London, Oxford, Cambridge, and Birming ham. This summer course offerings are the first step in collaboration be tween Penn State Behrend and the I vJ CCI)^ PH .899-9012 3516 BUFF. ROAD WESLEYVILLE THE VERY BEST PIZZA & WINGS COLDEST BEER! GREAT FOOD 0 WING .30 EACH PIZZA LG.6.76 SM. 2.60 TACO’S WED. 3/1.50 TACO PIZZA LG. $7 SM. $3 NEW TACO FRIES $1.60 16.0 z DRAFT ALWAYS $l. RED OOG 12.0 z BTL. $l. ALWAYS THUR. PONYS 3/2.00 FRI. SAT. 16oz BUD 1.35 8-12 “SOMETIME YOU NEED A LITTLE ALIBI” may register for any of the eleven 3 credit courses that are offered. 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Participants will be expected to place it $5OO program deposit by Feb. 28. Individuals interested in the Nene College program may contact Dr. Dean Baldwin, acting director of the School of Humanities and Social Sci ences at Penn State Behrend, at (814) 898-6152. Affeftlfcl ARE THERE OTHER PLANETS LIKE EARTH? The Penn State Erie Open House Nights in Astronomy Series contin ues Thursday, Feb. 25 at 7:30 p.m. with Habitable Planets presented by Dr. Darren Williams, assistant pro fessor of physics. Williams’ lecture, Calendar of Events 26 ri • SPC Movie: “I Still Know what you did Last Summer” Reed 117 10:00pm • Spring Play: The Visit, Studio Theatre- 8:00pm • Comedian John Bush Bruno’s B:3opm 4%Tues • Spring Musical Auditions Reed 119 5:30-7:oopm which is free and open to the public, will take place in Room 101 of the Otto Behrend Science Building. Williams, an astrophysicist, was inter nationally recognized for his publica tion last fall in Nature, the world's most prestigious journal of science. Williams' research suggests that the earth might have tilled more tow ard the sun 600 million years ago than it docs today. In a previous paper published by Nature in 1997, he explored the possi bility that there are prospects for life on moons around other stars and planets.ln his lecture, Williams will consider the main factors that affect whether or not a planet is suitable for life, including distance from a star, pres ence of an atmosphere, and stability of orbit and spin. He will also discuss the habitability of Earth and its likely lon gevity. Williams’ lecture will be pictorial and conceptual and is suitable for ages 8 and up. Astronomical observing will take place following the lecture, weather permitting. For more information con tact the Penn State Behrend School of Science at 898-6105. BEHREND CAMPUS MIN ISTRY TO HOLD 30-HOUR FAMINE More than 40 students at Penn Stale Erie, The Behrend College, will last and accept donations to fight world hunger during a 30-hour famine beginning at I p.m. Friday, Feb. 26 and continuing through 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27. Their goal this year is to raise even more than last year’s total of $ l ,960. The 30-hour famine is a joint project of both Catholic and Protestant cam pus ministries at the College. High school students from local churches have also been invited to fast and to join in this fundraising effort, which is co ordinated by Worldvision, a Christian relief and development organization with over 5,200 projects in 100 nations. Calendar 2”T Sat • SPC Movie: “I Still Know what you did Last Summer” Reed 117 10:00pm • Spring Play: The Visit 8:00pm • Shari Richards, Singer- 8:30 Bruno’s • S.U.E. meeting Reed 114 12pm • Freedom Theater’s-Traveling Black History Show Reed Commons 6pm Participating students will ask fac ulty, staff, friends, and family to sponsor them as they go without food to identify with those who are hungry. The group will gather early Friday evening to take part in hun ger awareness exercises and later will be entertained by Grace Notes, a Christian rock band from Univer sity Park. Saturday afternoon the fasting students will take part in ser vice projects at Health South Great Lakes Rehabilitation Hospital of Erie, St. Mary’s Home, the Mercy Center for Women, and the Shriner’s Hospital. Participants will break their fast Saturday evening at 7 p.m. with dinner donated to the event by Old Country Buffet, 7200 Peach Street. For more information about the fast or to donate to fight world hun ger, contact the Penn State Behrend Office of Campus Ministry at 898- 6245 or 898-7139. CAN A WHOLE TOWN BE BOUGHT The Studio Theatre at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will lure its audience into a dark tale of mys tery and corruption when it presents Maurice Valency's adaptation of The Visit, a play by Friedrich Duerrenmatt.. Production is set to begin on Saturday, February 19 at Bpm and continue through Febru ary 20,23,24,25,26, and 27 at Bpm and Sundays February 21 and 28 at 2:3opm. Directed by Lecturer in Theatre Tony Elliot, The Visit is the story of an incredibly wealthy woman who returns to the town of her birth and childhood. The village is in eco nomic ruin and the townspeople are sure she will come to their aid. And she does offer to help, but she wants something in return: “Justice” for the crimes committed against her in the past. Her brand of “Justice” has an especially heavy cost tor Anton Schill, the one the village trusts to ask her for help. Students participating in the play include Angel Moreno, a senior busi ness, liberal arts, and science major from New York City, who plays Clarie, the Wealthy visitor. Schill, her former lover, is played by Joe Getway, a senior English and cre ative writing major from Sharon. Getway is memorable as Bo in last year’s comedy production. Only You. Kobby, the Blind Man who has al ready suffered Clarie’s form of jus tice, is played by Bond Davis of Carnegie, and the mayor, who has great plans for his own town, is played by Dr. L. Ken L. Saunders, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Behrend. Other cast members include, Mark Ahrens, Janna Magoc, David Sonney, Jack Kichura, Susan Rohde, Daryl Brumbaugh, Jackson Connor, Leo Hanley, Amy Vay, and Bethany Cummings. Tickets for the production are $3 for students and $5 for general ad- Thursday, February 25, 1999 - The Behrend College Beacon ■ page 3 mission. To make reservations, please call the Studio Theatre box office at (814) 898-6016. AUDITIONS 8.R.U.N.0. The spring Musical is an origi nal musical revue about the col lege experience. It is based on the popular musical theatre tunes. The auditions will be held on Monday March Ist at 3:30-s:oopm, and Tuesday March 2nd at 5:30- 7:oopm. If you would like to try out go to Reed 119. Please bring sheet music and a prepared piece as well as your class and work schedule. If you have any ques tions you can contact Mr. Elliot at 6279. A PROVOST SPEAKER SERIES Dr. Jack Young, a veteran of the research laboratory and the college classroom, will continue the Pro vosts Speaker Series at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Thursday, March 4 with “Higher Education at the Crossroads: Need for a New Institutional Model?” His lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at noon in the Reed Union Building Lecture Hall. Young, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Behrend, selected his topic on the basis of its importance, timliness, and general interest to the community. He notes that legisla tors, parents, students, and employ ers are increasingly concerned about undergraduate education and are challenging its curricula, its Dr. Jack Young 28' • Catholic Mass Reed Commons 8:00pm • SPC Movie: “I Still Know what you did Last Summer” Reed 117 9:oopm • Spring Play: The Visit Studio Theatre 2:3opm Jl Thurs • Speaker Series: Dr. Jack Young Reed Union Building Lecture Hall 12pm funding, and ils outcomes. To meet this challenge he proposes a redefinition ol higher education, bringing community colleges, mature students, new tech nologies, and higher enrollments into the equation. In his presentation Young will review some of the major forces involved in this redefinition: the need for increased student accessibility to higher educa tion: a changing student population; doctorial training, the impact of the business model, and public account ability. Young is the winner of the 1998 Penn State Erie Council of Fellows Award for Excellence in Teaching. After recieveing his doctorate in bioengi neering from the University of Michi gan in 1972. he went on to the Univer sity of Toronto to complete post doctorial studies. Before coming to Penn State Behrend in 1988. Young worked for fourteen years at Steris (then known as American Sterilizer) as the assistant director and director of re search. He continues to consult to re main current with the needs and devel- opmcnts of industry. DR. SEUSS READING DAY AT PENN STATE BEHREND Penn Stale Behrend will take part in "Read Across America" with a public reading featuring works by Dr. Seuss on Tuesday. March 2, 1999 from 7:oopm to B:3opm. Students in grades k-2 in all Erie area schools have been invited to join the Penn State Behrend Communations Club in the Commons of Reed Union Building for reading, face painting, snacks and singing. This is a free event and isopen to the public. If you would like more information please cal! (814) 898-6660.
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