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All-Conference players as three Lions
were slighted to the second team. First
team consisted of Kristy Hiben -
Laßoche, Amy Schmuck - Pitt-
Greensburg, Shannon Rexrode (Player
of the Year) - Frostburg, and Mandy
Lindsay and Lora Figley - Pitt-
Bradtord. Brianne Krebs - Pitt-
Greensburg and Natalie Nuzzo - Pitt-
Bradtord joined Carrie Nestor, Erin
Phillips and Jen O’Lare of Behrend on
the second team. Phillips was also
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ties. It also goes into reducing operat
ing expenses and helps keep tuition
down. 10% is devoted to the salaries
and benefits of the bookstore employ
ees.
The 2.5 cents that remains is used
by the bookstore to pay for its direct
expenses such as, taxes, equipment,
maintenance repairs, supplies, etc. Af
ter paying these expenses, what is left
over is the bookstore’s profit on the
new textbook.
Behrend students still feel nega
tively about the prices. "The prices fall
on the bad side of high." noted Andrew
Moore, 02, A&A-CMN YR ART MAJ.
Wunmi Okupe. 02, EE, said, “1 think
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solar system that lies within this zone.
Earth is also tilted 23.5 degrees on
its axis causing seasons; however, if
a planet is tilted too much, for ex
ample Uranus, temperature changes
would be dramatic and make it nearly
impossible for life to survive.
The craft of curiosity then took a
quick zip past the moon, which does
lie in the “Habitable Zone”, where it
was discovered that life could not
exist due to its lack of an atmosphere.
Venus was then studied, and it too,
can not support life. Even though it
has an um.o.->phere, it is too thick and
causes the temperature of Venus is to
high and would cause liquid water to
immediately evaporate. The only
other planet in our solar system has
even the slightest potential of sup
porting life is on one of Saturn’s
Rhythms of history
Ayodele Jones
managing editor
On Wednesday, March 03, The
Multi-Cultural Council treated stu
dents to a night of dance, and song,
when Philadelphia’s own Freedom
Theatre’s Traveling Black History
Show, performed a retrospective of
black history through the rhythmic
sounds of music . Despite the inclem
ent weather, “The Freedom Theratre”
received a warm welcolme from those
in attendance, many of who were look
ing forward to experiencing the history
of African-Americans with a different
twist. The theatre provided students
witha welcome reprieve fiom stress
and studying.
“Rhythms of History” is a dramatic
musical and dance presentation featur
ing which spanned two centuries of
invention, African American women
and men, writers, explorers, perform
ers and scientists. The show began
with the “grandfather of rap,” Paul
Laurence Dunbar, the popular poet
who often described his antebellum
subjects with a rhythmic dialect.
Asked by the performers to particpate,
the audience shouted "Jump Back
Honey Jump Back,” a refrain from one
of one of Dunbar’s famous poems.
Jumping a couple of years into the
future, the African-American per
former, Josephine Baker, brought to
life by Nora Martin, was prasied for
being a trendsetter in the United States
and abroad. Baker who would not play
to segregated audiences in the United
States conquered Europe with a world
tour. Declaring that she was “black and
named AMCC Newcomer of the Year
and 100-win coach Roz Fornari
shared the AMCC Coach of the Year
with A 1 Mielcarek of Lake Erie.
Overall the weekend was a success
with much fan participation, not only
in Behrend games, but also in other
contests. Benim commented on the
fan participation saying, "It's as many
people I've seen in Erie Hall. Con
sistently that whole weekend, this
place was packed and it was very
the prices are outrageous.”
The bookstore has a contract with
Behrend guaranteeing that it will be
the only bookstore on campus. How
ever, many students feel this is un
fair. Michelle Lazor, 04, Marketing,
commented, “Other bookstores
should be available to students. The
bookstore we have is an monopoly
because we have only one place to
buy most of our books.” Another stu
dent. Melinda Frank, 06. History,
stated. “Sometimes you can go to
Barnes and Noble and get the books
you need for half the price. Websites
also allow students to get books
cheaper."
moons called Titan. Titan is ex
tremely far away from the sun, but it
does contain an atmosphere thicker
than Earth's. More will be known of
Titan after July 2004, when images
of the of the moon’s surface will be
sent to Earth. Then the quest for
the discovery of life took the crowd
completely out of our solar system.
Deep into space, several stars were
discovered to have planets orbiting
them, Two of these stars have one
Jupiter-sized planet orbiting in the
’Habitable Zone.” The planets may
even have habitable, earth-sized
moons encircling them. Planets
around other stars are too dim to see
directly so astronomers must detect
the slight wobble of stars caused by
orbiting planets. In the future our
technology may be able to detect
free in France and that she could
dance in the streets." Baker declared
that she would not play the expected
role of a maid in Hollywood, how
ever Patty McDaniel who played just
another maid in “Gone With The
Wind" was the first African-Ameri
can to win an Academy Award.
Mariyln Brewington Larsen who
played McDaniel remarked” I’d
rather be paid $7OOO to play a maid,
rather than being a maid and being
paid seven dollars a week.”
Miguel Duane Osborne acted as
Jackie Robinson, when he led the
Brooklyn dodgers to the Champion
ships and his recognition as Most
Valauble Player of the year by the
National League.. Robinson paved
the way for players of color and he
forever changed the face of sports.
Osborne, cried “we gotta fight for the
small things, because if we don’t fight
for the small things, we’ll lose the
small things and then we’lll lose the
big things.”
The highlight of the evening was
when Larsen impersonated Ma
Mabley, an African-American woman
comedian. She remarked that “she
attended a funeral when the under
taker told her husband that he does
not need to leave this place....well
you’re supposed to say something
good about the dead well good
he’s dead!!!! the audience erupted
with laughter as, Larsen sashayed
across the stage in Reed Commons.
From the lyrical genius of Paul
Laurence Dubbar to the mastered
“skat” of Ella Fitzgerald, the Freedom
Theatre “rhythined” through hisitory
good for the college, very good for
the conference. Very good atmo-
sphere."
The Behrend Lady Lions left Erie
Hall with the AMCC hardware as the
men left with a chance at the ECAC
hardware, this week. The success of
both teams put Behrend on the map
for having strong basketball pro
grams and a bright future in the
AMCC and perhaps beyond.
Another controversial issue has
been the text book buyback program
that the bookstore runs. Heidi Sav
age, manager of the Penn State Book
store, explained that, “the professors
give a list of books that will be used
that following semester. The reused
books are bought back for half of the
price.” The prices for used books
are set by the used book company. If
a book is not going to be used for a
following term, a student may receive
little to no money for it as determined
by the used book company.
Some students find this explana
tion unsatisfactory. Erica Cobb, 02,
science, summed it up with, “They
get you coming and they get you go
ing."
small planets but now only very large
ones can be found.
Finally the vessel containing
people of all ages from the Erie area
then returned back to room 101 in the
Otto Behrend Science building, thus,
ending the incredible journey, the
knowledge gained that night was
enough to stir anyone’s curiosity and
imagination. The leader of the curi
ous crew, Captain Williams, took his
spectators on an unforgettable ride:
the quest for habitable planets. The
next departure for fascination and
imagination is March 25. So, to con
clude our time together today; call
your travel agent no (even though it’s
free, and everyone is welcome) and
make plans to journey through space.
and gave Behrend the opportunity to
ride along on this adventure, the
Freedom Theatre was founded by
John E Allen Jr., the theatre is an out
growth of discipline which empha
sizes artistic and intellectual excel
lence. Larsen urged the audience to
"love the most important person in
your life....yourself.” Keep a flame
burning for the rhythms of history
because the rhythms you make are as
old as historyand as new as today,
urged Osborne.
The Freedom Theratre Traveling
Black History show gave students,
faculty and staff the opportunity take
a musical ride through the history of
African Americans and sociey as a
whole. Mariyln Brewington Larsen,
Miguel Duane Osborne, Nora Mar
tin and the music of Damon Bennett
provided the audience with an
evening of rhythmic history and en
richment.
Michael ross, 02 Political Science
Freedom Theatre was a very scintil
lating experience that the various as
pects of history with a twist.
Matt Elias, 05 Meteorology
I thought that FreedomTheatre’s pre
sentation was educational and enter
taining. It’s jsuts sad that that there
wasn’ta bigger turnout because many
people on this campus can use the
awarness of other cultures.
Heather Robinsonm 02 DUS
It was interesting to listen the rhtymic
tellings of AFrican-American history
not told in textbook class.
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Folice And Safety
REPO
Who Would You Like to See Speak
At Beherend Next Year
And Why?
“Monica Lewinsky, so we could find out
what really happend to that cigar.”
-R.J. Franz, 02, Mgmt.
“Steven Hawking, because he’s amazingly
intellegent.”
-Aaron Foley, 02, ME
“Tom Ridge, because he has to do
with Pennsylvania, and well we arc
at Penn State.”
-Clint Skillen, 05. MET
“Tori Amos, I’ve always wanted
to met her, she is my favorite
pianist.”
-Sondra Kareyva, 03, Bio
“I would like to have some Victoria
Secret girls to come talke to us
about their politcal views.”
-Eric Bayless, 06, Hist