25 Thurs • SPC Movie: “This Bug’s Life” Reed 117-10 pm • Astronomy Open House- 7:3opm Otto Behrend 29 Mon • Do not forget to call your mother 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 any material submitted for publication. The calendar is intended foi Behtend notit i s and i\ < nts bp:hrend celebrates NATIONAL HISTORY DAY MARCH 27 The public is im iled to join students in grades 6-12 from schools through out northwestern Pennsylvania as they present papers, exhibits, and perfor mances for National History Day on Saturday. March 27 at Penn Stale Erie. The Behrend College. The event be gins at 8 a.m. in the Reed Union Build ing and continues through 1 p.m. The theme this year is Science. Technology. Invention in History: Impact. Influ ence. Change. National History Day is an exciting way for students to study and learn about historical issues, ideas, people, and events. This competitive event has two divisions: the junior division for grades 6-8 and the senior division for grades 9-12. Students may prepare an entry in one of seven categories: indi vidual paper; individual or group ex hibit; individual or group performance; individual or group media. Winners at the regional event then compete in state contest, and the top two winners in the state competition advance to the na tional competition, which is held in June at the University of Maryland. Dr. John Powell, assistant professor of history and coordinator of the area National History Day celebration, en courages the public to visit Penn Slate Behrend lo see outstanding historical performances, media presentations, and projects prepared by area students. Many local entries will qualify for the state competition. In addition to tradi tional topics, students frequently choose themes involving events, orga nizations, and businesses in northwest ern Pennsylvania. History Day is actively supported by Respicimus (the Penn State Behrend history club), the Penn State Behrend School of Humanities and Social Sci ences, and Erie Yesterday. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the School ol Humanities and Social Sciences at (814) 898-6108. BEHREND AND SIGMA XI HOST UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFER- ENCE Penn State Erie, The Behrend Col lege, and the northwestern Pennsylva nia chapter of Sigma Xi, the scientific research society, will host the eighth annual Undergraduate Student Re search and Creative Accomplishment Conference on Saturday, March 27 from 8:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. Presen tations will take place in the Academic Building at Penn State Behrend, where posters will also be on display. The conference is free and open to the pub lic. The following sessions are sched uled: Posters on display from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Biology oral presentations from 8:30 to 11:15 a.m. Business and history oral presenta- lions from 8:45 to 11 a.m. Chemis- try. engineering, math, and computer science oral presentations from 8:15 to 11 a.m. A luncheon for all partici pants will follow. Research is a very important com ponent of undergraduate education, stresses Dr. Robert Light, associate provost and associate dean. The con ference is the fourth program to be established at the College that pro motes student involvement in re search. Other programs include the Penn State Behrend Undergraduate Student Research Grant, the council of fellows Undergraduate Student Research Award, and the Penn Slate Behrend Undergraduate Student Summer Research Fellowship. The conference includes twenly six presentations and eleven posters, giving students an opportunity to present their research findings in a public setting and to demonstrate how involvement in research activi ties can make a positive difference in the undergraduate experience, emphasizes Light. The conference continues to grow. This year, in ad dition to participants from all four schools at Penn State Behrend, the conference will include presenta tions by students from Edinboro University. Grove City College, and SUNY Fredonia. Funding for the conference is pro vided by the College, by Sigma Xi, and by the Penn State Fund for Un dergraduate Research. For more in formation about this event, please call Penn State Behrend at (814) 898- 6000. BLUE BUS CANCELLATIONS Saturday, March 27, 1999 The bus is reserved all day for the spring shopping trip to Grove City and Sharon,Pa. Sunday, March 28, 1999 The bus is reserved for the 11:00am, 12:20pm, 1:00pm, 2:2opm, 3:oopm and 4:2opm runs. (Cleveland Airport Request) SPRING COMMENCEMENT The Spring 1999 Commencement ceremony will be held on Saturday, May 15, at noon on the Reed Union Building lawn. In case of inclement weather, two ceremonies will be held. The first will begin at 12:00 noon and the second at 2:3opm, both in Erie Hall. Seniors who intend to participate in the graduation ceremony must purchase a cap and gown from the bookstore. Prices are as follows: Baccalaureate-black (keeper) $22.75, Associate- blue (Keeper) $22.75, Graduate- black cap gown, hood (keeper)- $46.00 and Graduate black cap, gown, hood (rental)- $35.25. The deadline to order caps and gowns is April 9. Beginning April 6, graduation announcements may be purchased on a walk-in basis from the Media and Instructional Support Center (MISC) in the Academic Calendar of Events 26“ • SPC Movie: “This Bug’s Life” Reed 117- 10pm • Bruno’s: Steve Wolf and the Swing Band- 8:30 • IM Deadline: Swimming-4pm 30 Tues • Write a letter of complaint to Housing and Food Services Building. The cost is 35 cents for each announcement. GROVE CITY TRIP The blue bus is planning a shopping trip to the Grove City Outlet Mall and also to various attractions in nearby Sharon, PA on Saturday, March 27, 1999. Tentative Itinerary l():0()am Depart Reed Building 11:30am Arrive at Grove City Outlet Mall 4:(X)pm Depart Grove City Outlet Mall 4:3opm Arrive in Sharon, Pa. Tour Daffin’s Candies, Avenue of the Flags, Kraynak's Store and many more places, with Dinner at Quaker Steak and Lube. 10:00pm Approximate Return to Behrend Remember, that as a group, we can make revisions to this itinerary. We ask that you sign up at the Rub Desk as soon as possible with your nonfundable downpayment of $lO.OO by March 20th. This trip usually sells out so sign up soon. NSBE HOSTS FASHION SHOW AT BEHREND MARCH 25 The National Society of Black Engineers at Penn State Behrend will host its annual fashion show Thursday, March 25 at 7 p.m. in the Reed Union Building Commons. Tickets for the event are $3 for students, $5 for non students. Channasa Taylor, a member and spokesperson for NSBE, said that forty students from NSBE and other organizations across campus will model fashions from a variety of designers and stores including Express, Lerner New Steve Wolf and Swing Speak Calendar 27“ • Softball vs. Frostburg (DH)- 2pm • SPC Movie: “This Bug’s Life" Reed 117- 10pm 31 wed York, Rave, Footlocker, Hanover, Dots, and Wilsons. The fashion scene will focus on military styles, casino styles, casual/sportswear, w'inter, swimsuits, Lady in Red, and for the futuristic finale, lots of gold. The National Society of Black Engineers is a non-profit, student managed organization with more than 10,000 members in 300 chapters nationwide. The purpose of the Penn State Behrend chapter is to encourage minority students to major in engineering and to provide services for those students that will help them excel academically and succeed professionally. Appetizers will be served when guests arrive. To reserve priority seating or for more information about the fashion show, please call the Penn State Behrend Office of Student Activities at-898-6171. •< STEVE WOLF AND SWING SPEAK AT BE HREND MARCH 26 The Office of Student Activities at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will present a performance by Steve Wolf and Swing Speak on Friday, March 26 at 8:30 p.nt. The group, which offers a rich mix of jazz and other musical styles, will perform at Bruno’s in the Reed Union Building. Their performance is free and open to the public. After years of backing a legion of top lo • Get involved - Write a letter to the editor Thursday, March 25. 1999 - The Behrend College Beacon - page 3 cal and national performers, four of Washington's finest side men have come together to form Swing Speak. In this era of techno pop and hype, they make music the old fash ion way: with a strong melodic con tent and deft musical skill. Not con tent to be typecast, this revivalist group has influences covering the full range of the American jazz rep ertoire, along with a touch of Latin and rhythm & blues. The success of this formula is evident in their exciting performances, and the band is quickly gaining a loyal follow ing. Steve Wolf was named by Goldmine Magazine as one of the best bass players on the East Coast. His band includes keyboard player Tim Ford, drummer Barry Hart, and saxophonist Bruce Swain. Perfor mance credits for the members in clude notables such as The Tommy Dorsey Band, The Four Aces, Wynton Marsalis, and Chuck Berry. The Swing Speak CD release "Well Spoken" was honored with the Washington Area Music Asso ciation Award for "Best Traditional Jazz Recording" at the 1997 Awards. The group was also nomi nated for "Best Traditional Jazz Group" the same year. For more information about this event, please call the Penn State Be hrend Office of Student Activities at 898-6171. OPEN HOUSE NIGHT IN ASTRONOMY In the sixth of the 1998/99 Penn State Open House Nights in Astronomy series, Dr. Roger 28 Sun • Catholic Mass Reed Commons 8:00pm • SPC Movie: “This Bug’s Life” Reed 117- 10pm 4Thurs 1 • Softball vs. Pitt-Greensburg (DH)- 3pm • SPC Movie: “A Civil Action” Reed 117- 9pm Knacke will present a lecture on the role of neutrinos in the universe. Neutrinos are among the smallest and lightest of the fundamental particles that make up matter in the universe. They are so ephemeral that the Earth is almost completely transparent to them. Despite this, neutrinos are critical to several energetic processes in the universe. The sun emits neutrinos, hut lor many years some neutrinos have seemed to be missing, as scientists have puzzled over neutrino counts smaller than therories predict. In 1987, a star in a nearby galaxy became a “supernova, exploding with terrifying violence that sent out an intense pulse of neutrinos were generated in the Big Bang beginning of the universe, and may still fill the universe today. Some of the mysteries about neutrinos seem to be.pn the verge ol resolution with the announcement in 1998 that neutrinos possess the chameleon-like ability to change among three different types. Scientists are testing these ideas with huge new astronomical neutrino “ observations in deep mines, the Pacific Ocean, and the Antarctic ice caps. This lecture is free and open to the public. It will be held on Thursday. March 25, 1999 at The Otto Behrend Science 101, starting at 7:3opm. Calendar Notices should be sent to: Behrcoll3 @ aol.com
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