• SPC Movie: “Stepmom”
Reed 117-9 pm
• Softball vs. Lake Erie(DH)- 3pm
g l2 Mon
• Baseball vs. Grove City (DH)-Ipm
• SPC Movie: “Patch Adams”
Reed 117- 9pm
• Dr. Yervant Terzian Otto
Behrend Science Building Room
101- 7:3opm
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• IM: Badminton begins
• Tennis (M) vs Baldwin and Wallace
-3:3opm
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 he 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- Mack 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
Building. The cost is 35 cents for each
announcement. Please call the Provosts
Office at 898-6160 by May 3if you
plan to attend.
ELM CITY ENSEMBLE AT
BEHREND APRIL 13
Music at Noon: The Logan
Wintergarden Series will close its
1998-99 season with a performance by
the Elm City Ensemble on Tuesday,
April 13 at Penn State Erie, The
Behrend College. Guests are invited to
bring a brown-hag lunch to the
noontime concert, which takes place
in the Wintergarden of the Reed Union
Building. All performances in the
Logan Series are free and open to the
public.
This award-winning chamber music
ensemble was formed in 1995 at Yale
University and includes graduates of
Juilliard, Eastman, and the Mozarteum
in Salzburg. Opening to critical
acclaim, throughout the 1996-97
season Elm City Ensemble received
the top prizes of four national chamber
music competitions and other prizes
from the Contemporary Record
Society’s National Chamber Music
Competition and the Pro Piano
Competition in New York
Members of the quartet include
Elm City Ensemble
Garrick Zoeter, clarinet; Ingrid
Sweeney, violin, Rebecca Patterson,
cello, and Jessica Bruser, piano. As
much as they appreciate music
written in the past, they are very
much fans contemporary classical
music and have found that a winning
formula for the group. We try to
break down barriers with our
audiences and invite them to open
up their ears to new possibilities, said
Bruser.
A relatively young group, the Elm
City Ensemble is already recognized
for its interpretation of contemporary
musical pieces. They have played at
the Norfolk Music Festival, the
International Festival of Arts and
Ideas in New Haven, the Winners
Concert of the Carmel Competition,
the Winners Concert of the Fischoff
Competition, and St. Patrick s
Cathedral. More information about
the ensemble is available at its web
site, www.elmcityensemble.com.
Music at Noon: The Logan
Wintergarden Series at Penn State
Erie brings world-class musicians to
the college to perform in an informal
setting. The series is made possible
through a grant from the Harry A.
Logan, Jr. Foundation.
For more information, please
contact the Penn State Erie Office of
Student Activities at (814) 898-6171.
BEHREND HOSTS
ENGINEERING
EDUCATORS
CONFERENCE
Penn State Erie, The Behrend
College, will host the 1999 North
Central Section regional American
Society for Engineering Educators
(ASEE) conference on Thursday and
Friday, April 8-9. Representatives
from more than 34 different
academic institutions covering 14
states will collectively share ideas
that encourage continuous
improvement in the quality of
engineering and engineering
technology education.
The conference theme is
Reshaping Engineering and
Engineering Technology. In keeping
with the theme, 75 educators will
present papers at sessions dealing
with improving the freshman
Calendar of Events
• SPC Movie: “Stepmom”
Reed 117- 10pm
• Comedian Loose Screws Brunos
B:3opm
• IM deadline: Badminton 4pm
j^^yues
• Baseball vs. Laßoche (DH)- Ipm
• Logan Series: Elm City Ensemble
12pm Wintergarden
• Communications Alumni Panel Bpm
• S.U.E. meeting Reed 114 12pm
experience, innovative laboratory and
teaching methods, academic
collaboration with industry, outreach in
continuing education, and other issues.
Exhibitors from computer aided
design and analysis companies Prentice
Hall, Solidworks, and ANSYS, Inc.,
will be on hand to display the latest
technology software available for use
in the classroom. Local industries
including Lord Corporation, FMC, and
Erie Plastics will sponsor scheduled
break periods to provide time for
participants’ discussion. P.C. Hoop
Roche, president of Erie Plastics and
chair of the Penn State Behrend Council
of Fellows, will present the luncheon
keynote address, Business and
Engineering:
Strange Bedfellows at the Millennium.
An awards dinner honoring the best
paper presentation will conclude the
conference.
For more information about the
conference, please call the Penn State
Behrend School of engineering and
Engineering Technology at (814) 898-
6153.
SPRING MUSICAL
REVUE-8.R.U.N.0.S
Matchbox players is proud to present
8.R.U.N.0.5., an original musical
revue about college life at Behrend.
The show was created, written, and
produced by members of Matchbox
players, Behrend’s theatre club.
8.R.U.N.0.5. will be preformed in the
studio Theatre on April 15, 16, 17, and
18 at 8:00pm and April 18 at 4:oopni.
Reserved seating is limited and
reservations will be taken beginning
April 5. Call the Studio Theatre at 898-
6016 for reservations. General
Admission is $3.00, and each
performance is FREE to all Penn State
students with ID. Come out and
laugh...right this way, a good time’s
waiting!
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CORNELL ASTRONOMER
TO SPEAK AT BEHREND
Dr. Yervant Terzian. astronomer and
director of the New York State Pew
Cluster of Colleges and Universities
for the improvement of undergraduate
science education, will present The
Magnificent University on Thursday,
April 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Penn State
Erie, The Behrend College. His
lecture, which is free and open to the
public, will take place in the Otto
Behrend Science Building.
Terzian has been associated with the
Arecibo Observatory since
1965. His areas of study include the
physics of the interstellar medium, HII
regions, the evolution of.late type
stars, binary galaxies, colliding
galaxies, and the physics of planetary
nebulae. With students and
collaborators he has used the Arecibo
radio telescope, the Palomar five
meter telescope, the International
Ultraviolet Space Explorer, and others.
Calendar
His current work uses the Hubble
Space Telescope to study the
detailed structure of planetary
nebulae.
Ter/.ian's lecture will explore
the universe from a historical
perspective, including modern
cosmological theories developed
using the scientific method. His
presentation includes astronomical
slides taken with the world’s largest
telescopes and with cameras from
spacecraft.
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• SPC Movie: "Stepmom”
Reed 117-10 pm
• Tennis (M) vs Waynesburg- 3pm
14 wd
• Speaker: Patricia Schroeder Reed
Commons 7:3opm
Ter/.ian's lecture concludes the
1998-99 Penn State Behrend Open
House Nights in Astronomy Series.
Astronomical observing will follow
the lecture, weather permitting. For
more information, please call the
School of Science at (814| 898-
6105.
women’s health policies by
SCHROEDER TO submitting a comprehensive
DISCUSS "HOUSEWORK" legislative package, the Women’s
AT BEHREND
Former Congresswoman Patricia
Schroeder will share her thoughts on
politics, government, and the future
at Penn Stale Erie. The Behrend
College, on Wednesday, April 14 at
7:30 p.m. Her lecture. Twenty-tour
Years of Housework and the Place
is Still a Mess, is the final
presentation ol the 1998-99 Penn
State Behrend Speaker Series. It
takes place in the Reed Union
Patricia Schroeder
Thursdax, April 8, 1999 - The Behrend College Beacon - page d
Building Commons and is tree and
open to the public.
Schroeder was elected to
Coloiado's First Congressional
District seat in 1972 and went on to
serve 1 2 terms, making her the
longest-serving woman in the
House of Representatives. An
outspoken and independent voice
within the Democratic Party,
Schroeder was Dean of
Congressional women and co
chaired the Congressional Caucus
on Women's Issues for ten years.
She served on the House Judiciary
Committee, the Post Office and
Civil Service Committee, and was
the first woman to served on the
House Armed Services Committee.
Under Schroeder's leadership, the
Caucus on Women’s Issues
launched an effort to improve
Health Equity Act,
investigating gender discrepancies
in health research and services. As
chair of the House Select committee i
on Children, Youth, and Families
from 1991-93, she saw the Family
and Medical Leave Act and the
National Institutes of Health
Revitalization Act passed in 1993.
Never a single-issue candidate,
Patricia Schroeder has been a leader
in the cause of education and a
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• Catholic Mass Reed Commons
8:00pm
• SPC Movie: “Stepmom”
Reed 117- 9pm
• Tennis (M) vs Frostburg/Lake Erie
-3:3opm
■ Thurs
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champion of tree speech. In 1995. the
year she retired undefeated from the
House, she was named to the national
women's Hall ot Fame and labeled by
Oliver North as one of the country's 25
most dangerous politicians.
Scluoeder. a 1964 graduate ol
Harvard Law School, currently serves
as president and CEO of the Association
of American Publishers, the national
trade organization of the U S. Book
Publishing industry. She is the author
of two books. Champion of the Great
American Family, and 24 \ears ot
Housework and the Place is Still a
Mess.
The Penn State Behrend Speaker
Series is sponsored by the Office ol
Student Affairs and is partially funded
by the John Nesbit Rees and Sarah
Henne Rees Charitable Foundation and
the PNC Corporation. An interpreter for
deaf and hard-of-hearing audience
members will be visible at the lecture,
and assistive listening devices are
available upon advance request from
the Office of Student Activities at (814)
898-6171. These services are made
possible through funding from Penn
State's Equal Opportunity Planning
Committee. All lectures are also taped
for broadcast on AM 1450/WPSE. Penn
State Erie radio. For more information
about the Speaker Series, please call the
Penn State Behrend switchboard at
(814) 898-6000.