The Behrend
Beacon
Two Males Charged in S-Lot Break-ins
by Jennifer Hemme
staff writer
On April 20th, Aaron D.
Przybyzewski, 19 of Haborcreek. and
a seventeen year-old juvenile, were
charged with the recent automobile
thefts that occurred on campus in
January. The break-ins which took
place in the south apartment lot were
reported in The Beacon’s March 18th
issue.
Przybyszewski has been charged
with ten counts of Criminal Con
spiracy to Commit Theft and one
count of Receiving Stolen Property,
but it was the juvenile that has been
accused of stealing items from the
vehicles. He has been charged with
ten counts of Criminal Conspiracy to
Commit Theft, ten counts of theft by
Unlawful Taking, and five counts of
Criminal Mischief.
Ex-Congresswoman visits Behrend:
Schroeder discusses a woman’s role in congress
by Mike Frawley
assistant editor
On Wednesday, April 14,
1999, former Congresswomen
Patricia Schroeder spoke as a
part of the Penn State Behrend
Speaking Series. Schroeder
gave her speech, entitled
“Twenty-four Years of
Housework and the Place is
Still a Mess”, in the Reed
Lecture Hall, and had a
meeting with a small group of
students in the Multi-Cultural
Council office earlier in the
afternoon.
Throughout the day,
Schroeder shared her thoughts
on politics, government, and
the future. She was first elected to
her House seat in 1972 and went on
to serve 12 terms. This made her the
longest serving female member of the
House of Representatives. She is a
member of the Democratic party, was
Dean of Congressional Women, co
chaired the Congressional Caucus on
Women’s Issues. As a member of the
House she served on the House
Judiciary Committee and the Post
Office and Civil Service Committee.
She was also the first women to serve
No competition
by Ayodele Jones
managing editor
With the end of the semester fast
approaching, students at Behrend
have not cast their vote for their stu
dent government representatives. The
elections for Behrend’s Student Gov
ernment Association are supposed to
be held on Wednesday April 21, and
Thursday April 22, unfortunately
there are not enough candidates to run
Phil Donahue, Manager of Police and
Behrend’s Police and Safety
Services has been working with the
Millcreek, Erie, Wesleyville. and
Lawrence Park police departments
during the past four months. Bill
on the House Armed Services
Committee.
The meeting in the MCC office
Wednesday
was very well received. Eleven
students and faculty members
attended, giving everyone there a
chance to discuss issues that they felt
were important with someone with
an inside view on Washington.
Schroeder was very well informed
and gave detailed answers. Gilbert
Jordan, 02 DUS, attended the
meeting and commented, "I thought
she was very informative. Some of
her comments were interesting.”
Her speech later that night, which
a successful competitive election.
There are only eleven senators
running for SGA Senate, and their
are 15 seats available. In addition,
there is only one candidate running
for secretary, president and vice
president. As it stands, these candi
dates will automatically win their
seats, and become the new SGA for
the 1999-2000 year.
Students running for SGA Senate
include; Michael Ames, Stacey
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Donahue, manager of Police and Safety
Services said. ”1 here have been two or
three officers from our department who
have taken preliminary criminal com
plaints on these and have followed up
had one of the highest attendance levels
for any speaker that has come to
Behrend this semester, was rebroadcast
on AM 1450 WPSE,
Penn Stale Erie radio.
Her speech covered
many different aspects
of her life as a female
member of the House,
which is dominated by
men. and the many
things that she had to
deal with in her life as a
member of Congress.
One topic that she
went into detail on was
her service on the
Armed
Committee
serving on the
committee she was able
to improve child care for
military personal on bases throughout
the world, a topic that was not being
handled well by the committee before
she became a member.
This was the last speaker of the year
for the Penn State Behrend Speaker
Series, which is sponsored by the
Office of Student Affairs. A new set of
speakers will be announced at the
beginning of next semester.
Erzen, Michael Frawley, Stephanie
Knapp, Julie Meyers, Wunmi Okupe,
Jose Orama, Jobe Piemme, Ryan An
thony Shaser, Charles Testrake and
Douglas Watkins.
Andrea Diplacido, SGA vice presi
dent and tentatively the future SGA
president noted “As president of SGA
next year I would like to make a lot of
changes, not only in the Senate but also
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[reports] with victims-and we have
coordinated with the other law en-
forcement agencies around-to see if
there were other crimes, other sus
pects. It was a diligent
investigation...and hopefully, we will
get restitution for the victims.”
Donahue also said that, contrary
to rumors, “There were no particu
lar groups being singled out just be
cause they had been displaying
Greek letters on their cars, or they
drove a particular car, or anything of
that nature. The thefts were [perpe
trated] because people left things in
view that the suspects decided they
could use for their own purposes.”
The charges against Przybysztwski
were filed before District Justice Pe
ter P. Nakoski and the charges against
the juvenile were filed with the Of
fice of Juvenile Probation at the Erie
County Court House.
SGA announces budgets allocations
by Katie Galley
wire services Editor
SGA announced the preliminary
allocations of the 1999 - 2000 bud
get in a meeting last week. They are
scheduled to vote on final allocations
Thursday, April 22. About 45 groups
on campus turned in proposals for
money. The SGA Budget Commit
tee reviewed the proposals and then
interviewed some of the groups for
more details. The Budget Commit
tee had less money to distribute this
year. They decided to make up the
shortfall by cutting all groups.
The SGA Budget committee,
which consists of 10 members, re-
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Softball to
Spring Fever will be held in
by Ayodele Jones
managing editor
After a week of debate and
maneuvering, students at Behrend
have been granted their wish; Spring
Fever is now in the apartment quad.
Spring Fever will be held on April
23, 1999. It was never a question of
when the event was to be held but
where. In the past Spring Fever has
been held in the apartment quad,
however the event was moved be
cause of alcohol consumption (an in
creased use by underage students)
and the safety of the students became
a question. Around campus
there were posters advertising Spring
Fever, yet a location was not speci
fied. Students and staff were attempt
ing to come to a compromise lor a
site, the Reed Patio, the basketball
courts next to Perry Hall and the lawn
between Reed and Perry, were all pri-
views proposals turned in by student
organizations and then determines
how much money each organization
should be allocated tor the year.
The SGA began this process in Feb
ruary when the organization budget
proposals were due. Since then the
budget committee has reviewed the
proposals and determined how the
money would he best distributed.
Any student organization on cam
pus that is registered with SGA could
submit budget proposals. All groups
were encouraged to submit proposals
regardless of the size ot the group. 1 he
SGA also gives money to groups that
are either social or academic, there is
no preference
All the groups were notified ol the
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students and staff were attain im
passe and a location for Spring Fe
ver was still unknown. Ken Miller,
acting Dean o! Student Allairs Stu
dents said, "the main issue from an
administrative standpoint was that
we can not control student hehav ior.
The Student Government
Association with a group ol students
formed a committee to come up with
alternative ways to deal with any
problems associated with alcohol
abuse. The committee went around
to each apartment and made the resi
dents sign pledges, promising to ad
here to the rules of responsible aleo- j
holie behavior, about 65 c 7<-75% of ;
apartment residents signed the j
pledge. This grass roots movement
made a direct impact and it is respon
sible for moving Spring Fever back
into the apartment quad.'
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amount of money they were allocated
and they had until Wednesday, April
2 I to request an appeal. According to
the committee, there is only about $5O
left in the budget, so there isn t much
more money to give out.
The lack of money is believed to
be due to a smaller amount of park
ing violations on campus. All the lines
that students pay from parking tick
ets go into the SGA budget.
Andrea DiPlaeido, SGA Vice Presi
dent speaking in support of the Bud
get Committee's decisions noted,
"Considering the amount of money
we were funded, the Budget Commit
tee tried their hardest to distribute it
fairly.”