THE BEHREND BEACON ARC Weekly Events friday, 11larch 17: St. Patrick's Day Green Eggs and Ham Breakfast at Almy Hall sponsored by Residence Life Sunday, march 19: Ohio and Almy Cookout hosted by Residence Life Monday, march 20: 7:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m ment Quad Tuesday, march 21: Day for the Elimination of Racism Penn State Erie, The Behrend College will he joining the world community to celebrate the INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINA TION RA staff will join hands with some student organizations to solicit pledges against racism. There will be a table set-up outside of Bruno's in the RUB, from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm, where students, faculty and std . ' could stop by and sign a petition to racism The pledge will read: "I pledge my commitment to ending racism. Beginning with the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, March 21, I am proud to join my fellow citizens around the world in this shared pursuit." 7:00 p.m. - Post Coition shown in Reed Union Building Lecture Hall. A Closer Look* WOMEN'S FILM SERIES AT BEHREND GETS OFF TO A STEAMY START The 2000 Women's Film Series at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College,takes the audience around the globe, from France to Brazil to Iran. Each film is unique to its culture, yet similar to the central theme of women, their trials, and their tribulations. Post C'oitum. the premier film of the series, will be shown Tuesday, March 21, at 7 p.m. in the Reed Union Building Lecture Hall. Actress-director Brigitte Rouan of France plays a successful Parisian editor, wife, and mother whose life skids out of control when she begins an affair with a handsome engineer half her age. The emotional nakedness of the heroine and the presentation of a woman as the subject rather than the object of desire are meant to provoke the audience. The series continues on Tuesday, March 28, with the film Mrs. Dalloway, an adaptation of Virginia Woolf s much-admired novel. Director Marleen Gorris (creator of the Oscar-winning Dutch film Antonia's Line) cast Vanessa Redgrave to play the part of a society woman who traded love for security and a life in the public eye. Now Clarissa Dalloway reminisces with the audience about what could have been. The final film takes the audience on a surreal journey to Iran on Tuesday, April 11. Gabbeh, directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, tells the timeless fable of Gabbeh, a beautiful young woman who relates her tale to a memory-haunted old man. A member of a nomadic desert tribe, she fell in love with a dashing horseman and eloped. The self-assertion of the woman drives the story, but it is the patriarchy of the tribe that dictates its "truth." The film is as simple and traditional as a fairy tale, yet multi layered and modernist. Makhmalbaf has stated that the Iranian National Cinema stems more directly from the tradition of poetic storytelling than from previous films. U.S. film critics place the film on their top-ten film list. _ . All films will take place at the Reed Union Building Lecture Hall at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public. The Women's Film Series is sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs. For more information, call (814) 898-6171 Home Games 1:00 p.m. Behrend Baseball vs. John Carroll 3:00 p.m. Behrend Men's Tennis vs. Thiel Back to the Future in the Apart- International CALENDAR The Behrend Rugby Club will hold an informational meeting on Wednesday, March 22nd at 9:00 p.m. in the Erie Hall class ''`, room. All students are welcome to attend. d ( Rugby is a fast-paced, physical sport consisting of two 40- minute halves of non-stop action. The sport has similarities to soccer and football, but is an experience like no other. There are no forward passes, few play stoppages, and even fewer substitutions. In rugby, there are positions available for players of all sizes and speeds, so anyone can find a , position in which to excel. For a basic introduction to the sport of rugby, surf to http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/-radrugby/ Si rookie_primer.html. If you have any questions about this meeting, contact Bill at 456-2949 or by e-mail at rugby@ieee.org or Tom at 860- 8400 or tmhlBs@psu.edu. MARCH 17, 2000 Wednesday, march 22: Summer Shape Up in Ohio Hall, hosted by Residence Life. 9:00 p.m. - Behrend Rugby Informational Meeting in the Erie Hall classroom. Thursday, march 23: 7:30 p.m. - Astronomy Open House: Black Holes at the Science Building A Closer Look >~\ y BEHREND ASTRONOMY SERIES EXPLORES BLACK HOLES Dr. Darren Williams, assistant professor of physics, will present "Black Holes" on Thursday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. His presentation, which completes the 1999-2000 Astronomy Open House Series, will take place in Room 101 of the Otto Behrend Science Building. The evening will include a brief preview of children's astronomy classes to be offered this summer during Penn State Behrend's College for Kids program, which begins June 12. From a human perspective, black holes are the most peculiar objects in the universe. With unfathomable densities, black holes are able to prevent light and matter from escaping their gravita tional influences. Black holes are by themselves invisible to outside observers, since any light that a black hole emits is drawn back onto itself. The only way a black hole is able to communicate its existence to the rest of the universe is through its gravitational influence on nearby objects and through signs of extreme warping of space and time in its vicinity. Although the existence of black holes was postulated and verified on paper by Newton, Laplace, Einstein and others in study spanning four centuries, it has only within the last de become possible to detect black holes, or )ns of space which possibly contain black holes, Iservation. Recent data obtained by the space itive to visible light) and Chandra (x-ray) helped discover, with unparalleled certainty, the ioles within both the Milky Way and distant modeling of planetary climates and spin-orbit dynam ics. A graduate of Penn State's doctoral program in astronomy and astrophysics, Williams' work was published recently in Nature, an international scientific journal. Williams has been enlisted to teach "The Universe in a Class room," a first-time astronomy offering of College for Kids, June 12-16. The class is limited to students 10 and older. To register or to learn more about College for Kids, call the program office at (814) 898-6212 or view the Web site at www.pserie.psu.edu/ affairs/cfk.htm. Williams' presentation on March 23 is free and open to the public. It is intended for a non-technical audience ages 8 and up Astronomical observing will follow the lecture, weather permit ting. For additional information about the Astronomy Open House Series, please call the Penn State Behrend School of Science at (814) 898-6105. Friday, march 24: 4:00 p.m. - Intramural Deadline for Modified Softball and Whitewater Rafting @ Ohiopyle. 0 o an astrophysicist whose research at Penn focuses on climactic and dynamic factors fecting planetary life. He was recently f awarded a major grant in the National Science Foundation's "Life in Extreme nvironments"program to continue theoretical mark Your Calendars JANE BRYANT QUINN WILL DISCUSS PERSONAL FINANCE AT BEHREND Personal finance expert Jane Bryant Quinn will present "The Economy and Your Money.com" at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, on Tuesday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Reed Union Building Commons. Her lecture concludes the College's 1999-2000 Speaker Series. Quinn is the author of the best-selling Making the Most of Your Money, a comprehensive guide to personal financial planning. She is an award-winning Newsweek columnist, writing on both personal and national economic issues, and millions read her regular columns in The Washington Post, New York Daily News, and Woman's Day. Quinn also is an Emmy Award-winning television news reporter. She ap pears twice weekly on ABC's "Home Show" and is a frequent guest on "Good Morning America" and "Nightline." Previously she hosted her own program, "Take Charge!" on PBS, and was a featured correspondent on the "CBS Morn ing News" and then on the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather." In addition to winning an Emmy, Quinn received the John Hancock Award for excellence in business and financial journalism. She is a three-time winner of the national Press Club Award for Consumer Journalism. All Speaker Series presentations are free and open to the public. The series is sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs and is partially funded by the John Nesbit Rees and Sarah Henne Rees Foundation. It has twice won the National Association for Campus Activities' Be Series Award An interpreter for deaf and hard-of-hearing ai members will be visible at each lecture, and as; listening devices are available upon advance n from the Office of Student Activities at (814) 898. These services are made possible through funding Penn State's Equal Opportunity Planning Con] All lectures are also taped for broadcast on AMI , WPSE, Penn State Erie radio. For more information about the Speaker Serie please call the Penn State Behrend switchboan at (814) 898-6000. WOMEN'S FILM SERIES PRESENTS MRS. DALLOWAY The 2nd feature in Penn State Behrend's Women's Film Series, released in 1998 is Mrs. Dalloway. It will be shown in Reed Union Building at . Pehn State Erie, The Behrend College, in Room 117 on March 28th, at 7:00 p.m. It will be free and open to the public. Mrs. Dalloway, directed by Marleen Gorris and starring Vanessa Redgrave, is based upon Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel by the same name. The film depicts a mature woman facing the consequences of the decisions she made in her youth. Redgrave's character, Clarissa, represents the importance of making and ac cepting the decisions in life that everyone faces. For more information, contact the Penn State Behrend Office of Student Ac tivities at (814) 898-6171. All Behrend Organizations are invited to advertise their events on the Beacon's Calendar of Events page. Send us your meeting times and scheduled events to get the word out. Have information to the Beacon by Monday at 5:00 p.m. for that week's publication. think about Events page. 0113@aol corn. . • c)ns. PAGE 7
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