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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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