’■*» ' 'f*'* <j The Behrend Bacon published weeklx by the students of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Advertising Managers C'(iK’\ Smith fwho ’) Kim "how mun\ ads do we hove '" /.uck Business Manager Krisltne "I'm talking to loom about it t<>morro\\ Harakal Office Manager Broil "net to t omes to the tiffue "Wtertel Distribution Manager out papers don 7 net itelivereit Advisors Speehloxi’ www personal. psii.etln/jbi>2 ion: The Hat an is jublished weekly by the students of r > enn State Erie, The Behrend College; First Floor. The J. Elmer *eed Union Building, Station Road, Erie, PA 16563. The Bacon can be cached by calling 1-800-HOT4HIM Some of Bacon ( tt Wiertel, Karl Benacci, Doug nv son Snyder, Mike Frawley, Katie Przepyszny, Liz Hayes, Katie Salley, and Nicole Sreene s' \ Beacon’* Swear Jar "M *'-1 wtpl vi t4Kii= 3 iti Editor-in-Chef >n "l am ivdv too anal" Synder Managing Editor "hiv xf beats me up" Frawley News Editors Tommy Boy KoolKari Editorial Page Editor Katie "is my one eye binder than the other ' 1 " Galley Features Editors Katie "kiss and run " Przepyszny Doug "why did I dye my hair orange? Sports Editor Mutt "I'm a bleeding heart liberal Calendar Page Editor No ole "I love cabbage patch kids Photo Editors Kevin "I don : I. Ass. Editors Ltbbie 7 just joined, so they can I make fun o f me " Johnson Becks "no one knows who lam" Weindorf Rob "I dropped Art History" Wynne l etter Policy: The Bacon discourages letters to the editor. Letters should include the address, phone number, semester standing, major of the writer, and a large amount of cash. Writers can mail letters to gotohell@aol.com. Letters must be received no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday for inclusion in that week’s issue. For Theft of ■une ” Bruner (ass) Editorial Caiin Well, it has been another terrific year, hasn’t it? It is so nice to see everyone on campus getting along with each other. Apparently we have all taken Rodney King’s words to heart, and have gotten along witn each other. Who knew that we all cared about each other so much on this campus? Let me give you a few examples. Behrend has become one of the few campuses in the United Stales to end hazing. While we all know that hazing is illegal, we also know that it Dear Editor, Last semester I was technically a staff writer for the Bacon , though I only turned in two out of the required seven articles. I would first and fore most like to apologize to the staff of the Bacon. See, one time, in high school, I was on the staff of an award winning newspaper. There I discov ered a passion for journalism, but I don’t think I aquired any talent. Any way, this paper only came out once every two months and our advisor did 90% of the work. Therefore, I did not learn to take any responsibility for my work. In fact, I never really wrote a real news article, which is probably why they all sucked last semester. So, once again I’m sorry for my unprofessionalism. April 1.1900. Thf Rf.hrend Bacon,_page_92 Nfws —— Mike is still practiced on college campuses all over the place. But not at Behrend. You will not find any evidence of hazing around here. And anyone who says different is a dirty liar. We all get along. We at Behrend even get along with the Erie community at large. Many times people living in a college town do not approve of all of the actions of the students going to school there. But the Erie area has been very supportive of Behrend. We were even I can no longer refrain from voic ing my opinion about the quality of your weekly publication. See, I de cided not to rejoin the Bacon staff this spring semester because I did not want to continue being responsible for producing such unprofessional, immoral, and unpolished articles. The Bacon editors invited me to come down one evening last semester to see how layout nights went. While there I discovered how much they had to re-edit the few articles I actually wrote, and I felt awful about my lack of skill. One thing I don’t agree with in the Bacon is the amount of swearing that goes on in the editorial pages. For instance, in last week’s issue, I didn’t find any actual swear words in the ...... • Letter to the Editor featured on a local radio station as the topic of conversation for two whole days. If that doesn’t show caring and love by the Erie community for Behrend, I don’t know what does. Behrend’s agenda of caring continues. And just last week I was approached by numerous students who informed me how much they enjoyed reading all of the happy thoughts that I put into my editorials every three weeks. These students columns, but one kid did make his headline "Get the truck outla my way.’’ I think we all know what he really meant by the word “truck.” Implications such as these drag down the Bacon’s professionalism, in my opinion. I mean, we never swore in our high school paper. In fact, I think Behrend needs to be more like my high school. Uniforms should be enforced, gum chewing should not be allowed, people should be quiet in the halls, and no one should talk in class unless called upon. Pretty soon there will be paper footballs flying through the air! What is wrong with you people?! The plethora of unprofessionalism in this place is ob- 1 also recently learned that the Ba- felt that I was the main reason that we as a student body got along so well. As I informed them, while I may have helped the process along with my writing, it was the students’ action that made Behrend the caring and loving environment that it is today. When we all take the time to look back at this school year, we should all get a warm fu/.zy feeling trom all of the love and happiness that occurred on this campus. YEAH BEHREND! con doesn’t use picas when laying out theirpaper! Oh, the inhumanity! We always used picas in high school. At least, I think we did - like I said, our advisor did most of the work. The layout of the paper looks okay, I guess. I don’t read the articles, so I can’t really vouch for the quality of the them. I do look at University Park’s Collegian occassionally, but I don’t read that either. So, other than the swearing, I think the Bacon is doing a pretty decent job. Pica Girl P.S. Mr. Editor, isn’t it ironic that I have the time to write letters to the editor all the time, but I never had time to write articles last semester?
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