FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3,2000
Friday,nouember 3:
Noon Trigon Meeting, MCC Suite
10:00 p.in
LEB Movie, Road Trip , Reed 117
Saturday, nouember 4:
1:00 p.m
Intramural Bowling Tournament. Eastway Lanes
8:30 p.m
LEB Novelty Act, The Evansons, Bruno's
10:00 p.m
LEB Movie. Road Trip , Reed 117
9:30 a.m
- Noon Feed the Need Breakout Day, RUB Desk
Lambda Sigma is again sponsoring the Feed the Need Food Drive on cam
pus, benefitting the Second Harvest Food Bank. The
Drive will begin on Monday, October
continue through Monday, November 1
clubs and organizations will set up do
boxes in many of the buildings throu;
campus. Students, faculty, and staff are >
couraged to bring in dry food donatio;
The boxes will be collected on the 13th
Also, organizations will be involved
Break Out Day on Saturday, November 4. Members will be canvassing the
neighborhood, going door-to-door asking for donations.
For more information, contact Nick Pflugh, president of Lambda Sigma, at
nrpl23@psu.edu.
Sunday, nouember 5:
8:00 p.m
Catholic Mass, Reed Commons
Protestant Worship Services, Reed 114
8:00 p.m
9:00 p.m. LEB Movie, Road Trip , Reed 117
monday, nouember 6:
Noon Women Today Meeting, MCC Suite
History Club Meeting, Academic 57
5:30 p.m
Creative Writers Series Lecture,
Reed 117
6:00 p.m
POET LINDA HOGAN COMMENCES NEW SPEAKER SERIES
Poet, novelist, and essayist Linda Hogan will be the first speaker of the newly
created Diversity Through Poetry Series at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Hogan will present “Solar Storms” on Monday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. in
the Reed Union Building Commons. This event is free and open to the public.
Hogan, a Chickasaw poet and professor at the University of Colorado, has
taught writing workshops at various universities and Indian and rural
-munities. Some of her most notable commendations
ide a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a
jenheim fellowship, a Minnesota Arts Board Grant,
a Colorado Writers fellowship.
;'olar Storms is a recent novel by Hogan, written in
It is the story of a young Native American woman
le 1970 s who, while searching for her mother, finds
•self caught between the worlds of her birth and of
:r ancestry.
ither works by Hogan include Seeing Through the
in , The Book of Medicines, and a collection of
.xteen essays titled Dwellings: Reflections on the
UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Natural World.
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Tuesday, llouember 7:
Wednesday, Dovember 8:
1:00 p.m
Commuter Council Meeting
5:00 p.m
Filing Deadline for Student Activity Fee
Committee Proposals, Bruno’s
SGA Meeting, Reed 114
5:15 p.m
7:30 p.m
College Republicans Meeting, call Erin McCurdy
at 897-0417 for location
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will dedicate its new $10.2
million Athletics and Recreation Center (ARC) on Thursday, Novem
ber 9, at 3:00 p.m. Among the guests on hand will be Penn State Presi
dent Graham Spanier, Penn State Board of Trustees Chair Edward P.
“Ted” Junker, and Penn State Behrend Council of Fellows Chair P.C.
“Hoop” Roche.
The 72,800-square-foot ARC, which replaces Erie Hall, will feature
three all-purpose courts and performance gym seating 1,600, an eight
lane swimming pool, a weight room, a three-lane running track jump
ing pits, an aerobics room, locker rooms, offices, and a variety of ex
ercise equipment. Erie Hall, with one basketball court and seating for
550, will continue to be used as a recreation facility offering activities
such as ballroom dancing, badminton, and yoga.
The ARC dedication will include a message from the president of
Penn State Behrend’s student government, performances by the dance
team, the cheerleaders, the Pep Band, and, of course, an appearance
by the Behrend Lion.
For more information about the ARC dedication, call x 6159
ALUMNI FELLOW AWARD PRESENTATION
Penn State Erie, The B
live and East High Schr
its 2000 Alumni Fello
president, and CEO of
1952 Penn State grad'
Thursday, November 9.
hosted by Penn State Bi
Dean Dr. John M. Lilh
President Graham Span
Alumni Fellows trad
tionally return to campi
to teach several classes ai
meet with faculty in thi
discipline. Blair, whosi
Penn State degree is in
communications, will
speak to classes in economics, PHOTO COURTESY OF
management, and advertising. UNIVERSITY RELATIONS
In addition to being a member of the first class to attend Behrend in
1948, Blair was the first editor of the Nittany Cub , Behrend’s first
student newspaper. He is a life member of the Penn State Alumni As
sociation and a member of the Penn State President’s Club. In 1998,
he established the Donald R. Blair Scholarship Endowment to benefit
outstanding students with financial need.
The Alumni Fellow Award is the most prestigious honor bestowed
by the Penn State Alumni Association and is administered in coopera
tion with Penn State’s academic colleges. The University’s Board of
Trustees has designated the title of Alumni Fellow as permanent and
lifelong. George Sample, publisher of the Corry Journal and presi
dent of Sample Media, was the 1999 Alumni Fellow.
ar of Events
ARC TO BE DEDICATED
Election Day!
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Calendars
ALL BEHREND ORGANIZATIONS
AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
ARE INVITED TO ADVERTISE
THEIR EVENTS OR NOTICES
ON THE BEACON'S
CALENDAR OF EVENTS PAGE.
TO GET THE WORD OUT,
SEND US YOUR NOTICES,
MEETING TIMES, AND EVENTS
HAVE INFORMATION TO THE
BEACON BY TUESDAY
AT 12:00 P.M.
FOR THAT WEEK'S
PUBLICATION.
SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO
behrcoll3@aol.com.
Thursday, nouember 9:
—Service Week Sleepout, Reed Wintergarden
5:00 p.m
6:00 p.m
College Democrats Meetimi. Academic 55
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7:15 p.m
LEB Meetiim
7:30 p.m
IVCF Meetiim, Science 126
9:00 p.m
LEB Movie, (lone In 00 Seconds, Reed 1 17
SOCCER STAR COMES TO BEHREND
Brandi Chastain, a key member ol both the C.S. Women's Olympic and
World Cup soccer teams, will speak at iVnn State brie. The Behrend College,
on Thursday, November 16. at 7:30 p.m. in the Uced l Inion Building Commons.
Chastain became an instant international celebrity upon her game-winning
penalty kick in the 1999 World Cup
finals. She was a member of the
gold medal-winning U.S. Women's
National Team in the 1996 Centennial
Olympic Games, and played every
minute of the USA’s live matches at
that event.
Chastain is
for the Women’s
Association
Sacramento Storm.
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.
An interpreter for deaf and hard-of
hearing audience members will be
visible at each lecture, and assistive listening devices are available upon
advance request from the Office of Student Activities. These services are
made possible through funding from Penn State's Hqual Opportunity Planning
Committee. All lectures are also taped for broadcast on AM 1450/WPSE.
Penn State Erie radio.
For more information about the Provost \ Speaker Series or assistive listening
devices, contact the Office of Student Activities at t Sl4) 898-6171.
DR. BEAUMONT KICKS OFF PROVOST’S SERIES
John Beaumont, associate prolessor ol engineering, will present the first
lecture in the 2000-2001 Provost's Speaker Series at Penn Stale Hrie, The
Behrend College. His address, ■'Building a Bridge Among Faculty, Students,
and Industry,” will be presented on Monday, November 13, at noon in the
Reed Union Building Lecture Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Beaumont received the newly created 2001) Council of Fellows Faculty
Outreach Award for his leadership m the vies elopment ol tw o Penn State Frie
outreach centers, the Plastics Technology Deploy meni Center and the Plastics
Computer-Aided Engineering Center, which provide advanced technical
services and process improvement for the plasties-related industry in
northwestern Pennsylvania. He continues to work through these outreach
centers to assist regional manufacturers
Each year the Penn State Behrend Council ol Fellows presents its Faculty
Research Award and Excellence in leaching Award to (acuity who exhibit
outstanding efforts in these areas. This year, the Council also established the
Faculty Outreach Award, presented to a faculty member for outstanding service
to his or her community and profession.
The winners of these three awards are then invited to lecture in the Provost’s
Speaker Series. Other award winners who will be speaking this year include
Excellence in Teaching Award recipient Dr. John Champagne, associate
professor of English, and Faculty Research Award recipient Dr. Syed Saad
Andaleeb, associate professor of marketing.
For more information about the Provost 's Speaker Series, contact the Office
of Student Activities at x 6171.
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