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the past few semesters to get
a student-run music radio
station on campus.
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the Civic Center.
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PHILLIPS REACHES
1,000 POINT MARK
Women’s basketball player
and Behrend junio Erin
Phillips has climbed her way
up to the 1,000 point plateau.
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XLVIII No. 19
Vandalism of cars reported on campus
While the Behrend community may be
accustomed to hearing complaints and rumors
about Police and Safety’s treatment of parking
problems, it seems a new problem has cropped
up. Rumors are circulating about abnormal
amounts of vandalism to cars parked in the
campus lots.
Since the beginning of the spring semester
just over a month ago, Police and Safety has
received eight reports of damaged vehicles
Warmed by Music
Floutist Nadine Jeong-Eun Hur performs with the Zephyros Quintet during Music at Noon: The Logan Wintergarden Series on
Wednesday, February 7, in the Reed Wintergarden. The wind ensemble derived its name from the god of the west wind.
Posters advertise
Students may have noticed the new drug and
alcohol signs up around campus. For those who
have not, the Partnership for Prevention Team
at Penn State Behrend has begun a social
marketing campaign to make the Behrend
community more aware of alcohol and drug use
i on campus
Beginning at the end of January, the Team
began distributing a series of posters to be hung
around campus. There are a total of five poster
designs, with a new design to be posted every
two weeks. Each poster depicts drinking, drug
use, and partying statistics that were gathered
from a survey distributed by the Center for
Organizational Research and Evaluation
(CORE). This survey was distributed in the
spring of 1999, and the results were then turned
over to the Office of Student Affairs. Others
involved in the Team inlcude the Provost’s
Office, community members, and students.
On the first poster that appeared in January,
by Liz Hayes
news editor
by Liz Hayes
news editor
parked in the various campus parking lots. Also,
one vehicle was damaged over winter break. A
commuter student apparently visiting the
apartments over break reported that one of his
windows had been broken, and items had been
stolen from his vehicle. Since mid-January
Police and Safety has also investigated two
incidents in which vehicles had been damaged
during the weekend.
Also, there have been two recent incidents in
which Penn State vehicles have been damaged.
One involved a report of criminal mischief to a
University vehicle, and in the other incident,
Behrend stats on drinking and drugs
the statistic presented was that “44 percent of
Behrend students say they’ve used alcohol only
once or twice in the
out of every foi
haven’t had
drink at all.” Th<
second poster
which was jus
released, make;
the following
statement: “If
you’re totally
sure it’s OK to
drive after partyi
you’ve wasted i
brain cells thai
think!” The fol
statistics state thi
40% of Behrem
admitted to ha\. w
under the influence in the past year.
Nancy Panepento, associate director of
student affairs, commented that she hopes to
expand the campaign beyond posters. “It is my
FEBRUARY 9,2001
damage was done to a University van parked
behind the Otto Behrend Science Building.
Student Serena Coulter, a resident of Almy
Hall, had damage done to her car last Friday,
February 2. She had parked her car in the lot in
front of Almy around 1:30 a.m., and when she
returned around 3:00 a.m., she found that the
only thing keeping her side-view mirrors
attached to her car were the electrical wires that
run through her mirrors. She said that she saw
other cars near hers that had similar damage
done, and that some of the mirrors were lying
on the ground.
hope to possibly make screen savers with the
posters . . . Another idea was to make
magnets and distribute those
campus.”
The Partnership for
evention Team is
;ooperating with the Higher
Education Center’s
comprehensive prevention
approach. As stated on the
HEC’s Website, the
last month.
mepento explained that
the survey we learned that
students’ perceptions about
POSTERS
campaign is “grounded in
:he principle that student
’.cisions about alcohol and
ier drug use are shaped by
physical, social, economic,
legal environment in which
behavior occurs.”
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“The thing that makes me mad is that there
was no point to it and that it was a huge
inconvenience to me because I had to take my
car home this week to get the mirrors repaired,”
Coulter explained.
Another Almy Hall resident’s vehicle
sustained vandalism toward the end of last
semester. Student Melissa Moser had a large
dent put into her trunk, a dent that cost $BO to
VANDALISM
continued on page 5 A
Trigon and
Women Today
host annual
Safer Sex
Cabaret
by Paige Miles
copy editor
The Reed Commons heated up Thursday
night, February 8, as Trigon and Women Today
presented the Safer Sex Cabaret. The purpose
of the event was to highlight and educate
students on the dangers and pleasures of sexual
activities. Abbey Atkinson hosted the event, and
between acts asked the audience questions
regarding sexually transmitted diseases. A sex
“tool kit” was given out for correct answers.
The value of relationship between a couple
was demonstrated through partner yoga. On
stage, two women performed stretching and
breathing exercises designed to strengthen
understanding between two people. To set the
mood, serene music was played as a voiceover
described the different exercises and stretches
the women performed.
“Phone sex,” the next act, consisted of two
women sitting behind separate white curtains
as they “talked” on the phone. The two began
by asking what each other was wearing, and
then continued by describing sexual acts in
order to drive the other to orgasm. Phone sex is
SAFE SEX
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Local entrepreneur
to open 24-hour
dance club
by John Federowicz
staff writer
If you build it, they will come. And, if Chad
Hershey’s vision materializes, they should come
in droves.
A 24 hour a day, seven day a week, cavalcade
of social interaction occurring in the confines
of the former Don Pablos at the Pavilion of the
Millcreek Mall is just what 21-year-old
entrepreneur Hershey envisions.
With himself as the ringmaster, “The Chad
Hershey Show” would boast a repertoire of
attractions that would include standup
comedians, Elvis impersonators, magicians, up
and-coming musicians, and even live animals.
Hershey, a man who prides himself on his
connections, also hints at a possibility of
ushering in world class acts such as Rodney
Dangerfield and Chris Rock, along with new
bands on the cutting edge of breakthrough.
CHAD HERSHEY
continued on page 4A