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"The ARC isbmwmMg'new world for everyone
associated Penn State program."
A NEW ERA BEGINS: A student exits the ARC which opened its doors this past week.
Really,
by Jeff Miller
managing editor
The Athletics and Recreation Center (ARC) is now
open after continuous setbacks in construction. Now fully
operational, the ARC offers students, faculty, and alumni
a wide range of recreational activities.
“The ARC is an exciting new world for everyone
associated with the Penn State program,” stated Paul
Benim, sports information coordinator. Students and
faculty are able to utilize the pool, weight room, gym,
indoor track, aerobics room, and locker rooms. All new
equipment is expected for the weight room within a few
weeks. “From what I’ve seen, lots of students are taking
advantage of the ARC. I encourage all students to check
out the ARC and its facilities,” said Benim.
There are many new additions to the gymnasium that
were not available in Erie Hall, including two batting/
ISIT.com expands to Behrend’s Knowledge Park
by Liz Hayes
news editor
More employment and research
opportunities for Behrend students are
set to arrive on campus in July 2001:
ISIT.com, an Erie-based dot-com
company, will be moving into
Knowledge Park.
At a press conference on Tuesday
morning, a group of various lSIT.com,
"The high-tech infrastructure of the park
and convenient access to the expertise
and creativity of faculty, staff, and
students make Knowledge Park the
perfect location for us."
community, and Behrend officials
gathered in Knowledge Center to
make the announcement to the local
media. Present at the conference were
Ed Blaguszewski, manager of
University Relations at Behrend;
Provost and Dean Dr. John Lilley;
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golf cages, long/triple jump pits, and a pole vault pit. If
these facilities are too adventurous, then the three-lane
walking and jogging track is available. To complete one
mile, 9.6 laps are required.
The ARC is the new home to all of the athletic offices
as well as the exercise and sports activity classes. The
pool allows for new ESACT classes like lifeguarding
and SCUBA training, and both of these classes allow
students to become certified. With the ARC’s completion
varsity sports such as water polo, indoor track, and
basketball can finally play their games in the new
facilities.
To meet the needs of faculty and staff, the ARC offers
private sessions. There is a private aerobics class and
private pool hours to make the faculty feel more
ARC OPENS
Peter Kay, president and CEO of the
Greater Erie Industrial Development
Corporation (GEIDC); Ken
Springirth, chairman of the
Harborcreek Township Board of
Supervisors; and several members of
ISlT.com’s team.
Publisher of ISlT.com Amy Baxter
led the presentation of the company’s
services. ISIT.com, or Integrated
Solutions for Information
- Ann Krugger, ISIT.com
senior corporate recruiter
Technology, is an online resource
center for other information
technology (IT) companies. ISIT.com
gives companies advice on how to set
up and manage the IT portion of their
businesses. They can then direct
companies with IT needs to other
MARCH 16, 2001
Sports Information Director Paul Benim
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resources and suppliers
ISIT.com is involved in ten areas
of technology: e-business, data
collection, security, retail and
hospitality, customer relationship,
mass storage, manufacturing/
distribution supply chain, warehouse
management systems, imaging and
content management, and enterprise
wide solutions. They are planning on
adding at least eight more
technologies by the end of 2001.
ISIT.com will be joining Aalborg
Industries and GE Transportation
Systems’ e-Business Division in the
200-acre park, which is a joint effort
of Penn State Behrend and GEIDC.
A new multi-tenant building is
currently under construction in the
park and ISIT.com is scheduled to
lease 14,100 square feet of space on
the first floor.
In a recent press release, Dean
Lilley commented, “ISIT.com is an
excellent fit for Knowledge Park. The
company will benefit from close
proximity to the college’s information
technology programs, including
management information systems,
computer engineering, and two new
majors, software engineering and
computer science, that will begin in
the fall of 2001.”
ISIT.com, like other Knowledge
Park companies, will provide various
Cornel West defines
democracy for Behrend
PHOTO BY LIZ HAYES
Cornel West's animated speech
packed the Reed Commons.
by Liz Hayes
news editor
When Dr. Cornel West took the
stage in the Reed Commons on
February 28, he looked out at the
filled-to-capacity crowd and stated, “I
hope I say something that thoroughly
unsettles you.” And then he set out
to do just that.
West, a university professor of
Afro-American studies and
philosophy of religion at Harvard
University, presented his lecture,
“Restoring Hope,” as the last segment
of the American Dream in the New
Shaggy accepts bid to
perform at Behrend
by Jason Snyder
editor-in-chief
Behrend’s Concert Committee an
nounced this year’s concert on Thurs
day as students poured into Bruno’s
for lunch between classes at 12:15.
After months of work, the head of
the Concert Committee, Angela
Majoris, announced Shaggy as this
year’s concert to be performed in the
ARC.
Shaggy’s album Hotshot is cur
rently ranked the number one album
on Billboard’s Top 200 chart.
Bids were also passed out to the
groups of Fuel, They Might Be Gi-
opportunities for the Behrend
community. Already the Career
Development Center has been
working with the company to recruit
students. Baxter, in her presentation,
assured the crowd that lSIT.com is not
the typical dot-com where employees
work on flex-time, wear-ripped jeans
to the office, and have various
piercings. Employees work a regular
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Millennium Speaker Series. His
lecture was also part of “Working for
What: Winners and Losers in the
American Dream,” the conference
hosted by the Institute for the
American Dream.
West discussed the effects race
relations have had and are still having
on American society. He defined race
as a “legacy we are still wresting
with,” and said that many are still
uncomfortable with the knowledge
that the American dream has been
founded.,pn the backs of African
slaves.
He believes that America is the only
country that feels it was founded in
innocence. But he encouraged the
audience to ask Native Americans,
women, and blacks for their
perspectives on the founding of the
country, as the questioner would
probably get a radically different
answer.
Another central issue of West’s
speech involved the true meaning of
democracy and the lack of it in
CORNEL WEST
continued on page 3A
ants, and Our Lady Peace. Due to tour
date conflicts, none of these groups
were able to make the commitment.
The Concert Committee narrowed
their choices to these four groups af
ter meeting witfi an agent from the
company “Concert Ideas.”
After receiving a list of bands that
fit Behrend’s budget for the concert,
the committee took into consideration
the results of a survey which was
taken this past fall.
The public relations and advertis
ing chaiman for the committee Ann
SHAGGY
continued on page 3A
schedule and are expected to dress for
a business-causal setting.
Other opportunities for Behrend
could include internships; class and
senior research projects; faculty and
staff consulting, research projects,
technology transfer projects, and
ISIT.COM
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