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Behrend Lions imitate Go Fish campaign
by Daniel J. Stasiewski
staff writer
The student organizations of Penn State
Behrend, in a push to get students involved with
the t inked Way campaign, have begun work on
a project titled "Go Behrend Lions. - Organiza
tions decorated lion statues and the student body
will have a chance to vote for the best lion in
return for a small donation.
While looking for a way to get students in
volved with the United Way campaign, School
of Business Professor Margaret Thorns, associ
ate professor of management, was inspired by
Erie's popular Go Fish campaign. She changed
the fish to lions, and the result was Go Behrend
Lions.
"What we're !the United Way Campaign I hop
ing is the students will start get into a pattern of
charitah!e giving," said Thorns who is a mem
her of the United Way campaign.
The lions are replicas of the Nittany Lion
statue in front of Old Main at University Park. A
campus office sponsors each student organi7a
tion. Once the lions arc decorated they will he
placed in the sponsoring office until the voting.
Me School of Business was partnered with
I )elta Sigma Pi and is using an international busi
ness theme. The Glenhi l I Farmhouse office gave
The Registrar's new look
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Robert Schenker, left, has retired from Behrend after 33 years, including 22 years as the campus' Registrar. Dr. Mary Ellen Bayuk, right,
moved from Penn State McKeesport to take his place. Schenker remembers his years at Behrend with a smile, while Bayuk awaits the
challenges to come.
A semester of change for the Registrar's office
by Liz Hayes
news editor
It's been a semester of change for
the Office of the Registrar at Penn
State Behrend. Not only did the
office move from Jordan Road to the
first floor of Erie Hall, but Behrend's
longtime Registrar, Robert Schenker,
retired and Mary Ellen Bayuk came
in to fill his shoes.
Bayuk has been in the Penn State
system for 14 years. She was the
Registrar for Penn State's
McKeesport and New Kensington
campuses, as well as a substitute
Registrar at the Beaver campus. She
was also the Registrar at St. Vincent
College in Greensburg, Pa. Bayuk
has also had experience teaching
English for the women's division of
a teaching institution in Saudi
Arabia.
"This was a natural move for me,"
Bayuk said. She moved from the
campus level to the college level,
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which is a promotion for her. "Plus,
I'm from western Pennsylvania. so it's
a nice fit."
Being the Registrar of a
commonwealth campus is quite
different from working at a location
that has its own degree programs,
Bayuk explained. Behrend also has
many four-year degrees and graduate
programs, while the other campuses
she worked at had few.
Another major difference Bayuk
has had to adjust to is the level of
autonomy Behrend has from
University Park. Since the other
campuses' degree programs were run
through University Park colleges. UP
would set up the graduation
requirements and other components of
the programs. But as Behrend is its
own college within the Penn State
system, the College determines its
own degree requirements.
"Behrend is four times the size of
what I came from," Bayuk said.
Therefore, she has many more people
the Student Government a theme focusing on
"The Faces of Behrend. - Beta Beta Beta, a bi
ology honors society, decorated their Lion in
laboratory instruments for the School of Science.
For the library. Commuter Council used a hook
theme. The Psychology Club plastered optical
illusions on the lion statue for the School of
I lumanities and Social Sciences.
Other partnerships include: Returning Adult
Student Organization and Corporate Adult
Learning; Interfraternity & Panhellenic councils
and the office of Development & University Re
lations various sports teams and the Athletics
Department; the Multicultural Council and the
Division of llndergraduate Studies; the Joint
Residence Council and Student Affairs; the Na
tional Society of Black Engineers and the School
of Engineering.
The united Way is Penn State Behrend's offi
cial charity. Behrend is among 800 local com
panies and organizations participating in the
2001 Campaign. This year's goal is to raise
$35,000, almost all of which will stay in Erie
County.
Students kill he able to vote for their favorite
lion on OCWher 25 and 26 at an Ice Cream So
cial outside of Bruno's. 'the donation for each
vote is 25 cents and the mone y :!oes toward the
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to meet, more buildings and facilities
to remember, and just more to deal
with overall.
Once Bayuk familiarizes herself
with her surroundings and becomes
accustomed to Behrend's
infrastructure, there are improvements
and alterations she would like to look
into. She described herself as a
"process and systems person," saying
her strength lies in streamlining and
Schenker fondly remembers
by Erin McCarty
assistant news editor
Behrend was not just a place to
work.
"It was a place to live," says Bob
Schenker, who recently retired after
22 years as Behrend's Registrar. He
described Behrend as a family, a
"caring community where faculty,
staff, and students mutually care for
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The Panhellenic and Inter Fraternity councils decorated this lion, now on display in the
Bookstore, for the Office of Development and University Relations. All the lions will
soon be displayed around campus and students will be able to vote for their favorite on
Oct. 25 and 26. All proceeds raised will be donated to the United Way Campaign .
increasing effectiveness
She said she would like io work
on educating the campus
community. She wants to make sure
students and faculty
comfortable interpreting degree
audits and el,ion, Penn State's
interactive, online act vi si
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each other."
Schenker, whose positive
attitude has won him much
admiration in the Behrend
community, is gratified to observe
the dose friendships which have
developed among the students,
staff, and faculty over the years.
That sense of comradeship has
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Stephanie
Domitrovich:
Judge by
day,
professor
by night
by Rob Wynne
editor-in-chief
In the upcoming Nov. election
one of Bell rend's own will he seeking
election to a state judicial seat.
Stephanie Domitrovich, a general
jurisdiction judge in Erie by day and
Behrend lecturer in business by night,
is looking to acquire a seat in the
Pennsylvania Appellate Court system.
With an ever-growing track record
behind her, Domitrovich will pose
tough competition in November.
Before she was elected general
jurisdiction judge in 1989 and 1999,
I)omitrovich held a number of judicial
seats, including administrative Judge
of the family orphans court di yisiun
(April 1996 through June 1998).
criminal court judge (May 1992
through March 1996), and family
court judge (Jan. 1990 through April
1992). Also, during 0ct.1996, she
participated in a !nited States Agency
for International Development project
which helped some of the former
Soviet Republic states develop
judicial systems alter the tall of Soviet
t Jnion.
But that's not all: in addition to the
several judicial positions she has held.
Domitrovich holds faculty positions
with the following organizations: The
National Judicial College, the
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