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The Behrend Beacon
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Speaker series announced
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, has served the community for the past
15 years by providing a world-class speaker series at no cost to its students and
members of the Erie community. The upcoming speaker series is no exception.
During the 2002-2003 academic year the college will welcome:
The Reverend Bernice A. King, a Baptist minister and youngest daughter of
Martin Luther King Jr. on Oct. 1.
Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, founder of the Gesundheit! Institute and the man
behind the well-known movie of the same name, on Nov. 26.
Film actor, director, and writer Spike Lee on Jan. 15, 2003.
Peter Hillary and Jamling Norgay, sons of the men who conquered Mount
Everest, on March 20.
Each lecture will take place in the McGarvey Commons of the Reed Union
Building at 7:30 p.m., and all are free and open to the public.
Penn State Erie's Speaker Series is supported by the John Nesbit Rees and
Sarah Henne Rees Charitable Foundation and by the Office of Student Activi
ties. For more information about the lecture series, call the Office of Student
Activities at 898-7161.
Academic building and library renamed
Students will soon take classes in the Irvin Kochel Center and use the re
sources of the John M. Lilley Library, thanks to a naming decision approved by
the Penn State Trustees on July 12. The two buildings, which are attached, were
funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and dedicated in May 1994.
The buildings will be named officially on Thursday, Sept. 26, at the time of the
2002 Glenhill Appreciation Dinner. Penn State President Dr. Graham Spanier
will be on hand to honor Kochel and Lilley.
Dr. Irvin H. Kochel served Penn State Erie from 1954 to 1980. His leadership
brought the college from a two-year "center" to a four-year, degree-granting
institution. During his tenure he strengthened the faculty and expanded the ini
tial program offerings to create baccalaureate degrees. He raised the funds to
build the college's first residence halls, the Otto Behrend Science Building, and
the Reed Union Building. Kochel and his wife created the Ethel and Irvin H.
Kochel Scholarship for International Study, the Irvin Kochel Leadership Schol
arship, and the Irvin H. Kochel Lion Ambassador Fund
Dr. John M. Lilley served Penn State Erie from 1980 until 2001. Under his
leadership, college enrollment more than doubled as did the number of faculty.
Lilley raised approximately $65 million for college endowments and physical
facilities, and he helped to secure funding for Knowledge Park at Penn State
Erie and for a $3O million Research and Economic Development Center. He
created a nationally prominent manufacturing outreach program and 13 research
centers for regional economic development.
New website launched
Visitors to Penn State Erie's Web address are being greeted by a comprehen
sive, new site that features improved navigation, content, and photography.
The address is www.pserie.psu.edu.
The project is the result of a collaboration among the college's Office of Uni
versity Relations, Computer Center, offices across campus, and Stargate Indus
tries.
Visitors can conveniently find the latest information about the college's aca
demic programs, admissions and financial aid, athletics, alumni, student life,
and research and outreach activities. An improved news and calendar section
details upcoming events and college activities and achievements.
Creative Writers Speaker Series announced
Three distinguished writers will share their experiences and their writings for
the 2002-2003 Creative Writer's Speaker Series at Penn State Erie. Speakers this
year will be poet Lucia Perillo, poet Alan Michael Parker, and fiction writer
Amy Hempel
Perillo will read her poetry on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. in Reed 117.
Parker will read his poetry on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m. in the Smith Chapel.
Hempel will read her lyrical prose on Thursday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in Reed 117.
The Creative Writer's Speaker Series is co-sponsored by the Mary Behrend
Cultural Fund, the Clarence and Eugenie Baumann Smith Fund, and the School
of Humanities and Social Sciences. All presentations are free and open to the
public. For more information about the series, contact the School of Humanities
and Social Sciences at 898-6108.
Alumnus Woods creates scholarship
Entrepreneur Michael J. Woods '76, an alumnus of Penn State Erie, The
Behrend College, believes that his years at Behrend gave him a strong base on
which to build his future. He wants to make sure that today's students get the
same strong foundation, so he and his wife, Tracy, have committed $250,000 to
create the Michael Jude Woods and Tracy Kimes Woods Family Scholarship at
Penn State Behrend.
Earlier this year Woods also donated a variety of voice and data switching
equipment to support the laboratory portion of a communications systems class,
which is part of the electrical engineering degree program. Additional contribu
tions to the Woods Family Scholarship may be made by interested persons or
organizations.
For more information about this and other scholarships, call the Penn State
Behrend Office of Admissions and Financial Aid at 898-6100 or check the
college's Web site at www.pserie.psu.edu.
8/22/02 19:25 A complainant reported the theft of a student's ATM card
from the PNC ATM machine in the Reed Building.
8/25/02 04:19 A student requested assistance in the Apartment Quad.
8/26/02 02:04 A complainant reported an intoxicated student in Ohio Hall
'B/27/02 11:30 A complainant reported receiving an obscene phone call.
8/28/02 13:50 A vehicle was struck while parked in the Engineering lot.
8/28/02 17:47 A complainant reported that her vehicle was struck by an
unknown vehicle while it was parked in the Reed lot.
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Unix users now have lab to call home..
by Erin McCarty
news editor
Last year, Benson 77 was an ordinary
classroom. This year, it is a fully
functional Unix lab, complete with 22
workstations.
"For the past few years, the science
faculty has requested a lab to provide
instruction in a pure Unix environment,"
said Ron Hoffman, manager of Network
and Information Systems. Up until
recently, it was impossible to
accommodate this need due to a lack of
space and staff support. Although Unix
and Windows shared Hammermill 139,
this arrangement was not very successful
because of the limitations it imposed.
Last year, Scott Smith alleviated this
problem by offering his Unix expertise,
and the School of Engineering agreed to
give up Benson 77 so that it could be
converted into a lab. Although some
Engineering students analagulty plan
make use of it this semester, most of its
current traffic comes from Computer
Science classes.
The computers themselves are
recycled from the Nick building, but the
15-inch flat panel monitors are brand
new. The Computer Center's monitors
were also replaced with these sleeker
models.
All of the software currently installed
in the Unix lab is default Linux software.
Students travel to Stratford for
Shakespeare festival
by Becky Weindorf
managing editor
An opportunity for students to travel
and experience Shakespeare isn't just
for English majors anymore.
From biology to math to engineering
students, anyone with an itching to ex
perience Bill Shakespeare can experi
ence him on a trip to the historical
Shakespeare Festival in Stratford,
Ontario, on Oct. 19.
Students have a choice of attending
one live performance of Richard 11l or
King Lear during the day-long trip at
the festival.
Students of all majors and schools are
encoura . ed to take advanta .e of this
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Computers line the desks of Benson 77, now a Unix lab
Star Office, the only third-party software storage tape drive, which is shared by
reog..sted by faculty, will be on the the Windows systems," said Smith.,
computers within a month. All of the Although the lab is free and available
machines are networked together with a to all students, the access accounts that
100-megabyte ethernet connection. allow students to use the other computers
One computer is hooked up with a on campus will not work in the Benson
projection system for the use of faculty lab.
while lecturing, and a new server "They need to come to the computer
centrally manages the lab. The dual lab to get a Unix user account," said
processor Pentium 3 has two gigabytes Hoffman. "The lab closes at midnight
of memory, 250 gigabytes of storage, and until the card reader is installed, but after
a gigabit ethernet.
"User files are backed up on the
trip. In the past, the festival has been
very popular with liberal arts students,
but other members of various the
schools at Behrend have also made the
"pilgrimage" to the festival.
Students will meet at the Reed park
ing lot at 7:15 a.m. to load the buses
and departure will be at 7:30 a.m. The
buses will return to the Reed parking
lot at about 11:30 p.m. that evening.
The Shakespeare Festival trip is spon
sored by the Round Table Society and
the School of H&SS, and supported by
the Student Activity Fee. The cost of
the trip, being partially funded by SAF,
will be about $6O, which includes ticket
and transportation to and from Stratford.
Erin McCarty, News Editor
behrcolls@aoLcom
that there will be 24-seven access."
Students are asked to bring their own
money for meals and appropriate photo
identification.
A yellow interest form and a deposit
of $35 (check or cash) are due as soon
as possible to either Dr. Baldwin or Dr.
Morris. Seats on the bus via Stratford
will be given upon payment of the de
posit on a first-come, first-serve basis.
It is recommended that the deposit be
turned in ASAP in order to ensure trans
portation and a reservation for one of
the performances. Yellow forms can
also be picked up at the H&SS office.
For further information, contact the
H&SS office at x6lOB, Dr. Baldwin at
x 6214 or Dr. Morris at x 6205.
Music at Noon: The Logan
Wintergarden Series opens its 12th sea
son Sept. 5 with the Gryphon Trio, a Ca
nadian chamber music ensemble. The
group features pianist Jamie Parker, vio
linist Annalee Patipatanakoon, and cel
list Roman Borys.
The trio, which formed in 1993, is
known for interpreting the classics with
integrity and connecting with the audi
ence when performing new composi
tions. It has toured the world and has
commissioned works by Patrick
Carrabre, Andrew MacDonald, Chan Ka
Nin, Marc Sabat, Omar Daniel, and Kelly-
Marie Murphy.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a
lunch along to this performance, which
is free to the public.
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