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"The guy is nuts, but I don't think
we should spend so much time in the
news talking about his life when
there are more important issues in
the world."
A.J. Zuber
DUS, 02
Concert Choir members prepare for tour of Italy
by Erinn Hansen
calendar page editor
"Arivadercci" will be the word of
Behrend Concert Choir as it departs for
Italy on March 8 on its first international
concert tour.
"We have been practicing for this
since the first week of the 2002-2003
academic year," said Dr. Daniel
Barnard, Choir director and professor
of music at Behrend. "We could not be
more excited, and we could spend all
of our rehearsals talking about it.""l
love traveling overseas and this is just
the icing on the cake. Italy is full of
culture, music, and more. So the choir
traveling there is very appropriate," said
Andrea Rodriguez, the choir president.
think this tour will bring our choir
together and create a better unity."
" I am very excited!" said Katie
Leary, Choir member.
"This tour will give us a chance to
express our musical
, knowledge and
experience a different heriAage and
culture," added Carrie Egnosak, also a
choir member.
The Behrcnd Choir consists of 60
students from a variety of majors. The
group comes together for rehearsal on
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 3
p.m. because of the love for music. The
choir performs both on and off campus,
and tours periodically. Students who are
interested may join simply by taking the
class at the he *inning of each semester,
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be like in future times once conserva
tion grows more rapidly, as it is now.
I've been involved with a lot of con
servation groups, outdoor groups, en
vironmentalist groups, and thought that
this would just be one more to help."
The Behrend campus being named
an arboretum benefits everyone in
volved. "It gives us the op
portunity to have an organized effort
toward using this natural environment
here, specifically our trees and our
other botanical resources," said
Wortman. "It also is a reach out to the
community so our students can then
interact with the other people and the
things around them."
Earth Day is April 22 and the task
force along with student activities and
organizations are working towards set
ting up a day of events to celebrate.
There will be educational activities on
sustainability issues and open stage
performances. Area school children
will be invited to take tours of the cam
pus to see why it has been chosen to be
called an arboretum. The final details
for this event will be available within
the next few weeks.
Last year, Eco-mugs were introduced
and this year will be no exception.
Housing and Food services will bring
the mugs back, but redesigned to keep
the idea fresh. This program seemed
to be very successful last year.
On April 23, a ceremony will be held
inducting the Behrend campus as an ar
boretum. There are three arboretums in
Erie County: the Erie Zoological Soci
ety and the Lake Erie Arboretum and
Frontier Park, along with the Behrend
campus. Behrend's arboretum is very
large and spread out over heavily
wooded areas in the gorge, managed
"1 do not think that it is necessary, because
no one is perfect, including a celebrity. I am
pretty sure that there are a lot more parents
doing far worse things to their baby than he
did, and what he did wasn't even bad, he
was having fun with his child."
Cedric Pinder
Cam, uter En:inner, 04
with no audition necessary
"People who have not had a lot of
experience with music have even
joined," said Barnard. "They have
worked very hard to get to where they
are now and we are proud of the effort."
Barnard, is also the director of the
Music at Noon: The Logan
Wintergarden Series, and conducts the
Erie Philharmonic Chorus. He holds a
doctorate in composition from the
University of Kansas, while also having
degrees from the University of Northern
Colorado and West Texas State
University. Barnard has completed
compositions that have won him both
national and international awards, and
he is also a professor of the Evolution
of Jazz, World Music, and Music
Fundamentals courses at Behrend.
"Of the four years that I have been
here, the choir sounds really good," said
Barnard
The ensemble will depart from New
York's JFK on Swiss Flight #l7 bound
for Zurich, Switzerland on March 8.
When they arrive in Zurich and split into
two groups. Both groups will re-unite
in Venice, Italy, where they will enjoy a
two-night stay at the Hotel Venezia.
On March 11, the choir will check out
of the hotel, and arrive in Florence,
where they will enjoy a two-night stay
at Hotel Grifone. On March 12, the
choir will perform the first of two
concerts at the Basilica Madonna
dell'Umilita, in Pistoia, which is a small
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areas, wild areas, such as on top of the
ski hill, meadow, and grassland.
Three hundred various species have
been identified thus far and experts are
still performing research on this
project. It can prove to be difficult due
to the time and knowledge needed to
work on this process. The group is also
looking to make a pamphlet showing
where the various trees are located
throughout the campus.
Other members of the task force in
volved in these projects include: Dr.
Edwin C. Masteller, R. Thomas Guth,
landscape supervisor, Dr. Zachary
Irwin, associate professor of political
science, Dr. Paul Barney, lecturer in bi
ology, Dr. Roger Knacke, director of
the School of Science, Dr. Michael
Campbell, associate professor of biol
ogy, along with Wortman and Light.
Many of the original ideas for these
projects originated from Masteller, who
is now retired.
The Task Force is focusing on
sustainability. This entails living
within means and using the resources
that Earth provides. The Task Force's
seven main issues include: reducing en
ergy use, conserving water, minimiz
ing waste, increasing the healthiness of
food and reducing its waste, protect
ing and preserving natural areas, using
"green" practices, and promoting eco
logical stewardship within the commu
nity.
The mission of the arboretum is to
conserve and promote the legacy of the
campus' unique natural botanical re
sources through: advancement of re
lated education, outreach, research, and
conservation efforts; documentation
and enhancement of the campus' bo
tanical diversity; and the maintenance
Friday, February 28, 2003
"Who cares? Nothing's
changed."
Isaac Hagenbach
Bio, 06
city located outside of Florence.
During the concert, they will perform
a total of 12 songs. These songs include:
"Good Ale" by John Rutter; "Simple
Gifts" by Joseph Brackett (arranged by
Richard lacona); "0 La, 0 Che Bon
Echo" by Orlando DiLasso; "Danny
Boy" arranged by Doug Andrews; "Five
American Folksongs" arranged by
Daryl Runswick; "Two Japanese
Proverbs" by Gary Kent Walth;
'"'Hatikva" arranged by John Leavitt;
"Crotalo" by Matthew Harris; "El Dia
es Hoy" by Paul Basler; "Something I
Feel" arranged by Alice Parker and
Robert Shaw; "You Can Run But You
Can't Hide" by Elizabeth Campbell; and
"Requiem for a Soldier," which was
written by Barnard.
"I wrote this piece from a grant that I
earned from the Pennsylvania Council
on the Arts," said Barnard.
Then on March 13, the ensemble will
pack up its bags and arrive in Rome,
the final destination, and will enjoy a
three- night stay in Hotel Gioberti.
The group will gather for the second
concert on March 14 at Trinita dei Monti
School. They will perform most of the
same songs as the first concert.
However, a couple may need to be
eliminated because the students of the
Trinita Choir, who are about the same
age as the Behrend Choir, will perform
during the first 15 minutes.
"This concert will be really nice," said
Barnard. "After the concert is finished,
of the campus' inspirational woodland
setting. Their vision is that it will be
recognized as an important education,
outreach, research, and conservation
resource
When asked if he is looking for oth
ers to aid in this project, Marvit said,
"I've used publicity towards conserva
tion, but I believe that we shouldn't try
to recruit people, we aren't an army.
At the same time people should want
to work with us, we are only improv
ing the area and where students live and
study.
"We are trying to keep up with national
standards of conservation and a lot of
other universities are probably a lot bet
ter than we are, as good as it seems.
But what we are doing isn't novel at
all, it is like everyone else. It's in no
way radical. It's just about conserva
In response Wortman said, "The
ideas are hardly radical, it's very main
stream. It's about conserving the beauty
and the biodiversity, it's not about mak
ing political statements.
"Arboretum is certainly a work in
progress, it's not something that comes
in a box and you open it up and then
you have arboretum. Arboretum re
quires the efforts of a whole lot of
people and it changes, sometimes day
to day. It's a dynamic thing, rather than
a static one." Everyone
on the Behrend campus should be
proud of what the Greener Behrend
Task Force has done for the campus.
"If we believe so strongly in our trees
to become an arboretum, then students
are probably the most critical part of
that," said Wortman.
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the Behrend students will get together
with the local students for lunch and get
a chance to meet them.'
The Behrend Choir also plans to
enjoy Italy. In each of the cities they
visit, they will take a guided tour and
get to see the sites. After the tours, the
students are free to see whatever they
want.
"I think that it is a good balance
between structured and unstructured
activities," said Barnard. "I think that it
is better to let the students choose what
they want to see, than try to see
everything at one time. In Rome, they
may choose to see the Vatican City and
see the St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican
museums, or perhaps spend the day
exploring the Spanish Steps and the
Trevi Fountain."
On March 15, their final night, the
group will enjoy the last evening dinner
in Rome, and return to the hotel. Then
on March 16, the choir will check out
of the hotel at 5 a.m., and be transported
to the airport; where they will again be,
split up into two groups.
Group one will depart from Rome on
Swiss Flight #1735 at 7 a.m., and group
two will board Swiss Flight #1727 at
9:30 a.m., both bound for Zurich. The
ensemble will re-unite in Zurich, and
depart on Swiss Flight #l6 and arrive
in New York at about 3:40 p.m.
Everyone is looking f )rward to the
trip to Italy, and they feel very confident.
Snowfall racing for first place
by Katie Zellars
staff writer
The bets are on the table. Will Erie
beat its record of 149.1 inches of snowfall
this year? With 132.4 inches as of 11 a.m.
on Tuesday and another month of
snowfall still to come, most are saying
yes!
Late Monday night and early Tuesday
mornings 4.2 inches of snow bumped the
2002-2003 winter season into third place
for the snowiest season on record. The
previous third-place season 1993-1994 is
just 1.1 inches below what we currently
have according to the National Weather
Service.
The second largest snowfall was in
1977-1998 with 142.8 inches and the
record seasonal snowfall total was set just
two years ago during the winter of 2000-
2001 at a staggering 149.1 inches. Put
that all together and you could bury a one
story house!
Most students are certain that we will
break the record this year. Sophomore
Tim Weindorf said, "It would be pretty
neat if we got it. Then I could say I lived
through the snowiest winter in Erie."
Most students predict we will pass the
149.1 inches mark by middle or late
March. Hinting at the extra-long Erie
winters, student Kevin Robb said, "I'm
quite confident we'll have it by June 15."
PHOTO BY KEVIN FALLON / BEHREND BEACON
Behrend students struggle through the snow to get to class. Erie is poised to
break the record for snowiest winter.
The Behrend Beacon
"Just leave him alone, let
him live his
Melissa Schmidt
PsycholoNy, 02
"They seem to he ready," said
Barnard. "They performed some of the
songs last Sunday at the Blasco Library,
and on February 27, 2003 at the Winter
Concert at Behrend. They have also had
and still have a few more days of
rehearsal to get ready.-
Dr. Barnard and the entire Behrend
Choir would like to thank Penn State
for all of their financial help and support
for the arts program, and are looking
forward to a good Italian time.
Members of the choir include: Kristin
M. Dressner; Carrie A. Egnosak;
Elischia Fludd; Maggie D. Jensen;
Yelana S. Kerr; Grace Quiggle; Tammy
L. Sudul; Melissa S. Pelle; Lisa Y.
Gemma; Melinda Hanes; Katie B.
Leary; Laura R. McKelvey; Virginia L.
Seats; Cristen Stephansky; Karen M.
Tryon; Matthew T. Esek; Michael J.
Evans; Timothy Luthringer; Rodney J.
Knight; Peter N. Riefstahl; Anthony J.
DiPlacido; Matthew L. Hillwig; Steven
C. O'Donnell; Jeremy C. Reel; John J.
Reynolds Jr.; and Michael Wiseman.
The following 10 people are also in
the Behrend Studio Singers who are
chosen by audition: Erika L. Dauber;
Danielle L. Gardner; Maura Holmes;
Andrea Rodriguez; Stephanie Bailey;
Stacey R. Hampton; Robert J. Kearns
Jr.; Nathan W. Saccol; Clark A. Pease;
and Matthew Stanton.
Though some students would like to see
Erie break its record, some are getting a
little tired of the snow.
"It needs to quit," sophomore Kate
Overmoyer said. The extreme snow
amounts have affected Overmoyer's daily
routine, like walking her dog and
commuting to school.
The snow has certainly taken its toll on
commuters, causing them to get in
accidents, be late for class, or not even
make it to school. Some find the effects
of the had weather and road conditions
very annoying. Commuter Jesse Anderson
said he is of scraping snow and ice oft his
car every morning. lie has also witnessed
several small accidents in the parking lots
and roads because of the horrible
conditions.
There is some explanation for the
record-making snowfall this season.
Meteorologist Tom Atkins explained that
a lot of low-pressure southern storms have
Caused the large snowfall.
"In this season's case it's happening
because we've stayed cold all this winter,"
Atkins said, explaining that the southern
storms that are normally rain have
dumped snow instead.
With only 16.7 more inches to go. Erie
residents will be ready with their hoots
and snow shovels to see if the 2002-2003
season makes the record books as the
largest seasonal snowfall ever recorded.