Erika Jarvis, Features Editor
Coffee lines anger Behrend
students and faculty
by Rory Hamilton
contributing writer
The coffee counter in Bruno's café has
many Behrend students and faculty
members, angered and outraged. With
more "Specialty" drinks being served at
the coffee counter, One can expect to wait
upto 20 minutes sometimes for a coffee
refill.
When standing in line, you can hear
the complaints of the students or faculty
as they endure a long wait.
Over the past two years, Bruno's has
added a large array of specialty drinks
such as iced cappuccino and flavored
caffeinated beverages. These drinks can
take upwards of three and a half minutes
to make.
"It can be very annoying when you just
want a refill and you have to wait behind
people who want these specialty drinks
that take a few minutes to make," said
Debbie Hayes, a faulty member in the
Office of Student Affairs.
A 20-minute wait however is not
always the case.
ook lists wide range
of hiccup cures
By Carolyn Poirot
Knight Ridder Newspapers
If you are one of those conventional
problem-solvers who never thinks
"outside the bag," you may still be
blowing into a paper sack to cure your
hiccups _ and assuming that everyone
else is blowing into one, too.
Not so, says John Walbaum, author of
a new "how-to" book, "The Know-It-
All's Guide to Life" (Career Press,
$14.99).
Walbaum's book promises to let you
in on the nitty-gritty of how to climb
Mount Everest, cure hiccups, live to be
100 years old and dozens of other
"practical, unusual or just plain
fantastical things."
He used sources as diverse as Plato,
The Saturday Evening Post and an old
medical journal in formulating his
suggestions for a hiccups cure, Walbaurn
said in a telephone interview.
"Plato's cures included holding your
breath, gargling with water and tickling
your nose until you sneezed two or three
times," Walbaum said.
Folk remedies include holding a sugar
cube or glob of peanut butter in your
mouth until it melts or dissipates,
drinking water through a handkerchief or
paper towel, standing on your head,
breathing through a paper bag and
munching on a wedge of lime.
The most unusual thing he found in his
research was a hiccup-curing machine
that tossed sufferers up and down 92
times a minute while they were drinking
water.
Walbaum recommends the Hughes/
Green hiccups cure, named for former.
Through the Looking Glass
by Mike Pingree
KRT Campus
FATHER OF THE YEAR
A man in England abandoned his family, including his
infant son, but, 20 years later, reunited with the boy at his request.
The son brought his 19-year-old fiancee to the meeting. The
father, now 53, subsequently stole his son's girlfriend, embarking
almost immediately on a passionate affair with her.
BOYS, THAT'S NO WAY TO BEHAVE
Teachers at the Kinyui Boys School in eastern Kenya barred
the students from attending discos and video shows to give them
more time to study for their exams
In response, the lads rampaged through the school in an
orgy of destruction, finally setting the place on fire.
SURPRISED TO SEE YOU OUT HERE
An unemployed man in Sao Paulo, Brazil, agreed to serve
the prison sentence of a robber to whom he
owed $275 he couldn't pay.
But three months after his alter-ego was locked up, the
robber who was supposed to be in jail was caught committing yet
The man in jail was sentenced to four months for illegally
serving the three months.
"It's the luck of the draw. You can
sometimes walk right up and get what
you need, but other times you have to
wait 20 minutes," Hayes said.
It is evident that the staff working in
Bruno's Café is aware of the excessive
wait as well.
"Patience is a virtue. If you want
quality coffee, good coffee takes time
to make," said Bruno's café employee
Liz Heidenreich.
The staff sees the aggravation of the
customers and does know that there does
need to be a system when working in
the café.
"The staff here has been trying to
develop a more efficient way of dealing
with specialty orders and with the coffee
refills," said Heidenreich.
It is still unknown whether or not
there are any definite plans to change
the way Bruno's coffee counter is going
to change how the counter is run. In the
future, Behrend staff and students may
not have to stand in line for 20 minutes,
but for the time being, the wait goes on.
hiccups sufferer Dave Hughes
1. Pour a tall glass of water.
2. While holding your breath and
pinching your nose closed, repeatedly
take sips of water until you feel like you
are drowning, then stop.
3. Inhale deeply and breathe normally.
The hiccups should be gone.
For more stubborn cases, try icing
down the nerve fibers that are
responsible. You'll find them on either
side of the neck (slightly off-center from
the front), but Walbaum warns that icing
your neck is a strange sensation, almost
painful.
In really serious cases, your doctor
can give you a shot of an anti-shivering
medication that is highly effective, or
of baclofen, a muscle relaxer.
Nimodipine, a drug that inhibits muscle
contractions and is most often used to
help repair damage caused by a ruptured
blood vessel in the head, has also been
used to cure hiccups, Walbaum says.
"Hiccups have no beneficial purpose,
though they do argue for taking smaller
bites and chewing your food slowly,"
he says.
With a name like "The Know-It-All's
Guide to Life," we figured his book was
bound to include some news you could
use. If you want to know how to climb
Mount Everest, avoid an IRS audit,
remove a tattoo or run with the bulls,
you'll have to buy the book _ or skim
through it at your favorite bookstore.
another robbery
reicrunts
& FUNNIES
Friday, November 14, 2003
Perry Hall fills football void at
Behrend with first Turkey Bowl
Since the establishment of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College in 1948, the school has been without a football team.
Many will blame it on the ageless Joe Paterno, while others will admonish the small size of this school. Guy Reschenthaler
a resident assistant in Perry Hall, has solved Behrend's pigskin woes for at least one Saturday this November.
The first annual Perry Hall Turkey
Bowl is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Sat
urday, November 22 on the frozen tun
dra of the Behrend Fields.
Each floor of Perry,there are four
has fielded a team of at least 1 I play
ers. The double elimination tourna
ment, which is only open to Perry resi
dents, is expected to draw more than
60 participants.
Reschenthaler will lead First Floor
West into the trenches, doing battle
with Jair Carrasquero's first floor east
squad, Dave Daquelente's Second
Floor West team, and the crew from
Second Floor East, led by John
Foerstner.
"I wanted to plan a program that
would unite the floors and add to Perry
pride. The Turkey Bowl does this.
Residents must pull together as a team,
practice, plan and dedicate themselves
to winning the big game ... and believe
we all want to win," said
Reschenthaler.
All four floors have been practicing about one day a week for the last month or so, and the animosity and competition
between the floors are building each day.
"The excitement is contagious. We are all pumped to get out there and go to war," said Reschenthaler.
One player, who wishes to remain anonymous, had this to say:
"It's war. They're out there to kill you, so I'm out there to kill them. We don't care about anyone but this floor. They're
going after my legs, I'm going to come right hack at them. I'm a soldier."
This particular student may be taking his intensity just a little too far, but this shows how important this tournament is to
Perry Hall residents.
Reschenthaler won't hesitate to tell you his team is the heavy favorite
"Who is going to win? Come on, my team, First Floor West. We've got the size, speed, talent, and determination. We're a
tough team and I pity the offense that has to face our Steel Curtain Defense. Trust me, we are good," Reschenthaler said.
While First Floor West may not have L.C. Greenwood, Joe Greene or Mel Blount, the team's confidence is still high.
Coaches Carrasquero and Daquelente have yet to attend a practice or scrimmage for their respective teams, which leaves
Reschenthaler and Foerstner's teams with an added advantage.
Since Jopa's Nittany Lions have failed to entertain and satisfy the fans this year, maybe this is Behrend's chance to get a foot
in the football door. An annual Turkey Bowl could he in to fill the football void that we Behrend students suffer from.
"As for this building into a tradition, I certainly lii)pc so. This has the potential to develop into a Behrend tradition and I sure
hope it does," said Reschenthaler.
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