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Music at Noon opens 15th season with Clogs
Music at Noon will begin its 15 lh season with Clogs, an improvisational
chamber music ensemble, on Sept. 21. The lunchtime presentation is free and
open to the public.
“Clogs is in its sixth performing season and it has already built a broad fan
base from many different genres,” said Dan Barnard, director of the Music at
Noon series
Led by Australian violinist and violist Padma Newsome, the quartet met at the
Yale University School of Music. The other members of the group are Ameri
cans Rachael Elliott on bassoon, Bryce Dressner on guitar and Thomas
Dozumplik on percussion. Newsome is credited as the founder of the group and
composes much of their music, along with Dressner.
Clogs’ rock band approach to music can be seen in their various recordings
which include their first album, Thom’s Night Out (2001), Lullaby for Sue
(2003) and their most recent recording, Stick Music (2004).
Open House Night in Astronomy celebrates 12 years
Behrend kicks off its twelfth year of its Open House Night in Astronomy Sept.
24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Otto Behrend Science Building. Dr. Roger Knacke will
present “Ring World: The Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan.”
Dr. Knacke will describe the latest results of the mission and its exciting
itinerary for the coming months.
POLICE AND SAFETY
9/9/2004
Individual stopped officers and said a car hit a tree in the Ohio lot
and was stuck.
9/11/2004
While walking through the apt. quad, officer encountered an intoxi
cated male outside apt. 207. The male student was under the age o
21 yrs.
9/11/2004
As officer was getting info from an underage drinker, a male was
seen in K lot staggering and leaning near a car. It was determined
that he was intoxicated.
9/12/2004
While on foot patrol through the apt. quad, officer saw a male
urinating in a yard outside apt. 707. Charges are pending.
"The civility of no race can be perfect whilst
another race is degraded. "
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Janet Neff Sample Center
for Manntrs ir Civility
CORRECTIONS: In last week’s issue, Dr. Ralph Ford was
referred to as the director of the School of Engineering and
Engineering Technology. He is actually an associate professor
of electric and computer engineering.
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Students peruse the latest poster offerings at the annual poster sale. The sale encouraged students to
display their interests while cheering up their rooms.
tudent interns for Keriy campaign
By Jeffrey Smen
contributing writer
Behrend student, Tim Baumbach,
recently had the privilege of becom
ing an intern on the Kerry campaign.
Baumbach is currently in his seventh
semester majoring in history with a
minor in political science.
Baumbach grew up, and still lives in,
Harborcreek.
“I’m a liberal by heart and a big
time democrat,” said Baumbach. “I
love politics, always have, and 1 de
cided while I was watching the pri
maries that Kerry was my guy. I
picked him a long time before the
caucuses. I signed up online to vol
unteer and then got a phone call ask
ing if I wanted to be an intern.”
Baumbach’s job for the campaign
is to help find more volunteers and
to call people asking them whom
they would vote for and how certain
they were about voting for a particu-
Debate Watch inspects candidates
By Dan Snedden
staff writer
This year students will have the
opportunity to participate in
Debate Watch, a national voter edu
cation program of the Commission
on Presidential Debates.
Debate Watch is designed to in
crease the voter’s knowledge about
the candidates and their stance on
the issues
Debate Watch will take place on
the nights scheduled for the debates;
Sept. 30, Oct. 5,8, and 13. It will be
held in Bruno’s and Reed 117, and
will run from 8:45 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Attendance at Debate Watch is re
quired for some communications and
political science classes, but all stu
dents are strongly encouraged to
participate.
Students who attend Debate Watch
will view the 90-minute debates then
break into groups to discuss them.
Communications students will lead
the groups and all who are present
are asked to participate in discus
sions. The results of the discussions
will be sent to the National Commu
nication Association and published,
allowing Behrend’s voice to be
heard nationwide.
Behrend’s Debate Watch is man
aged by Cathy Mester, senior lecturer
in speech communications. Mester
feels the program will “encourage
younger voters to participate in and
be concerned about the presidential
election.”
Mester hopes the program will
motivate Behrend students to “speak
up and be a voice.”
The Commission on Presidential
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lar candidate. This gives the cam
paign an idea of how hard they must
work in order to gain more votes in
Pennsylvania.
Baumbach did get the chance to
meet John Kerry and take a few pic
tures with him. While talking to
John Kerry, Baumbach “asked him
to keep my brother safe when he goes
to Iraq next February. I told him that
if he wins, he better keep him safe.”
Why did he pick John Kerry over
George W. Bush and Ralph Nader?
Baumbach said, “I am a very liberal
person; my views are pretty much
exactly like John Kerry’s. I’m far
left; I’ll admit it. Most democrats
aren’t even as far left as me or even
John Kerry. That is why he’s such
an odd pairing for the election with
George W. Bush.”
With as many issues as this elec
tion has, Baumbach’s biggest issue
was foreign policy. He said he
doesn’t agree with it and he knows
Debates, a non-profit and non-parti
san organization, was established in
1987 to make certain that the voters
find presidential debates as educa
tional and informative as possible.
The first Debate Watch was held
during the 1988 debates, and has
taken place during every election
since. There are currently over 125
organizations, many of them col
leges, involved in Debate Watch. Ad
ditional information about
Debate Watch can be found at
www.debates.org.
Presidential debates have been an
important part of American politics
since the mid-19 ,h century with the
1858 Lincoln-Douglass debate. The
introduction of television and mass
media has made debates even more
important.
The debates allow citizens to see
what the candidates stand for with
out having to sift through the misin
formation and smearing that is often
found on television. The debates are
a forum for the candidate not just to
Friday, September 17, 2004
many Americans don’t either.
This was a life changing experi
ence for Baumbach. He said, “My
goal in life is to be involved in poli
tics; I’d love to run for office in the
future. I have experience and it gave
me a look at the campaign while also
meeting some local politicians.”
Baumbach said that if he had the
chance to do it all again, he would,
but only for the democratic party.
Baumbach gave one last piece of
advice by saying, “The elections are
so important. People have to voice
their opinions and fight for what they
want. That’s my main goal. I would
like to get out there and make sure
people know what they want, who
they’re voting for, what the issues are
and that there is more than one is
sue. That’s why I’d do it again. I
got people to think. People have to
trust the system in order for it to
work.”
present their ideas, but to allow the
voters to see how they react under
pressure to questions about the is
sues.
Debates generally follow the same
format; a moderator will ask one can
didate a question and the candidate
will have a set amount of time to an
swer. After the first candidate an
swers, the second candidate will be
given a chance to follow up with a
response, and then the first candidate
will be allowed to cross-examine the
follow up. Debates generally focus
on many issues, allowing the voter a
well-rounded view of each candi
date.
This year, record numbers of citi
zens aged 18-22 have been register
ing to vote. These numbers are due
in part to massive awareness cam
paigns such as Rock the Vote, and
DeclareYourself.com. Both pro
grams have a goal of registering at
least a million citizens and so far
have a combined total of about 1.5
million newly registered voters.
CHUCK KENNEDY/KRT