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Career fair this Wednesday
By Alicia Raffensberger
staff w l iter
The Career Fair will he held this Wednesday
at the Junker Center from noon until 4 p.nt.
The Career Fair, which is organized hy the Ca
reer Development Center, is an event for Behrend
students, alumni and students from other area
colleges of all majors. The event gives students
the opportunity to meet with company recruit
ers who are looking to fill positions ranging from
summer internships to full time employment.
Kevin Kearney, MIS 09, will he in attendance
at the Career Fair. He hopes to find full time
employment from the event for when he gradu
ates this December
I hope to get at least a few interviews,
Kearnev said
Andrew Watters, associate director of the Ca
reer Development Center said there are currently
76 companies that have committed to attend the
fair, which is about the same number that at
tended last year.
"Approximately half of these companies are
from the Hrie area and the other half is from other
parts of Pennsylvania and other parts of the coun
try such as North Carolina, New Mexico and
Wisconsin," Watters said.
Among the list of attendees are Sandia Na
tional I.ahoratories. Lancaster Labs, Erie Insur-
Hurricane aftermath hits home
By Jenna O’Block
staff writer
Hurricanes have affected many people in the past
six weeks but not just the people in Florida. There
are students here at Behrend who are from the
southern states whose families were affected by
the hurricanes. Rachel Kessler. KINESO3, is from
northwest Florida, Fort Walton Beach. It is a little
east of where the eye of hurricane Ivan landed.
"My family and house are ok; I think the only
damage to our personal property was that we lost
our storage shed in the back of our house. We were
lucky." said Kessler.
Kessler's family was without power for a little
over a week
"Destin Fla was damaged worse than my town,
but Destin is literally only 7-10 minutes away from
mv house," said Kessler.
Hurricanes Jeanne and Frances did some major
damage to Orlando Florida, and Albert Braughler,
810 01, lives right outside of Orlando.
"My dad's house sustained roughly $200,000 of
damage" said Braughler. “But on the upside my
dad owns a large landscape company and he is ex
pecting twice his annual income for this year due
to tree removal and clean-up services.”
Margaret Blair Fulford, 810 01. lives in Stone
Mountain Ga. and her neighborhood experienced
many uprooted trees and lots of debris.
"Trees fell cm several houses and cars just down
the street from mv house" said Fulford.
Fulfords's grandmother lives in Cocoa Beach
Florida, right where the eye of Francis hit.
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"The weather didn't affect my family too much
except the fact that had weather made it difficult to
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Karina Semiletova, who lives in the suburbs of
Atlanta.
The combined effects of hurricanes Charley,
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"The companies that come here often come
specifically for what Behrend has to offer. The
fair gives Behrend students the opportunity to
receive positions from the contacts they made at
the fair," Watters said.
Watters urges students to look on the Career
Development Center's website for a complete list
of the companies attending and what types of
positions they are looking to fill.
"Students should target companies of interest
by doing some background research by looking
at company websites." Watters said.
Pre-registration isn't required to attend the Ca
reer Fair. You can simply show up anytime be
tween noon and 4 p.m. If you do decide to at
tend the fair make sure you are prepared by keep
ing a few things in mind:
- Dressy attire is expected of you by companies
at the fair.
- Bring copies of your resume that you can hand
out to companies you have an interest in.
- Approach recruiters by yourself, not with a
group of other students.
- Ask questions about their specific job and the
services of the company they are representing.
- After the fair make sure to send a follow up
letter or thank you with a copy of your resume.
Remember, first impressions are often lasting
impressions so make sure to give a good repre
sentation of vourself.
"My parents drove down to inspect and repair
any damage that might have existed and when they
got there, both were in shock" said Fulford. "My
parents spent about a week down there trying to
fix everything up, and also received help from the
neighbors."
Fulford has lots of other family who live in Fla
who were affected bv the hurricanes.
"I was just so relieved to hear that none of my
friends and family were harmed" said Fulford.
The hurricane affected more of Florida and parts
of Georgia; however, other students who are from
the south were not as greatly affected. Jason Della
Sala. 810 02, has lived in Houston his whole life
and knows very well what damages a hurricane
can do.
"My tamilv in Houston has not heen affected by
any hurricane THIS year, but my grandparents live
just outside of Tampa and have had a pretty bad
blow from each hurricane" said Sala.
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Lizzie Simon visits Behrend
Bipolar speaker educates audience
Lizzie Simon, a graduate of Columbia Univer
sity, was here at Penn State Behrend Tuesday.
Unlike other guest speakers she was not here to
talk to students about college life, sex or drugs.
Simon was here to discuss the issue of bipolar
disorder, a disorder that she suffers herself.
Bipolar disorder, sometimes referred to as
manic depression, is a chronic illness and life
long mood disorder. One with such a disorder
suffers from episodes of extreme mania and de
pression. It is a serious mood disorder that Simon
believes everyone should be aware of.
Simon was diagnosed with the disorder at the
young age of 17. She said that it was a humiliat
ing time for her and thought that she would be
in and out of hospitals for the remainder of her
life. Simon wished that her life could just be over
at that time. It took her time after her diagnoses,
but she learned that her life wasn't over. "I real
ized that my diagnoses was a detour in my life,
not a dead end," said Simon. "I couldn't imag
ine my life after 20. Now I am currently living
way beyond my expectations of what a bipolar
person could ever be."
Today there are many stigmas about bipolar
people in the media and Simon was here to set
those stigmas straight. She said the media typi
cally stereotypes people suffering from mental
illnesses one of two ways: as psychopathic freaks
or people making up their disorders who really
don't have them. Simon identifies these both as
very wrong portrayals of people suffering from
these types of disorders. “People with mental ill
nesses are way more than their diagnoses. I’m
someone's daughter, someone's sister, someone’s
friend, a couple of people's ex-girlfriends; I'm
many things before I am bipolar," she said.
"When you hear something derogative about
mental illness, it really nails you."
There was an eclectic group of people in at
tendance on Tuesday. In addition to the numer
ous psychology classes, there were also many
bipolar people, families of those bipolar and
people with other mental illnesses. Also present
at Simon's talk was the Executive Director of
the National Alliance for the Mentally 111 of Erie
County. Janet Trychin.
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“I think bringing people like this to the cam
pus is a wonderful opportunity to reduce the stig
mas of bipolar people. This gave students the
opportunity to learn more about the subject, by
bringing Lizzie Simon here, rather than requir
ing them to travel to see something like this,
which most wouldn't have done," said Dr. Dawn
Blasko. Dr. Blasko teaches several psychology
classes here at Behrend.
“No one in my family has a mental illness, but
going to this presentation I learned that if this
ever comes up, family support is one of the most
helpful things to have,” said Hillary Yohe, a stu
dent from one of Dr. Blasko’s psychology
classes.
Simon has devoted most of her 2()'s to bipolar
studies and awareness. She was 23 when she de
cided to quit her job as a successful theatrical
producer to write a book and interview young
people with the disorder for the book._2Detour:
My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D," a biography and
autobiography by Simon, is an inquiry into the
treatment and nature of hers as well as other's
manic depressions. She wrote the book to dem
onstrate how it is to be young and bipolar and to
show how people can survive the illness.
Simon has shared her story with many to spread
awareness of bipolar disorder. She was the cre
ative producer of the Obie Award-winning Flea
Theater in Manhattan.. She frequently guest
speaks and she is also a free lance writer.
“Detour” has been featured on CNN, The
Connie Chung Show, The Judith Regan Show,
NPR. Time Magazine, The Saturday Evening
Post, The New York Post, Nylon Magazine,
Rhode Island Magazine, and many other radio,
television, web and print outlets. Her book in
spired a special on MTV called "True Life: I'm
Bipolar" and she was a consultant and field pro
ducer for the project. HBO is currently working
on a film version of Detour.
At the age of 28, Simon is starting a new
project called “Detour to Wellness." She hopes
to be able to support and inspire bipolar people
and their families by traveling the country and
sharing her story with them. Simon is hitting the
road to share her inspirational story and urge
people with bipolar disorder to take control of
their illness. To learn more about this project visit
http://www.detourtowellness.com/. Also, to
learn more about Simon and her disorder visit
her web site at http://www.hzzi