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THE BEHREND BEACON
Friday, April 22, 2005
Apartment construction across street
This fall ground will be broken for a new apartment complex across from
Behrend Fields. While encouraged by the university, the apartments are being built
independently from Penn State.
There will be 60 units, with a capacity of three people per unit and a private bed
room for each individual in a unit. Each bedroom will be furnished with a bed,
desk, chair, dresser and a cable internet connection.
Each unit will be 1100 square feet and will be fully furnished with a couch,
chairs, coffee table, oven range, full size refrigerator and freezer and a double sink.
The complex will house 208 students, with parking spaces for all, central air, a
live-in management staff and leases will be for two semesters with summer leases
available.
“I’ve got 150 interested out of a small sample,” said Jack Gordon, developer of
the apartment project. “Our primary market is sophomores, juniors and seniors.”
Gordon has several other apartment developments in both Edinboro and
Shippensburg.
“Our credo is that we provide student housing that is the closest, nicest and best.
We feel it would be quite an asset to have off-campus housing adjacent to the uni
versity.”
“This will be a nice option for students to live in quality housing off campus,”
said Ken Miller, director of student affairs. “We have students living in basements
and rented rooms and this will be much nicer.” He also said that some of the plans
appeared to be “very attractive.”
When asked of he knew what kind of commercial properties will also be built,
he said; “Perhaps a coffee shop or a Pizza Hut. They talked about a ‘courtyard
type’ shopping center. 1 *
“If we do find we are having trouble keeping students on campus,” said Miller.
“We may consider mandatory on-campus housing for freshmen like University
Park does.”
The apartments are expected to be completed by the fall semester of 2006.
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By Dan Snedden and Sarah Weber
assistant news editor and copy editor
Pope confirms student’s mother
Student discovers special connection to Benedict XVI
People around the world celebrated the naming of new
Pope Benedict XVI, but Kevin Gillespie, president of the
International Student Organization and native of Germany,
had a special reason to take notice.
Kevin’s mother, Angelika Gillespie, was confirmed by then
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in a special service in Munich on
April 25, 1978.
“It was the most stunning mass I ever attended,” said
Gillespie. “Ratzinger was soft-spoken and charismatic. He
shook hands, talked with us, blessed everyone and hung
around with us. He was very easy to talk to and he paid atten
tion to people. Over all, he was a very special man.”
Originally a Lutheran, Gillespie converted to Catholicism
for her American husband. She and Ratzinger are both from
Bavaria, the only predominantly Catholic state in Germany.
Though Kevin, also a practicing Catholic, was “rooting for
the Nigerian because a black pope would be more signifi
cant,” Gillespie said “I believe the Holy Spirit chose the right
man. I believe people will be in for a surprise because he is
a very humble man.”
She thinks Benedict XVI will follow Catholic doctrine as
strictly as John Paul n.
“When I met him, he was in his 50s and he was so good
looking. He was a very handsome man,” said Gillespie.
Benedict XVI, 78, had a close relationship with pope John
Paul II and acted as his theological adviser for 20 years. As
a Cardinal, Benedict XVI was widely known to be the least
progressive of the papal potentials, opposing the liberation
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By Sarah Weber and Dan Snedden
copy editor and assistant news editor
A Penn State Erie Student Publication
From Dean to Chancellor
Burke’s title changes campus
Under the campus reorganization
plan, CEO and Dean Jack Burke will
change his title to Chancellor, effective
July 1.
Since many people are confused
about the job of CEO (campus execu
tive officer) and dean and not knowing
that they are the same person, the Board
of Trustees decided to revise the title of
the CEO and dean at each of the 19
campuses involved in the structural
reorganization. However, their duties
and responsibilities will remain the
The plan of campuses co-operation is
a chance to modify the admissions and
academic quality at the 19 campuses,
including Behrend. Future Chancellor
Burke foresaw that more and more jun
iors would be sent to Behrend.
“If we are a system in terms of
finances, then it would behoove each
campus to send more students to sister
campuses rather than to University
Park,” said Burke.
Yet there are negative views in the
plan, according to Burke. Changing the
situation from one out of six campuses
into one out of 19 in July, budget plans,
budget impact and the financial support
will get more and more complicated. In
By Tiffany Mak
staff writer
theology movement, religious pluralism, challenges to tradi
tional teachings on issues such as homosexuality and calls to
ordain women as priests. It is expected that he will continue
his hardline stance on Catholic tradition.
Student Kevin Gillespie takes a moment to contemplate the
special confirmation of his mother by Benedict XVI, recent
pope inductee.
addition to the increased sister campus
es, Burke showed his worry towards the
attention of Behrend.
“The 19 campuses will be put under
a modified cost center budget model
which means resources can be moved
from one campus to another,” said
Burke. “Whether our budget model
will still be this proportion or not has to
depend on the central administration.”
Another big problem would be the
declining degree of autonomy as com
pared to the past. The resources and the
library services will be controlled by
the central administration. The board of
trustees, which is elected by people in
different categories, such as, agricul
ture, industrial, alumni, students and
government decided the plan. Burke’s
responsibility was just to provide some
principles to them; he was unable to
vote.
Having served at Penn State Erie for
24 years, Burke gained abundant expe
rience of being the associate dean and
later the CEO and dean. Before that, he
was the associat dean at the State
University of New York’s Empire State
College where he was awarded the
SUNY Chancellor’s Award for
Excellence in Teaching.
Apart from receiving his bachelor’s
degree in Geography in the State
University College at Oswego, New
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York, his master and doctorate degree
in the State University of New York at
Buffalo, he also earned a certificate in
Educational Management at Harvard
University’s Institute.
While there is still a lot of existing
uncertainty in each detail of the plan
and the budget impact in this stage,
Burke will wait and see and look for
ward to the plan. He estimated the
school would take a year to get around
the changes
Under campus reorginization CEO and
Dean Jack Burke will lose his title and
become Chancellor
Hallmarks part of
strategic plan
By Bradley Stewart
news editor
Recently, The Bulletin, a weekly
news report released from University
Relations, has been printing a series
of hallmarks as part of Behrend’s
“institutional mission and vision.”
University Relations, based on the
top floor of the Logan House, has
always had a goal of increasing public
awareness of Behrend, but these hall
marks are part of the new strategic
plan for 2005.
The strategic plan, not to be con
fused with the administrative plan for
the whole PSU system, came out of
the CEO and Dean’s office. The
strategic plan calls for short-term
goals and assigned responsibilities
made for each campus office.
The hallmarks are taken straight
from the strategic plan and have
received recent attention from
University Relations to improve
awareness and provide examples for
each hallmark.
The hallmarks include quality, stu
dent-centeredness, engagement,
teamwork, focus, technologically
advanced, inspiring environment and
diversity.
“We’re wanting to expand on the
hallmarks so they don’t stay flat on a
page,” said Director of University
Relations, Dewayne Wright.
Along with the hallmarks,
University Relations goals from the
strategic plan include a new market
ing plan and updating the camps web
site.
“The core nugget is still that
University Relations is here to tell the
Behrend story,” said Wright.