Friday, October 6, 2006 As purses grow, so does the backlash By De’Adra Walker contributing writer As fall begins and the new school year starts, I am always eager to watch the emer gence of the season’s latest trends, as well as the revival and renewal of those past. While many trends gain popularity simply due to the physical appearance of the article of clothing, haircut or accessory in question, I am quite pleased to see the coming of a trend that is proving to be fashionable, as well as practical in a few ways oversized purses and fashion bags. In an unnamed, but representative sample of the female student population on the Behrend cam pus, it was found that a woman’s purse is her sanctuary, claiming that any and everything of importance to her can be found there. In previous years, however, the hierarchy deciding exactly what to carry in one's purse has been a difficult task due to the size of purses. The smaller the bag. the more selec tive one must be with its contents. Many women (myself included) have become accus tomed to smaller purses through the process of assimilation. Thus, "essentials" and “everything important including the kitchen sink” have simply become minimized to a cell phone, a debit card, lip gloss and chewing gum. However, with this blossoming of over sized purses and bags, freedom has been restored and the trend of small bags and not enough space to carry what is needed is no longer a problem. Most recently. I have witnessed these bags doubling as bookbags. These particular bags are about the size of an average backpack, and allow young women to have space for not only their academic essentials, but also their femi nine essentials —lip gloss, cell phone and any other make-up/monetary/mp3 player-like Student Life weekly snippet What the Bellhop Saw set to debut What the Bellhop Saw debuts this Saturday night at the North East Cultural Center. By Sean Mihlo student life editor What happens when a slew of goofy guests descend upon the same hotel room at the same time? Confusion, craziness and hilarity. On Friday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m. at the North East Cultural Center, the North East Community Players will present What the Bellhop Saw. Directed by Chris Bucci, the slapstick-comedy is the story of Wally Leech, a bellhop in one of New York City’s fanciest hotels. Wally (Bucci), ever the caring and gentle human being, promises his brother George a “free” suite for the day so that George (Dave Yosten) can live out his fanta sy of having an affair with his secretary. Everything is grand and dandy until Wally, unbeknownst to him, finds out that the suite has been overbooked, to say the least. The nightmare ensues as a cast chock-full of quirky characters including an incompetent C.I.A. agent, an author, an Iranian terrorist who wants the author dead, the author’s daughter, a celebrity-obsessed maid, an angry wife and a pig-tailed little girl r'lr The other day, while walking between the Kochel Building and the contributed photo eec * Union This Marc Jacobs bag may one day knock you over. Building, 1 was smacked in the side with a bag the size of a small child. Bumpings into such as this are not uncommon in the move of traffic between classes. The oddity of this occurrence was the fact that the young lady whose shoulder this bag was on was walking literally a foot away from me. Her bag protruded that far from her body. I glanced at my own small pink bag under my left arm, which housed my notebooks and binders, and then at hers pondering exactly what she was hiding in it, judging from the bump, it may have been a small child. 1 think that we as a female population T [TDE'i TT E" However, the balance between practicality and outrageousness is shifted when these already oversized bags begin to grow. A bag the size of a backpack used to carry books and binders in addition to the contents of an aver age-sized purse is practical and useful. When a bag crosses the line between being large enough to hold books and being large enough to fit a Ford Focus inside, then we have a problem. If one feels the need to coordi nate her school bag with her new denim jacket by way of a fashion bag, by all means. These bags come in multiple shapes and colors and are made of should probably take a step back and examine our choice in accessories, if bags have grown to the point where bags do in fact have space to include everything and the kitchen sink... and the stove... and the shower... and the pull out couch... and then that Focus. descend upon the hotel room. The farce also stars NECP regulars Pat Devlin, Lynn Kessler, Linda Lewis, Bev Walz, Sam Dzuricky, Stephen Vitron, Peggy Hauser and newcomer Jamie Pryber. Three young actors will play the part of the pig tailed girl throughout the play’s run, includ ing Liz Keddie, Gina Dißuono and Brittany Rogers. Sally Abata serves as Assistant Director for this production. What the Bellhop Saw will begin its two week-plus run today, Friday the 6 at 7:30 p.m. on the 2nd floor of the North East Cultural Center, located at 25 Vine Street in North East. After today, the show runs as fol lows, with all show times at 7:30 (unless oth erwise noted): October 7, 8 (2:00 p.m.), 12, 15 (2:00 p.m.), 19, 20, 21 and 22 (2:00 p.m.). Tickets, priced at $8 for adults and $6 for stu dents, can be purchased at the venue itself or via telephone, 814-725-5055. For more infor mation about the play, visit the North East Community Player’s website at www.myspace.com/necp. everything from canvas to fake leather. Transferring files made easy By Logan Stack Dear ASCII My friend has a lot ot stull on his computer, and 1 want a copy. What would he the best way to move many gigabytes (GBl ol tiles'.' - Jerry Pohl. Journalism 07 Dear Jerrv There are many ways you could do this. II you have a large thumb drive, you can make a lot ol trips between your dorm rooms, but that s terribly inconvenient Your friend could burn the tiles to a bunch ol DVDs. But you could run into problems if your friend has a copy of the 7.2 Ciß "Pirates.avi . It would require software to break the tile into chunks small enough to burn to disk, or a compar atively expensive double-layer DVD-R. It your friend doesn't have a DVD burner, or doesn't want to spend the time burning a pile of disks tor you. fear not! There are other options. Far more convenient are external hard drives. For about $lOO. you can get 200 GB worth of external hard disks. These work exactly the same as thumb drives, but require an electrical outlet., so you plug them in for both AC power and USB. You could loan this to your friend, and get it back when he fills it. If you don't have the money, or don't want to spend it. you can transfer it directly. Fake your computer to his room, and you can then transfer the tiles through a wire. There are all sorts of wires you can use: parallel, serial (both very slow). Firewire (you both may not have this). Ethernet, etc. The easiest and cheapest mode is Ethernet. 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