Friday, February 15, 2008
Students surprised
By Angelica Stoltzfus
staff writer
anssls4 (s’psu.edu
Technology Drive, located
right behind the REDC build
ing. has turned into an illegal
one-way street. For the past
couple of months, students
have been parking illegally
along this road to their advan
tage of getting to class on
time. Amber Wozniac admit
ted, "It is convient to just park
there because it's closer to the
building than the Junker park
ing lot." Technology Drive is
not Penn State Behrend prop
erty and actu
ally belong''
>elongs
Harbor
“I wipe my
hands of their
Creek
Township
Chief of
Police and
duties.”
-Jim Amann
Chief of Police
and Safety
Safety Jim
Amann said
plainly that
“the Harbor
Creek
Enforcement
Officers are in charge of the
main roads like Jordan and
Technology Drive and I wipe
my hands of their duties."
Officer Bryan Benobic.
head of Harbor Creek Code
Enforcement
Officers
explained that Technology
Drive is closed to any parking
between Oct. 1 and May 31.
He also stated that the officers
have been ticketing the stu
dents and if they continue to
park there, “they will be
charged up to a $35.00 parking
fee." The township is working
on a lot of new renovations
and the fines for parking and
other small illegal issues have
jumped quite a bit in price
since last year. Benobic also
felt it necessary to warn the
students to be "very careful
Pennsylvania primary could be the deciding factor for Democrats
By Mark Nardo
staff writer
mans(W2@psu.edu
The New Year has brought an unpredictable
presidential election. Clinton and Obama are rac
ing towards the finish line neck and neck. It should
be a big year and Americans are ready to see some
big changes in this country.
In a race as close as this one it is impossible to
know who is going to win the nomination, but
pending what happens in the March 4 primaries in
Ohio and Texas, Pennsylvania could be vital to this
election.
Robert Speel, Associate Professor of Political
Science at Penn State Behrend said, “if either
party’s nomination process is not wrapped up [on
March 4, then] Mississippi will vote on March 11.
Then for six weeks until Pennsylvania votes on
April 22, there are no other presidential primaries
or caucuses at all.”
If this is to be the case, then between mid-March
and April the residents of Pennsylvania will
undoubtedly see the news media as well as the
SGA budget allocations released
By Marcus Yeagley
staff writer
mjysol2@psu.edu
The Student Government Association has released
their approved budgets for various clubs and organiza-
The SGA allotted a total of $30,603.29 to 20 student
groups such as Trigon and the Panhellenic Council, in
addition to the organization’s own requests for funds.
The total amount asked for by all organizations exceed
ed $60,000.
The group that received the most money from SGA
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crossing Jordan Road because
people don’t always stop for
pedestrians.”
John Ream, Director of
Operations at Penn State
Behrend, stressed the impor
tance of student cooperation.
He also wanted to inform the
students that the parking
garage behind the REDC is
designated for visitors and fac
ulty because “the expansion of
Dobbins Hall is underway and
it will take up the already lim
ited parking spaces for those
individuals.” Ream also stated
that the prospect of installing a
new parking lot for students
was unlikely
because “they
had bigger
Township for
illegal park
ing. These notices require the
student to call the officer and
give them their information. If
the student is caught at the
spot again, having been regis
tered with a warning, the will
receive the $35.00 fine.
Lauren Decreny, a visitor from
Kings College, said she was
“shocked” when she came to
visit Behrend only a week ago.
"The parking was ridiculous. I
had to get a visitor pass and
even that was a silly process. I
know why students park ille
gally, they just want to get to
class on time.”
Although students are com
plaining about the tickets and
parking, the only way to avoid
the fines is to park in the des
ignated parking areas on cam
pus.
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issues”
hand.
Many of the
students
received park
ing warnings
and notices
candidates camping out throughout the state. This
would more than likely bring the candidates to
Erie. If either candidate can win Pennsylvania and
Ohio, it could mean a sure victory.
Paul Witt, President of the College Democrats at
Behrend, sad that his club is fully supporting the
Obama campaign. During the fall semester, the
group hosted Greg Stewart, the Pennsylvania co
chair of the Obama campaign, to come and speak
at Behrend. He stated that the Obama campaign
was the first and only to contact our university.
Attempts to reach the Clinton campaign have not
been successful. Witt and the club members are
hoping that if it comes down to Pennsylvania in
this primary race, that they can get Obama to come
speak personally to the school or possibly one of
the campaign’s coordinators. Witt believes that
Pennsylvania is usually a “toss up” state and that
“this year is going to be a coin flip.”
It seems the college student demographic is
leaning more towards Obama. He’s younger and
that appeals to a younger crowd a lot more than
Clinton, who is in her 60s. The large age difference
between Clinton and college students might be too
was SGA itself, receiving a total of $8,681 for Rally on
the Hill, a day-long event being held to promote diver
sity. SGA will also use the funds to assist Penn State
Behrend’s representatives for THON at University Park.
Eight other groups received amounts between $5,000
and $l,OOO for various activities such as a paintball
event for the Outdoors club, trips to conventions for
clubs such as the Management Information Systems
Club (MIS) and the National Society of Black
Engineers (NSBE), and also a bus trip to a Philadelphia
game for the Hockey Club.
The SGA consists of thirty five members of the
See BUDGET on page 2
ogy
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama react to a question from the CNN debate mediator.
large for the college populous in which to relate.
With the percentage of young voters that have
already turned out for primaries and caucuses
around the country, they will surely be essential to
the turn out of this year’s presidential election.
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Visit us online at www.thebehrendbeacon.com
No plans for eateries around Behrend’s campus
By Kameron Greene
staff wrtier
kvgsoo7@psu.edu
Students of Penn State Behrend do not have
the luxury of off-campus food or retail estab
lishments that Mercryhurst and Gannon
University have that are in walking distance of
our campus. Nonetheless, there have been some
rumors going around campus about the develop
ment of a Starbucks coffee shop and Quiznos
restaurant.
As most students are aware, Penn State
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Penn State
does not
Wiki
favor Behrend
students
By Matthew Schwabenbauer
assistant news editor
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Penn State students are now more closely eonnect
-1 than ever before, thanks to the Penn State Wiki.
Wiki is the term used to describe a social-network
ig website that allows anyone to create or edit the
intent of the site. Most people are familiar with
ikipedia.com, a Wiki which allows its users to post
iformation on any topic. As long as you are regis
:red to a Wiki, you can create content for the site, edit
.isting entries, or even remove information com
letely. The Penn State Wiki is essentially an open
•rum for PSU students to ask each other questions,
•read the word about events, or even sell things to
\e another.
Penn State isn't alone with their wiki, many col
:ges have followed suit and created similar pages.
ie Wikis are hosted by collegewikis.com. which has
Wiki for just about every major college you can
link of. In Pennsylvania alone, there arc 14 universi
les with Wikis including Clarion. Carnegie Melon,
and more, with Pitt inexplicably absent.
A Wiki is a valuable tool for college students to uti
ize. Need to get rid of those textbooks from last
tmester and want to sell them to other students rather
lan the bookstore can post them for sale on the Wiki.
Even a quick glance at Penn State's Wiki page
tows the possibilities in such a resource. Right on the
- ont page are entries for Internships, people looking
form bands, even registration for a "Humans vs
>mbies" event.
Wikis can even be valuable study tools. There is a
:ction of the PSU wiki devoted to course E-mail lists,
tabling students with the same classes to get in touch
ith one another. There are even dorm E-mail lists,
tich include everything from residence halls to off
impus housing.
Even though Wikis are university-specific.
illegewikis.com provides a section on each universi
les page listing global topics. This allows students
raking to travel to another college for a football game
concert to quickly and easily find information on
te event.
CNN Delegate Count
Barack Obama- 1,253
Hillary Clinton- 1,211
2,025 delegates are needed to win the nomination
Behrend is lacking a serious quantity of retail/
food establishments; and the off-campus estab
lishments that we do have require transpotation
of some sort.
Rick Hall, head of the Management branch of
Harborcreek Township wasn't quite aware of
this situation. He said "1 heard nothing about it.
There has been talk about development around
1-90. and the Bay front connector, but there isn't
a sufficient amount of population in
Harborcreek to support that particular retail. ’
The idea of developing new
See EATERIES on page 2
See WIKI on page 2