The Behrend beacon. (Erie, Pa.) 1998-current, August 29, 2008, Image 2

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Resident Assistants,
Student Affairs seek
to repair staff
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Faced with the task of replacing a sizable por
tion of their staff, the Residence Life coordinators
are turning to the Resident Assistant wait list to
fill open positions. This list is comprised of some
students who had completed the three-credit train
ing course, but did not secure a position. Due to
the size of last year’s class, the wait list will be
more than deep enough to replace those who were
let go, claims Miller.
“We are not rushing into the decision,” he says.
“We want to make sure that we put the best team
Democrats Organize
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This means that in the past couple of years, fewer
students received grants, nursing students and edu
cators received less money,
as did adults involved in job
training programs
Since current Erie County
Senator, Jane Earll, is a
member of the PHEAA
board of directors, Purvis is
holding her partially
accountable for many of the
poor decisions PHEAA has
made. Not only does Purvis
plead for Pennsylvanians to
vote Earll out of office in the
upcoming election, she
demands, “Jane Earll must
resign!”
The press conference
closely follows the release of
an audit earlier this August
that Jack Wagner,
Pennsylvania’s Auditor General, conducted to
investigate PHEAA’s expenses from July 2004
through June 2007. Along with Cindy Purvis,
Wagner also suggests cutting the legislators from
the board of directors. Currently, 16 out of the 20
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possible on the field.”
Whether or not the players of that team know
what they’re walking into is another story. While
Residence Life will introduce the replacement
RAs to their residents as soon as possible, a rocky
transition is inevitable for new employees. Like
RAs currently holding a position, the incoming
RAs will not be made aware of the circumstances
that led to their appointment.
Remaining RAs are also feeling the strain.
Some floors have been left completely devoid of
leadership, leaving it to other Resident Assistants
in the building to assume a surrogate position for
the affected students.
The entire process has left many residents feel
ing confused; however, the same could be said for
those expected to lead them.
“After this past week,” one RA said of the ten
sion throughout Residence Life, “we are all trying
to do exactly what they want us to.”
board members have legislative positions. Wagner
hopes to include instead economic leaders in the
community, college and university presidents, and
one full-time student.
Joshua Snyder, President of College Democrats,
is disappointed in the PHEAA scandal. “It’s an out
rage,” he says of the organization that spent money
on internal affairs while cutting grants to students
across the state. He hopes
that Behrend students will
get more involved in issues
like this, along with state
Senate and local campaigns
as well as the presidential
for students to learn more
about local politics. They are staying focused on
continued support for the Obama campaign in the
Erie region. “We look forward to having Barack
Obama back on campus a second time,” says
College Democrats Vice President Chris Alphen.
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The College Democrats
have other plans to get not
only the campus, but the
community, involved in poli
tics. Along with helping to
plan the Purvis conference,
convention coverage in
Bruno’s is in the works, the
College Democrats also
hope to host a congressional
debate on campus as a way