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Friday, February 13, 2009 Local colleges form coalition to decrease drug and alcohol related problems By Emily Reichert coin• editor ecrso6B(a psu.edu Representatives from Penn State Erie, Mercyhurst College. and Gannon University have come together to form a coali tion focused on "reducing alco hol and other drug-related problems. - according to the group's website. The Campus Community Partners Advocated for Sate Stu dents website states. "We be lieve that by creating a community environment sup portive of safe and healthy be havior, we can significantly reduce alcohol and other drug related problems. We are partic ularly committed to reducing underage and high risk drinking among college students: - Many techniques used by C- Compass revolve around educat ing students. Behrend's program does this in two forms: individ ual and group strategies. The in dividual techniques. according to the C-Compass website. are tiered and counseling interven tions. Group strategies range from campus speakers, events, marketing campaigns, late-night alcohol-free events, and a con tinuous evolution of campus policies. Various pledges are also available for students to make t64l(4llootiparsfroilpfagen3 Ruckus, Juicy Campus no longer avaialable By Connor Sattely managing editor ci,s (u j ti . cd u The popular student-oriented websites Ruckus and Juicy Ca mpus were shut down this week. according to statements on their home pages. This weekend downloading \vebsite Ruckus.com was replaced with a message stating the service was no loneer available. Users at UNFORTUNATELY THE RUCKUS SERVICE WILL NO LONGER EE PROVIDED CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Ruckus begat: to display this image on their website on Feb. 6. Battle of the branches en By Nick Blake sports editor npbso4 I (o,psu.cdu The Penn State Behrend Lions were looking to stay in first place in the AMCC as they prepared to battle sister school Penn State Al toona on Sat, Feb. 7. Penn State Altoona beat the Blue and White earlier in the year, so they came into the con- test fired up and looking to take Newsroom: 898-6488 Fax: 898-6019 Visit us on the web! www.thebehrendbeacon.com E-mail: rcrsos7@psu.edu Our offices are located downstairs in the Reed Union Building. Severe winds damage campus and By Connor Sattely managing editor cisso6oo-upsu.edu Sustained winds of up to 43 m.p.h. tore through the Behrend campus Thursday. causing struc tural damage to buildings and knocking down trees. According to the National Weather Service, Erie saw gusts as high as 61 m.p.h. At University Gates apart- JON KLEIN for The Behrend Beacon Maintenance workers cleaning up debris caused by the wind. tempting to reach any section of the Ruckus site or accompanying pages are greeted with a message that simply says "Unfortunately the Ruckus service will no longer he provided. Thanks.- The site was unavailable as early as 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 6, and is currently still offline. Students with the Ruckus serv ice installed are finding that they are unable to log in to download or re-acquire licenses for their Elej THANKS yet another game away from the Behrend Lions. The two Penn State schools gave quite a performance in the Junker Center in front of 876 fans. The Altoona Lions jumped out to a quick start, going up by six points in the first six minutes of the game See BEHREND LIONS on page 8 A Penn State Behrend Student Publication ments, the high winds formed wind tunnels in the hallways of buildings, tearing carpet from the floors. In one building, the entire carpeted floor in front of four apartments had been completely dislodged from the concrete and pushed up against a stairwell. At the Behrend Apartments on campus, metal siding had been ripped away from several roofs, with some large pieces hanging music. Music already down loaded, however, will still be available for about thirty days until the license expires. Many students on-campus know that means that massive music li braries assembled over the past year will disappear the first week into March. Matt Alto, a sophomore mete- orology major at Penn State Erie. the Behrend College, will be los ing a substantial amount of his Ii- brary now that the music service is offline. "I use it pretty much daily," he says. "Usually just to preview some CDs or songs before buying them so that I know what I'm buying. But a lot of my music collection is on Ruckus.- Web blogs and technical re views are buzzing with rumors as to the reasons behind the closing of the website, ranging from eco nomic woes to the inability to stop massive pirating attempts. No change has been announced s with Behrend beatdown The Lady Lions defeated Penn State Altoona after a hard fought, back and forth action packed sec ond half on Saturday afternoon in the Junker Center by a final score of 82-72. "I think the team played very well on Saturday," said sopho- more Rachel Richardson. "We Friday Saturday Sunday r4fik . --i -.1 0 o High: 31°F High: 32°F High: 30°F Low: 27°F Low: 19°F Low: 19°F Mostly cloudy with a Snow likely, but other- Partly cloudy. slight chance of snow. wise mostly cloudy. Forecast courtesy of student meteorologist Matt Alto Forecast continued on page 2 By Christine Newby staff writer ce n 5056 .L'psu.edu down to head level. The new building at Hungry Howie's also sustained structural damage, with a good portion of the freshly-shingled roof peeled up and blown into the construc tion area next to University Gates. Chainsaw crews responded to a large tree that was uprooted near the entrance to campus. The Erie area also saw several streets lose power, over 10.000 people reported losing power in Erie and Crawford counties. ac cording to the Erie Times-NmN. The storm also brought flood ing to some areas of Erie. though no areas of Behrend were signifi cantly affected. Peach Street saw several sections shut down due to low-hanging traffic lights. a Kwik Fill sign that had been blown down, downed wires. and flood ing, according to the Eric 11m es- News. Students found the gusts were worse at the REDC and at the top of the hill heading down to cam pus. Throughout the campus. large branches cracked loudly and fell from trees, littering the lawn outside of Reed. "I was afraid the trees were going to fall on me." says Behrend senior Pat Shar baugh. "I was glad I was not Mary Poppins. - Freshman Brian Barker. a chemical engineering major at Behrend, said that the w e ather played a large factor in the start to his day. "I decided to skip my class, because it was too cold and windy," he says. "I decided I would rather stay in bed and play video games. - To see if the extreme winds will continue, see Beacon meteorolo gist Matt Alto's weather forecast on la: e 2. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The Juicy Campus logo. yet from Penn State University on a possible alternative to Ruckus. The music website had been gain ing popularity amongst other col lege campuses in addition to Penn State: Clemson, LSU, and the University of Kentucky. Some students have expressed frustration at not having a ready to-use alternative. "I uuess I'm just going to have to find some other website to download from, - says Steve Monnie, also a sopho more at Penn State Behrend. "I'm See RUCKUS on page 3 were really excited to get another chance at them because they beat us so bad at Altoona. We knew we could play better and compete with them. We played together as a team, shot well from the floor, and had fun." Sophomore Amy Oldach started off the scoring for Behrend when her steal resulted in a layup. See LADY LIONS on page 9 surroundin JON KLEIN for The Behrend Beacon :fpwardA of 60 m.p.h. consed flututige throughout compto Ordinance: no more than three students per house By Rachel Reeves editor-in-chW rasos7. r,u.edu Mon. Feh. 9. The Home Rule Borough Of Edinboro passed a new ordinance. The new legisla tion says that no more than three students are permitted to Ike in the same house. This rule builds off another or- (finance passed in Aug. created to prevent too many students from living in the area. Ordinance 563 says, "the proliferation of student rentals in traditional family dwellings puts a substantial bur den on our police lolling and code enforcement staff and on all volunteer fire department. - The ultimate goal is to keep "the bor ough to a manageable mix to re duce frustration and the changes for conflicts that happen between student renters and their retired and/or family oriented neigh- KEECiAN MCGREGOR The Behrend Beacon Sure Piotron•ie;, of the Behrend men's basketball team. News 1-4 Perspectives 5 Arts 6 Sports 7-9 Local Dining 10 Vol. LV No. XVIII area The Erie County Department of Planning approved this law The Department said that the or- dinance was congruent to the Erie County Comprehensive Plan. which was published in Oct. of 2008. According to the latest housing update in 20(11, Edinboro has (4 percent of residents renting in stead of home owning,, which is the highest in all of Erie County. The Plan says, - This is not sur prising, considering that Edin boro is a university town and many of its residents are students who are unlikely to remain after graduation... The Plan then goes on to de scribe a method to build sustain able community in Erie County. One section describes the nega tive effects of discriminating See Housing Ordinance on page 3