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
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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
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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
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staff writer
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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
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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.
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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