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Friday, February 27, 2009 Swimming and diving teams claim AMCC Championship By Christine Newby sports editor ce11:31156(a psu .edu The Behrend Lions men's and women's swimming and diving team claimed their third straight AMCC Championship on Feb 12-14 at Grove City. "We had a great season, assistant coach Joe Tristan "Evel - )ne exceeded the e- CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The Behrend sw•irnming and diving team claimed the AMCC titre: Men's hockey club to play in league championship By Christine Newby Aperis et/jun cen.sos6(a psu .cdu The club men's ice hockey team etched their name into the Penn State Behrend history book as the first Behrend team to com pete in the College Hockey East (CHE) Championship. The Behrend Lions will play California University of Pennsyl vania (Cal U) in a best-of-three championship series to determine the league champions of the CHE. The championship will take place at the Roy McKnight Hockey Center at Shady Side Academy, which is located in Fox Chapel, PA. The games will be Friday, Feb. 27 at 7:20 p.m., Saturday Feb. 28 at 5:20 p.m., and, if nec essary, Sunday. March I at 2:20 "Our team needs to start our game off at full throttle and not let them have an ounce of breathing room," said head coach Gio Du chini. "This includes attacking without hesitation, taking the New chancellor yet to be determined By Heather McGovern contributing writer hamsoB4(Opsu.edu After extending the date of Chancellor 'John D. "Jack" Burke's retirement to June 2010, a successor still has not been named. Originally, Burke an nounced his retirement to be June 30, 2009; however, upon his re turn this past July, the chancellor Contact Us Newsroom: 898-6488 Fax: 898-6019 Visit us on the web! www.thebehrendbeacon.com E-mail: rcrsos7@psu.edu tions of the coaching staff and by doing so, helped bring back to Behrend another AMCC Champi- onship. - The women's team had strong performances from sophomores Krystal Kovach and Katie Van Epps, and freshman Anne Lawrence. Kovach won both the one- and three-meter diving champi- ~~ ~,, , .6 -**. The Behrend men:s hockey club will be competing in the CHE Championship for the ‘ first time eve, body when they can, and taking every shot we can, not just wait ing around for the pretty ones. We sometimes come out flat and give our opponents the edge then de cide to battle back once we are down. Cal is one of those teams extended his retirement date Many factors prompted his re tirement extension, the largest of these being the economic situa tion of our country. The chancel lor does, however, plan on eventually retiring from his 29 years of working for Penn State Behrend to a quiet, artsy town settled alongside the St. Lawrence River in upstate Friday Saturday Sunday ires High: 48°F High: 31°F High: 28°F Low: 19°F Low: 18°F Low: 18°F Rain and wind with Partly cloudy and colder. Partly sunny. temps fall during the day. Forecast courtesy of student meteorologist Matt Alto Forecast continued on page 4 A Penn State Behrend Student Publication onships with a score of 405.35 and 422.8 respectively. Accord ing to the Behrend website, Ko vach's scores are both consideration scores for the NCAA Championships. which will take place March 12-14. Sophomore Katie Van Epps took first place in the 200 yard butterfly and second in the 200 and 400 IM. Freshman Anne Lawrence came in first in the 100-yard butterfly and the 200- yard backstroke. which gave her two AMCC Championships. Kovach felt the women's team had a good overall performance this season. "I feel that we did well this year, - said Kovach. "The team consisted of mostly freshmen swimmers, so to see the girls working hard and winning AMCCs was impressive. I'm very proud of all the girls and I hope we can work just as hard next year and bring back another championship for the 09-10 sea- The men's team was led by sophomores Josh Weaver and Ben Strunk, and freshmen Dane Dombrosky and Steve Zomcik. Scoring 43 points at the meet, Weaver proved to be the high point winner. Weaver placed first in the 1()0- and 2(X)-yard freestyle and second in the 500-yard freestyle. Dombrosky finished first in two individual races: the 500-yard freestyle and 100 fly. Weaver, Dombrosky, Zomcik, and Strunk won four AMCC relay championships. The relay Yie SWIMMERS oitpale 10 that can and will take every op portunity that is given to them." The team is led by the captain of the team, Brysten Jones, who is in his fifth and final season as a graduate student at Behrend and president of the club. The assis New York The position of chancellor at Penn State Behrend is the high est administrative role within the university. The position is com parable to that'of a dean or pres ident at other institutions. With the position comes many re sponsibilities. Among them, See CHANCELLOR on page 5 Behrend THON raises nearly $30,000 The Penn State Behrend dancers with their lour dionumck,finnily, The Doren By Rachel Reeves rersos7(a pstLedu Despite challenges ranging from a falling economy to a car accident, this year Behrend was able to contribute nearly $30,000 to the record-breaking THON. The Penn State total of $7.49 mil lion shattered last year's grand total by over $BOO,OOO. The money will go to the Four Diamonds Fund, which is an or ganization that provides financial support to families affected by pediatric cancer. Specifically, Behrend was raising money for the Dorer family. Rylee Dorer. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO tant captains are senior Brian Hammel, and juniors Chris Simanic and Matt Laskey. The Behrend Lions were victo rious last weekend in the first and See CLUB HOCKEY on page 10 Students participate in Habitat for Humanity By Connor Sattely managing editor cisso6o4psu.edu Usually, when a large amount of students depart en masse from Penn State Behrend, they are usu ally enroute to a party, sporting event, or local concert. Last Sat urday, Feb. 21, a group of around 20 students drove off campus for a very different goal: to aid in their se‘ en-year old daughter. was diagnosed with T-cell lym phoma in October of 2(107. Molly Thomas, co-chair for The Behrend THON team. said that interacting , with the Dorers made the long months of work worthwhile. Both Thomas and the co-chair Linh Ngu\ en cut their hair after growing it out for months for R..‘„ lee. The see en-year old, who cut off her own hair for treatment months earlier, final! \ realized that they had given up their hair for her when she \vas holding the pigtails in her hands. "We had given blood, sweat, tears and hair the entire year. and to see Astronomy author speaks in REDC By Marcus Veagley oeit . .s• editor in i) s() I psll Hundreds of students, adminis trators. and visitors crowded into the Sani and Irene Black Confer ence Center to hear Da \ a Sobel speak Thursday night. Sobel is a former New York Times science writer and author of many hooks covering various elements of astronomy. Her pres entation was called The Planets' . and was based on her last hook by the same name that was released in 2005. The evem was framed around several pieces of artwork. Sobel had commissioned them for the hook by the well-known space artist Lynette Cook. One of the first pieces of 'art Sobel displayed was one of a model of the planets within a bed room. much like the ones created by young children in grade school. The window in the back ground showed the planet Earth in the distance, implying the model was created by some being from building a home for those who could not afford it themselves. The event. one of many that Habitat for Humanio, has done this year through Behrend, had students finish' ig priming and Aside of a house painting in the it On Wood Street, a away from Behr dents engaged i building the frau shed in the hanky bout ten minutes .end. Some stu- in finishing tip le and door of a 'and, and another News 1-5 Arts 6-7 Perspectives 8 Sports 9-11 Local Dining 12 Vol. LV No. XX CONTR BLEED PHOTO her feel it made it worth it, - said Flionia , , Thomas said that the dancers - Alyssa Beck. Allison Shearer. Jamie Mayer. and Julie Colvin - held up extremely well consider ing the circumstances. Immedi ately following a send-oil dinner held in the Junker Center, Thomas and the dancers traveling to University Park were in a car accident. Since they could no longer drive. Thomas's parents came to pick them up and finish the trip to State College. The group finally arrived at the hotel See 7710 N on page 5 CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Sobel spoke flurry(lay night. another world All of the artwork emphasiied similar offbeat elements and each part of her presentation consisted of her retlectine on that. For her, the still was thought of through the hook of Genesis from the Bible. The artwork displayed resembled the Garden of Eden. In front, a sundial resembling the true surface of the sun, covered in See SOBEL on page 5 crawled under the foundation of the house to reconnect broken Though the activities may not sound like casual Saturday activi- ties for mo doten college stu dents. the event brought out the best in the students who attended, and provided them an outlet for the frustrations of their everyday academic lives. Frequent laughter See HABITAT on page 2 Contents