Behrend Beacon September 11, 2009 www.thebehrendbeacon.com POLICE REPORTS PENN STATE BEHREND • A resident student re ported that his bicycle lock was stolen at Almy Hall shortly before midnight the night of Sept. 2. • A BB hole in a window at Ohio Hall was reported to po lice at 10:00 a.m. on Sept. 2. • Police responded to a re port of an underage party in Perry Hall on Aug. 28, shortly before midnight. • Police cited a student for underage drinking in Niagara Hall at 1:20 a.m. on Aug. 29. • Penn State Erie Police Services responded to an inci dent of a stolen bicycle on Aug. 28 around 9:15 p.m. PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE • PSP Erie responded to a hit-and-run crash on the inter section of Buffalo Rd. and Nagle Rd. in Harborcreek Township. According to re ports, an unknown female driver with long straight dark hair, driving a white sedan, fled the scene of the accident BEACON ONLINE The new Beacon website, www.thebehrendbeacon.com, is your online source for cam pus news. Constantly updated with new and breaking news stories, the website will feature immediate coverage of events as well as an archive of past articles in the Beacon. We also offer a Twitter ac- counts which will be used to let students know of breaking news happening at the college: notification of important events about to begin, police reports at the campus, or developments not yet released to students by the college. The site also offers a RSS feed, links to Erie resources, and soon, Behrend students’ blogs. 11 FRIDAY 14 MONDAY 15 TUESDAY 16 WEDNESDAY 17 THURSDAY 7 p.m. @ Classic Lanes in the Broad St. Plaza Bowling Night •Free food and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided through out event. Please meet in front of the bookstore at 6:30 p.m. Rides will be provided. WORLD NEWS 1. King's support ers riot In Uganda UGANDA-At least two peo ple have been killed in Uganda's capital, Kampala, in clashes between police and ri oting supporters of a tradi- tional king. Police fired tear gas at the protesters who hurled stones and burned tires. The demonstrators protested against the govern ment's attempts to stop the king of Buganda from visiting a region near Kampala where violence was feared. -BBC World News 2. Nigeria begins vast river dredge NIGERIA-Nigeria has started a vast operation to dredge the Niger River to en able boats to carry goods from the Atlantic Ocean to remote villages in the interior. The $36 12 SATURDAY 6:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. @REDC 180 Stephen Gurgovits - Pres./CEO FNB Capital Corp. World & National News billion naira project will re move silt from hundreds of miles of the river - Africa's third-longest. The government says it will bring communities together and secure the flow to hydro-electric plants. -BBC World News 3. Russia Signals Opposition to New Sanctions Against Iran MOSCOW-Foreign Minister Sergey V Lavrov on Thursday all but ruled out imposing new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program, brushing aside growing Western con- cerns that Iran had made sig nificant progress in a bid for nuclear weapons. Mr. Lavrov said he believed that a new set of proposals that Iran gave to European na tions on Wednesday offered a viable basis for negotiations to end the dispute. 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. @ Junker Center Varsity Volleyball Contest 7 p.m. @ Andy's Pub on Peach St Billiard s Night •Free food and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided throughout event. Please meet in front of the bookstore at 6:30 p.m. Rides will be provided. 4. Poverty rate rose in 2008, Cen sus reveals In the recession, the nation’s poverty rate climbed to 13.2 percent last year, up from 12.5 percent in 2007, according to an annual report released Thursday by the Census Bu reau. The report also docu- mented a decline in employer-provided health in surance and in coverage for adults. The rise in the poverty rate, to the highest level since 1997, portends even larger increases this year, which has registered far higher unemployment than in 2008, economists said. 5. Nations Remain Divided on Global Warming Policy -New York Times 13 SUNDAY NATIONAL NEWS -New York Times 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. @ Smith Chapel Protestant Campus Ministry 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. @ Smith Chapel Catholic Mass 8:00 p.m. -10:00 p.m. @ Reed 114 Business Meeting WASHINGTON The Obama administration’s senior negotiator on global warming warned Thursday that devel oped and developing nations remained deeply divided in talks on reducing greenhouse gases and that time was run ning out before United Na- tions treaty negotiations in December. -New York Times 6. NASA tests stage of new rocket SALT LAKE CITY-the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration successfully test fired the first stage of a new rocket that might soon be cancelled. The firing was the first full scale demonstration of a major component of the Ares 1 rocket that NASA has been de veloping for the past four years to replace the space shuttles, which are scheduled to be retired next year. -New York Times News CONTACT US Our offices are located in the bottom floor of the Reed build ing, office 10H, down the hall from the mailroom. 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