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Currently, there are set ups
tor 10 students in Niagara and
12 students in Lawrence. In ad
dition, the game room in Niag
ara Hall and the old Psychology
lab in Lawrence Hall are two al
ternate locations ready to be set
up in if Housing and Food Serv
ices need more room
“To this date we have had no
one take us up on this process,"
(leering said.
Behrend releases
2008 crime stats
Penn State sent out campus safety reports
to all of its branches Sunday.
The college did this to fulfill the requirements
of various policies and legal acts, such as the
Campus Crime Statistics Act, according to the
email sent out to all students.
The report, titled "Policies. Safety, & U.
contained several charts detailing the inci
deuces of crime at Penn State Behrend.
It is up to each one of us to help foster a se
cure and supportive environment at Penn
State an environment where individuals
can feel safe to visit
learn, work and live," said Graham Spanier.
the President of Penn State University, in the
The full reports for Behrend and all of the
other Penn State campuses can be found at
the Penn State University Police website,
http: www.police.psu.edu.
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Sick students are also offered
the option of a "sick meal'' from
Dobbins dining hall.“To date
we have had one 'sick meal'
order," says (leering. The meal
consists of soup, crackers,
apple sauce, fruit, oatmeal,
water, and Gatorade.
The student can either have
someone to pick up the meal
between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. or
they may have it delivered to
where they are staying by call
ing the Housing and Food Serv
ices office.
"To my knowledge we have
not had an event like this be
fore on campus. So far, how-
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ever, the effect of the flu has
been minimal." Geering said.
Robert Pangborn. Vice Presi
dent and Dean for Undergrad
uate Education and Professor
of Engineering Mechanics at
University Park, instructs stu
dents who miss classes due to
flu symptoms to "make every
effort to make up missed work"
and “begin by sending an email
to vour instructor."
Luckily for sick students,
they are not required to provide
a physician's excuse and—ac
cording to Penn State Aca
demic Administrative Policy
F.-ll —all instructors are re
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quircd "to provide reasonable
opportunities to make up
missed assignments and
exams.” Pangborn's instrut
tions also explained.
"On the rare occasion that
you cannot resolve a problem
with vour instructor, you may
contact the head of the depart
ment in which your course is
offered.” Pangborn said. "Col
lege associate deans and cam
pus chief academic officers are
prepared to assist you it you
cannot locate a department
head or instructor.”
"Avoiding the spread of the
HINI virus is that important’"
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complete' by the time school
stalls for the Fall 2010 semex-
Both projects "should be
awarded to the same com
pany." Kovalcik said. "Con
struction. like anything else, is
cheaper in bulk. So we'll be
saving money by grouping the
two together."
Planned improvements to
Reed 117 include benefits for
both lecture hall uses and as
the weeklv I.KB movie theater.
A ticket booth, with an op
tion to use I.ionCaxh. all digi
tal surround sound for the
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movie theater, double doo
entrv. improvements to the
handicap access, and improve
ment to lighting. Perhaps the
most noticeable improvement
for student-, will he to the
seats, which; will be plant'd -
seats m the back w ill be higher
than those m trout- and offset
so those m tmnt won t block
the view o| those in back.
I here will also be brand
new seats to replace the visi
ble aging ones currently in
place The seat options will be
voic'd on "somewhere down
the lint'” said Kovalcik.
Currently, the theater can
hold 272 people. With the
planned changes, it will be
able to handle about BO less
people, but in more comfort
than before.
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