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ADAM SPINELLI
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Secretary of Defense
Robert Gates says that
US is not leaving Iraq any
time soon... New uranium
enrichment facility discov
ered in Iran...UN set to
probe the new facility by the
end of the month... The
Supreme Court began its
first session with new Jus
tice ...Sen. John Ensign
(R-NV) said he did not break
the ethics code in helping
the husband of the woman
he had an affair with land a
job... Vice President Joe
Biden to campaign in New
Jersey and Virginia for the
Democratic Governors...
President Obama is going
to be the keynote speaker at
the Human Rights Cam
paign’s annual dinner this
weekend... Poll on Facebook
asking whether or not the
President should be killed
has come under fire from
the Secret Service and the
FBl...President Obama is
set to meet with congres
sional leaders over
Afghanistan...He has al
ready met with his National
Security team this past week
about troop increases...
Beau Biden is rumored to
be running for the Senate
Seat given up by his father
Joe Biden when he was
elected Vice President... R
epublican leaders are criticiz
ing Glenn Beck for his
recent remarks about the
US and President Obama...
Rep. Alan Grayson (D
-FL) said on the floor of the
House that the Republican
health care plan is for the
country to “not get sick, and
if you do, die quickly”...he
has come under much fire
for his comments being
called upon to apologize...
former McCain campaign
manager said that if Sarah
Palin were nominated for
President it could be “cata
strophic”
On This Day in
History:
October gth
1781: The last major battle
of the Revolutionary war is
fought in Yorktown, VA.
1919: The Cincinatti Reds
won the World Series. Eight
Chicago White Sox players
were later charged with
throwing the game. The in
cident is now known as
“Black Sox” Scandal.
1936: The first generator
at Boulder Dam transmitted
electricity to California. The
Dam is now called Hoover
Dam.
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1994: U.S. sent troops into
the Persian Gulf in response
to Saddam Hussein sending
forces to the Kuwait border.
Forum
continued from front page,
While a majority of questions
during the forum were related
to Harborcreek schools and
community development, sev
eral Behrend students were
able to ask the supervisors
questions pertaining more to
our campus.
Student related questions in
cluded one asking about the
process of building a sidewalk
along Jordan Road that runs
through campus, a heavily dis
cussed topic among students
and faculty here at Behrend.
May noted that commissions
are at work on the idea of a
sidewalk and could be finished
with a plan near the end of Oc
tober.
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Robyn Ochs speaking of equality
ALLI HEITZENRATER
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Robyn Ochs, acclaimed
writer, activist, and speaker will
be speaking her presentation, "I
Now Present You... Equal," at
the Smith Chapel on Tuesday,
October 20, 2009 at 7:30 pm.
Robyn Ochs travels across
America frequently to inform
groups of people about LGBT
rights and issues, as well as her
story of same-sex marriage.
According to her website,
Robyn Ochs has taught at a
number of different universi
ties, including but not limited to
Tufts University and Massachu
setts Institute of Technology.
She has taught courses per
taining to Transgressing Bina
ries and Politics. For now, Ochs
has taken a break from teach
ing and is doing her best to
focus on her speaking tour and
working towards same-sex
CREATIVE WRITING
Poet David Baker to visit Behrend
Poet David Baker,
professor of English
at Denison Univer
sity, will close the se
mester’s Creative
Writer’s Speaker Se
ries at Penn State
Erie, The Behrend
College, with a read
ing on Thursday, Oc
tober 22.
A reception for
Baker will be held at
4:30 p.m. in the first
floor living room of the college’s Larry and
Kathryn Smith Chapel. The reading will
take place following the reception at 6 p.m.
Both events are free and open to the public,
and parking will be available in the Junker
Center lot.
Baker has published nine books of po
etry, including Never-Ending Birds, Mid
west Eclogue, Treatise on Touch: Selected
Poems, Changeable Thunder, The Truth
About Small Towns, and After the Reunion.
CRIME, PSYCHOLOGY, AND PUBLIC POLICY
Behrend offers additonal
LASHEENA BARNES
humanities writer
The Crime, Psychology, and
Public Policy Certificate
(CRIMBC) brings the fields of
political science and psychol
ogy together in an elegant mix
courses. There is a relatively
wide range of psychology
classes and political science
courses that fit into the curricu
lum, so you may be danger
ously close to attaining the
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Smith acknowledged the
amount of growth going on in
our campus and noted of sev
eral ordinances that have taken
focus on building a sidewalk
along Jordan Road.
Brad Kovalcik brought up the
question of furthering the iden
tification of Penn State in the
Harborcreek township. Includ
ing the naming of street names
relevant to the Penn State com
munity and addition of more
signs that can help bring
Behrend campus to the rest of
Harborcreek.
Both candidates strongly
supported the idea of identify
ing Penn State Behrend in the
community, with candidate Tim
Mays jokingly offering to name
one of our streets “Joe Pa
Drive.”
Carolyn Barry, a senior ma
joring in economics and fi
nanace, brought up the
marriages.
Ochs’ presentation is like a
101 course providing education
about same-sex marriage.
In addition, throughout her
powerful presentation, she dis
cusses the social aspect of the
issue and tells her emotional
story of marrying her partner,
and what it means to be emo
tionally, financially, and legally
ready to be married.
On May 17, 2004, Ochs’ mar
ried her longtime partner, Peg
Preble. It was the first day
same-sex marriage was legal in
the state of Massachusetts.
Ochs has had her work
printed in Newsweek, Seven
teen. the Washington Post and
other outlets. She has been in
terviewed on Donahue, Maury
Povich, Hour Magazine, and a
variety of other television news
programs.
Edited by Ochs, the first
scholarly book about bisexual-
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Poet David Baker
certificate without even know
ing it.
It is definitely something to
look into for psychology and
political science majors, who
most likely already have most
of the required courses. It is
also of interest to those outside
these majors who have inter
ests in both fields.
The collaborative course
work introduces perhaps novel
information useful in all fields
and walks of life, whether di
His upbringing in the Midwest states has
helped contribute to his works. He also
published several books of criticism, in
cluding The Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyrics
Poetry and Heresy and the Ideal in Con
temporary Poetry. He has received fellow
ships and awards from the John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the
Nation Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio
Arts Council, the Poetry Society of America
and others.
Poet Marilyn Hacker calls Baker “the
most expansive and moving poet to come
out of the American Midwest since James
Wright."
Baker holds the Fordham Chair of Cre
ative Writing at Denison University.
Penn State Behrend’s annual Creative
Writer’s Speaker Series is produced by the
college’s School of Humanities and Social
Sciences with support from the Clarence A.
and Eugenie Baumann Smith Fund. The se
ries will return in the spring semester to
host poet Debra Nystrom on Thursday,
April 15, literary nonfiction writer Brenda
Miller on Thursday, April 22, and fiction
writer Joanna Howard on Thursday April,
29.
question of how the two super
visors will contribute to the de
velopment of business closer to
and around the Behrend cam
pus. Curtis Smith agrees and
promises to strive to follow up
and promote more business lo
cated around campus.
Tim Mays went more in
depth by mentioning several
traffic studies that have been
conducted on the Bayfront
Connector beside campus to
determine the type of busi
nesses that could thrive there.
Although the state of the econ
omy is making it extremely
hard to, he still plans to work
on bringing business towards
campus.
Zack Goncz, a senior here at
Behrend and president of the
Political Science Society, men
tioned afterwards how this was
the first forum that the Political
Science Society and Student
ity around the world, Getting
Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around
the World, is being published in
Chinese and Spanish editions
later this year. Getting Bi is the
second edition of the book se-
Contributed Photo
Robyn Ochs has made appearances on Donahue, Maury Povich, and
Hour Magazine. She will come to Behrend on Oct. 20.
rectly or indirectly. You develop
a better understanding of the
criminal justice system, an un
derstanding of human behavior,
and cohesively, how criminal
behavior originates and ways to
treat and deal with it.
For psychology and political
science majors though, it
brings in some interesting skills
that both majors will need later
in their respective careers,
whatever those turn out to be.
“People in psychology have
Government Association ac
tively got involved in.
“It was important for the PSS
and SGA to take part in the
forum and hopefully we can get
more involved in the future”
Goncz said.
Dr. Robert Speel, associate
professor of political science
here at Behrend thought that
the debate went very well.
“There was a lot of good dis
cussion of local issues, along
with some controversy” Speel
says, referring to argument that
broke out early in the debate
between Smith and a member
of the audience.
“All students living at
Behrend and University Gates
also live in Harborcreek, Deci
sions local officers make about
sidewalks, stores, and street
names directly affect the
Behrend community.”
The event will have refresh
ments and is generously spon
sored by Trigon, the Women’s
Studies Minor, and Women
Today.
Excerpt from FOCCGCI BIOOfTI
By David Baker
Such pleasure one needs to make for one
self.
She has snipped the paltry forsythia
to force the bloom, has cut each stem on
the slant and sprinkled brown sugar in a
vase,
so the wintered reeds will take their water.
It hurts her to do this but she does it.
When are we most ourselves, and when
the least?
Last night, the man in the recessed door
way,
homeless or searching for something, or
sought—
all he needed was one hand and quiet.
The city around him was one small room.
He leaned into the dark portal, gray
shade in a door, a shadow of himself.
His eyes were closed. His rhythm became
him.
So we have shut our eyes, as dead or as
other, and held the thought of another
whose pleasure is need, face over a face
certificate
to understand criminal behav
ior, and by the same token, peo
ple in political science have to
understand general human be
havior in addition to mental ill
ness in its many forms,” says
Cognitive Psychologist Dr.
Dawn Blasko.
The two fields intertwine
somewhat. There will be a bit of
overlap anywhere you look.
Anyone holding this certificate
will have a little something
extra to bring to the table.
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Message From
The Editor:
In case you’ve been look
ing around and seeing the
pink Hungry Howies pizza
boxes, and have been won
dering why they have them
all of a sudden, October is
National Breast Cancer
awareness month. Breast
cancer affects millions of
women each year, as many
students across campus un
fortunately have seen first
hand - myself included. So
if you don’t do it on a regu
lar basis, now is your
chance. It’s your chance to
thank your mom, sister,
aunt, and any other female
in your life. Now is your
chance to tell these women
in your life how much that
they mean to you. Now is
your chance to tell them
how much you love them.
Because yesterday is gone,
and no one has promised to
morrow.
ADAM SPINELLI
Humanities and Social
Sciences l ditor
School of H&SS:
Upcoming
Events
Tuesday, Oct. 20
7:30 p.m.
Event: “I Now Pronounce
You...EQUAL’
Speaker: Robyn Ochs, Author
Location: Smith Chapel
Note: 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct. 22
4:30 p.m
Event: Creative Writing
Speaker Series
Speaker: David Baker, Poet
Location: Smith Chapel
Note: reception at 4:3opm and
reading at 6pm