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"Pronounced Equal" Pat Black
Equality
speaker packs
Smith Chapel
ALLY ORLANDO
On Tuesday, Oct. 20, Robyn
Ochs, an activist for gays, les
bians, and bisexuals, visited the
Smith Chapel to raise aware
ness of her cause at Penn State
Behrend.
Her presentation, entitled "I
Now Pronounce You... Equal,"
included a discussion of the sta
tus of same-sex marriage today
on both the state and federal
levels, and the emotional, legal,
and financial advantages of
being able to marry.
She also showed a video of
her own wedding to her partner
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In response to "right-wing
evangelicals who talk about the Samuel P "Pat" Black 111 was
'threat' of gay marriage," Ochs named Penn State Behrend's
asked her audience, "do I look 2009 Alumni Fellow, the most
threatening?" She explained prestigious honor given by the
that it is a "creepy and strange Penn State Alumni Association.
feeling" to be the subject of a Black received the Alumni
heated debate: whether same- Fellow Award in McGarvey
sex couples, with or without Commons on Thursday. Among
children, are "real" families. the guests were past Alumni
She explained that many Fellow honorees and Penn
people experience "magical State Behrend undergraduates
thinking," that if they wish gay who are recipients of the
people away that they will go Samuel P Black 111 and Susan
away, but that "gays don't need L. Black Trustee Scholarship.
news editor
permission to exist, they are "I am most honored to have
[simply] asking for acknowl- been named as a 2009 Alumni
edgement of what already ex- Fellow and to be in the corn
ists." pany of the others named who
On Nov. 18, 2003, the state of are striving to make an impact
Massachusetts was the first in and make a difference in their
the United States to rule all respective areas," Black said.
couples deserving of equal According to Roger Williams,
Executive Director of Penn
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Penn Stat• Behrend
2000
The women's tennis team won their ninth AMCC
Championship on Aug. 18.
The women's tennis program has won all nine
of those titles in the past 13 years. This year
marked the ninth championship season led
by head coach Jeff Barger and the third for
seniors Christy Calvert and Karen
Hobaugh.
"Christy and Karen were great student
athletes," Barger said. "They did the best
they could do on and off the court. In four
years they each overcame a lot to help us
do well. They will be missed as leaders
on the team "
Behrend, Penn State Altoona and
Frostburg State were established as
the top three contenders for the
championship from the get go. Each
team received nine points in dou
bles play.
Frostburg State got off to the
fastest start winning two of the
three doubles finals against
Behrend's pairs. Only Behrend's
number two duo of junior Hillary
Lasher and sophomore Leslie Durante
could scrap out a finals win in doubles
competition, 9-8, (4).
Lasher and Durante were the only two
to record finals victories in singles and
doubles competition.
Behrend went undefeated in every
singles final to pull away from both
Frostburg State and Altoona.
"I just told the ladies that doubles is
over," Barger said. "Play singles the
way we can play. Have fun."
Sophomore Arica Christman led the
singles. Christman swept the top finals
match and defeated Frostburg
State's Elle Dannenfelser (6-3, 6-
2). Christman and her dou
bles partner, sophomore
Stephanie Cattron, rebounded
with victories in single finals
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HI named 2009 Alumni Fellow
RESUME:
Sam "Pat" Black 11l
• Graduate of Penn State
• Chairman of Erie
Management Group
• Founder and president
of the Blackstone
Ranch Institute
• President of Samuel P. Black
& Associates
insurance agency
• Director, Penn State Erie
Council of Fellows
dinner in McGarvey preceded a
ceremony at University Park
the night before, on Wednes
day. Williams said that 24
Alumni Fellows were inducted
and about 325 people were in
attendance at the ceremony.
Since 1973, only 25 alumni
nominated by Penn State
Behrend have been named
Leslie Durante (left)
and Hillary Lasher
(right) were the only
women to win in
both the doubles
and singles finals.
Photos by Daniel Smith / The Behrend Beacon
Connor Sanely / The Behrend Beacon
Pat Black received the Alumni Fellow Award on Thursday night
Alumni Fellows
"The intent (of the Alumni has had a huge impact on the
Fellow Award) is to recognize college. The Black family en
and celebrate high achieving dowed $2O million to support
alumni for their career and life the School of Business in
achievements," said Williams. March 1998, which was the
"Then we bring them back to third largest gift ever received
campus so they can interact
with students, faculty, staff, and see BLACK, page 3
so on and so forth."
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PSB Police
break up
on-campus
"ABC" party
One Behrend student has been cited
for underage drinking, and a Judicial
Affairs investigation is underway after
campus police broke up a Saturday
night apartment party.
According to reports, police re
sponded to a Resident Assistant (RA)
calling for assistance shortly before
12:30 a.m. on
Sunday, Oct
BY THE
NUMBERS
9
AMCC titles in
last 12 years
18. That inci-
dent led to an
Underage
More AMCC
championships
than any other
Drinking cita-
tion, according
to the report.
Many stu
dents at the
party refused
to comment,
Consecutive
AMCC
titles
others spoke
on condition of
anonymity due
to the investi-
gation
The party,
according to
many students
who attended,
was deemed an "Anything But
Clothes" (ABC) party by its organiz
ers. These types of parties generally
mean that partygoers wear costumes
consisting of items like boxes, bags,
and tablecloths, among others.
An RA doing nightly rounds discov
ered the party, according to Kelly
Shrout, Associate Director of Student
Affairs. Students at the party say that
they were warned once for noise. The
RA then called Police and Safety for
"assistance in breaking up [the]
party," according to police reports.
When Police and Safety arrived,
many of the students attempted to flee
- some even through the second-story
window.
"Someone said that there were po
lice at the door," said one student who
was present, "and people fled out the
second-story window."
Shrout confirmed that several stu
dents tried to flee, and that some
jumped from the second story. Some,
she said, were successful in getting
away; others were not.
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"Someone
said that
there were
police at the
door, and
people fled
out the sec
ond story
window."
several
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