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December 4, 2009
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Record crowd at Midnight Bingo At a illtuwe
Who: Lion Ambassadors
CONNOR SATTELY
editor-in-r hief
A red carpet rolled down the
length of McGarvey Commons,
Frank Sinatra hits played on
the sound system, and flash
photography greeted over 300
students who attended Friday's
Midnight Bingo.
The popular event, held
roughly three times per semes
ter, normally draws around 150
students.
'We had a record of over 300
students in attendance," says
Lauren Restich, Treasurer for
Lion Ambassadors, who hosts
the event. "It was really unex
pected due to the Penn State
Ohio State football game that
weekend."
Lauren Restich / Contributed photo
Midnight Bingo's usual crowd of 150 students was doubled with over
300 students in attendance at its Nov. 27 session
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that it was up to THON
whether or not to remove them,
but the request to do so came
from Brown.
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representative of THON," said
Lindsey Hopkins Hall, Coordi
nator of Student Involvement
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Code of Conduct Policy # 14
DISORDERLY CONDUCT: Engaging in disorderly, disruptive, lewd or indecent conduct. The item
includes but is not limited to: inciting or participating in a riot or group disruption; failing to leave the
scene of a riot or group disruption when instructed by officials; disruption of programs, classroom
activities or functions and processes of the University; creating unreasonable noise; or creating a
physically hazardous or physically offensive condition.
ON CAMPUS HOUSING POLICY
Quiet Policy One of the goals of Housing and Food Services and Residence Life is
to provide an atmosphere that is conducive to study and rest. In order to meet this goal,
all students must understand that the right of students to study and sleep takes
precedence over the right to ma ke
, noise disturbs others. Quiet hours have been
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Students who participated re
ceived one free bingo card to
use throughout the night. Addi
tional cards were 50 cents each,
which would go towards de
fraying the costs of the event.
Prizes included a Nintendo
Wii, iPod touch, a digital cam
era, new DVD releases, movie
soundtracks, board games,
dorm essentials, and gag gifts,
Restich said.
Midnight Bingo, Restich says,
was initially a club set up by
RAs in 2001 as an alternative
for students on weekends in
stead of partying. Lion Ambas
sadors, founded in 1982 by
Irvin Kochel, adopted the event
in 2004.
The next event, starting at
10:00 p.m. and lasting until
"Because Molly had been the
chair, Cody [Brown] felt com
fortable approaching Molly to
ask about it. But it was not IFC
that took them down, and it
was not necessarily an IFC de
cision, because it wasn't an IFC
function.
"I was approached by Cody
to take them down" said
Thomas "because they didn't
want Sigma Kappa Nu to be
reciikriyed as an organization,
or-recognized with THON. Be
calm of that, I took them
down"
"It was not the choice of
THON to take these cut-outs
down with the SKN letters on
them," contradicts THON
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Quiet Please . . .
midnight, will take place Satur- What: a chance to win prizes
including Nintendo WiL , iPod
day, Dec. 5 in the McGarvey touc h . caleta, new DVD
Commons. A brand new bingo 1 44 sest mov i e soun d tracks,
machine has been purchase ' a l s
for the event, which will follow '
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a "Holiday" theme. Pizza, subs, when: mo c ouvey , c ommons
and drinks, along with prizes, When: 10:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
will be provided. Saturday, Dec. 5
Prizeskt" friends
Lauren Restich / Contributed photo
Students competed against each other for the chance to win prizes
such as a Nintendo Wii and iPod touch
chairperson Carly Lapp. solve this as best as we can to
"The IFC stated they had a make sure their names are still
petition that [SKN] not be rec- placed on the wall, showing
ognized on campus and asked that they did support the cause
us to do this. We did not want to of THON."
do that, since we do not have All of Behrend's Greek Letter
any problem with the fraternity Organizations, including Pan
and believe they have every Hellenic council and the IFC,
right to write what they want have signed a petition stating
on the cutouts." their agreement that they
"Again, this was not the would not associate with SKN
choice of our committee to do on an organizational level.
this, fttQd LlN)P i i'vVe were Shortly before 7 p.m. on Dec.
asked to acid cOtill,pot do any- 3, the names that had been re
thing aboalit whelf a petition moved were replaced, sans
was shown to us by Cody Greek letters.
Brown. We wish we did not
have to do that, to have less
controversy between organiza
tions but we are trying to re-
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Association of Black
Collegians hosts
Kwanzaa dinner
Agatha Nixon, a Behrend student, and others enjoyed the Kwanzaa
dinner hosted by Charwan Allen and Dawn Richards. Activities in
cluded a Poetry to the People performance and Unity statement.
Ashley Bemis / The Behrend Beacon
A THON fundraiser cut-out was left after similar decorations with the
SKN letters were taken down. The decorations in question have been
replaced with the offending letters removed.
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