Farrell:
Deserving
Schreyer
Scholar
AMANDA LOMMOCK
Penn State Behrend is a hub
of activity with many talented
individuals not only in sports,
but also in academics.
Theressa Farrell is a senior fi
nance major and also a
Schreyer Scholar of Behrend.
Her current plans are to
graduate in the spring. She is
currently working on her sen -
ior project with the addition of
an honors thesis required of all
Schreyer Scholars to graduate.
Through her driving desire to
succeed, she shows the charae
teristics needed to be included
in the five percent of students
who call themselves a Schreyer
Scholar.
"I have a 10 to 10 schedule
including class time; probably
about five hours of homework
a day," she said.
Last year she was nominated
and ended up receiving a a fi
nancial scholarship that is re
served for the top student in
her field of study.
Farrell's committment to her
studies not only landed her a
scholarship but the opportunity
to undertake two separate in -
ternships one at GE Trans
portations and one at Nicotra
Catrabone Catrabone.
The latter of the two is a local
financial advising business
where she was given the oppoF
tunity to sit in on meetings
within the company and update
files as well.
At GE, she helped with or
ganizing the payroll.
"It was stressful dealing with
payroll, having to handle la) ,
offs, correction problems and
accuracy was huge," she said,
"but it gave good experience
and hopefully will help in get
ting hired."
Through serving two intern -
ships, she believes she has the
extensive experience in the
field to place her in a successful
career in finances.
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tures the story of one student in After the circuits were reset in the elevator, the thirteen trapped students exited to the welcome of Penn State Behrend police.
the Schreyer's Honors College .
New coach Mudd getting his hands dirty
Behrend's new
interim women's
head soccer
coach came to
the United States
for opportunity
RACHELLE THOMPSON
When Daniel Mudd lived in
Hull, England, it took several
years of convincing, and mom
threatening to throw him out to
bring him across the Atlantic
Ocean.
Mudd, also known as Muddy
to the Behrend soccer teams,
has recently been announced
the new Interim Head Coach of
the Behrend Women's Soccer
program for the 2010 season,
but he didn't think he'd find
himself where he is today.
At a young age, he began
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playing soccer and it has al
ways been his first love. "That
was the big one. It was all I ever
played really," Mudd said.
In England, there isn't a big
focus on high school/collegiate
sports, largely due to the abun
dance of outside sources.
At a young age, players begin
playing at a very high level for
a semi-professional club all
year round.
At the youth soccer level
Mudd represented the current
EPL team: Hull City A.F.C. an
equivalent to the Pittsburgh
Baby Penguins.
Mudd said, "From the age of
eight you can be in the books of
Manchester United or Chelsea.
You're playing at high level on
a weekend, basically like high
school and college."
He attended college to get
into the universities, which is
quite common in England, but
all he was worried about was
representing his country in soc
cer, not his schooling.
His first year: He was on the
third reserve team. During the
2001-02 season, his second
year: He was starting every
game.
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At the time his mom wasn't
seeing it the same. "I then start
ing working a job, a dead end
job for a year, after three years
I was still doing it and my mom
was saying I needed to start
doing something or she was
going to kick me out," Mudd
said.
Around this time he then re
ceived an e-mail from a friend
for the second time recom-
mending Mercyhurst College,
once more.
"He e-mailed me again, I did
n't fancy the idea the first time,
and he said the keeper was
graduating this year.
The coach had a lot of money
to spend on recruits," Mudd
said. "[The] coach came over
and actually watched me play,
and I played really well."
The Mercyhurst coach of
fered Mudd scholarships and
opportunities that he could not
turn down. At home in Eng
land, this type of option wasn't
available.
Despite leaving his family be
hind and all he knew Madd be
lieved this was the chance to
show he could go out on his
own and live successfully in a
different country which was
what he needed.
While at Mercyhurst, Mudd
displayed his abilities earning
four-year starters spot, captain
position and earning an aver
age of two-three awards per
season. These awards ranged
from MVP to All-Region/Con
ference awards.
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Coach Dan Perritano (right) encouraged Mudd to become a coach.
Thirteen Behrend students became
trapped in the outdoor elevator on the way
to Senat Hall after eating at Dobbins.
According to Ted Sopher, a second semes
ter chemical engineering student, the eleva
tor became stuck around 7 p.m.
"At first, we thought it was pretty funny.
We weren't really sure what to do," said So
pher. "After five to 10 minutes, we realized it
could be a while."
Vince Tarquino, a second semester stu
dent, said that he "wasn't too worried" about
being stuck in the elevator. He said they
were one per-
son over the
12 person
limit on the
elevator and
about 300
lbs. over the
2,100 limit.
Tarquino
said that he
believed being
over the weight limit caused the elevator to
stop.
"It was a weird psychological thing, be
cause we talked for a long time," Sopher
said. "Eventually, people got really sick of it.
It started to smell really bad in there. Vince
just seemed really aggravated. He was really
fed up and wanted to be down really fast."
"It was kind of surreal, we used the call
box in the elevator eventually," Sopher said.
Behrend Police Officer McCaslin said that
Police and Safety received the call about the
trapped students around 7 p.m., at which
point they called the elevator company to
free the students.
Mike Murphy, a technician for the Otis El
evator Company, arrived at the scene shortly
before 8 p.m. to fix the elevator.
When the students were freed at 8:21 p.m.,
after nearly an hour and a half in the eleva
tor, they were briefly interviewed by Officer
McCaslin. According to the students, Mc-
Caslin checked their Penn State IDs and
took down their names.
After recording their information, Mc-
Caslin questioned the students briefly, mak
ing sure that no one was injured. He also
asked if the students had done anything that
would have caused it to stop. The students
denied jumping in the elevator, claiming that
it had slowed down on its own before com
ing to a complete stop.
"It stopped because it's a piece of junk,"
said Adam Tamilia, a second semester me
chanical engineering student.
Tamilia went on to say that he did not re
call anyone jumping in the elevator.
"It wasn't scary at all," said Brian Gwyn, a
a freshman. "It was funny at first."
"We bounced, and then the elevator
bounced."
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