MY VOICE KFC goes the extra mile... to kill you Look, we all know fast food is unhealthy, but this is downright ridiculous. What exactly is “this?" It’s a new sandwich from KFC with bacon, cheese, and spicy mayonnaise. While that might not sound so bad, here’s the kicker: in stead of bread, this sandwich features two patties of fried (or grilled) chicken. The aptly named Double Down Sandwich (because you will double down when you fin ish it) is KFC’s newest creation, and it’s exactly what’s wrong with fast food today. No word on whether a defib rillator comes with the sand wich or if you have to order it as a side. While it may not be the worst sandwich on the fast food mar ket today (at only 540 calories), the idea of it is what is so ap "MT TD VJbRRr 1 - If WiWa i HAVE A fmCMW- ! 4 MY VOICE You will get what you asked for CONNOR SATTELY editor-in-chief 4701 Colle9 Ro D rioH 6 PA16563 The Behrend Beacon Executive Board Edltor-in-Chlef: Business Manager: Connor Sattely Bethany Long editor@psu.edu bjlso37@psu.edu Managing Editor: Faculty Advisor: Shawn Annarelli Kim Young kjyW@psu.edu Marketing Manager Katie Cook smaslB9@psu.edu Web Editor: Jeremy Korwek klcs293@psu.edu jdksoo9@psu.edu palling. “Yeah, I’ll take some bacon and cheese, but, uh, instead of bread, car some fried chi< It will all bei ality on April If you enjo; you might wanl go before th< Double Down comes out. After that, it’s time for the glutinous masses to rise off of their sofas and head down to the KFC. At least cheap. The Double Down only costs $5. That's a dollar for each pound you’ll This time of year is an inter ig time - when sophomores schedule University Park classes for next fall if they plan to transfer. University Park is a huge freaking campus. A college with 45,000 students makes for a sweet party atmosphere, an awesome football school, and a great alumni association. But with those advantages come several things many students do not know to expect. Leading me to my first “You get what you asked for.” You’ve scheduled your classes, and they all have 350 students in them. Or 710. Or 800. According to the Penn State 2009-2010 Common Data Set, there are 398 courses at Univer sity Park that contain more than 100 students. They adver tise that there are “only 12 courses over 400 students,” which means that 386 courses contain between 100-400 stu dents. Meanwhile, Jhrend, the average class size across four years of atten dance is 26 students per class, according to Behrend Admis sions. In 816 total courses at Penn State Behrend, there are nine that are above 100 capac ity - none of which exceed 150 students. The second thing, which I frequently hear this .ime of year, is you’ve tried to schedule your classes, but they’re all full. News Editors: Aliy Orlando acososWpsu.edu Rachelle Thompson rllso6s@psu.edu Asst. News Editor: Eric Peirce ewpsos2@psu.edu Nick Blake npbso4Wpsu.edu gain from just looking at the thing. BRANDI America is getting fat. We aren’t exer cising, we weren’t eating healthy to begin with, and now s (‘iiior writvr No crap. You have 45,000 stu dents competing for that gen eral education art class you think would spice up your de gree. Are you a sophomore? Yeah. By the time you get to schedule, the only class that will be around to schedule is In troduction to Underwater Bas ket Weaving. Enjoy. Now, students can work around this. If you can’t sched ule any major class, shoot for a minor. A journalism major picking up an economics minor might set himself apart in the industry later on by showing he can grasp a different concept. Of course, you’ll have to hope those classes for your major are available the next semester. Or pack them all in your last year. A particularly funny one - your classes are each 25 min utes apart. Enjoy finding the bus schedule. The buses are nice, provided you live near a stop and don’t mind a vodka laden freshman throwing up in your lap. Every semester at Behrend, I’ve avoided 8 a.m. classes, and have scheduled my classes in a convenient block in the early afternoon. I’ve scheduled classes with professors that know me by name, know what I want to go into, and know how opinionated and argumen tative I am. Six times - yes, six -1 have enrolled in classes that were full. Not because the ar chaic Penn State scheduling system let me, but because pro litorial B< Culture Editor: Sports Editors: Shannon Ehrin sbesol7@psu.edu Copy Editors: Jeff Kramer jsksl6l@psu.edu Marcus Yeagley mjysol2@psu.edu Vldeographer: Mike Fultz mjls2o4@psu.edu Alec Italiano ajiso37@psu.edu Opinion Editor: Neil James opinion@psu.edu With this and other ar ming sand the market, it about a few What ever to a plain sandwich? lo we need ;en AND >n? How will .ok with two is? 'he answers: I re no idea, I ive no idea, id I have no lea, although probably not very good. ’s no wonder Photo Editor: Daniel J. Smith photoeditor@psu. edu Ast. Photo Editor: Stephen Fyfitch stfso26@psu.edu Engineering Editor: Ryan Frankowski rsfsos4@psu.edu we’re shoving bacon sur rounded by fried chicken down our gullets. While the sandwich might taste good, think of how short lived that taste is. Meanwhile, those thunder thighs and arm fat flaps? Yeah, those last a little longer. Maybe it’s about time we changed KFC to something a bit different. Taking after Krispy Kreme and switching a “C” to a “K,” we can create this truthful little name: Kreating Fatter Citizens. And with the “kreation” of fatter citizens, so ends any dig nity the fast food industry had left. They can hide behind their healthier options, but as long as they have sandwiches like the Double Down, I can’t help but to look down on them. fessors will usually over-enroll their classes for people they know. At this size of a univer sity, they all know me. University Park has its ad vantages, and it has its draw backs. I’m not saying that no students should transfer to Uni versity Park. The guy who I roomed with my freshman year is a meteorology major - for him, he had to transfer. Right now, he enjoys small class sizes at one of the best meteorology centers in the world at Univer sity Park. Kosher. About one out of every four students at Penn State Behrend will transfer to University Park. Yeah, it’s that low. Students transfer for a variety of rea sons. Some, like my freshman roommate, transfer because their major is not offered here, and there’s a nationally known program waiting for them over in Centre County. However, for people who go to University Park for State Patty’s Day and decide that it’s the place where you want to go every day for two years, be warned. You may have gotten used to professors - not gradu ate students - knowing who you are and caring whether you live or die. You may have gotten used to the small class sizes, re laxed setting, and variety of open classes to choose from. Just know that if you transfer to University Park, you’ll get exactly what you asked for. 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It is published every Friday during the school Hyan uUia iyear except for before and during scheduled vacations, with exceptions for special issues. rggso29@psU.edu j The editor-in-chief has the final authority on editorial decisions, including, but not limited to. all columns, edito i rials, and letters to the editor. Complaints regarding Beaton coverage of school events should be directed to the edi tor at editor-' psu.edu OUR VOICES Why "mistakes " are not really "mistakes " As we all lege, most told us to choices” in would alwa; thing and st ble. However, many of us ally listenei Realisticall’ not many As college students, it part of our ture to mistakes a things that regret. Bui is said and we really ei gretting th> takes? reality, do w consider thf takes? We don’t In honori that aren’t r_. we’ve all made this year, the two of us have decided to put together a list of what we be lieve are the top three mistakes college students make that aren’t really mistakes. Drinking Sure, throughout our college careers we spend thousands of dollars on alcohol that could be spent in a more appropriate manner. However, this is cer tainly not a mistake. You can always depend on alcohol for a good time and great stories, and this is well worth the in vestment we make. Of course, there is concern over alcohol abuse in college, but when you’re in college it simply doesn’t count. Day drinking, drinking on week nights, drinking alone, and drinking until you black out might be considered inappro priate behaviors in the real world. However, in college, they are generally accepted, generally fun, and certainly NOT mistakes. In college, drinking is always that aren’t really mis- MARISSA LANICH takes ” are what make our co *- stjiiwriters lege careers memorable and one hell of a good time. Have something on your mind? Want to respond to an article? Want to write an article yourself? Send an email to opinion@psu.edu All “Letter to the Editor” submissions must be less than 350 words in length. All letters will be printed as written. Check every week for our section: Letters to the Editor Single copies of the Beacon are free and available at newsstands around campus Additional copies can be pur chased with permission of the editor-in-chief for SI .50 each Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of all students, faculty or University administration. Opin ions expressed in columns, cartoons, and letters are not necessarily those of The Behrend Beacon unless otherwise indicated. Behrend Beacon April 9, 2010 www.thebehrendbeacon.com Allprofile photos taken by Daniel Smith / Behrend Beacon Editorial Policies rounded by this many young and single people. Therefore, taking advantage of this situa tion and exploring your options is essential to your college ex perience. Sure, taking the Walk of Shame can be embarrassing and some might make fun of you for the beer goggles you were wearing last night, but these experiences always make for great stories. Sure, hook-ups can be awk ward and sometimes even hu miliating. However, hook-ups often result in new friendships, new relationships, and if noth ing else, a great time. Skipping Class Sometimes, things such as no sleep, enjoying the nice weather, watching TV drinking, laying in bed hung-over, or even just doing nothing feels more important than attending classes. While this may put us behind, and we may regret it short term, it is always a mistake worth making in the end. Skipping these classes doesn’t come easy, as we all n order to do this, ex must be made, and in ses, simply e-mailed to lessors ick and it’s contagious, not be attending class est of the week.” car broke down...in are absurd, but proba tnd all too familiar. Al igh none of us :essarily enjoy lying, it ust be done in order to ljoy our young lives. the end of our four irs here, we will not re iber the mornings that iserably sat in classes, we will remember the imes we spent enjoying many criticize the de we make during our col lars and may consider be mistakes, we do not this is the case. These
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