BEHREND BEACON News
April 23, 2010
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the gym cared too much about
the score. The big highlight of
the event was at halftime all the
players signed autographs and
took pictures with eager fans.
"It was pretty sweet to see
them up close and to see how
big their muscles were," said
fan Valerie Wagner. "They
spent their time coming to a
place like Erie, so it shows they
wanted to give back to their
fans."
The Steelers team included
Charlie Batch, Dennis Dixon,
Anthony Madison, Justin Vin
cent, Stefan Logan, Tony Hills,
and Sonny Harris. While they
might not all be big-name stars,
the fans seemed happy to meet
them and all the players took
their time to sign every auto
graph.
"It is nice for us to be able to
give back to our fans," said
Sonny Harris. "When we play,
we have our helmets on, the
Dodgeball
tournament
held to benefit
Presque Isle
AMBER MILLER
staff writer
The first ever Battle for
Presque Isle Dodgeball Tourna
ment took place on Monday,
April 19 at 9:00 p.m. The
Junker center was alive with
excitement as approximately
28 Behrend students competed
for the winning spot.
Sarah Baker, along with four
other organizers, was in charge
of this event as a class project
ibr COMM 370, Public Rela
tions, in which the group had to
plan their own public relations
event to raise money and
awareness for a cause of their
choice.
"All the money that we col
lected is donated to the Presque
Isle Partnership," she said.
"They plan on using the money
to help better Beach 6."
The Battle for Presque Isle
Dodgeball Tournament suc
cessfully raised $71.97 in dona
tions, along with an amount yet
to be determined from various
donation jars set up in local
businesses such as Hungry
Howie's and Applebees.
The winning team is calling
themselves 'MILE and Cook
ies' and is comprised of Shane
MacDonald, Robby Stanton,
Mark Rob, Austin Abranovic,
Brent Ruttenburg, and Chris
Dixon.
Beth Bimber
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Last summer she had an in
ternship with Lord Corporation
working on the industrial side
as a drafter. She found it to be
quite interesting.
"I found that what I had
learned applied in real life and
I saw the point of the random
things we had been taught in
Engineering Seminar."
This summer she will be
moving to Houston for an in
ternship at the University of
Houston, Cullen College of En
gineering, where she will con
duct nanotechnology research.
She feels that she wants to
focus on nanotechnology be
cause everything nowadays is
"smaller, better, and efficient.
And they can be used in manu
facturing and medical settings.
I want to end up focusing on
medical."
She simply put that there are
no specific achievements that
she feels made her what she is,
everything just culminated into
what she is now.
Bimber happily said that her
role model is her mother be
cause "she was one of three
women in the Engineering pro
gram when she went for Petro
leum engineering. I feel that, if
she could do it, then so can I.
So here I am."
fans can't see our faces. But
when we do this, the fans can
connect with us on a more per
sonal level."
The All-Stars got a unique
chance to play against pro-ath
letes for a good cause, and re
ally seemed to enjoy
themselves. Both teams took
part in the fun, and fans
seemed to cheer as Ken Miller,
the Director of Student Affairs,
defended 6'5, 3051bs Tony Hills.
"I wanted to take part in the
event because I love playing
basketball and I knew it would
be a fun time to play against the
steelers," Anthony Capizzi, a
player for the All-Stars, said. "I
enjoyed the experience alot. It's
not everyday that you get to
play against professional ath
letes...l was able to talk to and
mess around with the guys
while we were playing."
Fans young and old took part
in the events before the game
includding a free throw contest,
and filled the court during the
autograph signings. All of the
players chatted with fans and
signed anything they were
given, along with posing for
pictures. Due to the careful
planning the event ran ex
tremely smoothly.
"The hardest part about plan
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When chairmen of the con
cert committee Stephen Burger
was asked how do they even
get such a big name to come to
a commonwealth campus, such
as Behrend made it sound sim
ple.
"We have a middle agent
through concert ideas who we
communicate with and he in
tern contacts band managers
and representatives," said
Burger. "We are able to get
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she says, "the fact that rescued
occurred is very important,"
showing that although the res
cuers themselves may think
more people took part in saving
lives, less then 0.1 percent actu-
The Behrend All-Stars, a team made up of students, faculty, staff, and community members, played against members of the Pittsburgh Steel-
ning an event like this is the
promotions and making sure it
is fun for everyone," said Ni
land.
The Steelers seemed to tower
over a lot of the players for the
most part, and their athletic
abilty shined throw as they had
over a 20 point lead on the All-
prices and tentative dates."
While arranging the concert
the concert committee faced
one main problem with a pro
duction request, one that the
Junker Center simply couldn't
accommodate.
"One of the biggest difficul
ties was negotiating the Goo
Goo Dolls' production request.
Originally, they wanted to have
a quite elaborate light show,"
said Burger. " A. it was quite ex
pensive and B. it was a little too
much for the Junker Center to
ally risked everything to save
Jews.
Rabbi Schulweis, the founder
of the organization said, "Good
ness is a powerful mirror.
Goodness challenges us in a
way that evil does not."
This powerful quote shows
that these few people, these
rescuers of Jews who where at
most times absolute strangers,
where able to bring about
change.
Stahl elaborated on many
stories of rescuers. Yet, the few
ers to raise money for the Behrend men's basketball team
Stars. Dixon and Batch both
scored mutilple three point
shots, and Vincent and Madi
son had many layups.
"It was shocking because I
was able to see how big and
athletic some of those guys re
ally were," said Capizzi.
The Steelers seemed as if
accommodate."
In order to run the concert
smoothly, besides directors, the
concert committee comprised
of approximately 20 students,
who met Friday night, assem
bled the stage and reconvned at
8 in the morning the day of the
concert. Returning left ahead of
them was to complete assem
bling the stage, lights, and
sound.
"When it's all said done, we
had around 100 volunteers that
were needed in order to prop
she mentioned where just a few
of the stories.
Those rescuers caught where
killed alongside the Jews or im
mediately for doing the right
thing, she said.
The goal of the presentation
was not just to teach about this
little known factor of the Holo
caust, but also, Stahl says, to
"find inspiration in the attitudes
and the traits that rescuers ex
hibited."
Through the sacrifices of the
few, The Jewish Foundation for
they were playing for fun and
for the fans, not like they had
just driven to Erie on a Sunday
morning.
"I think every football player
wants to play basketball and
every basketball player wants
to play football," said Harris. "
I played for fun in high school
erly run the show," said Burger.
After the concert, sophomore
biology major Emily Harring
ton , had only one complaint
but enjoyed her experience.
"As a short person it was re
ally hard to see, but it sounded
great enough to blow my ear
drums out. Since I'm from New
York it's nice to hear a band
from my area."
Despite the difficulties faced
the hardwork of those involved
with the concert turned a suc
cessful evening.
the Righteous hopes to extend
a hand to those that truly need
The foundation continues to
support rescuers and expand
on the task by telling the stories
of those who helped Jews.
To read some of the stories of
rescuers, more than 100 such
tales can be found at
www.j fro rg.
Alec Italiano / The Behrend Beacon
and college, so I love getting to
come out and play."
All togther the even was a
success, bringing in many from
the community to see their
Steelers close up. This annual
event seems to be a fan fa
vorite, and hopefully will be
around for years to come.
Cot teCe; 0n.5
In last week's Behrend Beacon,
we made the following errors:
- Stephen Burger's name was
misspelled in the headline
"Berger and White Take The
Reigns."
- The semester standing of Har
shal Patel, who was recently
elected to the University Faculty
Senate Representative position
on SGA, was misprinted. We
printed that Patel is a 6th semes
ter supply chain and information
systems major - he is currently in
his second semester, and will be
going into his third upon taking
this position.
- The major of Cassie Kosmal,
one of 10 students elected to the
position of Upperclassman Sen
ator, was misprinted. The Bea
con had noted that she was a
sophomore business major,
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- tile " "Behre t
Talent en ns a large ctO4id,"
we said that the event was spon
sored by the Matchbox Players.
It was actually organized by six
students of Comm 370: Fabian
Justinian° Jr., Ashley Rodrigo,
Cory Anderson, Ashley Man
cuso, Jamie Finzel, and Goz Eg
barin.
- We said that the opinion article
"A need for real health care re
form" was written by Mladen
Grgic. It was written by Kamille
Watson.
- For the opinion article "Oliver's
revolution rocks the nation," we
misspelled the author's name.
Her name is Elese Merkovsky,
- In the Behrend sports brief
"Records at Carnegie Invite," we
misspelled Meghan Kronenwet
tees name.
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