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Sex, diet,
exercise,
and LCD
TVs
Health and
Wellness
Center hosts
fair to educate
students on
sex, health
CONNOR SATTELY
editor-in-chief
Shot glasses, jars of con
doms, balls in buckets, and
beer goggles greeted stu
dents who visited McGar
vey Commons last
Thursday.
The Health and Wellness
Center, in an effort to raise
student awareness about
their services, held a col
lege-wise health fair called
Health in Motion.
Pam GiSrddn, Director of
Outreach at the Health and
Wellness Center, called the
event a "huge success."
"We, we c re thed with
the turnout thaewe had,"
she said. "Students gave us
great feedback about the
events we have, and we
think that we really were
able to get the word out
about all the things we can
do."
"We think we were really able to get
the word out about all the things we
Pam Gordon
Director of Outreach, Health and Wellness Center
Ernie earns the spotlight
CONNOR SATTELY
editor-in-chief
Students walking be
tween classes Wednesday
may have been hit with a
different type of quiz than
normal: an interview by the
Animal Planet Channel.
Animal Planet came to
campus on Wednesday to
film a feature for 101 Dogs.
The show, in its third sea
son, is a "fun crash course
about all things dog," and
its producers decided to
make a feature about the
Affenpinscher breed.
Fortunately for them,
Sue Daley, the Director of
Personal Counseling, had
recently brought in her
own Affenpinscher as her
office's new counselor.
"We have a great story
here, because of what
Ernie's doing for this cam
pus," she said. "Everyone
knows and loves Ernie."
Animal Planet brought a
three-person crew all day
Wednesday and followed
Daley from her home in the
morning, to her work sev
eral hours later, and
around campus in the af
ternoon.
"It's been a whirlwind
week," said Daley, who was
first contacted about the
feature only about a week
and a half ago. "My initial
reaction was dread. Just,
`oh, no.' I hate cameras, all
of that stuff.
"It was very unusual for
me, but I went into it with
a leap of faith, and it ended
up being great."
Perhaps even more im
pressive than the fact that
the channel came to
Courtesy Pam Gordon, Health and Wellness
Above: Roseanna Smith won a 19-inch T. V from the event's raffle.
Right: Students participate in a game at Health in Motion.
At the event, several ac
tivities were held which in
troduced students to a
facet of the operations of
the Health and Wellness
Center.
A table labeled "Safe
Sex" challenged students
to "drop, sink, and clink"
ten pennies into a bucket
filled with water and land
them in a shot glass. If they
were able to do it, they won
a Penn State mini back
pack.
"Behrend Balls" had stu
dents wear beer goggles
while shooting balls into a
bucket to simulate intoxi
cation and the effects of re
duced motor function and
can do."
Left: Penn State Behrend Marketing
Above: Connor Sattely / The Behrend Beacon
Above: The Animal Channel filmed Ernie in his natural
environment - surrounded by loving students.
Left: Ernie poses for a portrait.
Behrend was the way in
which they were received,
Daley said.
"The Behrend commu
nity really rallied for this
event in a beautiful way,"
she said. "We lined up stu
dents to come in and help,
even with busy schedules.
Police and Safety saved
them four spots - imagine
coming in at 11:30 and hav
ing four parking spots
empty for you."
The feature also traveled
around campus, interview
ing students about Ernie
anywhere from Reed, to
random sidewalks, to a
chemistry lab.
judgment.
One of the particularly
difficult games was "bite
me," in which students had
to grab paper bags off of
the ground with their
mouth without touching
the ground. The bags got
shorter and shorter, and
students came up with cre
ative ways to get the bags
for a Health in Motion t
shirt.
Each table had informa
tion on a health topic, in
cluding safe-sex practices,
healthy eating habits, the
consequences of DUI and
underage and binge drink
ing, and the importance of
exercise.
Healthy food was also
provided - fruits and veg
etable trays.
Students also received
tickets to enter into a raffle
to win a 19-inch flatscreen
television.
see HEALTH, page 3
"We brought them into
the lab just to let them get
some footage of what it'd
.look like when we do out
reach activities," Daley
said. dent's room and we
did some filming in there."
Each student had to sign
a release to be in the fea
ture, but they were all will
ing to help.
"They were all really ex
cited to be a part of it and
tell how Ernie has affected
them," she said.
see ERNIE, page 5
Campus
convenes to
support
Heeter
family
CONNOR SATTELY
editor-m-chiet
Behrend student organi
zation and clubs have re
sponded to the loss of a
friend with a fundraising
effort to help her family.
The Amber Heeter Fam
ily Benefit Raffle, which
seeks to benefit Heeter's
family and assist them with
funeral costs, is a raffle
which offers a $5OO cash
prize to the winner of the
drawing.
"The idea came about in
Student Activities as we
were talking with students
who expressed an interest
in doing something to ben
efit Amber's family and to
honor Amber," said Lind
sey Hopkins Hall, Coordi
nator of Student
Involvement and Fraternity
and Sorority Life at Penn
State Behrend.
"From there, we reached
out to the organizations
that Amber was involved
in, and approached clubs at
Club Rush."
Interfraternity Council
(IFC) and Panhellenic, the
two governing organiza
tions of fraternities and
sororities, respectively, as
well as Lion Entertainment
Board (LEB) contributed
funds to the $5OO cash
prize.
Members of all of the fra
ternities and sororities are
selling tickets to the raffle,
as well as members of In
ternational Student Organ
ization (ISO), the
Organization of Latin
American Students
(OLAS),
See AMBER, page 3