what's going on at Behrendt 16 tuesday l7 wednes 18 thurscar y - 1 19 friday Noon-1:00 p.m.- Performance by The Toughcats at Bruno's cafe 11:00a.m.-2:00p.m. - The Lambola Sigma Honor Society is collecting winter coats and accessories outside of Bruno's cafe Promote your event! The Beacon is glad to display any events from any organization. Submissions are due Friday by 5:00 p.m. for publication in the next Tuesday's issue. To submit an item for the calendar, send an e-mail with information or attach ments to editor@psu.edu. While you should include all possible information, submissions may be edited due to space constraints. Please contact the Beacon for special requests. Pennsylvania ROTC Team Places in the Top-Ten ELIZABETH ANNE PASCUZZI contributing tvriter Ranger Challenge is the name of a weekend long com petition where University ROTC Battalions send their toughest, most well-rounded Cadets to compete for the "Iron Mike" trophy, and brag ging rights for the next year. The competition originated as a collegiate version of the annual Best Ranger Competi tion, held at Fort Benning in Georgia. Cadets compete in not only physical events, but skills, and knowledge based challenges, while pushing themselves through exhaus tion. Universities that offer ROTC programs in the North east Region of the U.S. belong to the second Brigade. Beh rend falls under the "Pride of Pennsylvania" Battalion which is made up of over a hundred Cadets from Gan non University, Mercyhurst College, and Behrend. Cadets from each of the what we've been up to lately: Members within SGA are deciding on official names for Bruno's future convenient store, which is planned to open by Fall of 2012. So far, the names that have come to mind are "The Gallery" and "Molly's". What do you think? Join the conversation ( •• SGA' Orgysnc feed. what we're up to soon: SGA is in the process of creating a ride variety apparel, including fu ture options such as t-shirts, hoodies, polos, sweaters, and jackets. You can vote on which clothing item you sup port by participating on the online poll found on SGA's new Orgsync page what we're up to: This Thursday, November 18th, SGA is sponsoring Dinner for Six. The reception begins at 5:15 and the dinner begins at 5:45 at McGarvey Commons. Dinner For Six is an enjoyable space 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.- " A Major Show case: What can you do in a major in..." Event hosted by the Academic/Career Planning Center. Held in Mcgarvey Commons 4:00-5:OOp.m. - Entering Your Major event. Held in Reed 150 9:00 p.m.- Reed 117 $1 ticket, Inception 11:00a.m.-2:00p.m. - The Lambola Sigma 11:00a.m.-2:00p.m. - The Lambola Sigma Honor Society is collecting winter coats Honor Society is collecting winter coats and accessories outside of Bruno's cafe and accessories outside of Bruno's cafe 20 saturday Thanksgiving! schools know each other very well and participate in Battal ion activities together several times each month. Preparation started last spring with Cadets meeting two days a week to train on skills that would be needed during the fall competition. During the Fall, training be came a six day a week regi men. Team potentials gave up sleep, valuable study time, and much of their social lives to commit to preparing for the competition. Most morn ings Cadets would wake up at 0445 so they might be on time to an intensive 0530 workout. The team was determined by competing in individual tasks pertaining to the com petition tasks for the highest scores. Once the Fall Semes ter started, over forty "high speed" volunteers came to try-out for the team in mid October, only a ten-person team remained. Training days alternated between test and training days and fitness SGA Corner Important dates Wed. Nov. 10 Elizabeth Kearns, manager of Brunos, will be a guest speaker at SGA. Wed. Nov. 17 Mike Lindner, Director of Housing and Food Services, will be a guest speaker at SGA's weekly meeting. Congratulations to the Chris I laps! ei Eric Pclosi Grcg Thompson Jim Gallaghei Julic Ross Patrick Wallenhorsi Scan I\ ill Steel' Nlarracco h Pa\ Ile Zack Forrester "smoke-sessions". van for eight hours to Camp Cadets departed on Friday Smith, New York, a few miles October 15th and traveled by away from West Point. Noon-1:00 p.m.- Soup for the Soul located in the Smith Chapel Living Room. spon sored by CCM and PCM 5:15-8:OOp.m.- Dinner For Six sponsored by SGA. Held in McGarvey Commons 9:00 p.m.- Reed 117 $1 ticket, Inception 21 sunday 'Thanksgiving! winners: Penn State Behrentl Alercyhurst College Pentistate Behrend Alercyliurst (allege Gannon University Alero'hutv College Alercyhurq College Mercyhorst College Penn State Behrend Meroliurst College 12:15 p.m.- Concert organist Dr. Jonathan Moyer perfoms at Smith Chapel. Free admissions 10:00 p.m.- Reed 117 $1 ticket, Inception 22 monday Thanksgiving! Once on site they began preparing for the arduous weekend full of events. The competition kicked off with a 0415 wakeup Saturday morn ing for an Army Physical Fit ness Test (APFT). Following the APFT cadet teams moved on to compete in a long list of events: Weapons and communica tion in an Engagement Skills Trainer (EST); A team scenar io mission involving . .. Military Operations and_ movement in Urban Terraift(MOU'T), engaging enemy targets, Re action to Unexploded Ordi nance/Improvised Explosive Device props, and treatment and evacuation of a casualty under enemy fire; construc tion and crossing of a "single rope" bridge over an obstacle; Land Navigation; Weapons disassembly, reassembly, and functions testing; a written exam covering ROTC course material from Freshmen to Senior study levels. Sunday morning the tired teams awoke at 0500 am to Weekly Sudoku: 9 2 1 178 4 6 3 5 2 53 7 8 1 4 7 16 3 9 2 7 4 84 2 1 _3 9 1 8 5 difficulty: 2/5 News prepare for the final event, a six mile nick run. The team departed carry ing a 35-401 b pack and an ad ditional 201bs of weight in the form of weapons, helmets, and water. Although far cry from a cross-country, race, CDT Ty ler Payne from Penn State Behrend, led the way in the formation carrying the Pride of PA Guide-On (unit flag). The course route wound its way directly up a steep gravel road to the top of Bear Moun tain and back. The Pride of Pennsylvania Battalion finished the compe tition top-ten in every event but one. Overall the team placed 7th out of 23 teams, while competing in the hard est division. Another 20 teams competed the following week end. The final results have yet to be posted. The team for the fall 2011 season is starting to plan their training for next year's competition.
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