PAGE 4 Spring Fever: New Baseball Coach By Joel Campbell With the departure of Coach Clarence Stoner last year to Main Campus, Mr. Joseph Spinelli will manage Behrend's baseball team. Spinelli, also a soccer and basketball coach at St. Mark's Seminary, eagerly anticipates the coming season. The returning players from last year's successful squad, plus an "excellent group of freshmen", according to Coach Spinelli, should form the nucleus of a good team. Team captains Joe Fornear and Greg Breskey should add leadership to the squad. Coach Spinelli stated that, "this- is the best group of freshmen ever at Behrend." Gone from last, year's squad .are seven of the team's top ten players, as well as fourteen of the pitching staff's twenty wins. To replace the§e losses, Spinelli has many of the athletes playing unfamiliar positions, as well as a young pitching staff. Spinelli kept 29 players on this year's squad. One of the reasons is so the team can play. intra squad games. With such a short time to prepare for the season, Coach Spinelli feels "It's impor tant for the team to play in game situations, and to rid themselves of mental errors." Another reason for such a large squad can be attributed to the dif ficult decisions when making team' cuts. The coach's philosophy is that if returning players were good enough to make last year's team suc cessful, that they are good enough for this year's team. That meant that it would be dif ficult for freshmen, but the freshmen played so well during try-outs that Spinelli was left with little choice. He feels this group of younger players will help Behrend's program in the long run. This year's assistant coach is Dick Crist. Crist was Behrend's first team NAIA District 18 selec tion at third bage. Crist will be able to assist Spinelli on the con trasting styles and ballplayers of opposing teams. Spinelli -said "Dick adds a bridge between the ballplayers and myself. He'll be a fine acquisition." Coach Spinelli feels that the return of key RBI men and the powerful hitting corps, on Behrend's team mixed with good defensive play will keep Behrend competitive with any team in the District. Putt Putt Golf and Games Celebrities: Penn State Twins By Nick Notias The 19-year-old Sax twins, Beth (left), and Amy (right), posed for Penn State in order to promote Penn State football. So let's meet them. , They are twins from Upper St. Clair, Pittsburgh. Amy and Beth are sixth term students. Beth is majoring in Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and Amy in Business. _ Amy and Beth have had model ing experience with "Seventeen Magazine" and Horne's depart ment store. They were asked if they would pose for other posters, or do any modeling. They said they- weren't looking for oppor tunities to model, but they would model-'provided that they didn't have todress in t-shirts or similar costumes. Because of their immense popularity, the twins have had to deal with autograph seekers. The girls said they find this fun; however, when trying to study, it does become annoying. New. Economic Research Institute Underway Behrend's new Economic Research Institute of Erie (ERIE) is currently in operation and running smoothly, according to Dr. Barry R. Weller, associate professor of economics and direc tor of the Institute. The Research Institute, which has been in operaton for the past month, encompasses a wide variety of objectives relating to its service to the community. The first objective, Weller ex plained, involves the gathering of , as much descriptive data as possible concerning the Erie regional economy. One problem encountered is that the data needed is widely scattered in various places such as the:Census Department, Penn State,•and many local sources. Second:, the Institute • will monitor the Erie business cycle and attempt to find out how well Erie County is doing in 'relation to the state and the nation. "We want to find out whether things, get bad here before they do nationwide or after they do na tionwide and whether business fluctuations in Erie are more severe or less so than those on the FREE $5.00 FREE• Buy $5.00 in ;cane room tokens and receive $5.00 in tokens with this coupon. • FREE $l.OO FREE: Buy $l.OO in game- room tokens and receive $l.OO in tokens with this coupon. Open Year Round Putt Putt Golf and Games 4268 Buffalo Rd. 898-1114 and - 1225 Peninsula Dr. 833-1704 BEHREND COLLEGIAN . The . autograph seekers in- • 1,900 posters sold at $3.50 each: a "cheesecake poster," while crease with the poster sales. some believe the poster is intend- About two_ hundred posters were This popular poster has created ed to show football as being a ma sold in one week alone. As of this a lot of,controversy; some people jor activity at Penn State, not to writing, there have been more an see the poster and believe it to be exploit the girls. . by Ron Leonardi national level," said Weller. The final objective, which is long term, deals with the building of econometric models. These models will enable the staff to predict the future Course of economic and business activity in the Erie area. "We're talking about three stages here," he said. "Data, simple monitoring of the Erie economy, and actually doing some forecasting if possible. That forecasting aspect is very far down the line." Funding for the start up and in itial operating budget is being provided by Bebrend and Penn State. This starting • budget amounts to $1,200. "Essentially, what we are doing with that Money is getting things such"as computer manuals, some data tapes, and some equipment for our micro computer systems," said Weller. Dr. Weller - - anticipates that future funding will be ,derived primarily from corporate and in dividual gifts as well - as grants and contracts: In addition to Dr. Weller, other staff members include Mr. Jack Burke, Associate Dean; Mr. An thony Salvia, - :statistician; Mr. James Kurre, economics; and Dr. Ki Shim, economics. The research staff is currently in the process of gathering and . It•‘' '‘.,. THE ' ~ ,4'.4;‘: - LARGE 7itl ! - • LION ...• A • '• • .: .: ' ' and Smok i ng Snuff f f . Accessories Albums & Tapes 417 W. Bth Street - -. 455.0511 rs. - Mon.-Sat. 10a.m.-9P.m Sun. 12-5 p.m., The Sax Twins: Beth and Amy examining what data is available with research being done in three areas. "We hope to have a good work ing data base in place by September so we can actually start doing research," Weller added. Dr. Weller is dealing with the College of Business at University Park which will provide in-depth information on Pennsylvania and Erie County. At the present time, Mr. Kurre is involved with the Pennsylvania Office of Employment Security while Mr. Salvia is- contacting various leaders and groups in the community to see what data can be gathered. In analyzing the Erie economy, Dr. Weller stressed that the area economy tends to be relatively unstable cyclically compared to the national economy. For exam ple, when the nation's unemploy ment rate rises from six to seven per cent, the Erie unemployment -rate is going from nine to ten per "cent. "The problems that you see on the national nature tend to be magnified in the Erie communi ty," said Weller. "One of the things we might want to do is try to pinpoint exactly where those large rises in unemployment come about so perhaps we might be able to minimize them in the future." 'Further hampering - the area economy'is the bleak outlook con cerning college students in the job market this year. According to Dr. Weller, when a business cycle decline occurs, 1 . -' - !; tltfl !NMI CRAFTSMAN OF OUALwr IMPRINTED / SPORTSWEAR 1702 WEST EIGHTH STREET • PH. 456-0566 or 453-4543 APRIL - 14, 1982 one of _the first things to go is heavy industry which -results in an increase, in unemployment. How does this hurt college students? Since the national unemploy ment rate is so high - (the current nine per cent rate being the highest since 1941), there are many workers with experience who are laid off. These people will have to be called back first resulting in an extremely tough job market for undergraduates. -Dr. Weller does not expect a business cycle expansion to begin again until the third quarter of this year which will occur either in September or October. 9 Bevaft42ll:4 ITALIAN RESTAURANT SPECIAL Try'Our Daily Lunch Specials 3512 Buffalo Road WesleyviHe Phone 899-3423 , Buy TWO Pizza Subs and Get One Free. 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