MAY 2,1985
Students
by Darlene Kasbee
Collegian Staff Writer
Donkeys in the gymnasium
can only mean one thing. Mon
day, April 22, at 8 p.m., marked
Donkey Basketball Night at Penn
State-Behrend. Faculty and staff
battled it out against students in
an evening of amusing excite
ment. Sponsored through the
combined efforts of the Com
muter Council, Student Program
ming Council, and the Joint Resi
dent Council, the event was a
success.
The audience cheered as the
brave mounties, suited in helmets
and blue or red T-shirts, brought
their donkeys onto the basketball
court.
Excitement heightened as newly
elected Student Programming
Council President Kim Neely at
tempted to make friends with a
very unfriendly donkey. When
Neely offered a friendly pat on the
donkey’s back, she was rewarded
by the kicking and biting donkey. ■■
The audience roared, realizing
Student player Kim Neely tries to evade her unfriendly donkey as team
mate Alex Primas looks on. .
Donkeys graze off of Behrend land as they prepare for a big night.
FEATURE
And Faculty Have Shootout On Donkeys
that this donkey was not m the
mood for kind gestures.
“I was scared,” Neely said,
“especially when the owner told
me the tendencies of the donkey
were to try to bite women in
private places.” So with Neely fly
ing into the bleachers and the
donkeys jaunting. teeth at her
heels, the game began.
Rules of the game were: Players
could not hold the ball for more
than 15. seconds at a time, and if
the ball was passed, it had to be
passed to or from a team member
on a donkey.
Team members had to have
donkeys with them when chasing
the ball, and had to be seated on
the donkey when shooting.
Although the game consisted
more of chasing donkeys while
team members were consistently
bitten, kicked, or falling to the
floor, players managed to score.
Sophomore Jackie Pulte scored
the first two points of the game,
for the students, followed 10
seconds later by a basket from
THE BEHREND COLLEGIAN
Police and Safety Officer Chip
Saunders.
Immediately after, a time out
was called for the Sigma Kappa
Nu clean-up crew, who graciously
volunteered to clean up anything
the donkeys left behind. '
The game was once more in ac
tion. Senior Kevin Moore, who
emerged as high scorer of the
game, rode his mild-mannered
donkey down the court to score
each time. “I felt like Sancho in
Don Quixote,” Moore said.
The first foul was called against
student team member Doug
“Hero” Konley for, “reaching
behind a donkey.”
A swish in the basket by Moore
ended the second quarter, tying
the game 8-8. “Now I really know
Behrend Cadets Get Taste of FIG
by Thomas Milley
Collegian Staff Writer
Behrend Cadets spent the
weekend of April 12-14 at Fort In
diantown Gap, Indiantown, Pa.
The FIG weekend is an annual
training session, held by and for
the Penn State system.
All commonwealth campuses
meet with University Park for a
session of tactical training and
military exercises. In ROTC there
are three levels of cadets, the
GMS (General Military Science),
the MS Ill’s and the MS IV’s.
The GMS consist of cadets
enrolled in the first two years of
ROTC. The MS Ill’s are enrolled
in the first year of the Advanced
Course, and are working in
preparation toward their trip to
ROTC Advanced Camp this sum
mer. MS IV’s are cadet officers,
who have already been to Advanc-
what it is like to score on all
fours,” Moore commented.
Half time passed quickly as five
young ladies were chosen from the
audience for a game of musical
donkeys.
Four donkeys stood head-to
head in the middle of the court.
The girls were told to pirouette in
a circle around the donkeys until a
whistle was blown. Then the girls
jumped on the. nearest donkey.
The person left without a donkey
was eliminated from the game.
After three more rounds of hopp
ing and crawling around the
donkeys, Sophomore Linda Hurst
emerged as the winner and was
immediately announced “official
ass” of the donkey basketball
game.
ed Camp and are receiving their
commissions this month.
The purpose of FIG is twofold:
to give the MS Ill’s a chance to
evaluate themselves in prepara
tion for Advanced Camp, and to
give the GMS an introduction to
army living and an instruction in
basic military skills.
Last year Behrend’s GMS
cadets distinguished themselves by
winning the Professor of Military
Science (PMS) rifle match, taking
third place in the orienteering
competition, and finishing first in
the night land navigation exercise.
This year Behrend’s GMS
cadets found themselves unable to
repeat their successful as
Behrend’s GMS were split up and
made members of units from
University Park. The orienteering
and night land navigation com
petitions were not held this year,
virtually eliminating Behrend’s
In the second half, the game
began to take on a more serious
tone, with Junior Brian Bennett
managing to tame the wild
donkey. “I whispered in its ear,”
Bennett said. “I figured the
donkey was lonely, and I told her
I’d take her out after the game if
she’d just behave.”
The final score was in favor of
the student team, 29-25.
“Everyone gave it their all,”
Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
Bill McCartney said. “I have
never seen so many people have so
much fun making asses of
themselves,” he added.
Donkeys were supplied by the
Donkey Ball Company, Wester
ville, Oh.
:y outsm;
cadets’ chances of working
together and retaining their claim
of the best cadets in the system.
The GMS cadets from Behrend
who went this year all agreed that
the trip was enjoyable though it
did have its drawbacks.
The MS Ill’s spent the weekend
running through Tactical Applica
tion Exercises (TAX lanes), runn
ing through the day and night
land navigation courses and being
tested on Military Skills
proficiency.
The MS IV’s were in charge of
the concurrent training which ac
companies the live-fire exercise on
the rifle range. They were also in
volved in inspecting the cleaning
of M-16 rifles, walking the night
land navigation course on Satur
day night, and aiding in the profi
ciency testing of the MS Ill’s on *
Sunday morning.
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