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by David Friend
Collegian Staff Writer
Over 1,000 students gathered
at the University of the District of
Columbia (UDC) September 19
through October 2 to attend the
National Student Conference on
Voter Participation (NSCVP). The
students listened to speakers and
participated in a number of
workshops.
On Friday, Donald Paul
Hodell, Secretary of the Interior,
spoke on behalf of the Bush-Quayle
ticket He talked about the history
of the Interior Department then
went on to discuss the issues
behind the election. Hodell
mentioned student issues such as
Pell Grants and tax-free educational
bonds. He also attacked the
Democratic ticket.
The Democrats received equal
time on Saturday when
Representative Edward J. Markey
from Massachusetts took the
podium and spoke on behalf of the
Dukakis-Bcntsen ticket. He pointed
out the current complaints the
Democrats have with the Bush-
Quayle ticket, and addressed a
number of the the issues raised by
Hodell. Markey launched several
verbal assaults on Vice President
Bush and offered Governor
Dukakis' position in comparison.
Issue panels also livened up
conference discussions. Arms
control, Central America, and
family issues were discussed. On
Friday evening, former U.S.
Representative Bob Edgar from
Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Club Reports
Computer Center
by Carolyn Dudas
Full-time faculty, staff, and students of Penn State are able to
purchase computer hardware and software at discount prices from IBM,
Apple, and Zenith. These companies offer discounts that usually run
form 20% to 45% off of the regular list price for the hardware or
software items. - r
Some of the hardware that you can buy include PC's, printers,
monitors, modems, disk drives, and many other accessories. Software
packages are also available for word processing, programming
languages, spreadsheets, and databases.
Price lists of discounted items are available in two forms through
the Behrend College Computer Center. First, there is a price list
booklet for each company which includes a brief description and price
for each item. These booklets may be obtained from die secretary in
the Computer Center.
Second, the price lists are also maintained on Behrend's electronic
bulletin board on the Mainframe computer system. The electronic
bulletin board contains the identical information that is found in the
booklets. However, the price lists on this bulletin board can only be
accessed if you have a Mainframe computer account. If you don't know
how to access Behrend's electronic bulletin board, you can ask a student
computer consultant for help.
If you want to purchase any hardware or software, be sure to refer to
the price list booklet for ordering instructions. This is important since
some orders are placed through Penn State and others are placed direedy
with the computer company. If you have any questions concerning the
price list booklet or the ordering instruedons, contact a Computer
Center Staff Member.
by Tony DeMarco
The Behrend Ranger Club, along with other clubs from this part of
the state, converged on Edinboro University to do batde in a head to
head competition. This competition was a dry run or practice for the
Ranger Challenge, which is a competition held in November among all
Pennsylvania colleges.
The Behrend Rangers were represented by two teams. Behrend 1, led
by Cadet Aaron Higby, consisted of cadets Age Gavrilis, Mike Close,
Andy McConnell, J.B. Hennessey, Tony DeMarco, Andy Zimmer, and
Bryan McDonald. Behrend 2, led by A 1 Bolkovac, consisted of cadets
Matt Kelley, Mike Ellis, Trevor Johnson, Steve Lewis, Larry Corr,
Mike Hammond, and Tim Moreland.
Both teams competed in a number of different areas. These events
included a Physical Training test, a timed M-16 and M-60 assembly, a
grenade throw, a timed one-rope bridge construction, and a 10 kilometer
ruck sack run. When the smoke cleared, both teams knew they has
accomplished their mission and done their best.
If anyone is interested in joining the Ranger club, come to a
meeting at 5:30 pm sharp on Monday nights outside of the Glenhill
Farmhouse.
by Jim Barrett
ROTC has two and three-year scholarships available to freshmen and
sophomores with a G.P.A. of 2.0 or higher.
An ROTC scholarship will pay for tuition, books, and $lOO a
month spending money. There is no obligation when you apply for a
scholarship. If you arc offered a scholarship, you may accept or decline
taking it. If you accept, you will have a commitment that you can
decide how to fulfill. Anyone who is interested and would like more
information should contact Captain McCarthy in the ROTC office in
the lower level ofjhe Glenhill Farmhouse.
The next leadership lab will be held on October 15, and will give
students the experience of rappelling and crossing a rope bridge. Also
scheduled for this year is a trip to Fort Knox, Kentucky in November.
Student Conference in D.C.
spoke on arms control. He noted
that the currently ratified INF
(Intermediate Nuclear Forces) Treaty
is a very good first step toward
arms control, even though it
represents only a 3.5% reduction in
total nuclear forces.
Edgar also suggested that
conventional weapons should be
included in discussions on arms
control. He expressed the fear that
everyone will be deluded by the SDI
(Strategic Defense Initiadve) and
come to a false hope that
"...technology will save us."
Next, Stephen Radamaker,
Special Assistant to Elliot
Abrahms, discussed Central
America and its importance in
American policy. He outlined the
policy of the Reagan administration
and stated that the Bush
administration would continue
those same policies.
The last panelist was the
President of the Children's Defense
Fund, Marion Wright Adams. She
quoted statistics that one in every
four children under the age of six
lives in poverty and that one in
every five will become a teenage
parent. Adams urged the next
administration, and the current one
as well, to exercise programs that
will be a "preventive investment"
in the future of child care.
Ralph Nader, noted consumer
advocate and organizer of the
conference, spoke on Friday night
and ret the tone for the rest of the
weekend which would deal with
student issues. He called for
student leaders to "vector out” to
get the apathetic segment of the
Ranger
ROTC
campus and to "shake them like a
cat" to get them involved in
contemporary issues. Nader
expressed the view that the
problems discussed over the last
eight years are no longer
hypothetical -- they are reality. He
cited the depletion of the ozone
layer and the onset of the
greenhouse effect as an example of
this. In an attempt to achieve
action on these issues, he called for
a third party led by student.
Despite Nader’s words which
were embraced by the crowd, most
students considered Jesse Jackson's
speech the highlight of the
weekend. Jackson, a former
Democratic presidential nominee,,
sent both Democrats and
Republicans to their feet in what
had previously been a partisan
conference.
On Sunday, Jackson spoke of
reforming the voter registration in
all states. He called for adoption of
the Universal Voting Rights Act,
which would lift most restrictions
placed upon college students with
regard to their right to vote in
federal elections. He also called on
college leaders to vocalize their
feelings in a nonviolent, yet
attention-drawing manner.
Jackson indirectly supported
the Dukakis ticket by lambasting'
George Bush. His main message,
though, was to keep hope alive for
the present and future generations
and to make a difference in what is
going on around you.
Workshops on voter registration
drives and voter education rounded
out the conference.
Cafe Protects
by Jennifer Rose
Collegian Staff Writer
The Wintergreen Cafe is doing its
part in protecting the environment
by replacing its plastic cups with
paper ones.
Chemicals contained in the
plastic contribute to the breakdown
of the ozone layer, commonly
called the greenhouse effect It’s
decreasing approximately .5% each
•year and it has big holes in it at
—certain spots. 'The layer “Is very
important, since it protects the
earth from cancer-causing
ultraviolet rays.
The switch was made following
environmentalist Jeremy Rifkin’s
speech concerning the greenhouse
effect. He stopped to drink some
water and noticed that he was]
drinking out of a plastic cup. He;
commented that plastic cups are bad
for the ozone layer, and that
something should be done. Since:
this cup came from the Wintergreen
Cafe and cafe supervisor Clay
Belgie happened to be there, paper
cups are now used instead of plastic
ones.
Belgie said he never considered
substituting paper for plastic earlier
Emerging Leaders Series
by Jennifer Rose
Collegian Staff Writer
organization (speaker Lori Jakiela),
a program on values (speaker Dr.
Sweeting), and programs on
Behrend's Emerging Leaders assertiveness training, culture,
Series lectures confidence are geared .brainstorming and many other
toward students and faculty who topics. Any students interested in
would like to develop more self being a speaker should contact John
confidence, be more organized, and Downy, program development
find the capability to be the boss director of the Inter-Club Council,
without seeming bossy. • The series is of special interest to
This series is sponsored by • group leaders, but ’ everyone is
Inter-Club Council and Student welcome. These lectures are held
Services. There are many different 0 n Tuesdays at noon and Thursdays
programs and speakers available at 5-pm on alternating weeks in
each week. There is an advertising Reed 116. The next lecture will be
program for those interested in ' Thursday, October 13.
advertising for their club or
Sexual Harassment Seminars
A series of programs, open to
Behrend faculty, students and staff,
will be presented on the subject of
sexual harassment on October 20
and 21. These programs, designed
to emphasize the university's
commitment to dealing with
discriminatory behavior, will offer
separate sessions for students
faculty, clerical staff and fr.r
technical services personal.
The program, according to Dean
of Students Services, Chris Reber,
offers a unique approach to
educating the entire campus
community. '
"It"s super-saturation. It's a way
of sensitizing the entire community
to the issue an intensified look at
sexual harassment. We hope by
using this method the whole
community will move forward a
couple of steps. I'm interested in
having students know this isn't just
October 13,1988
Breaking New
by Richard E. McCartney
Collegian Staff Writer
Behrend is pioneering in the
Speech Communication field with
the addition of Communications.
297 A: Strategies of Peace
Communication. The course, which
is being offered this semester by
Dr. Colleen Kelly, is an
experimental class in one of the
newest areas of Speech
Communication research.
This is the only class like this
in the Penn State system. As a
matter of fact, there are only about
twelve classes like this being
offered in the whole country. Kelly
is a pioneer in the Peace
Communication Field; therefore,
everything the class studies is first
hand information.
"Peace Communication is not
some mystical field made up of
some sort of sentimental utopian
propaganda or academic romantic
escapism from social or political
reality," said Kelly. The field is
concerned with understanding,
researching, and creating methods of
communication that enable people
or nations to manage conflicts so
that they may settle their differences
short of destroying one another in
the process. Scholars in this field
are investigating ways of initiating
a realistic, and practical
understanding of peace making as a
multifaceted, on going activity of
human communication.
According to Kelly, scholars in
the Peace Communication field are
doing work in some very important
areas, and they are discovering some
Ozone Layer
because "no one on campus has
ever talked to me about anything
concerning this problem. I never
gave it a lot of thought until this
speech."
Substances which deplete the
layer include types of plastic foams,
certain refrigerants, aerosols, and
other materials. When Belgie was
asked why foam (a plastic
derivative) containers are still being
used in the cafe, he said that there
really isn't anything else available,
that's disposable.
• The chemical behind the
destruction of the ozone layer is a
chemical called chlorofluorocarbon
(CFC). This chemical can break
down 100,000 ozone molecules for
every molecule released. CFC's can
stay in the air for up th five years
before coming back to earth. For
every .5% reduction in the layer, an
approximate 1,000,000 cases of
cancer will result.
Many businesses are beginning
to- react to the ozone problem and
are working for the eventual
elimination of CFC’s. DuPont is
substituting a different chemical in
its plastics, and McDonald's has
stopped serving food in foam
containers made with CFC's.
for students —it's also for faculty
and staff.
If this concept of saturation is
successful, it may later be applied
to other types of programs.
While Reber concedes sexual
harassment may not be a relatively
big: problem at Behrend, he reports
that he and Marybeth Peterson,
Behrend's other harassment contact
person, handled no fewer than eight
cases of reported harassment last
year. He also notes that studies
have repeatedly indicated that most
cases of sexual harassment go
unrcported. • -
Reber suggests that even if
students are unsure aboiit what
constitutes.sexual harassment, they
may wish to. bring their problem
forward.
•If anyone has any concerns,
can see either of us in
complete confidence," said Reber. -
very realistic, useful methods. They
are investigating interpersonal'
strategies of communication. They
are looking at the historical failures
and successes of the different peace
movements and they are trying to
learn from them. Furthermore,
they are investigating leadership
strategies conducive to peace
making rather than war making.
They are investigating conflict
resolution at all levels of human
interaction. Finally, a great deal of
work has been done in order to
improve intercultural
communication.
Peace Communication was bom
in 1986 at the annual meeting of
the National Speech
Communication Association where
a commission was formed to
investigate this subject. Peace
Communication was put on a two
year probation, and if the Peace
Communication Commission
would be able to show any results
by the end of that time period, the
S.C.A. would then sanction this
new area. Kelly was on that
commission.
By the following year, at the
annual meeting in Boston, enough
scholars had accumulated enough
positive research and literature that
Peace Communication became an
official part of the conference:
including panel discussions,
seminars, and the delivery of
research papers. Momentum
continued to build after the 1987
annual meeting, and this
November, at the S.C.A.’s annual
meeting in New Orleans, Peace
Communication will be sanctioned.
Gamble on
by Dawn M. Davis
Collegian Staff Writer
Dr. John Gamble, recipient of
the 1987-88 Behrend College
Council of Fellows Excellence in
Teaching award, kicked off the
1988-89 Provost's Speaker Series
on October 6 with his lecture
entitled "Good Teaching: Neither A
Quantifier Nor A Pretender Be."
Gamble, a political science
professor at Behrend, began with, an
explanation of his lecture's title.
"111610 are two certainties about
teaching. One, you can't measure it
with any degree of perseverance, and
two, you can't fake it. Students can
recognize the high quality of
teaching," he said.
Although he declined to answer
the question himself, Gamble
addressed the issue of whether
research-oriented faculty members
are better teachers. He noted that
faculty members who perform
research have an advantage by being
on the cutting edge of their subject
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Ground
Kelly has played a prominent
role in the development of this new
field. She was on the original
Peace Communication
Commission formed in 1986. She
delivered several papers in Boston
last year, and next month in New
Orleans, she will have many
responsibilities. She will have to
report on the results of. her class
here at Behrend. She will be
leading a section of the convention
entitled: Intercultural Perspectives
to Peace Making. There will be
papers delivered on this topic, panel
discussions, and workshops.
Furthermore, Kelly will have to
meet with the other members of the
task force she is on for developing
the curriculum for a national
workshop on Strategies of Peace
Communication that will be held
this summer at North Western
University in Chicago.
Momentum in this field is
picking up world wide. Colleges
and universities all over the world
are doing research in Peace
Communication. Colleges in the
United States are relatively new in
this field, but they are catching up
quickly. Notre Dame University has
even started a Masters Degree
program in Peace Studies.
Although Behrend is a small school
with limited social science research
capabilities, because of Kelly's
work and the class that she is
presently teaching, Behrend is one
of the few American schools that is
in the "vanguard" of this new,
exciting field.
Teaching
matter. He added that research helps
clarify thoughts, and hopefully
faculty members are able to bring
this into their classrooms.
Gamble also talked about the
changing attitudes towards Course
Evaluation Questionnaires (CEQs).
When the evaluations were initiated
ten years ago students didn't think
they made a difference, he said.
Now, some teachers feel there is
too.much attention geared towards
them. Gamble, however, feels, they
are reliable. "CEQs give students a
chance to say they are satisfied with
their professor," he said.
Gamble offered some
suggestions for future CEQs. He
said that students should take them
seriously and be objective. Faculty
shouldn't be too sensitive about the
grading and learn from the students'
comments. The administration
should realize the limitations on the
forms and consider other ways to
rate and judge. Gamble's fear is that
teachers will be so competitive for
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