CAPITAL TIMES, October 25, 1989
Tales from the PSH
John J. Garvey
Capital Times Staff
As the fog rolls across Capital
Campus this Halloween ! while you're all
alone remember the tale I'm about to
tell and heed my warning. This is a tale
handed down from generation to
generation of Penn State Harrisburg
students that most people consider a
mere legend. But, who really knows for
sure.
The legend tells of a cruel and evil
professor who taught at PSH when it
first opened its doors. Known now
simply as the Bloody Professor, he was
a very large man, bearing the scars of an
EET experiment that went awry some
twenty years earlier. This accident left
the flesh on the left side of his face burnt
so bad that the inside his eyesocket was
visible for all to see. His dangling left
eye was held in place only by charred
flesh that was once his face.
The professor would stay very late at
A conference will be held for Penn State Harrisburg and HACC
student club and organizationa representatives who have a strong
interest in fproviding services to, the volunteer community.
The conference is set for Saturday, November 18, from 9:00 a.m. to
12:00 noon. The conference will be held at Penn State Harrisburg.
Grant money will be made available to clubs and organizations that
present workable and innovative ideas.
The conference will enable interested students to present their ideas,
receive additional ideas and obtain and complete min-grant applications.
For more information students may contact Tamara Cohick in the
Student Activities Office, Room 212, or by calling 948-6273.
LAMBDA
"Gay and Lesbian Support Group"
Potluck Social November 3, 1989
For more information call: 652-5985
INTERNSHIPS IN
PENNSYLVANIA STATE GOVERNMENT
Applications are being accepted now for
Science or Accounting for the Commonwealth's Computer Systems and
Accounting Intern programs. In addition to a competitive salary averaging
almost $7.50 per hour, Interns may be eligible to receive college credit for
their participation. Successful Interns may also be qualified to return to a
full time management level job after the Internship and graduation.
In order to initially qualify, candidates for the Computer Science Internship
Program must be sophomores and for the Accounting Internship Program,
candidates must be juniors.
your Career Services/Placement Office for application
materials or
Applications will be accepted until December 8, 1989
The Commonwealth is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Harrisburg (Dauphin County)
Benny Martinez
College Relations Program
State Civil Service Commission
P.O. Box 569
Harrisburg, PA 17108-0569
Telephone: 717-787-1872 or 787-6652
night wandering the murky hallways of
Olmsted looking for unsuspecting young
engineering students to carry out his
sinister experiments. The Professor
would wait for an EET student to walk
into the Lion's Den for some late night
studying, not knowing what terror
awaited them.
The fiend would entice the student
with such undeniable goodies as slide
rulers and brand new pocket protectors.
With a complete loss of will, the student
is left helpless to the madman's every
whim and desire.
The ill-fated student, is then carried
off into the dense darkness of the
Engineering Lab while bone chilling
screams echo throughout the night; and
the student will never walk this earth
again.
One especially erie Halloween night,
while the rain beat down like never
before, one one unfortunate engineering
student's car broke down and he sought
the Olmsted Building for shelter from
CAMPUS
the storm
The student was damp, cold and tired,
but couldn't find a soul in the building.
So he decided nobody would mind if he
took a little nap, just until the storm
was over. So he curled up against the
Lion in the front of the building, not
knowing what the cruel gods had in store
for him.
You may have guessed it was not
long before the Bloody Professor was
upon him salivating at the thought of
another fresh young victim. The
struggle was a short one, ending with
the professor battering the student
mercilessly about the head with an
especially heavy T-square.
He procceded to take the victims limp
body back to his hiding place in the
Engineering Lab.
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Gray speaks
federal level, "Gray said. "We've heard
about the 1000 points of light, but we
have not seen the batteries to illuminate
the lights."
Gray's lecture ended with an opinion
on public policy.
He said, "If we are going to have the
ability to face the next century, there are
three things in public policy we must
fight for and maintain: first our public
policy must always call for justice;
second, it must also insist for freedom;
third, it must teach stewardship."
Gray is responsible for the first of a
series of "set-aside" provisions to require
participation by minority and women
business owners, historically black
colleges and minority private agencies in
the U.S. Agency for International
Development's development assistance
programs.
He is also responsible for measures
that have provided $lO million to
minority business owners for bonding
assistance in connection with
transportation and highway projects.
Gray is a leading spokesman on
African policy. He authored the House
version of the Anti-Apartheid Acts of
1985 and 1986.
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crypt
The storm's intensity grew and the
sky opened up, sending a lightning bolt
that struck with such deadly accuracy
that it may have been hurled by Zeus
himself, incinerated the demon
professor. All that was heard was an
inhuman scream like noone had heard
before or since.
Now, most people believe that that
was the end of the Bloody Professor.
But there are others who believe he is
hiding deep in the bowels of the Olmsted
Building, waiting for his time to come
again. When it does he will then cover
the campus in search of victims
For myself, I don't know what to
believe. But, I do know that the
twentieth anniversary of that horrible
night is this Halloween. So I beg you
stay close to your loved ones and don't
wander too far that night. Because many
strange noises have been heard coming
from Olmsted.
Working late like I am tonight makes
you wonder if the legend could be true
and the Bloody Professor is out looking
for more possible victims such as
myself.
Oh well, I guess I don't have to
worry because my major is
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Auto theft
"The [police] said without the
notices, [the jacket] wouldn't have been
returned," he said.
But Larry said the signs would be
removed because they were not
authorized by the university.
"The signs have to be taken down,"
police said.
"There are some boards that Student
Affairs try to monitor," said Peg O'Hara,
Director of Student Affairs. She added
that nobody has the authority to tell a
student to remove signs.
For signs to be "legally" posted, they
must be stamped "Approved" by the
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