pennState Harrisburg CAPITAL TIMES Vol. 26, No. Jr Faculty and staff enjoy the sounds of Blue Matter at the all-campus picnic. College to hold anniversary bash Where can you participate in sports, get a contintental breakfast, a buffet dinner, AND a t-shirt for $l5? Try Penn State Harrisburg. During the 25th anniversary celebration on Oct. 4 and 5, students, faculty and alumni are invited to participate in these and other activities. According to Nancy Karlik, chairman of the 25th anniversary committee, the activities planned were selected to allow everyone to participate. "The committee really wanted to pick activities the whole family could particpate in," Karlik said. "That's why we tried to keep most of the events free. There are some fees to cover costs of certain sports." The weekend events begin on Friday with an alumni golf tournament at Sunset Golf Course in Middletown. Cost for entering is $2O, and covers Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg Photo by T.J. Brightman See story on page 3 greens fees, cart, prizes and refreshments. Tee times begin at 10 a.m. Later that evening, a catered dinner will be served in the gymnasium of the Capital Union Building. The gym will be decorated in white chifon, there will be a cash bar, a live band and Kitchen Works will cater the meal. Ted Gross, a former provost and dean, will speak at the dinner. Special recognitions will also be held throughout the evening to honor individuals who were key persons in the growth of the college. Karlik said she has high expectations for the dinner. "We're planning on 400 people," she said. "I think the dinner should be a lot of fun for everyone." Saturday begins with registration for the day’s events starting at 8 a.m. in the Black Cultural Arts Center (8.C.A.C.). See Anniversary, page 4 Soviet student ponders past/future of homeland T.J. Brightman Capital Times Staff Sitting in her Meade Heights apart ment, Ludmila Kuzetsova, a 46-year-old Soviet student pursuing a master's degree in Health Education, says she is from the "lost generation," growing up in the final days of Stalin's communist regime. Now, a teacher of English for 20 years at Gymnasi #2O High School in St. Petersburg (formally Leningrad), she remembers going to school in the mid 50s and being denied her true Russian "We are very proud people and seldom smile. It's not that we can't smile, we're so absorbed in our problems. We look angry, but we are really exhausted and tired." heritage due to the teachings of the Russian history books. "Things were turned completely up side down in our minds," she said. "We learned about Stalin and the czarist regimes, but it was very difficult for my generation because we were taught in the communist period. Before perestroika, we didn't know anything about our past. And some of us feel now, we're too old to start." Diversity requirement to be debated first of month Karen M. Putt Capital Times Staff The Faculty Organization will meet on Tuesday, Oct. 1, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. in the Gallery Lounge to continue its discussion of a proposed graduation requirement in cultural diversity. James Hudson, chair of faculty council, said the academic divisions are currently discussing the requirement. Hudson said after a meeting Aug. 16 the faculty needed more time to "give consideration to the proposal in order to keep the issues before the faculty fresh." "We want to be able to have more focused discussions from the faculty, to get as much participation as possible in the discussion,” he said. August 26, 1991 Kuzetsova is anything but typical of her generation then. With a bachelor's degree in English from the Teachers College in Bryansk, she plans on graduating from Penn State Harrisburg in the summer of '93 and then returning to the Soviet Union where she will be a health education consultant in the Leningrad school system. "We have nurses and physicians in our schools, but we do not teach our kids to evaluate themselves from the point of their health," she said. -Ludmila Kuzetsova Kuzetsova said that in her country smoking is popular among the Soviet youth and drug and alcohol abuse are also prevalent. Once she returns to the Soviet Union, she will be responsible for teaching other educators about implementing a "systematic health edu cation system” in the Soviet curriculum. "We also need to teach our people See Kuzetsova, page 2 The continuing debate centers around the task force proposal on diversity. The proposal was written in February 1991 in response to a mandate from Univer sity Park calling for the implementation of a diversity requirement by Penn State Harrisburg. The proposal defines cultural diver sity as "difference or variety in ethnicity, language, race, religion, gender, age, differently abled or sexual orientation, social class and global and regional perspectives." If the proposal is passed, students admitted for the fall 1994 semester would take at least three credits of work in courses that focus on diversity issues, See Diversity, page 11
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