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