4 /EDITORIAL CAPITALTINIBS
November 15, 1993
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they can
Penn State Harrisburg students were
snapped out of their apathy as eyes throughout
the Harrisburg area focused on their campus,
hoping to witness the latest news of two reported
assaults.
On Tuesday, October 26, media from across
the Susquehanna Valley arrived on campus
interviewing students on the recent report of a
campus rape. For a single moment, Penn State
Harrisburg was the center of attention--but for
what?
Unfortunately, not its academic worth.
This media blitz seemed to overlook perhaps
the single most important issue surrounding this
unnerving hype - the victim's survival.
Perhaps the idea of rape is too much for the
average person to comprehend. Perhaps the
possibility of one individual approaching you,
placing a gag inside your mouth, ripping your
clothes off, and then proceeding to force himself
onto you is incomprehensible to the sheltered
person.
For this reason, this issue is dedicated to
every women or man who has ever experienced the
trauma of rape, and designed for those who believe
it could never happen.
Because public safety is an issue that
concerns everyone, I'm encouraging you to read
this issue carefully, listen to the concerns
addressed, the recommendations made, and most
importantly, never allow yourself, for one moment,
to believe that it won't happen to you.
To the two victims of the recent attacks, and to
the countless others who may remain silent across
this troubled country of ours, I dedicate this issue
to you; it is your strength that will guide us to
peace.
.cApITAL Tim E s.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Michele Loeper
ASSISTANT EDITOR Matt Hunt
PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Mike Starkey
ART DIRECTOR Trev Stair
LAYOUT DIRECTOR Mike Reteneller
COPY EDITOR Sue Jones-Yurkiewicz
Dawn Kopecki
ADVERTISING MANAGER Paula Eiland
BUSINESS MANAGER Amy DeCubellis
VOLUNTEER ADVISOR Mike Barber
STAFF
Sue Barger, Jen Brandt, Theresa Burkhart, Emily Damanskis, Ricardo
Duarte, Jennifer Esposito, Jeff Feeher, Mary Gates, Erik Hein, Ann
Knorr, J. Guthrie Mann, Anne Marie Miller, Ed Paukstis, Bob Regular,
Andrea Richardson, Stacey Rodin, Christopher Stine, Ashlie Watkins,
Michael Winter
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assault, rape:
happen to you
Michele L oep er
editor-in-thief
Student offers warning against unions
Dear Editor
I am writing to you in response to an
issue that was brought up in my labor
relations clss. It was brought to my
attention that there is a group that is
trying to establish a professional labor
union here at Penn State Harrisburg.
The reason I felt strongly enough to
write you this letter is that I have
personal experience with a unionized
university.
In the Fall of 1990 I was enrolled at
Temple University. That semester the
teachers decided to strike. The reasons
for their strike were not my real
concern. My concern as a student at
Temple was when were my teachers
going to resume teaching. To make the
situation worse, some teachers were
conducting class and others were not. I
Spring catalog an artistic
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Dear Editor
For all I know, ninety cents for a
spring semester catalog is a good buy.
And if you just take a moment t o
consider how much care actually went
into the booklet, you will probably
agree. First, behold the cover. Now
here is a jacket that has far more to offer
a discriminating eye than anything
concocted by Remington, or Kooning,
or Monet. Of course, at first, it may
appear to you as simple, or drab, or
Bad boy attitude plagues
E. Mikael Hein
Capital Times Columnist
Again it is time for me to get on my
soap box and bark about the problems
with the administration of this campus.
Perhaps I should clarify things by
aiming most of my frustration at the
Community Relations Office and Dr.
Levanthal.
I found it very interesting that this
r-mnpus relies on a single page ditto for
official news and information. Perhaps
you have seen the real school paper
called "This Week." Perhaps you were
glued to every informative issue during
the "accost" story."
Well, I was not. And popular student
opinion seems to be that reporting an
alleged crime has no business being
stuck on a newsletter. A newsletter that
usually contains no more than blurbs
about when the next mime will be on
campus.
was responsible for the work in the two
of my five courses where the teachers
were holding lectures. I was forced to
cross picket lines to go to class. This
was an uncomfortable situation because
I knew the teachers I was walking past.
I was hoping that they wouldn't hold it
against me when the strike was over.
The students were given the option to
wait out the strike or withdraw for the
semester. The strike lasted into October.
I decided to withdraw and go , hove to
work. I got a full refund for the semester
but they could not refund my 15 weeks
of lost time. The students who waited
the strike out were forced in some cases
to attend class all through Winter break
and into January to finish the semester.
In other cases the teachers cut six weeks
out of the syllabus and ended class on
time.
lifeless (or all of these), but it is, in
truth, a work of art, an object of beauty,
a narcissus of sorts. Its seemingly bare,
artless, and unadulterated style is so full
of art, it is almost, I fear, overpowering.
What is more remarkable, however, is
the paper it is printed on. Take a
moment to feel the paper between your
fingers. It is, I suspect, of the highest
quality. Its texture is not unlike that
found in the Magna Carta, the
Declaration of Independence, or the
Communist Manifesto. What's more, if
I feel that it is outrageous that when
the Provost Dr. Levanthal was reading
the chronology of events at a recent
ouT IN THE OPEN
meeting in the CUB, she only referred
to the efforts of "This Week" and the
infamous "accost" flyer. Both of which
are the products of our Community
Relations Office.
When reminded that The Capital
Times was responsible for getting the
real information to students, our
Provost responded by saying her office
would have relayed the information
anyway. Well I have to ask h0w....0n a
pink ditto?
Despite what Dr. Levanthal says,
there is a conflict of interest between the
When I heard of the effort to unionize
PSH I felt the students should be told
what a union means to a college. With a
union eventually, in •my opinion, there
will be a strike. It probably won't
happen this year or even next year, but,
I feel that in the future students at PSH
will have a semester like I did at
Temple. Additionally, unions tend to
bring upper and lower end salaries closer
together. This could be a deterrent to
future business and engineering teachers,
who could earn more money in the
corporate sectors.
Sincerely,
Mark Ferraro
Businesc
you hold it close to your face and
snuffle it, the scent hints strongly of
Dead Sea Scroll. Yet in addition to the
booklet's many esthetic qualities, which
make it well worth the trifling ninety
cents in itself, I find a booklet wholly
and unselfishly contrived for our
convenience. Moreover, it could be
worse; they could charge us to park our
cars. Be thankful. Amen.
Kelly Lee Thomas
Graduate, Teaching and Curriculum
our society
student-run paper and the administration.
Clearly she does not take this paper
seriously. She did not feel the need to
include it in her chronology of events
even though it was largely through this
paper's efforts that students responded by
contacting the media and demanding our
administration to wake up.
Clearly the students of this institution
have woken up.
Nearly everyone has seen the last
Capital Times, and yet few seem to
remember what bird cage they left 'This
Week" under. Not that "This Week"
contained anything about the incident
other than a warning of an "accost." Just
think what a bombshell issue that little
ditto would have been if it had! Maybe
local papers and broadcast stations
would be quoting "This Week" and
praising the efforts of PSH
administration. In short, maybe our
Community Relations Office would be
able to relate to the community.