Workshop
Focus Is
Diversity
By Cathie McCormick Musser
Capital Times Staff Writer
More than 70 PSH students
focused their attention on diver
sity, during the spring semester
Leadership Workshop on Feb. 5.
The workshop, “Complex
Issues, Complex Communities: A
Challenge for Leaders,” combined
panel discussions with communi
ty leaders, skits with racially
charged scripts and interactive
experiences to raise participants’
awareness of diversity issues.
According to Dr. Janet
Widoff, PSH Coordinator of
Student Activities, the Student
Leadership Committee of the
Student Government Association
selected the topic and designed
the workshop.
The seven-member committee
¥
reviewed evaluations from previ
ous workshops before choosing
the workshop topic and speakers.
Committee members, identi
fied by matching denim shirts
and ball caps, coordinated the
day’s activities, introduced
speakers, distributed door prizes
and kept time for speakers.
Panelists were Sally Jo
Bronner, Director of Training and
Diversity Programming of the
Institute for Cultural Partnerships;
Dr. W. Terrell Jones, PSU Vice
Provost for Educational Equity;
Dr. Norma H. Mateer, Assistant to
the Superintendent of the
Steelton-Highspire School
District; and Sharon Reed,
Diversity Consultant with
Hershdy Foods Corp.
In the letter inviting their par
ticipation, community members
on the panel were asked to “share
the [diversity] goals and objec
tives of their organization,”
Widoff said.
Bronner opened the workshop
by defining diversity as “a broad,
inclusive concept... [including]
all of the things that make us dif
ferent from one another.”
She also reminded the group
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Panelists at the Student Leadership Workshop included (left to right)
Sally Jo Bronner, Dr. Norma H. Mateer and Sharon Reed.
Acting Troupe Addresses
Dangers of Drinking
Imagine attending a weekend
party where one of your friends
has drunk an entire six-pack of
beer. She is becoming more
friendly with everyone she sees,
and her thirst appears far from
being quenched.
Fearing for her safety, you
urge her to leave, but she resists.
What would you do? If that
same friend were involved with
someone who drank heavily and
sometimes abused her, what
advice would you give?
If another friend’s drinking
put him at risk to flunk out of
school, how would you react?
The actors from
Metamorphosis Production
Company presented these three
scenarios during a scaled-down
version of their interactive pro
duction “Wasted,” which exam
ines the dangers associated with
heavy drinking at college.
The afternoon show on Feb. 2
drew a crowd of 30 to 40 stu
dents and faculty to the Gallery
Lounge for a front seat aboard
the “party-hardy, roller-coaster,
bumper-car collision of reality
vs. responsibility.”
“We’re all very political, and
we want to instigate change,”
said Michael Aaglan, who is
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entering his seventh season act
ing with Metamorphosis
Productions.
“We like using our art form to
make people think.”
The four-person troupe of pro
fessional actors also includes
Scott Zimmerman and Larry
Hoffman, both in their third sea
sons, and Tonia Chahine, a two
year member.
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Russian Scholar Shares Vi
By Cathie McCormick Musser
with Nicole Burkholder
Capital Times Staff Writers
Russian scholar Dr. Nadezhda
Shvedova delivered three lec
tures and met informally with the
PSH community over several
days last week.
In her first lecture on Feb. 7,
Shvedova detailed the historical
background and recent develop
ments of the war in Chechnya in
a lecture titled, “Chechnya The
Unknown War.”
The group of about 30 people
in the Gallery Lounge listened
intently as Shvedova described
the political tensions in the
region and the shift in the per-
Controversial Ads
for Tarnhelm Have
Campus
What seemed to be a simple
advertising campaign for
Tarnhelm, the campus literary
journal, has become a battle over
how women should be depicted
in the media.
Tarnhelm co-editor Patsy
Bauer wanted to create a catchy
slogan and poster design that
would encourage students to sub
mit stories, photographs, poems,
and other artistic works to
Tarnhelm.
The resulting campaign was
“Submit,” the theme for posters
showing a person with a bull
whip and a request for submis
sions to the journal.
But not everyone liked the
final product. One critic was
Linda Meashey, a licensed psy
chologist and coordinator of aca
demic development for PSH.
Meashey said she was disap
pointed about the “lightweight
treatment” that the Tarnhelm
staff gave the campaign and
wanted the posters removed.
Another critic was Lisa K.
Nagele, a senior majoring in sec
ondary education and public poli
cy and minoring in women’s stud-
ception of the conflict from a call
for secession to a struggle with
terrorists
She also outlined the chief
economic issue of the struggle, a
152 kilometer stretch of oil
pipeline that crosses Chechnya
providing much needed revenue
to the federal budget.
In concluding her remarks,
Shvedova added that at the dawn
of the third millennium it’s a
“shame to solve problems by
military action.”
On Feb. 9, Shvedova deliv
ered the lecture, “Russia:
Between Elections.”
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Capital Times Editor
ies. She called the ads “the most
offensive piece of literature I have
come into contact with in the halls
of [Penn State Harrisburg].”
Other members of the campus
community seemingly agreed as
people began to talk about the
posters.
Rumors began circulating that
people should boycott the
Tarnhelm and the offending
posters began disappearing off
campus bulletin boards.
No one approached the
Tarnhelm editors with com
plaints, though, and an unspoken
war erupted.
The controversial advertising
campaign began in January when
the Tarnhelm editors, Patsy
Bauer and Katie Eye, decided to
use a play on the word “submit”
to catch students’ eyes.
- “We simply wanted to draw
attention to Tarnhelm through
the campaign,” Bauer said.
“‘Submit’ was clear you
must submit to be published,”
Bauer continued.
She said the previous ad cam-
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