Humanities Club Reborn
By Cathie McCormick Musser
Capital Times Staff Writer
During the Fall ’99 semester, a
group of graduate students in the
American Studies program
reestablished a Humanities stu
dent club that had been dormant
for several years.
According to the club’s offi
cers, President Emily Murphy,
Vice President Gino Pasi and
Secretary Angela Minner, they
added their own fingerprints to
the newly revived club by nudg
ing the focus toward American
Studies.
The renamed American
Studies Humanities Club invites
students of all disciplines to join
and share their interests in all
areas of the humanities.
Interest areas include art,
architecture, literature, philoso
phy, music, theater, dance, crafts,
languages, cultures, anthropolo
gy, archaeology, art history and
history.
Past activities included a trip
to Montreal for the American
Studies Association Conference
and a fall party.
More recently, the club spon
sored a series of films on cam
pus. The final film in the series
of three is scheduled for Friday,
March 31 at 8 p.m. in the PSH
auditorium.
The film, Citizen Kane, was
chosen because it was voted the
best film of the twentieth century
by the American Film Institute.
The first two films of the
series, Casablanca and The
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American Studies Humanities Club members (left to right) Gino Pasi,
Angela Minner, Melissa Fisher, and Emily Murphy.
Godfather, round out the Film
Institute’s top three on their list
of the century’s best 100 films.
In addition to the cultural and
social activities, the club works
with the faculty on issues related
to the programs.
The club’s advisor is Dr.
Simon Bronner, coordinator of
the American Studies program.
One collaboration between the
department and the club is an
American Studies Career Forum
scheduled for April 6. The
forum’s focus will be academic
and career options for American
Studies majors.
The coalition is also working
Notes from Career Services
The following is a list of
upcoming programs, services, and
events that may be of interest to
you - most being sponsored or
co-sponsored by the Penn State
Harrisburg Career Services
Office,
• The Leadership Institute is co
sponsoring a Conservatives
Job/Intem Fair on March 31 on
Capitol Hill. It will be held in the
Cannon House Office Building,
room 345, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:30
p.m.
This is an excellent opportunity
for any underclassman or graduate
interested in a career in public pol
icy to meet with employers from
Congressional offices, think tanks,
lobbying groups, and various
other public policy organizations.
• Penn State University is spon
soring a Spring Job Fair that will
attract 200 plus employers. The
event is being held on Thursday,
April 6 from 1 to 7 p.m. at the
Bryce Jordan Center in University
Park.
• Penn State Harrisburg, along
with the Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission to
sponsor a lecture by National
American Studies Association
President Dr. Michael Frisch of
SUNY Buffalo.
Other upcoming activities
include a bus trip to New York
museums and a spring social
gathering.
According to Murphy, there
are 28 studeiits enrolled in the
SGA sponsored organization.
About 10 students attend meet-
ings regularly.
Pasi is enthusiastic about the
newly reenergized group. “We
want to do cool stuff,” he added.
with a number of colleges, is co
sponsoring a job fair for education
majors on Thursday, April 6 from
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Pucillo
Gymnasium at Millersville
University.
This is an opportunity for edu
cation majors who are seeking
teaching positions to meet with
representatives from over 80
school districts from across the
nation.
• The Helping Professions Job
and Internship Fair will be held on
Monday, April 10, from 2 to 5
p.m. in the CUB Ballroom at
Gettysburg College.
This is a chance to meet with
representatives from regional non
profit and government organiza
tions seeking to hire college grad
uates and interns.
• The Education Job Fair, spon
sored by the Baltimore Area
Consortium of Universities and
Colleges will be held Wed., April
1 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
Towson University’s Towson
Center in Towson, Md.
Latest SGA News
Rites of Spring Celebration
Earth Day will be held on
Tuesday, April 18, in the Vartan
Plaza. The success of the past
few years with combining the
Earth Day and the Rites of
Spring celebrations has carried
over to yet another year.
The Student Government
Association is sponsoring a
variety of novelty games, pro
vided by Neon Entertainment.
The games will include a giant
rock wall, a dunk tank (hopeful
ly to get your favorite professor
wet in) and a bouncy boxing
ring, where students can duke it
out with their best friends and or
Silent Auction
The Silent Auction held on
March 22 brought in $378 for the
Student Government Association.
Faculty and support staff
donated about 25 items, ranging
from home-made cookies to tax
preperation to a car wash.
’People seemed to enjoy the
auction and had fun engaging in
bidding wars over their favorite
things.
SGA decided to have this
Student Organizations
Award Luncheon
The luncheon to honor out
standing students and faculty
will be held in the Student
Center, located in the CUB, on
Wednesday, April 19 at 12:15
p.m.
The awards luncheon is an
annual ceremony to honor stu
dents that are involved with
PSH to Rid College
By Gino Pasi
For the Capital Times
In an eight to one vote yesterday,
college administrators ruled to step
up measures in ending racism on
campus, and also those pesky trees.
Dean Jeva Sanchez Jr.,
remarked, “I think it’s high time we
did something about the rising
problem of racism here at the
Capital College and also those
remaining four trees.”
He continued, “It will be like
killing two birds with one stone.”
The board of directors also
voted to allot extra funding for cul
tural diversity training to all
worst enemies.
Music acts are still under
negotiation, but music entertain
ment will be provided.
Hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie
burgers, and other refreshments
will also be served (tentatively at
no cost, or very little cost to the
student body). The campus cater
ers will provide food.
Along with the SGA activities
the Earth Day festivities will
provide a variety of valuable
information on local environ-
mental issues. Various interest
groups and corporations will be
represented at the event.
fund-raiser in response to a need
for an unrestricted account. This
year when SGA wanted to create
the Michael A. Herner
Memorial, their was no money
to do it.
A lot of time and effort was
spent trying to raise the money
to fund that project. Next year, it
will not be so difficult for SGA
to do a project that it wants to
do.
clubs and organizations.
One other highlight of the
ceremony is the Jordan Award,
which is given to an outstanding
professor that is chosen by the
student body.
There will be over 15 awards
given out at the luncheon, so be
sure not to miss it.
of Racism, Trees
employees, and some bulldozers.
Sanchez was optimistic and
noted that with cooperation the
dual evils could be eradicated by
the end of spring semester.
“If I can help it,” he iterated,
“someday soon, black and white
students, and students of any ethnic
or sexual persuasion will be able to
hold hands and live and woik on
this campus free of hate, or shade.”
Although sources report that
there seems to be a small pocket of
tree lovers somewhere on campus,
authorities are working around the
clock to have them rousted out and
shot to death.