PENNSTATE the
Harrisburg CAPITAL TIMES
Volume 41, No. 14
Jared Rimmer smiles through the blood donation process on
March 28 in the Gallery Lounge.
Blood drive draws
dozens of donors
Record number
of pints donated
By Joanne Catherson
Capital Times Staff Writer
Faculty, staff and students came
together on March 28 to give the gift of
life -- and break some records, too.
Wednesday's Blood Drive, spon
sored by the Chi Gamma lota (XGI)
Veteran's Organization and the Central
PA Blood Bank, broke Capital College's
record for donations.
"Penn State Capital College received
credit for 96 pints of blood donated dur
ing the day's drive," Ted Clements, staff
On Our Hill
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advisor for XGI, said. This broke the
record of 75 pints collected during the fall
drive.
Clements was happy to see staff and
faculty members who normally take part,
but notes he "was enthusiastic about the
overwhelming student participation."
"For future blood drives, we plan to
advertise more and get flyers out early to
the students so that they become more
educated and aware that giving blood is a
very easy process and that it is the
humane thing to do, since giving blood
helps to save lives," Clements said.
Every spring, Penn State Capital
College participates in the College
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SGA election decision
The SGA elections are over -- just
like the presidential race in November.
Controversy over campaign tactics
and ballot counting promises to extend
the suspense at least until next week.
Before the polls closed on Thursday,
presidential candidate Anthony Ottaviano
submitted a written challenge to the elec
tion. In the unaddressed, undated docu
ment, Ottaviano raises three concerns
regarding the legality of campaign tactics
and the adherence to published policies.
First, Ottaviano questions the fact
that several candidates exceeded the limit
of 50 words in their running platform. In
fact, as counted by the staff of The
Capital Times, Ottaviano is the only pres
idential candidate whose platform con
formed to the word limit.
Ottaviano also questions the legality
of an election e-mail sent to a university
PSH seeks solution to
family housing problem
Turnout at the March 20 meeting in
the Meade Heights Community Center to
discuss the closing of on-campus family
housing later this year indicated the press
ing importance of the issue to the families
involved.
JoAnn Coleman, manager of PSH
housing and food services, said that of the
ten families affected by the closure of
family housing in Meade Heights, at least
GSA News
Update
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The Student Voice of Penn State Harrisburg, Published Bi-weekly
announced despite
challenge
Recount decision by Student Court
Chief Justice imminent
By Cathie McCormick
Capital Times Editor In Chief
By Barbara Gertzen
Capital Times Assistant News Editor
Monday, April 2, 2001
list serve. The Graduate Student
Association e-mailed a flyer to all gradu
ate students promoting the "A
-Team."
The flyer listed presidential candidate
Jennifer Boger, vice-presidential candi
date Jason Norville, treasurer candidate
Lori Mitchell and public relations officer
Danielle Shanabrough. Ottaviano main
tains that this violates university policy on
access to these e-mail addresses and the
privacy of the graduate students who
received the e-mail.
Ottaviano's third point maintains that
the e-mail flyer misled the targeted stu
dents into believing all four candidates
were graduate students. Only Boger is a
grad student.
While Ottaviano's document states
that he is challenging the election, it does
not outline any requests.
The PSH Student Court is responsi-
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one member of all but two of the house
holds attended the meeting.
Coleman and Greg Minner, assistant
director of housing and food services for
Commonwealth Colleges, addressed stu
dents' comments and questions regarding
the relocation. According to Coleman,
student concerns included coordinating
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