PENN STATE IP Ha bu g CAPITAL TIMES Volume 41, No. 16 Students lunch over awards SGA VP Joe Werner congratu lates GSA President Roderick Lee on his award. Girls go to work at PSH By Ella Dowell For The Capital Times Fifteen girls between the ages of nine and 14 invaded campus on April 25 and attended a variety of workshop sessions for PSH's Take Our Daughters to Work Day. The Penn State Harrisburg Liaison Committee of the Commission for Women Continued on Page 4 Bird? Plane? No, bat! page 2 the Students, faculty and staff associated with campus clubs and organizations attended the 2001 SGA Student Award Luncheon on April 18 in the CUB. Winners named include: Dr. Krishna S. Dhir James A. Jordan Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence Lion Ambassadors Campus Award for Community Service Continued on Page 4 Black students await action Hold HUB at main campus By Barbara Gertzen Capital Times Assistant News Editor Race relations at the main campus of Penn State have dete riorated over the past few months. Despite the turmoil swirling around her, LaKeisha Wolf, a broadcast journalism major at Penn State-University Park and President of the cam pus' Black Caucus, has managed to maintain her strength, faith and courage, despite receiving hate mail made explicit threats against her life. The January 22 issue of The Capital Times reported a con frontation last Dec. between black students and the university faculty senate at Penn State- University Park. The faculty senate adjoined the meeting PSH Personality Profiles page 6 The Student Voice of Penn State Harrisburg, Published Bi-weekly after students produced a set of demands for action and the stu dents took their grievances directly to the office of universi ty President Graham Spanier. Spanier convened a meeting later that evening between him self, black student representa tives, university administrators and faculty leaders that lasted over four hours. At that time, Wolf told The Capital Times that the Black Caucus sought modifications within the African and African- American studies department at University Park, along with greater student representation in matters concerning the black student community at Penn State. Wolf pointed out that the Black Caucus demands were based on events that happened long before hate mail was received by several black stu dents (along with a black mem ber of the board of trustees) in October last year. Receipt of hate mail, Wolf implied, only conveyed a sense of urgency, but did not provoke, the Black Caucus' presentation before the faculty senate. Wolf received two hate letters in October. Since the beginning of the year, articles on the racial ten sions at Penn State have been chronicled locally in The Patriot News, most recently in the April 8 edition of The Sunday Patriot News. In an article co-written by Daryl Lang, a senior journalism major at University Park and a State College stringer for The Patriot News, progress made Why do seagulls hang out in parking lots? page 7 Monday, April 30, 2001 Continued on Page 4
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