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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
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Bird? Plane?
No, bat!
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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
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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
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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?
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Monday, April 30, 2001
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