4 • NEWS Students lunch over awards Continued from Page 1 Graduate Student Association Outstanding New Club Dr. Clemmie E. Gilpin Club Advisor Award Roderick L. Lee, Sr. Outstanding Club President Lion Ambassadors Outstanding Club Award Carissa Herwig Joseph Werner SGA Leadership Awards Girls go to work Continued from Page 1 organized the program. After a welcome from Dr. M. Susan Richman, the girls took a tour of our technology-enhanced library and the Alice Marshall Women's History Collection. Martha Sachs showed the girls the many volumes of historical bCroks, the large collection of paintings and a review of the WWII military posters. The poster presentation showed how women volunteered to help the war cause. The Kappa Delta Pi Education Honor Society shuttled the students to the four morning sessions for presenta tions: Safety Issues by Marlene Jarbeck from the campus police department; Taste of Tuscany (Italian Cooking) in the Lions Den Vault by JoAnn Coleman and Greg Schanovi; Health and Esteem Issues by Marylou Martz and a visit to The Capital Times and the Reactor (WPSH) radio station. The girls enjoyed these session. One made the comment, "When do we get to go back to the safety session? We weren't done with her." Mrs. Jackie Singel, wife of former Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mark Singel and a realtor for Jack Gaughen Realty, spoke on mothers and daughters during the break for lunch. Other comments were made on why young people should vol unteer and get involved in community service. After the lunch program, Dr. Gayle J. Yaverbaum presented a session on web page design. To complete a full day of learning, the girls spent time with Bud Smitley in the gym of the CUB. They learned how to take good physical care of themselves and how to properly use health equipment. the CAPITAL TIMES Continued from Page 1 since the beginning of the year at Penn State was detailed. Developments include making the African and African-American studies department autonomous, expand ing the department's staff and program options, establishing a Black Research Institute and a freshman orientation seminar conducted from a nonwhite per spective. LaKeisha Wolf was one of several students pho tographed and interviewed for The Patriot article Unfortunately, appeared to be positive move ment was recently besmirched when hate mail directed at Wolf was again received at University Park. On Friday, April 20, a handwritten envelope addressed to Daryl Lang at the Daily Collegian offices, contained a letter instructing Lang to pass another enclosed letter to Wolf. Lang's letter, typed and post marked in Altoona, referred to Lang in racist terms and indicat ed the reporter was being used as a conduit to Wolf "since her mail is being screened by the authorities." In part, the letter to Wolf, which was filled with racial epi thets, misspellings and gram matical errors, criticizes Wolf "for running your mouth." The letter states ". . . I could have killed you ten times by now. . . generally see you two or three times a week, so I can take care of you at any time I want, but with cameras everywhere on campus why chance it. I will pick my spot." The letter's insinuation that the body of a mur dered black man had been deposited on Mount Nittany appeared to be groundless after a weekend search by police pro duced no results. The letter ended with the handwritten message: "grad day = bombs PSU." Lang, who immediately contacted university police about the letters, said that his first concern was for Wolf and that he spoke personally with her about the let ter. He said that while Wolf was initially "pretty upset [about the letter], at the same time, she's been a very strong figure throughout [these events]" and that "her friends, the advisors and administrators have all been behind her." Lang credits Wolf as a "force of calm," and notes that Friday night, as a meeting at the HUB between police, the Black students await action dents including Wolf still occupied the HUB. In an April 29 phone inter view with Wolf from the Cultural Center in the HUB, where she is sequestered, Wolf said she has not been attending corate "The classes, nor has she returned to Village" at University Park's HUB - Robeson Center her home since April 24. Sunday, April 29. • According to Wolf, Penn Wolf is now under round-the-clock State released a list of the names and police protection and the FBI and U.S. addresses of the 26 participants arrested • the demonstration at Saturday's scrim ige. Wolf said the students remaining the HUB have dubbed their communi "The Village." They've also created :s and t-shirts, printed their own news per, "The Village Voice," and set up a qmite at www.geocities.com/psuvil- FBI, university officials and students began to run long -- and to grow con tentious it \vas Wolf who declared: "I think we need to go pray." Lang reports that the meeting broke up briefly to honor Wolf's suggestion. transmit terroristic threats via the U.S. Postal Service. Penn State University and its Alumni Association have set up a $lO,OOO reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case. On April 21, at the university's Blue and White football scrimmage in Beaver Stadium, 26 PSU students were arrested after they ran onto the field, locked arms, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2001 and lay down on the 50-yard line after the playing of the national anthem. The stu dents announced in a statement that their action was designed to draw attention to the death threats received by students, along with the failure of university admin istration and law enforcement agencies to adequately protect students' lives. The students' request that an announcement be made during the game about the most recent death threat had been refused. The students arrested were charged with trespassing. A university-organized rally and march against racial intolerance on April 24 at University Park fell apart when Black Caucus members urged over 4,000 students who con gregated around Old Main not to march until President Spanier met their demands. Although Spanier met in the HUB with members of the Black Caucus until late into the night, the talks ultimately broke down and about 300 students remained in the building, pledging not to leave until the administration agreed to their list of demands. Lang reports that, as of the weekend, stu- Wolf concluded, Niously aren't just here," and she led, "we are thinking and just praying that they [students at other campuses] stay safe too." At PSH, a Unity Picnic, designed to show support for the effort being waged at University Park, was held on Vartan Plaza Friday afternoon. Everyone was invited to sign banners in the Olmsted building lobby that bore the "No Hate at Penn State" message. problems
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