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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
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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.
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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.
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