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Faculty Advisor
Peter Kareithi, Ph.D.
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Tie Crew—
Executive Board
Assistant News Editor
Assistant Layout Editor
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Editor In Chief
Departments Editor
Features Editor
Production Assistant
Photographers
Graphic Design
Stacy De Angelo
Techlcal Advisor Mitchell Davidson Bentley
Regular Writers & Contributors
Renee Chrustowski, Stacy DeAngelo,
Sarah Elkalban, John Hemsley,
Chris Patterson, Rachel Shepard, Amy Shur,
Pete Strella. Robert Irishman
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Deadhe for the next issue is
Monday, Sept. 16
Brooke Potteiger
Pete Strella
Connie Goodell
Sharilyn Klinger
Staff
Stacy De Angelo
Open Position
Open Position
Rachel Shepherd
Stacy De Angelo, SGA
Comments fromtheEditor
Well gang it is time for a whole new school year. Aren’t you glad?
The Capital Times is now under new management. Yours truly
will be taking over as Editor in Chief and Dr. Peter Kareithi has stepped
in as our new Club Advisor.
As the new Editor in Chief of The Capital Times I would like
to welcome you all to (and back to) PSH. This is my first crack at “The
Editor’s Comments” on my own so there are a ton of issues I would like
to share and address.
As part of the Penn State Harrisburg campus community there
are many things that you need to be aware of and I, along with my out
standing Captimes staff and contributors, have the opportunity to bring thi
most of it anyway). Throughout the semester, The Capital Times will be covering campus events
like welcome weekend, music, lectures, art exhibits, Clubfest, and other club activities. We also
provide students with a campus calendar and police report to keep the students informed about
what is happening and what has happened on campus. Besides all this great stuff, we provide an
even bigger service to the campus community; we are the voice of PSH. Through sections of
the paper such as “Speak Out” and “Letters to the Editor, I encourage all students, faculty, staff
and alumni to offer opinions on what they think of the paper and also what they would like to
see in The Capital Times. Letters to the editor are always welcome.
Thus far this semester has been full of not only fun events to bring the campus commu
nity together, but also some problems. There has been an almost “Jeckyl and Hyde” mentality in
the new Capital Village Housing Community. By day students participate in events such as
Welcome Weekend, band performances, ice cream socials, comedians, and even the occasional
class or two; however, it seems that after 9 p.m. all that changes. In the first 2 weeks of the
semester there have been several incidents of noise complaints, open alcohol containers and
underage drinking. There have been several citations and at least one arrest (to my knowledge).
I’m not going to stress no drinking, but I do believe in drinking responsibly. If you or your
roommate are under 21, don’t leave or let them leave the apartment. I live in the village and I
have had 2 drunk guys, that I didn’t know and weren’t even residents of my building for that
matter, walk into my apartment. One was a freshman that was way too proud of the fact that he
was 18, drunk, and his parents were nowhere to be found. If anyone in police services became
aware of his public intoxication and underage drinking, he would be seeing his parents sooner
than he expected. Why throw your college education and potential career away for a few beers?
It’s not worth getting kicked out of school, terminating your housing contract, or paying any
where between $6OO and $lOOO in fines for walking around making an ass out of yourself... at
least I would think so.
This first issue is a transition from last year’s staff to this one. I was fortunate to have
people come forward and express interest in The Capital Times. This was a good thing. I was
left with roughly 5 staff members and an alumni contributor and that is by far not enough peo
ple to run a paper. So without further ado, I would like to welcome back: Mitchell Davidson
Bentley, who passed the hat of Editor in Chief to me and accepted a position designed especial
ly for him, Technical Advisor; Sarah Elkalban, my all around get it done girl who does things
ranging from office management, to the calendar, to editing and proof reading; Brooke
Potteiger, who has been promoted from Features Editor to Assistant News Editor; Amy Shur,
our beloved Speak Out Coordinator; Sharilyn Klinger who offered to take up the position of Ad
Manager last semester and will take her first real crack at it this year; Chris Patterson, who will
be continuing his fine job as staff writer; and John “Hambone” Hemsley, who was our
Departments Editor and took care of some of the music reviews, and is returning to us as an
Alumni Contributor. Now for the new staff, lets have a warm hand for Pete Strella, Assistant
Layout Editor; Rachel Shepherd, Production Assistant; Renee Chrustowski, Police Report
Coordinator; and new staff writers, Robert Trishman, Sara Costrell, Julia Danner, and Krista
Kegerise. I hope to be welcoming more additions to our “family” as the semester progresses, so
don’t think that this is the “be all, end all” of the staff list.
Well, best of luck for this semester and the semesters to come, stay out of trouble, and
get involved.
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Contribute£bySGA Written by Stacy De Angelo j
It’s a new semester and time to get to know
who the Student Government Association
(SGA) are and what they are up to.
This years SGA members are:
President - Parul Luthra
Vice President - Mary Anne Nguyen
Treasurer - Lawrence Leynes
Executive Secretary - Andrea Nye
Public Relations - Justin Rishell
Committee Secretary - Christine Meek
Senior Senator of Business - Michael Lamb
Senior Senator of Humanities - Sarah Elkalban
Senior Senators at Large - Daniel Storm and
Jamie Meikle
Faculty Senate Member - David Breslin
Open possitions include:Senator for
Behavioral Sciences, Senator for Public
Affairs, Senator for Science and Technology,
Freshman and Sophomore Representatives,
Junior Senators from all of the Schools.
Fall elections for the SGA will be held on
October 1 to 3. If you are interested in run
ning, please see somebody in the Student
Activities Office, C2OO.
Meetings for the SGA are public and are held
Tuesdays at 12:30 in E 202.