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PETER KAREITHI, Ph.D.
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CONTENTS
SGA Report
by Michael Green
Clubs will work together at Fall Fest 'O3 4
by Usa O'Malley
PSH to become tour-yecr school
by Karen Rott
Additional housing to be built
by Peter Strella
Lion's Den and Meade Heights
by Kate Herr
Umbaugh Is an Idiot
by arc Thomas
Need for speed
by Marko Primorac
FYI: special police report
by Laura Baron
Student Speak Out
by Deb Massic
PSH Police Report
by Laura Baron
Calendar
by Angela Shuff
Cheap Seats and Sticky Floors
by Matt Mosley
See Deez Reviews
by Michelle O'Malley
Executtve Board
Marko Primorac
Angela Shuff
Sinead C. Deßoiste
Kenisha Davis
Peter Strella
Jodi Preisler
Steve Standridge
Rachel Shepherd
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A lot has been done recently to make Penn State Harrisburg
more student-friendly, but there's still something missing.
Even with a towering library, a new food court, and improved
campus housing, a piece of the puzzle has yet to be placed.
Where are the cheers? What about the fans with painted
faces and witty posterboard signs? What happened to the uni
forms with "Penn State Harrisburg" sewn across the chest?
Now that Penn State Harrisburg is upgrading to a four-year
school, it only makes sense to restart the intercollegiate sports
program. Penn State Harrisburg once had intercollegiate sports,
but they were abandoned ten years ago due to poor participa
tion and financial constraints.
Bud Smitley told The Capital Times last month that he hopes a program will be established in
two years, but the school will have to make a significant monetary commitment in order for this
to happen.
The University should do whatever it cirik, s ,
takes to bring intercollegiate sports to
this campus, but they have to be smart
about it. Times are tough and money is
tight for students and Penn State. A
future PSH athletic program will have to
start small and expand gradually.
The best avenue for getting the program
off the ground would be to start with one
sport for men and one for women.
Basketball would be a logical first
choice. We already have the necessary
facilities and, since the men and women
would be playing the same sport, bulk purchases could be made for equipment. From a partici
pation standpoint, it would be easier to field a complete basketball team of 10 rather than a base
ball or soccer team of 15.
Unless a Division HI intercollegiate beer pong league exists where the athletes provide the beer
and cups, basketball would be the cheapest sport to start up that would also have a good chance
of seeing the necessary participation.
However, even with a couple hundred more freshmen, participation will be low at first. This is
because Penn State is predominantly a commuter school with less than ten percent of its student
population living on campus. The program will need to be promoted on campus and throughout
Central Pennsylvania. Once our students and the surrounding high schools know about it, partic
ipation will increase. And now that HACC has intercollegiate sports, transfer students from the
Wildwood campus can continue playing sports on our campus.
Once an intercollegiate sports program is established, Penn State Harrisburg will be a com
muter school that has all the basic components of a university with thousands of students living
on campus.
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In other news, I want to congratulate the 29 students who were inducted last month into Penn
State Harrisburg's Theta lota Chapter of Alpha Sigma Lambda, a national honor society for adult
students in higher education. It is a prestigious honor to be inducted into this society and it is
encouraging that adult students are getting some overdue recognition.
The following adult students were inducted: Corrina Aloiau, Sherry Collins, Brenda
Drawbaugh, Malinda Geedey, Audrey Griffin, Anshu Gupta, Ruth Harzer, Beth Heiman, Kelly
Henderson, Richard Hylan, Jason Jones, Linnaya Kenyon, Rebecca Kesler, Aimee Kistler, Jean
Labalokie, Gregory Makuch, Elaine McDonald, Douglas Olexy, Cynthia Pate, Steven Perich,
Earl Rine, Arline Rochkind, Peter Sanders, Erin Thek, Rebecca Thorpe, Heather Umholtz,
Steven Warfield, Jean Yeakle, Jodi Zendt
Charlotte Spencer, the chapter's national counselor, said the chapter is sponsoring the annual
Career Forum in the spring and will award several $5O book grants to adult students. The latter
program is supported by the group's ongoing fundraiser of collecting Fox's Markets cash register
receipts.
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