Editor’s comments
By Kathryn Herr
Editor in Chief
kah92B@psu.edu
It has been brought to my atten
tion that we forgot to give
regongnition to those who have
been intrumental in helping
international students on Capital
Campus. I assue you all we did
not intentionally exclude any of
the amazing staff that work in
this program. Many of the staff
help international students
become aclemented with the
campus and to the U.S. So let
me take this time to thank all of
you for your service to the inter
national students and to this
campus.
Next item of business: The
Capital Times staff joins me in
thanking Robert Brinkley, Mike
Lackey, Cathrine Rios and Peter
Kareithi for causing a ruckus in
the IT department to get the Cap
Times a few new computers.
Our current equipment is so old
and useless - new computers
will really help us get the paper
in shape.
I also wanted to talk about the
alumni weekend events. The
bathtub races alone were really
cool.
We are in desperate need of
material. Please send in any
ideas you may have for the
newspaper. We especially need
help with the Professor Spotlight
feature. Anyone with a prof, who
really deserves recognition let
us know via email or phone
(contact information is at the
bottom of my comments.)
Last night, or should I say this
morning, as I was leaving the
office around 1:30 a.m. I was
pulled over by the Capmus
Police. Let me just remind
everyone that speed limit is
enforced twenty-four hours a
day 7 days a week and they are
out there.
Althought I received only a writ
ten warning I still feel like it
would have been wrong tor any
student to have to pay a fine on
top of the outrageous tution
hikes and book store prices. In
addition, I am now going to be in
the infamous Police Report, so
look for my citation in the next
issue in the Police Report sec
tion.
Why can’t we all just speed
around without consequesces?
That’s what college is all
about...right? Well anyway, look
out for the Campus Police, even
at 4 a.m. because they are
Dr. Napoli maintains balance between work and play
NAPOLI cont. from 1
dents and motivate them to be
their best.
Dr. Napoli was born in Dover,
New Jersey and moved several
times in her childhood, due to her
father’s job. Her father was a
civilian engineer for the U. S.
government. Dr. Napoli
explained that she has one sib
ling, a younger sister named
Victoria, with who she has a very
close relationship with.
After graduating from East
Stroudsburg University of
Pennsylvania in 1991 with a B.S.
in Elementary Education, Dr.
Napoli began teaching kinder
garten at Pocono Mountain
School District. She told me that
she was then “promoted” to the
first grade. Although Dr. Napoli
truly enjoyed teaching the
younger grades, she had always
pictured herself teaching in either
fourth, fifth or sixth grade.
She attended Marywood
University and received her M.S.
in Reading Education in 1997. In
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Copy Editor:
Maruja Rosario
watching.
I really hope the Physical Plant
is gearing up for the next snow
storm because if I can’t see
those lines in the parking lot I
just may take up more than one
space.
By the way, I wanted to also
take this space to thank my
wonderful staff for haulin as@
this week to get this paper done.
I recently hired two new assis
tant editors and they are won
derful. I don’t even need to be in
here anymore and the work just
magically gets done. So thanks
Kelly, Sharon, Tom, Dan,
Maruja, and Jen for all of your
help and dedication to the paper.
You guys make working on this
paper fun instead of work.
One more thing I wanted to
discuss is the apartments over
in the Village. I entered one of
the “dorm rooms” the other day
and I must say this is an out
rage. What happened to dorm
rooms the size of your closet
and sharing a bathroom with 40
other women? These “dorms”
are really nice, just like a real
apartment. Well that’s it I’m
moving in here.
Well until next time...
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2003, Dr. Napoli finished her pro
gram to receive her Ph.D. in
Curriculum and Instruction with
an emphasis in Language and
Literacy and a minor in Women’s
Studies at... Penn State
University.
Dr. Napoli can often be seen
around campus, pushing a cart
full of children’s books. This is
because she teaches a Childen’s
Literature course for Elementary
Education majors. She also
teaches a Language Arts class
for Elementary Education
majors, and a Children’s
Literature class for graduate stu
dents at Penn State Harrisburg.
This is her second year teaching
at Penn State and she taught at
Elizabethtown College prior to
Penn State.
Besides teaching classes, Dr.
Napoli also assists Dr. Fortner
with heading Kappa Delta Pi, an
international honor society for
education majors. She is chairing
on the Lee Bennett Hopkins
poetry award committee through
the Pennsylvania Center for the
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Kathryn Herr
New SGA Senators speak their mind
By Kelly Nagurny
Assistant Editor
kxnl63@psu.edu
New freshman and junior sena
tors have been elected to the
Penn State Harrisburg Student
Government Association.
The two new freshman sena
tors of SGA are Stacey Fox and
Erin Moskalczak, and the three
new junior senators are Nichole
Dellinger, Osman Abdalla and
Stephen O’Holla. All but one of
the candidates, Nichole
Dellinger, ran unopposed.
“They’re going to be an outspo
ken bunch," said Rodney Horton,
SGA president. “They all have
their own opinions.”
Stacey Fox, 18, initially ran for
freshman senator because she
wanted to get involved and to
vote on important PSH issues.
“...This is all new to me, but I will
give 110 percent to anything that
is thrown at me,” said Fox. The
new group of senators, she
believes, will make a great team
and is interested in making a dif
ference. “I believe if we didn’t
have an SGA, the participation in
clubs and organizations would
suffer greatly,” she said. Fox is
an accounting major in the
School of Business.
Also a new freshman senator,
Erin Moskalczak wants to be
able to get the freshman more
active and help them reach their
expectations. She decided to run
for senator after seeing how
much the position benefited her
older brother. “My older brother
is in SGA at another campus,”
she said, “and it led to many new
opportunties for him. I was jeal
ous of him. I also wanted to
become involved on campus and
I loved being on student govern
ment in the past.” Moskalczak,
18, is a communications major in
the School of Humanities.
Nichole Dellinger, 20, is a junior
psychology major in the School
of Behavioral Science. She was
the only senatorial candidate
with an opponent and beat out
fellow junior Kristen Hicks by a
slim margin of 54.5 percent to
45.4 percent. As a senator,
Dellinger hopes to try to get
more student activities set up on
campus. “Students are so bored
here. There’s nothing to do,” she
said. Dellinger ran for SGA to
become more involved with
Book. Dr. Napoli is a also a mem
ber of the National Council of
Teachers of English, and for the
next three years she is a mem
ber of the International Reading
Association (IRA). She attended
her first professional conference,
after being encouraged by one of
her professors, as an undergrad
uate student and has been going
ever since.
I asked Dr. Napoli what was in
her cd player, and as it turns out,
she has a five disk player, so she
gave me a list of different Jazz
musicians. She usually listens to
people like Miles Davis and Elvis
Costell, although she does admit
to turning the radio on and listen
ing to Pink and Avril Lavigne on
occassion.
“If you wake up one morning
and think that you know it all,
that’s when you need to get out
of the business,” is a quote that
Dr. Napoli emphasizes often
about teachers. She says there
is always more to learn about
teaching.
One experience that Dr. Napoli
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Osman Abdalla is not new to
student leadership. During his
years at Harrisburg Area
Community College, he was a
SGA senator and the president
of the International Awareness
Club. As a PSH senator, he
plans “to create more learning
seminars that cover leadership
topics or related topics a leader
would be interested in.” Abdalla,
25, originally decided to run for
senator because he wanted to
develop his own leadership
skills. He is a science and tech
nology major in the School of
Business.
Finally, Stephen O’Holla, 20, is
a junior communications major in
the School of Humanities. “For
“They’re going
to be an outspo-
ken bunch.
They all have
their own
opinions.”
-SGA President
Rodney Horton
me, sitting in the back, hoping
that someone else does some
thing to help others is not an
option,” he said on deciding to
run for SGA. “I truly care about
the future of this campus, in
addition to the success of each
student. Therefore, I would like
them to feel that Penn State
Harrisburg has something to
offer to each of them.” O’Holla
plans to work to educate PSH
students about SGA and what it
can do for them. He also said
that students should feel free to
approach the SGA with any
problems or concerns they
would like to resolve. “We have a
great team this year,” he added.
“I think we will accomplish all we
set our minds to.”
Graduate students were also
given the opportunity to vote this
year, but not for senators.
Instead, they could vote to have
class representation or not. Of
those who voted, 90.9 percent
wanted representation, while
9.46 percent did not.
thought was wonderful when she
was teaching elementary school
was to design her own class
room. She was able to design
the room to her liking. She was
able to choose everything from
the color of the walls to the type
of tables in the room. She was
also part of a group that organ
ized a Family Math Night that
attracted about two hundred peo
ple, both young and old.
Besides teaching, Dr. Napoli
enjoys swimming and walking.
She has a membership at Gold’s
Gym and is waiting for the mem
bership to run out before she
starts using the brand new pool
on campus. She said that she
has been thinking about taking a
swimming class at Penn State.
She also enjoys cooking, when
she can find the time, as well as
traveling when she can. She
enjoys going to places like Fort
Indiantown Gap, and has been to
Italy, England and Puerto Rico.
She said that she would really
like to visit Australia some day
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Photo by Kelly Nagurny
Newly elected SGA senators pose for a quick picture
with SGA vice president JoVon Hill. These senators
were elected using the new online voting system.
Horton offered some precious
words of advice to the new SGA
senators in the form of a slogan
that he often applies to his own
position in SGA. “Don’t take it
personal.” People will always
disagree on issues, he said, but
that is a big part of what SGA is
all about.
This year’s election was carried
out for the first time on the
Internet, which ensured ease
and accuracy. In the past, paper
ballots were used, which took
longer to count, used a lot of
paper and were not as accurate.
The online method also guaran-
Photo by Kathryn Herr
Rodney Horton, SGA president, calls the new online
voting system a success.
Photo courtesy of the Penn State Web site
When asked what her biggest
accomplishment was, Dr. Napoli
had to think for a minute. She
then told me that as far as her
personal life, she would say that
her best accomplishment was
maintaining a balance between
friends and work. She feels that
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teed that candidates were only
voted for by people in their class.
In the past, SGA has faced the
problem of members of other
classes voting for candidates.
The online voting method
helped somewhat with voter
turnout, however it did not make
a significant difference, said
Horton. “Nobody wants to be
involved,” he added.
“I would say the freshman
turned out 70 percent more than
juniors or grad students,” said
Horton. As a result, he plans to
aim next year’s voting campaign
at residents instead of com
muters and graduate students.
as far as her professional side,
she is still growing as a profes
sional and always will be.
So, when you see Dr. Napoli
walking across campus with her
children’s books or swimming in
the pool, give her a wave and tell
her that you saw her in the
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