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October 26 - The School of
Public Affairs faculty will present
a bipartisan debate: “Bush v.
Kerry - Republican and
Democratic Faculty Debate the
Issues” at 12:30 in the Gallery
Lounge of the Olmsted Building.
Moderator will be Dr. Steven
Peterson, and participating fac
ulty are: Dr. Robert Bresler,
Professor Emeritus of Public
Policy; Dr. Beverly A. Cigler, Dr
Jeremy Plant, and Dr. Matthew
Woessner, Assistant Professor
of Public Policy. Republican and
Democrat faculty will spar on a
host of foreign and domestic
issues in an effort to defend their
candidate in the upcoming pres
idential contest.
October 26 - Library Workshop:
“Resources in the Humanities”
will be held in room 106 of the
library at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30
p.m.
October 26 - The next lecture in
the Susquehanna River
Voyages series, “The People for
Whom the River Bears its Name:"
The Susquehannocks,” will take
place in the Morrison Gallery of
the library at 7 p.m. Join speak
er Joe Baker for refreshments
and open discussion following
the lecture.
October 27 - Library Workshop:
“Resources in the Behavioral
Sciences and Education” will be
held in room 106 of the library at
12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
October 28 - Library Workshop:
“Resources in Business
Administration” will be held in
room 106 of the library at 12:30
p.m. and 5:30 p.m.
October 28 - “That’s Plagiarism!”
is a Learning Center Workshop
that will be offered in Olmsted
W-207 at 12:30 p.m.
October 28 - The Psychology
Program will hold a colloquium
at noon. Dr Keith Williams,
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Each week from now until the
end of the fall semester, the
Student Activities Office,
Olmsted E-131, will have
Leadership “Tip Sheets” avail
able. Each week features a dif-
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10/15/04-
Coordinator of the Pediatric
Feeding Program at the Penn
State Hershey Medical Center
will speak on “The Role of the
Psychologist in Treating
Children with Feeding
Disorders.” Event is open to all.
October 29 - R.A.D. (Rape
Aggression Defense) is a physi
cal defense course for women.
Learn basic confrontation princi
ples and personal self defense
techniques. Program will be
offered in the Capital Village
Community Center from 5 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. To register or find
out more, contact
jual@psu.edu. (Also offered
October 30 from 9 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. and October 31 from 11
am. to 3 p.m.)
November.l - Library Workshop:
“Resources in Science,
Engineering and Technology”
will be held in room 106 of the
library at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30
p.m.
November 1 - The Masters Adult
Swim program begins today for
experienced swimmers, such as
lapswimrrmfypFlCTmer compet
itive swimmers. Join a group of
swimmers like yourself twice a
week. Contact Amy Melchior at
948-6740 for details. Must be 18
or older.
November 2 - Library Workshop:
“Resources in Public Affairs and
Criminal Justice” will be held in
room 106 of the library at 12:30
p.m. and 5:30 p.m
November 4 - A Learning Center
Workshop, “A Good Paper
Doesn’t Require Good Writing
Genes,” will be offered in
Olmsted W-207 at 12:30 p.m
November 4 - The Capital
Region Internship Fair will take
place in the CUB from 1 p.m. to
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Attention Students! Think you
have an idea or know you have
a complaint? Find your SGA
representative and tell them
about it: Erin Moskalczak -
Humanities; Stacey Fox
Business; Osman Abdalla
Business; Stephan O’Holla -
Humanities; Nichole Dellinger -
Behavorial Sciences. Or, consult
the list outside the SGA office.
Hours for the Aquatic Center
are: Monday-Thursday 8 a.m.-
10:30 p.m.; Friday 8 a.m.-4:30
p.m.; Saturday and Sunday 1-
5:30 p.m. The Aquatic Center
phone number is 948-6740.
Visit Career Services! If you
haven’t visited the SAC in
Olmsted W-117 at least once, go
now. Incredible resources for
Facing Life After Graduation. Or
go to www.hbg.psu.edu/careers
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4:30 p.m. Representatives from
over 100 area organizations will
be present. Sign up in Olmsted
W-117 and visit www.messiah
.edu/crit for details.
October 28 - Get out those cos
tumes! Go to the Halloween
Party from 7:30 - 11 p.m. for
snacks, music, games and
prizes. Contact the Student
Activities Office in Olmsted E
-131 for details. Location TBA.
October 26 - The Black Student
Union will meet in the Oliver
LaGrone Center (Olmsted W
-132) at 12:30. All interested par
ties are welcome.
October 28 - The Student
Government Association will
meet in Olmsted E-314 at 12:30
p.m. All are welcome to attend.
November 1 - The International
Affairs Association will meet to
discuss upcoming events,
including fundraisers and irips.
The meeting will be in ©fmsted
W-135 at 1 p.m. and everyone is
welcome.
November 4 - The Student
Government Association will
meet in Olmsted E-314 at 12:30
p.m. All are welcome to attend.
October 27 - SIORA, contempo
rary world jazz, will perform in
the Gallery Lounge at 12 p.m.
November 2 - Bill Miller, mem
ber of the Mohican Nation, is a
singer/songwriter and will be
performing in the Gallery
Lounge at 12 p.m.
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hours for the fall semester are as
follows: Monday-Thursday, 8
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Facility users are reminded to
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time they use the facilities.
ASL, the adult student honor
society is still participating in
Fox’s Markets’ Save and Share
program. Fox’s will return to us
1% of all purchases made. So,
save your cash register receipts
from Fox’s and bring them into
the Student Assistance Center.
Entertainment
Tune in to The Commercials,
By Corey Barbush, Staff
Reporter and Sean Wright,
Staff Reporter
mango26B6@aol.com
sean44l9@aol.com
On October 16, we sat down for
an interview with two members
of the band, The Commercials,
before they played a show in
Lititz, PA. We talked for about
twenty minutes and it was a lot
of fun for all involved. Plus, we
didn’t have to pay to get in and
we got free pizza.
Q: What are your names and
what instrument do you play?
Tony: My name’s Tony and I
play guitar.
Drew: I’m Drew and I play bass
and sing lead vocals.
Tony: And we’re missing Tom
who plays guitar and sings and
Dan who plays drums.
Q: What genre of music, if any,
would you place yourselves in?
Drew: Usually we like to tip-toe
around the question and just say
“rock and roll.” Keep it generic
that way we don’t commit to any
thing.
Q: What are some of your musi
cal influences?
Tony: That’s hard. We all have a
lot of similar influences. I think at
the root of a lot of stuff we come
from a lot of punk, hardcore,
indie rock and that whole kind of
vibe.
Drew: We go everywhere. Tom
and I are into jazz and stuff like
that too.
Tony: We have a drummer who
listens to jam stuff and I’m into a
lot of pop 80’s stuff too.
Q: Recently, what bands have
ypu been listening to?
Drew: I’ll tell ya, I have been lis
tening intensely to the new
Jimmy Eat World record and the
new Hot Rod Circuit record.
Tony: Yeah, both good.
Q: Where are you guys all from?
Tony: We’re pretty much all from
the Harrisburg area, towns out
side and around Harrisburg,
where we grew up.
Q: How and when did you guys
decide to form a band?
Tony: The band actually started,
I guess almost eight years ago
now. Tom and I started the band
and we had known Andy for a
long time and we asked him to
join. We’ve had a lot of different
line-up changes since then. We
were like sixteen when we start
ed and still in high school.
Q: The chick from Law & Order
(Mariska Hargitay) or the chick
from E.R. (Maura Tierney)?
Drew: Uh oh, Tony’s a Law &
Order fan, 50...
Tony: See, you know what
though, she looks totally different
right there. Is that her? That’s
like a totally different...
Drew: I don’t know, man. Maybe
she got botox or somethin’.
Tony: She looks like way older
now. I think I’m gonna have to go
E.R. chick.
Drew: Yeah, I'm gonna go with
the popular vote there.
Q: What are some of the bigger
bands that you have toured
with?
Tony: We toured with Me
Without You. They’re on Tooth &
Nail Records and they’re pretty
big now. We toured with Bayside
on Victory Records. We’ve
played with a lot of really big
bands but not necessarily toured
with them. We’ve played with At
the Drive-In, the Ataris, Saves
The Day, the Starting Line,
Taking Back Sunday, and all
kinds of really big bands.
Q: Who’s the best James Bond?
Drew: I dunno. Pierce has been
doin’ a good job, I think. I think
local band coming
he convinces me
Tony: Sean Connery's good
though too.
Drew: Well, it’s hard though
cause it’s like...he set the stan
dard so long ago. I think Pierce
Brosnan has the best look
though for Bond.
Q: What’s the best part of play
ing live?
Drew: Well, for me... 1 know the
other guys don’t do this, but
when we play I actually look at
the people that are watching us
just to see the way they’re react
ing to what we’re doing and that
The Commercials are (from left to right): Tony Bavaria,
Dan Jones, Drew Teague and Tom McGrath. The band
has been playing locally for about eight years.
they’re just as excited about it as
we are. That’s just amazing to
Tony: I don’t maybe look people
right in eye, like not direct eye
contact.
Drew: Oh, I do. [laughs]
Tony: But I like seeing the
crowd, if the crowd’s into it that’s
the best part cause if you can
see the crowd having fun and
enjoying themselves along with
what you’re doing, that’s always
the best part about playing live.
Drew: Tom always looks at his
guitar or his amp, nothing else,
[laughs]
Q: Do you feel that your music
has grown since you began and
between each record?
Drew: [laughs] Yeah, tremen-
dously.
Tony: I think everything has
been gradual though. I think if
you listen to all the stuff we’ve
done, you would see a gradual
change. But I think definitely if
you would compare our newest
stuff to our first record you’d be
like “Oh my God.”
Q: When you guys aren't play
ing music what do you like to
do?
Drew: Uh, we all keep really
busy outside of the band. In fact,
we all pretty much have regular
jobs still, because we’re not
making nearly enough money
from the band to pay our bills.
So, besides that, we all have
hobbies and stuff that we do.
Tony owns a club.
Tony: Yeah, a lot of work. But a
lot of the work is fun work. Like,
I own that club and that’s fun. It’s
a lot of work, but it’s something I
enjoy.
Drew: Tony and I both play in
other bands too, side projects.
They’re different styles of music.
It's just fun.
Tony: I would never go and lis
ten to stuff like that, but it’s just
fun to play.
Q: Where’s the farthest you’ve
traveled to play a show?
Drew: We’ve played pretty
much everywhere in the conti
nent, other than Mexico. I don’t
know if that would go over so
well, [laughs]
Q: What’s your favorite movie of
all time?
Tony: Star Wars Trilogy.
to PSH
Drew: You know what, I’m
gonna have to go out on a limb
and say Garden State. I’ve
recently seen it a couple times
and it was an amazing movie.
Tom loves Eternal Sunshine and
I like it too.
Tony: See, I didn’t like Eternal
Sunshine that much. I was not
feelin’ it.
Drew: You’re not cool, dude
Tony: Sorry.
Drew: You’re not cool like me
and Tom.
Tony: Sorry.
Q: Happy Gilmore or Billy
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Madison?
Drew: Happy Gilmore, dude.
Tony: Yeah.
Drew: Totally Happy Gilmore. I
didn’t even have to think about
that.
Q: What was the first album you
ever bought and do you still lis
ten to that artist today?
Tony: The first album I ever
bought was a Beach Boys live
album, and I do still like the
Beach Boys.
Drew: Is the question “CD” or
“album?” [laughs] You knew we
were old. Ok, cuz this is before
CD’s. I don’t remember, man. It
would have been a tape.
Tony: Yeah, mine was a tape
too.
Drew: I remember I got an
Extreme single. It was called
“Hole Hearted.” I think that was
the first actual tape I ever bought
with my own money. I was in like
4th or sth grade.
Q: Name something interesting
about each of you.
Drew: Oh, man, I gotta think of
something interesting about
myself. I’m a card-carrying
Native American through blood
line on my mom’s side. And I
was born in Germany. That’s
kind of interesting. Tony's not
interesting. He’s got a club and
that’s all he’s got.
Q: What’s the largest venue
you’ve played at?
Drew: Uh, we played Emo’s in
Austin, Texas, which is apparent
ly a very very well-known club.
Other than that, we always play
the weird ones. I dunno.
Q: What’s your favorite video
game?
Drew: The band’s favorite video
game is the Madden Football
series. We go crazy in our van
on tour. Like we’ll get violent with
each other playing Madden
Football. Me, personally, I really
like the Thief games for the PC
and now Xbox.
The Commercials will be play
ing in the food court in the
Olmsted Building November 4th,
along with The Vacancy, Hey
Mike, and Koji on the Roof. The
show starts at 8:30 p.m. The
show is free to everyone, includ
ing non-students.