CTa e pital Times
April 18, 2005
Professor
Spotlight
By Thomas LeClair, Film
Critic and Maruja Rosario,
Copy Editor
tjll9l@psu.edu
mxr3oo@psu.edu
Lights, camera, ACTION! These
three words are what students
entering Prof. Catherine Rios'
video production class expect
it to be about. However, Rios,
teacher of visual media at Penn
State Harrisburg, tries very hard
to show students that filmmaking
is more than just a cliché.
Rios earned a bachelor in Fine
Arts from Rhode Island School of
Design and her master's degree
in Film from Columbia. Rios
began her studies in sculpture,
but she also wrote fiction. After
a while, she wrote fiction for
visual arts, or as she put it, "a
screenplay."
While she attended school, her
favorite courses were "glass and
avant-garde cinema." It was this
class that changed Rios' mind
about her major. In it, she read a
book that still resides in her office
called Dada and Surrealist Film
that convinced her to become
a film major. "So don't read that
book," she warned to those who
may not want to become film
majors.
Rios has almost always been a
teacher of one thing or another.
However, she also held such
fascinating jobs as a house
painter, glassblower, pre-school
teacher, sculptor, and goldsmith.
Rios came to PSH because
she was searching for academic
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Piccola skeptical about non
residential tax
By John Fox
Staff Reporter
jftls3@psu.edu
PA Senate Majority Whip and
State Senator Jeffrey E. Piccola
stays in touch with the residents
of his 15th Senatorial District
in Dauphin and York counties.
Piccola held several town
meetings in Dauphin County on
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By Shannon Peguese
Guest reporter
sapsol9@psu.edu
Eager to help others, breast
cancer survivor Leigh Hurst has
one goal, one message: You
are never too young to feel your
boobies.
Penn State Harrisburg professor
Leigh Hurst visits college
campuses to inform students
about the seriousness of breast
cancer.
Hurst, 34, who teaches Business
Development on the graduate
level, celebrated her own victory
over breast cancer one year ago.
Now, she spreads the word on
prevention and self-examination.
She started her own Web site
to
promote awareness and even
though it wasn't her original
intent, Hurst's website serves
as a support group for younger
women with breast cancer.
"Whether you do it the way your
doctors tell you or how ever you
want, it is important for women to
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Saturday, April 9, at the Lower
Swatara Twp. Lions club in
which residents from the district
discussed local issues such
as the new ownership of the
Jamesway Plaza and Harrisburg
International Airport's (H IA) ploy
to evoke eminent domain on the
family-owned Cramer Airport
Parking Lot. After the meetings,
Piccola talked with The Capital
Times about one of these
issues
The Middletown Area School
feel their boobies at a young age
in order to get familiar with their
bodies, allowing them to detect
unfamiliarlumps
in their breast,"
Hurst said
In seminars
held Monday,
April 11 at the
Community
Center, Hurst
replaced
breast cancer
myths with
facts. During
the seminars,
Hurst reassured
young breast
cancer patients
not to be afraid
of the disease
and told them
there is life after cancer.
Photos by Shannon Peguese
Leigh Hurst, founder of Feel
Your Boobies
Hurst said learning you have
breast cancer is not an easy thing
to hear. "You start to think about
your life and what you haven't
done. You even start thinking
about dying." She recalled that
Board recently passed a new tax
resolution that will force Penn
State Harrisburg students to dig
even deeper into their pockets the
next time they pay for a campus
parking permit. In addition to
affecting PSH students, the new
10 percent non-residential tax
will affect HIA, Cramer Airport
Parking, and student parking lots
in the Middletown Area School
District.
Many PSH students are
concerned and wandering how
Photo by Thomas LeClair
she was originally misdiagnosed.
It was a year until she learned
she had the disease, and she
was thirty
three years old.
Because she
was relatively
young, Hurst
said doctors did
not believe she
was at risk.
"Being around
people you can
relate to makes
the process a
lot easier to go
through," she
said, explaining
how she to
joined a support
group to reach
out to other
younger women diagnosed with
breast cancer.
Hurstbegan herseminarby asking
participants a series of questions
to jumpstart her presentation,
such as: 'when should women
have mammograms?' (Doctors
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the Middletown Area School
Board has the right to tax college
students. Piccola is equally
skeptical about the tax and
believes that its implementation
will be fought out in court.
"There is an issue as to whether
or not the school district does, in
fact, have the authority to levy
the tax under state law," said
Piccola. "That is one of the key
questions. I think that will be
hassled out in court. There clearly
is the authority for municipal
PSH prof. recognized
By Maruja Rosario
Copy Editor
mxr3oo@psu.edu
A group of young girls are playing
jump rope in the park, singing the
songs they learned to accompany
their skipping game. All seems
natural, but for Dr. Simon Bronner,
Ph.D in American Studies and
Folklore, he sees something
more than just
children playing
games. He
sees American
folklore, and that
eye for detail
helps explain
why he is the
prestigious
winner of the
Walt Whitman
District Chair
in American
Culture award.
The Walt
Whitman
Distinguished
American Culture award will
have Bronner teaching American
Studies Theory and Method and
American Popular Culture at
the University of Leiden in the
Netherlands for the fall semester.
He will also be researching at The
Meertens Institute, Department
of Ethnology, part of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Science. Though Bronner points
out that he has a lot of details to
take care for his upcoming trip,
he said, "I am excited."
Hurst's Web site sells a variety of merchandise to support
breast cancer research.
suggest at the age 40, but
Hurst suggested having it done
sooner), and 'can men get breast
cancer?'
The one question that many of the
participants answered incorrectly
is how frequently women should
perform self-examinations. The
answer is once a month and two
weeks after the menstrual cycle.
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issue
governments to levy fees or tax
on parking. That's been done
many times. Whether the school
district has that right is a little bit
questionable right now."
Piccola said that this tax is an
example of how out of control
school district spending is
throughout the Commonwealth.
"I think the bigger issue is
the school districts, not just
Middletown but all school
This is not the first time
Bronner has been awarded
for his excellence in his field.
Bronner was recognized by
Penn State University in 1990
as a Distinguished Professor, an
annual title given to professors
who demonstrate outstanding
achievements. Bronner is one
of five professors who have
been recognized from satellite
campuses,
excluding Penn
State, Hershey
Medical Center,
and the only one
at Penn State
Harrisburg.
His upcoming
trip to the
Netherlands is
not the only time
he has taught
somewhere else
either. Bronner
has spend a
year in Japan,
a sabbatical
"It's continually
giving me
surprises. I
feel like I have
scourged the
waterfront, but I
always discover a
new ship docked."
-Dr. Simon Bronner
semester in
England, spent time studying the
folk museums of Denmark, been
to his native Israel many times,
and plans on spending a week
in Taiwan this May as a keynote
speaker in American Culture
Studies.
Bronner has been teaching at
PSH since 1981. He came to the
Harrisburg area because of its
rich history and the fact that it is
the capital of the Commonwealth,
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