The Capital Times, May 16, 2005
POLICE REPORT
05/06/05 FOUND PROPERTY:
Wallet found in Olmsted lounge/
owner located and wallet
returned
05/06/05 ESCORT SERVICE:
Provided escort to faculty
member to airport.
05/06/05 VRP ASSIST: PSO
assisted vehicle registration with
determining owner of three out of
state plates.
05106105 ALARM ACTIVATION:
Burnt food caused alarm to
activate. Smoke cleared and
alarm reset
05/06/05 DISABLED VEHICLE:
Staff member reported running
out of gas in tractor. Assisted with
pushing tractor to pump.
05/06/05 MOTORIST ASSIST:
ORMP
LECTURES &
WORKSHOPS
May 16 - "Grantseeking A-Z" for
faculty will be offered. The first
session in the series features Dr.
William Mahar and Dr. Marian
Walters with an introduction
to participants, speakers, and
tutors, and an introduction to the
proposal process. (10 a.m. 1
p.m.)
May 17 - "Grantseeking A-Z"
for faculty will be offered. Dr.
Barbara Sims will discuss "Taking
Research Issues from Ideas to
a Grant Proposal." (10 a.m. 1
p.m.)
May 18 - "Grantseeking A-Z" for
faculty will be offered. Lisa Murray
from the Office of Research will
focus on "Building a Budget." (10
a.m. —1 p.m.)
May 19 - "Grantseeking A-Z" for
faculty will be offered. Jane Childs,
University Park Development
Director, will discuss "Foundation
and Development Funding
Sources" and Bernadette, Penn
State Harrisburg librarian, will
discuss "Grants Information from
Funding Directories and Web
Sites." (10 a.m. —1 p.m.)
May 20 - "Grantseeking A-Z" for
faculty will be offered. Dr. Walters
will discuss "Grant Form Pages,"
and Lisa Murray from the Office
of Research will focus on "PIAF."
(10 a.m. —1 p.m.)
May 23 - "Grantseeking A-Z" for
faculty will be offered. Proposal
Planning with Lynn Miner and
Associates. (8 a.m. 5 p.m.)
May 24 - "Grantseeking A-Z" for
faculty will be offered. Proposal
Writing with Lynn Miner and
Associates. (8 a.m. 5 p.m.)
May 25 - "Grantseeking A-
Z" for faculty will be offered.
Explanation of support functions
from the State Data Center on
the Harrisburg campus with staff
from the Institute of State and
Regional Affairs. (10 a.m. -1
Have something to add?
Submit to the Campus Calendar and Things You Need to Know
by emailing captimes@psu.edu or calling (717) 948-6440.
Provided directions to campus
visitor.
05/09/05 ALARM ACTIVATION:
Pull station activated. Resident
life reset station.
05/09/05 ASSIST OUTSIDE
AGENCY: Provided background
check on former student/waiver
provided.
05/09/05 VISITOR INJURY:
Visitor fell while in the women's
locker room and struck head.
University accident report
completed.
05/09/05 MOTORIST ASSIST:
Provided truck driver directions
to first street.
05/09/05 MOTORIST ASSIST:
Provided directions to lost
motorist to toll house road.
US 0111EADER
May 26 - "Grantseeking A-Z" for
faculty will be offered. Michael
Behney, Director of Institute of
State and Regional Affairs, will
discuss "Knowing the Grant
Community and What's in the
Pipeline" and Dr. Barbara Sims
will discuss "Resolving Human
Use Issues." (10 a.m. -1 p.m.)
May 27 - "Grantseeking A-Z" for
faculty will be offered. Explanation
of resources available from
the University Park Office of
Research.
June 7 - MBA Information
Night. Learn about Penn State
Harrisburg's redesigned MBA
program which provides students
additional flexibility in scheduling
and completing the degree. RSVP
not required. For information,
phone 717-948-6250 or e-mail
hbgadmit@psu.edu. (6 p.m. in
the Library)
FUN & GAMES
August 27 - Family Buffet. Join all
the first year students and their
families for a dinner buffet and
entertainment. (4 p.m. - 6 p.m. in
the Community Center)
August 28 - Target Mall Run.
Make sure to catch this bus in
order to shop for you and your
room. Stores include Target, Old
Navy, Borders, Kohls, Michaels,
Party City and others. (1 p.m.,
bus leaves from the Community
Center)
August 29 - Pancake Breakfast.
Meet some of the student affairs
staff as they prepare a pancake
breakfast for you. (9 a.m. 11
a.m. in the Community Center)
August 29 - Pizza Party and Craft
Night. Enjoy pizza for dinner
and stick around to try out your
creative talents with various craft
activities. (7 p.m. - 9 p.m. in the
Community Center)
Eric O'Shea
August 30
Comedian. Blow off some steam
from your first day of classes and
05/10/05 THEFT: Faculty
member reported cash belonging
to engineering club taken from
desk. Value $2OO.
05/11/05 POLICY: PSO collected
infectious waste from health
services
05/11/05 HEALTH/SAFETY:
Staff reported mulch fire on south
walkway. Staff put out fire.
05/11/05
RELATIONS: Provided Capital
Times editor with general
information about department.
05/11/05 HEALTH/SAFETY:
Truck parked in westbound lane
adjacent softball field. Verbal
warning given to owner to move
vehicle.
enjoy a laugh. Eric is a two-time
national comedian of the year
nominee and veteran college
performer. Sponsored by the
Entertainment Council. (9 p.m.
- 10:30 p.m. in the Community
Center)
August 31 - All Campus Picnic.
Come out to Vartan Plaza to enjoy
free food and entertainment.
Entertainment Council also
brings back a campus hit - No
Show Ponies to perform during
the picnic. (12 p.m. - 2 p.m. in the
Vartan Plaza, Olmsted Building)
September 2 - Movie Shuttle.
Make a reservation and enjoy
a movie at the local theatre. (7
p.m., shuttle leaves from the
Community Center)
September 4 - Kipona Festival.
Kipona measn "sparkling water"
in Native American language.
The festival was named among
the top ten festivals the state
of PA - it includes food, rides,
entertainment, boat races,
arts and crafts, and the largest
fireworks display of the year.
Make sure to reserve your seat!
(5 p.m., meet at the Community
Center)
September 14 - Club Fest. Enjoy
free food as you learn about
the different clubs on campus.
Find out how to join. This
event is sponsored by Student
Government Association. (12
p.m. - 2 p.m. in the Vartan Plaza,
Olmsted Building)
September 15 - Preacher Moss.
"End of Racism" Comedy tour.
Preacher Moss knows how to
deliver the goods on how we see
race, through laughter, respect,
and the humility of a man who
has felt the sting of racism for
not just blacks, but whites, gays,
latinos, asians, the poor, and the
underclass of America. (9:30
p.m. - 11 p.m. in the Community
Center)
*Campus Calendar is adapted
from the online events calendar
at hbg.psu.edu.
Entertainment
By Frazier Moore
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - As an
abrasive anti-hero, Dr. Gregory
House is hardly unique. But the
sort of rotten attitude he radiates is
typically the product of a tortured
psyche _ think Andy Sipowicz's
wrath on "NYPD Blue."
"House" is quite a different
matter. One of the season's
unlikeliest new hits, it's a medical
drama about a misanthropic
doctor and the pain that racks his
body, not his mind.
Perhaps no TV protagonist has
been stamped so profoundly
by a physical affliction. Walking
with a limp, his cane supporting
his bum right leg, House is
constantly hurting. Pain is part of
his persona.
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overmedicates on Vicodin.
"I do NOT have a pain
MANAGEMENT problem. I have
a PAIN problem," he once snarled
at a waiting room of flustered
patients. "But who knows? Maybe
I'm wrong. Maybe I'm too stoned
to tell."
House wasn't looking to win
these patients' confidence. He
considers their routine complaints
a waste of his time. At Princeton-
Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, he
generally ducks the clinic's day
to-day chores. What he holds
out for is any case that's baffling
enough to engage his world-class
diagnostic skills.
Meanwhile, people skills be
damned! As brilliantly portrayed
by Hugh Laurie, House is snide,
arrogant, a little wild-eyed
and less than professional in
appearance (he flat refuses to
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viewers.
"Approximately 1 in 5 Americans
suffers from chronic or recurrent
pain," reports ABC News, which
was partnering with USA Today
this week in a project called "The
Fight Against Pain."
Time magazine addressed "The
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Pain" in a January cover article,
noting, "Perhaps the biggest
reason so many patients suffer
more than they should is the
tendency among doctors and
patients alike to see pain as a
mere sideshow."
Well, "House" sure doesn't see
pain as a sideshow. Here, pain
is fetishized and, despite the
Vicodin, unyielding. It's the main
event.
But "House" creator David Shore
dismisses any idea that his series
was out to capitalize on pain as
the culture's next big thing. He
was just looking for a storytelling
device. "We wanted a character
who was unpleasant," he
explains. So he made House the
victim of a crippling, embittering
blood clot.
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had him in a wheelchair," Shore
recalls. "Fox said, 'No way.' They
were right. It works better to
show him at the same level as
everybody else, but in pain with
every step."
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too harsh and the audience flees,
while "if we make him too nice,
we destroy what's interesting
about the character."
So far, so good _ particularly
on the next show. Written by
Shore, this next-to-last episode
of the season departs from the
customary format (lifesaving
remedy found just in time) for
an extraordinary hour framed
in a lecture hall, where, under
protest, House substitutes for an
ailing prof.
As he tangles with the students
in this diagnostics class, he will
shed light on his own condition _
how, through bungled treatment
and tragic choices years before,
he was left in his impaired,
tormented state.
He also reconnects with
someone from his past (guest star
Sela Ward in the first of several
appearances spilling into next
season). A woman who seems
to have broken House's heart,
Stacy Warner comes begging
him to treat the mysteriously sick
husband he didn't know she had.
"I KNOW you're not too busy,"
Stacy says. "You avoid work like
the plague. Unless it actually IS
the plague."
"I'm not too busy," House
concedes "but I'm not sure I
want him to live."
However sarcastic and self
indulgent, House, as usual, is
painfully honest. And however
much a jerk, he's a jerk who
believes morality is measured
not by attitude, but results. He's
got no cause to apologize. He
saves lives.
"This is a guy who doesn't have
time for niceness or pretense,"
says Shore. "He wants to get to
the stark truth as quickly as he
possibly can."
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