2 THE CAPITAL TIMES
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This semester is a time for change.
Change, as you can see, has come to
The Capital Times once again.
As a senior/junior, or whatever
I was at the beginning of last fall,
I knew I was staring at the end of
the road. Even though I still had a
long journey of course work ahead
of me, 1 started thinking about my
path to graduation.
At that point in time, I hadn't
really done anything in college I
felt would benefit me once I got
to the real world. Just taking the
classes I need to meet graduation
requirements doesn't satisfy
me and being published a few
random times isn't exactly an
outstanding accomplishment for a
communications major, its more or
less expected.
Since Penn State Harrisburg is the
school I finally decided to settle on
(after attending two others), this
is where I finally started to see the
goal of graduation not just as getting
that piece of paper, but reaching
it with a list of things to show for
myself. So, I decided to work for
our student newspaper.
I started out last fall as the
Photography Editor. I walked into
this office as just another student
How old are we?
This is how the lobby in Olmsted looked on Friday afternoon Jan. 20. Let's ask ourselves how hard it
is as college educated adults to pick up after ourselves and walk the ten feet to a trash can. Please
take care of our school and consider the janitors who work overnight to keep our school clean. Also
keep in mind this is the first public area a guest sees when they enter our school. Thank you.
Any necessary correc-
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tions, comments or cri
tiques are wanted and
welcome. Please stop We are currently looking to fill the following positions:
by The Capital Times Business Manager
office [El26], e-mail
captimes@psu.edu, drop Photographer
a suggestion in the box Copy Editor
outside the office or call Reporter
the office at 948-6440.
Any corrections should Anyone interested, please contact The Capital Times
be reported no later than
a week after the paper is office at 948-6440, captimes@psu.edu, or stop in
printed. Olmsted room E 126
sitogitt
claiming they wanted to help work
on the paper. There's a running list
of contacts in this office right now
of students who claim they'd like to
help us out but somehow don't have
the time. Which between course
work, family, friends, and partying,
ya know, the typical busy college
kids life, I can understand how
many of them just don't have the
time. The difference is, wanting to
make the time.
The second I was given a chance to
work here I began to make the most
of it. I spent countless hours here
learning and absorbing everything I
could. The first issue I helped with
I spent nearly 15 hours on a Sunday
helping to get the paper out on time.
I sit here now after spending 13
hours here on Friday, 15 Saturday,
and now today, instead of being at
a party watching my Steelers and
hanging out with my friends living
the typical student life, I am here
again and will be here until the
paper is finished in order to meet
our first deadline.
The point is I'm dedicated.
Dedicated to change. Once I
found out I'd be the new editor this
semester I automatically started
thinking about what I would do in
this kind of position. I made note
of everything I would want to do if
I were to manage the paper - what
I felt should be different - and also
tried to take into consideration what
the student body would most likely
want to see evolve as well. I kept
my eyes and ears open and, along
with the help of my assistant editors,
well, as you can see, we came up
with a lot.
The obvious change is the "look"
of the paper. The main reason why
we made so many changes to the
appearance is because we honestly
Editor in Chief: Ashley Lockard
Assistant Editor: Maruja Rosario
Layout/Design Editor: Kristen Poole
Entertainment Editor: Brandon Sarzynski
Photography Editor: Supat Kanchanasakul
January 23, 2006
just didn't feel right looking at the
old style of the paper. Something
just said "high school" to me.
Looking back at it, I feel it would
be an acceptable high school level
"look" for a paper. Yet, we are in
college and with some of the staff
we have obtained we have the
ability and skills to make it look
more on our level.
So we painstakingly did. I say
it gritting my teeth because we
didn't just change a few font styles,
headline sizes or the masthead. We
changed everything. And I mean
everything, right down to the size
of the lines that run between stories.
We spent a lot of time bringing
the paper up to code, so to speak,
visually, and I hope everyone enjoys
the changes.
Something I would like to make
special note of is last semesters staff
owes some apologies from some
of the issues. To anyone that was
ever misquoted, misrepresented,
had their name spelled wrong, or
anything else, we hope you forgive
the mistakes.
Please recognize that the
newspaper staff has undergone
changes and the current staff
looks to rectify our position as a
respectable student body newspaper.
We would also appreciate any
constructive criticism as we are
always looking for new suggestions,
as our main mission this semester
is improvement. Anyone with
comments or suggestions may
either stop by the office or put their
thoughts in the suggestion box on
the table right outside the office
(E 126 Olmsted).
I hope everyone's semester is off
to an easier start than ours has been
and that you all enjoy reading the
new and improved Capital Times.
Regards,
scu,{,fy ~.k.,,,1
Ashley Lockard
Editor in Chief
Photo by ASHLEY LOCKARD/ The Capit.il T ies
Photographers:
By ASHLEY LOCKARD and
HOLLY WEK:HMAN
Editor in Chief/Staff Reporter
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SGA Meeting: January 12
• A proposal for funds to
support the Tennis club's
interest in reserving indoor
courts for its members was
brought to the SGA by the
club's president. The club is
asking for $l2OO for indoor
rental expenses and $290
for outdoor expenses. SGA
is considering the budget
proposal and also stated they
would help with fundraising
ideas to also help them come
up with the funds.
• Communications Director
Augie Bravo shared his
research for changing the
voting system we use on
campus for the student
wide SGA elections. In
the past, SGA paid $3OOO
for an outside service to
provide a secure server for
students to vote online. The
problem was, besides cost,
the server required students
to log in using their last
name and birthday. This
meant that for anyone who
had a twin, only one of
them could vote.
Bravo discovered
Testing
University
Services at University
Park is able to set up
a secure server voting
website for our campus
using the students user
name and password to log
in. To have this system
put in place will only cost
roughly $l5O and they
Supat Kanchanasakul Reporters
Ashley Lockard
Kristen Poole
Michale Albright
Diane Kenney
SGA Update
SGA Meeting: January 19
will own and maintain the
website as well.
• Bravo proposed a ticker
be purchased for the
Olmsted lobby, 10ft. in
size to hang above the
lion. The ticker would
display important news
and updates for students.
• Plans for the Middletown
Home dance on Feb.
14 were discussed.
Male volunteers will be
escorting the residents for
Valentine's Day.
• President Michel Edwards
discussed his decision to
bring back the Rites of
Spring celebration. It was
a tradition on campus,
which started in 1969.
Edwards proposed the
event be combined with
the Spring Luau, which
takes place every April.
• Senate Leader Mathew
Mahoney proposed
SGA pay the $75
dancer processing fee
for THON. A vote was
taken and the proposal
was awarded.
• Congratulations to Omar
"Andy" Palacios and Ben
Adelman for approval to
be new members of SGA.
Omar is a sophomore
majoring in Business
Finance, and Adelman is
a Political Science major
interested in law.
Maruja Rosario
Heather Coleman
Lisa Stone
Steve D'Holla
Ashley Lockard
Diane Kenney
Nadezda Ivanova
Brianna Guyer
• SGA is conducting a:
Student Activity Survey
to find out what activities
the student body would
be interested in attending.:
The survey can be found
at the URL of http://www.
hbg.psu.edu/clubs/SGA/
activityform.html.
• In the advisors report,
Donna Howard urged
SGA members to "find out
what students want out of
activities on campus. We
have a job ahead of us.
SGA members need to
attend events otherwise
the rest of the student body
will not attend them."
• In the student courts
report the Graduate
Student Association lost
official university club
status due to failure to
change their constitution.
• SGA
$3OO for Council of
Commonwealth Student
Governments (CCSG)
mileage expenses for their
trip to State College, Jan.
20-21. The trip was for
their monthly meeting.
• SGA approved $94 for
THON's t-shirt expenses.
THON also needs people
to sign up to be volunteers
for canning.
• Come In From The Cold
event will be held at 1:00
p.m. and 6:15 pm, Jan.
24. The food available to
students will be chicken
fingers, assorted wraps,
bowls of soup and subs.
Michael Albright
Holly Weichman
James Grap
Matthew Miller
Brandon Sarzynski
Matthew Mahoney
Oscar Beisert
Megan Resser
approved