SGA
Update
By SEPIDEH SAFAEE
Staff Reporter
SOSSO34@PSU.EDU
SGA holds $17,201.62 in their
restricted accounts, $4,703.41 in their
unrestricted accounts and $3,195.72
in their FAA account.
Last week, SGA held their weekly
meeting with a new turn of events.
SGA’s vice president and president
did not find the behaviors of the
senators up to SGA standards. They
pointed out that some of the senators
do not show up to the meetings and
don’t take their duties seriously.
“This is not monopoly money. This
is real money,” said the SGA vice
president.
After the issue was settled; they
briefed on another major issue that
had taken place in Jena, La. Kappa
Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and Multi
Cultural Recruitment International
Team co-sponsored and hosted the
meeting. They discussed the racial
strain that took place involving the
Jena 6. Most people know or heard
about what happened.
On Sept. 6, 2006, in the small,
highly segregated, rural Louisiana
town of Jena, a black student
asked permission from school
administrators to sit under a tree
where white students mainly sat.
School officials told the black
students that they could sit wherever
they wanted. The next day, three
nooses were hanging from tree. The
Jena High School Principle found
three white students responsible
and recommended expulsion. The
white Superintendent over-ruled
the principal and gave the students
a three-day suspension, saying
that the nooses were “a youthful
stunt.” Blacks decided to resist and
organized a sit-in under the tree to
protest the lenient treatment given
to the noose-hanging white students.
District attorney Reed Walters was
called later to directly address black
students at the school. He told them
that he could “end their life with a
stroke of the pen.”
“This is an American outrage that
demonstrates the continuing shame
of racial division in our country,”
said Chairman Julian Bond.
If you want more information or
would like to see where I got my
sources go on to whileseated.org and
Snopes.com
The fashion show that was held in
Middletown thrift shop went well
and everyone who participated did a
great job.
SGA is co-sponsoring national
card day about how to avoid sexual
assault and sexual abuse. They didn’t
go into much detail, but they did pass
out information cards explaining
how to reduce your risk and what to
do if you are sexually assaulted.
Stuff-A-Plush is coming back to
the Harrisburg Campus for the fall
and spring semesters. SGA will be
holding it in the fall.
The campus radio is getting money
for equipment.
The campus is holding a Thon T
shirt design contest. Everyone may
participate and the top design chosen
will be printed on the T-shirts and
sold around campus.
To get clubs in the spirit to raise
money, Thon will be holding a
competition to see which club can
raise the most money. The winning
club will get a pizza party.
SGA is hosting a food drive and
they need canned goods.
The president was handed articles
of impeachment, but there are no
further details as of now.
Photo Club was allocated $ll5 to
various stationary
The SGA reallocated $4OO from Phi
Sigma Upsilon’s restricted account
into the FAA and allocated $4OO
from SGA’s unrestricted account to
the FFA’s unrestricted accounts for
purchasing gifts from the bookstore
for law enforcement officials.
SGA will be taking $460 out of
their restricted account for Field of
The four diamonds of PSU
By ADAM PORTER
Staff Reporter
AWPSO3B@PSU.EDU
“I’ve got 5.2 MILLION reasons
to be proud to be a Nittany Lion!”
exclaimed Craig Dewalt in a
Facebook group he created shortly
after THON 2007.
Why so many reasons expressed
with so much enthusiasm? Because
over the cold and sleepless February
weekend that many Penn State
students recall as the best weekend
of their lives, students just like you
converge on the Bryce Jordan Center
for the single largest student-run
philanthropy in the WORLD!
Last year, raising a mind-numbing
$5,240,385.17 for the Four Diamonds
Fund at the Hershey Medical Center,
THON gave hope to “Four Diamonds
families” when they need it most.
It lets families know they are not
alone.
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I’m often asked, “Why is THON
so important, exciting and the best
part of going to Penn State?” Well,
in each issue until THON 2008
(February 22-24) I will be answering
that question by connecting you to
the reason we dance - the kids!
From families and friends to social
workers and child life specialists,
there is an army of people behind
the Four Diamonds fund and their
fight to cure this big bad monster of
a disease. But there are four things
each kid needs to win their battle
and those are the Four Diamonds.
Courage, Wisdom, Honesty and
Strength were the virtues each
child needs to complete their
quest, according to the first Four
Diamonds kid, Christopher Millard.
Christopher fought his disease for
three years, writing a story about
it when he was in eighth grade. Sir
Millard, bearer of the Diamonus
Quandrus, had to battle the evil
sorceress Raptenahad. His symbolic
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his parents, Charles and Irma, after
Christopher lost his fight with the
evil of cancer in 1972.
The Four Diamonds Fund, with a
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mission of “conquering childhood
cancer,” started a relationship with
the Penn State Dance Marathon in
1977. Since then, tens ofmillions of
dollars have been given to the Fund
to help families with the extreme
financial burden of cancer.
Cancer is expensive. But as
Charles Millard said in a 1997
interview with CBS, “Our patients
do not receive bills.” The Four
Diamonds covers all expenses that
the families’ insurance will not. In
addition to hospital expenses, costs
such as travel to and from treatment,
emergency expenses and dietary
supplements are provided for. The
staff includes pediatric oncologists,
social workers, child life specialists,
a clinical nutritionist and a music
therapist. In recent years, the Fund
has expanded into groundbreaking
research in hopes of one day beating
the evil sorceress that our hero,
Christopher, could not.
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message and the Millard’s mission
as resonated with so many people
that last year, over 30 other schools
in the state held “mini-thons” to help
support the fund. Just a few weeks
ago was the first annual “Four Miles
for Four Diamonds” walk in front
of the Medical Center. Every group
that raises money and awareness
for the Fund is essential to helping
these families who are “Living on a
Prayer.” You, Penn Sate Harrisburg
are no different. Our committees
will make every effort to get you
involved. From monthly canning
trips to knocking on doors to good
old fashion letter writing, there is a
HUGE amount of fun that you can be
partof. Ifyou’dliketobeaddedtothe
Angel group, email me at awpso3B@
psu.edu. Also, look out for posters,
T-shirts and other THON-related
announcements around campus.
Every person that gets involved gets
us one step closer to a cure. So Show
Off Your Diamonds.
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