April 21, 2008 THE CAPITAL TIMES
Dees speaks
Cofounder of SPLC
BY DIANA LE
Assistant Editor
DXISO37@PSU.EDU
"The march for Justice continues,"
declared prominent civil rights
advocate Morris Dees. "It didn't
stop in Montgomery, Ala. It didn't
stop in Memphis when Martin
Luther King was killed."
Dees, known for taking on
discrimination cases and successfully
suing hate groups including the Ku
Klux Klan, continues to fight for the
dream.
His speech, which drew a large
audience to the Student Center
of Penn State Harrisburg's
Capital Union Building on April
8, concluded The Martin Luther
King Jr. Commemoration Lecture
Series "The Anatomy of Social
Justice: Still Dreaming" presented
by PSH's Diversity and Educational
Equity Committee and YWCA of
Greater Harrisburg.
Cofounder of Southern Poverty
Law Center in Montgomery, Dees
regularly cited King's belief and
influence on civil rights throughout
his speech.
He also described the upcoming
presidential election, in which a
black man, Barack Obama, and
a woman, Hillary Clinton, are
strong candidates, as a "watershed
election."
"Each of you have a front row seat
to history in the making," he said.
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every ethnicity faced some sort
of prejudice when immigrating
to the U.S. People once thought
the Irish would bring diseases, he
said. Now the Hispanic are facing
similar prejudices, he continued.
Throughout the speech, the
lawyer wove many stories of his
experiences in advocating for civil
rights and standing up against hate
groups, with historical figures,
quotes and accomplishments.
One story was of Vietnamese
immigrants who started a fishing
business, creating unwelcomed
competition for other locals.
They tried preventing the
Vietnamese from getting licenses
and burned their fishing boats.
The Vietnamese became
intimidated and started selling
the boats, said Dees. He and a
group of the Vietnamese decided to
sue the hate group and won.
Reflecting on the pride in
the faces of the Vietnamese
immigrants as their sons and
daughters went on to continue the
fishing businesses, Dees said, "I not
only felt proud to be a lawyer, I felt
proud to be an American."
The bridges between people's
differences, said Dees,
are built with understanding,
acceptance, appreciation and a love
for others.
"America is great because of its
differences," he said, "not in spite
of them."
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PSH students join other PSU campuses at rally
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from the General Assembly and the
Governor. The University must then
propose a new budget based on the
appropriations allotted and have it
approved by the Board of Trustees.
The amount of appropriations
affects basic operations of the
University--such as faculty and
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staff salaries, benefits, facilities
and maintenance, and strategic and
academic initiatives. Most important
New housing in works
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studying environmental pollution
control, asked the presenting firms
questions and gave their input in
the concluding discussion, but the
subcommittee had the final say,
according to Director of Student
Affairs & Enrollment Don Holtzman,
who was one of the interview
participants.
Notifications of the housing project
was sent to architectural firms
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The architectural firm that was chosen by PSH has also built a
lobby for Penn State Berks and an entrance way for Univer
sity Park.
throughout the commonwealth, he
said. Of the 300 firms, 52 replied.
The 52 firms, Holtzman continued,
were further narrowed down after
information about the firms and plans
they submitted were reviewed.
SMP Architects was chosen from
the three finalists primarily for
their history of sustainable and
environmentally friendly designs
and past work with other Penn
State campuses, according to both
Holtzman and Treese.
The firm, which is Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design
(LEED) certified, places great
emphasis on sustainable design. Their
to students, however, is the affect on
tuition
For the 2008-2009 academic year,
Penn State has requested a 6.9%
increase in appropriations from last
year, or $24,202,000. The increase
reflects higher costs for Penn State
to carry out its land-grant, public
university mission and to provide
exceptional programs for students.
If the University's
request is met,
tuition increase for
next year will be
4.9% for all branch
campuses, and 5.5%
at University Park.
If the appropriations
request is not met,
tuition will increase in
order to compensate
for lack of funding.
Although the annual
Rally at the Rotunda
and students have
worthy intentions,
PSH attendee
Douglas Beyer may
have described it
best: "it was less of a
rally and more of an
annual polite request
asking for more
money please...l
guess there's a time
to be nice, and a time
to be very aggressive.
We the students will
be nice, and the university will
be aggressive in asking for more
money."
approach, according to their proposal,
takes into consideration energy
efficiency and building materials.
SMP Architects's past projects
include The Woods residence hall
at Penn State Berks, which was
designed to compliment the heavily
wooded area while accommodating
410 students. The residence hall was
completed in 2000, according to SMP
Architects.
Other projects with Penn State
include the new Student Union
.eesport campus;
New Graduate Circle Housing
(2007), Swine Research
Building (2001) and Centre
County Visitor Center (2000) at
University Park; and the Eiche
Library (2005) and Community
Arts Center addition (2004) at
Altoona.
The Penn State University
Board ofTrustees approved $8.6
million for the new housing,
which will accommodate
approximately 100 freshmen,
according to Holtzman. He
noted the funding would come
from the university's auxiliary
budget and not
tuition money.
The housing
will be built at
the east end of
the Olmsted
parking lot, near
the Community
Center and
Concerns over parking were
also taken into consideration.
The number of parking spaces
taken up by the new housing
will be determined once a design
has been made, said Holtzman.
But the campus is also planning to
construct a new parking lot west of
the Olmsted parking lot with 200 to
300 more spaces, said Ed Dankanich,
director of business services at
the Maintenance and Operations
building.
The new freshman housing is
expected to take 18 months of
construction and be completed by
Fall 2010, said Holtzman.
The Village's
9000 building,
he continued.
Issues such
as where the
mailboxes will
be or where
the dumpsters
will be moved
will be worked
out along the
design process.