Page 6 The Lion's Eye April 24, 2001 By ANTEIA CONSORTO . Editor-in-chief Scott Casey, the caped crusader against MBNA bank and credit card ‘company, will reportedly eat one bug for every day until MBNA is banned from the campus. Casey's fight against the credit card giant was detailed in last month's Lion's Eye. Advice for the new bug man? Try the chocolate covered ones and avoid the big squishy ones. ® Excess trash and abuse of equipment is still a problem at the Lion's Den. You may recall the lounge was closed before spring: break for a few weeks for the same reason. Sources tell us the Den was cleaner and more manageable for about eight min- utes. Then the same stuff hap- pened. Is it going to take closing the popular lounge again before some students learn? ; = There's a rumor going arou nd that the soda machines on campus will begin offering root beer. Hey, we may not be able to drink alcoholic beer on campus but we can still get tt frosty brewed taste. B Rumor has it that Ron Hill, manager of communications and university relations, liked his pink hair so much he's consider- ing making it permanent. Ron was one of the good sports who did something crazy to help THON to raise money. We also hear Ron dug the hair change because of his deep devotion to musician Pink. | The Disabilities Awareness event put some top college officials in uncharted ter- ritoryy CEO Dr. Edward Tomezsko sported a blindfold simulating blindness while aca- demic affairs chief, Dr.. George Franz had to use a wheelchair to get around. For some odd reason, - Tomezsko wore his glasses over the blindfold (who knows, maybe he thought he'd see better.) The stunt prompted some to wonder if Dr. Tomezsko has his glasses true! Rumor has it ... never lose your glasses. As for Dr. Franz, let's just say this, he's not going to be playing wheel- chair basketball any time soon. : WH Okay, so part of this isn't a rumor it's true: Director of Student Life, Doreen Hettich, is expecting a baby. But we here it from reliable sources that the baby is a boy and will be born - this'Ssummer. Congrats to Doreen and her husband! _— Hey, did you on you could write for this newspaper and earn college credits? It's It's English 10 and it's being offered at 6:10 p.m. Tuesdays in the fall semester. Come learn how to write a news story, a sports story and/or an opinion piece. Sources say the adjunct professor likes students with opinions to share. = Oh my gosh... did you hear that there's going to be a profes- sional photographer at graduation on May 12? 'Tis true. So, wear Opinion the academic year by the students of the The Lion’s Eye Vol. XXXII, No. 4, April 24, 2001 Penn: State University, Delaware County ~ Campus EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Anteia Consorto ASSISTANT EDITOR Anthony Kozlowski STAFF Joe Crisafulli IV, Brent Foote, Stacy Lawrence, Connie Ringgold, Danielle Rossi, Kathy Smith, ~ Stephen Watson and Adam Wojciechowicz ADVISOR Lyn A.E. McCafferty The Lion’s Eye is published monthly during Delaware County Campus. Submissions are welcome from all students, faculty and staff. Material must be typed, double-spaced and sub- mitted in the Lion’s Eye mailbox on the first floor of the Main building. The Lion’s Eye is funded by the SGA and the Student Activity Fee sewn onto his ears. Hey, you'll your best gown and smile lots. Word Find Pp sdok aeeeu t unes evmno r oads bsl oo oal if bat na ml i on aozna rober cl ass Words to find: / sail, yam Find as many words as you can in the puzzle. Words can be down, across, diagonal or backwards. s ze mot mill al r oei cdy k 1 ol ma : e ohaan t.-cphi t oaubnr pstery s eyeen r f arag t purdy t udy am. Penn State, Tomezsko, Franz, Vairo, Paterno, Robert Purdy, Tix, Old Main, den, mall, study, beer, cram, smoke, truant, read, gym, tools, tunes, bat, roads, sos, Mac Lab, papa, cue, mob, try, desk, pear, ran, sue, ole, bald, pen, Commentary Summer jobs YMCA Summer Day Camp in Lansdowne is looking to fill the fol- lowing positions: Art, Sports, Nature, Music and Values. Interested? Please contact Courney Barry @ 610-259-1661 Answer key: 7 or fewer words: How did you gradu- ate high school much less get into col- lege? 8-12: Less narcotics, get hooked on Phonix 13-16: Maybe a trip to the Learning Center is in your future. 17-19: Pretty good. You're balanced emotionally and generally awake in class 20-24: You are the quintessential ren- aissance man or woman. You know what you want and how to get it. 25-plus: You know way too much about Penn State. Tryseading a book, study for classes or better yet, get a life. A reading program to By ADAM WOJCIECHOWICZ Staff Writer If all of Delco read the same book... That’s an instance being theorized in many commu- _ nities around the nation. What if, in fact, every single individual in your mneighbor- hood, your town, your university, your city, . or even, for the sake of argument, your nation, had a simple little book in common. Imagine the massive social impact upon such a community as both a whole and, con- sequently, in its individuals. Many groups have already undertaken such an initiative. Most notably, it is standard practice for a number of prestigious universi- ties (traditionally in the case of incoming stu- dents), but outside such an educational insti- tute the practice has actually been tried in cities as large as Seattle. But among any such peoples, the repercussions to such a mental and intellectual communing would be unde- niably substantial. . There would not exist a person among them with whom you could not instantly begin a conversation. And from there, the nature of learning being so- naturally diverse (at a uni- versity such as ours in particular), everyone would have something to teach, and everyone would have some- thing new to learn — again, from every single other person. Easily, the potential for knowledge gains is exponentially large. Of course though, such an ideal state remains as theoretical as a black hole singularity of infinite density. A program of this nature is currently being outlined for our Penn State Delco campus. It would hopefully envelop all members of staff and the student body, seeking to have as many of those people as possible read one simple, innocuous book at roughly the same time. The inescapable bad news is that there are very real reasons why such an initiative can seem (or simply be) implausible, and even hazardous to an academic environment. Foremost is the question of how coordinators convince people to participate in the first step, reading a book. Without motivation, the heart of the pro- gram is cut out. To make it completely vol- untary is to invite apa; albeit understand- gel us on same page own lives, both academically and socially. A voluntary system could be enhanced in many ways though, through advertised campus support (such as this arti- cle, mn its introductory words), teachers’ endorsements in classes, and the availabili- ty/pricing of book copies for borrowing/pur- chase. Unfortunately, campus advertisements do not reach nearly everyone explicitly, pro- fessors have their own curricular agendas to accomplish, and books cost money, both from the school, or even worse, the students (who, as any will attest, are quite satisfied already with the costs of text books). The alternative to a completely voluntary system, mandatory reading, presents its own complications. Since no university “grades” per se are issued to students outside of a classroom and its specific course, enforce- ment (as distasteful a word as it is) of the reading would fall upon teachers (an enforce- ment in itself), English professor or no. This obviously presents an even more intrusive circumstance than that of voluntary teacher endorsements. A mode for creating and exe- cuting a “campus curriculum” is simply not readily available. Further questions abound in regard to the : potential book itself. Will it be of interest to students and faculty? Who will choose it, assuring that interest? Should it be an entire book at all? A committee has been formed on campus to investigate these problems, and is still in the developmental stages of solving any of them. Any opinions or ideas (includ- ing candidate books) can, of course, be pro- posed to the committee, which is based main- ly in the Learning Center, 203 Main. Despite uncertainties herein brought to light, this writer is still a supporter of this campus readership initiative. Why, you may ask, given the complexity of bringing an entire community together into the space found between the covers of a book? Because there is too much to gain, simply: there is a world to gain. Where else can you find several thousand intellectuals like yourself (whether you like that prospect or not), and share with them the essence of not only a community, but of all the humanity that goes into one good book? Please, students — help endow this program with a heart, and it will flourish beautifully
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