April 10, 2006
Eye On Community
The Lion’s Eye
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The Ultimate Game Came From An Ultimate Beginning
By Julia Hagan
Soecial to the Lion s Eye
been changed to Ultimate Frisbee back
the campus of Yale University.
sales soared.
The origins of the Ultimate Frisbee,
are not far from Delaware County. The
group of high school students ard is a
Aryone up for a game of Ultimate Pluto Platter?
It's rot an Irvitation to sample a spicy Asian entree.
It's what college stidents nationwide would be
playing on their university lawns had the name not
The new Frisbee name, chosen by the Wham-O
company, was a reference to the Frishie Baking
Company pie plates used for play by students on
Wham-O, the brand that also brought you the
Hula-Hoop, Super Ball and Water Wiggle, began to
market the flexible plastic disc as a new sport, ad
invented in Maplewood, New Jersey, in 1957 by a
team sport, similar to American football.
The goal is to eam points passing the disc into the
opposite endzone. Players carmot run while in pos-
sessian of the disc. The name was coined by Jared
Kass, an Amherst college student who described
the gare in an interview as "the ultimate sport."
Of ficially, the sport is known only as Ultimate
because the Frisbee name is trademarked, and
Wham-O designs are not always used.
College athletic programs welcomed the new
soort in 1972 ard the first intercollegiate aarpeti -
tion was held between Rutgers and Princeton.
Although most popular and perfected among col -
in 1957,
the game,
game was
canpetitive
lege students, the campus scene could not contain
the game’s growing fanbase. By 1976, clubs had
formed worldwide and the Ultimate Players
Association began three years later.
Similar to other field games in strategy and
design, serious Ultimate Frisbee players take pride
in a nique respect for sportsmanship, emphasizing
the "Spirit of the Game", abbreviated SUIG. The
U PA gates, "Highly campetitive play is encouraged,
but never at the expense of the bond of mutual
game.
respect between players, adherence to the agreed
upon rules of the game, or the basic joy of play
Such actions as taunting of opposing players, dan-
geraus agoression, intentioml fouling, or other ‘win-
at-all-ast s’ behavior are antrary to the spirit of the
gare ard must be avoided by all players." Teams
d ten cheer their ooponents at the ed of each
The Ultimate Frisbee team at. Perm State
University Park was suspended last year, despite 3
the sport's tradition of good will. The Club Sports
Advisory Council suspended the team for damag-
ing fields during the "Spring Phling" tournament in
Aoril 2005. According to an article in Pam State's
The Collegian, the team is not permitted to hold for
mal practices or participate in collegiate tama -
ments until fulfilling an adequate amount of can-
munity service.
The article stressed, however, that stdets
interested in playing Ultimate at University Park
should not give up hope. Team captains at
University Park encourage interested players and
are preparing for a stray retum to the field ad
intercollegiate play. :
For more information on Ultimate rules and regu
latias, Et http://w? .upa.ag/dl tinate/rules. -
Karate Competition: Who |
Is Top Of The Chop?
W ritten By Sharon Achilles
saal92@psu.edu
Children and adults screamed,
punched, and kicked in enthusiasm at
the 2006 Delaware County Karate
Championships. In Pam State Delco’s
gymnasium, karate enthusiasts fram
all over the area came to campete
against each other and to showcase
An adult canpetitor fram the
Arerican Tang Soo Do Academy, Bll
Ott retired for his twelfth year at this
championship. He recognized some of
the baefits of campeting against so
many dif ferent schools all in ae day.
[The campetition] mainly gives ny
student s a chance to practice their
skills against other students, who they
normally would not carpete against,
said Ott.
Students fram the age of five ard wp
carpeted in three major events
forms, fighting, and weapons.
W imers accepted bronze, silver ard
gold medals. Throughout the af er
noon, some students lost ad retumed
hare while others gained medals to
campete for more. Two large troohies
waited to ke given to the fimal two
adult champions in forms and fighting.
Erica Scott, a former Perm State staf
member competed and assisted her
father Master Frederick Scott at the
event. Master Scott organized the
karate championship and founded
Arkor Karate Institutes, which hosted
this year’s karate carpetition.
Master Scott's interest in karate
sparked when he was living in Japan
in tte Amy during his early twenties.
He then took his degree in physical
education from West Chester
University and experience as a man-
ager of a construction cawpany and
founded Amkor in 1977 in Aston.
Why do so many children and adults
rebum year af ter year to campete?
Master describes karate as a mentd
disciplire. Tt gets paxole to train for a
lag periad of time, to try ad fom a
mind set to constantly improve ones
self. He added that karate overlaps in
other areas of life as well.
Delco’s gym was flooded in children
sitting arouwrd red glossy mats, and
parents covering over an the bleach-
ers to take pictures.
"A lot of kids are intase. They are
esger to do well for their instructor ad
their school. Karate helps to hiild self
confidence and develop an assertive
attitude, " he said. His daughters, Erica
and Mika both trained for most of their
childhood. Master Scott takes a lot of
pride in that his daughter, now grown,
have trained along side him ard took
an interest in sawething so special to
him.
Erica, who spards at least two to
three times a week training with her
father, said that he coaches her in life,
rot just karate.
For more information on Amkor
Karate Institutes or Master Scott visit
the school’s website at www.amko-
rkarate.can .
The independent study program
| allows for students to receive credit
| for work they do autside of the nomal
{| schedule of courses. Students may
receive anywhere fram .5 to 18 cred-
is for work they camplete hased
'l upon the amount of work and
aproval fran Academic Affairs ard a -
professor willing to oversee course
material ad its gqality.
The auolications of this allow for
sare interesting ogoortunities.
Students with hectic work schedules
are able to cawplete work on their
om time, avoiding painful time on -
flirts They also, ard more saliently,
are able to schedule courses not
d fered during a particular sarester,
or even at that particular campus. For
example, a student who may need a
course of fered at Abington in order to
graduate with his or her desired
major may remain at the Delaware
County campus and take the course
ucder the guidance of a qualified
teacher willing to grade the student’s
work. This tecdmique can be utilized
as many times as students wish dur-
ing their Pan State careers (given
the proper approval and guidance),
allowing many, mary possibilities for
requirements to majors and minors
rot of fered to be carpleted right here
at our own beautiful campus.
Going about setting up an inde-
pada study is similar to the late
add process. A form can be obtained
through the Academic Af fairs of fie
(212 Main). Students must first decide
what course they’d be interested in
taking (this can be dome through the
use of the Pern State Bluebook or
http://www psu.edu] which lists all te
courses of fered throughout the uni -
versity [when doing this dn’t forget to
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copy down the schedule number as
well as the course name and number
as the needed forms require it]), then
they must find a professor qualified to
teach the chosen course. E.g. if one
wished to take a 400 level psycholo-
gy course, they'd most likely have ro
problem finding someone in our
HDF'S std f more than capable of -
overseeing that particular corse.
This professor must then supply the
student with a syllabus for the course
including grading policies ard a brief
description of the course. The student
may then summit the form after
receiving and advisor’s signature to
Dr. George W. Franz, Dean of
Academic Af fairs. If the fom is
approved, the student then must take
the signed paper to Registration and
have them add the course to the stu-
dent's schedule.
As with late adding, students must
be aware that professors as well as
Dr. Franz hold the ability to day any
proposal. If a professor declines a
prooosal, it may then be submitted to
another qualified professor.
Both of these methods of late
adding and forming an independent
study CAN be utilized at the same
tire. The rules and processes for
loth gly as to how this is gone
about. However, stdats, as always,
should first seek the comnsel of advi -
sors before making decisions which
may af fect their education to ensure
the best corse of acti is taken.