2—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Oct. 2,1990 Collegian Briefs Sweetest day flower sale begins this week Kappa Phi Christian Service sorority will be selling flowers all this week in the HUB basement and next week outside of Willard Building to be dis tributed on Oct. 19, Sweetest Day. Roses cost $1.50 and are available in red, pink or yellow and carnations cost $1 and are available in red, pink or white. The sorority will deliver the flowers onSweetest Day to most places in the State College area and all over campus. All proceeds will benefit the Easter Seal Society. College of Liberal Arts sponsors career fair The Alumni Association of the College of Liberal Arts is sponsoring a career fair from 9 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon in the HUB Ballroom. Catherine Rein, executive vice president of the Metropolitan Life Insur ance Company, will give a presentation at 11:30, titled "Life Is What Happens To You While You Are Making Other Plans." Students wishing to discuss career opportunities with corporate recruiters should bring copies of their resumes for distribution. Metals artist to give lecture on her work Metals artist Helen Shirk will give a public lecture at 1:30 today in the Palmer Museum of Art as part of her University visit this week. A combination of abstract expressionist and constructivist, Shirk has worked with metals, jewelry and vessels. Her work focuses on the ten uousness of life and the delicacy of new growth as existing next to decaying nature. Shirk has had her metal works exhibited in more than 60 exhibitions, including in Europe, the Soviet Union and Asia Program on careers for minority students Arriving at the tenth stop in a 15 school tour, The Black Collegian Mag azine goes live today with Going Places Career Planning Expo, a two-day program providing career information for minorities and disabled students in an entertaining format. Programming will kick off at 7 tonight in the HUB Ballroom with a wel come from University President Joab Thomas and a motivational presen tation by Atlanta attorney Patricia Russell-McCloud, president of Russell- McCloud and Associates. Russell-McCloud, a nationally commended speaker, will deliver the mes sage, "There's Room at the Top: R.S.V.P." WPSX presents tribute to Pa. history Tonight at 10 WPSX presents Outdoor Pennsylvania, a seven segment tribute to Pennsylvania's history, environment, and the preservation of both. The program begins with a historical tribute to a Milton Pa. eviron mentalist Gifford Pinchot, who fought short-sighted industries in the 1800 s that viewed northeastern Pennsylvania's forests as undiminishable resources. The show also features a walking tour of an area preserved as a remnant of virgin forest for the enjoyment of those interested in pre-developmental Pennsylvania. Outdoor Pennsylvania then presents industries and organizations that are concerned with refoliating the cities or attempting to defy damage caused by logging, development and oil and gas operations. Vigil commemorates Farm Animals'Day The second annual Alliance for Animal Rights all-night vigil will be tonight at 7:00 outside the northeast end of Willard Building. The vigil commemorates World Farm Animals' Day and recognizes the billions of farm animals killed each year for human consumption. Collegian Notes ■ The College Township Planning Commission will meet at 7:30 tonight in the Township Building, 1481 E. College Ave. ■ The Penn State Science Fiction Society will meet at 7 tonight in 217 Boucke. ■ The Penn State Fencing Club will hold beginner's night at 8 tonight in 33 White. ■ The Graduate Student Association will hold an academic committee meeting at 6:30 tonight followed by an assembly meeting at 7:15 in 101 Kern. ■ The Nittany Lion Raquetball Club will meet at 8:30 tonight in the IM Building. ■ The Minority Law Student Association will meet at 7 tonight in 370 Wil lard. ■ The Student Union Board will meet at 7:30 tonight in 307 HUB ■ The Undergraduate Student Government Senate will meet at 7 tonight in 225 HUB. ■ NOW Rally & Lobby Day at the Capital Rotunda in Harrisburg begins at 10:00 in the morning today. Buses will leave from the HUB at 8:00 in the morning and return by 5:00 in the evening. ■ Marvin L. Krasnansky, vice president of corporate relations for McK esson Corporation, will visit Penn State today as Penn State's School of Com munications' 1990 Alumni Fellow. ■ The Society of Professional Journalists and the Penn State Association of Black Journalists will hold a reception with Marvin L. Krasnanski between 5:30 and 6:30 tonight in 173 Willard. ■ Total Quality Council of Central Pennsylvania will sponsor a National Quality Forum, satellite broadcast from New York from 10 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon today at the Keller Conference Center. The fee is $lO per person. Speakers include James B. Hayes, publisher of Fortune mag azine; Gerald Greenwalt, chairman of Chrysler Motors and Robert E. Al len, chairman and CEO of AT&T. How To Contact Us ADDRESS: Collegian Inc. James Building 123 S. Burrowes St. University Park, PA. 16801-3882 OFFICE HOURS/PHONE: Business Division (814) 865-2531 Advertising, Circulation, Accounting. 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Students vote for Homecoming king, queen By JESSICA HARTSHORN stopped, including Tricia Pelissero Collegian Staff Writer (junior-chemical engineering) and Laura Enie (junior-chemical engi- Crowded around a table in the HUB neering), both members of Alpha basement yesterday, students peered Gamma Delta sorority, 5 Ritner. at eight black and white photographs They said they wanted to vote for and short biographies describing this candidate Laura McClelland, also in year's candidiates for the only Univer- the sorority. sity monarchs, the Homecoming king "She's awesome, - Pelissero said. and queen. "I don't know about theguys though." "I looked for a lot of activities and Pelissero and Enie, balancing their leadership if they look like they're lunches and backpacks, also eval pretty nice and not snobby or any uated the candidates for Homecoming thing," said Adeline Colon ( junior- king. After reading the biographies marketing), after casting her votes. aloud and conversing about them, the Both Greeks and independents, Collegian Photo/Krista Lundquist women cast their votes. friends of the candidates and strang- Darlene Groomes (senior-sociology) votes for Homecoming king and queen, while The women said they considered ers, stopped by to cast ballots on their Michelle Foster (junior-accounting) looks on. Voting took place yesterday in the voting for anyone in engineering first, way through the HUB. HUB basement. and then tried to decide who was in the John Nugent (junior-political sci most honor societies. ence) said he thought it was fun pick- "Our whole house will come out to people vote so a minority picks the Voting will continue from 9to 4 ing this year's lucky royalty. vote for him," Nugent said. man and woman who will represent today in the HUB basement and dur "lt's great, especially for the indi- Tammi Coles (senior-speech com- the entire University. ing dinner hours at all campus dining viduals who win," Nugent said. munications), stopped to vote when "The campus is large, so it's hard to halls except Simmons and McElwain A member of Pi Kappa Alpha fra- she saw candidate Chris Bogden's pic- determine who would be best to rep- tonight. ternity, 429 E. Prospect Ave., Nugent ture. Coles said she and Bogden are resent it," Coles said. 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