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has been the major difference."
Although Kelsey has worked to
improve recruitment and retention of
underrepresented students in past
years, Asbury said "he never really had
the strong backing."
When a downward trend in minority
enrollment was detected last year, Hosi
er vowed to correct the situation.
At July's Board of Trustees meeting,
Hosier said, "I assure you we're taking
it very seriously. And if I have anything
to do with it, we'll correct it by next
year."
Marbles, trains, mousetraps:
All to toast a piece of bread
By BETH HARRIS
Associated Press Writer
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —The
assignment was simple toast bread.
But complex was better than simple
and the winner went through 39 steps
involving marbles, a toy train, a robot
arm and a mousetrap to move the
bread.
Teams from Purdue University, the
University of Arkansas, the University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Oakland
University in Michigan competed Sat
urday in the 9th annual national Rube
Goldberg Machine Contest before more
than 500 spectators.
The contest honors the spirit of the
late cartoonist who specialized in draw
ing whimsically complicated machines
to perform the simplest of tasks. In this
year's competition, contestants had to
use at least 20 steps and toast the bread
within five minutes.
The "Toast Masters," Purdue's entry
by the Society of Manufacturing Engi
neers, successfully defended the
school's championship.
Among other things in the machine's
sequence of events, a mousetrap was
triggered, knocking over a smokestack,
which triggering the train to chug along
its track carrying the bread.
Overhead, yellow and black race cars
crisscrossed on strings and crashed into
an oak bucket, which released an arm
and in turn released a pink bunny wear-
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that surrounds the NCAA Tournament,
were engrossed in the game.
"I've really been following Penn State
basketball since they hit the NCAA tour
nament," said John Bickel (senior
industrial engineering), drawing laugh
ter from his friends.
"I'm a fair weather basketball fan,"
added Bickel, who wore a green felt hat "Over the past few years, our basket
in honor of St. Patrick's Day. ball team's gone up and up," said Joe
Many fans at the Cafe, 210 W. College Kucik, a recent University graduate.
Ave., yesterday afternoon predicted "We're not going to be a regular in the
good times ahead for the baske hall pro- tournament, but we're going to make it
gram and its players. a lot more often than every 25 years."
"The only damper we
had was the mousetrap
It's never failed until
today."
—Steve Weinrich
Purdue University senior
ing dark sunglasses that traveled along
a trail and tripped a trap.
Also moving around in the complex
process were marbles, a fountain, a
barrel and the robot arm, which
grabbed the toast when it popped out of
the toaster.
It all cost more than $lOO to assemble.
"I'm really pleased with how it
worked," said Steve Weinrich, a senior
from Pennington, N.J., studying com
puter-integrated manufacturing tech
nology. "The only damper we had was
the mousetrap. It's never failed until
today. It was misaligned and didn't hit
the target right."
The rules allow teams a second
attempt if their machine has a glitch on
the first run.
Arkansas' entry, by the Tau Hogs,
featured a figure of Saddam Hussein, a
balloon, a blow-dryer and a mousetrap.
But the $lO contraption didn't quite
survive the 680-mile trip from Fayette
ville.
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since they hit the
tournament."
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fair weather basketball fan
when we left but when you break it
down and cram it into a Suburban, it's
kind of hard," said team member David
Gross of Fort Smith, Ark.
Gross and teammate Craig Deaton of
Conway, Ark., admired Purdue's neatly
painted machine, but preferred their
amateur-looking effort.
"We think it's true Rube spirit to find
things in the yard instead of buying
them from vendors," Gross said.
Wisconsin-Milwaukee's entry finished
second with the contest's smallest
machine, which performed to the
Beatles' song "A Day in the Life."
A plastic male figure rambled
through his morning routine while a
comb dragged across his head and cere
al poured into a bowl before his car tum
bled out of a garage, eventually
triggering the toaster into action.
Oakland University of Rochester,
Mich., was third using a ski ramp built
of Popsicle sticks, a miniature figure of
cartoon character Bart Simpson and a
champagne bottle that poured its con
tents into three glasses revolving on a
record turntable.
The bread emerged from the toaster
browned on one side and with the insig
nia of Theta Tau fraternity burned into
the other side.
A maximum of 100 points were
awarded for successful completion of
the task, creativity, complexity, the use
of related themes and keeping in the
spirit of the contest.
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Students attack coach's
alleged anti-lesbian stance
By DANA DiFILIPPO
Collegian Staff Writer
Carrying signs reading "Homophobia has no place on the
Lady Lions basketball team," more than 50 students and town
residents paraded in a wide circle in front of Rec Hall to pro
test Coach Rene Portland's alleged policy of barring lesbians
from her team.
Fourteen-year-old Laura Mummert, a potential Lady Lion,
stood among them before Saturday's game against James
Madison University. But her parents say that Portland's
alleged policy concerns them and that it may harm the team
as society becomes more aware of discrimination.
"I think it's important for Laura to understand that position
because Rene Portland has a lot of influence on young wom
en," said Christine Mummert, Laura's mother. "I don't think
that being a lesbian has anything to do with athletic ability."
Portland allegedly has not allowed lesbians on the team
during her 10 years as a coach. She has declined to talk to the
news media about the allegations.
But when an article about Portland's alleged policy as
defined by former and current team players and other
coaches appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer March 10, gay
and civil rights groups demanded an explanation.
Players quoted in the article suggest Portland seeks to shel
ter her players from the stereotype that labels female ath
letes as gay, and from the dissention that might result on the
team were lesbians allowed.
Such comments angered groups like the Lesbian, Gay and
Bisexual Student Alliance, the Undergraduate Student Gov
ernment Department of Women's Concerns, Students and
Youth Against Racism and Penn State Pro-Choice, leading
them to plan the protest.
Costner wins guild award for film
NEW YORK (AP) First-time
director Kevin Costner won the Direc
tors Guild of America award for best
director of 1990 Saturday night for his
epic Western, "Dances with Wolves."
Costner also starred in the film, a
three-hour account of a U.S. cavalry
officer living with American Indians.
The film won him the Golden Globe
award as best director earlier this
month.
"It means a great deal to me, and it
was impossible to create a speech it
seems out of place and inappropriate
considering the men who had been nom
inated," he said Saturday.
In Saturdiy's competition, Costner
beat out veteran director Francis Ford
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fifth time for "The Godfather, Part III."
Also nominated were Barry Levinson
for "Avalon," Martin Scorsese for
"Good Fellas" and Giuseppe Tornatore
for "Cinema Paradiso."
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box office "was a complete shock to
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"But I was never surprised the movie
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"It's evident that not only do the students need to be edu
cated on homosexuality but, embarrassingly enough, so does
the faculty," said protester Angela Mikula, co-director of the
USG Department of Women's Concerns.
LGBSA political co-director and protester Craig Waldo
agreed, saying that the Inquirer article is "just a prime
example of why we need a sexual orientation clause."
Portland would not comment on the protest or her policy.
When asked during a post-game press conference if she
was aware of the protest outside, Portland said, "No, I was
getting ready for the game," and left.
Many bystanders'said they opposed Portland's alleged pol
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"I don't think the public really knows Penn State's policy
on this. If indeed she's trying to prevent lesbians on the team,
I think there should be some formal University action," said
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"I think a homosexual woman would be a distraction to the
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