—The Daily Collegian Monday, March 18, 1991
Sun, shorts
melt away
winter blues
By MARC HARKNESS
Collegian Features Writer
So here you are, wearing shorts in the middle of
March. There's snow on the ground beside your feet.
and you're sitting outside with a beer. Does it get much
better than this?
"Sure doesn't. Maybe it could get a couple of
degrees warmer, but this is great," said Mark Jones
(junior-finance), taking sun in front of Cafe 210, 210
W. College Ave.
Following Thursday's snowstorm, which deposited
10 inches of white stuff on the ground, this weekend's
warmer weather brought a brief but welcome hint of
spring just in time for St. Patrick's Day.
This weekend's warm and sunny weather probably
will not hold up today and tomorrow, but the rest of the
week should be "fairly nice," according to Collegian
meteorologist Bob Tschantz.
The temperature reached a high of 52 degrees on
Saturday. But it was not a record for this time of year:
last year's St. Patrick's Day weekend high was 82
degrees.
Warmth, however, was relative matter this week
end some students were perfectly comfortable in
sweatshirts. Shorts were prevalent. A brave few went
about in muscle shirts.
Some had left home wearing winter jackets, but
quickly took them off when the weather turned out to
be warmer than they had anticipated. Others carried
their coats to the library just in case it got cold later.
On Saturday, dorm quads and other parts of campus
commonly referred to as "green space" began show
ing up green again as the layer of snow melted away
away beneath a bright sun. The East Halls quad, site
of a large-scale snowball fight Thursday night, resem-
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Members and guests of Alpha Sigma Phi, 328 E. Fairmont Ave., splish and splash in a sudsy hot tub. The group
took advantage of the warm weather Saturday in the fraternity's back yard.
bled a model of the devastation after a bombing raid better disposed toward charity in times of good weath
- not a clod of snow left unturned. er.
Other sites on campus were littered with the melt- "I think people are more happy and want to give
ing, broken carcasses of snowpersons. By Friday more when the sun is out,"
morning, someone had sculpted a snow cat that
appeared to recline contentedly on a Mall bench. On
Saturday, the cat was gone either melted and evap
orated, or smashed by Friday-night revelers.
Other public art was created and melted away over
the course of the weekend. Some anonymous artists
created an accurate replica of the Nittany Lion statue
on the HUB lawn.
The sound of melted snow streaming out of rain gut
ters was everywhere.
Back on campus, passerby's most common reply ple are more likely to feel sorry for you and give you
to questions about the weather was this: "Nice." A money," McCullum said. "I would say it goes either
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Members of Phi Mu and Phi Mu Delta fraternity, 500
S. Allen St., were collecting money for the Pennsylva
nia Coalition for Food and Nutrition on Saturday.
But Phi Mu member Colleen McCullum (sopho
more-hotel, restaurant and institutional management)
said good weather is not necessary to kindle people's
kindness.
"Some would say that if it's cold and miserable, peo-
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Clinic aids speech,
hearing problems
By SUZANNE YOHANNAN
Collegian Science Writer
When you talk, is your voice always
hoarse? Or maybe you're not sure if
your hearing is up to par.
If you're suffering from these or other
speech or hearing problems, you may
find help at the Speech and Hearing
Clinic, located in 110 Moore.
The clinic is open to both University
students and the public and offers Uni
versity students free speech and hear
ing evaluations and up to 10 free therapy
sessions. The public and faculty mem
bers can receive therapy but must pay
a fee.
The clinic is part of the department of
communication disorders and was first
accredited in the 19605. Undergraduate
and graduate students in the depart
ment use the clinic to work with people
who have speech or hearing problems.
"It is here basically as a training field
for undergraduate and graduate stu
dents," said Jodi Stouffer, coordinator
of clinical experiences at the clinic.
The clinic is primarily open about 12
weeks out of the semester. One of the
oldest clinics of its type in the country,
it serves more than 1,000 clients per
year.
Undergraduate students are required
to work on the audiology (hearing) and
speech sides of the clinic, said Chrissy
Heinbaugh (senior-communication dis
orders), who also is president of the
Penn State chapter of the National
Speech and Language and Hearing
Association.
Most of the University students who
Open 8 a.m. to 4 a.m.
daily
350 E.
College
come to the clinic have problems deal
ing with hearing impairment, language
skills or speech, or have difficulties
because English is their second lan
guage, Stouffer said.
One example of a speech problem is
if a student comes in because his or her
voice always sounds hoarse, Stouffer
said. This may be caused by vocal nod
ules or a variety of other reasons, she
added.
"We train patients how not to be hard
on their voice. The college years tend to
be very hard on their voices," Stouffer
said, referring to alcohol use, smoking,
cheering and other activities.
Students who work at the clinic are
supervised by faculty members, speech
language pathologists or audiologists
who diagnose and treat people with
hearing loss. All of the supervisors are
certified for clinical competence in their
field, Stouffer said. At least a master's
degree is required for certification.
The speech language pathologists and
audiologists also use the lab to work
with children and adult clients. Speech
language pathologists evaluate and
treat people with speech and language
problems ranging from stuttering to
those that arise from strokes, head inju
ries and cerebral palsy, Stouffer said.
Many of the clinic's clients are chil
dren, said Jodi Waggoner (speech lan
guage pathology-graduate).
The clinic offers an intensive treat
ment program, which requires 10 hours
of therapy sessions per week including
five individual sessions and five group
sessions, she said.
349 E.
Calder