2—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, March 20,1991 Collegian Briefs Ribbons available to show diversity University students can support cultural diversity by picking up a ribbon in the HUB basement today as a part of Unity Week's Rainbow Ribbon Day. The Undergraduate Student Government's Forum for Underrepre sented Groups and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, are sponsoring this week's events. Alpha Phi Alpha first proposed the idea to the forum several months ago and most members of the forum agreed to have their groups sponsor events, said Liz Walker, USG administrative assis tant. Walker said one of the more important events of the week was the Open Forum Town Meeting held last night to create an open dialogue about current issues such as diversity, homophobia, racism and sexism. Black Caucus Vice President Gerard Louison expressed some con cerns about the week. "The concept is good, but it needs a lot of work," Louison said. "Issues of unity and struggle are much more far reaching than most people think. You need to find out what motivates a person, what makes them tick. Then you can approach them." Although Louison gave his support as a representative for Black Cau cus to help sponsor events, including yesterday's seminar with the Les bian, Gay and Bisexual Students Alliance, he said he does not believe placing two minority groups in a room creates unity. He said it is necessary for groups to assert their own identities first and then unite with other minorities. As Minority Unity events include: Alpha Phi Alpha's Comedy Night at 6 tonight in the Happy Valley Brewery, 452 E. College Ave.; Terrell Jones, special assistant to the vice provost for underrepresented groups, will speak at 7 tomorrow night on diversity in 112 Kern; and a unity party celebration will be held from 7 to 10 Friday night in the Pollock Rec Room. Panel to discuss abortion, adoption Penn State Students for Life will sponsor a panel discussion of stu dents with experiences with abortion, adoption and parenthood at 7 tonight in 212 Eisenhower Chapel. The talk is part of Human Life Awareness Week. Speech to address sexuality in film, MTV E. Ann Kaplan, director of the Humanities Institute of the State Uni versity of New York in Stony Brook, will talk about "Images of Sex uality in Recent Films and MTV" at 8 tonight in 101 Kern. The speech, part of Women's History Month, is sponsored by the Women's Studies Department, the School of Communications, the Insti tute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies and the Center for Women Students. "Women and Spirituality" subject of talk Kay Waslohn, staff assistant for the Center for Women Students, will talk about "Women and Spirituality: Implications of a Male Deity" at noon today in 120 Boucke. Waslohn's speech is part of the brown bag lunch series sponsored by the Center for Women Students. 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Collegian Notes ■ Students and Youths Against Racism will sponsor a speech titled "A Saga of Shame: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal" by Jeanne Henderson of the Quixote Center for Equal Justice at 7 tonight in 265 Willard. ■ The Alliance Christian Fellowship will host guest speaker Janna Greenfield, a missionary nurse from Zaire, Africa, at its meeting at 7 tonight in the Eisenhower Chapel Frizzell Room. ■ Kappa Alpha Psi will hold a fundraiser basketball game at 7 tonight in White. ■ The Penn State Conservative Club will meet at 8 tonight in 304 Willard. ■ The International Student Council will meet at 7:30 tonight in 225 HUB. ■ Colloquy will meet at 7 tonight in 227 HUB. ■ USG Legal Affairs will hold roundtable at 5:30 today in 203 HUB and will hold a staff meeting at 6 tonight in 323 HUB. ■ Penn State Pro-Choice and USG Department of Women's Concerns will hold a "meet the candidates night" at 8:30 tonight in 201 Rackley. 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A news article in yesterday's edition of The Daily Collegian misspelled the name of a citizen quoted in the article and misstated his address. Richard Gesell lives at 894 Grace St. If you have a correction and cannot reach the responsible reporter, editor or department, please ask for Ted M. Sickler, editor. Truck gasoline vapor restrictions approved HARRISBURG (AP) A state envi ronmental board yesterday approved regulations that require tanker trucks to stop gasoline vapors from escaping into the air when they fill storage tanks. Arthur Davis, Pennsylvania environ mental resources secretary, said the rules will help the state meet federal air quality standards by reducing ozone pollutants. The Environmental Quality Board said the rules impose vapor recovery controls on gasoline storage tanks across the state. The new rules, likely to take effect in about two months, will expand what's already in effect for the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Allentown- Bethlehem-Easton areas. The rules cover vapors released when gasoline is pumped from tanker trucks into storage tanks. Vapors must be col lected back into the truck and later dis posed of at a distribution terminal. The change is expected to cost between $5OO and $l,OOO per tanker truck, said Mary Ellen Bolish, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Environmental Resources: At its next meeting in April, the qual ity board will vote on requiring vapor control nozzles on gasoline pumps. The 21-member board reviews and approves DER regulations. University considering option of voice mail in residence halls By KAREN GUTH Collegian Staff Writer The University is studying the pos sibility of offering students voice mail, a computerized answer and message system, a telecommunications official said. Voice mail is a system that allows people to leave messages and have their phone answered without talking directly to the other person, said Jeff Kuhns, director of voice and adminis trative services at the Office of Tele communications. Students calling someone with voice mail will hear a message asking the caller to press a certain number for a specific function instead of waiting for a tone. If the caller leaves a mes sage, it will be stored in a central com puter bank where it can be retrieved later. Late last semester the French department used a voice mail pro gram funded by the Office of Telecom munications, said Mary Anne Lyman GET FRAMED... e . t ..F ur o R LESS Buy your frames Bu an Y d l o o: ch r r i t a ic rn iens e es S at Spectacles at Spectacles and g y our VI 1 11, lenses and g foret your FREE lenses for FREE nominal charge for multifocal nominal charge for multifocal and photochromatic lenses •Prescriptions Filled • Lenses Duplicated. •Prescriptions Filled • Lenses Duplicated. Fashion Eyewear Fashion Eyewear for Men and Women lor for Men and Women 113 E. BEAVER AVENUE 113 E. BEAVER AVENUE • 234-7788 234-7788 fiLaiVie 92'fla g ' 92 : = 3 <*.: s • - "lV.lrlr; :. r 1.71 r , , , , Meet The Author Londa Schiebinger I:'enn State sooktore on campus Save 20% on The Mind Has No Sex? awned & operated by Penn State Hager, assistant professor of French. With voice mail, teaching assistants leave messages including French oral assignments for the students to respond to immediately or to answer later in class. Lyman-Hager said even though the French department is still studying how TAs use the system to commu nicate with their students, it definitely helps students improve their oral skills. "The TAs are all really excited about it," she said. The expanded system would be pro vided by a non-University company as a subscription with a monthly or semester billing method, Kuhns said. But he said the cost of the technology has not yet been determined. "There are all kinds of variables," he said. "But at this point it could range from $4 to $lO a month." Lyman-Hager also said the pro gram could be expensive. "If (the program) weren't funded by telecommunications it would usual- It ,tim Londa Schiebinger Is Assistant Professor of History, Mni a State University. Wednesday, March 20 12 Noon - 2 PM ly cost $8 per TA per month," she said. The proposal has received a mixed reaction among members of the Asso ciation of Residence Hall Students. North Halls President Marsha Pratt said she discussed the option with her council earlier and most thought the program was not necessary. South Halls president Joe Milazzo said his council liked the concept, but thought it was too expensive. If there is an interest in the technol ogy, Kuhns said, it can be expanded in several ways, including the possibility of access for off-campus students, and a way to "broadcast" messages. Stu dents could record one message to be transmitted to many different people, he said. Lyman-Hager said she uses this broadcasting technique to com municate with the TAs. "In a large institution it's easy for students to fall through cracks even with excellent support groups and advisers because of schedules and size," Lyman-Hager said. "This offers a way to interact directly." Th . , . . cal '"Stotv/ 54. 3",= • -Az" 92 layiez' during the book-signing session. The M IND HAS NO S EX 7 \\„,„olls,H,, Of Of \LOC; S feint' LON DA SC H ['BINGER Naturalists help protect amphibians AMHERST, Mass. lAP ) Spring doesn't officially arrive until later this week, but Amherst's salamanders are already on the move. And in what has become a spring rite in this college town, about a dozen peo ple gathered Monday night to ensure the spotted salamanders got safely through special salamander-scale tunnels under a road to their breeding grounds. Before the town installed the tunnels in 1988, salamander supporters had stood guard, stopping traffic, to keep them from harm. Thomas Tyning, a master naturalist with the Massachusetts Audubon Socie ty, called it a good first night. About two dozen of the navy blue amphibians with yellow polka dots stepped out smartly for salamanders in the 44 degree temperatures. It takes 10 to 15 minutes for a seven inch long salamander to cross the road in warm rain, Tyning said. "If the tem perature drops, they show to a crawl that is, even more of a crawl."
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