r 111 Country Stars Rock at The Bryce Jordan Center or Hig, Trading Places 6 Whit Gibson enjoys success after transferring to Penn State Partly See p - -> t.. . *IC* page 12, News i,,; page 13, Spa Sports II (la th , le collegian www.collegian.psu.edu Vol. 99, No. 74 20 Pages ©1998 Collegian Inc Group rallies against to educate, promote By TIM SWIFT Collegian Staff Writer With whistles, pins and cards in hand, students hit the streets of State College Friday night to address the issue of acquaintance rape. The distribution of the items was part of Students Promoting Education and Aware ness about Rape, a program sponsored by a number of student groups including Interfraternity Council, Undergraduate Student Government and Womyn's Con cerns, in response to the recent reported rapes on campus. After a brief rally of about 100 people at University Gates, participants separated and passed out the materials that were Members of Phi Gamma Delta, 319 N. Burrowes Rd., walk west down East College Avenue Saturday afternoon scouring the sidewalk for trash. The fraternity was one of several participating in Greek Sweep, a community-wide effort to clean up the State College area. Greeks spruce up State College By CARRIE DZWIL Collegian Staff Writer Fraternity, sorority and com munity members armed with trash bags took to the streets Sat urday afternoon for the second annual Greek Sweep. Heather Arentz (senior-food science), Phi Mu sorority mem ber, volunteered to help with Greek Sweep registration at the Student Book Store, 330 E. Col lege Ave. Each fraternity or sorority was assigned to a zone, Arentz said, where members cleaned streets, alleyways and lawns. "It's just to help out the com munity to give back to the community," Arentz said. Jeff Tranell, Interfraternity Council community relations chair, said about 1,000 fraternity, sorority and community mem bers participated in this year's event. "The turnout was amazing. We could have cleaned up the entire county," Tranell said. "It only took about an hour to do a suffi cient cleaning job." Stand Together helps local single parents finish school By CARRIE DZWIL bilitation services. Stand Togeth- such as cribs and clothing, men- Even with the organization's Collegian Staff Writer er provides her $l4O a month to toring support from local families aid, the days and nights are hard help cover child care expenses and tutoring. for Dubbs. She wakes up at 6 a.m. Elizabeth Dubbs does not have and tutoring for her statistics So far, most aided by the chari- with her daughter Breanna. to give up her dream of earning a class. Before she received the ty have been high school students Classes start at 8 a.m. for Dubbs, college degree thanks to Stand aid, Dubbs said trying to earn a striving for a high school degree and do not end until about 3 p.m. Together. degree was more troublesome or GED, she said. The resources After class, she goes to her Stand Together, a nonprofit than rewarding. available for college students are daughter's daycare center and organization based in State Col- "It was very frustrating," scarce, she said, so the organiza- volunteers for an hour as part of lege, "provides resources for sin- Dubbs said. "I could only take tion has enlisted the help of Penn the Stand Together program, she gle parents that are struggling to classes on Tuesday and Thurs- State to improve the situation for said. stay in school," said Mary Kay day. That was the only way I college students. The program requires its Laplante, Stand Together presi- could afford daycare." On Saturday afternoon, several clients to keep a certain grade dent. Stand Together provides single Penn State fraternities and soror- point average, volunteer three Dubbs, a Stand Together client, parents with resources such as ities announced they had raised hours of service per week and is trying to earn a degree in reha- daycare funding, material goods, $5,800 for Stand Together. attend classes regularly. designed to promote the University Escort Service, and increase awareness of agen cies such as the Center for Counseling and Psychological Services and Women's Resource Center of Centre County, which aid victims of rape. Amy Falck (sophomore-division of undergraduate studies) was one of many students stopped by program participants. Falck, who took a resource card for herself and her roommate, said the event was a great idea and was a long time in coming, "The number of rapes are severely unre ported at Penn State," Falck said. "It is about time that people realize that this is a problem." Students gathered at the rally to discuss issues such as consuming alcohol responsi- Ashlie Hauck, Panhellenic Council vice president of rela tions, said Greek Sweep was a success because people who are not involved with the event com mittee jumped in to help. A new feature of the event, a bulk item collection, was added to the list this year, Tranell said. All large items, such as televisions, sofas and Homecoming float debris, which normally would not be collected from fraternity hous es, were disposed of with help from the State College Borough departments of health and public works. After the cleanup, a picnic was held in Central Parklet. At the picnic, recipients of fundraising efforts for some philanthropies sponsored by IFC and PHC were announced, Tranell said. Stand Together, a philanthropy new to IFC and PHC, received the most donations. "We saw the picnic as a good way not only to honor those peo ple that helped but as a good way to honor the greek community," he said. Of the $7,800 raised in a raffle bly and being more aware of personal safe ty. Kate Kleba, co-director of Womyn's Concerns, spoke of college rape statistics those that are reported and unreported. One in four women will experience an attempted rape during her college years, Kleba said. The rally was a good opportunity to draw attention to groups that aid students who have rape and sexual assault con cerns, such as Peers Helping Reaffirm, Educate and Empower, Kleba said. USG Legal Affairs Director Beth Silvia, event organizer, stressed the ongoing importance of educating the community about rape and sexual assaults. "This (program) is not the end," Silvia said. "This is just the beginning." Brendan Holloway (freshman-business administration) cleans up the borough streets with some fellow members of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, 319 N. Burrowes Rd., in Saturday's Greek Sweep. held by four fraternities and 16 Sister, The Second Mile, National sororities, it was announced that Congenital Pulmonary Lym ss,Boo would go to Stand Togeth- phangiectasia Foundation, Centre er. County Special Olympics and Five other organizations each Centre County Alzheimers Care received $400: Big Brother/Big Givers Support Group. Monday, Oct. 26, 1998 rape safety Students gather outside the University Gates Friday night to participate in the Students Promoting Education and Awareness about Rape rally. the goal of the group is to educate others about the potential of rape in the community. Collegian Photo/Mike Morones Collegian Photo/Mike Morones Low '0 46 sunny and cooler. age 2 for the extended forecast. Campus Weather Service Students see world in Semester at Sea By TRACY WILSON Collegian Staff Writer After Carl Schlemmer saw his roommate's pictures taken from atop the Great Wall of China and of his friend holding piranhas by the Amazon River, he knew that the Semester at Sea program was for "I knew I had to go,' Schlemmer (senior-civil and envi ronmental engineering), one of more than 30,000 college students who have participated in the pro gram since 1963. Schlemmer, who took part in the program during Spring Semester 1998, traveled aboard the S.S. Uni verse Explorer, a 23,500-ton ship equipped with classrooms, two din ing halls, a library, a theater, a bookstore, a pool, a computer lab and a sun deck. Every five or six days, the ship ports at one of 10 countries on the trip's itinerary, where students are free to explore the area, said Paul Watson, director of Enrollment Management at the Institute for Shipboard Education. Academically sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh and administered by the Institute for Shipboard Education, the program takes about 600 students and 25 professors from across the country each semester. A rolling admis sions process is used to select stu dents for the program. Students are still in the process of confirm ing plans for Spring Semester 1999. "Most people go not knowing anyone no pun intended, but we were all in the same boat," said Jon Kelly, Class of 1998, who took part in the Semester at Sea program last semester. The trip costs $12,980 and includes tuition, room, board and passage fair. Work study programs are available that nearly cut the cost of the trip in half. During the semester-long jour ney, participants are considered students of the University of Pitts- Published independently by students at Penn State "Most people go not knowing anyone no pun intended, but we were all in the same boat." burgh. They take between 12 and 15 credits, which transfer to their institution, and can choose to enroll in any of more than 60 courses. While in port, students must do "field work" projects about the areas where they land that count for about 20 percent of their grades. Course material often relates to what students will be learning at port, said William Duik er, retired Penn State Liberal Arts professor of East Asian studies. Duiker will be teaching on the ship for the fourth time during Spring Semester 1999. Kelly said that while at port, he encountered people who had never seen a Caucasian before. - At 6-foot-1 (inch) and with long blond hair, I stuck out," he said. The highlight of the trip for many seemed to be South Africa, where students took part in a lec ture with anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu and saw the politi cal prison that housed Nelson Man dela for 28 years. For many students, the experi ences they had on the trip make the high price inconsequential. "When I heard it was almost $13,000, I walked out of the meet ing," Kelly said. After thinking it over, Kelly sold his car, took out two loans and worked two jobs to make the trip happen. "I don't regret it at all," he said. "You meet the most adventure some spirits, seekers who want to experience things, open minded people who want to learn about themselves and the world." Collegian Photo/Megan K. Morr Jon Kelly Class of 1998
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