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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
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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