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elion checklist to help students
By Christine Cooke
FOR THE COLLEGIAN
Recent additions to the student
aid summary option on eLion
offer students a unique financial
checklist and can reduce the
amount of congestion in the Office
of Student Aid.
The financial checklist helps
students answer some of the
basic questions they may have
about financial aid, instead of
waiting for long periods of time to
speak with a financial aid repre
sentative over the phone, said
Brooke Repine, a Student Aid
adviser.
“Sometimes we receive up to
300 e-mails per day and we can
only answer so fast." Repine said.
“This application will help stu
dents get an answer quicker."
She said the office is crowded
with up to 20 people at on*.. '^d
Trick or Treat: Chocolate always a hit
By Jennifer C. Yates
ASSOCIATED PRESS
McKEESPORT - In a block
long warehouse at the
McKeesport Candy Co., wooden
pallets are piled high with boxes
of candy fangs, wax mustaches,
peanut butter and chocolate
pumpkins, even a bag ot "blood"
that resembles a hospital IV
“The grosser the candy the bet
ter it's going to sell," s owner
Jon H. Prince.
While kids love gore and gim
micks when it conics to
Halloween how can you not
love a pair of wax fangs’
experts say children still are
drawn to the classics their par
ents favor when filling the family
treat bowl every year.
First on the list? Chocolate.
“The truth is that there are
many tried and true candy
favorites. especially at
Halloween." says Susan Smith, a
spokeswoman for the National
Confectioners Association.
“Holidays represent tradition and
small traditional favorites are the
true kid pleasers on Halloween
night."
Sixty-eight percent ot kids say
they like to get treats made with
chocolate, while h percent go for
lollipops, 7 percent go for gummy
candy and another 7 percent pre
fer gum. the association said.
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the representatives do the best
they can to ensure students have
their questions answered without
a long wait in line.
The financial aid checklist also
reminds students when it’s time
to reapply for financial aid.
Executive Director of Student
Aid Anna Griswold said the tool
will remind students of what else
they need to do to complete their
financial aid applications.
“Students can look at the finan
cial aid checklist periodically and
see what else they have to do, and
what they need to pay special
attention to," Griswold said.
Some students said the new
financial aid application will help
them.
Julie Ressalam plans on using
it when she applies for financial
aid next year.
“FAFSA is sometimes hard to
deal with This wav I have other
A recent poll showed 68 percent of kids prefer treats made out of
chocolate, while 9 percent prefer lollipops,7 percent go for gummy can
dies and another 7 percent prefer gum.
candies were on the rise. But it's
not just the little colorful bears
you might be used to. Think gory
gummy eyeballs, tongues, fin
gers. brains, even rats are all pop
ular for Halloween.
In all. Halloween candy
accounts for about $2.2 billion in
sales a year, the biggest holiday
for confections after Easter.
New variations of traditional
treats help drive some of those
sales, Smith says. Bethlehem
based Just Born Inc., for exam-
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marshmallow Peeps candies at
Easter. This year, the company
has added Peeps Chocolate
Covered Marshmallow
Pumpkins.
According to Yahoo, the top
searched Halloween candy online
are Hershey’s chocolate and
Kisses, followed by Snickers,
gummy bears and gum. Candy
corn, that icon of Halloween
treats that dates back to the
1800 s, is No. 10 on the list.
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options than speaking with a rep
resentative. The office is always
busy and can only do so much,”
Ressalam (junior-biology) said.
But some students said they’re
not sure the checklist will make
the financial aid process any easi
er. Jocelyn Helgerman- (junior
integrative arts) said she might
use the application once or twice
per semester.
“The Office of Student Aid is
sometimes backed up, but I’ve
never had trouble contacting
them,” Helgerman said. “If I need
to use the checklist, I’ll use it.”
Student Aid officials said the
application was tested among stu
dents before it was launched to
make sure it was easy for stu
dents to use.
The new application will contin
ue to be tested among students to
ensure it maintains user-friendly
functions.
Stern Witt 'Collegiar
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Diana K. Sugg read excerpts of her
stories on Wednesday at the Foster Conference.
Award-winning author
shares journey, advice
The heartbreak of a mother
losing her child to cancer is an
experience with which most col
lege students are unfamiliar.
But the writing of Pulitzer
Prize winner Diana K. Sugg
made that emotional experience
incredibly real for Penn State stu
dents on Wednesday morning.
Sugg read excerpts from her
articles about 12-year-old R.J.
Voight’s battle with pediatric can
cer and the emotional toll it took
on R.J. and his mother Michele.
Sugg, a former medical
reporter from The Baltimore
Sun.spoke as the second speaker
at the Foster Conference .
Students said they were
impressed by Sugg s emotional
connection to her story and the
tactful manner in which she tack
led such sensitive subject matter
as R.J.s story.
“The audience was definitely
able to connect with what she
was saying and I think that’s
what makes her such an amazing
writer,” Alyse Horn ijunior-jour
nalism) said.
Katie Dziki said she didn't
expect Sugg to go so deeply into
one particular story.
“The thing that spoke to me
was R.J.s story," Dziki said. “I
wasn’t expecting it to be as emo
tional as it was."
Accompanying her readings,
Sugg presented a slide show of
various photographs, ranging
from some of R.J. receiving treat-
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ment, some with his mother and
others of his final days in the hos
pital to illustrate everything R.J
went through.
After her readings. Sugg
briefly spoke with journalism
professor Tony Barbieri and
students had the opportunity to
ask Sugg questions about her
story and experiences as a jour
nalist. Sugg gave advice to the
aspiring journalists in the room
as well.
"I was so amazed by her emo
tional appeal and her stories h
really brings the issues of tiiese
children to light," Emily Pas:
(junior-public relations) said, i
was holding onto every word she
was saving."
Sugg recalled when P .i>
mom Michele revealed to hoi
why Michelle decided to let Sugg
into their lives and write her son’s
story: "It was because I looked
into your eyes and 1 decided 1
could trust vou." she said.
Sugg encouraged students u
remember that as journalists
"you will be sized up in seconds.'
and that it’s important to kcci
your integrity while waiting sto
ties.
"If you have heart and soul ar.e
really want to go for it. you cat
get great stories." Sugg said.
Pasi said she especially valued
one piece of Sugg's adv ice.
“Every stoiy is a stoiy and ym:
just have to dive into it.' Pus
said. "I’m always going to keep
that with me.”
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