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involve hands-on experience
with certain equipment."
While the School has
steadily increased its facilities,
lab space remains critically
low. "The other thing is a
realistic concern about the
students being able to get a job
when they graduate. The area of
communications is a growing
one but the number of people
graduating is far greater than
the openings available."
Mester has the unenviable
duty of breaking the news to
students who come to her
seeking to change their major
to one of those in
Communications.
"There are many angry
people," she said. "They are at
first anyway. They feel the
University has pulled a fast one
on them." She works with each
student to find an acceptable
resolution for their situation.
"In most cases, after the
student and I have talked for
awhile, we have been able to
find a reasonable alternative
plan for the student, given the
student's particular situation,
and come up with other majors
that the student can take that
will lead to a similar career
path. I think, for the mostpart,
that they are initially angrY-bitt
eventually satisfied that the
situation is livable."
Behrend student Pasquale
Leretsis feels differently.
Leretsis, a 28 year old Erie
native, had entered school as a
provisional student, hoping to
major in Film and Video.
"What burnt me up is that
they don't mention all these
loopholes when you are
starting out," Leretsis said.
"This is like a numbers game
and I think I got the short end
of the stick." Leretsis plans to
finish out the semester here and
then transfer to Point Park, a
private school in Pittsburgh,
where all but four of his Penn
State credits will transfer to
their film production program.
"It put a bad taste in my mouth
Student Injured,
Police Test Substance
by Laura A. Weaver
Collegian Staff Writer
Friday night, January 27, a
student in Niagra 'Hall was
transported to Hamot Medical
Center as the result of a fall down
the stairs.
The young man, who cut his
head on the stairs, was appar
ently under the influence of al
cohol.
An underage drinking charge
has been filed.
On January 14, Perry Hall
was the scene of fire equipment
so I decided to transfer. It's not
right. I just lost total interest
here."
Mike Chiteman, head of
the Division of Undergraduate
Studies, fears the enrollment
controls may cause an overload
of students into Behrend's
communication program, since
it is not affected by the
University Park restrictions.
"There are already several
programs that will have some
form of enrollment control in
the fall of 1990," said
Chiteman. Enrollment restric
tions are scheduled for
mechanical and electrical
engineering, accounting, man
agement, and management
information systems programs.
Mester has mixed feelings
about the changes. "I certainly
see the practicality of the need
to put these controls on. I
think we do our students a
disservice if we prepare them
willy-nilly, in terms of
numbers, for jobs that don't
exist."
"The other part of my
feeling is that the imposition
of these controls puts the
typical student who changes
his or her major sometime
during their. college years t..a
. a
disadvantage. It's fairly
common, as a student - matures,
to develop a clearer sense of
what he or she wants to do. I
think the imposition of these
emergency controls has been
unfair to those kind of
individuals whose interest in
the field is evolving. Therefore
I'm very hopeful that the
emergency situation will
change quickly."
The School of Commun
ications will never be the same
regardless of how long the
controls stay in place according
to Mester who said, "The
emergency enrollment controls
will probably end within a year
or two but the situation we had
before these controls were
placed will probably never be
back."
tampering. A resident of the
hall was arrested after discharging
a fire extinguisher.
The case is now pending in
court.
Also on the pending list;
Behrend police have a sample of
what they believe to be mar
ijuanna. The incident report was
filed on January 28 following a
complaint.
Behrend Police investigated
and confiscated the substance and
now await the results of a State
Police lab analysis.
Leadership
Retreat
by Mark Owens
Collegian Staff Writer
On January 27, 50 Behrend
students traveled to Camp
Glinodo, for Student
Services/Inter Club Council's
Spring Leadership Retreat for a
weekend of workshops and other
activities.
Several workshops were
conducted, including sessions on
parlimentary procedure,
motivation, programming,
understanding the university
system, and the responsibilities
of leaders.
John Downey, Coordinator of
Student Organizations and
Program Delevopment explained
the importance of the retreat.
"Something that I wanted to
stress . . . was that the student
leaders have an obligation to the
student body. This obligation is
accepted by the mere fact that you
have placed yourself in a position
of leadership. The obligation is
to do the best job possible," said
Downey.
Many students participated in
cross-cultural workshops,
including Bafa Bafa, a workshop
that split the group into two
different cultures to learn how to
deal with a culture different from
your own.
Lee Wygant, who
participated in the retreat, noted,
"the bei. activity was the cross
cultural Bafa Bafa workshop."
"To me, it was the most
significant experience of the
whole weekend."
Aside from the workshops and
lectures everyone spent time
getting to know each other and
the organizations represented.
Military
Ball
by Lori Beals
The 3rd annual ROTC
Military Ball, Behrend's only
formal event, will be held on
Friday, March 10 at the
Maennerchor Club in Erie. The
ball will begin at 7 pm with
dinner.
The guest speaker, Colonel
John E. McAllister, who is the
Chief of Staff of the 99th U.S.
Army Reserve Command, will
give a short after dinner speech.
The evening will conclude with
dancing to music provided by DJ
Mike Reno.
Invitations may be picked up
in the ROTC office in the
bottom of the Glanhill
Farmhouse, or may be sent to
you by calling 898-6218. The
RSVP date for these invitations
is March Ist.
The price per couple for
Behrend students is $25, and the
price of a single ticket is $l5.
Formal evening wear is required.
The Collegian Wednesday, February 8
Condom Week
by Janet Ocampo
Collegian Staff Writer
Throughout this week,
Behrend's Health Center will be
observing National Condom
Week. -
This event will offer a light
hearted view of the condom
while stressing the importance of
its usage in a college atmosphere.
National Condom Week is
sponsored throughout colleges by
the American College Health
Association. This is the first
time that. Behrend College will be
participating in the event.
Behrend nurse Patty Pasky has
organized activities to increase
students' awareness of the
condom.
At this time, free condoms,
supplied by the Mentor company,
will be available at the Health
Center. Pasky has organized this
activity so that students are aware
of .condom availability at the
center. Throughout the school
year, they are usually sold at the
Health Center at four for a dollar.
The condoms are charged to the
student's account in complete
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One of the major reasons for
this week-long event is the high
incidence of HIV virus levels in
the college. population. The HIV
virus is the preliminary form of
the AIDS virus. As a result,
reports show that one of every
300 college students is infected
with the AIDS virus.
The Surgeon General has
declared that condoms are an
effective method of protection
against AIDS as well as other
sexually transmitted diseases.
Since college campuses are such
a melting pot of different people
from various backgrounds, it is
likely that diseases may be passed
through sexually active students.
The American College Health
Association began the National
Condom Week during the early
80's as a means to present the
contributions of the condom.
This device has been available as
an effective form of protection
since the 1500's. Throughout the
centuries, handbills and poems
have been written outside of the
medical community in response
to condoms' usage in society.
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