The Collegian : the weekly newspaper of Behrend College. (Erie, PA) 1989-1993, December 07, 1989, Image 12
f .r ?' Page 12 Student Objects to Off-Campus Graduation Dear editor, I rounded the corner in the Science Building and smiled to myself; there were only four people ahead of me for advanced registration. The line moved surprisingly fast as I hurriedly filled in my course numbers, class abbreviations, and class times. "Next, please," said the woman behind the counter. I walked over and handed her my almost completed registration form and my I.D. card. She began to methodically calculate the number of credits that I had signed up to take and to figure out my semester standing when all of a sudden...it happened. She turned my card over, raised her eyes up to mine, paused for a moment and asked, "Are you graduating?" Am I graduating? _Am I graduating? Am I graduating? I was so deliriously happy that I had to do a double take. "Am I what?" I asked in a daze. "Are you graduating this semester?" she inquired again, pointing to the back of my registration card. Yes, yes, yes, yes! What a great feeling: For But now I have discovered that those of us that are graduating all of my daydreaming has been this coming Spring semester, as far off from - reality as a person this last registration process was can get. What does that mean? probable for the first time, an Well, I'll tell you: The graduating enjoyable one. Some of us have class of Spring 1990 will not be been here for all four years (or graduating from Behrend College. more!) and after a lot of hard Instead, it has been decided by work and a lot of good times, we Dean Lilley and Associate Dean have earned the right to graduate Burke that our class will graduate from Penn State-Behrend. in The Warner Theater in Every time I think about downtown Erie. I know, I know, graduation, I have to think about this building holds a lot of all of the things I've done here at sentimental and emotional Behrend and the people that I feelings for me too. I've spent a have met. I think back to my lot of time there; it's where I met freshman year and remember with most of my friends, and where fondness all of the dorm parties, I've taken some of my best the snowball fights, Dr. Feel classes. How about you? Goods, and trying desperately to A lot of us have relatives find a ride to Stonehouse on coming to see us graduate...at our Friday nights. Then came school, that they have never seen. sophomore year; living in the And they probably never will see, apartments, Thursday Night because if we have to drive into Happy Hours at Heaven '0 Six, town, find a parking space, walk Fall Foliage/Spring Fling, to Warner Theater, go through Dunkel Quarters, and working at commencements, wait in traffic, Dobbins. Junior year brought try to figure out how to get to two new roommates, my twenty- dinner, and then eat dinner, there first birthday, Brookside lunches won't be time for Aunt Millie, (that usually turned into dinners Uncle George, grandma, and too!), and - sadly enough, the grandpa to see where we've spent graduation of most of my closest the last four years of our lives. friends that I had made here at From what I understand, the Behrend. And now, in my senior decision to hold graduation in the year, even though I still have one Warner is because of construction more semester left, I have-othat will be taking place in Erie memories of Wednesday nights at Hall. What I don't understand is the Village Pub, living off- why the construction cannot wait campus for the first time, to be started the day after visiting my old apartment, and graduation? It's been waiting taking Anthropology as an since my sophomore year, what's elective! another couple months? I'm sure Even though most of you that there is a way around this can't relate to the personal dilemma-it's just going to need memories that I have recalled, some time and some plan whether you're a freshmen or fifth changing. You remember that year senior, you probably can saying -where there's a will, think of your own memories of there's a way. Well-I definitely great times here at Behrend. The have the will, along with a lot of great times definitely outweigh other people that I've talked to the bad ones and I know that I about this, so now we have to will never forget them. I've spent find a way. Since we, the four of the best years of my life students, are the ones who are here at Behrend and I know a lot directly affected by this problem:, of you have too. Of course, we've done our share of complaining about Behrend (who doesn't find things wrong with their own school?). We've criticized the insufficient parking spaces, the long lines in the finance office, Police and Safety, the lakes that form when it rains in front of Turnbull and the Reed Building, the incredible waiting lines for registration, our Spring Break that starts during ski season, the teachers and classes that we just can't seem to deal with, and, of course, the weather. But compared to all of the good things that we have or have done at Behrend, these seem trivial-and insignificant. When it comes right down to it, we like Behrend; it has given us a lot and we feel a certain loyalty and bond to it. Whether we want to admit it or not, we do. So won't it be a great feeling to be sitting on the grass in front of our library in May at our graduation recalling, once again, the many happy memories that we have had here at Behrend? Since I have attended my first graduation here at Behrend three years ago, I have thought about the day that I would be graduating. we should have a major impact on resolving it, right? Well, we weren't and I think that this is inexcusable. So, since the administration obviously feels that our opinions shouldn't make a difference with this decision, we're going to have to show them that they do. There "Your future in school looks bright . .. very, very bright." Now's the time to buy a PS/2 Model 25. The IBM Personal System/2® helps you meet the future with added confidence. With it, you can organize your notes, write and revise your papers, - and create smart-looking graphics. And that's only part of the story. Now through December 31, 1989, you can get a special student price on the IBM PS/2® Model 25, already loaded with easy-to-use software. What's more, when you buy a PS/2, you'll get a mouse pad, a 3.5-inch diskette holder, and a power strip=all free. 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Nan Quatchak Editor's note: Dean o Student Services Chris Reber has pointed out t this will be the only ye in which graduation wil be held in the Warner Theater.