The
Wednesday, March 28, 1990
Mark bitches about
his diet as Pieces
returns
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Baseball squad
gets first win
on the road
Cause of last
Wednesday’s power
is still
outage
being
Mechanical failure suspected
by Tony Olivito
Collegian News Editor
The cause of last Tuesday
night's power failure which left
most of Bchrcnd without
electricity for over three hours is
still being investigated.
The incident occurred at 9:43
pm in one of the underground
lines located under the sidewalk
between the 700 and 800 block of
apartment buildings. Several
people reported hearing "loud
bangs" at this lime, according to
Randy Hoffman, head of Police
and Safely.
Apparently the problem was
mechanical in nature, according
to John Ream, director of
operations. Such systems arc
man-made and arc likely to have
glitches.
An official at Pennsylvania
Electric Company (PENNELEC)
replied likewise that it was a
mechanical failure.
It was the second outage this
school year. The other occurring
October 24,1989 was caused by a
faulty cable splice.
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investigated
The splice, which connects
two electric lines, blew apart,
forcing a man hole cover off.
The lines arc owned and
maintained by PENNELEC.
Power was temporarily
restored at 1 am Wednesday
morning to all areas of the
campus except the apartments,
according to Hoffman.
Then, at 6:20 am power was
shut down on the entire campus
so that the line supplying power
to the apartments could be
connected.
Hoffman stated students were
familiar with the situation
"having experienced it once
before," and the incident was
more of a nuisance for students
this time.
He said because of the power
outage phone service was down,
preventing students from
receiving or making telephone
calls.
Some teachers who had
scheduled tests for Wednesday
morning gave them at a later
time.
Collegian
Behrend's Weekly Newspaper
Feminist
of a truly democratic nation
Advocates greater
freedom in the
workplace and
household
by Lea CJotch
Collegian Staff Writer
Gloria Stcincm, consulting
editor of Ms. magazine and well
known author and feminist,
delivered a speech entitled
"Women: The New Immigrants"
last Thursday night in Eric Hall.
Stcincm began by explaining
that feminism is the equality
between men and women of all
ages and races. She pointed out
that we shouldn't forget how
recent it was that the majority of
this country's population was not
definable as human beings.
"The question before us this
evening for the future is really
how can we perfect this
democracy and...fully integrate
the fcmalcs...who arc the single
largest group of psychic
immigrants in what is still a
patriarchy," said Stcincm.
She cited five points that
must be accomplished for the
United Slates to be a true
democracy.
The first point was
reproductive freedom.
She explained that
reproductive freedom includes the
right to have or not to have
children, protection for someone
that docs not want to have an
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.aurica George, president of
Behrend's Women Today Club, meets Gloria Steinem,
editor of Ms. magazine photo by Audrey Acosta
abortion as well as someone that
docs, and improvements in
childbirth conditions.
In reference to human
sexuality as a means of
expressing affection she said, "To
say sexuality is okay only inside
marriage and directed to having
children is like saying that you
can have freedom of speech but
can only say one thing."
Also, Stcincm said that we
should understand the parallels
between sex and race in the Tight
for equality.
"It is not possible for white
women to be free without the
freedom of men and women of
color," she said.
Secondly, she called for a
redefinition and reevaluation of
work. Homemakers work harder
than anyone and get paid the least
amount of money she said.
The third point is the
democratization of thcrfamily.
"We can't have a democratic
state until we have a democratic
family," she said.
Fraternity's
court hearing
results in
concessions
by Tony Olivito
Collegian News Kditor
The defense and prosecution
involved in the Sigma Kappa Nu
fraternity raid last month met and
agreed to a disorderly conduct
charge before yesterday's hearing
at the Nothcast Municipal
Building, according to District
Justice Abate.
The underage drinking
charges also filed against the
fraternity that night were dropped.
Each person who was ticketed
paid $lO2 in fines and court costs
Names of those who were
involved are "not a matter of
public record” and can not be
released, according to Abate.