The Collegian Wednesday, March 28,1990
Alpha Sigma Tau
DUI vidio contest
by Cristin Hayes
Collegian Staff Writer
The Alpha Sigma Tau
sorority won in the college
category of the DUI Advisory
Board Video Contest held on
March 10 at the Millcreek Mall.
AST entered the video in the
hope that it would teach people
that Drinking and Driving is not
safe.
The video features members of
the sorority at a party drinking
and later at a funeral home
showing the results of the party -
a friend killed from drinking and
driving.
"AST did a really nice job
with their video," a member of
the Advisory Board said.
"We were really surprised that
we won because last time we
Behrend Cheerleaders rebuild
squad for
by Monica Michel
Collegian Staff Writer
The Bchrend Cheerleaders are
in the process of rebuilding their
club.
Two years ago, the Behrend
Cheerleading Squad consisted of
six girls. After the season all six
girls either transferred or
graduated and the club just about
died out
Maria Gerena, the present
squad's manager, restarted the
squad last year. To do so, Gerena
had to get approval from SGA,
find an advisor, and raise money.
The advisor of the cheerleaders is
Laurie O'Sullivan, who is a
Residence Life Coordinator in
Perry Hall.
Each year a new squad is
picked. The girls bring many
different types and styles of
Study predicts 1990's expected tuiton
increases smaller than last decade's
(CPS) - Even as schools
around the country announce
hefty new tuition hikes for next
year, tuition won't rise as fast
during the rest of the 1990's as
did the past decade, a new study
predicts.
"There are many favorable
things happening all at once" to
keep tuition increases from rising
sharply, said economist Carol
Frances.
Frances cited slight increases
in state appropriations for public
campuses and in public support
for die financial aid. In addition
most institutions have almost
finished raising their faculty
members' salaries that arc
competitive with private
industry.
"The rate in the year-to-year
change (in tuition) peaked in the
1980'5," Frances said. "If you
look back, the slowdown in state
funding in the early 80's is when
tuition increased so rapidly."
Frances, who conducted the
study for the American
checked we were in third place.
We arc extremely happy with the
results," said Wendy Bussard, a
member of AST.
Erie County high schools,
colleges and other institutions
were asked to create a thirty
second video dealing with
drinking and driving.
Five videos were submitted.
These came from McDowell high
school, Abraxas, Alpha Sigma
Tau - Penn State, SADD - Penn
State, and the Brooksidc Fire
Department
"It's a shame more schools
didn't enter," said a member of
the Advisory Board.
The videos were then voted on
at the Millcreek Mall. A vote
cost twenty-five cents.
The money raised will go to
support the work of the DUI
upcoming
cheerleading to tryouts from their
high schools. For tryouts, the
girls have to make up a new
cheer.
The cheerleaders can be heard
at the men's basketball games and
selected women's games. Soccer
games are not attended by the
cheerleaders because they are
usually still going through
tryouts in the fall. A squad of
eight girls are in the midst of
preparing themselves to cheer for
the men's baseball team.
The cheerleaders are classified
as a club. They were given ten
uniforms from the school and
half of the money they will need
for their season. They are
responsible for raising the rest of
the money themselves.
The squad this year is up to
sixteen members. They practice
Association of State Colleges and
Universities, the American
Association of Community and
Junior Colleges, the American
Association of University
Professors and the Association of
Urban Universities, predicts
yearly tuition increases of about
7 percent during the next few
years.
Tuition hikes averaged 12
percent annually in the early 80's
and have dropped to about 8
percent in the last three years, she
reports.
"Neither student aid nor
family incomes kept pace with
rising college costs in the
1980'5," added the College
Board's annual report, "Trends in
student aid."
"I think the education people
who are running the institutions
are extremely concerned about the
costs of education and are trying
to keep students from having to
borrow," Frances said.
Even so, while many
campuses boast their tuition
wins
Model Project. The DUI Model
Project provides equipment for
police DUI road blocks, Last
Lesson programs during prom
season, speakers and brochures
for schools, and awareness
programs for Boating Under the
Influence.
"The contest was a
tremendous success and will be
repeated again next year," stated
Bob Grossman of the DUI
Advisory Board.
McDowell High School won
the high school category of the
contest.
The winners' videos will be
aired on channel 35 as service
announcements.
The contest raised $164.32
Thirty prizes will be
distributed among the
participants.
season
three to four times a week for
two hours in the basement of
Niagara Hall.
Gerena says, "The girls
basically work very hard. They
are woiking on getting standard
cheers that everyone at Behrend
will recognize. Running their
own practices is one of their jobs
and they are doing very well.”
The girls have set many goals
for themselves. They would like
to obtain enough money to be
able to travel with the teams.
The cheerleaders are also
looking into doing community
service. They would like to visit
children's wards in local hospitals
to entertain the children with
their cheers. They have already
spoken to both Hamot Medical
Center and St. Vincent's Health
Center.
hikes for the 1990-91 year are the
lowest in 15 years, students at
most schools can still say they
pay a lot more for college than
their predecessors.
For example, students at
Loyola University in New
Orleans will pay 216 percent
more in 1990-91 than did
students who attended in 1983-
84. Similarly, students who
attended Duke University paid
$4,230 annually, compared to
$12,800 for the 1989-90 year.
Alpha Phi Omega
mans telephones
for WQLN auction
by Daniele Sadres
Collegian Staff Writer
The local chapter of Alpha
Phi Omega, a national service
fraternity, is helping WQLN with
their annual fundraising auction.
WQLN is a public television
station and must seek funds from
the public to support its
operations.
During the auction viewers
can bid on donated items. All of
the funds will go towards the
operation of the station.
Manning the telephones will be
members of Alpha Phi Omega,
along with other chapters from
Gannon and Edinboro.
Viewers will be given the
opportunity to bid on this
merchandise and the highest
bidder for each item will be
permitted to claim their
merchandise on April 28 and 29
upon payment.
Chapter members are currently
helping WQLN every Tuesday
and Thursday to pick up
merchandise that will be offered
for bids. This will continue until
April 2nd.
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James Fogle, Service Vice-
President for the Behrend chapter
said by taking part in the
fundraiser, the group hopes to
benefit children.
"This is important because
this is one of the few things that
is really educational for children,"
Fogle stated. "We feel like we're
helping the children more than
anything else."
Fogle said he hopes to
combine one of the fraternities
service projects, their adopted
class at Diehl Elementary
School, with their WQLN
venture by arranging for some of
the Diehl students to visit the
station.
He feels that "showing them
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