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Behrend briefs
Last chance for students who are receiving
their first Stafford Loan this year to attend a session
before signing their loan checks. You must attend on
Tuesday, September 25 at 3 pm if you have not
already done so.
Environmentally conscious? Then
purchase one of the Wintergreen Cafe's special
reusable mugs and buy your coffee at a reduced rate
every time you bring in your mug. The first mug of
coffee will be $3.00 and every refill will be only 30
cents. Let's stop filling our landfills with paper cups.
The Women Today organization is inviting
students to join them in attending a pro-choice rally
and lobby day in Harrisburg, Tuesday, October 2.
Contact Diana Ziemniak at 864-9866 or Behrend box
1486 for more information. Weekly Women Today
meetings are held Wednesdays at noon in the first
floor Reed Conference Room.
A T-Shirt Design Contest is open to all
resident students. Drawings are due in the Joint
Residence Council (JRC) office by Wednesday,
October 3. Winners from each of the residence halls
and the apartments will win pizza for themselves and
ten of their friends. Residents can vote on designs in
the residence halls and in the Wintergarden on
Tuesday, October 9. For more information contact
Mike Adams at 825-2725 or Wendy at 898-6735.
Battle of the Bands, sponsored by JRC and
SPC, will be held on Saturday, September 29 at 1
pm in the Behrend Apartment Quad. For more details
call Todd at 898-6914 or Tammy at 898-6888.
Graduate School Fair is scheduled to take
place at Gannon's Hammermill Center on Tuesday,
October 2 from 10 am to 2 pm. Representatives from
more than 32 graduate and professional schools will
be in attendance. The event is free to all college
students.
Recovering Chemically Dependent
Students will share their life experiences with others.
A fifteen-minute video will accompany the
discussion in the Perry Lobby on Thursday,
September 20 at 8 pm. Any questions should be
directed to Michael at 6568.
The Provost's Golf Tournament will
take place on Saturday, September 29 at 9 am at
Gospel Hill Golf Club. Deadline for entries is
Friday, September 28 at 4 pm. For more information
contact Lisa Butch in the Intramural office at 898-
6280.
Residence hall spaces are available
immediately to both men and women. They are
limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first
served basis. Anyone interested should contact the
Housing Office in Dobbins Hall or call 898-6161.
A picnic sponsored by the Math Club will be held
today at the Wilson Picnic Grove from 1 pm to 4 pm.
Participants are encouraged to bring snacks if they
wish to.
Tour guides are needed for the Admissions
Office. Please contact Dottie at 6100 for more
information.
Newman Association meetings are on
Wednesdays from 5 to 6:30 in the Reed Conference
Room.
The Collegian
Police report:
Student arrested for DUI in Reed lot,
Concert tickets, wallet stolen
Two thefts were reported
during the past week to Police
and Safety.
On Sept. 11, a student
reported his wallet had been taken
from his book bag while he was
in the library.
The student had left the book
bag unattended while he made
copies and went to the cafeteria.
Upon returning, he discovered his
wallet was missing.
In a separate incident, a
student reported two tickets for an
upcoming concert were stolen
from his person last Thursday.
The Erie Police Department will
make attempts to check the seat
during the concert.
Prohibited Offensive
Weapon
A student was arrested on
Sept. 11 while stopped for a
traffic violation. The officer made
the arrest after noticing a black
jack on the seat beside the student
in plain sight.
Maureen Finn joins Behrend staff as
Coordinator of Program Development
by Cathie-Jo Olfano
Collegian Staff Writer
"Behrend is beautiful. It's a
shame people feel there is
nothing to do on weekends. We
will help clubs if they take the
initiative," said Maureen Finn,
the new Coordinator of Student
Organizations and Programming
Development, who took office on
June 1 of this year.
"Weekend activities are my
number-one priority," said Finn.
"The key to successful weekend
programming is fa* student clubs
and organizations to work
together."
This year the Office of
Student Activities will help clubs
and organizations with weekend
programming by matching
Law requires
(CPS) Responding to student
complaints that they sometimes
have trouble understanding
foreign-bom college instructors,
Pennsylvania has become the
most recent state to pass a law
requiring that all campus teachers
be fluent in English.
"This law is not the first (of
its kind) around, but I won't give
the impression that such laws are
plentiful. They're very, very
sparse," said Jerry Sabol,
spokesman for state Senator
Vincent Fumo, who sponsored
the bill.
Missouri, Illinois, Ohio,
Florida, California, North
Dakota, Texas and Oklahoma
also have laws requiring campus
Two Traffic Accidents
Last Friday an employee was
involved in a minor accident at
Dobbins parking lot while
driving a university vehicle. The
employee struck a parked car and
caused minor damage to both
vehicles.
A student vehicle was struck
by a hit and run driver while
parked in the Reed lot. An
investigation is continuing.
Information
Also on Friday, an
unidentified male was attempting
to sell videos in Lawrence Hall.
A Resident Assistant asked him
to leave, which he did.
Criminal Mischief
On Friday, an unknown
student in Lawrence Hall threw
soap on the roof of a delivery
vehicle for Grab-A-Bite Pizza
while the driver was making a
delivery. All attempts to locate
the student(s) failed.
funding up to $l5O for a weekend
event that is open to the entire
campus.
"I would strongly encourage
all student clubs and
organizations to apply for this
funding by coming to the office
of Student Activities when
planning a weekend activity," she
said.
Finn received her
undergraduate degree in
psychology from Allegheny
College in 1988. While
attending Allegheny, Finn was a
Resident Director and Advisor, a
member of the Ambassadors, a
tour guide, and a member of
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Finn received her master's
degree in College Student
Personnel from Bowling Green
professors to speak english
instructors to prove that they can
speak English well enough to be
understood by their students.
Some schools - Syracuse,
Temple and Stanford universities,
among others - hold courses to
help graduate teaching assistants
with their English.
Student complaints about
having troube understanding their
instructors began spreading about
10 years ago, when foreign-bom
people began to account for a
growing percentage of the
graduate students on U.S.
campuses.
Schools, of course, often
employ grad students to teach
lower-level courses and lead
discussion groups.
Thursday, September 20,
Driving Under The (
Influence
A student was arrested on
Sept. 15 for driving under the
influence, underage drinking and
reckless driving at the Reed lot
and Banks Blvd. An additional
non-student, a passenger in the
vehicle, was arrested for underage
drinking.
Criminal Mischief
On Sunday, a window on the
passenger side of a student
vehicle was found smashed out.
The student had parked his
vehicle in the apartment lot
around 2 am. The damage was i
found by another student
False Fire Alarm
A fire alarm sounded in
Niagara Hall at 3:31 pm on
September 16. Officials
discovered the call was a false
alarm and the cause could not be
determined.
State University in May 1990.
While at Bowling Green, she was
Unit Director for Residential
Services-Greek Life and was
awarded the Distinguished Service
Award by the president of the
university.
Preferring the small college
atmosphere, Finn decided to take
the job at Behrend and is glad she
did.
"Behrend has all the resources
of a major university, yet the
personal quality of a small
school," said Finn.
Finn is replacing John
Downey, who was at Behrend
three years. She feels that
Downey took the initiative to
start many new programs.
However, she says, "As Behrend
grows its needs change, and I will
change as needed."
"The loser in the whole thing
is the (undergraduate) student,"
maintained Sabol, who said
Fumo's office got "numerous"
complaints from students having
trouble with instructors in
complex courses like the ~ m
sciences.
Under the new Pennsylvania
law, schools now have to certify
to the state Department of
Education that their instructors
are fluent in English.
The grad students themselves
do not seem to mind the new
regulations.
"I think T.A.s should speak
good English," said Jun Mie, a
Chinese teaching assistant at the
University of Pittsburgh's math
department