Thursday, September 20,1990
Credit card copiers
arrive on campus
by Richard S. Gajewski
Collegian Staff Writer
Behrend officials are hoping
two new photocopiers will make
life easier for students. There's a
twist though; change will no
longer be required. Instead,
students will use a card similar to
a student i.d. to charge copies.
The new machines are
expected to arrive sometime in
the next two weeks and will be
installed in the Otto Behrend
Science building and Niagara
residence hall.
"This is the wave of the
future," said Paul Bailey,
manager of the Instructional
Communications Center. "Using
the debit card is more convenient
for students."
New policies
mark this
semester's
rush week
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Shields said this relieves the
sense of pressure placed on
students to pledge. "I hope no
one feels pressured...a fraternity
is a wonderful experience, but it's
not for everyone."
At the end of Rush week,
fraternities and sororities send out
bids to students whom they
wish to offer membership to.
The actual number of pledges
could match or be below the
number of bids sent out.
Sigma Tau Gamma sent 17
bids out and received 15 pledges.
Sigma Kappa Nu sent 19 and
received 18. Steve McClain,
president of Sigma Kappa Nu,
said "fall always seems to have a
bigger turnout than spring."
Among sororities. Alpha
Sigma Tau sent 10 bids and
matched that in pledges while
Alpha Sigma Alpha sent 7 and
also matched with an equal
amount of pledges.
Many events took place
during Rush week. At their first
meeting, Alpha Sigma Tau had a
"Get to Know" party where they
used skittles candies as an
icebreaker. Each pledge received
skittles and depending upon the
color of the skittle, were asked a
question.
Among the fraternities. Sigma
Kappa Nu gave all new coming
pledge members a tour of their
house while Sigma Tau Gamma
took the informal approach and
just hung out with their pledges.
Kurt Hiabach of Sigma Tau
Gamma told the Collegian that
"we tried to give them a better
awareness of what Greek life
means to us while trying to show
them what Greek life could mean
to them."
All of the fraternities and
sororities contacted by The
Collegian said the actual pledging
policies could not be revealed and
were confidential.
The debit card looks much
like a credit card and is used the
same way a student's i.d. is in the
dining hall. Each time the student
uses the machine, all he/she has
to do is insert the card. The $.lO
charge for the copy is deducted
from the student's credit, much
like meal plan points. The
copiers, however, will still accept
coins or bills.
Debit cards are available in the
bookstore, at the RUB desk, and
the Instructional
Communications Center. The
cards can be purchased for $3.50
with $1 credit already on them.
Chris Hilden, president of the
Student Programming Council,
is giving away a debit card with
the purchase of a student
activities card.
Tucker...
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schools have chosen to sanction
and support, to some degree,
Afro-American clubs and the
celebration of black history," said
Tucker. He feels that these events
do not make up for the deficit of
minority contributions in the
curriculum and may even lead to
more separatism.
"It's important for all of us to
know the complete American
history, which should include
minorities," Tucker said.
Tucker also expressed dismay
that he has been accused of
censorship.
"The record clearly shows
that, traditionally, curriculum
committees have inadvertently or
unknowingly practiced censorship
or exclusion at the expense of
racial/ethnic groups in all areas of
academics," Tucker said in his
letter to The Morning News.
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Diver down: members of Behren's SCUBA Club get ready to dive during
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National fraternities report less
hazing since banning pledging
(CPS) - One year after Zeta
Beta Tau became the first
fraternity to ban pledging,
officials report that the ban has
slowed hazing at its chapters
nationwide, and that it hasn't
hurt membership efforts at all.
In fact, ZBT recruited 17.3
percent more students last year
- the first period in which it
had dropped pledging activities
- than in 1988-89, ZBT
national Vice President Ronald
Taylor reported at the
fraternity's national convention
in early August.
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announced in August 1989,
that it was abandoning
pledging, Tau Kappa Epsilon
said its chapters would adopt
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by fall, 1991.
Both announcements were
made in hopes of ending hazing
rituals that often occur during
the pledging period.
Last February, eight more
greek organizations - Omega
Psi Phi, Phi Beta Sigma,
Kappa Alpha Psi, and Alpha
Phi Alpha fraternities, and the
Delta Sigma Theta, Sigma
Gamma Rho, Zeta Phi Beta
and Alpha Kappa sororities -
announced bans on all pledging
activities except initiation
ceremonies.
ZBT's abandonment of
pledging hasn't been easy.
"In theory it's good, but it's
really hard to make a switch
over like this," complained a
ZBT, who didn't want his name
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or his school revealed.
"It hasn't hurt our rush one
bit," he continued, "but it's not
something we advertise during
rush. We don't publicize the
fact that we're different than the
rest."
All but about 15 percent of
the TKE chapters "have taken
some steps toward
implementing" the non-pledge
program, reported Charles
Trabold, TKE's director of
chapter services. "There's been
no negative impact," he
maintained. "If anything, it's
been positive."
Despite the move to end
pledging, hazing incidents
continue to be reported.
More than 40 students have
died in the past decade due to
hazing.