The Collegian : the weekly newspaper of Behrend College. (Erie, PA) 1989-1993, September 05, 1991, Image 2

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B e hre nd Briefs
Tutors Needed: The Penn State-Behrend/Diehl
Elementary School Volunteer Tutoring Program
begins Sept. 10, 1991. Applications are available
from the Office of Student Activities, First Floor
Reed. Deadline to apply is Sept. 6, 1991.
Adopt-A-Class Program: Student clubs
and organizations with service commitments may
wish to apply for the Penn State-Behrend/Diehl
Elementary School Adopt-A-Class Program for
1991-92. Applications are available from the Office
of Student Activities, First Floor Reed. Deadline to
apply is Sept. 6, 1991.
Computer Training Session: The
Computer Center is offering training sessions during
the first few weeks of the Fall semester. Sessions
will be given on MAINFRAME ELECTRONIC
MAIL and DOS. Reservations are required and may
be made by calling or stopping by the Computer
Center. For more information call 898-6415.
BRUNO'S This Week: Your
favorite videos with Tony Catalino - Friday. Rock
all night with Tom Moyak - Saturday. BRUNO'S
is open 8 till midnight and sponsored by the Student
Programming Council. Next Week: Mark Eddie -
Friday; The comedy of Stevie Ray Fromstein -
Saturday. See you there.
Free Tutoring Available: The Behrend
Learning Assistance Center opens on Sept. 3, 1991.
The assistance of faculty and student tutors is
available everyday in English, writing, study skills
(including test preparation), math, chemistry,
business/accounting, and physics. Students need
only schedule an appointment by phone at 899-6014
or drop in the Center located in the South Cottage.
Hours are daily as posted. For additional
information, please contact Robert Patterson in 205
Turnbull.
Behrend Library CD-ROM
Workshops: The following workshops have
been scheduled:
Periodical Abstracts - Sept. 10 - 10 till 10:20 a.m.;
ABI Inform - Sept. 10 - 2 till 2:20 p.m.;
ERIC Ondisc - Sept 11 - 10 till 10:20 a.m.;
Economics Literature - Sept. 12 - 10 till 10:20 a.m.;
Government Publications - Sept. 12 - 2 till 2:20 p.m.
Workshops meet at CD - ROM Stations. For more
information, call 898-6106.
Fall 1991 Leadership Conference: The
Office of Student Activities and The Student
Organization Council has scheduled this semester's
Leadership Conference for Saturday, Sept. 14,
1991. Free T-shirts and meals will be provided for
all participants. The conference begins at 10 a.m.
Several different leadership tracks are available.
Register in the Office of Student Activities or in the
Student Organization Council Office by Sept. 9,
1991.
Wanna Brief? If your organization has
information you would like to see run in the Behrend
Briefs, write it down and bring it to The Collegian
office
Welcome Back! The staff of The Collegian
would like to welcome all students, faculty, and staff
back for another academic year here at Behrend.
Please feel free to stop in at our office anytime to let
us know if there is anything we can do for you or
just to say "HI." Best wishes for a successful year.
Commu 001 students: Remember to attend
The Collegian's weekly meeting on Thursday at 6:10
p.m. in Turnbull 203. Anyone interested in
becoming part of The Collegian is welcome to attend.
The Collegian
No vacancies
rms overbooked with students
Taking a break: Scott Defoggi, a fifth semester Business Management
major, watches television in the second floor Niagara television lounge,
which he now calls home due to overcrowding problems. Defoggi shares the
lounge with four other students.
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they're not coming, so we plan
for that by "booking" extra
students," said Bowen.
"Sometimes it takes a week or
t4vo,to get people settled, but
this is the first time that
something like this has
happened."
Currently, there are three
students living in the Perry
Hall television lounge and five
in the Niagara television
lounge. At one point, there
were 38 extra students staying
in various dormitory rooms --
three students for a room
designed for two.
"The housing contract lets
us temporarily triple up like
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this," said Bowen. "It's an
unfortunate situation, but it's
one of the pitfalls of
'overbooking' students, which
allowed us to fill our rooms
and gave more students a
chance to have on-campus
housing." Bowen said the
practice has been discontinued
in favor of a waiting list
system
As for room fees, the
housing contract all on-campus
students had to sign notes that
students "will receive a rate
adjustment if the assignment
continues beyond the second
week of class. The adjustment
will be made when the student
is moved out of temporary
space or after the twelfth week
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of the semester."
What that means, according
to Bowen, is that students
staying two weeks or longer in
a temporary room will receive
an adjustment to their room
charges. "If they wind up
staying there beyond
weeks," Bowen added, "they'll
receive an adjustment for the
semester. The adjustment
depends on the length of their
stay in temporary housing."
As for when the students in
Perry and Niagara can move
into regular rooms, Bowen
couldn't say. "It depends on
when rooms open up. There
isn't a definite time frame."