Thursday, September 5, 1991
New suites open
Tiffany, Tigress and Porcupine are home for 192 students
Welcome home: Provost and Dean John Lilley, with the aid of the Lion
Mascot (junior Ed Martone), help senior Tammy. Cleaver move into Tiffany
Hall. The new suites are named for men or ships that fought in the Battle of
Lake Erie.
There will be 192 more
living spaces available for
students this fall at Penn State
Erie, The Behrend College.
Just in time for the first day
of classes, Aug. 21, finishing
touches have been made to
three new residence-suite
buildings -- a relatively new
concept in on-campus student
living. Each of the new
buildings consists of two
floors with four suites of eight
students living on each floor.
The students share a common
living area and study room, as
well as meeting space and
laundry facilities.
"We have had a substantial
number of students each year
who would have like to have
lived on campus but could not
find housing," said Dr. John
M. Lilley, provost and dean of
Penn State-Behrend. "The new
residence halls should greatly
relieve that need."
In keeping with tradition at
the College, the three
buildings have been named
after men and ships in the war
of 1812.
Tiffany Hall, the southern
most building in the new
World's most expensive hangover
A former University of Virginia student who 11 years ago demanded that the owner of a campus
bar apologize to him may now have to pay the bar $165,000, The Washington Post reports.
As a UVa pharmacology grad student in 1980, Denis O'Brien had momentarily ducked into the
Mousetrap, a local bar, to meet a friend. O'Brien neglected to pick up a red tag patrons were
supposed to take as they entered to track their purchases. As O'Brien and his friend left the bar, a
bouncer demanded O'Brien pay a $5 "lost tag" fee.
O'Brien refused, was arrested and released. In his anger, however, he sued the bar owners,
demanding an apology, and set of a series of law suits that lasted long after he left Virginia,
Harvard and up to his teaching position in New Zealand. The $165,000 suit against O'Brien centers
on the "bad " the bar received over the incident.
complex, is named fbr Cyrus
Tiffany. Tiffany was a Black
crewman who served under
Commodore Oliver Hazard
Perry and was highly decorated
for his heroism during the
Battle of Lake Erie. His
efforts to pull Perry to safety
are immortalized in the
painting depicting the battle
which now hangs in the
Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The center residence hall,
Tigress Hall, and the north
hall, Porcupine Hall, are named
for schooners that took part in
the battle.
The addition of the new
residence halls allow 1,115
students to live on campus.
Other student residence halls
are named Perry, for Oliver
Hazard Perry, and Lawrence and
Niagara, for the ships that led
the American fleet in the War
of 1812.
The College's dining hail,
Dobbins, was named for
Captain Daniel Dobbins,
primary ship builder of the
American fleet.-
The nine student apartment
buildings on campus are named
for Lieutenant Daniel Turner
The Collegian
and the ship of which he was
Captain, the Caledonia;
Lieutenant John Packett and
his vessel, the Ariel; Stephen
Champlin and his ship, the
Scorpion; Jesse Duncan Elliott
who was second-in-command
under Perry during the Battle of
Lake Erie; John Yarnall, first
lieutenant of the Lawrence; and
a schooner from the battle, the
Somers.
Aesthetically, the new
residence halls are unlike any
other housing on campus and
blend into the hillside
surrounding by established
trees. The new student living
area is joined to a lower-level
parking lot be a lighted, glass
enclosed staircase. The entire
complex overlooks Lake Erie,
providing students a
spectacular view.
Construction on the three
new residence halls and
staircase took more than a year
to complete and totaled $4.5
million. The contractor for
the project was E.E. Austin &
Son of Erie and the architect
was Mirick, Pearson, Batcheler
Architects of Philadelphia.
World
Moscow -- Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris
Yeltsin have urged the Soviet Congress to make
sweeping changes in government, or be swept
away themselves. Gorbachev, Yeltsin and
leaders from nine other republics have proposed
changes that would transfer much of the
Kremlin's power to the republics, while first
establishing a State Council made up of the
Soviet president and leaders of the republics.
Meanwhile Yeltsin is calling for the end of
underground nuclear testing and wants all of the
Soviet Union's nuclear weapons to be housed in
his Russian republic to safeguard them from
"terrorists" and "hawks."
National
Lewiston, Maine -- President George Bush
has called for drastic reforms for America's
education system, saying "we must blame
ourselves for betraying our children." The Bush
administration's emphasis on education, the
environment and other domestic themes precede
an election year when Democrats claim Bush has
little or no domestic policy.
Hamlet, North Carolina -- A blaze at a
chicken processing plant Tuesday has killed 25
people and injured at least 45. Reporters found a
padlock on a door marled "Fire Exit - Do Not
Block," while David Fuller, Hamlet Fire Chief,
would not confirm that exit doors were blocked.
State officials said the plant had never been
inspected for safety because the state does not
have enough inspectors.
Houston -- A jury has convicted Wanda
Holloway of trying to hire a hitman to kill the
mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival --
making her, according to some court observers,
the ultimate stage mother. Holloway could face a
life sentence and a $lO,OOO fine.
Local
The Erie chapter of the NAACP is planning to
ask the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the
death of David Johnson, claiming his civil rights
may have been violated. Johnson died July 16
while being arrested at ninth and State Streets.
The NAACP chapter believes that Erie Police
officers used exessive force in arresting Johnson.
Erie County Coroner Merle Wood ruled earlier
this week that Johnson's death was accidental, a
"combined cocain intoxication and pressure on
the neck following restraint."
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