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Racism at
Behrend
focus of
tonight's
forum
Dave Ber er
The Collegian
Is Behrend a racist campus?
This question and hopefully
many more will be answered
tonight when "Racism at
Behrendt an open forum on racial
prejudice" takes place at 8 p.m.
in the heed Lecture Hall.
The forum was organized by
the Human Relations
Programming Council and the
Association of Black Collegians
after racist comments were found
on a poster for the National
Society of Black Engineers and
on a comment board posted by
the Student Government
Association in the Reed Building.
The forum will be moderated
by Richard Fiordo, associate
professor of communication, and
Mr. Ken Miller, coordinator of
residence life.
"We're not there to present,
but to moderate and hear what the
students think," said Fiordo.
"This is an inquiry of the student
body's reaction to a poster for the
National Society of Black
Engineers that had racist-type
lingo on it."
Some of the issues that will
likely be brought up are how
racist Behrend is as a campus,
how much of a problem is it,
tensions among whites and other
minorities, whether prejudice
goes both ways, cultural
diversity, and affirmative action.
Angela Johnson, president of
ABC, said "We're hoping when
the participants leave, they will
leave more open-minded and
sensitive to other cultures. The
key to this problem is education
and we hope people will ask
questions."
"Given the recent events,
students came forward and felt a
need to have an open dialogue
about the racial climate on
campus," said Miller. "There is
concern about how the majority
of the student population feels
about the issues that have been
raised on campus."
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Senator
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The Collegian
Pennsylvania continues to be
ranked in the bottom five states
in funding for their colleges and
universities. Last Friday Senator
Buzz Andrezeski, D-49th District,
was at Behrend to talk about
voting trends and commented on
the Commonwealth's status.
"Obviously we have to do
more," Andrezeski said. "Higher
education does not exist for more
and more people. I went to
college in the sixties and you
could make your tuition working
in the summer."
Andrezeski pointed out that
the cost of education has
increased so dramatically that the
middle class has almost been
eliminated from attending
college. "To me, the bottom five
is based on cost," he added.
According to the senator, state
legislators are sensitive to these
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cost of tuition
funding needs.
"In the past five years we have
increased the basic subsidy to
local school districts by a billion
dollars, and if you look at the
increases every year we have
never cut Penn State. We have
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never cut state university
systems. They have received
rather substantial increases even
in bad times," said Andrezeski.
He also noted that "of every
tax dollar that we take in, forty
nine cents goes back out to
education. For a lot of us we
think our commitment has been
made."
Andrezeski said that the
funding situation can be
improved by convincing
legislators to spend more money.
"We should be devoting part of
our education tax dollar just for
scholarship money for kids."
Voting and community
involvement are activities
Andrezeski feels are crucial to the
future of students. "Get
involved. This is your country
and you are going to have to live
with the consequences of what is
happening now and the
consequences you create in the
future."
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Academic
dishonesty?
Writing services :
your paper, or
someone else's?
b Vick. Sn
The Collegian
At one time or another you
may have used a word-processing
service in order to turn in a better
research paper or essay. They
may have typed the paper for
you, checked your spelling and
corrected your punctuation. But
how far is too far? When is it no
longer your paper?
There are services out there
that are willing to edit your work
for a price. In fact, an
organization called Writing Help
(also known as Carins Editing)
posted an advertisement on
bulletin boards around campus
offering to "turn out, produce and
create" better papers by
performing editing, syntax, and
structural services.
Craig Frisina, a ninth
semester biology major and
consultant to Wiling Help
(Cairns Editing), said his service
enables students to create better
papers and essays by providing
extensive editing services. "We
take the original, run a copy off
and then go through and change
anything and everything to make
the paper better."
But according to the Penn
State policy on academic
integrity, if you ask the service
to extensively edit and revise
your paper, then you are guilty of
plagiarism and academic
dishonesty.
Frisina said that he was not
clear on the University's policy.
After hearing the policy, he
changed his explaination to this,
"We are a typing, proofreading,
spelling and punctuation service
which also edits work that is not
to be handed in for a grade."
Brian Carins, owner of
Writing Help (Carins Editing)
and a ninth semester English
major, said his company doesn't
rewrite papers for students. "I
keep an antiseptic distance (from
the paper) and it is up to the
student to choose whether or not
to take my suggestions," said
Carins.
Dean Baldwin, associate
professor of English, reacted
strongly to the advertisement.
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