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Bowling for babies
ODK sponsors bowl-a-thon
iril M. Bogdanski
by Ai
The Collegian
Omicron Delta Kappa (OAK)
will sponsor a bowl-a-thon to
benefit the Behrend Daycare
Center, scheduled to open in the
fall of 1993.
The bowl-a-thon will be held
next Tuesday, November 17.
Eastland Bowl, 3729
McClelland Avenue, will be the
site of the event.
OAK, a junior/senior national
leadership honor society, is
working in cooperation with
other campus honor societies in
promotion of the daycare center.
Other groups which are
involved include Alpha Sigma
Lambda, an honor society for
returning adult students; Lambda
Pi Eta, the honor society for
Communication; Lambda
Sigma, the sophomore honor
society and Psi Chi, an honor
society for psychology majors.
The honor societies are
sponsoring the daycare center as
a joint project
"Daycare is a service that
Penn State-Behrend has been
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Indian summer: Behrend students enjoy one final nice day
of fall before the long cold winter sets in.
working towards implementing
for several years," said Lori
Royer, president of OAK. "As
student leaders of Behrend
campus, we would like to give
the students an opportunity to
help support this project."
“As student leaders
of Behrend
campus , we would
like to give the
students an
opportunity to help
support this
project. ”
"I think it's essential that we
provide services to help people
go to school to benefit them,"
said Bryan Hiles, treasurer of
ODK.
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The Collegian
Thursday, November 12, 1992 Vol. XLI No. 9
-Lori Royer
ODK president
Bowling will start at 9:00
p.m. Each bowler will
participate in three games, either
individually or on a team. The
cost is only $1.25 per game.
Any student showing a Penn
State identification card will
receive free shoe rentals.
Students participating can
support any organization on
campus by requesting to bowl
under that organization’s name.
"You can have a good time
bowling and at the same time
help other Behrend students,"
said Ed Martone, coordinator of
the Daycare Service Project
Committee. "This will add to
the attractiveness of Behrend."
The Behrend Bookstore will
be donating prizes to be awarded
to the highest score. There will
be four categories competing for
awards. The high game in
women's, men's and team
competition will receive prizes.
There will also be a prize for the
lowest score.
OAK will purchase a plaque
for the organization who raises
the most donations. The plaque
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Education
Abroad
Gary Johnson
The Collegian
The date: Thursday, October
29-Sunday Nov. 8. The
people: Behrend Plastics
Technology seniors. The place:
Dusseldorf, Germany. The
event: K-92.
K-92 is the largest plastics
engineering trade show in the
world.
"There were more than two
thousand exhibitors from all
countries on display at K-92,"
said Amy Koch, events
coordinator for the trip.
"Students all had their
specialized discipline that they
investigated there. Each student
had certain plastics exhibitors
with which they conferred,
pertaining to their particular
field.”
The travelers also mingled
with students from the
University of Aachen, the
German counterpart of Behrend.
“Students will have the chance to
experience the global spectrum of the
plastics industry being developed
-Amy Koch
trip coordinator
These (German) students also
attend ANTEC (Annual
Technical Conference for the
Society of Plastics Engineers, a
special plastics convention held
every year in America), and
present technical plastics
research papers, just as Behrend
students do.
"Students will have the
chance to experience the global
spectrum of the plastics industry
being developed," Koch said
before they departed.
The trip was not just a free
ride, however. Behrend students
had to put in fifty hours of
"volunteer" work before the trip,
and since their return will have
to devote another fifty hours of
their time to the project.
"Students have done a
considerable amount of work for
local plastics companies and
they have hands-on experience
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because they do internships with
the companies," Koch said.
Students are presented with
actual problems from plastics
companies and solve them. The
companies funded the trip in
exchange for the students'
services.
Other eligibility parameters
include that the senior must be
in good standing with the
university, have sufficient
grades, and must have completed
a required number of hours of
work toward their individual
project, that being in the area of
research, papers, etc.
When asked what he learned
on the trip, Mike Yurkewicz,
whose project was a SPE
presentation, said, "They’re
constantly making progress in
processing and designing
products."
Yurkewicz also said that he
"took the cost of living for
granted here." He said "We've
still got it pretty good here (in
America).
Greg Berckmiller's research
dealt with an injection molding
machine. For this project he
worked with Japan Steel Works.
He said, 'T wish I would have
learned German before we
went."
Berckmiller commented on
the many cultural differences he
noted and confirmed Yurkewicz's
opinion that we've got it good
here. He said, '7 learned how
much a good line of
communication is."
He also said that he was
amazed that he was being passed
"by Porsches like 1 was standing
still” on the Autobahn, when he
was going 180 km himself.