Thursday, October 7, 1993
Homecoming
Weekend crowns
several winners
by Glee Jesteadt
Collegian Staff
Parents and Families/ Home
coming Weekend 1993-94 was
held October 1-3. The weekend
was full of various events for
students, patents, faculty, and the
public.
There were several contests for
students to participate in. The
banner contest was won by
Kappa Delta Rho. The window
painting contest was won by
Rachael Voss, Kim Bruno, Casey
MacDonald, and Eric Whisler.
The "Yell Like Hell" contest was
won by Hal Coffey and Chris
Keenan.
Following the "Yell Like Hell"
contest, the cheerleaders and
soccer players sponsored a
bonfire.
Despite the uncooperative Erie
Homecoming weather, Penn
The SGA leadership retreat will be October 15-17. Openings for
students to attend free still remain to be taken. RSVP to Student
Activities by October 8.
If you ever have any questions or suggestions for SGA
contact your senators.
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State-Behrend crowned the 1993-
94 Homecoming King and Queen
during halftime of the Lions'
soccer game. Jamele Adams -and-
Stacy Stol te nberg . Behrend
defeated Waynesberg 5 - 0.
When asked what her thoughts
of Homecoming were, Kate
Delany answered, "I think that
Homecoming should have been
publicized more for the students.
I went to the soccer game and
didn't know what was going on."
Greek Week winners were also
announced during halftime.
Greek Week started Monday with
various events such as tug of
war, basketball shoot, obstacle
course, Greek Sing, eating
contest, to the crazy dizzy bats.
"Greek Week is a time when
all the Greeks do the same things
as a competition, but yet are one.
It shows the Greek unity of the
fraternities and sororities," said
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Hal Coffey
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Paul Lorio
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Many students were impressed
that Behrend could get someone
of her stature to perform.
Aaron Rospierski commented,
"It was nice to have someone of
her quality come to Behrend..."
"Homecoming Weekend would
not have been possible without
the help of the student
volunteers," David Shields said.
"Student voulunteers were
excellent. This Homecoming has
turned out to be a good model to
build upon for the future."
Paul Scarpino.
The week the ended Saturday
morning before the game. Sigma
Kappa Nu and Alpha Sigma Tau
were the winners.
Later Saturday evening, the
reknowned comedienne Paula
Poundstone performed in Erie
Hall.
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Poundstone
Interview
by Tom Keefe
Assistant News Editor
On October 2, Paula
Poundstone performed at Erie
Hall as part of Behrend's
Homecoming festivities. Shortly
before her performance, The
Collegian had a chance to talk to
her. Because of her restricted
time schedule we were only able
to talk to her fora few minutes.
When asked how she started in
comedy, Poundstone replied, "I
was busing tables in Boston and I
started doing open-mike nights at
a place that started having open
mike nights."
Poundstone said that there were
a lot of influences in her life
although she didn't realize what
they were doing. She added, "I
don't think I knew much about
standup comedy perse, but I
always knew that I wanted to be a
comic actress of some sort." Her
major influences were Lily
Tomlin, Gil& Radner, Lucielle
Ball. and Carol Burnett.
Poundstone said that she really
enjoys performing, although her
job isn't all fun. She
commented, "I like the part of the
performing... Almost all the rest
of it can probably be dropped, but
it's the same for any job."
When asked if there are any
drawbacks to being so famous,
she had no major complaints.
She replied, "...no one comes up
and rags on me or anything...and
I don't really have crowd control
problems."
Jeff Zimmerman/Contributing Photographor
Most of Poundstone's material
comes from personal experiences.
She said "Almost everything I
say is true...and the things that
aren't true are glaringly untrue."
Because she had arrived
minutes before the interview,
Poundstone did not really have
any comments about Behrend.
She jokingly said "...it had a
lovely entry way."
Asked if she thinks her friends
treat her differently now that she
is famous, she replied,
"Probably. I imagine there's
people that tolerate me that
otherwise wouldn't have." She
added that she sometimes does the
same thing. "I've known people
that are performers, and I knew
them because they were
performers...that's part of what
makes somebody interesting.
But, you could say the same
thing for people in all sorts of
roles that cause you to know
them."
The interview was conculded
with a question which
Pcondstone considered a "Miss
America" question. What would
she change about the world if she
could change anything? She
replied, "...I wouldn't really end
disease, because we'll live too
long, it'll get too crowded, there
would be lines everywhere, it
would be bad. But I think that I
would eliminate guns. If I had
my choice with being wracked
with cancer and being shot...go
with the cancer, *it's so much
more innocent."
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