Disturbing
questions
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Eagle Eye
Friday, July 26, 1991

Volume 40, Number 9 4 pages

Clearfield
update
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Lock Haven University

Food court to be completed on time
By Steven Infanti
Eagle Eye Editor-in-Chief
The renovations and remodeling of the
lower lobby in the Bentley Dining Hall are
continuing on schedule.
According to John E. Wilt, Director of
Food Services, the whole area, which will
include a pizza operation, a deli and a convenience store, will be finished by Aug. 16.
"This will give us a week to test everything and be ready for our opening on Aug.
25," Wilt said. "Everything is going extremely well and I do not see any problems
developing at this time."
Wilt noted that the construction workers
will work straight through until completion
and, if there is a concem about meeting the
timetable, they will work unlimited hours.
The food coun will hold Pete's Arena
Pizza, which will deliver pizza to the residence halls; Stack's Deli, Grills and Frills,
and the convenience store, which will house
a wide selection of prepackaged foods and
beverages.
According to Wilt, the building isn't the
only part of the dining hall to undergo a
major change. The way students pay for
their meals will also be revamped to give
the students greater flexibility.
The residence hall students' board plan
will entitle them to any 14 meals a week.
In addition, they will have SICX) Flex Dollars, which will give them more dining options.
Off-campus students can purchase a 14meal plan plus $100 Flex Dollars; 10-meal
plan with $50 Flex Dollars; a seven meal
plan with $50 Flex Dollars, or $100 Flex
Dollars only.
Wilt explained the Flex Dollars are kept
in your account and can be used in any
Bentley Hall dining facility. The balance
will decline as it is used, and the account
can be used to purchase a meal in any Bentley Hall facility, treat a guest to a meal,
have pizza delivered to the residence hall,
hold catered events for a special occasion
(Individual accounts can be pooled together
to pay for larger functions.) or pay additional charges for a cash equivalency meal.
A cash equivalency meal is when a student on the board plan chooses not to eat a
regular meal in the dining hall and decides
to "trade" that meal for the "cash equivalent" in the Lobby Food Court. If the student's purchase cost more than the cash
equivalent, the student could use the Flex
Dollars or can pay in cash to make up the
difference.

The dining hall will also be introducing a
new campaign to help students understand
everything the dining hall can be used for
during the upcoming year. Wilt says a new

program, called "Dining With The Director," will be held every month.
"We're going to encourage about 10 people to sign up to sit down and eat dinner

with the director," Wilt said. "This forum
will allow them to address any concems
they have or discuss anything related to the
food services."

L O C K U P . Don Mayes (foreground) experiences the long arm of the law from Chris White during application of force exercises on
Wednesday. The two men are cadets at the Regional Police Academy , which is being hosted by Lock Haven University. See related
story, page 4. (Photo by David Beahm)

2 Eagle Eye Friday, July 26, 1991

OPINIONS AND EDITORIALS
Confessions of a dangerous mind

Questions that disturb a disturbed mind
By Steven Infanti

dents so they can go while on the go?

Eagle Eye Editor-in-Chief

Whose lifetime are
for?

with them.

Why is the punishment for attempted
murder not as severe as the one for murder?
It's like our courts are trying to give crimiI have some questions that need answerDo pigeons take aim?
nals a break so they can get itrightthe next
ing. Questions that are keeping me awake
Why do women seem to outlive their hus- time.—
at night. Ones that even the most dangerbands? I picked up a newspaper and read in
ous mind can't answer.
Why are stores allowed to sell spandex
the obituaries that a 98-year old man passed
Who invented the tie? It had to be a away. The next line said he was survived by pants to anybody, regardless of their
women; that way men could be punished his 102-year old wife. My biology teacher weight? Some people look like kangaroos
since we don't get PMS, we can't get preg- says it's because women are genetically su- with all their children home when they wear
nant and, except for a few exceptions, we perior to men. Personally, I think it's a spandex pants.
don't have to shave our legs and aimpits.
combination of hypertension and that men ^, Why do people streak? There were some
I'm told it was a man who invented the get worn out faster, since we spend so much streakers at a local bar recently. These guys
suipped down to their birthday suits and
tvassiere. The traitor! I wonder if he had time chasing after women.
were out dancing in the middle of a crowded
any idea how many 16-year old boys, with
Why do the parents in the "Friday the
hyperactive hormones, would grow up hat- 13th" movies continue to send their children floor. The lengths some guys will go
ing him. Those snaps in the back have to a camp where 271 other children have al- through to show the world their shortcomstopped more sexual overtures faster than a ready been murdered? Why do the people in ings.
mophandle in the crotch.
Why do freshmen enter college thinking
these movies always walk backwards? Why
Buuon-fly jeans? Do we really need don't they bring guns instead of flashlights? they know everything and seniors graduate
thinking they know nothing? Too many
Why do friends letfriendsbeer goggle?
these? The regular zii^r gives men enough
students look at college as a four-year party
problems. More than one man has had to
Why don't we change our state motto to
make an embarrassing trip to the emergency "Road Consuuction Ahead?" Maybe we with a $25,000 covercharge. It's too bad
room because of a pinched nerve. It's also could change the state flag to fluorescent you can't put beer drinking, good sex and
rough to undo buttons when your hands are orange and call those orange pylons on the long-distance vomiting on your resume.
cold and stiff. Fortunately, for those of us roads our state flowers?
Why is it that the only way you can
that lack the dexterity to do that job fast
prove you're a good sport is by losing?
Why is it that most of us will immediateenough, there's DependsUndCTgarments.
Why do you have to beg a child to eat
ly find and date the only idiot within 1,200
While we're on the Depends story, why miles?
If there is somebody from the what's on his dinner plate but not what's
are they advertised as "not just for people "Geek-O-Rama" or "Plethwa-de-Bimbo" out up his nose?
with bladder control problems?" Who is there, you know you're doomed to go out
Why do scientists always state the obvielse is going to use them, busy college stuUfetime warranties

Professor receives African Achievement Award
English professor Harriet Masembe,
Ph.D., was recently chosen as the recipient
of an African Immigrant Achievement
Award by the Ethiopian Family Center,
Inc.. (EFC) located in Boston, Mass.
Masembe received the awards in the Performing Arts category fw her intrigtiing
performances of African folktales. She has

been presenting the folktales to children and
adults for more than a decade. The EFC
presents awards to African immigrants based
on their many achievements and contribution to America
"I was very excited when I received word
that I had won," said Masembe. "There's a
tremendous feeling of satisfaction to know
that I've come so far, considering I began

This is it!
The last issue!
HAVE A G O O D SUMMER!
Thanks for making the
summer£a^/£ Eye such a success.
We'llbebackinthefall!
The Eagle Eye staff

my storytelUng more than 10 years ago."
In addition to the EFC plaque, Masembe
also presented with certificates from the
Boston City Council, the Massachusetts
State Senate and House of Rqnesentatives,
all iq>plauding her achievements. She was a
featured storyteller at the 1984 Olympics
Arts Festival.

ous? A recent study shows our brains are
more active when we're standing. Well,
isn't that a breakthrough. Maybe it has
something to do with the fact that many of
us take the pressure off our brain by standing. We all know people who get a lobotomy and their hemorrhoids removed with the
same scalpel stroke.
What need do we have fw scented toilet
paper? Why really cares what it smells
Uke? It's not like the paper's smell is really
going to matter, especially when you think
about where it's going. It's hard to believe
a company would invest so much money in
making something that goes down the toilet
smell better.
Why are there doggie breath mints? Does
a dog need fresh breath to attract a mate?
Have you ever noticed how dogs greet each
other? When you consider where the one
dog's nose is, you have to figure they're not
overly concemed about fresh breath. Maybe
they should get the scented toilet paper.
If flies spread disease, should I keep mine
shut?
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Friday, July 26, 1991 Eagle Eye

FEATURES

jClearfield growing by leaps, bounds
By Andrea L. Vaccaro

1990 had approximately 218 students enrolled in 24 class sections; in the fall of
Clearview Editor-in-Chief
1991, the Clearfield Campus will have alIf you haven't heard about Lock most 300 students enrolled in 34 classes!
Haven's Clearfield Campus, you're one of Just for this summer, 159 students are parthe few! We are a small, but cozy addition taking in a total of eight sections. We're
nestled here in QearOeld, Pa. Just in the hotter than ever!
Pat Guerriero, administrative director, is
past academic year, this campus has acquired
ISO new students and, for its compact size, sponsoring a "Welcome Party" for all the
that's quite an accompUshment Fall of students that are here for the summer. "I

.old a piece of tape
up to your eyes, dim the lights
and tiy tofillout your taxes.
Now you're seeing things from
her point of view.

want this to be an introductory celebration - a 'buddy system'," he said.
He also rounded up student volunteers to
help with the summer's PHON-A-THON, a
way to contact those individuals that have
applied to our campus, but may not yet
have decided to attend. All the volunteers
were given status information about the applicant and were briefed on how to offer
help and give suggestions. Not only did

For this woman it's poor eyesight,
for someone else it might be arthritis
or maybe they just can't cope. The
fact is, last year 4 million Americans
got the help they needed from
IRS Volunteer Assistance Programs.
[f you have the desire to help
and a basic aptitude for math, you
could become a part of the IRS
\folunteer Assistance Programs.
The programs are year-round
and open to any organization,
company or individual that would like
to give something back to their
community. The training is free and
the rewards are enriching.So volunteer and please call
1800 829-1040.
Volunteer and help make someone's
taxes less taxing.

this technique help administration, but this
gave the student volunteers a chance to get
acquainted with possible incoming students.
The Clearview, the campus newsletter,
has had one issue out for the first summer
session, and will have another out for the
second.
The 1991 fall semester will present the
students here with a brand new library. The
modular that contains the computer center
will have new shelving, possibly more than
one thousand books, resources, periodicals,
recorded items, and a microfiche system at
our disposal. The campus will even have
its own librarian and all professors will have
access to a reserve system.
Also coming in the fall, will be housing
availability. A private residential builder
has made living quarters for 50-60 students'
not more than five miles away from school.
There will be rooms for two to four students available and, for a small extra fee, local restaurants can provide these students
with meal plans. The ATA bus Une runs
right past this building and comes to the
school on the hour. The company has come
up with a bus pass for $70 a semester; this
ixt)vides unUmited transportati(Xi anywhere
in the city.
The upcoming semester will also ring in
an intramural sports program for the Indiana
University's two-branch campuses Clarion
and Pitt/TitusviUe; a continuation of the
RASCALS (Retuming Adult Students Concemed About Leaming and Socializing) that
was bom in the spring of 1991; the Clearfield Campus Activities Board, which is
similar to Lock Haven University's Student
Coopoative Coimcil, Inc. Hopefully, we'll
see the continuation of the Philosophy Society, a Theatre Club that many students and
community members have stated an interest
in. Brighton Beach Memoirs could be our
first play held, with Susan Lofieddi, a director involved.
Fall of 1991 will introduce the second
class of nursing studoits to the Qearfield
Campus facilities. This is the two year associate's degree program headed by Mrs.
Helen Hummel, and her secretary Judy
Hughes. Hummel States, "We've recently
made a permanent transition here to the
Qearfield Campus and we look forward to
the Nursing Program reaching more and
more students."
All in all, Clearfield has become the place
where folks in this area can get an affordable
education, without traveling far and wide. A
retuming adult mentions, "I live right here
in Clearfield and I love having the qjportunity to go back to school without jumping
into a full-fledged campus. I am looking
forward to going to the Main campus in
about a year, but I feel like I'm more ready
now. More prepared."
We think that says it all.

4 Eagle Eye Friday, July 26, 1991

FEATURES
Regional Police

Academy

Training the future of law enforcement
By Steven Infanti
Eagle Eye Editor-in-Chief
If there's one thing a police officer
needs to leam, it's how to stay alive while
enforcing the law. That's just one of the
many skills future police officers are leaming at the Regional Police Academy being
held at Lock Haven University.
Twenty-five men and four women are taking part in the training, which is required by
any police officer who wants to work in a
municipaUty or any institution that employs commissioned police officers, said Lt.
Dennis B. Grenninger, supervisor with the
University's Law Enfwcement Office and
coordinator for the academy.
Grenninger, explained the cadets started
the uaining on May 29, and they must

complete 520 hours of study before they
graduate from the academy on Aug. 29.
The trainees have a lot of work to do as they
are orientated to law enforcement over the
three month period. According to Grenninger, they study motor vehicle codes, law, patrol procedures, firearms, investigations,
communications, custody, first aid, patrol
vehicle operations, and how to handle violent or dangerous people, and much more.
"This is some very intensive and thorough training," Grenninger said. The cadets
spend about eight hours a day, five days a
week, taking classes, doing hands-on training, and physical conditioning, and what the
cadets leam is taught to them by experienced
police officers and certified instructors from
across the state.
The instructors use hands-on training exercises whenever possible. Throughout the

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course, the cadets have been deaUng with
hostage situations, confronting mentally
disturbed individuals, suspects barricaded in
houses, and traffic stops where the officer is
stopping an armed felon.
Occasionally, an instmctor, disguised
as an armed suspect and firing blank ammunition, has appeared in the classroom to
surprise the cadets. Although these are
mock exercises, Grenninger feels they are a
valuable tool and are important to the future
police officers.

"That exercise shows how fast they have<
to think and how much judgement they need
to use in these situations," Grenninger said.
All the cadets passed a mandatory physical exam and went through an extensive
psychological screening before being admitted to the academy. They must also pass 24
major exams and a standardized physical fitness exam, similar to the one the military
uses, in order to graduate from the academy.
If any cadet fails more than three-exams,
they are dismissed from the academy.

"The more realistic the training is now,
the better prepared they'll be when they
graduate," he explained. "Sometimes it
takes a cadet down a peg. Being a police
officer is not like it is in the movies.
"This training shows how vulnerable a
police officer can be to outside forces and
that policemen can't always control everything that is going on. It takes a lot of
time and uaining to be a good police officer."

Most of the classroom work is held in
the Parsons Union Building.
"We are basically a branch academy for
the Indiana University of Pennsylvania's
Criminal Justice Training Center," he noted. People interested in going through the
b'aining apply through lUP.
Grenninger explained that this is one of
several police academies that are held across
the state. It costs $1,500 to attend the academy, but financial aid is available.

To help them make and understand the
importance of the split-second decisions
that many police officers make everyday
with firearms, each cadet takes part in
"Shoot, Don't Shoot" exercises. Each one
goes into a simulator, which is like a giant
video, that shows various scenes the police
officers may encounter. The cadets have to
decide whether or not to shoot.

This is the fourth time Lock Haven University has hosted the academy but, Grenninger noted that this is the first time it's
being held full time.
"In the past, the courses were held on
weekends and some nights during the
week," he said. "However, it took almost a
year for people to complete it. This way it
takes about three months."

The Summer Rec Program will hold an end of the program picnic for the Exceptional Citizens that participated in the program. The picnic will be held at the Seig
Conference Center, on July 31, from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
There will be a variety of activities such as horseback
rides, D.J. and outdoor fun. Volunteers are needed and
would be greatly appreciated. If interested, call Katie, at
748-6916.

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