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Clarion Call CLARION UNIVERSITY’S STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1913
APRIL 12, 2012
VOL. 98 ED. 22
Honors colloquium offers insights on literature Jen Schwartz STAFF WRITER
CLARION, Pa. - Presentations of poetry, cinematic literature and the mapping of dialect throughout Western Pennsylvania were themes featured at the Clarion University Spring Honors Colloquium on Monday, April 9. Hosted by honors program Associate Director, Brent Register, the colloquium was held in Hart Chapel at 7 p.m. and the focus of theses was English and language arts. Presenters of the night included Dr. Philip Terman of the English department, junior honors student and English major Marquis Lewis, senior honors student and English major Jamie Wyatt and Dr. Herbert Luthin of the English department. Terman commenced the night with recitations from his published works of poetry, opening with a poem titled “How to Find a Job.” “My notebook is really important to me, it’s got the raw stuff,” Terman said. “Most poems I write do have a sort of emotional hook to them. It’s very
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Marquis Lewis presents “Cutting to Continuity” during the Honors Colloquium in Hart Chapel on Monday, April 9. satisfying. The challenge is to keep that passion.” Terman listed a few poets that inspire him such as Shakespeare, Walt Whittman and Emily Dickinson. “The words have to be musical for me. I
like music in poetry, and rhythm as well … Accumulation and velocity, the poetry needs to take me somewhere, to another world or another trance,” Terman said. Lewis’ presentation
“Cutting to Continuity,” based on the merits of cinematic literature, started off with “I apologize in advance. I’m going to make quite a few of you upset,” Lewis said. Lewis’ thesis focused
on communicating the concept of “cutting the clutter,” in what the cinematography offers in movie adaptations of novels; therefore, stating that movies can be just as effective as the book, if not more.
Incoming Eagles Institute replaces two transition programs Alizah Thornton NEWS EDITOR
CLARION, Pa. - The transition from high school to college is not as easy as many may think. Students are thrown into an atmosphere where they are adults and are required to juggle many more things than they are used to. Combine that with seemingly unlimited freedom and it can be a recipe for disaster. While some students have older siblings or parents who may have had experience with the college life and can adjust to different situations easily, others do not. For those who can’t or are unsure if they can handle the college life, there are pre-college programs that can help with the transition. Recently two programs at Clarion University have been canceled; they are the Harrisburg Partnership and Educational Opportunities Program formerly known as “EOP.” Amanda Jackson is a junior at Clarion University and was once a part of the Harrisburg Partnership program. Jackson participated in the program during her sophomore and junior year of high school and served as
a counselor for the past two summers of the program. The Harrisburg Partnership program was established in 1998 as part of a larger partnership program established by R. Benjamin Wiley. It was established as a way to help students from urban high schools attend college, according to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education website. The students would be involved starting the summer after their 10th grade year. “It [the program] definitely prepared me for college. It opened by eyes to the fact that I was going to take classes that I didn’t like and that I was going to have to learn how to study because college is a lot harder than high school,” Jackson said. Rogers Laugand III, director of Minority Student Services, has been involved with the program since 2002. The program was canceled due to lack of funding, Laugand said. “I was disappointed because it was a quality program that gave high school students motivation and a great opportunity to experience what college would be like prior to coming,” Laugand said. He said he enjoyed
working with the participants; “they were always a good group of students.” “If it wasn’t for Rogers Laugand and the program I probably wouldn’t be at any university right now,” Jackson said. “It [the program] showed students that even though they might not have done the best in high school that they could change and do very well their junior and senior years and then continue on to college and then to eventually have a career,” Jackson said. The EOP program was slightly different from the Harrisburg Partnership program with regard to the fact that the students were soon-to-be incoming freshmen at the university instead of in high school. EOP was established at Clarion University in 1971. The program was described as being necessary and essential to the “humanizing of the institution and perhaps, on a grander or idealistic scale or society in general,” reported an October 1971 issue of The Clarion Call. The Director of the ACT 101 program, Joseph Croskey, has been involved with the program since August 2008. The cancellation of the
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program has affected everyone involved, including the former students and faculty. “I have a lot of mixed feelings. I am disappointed that the program is not here now, but the students are here, and that is good,” Croskey said. The EOP program was established after Honorable K. Leroy Lewis established efforts to help enable the passing of H.B. 1213, Act 101 in Pennsylvania legislature, Croskey said. “Programs were established to assist impoverished citizens and blacks in majority higher education settings across the country and Pennsylvania was no exception,” according to a September 1971 article from The Clarion Call. This statement was referencing the newly established programs at Clarion and other Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education institutions. Although there are classes that students can still take during the academic year in correlation with, but no longer tied to the Act 101/EOP program, there was also a summer component to the program that will no longer be in place. See PROGRAM on Page 2
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Democratic and Republican student debate. FEATURES PAGE 5
Penny Arcade Exposition overview. ENTERTAINMENT PAGE 8
“A movie is more conscious of its plot and focuses on pacing and timing; a book doesn’t have to worry about that,” Lewis said. “It’s easier to [convey] theme because the camera is able to focus in on things for you,” Lewis said. Wyatt shared a collection of poetry from her series of running poems, including “Ode to Running Shoes,” “Don’t Think About it” and “The Rough Road.” Wyatt said running is her “second greatest passion” next to poetry. “When I’m running I think, ‘Look around, what do I see? What can I write about.’” she said. “I need to carry a recorder with me.” Luthin’s presentation “Yinz’s Room Needs Redded Up,” offered a look at the shifts in dialect across Western Pennsylvania, comparing the frequency in usage of words such as “yinz,” “gum band vs. rubber band” and “pop vs. soda,” across Pennsylvania. “Words. Use them or lose them,” Luthin said. Senior Honors program student presentations will be held Thursday, April 19 at 7p.m. in the Carlson Library Center.
Softball splits doubleheader. SPORTS PAGE 10
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