Volume 30, No. 7
October 2, 1998
Scott A. Miller
Contact: Scott A. Miller 662-4844
NEWS
Lecture series welcomes renowned privacy writer and editor
The Fall University Lecture Series will demonstrate "How to Protect What's Left of Your Privacy" Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 4 p.m. in Manser Hall's North Dining Room.
Speaker Robert Ellis Smith of Providence, RI, is editor of "Privacy Journal" and author of "Workrights, Our Vanishing Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of Your Privacy."
Smith, nationally recognized as one of the most outspoken advocates for privacy, will describe threats posed by credit reports, medical information, the Internet, and electronic surveillance. He'll offer tips for regaining your sense of personal privacy in the new millennium.
Canada's information commissioner has called Smith's work "a masterly exposition of the myriad and often surprising challenges to privacy."
The lecture is prepared for a general audience. It is sponsored by MU's Student Activities Office and the Mansfield Activities Council, which is funded by student activity fees. Refreshments and discussion will follow the lecture.
Hall of Fame to welcome five athletes
The MU Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome five new members during Homecoming Weekend ceremonies, Oct. 16-18.
Jack Terry '39, Edward Mollahan '52, Larry Biddle '59, Marl Sassani '74, and Tim Fausnaught '92 will be recognized at a dinner held in their honor Friday, Oct. 16, at 7 p.m. as well as before the crowd at MU's Saturday, Oct. 17, football game against Kutztown University.
Other homecoming activities Friday include a pep rally and bonfire at the watertower at 8 p.m. Saturday activities include the annual Homecoming parade at 10 a.m. downtown, an alumni "meet and greet" on the green next to Allen Hall at 11 a.m., a field hockey game against Slippery Rock University at 1 p.m., a band performance and the Homecoming Queen Coronation at halftime of the football game, the annual alumni baseball game at 4 p.m. on Shaute Field; and Billy Martin's All-Star Circus in Decker Gym at 7 p.m.
The Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame was established in 1983 to recognize the efforts of the many outstanding student-athletes who have so honorably enhanced the reputation of the university over the years. Individuals who played, coached or demonstrated a strong and unique interest in university athletic programs, and left the university a minimum of five years prior, are eligible for nomination to the Hall of Fame.
The Hall of Fame has been underwritten since its inception by First Citizens National Bank.
Hall of Fame nominations should be submitted, in writing, to the Director of Alumni Relations, 521 North Hall.
Dinner is $17 per person. For information on attending the dinner or other Homecoming activities, call the Alumni Office at 4380.
University to "hang out" with neighbors at record store
In February 1998, Mansfield University said "hi neighbor" to students in 16 new York counties by cutting their tuition $3,600. On Friday, Oct. 9, the university will hang out with potential students and WINK 106 radio from 5-8 p.m. at Record Town in the Arnot Mall, Horseheads.
The uncommon partnership between the university, the record store and the radio station is meant to increase the visibility for all three. But it's the university, which will offer information about academic programs, financial aid, and admissions, that makes the mix so imaginative.
"We know this is a new approach to reaching our customers, the students," says Dennis Miller, director of public relations. "I imagine it won't be long before other colleges begin looking for unique ways to take their message to students rather than asking students to come to them."
The university's outreach efforts already include being part of more than 200 college nights in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey each year. The university's admission staff also visits more than twice that number of high schools.
But Miller and MU's Vice President for Development Leslie Folmer brainstormed an idea to reach out even more.
"If there's one thing potential students have in common other than high school, it's popular music," Miller said. "So we decided to try reaching them at a popular place where music is sold."
In addition to information about college, students who come to Record Town that evening can take part in a live remote WINK 106 broadcast and become eligible for giveaways from the university, the radio station and the store.
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An article by Bernard Koloski, English, about children's literature appears in a literary anthology titled "Something of My Very Own to Say: American Women Writers of Polish Descent," edited by Thomas Gladsky and Rita Holmes Gladsky and published by the East European Monographs imprint of Columbia University Press. The article describes children's authors Lois Lenski, Maia Wojciechowska, and Anne Pellowski (Lenski and Wojciechowska both won the prestigious Newbery award). It focuses on the Polish-American nature of some of their fiction.
For a moment, it looked as though the Mountaineers had all the luck in the world, as junior quarterback Lucas Smith connected with senior fullback Nate Davis on a 27-yard touchdown reception with :57 seconds left to play in regulation to send last week's contest with California University into overtime. The Mountaineers eventually would fall 31-24 after Cal's Wesley Cates scored on a 3-yard touchdown run around the right side in the extra frame. Mansfield was unsuccessful in its attempt to force an extra overtime, when Smith threw an interception on fourth down from inside the 20-yard line. Smith was 17 of 34 for 170 yards and two touchdowns while rushing 14 times for 32 yards.
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