1876 The 2018 Campus Meadville, Pennsylvania Volume 143, Issue 6 – FRIDAY, September 28, 2018 – www.alleghenycampus.com Former counselor A COMMUNITY Pereira found guilty By ALEX WEIDENHOF News Editor
[email protected] TRADITION Luiz Heleno Pereira, 53, was found guilty on two counts Annual community DeHart Local Foods Dinner related to his having sexual embraces local roots and honors late professor See FEATURES page 7 contact with an 11-year-old boy, court records show. Pereira was Allegheny Col- lege’s associate director of admissions and coordinator of international recruitment until his Jan. 24, 2018, arrest. A jury impaneled Sept. 19 found Pereira guilty of PEREIRA unlawful contact with a mi- nor, a third-degree felony, Pennsylvania amended its and corruption of minors, charges against Pereira on a first-degree misdemeanor, Sept. 12. The motion, which on Sept. 20. was granted by Crawford Pereira was found not County of Common Pleas guilty on two other charges President Judge Anthony — indecent assault of a per- Vardaro on Sept. 13, added son under 13 years of age, a the charge of corruption of first-degree misdemeanor, minors. and harassment by subject- Pereira faces up to 12 ing another to physical con- years in prison and a $25,000 tact, a summary offense. fine. He is scheduled to be The Commonwealth of sentenced Friday, Nov. 2. Ball visits campus to talk climate change, renewable energy By STEVEN HEINE Junior News Editor
[email protected] Jeffrey Ball, Woodrow Wil- son Visiting Fellow and scholar-in-residence at Stan- ELLIS GIACOMELLI/THE CAMPUS ford University’s Steyer-Tay- The DeHart Local Foods Dinner and Farmer’s Market was held Wednesday, Sept.