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Spring Fever cont. from pg. 1 election corn, from pg. 1
ownership and responsibility for them
selves and their behavior. Miller said
“the students said trust us and we are."
Melina Fernandez, 04 Psychology. "1
am glad spring Fever is back in the
apartment quad, because it is a com
-1 munity effort and it is the only event
! ever held up there, it would suck to lose
; it for one year because of tilings that
1 happened in the past."
Controversial Stadium Expansion at University Park
by Elizabeth Guelcher
assistant editor
; In March, Penn State President Gra
l ham Spanier spent some time in the
■ capital petitioning the Pennsylvania
; House and Senate Appropriations
! Committees for funding. Every year,
t the state government allocates money
! to colleges throughout Pennsylvania
i for things like updating technology and
J improving the standard of living on
1 campus. This year, however, included
; in Spanier’s requests was a proposi-
I tion for $l5 million separate from the
j money allocated for use within the uni
; versity. The proposed $l5 million
I would instead fund, in part, the $B5
■ million expansion of Beaver stadium
at University Park. However, some stu
dents think the money could be better
spent.
In May of 1998. the Penn State
Board of Trustees approved the Bea
ver Stadium expansion to include
10,000 more seats as well as the addi
tion of skvboxes. UP Athletic Dircc
in regards to student participation. I
am a little unsatisfied with the small
amount of student candidates who
were willing to run for SGA, student
participation in this area just disap
peared. I would also like to see a
more efficiently run student govern
ment, not that Buck did not achieve
this, hut I think with the resources we
have and the incoming Senate I can
find better ways to serve the stu
dents."
tor. Tim Curley said that no tuition
money would be used in order to
carry out the project. In keeping with
that, university officials are looking
to the State for help. The expansion,
according to Spanier, falls under the
umbrella of community service
projects, which are intended to boost
local economies. The State will dis
burse $650 million for community
service projects this year, half of
which will be used to build new ma
jor league football and baseball sta
diums.
Critics say the money could be bet
ter used at UP, and that the project
could be funded through the purchase
of skybox tickets since the demand
for tickets is so high at this point. But
Spanier hopes the project will bring
about a growth spurt for Center
County.
Pat Grnner. 08 BECON, took the side
of most Penn State students, saying,
"I disapprove. 1 think it's a w'aste of
money and adding 10,000 seats and
sk\ boxes to Beaver Stadium will lake
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Crowding 100,000 people in there for
a football game is half the fun. I defi
nitely think the money could be bet
ter used for other purposes.”
Mark Schoneveld, a History ma
jor at UP and columnist for The Col
legian wrote an editorial in the March
17 issue condemning Spanier’s re
quest. He said, “adding 10,000 seats
to Beaver stadium is borderline chau
vinism and self- glorification. While
we’re at it, why don’t we pave the
entire grass fields around Beaver Sta
dium so that tailgaters won’t have to
deal with mud.”
It seems that although Spanier has
tried to shed the project in a favor
able light, most students are opposed
to the idea. With the rapid growth of
Penn State becoming a concern for
more and more students, university
officials will have to work carefully
to change minds about the stadium
expansion.
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