BEHREND BEACON
January 22, 2010
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LOCAL NEWS
One lane of Old Station Road
in Harborcreek Township has
been closed for drainage work.
State crews are repairing a
pipe, the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Transportation says.
The westbound driving lane
of the road -- State Route 290,
which crosses over Interstate
90 at Exit 32, for Wesleyville
and Colt Station -- will be re
stricted until 5 p.m., PennDOT
says.
Drivers are urged to use cau
tion in that area.
ERIE
Erie police continue to ex
amine a pickup truck they say
may have been involved in a
hit-and-run crash that killed an
Erie man on Jan. 14.
No charges have been filed
against the truck's owner,
Michael D. Averill, of 2122
Pear St.
Police found the truck, a
1998 Dodge Club Cab, parked
outside Averill's home Tuesday
night. An anonymous caller
had led them to the property.
Police are trying to match
the damage on the truck's front
end to debris found on the
2200 block of Broad Street,
where Hector Rios Rivera, 36,
was found in a snowbank at
10:15 p.m. on Jan. 14. Police
said Rivera's neck and back
were broken. He died that
night at Hamot Medical Center.
UNION CITY
An autopsy is scheduled
today on a Union City man
found dead on Monday morn
ing.
Robert A. Hedderick 11, 37,
was discovered dead in a home
on Center Street in Union City.
Foul play is not suspected,
Erie County Coroner Lyell
Cook said.
The coroner has scheduled
an autopsy to determine the
cause of death.
ERIE
Eionortic,develmiicient proj
ectsl ,or
in high-povety and other
troubled areas across the Erie
region will he getting a finan
cial boost.
The Enterprise Development
Fund, a nonprofit affiliated
with the Economic Develop
ment Corp. of Erie County, was
recently awarded Community
Development Financial Institu
tion certification by the U.S.
Department of the Treasury.
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MUSIC
Jim Donovan entertains, involves students with drumming
Daniel Smith / The Behrend Beacon
Dr. Viebranz plays along with Jim Donovan on drums
Opposite: Donovan leads a group of Behrend students on drums
US POLITICS
Vacant Kennedy seat taken by Republican
Political analysts say that
emotions played as big a role as
issues in Republican Scott
Brown's earthshaking win this
week in traditionally Demo
cratic Massachusetts.
And those emotions will ap
pear likely to influence the rest
of the political season into the
November midterm elections.
"People are so angry out here
in the real world they can't see
straight," political analyst Jen
nifer Donahue said.
Independent voters can
break an election. It happened
in 2008 and once again in 2010.
A day after his victory to fill Ted
Kennedy's old Senate seat,
Brown said Wednesday the one
thing he heard the most during
his campaign was that people
1. Fresh Earth
quake Hits Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti --
The second •poWerful earth
quake-to hit Haiti cht , barely a
week filled the streets of Port
au-Prince with terrified crowds
yesterday morning, hours after
rain had persuaded some peo
ple to sleep inside for the first
time since the disaster on Jan
12.
Centred 35 miles (55km)
west-southwest of Port-au-
Prince, the 6.1 quake struck a
few minutes before 6 a.m.,
weakening structures still
standing from last week and
rumbling across the city for at
least 15 seconds.
2. Air France May
Ban Obese
were tired of business as usual.
"That means the behind-the
scenes deals. ... They want to
make sure that their elected of
ficials are doing things in a
transparent manner, and doing
it with the best interests of our
state and mine."
While Massachusetts has tra
ditionally voted Democratic,
there are more voters regis
tered as independents than De
mocrats or Republicans
combined. And they largely
broke for Brown rather than
state Attorney General Martha
Coakley, the Democratic candi
date.
Donahue said the surge of in
dependents voting for Brown
reflects a larger phenomenon
happening across the country.
France -- Air France has re
vealed it may prevent obese
economy passengers from
boarding its planes for "safety
reasons."
It said that, under new rules,
if a flight was full an over
weight person who did not fit
into a single seat might have to
take another plane.
It made the admission when
it said obese people buying two
seats for more comfort would
be fully reimbursed for the sec
ond if the plane was not full.
This new rule comes into ef
fect on Feb 1.
3. Race to Ukraine
Presidency
The Times
KIEV, Ukraine -- Contenders
for the presidency of Ukraine
are vying for political support
Following an introduction by
Andy Herrera, drummers Jim
Donovan and Elie Kihonia took
the Bruno's stage this Wednes
day. Though the crowd was
sparse at first, Donovan blasted
the audience and any student in
Bruno's with his intensive per
cussion performance (the on
stage keyboard didn't get much
play time as his drumset).
Donovan described, "we'll
talk with you, we'll play a little
bit of music," as Kihonia en
couraged listeners to step for
ward to a semi-circle around
the stage. Some eating stu
dents gathered up front, and
Donovan instructed them in a
drum circle (most had been
given maracas or chanted
"hey").
The message of the night was
that of breaking down the
walls. The drummers strongly
encouraged community: stay
ing together as individuals do
in African villages.
Kihonia brought up how in
village communities, you're on
a first-name basis with every
body.
"If you see your neighbor's
kid [misbehaving], you don't
wait to go to his mother, you fix
him right there," Kihonia said.
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"[The election had] a similar
dynamic to the electorate and
the actual group that elected
Obama ... this combination of
independent swing voters and
Democrats," she added. "What
it really shows and what the big
implication is for the rest of the
2010 elections are -- the coun
try has moved to the center.
Washington has not kept up."
Paul Begala, a Democratic
strategist and CNN contributor,
said he had a similar theory.
"People in the middle, partic
ularly, but actually at both
fringes as well, they really want
change. That's how we got
Barack Obama in there," Be
gala said.
"The challenge for Democ
rats is to reconnect with voters
as the final vote tally shows a
10 percent gap separating fron
trunner Viktor Yanukovych
from Prime Minicteclolia Ty
mosheriko, .who4fdAlied sec
ond in. Sundaylatst =round of
voting.
With 100 percent of the votes
counted by Ukraine's Central
Election Commission, the tally
gives Yanukovych just over 35
percent of the total, or roughly
8.7 million votes. Prime Minis
ter Yulia Tymoshenko checks in
just a notch over 25 percent or
nearly 6.2 million votes.
4. 'Virginia Shooter
"Hid Explosives"
APPOMATTOX, U.S. -- Po
lice say they have found a "mul
titude" of explosives at a home
in the US state of Virginia
where eight people were shot
He went on to draw parallels
to Behrend and the local corn
munity here.
"I feel like it would be hard to
miss their message they got
across," said a Behrend junior.
Donovan and Kihonia both
brought up stories of adversity
in their pasts, including one
about a KKK march in Dono
van's small Pennsylvania child
hood town. When confronted
by a teenaged Jim Donovan, a
Klan member told him, "If
you're so mad I'm here, why
don't you hit me?" Don't give in
to pointless anger, Donovan
said.
Formerly and probably best
known as the drummer for the
group Rusted Root, Donovan
has been featured in major
films such as Ice Age and
Twister. He has also appeared
on network television programs
such as American Idol, David
Letterman, Conan O'Brien and
Party of Five.
Donovan has also gained
enough notoriety to have per
formed with Carlos Santana.
Students picked up on his tal
ent.
"I'm having a good time
dancing," said a Behrend jun
ior. The audience appeared to
be mainly comprised of adults
who had driven from off-cam
pus.
Local National
and try to make the case that
they're not fully responsible for
the country's problems, Begala
said.
Ned Ryun, president of
American Majority, which of
fers training for many Tea Party
activists, said the movement's
followers, much like independ
ents, are frustrated with both
parties.
"They are sick of it, and it's
very much anti-establishment
at both parties," he said. "They
don't care about party labels."
And that message of anti-es
tablishment really resonated,
Ryun said, with voters in Mas
sachusetts who went to the
polls for the Republican.
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on Tuesday.
Bomb experts searched the
rural property after the suspect
in the shootings gave himself
up after an all-night manhunt.
Police say they are exploding
the devices hidden both in and
outside the suspect's house.
Medical examiners will try to
identify the victims once the
area is secured.
The man, named as Christo
pher Speight, 39, turned him
self in at about 7:10 after an
all-night stand-off with police,
who had surrounded woodland
just outside the town of Appo
mattox.
Sheriff 0. Wilson Staples said
the suspect had shot at a heli
copter which had been called to
the scene, hitting its fuel tanks
and forcing it to land.
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