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I COLE PORTER: ONE OF A KIND I
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i (11 ONE-MAN MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC PORTRAIT) 11l
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II STARRING -- WILLIAM GRAHAM I
I More than 40 Cole Porter Songs Including: I
I * I Loue Paris * What is This Thing Called Loue? II
1 * Night and Dag * Just One of Those Things I
I * Begin the Beguine* rue Got You Under My Skin I
I September 18, 1990 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gallery Lounge, I
I No Admission Charge! I
I Sponsored by the Student Gouernment Association I
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better chance it will continue to go up.
Something's got to be done or it's just
going to , get worse."
Most PSH students seem to think the
United States is justified for being in the
Persian Gulf, and support the
governments actions over the last
month. As far as a war, some feel that
this will not occur, and other means will
be found to end the crisis.
"I think we will do everything to
solve it through diplomacy, for if we
initiate something now--it could make
us look real bad," says Scott Butcher a
marketing major.
Gary Porta, mechanical engineering,
also sees diplomatic means solving the
crisis. "If the countries involved
continue to work together with these
sanctions, Iraq will be forced to back off.
If the countries breakoff this unified
voice, it could go longer."
Gedeon Mudacumura, a public policy
major from the country of Rwanda in
Central Africa says he supports the
Unites States intervention in the Gulf,
but fears that the longer the crisis
continues, the less chance his country
will have in obtaining foreign aid. But
more importantly he says, "It is also
both a humanistic and social concern
that affects the entire world."
GENERAL NEWS
Faculty
Information
NEW FACULTY:
Dr. Jean Harris - Assistant Professor of
Professional Accountancy
Dr. Lalvani - Assistant Professor of
Humanities and Communications
Mr. Joseph McGinn - Assistant
Professor of Humanities and Philosophy
Ms. Sandra McMinnis - Instructor of
Information Systems
Mr. David Morand - Instructor of
Management
Mr. Richard Stegman - Instructor of
Information Systems
ADMINISTRATION CHANGES:
Dr. Gayle J. Yaverbaum, Acting
Director of the School of Business
Administration has replaced Dr. Melvin
Blumberg.
Dr. Kurt Parkum has replaced Dr. Jacob
De Rooy as Director of the MBA
program.
PROMOTION AND TENURE:
Mehdi Khosrowpour
Andrew S. Lau
Michael L. Young
PROFESSOR:
Kathryn Towns
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR:
Richard T. Ammon
Mehdi Khosrowpour
Andrew S. Lau
Scott Wolfe
Recently, there has been talk aboi
Penn State Harrisburg possibly acquirin
some new land to expand the campus.
To see if the talks were successful, J
recently interviewed Dr. James p.
South, Associate Provost for
Administrative Operations.
Capital Times: Have there bee;
any plans or talks with the people fro
Fruehauf about expanding Penn State
Harrisburg to their property?
Dr. South: We had a number of
conversations with representatives from
the Fruehauf Corp. about their plans for
their property and the effects of a change
in use of that property from the
university. The discussions started back
in November 1989, and they continued
most recently as of yesterday (September
5).
CT: Is there a need to expand onto
their property? Have we "exhausted" all
of our property?
South: No, that's not the reasor.
We are looking into the future and
saying that the college property is
blocked in on all sides. We can't expand
to the east because of the elementary
school, on the south side is Route 23Q,
and the Odd Fellows Home to the west.
If we would ever need additional land, the
only place which is possible is to the
north, and that happens to be available
now. More important though, it's a
matter of controlling or looking at thp
context in which we operate, and the
kinds of companies that might locate in
the Fruehauf area could have an adverse
effect upon us. So we are trying
protect the environmental context with'
which we operate. Our discussions with
which
solely to do with the university
acquiring the property, but rather have
series of things in terms of what both
plans are, how they can make the beSt
use of their property, and what would be
compatible uses. There are a number of
existing legal arguments between
Fruehauf and the university that come
into play, and they need to talk with its
as they look at other development
opportunities for their property.
CT: So it's basically just talks right
now. Aren't there any plans of building?
South: Fruehauf has told us what
they think the price of the property
might be, and we have not made any
kind of counter offer on purchasing the
entire property. We have talked with
them about acquiring parts of the
property, rather than the entire property.
CT: Has there been any plans made
of the types of buildings that would be
built should this deal be successful?
South: There is a physical plant
master plan for the campus, which is
located on the land we own now. If we
would acquire any additional property
that would not necessarily mean that we
would move to plan buildings for that
new property. I believe our first priority
continues to be, regardless of the
Fruehauf property, a new library
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building and the location of that is in e
physical plant's master plan and t
wouldn't change if we would acquire e
Fruehauf property.
CT: How long has Fruehauf been
closed down?
South: The last trailers and the last
manufacturing occured during May of
this year. They began to scale back their
operations this past winter.
CT: Would there be any problems
of putting classrooms on Fruehauf's
property if the deal is successful?
South: Those facilities do not lend
themselves to academic uses. The only
use we would have for Fruehauf's
property is for industrial buildings. They
are not designed for educational
purposes, but they could house some
laboratories. But it would not make
sense to use them for traditional
classrooms, or offices or a library. They
are not designed or built for those kinds
of activities. Those are very large
buildings, and would not be used for
academics, even if somebody were to
give them to us. We also have to look at
this as an input toward local
communities. What is needed back there
is some business or industrial
application that will generate jobs and
support the local economy, and at the
same time, build activities that are
compatible with the university's
activities here, and perhaps where there
is some interconnectiveness between the
university' and those industrial or
business activities--students doing
projects, faculty members consulting,
those kinds of relationships, but not for
the university to operate those
academics.
CT: Who are the officials that you
are meeting with?
South : One of the officials at
Fruehauf has been assigned to work with
us, and they have engaged the services of
their consulting firm that operates out of
New York City. We are in contact with
them on a regular basis, and the direct
representative from Fruehauf is based in
Atlanta, and we converse with him by
phone. We're talking with them about a
number of activities which could benefit
Fruehauf by making that partial land
more attractive to be developed. At the
same time, the university would get
something in return that we think would
benefit the university. Those discussions
have gone quite far, and we are close to
an agreement, but that's not for the
entire parcel of land.
CT: Anything else you would like
to add?
South: This represents an
opportunity and we would be less than
judicious if we did not explore every
aspect of what's going on with our
closest neighbor.
Fruehauf opened in 1966, about the
same time Penn State Harrisburg
opened, and was part of the old air force
base. Therefore, Fruehauf s property
became available about the same time
that PSH became available.
Fruehauf is asking for $l5 million
for the entire propeity, Dr. South said.
In addition this is not the first
attempt to obtain additional property, he
said. In the past, PSH attempted to
negotiate with the Odd Fellows Home to
obtain some of their property, but those
talks were unsuccessful.