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Varrs4irg CAPITAL TIMES
Volume 41, No. 15
Family housing
situation improves
By Barbara Gertzen
Capital Times Assistant News Editor
Positive developments
emerged over the last two weeks
for the ten families affected by
the year-end closing of Meade
Heights.
Dr. Donald Holtzman,
senior director of student affairs
and enrollment services at PSH,
said that in the past week, he met
personally with all but one of the
ten families to discuss their par
ticular needs regarding their
move from Meade Heights in
December.
According to Holtzman, the
students were "reasonable and
articulate in expressing their
needs," which mainly revolved
around coordinating moving
dates with the end of the school
year for young children.
Holtzman noted that each
person's situation involves spe
cific issues; therefore, there is
"no one-size-fits-all" resolution.
The individual sessions will help
PSH housing and food services
"customize the solution to [each
family's] situation," he said.
A section of the AIDS Memorial Quilt was dis
played in the student center of the CUB last
week. The SGA sponsored the quilt's display
through the Harrisburg Names Project.
PSH panel reviews
Bush's first 100 days
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Holtzman said arrange
ments have been made with
Aldwyn Courts, the apartment
complex adjacent to the eastern
edge -of the PSH campus, to
extend a $2OO credit off the first
month's rent to families moving
into the complex. Although
management at Aldwyn Courts
usually requires one-year leases,
they have agreed to provide
month-to-month rentals for stu
dents whose program extend a
few months beyond a year, and
to offer fixed-rent leases to stu
dents who will be at PSH for
two years completing their stud-
Aldwyn Courts actually
"looks for students as tenants,"
Holtzman reports. "They're
mature, responsible family peo
ple, and have a goal they're
pursuing their studies. They
make excellent tenants."
Because Aldwyn Courts
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Photo by Cathie McCormick
Newly inducted SGA members (top) Kathleen Kane, senior senator Humanities, Jason Norville, vice pres
ident, Damon Walton, senior senator Behavioral Sciences and Education, (lower) Tramaine Harrison,
president, Shante Lumpkin, senior senator Business Administration, Lori Mitchell, treasurer. Not pictured
Danielle Shanabrough, public relations officer.
Harrison Wins SGA Presidency
By Cathie McCormick
Capital Times Editor In Chief
After eleven days, two
protests and a ballot recount,
Student Court Chief Justice
Jason J. Steigerwalt announced
April 9 that the SGA election
results of March 29 were final.
Steigerwalt and Associate
Justice Mark Messner recounted
the ballots by hand on April 4
with' an unnamed library
employee as an independent
observer. Then, under
Steigerwalt's leadership and
with the assistance of Student
Court Advisor Dr. Toni DuPont-
Morales, associate professor of
criminal justice, Student Court
members Messner, Chris Ambile
and Danielle Price reviewed the
protests raised by presidential
candidates Anthony Ottaviano
and Jennifer Boger.
The court decision of April
9 states there was no evidence to
support any "long-term sus-
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robot contest
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tained violations of election pro
cedures," and no "conclusive
evidence to support the allega
tions of the letter protesting the
results of the SGA 2001 elec
tion." Morales was proud of the
court members. "They did their
homework. They knew the
process," Morales said.
Ottaviano's protest came .
before the polls closed on March
29 and focused on campaign
strategies by Boger and alleged
running platform word-count
violations.
Boger's April 4 memo to
Steigerwalt and Dr. Janet
Widoff, director of student activ
ities, outlined alleged election
day rules violations and ballot
counting that did not comply
with SGA regulations. Boger
also filed an official request for a
recount on April 3.
Boger said she is satisfied
that the recount was done cor
rectly, but expressed concern
The phantom campus
observer speaks
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Monday, April 16, 2001
regarding the security of the bal
lots between the first and second
counts
The outgoing SGA officers
and senators held their last meet
ing of the year shortly before the
induction ceremony for the new
officers on April 10.
Dr. Madlyn Hanes, PSH
dean and provost, told the eight
SGA members present for the
last meeting that "the highlights
of my first year have occurred in
this room." Hanes told the SGA
that they "have the attention of
my office."
The last days of the SGA
sponsored AIDS quilt display
and the upcoming Rites of
Spring rounded out the exiting
SGA's agenda.
Six of the seven new offi
cers were joined by their fami
lies and supporters in the first
floor student lounge for the
induction ceremony marking the
start of the next administration.