Revelers
marketing
beer can
furniture
For those of you who've always dreamed of decorating
your dream house in Early Budweiser, follow your nose
up to East Halls. .
Thanks to the efforts of a couple enterprising Snyder
Hall residents, you can now buy tables and chairs made
• from beer cans. Brian Tepper (Ist-meteorology) and Jim
Balogh (7th-m'eteorology) have been making and market
ing beer furniture for the past two weeks.
• "It's a hobby," Tepper said. He explained how the cans
• are glued with epoxy, allowed to dry and then soldered on
;,, the top, after they have been washed.
"The first ( table) we made, we didn't wash 'em,"
Tepper added, "and it kind of smelled. So we sprayed it
good with Lysol."
Tepper said after they had finished their first, which
, took about a week and a half to build, they took it down to
the lounge and started playing cards on it. They also
placed a beer can lamp on top of the table. A passerby
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Beer can art, by Brian Tepper and Jim Balogh, is becoming quite the
style in Snyder Hall. The two began their art as a hobby and have re
cently begun to sell their creations for cold cash.
inquired about the cost of the lamp, and after thinking
about it, Tepper sold it for several dollars.
Tepper was originally ready to sell the lamp for three
dollars, but after considering labor, upped the price. The
lamps take about 13 cans to construct and come with
bulbs when sold.
The tables come in three sizes 108 cans for the small,
120 for the medium, and 180 for the large-size table. A
piece of glass is added on top to make the piece more
useful. The tables stand two-feet high and are quite
sturdy, considering the lightness of the building
materials. The tables retail between $l7 and $23.
Getting the beer cans, so far, has not been a problem.
"We've even got our RA saving for us. The case of
Pabst is his," Tepper said.
The two have netted about $3O total and admit that
business could be better, but realize that students just
don't have the money to spend on these items.
"Our main problem is no money," Tepper said. "A lot
of students look at them, but don't come back to buy."
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Ackerman wants areas for offices
HUB space conversions sought
By MARY ELLEN WRIGHT
Collegian Staff Writer
The President's dining room in the HUB is one of the areas
being considered for conversion to student group offices,
according to Undergraduate Student Government President
Grant Ackerman.
Ackerman proposed the conversion of the President's dining
room to office space at Saturday's Board of Trustees meeting.
At that meeting, the trustees authorized the name of the dining
room to be changed to the George L. Donovan room, in honor
of the former director of student activities.
Ackerman said he plans to organize a task force this fall to
examine certain rooms in the HUB and other buildings for
possible! conversion.
He said he thinks University President John W. Oswald has
strong feelings about keeping the dining room as it is. If'
student groups cannot have that room as office space,
Ackerman said he will look for other areas to be converted.
Ackerman said he believes he represents all student
organizations when he speaks of the need for more office
space.
Many organizations are in need of space, Ackerman said.
He said the Free University is one of the first groups that
deserves more space.
USG itself has space problems it has four departments
working out of one room and 32 senators sharing one desk,
Ackerman said.
Organizations such as the Organization for Town
Independent Students and the Association of Resident Hall
Students are large but are now working out of a small amount
of space, he said. •
Line hearing expenses approved
The Centre Region Council of
Governments (COG) Monday approved
up to $5,000 for "expert testimony" and
legal fees for hearings on the proposed
Milesburg-Shingletown power line
scheduled for this fall.
The issue concerns the proposed route
by West Penn Power Company and two
possible alternatives. .
COG's experts will argue in favor of
the central alternative, the shortest
Kern bomb scare is
An unidentified female caller told
University Police yesterday afternoon
that a bomb was set to go off at 4:30 p.m.
in Kern Building.
Police searched the building, but no
bomb was found, Police Services'
Thomas R. Harmon said.
Police received the telephone threat at
route which runs along an already
existing power line, Thomas S. Kurtz,
COG general secretary, said.
,West Penn's proposed eastern route
runs around Boalsburg, up Penns Valley
and across Nittany and Bald Eagle
Mountains.
In other business, COG voted to keep
its offices, in State College Municipal
Building at 118 S. Fraser St.
"You can't find a better centrally
3:46 p.m., Harmon said.
Harmon said a sign was posted on the
building about the bomb threat, but the
building was not evacuated.
However, most of the building's oc
cupants who were warned of the danger
left Kern, Harmon said.
Harmon added that the police do not
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Some of the areas Ackerman said he wants examined by the
task force are a large area beneath the Terrace Room, a
lounge on the second floor of the HUB, and some meeting
rooms on the third floor. Meetings normally held in those
rooms could be held elsewhere on campus, he said.
"It's a matter of priorities what you need first, meeting
rooms or office space," he said. "I'll go with office space."
Ackerman said that, to his knowledge, the President's
dining room,had not been used much in the past year.
Melvyn S. Klein, student activities director, said that the
dining room has not been used much recently because it was
being renovated. The room will probably be used extensively
in the fall, he said.
Klein also said the student groups may need more office
space, but the HUB also has a responsibility to serve other
students and faculty who depend on the HUB to provide them
with lounges.
He said that he is not aware of what Ackerman is planning at
this time and will have to reserve judgment on the plans until
he has more information.
Ackerman said that he will not discuss conversions of rooms
with Dr. Oswald until he has recommendations on specific
areas from the task force. He added that he is very optimistic
that he can help the campus student organization get more
office space.
"I have no doubt that I can document the need and also the
Feelings of other student leaders," Ackerman said. "There is a
need and enough opportunities available to us to reach a
positive solution to the problem."
located spot," council member Victor
Dupuis said. -
Some members suggested moving to
the State College bus depot where the
parking is better but Borough Manager
Carl Fairbanks said the Center Area
Transportation Authority could only do
that.
COG also voted to pay off the debts of
Schlow Memorial Library in 10 years as
opposed to 14 years.
'isolated incident'
believe there is a connection between
this bomb threat and the bomb scare in
Pattee or the car that exploded recently
in a Graduate Circle parking lot.
"At this point in time, we have no
reason to believe that these are more
than separate, isolated incidents," he
said.