28—The Daily Collegian Monday, Aug. 29, 1983 CATA bus passes for Parkway Plaza By ALICE RUDOLPH Collegian Staff Writer Parkway Plaza residents learned Saturday that they will be eligible for Centre Area Transit Authority bus service starting today In a letter addressed to all tenants of the apartment complex at 1000 Plaza Drive, Daniel Kienle, general manager of A.W. & Sons Enterprise, said residents will be issued CATA bus passes on Wednesday. Until then, residents may use their bus pass authorizations to ride CATA buses. "This action has been taken because after much thought and deliberation it is my opinion that we would be unable to provide the same quality of service to our residents as has been provided by CATA," Kienle stated in the letter. Kienle yesterday refused to comment to The Daily Collegian Parkway Plaza residents were to be issued Parkway Chappaquiddick residents want bridge bagged By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EDGARTOWN, Mass. Some long-time residents of Chappaquid dick Island think it's time to pull dpwn the rotting Dike Bridge, the place where Sen. Edward M. Ken nedy's car plunged into the water and a woman drowned 14 years ago. Residents complain the bridge attracts too many tourists to the quiet East Beach in the tiny Mar tha's Vineyard community, says Walter Wood, 58, a member of one of the dozen families who live all FAST QUALITY PHOTO FINISHING 24 Hour Service on Most Work In by 3:30 P.M. back by 5:00 P.M. next day. FRESH FILM available We use Kodak Paper for a better look. The Candy Cane The Candy Shop 128 W. College I, * 352 E. College • Next to the * Next to State Theatre Baskin-Robbins BECOME A 4-LETTER MAN. Whv are a 101 01 college men and \ vomen becoming buddies in Army ROTC! Probably because Army ROTC is full of the kind of people other people go out of their a•ae to meet. ROTC students tend to be high achievers who are interested in more than their studies. They're popular students with a serious side. hut who like to have a good time. too year on the island. About 400 fami lies live on the _island in the sum mer. "A number of us feel the bridge attracts most of the tourists," he said yesterday. "I'm not sure how many. Gee, I've heard numbers like 1,500 to 2,000 people and 300 to 500 bicycles in the heavy season." Wood, who has lived 30 years on Chappaquiddick, commuting to his sheet metal plant on the mainland, suggested last Tuesday at a select men's meeting that the 120-foot wooden bridge be town down. "It's kind of a toss up which tl> In other words. when people join Army ROTC they often meet people a lot like them selves. . , . For more infonnatiom contact your Professor of Military Science. Call or See Maj. Perry F. Denniston 212 Wagner 863-0368 Plaza bus passes this year, instead of CATA bus passes, which were issued in previous years. However, several tenants complained to the Organization for Town Independent Students concerning the switch, and one Parkway Plaza resident started a petition to protest the new bus service. Bruce Tabino (junior-computer science) said 250 residents of Parkway Plaza signed the petition he circulated. "It wasn't until we had the people behind us that they decided to give us Centre Line bus passes," Tabino said. Parkway Plaza advertisements in the University's summer term schedule of classes and in the Aug. 5 and Aug. 26 issues of the Collegian stated that residents would receive free Centre Line bus passes. Sue Lord, an OTIS representative, said OTIS mem bers are glad that action has been taken quickly so students will not be inconvenienced. ARMY ROTC. BE ALLYOU CAN BE. available residents attracts the tourist's .the most, the beach or the bridge," he said. "I think the bridge. It is a bigger attraction than people think." Mary Jo Kopechne drowned July 18, 1969, when a car driven by Kennedy plunged off the bridge and into the water after a party of campaign workers. Kennedy said he swam away from the car. The controversy over the accident has persisted, especially during Kenne dy's campaigns for the presidency. Wood said he suggested replacing it with a relatively inexpensive aluminum culvert. The Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare . . . one of the world's greatest love stories filled with turbulence and passion. The Playhouse The Playhouse The Playhouse October 14, 15, 18-22, 25-29, 1983 February 17, 18, 21-25, 29-March 3, 1984 April 13, 14, 17-21, 24-28, 1984 Matinee on Sunday, October 30 at 2:30 Student Preview February 15 Student Preview April 11 p.m. Student Preview October 12 • Talking With by Jane Martin . . . a highly entertaining and provocative look at the issues facing the contemporary female. The Pavilion Theatre November 11, 12, 15-19, 1983 Student Preview - November 9 Box Office Information Box Office opens September 6 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. closed Sundays. Call (814) 865-1884. Or write: URTC Box Office, 137 Arts Building, University Park, PA 16802. Curtain Times at 8:00 p.m. Student Previews only $3.00! Peace Corps offers challenge By MONTE HAYES Associated Press Writer JUTICALPA, Honduras —Don Hanson lives in a tranquil green val ley in Honduras, his work as an American Peace Corps volunteer un touched by the guerrilla wars wrack ing Central America. Hanson, a 25-year-old agricultural engineer from Garfield, Wash., is one of 250 Peace Corps volunteers and trainees in Honduras, Central Ameri ca's most impoverished country. The pr6gram is the largest in the turbu lent region and Latin America's sec ond biggest, after Ecuador's contingent of 285 volunteers. The number of Peace Corps volun teers worldwide has dropped from more than 16,000 in the late 1960 s to 5,- 200 today because of funding cuts and the closing of programs in more than a dozen countries. In Central America, the Peace Corps has pulled out of El Salvador and Nicaragua because of guerrilla warfare and has reduced its program in Guatemala, withdrawing from the western highlands where a leftist insurgency is concentrated. But Honduras, largely spared the political violence its neighbors suffer, has seen an increase from around 150 volunteers in the early 1970 s to the present level. "One has to recognize the impor tance of Honduras and the fact that you have a democratic government trying to do its best to solve the problems of this country," Don Allen, director of the Honduran Peace Corps program, said in an interview in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. "They just desperately need the kind of help we can give them at the village level." ennsylvania State University Resident Theatre Company President Roberto Suazo Cordova, 1983-84 Season The Mainstage Series Terra Nova by Ted Tally . . . a compelling account of the race to reach the South Pole and the knowledge that suffering will be the only reward for heroism. The Studio Series Three Sisters Rehearsed by Anton Chekhov . . . a production focusing on the dramatic action as three sisters battle their fateful pattern of existence . . . The Pavilion Theatre December 7-10, 1984 Student Preview - December 6 whose election in ,November 1981 re stored civilian government after two decades of almost uninterrupted mili tary rule, has asked for more volun teers, Allen said. "I'd never seen poverty like this where I'm from in the Northwest," Hanson said. "Pictures tell a lot, but they're not the same thing as living it." Like many Peace Corps volunteers, Hanson often finds his work frustrat ing because of the slow pace of pro gress. "It's a big challenge. That's the way they promote the Peace Corps and it's true," he said. `Pictures tell a lot, but they're not the same thing as living it.' -Don Hanson, Peace Corps volunteer Hanson works out of an agricultu ral extension office here, helping a half-dozen villages and towns throughout the Guayape Valley. He usually reaches them on aging buses and by hitching rides. The final leg of the trip to El Agua Fria, a mountain village eight hours away, is by horse back. Most of his work involves small irrigation projects. In the tradition of the Peace Corps, villages and individ uals benefiting from the projects are expected to provide part of the money and all the labor. The matching funds come from the U.S. Agency for International Devel opment and the Peace Corps 'Part- nership Program, undir which local communities in the United States donate money to projects supervised by volunteers. The Peace Corps Partnership Pro gram has alloted $2,100 for the build ing of a local school. But Hanson is holding back half the money until the community collects $350 as its snare to finish the school, which now has walls and a galvanized zinc 'roof in place. He says the villagers also need to show more initiative in providing voluntary labor for the project. "I'm going to the school project:, wondering what to say," he said, as he drove a borrowed Jeep down a dusty road to La Puzunca. "I don't want to be negative. But I've got to say, 'Hey, you guys aren't working hard enough.' "I want Them to organize them selves so when I'm gone, they'll keep working on projects for themselves." ,; Like Hanson, most Peace Corps -; volunteers in Honduras live in rural r; communities and work directly with , the poor. - "In the early '7os in response to requests from host countries the ;, Peace Corps began to recruit volun- • teers who had higher technical skills and place them in universities and government planning positions," said John Evans, program and training officer for the Peace Corps in Hondu ras. "Under (President) Carter, the ", word came down that Peace Corps ;• volunteers should be working with the poorest of the poor." Hanson agrees. In fact, when his two-year commitment is up in De cember, he's planning toign up for another year of frustra t ions, chal lenges and a $231-a-month living al lowance. The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder . . . winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a wonderfully wise and wacky testament of faith in humanity. Getting Out by Marsha Norman A sensitive and moving play dealing with a young woman's inner and outer struggles upon her release from prison. The Pavilion Theatre March 23, 24, 27-31, 1984 Student Preview - March 21
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