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Saylor won't
seek USG
presidency
By MARK DIANTONIO
Collegian Staff Writer
Undergraduate Student Govern
ment Vice President Beth Saylor
last night announced she would not
be seeking the USG presidency in
the upcoming election.
Saylor, whose candidacy was
expected by many USG senators
and representatives, said she de
cided not to run because "it is time
to let someone else have a chance
in the leadership role" and said
she would like to use her talents in
"an unpublicized position with ad
ministration.
"I haven't regretted anything
I've done this year," Saylor said.
"I just feel that I've given as much
as I can give to this organization
and it's time to move on."
Saylor said she had planned on
running for the presidency and
had picked a running mate whom
she did not name. She said she did
not know whether he would run for
office.
North Halls senator Kate Coo
ney said she felt Saylor "could
have done the job, but it was a
personal decision not to run.
"It took a lot for her to decide
not to run, but it's a better decision
than just running...and not being
totally dedicated to the job," Coo
ney said.
East Halls senator Danielle
Mowery said she was not sur
piised by the decision "because it
takes a lot to keep up the energy
level required when holding an
office, and Beth has been doing it
for a while now."
Cooney, who said she will be
running for the presidency with
Pollock Halls senator Lawrence
Niland as her running mate, said
she thought Saylor's decision not
to run has "changed the presi
dential picture" and "makes (her
chances) look a lot brighter."
Mowery, who also said she will
run for the presidency with North
Halls senator Kirk McNeil as her
running mate, said the decision
also improved her position.
• Niland added "it is usually the
USG teams (candidates) that
win" the USG presidential elec
tion. •
In other action, the Senate de-
cided to sponsor USG Senate Pres-
ident Laura Morrison arid USG
business manager Leonard Pi-
otrowski as USG representatives
in the Interfraternity Council
Dance Marathon.
I overslept and missed my appointment. Who cares. I
don't have a doctor. I feel fine. I missed the bus. The
canary got out vii I chased it around for hauls, I forgot.
I had to get a hanut. The kids wanted ice cream.fost.
The traffic was terrible. The weather was great so I played
golf instead. l'in not sick, ever. I don't have the money
right now. If cancer's in the stars, it's in the stars. I
went to the doctor's on the wrong day. I went to the
wrung doctor's. Maybe next week I'll make it. It's against
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too busy rigl d fall apart without
me. My father I . tor's and he lived
until he was X (.on't Ite i . about it. L thing's
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me the day off a , , at sale on linens
I couldn't num. ' a rattle. Nu one in
my family ever car cer. I'm not afraid of cancer. L
but a button that r y..e ir • a football gameon. By
the time they fold : v ' ..,i , tly , be too late. I WAS
doing laundry. II . _l' ~ k a day - in my life.
Cancer of the what'. I 'us are siring. In my business
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I need every h . , orrow I couldn't
cafe less. lillt r iic ISITIg. I forgot
II Mtge club me ~ Mi.. Mies Ace is too
far away. I forgot is cash a check. y dog was 'lost, and
I had to find is. It was hunting season. My clothes were
at the laundry. I feel great. It upsets me ti talk about it
The kids would rip the house apart if I went out. I don't
know why. If I haven't got camel , by 11 , po: I'll never get it.
I just don't want to know. No one in my family ever had
cancer anyaay. My husband told me not to Wort)'. I was
- going to go but I ll'lllelllbeßNl t he g. 'Wish needed feeding.
It was mining out, and I was afraid I'd get sick on the way.
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Everyone has an excuse
for not seeing their doctor
about colorectal cancer. How
ever, every year 52,000 men
and women die of colorectal
cancer in this country alone. ,
Two out of three of these .
people might be saved by early
detection and treatment. Two
out of three.
So what is your excuse?
Today you have a new, simple,
- practical way of providing your
doctor with a stool specimen on
which he can perform the guaiac
test. This can detect signs of •
colorectal cancer in its early
stages before symptoms appear.
While two out of three people
can be saved. Ask your doctor •
about a guaiac test, and stop
excusing your.life away.
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Saints Valentine, is associated more with headless Vatican's official encyclopedia of saints, "Bibliotheca
(bodies than with lovers. Sanctorum."
`,.." Valentine is as much a mixture of myth, religion and Inside are listed 16 men named Valentine from Italy,
' tradition as Easter bunnies or St. Nicholas, who some- France, Germany and Spain who have beericanonized.
how ' through time became a' jolly red-suited Santa Two, both third century Italians, have feast days on
Claus.
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"The fiist thing I have to tell you is that no . one has Cladius the Goth. He was beheaded and originally was
any idea of why people adopted him as the patron saint believed buried on Via Flaminia. A church was later
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get the same question every year." tine probably did not exist.
"But the (Roman Catholic) church does not consider It says the confusion arose because of a mistransla
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..le. f I interview with The Associated Press. "I suspect it is an named Valentine.
Push for more lights inches along
By MICHAEL J. VAND
Collegian Staff Writer
Improved street lighting in the downtown area moved a step closer to reality
last night when the State College Municipal Council voted tcraccept bids on the
East College Avenue section of the project.
The upcoming phase of the project includes new lights on East College.
Avenue between Pugh and Garner streets. Also, new lights will go up on Pugh
Street and Locust Lane between College and Beaver avenues. Work may get
underway as early as March.
The low bid of $167,700 for the project was submitted by the Haranin
Construction Company of Bellefonte. The council had previously appropriated
$167,000 from Community Development Block Grant funds for the lighting. The
additional $7,700 will come' from contingency funds.
Council member John Dombroski voted against accepting the bids. He said
he believes the downtown lighting project is unnecessary and may cost as much
as $1 million by the time all phases of the project are completed.
Dombroski cited a study by University students saying that the affected
pedestrians, drivers and merchants do not think the new lighting is needed.
"Before we spend up to one million bucks, I feel we should investigate the
need further," he said.
But council member Daniel Chaffee said that the Planning Commission was
aware of the study and did not find any problem. He also noted there was no
opposition to the project at public hearings.
Regional Planning Director Dennis Elpern said that West Penn Power was
concerned with the•condition of the existing street lights and might discontinue
servicing them if they were not replaced.
Dombroski said after the meeting that the existing lights could be repaired
cheaply to satisfy West Penn Power's concerns. He noted that the lights on the
University's side of College Avenue are in similar condition. Dombroski said
that the University expects to get 30 or 40 more years of service from them.
The council also rejected proposed amendments to the sign ordinance that
would have allowed the use of price board signs at businesses along major
arteries into town.
The amendments would have allowed a second sign up to 12 square feet to
provide information on prices of products sold on the premises. Businesses are
already permitted to use one 26 square foot sign. Gas stations are the primacy
users of such signs to display prices. •
State College. Planning Commission Chairman Roger Downs said a moratori
um on the enforcement of the ordinance has been in effect for two years. He said
the amendments would allow what has already been going on. -
Chaffee said it should be possible for businesses to be creative and use their
existing signs to display prices.
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IFC president describes
his victory over cancer
By KRISTINE SORCHILLA
Collegian Staff Writer
Interfraternity Council President
Adam Levinson described his battle
with cancer and subiequent victory
during last night's 1984 Dance Mar
athon Kickoff Dinner.
Matt Rzucidlo, Kickoff Dinner
chairman, said about 220 people at
tended the dinner at Gatsby's, 100 W.
College Ave., which marked the be
ginning of the week of final prepara
tions for the marathon.
University President Bryce Jor
dan, who also spoke at the dinner,
praised the cooperation between the
IFC Dance Marathon and the Four
Diamonds Fund of the Hershey Medi
cal Center, which the marathon bene
fits.
Levinson described how he discov
ered a protusion in his abdomen while
competing in a regional diving meet
his sophomore year in Carlmount
High School, Belmont, California.
Further tests revealed that Levinson
had a benign tumor about the size of a
small football which had completely
wrapped around his spine.
This rare form of cancer, known as
fibromatosis, was only the sixteenth
case diagnosed in California. In the
fifteen previous cases, the tumor had
been surgically removed but had
grown back. Also, there was a 95
percent chance of paralysis from the
waist down as a result of an opera-
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The doctors at Stanford Hospital
decided to try a new method in his
case, Levinson said. He would under
go two months of photon radiation
treatments, and an operation would
only be performed if the treatments
failed.
However, the doctors were unsure
about the method and responded with
uncertainty to Levinson's questions,
including his question about his survi
val.
His treatments consisted of daily
visits to Stanford hospital for two
months, and during these visits he
was subjected to 5000 rads of radia
tion. Levinson said he was fine
through the first half of the treat
ments, but was nauseated and • in
severe pain during the second part.
He said he realized he must accept
the pain and be strong to overcome
the cancer. In spite of many un
answered questions, most of his time
was spent on positive thinking, he
said.
"I imagined taking every muscle I
had in my body trying to take the
tumor and shrink it down to nothing,"
Levinson said. "They say there is
some kind of a power of mind over
matter, and I was trying to do that."
About six months after the end of
the radiation treatments, Levinson
went to his first post-treatment
check-up. A CAT scan revealed that
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the tumor had shrunk to about half its
original size.
Six months later, the tumor had
shrunk even further, and after anoth
er six months, x-rays showed that
Levinson no longer had a tumor in his
abdomen. Levinson now receives
check-ups only once a year, and there
is no sign of the cancer recurring.
He said that although he considers
the cancer to be a closed chapter in
his life, his 'entire outlook on life has
changed as a result of the ordeal, and
he believes anything can be accom
plished with determination and no
hesitation.
"It was the doctor's hesitation be
fofe he answered whether I was going
to live or not which taught me to
enjoy every day of my life to its
fullest extent. This attitude has never
left me," Levinson said.
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