6—The Daily Collegian Friday, Sept. 7, 1984
Helping hand:
Students big bothers, sisters for area kids
By MICHAEL SCHUBERT
Collegian Staff Writer
Sometimes children just need a
helping hand someone to talk to or
someone to emulate. Sometimes it
can make a big difference in a child's
life.
Centre County's Big Brother and
Big Sister program has been making
that difference in young people's lives
for 16 years.
Nada Ottenstein, county program
coordinator, said there is a long wait
ing list of children in the area who
need big brothers or sisters, and
volunteers are sorely needed.
She said the program requires
someone aged 18 or older to spend a
few hours a week with a child 4- to 17-
years-old.
Although many, of these children
come from low-income, single-parent
families, Ottenstein said children
from a wide cross section of society
often need more attention than they
are getting.
Alienation or depression can arise
from family, school or peer prob
lems, she explained.
A volunteer's preferences are
screened and matched with a child's,
she said. And after a brief orienta
tion, the relationship begins, she said.
Ottenstein stressed that the
relationship's success is the responsi
bility of both individuals.
September is recruitment month
for the program and volunteers, she
said.
Some volunteers have even been
grandparents, but she said students
are sought because of their freedom
and mobility.
"Students make excellent volun
teers," Ottenstein said. "It's a seg
ment of the population we've always
welcomed."
Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brother
Robert Silverman has been a big
brother for about a year.
"It's great fun and fulfilling," he
said. "I don't try to be an authorita
tive figure. I try to set an example."
Five other brothers at Phi Kappa
Psi are also big brothers.
Last April, the fraternity raised
$25,000 for the program through the
Phi Psi 500.
Ottenstein said relationships usual
ly last at least nine months so seniors
interested this year can join if they
begin soon.
All students are welcome, but
Ottenstein said only people with use
of a car can effectively participate
because so many children in the
program live outside the campus
area.
Ottenstein said the program is im
portant because a lonely child feels
he must be worthwhile if someone
takes time out each week to be with
him.
- The private agency's services are
supplemented by county, state and
federal funding. Private donations
also help support the services.
The Big Brother and Big Sister
program office is at 205 E. Beaver
Avenue, in the Centre County Youth
Service Bureau basement. The phone
number is 237-5731.
Trustee to speak on success for women
Success strategies for women will be the topic
when University Trustee Cecile Springer speaks
before the Women's Alliance this afternoon, a
member of the alliance said.
Shirley Hendrick said Springer will speak today
from noon to 1 p.m. in the Frizzell Memorial Room
of Eisenhower Chapel.
Hendrick, also assistant professor of business
administration, said the 20-minute informal
speech, to be followed by a question-and-answer
session, will kick off the Women's Alliance's 1984-
85 season.
Norm Constantine
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The speech is open to the . public, she said. ,
Another planning committee member, Diane
McLaughlin, said Springer was chosen to give the
address because "she is quite successful and can
talk to women about how she achieved her suc
cess."
Springer is director of contributions and com
munity affairs for Westinghouse Electric Corp,
McLaughlin said. She will be introduced by Uni
versity Trustee Marian U. Coppersmith, who
spoke before the alliance's first meeting last year.
"It's always important when one of the trustees
Cheerleaders wash cars
to help former mascot
In addition to "Hailing the Li
ons" at tomorrow's football game,
the University cheerleaders will
be hailing dirty cars on Sunday for
a carwash to benefit former Nitta
ny Lion mascot Norm Con
stantine.
The Penn State Cheerleaders
and Lion's Legion will hold the
fund-raising car wash from 10:30
a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the River
side Market at the Nittany Mall,
said Barry Jones, the. University's
athletic events coordinator.
Jones said proceeds will help
pay for rehabilitative equipment
for Constantine, who suffered
head injuries in October, 1981,
when he was struck by a hit-and
run motorist near his home in
Philadelphia.
Although Constantine is no long
er in a coma; he is recovering
from paralysis and loss of speech
at the Moss Rehabilitation Center
in Philadelphia
Constantine served as the Nitta
ny Lion Mascot for the 1979-80 and
1980-81 athletic seasons, said Lee
Giannone, cheerleader adviser.
"Norm was a special person to
Penn State athletics," Giannone
said.
This year's squad would like to
raise some money for his care, he
said. Even though most of the
cheerleaders have never met Con
stantine, they maintain an interest
in his progress, he added.
This is the squad's first fund
raiser benefitting the Constantine
fund, Jones said.
"If the need presents itself, I
would see nothing at this point that
would stop us from having another
fund-raiser," Giannone said.
Jones said cars will be charged
$3, while vans will be charged $5.
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is willing to give a speech to women on campus,"
McLaughlin said.
Springer was selected over the summer and
worked with members of the alliance to come up
with a topic of interest to women.
Hendrick said the year-old Women's Alliance is
an organization dedicated to educational pro
grams and networking for women. The alliance
sponsors sessions dealing with subjects such as
day care, real estate as a profession, speaking
skills, and women in politics.
—Robert P.King
Interest community still questioned
By ANNA FARNESKI
Collegian Staff Writer
Financing problems leave the construction of
State College's first student interest community
in question despite adequate student response,
said a project developer.
Benson Lichtig, a general managing partner of
Round Hay Associates, said the 34-unit commu
nity, originally scheduled for fall occupancy, was
indefinitely postponed last spring because of a
recent Internal Revenue Service ruling.
The ruling could have made investments in the
$1.5 million project unprofitable for limited part
ners of Round Hay, he said .
"The ruling could have changed the tax advan
tage for several limited partners," Lichtig said.
He said the association now has two options.
"We can restructure the partnership and fi
nancing package so the ruling wouldn't be a
factor or we can build these units as condomini
um units and skip the project. The decision will
be made in the next month and a half," he said.
Association members, who learned of the deci
sion in late February, made the decision to table
the project in early April after taking applica-
Football traffic:
By KIM AJECK
Collegian Staff Writer
Traffic adjustments for the 20,000
cars that travel to the University for
each football game were recently
modified, the director of the depart
ment of University safety said.
David E. Stormer said one-way
traffic will begin at 10 a.m. on game
days. University Drive will be one
way inbound from South Atherton
Street to Curtin Road, and Porter
Road will also be one-way inbound
from College Avenue to Curtin Road.
Cars entering via these routes will be
parked in the lot southeast of the
stadium, he said. '
Park Avenue will begin one-way
traffic westbound at Atherton Street
and one-way eastward at Orchard
Road. Traffic from each direction
will be guided into lots east and west
of the stadium, he added.
Two lanes of Park Avenue will
facilitate football traffic and one lane
will be left open as an access route to
Centre Community Hospital.
Fox Hollow Road will remain two
way and cars traveling that route will
be parked north of the stadium.
Stormer added that once the north lot
is full, traffic will be diverted to the
east lot.
Herb Schmidt, director of athletic
operations, said abOut 900 parking
places in the lot north of campus will
not be used this semester.
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tions from aoout 70 interested students 12 of
whom signed leases.
"By early April we realized that the starting
date was going to be delayed enough so that it
would be cutting it very close," Lichtig said.
"The worst thing that could have happened
would have been to get this thing off on the wrong
foot and have students come back for the fall
(semester) with no place to live."
Lichtig said the students who were interested
in living in the community "were very good
about it" and he said he helped some find living
arrangements.
"We decided to take a chance and postpone the
project for a year and risk getting back those
interested," he said.
As an alternative, the association offered the
community living atmosphere for all students,
but especially tried to attract those involved with
University organizations, Lichtig said. •
."We. thought they would be more responsible
and respectful of others' property than the aver
age student," he said.
Students would automatically become mem
bers of a self-governing tenant association and
also be able to interact and meet other involved
The constuction of Park Avenue
and the Agriculture Arena resulted in
the loss of many spaces, but some will
be used again next season after the
landfill in the Park Avenue area has
settled and is firm enough to park
cars on.
Schmidt added that some ground In order to facilitate pedestrian
southeast of the stadium, once used traffic, Curtin Road will be blocked
by the College of Agriculture, will off from Shortlidge Road to Porter
now be used for parking. Road, he added.
"We think that we have adequate . Stormer said the system for traffic
parking to replace the space that is control has been basically the same
now being used otherwise," Schmidt since the stadium was moved to its
said. current location in 1960.
Traffic patterns will be reversed at "As the stadium gets bigger its
some point before the end of the been necessary to do some different
game, Stormer said. He added that things, but the principle stays the
CATA routes altered for home games
Football games draw thousands of fans to State . College stop on East College and High Street and East Beaver
on weekends, and traffic snarls have become a part of the Avenue and Garner Street. Passengers may board at an
traditional tailgating and post-game excitement. alternate location in front of Schlow Memorial , Library,
Centre Area Transportation Authority officials are
aware of the problems involved and have adjusted their
bus schedules to provide efficient service during home
football game weekends
According to a CATA news release, bus routes H-
Toftrees and W-Park Forest will run all day Saturday
through West College Heights via Hillcrest Avenue and
North Allen Street
No buses will make stops or pickups on Park Avenue or
the corner of Arbor Way and Route 322. Route B-Boals
burg will be restricted because of increased traffic
patterns.
Buses will not provide service on University Drive or
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students, explained Lichtig.
He said this would make the living environ
ment enjoyable as well as educational.
Bryan Havir (senior-political science), who is
the Organization of Town Independent Students
publicity chairman, was interested in the com
munity, but he said he made other arrangements
because he was not sure if the units would be
built in time.
"I held out until April and then quit it. I didn't
want to come up here and not have a place to
live," he said. "It's a good idea, but it's too
risky."
In addition to financing difficulties, developers
were also concerned at the start of the project
about finding enough interested students.
However, Lichtig said by April he was confi
dent that the additional 40 or 50 students nec
essary to make the project possible would be
found.
The idea for the project came from Lichtig
himself who proposed the idea to the University
while he was Undergraduate Student Govern
ment president in 1971. However, the project was
rejected at the time, so now he is funding it
privately.
same," he said.
Stormer said the completion of
Park Avenue has made some changes
necessary in the traffic flow.
"We should be able to expedite the
movement of vehicles in terms of
access," he said. "It will take two or
three games until we become accli
mated and the people become accli
mated as to where to go."
About 20,000 cars travel to Penn
State for football games, Stormer
said. State College uses about 27
officers to direct traffic and other
local areas use about five men. The
state police department supplies 16
troopers and the University employs
about 40 officers.
100 E. Beaver Ave.
Route X, servicing Lemont, the Nittany Mall and
Bellefonte, will also be temporarily changed on home
football game Saturdays
Before 6:30 p.m. no service will be provided on campus,
Garner Street or Calder Way, but buses will travel out of
town on Beaver Avenue and in town on College Avenue.
Garner Street and Calder Way boarders may instead
board the X-route bus at the East Beaver-Avenue and
Garner Street or East College and High Street stops.
These route changes will only be in effect for Saturdays
when the University hosts home football games.
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police log
• The State College Police Depart- that a clarinet worth $l7O was miss
ment reported Aug. 30 that stereo ing from her vehicle parked at 900
equipment valued at $350 was miss- Belair Ave. when she returned to it
ing from Alpha Chi Sigma, 406 S
Pugh St
• Centre Video, 273 Benner Pike,
reported a theft of services to State
College police Wednesday. Police
said someone tapped into a cable box
at 611 E. Beaver Ave. and was reciev
ing free cable service. Damage to the
box was $73.
• State College police reported
Wednesday that unknown individuals
caused $2OO damage to a control
panel at Kaplan Apartments, 135
High St.
• Kristin McNelis reported
Wednesday to State College police
collegian notes
• The University Lutheran Parish from noon until 5 p.m. today and
will sponsor a Jawbone Coffeehouse Saturday
featuring G.E. Sassani, a folk guitar
ist, at 8:30 and 10 tonight at 223 S
Garner St
o The Interlandia Folkdancers
will sponsor a recreational folkdance • The State College Bicycling Club
at 7:30 tonight in the HUB Ballroom. will take a tour to Warriors Mark at 1
p.m. Sunday. Those interested in
• The HUB Craft Centre will hold riding should meet at Central Parklet
registration for Fall craft classes and Fraser Street.
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UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
Friday-Saturday, Sept. 7.8
Friday, Sept. 7
Korean Undergraduate Student Assoc. meeting, 5 p.m., Rooms 320, 321
and 322 HUB.
Free U (Role Playing Games) meeting, 6 p.m., Room 225, 227 HUB.
Student Filmmaker's Organization meeting, 6:30 p.m., Room 26, Miner
al Sciences Bldg. Also Sept. 8 and 9.
International Student Council meeting, 6:30 p.m., Room 102 Forum. Also
Sept. 8 and 9.
The Friends of India Assoc. meeting, 7 p.m., Room 128 Sackett.
GSA Commonplace Theatre, Romancing the Stone, 7 and 9 p.m., Room
112 Kern. Also Sept. 9.
PSU Wargamers Club meeting, 9 p.m., Room 208 Hammond. Also Sept. 8
and 9, 12 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 8
Hong Kong Students Assoc. meeting, 7 p.m., Room 316-317 HUB.
France-Cinema, Bergman, Fanny & Alexander, 8 p.m., Room 112 Kern
Also Sept. 10,
The Daily Collegian Friday, Sept. 7, 1984-7
• State College police reported
that a videocassette recorder valued
at $750 was missing Wednesday night
from The Nickelodean, 111 Sowers St.
• Courtney D. Harrison, 201 Coo
per, reported to Univerity Police
Services that someone removed her
student parking decal from her vehi
cle while it was in parking lot Blue G
on Aug. 25.
• Rita Maximo, 224 McElwain,
reported to University police that
$l6O was missing from her room
Wednesday night.
e France Cinema will sponsor a
movie at 8 tonight and Sunday night
in 112 Kern.
1225 Benner Pike
(Across from Starlite Drive-In)
Free Parking
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