10—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1986
'Big' storm breaks up, forecasters
say coastal storms are hard to call
By NAN CRYSTAL ARENS
Collegian Science Writer
Strong, icy winds blew into central Pennsylvania
yesterday, but failed to bring the snow some meteorol
ogists predicted.
Bob Shaw, supervisor of the Penn State Weather
Station, said, "We were expecting a stronger coastal
storm to develop, which it did, but all the precipitation
came to the east (of State College) and in the form of
For reasons meteorologists do not quite understand,
the developing low pressure system broke up into two
storms, with each storm robbing the other of energy,
he said.
"We did get the cold and the wind we predicted, but
not the snow," Shaw said.
For coastal cities like New York and Philadelphia,.
the storm did bring heavy rain, but was not strong
enough to carry precipitation to inland regions, he
said.
Shaw said the ingredients for brewing a strong
winter storm were present warm, moist air over the
Atlantic Ocean and cold Arctic air across the eastern
seaboard.
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ence between Arctic air and warm, tropical air in the
Gulf stream, you have the potential for strong storm
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These east coast winter storms are the bane of
forcasters because meteorologists do not fully under
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data from the ocean spawning grounds of these storms.
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Gregory S. Forbes, University associate professor of
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gists from across the nation collecting data on the
formation of east coast storms.
"They watch the weather and when the conditions
are right they gear-up and send up their equipment,"
Shaw said.
The data meteorologists collect with aircraft and
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conditions lead to east coast blizzards and which
produce January rains, Shaw said.
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By GREGORY W. BORTZ
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While a number of recent thefts in
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campus problem, prevention may be
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Robert McNichol, crime control
supervisor for University Police
Services, estimated that 75 percent of
campus crimes are thefts from resi
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"If you took the thefts out of the
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crime on campus at all," McNichol
said.
He said the same percentage of
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(luring the last several years.
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By TODD SHERMAN
Collegian Sports Writer
Wrestling is a sport where, at
first glance, team depth doesn't
seem to play a big role. It is,
however, a crucial part of a tea
m's success, and no one knows
that better than Lion Head Coach
Rich Lorenzo.
In this, his eighth season at the
helm of the Lions, Lorenzo has
that depth. So over the weekend,
when one starter was out with
mononucleosis and two others
were nursing minor injuries, the
Penn State coach probably did not
worry too much when he sat down
to juggle his lineup.
Consider this choice: Joe Hadge
your 134-pounder has a nag
ging injury? No problem. Just
move Tim Flynn, who is national
ly-ranked at 126, up one spot and
fill his regular slot with his backup
a four-time Pennsylvania State
High School champion.
`I feel I am good
enough to start.'
—Matt Gerhard
Enter redshirt-freshman Matt
Gerhard.
"It was really nice to see Matt
stepping in this weekend and doing
a fine job," Lorenzo said, after
Gerhard won two bouts over the
weekend at Rec Hall to help the
Lions defeat Navy 27-15 Saturday
and Maryland 26-12 Sunday.
"He's been behind Flynn all
year, but he got an opportunity to
wrestle in front of the fans and
show them a little of what he can
do. It is nice to see a guy come off
the junior varsity squad and be
successful."
In a year where most of the
attention has gone to 118-pounder
Jim Martin (another freshman),
the native of Catasauqua; Pa., has
been overlooked. But Gerhard re
sponded to his starting assignment
by posting a 10-5 decision over
Maryland's Troy Lawrence and
notching a fall over Midshipman
Doug Stanford in 1:22.
Both wins increased Penn State
leads (9-0 over Maryland and 11-0
over Navy) and upped Gerhard's
overall record to 10-6 and his dual
meet record to 2-1.
Bears greeted with
By DIANE PACETTI
Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO The triumphant Bears returned
home yesterday to a ticker-tape parade, greeted
by more than half a million cheering fans who
braved bitter cold and clogged the streets, waved
from windows and showered the Super Bowl
victors with tons of shredded paper.
After the six-block parade, Bears President
Michael McCaskey carried the gleaming silver
Super Bowl trophy through the crowd and onto a
podium at Daley Plaza, temporarily renamed
"Bears Plaza."
"Today in this country, everybody is a Chicago
Bears fan," said McCaskey, who drew thunderous
cheers when he broke into dog barks popularized
by Bears players prowling the sidelines.
Mayor Harold Washington, wearing a orange
and-blue Bears cap, displayed a street sign renam
ing part of Lake Shore Drive in honor of the late
George S. Halas, who founded the Bears.
`Today in this country,
everybody is a Chicago Bears
fan.'
—Michael McCaskey, Bears
president
The Bears beat the New England Patriots 46-10
in Super Bowl XX played Sunday in New Orleans.
The Bears ended the season 18-1.
The team members, who arrived about an hour
late, were ferried through the financial district on
buses, as children climbed trees to catch a glimpse
and paper fluttered like swirling snow in the arctic
temperatures. Coach Mike Ditka led the parade.
About 500,000 people lined the parade route and
another 150,000 were in the plaza, said police Lt.
William McTighe. The temperature downtown
was 8 degrees, with a wind-chill factor of 29
degrees below zero.
Several team members climbed atop the buses
and waved. Spectators also tried to climb onto the
bus roofs, some falling back to the crowded street.
"Having a ticker-tape parade in Chicago is so
wonderful, I just wanted to be part of it," said
Chicagoan Dorothy Bloom, 33.
Eight of the Bears' Pro Bowl players did not
attend the celebration because they went directly
to Hawaii for the Feb. 2 game. Not attending were
Jimbo Covert, Jay Hilgenberg, Richard Dent and
Mike Singletary, all starters, and reserves Dave
Duerson, Otis Wilson, Dan Hampton and offbeat
quarterback Jim McMahon.
The Bears' ninth Pro Bowl player, Walter Pay-
"I'm glad Flynn moved up this
week and gave me a chance to
wrestle," Gerhard said. "I feel I
am good enough to start. I am still
trying to crack the starting lineup
and I guess I won't be satisfied
until I do. I'm going to keep plug
ging away."
Gerhard was not satisfied with
his victory in the Maryland match,
even though the only points Law
rence could score were on escap
es.
"I only wrestled 100 percent for
two-thirds of the match," he said
Sunday. "That is something I have
to work on. I felt a little sluggish, a
little tired. I was happy with the
match (Saturday) night. One
move was all it took. It really
wasn't luck because I set him up
for it."
Gerhard and Midshipman Stan
ford were tied up on their feet for
about a minute when the Lion
wrestler pancaked him to the mat:
Gerhard won the Ridge Riley
Award as the outstanding wrestler
in the meet for his performance.
"I just took my time and set him
up for it," Gerhard said. "I am
more of a defense-offense type of
wrestler. I wait for the other guy
to make his move. He was actually
the tougher wrestler (of the two
this weekend). I was really ner
vous until I got out on the mat."
Gerhard compiled a 127-3 record
at Catassauqua High School and
won the state title at 98, 105, 112,
and 119 pounds. He was unde
feated in his junior and senior
campaigns. Gerhard has not had it
as easy in the college ranks, how
ever.
"Every match in college is
good," he said. "Guys wrestle a lot
smarter, and their defense is
much better."
Gerhard has great potential and
Lorenzo is counting on him as a
future starter. But for now, Ger
hard is part of a strong bench that
Lorenzo can go to at any time.
"It does make it nice for a coach
to be able to insert someone the
caliber of a Matt Gerhard into the
lineup," Lorenzo said. "That is
what makes a strong program
depth. That is why lowa is so good.
They have strength and depth up
and down their lineup. We have it
at some weights, and that is some
thing we have to keep working on
to improve our program."
Buses carrying members of the Chicago Bears are mobbed by fans yesterday in Chicago. More than a half
million people crowded Chicago's financial district to greet the Super Bowl Champions.
ton, had been expected to be in the parade but
made no public appearance. He visited his home
yesterday, then left for Hawaii, said Bears spokes
man Ken Valdiserri.
The team may have to turn down an invitation to
visit the White House because of the Pro Bowl and
other scheduling conflicts, said Peter Roussel, a
spokesman for President Reagan.
WMAQ-TV, the Chicago NBC affiliate that
broadcast the Super Bowl, reported yesterday that
the show was the most watched program ever in
Chicago, with more than 5 million people tuning in
an 87 percent share of the viewing audience.
At least one downtown department store report
ed a barrage of requests for "Super Bowl
Champs" paraphenalia, which is not yet available.
Darnell Brown, in the active-wear department at
Carson Pirie Scott & Co., said it's been hard to
keep anything in the Bears' orange-and-blue in
stock.
Penn State trainer Tim Madden at tends to Vanessa Paynter, who injured her knee against Rutgers Jan. 18. Paynter is expected to rejoin the lineup this weekend
Lady cagers continue to battle
By MATT HERB
Collegian Sports Writer
Rene Portland is a troubled wom
an. Forget for a moment the Penn
State women's basketball team which
she coaches won its last game by a 35-
point margin.
Forget too that the Lady Lions'
record stands at 14-4 (8-1 in the Atlan
tic 10 Conference), good enough for
the No. 16 ranking in last week's
Associated Press poll. Forget all that.
It's a coach's prerogative to be fatal
istic, and Portland has found a chink
in her team's armor.
The issue at hand is health, or
rather the lack of it, among the Lady
Lions.
Penn State may have had no trou
ble downing Rhode Island on Satur
day, but it had considerably less
success fending off the most recent
wave of injuries and illnesses that has
hit the team. It is a problem that
everyone has become painfully
aware of.
"We've had a very tough schedule
lately," center Pia Edvinsson said
after last Thursday's narrow victory
ticker-tape parade
(66-65) over West Virginia. "We've
beeh practicing every day and you
can feel it in your body and your
mind."
It has seemed recently that every
Lady Lion has been playing with
some nagging injury or another, or
the flu, if not both. With the number of
walking wounded increasing, Port
land's nominee for MVP is trainer
Tim Madden. Which makes perfect
sense, since at the rate the Lady
Lions have been dropping, he may be
the only team member able to accept
it by the end of the season.
"Tim has really done a good job
with them, and we're just trying to
baby them through this whole thing,"
Portland said. "Last night I had to go
into Riverside and everybody was
laughing at me because I ended up
buying $3l worth of juice for them. I
got gallons and gallons of orange
juice and took it over to the dorms
and told them to drink this and drink
that."
Unfortunately for the Lady Lions,
many of their physical problems have
been the kind that do got go away
with a little nursing and rest.
Although Chicago baseball teams have come
close, the city has not had a national champion in a
major sport since late 1963, when the Bears defeat
ed the New York Giants in the National Football
League playoff game, in the days before the Super
Bowl.
Celebration of Chicago's long-denied
championship began when the game ended Sunday
night. About 10,000 fans hit the streets of a popular
North Side bar district, clogging traffic, tossing
firecrackers and singing the Bears' praises until
daylight.
About 75 people were arrested, most on disor
derly conduct charges, said patrolman John McAl
lister. Angelo Capua, 54, of Berwyn, an employee
of WMAQ-TV, was hit by a car and suffered a
broken leg, authorities said. He was in fair condi
tion yesterday at Northwestern Memorial Hospi
tal.
Despite a rehabilitation that Port- concentrate and say, 'What's another
land has never stopped raving about, 40 minutes (of game time)?' "
starting forward Joanie O'Brien has The most visible example of the
continued to suffer the aftereffects of Lady Lions' difficulties has been
arthroscopic knee surgery performed guard Vanessa Paynter, who has sat
during the off-season. O'Brien, who out the team's last three games with
wears bulky calf-to-thigh braces on a sprained knee suffered against
both legs, has virtually dissappear ed Rutgers. Portland expects her back
from the Lady Lions' offense, scoring in the lineup for Penn State's next
only eight points in Penn State's last game against George Washington
two games. University Sunday, but her absence
In addition, starting center Betha- has meant dipping deeper and deeper
ny Collins has been troubled by a into the Lady Lions' bench for help.
chronic back injury that, earlier in So far, that help has been there
the season, had her in traction . at when called upon. It's been the play
Ritenour Health Center. The injury, of back-up guards Lisa Faloon and
plus a bout with the flu, has meant Patti Longenecker that has saved the
that Collins has been sharing time Lady Lions against the likes of West
with Edvinsson, also part of the in- Virginia. Still, it's a situation Penn
jured reserve. State would just as soon avoid. And
with five more days to recuperate
"Yesterday it seemed like we had a
team meeting at the doctor's office," before the Lady Lions' next game,
they may get that chance.
Collins said. "Everyone was down
there. Pia went down with a knee "It's just game after game after
problem she couldn't walk up the game," Collins said. "It's tough to get
stairs yesterday. And I'm looking at yourself psyched up. After classes
her and thinking 'What are we going you have to come to the games, so
to do? I can't bend over and she can't we're looking forward to this week
walk up the stairs.' I just have to off."
At least five Pats
have drug problem
BOSTON (AP) At least five
New England Patriots have a se
rious drug problem and five to
seven more are suspected to have
a problem, Coach Raymond Berry
told The Boston Globe in a copy
right interview in today's editions.
"I would say we may be 28th in
the league as far as this problem
goes, but there are at least five
players we know who have a se
rious problem and five to seven
more whom we suspect very
strongly," Berry said.
The identifications of the play
ers, who Berry said include at
least four starters, were not re
leased.
"We have a situation that exists
here that we feel is intolerable. It
has been going on for a year, and I
had to weigh the damages of doing
something about it immediately
by going public," Berry said.
"We felt with the season going
the way it had, we had to keep our
eye on the bull's-eye. That's why
we didn't do anything before. But
our bull's-eye looking is over,"
Berry said yesterday, a day after
the Patriots' 46-10 Super Bowl loss
to the Chicago Bears.
AP Laserphoto
"It's time to do something about
this problem, and it cannot be
done in secret," Berry said.
After being addressed yesterday
in New Orleans by Berry about the
extent of the problem specifical
ly, the use of cocaine, the Globe
said and the possible conse
quences, the team members
huddled for nearly two hours in
their hotel with player representa
tive Brian Holloway and his assis
tant, Ron Wooten.
At the meeting, members of the
American Football Conference
champions voted to become the
first NFL team to accept volun
tary drug testing, the Globe and
other sources said. Of 59 players
on the roster, seven voted against
the plan. Several abstained, the
newspaper said.
Berry was asked when the team
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returned at 11 p.m. last night to
Logan International Airport if any
players were going to be sus
pended as a result of the problem.
"Not necessarily. All of us un
derstand what the world is about
today. It's just something we have
to deal with," he said.
Prior to the vote for drug test
ing, injured defensive end Ken
neth Sims spoke forcefully in favor
of the voluntary plan, the Globe
said.
Among the seven in opposition to
the plan were Holloway and Woo
ten, both of whom opposed the
testing on collective bargaining
grounds.
The National Football League
Players Association, the players'
union, has long opposed spot-test
ing or any type of urinalysis exam
ination for drug use except in
cases where the team physician
perceives an individual problem
or a player has previously tested
positive.
Eight NFL teams requested that
their players take postseason drug
tests this year, and all refused
until the Patriots announced their
compliance with Berry's request.
"Many of the players involved
are ones with important roles on
this team. We can't afford to lose
them. We don't want to see players
traded because of a drug prob
lem," Wooten said.
"We also didn't want our season
tainted by the actions of a few
players, and to be honest, most of
us were shocked to learn the ex
tent of the problem. We all thought
it was just a very few players. I'm
flabbergasted," Wooten said.
"What we decided to adopt was
a voluntary drug-testing program
that will be regular and frequent
enough to prevent anyone from
slipping through undetected. The
key is that this is a personal
agreement between this specific
group of players, (General Man
ager) Patrick (Sullivan) and Ray
mond.