10—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1986
Atherton St.
By MARIA QUICI
Collegian Staff Writer
The bus depot on North Atherton
Street may get a facelift this spring if
the Pennsylvania Department of
Transportation approves a grant ap
plication to pay half the renovation
cost.
The Centre Region Council of Gov
ernments has planned changes to
make more room for passengers in
response to requests from Trailways
and Greyhound bus companies, said
the assistant to COG's director of
administration.
B.J. Liggett said COG will submit a
grant to PennDOT in February
asking them to pay half of the esti
mated $168,000 required for the pro
ject. Borough design draftsman Mark
IFC Dance
Marathon
dinner tickets
on sale today
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bus depot may get facelift
Whitfield said COG will be paying
about $25,000.
The University will contribute
about $50,000 to the construction
changes.
If PennDOT approves the grant
application, changes would be made
during the next construction season,
probably in March or April, Liggett
said.
Liggett said changes in the drop-off
and pick-up station and in the parking
arrangements will provide more and
better access for buses.
After more parking spaces are
added, the University, which owns
the plot where the depot is located,
152-154 N. Atherton St., will gain
about 28 new parking spaces.
About 16 new parking spaces will
also be made for people unloading
and loading onto buses.
Tickets for the 1986 Interfraternity
Council Dance Marathon Kick-off
Dinner will go on sale starting at 2:30
p.m. today in 310 HUB. The tickets
are $lB per person, said the dinner
chairman.
Jim Vachon said the first two tick- Vachon said a press conference will
ets to the dinner will be sold to Uni- be held before the dinner at 4:30 p.m.
versity President Bryce Jordan and in the Nittany Lion Inn.
his wife, Jonelle, at 2 p.m. today in
210 Old Main.
The dinner will be held on Feb. 16 A:lancer applications are due Feb. 7in
at Gatsby's, 118 E. College Ave., and 310 HUB. The first dancer meeting
will be followed by a reception at Mr. will be held on Feb. 5 from 6:30 p.m.
C's, 112 W. College Ave. to 8 p.m. in 10 Sparks, Stevenson said.
Vachon said a limited number of —John L. Spence
Renovations include demolishing a
concrete loading dock on the Trail
ways side of the depot and construct
ing three more loading spaces for
buses, Whitfield said.
Ramps for the handicapped will be
placed at various locations around
the depot, Whitfield said, adding that
a new center aisle will provide an
area for cars to unload, keeping them
out of the main stream of traffic.
"The (current) space is inadequate
for the number of people using it," he
said. "If we have eight buses to load,
we only have room for four buses."
Whitfield said other changes in-
elude landscaping, adding benches
and lights, and repaving the whole
area. "We don't feel that we have
enough facilities to accommodate
passengers."
tickets are available on a first-come,
first-serve basis.
John Cappelletti, former Nittany
Lion running back and winner of the
1973 Heisman trophy, will deliver the
keynote address at the dinner.
Dance Marathon Public Relations
Chairperson Jim Stevenson said
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sports
Gymwomen
face Nebraska
By THERESA PANCOAST
Collegian Sports Writer
Although the women's gymnastics team will
meet Nebraska on the road at 9:30 tonight, the
Lady Lions are viewing the matchup as a dress
rehearsal for the Purina Cat Classic in Missouri
this weekend, Head Coach Judi Avener said.
"Of the two meets, the Cat Classic is the more
significant one," she said. "So the Nebraska meet
will be more a preparation for the Cat Classic."
In keeping with her outlook on the past two
meets, Avener said Penn State will not be aiming
to defeat Coach Rich Walton's Cornhuskers, who
have scored over 180 in their first two meets this
season, but rather to improve over last weekend's
peformance.
"They're tough to beat at Nebraska, so we're not
going to try to win at Nebraska," Avener said.
"We're going to use it as a learning experience.
We're going to rest anybody who looks like she
might need a rest, and we might put a few new
routines in against Nebraska."
Nebraska gained the upper hand on the Lady
Lions last season by beating them 178.35 to 176.70
in Rec Hall.
Penn State left State College at 6 a.m. yesterday
and will travel to Nebraska and the two-day Cat
Classic before returning Sunday night. The squad
has been looking forward to the trip, Avener said.
"They're really excited about the next two
meets, and they feel like they're a little bit better
prepared competitively speaking," she said. "I
think they're more able to handle the stress of
competition at this point, having gotten two pretty
successful meets under their belts."
Senior Renee Bunker is especially looking for
ward to the meeting with the Lady Cornhuskers.
"We haven't heard a whole lot other than their
first two scores," she said. " But they both broke
180, which is more than we've done so far, so it
should be a good challenge. We're taking nothing
for granted, that's for sure."
The Lady Lions don't intend to increase the
difficulty in their routines for the Nebraska meet,
but they are shooting for more consistency, Bunk
er said. She added that she will concentrate on her
own hitting ratio.
"I'm going more for consistency, trying to hit
more bar routines and beam routines in workout,"
she said. "As the season goes on, you hope that you
can go in knowing you can hit instead of lucking
out. The more you hit in practice then the more
you can depend on confidence instead of just
lucking out."
Avener said the Lady Lions will wait awhile
before instituting more difficult maneuvers.
"We don't think it's wise (to add much now),"
she said. "We just think it's wise to go on fairly
slowly, one step at a time. There might be a few
more things in there, but nothing of any major
significance."
The Lady Lions are hoping to see junior Kathy
Pomper in more than one event for the Nebraska
meet, Avener said. Pomper has been battling a
strained leg muscle, and competed only on the
uneven bars during last week's quadrangular
meet in Rec Hall.
"Kathy is one of our better all-arounds from last
season," Avener said. "Depending on how that leg
Hapless Saints hire
Mora as head coach
By AUSTIN WILSON
AP Sports Writer
NEW ORLEANS The New Or
leans Saints yesterday plucked Jim
Mora from the ranks of the USFL and
gave him the task that six other men
have failed to complete over a 19-year
span: winning with the hapless NFL
team.
"In Jim Mora, we have a man who
has won and knows what it takes to
have a winner," said Saints owner
Tom Benson. "He's won everywhere
he's been. He's also the kind person
we need for our team, our fans and
our city."
Mora, 49, replaces Wade Phillips,
who coached the Saints to a 1-3 finish
after his father, Bum, resigned in late
November with the team languishing
at 4-8.
The 5-11 finish was the Saints' sec
ond worst in the Phillips' five seasons
at New Orleans, which has compiled
some dreadful numbers since the
franchise was formed in 1967.
The Saints prepared for this latest
head coaching change by firing Wade
Phillips and most of his staff on
Jan. 22.
Excluding Wade Phillips and three
other interim appointments, Mora
becomes the seventh head coach
hired to bring a winner to New Or
leans.
Like Bum Phillips before him,
Mora brings a winner's credentials to
New Orleans. He coached the Stars to
52 victories over three years, includ
ing back-to-back USFL
championships the past two seasons,
first at Philadelphia and then in Balti
more.
Mora's contract with the Stars ex
pired Jan. 17 and the speculation was
that he would become head coach for
the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles. When
that deal fell through, the rumor mills
had Mora headed for New Orleans.
That report was further fueled by
disclosures that Mora had been inter
viewed by Benson on Jan. 13 and by
general manager Jim Finks on
Jan; 21.
Mora said there never was any
tentative agreement with the Eagles
and that he withdrew his name from
Penn State's Renee Bunker performs on the vault during a quadrangualar meet last Saturday in Rec Hall.
Bunker and her teammates will take on Nebraska tonight In Lincoln, Neb., before traveling to Missouri for
the Cat Classic.
holds up at Nebraska, she may even be in a little
bit more at the Cat Classic."
Avener said, however,
.that Pomper is still not
ready for the all-around competition.
Team captain Pam Loree will most likely com
pete in the all-around in Nebraska as well as in the
Cat Classic, Avener said.
"She's ready to go and she's healthy and she
consideration for the St. Louis Cardi
nals vacancy after amiable dis
cussions with that NFL team's
owner.
Finks said Mora's contract was for
four years "and that's one more
year than I have."
Neither Finks nor Mora would go
into detail on what the agreement
was.
• "It's good," said Mora. "It's good
enough for me. I'm very happy with
it."
'(Mora's) won
everywhere he's
been.'
Tom Benson, Saints
Mora said he would bring his entire
staff of eight assistants from the
Stars and that he expected them to
arrive today.
"Eight of my coaches are coming
in tormorrow moring, and we will sit
down with (scouting director) Joe
Wooley and he will indoctrinate us.
We will be very very involVed over
the next four days in going over our
personnel," Mora said.
He said he'll hire a ninth assistant
coach and change the duties of Jim
Erkenbeck and Carl Smith. Smith
will move from quarterback coach to
offensive coordinator, and Erken
beck will become a position coach, he
said.
Mora said the basis of his coaching
philosophy is hard work.
"I believe in working a team hard
and working a staff hard and I'm
going to work hard," he said.
He said he does not believe the
team's past record has any bearing
on what it can expect to accomplish
from now on.
Prior to the Saints, the Stars were
Mora's first and only professional
head coaching job. Before that, he
coached at Occidental College, his
alma mater, and later at Stanford,
Colorado, UCLA and Washington as a
defensive assistant.
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Berry says Pats° drug problem
By SUZANNE WETLAUFER
Associated Press Writer
FOXBORO, Mass. The New En
gland Patriots have been dealing with
a drug problem since last January,
including the testing and successful
treatment of "a couple of" players,
Coach Raymond Berry said yester
day.
Berry refused to give an exact
number of players who had been
treated for drug problems in the past
year.
"We were not treading water,"
Berry said of the Patriots. He
stressed that drug use was a serious
concern that had to be addressed, but
was not a major problem that ever
affected the team's performance.
"Their performance on the field
shows how little problem they have,"
Berry said of the American Football
Conference champions. "We don't
have that much of a problem. We
don't have a very big problem."
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His comments came at a news
conference one day after the team
announced it would submit to volun
tary drug-testing. That followed pub
lished reports that four starters were
among players on the American Foot
ball Conference championship team
who frequently used cocaine and
marijuana.
Berry said reports 12 players are
involved are not accurate, but he
would not say how many players
might be using drugs. No names of
any players who might have been
involved in drugs have been dis
closed.
Gene Upshaw, executive director of
the NFL Players Association said
that the union will vigorously oppose
efforts to implement the drug testing
and would file an unfair labor prac
tice charge over the testing.
At the news conference, Berry;
offensive guard Ron Wooten, the tea
m's assistant player representative,
and General Manager Patrick Sulli
van repeatedly stressed that the vol
untary drug tests were possible
because of the mutual respect be
tween management and the players.
"We realized we had to face the
problem. We have a very unique
relationship with Raymond and Pat,
other teams don't have that. Not all
teams have someone who wants to
loves to compete," she said.
Freshman Kathy Parody, who has competed in
the all-around in both meets this season, may be
given a break from the all-around at Nebraska,
she said.
"She has a sore back and a heel bruise, but
neither one would be enough to keep her out of a
real important meet," Avener said.
New England Coach Raymond Berry keeps a watchful eye on a team practice in
the week before the Super Bowl. Berry announced yesterday that the Patriots'
squad has been combating a drug problem since last January.
help and not punish. That's what sold tatives of the team would meet in
us on the program," Wooten said. about a week to formalize the pro-
Berry said, "The bottom line ... is gram.
to save young people's lives. "Even
tually, hopefully, what you've got is
prevention."
Sullivan added, "There has been
some testing this season. There have
been players Raymond has spoken
with" with "spectacular, very posi
tive results."
Wooten said the tests would be
administered by Massachusetts Gen
eral Hospital at regular times. He
said a group of players and represen-
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Golden Boy elected
to NFL Hall of Fame
CANTON, Ohio (AP) Paul Hor
nung, whose Golden Boy image was
tarnished in the 1960 s when it was
disclosed he had bet on NFL games,
finally made it to the Pro Football
Hall of Fame on his 15th try. Four
teen times previously, the former
Green Bay Packers halfback failed to
get enough support for the Hall.
But yesterday, when the results of
this year's voting were announced,
the votes were there, and Hornung
was elected with four other former
National Football League greats:
quarterback Fran Tarkenton, half
back Doak Walker and defensive
standouts Willie Lanier and Ken
Houston.
They will be enshrined at ceremo
nies in the summer.
Hornung's one-year suspension in .
1963 for betting on his own team had
been blamed for keeping him from
the Hall until now. Last year, he was
elected to the College Football Hall of
Fame for his exploits at Notre Dame.
"I've been very optimistic in the
past, and I've learned not to be too
optimistic," Hornung said. "This
year, it seemed, everybody was tell
ing me that I had an excellent oppor
tunity, I was getting closer. It seems
like there was more calls from the
media this year, so where there's a
little smoke there's fire.
"In December, I was inducted into
the college football hall of fame. Now
in January, it tops it off with the
professional hall of fame. I couldn't
be happier."
Others contacted also were over
joyed by their election.
"I'm elated," said Houston, who
played as a defensive back for the
Houston Oilers and the Washington
Redskins.
"It's fantastic," said Lanier, a line
backer for the Kansas City Chiefs,
saying notification of his induction
gave him a "very rewarding and
refreshing feeling."
The selection committee is made
up of one media representative from
each NFL city plus a 29th member
from the Pro Football Writers Asso
ciation. To be elected, a player must
receive support from about 82 per
cent of those voting. Rules call for the
election of four to seven new mem
bers to the hall each year.
"I'm happy to be there," Houston
said upon learning he had been
picked in his first year of eligibility.
"It's something you don't really think
about, really, because you always
think it will be something that will
happen after you are dead, really."
Added Houston: "I always thought
Wooten acknowledged that the test
ing plan was not well received by the
players association.
"The union's position is (that)
there's a way to handle the problem
in collective bargaining. We don't feel
that overall that is the way to attack
this problem," he said.
"I'm caught in the middle. I'm
certainly more behind this program
here than the union in Washington,"
he added, but said, "We had to act
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the hall of fame was for other people
because I had never put myself in
that class as a player. Now I really
feel different about it."
Houston became the eighth de
fensive back from the modern era
and the fifth safety to win induction.
In 14 seasons, he garnered 49 inter
ceptions and established an NFL re
cord by running nine back for
touchdowns.
Lanier was the second Kansas City
Chief player after Bobby Bell to
make it to the hall and the eighth
linebacker from the modern era. In 11
seasons, he intercepted 27 passes for
440 yards and two touchdowns.
"The thing I noticed this morning,
there was great elation at being
called to be told that I was one of the
five, but then after talking to a few
people I went through a little down
period," Lanier said.
"The period was just then one of
reflecting on all the people that have
been involved with it, all of those that
you want to be here when this oc
curred. My mother passed (away) a
couple of years ago and it would be
great if she were here to share in
this."
Hornung became the 10th member
of the 1961 Green Bay Packers to be
inducted into the hall. A Heisman
Trophy winner at Notre Dame, he
was a two-time NFL MVP. From 1959
through 1961, while playing for Green
Bay Coach Vince Lombardi, he led
the NFL in scoring for three consec
utive seasons.
a year old
immediately," instead of waiting for
the union to become involved.
Wooten said he agreed with Berry
that "individuals are more important
than the union as a whole."
Berry said he confronted the play
ers with the issue at a two-hour meet
ing following the team's 46-10 Super
Bowl loss Sunday in New Orleans.
Wooten said 96 percent of the team
attended the meeting and 86 percent
of them voted to be the first NFL
team to accept voluntary drug test
ing.
Upshaw, in a statement released by
the union in Washington, D.C., said
Berry has "broken faith" by appeal
ing to his players at a moment when
they were "particularly vulnerable."
Upshaw, who is in Hawaii, said that
the unfair labor practice charge
would be filed with the National La
bor Relations Board "to protect the
rights of individual players under
Federal labor laws.
It is the union's contention that the
drug-testing violates the collective
bargaining agreement.
"It is our position that any disci
pline imposed on players as a result
of this Patriots' testing program is
illegal and invalid," said Upshaw.
"The collective bargaining
agreement must affect all players
and clubs equally in order for this
system to work. We can't let manage
ment pressure individual players into
personal agreements which ignore
the CBA, in the heat of the moment."
The NFLPA is the only sports union
which permits urinalysis drug testing
in training camp physicals, accord
ing to Upshaw. He also noted that the
NFLPA is the only sports union which
permits a team doctor to direct play
ers to be tested, if the doctor has
reasonable cause to suspect a player
of drug dependency.
"Raymond Berry had everything
he needed at his disposal to deal with
specific players whom the club had
reasonable cause to suspect of drug
abuse," Upshaw said. "Instead, Ber
ry ignored the procedures in the
collective bargaining
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The players' union has opposed
spot-testing or any type of urinalysis
examination for drug use except in
cases where the team physician per
ceives an individual problem or a
player has previously tested positive.
Paul Hornung