16—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, April 15, 1986 Alley to close at Atherton for safety reasons By SHELDON JONES Collegian Staff Writer The State College Municipal Coun cil voted last night to close Calder Way at Atherton Street to prevent Atherton Street traffic from making turns into the Alley possibly endan gering the safety of other vehicles and pedestrians. The motion was passed by a council vote of 5-2 with the strongest opposi tion coming from council member Ruth Lavin, who said that it had not been proven to be a safety hazard. "From the beginning of the dis cussions about the Atherton Street hotel and the possible closing of Cald- Community By SHELDON JONES Collegian Staff Writer The Director of Community Development for the State College borough said yesterday the amount of money allocated to the borough's community development programs will decrease from $715,- 000 in fiscal year 1985-86 to $487,000 in fiscal year 1986-87 a reduction of $218,000 in federally allocated funds. Henry Lawlor told members of the Governmen tal Relations Committee that a number of factors have contributed to the decreased funding for the borough. Under the Gramm-Rudmann-Hollings budget legislation, funding will be reduced 4.7 percent. Federal budget funds for community development programs will also see a $2OO million decrease. In addition, new entitlement communities those cities which because of their increased populations are now eligible for federal funding will cause the "funding pie to be sliced a little thinner," Lawlor said. etSOUTH SEA'S CHINESE BUFFET ..,0 EVERYDAY . • .1 - cor • Chinese Spare Ribs • Beef and Broccoli . -n -• Sweet Sour Chicken/Pork • Egg Foo Young )1,k,1 • Pepper Steak with Onions ' ✓ l-- • /. includes choice of soup, egg roll, steamed & fried rice, hot tea V / $ All you can eat at 5.95 Children under 10 . . *2.95 Business Hours Daily 4:30-10pm Minutes away from Nittany Mall 1225 Benner Pike Buffet Hours Daily 5-9 pm Across from Drive-in [•1Il aiTircl I Z. to State University _ _ grant frescoes. 7. The chimes from the _ tower get us to class on time. 8. Number of columns supporting the portico in front of OM 9. Where can you learn about the frescoes, bell tower and administrative offices of Penn State? (TODAY!) NAME • Sponsored by the Penn State Lion Ambassadors • er Way I have made it no secret about the fact that I strongly oppose the closing of Calder Way. Nothing that has been said to this date has altered my opinion; no one has proved a safety problem at that intersection," Lavin said. Lavin cited a police report which stated that during the last five and a half years only 10 accidents had oc curred at the intersection. She said two were bicycle-related and one was a pedestrian vehicle accident in which the pedestrian was walking down the center of Calder Way across traffic. Lavin emphasized that none of the accidents involved cars making right development funding , decreases Lawlor added that Reagan's proposal to defer $5OO million in assistance from the 1986 to the 1987 budget will also contribute to the decrease in the borough's funding. Lawlor said he thinks federal, state and local governments are not working together to find equitable solutions to curb these funding cuts in community development programs. "(The borough) is sort of getting squeezed and the partnership between federal, state and local government is coming unraveled," Lawlor said. In light of the uncertainty regarding allocation of Community Development Block Grant funds, Lawlor said the State College Municipal Council and the borough's Citizens Advisory Committee have agreed that the highest priority should be given to the community's streetlight development program. According to Lawlor the program would cost a little over $371,000 and would place streetlights in downtown areas and local neighborhoods, specif ically on McAllister, Fraser, Burrowes, College, Allen, Pugh and Foster streets. 7..4:.---Z•ll::.''.E.l!K# hand turns out of Calder Way onto Atherton Street. She said several accidents occurred during late Au gust and September the usual time for increased accidents in State Col lege because of students returning to the area. Lavin said a better solution would be to make Calder Way a one-way street heading west, permitting right turns only at Atherton Street. Council President John Dombrowski said he favors closing the Alley. He foresees a situation in which traffic flow into the Alley will continue to increase if it is not closed. Dombrovyski said because of this increased traffic flow more people Today! 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tour Old Main e Climb to the bell tower ® Enjoy free refreshments • Bring this completed crossword puzzle to Old Main For a chance to win delicious prizes from TEEM (answers found, at Open House) DOWN 1. Paintings found in Old Main gressional Act that established land nstitutions like Penn State ed as a for all students. rst president of the University. enn State PHONE would exit and turn into the alley at the busiest times, causing a potential ly dangerous situation. He added that when one considers this scenario Lav in's statistics "don't show the reality of the situation." Jules Patt, head of the Patt organi zation, said he was happy with the council's decision because the pro posed $8 million hotel project can finally get underway, The project had previously been held up several times because the council had not finalized the decision on whether to close C . alder Way. In other business, the council passed a motion to approve the sus pension of a local police officer. Kevin Abbey, general manager of the Centre Area Transportation Authority, who also attended the meeting, agreed with Lawlor's statement that there has been a disingtegration of a longstanding partnership in which the federal, state and local governments acted together to finance local serv ices. Abbey said this breakdown has put increased pressure for higher taxes on the state and local governments. He said CATA is now looking at drastic cutbacks in federal funds and trying to figure out how to respond to them. "If anything, we think we should probably be providing more services; we are really not meet ing as much of the (public) needs as possible. What's likely is that we will combine fare increas es with increases in funding from the municipali ties with some targeted service cuts to try and tailor what we do a little better," he said. "The Centre Region is not a place that should start going backward in regards to its public bus service," he said. Will you be here this summer? 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The Daily Collegian office procedures , computer operations advertising managerial skills the inner workings of a "real" corporation a chance to move into other departments within the Business Division, including Interviews will be held Thursday, April 24 and Friday, April 25. Collegian. Means Business! Auschwitz survivor relates horror of Nazi death camps By KATHLEEN CASEY Collegian Staff Writer "All that I say is true They (investigators from United Nations) assume that I have made pictures with my eyes and tape-recorded with my mind," Marc Berkowitz, a survi vor of Auschwitz said last night in a presentation sponsored by Colloquy titled, "I Knew Josef Mengele." Berkowitz and his twin sister spent four years in Auschwitz under the experimentation of Dr. Josef Meng ele, where Berkowitz became person ally acquainted with Mengele. • In his talk "Humanity, Survival and the Holocaust" Berkowitz related his family's experiences during the Holocaust and the incidents leading up to his acquaintance with Josef Mengele. Shortly after Passover Berkowitz and his family were taken form their home with only a tablecloth full of belongings. Berkowitz and his family were loaded onto cattle cars and trans ported by a truck to an unknown destination. "The train car was not fit for cattle, the boards on the floor were rotten through and through, there was mud, dirt, and filth, but it was beautiful as long as everyone was together," Berkowitz said. After being taken out of the truck, they were asked to give up their valuables, Berkowitz said. All at once, he said, people started scream ing and falling down. "The sound of the people screaming was louder than that of the machine guns," Berkowitz said. His family, along with 40 to 50 PREMIERE PERFORMANCE of the Penn State Ukrainian Club Folk Ensemble Today 12:15 Kern Lobboy 973. antsYOU General Busin • accounting • layout • marketing • creative • sales others, managed to survive and es caped to a nearby town. Not shortly afterward, however, they were dis covered and taken to a town where his father and brother were later shot and killed. After their death his mother, twin sister and he escaped from the camp. Berkowitz said that he watched his mother turn into a virtual skeleton after nine months of walking and sharing the food of animals. They were later turned in to the Gestapo by a man who promised to help. them. They were then taken to Auschwitz where, because he and his sister were twins, they were subjects of "Meng ele's own private zoo," Berkowitz said. "The experiments were anything and everything that we wouldn't do to an animal today," Berkowitz said. Berkowitz later became Mengele's errand boy, running messages from the many camps within Auschwitz- Buchenwald. "If you didn't look at him right and you didn't smile when it hurt, you wouldn't survive," Berko witz said. "I have a very strong faith in humanity. I believe that life is short, but that we can make a difference together by relating to people, shar ing with people and caring," Berko witz said. In his conclusion, Berkowitz asked not for physical action of any kind, but that of an emotional action, car ing with the mind. "I plead with you, I beg you, please help me make this a better world. It can be done. If we stand up for what is right, I'm sure we will have a better world," said Berkowitz.
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