2—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Oct. 21,1986 Local establishments to face 10-day dry spell By JAMES A. STEWART Collegian Staff Writer Hotel State College Inc., the new owner of six restaurants and bars on the 100 block of West College Avenue, will use a 10-day liquor license sus pension incurred by previous prop erty owners to remodel one of its bars and make minor repairs to another, the corporation president said. John C. Cocolin said Mr. C’s, will be “completely remodeled into a high tech nightclub” with videos and light shows, during the suspension from Nov. 24 to Dec. 4. During that time, Zeno’s, will also undergo repairs and remodeling, he added. Costs for remodeling Mr. C’s will be about $75,000, Cocolin said. In addition to equipment for the special shows, the bar’s carpeting, wallpaper and furniture will be re placed, he said. An additional $4,000 will be spent on repairs to Zeno’s, Cocolin said. The businesses will remain open and continue operating normally un til Nov. 24, Cocolin said. The liquor license was suspended after one of the restaurants served liquor to a minor in July, said Liquor Control Board press secretary Robert Ford. The new owners agreed to accept the suspension as a condition of the license transfer, Ford said. “The new owners had nothing against them,” Ford said. “In assum Nittany Mall developer shopping for student dollar By MARTY IRVIN Collegian Stall Writer The Nittany Mall has long been a regular spot for shoppers from State College and surrounding towns. However, in recent weeks, the developer of the mall has taken measures to attract different shoppers University students. Benetton clothing store, Wall to Wall Sound & Video, Corn Dog on a Stick, and King’s Jewelry have recently opened their doors to customers at the mall on the Benner Pike. Meanwhile, Fashion Bug and Marianne la dies’ apparel have remodeled their stores, all in hopes of bringing in new customers. William Conway, vice president of real estate and leasing for Crown American Cor poration, the developer of the Nittany Mall, said stores are being added to Nittany Mall and to Crown’s 23 other malls, as part of an ongoing remerchandizing program. “Periodically, we check with the mix of stores in the mall to see if they are satisfying ing the license, the new owners had to assume the suspension that went along with it.” Under the suspension, Chumley’s and Take Six, two other liquor estab lishments in the Hotel State College complex, will also be closed, Cocolin said. The Corner Room and The Half Shell, the two restaurants in the com plex, will remain open without liquor sales. Gatsby’s and Hotel State College, two other businesses also purchased by Hotel State College Inc., will not be affected by the suspension. The five local Hotel State College Inc. investors knew of the impending suspension when taking ownership this month but did not know when it would take place, Cocolin said. “We just hoped it would be delayed until after the football season,” Coco lin said. “If not, it would have cost us an awful lot of revenue.” The football season ends with the Nov. 22 Pitt- Penn State game at Beaver Stadium. The liquor license suspension will result in financial losses from the closing as well as a possible loss of customers at the Half Shell, Cocolin said. He said the previous owners, One Hundred West Inc., agreed to compensate the new group as part of the sales agreement. “We had needed some time for remodeling,” Cocolin said. “The sus pension gave us a pretty good time for it.” customer needs, and we felt the mall needed an update,” Conway said Conway said the new stores were not built to try to compete with the downtown mer chants. He said the mall is not in direct competition with downtown stores, and that it provides a varied environment for the same shoppers, including University students. “We are going after the same people in the marketplace (as downtown), but in a differ ent environment,” Conway said. He added, however, that it is still too soon to tell if the new stores have attracted more customers. The mall is using strategies to attract the student shopper. Earlier this month, it spon sored a student bus discount in cooperation with the Centre Area Transportation Authori ty. Students paid the 65-cent fare to go to the mall and received a pass for a free ride back to town. The mall sponsored a series of physical fitness displays from Oct. 16 to 19. The mail’s upcoming anniversary celebration will in The Corner Room, at the corner of College Avenue and Allen Street, Is one of six local establishments facing a liquor-license suspension from Nov. 24 to Dec. 4. elude a Chocolate Rendezvous benefitting the Leukemia Society from Oct. 23 to 26. Rose Mary Novitsky, special projects coor dinator for Crown American, said the mall has attracted “more student shoppers, espe cially since the bus service began.” She also said she believes business has picked up on Sundays with the special bus service, and noted that the mall hopes to sponsor the program again in the near future. It remains unclear if more students will continue to shop at the mall after the CATA discount has ended. But the mail’s developer is not alone in wanting to attract more business. Mall mer chants are also making plans for bringing more customers. Darla Witmer, manager of Wall to Wall Sound & Video, hopes to feature “in store” bands, which are playing in the State College area. Her store has also been announcing its sales in local newspapers. She said she ex pects this strategy to draw more student customers. Mineral economics students dig for rewarding careers By BETH BOYER Collegian Business Writer Mineral economic students, their futures dug firmly into locating gold and silver, are working on energy material and construction-material products designed to serve the.needs of the nation, said a University asso ciate professor of mineral economics. “Mineral economics deals with supplying mankind with its funda mental housing and energy needs,” George Schenck said. “It’s studying how you use scarce resources to provide the most benefit.” careers Mineral economists concentrate on the needs of firms that extract, proc ess, market and use mineral materi als, Schenck said. Currently, 80 undergraduates are in the major and are required to take courses in chemistry, math, English, economics and geological science. In addition to 25 required classes for the major, students can select 40 elective credits out of 120 classes offered, focusing on business man agement, resource economics or op erations management. Gail Gockley (senior-mineral eco nomics) said she selected the major Service sector leads Pa. job rise systems and corporate reorganiza tion of business data processing plants, Gillis said. Pennsylvania’s unemployment As part of this trend, International rate, which has been the seventh Business Machines Corp. ceased to highest across the nation for most of provide computer servicing from its the decade, dropped to 27th highest manufacturing plants, establishing this year, according to the latest regional service centers across the statistics from the state Bureau of nation, Gillis said. Labor Statistics. The result has been job transfers Service-sector growth led to the from the manufacturing sector to the employment increase because more service sector, he added, jobs are being created, said William An aging population has caused a Gillis, assistant professor of agricul- greater demand for health services tural economics. such as insurance and Medicare. Upturns, particularly in the busi- Increases in the population’s income ness, travel and health employment and leisure time have also led to the sectors, have created 87,000 new jobs need for more health and travel serv for state residents, he added. ice workers, Gillis said. As a direct result of increased jobs, However, Gillis said manpfactur- Gillis said wage and salary employ- ing has been one industry that has ment in the state has expanded 1.9 hindered Pennsylvania s economic percent from 1985 to 1986. The areas growth. The manufacturing sector creating the service jobs are causing has increased its use of labor saving this growth. technologies and is increasing its use Jobs have been created in the busi- of outside services such as accoun ness sector as result of increased tants and lawyers, Gillis added, demand of information processing' “One of the reasons Pennsylvania By BETH BOYER Collegian Business Writer Benetton clothing store featured a fashion show last week to introduce people to “the Benetton look.” Manager Josephine Ruiz said the store attracts a variety of people and, “a lot of people still don’t know what Benetton is, and they will shop at the cheaper stores in the mall.” She said the mall has attracted “a few students, but not as many as the downtown store." She said more students shop at the downtown store because of the convenience in location, while more area residents fre quent the mall store. Even with the mall’s, increase in student shoppers, downtown stores are still attract ing the majority of University students. Fashion Bug has recently remodeled, and is attracting its fair share of students, according to manager Sharon Barger. Barger said her business is not in direct competition with the downtown stores. “No one’s business is being hurt by downtown. People need a mall, because it is convenient for them to shop in one area,” she said. because she wanted to go into busi ness and was also interested in engi neering. She said when she first thought of mineral economics, she thought of dealing with diamonds, gold and silver. But job areas for students are nu merous and three major companies hire a majority of the University’s graduates. Trans Co., a natural gas company; Vulcan, a construction materials producer; and the U.S. Department of the Interior are all big employers of mineral economists, Schenck said. The starting salary for a mineral economist ranges from $16,000 to $22,- 000, but job opportunities -are de clining, Schenck said “It’s a bad time in the mineral industry. Oil prices are down by 50 percent and the steel industry is suffering from overseas competition. Most jobs that are available now are in the non-metallic minerals indus try,” he said. Non-metallic minerals consist of cement, fertilizer and clay. Jobs in this area are availabe across the country in heavily populated sectors because demamd is greater there. Although job opportunities are not as readily available as in past years, Schenck said he believes more oppor tunities will surface in the next three years. “In 1974, everbody needed minerals and the price went through the roof. It How do the downtown merchants feel about the Nittany Mali’s new stores? Geoffrey Brugler, chairman of the Downtown Business Association, said most merchants downtown do not believe their businesses will be af fected. “The mall attracts people who live outside of State College as opposed to those who live closer to town,” he said. He said he feels that because of the conve nience of being downtown, the merchants can attract a wider, more diverse area of people. He sees downtown as being “more of a cosmopolitan area more upscale. It has many more specialty stores and therefore attracts a different crowd than the mall does.” Conway agreed that the mall is trying to attract the same customers as downtown, but that it is “not necessarily targeting toward more students.” According to Witmer, the mall draws State College residents, as well as Boalsburg and Bellefonte residents. should increase in the next three years because the mineral industry follows an economic cycle,” he said. Students can work in as many as 29 specific occupations such as mine safety administrator, mineral-indus try forecaster, production manager, commodities market analyst, or a mineral industry insurance agent. ‘lt’s a bad time in the mineral industry.’ —■ George Schenck “A commodities analyst would be working for a major brokerage firm advising clients to buy or sell,” Schenck said. “The major users of the analysts are the companies that use the metals. They don’t want flu cuation in price, so they get the specialist to advise them in buying or selling.” A mineral industry insurance agent also advises mineral companies on insurance against accidents. “Imagine working in an under ground mine with a roof that has been blasted out of rock and is unsafe,” Schenck said. With the assistance of a mineral economist, companies can insure against these problems and reduce their risks. has grown slowly is because we have a high proportion of our economy that depends upon manufacturing, which is declining in employment,” he said. “If manufacturing decides to subcon tract out for services, the jobs are moved to this sector.” Theodore Fuller, a University de velopment economist, said the de cline in manufacturing is occurring in the basic steel industries. “In the past six years, services have been expanding rapidly. The state has picked up in the past year because its service sector is growing and this is encouraging for our econ omy.” Gillis said Pennsylvania’s economy is going to be less dependent upon manufacturing in the future than it has been in the past. “Pennsylvania’s economy will de pend a lot on the national economy,” he said. “We will be less dependent on the manufacturing sector for jobs than in the past because we have seen the shift from manufacturing to serv ices.” Computer network simplifies local law enforcement By GORDON ZERNICH Collegian Staff Writer Local law enforcement is putting its com puter bytes on crime in a way that would make McGruff the Crime Dog proud. The logistics involved in fighting and monitoring the world of crime become infi nitely smaller with the help of computers communicating information to law enforce ment officials through the computer net work currently being shared. The State College Bureau of Police serv ices is currently linked, via computer, with the University Police Services, neighboring townships, and state and federal law en forcement agencies, said Lt. C.W. Prestia of the State College police. It is used to make inquiries in regards to thefts or wanted criminals, he said. Prestia said the computer network, which accesses the records of the National Crime Information Center in Washington, D.C., gives police in State College a better oppor tunity to arrest a suspect who may have failed a driving-under-the-influence sobrie ty test in the state of Ohio. David E. Stormer, director of University Safety, said the national database is one of the few systems in the fragmented criminal justice system where the University and town share the information obtained by it. Watch for Ziff’s Calder Square I Grand Opening this weekend! 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Co* Paul Hogan Is CROCODILE DUNDEE r Nightly: 8:00 & 10:00 Wes Craven’s DEADLY FRIEND r Nightly: 7:45 &9:45 ONE CRAZY SUMMER po Nightly: 7:15 & 9:15 All seats 52.00 SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI 2 PENN STATE SKI CLUB | 2 trip registry x 1 INNSBRUCK 2 □CMling'ls" ISteaml 237-7464 “It is a joint service venture between town and gown and a very positive one,” he said. “It has supported our interaction.” Prestia said the department uses its com puter to keep track of all its records. “We use the data to find out the type and time of various incidents, the geographical area in which they happen, and our re sponse time,” Prestia said. “We can look at a crime and how it was committed. It may look like just a bunch of thefts, but after closer investigation, we may find out they have something in common.” The computer also comments on adminis trative matters, giving the department some answers that have a direct impact upon manpower and expenses, such as the number of men needed to change a patrol in certain areas of the municipality. It also locates centers of repeated disruption or criminal activity. Prestia said the computer can be used as an investigative tool to track down serial murders, although it has yet to be tested for that specific purpose. “These murders may be committed by a small number of people,” he said. . “Some of their actions are carried into crimes that are not as serious. We might have a person who is arrested for assault, or some less serious offense, and begin to use the computer to find out more about his MOVIE NIGHT WED., OCT. 22 7pm 26 MINERAL SCIENCE 0980 SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI • SKI * ENTER ON CALDER WAY OR COLLEGE AVE.- ACROSS FROM OLD MAIN November 5 7:00 P.M. 117 Warner C/3 November 10 7:00 P.M. 20 Mineral Seienee 2 December 3 7:00 P.M. 26 Mineral Science criminal history. Depending on the result of the investigation, we may begin to look at this person as a suspect,” he said. Stormer said the computer network cost $190,000 in 1979 90 percent of which was supplied by the federal government. “It serves law enforcement effectiveness and it provides one more tool to provide safety and security to the student commu- ‘(The network) serves law enforcement effectiveness and it provides one more tool to provide safety and security to the student community.’ nity,” Stormer said. “Criminals don’t care which side of College Avenue they are operating on, and the information sharing between the town and campus helps us to clear reported offenses.”. The computer network among local law enforcement agencies and state and federal authorities have made crime fighting more effective, but experts warn that the system is not foolproof. LADIES COO reg. *29.99 I V • CHIC JEANS • BRITTIANS JEANS • SHAKER SWEATER $097 VESTS 0 ATHLETIC SHOES NIKE • Women's STROBE SHQ97 Nylon Leather 1 w Casual Workout leg. 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He pulled out his license and registration, and we told him that the car was reported stolen and he acknowledged that. “There’s a danger of a lawsuit by relying soley on the computer network,” he said. “We have to judge a situation by what we observe as well. He didn’t make any sudden moves and he appeared relaxed. If I would have approached him with a gun drawn and DUCK BOOTS S-J797 Men’s 5 eyelet * * re9 '‘ 29 " • MEN’S & WOMEN’S PILE LINED $4^97 reg. '27.99 I“T • WATER PROOF LEATHER INSULATED BOOTS • Wolverine S/1097 Ankle or High Top fcf £ Ensolite Insulate • Rocky Hightop Thinsulaite Insulator • REVERSIBLE SKI JACKETS $0097 reg.'59.99 ££ • WOODLAND FLANNEL SHIRTS reg. 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