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PSU
By MIKE LENIO
Collegian Staff Writer
Nineteen persons, including at least eight
University students and two local business
men, were arrested yesterday on drug-re
lated charges by the State College Bureau of
Police Services and University Police Serv
ices in the largest drug arrest in the borough
in 20 years.
State College police Lt. Jack Orndorf said
warrants are out for additional individuals
and he hoped the arrests would be made
sometime today.
The street value of drugs purchased during
the six-month undercover investigation that
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Faith Cresswell leaves Trinity United Church of Christ in Palmyra, Pa. husband Robert. Robert was the recipient of the Penn State artificial heart on
yesterday with her son Ernes Bonnie following funeral services for her which he lived for 397.
Engineering
be affected
By KIRSTEN LEE SWARTZ
Collegian Staff Writer
Female engineering students will
perform at a slightly lower level than
males with the same grades and
motivations, a University study pre-,
dicts, but faculty and students say the
results could be due to sexism in the
academic environment.
"The results as reported are a
matter of concern and raise a number
of urgent questions, particularly ones
related to classroom climate and
learning environment," said Sabrina
Chapman, director of the Center for
Women Students.
"It is essential to ask whether or
not women students are being sup
ported in the engineering curriculum
and encouraged to achieve," she
added.
The study was conducted by faculty
members in the Division of Under
graduate Studies to examine a broad
range of academic and non-academic
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skills may
by sexism
factors that may predict a student's
success in an engineering program.
The study looked at more than 1,000
students from the University's fresh
man class of 1984, and focused on six
variables that could predict per
sistence and success within the ma
jor, including high school averages,
Scholastic Aptitude Test scores,
Freshman Achievment Tests, and
motives for choosing the major.
James Levin, co-author and aca
demic adviser of DUS, said a student
who likes math and science has better
odds of persisting and being success
ful than a student with a "superficial
motive" who enrolled in the major
because of parental influence or mon
etary attraction.
But if this and all other variables
are equal, the study predicts that
male students will slightly outper
form females.
"In other words, for a female stu
dent to perform at the same level as a
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the
daily
students busted for drugs
lead to the arrests was about $32,000, police
said.
' The individuals were charged with a total
of 119 felony counts, including possession of
controlled substances and criminal conspira
cy with intent to deliver. They were also
charged with 46 misdemeanor counts of pos
session of controlled substances, police said.
Thomas Harmon, assistant director of Uni
versity police, said the 15 individuals who had
been charged before District Justice Clifford
Yorks by late yesterday afternoon were: •
• Stephen Albert, 384 Pike St.
• Robert Bell (senior-forest science), 132
E. Fairmount Ave.
• Keith Brummel, 913 N W. Aaron Drive.
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• Rhonda Gigliotti (junior-liberal arts),
401 Wolf.
• Bernie Herbst, 751 Stratford Drive.
• Dawn Johnson (senior-science), 518 Uni
versity Drive.
• David Loesch, 2544 Circleville Road.
• Rodney Lucas, 1207 W. College Ave.
• Jeffery Martain, 9131 W. Aaron Drive
• Andrew Pulsa, 237 E. Nittany Ave.
• Keino Salmon (sophomore-division of
undergraduate studies), 424 Waupelani
Drive.
• Suzanne Simmet, 2544 Circleville Road.
• Robert Weiss, 8018 W. Aaron Drive.
• Russell Weiss (senior-finance), 3158
W. Hamilton Ave.
Businesses sold
Bubba's sold to
North American
By MARY MARGARET HUGHES
Collegian Staff Writer
Bubba's Breakaway Franchise
Systems, operator of two fast-de
livery sandwich shops in State
College, announced yesterday
that their chain has been sold to
North American Holding Cor
.poration of Hartford, Conn., for
approximately $1 million.
The sale will not affect normal
operation of Bubba's, which runs
20 stores along the East Coast,
mainly in Pennsylvania. The sale
officially took place last Thurs
day, when the transfer papers
were signed.
North American will act in an
"advisory capacity" to the fran
chise, said Anthony Wedo, presi
dent and chief executive officer
of Bubba's.
"They will be ongoing consul
tants," he said.
Wedo said the sale will provide
Bubba's with the money and
guidance it needs for further
growth. The chain hopes to ex
pand to its goal of 180 franchised
stores in the next five years.
"Capital is the basic reason
why we sold," Wedo said.
North American Holding Cor
poration is a large financial serv
ice and information company.
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Buyers won't
change Diner
By JILL GRAHAM
Collegian Staff Writer
Two State College men who
bought the Ye Olde College Diner
on Monday have indicated that
they will not change the diner's
distinctive tradition.
The new owners of the store are
Daniel Rallis, owner of Perfectly
Frank, 124 McAllister Alley, and
Daniel Pivirotto, a 1978 Penn
State graduate, said Edward A.
Friedman, the State College at
torney handling the sale.
The 24-hour establishment at
126 W. College Ave., a popular
hang-out for University students
and State College residents for 58
years, is particularly famous for
its grilled sticky buns.
The new owners, wish to main
tain the traditional "diner-type
atmosphere" but are considering
expanding the diner's bakery sec
tion, Friedman said yesterday.
The former owner, Daniel Bar
bet of State College, took over the
restaurant in August 1980. The
restaurant had been up for sale
for the past four months.
Friedman would not say how
much the restaurant sold for or
give Barbet's reasons for putting
it up for sale. Barbet has referred
all comment to Friedman.
• George Marion (senior-biology), 3158
W. Hamilton Ave.
Police did not say which of the people
arrested were business people.
"I don't think we busted any big ring,"
Orndorf said, "but I think we've gotten some
important people."
Cocaine was the drug obtained in most of
the purchases, which were made with funds
received for the investigation from District
Attorney Ray Gricar, Orndorf said. The larg
est single purchase was a $2,000 cocaine
purchase, he added.
Marijuana, crack and so-called "designer
drugs" were also involved, police said. Orn
dorf attributed the prevalence of cocaine to
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Cresswell buried
after year's battle
on artificial heart
PALMYRA (AP) Robert
Cresswell was buried on a hillside
under bright blue skies yesterday
not far from the hospital where for
397 days he lived on an artificial
heart while waiting for the human
replacement that never came.
The 49-year-old former factory
worker from Huntingdon died Fri
day at the Milton S. Hershey Medi
cal Center. He had been the second
recipient of the Penn State artifi
cial heart, named for the universi
ty with which the hospital is
affiliated.
"If we are not selfish, then we
can rejoice in the fact that for Bob
the process of dying is finished,"
the Rev. Edward C. Charrot of
Trinity United Church of Christ
told about 50 family members,
friends and hospital workers gath
ered for the 35-minute service.
Before the service, Cresswell's
widow, Faith, greeted well-wish
ers in the vestibule of the church
as her husband's silver-grey
closed casket stood 'behind her
covered in flowers and a family
picture.
Pallbearers who accompanied
the casket to Gravel Hill Cemetery
included Dr. William Pierce, the
medical center researcher who
developed the Penn State artificial
heart.
Charrot said that while many
thought Cresswell's death on Good
Friday would make it more diffi
cult for the family, Mrs. Cresswell
told him, "How appropriate that
he should die on the same day our
Lord died."
"That's the ability of faith," the
pastor said.
Such faith would make it possi
ble s"to feel better . . . because we
know there is a life without any
limitations," Charrot said.
Cresswell received the Penn
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n a related matter,l3ubba's Breakaway was also sold to new owners.
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what he called a "national cocaine epidemic"
as well as the ease of concealing cocaine and
the greater potential profit in selling it.
The purchases were made by undercover
officers and by police informants, Orndorf
said. Most of the purchases took place in the
borough and on campus, except for four in
Ferguson Township and one in Patton Town
ship, Orndorf said.
Two State College police officers were
assigned to the case on a regular basis,
Orndorf said, but at times as many as seven
or eight were involved. Ferguson and Patton
police assisted in the investigation in their
jurisdictions.
State heart on March 17, 1986, six
days after his body rejected a
transplanted heart.
Thirteen months later, he died of
respiratory arrest, said
Dr. G. Victor Rohrer, associate
dean for clinical affairs at the
medical center.
Cresswell was unable to accept
eight to 10 hearts available to him
because antibodies produced dur
ing his first rejection made it
difficult to find donor tissue, that
would match properly, doctors
said.
A month before his death, doc
tors said Cresswell had been suf
fering a poor appetite, depression
and kidney problems.
He had been fighting an infec
tion in his chest along the air-drive
'lines that connected the 1-pound
pump with a 5-foot tall external
drive device. And antibodies used
to treat the infection had damaged
his kidneys, Rohrer said.
Despite his medical problems,
Cresswell had a sense of humor
that brightened even his darkest
moments "and made the burden
lighter," said the Rev. Steven E.
Crile, pastor of Emmanuel Bible
Church, Cresswell's church in
Huntingdon.
"Bob didn't know a person he
couldn't smile at and love," Crile
said. "I can still visualize in my
mind everytime I came to the
hospital room."
Crile said he felt Cresswell had
been prepared for his fate, recal
ling he once picked up Cresswell's
bedside Bible and saw it was
marked at a passage which read in
part, "Let not your heart be trou
bled."
At a news conference Friday
afternoon, Mrs. Cresswell said she
and her husband had no regrets
about using the artificial heart.
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