250 to live in study lounges until Dec. 93 study lounges filled on campus By CHRISTINE MEENAN Collegian Staff Writer Two hundred and fifty students are still living in temporary housing and many will remain there until the end of the semester, a housing official said. Ninety three of 163 study lounges on campus house temporary residents and will continue to do so until De cember, said Assignments Office Manager William Mulberger, Jr. About 400 students were in tempo rary housing at the beginning of the semester. Currently, 146 women and 104 men remain. Many of those stu dents will spend at least a semester in temporary housing, he said. "The University assigns temporary housing to cover for no-shows" Mul berger said. No-shows are people who pay to hold a room space but never show up, he said. "No-shows have been reduced sub stantially because the University has allowed students to withdraw from their contracts," he said. Students receive a deposit refund when they withdraw from their con tracts. University Housing and Food Serv ices usually plans for 300 no-shows, but in the past two years the number has been reduced because of a new refund policy, Mulberger said. Stu dents who would have filled those spots must remain in temporary housing, he said. Jennifer Campbell (senior-account ing) is a resident of Hiester's fifth floor study lounge in Pollock Halls. Campbell was placed in temporary housing after living off campus last year and realizes she might remain there all semester. She said her situa- Council candidates d By LISA NURNBERGER Collegian Staff Writer All six State College Borough Council candidates agree on two issues facing council: the need for a recycling program in State College and details about the proposal to transform Calder Way to a pedestrian shopping walkway. At the Chamber of Commerce's Meet the Bo rough Council Candidate luncheon yesterday the candidates said Calder Way should not be changed because of added traffic congestion on College Avenue and business delivery inconveniences. The Calder Way transformation is the main thrust of the Calder Ad Hoc Committee. The candidates D. Jolene West, Daniel J. Wallace, Peter E. Lang, Gary E. Wiser, Jean W. McManis, and R. Thomas Berner —agree the alley should not be completely closed to service and delivery vehicles. Wallace said perhaps the alley could be closed to cars during evening hours. Councilman blasts 'reactionary' position By LISA NURNBERGER Collegian Staff Writer Councilman R. Thomas Berner blasted the Chamber of Commerce yesterday for its reactionary position and told members they are viewed as politically inept At the Chamber of Commerce's Meet the Borough Coun cil Candidates luncheon. Berner, the last candidate to speak, surprised the ClMmber by choosing to critique them instead of responding to the three planned questions. "you have got to get your act the daily `Sometimes I just want to be alone, and when you live with four other people it's impossible,' —Jennifer Campbell, a student in temporary housing tion has caused little ill-feeling to ward the University. "It's not that bad. Most people are really considerate," she said. The only real drawback to tempo rary housing is the lack of privacy, Campbell said. "Sometimes I just want to be alone, and when you live with four other people it's impossible," Campbell said. Todd Sloan, Undergraduate Stu dent Government president, said he recognizes the problem with tempo rary housing and is thinking of ways to rectify it. "One of the things that can be done is to recommend to the administra tion allocating more residence space," Sloan said. Sloan, who lives in East Halls, also expressed dissatisfaction with his lack of study space and said other students must feel the same way. "If I wan't to use the study lounge, I can't," he said. Caroline Doyle, a resident assistant for fourth and fifth floors in Hiester, also expressed some concern over this situation. "I haven't had may complaints yet, but I expect when final exams roll around I will," she said. Wiser said the decision "is not practical and won't help business. Commercial establishments need to be serviced. " West said eliminating delivery trucks would add to congestion on College Avenue, which would be used as the substitute delivery street. The Committee's report suggessted creating a centralized freight terminal for deliveries made by van or single-axle trucks between midnight and 9 a.m. Lang countered the suggestion because the depot would cause additional transportation costs, potentially damaged, late or missing cargo and less-than-fresh food to restaurants. "To close an area just to make it a nice place to shop and walk without regard for business (that provide the shopping) is not feasible," Lang said. McManis said decisions "must be arrived at in an analytic, careful and unromanticized way." Candidates also answered questions on a man datory recycling program for the borough. together," Berner said, to become a active, participating body, instead of one that "lays back and sleeps . . and only wakes up when kicked." Randy Riesterer, Chamber presi dent later said he was - dissappointed in Berner as a candidate. "It was not the time or the place for Professor Berner to bring that up. The other candidates were gracious enough to answer the three questions posed to them," he said. ". ..that we are inept is totally unfounded;' he said, adding, "he dropped a political bomb shell in our Collegian It came from Atherton Street No, it's not a creature from outer space sent to wreak havoc on earthlings. Instead, it's a machine sent to wreak havoc on a house on South Atherton, across from Alpha Fire Co. The house, along with the former Glass Inc. building were torn down yesterday. iscuss boro lap, using the media because he knew they'd be there. - Berner criticized the Chamber for not becoming involved with the bo rough's tax revenue problems until it was too late. It was not until the State College Borough Council's public hearing on the proposed business privilege tax that Chamber members offered a suggestion. The suggestion they did offer was three years old, he said. When tax reassessment was first suggested. "Someone (from the Chamber) should have been paying Candidates said recycling is not a possibility but a necessity. Berner summed up the candidates' views say ing, "This is something we should have done 20 years ago." The landfills that receive the Centre Region's garbage are reaching maximum capacity. Build ing a new landfill for the region is not possible, Centre Region Council officials said. A new project would cost too much in terms of land and discarded materials. It would also cost several million dollars, candidates said. Recycling would extend the life of the existing Snow Shoe landfill by reducing solid waste vol ume, the candidates agreed. Lang explained a recycling program that would "pay for itself and not burden the taxpayers." All recyclable products paper, glass and aluminum would have a 10-cent deposit tacked on their cost. Consumers would receive a nickel back from private recycling companies who sort the material. attention and jumped on the bandwa gon.'• he said. "(Chamber members) waited until the borough got squeezed fiscally and had one option left the business privilege tax." The Chamber should be consid ering local government consolidation and extending Park Avenue to Inter state 80. Berner said. Berner encouraged the Chamber to be active in those issues rather than to be reactionary. He said he does not believe his council campaign will suffer from his outburst at the luncheon. issues at luncheon Candidates voice opinions on tax By LISA NURNBERGER Collegian Staff Writer Four of the six borough council candidates yesterday told State Col lege Chamber of Commerce they believed a cap should be put on the business privilege tax. Candidates Jean McManis and D. Jolene West suggested the tax be held until 1990. McManis said business peoples' unearned income income received outside of the labor market, such as stocks and investments is their security because they do not receive company retirement funds. The business privilege tax, ap proved in April, is a 1.5 mill 1.015 percent) tax on a business' gross receipts on wholesale, retail and service sector transactions within the borough. Rental income is also taxed. The tax raises $1.50 for $l.OOO gross receipts and is used to compensate for lost Federal Revenue Sharing funds. West was less sure of the what • weather This afternoon turning colder with variably cloudy skies and scattered showers. Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1987 Vol. 88, No. 71 18 pages University Park, Pa. 16802 Published by students of The Pennsylvania State University = 1987 Collegian Inc. Borough discusses dog law options By MAUREEN QUINN Collegian Staff Writer Members of the State College Bo rough Council do not want to wait until residents are threatened by vi cious dogs to consider laws control ling area canines. Spurred by a letter from a con cerned resident who saw a pit bull terrier at last summer's art festival, the council is considering adding pro visions to existing dog laws or cre ating a new law that would apply to all breeds of dogs. "We don't want to wait for an attack before we pass legislation," Councilman R. Thomas Berner said. Pit bulls, a generic term for at least three types of bull terrier, have come under criticism for unprovoked at tacks against people. The dogs are sometimes trained to fight and were the subject of controversy this sum mer when they were involved in seve ral widely publicized attacks. According to existing State College laws, dogs must be leashed in public and are not allowed in public parks. Berner said council recently dis cussed two new dog control options, including banning dogs at mass gath erings and requiring citizens threat ened by dogs to file an affidavit detailing the incident. Dogs whose owners have had for mal complaints brought against them would be required to wear a special identification collar "like a scarlet letter," Berner said. In addition, these dogs may be muzzled in public, but Berner said muzzling all dogs would be too severe. Councilwoman Mary Ann Haas said there was no reason why dog owners should bring dogs to public events "There are some thoughtless dog owners out there, but then there are some thoughtful ones too, - she said. Councilwoman Ruth Lavin ques tioned the need for legislation at this time because no dog bites have been reported in the borough. "It's a question of whether to enact before the fact or after the fact," she said. Lavin said she would be more enthused about legislation if she were convinced a problem really existed. "If someone could come forward with a problem, that would convince me," she said. But the council would be "going with the flow" by creating a new dog law instead of waiting for a serious incident to happen, Haas said. "Other communities have had se rious problems with dogs, like deaths or attacks." she said. Attacks by pit bull terriers have sparked legislation around the coun try in recent years, but laws enacted by the council do not discriminate by breed. Existing state laws fine dog owners from $lOO to $5OO for allowing vicious dogs to run loose. State laws, which can also order the dogs to be killed, can be used by the borough instead of local laws. Lavin said until there is more of a problem, the council would rather tighten existing dog laws should be done about the tax because "you don't place a cap on revenue. Prices have to go up. so how can you put a cap on it?" But Gary E. Wiser said the cap should allow for inflation. West, Wiser and McManH, and other council candidates, Peter E. Lang and ft. Thomas Berner agreed the tax should be indexed or staggered so the amount fluctuates with the earning income of the differ ent types of businesses. Lang said the borough should con tact the state legislature to create alternative taxing proposals. "Personally. I don't think it's fair." he said. But without other taxing options. the borough is limited in its tax reve nue. Lang said. One way the borough could in crease tax revenue is to impose the business privilege tax on University operated businesses. such as the Penn State Bookstore and the Univer sity Creamery. West and Wallace both said they favored this option.
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