1 p ELECTION 587 State R. THONIAS BERNER Republican Age: 43 R. Thomas Berner, the only incumbent to run for re-election, is the professor-in-charge of jour nalism in Penn State's School of Communications Prior to joining the Penn State faculty, Berner, a 43-year-old re publican. was the city editor of The Centre Daily Times. He has served as the chairman of the Centre Region Code Com mittee and is a member of the Council of Governments' Exec utive Committee. He is a member of the board of directors of the Pennsylvania League of Cities, of which State College is a member. During his first four-year term on the Borough Council, Berner said he: • Expanded space for senior citizens at the Fraser Street Pla za. • Served on an advisory' com mittee to recommend ways of spending Community Devel opment Block Grant funds. • Helped in the creation of a government-education TV chan nel. • Preserved residential neigh borhoods from zoning changes that would alter the neighbor hoods. • Passed a requirement that new high-rise buildings provide spinklers as a safety measure. • Advocated pedestrian rights. Berner said if reelected, he will work towards obtaining a stong fiscal base for the borough. At the Undergraduate Student Government's M;.et the Candi dates night, Berner told students he spoke in opposition t;; the sales tax at the fl; Fin, , lce Com mittee meetly... because the tax tails unfairly on students. BY; ier has star -1 he is a; inst relfloing to pre- ; net. :or hood character, 1 has sug gested that the c 161 form a committee to stui;; how the bo rough can protec t against ran dom development that ;listurbs State College's a mbiancy lie said he i-• • ::posed to in-lieu parking becau "it will push parking into the stree-ts." Instead of providing a iund which devel opers can contribute to for a future garage. Burner said he believes all de‘ elopers slould be required to pros ide Berner has state.' !lilt he is in favor of aesticalf; linpr;;Hrig Calder Way. but ' -heves con verting the alley for pedestrian use only is impractical and not feasible fur businesses that must use the street for t..uisporting products. He favors the Cent! c County recycling project and said that - it should b ,‘, been done 20 years ago 19 14. 16. Ccilege Borough Council PETER E. LANG Republican Age:4l Peter E. Lang has served as the property manager of the Gar den House Realty Inc. for the past ten years. Lang's business conduct was given the highest overall rating by a brochure distributed by the Organization of Town and Inde pendent Students. He was a Chamber of Commerce board member as well as a COG Rental Housing Advisory Committee board member. Lang said he believes his strong background in business as well as his willingness to listen to all sides form a strong base for the decision-making he would ens - munter if elected to borough council. Lang said that he is not one who believes in band-aid solutions and will implement cost-effective programs after a great deal of evaluating. Rather than contin ually adding money to the bud get, Lang said he will analyze it creatively if elected. Lang said that if elected, he would try to implement a recy cling program in which recycla ble products would be marked up a dime and consumers would receive a nickle deposit back when returning them. The other nickle would go to the recycling center, he said. The system, which exists in New York, Massa chusetts, and other states would "pay for itself and not be a bur den to tax payers," he said. Lang told students at the Un dergraduate Student Go\ ern ment Meet the Candidates meeting Tuesday night that he believes the University should take back some of die resporlsi blity for providing non-alel!olic activities on for students. "When I was in school you always knew you were part of the school," he said. "Now you're out on your own." Referring to the incident in the Spring of 1986 when undercover police officers arrested under aged student drinkers at 16 fra ternities, Lang said. "1 don't think covert operations are war ranted either." He agreed with other candi dates in saying this„ closing Cald er Way to all traffli- is not teasibl<• to businesses that fee:. ive deity cries on that alley. Lang said he is also concerned with tax reform and would con tact the state legislature to create more reasonable ways of taxing area residents. lie said to make State Coll(2ge better place to live, both short and long term planning goal; must be put into effect. 4.5. 6 JEAN MCMANIS Democrat Age: 62 Jean McManis has worked in administration and inter-organi zational relations in corporate and nonprofit organizatons for more than 40 years. During this time, she has managed staff, prepared and administered bud gets, and developed programs. She held postions with ITT, the American Cancer Society Guggenheim Museum. March of Dimes, Hill and Knowlton, and two newspapers. McManis retired from Penn State early this years as Director of Publications and University Editor after 27 years. She said her top priorities are improving University and town relations and to encourag healthy downtown businesses while re taining the ambiance of resi dential areas. "Growth can't and shouldn't be stopped. Unplanned, disorderly growth can be avoided though," McManis said. If elected she said she will work to provide essential services, such as police, parking, water and recycling in a functional and cost-effective manner. At a Undergraduate Student Government sponsored Meet the Candidates Night. McManis told students she supports planned ecomonic and cultural growth in State College and that the com munity should grow with the Uni versity. Strengthening coucil relations with USG, the Interfraternity Council, and the Organization of Town and Independent Students is another goal McManis hopes to accomplish. "You're not our neighbors. you are us. All the issues that concern students the environment, clean air and water, the right kind of town to live in concern us,'• McManis said. She said she hopes to see more student participation with State College committees and commis sions because issues of concern are similar. One way McManis said stu dents can become more aware of timely issues is by having State College Magazine distributed on campus. McManis said she hopes to change the in-lieu parking pro gram, through which developers can donate money to the borough for a future parking garage in stead of providing on-site park ing. She said she is disturbed by the large number of in-lieu parking applicants the borough has taken. McManis said she is even more alarmed that developers whose proposed projects are outside the area are being allowed to partici pate in the program. All profiles compiled DANIEL WALLACE Democrat Age: 34 Daniel Wallace is director of real estate for Uni-Marts Inc. who has worked in management for 11 years. Although Wallace said he has had no political experience, his enthusiasm will compensate for it, he said. His top priorities are local tax reform in conjunction with changes at the state level and to continue the borough's economic growth while maintaining and improving the quality lifestyle. If he is elected, Wallace said he will strive to keep the downtown healthy by encouraging economic growth. The University as well as town can benefit from economic growth which could enrich State College's cultural diversity, he said. At the Undergraduate Student Government's Meet the Candi dates meeting on Tuesday, Wal lace pinpointed specific issues that need to be addressed by council. They are: enlargement and updating of existing water and sewage infrastructures: con centive zoning to create good aesthethics and architecture: transportation: and parking ex pansion. Headway can be made on transportation improvements by looking at transportaion cooper ation between the University and council, continuing with plans to extend Park Avenue to the by pass, and analyzing the posssibil ity of builidng a walkway across South Atherton Street, he said. Wallace said the council should dedicate more time towards de veloping the borough's natural resources. Tourism is an opportunity that has been ignored and which he would like to promote, Wallace told students. "We have a beautiful campus and we should have both sides of College Avenue working togeth er," he said. Wallace told students he be lieves the town should promote more responsible social outings without the focal point on alcohol. He said he did not know what issues to specifically address, but said he supported the three-year plan to gradually phase alcohol out of the Phi Psi 500. Although Wallace publically opposed the business privelege tax, he said he now believes the tax should be staggered accord ingly. On the in-lieu parking issue, Wallace said, "it has bugs that need to be worked out." - A third garage in needed. We used to encourage developers to build from one property line to another. But now we need park ing space." and written by Collegian Staff Writer Lisa Nurnberger candidates D. JOLENE WEST Republican Age: 34 D. Jolene West is an assistant book specialist at the Penn "'•ate Bookstore. West said being a business woman for the past 13 years has given her experience in sales. management and personnel. After watching State College develop for the past 11 years. West said, "It's my turn to help it grow." She served as bookkeeper, as- sistant publicity person and pub licity chairman for the past two Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts and helped plan the local observance of the Harmonic Con vergence this summer. West is a volunteer for the Second Mile and a co-teacher for senior high students at the Pres byterian Church of State College. She said she believes her inter action with students while work ing at the Penn State Bookstore will help her form better Univer sity-town and student-borough council relations. "Students are the greatest life force here. I work eight hours a day with them and know where they're coming from," she said. State College residents "have to realize that students aren't always adult, and students have to remember that long after they're gone we'll be here." If elected. West said she will focus her attention on improving residential street safey by in creasing lighting and will at tempt to eliminate wasteful spending while developing cost saving policies. West stated she is in favor of imposing the same business priv ilege tax on University-related businesses. such as the Penn S:ate Bookstore and the Creamery, that downtown busi nesses pay. West also suggested imposing a $3 to $lO renters fee tax on all residents who rent. She said she would rather have a flat fee than have income tax go up. West said this tax would not be discriminating to students be cause renters include profession als who would be taxed. The tax is not limited to students, she said. West said she does not favor closing Calder Way to all traffic because it would impose additio nal traffic congestion on already crowded College Avenue, but she suggested eliminating all parking on Calder Way. West said she disagrees with in lieu parking because until anoth er parking garage is built there will be a lack of parking spaces for those living in dwellings whose developers contributed to the parking fund instead of pro viding on-site spaces. The Daily Collegian Thursday, Oct. 29, 1987 GARY A. WISER Republican :Age: 4-1 Gary A. Wiser is a programs manager for HRB-Singer. In c. and a captain at the U.S. Naval Reserve Center in Altoona. Wiser will run for his second non-consecutive term in borough council. He served as a council member from 1982-1985. A part-time instructor in continuing education at the Uni versity. Wiser is a certified mem ber of the American Society of Traffic and Transportation. Wiser was the 1980 chairman of the Interscholastic Advisory Committee to the State College Area School Board, a Centre County Solid Waste Authority member from November 1986 to February 1987, and a member of the St. Paul's United Methodist Church Admistrative Board and Finance Committee from 1982 to 1985. Wiser said if elected he will review fiscal planning in light of a loss of revenue sharing and explore new sources of tax reve nue. He plans to focus on the health and safety issues. At the Under graduate Student Government's Meet the Candidates meeting Tuesday night, Wiser told stu- dents something must be done to accommodate solid waste be cause State College's landfill will be filled to capacity very shortly. State College's sewer system has now reached capacity and must be expanded, he said. Another health issue the coun cil must address is the quality of drinking water, he said. Council must take measures to ensure the quality continues, he added. Wiser's third focus of interest is citizen participation, which he said he hopes to increase. Wiser said he wants to continue and expand interaction between COG participants, the Universi ty, and borough council. He told students he believes University growth does not nec essarily mean unorganized bo rough overdevelopment. "We have in place the mech anism to retain the quaintness of State College neighborhoods with a cooperative mode to support University growth," Wiser said. Wiser said he is not in favor of a complete pedestrian walkway on Calder Way because he believes it is impractical and won't help businesses that are serviced on that alley. Closing Calder Way to all traf fic will redirect the traffic onto College Avenue. Wiser said. After serving as a Centre Coun ty Solid Waste Authority mem ber. Wiser said he sees the need for recycling in State College and believes a program should be implemented.
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