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Council increases parking garage
By LISA M. ZOLLARS
Collegain Staff Writer
After listening to one-and-a-half hours
of heated open forum debate about the
on-street parking situation, the State
College Borough Council passed a pro
posal during last night's meeting
increasing parking garage rates
10 cents to 50 cents an hour and $54 a
month.
The proposal will help resolve an
operational deficit in the borough's
Parking Fund.
State College Borough Manager Peter
Marshall said that the same proposal
was brought before council in January
1989 but did not pass.
However, Council President Ruth
Lavin had some reservations about
increasing the rates.
"I guess one of my concerns is the
neighborhoods," she said. "If we insti
tute this proposal ) and people don't use
( the garages ). they may drift out into
the neighborhoods."
Marshall said without the increase,
the borough's parking fund will continue
to decrease.
"If we don't have a parking fund to
use for the construction of a new
Former University employee sentenced
Brown's order. Keene will also undergo counseling as
recommended by the Centre County Probation Office.
If she violates her in-house detainment or probation,
BEI.P.:FOINTE A former University employee Keene will be imprisoned at Centre County Prison in
who pleaded guilty to embezzling about $23,000 from Bellefonte.
the College of Agriculture was sentenced yesterday Dave McGlaughlin, Keene's attorney, contended
to six months in-house detention and tour-and-a-half her crime was not extremely serious because, "we
years probation. don't have a singular person" who was victimized.
Charlotte Keene. 52, a former facility and service McGlaughlin added Keene was "a woman who is
coordinator in the plant pathology department, will transformed" because of the court proceedings and
also undergo counseling and pay back the University she was "not likely to commit another crime."
for funds and items taken, according to an order by He added that media attention about her case was
President Judge Charles C. Brown. a form of punishment and incarceration in prison
Her whereabouts will be monitored by electronic would "not accomplish or change anything." He also
devices and random phone calls and visits. She will said in-house detainment would allow Keene to find
be allowed out of her house for employment, educatio- employment so she could pay back the University.
nal. religious or emergency purposes, according to Assistant District Attorney Jeff Yates, who pros-
By COREY HERMAN
Collegian Staff Writer
Kohl says new Germany will be
By DEBORAH G. SEWARD
Associated Press Writer
MOSCOW President Mikhail S. Gorba
chev yesterday removed bis objection to a unit
ed Germany belonging to NATO, saying
Germany' was free to choose its allies. The
Soviet objection had been a major obstacle to
full German unification.
Gorbachev spoke at a joint news conference
with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in
southern Russia that was broadcast live on
Soviet and West German television.
Kohl said West Germany wants a new uni
fied state "to be a member of NATO." He said
he was sure the government of East Germany
concurred.
Gorbachev said that the four-power
agreement of the victorious World War II allies
that has governed Germany since the end of
the
daily
"The borough needs to start managing its parking
problems. I don't think raising the revenue is solving
the problems."
garage, we're going to have a prob
lem," he said.
"The borough needs to start manag
ing its parking problems," said Coun
cilman F. Dan Winand. "I don't think
raising the revenue is solving the prob
lems."
The money generated from parking
fees and tickets should go back into the
parking fund, Winand said.
Two councilmembers voted against
the proposal.
"I think i parking) needs to be looked
at as a system and that's why I wouldn't
vote for the rate increase," Lavin said.
Also last night, residents encouraged
council to restrict on-street parking in
residential areas for students and down
town and University employees, pro
vided residents are issued permits
'Unified Germany receives complete sovereignty."
the war will cease when Germany is unified.
'Unified Germany receives complete sover
eignty," Gorbachev told the news conference.
"It has the right to use this sovereignty to
make its choice, that is its internal choice,
meaning its variant of social development, and
meaning what it would like to be a part of, what
blocs to support, - he said.
The two leaders spoke following a two-day
vsiit by Kohl aimed at removing Soviet con
cerns over German unification. The news con
ference was held in Zhelosnovodsk, in southern
Russia.
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F. Dan Winand
State College Borough Council member
One resident addressed the issue of
student parking and stated that people
can walk just about everywhere they
go. It is unnecessary for University stu
dents to have cars, he said
"I would like to propose that any stu
dent who wishes to bring a car ( to the
University be charged out-of-state
tuition," he said.
"People who work in town and live
within a two-mile radius shouldn't have
a car if we're going under these
assumptions," said Don Bowman, an
Undergraduate Student Government
town senator. "I think there are real
reasons for students to have a car."
Gene Sellers, 1101 Center Lane, ques
tioned council's discouragement of stu
dents having cars.
"That's ludicrus," he said. "This is a
town in the middle of nowhere. Almost
ecuted the case, recommended imprisonment for
Keene because she was in a position of trust at the Uni
versity.
"This is i a type of white-collar crime that is becom
ing more . . . known about," Yates said, and the court
"should impose a ( prison ) sentence to show the sys
tem will not put up with it."
Brown did not set an amount for restitution that
Keene must make to the University. The amount and
a payment contract will be worked out between Keene
and the probation office.
Although some purists believe "anything less than
being behind bars is not incarceration," Brown said,
in-house detention was the best solution for Keene.
Brown acknowledged that Keene cooperated with
the court and did not put up as protracted a court bat
tle as she could have.
in NATO; Gorbachev concurs
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet president
President Bush welcomed Gorbachev's will
ingness to accept a united Germany as a mem
ber of NATO.
— This comment demonstrates
statesmanship and strengthens efforts to build
enduring relationships based on cooperation,"
Bush said in a written statement
Bush added, "We think this solution is in the
best interests of all the countries of Europe,
including the Soviet Union."
The president's statement was issued after
Gorbachev said that Germany was free to
choose its own allies.
everyone comes from somwhere else."
USG Senate President Ron Marlow
said he sympathized with residents, but
very few students park in the residential
areas during the day. Although the Uni
versity is doing some things to alleviate
the parking problem, the borough has
not done enough in response to the neg
ative policies the University has imple
mented, he said.
"The University is trying to provide
more parking, but it doesn't do any good
for them to also raise the fees," he said.
Ken Martin, president of the Grad
uate Student Association, said the Uni
versity succumbed to pressure from the
town when it built the parking garage
behind Kern Building. Originally, he
said, it was suppose to be bigger, but
residents of College Heights complained
and the University "caved in."
Ellen Slingerland, 262 E. Hamilton
Ave., said because of on-street parking,
the street has become dangerous. Two
cars cannot pass on the road while other
cars are parked and she has already hit
an open car door while trying to pass an
on-coming car, she said.
However, some post office employees
disagreed.
Marlon Bachelor of Ferguson Town
ship said about 150 post office employ
ees work sometime between 5 a.m. and
7 p.m. and using the Park and Ride sys
tem is not an option since it does not
operate until after he has to be at work.
"Any solution to these problems
Behrend to lose
ROTC program
By MARC HARKNESS
Collegian Staff Writer
Army ROTC at Penn State's Behrend
College will be one casualty of a plan to
cut the Army's active-duty strength by
20 percent in the next five years.
The Army announced Friday it would
close 50 ROTC units at universities
across the country.
About 125 students are enrolled in the
ROTC program at Behrend, which will
have to be shut down completely by Sep
tember 1991. The Army aims to reduce
the total number of graduating ROTC
cadets from about 7,800 to 6,000 each
year, according to The Associated
Press.
The elimination of the units will save
the Army about $23 million a year, but
will cost the jobs of 740 Army personnel
involved in the programs.
Cadets displaced by the closure will
be able to finish the program and gain
their commissions at University Park,
said Robert E. Dunham, vice president
and vice provost.
"The scholarship people will not lose
their scholarships," Dunham said.
The Army may have chosen
Behrend's program for closure because
many students come to University Park
for their final two years of college,
which limits the number of commis
sions given through the Behrend ROTC,
Dunham said.
"It's one of the things that did
Behrend in. I guess. - Dunham said.
Four students were commissioned out
of Behrend this year, while seven are
expected to gain their commissions next
year.
Forty-eight officers were commis
sioned at University Park in the past
academic year. The Army ROTC pro
gram at University Park has about 250
cadets.
Lt. Col. Kurt L. Schatz, director of
the University's Army ROTC program,
said juniors attending camp at Fort
Gorbachev said that no NATO forces must
be stationed on the territory of what is now
East Germany during a period of three to four
years, when Soviet troops will be withdrawing.
He said the Soviet Union hopes that after that
period, no NATO forces or nuclear weapons
would be stationed there.
Previously, the Soviets had insisted on a neu
tral Germany, and recently had suggested a
form of associate membership in the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization after an unspec
ified transition period.
West Germany and its NATO allies had
insisted that a united Germany be a part of the
western alliance.
Kohl and Gorbachev also announced
agreement on several other issues, including
the size of the future army of a united Germany
and a timetable for the withdrawal of Soviet
soldiers from East Germany.
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Gorbachev said the two sides, in talks that
started Sunday in Moscow and continued in
Gorbachev's native Stavropol region. had
managed to ease each other's concerns about
the future of Soviet troops on the territory of
what is now East Germany.
Kohl said Soviet troops should be withdrawn
from East German territory three to four
years after Germany is united. The Soviets
now have about 380,000 troops in East Ger
many.
He said a united Germany and the Soviet
Union will sign a comprehensive treaty that
will govern all aspects of their bilateral rela
tions.
It was Kohl's second visit to the Soviet Union
since February and Gorbachev's hospitality
indicated the Soviets seek close ties with the
economically powerful Germans.
Weather
Partly sunny and warn today. high 85.
A few lingering clouds tonight. low 63.
Warmer and more humid tomorrow.
high 89.
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rates
F. Dan Winand
would have to be from very early in the
morning to beyond your normal 5 p.m.
quitting time," he said.
Sellers told council the Park and Ride
program is not suitable. "Harrisburg
has large empty lots too," he said.
"The scholarship people
will not lose their
scholarships"
Robert E. Dunham
University vice president and
Bragg, N.C., already have been notified
the program will close, and others will
be contacted before school starts in
August.
The Army faces increasing budget
pressures as Congress tries to reshape
the nation's defenses because of the
reduced Soviet-bloc military threat.
Schatz said he is still formulating a
plan to close the Behrend program
down in time, but the program will pro
ceed as planned during the 1990-91 aca
demic year.
One of the program's four full-time
Army instructors will be reassigned out
side of ROTC, while the others will prob
ably be transferred to ROTC units at
other universities. Schatz said.
"There's not really much choice,"
Schatz said. "When you're downsizing
the Army. you don't need as many lieu
tenants to be in charge of fewer sol
diers."
Schatz said he was not aware of the
closure until Friday, when Army Liai
son Lt. Col. John Fink met with Dun
ham. The public announcement of the
closures was made at noon Friday.
Dunham said he did not anticipate the
Army would close any of its programs
at other Commonwealth campuses.
Other universities, such as Gettysburg
University, will lose their ROTC pro
grams entirely.
After the 50 ROTC units are closed.
the Army will have 363 units left in 50
states and the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico and Guam. Eleven units
were closed earlier this year.
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vice provost