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PSU increases basketball ticket prices
In addition to price changes,
the ticket distribution process
is more similar to football’s.
By HOPE CALDWELL
Collegian Sports Writer
Basketball at Penn State will never be
the same after this season. Along with the
new Bryce Jordan Center comes increased
ticket prices and an application process
similar to the distribution of football tick
ets.
Legislative
salary hike
gets local
response
By JIM KINNEY
and MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN
Collegian Staff Writers
The last time Pennsylvania legis
lators voted in favor of a pay raise
President Reagan called the White
House home and Penn State’s foot
ball team celebrated its second
National Championship.
The lapse between this pay
increase and the last one, which
took effect beginning in 1988, is the
primary reason some believe the
salary hike is appropriate.
“Unless they were tremendously
overpaid back then, this is long
overdue,” said Robert O’Connor,
associate professor of political sci
ence.
The pay hike, which will not
affect legislators’ salaries during
this term, will raise lawmakers’
annual pay by 18 percent from
$47,000 to $55,800. The bill also
includes a provision to boost the
salaries of judges, the governor,
attorney general, auditor general,
treasurer and executive branch
officials. Gov. Tom Ridge is
expected to sign the bill soon.
Lawmakers also showed support
for a cost-of-living increase that
would be added at only the begin
ning of each legislator’s or offi
cial’s new term.
John Stewart, political science
lecturer at Mont Alto Campus, said
he has no qualms with a legislative
pay hike but is concerned about the
impact of an automatic cost-of-liv
ing increase.
“It takes the heat off of them in
the future and aggravates the bud
get without any legislative initia
tive,” Stewart said.
Stewart also said legislators
probably passed the pay-raise mea
sure Tuesday to avoid making it an
election issue next year.
Please see SALARY, Page 10.
D.C. march
urges action
by students
By MARY CATHERINE OPFERMAN
and JULIE M. RANDALL
Collegian Staff Writers
In the aftermath of the Million
Man March, black students and
faculty gathered yesterday at Zeta
Phi Beta sorority, 13 Shulze Hall,
and discussed carrying the mes
sage of the march into the local
community.
About 20 people assembled in the
suite to hear the firsthand accounts
of men who attended the march in
Washington, D.C., Monday.
Chinedu Osondu Eke (graduate
student-mass communications)
emphasized the importance of liv
ing out the message.
“How do we localize it as individ
uals in this room? We should reach
out to other black men. . . . We
have to be brothers. We have to
respect ourselves and each other.
Our goal is to take the message and
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The ticket office is offering only one “A few dollars here and there isn’t going Meredith said. Students will still be able to new Center has more seats so it probably
package this year, consisting of 10 games to make much of a difference because if purchase individual game tickets. won’t sell out, she said,
for $5O a one dollar increase per game you want to see them play, you pay,” Can- Becky Slick (sophomore-exercise and The ticket office began accepting app -
with two fewer games offered than last. giano said. sports science) bought both packages last cations and checks yesterday morning at
Athletic Director Tim Curley said with Bud Meredith, athletic ticket manager, year. the Beaver Stadiumticket office. By 330
the price increase, Penn State tickets still said the packages are different this year “I was planning on buying the package p.m. 1,000 applications were submitted
remain one of the cheapest in the Big Ten. because of the transition from Rec Hall to until I saw the team’s schedule,” Slick said. The deadline is Nov. 1, but tickets are not
Penn State made the increase after exam- the Bryce Jordan Center. The uncertainty “It’ll be cheaper to buy the individual guaranteed through that date the first
ining the budget projections for the past of any possible construction delays is games that I want to see.” 2 800 orders will receive all 10 games in
veTr he said another reason for the alteration. She said she likes the application the package. Students can then pick up
Mark Cangiano (sophomore-professional Three games in the package will be process that the ticket office is using this their tickets Nov. 6.
golf management) did not buy tickets last played at Rec Hall and seven at the Center, year because it makes things easier for I assume " g° back to the first
year, but said true fans will still go to the “Once we’re back into one facility we students. « ° b * V ’
games. will go back to splitting the package,” Plus, Rec Hall never sold out and the Meredith said.
Pint-sized Picasso
Christopher Thompson, 9, of State College proudly displays his artwork yesterday. He was attending
a class on ceramics and painting in The Center for Arts and Crafts at the HUB.
act upon it,” he said. “We should
clean the neighborhoods, register
for Big Brothers, and be role mod
els.”
Nadine Farrell, Zeta Phi Beta
treasurer, stressed the need for
black involvement in the communi
ty-
“We need to set an agenda for
(the University) in our communi
ty,” Farrell said.
Although the march was predom
inantly male, the men and women
discussing the march did not see
that as a division. Instead, they saw
it as an effort to positively affect
the black community.
“I believe in the cause of the
black man, the cause of the black
woman and the cause of the black
race,” said Eke, who attended the
march.
Please see MARCH, Page 10.
Thursday, Oct. 19,1995
Local businesses, national chains compete for employees
By PHILLIP D. WIEST
Collegian Staff Writer
Cash is the most elementary
source of competition in the busi
ness world. But, the battle in State
College between small local busi
nesses and recently opened nation
al chains has illuminated another
point of conflict employment.
Recruiting employees is always
an important element of competi
tion, and the business climate in
State College is no different.
Edward Coulson, assistant pro
fessor of economics, said the emer
gence of big corporations in any
town will create jobs.
“This is a highly transient area,”
he said. “In service-sector jobs, a
lot of the jobs are part time so
there are temporary increases in
demand.”
And when demand is high, many
students feel national chains have
the edge in drawing employees.
“Students are inclined to apply at
national chains,” said Frank
Sanders (senior-civil engineering).
“I think it would be the first thing
they would think of when they
begin to look.”
For Trudy Sandy (senior-psy
chology), getting a job at a large
business was essential.
“I prefer big places at the
smaller ones you don’t meet
enough people,” said Sandy, an
employee at Sam’s Club, 381 Ben
ner Pike. “(At Sam’s Club) there
are more benefits and advantages,
and the higher wages also caught
my eye.”
Many smaller employers agree
wages at national chains are high
er. But, according to some local
small business owners, wages are
not the only major factor that stu
dents consider.
Nina Klein, manager of Vibes,
226 E. College Ave., said students
look for a manager they can work
with.
“I don’t know if it goes along
Please see BUSINESS, Page 10.
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Carrico's trial
set to begin
Trial to be held in Beliefonte
Robert Carrico, 22, is
charged with first- and
third-degree murder after
allegedly stabbing
Theodore F. Enos.
By THOMAS A. MURSE
Collegian Staff Writer
The trial of a State College man
charged with the Jan. 8 stabbing
death of another local man will
begin Monday at the Centre County
Courthouse in Bellefonte.
Robert Carrico, 22, formerly of
324 Vairo Blvd., was charged with
first-degree and third-degree mur
der after he allegedly stabbed
Theodore F. Enos with a hunting
knife in front of a room full of wit
nesses, the State College Police
Department said.
The alleged incident occurred
while the men were in a rooming
house at 228 S. Atherton St., police
said.
Carrico allegedly stabbed Enos
twice in the chest, once in the
abdomen and slashed his head,
State College police said. Enos then
was transported to Centre Commu
nity Hospital where he underwent
surgery and later died from a lac
erated liver and wounds to the tho
racic and abdominal areas.
Centre County District Attorney
Ray Gricar, who is prosecuting
Carrico, would not comment on a
possible motive for the incident.
Carrico also is charged with
aggravated assault, reckless
endangerment and simple assault
stemming from an incident that
took place after the murder.
Police allege that a scuffle
ensued when Jeff McDowell, then
19, of State College, attempted to
restrain Carrico after he allegedly
stabbed Enos.
After the incident, police said,
Carrico fled to Colorado with
Kathryn Prisk, then 17.
The Burlington County Police
Department and the Kit Carson
County Sheriff’s Department cap
tured and arrested Carrico without
resistance on Jan. 10 in Burlington,
Colo., State College police said.
State College police tracked him
to the Burlington area by tracing
several telephone calls he made
from there to the State College
area.
Carrico and Prisk were found at
a motel, on Interstate 70 in Col
orado, where they were staying,
State College police said.
Carrico was extradited to State
College on Jan. 28 and arraigned on
murder charges before District
Justice Daniel Hoffman.
At a preliminary hearing in Feb
ruary, District Justice Robert
Shoff ordered Carrico to stand
trial. Carrico is being held in Cen
tre County Prison.
A spokesperson for the Centre
County Public Defender’s Office
said Chief Public Defender David
Crowley, who is defending Carrico,
will not comment on the trial until
it is completed.
Prisk returned to State College
Jan. 10, the same day she and Car
rico were captured, State College
police said. No charges were filed
against her.
Carrico has been arrested in
State College before, according to
State College police reports.
He also was arrested several
days earlier by State College police
for an alleged simple assault out
side Campus Casino, 320 E. College
Ave.
After his arrest, he allegedly hit
Lt. John Owens at the Centre Coun
ty Prison.
Carrico was imprisoned and later
released on $l,OOO bail.
Collegian Graphic/Ryan O'Rourke