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Vol. 96, No. 88 26 Pages ©1995 Collegian Inc.
Students rally for tolerance
A walkout at 11:45 a.m
and a noon rally at
Schwab Auditorium are
slated to protest recent
intolerant acts on
campus.
By AMY BROSEY
and MELISSA STUTZMAN
Collegian Staff Writers
Sandra Choute is not going to
stand by and let racial and cultural
intolerance infiltrate University
Park.
Choute (sophomore-premedicine)
will be speaking against the recent
hate crimes that have occurred on
campus. Unfortunately, she has
firsthand knowledge about what
South Halls card access may be extended
By MEREDITH O'DONNELL
Collegian Staff Writer
In response to the recent break-ins and inci- proximity to College Ave.," said South Halls although he knows it will not cure all problems.
dents of racism in dorms, the Association of President Larry Paseornek. "A lot of people feel ARHS President Maggie Kutzler said she
Residence Hall Students is discussing a new unsafe because of the incidents of racism, agreed the extra access hours would be benefi
plan to extend card access hours on weekends. break-ins and the number of people wandering cial in South because of its location near the
If the new plan is passed, the access hours in and out, especially in the female halls." downtown area.
will begin 8 p.m. Fridays and end 7 a.m. Mon- Barry Bram, associate director of residence "Some areas don't need it like South does at
days every weekend, including nonfootball life for South and West halls, said many people this time, but it's probably a good idea. Person
weekends. expressed safety and security concerns at ally, I like the idea of 24-hour card access
The proposed new hours would be enforced recent house meetings.
only in South Halls, where most of the recent Brain added that the Office of Residence Life
problems have occurred. The South Halls Resi- was waiting to see what the SHRA decision was
Summer
Session
delayed
Summer Session will
begin a week later than
originally scheduled due
to conflicting high school
graduations.
By PAULA SHAKI
Collegian Staff Writer
Students at University Park will
have one more week to enjoy with
out classes before Summer Session
begins this year.
The eight-week Summer Session
will begin on June 12 instead of
June 5, and the six-week session
will begin June 26, a week after the
original date of June 19. The sum
mer registration deadline will be
June 11, and classes for both ses
sions will end Aug. 7.
"Because of a quirk in the calen
dar that happens every seven years
or so, high school graduations con
flicted with the start of summer
session," said Vice Provost for
Enrollment, Management and
Administration John Romano. As a
result of the original starting date,
some high school seniors who
planned to attend summer session
would not graduate high school
before starting college, he said.
Due to the later start, the num-
Please see SUMMER, Page 18.
has been going on Choute is a
victim of a recent hate crime.
Early one morning last month,
after returning to her room in
Ewing Hall, Choute found a swasti
ka drawn on the message board
attached to her door.
"I was outraged," Choute said.
"It affected me then and it's still
affecting me now. It hurts."
Today at noon, Choute will share
her pain with the hundreds of stu
dents expected to "Take A Stand"
and attend the rally on the steps of
Schwab Auditorium
The rally is sponsored by a coali
tion of student organizations. Orga
nizers are asking students to walk
out of their classes at 11:45 to show
their intolerance for racial and eth
nic intimidation. Students who do
not wish to walk out of class, but
dence Association will meet at 5:30 p.m. Sunday before they further examined the concerns.
to discuss the possible change. Paseornek said he hoped the extended hours
"Only South is taking action because of its would help people feel safe in their dorms,
Joseph's Coat
Members of Penn State Thespians gather around Rusty Pettit and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Schwab Auditorium. For
(playing Joseph). The group rehearsed Tuesday night for Joseph coverage of the play, please see page 22.
Despite number of registered students, voter turnout remained low
By RACHEL HOGAN
Collegian Staff Writer
If voting is a numbers game, students lost.
Of 1,265 people registered in one of the
HUB voting precincts, 82 voted.
Another HUB precinct brought 61 voters
out of 1,240 registered.
A third precinct showed 133 voters out of
1,639 registered.
Only 37 voted in the fourth HUB precinct
Over 700 were registered.
Emily Martin, a College Democrat and co
director of Lion Action an on-campus
voter registration group said she had not
studied the numbers too closely, but she was
not surprised by the less than 10 percent
voter turnout among students registered on
campus.
Commonwealth
Campuses, borough
react to rally
still wish to take a part in the
demonstration, are being asked to
stand for a moment of silence.
Arun Unni, vice president of the
Asian American Student Coalition
another group sponsoring the
rally will be also be speaking at
the rally.
Unni said he feels it is his duty to
participate in the events.
"This stuff has been going on in
the floors of the dorms," Unni said.
"As an active member of the Penn
State community, I feel like it's my
"Student turnout is always low," Martin
said, and the elements did not help much
either
"It wasimd weather. It was rainy," she
said.
The showers may have kept student voters
inside, but University student Michael Bur
cik is now kept on the outside of the State
College Borough Council.
Burcik, a candidate for council who was
endorsed by the Undergraduate Student
Government, lost by little more than 200
votes. But Martin said she thinks progress
was still made.
"I think it is progress, and at this rate, in
two years we may have somebody there,"
Martin said.
Though she said she was glad it was over,
for some students, elections never began.
Friday, Nov. 10, 1995
responsibility to take a stand and
speak out against these kinds of
things."
Unni added that the more stu
dents that attend, the better.
"I strongly suggest everyone
come out," he said. "This is not a
minority thing. It's a Penn State
thing. The greater the diversity,
the more unified our force will be."
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And, Unni said, unification is the
ultimate goal of the rally.
Some administrators suggested
moving the event to Old Main lawn,
because it would be a more promi
nent symbol of the University, said
Bill Mahon, director of public
information and interim executive
director of University relations.
The coalition decided against the
idea after discussing it during a
Please see RALLY, Page 18.
across campus," Kutzler said.
While most of the area presidents said
Please see ARHS, Page 18.
Janet Reich (junior-molecular and cell
biology) said she did not vote.
"I live in my own little world. I'm sorry,"
Reich said.
She did not know a student was running
for council, she said, but student status alone
would not convince Reich that Burcik was
the best candidate.
"I don't know if the student part matters.
It would have been more what they stood
for, what their platform was," she said.
Time and knowledge constraints prevent
ed Dave Shaffer (junior-electrical engineer
ing) from voting.
"One, I had been negligent in doing
research on the candidates," Shaffer said.
The second reason Shaffer didn't vote was
"schedule conflicts," he said. "I was incredi
bly busy."
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Roadside
shooting
leads to
leg injury
By THOMAS A. MURSE
Collegian Staff Writer
A Pennsylvania Furnace man
was shot in the leg Wednesday
night near Whitehall after he got
involved in a roadside fist fight
with another man, the Ferguson
Township Police Department said.
Jerry Prater, emergency room
coordinator at the Centre Commu
nity Hospital, said Karl Kolditz, 35,
of 160 Plainfield Drive, was taken
to the hospital after he was shot in
the leg at close range.
The person with whom Kolditz
allegedly fought also entered the
hospital and was treated for facial
abrasions.
As of last evening, Kolditz was in
satisfactory condition at the hospi
tal, Prater said.
The incident occurred at about
9:30 p.m. after Kolditz was alleged
ly driving too close to another
man's car and flashing his high
beams, police said.
The drivers of two cars pulled
over along the southbound side of
the 300 block of Plainfield Drive,
police said.
The man who was driving the
lead car, a 4x4 pickup truck, was
upset because the other man was
tailgating him, police said.
The two got out of their vehicles,
Please see SHOOTING, Page 18.
Shaffer said he would have been more
interested in the elections if he had known
that a student was running for a borough
council seat.
Eileen Grimm, chairman of College
Republicans, said that interest may come
during national campaigns, but even with
strong encouragement to vote, there will
probably not be more than 30 percent stu
dent turnout.
With low student turnout in this year's
elections, there is nowhere to shift the blame
when town issues do not favor the student,
she said.
"They are going to complain later about
the housing restrictions in town, and they
are going to have no one to blame but them
selves because they did not vote," Grimm
said.