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Vol. 98, No. 23 12 Pages ©1997 Collegian Inc.
Fund-raising effort emphasizes student support donations
By PATRICIA K. COLE
Collegian Staff Writer
A little generosity and some strong
memories can go a long way.
Potential donors in the University’s five
year capital campaign said endowment
funds including funding for scholar
ships for undergraduate students was
one of the donors’ No. 1 priorities, said Rod
Kirsch, vice president for development
and alumni relations.
As part of the University’s five-year
capital campaign, donors were asked to
rank what areas they felt were the most
important.
Undergraduate student support ranked
first, Kirsch said.
As a result, the University is focusing
Lauren Marino of Fairhope, Ala., saves her dog Buddy from the Fish
River flood waters. Marino had feared her dog had drowned when her
Hurricane gone;
By JESSICA SAUNDERS
Associated Press Writer
MARLOW, Ala. Streams dri
ven out of their banks by Hurri
cane Danny’s deluge dropped
rapidly yesterday, allowing resi
dents to return to homes stained
with mud as high as the rafters.
“It’s just so devastating,” Julie
Brinson said as she returned home
today to search for her antique
jewelry collection. “There was no
time. There was just no time to
take anything with us. The flood
waters came up so fast.”
Water was 4 feet deep Sunday in
Brinson’s home along the Fish
River but had drained out yester
day.
Fish River, a short stream that
winds through flat country 20
miles southeast of Mobile, jumped
12 feet Sunday after Danny stalled
along the Alabama coast, dumping
an estimated 30 inches of rain in
Borough Council discusses to
By JASON FAGONE
Collegian Staff Writer
Borough officials must find ways
to increase off-street parking
capacity if the proposed town cen
ter is to become a reality, architec
tural consultants said at last night’s
State College Borough Council
meeting.
“A cornerstone to the concept
has to be public parking,” said
Larry Bickford, vice president of
L. Robert Kimball & Associates.
Bickford and colleague John
Haas, president of John C. Haas
Associates Inc., presented an inter
im report on the town center to the
council. Less than a dozen people
attended the meeting, held at the
"Capital campaign is a multi-year funding effort to substantially
increase the private gifts to Penn State."
much of its capital campaign efforts on
expanding this area, Kirsch said.
“Capital campaign is a multi-year fund
ing effort to substantially increase the pri
vate gifts to Penn State,” University Presi
dent Graham Spanier said. “The campaign
is focusing very much on people.”
At the conclusion of the first year of the
campaign, the University received $94.9
million in gifts, a 14 percent increase from
"It's just so devastating."
three days over parts of Mobile
Bay. That’s almost half the area’s
normal rainfall for an entire year.
A bridge over the river at the
town of Fish River was all but cov
ered by water Sunday; this morn
ing, the water level was about 20
feet below the span.
The short-lived hurricane, which
also wrecked fishing boats and did
minor damage to buildings in
Louisiana, was just a low pressure
area today, drifting northward with
wind blowing at a sustained 12
mph, the National Weather Service
said. Rainfall had stopped in the
coastal counties and at the city of
Mobile, but continued at a rate of 2
inches an hour in parts of western
State College Municipal Building,
118 S. Fraser St.
Haas proposed that the borough
enter into a public/private partner
ship with Days Inn Penn State, 240
S. Pugh St.
It is a business that has ample
space for parking but outdated
parking facilities a worn-down,
steel parking garage, he said.
“Real partnerships like this are a
win-win for all parties involved,”
Bickford said.
Council member Ruth Lavin
praised the idea.
“This is exactly the type of pub
lic/private partnership that we
should be doing,” Lavin said.
Haas said he wants to ensure
adequate parking because he wants
last year, according to a news release.
The amounts designated for scholar
ships also increased significantly from
$lO.l million in the 1995-96 year to $16.4
million for 1996-97. In addition, donors
have pledged about $2OO million for under
graduate endowments.
When donors pledge funds, they are
promising to give a certain amount some
time in the future.
family fled their home Sunday morning in the wake of Hurricane Denny.
The dog was saved on Sunday near Marlowe, Ala.
residents return
Julie Brinson
victim of Hurricane Danny
Alabama, where flood advisories
were in effect.
The storm killed one man caught
at sea in a sailboat. Another man
died of a heart attack while trying
to secure a boat.
Some 1,800 people were in shel
ters at one point, state officials
said, although most had returned
home today.
Homes and businesses had wind
and water damage across southern
Alabama, and Danny destroyed one
marina and a condominium com
plex that was under construction.
Dozens of roads were washed out,
and scores of boats sank at their
docks or were set adrift.
Many lost furniture and personal
the center to have a regional scope
in order to provide community
members with greater convenience
and access to services. But some
regional officials are not 100 per
cent behind the town center, Haas
said.
“I think they have a wait-and-see
attitude,” he said.
A regional center makes sense
because most Centre Region resi
dents see themselves as inhabi
tants of the State College area,
Bickford said.
The next step in the process is to
engage probable tenants in more
serious negotiations and get a feel
for their space needs and for the
overall cost of the project, Haas
said. But both architects cautioned
Tuesday, July 22,1997
Graham Spanier
University president
belongings such as photographs to
the flooding.
“I guess it took everything out,”
Paul Utter said Sunday at the fire
station in Marlow.
Brinson said she was left without
any dry clothes and had to borrow
clothes to attend the funeral of an
uncle yesterday.
Nearby, Paul Utter said he had
never experienced anything like
Danny during his 32 years of living
along the Alabama coast. He
returned to his Fish River home
yesterday morning and found that
the water had been up to the
rafters. Although the water had
drained away, he couldn’t get in the
front door because his refrigerator
had floated up against it.
Most electrical service had been
restored by this morning. Rescue
workers were setting up portable
kitchens and the Salvation Army
sought donations of food and
money.
n center
that lawmakers must be willing to
put their differences aside if the
town center is to become a reality.
“We’re facilitators only, not deci
sion-makers,” Bickford said. “All
we can do is carry forward the dis
cussion. Then the public officials
have to come forward and make
some decisions.
“Everybody recognizes we’re in
this together. The question is, how
do we move forward in a cautious
way and a way that will maximize
public funds?,” Bickford said.
Haas agreed the town center will
only become a reality if officials
work together.
“If we continue this fragmenta
tion, we’ll all be losers,” he said.
“I am not surprised that (scholarships
and undergraduate support) is a high pri
ority,” Kirsch said. “Most major donors
were undergrads at Penn State.”
The raised concern may be because of
the increasing debts that graduating stu
dents at schools across the country accu
mulate. The average debt of a graduating
undergraduate student is about $16,000,
Kirsch said.
“As the cost of attending colleges has
gotten significantly higher ... we feel a
growing responsibility to keep tuition
down,” Spanier said. “For those who can’t
afford tuition at what we set it, we try to
keep financial aid available.”
Scholarships are one of the financial aid
methods the University administration is
trying to increase in accordance with the
FBI alerts potential
Cunanan victims
The FBI is alerting
celebrities who Cunanan
claims to have known
that they may also be in
danger.
By EVAN PEREZ
Associated Press Writer
MIAMI Andrew Cunanan was
a name-dropper who bragged of
knowing Gianni Versace and other
celebrities. Yesterday, the FBI said
it is alertyig some of those figures
that their lives might be in danger,
too.
“We are trying to alert people
that their name has come up,” said
FBI spokeswoman Coleen Rowley,
adding the bureau would be remiss
if it didn’t.
She wouldn’t identify any promi
nent people the FBI has contacted,
and downplayed reports that inves
tigators believe the 27-year-old
reputed gigolo has a hit list of peo
ple who have crossed him.
Two New York firms that pro
vide guards and security advice to
celebrities have warned their high
profile clients to take precautions
until Cunanan is caught.
AP Photo
Unitel and J.T. Mullen Co. issued
a joint advisory to 47 clients soon
after the Versace slaying.
Unitel’s clients include designer
Tommy Hilfiger and actor Harvey
Keitel.
Mullen refused to disclose any of
its clients, but previously has
acknowledged working for Donald
Trump and Diane Sawyer.
“The fashion business is pan
icked right now,” said Mullen pres
ident Joe Mullen.
Published independently by students at Penn State
donors’ requests and the colleges’ priori
ties.
All of the academic colleges have made
obtaining private gifts for scholarships a
priority, Kirsch said.
Donors can create the type of scholar
ship they want their money to be used for
by specifying requirements for the cur
riculum, home residence and grade point
average.
For example, a $4 million gift, which was
donated by William L. and Josephine Weiss
for financial aid programs, included a des
ignation for 40 undergraduate students
who are the first members of their fami
lies to attend college.
Similar gifts will be announced in the
next few months, Spanier said.
“We’re warning all our celebrity
clients,” said Unitel president
William Callahan. “We wouldn’t be
surprised if he showed up in New
York. New York is a very anony
mous place. He could hide here
very easily.”
In an upcoming article in Vanity
Fair magazine, journalist Maureen
Orth said Cunanan often tried to
portray himself as a rich jet-setter,
bragging that he knew Versace
well, that his father was an Israeli
millionaire and that his mother
once spent time at a spa with
Blondie singer Deborah Harry.
Investigators said they don’t
have any reason to believe
Cunanan, suspected of gunning
down the fashion designer outside
his oceanfront mansion July IS,
will strike at anyone in particular.
But they want to be cautious,
because no one knows his where
abouts.
Andrew Cunanan
wanted by the FBI