Dateline Bipartisan budget Democrats and Republicans cooperate to budget bill through the House Vol. 98, No. 28 14 Pages ©1997 Collegian Inc An Israeli Orthodox Jew watches Israeli soldiers, police and medics marketplace. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up yesterday in from the roof after two explosions ripped through a crowded outdoor the Jerusalem marketplace, killing 14 people. Bombs By GWEN ACKERMAN Associated Press Writer JERUSALEM Carefully synchronizing their attacks, two men carried briefcases packed with explosives and nails into the heart of Jerusalem's most crowded outdoor market yesterday and blew themselves up, sending body parts and blood-soaked vegetables flying. The double blasts killed 14 people includ ing the two bombers and injured more than 150, striking at the teetering Mideast peace process at a time when renewed progress seemed plausible. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Cabi net met in emergency session to suspend peace talks with the Palestinians which resumed New worms discovered by professor By JASON FAGONE Collegian Staff Writer University scientists have dis covered an exotic new species of worms living in a hostile methane environment 1,800 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico, about 150 miles south of New Orleans. The team of scientists, using a mini-submarine funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, came across an exposed chunk of methane ice that was covered with one- to two-inch worms, chief scientist Charles Fisher said. The worms were photographed, and specimens were retrieved for further study, he said. . "The part about it that really excites me is the fact that we found animal life associated with this methane ice," said Fisher, an asso ciate professor of biology, who has been studying sea-floor ecologies since the 1980's. "Scientists had hypothesized there were probably bacteria asso ciated with them, but we never thought there would be an animal making use of this resource to live," he said. "So the fact that it turned out to be a new species is really cool, but the scientifically significant part is the relationship between a higher animal and the methane ice," he said. The methane mounds are lighter than water and poke up through sediment on the sea floor, Fisher said. The mounds are made of hydrates, unique combination structures of water and natural gas that only exist at low temperatures and high pressures, Fisher said. "I'd always considered the hydrates as a geological feature Please see WORM, Page 2. the daily Israeli "I heard the explosions one after another. I fell (and) saw blood on my chest. " this week after a four-month deadlock until Arafat acts against the militants "with determi nation," Israel TV said. A leaflet claiming to be from the militant Islamic group Hamas took responsibility for the blasts, which went off in an alley about 50 yards apart from each other. Mahane Yehuda, Monthly parking rates increased at State College garages Rates are raised in order to pay for possible new downtown parking facility. By MARK PARFITT Collegian Staff Writer A rate increase on monthly park ing that the State College Borough Council passed July 7 could lead to the construction of the sixth down town parking facility. However, the business community said the rate increase will create hardships on downtown businesses and their employees. The borough needed to raise the monthly parking rate in order to help pay for the cost of a new garage, borough parking manager Ed Holmes said. "We're trying to justify a new parking facility," he Sports Weather Plenty of sunshine today with Sophomore guard Ryan a lok delightful summer afternoon. ' • ~ ,„,,,i 1 High 82°F. Mainly clear and com- V 4 Bailey to leave men's fortable tonight. Low 55°F. Mostly pass sunny tomorrow and continued , basketball team pleasant. High 85°F. by Chris Patti Page 4 Page 6 ian 30 0 Colleg www.collegian.psu.edu market kill 14 Simha Kadoori bomb victim said. "All of our planning tools prove that we need the facility. "Under the current rate struc ture, we just couldn't afford to build a new facility and operate it," Holmes added. Holmes said the most likely loca tion for a new garage would be in or near the council's proposed town center The rate increase will not affect those who pay by the hour at the borough's garages or metered parking lots. Those 1,070 spaces are primarily used by people visit ing the borough, using downtown services or shopping at downtown merchants. The monthly spaces are primarily used by people who work in the downtown area, Holmes said. The new rate increase, which is already in effect for new accounts, will take effect for all existing accounts in September. Thursday, July 31, 1997 Jerusalem's main fruit and vegetable market, was packed with shoppers when the bombs went off at 1:15 p.m. "People flew in the air without legs, without arms, without clothes," said one witness, 43- year-old Sarah Yamin. Soot-covered bodies lay on the ground, their blood mixing with smashed watermelons, torn clothes and shredded newspaper. Green awnings covering the alley were torn apart and vegetable stands and clothing displays over turned; scraps of clothing dangled from tele phone lines. The attackers whose overall aim has been to scuttle the peace process achieved a short term goal: President Clinton postponed a new Please see ISRAEL, Page 2. Of the 1,700 parking spaces in the borough parking system, 630 of them are leased as monthly spaces. Currently the borough has five parking facilities that sell monthly parking passes the Pugh Street and Fraser Street parking garages, the McAllister Street Parking Deck and lots on Foster Avenue and Sparks Street. The Fraser Plaza garage, built 12 years ago, currently does not bring in enough money to pay off its costs to the borough, Holmes said. "Fraser Street is the only one that operates at a deficit," he said. "We have a $380,000 mortgage bill on that parking garage." However, Charlene Friedman, president of Downtown State Col lege Partnership Inc., said the bor ough's parking system is divided into two funds, one from on-street parking and another from the five Victim of shooting readies for school By PATRICIA K. COLE Collegian Staff Writer With financial aid questions and nervous feelings, Nicholas Mensah will return to the University this Fall Semester while still recover ing from the bullet wounds he received when he was shot last fall. It will be a few months before Mensah will fully recover from the wound in his stomach. Mensah, a junior majoring in business admin istration, was shot when State Col lege resident Jillian Robbins fired a high-powered rifle on the HUB lawn during a class break Sept. 17 of last year. Melanie Spalla, another Univer sity student, was killed in the shooting. Robbins is awaiting trial in Clinton County Prison. Although he did think about not returning, Mensah said the shoot ing was an isolated incident. "It could have happened any where," he said. "I couldn't consid er going anywhere else. If I could n't go back there, I should probably just quit school then." Aside from his personal safety, Mensah said his financial aid situa tion made him briefly wonder why he was returning. According to an article in The Philadelphia Daily News on Mon day, a scholarship that Mensah had received for two years has been taken away from him. Mensah, whose tuition had been covered by financial aid, said he does not know if the scholarship Covener files papers in borough elections By PATRICIA K. COLE Collegian Staff Writer Battling the borough housing ordinance, creating reasonable laws and reconsidering the reloca tion of the Schlow Memorial Library will be some of the main issues Jason Covener plans to tack le in his campaign for the State College Borough Council. Covener (senior-international politics) filed nomination papers to run as an independent Friday. The former Undergraduate Stu dent Government presidential can didate said in his provisional posi tion statement that his goal is "to make a change from the myopic segregationist and anti-growth policies that have plagued the bor ough council for so long." He said he wants to eliminate the recently passed amendment to the housing ordinance as well as streamline other housing laws. The amendment limits the num ber of new student homes within certain areas of the borough. "Obviously there are some laws that you have to have," he said. "But leave the market to itself and let the buyers and the sellers choose who they want to sell to and buy from," he said. Monthly parking rate increase The State College Borough Council passed the parking rate increase July 7, and it went into effect the following day. Old price New price Facility per month per month Pugh Street Parking Garage - :::tvr , ~,,., :.,,, ..... .....,..,..,,„, Fraser Street Parking Garage 11 .,..„, fortol''.4-, 2 : .- . •:,, ,, ;:'.1':' McAllister Street Parking Deck* : .1 ...' 5 .'1i Foster Avenue lot ,':i. 445.:!.. -. .. ~.. f Sparks Street lot *This facility has more than on monthly parking optio Source: State College Borough Parking Office parking facilities. She said borough Friedman said. "The only deficit is council's need for a rate increase when you separate the funds." has been misleading because, corn- The borough argues that if funds bined together, the borough would from on-street parking were not lose money on parking. merged with those of the facilities, "There is no deficit in parking," Please see PARKING, Page 2. Published independently by students at Penn State "I just want to move on with my life that's the bottom line." Nicholas Mensah has been eliminated, but his semes ter bill does not include the schol arship. "There's much in that story that is inaccurate," said Alan Janesch, assistant manager of the depart ment of public information for the University, about the Philadelphia Daily News article. However, the Family Education al Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, known as the Buckley Amendment, forbids anyone from the University from discussing a students' finan cial aid with a third party without written consent from that student, he said. According to a news rt. ,e from the University's departi,...ht of public information, "If the law did not prevent Penn State from disclosing what is in its records, the reporting on Nicholas Mensah's situation would probably be sub stantially different. Penn State takes great pride in being a sup portive and caring university." Mensah first heard about the scholarship from a reporter from The Philadelphia Daily News, he said. With the addition of himself and some other student-friendly candi dates to the council, Covener said the ordinance can be defeated. Laws, such as public drunken ness laws, should be defined more strictly to only include actions when offenders are endangering the safety of others, he said. Stumbling and talking loudly due to alcohol should not be punishable offenses and are impossible to enforce, he said. Covener is also opposed to the loitering ordinance, the proposed relocation of Schlow Memorial Please see COVENER, Page 2. shooting victim Please see MENSAH, Page 2 Jason Covener running for borough council Collegian Graphic/Walter Barrueto
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