Dateline Strike begins UPS Teamsters go on strike, ask Clinton intervene in negotiations Vol. 98, No. 31 14 Pages ©1997 Collegian Inc Skating park in the works Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series about skateboarding and in-line skating in the area. By JASON FAGONE Collegian Staff Writer Recent debate over the new loitering ordi nance has kick-started discussions to build a skateboarding facility in State College. Borough manager Peter Marshall is heading a committee to discuss planning issues. Police Chief Tom King, Superintendent of Schools Bill Opdenhoff and Ray of Hope founder Ray Williams are also on the committee. "I think we're doing very well," said commit tee member Thelma Price, who is also a mem ber of Stand for Children. "We've had two very constructive meetings. We recognize the fact there is a need and we're looking at the stuff that can bring about a skate park: the cost, timing, all of that kind of thing," she aid. Price said adults must take responsibility for building the park. "They are the kids and we are the adults parents, grandparents, etc. and we are the people who have to provide for their needs," she said. "They can't build it." A proposal is currently on the table, said com mittee member Anne Stokes. Hazleton president Walton a female role mode By ROSEMARY JONES The (Allentown) Morning Call HAZLETON, Pa. (AP) When Karen Doyle Walton was named chief executive officer of the Hazleton campus, she became the fourth woman to head an institu tion in Penn State's 17-campus net work and one of fewer than 500 female heads of colleges in the United States. Had it come sooner, the appoint ment would have made her eligible for inclusion in her own 1996 book, "Against the Tide" (Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, $35, 257 pp.), a compilation of auto biographical sketches of 20 Ameri can and British women who capped their careers as heads of colleges and universities. But heading a college and authoring a book are only two of this remarkable woman's accom- Final exams last hurdle for summer students Before Summer Session students can get out of town and enjoy a few weeks of rest, finals exams stand in the way. By LAUREN DUPONT Collegian Staff Writer They're heeeere Finals, that is. Before they can enjoy the last few weeks the summer has to offer, many students have to get through the end of the week and make it through final exams. Aparna Bhandarkar (junior accounting) said she already reviewed the past material for her art history class. She plans to spend the rest of the week learning the new material in Library plan still being debated By JASON FAGONE Collegian Staff Writer Site selection for the remodeled Schlow Memorial Library would go more smoothly if area townships would trust their library board representatives to make decisions, State College Mayor Bill Welch said at the State College Borough Council meeting last night. "I think they're being jerked around here inappro priately," Welch said of the board members. "It seems there's a lot of extraneous viewpoints being dragged into this." The "extraneous" viewpoints have surfaced at past Centre Region Council of Governments meetings, at which presentations by library architects have been followed by numerous critiques and criticisms. Col- the daily "We'll be setting up plans for a permanent facility that will be available in the spring," said Stokes, a Stand for Children member. Committee members will soon travel to the town of Woodward to tour the Woodward Skate Camp, Stokes said. The camp is a successful skateboarding/in-line skating/gymnastics facili ty that draws young people from all over, said Jon Robinson, in-line director for the camp. "Generally, the kids come one week at a time," Robinson said. "They get instruction for three hours a day from pro instructors who come from all over the country. Then the rest of the day is kind of open for them." Along with seven different skateboarding parks, the camp features horseback riding, swimming, rock climbing, pool tables, video games and a snack bar, Robinson said. "They absolutely love it here," he said. "This is probably the best facility in the world, and when the kids get to come skate here it's like a dream come true. Everything a skater wants is right here." Stokes said she hopes the Woodward visit will help the committee determine how to provide a safe recreational environment. Safety is a major factor in site selection, and may prevent the committee from choosing the zero-rent bor ough-owned lot next to Burger King, 521 Uni versity Dr., she said. plishments. With numerous articles in professional journals to her credit, as well as at least 50 presen tations at conferences, Walton's is a well-known name in the world of academe. And as a woman who majored in mathematics at a time when few others dared to enter such a male dominated field, she devotes much of her work to encouraging women and minorities to study mathemat ics, science and technology. For the past 18 years, Walton was affiliated with Allentown Col lege of St. Francis de Sales, Center Valley, in a number of positions of escalating responsibility. She was a faculty member, mathematics department chair man, academic dean, and vice pres ident for academic affairs. While justifiably proud of her progression, she leaves no doubt that she regards the successful order to prepare for one of her two finals on Thursday, she said. This is Bhandarkar's first sum mer taking classes at the Universi ty. She thought the courses she is taking would be easier in the sum mer with the smaller class sizes and the relaxed atmosphere, she said. Another reason she took summer classes was because she couldn't fit them into her schedule during the regular school year, Bhandark ar said. But even with the smaller class es and the laid-back atmosphere, the finals add more stress than some students anticipated. "It's relaxed, but I think you don't realize how much work it is because you're doing 15 weeks of work in eight weeks," Bhandarkar said. lege Township rejected the library board's proposal, which advocated construction of a 40,000 square foot building on the corner of Foster Avenue and Allen Street. Ferguson Township also objected to the downtown site, suggesting a westerly location with more parking that would better accommodate families. Although representatives from each township sit on the library board, township officials seem to have bypassed that avenue of discussion, opting instead for the COG General Forum, Council President Tom Daubert said. i Sports Weather $ ,Where has summer gone? Cowboy coach Barry Clouds and some sunshine ~.. < ,' Switzer was arrested today with a renegade shower. to , -0 High 73. Clear to partly cloudy and very cool tonight. Low 49 alk i yesterday in Dallas Partly sunny and continued cool tomorrow. High 74. Page 4 Page 8 by Chris Patti . 30 ` collegian www.collegian.psu.edu "I was following in my older sister's footsteps." rearing of her two sons as her most important achievement. "Doyle is 26 and graduated from Hahnemann Hospital Medical School and (began) a residency in internal medicine in June," she beamed. "Zachary, 22, graduated from Harvard and is working on a doctorate in computer engineering at Boston University." The fact that she co-authored several articles on math and com puter science with both sons dur ing their high school years lends credence to the observation that academic distinction is a Walton family trait. Amy Greenberg, an assistant professor of history, also said the compact time can make summer finals more difficult than students might expect. "When you take a 14-week semester and cram it into six weeks, even then it requires a large amount of work," Greenberg said. Greenberg, who is teaching two courses this summer, assigned a final to one of her two classes. She said she expects some of the students to do very well and some to do poorly. "It's really clear to me that some students haven't kept up," Green berg said, adding that some of the reasons for those who do badly might be that they can't keep up or they're not preparing for the course. "COG is a conduit. COG does not run the library," Daubert said. "I believe the process should rest with the library board." Discussions centered around a request from the Please see LIBRARY, Page 2. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 1997 "One problem with the Burger King site is some of the utilities under the ground there," Stokes said. "So we have to answer some of these questions before we fully accept the area." She said she envisions an environment in which adults would provide guidance, but only when needed. "It would allow the kids some independence," she said. Also, the program will be structured around the basic policies of the Ray of Hope youth cen ter, Stokes said. "We're trying to follow something that has already worked in the past," she said. "The kids made their own rules and their own bylaws. They tried to help each other." Some have tried to help themselves by addressing and petitioning the State College Borough Council on behalf of area skateboard ers, but many have given up in frustration. "We were trying to help them out," said John Heebner (sophomore-liberal arts). "We tried to talk to the council, get some laws changed. But they really didn't take it too seriously. The skaters just kind of gave up on it." Dan Kraemer, 19, said he has been skate boarding in State College since he was in the sixth grade. on her decision to leave high school a year early Please see FINALS, Page 2 Chris R. slides on a wall on his in-line skates. Chris was skating Ju ;• 2 Please see SKATERS, Page 2. on the sidewalks outside of Old Main. Karen Doyle Walton Walton was no slouch herself during her growing-up years in Johnstown. Admittedly impatient and figuring she had learned as much as she was going to by the end of her junior year in high school, she applied to, and was accepted by Vassar College as a freshman for the following Sep tember. "I was following in my older sis ter's footsteps," Walton laughed. "She skipped her senior year, too but she enrolled at the Johnstown campus of the University of Pitts burgh." The Johnstown School Board The show must go on Despite the rain, members of Kinesiology 297 b perform an improvisational dance yesterday. The two performed as a part of KT Huckabee Milburn's dance improvisation class in front of Old Main. later voted to award the sisters their high school diplomas. Walton was born in Johnstown in 1944, a daughter of a urologist "who loved both the practice and the academics of medicine" and a well-educated mother who held both a bachelor's and a master's degree "but lived happily the then expected conventional life of homemaker." She names her parents first among her mentors, crediting her father's bedtime stories about sol diers he patched together in surgi cal tents under adverse conditions during World War II for her strong sense of mission. She also credits the example of her mother who, as state president of the Women's Auxiliary of the Pennsylvania Med ical Society, declined a nomination to the national presidency of the American Medical Association Auxiliary "because of her pre Published independently by students at Penn State ferred higher priority of our family." Walton, too, lists her her highest priority, herself fortunate to have hoc to successfully balance with their needs. She band Joseph were hpgi sweethearts who ril:;rri. both had received the ter's degrees Walton holds two m,:t;: degrees in the teaclM;:! matics from Harvard Cm and in pure mathematics f University of Pittsburgh doctorate in higher e(h_ administration from versity. She began her teachir: the mathematics facul' Hill College in Green... moreland County, man of the math departriL:'.T Please see WALTCN, Pag€
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