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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
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"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.
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"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.
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the mathematics facul'
Hill College in Green...
moreland County,
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