WEDNESDAY
April 5, 2000
Vol. 100 No. 162 26 pages
Spring Week
to end term
on high note
■ The Interfraternity and
Panhellenic councils' annual
festival kicks off today with
Crazy Games.
By Colleen Hyland
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Flu' people are wanted.
Spring Week 2000, an annual festival
sponsored by the Interfraternity and Pan
hellenic councils, kicks off today and runs
through Sunday.
The theme for this year's event, "Rm
People Wanted," was chosen by the over
all Spring Week committee because they
felt that it best reflected their goals for the
week.
"We felt it most clearly showed the fun,
lighthearted theme for spring," said
Courtney Spangler, overall public rela
tions chair for this year's Spring Week.
"Spring Week is a chance to bring the
entire community together, celebrate the
warm weather and wind up the semester
on a positive note."
Spring Week 2000 will start at 4 p.m.
today with the first set of Crazy Games on
the HUB Lawn, followed by the Kickoff
Party and Evening Madness at 7 p.m.
This year's Kickoff Party includes free
food and drink and a performance by local
music favorite Bluesuedegroove.
"When Gays Move Into Mr. Rogers'
Neighborhood" will be the highlighted
event on Thursday at 7 p.m. at Schwab
Auditorium.
The program, which features speakers
Joe Bertolino and Bil Leipold, was spon
sored by the greek councils at Penn State
two years ago and received a great
response.
Panhellenic Council President Erika
London attended the program then and is
looking forward to attending it again this
year. "It is very interactive. They allow
you to ask questions about the issues they
are focusing on," London said.
Fraternity Row will play host to more
Crazy Games, the Chariot Races and a
block party with a disc jockey Friday. Reg
istration for Crazy Games begins at 2:15
p.m. and the chariots start rolling down
East Fairmount Avenue at 4:30 p.m.
"We encourage everyone to attend the
block party on Friday and opening events
on Wednesday," said Laurie DiMucci,
overall Spring Week chair. "We want a lot
of people to come out and have a good
time without drinking."
The National Pan-Hellenic Council's
annual Stepshow will take place Saturday
at 2 p.m. in the White Building.
"NPHC plans for the Stepshow all
year," DiMucci said. "Going to the show
gives members of the other councils a
chance to see what NPHC works on and
to see one of the things that is very impor
tant to them."
Wrapping up the week's events Sunday
will be the AIDS Project AIDS Walk,
which begins at 1 p.m., and the Spring
Week Awards Ceremony at 7 p.m. on the
HUB Lawn.
Registration for the AIDS Walk will
begin at 11 a.m. at Central Parklet.
"It is the ultimate way to serve the com
munity," Spangler said. "It is a chance for
everyone to walk together for a good
cause."
KC. Parker, the AIDS Walk liason for
Spring Week, said she hopes this year's
walk grows in more ways than in the
amount of money raised. "I hope that it
grows further as a walk in Centre County
and that it raises awareness on campus
and gets people educated about AIDS,"
Parker said.
DiMucci anticipates this week's events
will bring out more people than even "We
are hoping to bring out a lot of people so
they see what we do. Not many people
know what the week is all about," DiMuc
ci said.
PennDOT says state roads improved
By Dana Irwin
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Pennsylvania drivers are having the
smoothest ride in years, according to state
officials.
The Pennsylvania Department of Trans
portation announced last week that ride
quality on Pennsylvania interstates
improved dramatically last year.
State roadways surpassed the national
standard for ride smoothness and made
Pennsylvania history, according to a press
release from Gov. Tbm Ridge's office.
PennDOT uses a worldwide standard for
measuring pavement smoothness called the
International Roughness Index that meas
ures pavement roughness in terms of the
number of inches per mile that a laser jumps
as it is driven across the interstate. Lower
scores on the index scale equal better road
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loge it 1999, beating the national standard
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Campus voter turnout an increase from 1999
By Stephenie Steitzer
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Jamie Schirk said she had good intentions
to vote during yesterday's primary elections,
but she simply forgot.
"I was just oblivious to the date," Schirk
(senior-philosophy) said as she was walking
near Alumni Hall in the HUB-Robeson Cul
tural Center the voting precinct for many
on-campus students.
However, Schirk added laughingly, "I can
tell you when all of my papers are due."
According to the unofficial vote tallies,
Schirk was among a number of other stu
dents who neglected to vote yesterday.
U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum smiles after voting in the primary yesterday in Verona
Keith Sr
U.S. Rep. Ron Klink leaves the voting booth after casting his vote yesterday in Murrysville
Local nominees anticipate challenging November race
By Lily Henning
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Despite predictable wins in yesterday's
primaries, local nominees are anticipating a
lively run in the November elections.
As the only candidates in their parties
seeking a nomination for the 77th district
state House seat, Democrat Donald Hahn
and Republican incumbent Lynn Herman
slid through yesterday's primary race with
ease.
Hahn received 1,693 votes and Herman
2,639 to win their parties' nomination in an
unofficial count last night. The story was the
same for the 171st district state House seat.
Guy Patterson captured the Democratic
nomination and incumbent Kerry Henning-
Tara Liddell/Collegian
though state roads have improved immensely,
some feel local roads, such as University Drive,
seen here, still need improvements.
of 92 in 1998. Ridge has allotted $6 billion to
road construction and improvements in the
last three years, and the roads are the
smoothest in PennDOrs 30-year history,
according to the release.
"Gov. Ridge promised that his administra-
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With an unofficial total of 68 votes cast at
the four on-campus precincts in the HUB,
this year's primary faired much better for
number of votes than last year's April elec
tion.
The 1999 primaries saw seven votes on
campus, while the general election in the
same year saw 397 total votes.
However, on a large scale, Darren Robert
son, Undergraduate Student Government
director of town affairs, said the numbers
could be better.
"It's a relatively low turnout compared to
other primaries," he said.
Robertson. who is the judge of elections
See VOTER TURNOUT, Page 14 .
hoff again received the Republican nomina
tion in a field clear of challengers.
The race in November might be a differ
ent story for State College attorneys Hahn
and Patterson. who both acknowledged the
difficulty of being Democrats in a largely
Republican area.
Running against incumbents, however.
could be the biggest challenge. "It will defi
nitely be uphill against him," Hahn said of
Herman. "The money favors the incumbents
as they get access to a lot of the lobbyists'
money. Plus, there's the name recognition
factor."
Patterson's echoed Hahn's sentiments, but
said the race would be decided not by how
much money the candidates had, but how
they chose to use it.
Lion would work hard to make Pennsylvania
roads smoother, and that's exactly what Pen
n Dot is delivering," said PennDOT secretary
Bradley L Mallory in the release.
While Penn Dot is boasting about road
services, some students are questioning the
results.
"I would disagree with that (the index
score)," Katie Leech (freshman-division of
undergraduate studies) said. Leech, who
drives mainly in Pennsylvania, added she
does not see an improvement.
Pennsylvania's highway system is the fifth
largest in the nation, and the more than
1,200 miles of interstate roadways is under
going "one of the most ambitious road-resur
facing efforts in state history" Mallory said
in the release.
Although overall state road quality might
be improving, some feel local county roads
are still in need of the benefits from the
nearly billion spent annually on Pennsyl
vania interstates.
Keith Srakocic/Associated Press
See PENNDOT, Page 14
County's voter turnout in recent elections
1998 primary election
1998 general election
1999 primary election
1999 general election
2000 primary election
Source: Centre CounV Board of ElecUons
Primary balloting light
as Pa. picks nominees
By Peter Jackson
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
PHILADELPHIA Al Gore and George
W. Bush won largely symbolic victories yes
terday in Pennsylvania's presidential pri
mary after visits that set the stage for a gen
eral-election campaign that could hinge on
which candidate carries the state.
The victories were expected for the Demo
cratic vice president and the Republican gov
ernor of Texas, who outpolled several former
competitors who dropped out of the primary
race after it was too late to delete their
names from the ballot.
With unofficial returns from 3 percent of
the 9,404 precincts, Bush had 74 percent of
the vote, or 8,089 votes, to defeat three for
mer GOP competitors: John McCain with 22
percent, or 2,408 votes, Steve Forbes with 3
percent. or 293 votes, and Gary Bauer with 1
percent, or 155 votes.
Gore received 77 percent, or 16,476 votes,
in the Democratic primary, compared to 18
percent, or 3,832 votes, for former candidate
Bill Bradley and 5 percent, or 1,116 votes, for
perennial candidate Lyndon H. Laßouche Jr.
Across the state, elections officials report
ed a light turnout.
"Since much of tne bailyhoos Ir.:ve been
taken out of the ir evidential race, we're not
expecting much turnout," said Philadelphia's
Deputy City Commissioner Ed Schulgen.
"The weather isn't helping either."
Gore and Bush, who both campaigned in
the Philadelphia area yesterday. had won
more than enough delegates to win the
Democratic and Republican presidential
nominations by mid-March. But both consid
er Pennsylvania and its 23 electoral votes
crucial to their general-election prospects.
Bush, accompanied by Gov. Tom Ridge,
convened a roundtable discussion on educa
tion at Abington Senior High School in subur
ban Philadelphia and later huddled privately
with Latino leaders in north Philadelphia.
Gore met with 80 mostly older Philadelphi
ans at a city community center and
announced a plan to increase Social Security
for women and blasted Bush's proposal to
allow private retirement accounts in the
Social Security system.
"If he gets his hands on America's retire
ment system, it will quickly become a system
of social insecurity" Gore said.
He added the race will depend on his abili
ty to capture the independent votes and
mobilize Democratic voters. "I'm going to
live and die by the Independent vote," Pat
terson said.
Hahn said he hopes to attract both Demo
cratic and Republican voters. would prefer
to have a message that appeals to both
Democrats and Republicans. I'm not really
thinking of this as a partisan race," he said.
-I'm hoping that I can appeal across party
lines."
Herman said he is thankful for his biparti
san support. "I try to represent all the people
of my district regardless of their party affilia
tion. I'm very fortunate to have people from
different parties and of all different social
and economic backgrounds supporting me."
Inside
Rainy Days
Penn State's baseball team managed to
pull off both games of a doubleheader
against Cornell. Despite the rain and cold
weather, the team still tallied 25 runs in the
two games I SPORTS, Page 15
Ups and downs
The stock market went into a stomach
churning rout yesterday, with the Nasdaq
composite index and Dow Jones industrials
each dropping more than 500 points. Most
stocks, however, ended the day with only
moderate losses. I NATIONAL, Page 8
Red hot
One of the year's most anticipated tours
will hit State College tonight as Red Hot
Chili Peppers and The Foo Fighters per
form at the Bryce Jordan Center. This past
summer the Chili Peppers released its
newest album, Californication, and also
won a Grammy for the popular song, "Scar
Tissue." I ENTERTAINMENT, Page 10
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Bush, Gore take state, Page 14
Bush responded, can't think of a better
reform than allowing women to manage their
own personal savings accounts."
The most hotly contested statewide race
was for the Democratic nomination to chal
lenge Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum,
who won the GOP nomination with no oppo
sition.
Three of the six candidates U.S. Rep.
Ron Klink. former state labor secretary Tom
Foley and state Sen. Allyson Schwartz
were considered contenders
With 4 percent of the precincts reporting,
Klink had 36 percent, or 8,454 votes, Foley
had 29 percent, or 6,828 votes, and Schwartz
had 25 percent, or 5,858 votes. Among the
other candidates, all Philadelphia-area
lawyers, Robert Rovner had 5 percent, Mur
ray Levin had 3 percent and Phil Berg had 2
percent.
The only other statewide contest was for
the Democratic nomination for attorney gen
eral. Northampton County District Attorney
John Morganelli had 52 percent, or 9,582
votes, while Jim Eisenhower, a Philadelphia
lawyer and distant relative of the former
Republican president, had 48 percent, or
8,889 votes, according to returns from 4 per
cent of the precincts.
The three incumbent row officers
Republican Attorney General Mike Fisher,
Republican Treasurer Barbara Hafer and
Democratic Auditor General Robert P Casey
Jr. won their parties' nominations without
opposition.
Also nominated without opposition were
Catherine Baker Knoll, a Democrat who is
challenging Hafer, and state Rep. Katie True,
a Republican who is challenging Casey for
auditor general.
All of the state's 21 U.S. House seats are up
for election this year. Closely watched was
the five-way Republican contest for the 19th
Congressional District seat long held by Rep.
William F. Goodling, who is retiring, and an
eight-way Democratic race in the 4th District
seat being vacated by Klink.
The parties also were selecting nominees
for a dozen open seats in the state House of
Representatives, where Democrats hope to
regain control after a five-year hiatus.
Herman added he is looking forward to the
contest Hahn will present in the fall, but feels
confident in his constituent support.
Herman and Hahn both said they support
increased state support for public education.
Herman added he advocates increased state
funding for Penn State and for Pennsylvania
Higher Education Assistance Agency
Hahn said he will focus on local develop
ment issues in his campaign as well.
"A lot of outside development money will
be coming into the area, and we need to be
selective as to how it develops," Hahn said.
Benninghoff is taking his Democratic chal
lenger for the 171st district seat seriously.
Yesterday, the incumbent campaigned
steadily, visiting 12 voting precincts to drum
up support and attract voters to the polls.
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