TUESDAY April 10, 2001 Vol. 101 No. 158 24 pages Who the riots hurt. Part II: The businesses Dave Cini, owner of Acme Pizza, said a borough ordinance has convinced him to move. Acme out of State College. "We're not going to sell pizza where we're not wanted," he said When tenants, customers From balconiest o vendor windows, The second of five parts By Colleen Sullivan COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I cxs7l4@psu.edu Soon there will be no more late night Acme Pizza runs. Acme Pizza, 200 E. Beaver Ave., will be moving out of town in May. The move is the result of an ordinance recent ly passed by the State College Borough Council, Acme Pizza owner Dave Cini said. The council passed an ordinance in the name of riot prevention that would pre vent downtown businesses with vendor windows, such as Acme Pizza, from stay ing open after midnight. According to the ordinance, the pizza place could stay open, but could not use the window serv ice it now operates on, Cini said. The council's search for riot prevention measures escalated after the third riot in four years broke out on East Beaver Avenue March 25. The same stretch of East Beaver Avenue, commonly known as "Beaver Canyon," was also home to riots during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in 1998 and 2000. Busi nesses, such as Acme Pizza, are now suf fering the consequences of the late night disturbances. Inside Legendary slugger Stargell dies On the day his former baseball team opened its new ballpark and only two days after a statue in his honor was unveiled there, Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Famer Willie Stargell died of an acute stroke. He was 61. I SPORTS, Page 11 Floods hammer Minn., Dakotas Crews worked yesterday to raise levees against rising streams in the eastern Dako tas and Minnesota, 's 'tare flooding already had blocked highways and washed out rural roads. The main focus of the flood preparations was the Red River, which flows north along the Minnesota-North Dakota state line and caused devastating floods in 1997. I NAIIONAL, Page 6 American Airlines buys 11NA American Airlines' parent company bought bankrupt Trans World Airlines yes terday, completing a deal that will offer travel to more than 300 cities worldwide on more than 900 planes. During a transition American and Trans World Airlines will operate independently, with separate reser vation systems, payrolls, aircraft and poli cies. I NATIONAL, Page 6 THE 01\ J E Cirri said the council's ordinance direct ly targeted Acme Pizza and makes him feel that his business is not welcome in State College. "We're not going to sell pizza where we're not wanted," he said. Despite rumors that Acme Pizza would move to another location in State College, Cirri said the eatery will be moving out of state, possibly to West Vagina or Florida. Cirri contacted Mayor Bill Welch to say Acme Pizza would move to another loca tion in State College contingent upon the fact that they could still operate on a win dow-serving basis after midnight, but the mayor said there could be no window service. "There's nothing illegal about selling out a window," Cini said, adding the win dow is essential for Acme Pizza because it is the most efficient way for him to run his business. Cini said his business has been in State College for about seven years and doesn't understand why the council won't let him run Acme Pizza the way he wants. "I'm just a little pizza maker. I don't tell them how to run their borough council meetings," he said. "Borough council doesn't know anything about running a pizza place." The ordinance passed by the council TABLE OF CONTENTS Police Log Weather . Calendar National Opinions . . Politics' . . International CONTACT US Newsroom: (814) 865-1828 Ads/Buslness: (814) 865-2531 ON THE WEB www.collegian.psu.edu =II .2 Sports .2 Scoreboard . 3 Classifieds .. . . 16, . 6 Horoscope . 8 TV Listings .9 Crossword 10 Comics the riots was one of 44 possible riot prevention measures compiled by a special commit tee within the council. Acme Pizza will stay in the downtown area until after May graduation when it plans to "move to another college town that will accept" Acme's way of doing business, Cini said. The council sticks by its ordinance. Council member Elizabeth Goreham said Acme Pizza didn't cause the riots but def initely played a minor role. She said the line of customers at Acme Pizza creates a group of people on the sidewalk that can end up in shouting matches and verbal confrontations with those on balconies something Gore ham sees as contributing to riots. Goreham said she would have liked Acme Pizza to stay so she could see if the ordinance really helped with riot preven tion at all. But she said Acme Pizza had been planning to move even before the ordi nance was passed. Acme Pizza is only one of the down town businesses affected by the recurring riots. Teresa Sparacino, executive director of the Downtown State College Partnership, said her organization is concerned the See RIOTS, Page 4. Eastview Terrace residents face 11 percent rent hike By Rebecca Harkness COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I heybeck@psu.edu For many graduate students, money is often tight. Now money will be even tighter for those living in Eastview Terrace with an 11 percent increase in rent recently announced. The price hike will help fund a massive project by the university to expand housing for both graduates and undergraduates, set to be completed within the next several years. Eastview Terrace, graduate housing located on campus along College Avenue, will eventually be torn down and replaced with undergraduate housing. Gauri Guha (graduate-mineral econom ics), vice president of the Graduate Student Association, said he is upset by the increase of about $6O in monthly rent. He said gradu ate students also have to pay for family health insurance required but not subsi dized by the university and many stu dents have families to support. Internation al students' spouses generally cannot work in the U.S., Guha said, so the families live off a single income of about $lO,OOO a year. PENN STATE enter have cha Adam Shelkovttz's Cedarbrook balcony was sealed off in November after the July 2000 riot. Beaver Avenue apartments are now voluntarily adding balcony restrictions to leases. Guha said he and his wife and child have been particularly hit hard. "We have to rely on savings or put things on credit cards or borrow from friends in the U. 5.," he said. Some graduates even have to go on pub lic assistance simply to pay for food, Guha added. Guha has received several e-mails from graduates who planned to live in East view Terrace next semester but can no longer afford it. "One person has written, 'I feel I'm trapped now. And it's too late to look for other housing,' " Guha said. Tom Gibson, assistant vice president for auxiliary and business services, said the housing project will cost more than $4O mil lion. It will include renovations and upgrades such as sprinkler systems. "I don't want to drive these people out of school. I'm sensitive to that," Gibson said. "But we have to move ahead." Gibson has met with students and hopes to continue to do so, but said he cannot comment now on whether there will be any changes to the rent increase. See RENT NIKE, Page 4. the fray nged business WEATHER Page 2 TODAY: Cloudy, high 61 0 cents off campus 02001 Collegian Inc Deep cuts slated for federal programs Democrats said they doubted the proposals would win support. By Tom Raum ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON, D.C. President Bush targeted scores of federal programs yesterday to make room for his $1.6 tril lion tax cut, proposing to slash funds for urban police patrols, energy conservation and pediatrician training. "Washington is known for its pork. This budget funds our needs without the fat," Bush told reporters as his administration sent Congress a 2,500-page document fill ing in the fine-print of the $1.96 trillion rudimentary budget he outlined in Febru ary• Democrats balked, saying Bush's pro posals would cut bone as well as fat, and noted that the Senate already had repudi ated part of Bush's tax plan by trimming it back to $1.2 trillion. Rep. John Spratt of South Carolina, the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, cited "bewildering, curious cuts in this budget" and said he doubted Bush could win even GOP support for some of the cuts. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., said the Senate last week "reject ed the framework on which today's plan is based ... This may be the first budget in history that wasn't just dead on arrival it was dead before arrival." Bush's budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 would hold growth in discre tionary spending to a 4 percent increase, far below this year's 8.7 percent increase. Mandatory "entitlement" programs such as Social Security, Medicare and veterans benefits would not be affected. See FEDERAL PROGRAMS, Page 4 Bush says standoff may not end soon By Ron Fournier ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER WASHINGTON, D.C. President Bush cautioned yesterday that the spy plane standoff may not end soon "diplo macy takes time" and warned China that relations with the United States could suffer. As the 9-day showdown threatened to become a political problem for Bush, U.S. diplomats met for a fourth time with the crew of a crippled EP-3E surveillance plane. The 21 men and three women were doing fine, the president reported, and administration officials said negotiations for their release were progressing. Nonetheless, Beijing insisted anew yes terday that Washington apologize and take responsibility for the spy plane's col lision with a Chinese fighter jet before dawn April 1 Chinese time. The White House said neither demand was warrant ed, as frustration grew over the slow pace of talks. "Diplomacy takes time," Bush told reporters before a Cabinet meeting about his plans for the federal budget. "But there is a point the longer it goes there's a point at which our relations with China could become damaged." Bush, who has issued similar warning to Beijing before, broke new ground with the diplomacy-takes-time formulation. Advisers said it was a plea for patience aimed at conservatives who ratcheted up their anti-China rhetoric over the week end and began to question his handling of the situation. The president also hoped to prepare the public for the possibility of protracted negotiations. Polls show voters support Bush's performance on China, but senior Republicans close to him said the good will could evaporate if the standoff contin ues much longer. Bush himself set high expectations a week ago Tuesday when he told China "it See STANDOFF, Page 4.
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