THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Calendar debate persists By Erica Zarra COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I emzll2@psu.edu Two uni"•ersity committees met yes terday to :'Rcuss the calendar, with still no consensus being reached among the faculty, staff and students involved. "They could not decide what the best change would be," said Faculty Senate Chair John Nichols. "Therefore, no,formal proposal was madeed., nothing got resolved," Nichols add The Undergraduate Education Com mittee and the University Planning Committee held meetings to discuss the Joint Committee to Review the Uni versity Calendar's recommendation, which consolidates fall break and Thanksgiving into one week The Undergraduate Student Gov ernment Academic Assembly's resolu tion, which supports keeping fall break in its current place, was also consid ered D. Josh Troxell, assembly senator for the Division of Undergraduate Studies and a member of the calendar commit tee, attended the Undergraduate Edu cation Committee meeting. 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Troxell added that despite the assumption that the majority of faculty members were opposed to the current calendar, some professors spoke up at the meeting not only in favor of the cur rent caler, der, but also encouraged committee members to listen to stu dent opinion. Troxell said that this decision was an accomplishment for assembly, since the group was also against combining fall break and Thanksgiving. "So many people feel that students "So many people feel that students aren't listened to .. But assembly put a lot of effort into the resolution and this just proves that we do have influence." aren't listened to," said Academic Assembly President Paul Ricciardi. "But assembly put a lot of effort into the resolution and this just proves that we do have influence." Although the calendar issue was not presented to the Faculty Senate during yesterday's meeting, University Presi dent Graham Spanier said that he hopes a decision is reached sometime soon. "I don't know what the right thing is," he said during his address to the Facul ty Senate. The two committees will meet again on the morning of Jan. 28, before the Faculty Senate meeting. Once they reach a final recommen dation, it will be presented to the Facul ty Senate. Spanier will then make the final decision. LOCAL Paul Ricciardi academic assembly president Deer spur car crashes By Erica Zarra COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I emzll2@psu.edu Last month, Michele Genzano (sophomore-education) was riding down the Pennsylvania Turnpike in her Toyota Paseo, with her boyfriend, who was driving her and two friends on their way to a canning trip for Interfra ternity Council/ Panhellenic Dance Marathon. Her small car was in the right lane when the car in front swerved out of her lane. Standing in front of the car was a deer frozen in headlights. Immediately, her vehicle hit the der and the animal landed on the hood, blowing out the windshield, she said. The car pulled over and the passen gers got out, unharmed. When the Pennsylvania State Police arrived, they said that the passengers were very lucky because two fatal deer-vehicular accidents had already occurred that past week Genzano's vehicle was towed and she said that it cost her $3OO to replace the windshield. However, she still has not been able to fix the hood of the car because she said it is too expensive. This particular season, deer are WEDNESDAY, Dec. 5, 2001 I 7 increasingly finding their way out onto the road, resulting in a higher number of vehicular accidents. According to the Erie Insurance Web site, the peak periods when deer are most likely to run into roadways is October, November and December, which is their mating season. Gary San Julian, professor of wildlife resources, said that roughly 45,0,00 deer are probably hit each year. He explained that reasons why this hap pens is the fact that it is rut season, the time of year when bucks and doe mate, thereby moving around and not cog nizant of crossing the street. To avoid hitting a deer, San Julian advised to be careful, watch your speed, especially at twilight, in the dark, and the morning and drive with high beams. "You also have to watch out for areas where deer have been seen before," San Julian said. The Erie Insurance Web site advises that if a car does hit a deer, for the pas sengers to report the accident to the local authorities as soon as possible and to contact their insurance compa ny. They advised not move the dead animal, because if it is not actually dead, it could retaliate.
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