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Oct. 8, 2002
Vol. 103 No. 59 16 pages
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Interstate 99 spans East Park Avenue near the Route 322 interchange. Roads have been narrowed at points along Route 322.
Rt. 322 road work to delay drivers
Motorists should expect to be stopped for at least
By Nichole Dobo
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | nmd'SCW'psu echi
Motorists traveling State Route 322
should expect major delays as eon
struction of US Route 26 and I 99 eon
tinues.
According to the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation (Pen
nDOT), many roadways leading to the
State College area are now under
heavy construction. Motorists will fat e
single-lane traffic and should expert to
Two armed men take $3,000
from West College Uni-Mart
By Adam Fabian
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRCF
amf2iT’.psu ecki
Two men robbed Uni-Marl. 1301
W. College Ave.. at gunpoint Sun
day night. Ferguson Township
Police said.
The men entered the conven
ience store at about 10:40 pin.,
displayed a handgun and fled with
about $3,000. Ferguson Tow nship
Police Department Det. Brian
Sprinkle said. The men r emain at
large, Sprinkle said.
The whit*' men were wearing
masks over ri'i'ir faces and fled
the scene cn toot to a nearby,
dark-colored pick-up truck Sprin
kle said.
Police received a lot of informa
tion regarding the description of
students share their stories, experiences of life
Israeli
By Natasha Cahill
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | n»clo4*i*u ec)i
Twenty-five-year-old Sharon Tzvielli
illustrated the difference between the
lives of American and Israeli students
through a simple comparison of the stu
dents’ day.
“You get on the bus. and let's say
there’s a test you didn't study for." she
said. “You wouldn't be able to have your
head in your book. You wouldn't be able
to look out the window at the scenery.
You’re always looking at who's coming
on and getting off the bus. You're always
looking to see if there is a bag anvone
left.”
Tzvielli visited Penn State Sunday
and yesterday with two other Israeli stu
dents on behalf of a program called
Israel (it Heart. The program, brought to
the university w'ith the help of Penn
State Hillel an organization that
works to promote religious, traditional
and cultural awareness in Judaism or:
college campuses sends small
groups of Israeli students to different
campuses to share their personal sto
ries. It is part of an effort to help dispel
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be stopped for no less than 15 minutes
in certain areas of the roadway during
blasting operations, including Port
Matilda to Skytop and from Skytop to
Scotia Road.
Additionally, traffic patterns along
much of State Route 322 have been
changed and roads have been nar
rowed to allow roadwork to continue.
Motorists are advised to remain alert,
use extreme caution and follow traffic
signs, according to PennDOT.
Most construction will take place
Lhe suspects, and they are investi
gating the crime.
"We're following some leads,"
Sprinkle said.
He added that he does not
believe this robbery is related to a
similar incident that occurred last
week when two men entered a
Patton Township convenience
store, stole SI2O and led police on
a high speed chase that caused an
accident.
One suspect in that case,
Steven A. Shawley. remains in
prison. Sprinkle said.
However, the other suspect in
the particular store robbery still
remains at large.
Police are asking anyone with
information regarding the case
contact the Ferguson Township
Police Department at 234-1172.
negative connotations about the country
and its people. Through sending these
groups, the project is able to bring
together individuals who would other
wise be separated by thousands of
miles.
The students are halfway through
their two-week program, with Penn
State as the 11th school on their list of
destinations. They are preparing to visit
at least that many more in the upcom
ing week.
Through telling personal stories and
sharing experiences, each of the stu
dents expressed a desire to dispel the
perception that all Israeli citizens are
politically and militarily aggressive.
Yishai Goldflam, 26. was at a concert
one night when he received notice he
was called to military duty. He then
spent a month fighting in the West
Bank. When he returned, the criticism
he encountered for Israel’s excessive
use of force frustrated him.
“I hate using a gun,” he said. “I hate
being a soldier. It’s the last thing I want
ed to do. Most of the Israeli soldiers are
exactly like myself; they’re just regular
people. I'm not happy when anybody
Japanese collection arrives
Massachusetts businessman Carl A.
Weyerhaeuser amassed more than 300
ceramic pieces from leading Japanese
potters during the early ’7os, and 118
pieces of his collection will be exhibited
at the Palmer Museum of Art Museum.
It will run from tomorrow through Dec.
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15 minutes near Skytop.
between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. A majority
of the construction will take place in the
Skytop and Port Matilda areas and
other outlying sections of the roadway.
The $195 million project involves con
struction of a new eight-mile, four-lane
highway that is planned to alleviate
traffic congestion in the area. Continu
ing growth of the State College area
created safety and traffic problems
along the existing roadway. Construc
tion began in early 1999.
See CONSTRUCTION, Page 2.
Assembly debates seminars
Senators discussed some ways to improve the required first-year courses.
By James S. Young
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | jsyllB@psu.edu
Members of Undergraduate Student
Government (USG> Academic Assem
bly suggested ideas to improve first
year seminars at their meeting last
night.
Freshman seminar revisions will be
a major topic at University Faculty Sen
ate’s March meeting, where the assem
bly will report its ideas, said Academic
Assembly President D. Josh Troxell.
‘I know this is a very hot topic, which
is why we’re starting extremely early,”
Troxell said.
Dawn Rupp, senator for the Eberly
College of Science, said the seminars
should have an introduction to all
majors within the college, not just focus
on one topic throughout the semester.
Mark Levin, senator for the College
dies. I wish to God we could stop this.”
Tali Lesser, 23, identified a major
turning point in her life as the death of a
classmate’s parents and grandparents
in a bombing last April.
“Until that point I saw [the violence]
on TV and I read it in the newspaper,
but I could turn the TV off,” she said,
adding that knowing victims made it
more of a reality. “Yesterday my friend
had a family and today she doesn’t.”
Each student emphasized that Israel
is a diverse country, both geographically
and demographically.
“We’re all very different people,”
Goldflam said of the group. “We repre
sent a microcosm of Israeli society.”
All three students also expressed
their desires for peace in the region.
“We’re very optimistic that the world
will change and there will be peace,”
Goldflam said. “Israel and Jerusalem
are very important to us, but life is even
more important.”
Lesser summarized the group’s main
hope in traveling to the different cam
puses.
“The message is that we’re all just
regular people,” she said.
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Bush:
may attack U.S.
The president said Hussein and his 'holy warriors’
could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.
By Ron Fournier
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
CINCINNATI President Bush,
seeking support for war against Iraq,
called Saddam Hussein a “murderous
tyrant” last night and said he may be
plotting to attack the United States
with biological and chemical weapons.
Saddam and his “nuclear holy war
riors” are also building a nuclear
weapons program and could have a
nuclear weapon in less than a year,
Bush said in a prime-time address.
“If we allow that to happen, a terri
ble line would be crossed,” the presi
dent told civic group leaders at the
Cincinnati Museum Center. “Saddam
Hussein would be in a position to
blackmail anyone who opposes his
aggression.”
“I am not willing to stake one Amer
ican life on trusting Saddam Hussein,”
Bush said.
His address opened a week of
debate in Congress over resolutions
giving the president authority to wage
war against Iraq. The House and Sen
ate planned votes for Thursday, and
the Bush-backed resolution was
expected to pass by wide margins.
Still, doubts remained at home and
abroad about Bush’s plans.
Even as he spoke, new polls
revealed lingering unease among vot
ers about going to war, particularly if
casualties were high or fighting dis
tracted attention from America’s sag
ging economy. Democrats criticized
Bush’s insistence upon confronting
of Earth and Mineral Sciences, agreed
that this would be helpful for students.
“It would get people thinking about
majors sooner rather than ending up in
DUS [division of undergraduate stud
ies] for years,” he said.
This raised the question of who
would teach the seminars if the profes
sor must have knowledge of all the indi
vidual majors in a particular college.
Levin suggested professors should
rotate through sections of the semi
nars, each providing their expertise in
selected areas to a class of students.
Some assembly members suggested
making the seminars uniform through
out all colleges to introduce students to
university resources.
But Kelly Rossi, rep resentative
from the College of Health and Human
Development, worried that seminar
class sizes will inflate and effectiveness
Visiting Israeli students share their experiences and thoughts during their stay at Penn
State. From left to right: Yishai Goldflam, Sharon Tzvielli, Tali Lesser.
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Saddam
President Bush addresses the nation on
Iraq at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
Bush traveled to Ohio as Congress plans
a vote on a resolution on Iraq.
Iraq alone if the United Nations failed
to act.
Bush hopes an overwhelming vote in
Congress will persuade reluctant allies
in the United Nations to adopt a tough
new resolution forcing Saddam to dis
arm by force, if necessary.
The president said U.S. intelligence
shows Iraq to be building manned and
unmanned aerial vehicles that could
be used to target the United States
with chemical or biological weapons.
will be lost if seminars are more like a
general lecture.
“It’s supposed to be an adjusting-type
class.” Rossi said. She added that she
made a good friend in her freshman
seminar because the class was small.
Lauren Applegate, senator for the
College of Communications, said there
should be a uniform time frame for all
seminars. She said her seminar met for
four hours each week for six weeks,
while other seminars met for a shorter
time every week.
“It was just painful,” she said.
The assembly will continue their
seminar discussion at future meetings.
In other business last night, the
assembly approved Dina Ross as an
associate chief justice of the USG
Supreme Court. Ross joins three other
voting associate chief justices on the
court.
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