2 I THURSDAY, Oct 23, 2003 CWS UNIVERSITY PARK FORECAST FOR THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 2003 Today High 45 The CWS four-day forecast Today: Mostly cloudy with the chance of a sprinkle. High 45 Tonight: Cloudy and cool. Low 34 Tomorrow: Partly to mostly cloudy. High 47 Tomorrow Night: Overcast. Low 36 Saturday: Cloudy with a chance of rain in the afternoon. High 52 Saturday Night: Scattered showers. Low 42 Sunday: Rain showers. High 51 HEALTH REPORT Potten const Today’s pollen count Tomorrow: Predominant pollen: Razeed UV Index Today’s UV index: Minutes to skin damage: AJrqaaHty Today.... NEWS IN BRIEF Preliminary hearing for naked woman waived Andrea S. Cowder waived her right to a preliminary hearing yesterday at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte. Cowder, 27, is charged with criminal trespass for entering an apartment on the 200 block of South Burrowes Street The occupant of the apartment said he woke up Oct. 17 to see a woman with long dark hair lying naked on a couch in his apartment The man told police Cowder began screaming when he asked her to leave, but donned a gray Penn State T-shirt he gave her and left Man pleads guilty to threatening Pres. Bush PITTSBURGH CAP) A man pleaded guilty to sending an e-mail in which he threatened to kill President Bush and blow up the White House. James Ttauger, 38, of Butler County, pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of knowingly and willingly making a threat to take the life of die president Ttatuger was scheduled to be sen tenced Jan. 15 before Senior U.S. Dis trict Judge Wiliam Standish. Trauger was indicted in December after he sent threatening e-mails to the White House on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Ex-student awaits trial in attempted murder By Emily Morris COIIEGIAN STAFF WRITER | emilym@psu.edu Former Penn State student Jamar McMorris was bound over yesterday on charges of attempted murder and criminal assault at Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte. McMorris, recently extradited from New York City, entered no plea during the preliminary hearing yesterday, and awaits the case to be decided in trial next year. McMorris is accused of shooting another student in the back on Oct 4. during a party on the 1800 block of North Oak Lane in Patton Township. He remains in custody in Centre County Prison in lieu of $250,000 bail. Jury selection for his trial begins Fteb. 9. According to the police report, the victim said the fight began around 4 a.m. when his friend dropped his cell phone and accidentally bumped some one while bending down to retrieve it During an argument the victim and a Valenti From Page 1 sination took place. Valenti praised Lyndon Johnson, in whose adminis tration he would serve, for insisting on taking the presidential oath while Air Force One was flying from Texas to Washington, D.C. “I saw the Constitution actually work,” he said, describing the presi dential oath as part of a “grand contin uum” that has passed down from the nation’s founders. He went on to say that he did not believe any country could be free with out a “moral rostrum.” He voiced his disdain for corporate crooks and also for Richard Nixon whom, he said, “soiled the presidency.” “I am fascinated with what I’m say ing, but IT stop now,” Valenti joked at the conclusion of his 25-minute speech. Questions from the audience varied in topic from piracy to politics to the Tonight Low 34 ALMANAC Today Normal high 57 deg. Record high 84 deg. in 1979 Normal low 39 deg. Record low 24 deg. in 1940 Monthly climate summary (Data valid through 8 a.m. yesterday) Oct. precipitation ... Normal Oct precip.. Oct temp, departure Sun Data Sunset today Sunrise tomorrow .. Although TYauger admitted sending the e-mail messages, he didn’t consid er them threatening because he said his motive wasn’t to threaten the pres ident but to make it look as though other people had. Court documents, including a U.S. Secret Service search warrant, show 'frauger was trying to cause trouble for his former employer, Joy Manufactur ing Co., which fired him, and a Franklin police officer who had arrest ed him in the past The messages were fashioned to look as though they were sent by a Joy Manufacturing executive and the police officer, court documents show. Toddler run over by bus after falling into road WILKINSBURG (AP) A toddler was run over and killed when he apparently fell in front of a bus yester day, police said. Authorities said 3-year-old Tyone Lester fell while walking across the street with his mother after they both got off the bus in Wilkinsburg, a Pitts burgh suburb, around 4 p.m. The boy apparently tripped and fell and was run over as the bus pulled away, authorities said. Allegheny County police said there was little the driver could have done and classified the boy’s death an acci dent. Tyone died while on his way to a Pittsburgh hospital, authorities said. witness said McMorris left briefly to retrieve something near the front of the house. The victim said he saw something in McMorris’ hand out of the corner of his eye, then heard a shot fired at the ground and started running. The vic tim heard another shot fired and felt a stinging sensation in his upper arm. The victim was taken to Centre Com munity Hospital, where he was treated for injuries related to the small caliber bullet lodged in his upper left arm. A witness to the shooting told police he was acquainted with McMorris, 24, when he attended Penn State. The wit ness remembered McMorris was from the Bronx and had lived in University Commons, 201 Vairo Blvd., during the 2000-01 academic year. That tip and the victim’s description of McMorris, helped police ascertain the alleged shooter’s identity. Informa tion from a dispute between McMorris and his ex-girlfriend helped locate McMorris in the Bronx, and he was extradited to Centre County last week. war in Iraq. When asked his favorite movie, Valenti provided four A Man for AH Seasons, The Godfather I and U and Casablanca. He said he could go further down the list, but that he usual ly tries not to do so for fear of upsetting his filmmaker friends. When asked to give advice to film students aspiring towards a career in the industry, Valenti said, “If you love rejection, you’re going to love the movie business,” but added that studio heads are always looking for good scripts. Aspiring filmmakers should think seriously about writing, he said After the half-hour of questions was over, Valenti was presented with a plaque and a Penn State mug. “Of all the awards I’ve been given, this is the most recent,” Valenti joked He remained in the hall afterwards where he spoke with several students from the College of Communications and Undergraduate Student Govern ment who had attended the event Tomorrow High 47 Low 36 Previous day summary Wednesday High: 69 Low: 46 Rain: 0.00” Temperature departure: 7.75 deg. Record precipitation: 2.39” (1929) 1.52 Inches 2.90 inches . -1.98 deg. .6:20 p.m. 7:32 a.m. LOCAL Regional forecast More of the same weather we’ve seen for the past two days can be expected today while a short disturbance makes its way over the area. The beginning of the weekend will bring your typical fall weather with cloudy skies and cool temperatures, but be on the look out on Saturday as rain could move into the area late in the afternoon. The sys tem that will bring us rain Saturday night adn on into Sunday could possibly deliver miserble weath er until mid week. PENNSYLVANIA Monday This section shows the temperature and precipi tation extremes for the previous day in the cen tral Pennsylvania as of 8 a.m. yesterday. Maximum high temperature: 75° F at New Holland and Millersville Minimum low temperature: 36° F at Kane Lock Haven Maximum rain: 0.19” at Mahanoy City Patemo From Page 1. said there were 403 DUIs in State College and on campus through Sept 30 of this year, 30 more than the total of last year. “I think the alcohol problem in State College is a huge story that has not been covered in depth and it’s not iso lated to a couple of student athletes,” Mahon said, but would not directly address Patemo’s remarks. “I think we have a first-rate police department As a father of three young kids, anytime somebody is weaving off the road and is stopped, I’m grateful for that. This is not related to student athletes, it’s a profile of what’s going on this State College area,” Mahon added. State College Police Lieutenant Tom Hart said he did not interpret Pater no’s comments as necessarily blaming the police for directly targeting football players. “I really don’t believe that Coach Patemo believes that the police are targeting his players,” Hart said. “I believe there’s a lot of frustration with that’s going on with the record of the team, and people are looking for anything to discredit the coach, and I think that’s unfortunate.” Hart said Patemo might have been referring to an earlier comment, when he said Johnson’s case would be blown out of proportion because he is a foot ball player. Linda LaSalle, Penn State communi ty health educator, also would not com ment on what Patemo said, but explained how serious driving under the influence is. “A DUI, regardless of whether some one is hurt, is pretty serious because of the potential of someone being harmed,” LaSalle said. “No one should be driving under the influence; he could hurt someone else or themselves.” Quarterback Michael Robinson was unsure if Patemo’s comments were completely accurate. “I really can’t say whether I think Matchbox From Page 1. ond tune, “Real World,” brought us all back to the simpler times of the mid ’9os. The crowd reacted positively to the band’s poppy guitars and Thomas’s emotional lyrics, which were turned up heavily in the mix. “I think they have realty good lyrics,” Ali Van Norden (freshman-communi cations) said. “Their music affects a lot of people.” The group had more of a rock star look than one would have originally expected, especially in the form of bassist Brian Yale, clad in leather pants, and a surprisingly upbeat Thomas, who urged the crowd to for get about work and school and let the Matchbox do the burning. Consent From Page 1. only in sexual assaults but the brutal ity of those assaults since the spring. “It’s a very intense time to be a women in this town,” he said. The forum involved a panel discus sion among Del Ponte, William Huston, associate director of the Office of Judi cial Affairs and Shirley Bishop, volun teer coordinator at the Centre County Women’s Resource Center. After they spoke, participants answered ques tions from the audience. Del Ponte defined consent as both parties being fully conscious and posi tively and dearly indicating their intent She said consent may stop in the middle of an act and the other party should respect the decision and stop as well. Consent isn’t a maybe, “yesh,” the drunken yes, or giggling and laughing, Del Ponte said. Moon phases Oct. 25: New moon Nov. 1: First quarter Nov. 9: Full moon Nov. 17: Last quarter EXTREMES that statement is true,” Robinson said. “Personally, I haven’t had any run ins with the police. Since all those things have happened, I’ve been stay ing in the house.” Shortly after his original remark at Tuesday’s press conference, Patemo changed his stance when asked direct ly whether he thought players were targeted. “I have no way of knowing [football players are targeted],” Patemo said. “There was a big article earlier in the week about the university was con cerned about the amount of DUI inci dents that were going on. There is a concern in our society about the busi ness of that. I think there should be. Whether they target football players or not? I can’t answer that” Johnson was stopped by a Penn State Police Services officer at 3:03 am. Friday on Park Avenue and subse quently charged with DUI. His blood alcohol concentration was 0.136 percent. The state’s legal limit is 0.08 percent, recently lowered from 0.10 percent. “I am unhappy with Tony’s situation because of the feet that I think he should not have been up that late and the whole bit,” Patemo said at the Tuesday press conference. “Obviously, it will all get blown out of proportion because he is a football player, but he didn’t do anything to any body.” Joe Clifford, the state chairman for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said he had read Patemo’s comments in several newspapers. While he said the coach has a good track record of dealing with offenses like these, he countered that it doesn’t matter that no one was injured. “The fact that no one was hurt, it’s a comment that you usually hear as an excuse when some gets arrested for DUI,” Clifford said. “You have to look well beyond the fact that no one was injured. He was putting other people and their families at risk.” Collegian staff writers Brent Burkey and Janes S. Young contributed to this report. “You guys don’t have to do anything. From now on, we’re gonna drive,” he said. “We’ll just be the house band this evening.” The set also featured the modern hard rocker, “Disease,” piano-driven numbers like “Could I Be You” and “Bright Lights,” and a semi-touching duet “If You’re Gone.” It was a shame the VHl’ers were too shy to bust out the lighters during that one. The group’s only major failure was a clunky attempt at U2’s “Where The Streets Have No Name,” a perform ance that turned the song from an epic masterpiece into an unpleasant mess. But as Matchbox Twenty followed it up with another one of its own current VHI favorites, it was clear that most of the show turned out better than “a lit tle unwell” You’re more than you think you are yourself, Thomas. “Perhaps someone is scared or in a situation that makes them nervous nodding isn’t consent,” Del Ponte said. Huston further explained miscon ceptions about consent. “Just because you did it yesterday doesn’t mean it’s OK today,” he said. Huston said if a person receives per mission for one sexual act it doesn’t extend to another act that wasn’t con sented to. He also said Penn State has the abil ity to hold its students to a stricter standard than the law. “This university has the right to ren der their own definition and create their own standards,” he said. Judicial Affairs has set a definition that includes receiving expressed con sent, which is given freely without fear of consequence. Bishop said there is a difference between regretted sex and nonconsen sual sex. “It’s a myth that women will regret it and just yell rape,” Bishop said. REGIONAL FORECAST MAP ADDITIONAL WEATHER How to interpret this map: Shades of gray indicate the expected high temperatures for today. Today’s forecasted high and tomorrow morning’s low are also shown for selected cities. Legend: SU (Sunny), MS (Mostly sunny), PS (Partly sunny), MC (Mostly cloudy), CY (Cloudy), RN (Rain), RS (Rain/snow), SH (Showers), SN (Snow), SF (Snow flurries), MX (Mix), TS (Thunderstorms), WY (Windy), FZ (Freezing rain/sleet). THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Visit the Campus Weather Service at http://cws.met.psu.edu Comments concerning the content of this page may be sent via e-mail to yumlo2@psu.edu. Forecaster Eric Hudish Town forum highlights problems with parking ■ The creation of a commuter lot on West Campus may help alleviate congestion downtown by minimizing through traffic. By Brian Malasics COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | btml4B@psu.edu The downtown parking dilemma was the focus of a three-hour forum held by the Downtown Improvement District last night. Of the 30 or so people in atten dance, most were local business owners who voiced suggestions for improving the parking situation in the State College Borough. Four major problems that affect downtown business specifically were identified by two groups of atten dants. These were: traffic congestion that keeps shoppers out of down town, the conflict between vehicles and pedestrians, a lack of retail park ing spaces, and bad communication between Penn State and State Col lege Borough CounciL Teresa Sparacino, director of the improvement district, said these have been long-standing problems with which most people that park downtown are familiar. “If we know this and we’ve been talking about it for years, it’s time for us to really start getting something done,” she said. Teresa Davis, director of trans portation services for Penn State, said one way the university should be able to alleviate the congestion downtown is with the creation of a commuter parking lot on the West Campus, which is part of the univer sity’s master plan. She said this lot would allow com muters from areas west of the bor ough such as Pine Grove Mills to avoid driving through downtown to get to existing commuter lots. She also said communication between university and council plan ners has improved in the past two years, and she hopes that trend will continue. “We have a great relationship with the borough,” Davis said. Mark Whitfield, public works direc tor, addressed vehicle and pedestrian conflicts. He said the borough is considering shortening the duration between red lights, which would allow more fre quent and easier opportunities for pedestrians to cross the street legal ly He added that marking crosswalks more prominently would also help. Whitfield said the lack of parking spaces downtown is a definite prob lem for people venturing downtown. A new parking structure is provid ed for in council’s capital improve ment program that should help, but it has not been decided where that will be constructed, he added. Many business owners said there should be new parking garages built strictly for students to keep them from parking on the street when they go to class. This would allow more spaces for shoppers. Many other suggestions came out of the forum, such as allowing park ing from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. in areas around bars and less aggressive enforcement of no-parking areas. Sparacino said all ideas will be considered and then synthesized into an overall plan by the improvement district That plan will then be recommend ed to council and voted on.
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