THE DAILY COLLEGIAN USG sees large candidate turnout for elections By Devon Lash COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I dlash@psu.edu The official ballot for the March 30 Undergraduate Student Government (USG) election was released yesterday at noon with seven executive tickets competing president and vice president and 24 students vying for 27 USG Senate seats. Elections Special Counsel Shawn Gordon said the large turnout of candi dates may be because of recent contro versies in USG. Last year there were five executive tickets and 12 students running for Sen ate. The 24 students running for Senate are Samantha Rubinton, East Halls; Nick Klein, Eastview Terrace; Richard Rump, Alex Ibrahim, North Halls; Mar garet Emerick, Michael Tomaselli, Pol lock Halls; Kim Roth, Brock Coleman, Petition From Page 1 "The case is coming to a culmina tion and I'm here to raise public opin ion in order to save an innocent life like Terri," TFP volunteer Ted Huerena said. The controversy started after Schi avo became brain-damaged. Schiavo's husband, who has legal custody over her, ordered the removal of her feeding tube. Her parents and family, though, want her to live. "I'm not sure what the husband's motives are, but it seems selfish of him to not take the family into consid eration," said Chandler Brenneman (sophomore-business management), who filled out a petition. "The lady can't even do anything about her situ ation." Ritchie said Schiavo's husband has lawyers that are aided by the Ameri can Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and proponents of euthanasia. Mary Katherine Roper, a staff attor ney with the Pennsylvania ACLU, said the Florida chapter of the ACLU became involved when the courts determined that Schiavo did not want to be kept alive. "The intent was determined by the court, and that's what we think should be enforced," Roper . said. "So we opposed any action that the legisla ture and governor would do to over turn this." Ritchie said pro-life supporters are against starving Schiavo because it would be comparable taeuthanasia. "Here, we have a lack who can't defend Weer Huetefiesaid. "Are we coming to a point in our society where if you can't provide for NDY WORKS health and fitness center 127 Sowers St. 2384617 1.418 " 41 ' hieffa PENN MATE Nikki. Lifts artiterit' Penn Sew u avel.lad to oftorotoot Mi.to. aqua' oppooonoy. and** &lenity of RI ti F . a . our ns. ICt35 Th. Potooytototo 3el.l.ln,vonily Henry Hund, South Halls; Nicholas Stathes, Patrick Bond, Joshua Ream, Matthew Cravitz, Alfred Fluehr, Vicky Cangelosi, Corey Bartholomew, Mary Ellen Oleksiuk, Keith Crouse, Charles Buchanan, Andy Banducci, Mikhail Hut ton, Richard Pastena, lbwn; Ron Capur so, Leigh Silkunas; West Halls. There are still open seats for East Halls, Eastview Terrace and Town sena tors. The first meet-the-candidates session will be held from 4:30 until 7 p.m. tomor row in Findlay Commons. The presidential candidates and three of each of their platform goals include: Galen Foulke (junior-premedicine) and Luke Adams (junior-premedi- ■ Incorporate small amenities on campus to improve student experience ■ Make the campus a more welcom John Gavel (senior-psychology) debates with John Mahoney, of Spring Grove, after being asked to sign the petition to help the case of Terri Schiavo in Florida. "If there's a chance she can get better, then why would you starve someone. Her medical situation could improve and God could even heal her, who knows." yourself, you should be killed?" Huereria added. Sarah Robertson (senior-integra- Ritchie said the controversy con tive arts) said she was not entirely cerns an important moral issue. familiar with Schiavo's situation "It's the basic right of human life before she signed the petition yester- and it would be an utter disgrace for day. the country to let her die," he said. "This would perhaps open the floodgates for more starvations to occur," Ritchie added. "If there's a chance she can get bet ter, then why would' you starve some one," Robertson said. "Her medical tosisisa l STATE RIDE CREDITS! Wednesdays Mona 23. action: hY (778-8632) ing and accepting community ■ See the recommendations of the Constitutional Review Committee adopted Mahmoud Ablan (junior-political sci ence) and Kyle Aucker (junior-indus trial engineering): ■ Reduce cost of liability insurance for Greek organizations ■ Initiate mandatory diversity and sexual assault training for student lead ers ■ Work to increase state funding and lower student tuition Nicholas Palazzo (sophomore-busi ness) and Nicholas Guiliano (fresh man-finance) ■ Update the university policy regarding privacy ■ Improve relationship between USG and Greek organizations situation could improve and God could even heal her, who knows." LOCAL Sarah Robertson senior-integrative arts ■ Increase student involvement in Alumni or Heritage Hall for student student government lunches Michael Peters (sophomore-political science and psychology) and Ross Moore (junior-mechanical and nuclear engineering): ■ Improve Late Night Penn State ■ Implement forums to foster cooper ation between student organizations and USG ■ Create a system to match students' interests with on-campus groups Robert Dinkelspiel (junior-business management) and Joseph Budd (jun ior-finance): ■ Weekly "fireside chats" in the HUB- Robeson Center and radio address ■ Incorporate Race Relations Pro jects and Straight Talks into First Year Seminar (FYS) ■ Utilize HUB space better by using Faculty Senate to focus on admissions report By Christiana Varda COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I cxvlBl@psu.edu A report focusing on enrollment man agement and admissions will be one of the informational reports presented at the University Faculty Senate meeting today. Faculty Senate Chair Kim Steiner said even though there is no legislation being passed at today's meeting, some of the reports are rather significant, given the rising cost of tuition. "[The report] shows that we're having some trouble meeting our targets [for admission retention] in all locations, and it's a great concern for the university" she said. John Romano, vice provost and dean for enrollment management, said it is important to understand that Penn State is affected by outside factors. "There are real threats in the external context, having to do with demographics, competition and the relatively high cost of tuition at Penn State," he said. "All those factors play on or affect the admissions outcome each year" Romano said the report aims to pro mote awareness of these factors and encourage finding ways of mitigating them. "What I intended to do was ... to hopefully alert the entire university com munity to some of the issues at play because I think every singte one of us has an important role to play in the admis sions recruitment retention at the univer sity" he said. There will also be a report on the TUESDAY, March 15, 2005 I 3 'Scott Sherbine (junior-communication arts and sciences) and Alex Ibrahim (sophomore-political science): ■ Increase lobbying trips to Harris burg and ask administration to cut down costs ■ Reunite the legislative bodies of USG to ensure maximum benefits for students ■ Create neighborhood watches to increase campus safety Mark Taticchi (sophomore-political science and economics) Rodney Hughes (sophomore-economics): ■ Incorporate diversity and student safety into FYS ■ Put required student textbooks online ■ Make USG more student centered increasing prices of the library's serial journals, which impact the library's abili ty to purchase other materials. According to the report, costs have risen as much as 260 percent, and the library is trying to find ways of combating costs by eliminating some journal titles and resorting to electronic journals. Peter Potter, editor-in-chief and associ ate director of University Press, is part of Penn State's Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing, a new venture between the University Libraries and University Press that will experiment with forms of digital publication. "We are going to explore different options that electronic publishing makes possible," he said, adding that in the long run, it might reduce library costs. "We will be publishing in a more cost-efficient manner than some of the publishers use now" Another report will focus on the progress of outreach in the past year. Outreach is comprised of four units: continuing education and distance learn ing, cooperative extension, public broad casting, and Office of Economic and Workforce Development. Vice President of Outreach Craig D. Weidemann began reviewing and restruc turing outreach where necessary to improve it for faculty members and the community "We are really focusing on outreach programs to meet the needs of people who utilize them," said Amy Neil, out. reach communications and news manag er.
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