THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
Thistees meeting to discuss cancer unit, stadium
The board will discuss a report on the new baseball stadium
and hear about a new major at the College of Medicine.
By Jenna Spinelle
and Alex Muller
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS
jcssooo@psu.edu, adm2l9@psu.edu
Plans for the new baseball stadium
and the construction of the Hershey
Medical Center's new Pediatric Cancer
Pavilion will be discussed by university
officials at today's Board of Trustees
meeting in Hershey.
Penn State spokesman lysen Kendig
said the board will discuss the creation
of a new baseball stadium at University
Park that will house both the universi
ty's baseball team as well as a minor
league team purchased by the Altoona
Curve.
Archivist: Women's rights better
compared to historical limitations
By Kristin Colella
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I kac39s@psu.edu
Early in Penn State's history, majors
available to women were restricted to
education, art and home economics.
Women couldn't live off campus.
They couldn't even visit a man's
apartment unless they had written per
mission from their parents.
Just 35 short years ago, women at
Penn State were first awarded the same
educational rights as men.
But although the changes were rela
tively recent, many students today have
little knowledge of women's history at
Penn State, University Archivist Jackie
Esposito said.
"We need to focus more on the pio
neers and who they are," Esposito said.
"There are not enough female role mod
els."
Only five women were admitted to
Penn State in 1871, when a male popula
tion of 70 dominated the university.
Esposito said women endured many
social and academic restrictions over
the past century due to strict ideas
about gender roles.
"It's interesting because for the first
30 years, women could take whatever
[classes] they wanted," she said.
"But around 1906, women's curricu
lum changed," Esposito said.
"Restrictions were put on courses,"
she added.
Esposito said some of the first women
to graduate majored in civil engineer
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Penn State will use the field from
March to May and will lease it to the
Altoona Curve, a minor league affiliate
of the Pittsburgh Pirates, for park use
from June to August.
Chuck Greenberg, Altoona Curve
president and managing partner, said
the cost of the new stadium is still
unknown.
"The cost estimate is not complete
because the design team is still finish
ing the plans," he said.
"The projected date for the finished
plans is sometime over the next
month," he added.
Greenberg said revenue and profit
sharing aspects of the new ballpark
have not been finalized either.
"It's interesting because for the first 30 years, women
could take whatever [classes] they wanted, but around
1906, women's curriculum changed."
However, at the turn of the century,
new restrictions were put on women's
major selections.
Housing arrangements were also
restrictive for women in the early years,
she added.
"Before the 19705, women had to live
on campus for all four years, but men
could live off campus," Esposito said. "It
changed in 1971, partially due to student
unrest."
Until 1971, a woman who wished to
visit a man's off-campus apartment was
required to submit written permission
from her parents if she was under the
age of 21.
Esposito also debunked the rumor
that sororities could not own houses
due to a Pennsylvania law claiming it to
be a brothel.
She said in the 19305, when many
sorority chapters were founded, women
chose to live in dorm floors rather than
houses due to financial concerns, and
the system has generally stayed the
same since then.
The women's liberation movement in
the 1970 s brought about much change in
higher education, due largely to Title IX
of the Education Amendments of 1972,
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"We've been working on an operating
agreement that is very fair to the uni
versity and the franchise," he said.
Kendig said funding for the project
will come from a variety of sources, but
it is too early to define an exact financ
ing plan.
Drawings for the new ballpark were
presented to the College Township
Planning Commission earlier this week.
Gary Schultz, Penn State senior vice
president for finance and business, said
construction will begin in May for a
June 2006 opening of the ballpark
The ballpark will be built facing east
ward, across Porter Road from Beaver
Stadium as well as the Bryce Jordan
Center.
He added that it will have a capacity
of 6,000 people.
Kendig said an "extensive report" on
the Hershey Medical Center's new
which prohibits sexual bias in educa
tional institutions that receive federal
funding.
Esposito said Title IX lifted the social
and academic restrictions imposed on
Penn State women.
However, even today the scales
between men and women are not com
pletely balanced, Esposito said.
"Today, less than 35 percent of faculty
are women," she said.
She added that women make up
fewer than half of the students at Uni
versity Park
More can be done, Esposito said.
"Penn State can work to make more
programs about their women's history,"
she said.
In honor of March's celebration of
women's history Esposito conducted a
slide show presentation in South Halls
Cultural Lounge Tuesday night depict
ing the evolution of women at the uni
versity.
However, she said students who
missed out can visit the university
archives in 104 Paterno Library at any
time to view old photographs, newspa
per clips and other historical records
kept there.
Jackie Esposito
university archivist
Patrick Sopko/Collegian
Jackie Esposito, university archivist, shows a picture of the first female students to
live in the women's cottage on campus.
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Pediatric Cancer Pavilion will be pre
sented at the meeting.
Last April, the 2004 Interfraternity
Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon
overall committee pledged to donate $lO
million over the next six years to the
creation of a Pediatric Cancer Pavilion
at the medical center.
Sean Young, Hershey Medical Center
strategic services director, said Dr.
Craig Hillemeier and Dr. David Ungar
of the Penn State Children's Hospital in
Hershey will be making presentations
about the relationship between the Four
Diamonds Rind and Thon.
"[The Pediatric Cancer Pavilion] is a
huge plus for the kids and their families
because we can finally put things under
one roof," he said.
'Tor example, [in the past] the fami
lies would have to go to one building for
tests and another building to meet with
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doctors, while now, it will all be in the
same place," Young said.
There will also be an informational
report on the Hershey Medical Center
discussing a new major, public health, to
potentially be offered through the Col
lege of Medicine.
The report will include information
about improvements for the medical
center's fitness facility and the Penn
State Cancer Institute, Kendig said.
Young said the medical center is fac
ing spatial problems due to recent
growth.
"We've seen significant growth in
recent mission and larger class sizes,
and all these things include challenges
regarding physical space," he said.
"Many of our challenges have to do
with the fact that we continue to have
the lowest state funded public medical
school in the country," Young added.