Monday, March 21, 2005 PUBLISHED WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Flames douse Lady By Tim Ford COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | tford@psu.edu COLLEGE PARK, Md. wasn’t in the student section. The “other Lady Lions” hopped the three-and-a-half-hour complimentary bus to recreate as much of the Bryce Jordan Center atmosphere as they could last night in the Comcast Center, picking up any straggling fans from Maryland’s previous game. But they were out-screamed by the miniscule Liberty cheering section parents and the adopted Virginia Tech Board approves ballpark plans At Friday’s meeting in Hershey, the Board of Trustees approved plans for Penn State’s new baseball stadium. By Alex Muller COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | adm2l9@psu.edu HERSHEY Penn State’s Board of Trustees approved preliminary plans for a new baseball stadium to be built at University Park, adjacent to Beaver Stadium and the Bryce Jordan Center. About 1,000 parking spaces for foot ball traffic will be temporarily lost for the upcoming season to accommodate stadium construction, Penn State spokesman lysen Kendig said. Five hundred spaces will reopen when the ballpark is finished. Drawings for the new ballpark, which will be built facing east across Porter Road, were presented to the College Township Planning Commis sion earlier last week Plans include a three-level structure that will accommodate about 6,000 spectators, including 18 suites that seat 12 to 23 people each. The park is WEEKEND TALES With partner out of town, student does solo concert Editor’s note: This is the tenth in a profile series focusing on Penn State and State College communi ty members and their weekend activities. By Jason Cox COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | jtc446@psu.edu It’s about midnight on Saturday and an audience of loud and boisterous Penn Staters half-pay attention to an acoustic guitarist doing covers on stage. But instead of beers and wings in hand, the audience has milk and potato chips. Welcome to one of Penn State’s alternative music scenes Joegies. For about a year, the eatery in the HUB-Robeson Center has doubled as a venue for local performers on Friday and Saturday nights. HUB management invited Aaron Anthony (senior-secondary education) and his friend Ryan Macel (senior-electrical engineering) to play together since the beginning, and the two have made it a regular event, per forming almost every month. The dif ference tonight is that Anthony is going solo. “I kind of like to say that I play the piano, and I pretend to play the guitar,” Anthony said before the show. “I like the guitar but I’m certainly not that good.” pep-band, insulting the “other Lady Lions” with their own rendition of “Hey Baby.” >BKK Meanwhile, the real m JFfc Penn State women’s bas m mm ketball team didn’t give its Liberty trekking fans much to The party - ------ cheer about on the court, **• as it was burnt by No. 13- m II seeded Liberty, 78-70. ® cl* The No. 4-seeded Lady Penn State Lions (19-11) were one- and-done. The career of the dynamic duo Tanisha Wright and Jess Strom ended not with a bang, scheduled to open in June 2006. Kendig could not say where the tem porary parking spaces would be locat ed, but he said the number of parking spaces for the 2005 football season would stay the same. “They’ll be able to accommodate the same number of vehicles; how specifi cally, I have no idea,” Kendig said. “I don’t think it will cause a problem. You have to remember that we built the Bryce Jordan Center on a very big area of parking for football games. It just takes some patience, and we’ll do everything we can for the football fans.” Gary Schultz, senior vice president for finance and business, said the sta dium will include about 3,600 chair backed seats, 500 bleacher seats, and See STADIUM, Page 2. The board approved construction at Her shey Medical Center. | LOCAL, Page 3. Jessie Bright/Collegian Aaron Anthony (senior-secondary education) performs at Joegies. The concert was held on Saturday night. On any other night, Macel would be on the guitar with Anthony on key board, his normal weapon of choice. “I first got into the keyboard because my older brother was into it, and any thing my brother did when I was 7 years old was cool,” Anthony said. Anthony didn’t pick up the guitar until college, after digging up his father’s old instrument. He laughed at See CONCERT, Page 2. •- Women's lacrosse beats No. 1-ranked team again The Nittany Lions won a 14-13 triple-overtime thriller against top-ranked Princeton on the road Saturday. | SPORTS, Page 10. INDEPENDENTLY BY STUDENTS AT PENN STATE but with a whimper. “Extremely disap pointed, you never want to go out like this,” Wright said, carefully holding back her emotions after her last game as a Lady Lion. “The bottom line is Liberty came out and played and they wanted it more than we wanted it. They got rebounds when they needed to get rebounds, and that’s something we could control,” she added. “If you want to go get it, we just didn’t do it tonight.” Upsets aren’t as common in the women’s version of the NCAA tourna ment. Penn State’s loss is the only Megan Elvrum/Collegian Community members hold a candlelight vigil at the Allen Street gates to mark the second anniversary of the war in Iraq. Iraq vigil honors fallen By Ainsley Maloney COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | adm23s@psu.edu Pushker Kharecha said that while the U.S. government intended to liber ate the people of Iraq, the current occu pation is actually denying them basic human rights. “We’re concerned about the full pro tection that Iraqi people are entitled to things like health care, education, employment and fresh water. It’s a fact that all of these human rights have there, sometimes we have a collective A workshop taught about becoming a been violated,” he said. Ghosthunters seek Rathskeller spooks By Megan Rundle COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | mrrl94@psu.edu Sometimes when Duke Gastiger is alone in his bar, the All American Rathskeller, he feels a presence. “It’s never been a feeling of evil or goodness,” Gastiger said. “It’s just a feeling like someone or something else is there.” Last night, 14 members of the Penn State Paranormal Research Society (PRS) conducted an investigation at the Rathskeller, 108 S. Pugh St., searching for what they ealled “abnormal activi ty.” -Paranormal Research Society Presi dent Ryan Buell said he thinks the bar Lions 9 instance in this year’s first round of a top-four seed going down. The Lady Lions started off molasses slow thanks to the “legit” play of the Flames’ Yao Ming-like senior center Katie Feenstra, who checks in at a whopping 6 feet 8 inches above the hardwood. Penn State then seemed to get its act together in the first half, leading at the break, 32-27. Wright’s slashing through the lane forced Feenstra to commit two costly first-half fouls limiting her to only 15 minutes on the court in the period. Kharecha (graduate-earth sciences) still ongoing,” Maya Tessema, local co and about 20 others gathered at the coordinator of Amnesty International, Allen Street gates last night at a can- said. “There are many people who are dlelight vigil sponsored by Amnesty being abused, tortured and killed as a International to memorialize those who result of this war.” lost their lives since the beginning of While Amnesty International is not the war. opposed to the war, Kharecha said the The group stood in a circle holding See VIGIL, Page 6. candles and reflecting on the lost lives of both U.S. military members and Iraqi civilians. “Since we are here and not over tendency to forget, but the situation is conscientous objector. | LOCAL, Page 6. has a certain “negative energy,” but that does not mean there is something demonic or evil haunting the bar. “Everyone carries their own energy,” Buell said. “At a bar there’s a lot of emotion, and people leave energy behind. We’re going to find out what kind of energy is here and then go from there.” Using infrared thermometers, micro phones and audio and video recorders, PRS spent the evening searching for clues that would help them uncover if anything was lurking in the popular downtown bar. “I don’t think this has anything to do with Salvador Serrano,” Buell said, See GHOSTS, Page 2. Noe-Rooz celebrated by Persian students, alumni More than 150 people joined the Iranian Student Association in a Persian New Year festival on Saturday. | LOCAL, Page 4. Two years later hopes But that’s why they play two halves. Instead of coming out of the gate and living up to its second-half team moniker, the Lady Lions looked lame in front of the Flames (25-6). Liberty played near-perfect basket ball in the second half by shooting 50 percent from the field. The Flames dominated the boards, too, thanks to Feenstra and fellow big woman Rima Margeviciute, who combined to pull 23 rebounds down off the glass. It took a 10-point deficit for the Lady Lions to finally get themselves, and See LADY UONS, Page 2. Another vigil marking the anniversary was held Saturday. | LOCAL, Page 6. Chad Woolbert/Collegian Paranormal Research Society member Greg Schreier examines one of the rooms in The All American Rathskeller, 108 S. Pugh St. IABIE Of CONTESTS 12 15 15 Classifieds Comics... Crossword Opinion .. Sports .. lOC off campus Vol. 105 No. 145 DMSHW 865-1828 §tsfttlsSQNtsKM 365-2531 ONTHtttKt www.colleglan.psii.edti ©2005 Collegian Inc.
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