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.”
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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.
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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.
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