Wednesday, March 23, 2005 PUBLISHED INDEPENDENTLY BY STUDENTS AT PENN STATE Three Lady Lions may leave team Paper reports that guards were asked to leave following loss to Liberty on Sunday ing to the team, according to Pearl Har ris, who was informed of the situation by her daughter Jen Harris. Sophomore guard Jen Harris was Portland could not be reached for informed Sunday that she and two other comment last night, players would not be part of the 2005-06 The three guards met with Portland Penn State women’s basketball team. individually in the team’s hotel and Coach Rene Portland told her team were then told they would be riismisKprf following its loss to Liberty in the first Pearl Harris said. By Tim Ford COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | tford@psu.edu round of the NCAA tournament Sunday that three players would not be retum- ‘Sun’ day ( . Kassia Pisklak/Collegian Rachel Ginsberg (sophomore-marketing) and Kellen Bell (sophomore-actuarial science) catch some rays and chat in West Halls quad. The sunshine and warmer temperatures brought students outdoors yesterday. However, today’s weather is expected to return to more winter-like conditions, with a high of 36 degrees predicted with possible rain and snow showers. Temperatures are not expected to rise past 50 degrees for the rest of this week. Friends grieve over accident victims By Drew Curley COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | dsclBo@psu.edu Family and friends bid farewell in a tearful memorial service dedicated to four international Penn State students who died in two separate car accidents during spring break. Graduate students Djung Yune Tchoi, 33, Hyeonhwa Lee, 30, and Joo-Ook Mm, 27, died in a car accident on March 5 on Interstate 80, near Danville. The students were travelling to New York, when the car Tchoi was driving crossed into traffic. Chen-Ying Chien, 20, died March 7 in a car accident along the Florida Turn pike. Students petition to keep Creamery scooping at historic Borland locale By Devon Lash COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | dlash@psu.edu If you ask Matt Ritsko, the sweetest part of Penn State tradition is in danger. “The Creamery is an intrinsic part of Penn State,” Ritsko (senior-economics) said. “Moving it is a change of tradition, and these days there are less and less traditions in the Penn State community.” Next fall, the University Creamery will become the Berkey Creameiy when it moves to the new Food Sciences Building at Bigler and Curtin roads. Its current location in Borland Lab at Shortlidge and Curtin roads will be closed for building renovations. THE DAILY! COLLEGIAN The Patriot-News (Harrisburg) is reporting in today’s editions that the Chien was on vacation in Florida with Tchoi’s co-adviser, Ronald Bettig, friends, and she was traveling to Miami read a letter of recommendation that he when her car struck a concrete barrier, would have written for her, if given the More than 150 family and friends opportunity gathered at Pasquerilla Spiritual Center “She is a brilliant scholar as well as a to remember the students through kind and committed citizen,” he said, speeches and slideshow presentations “She wanted to help create a world of each of the students. where everyone had a chance to suc- Yeonsoo Kim, a friend of Tchoi, tear- ceed.” fully remembered how she enjoyed , Sook-Young Park said she remem struggling with difficult problems as a bered meeting Lee through the church doctoral student in mass communica- services on campus. ti Qns - “She used to sing so passionately, “I still can’t grasp the reality of her which left an impression on me,” Park absence. I don’t know how to say good- said. bye to her,” she said. “She was like an angel sent by God,” “I love my friend and I really miss she added, her,” Mm added. Lee was always gentle and helpful to Ritsko, an Undergraduate Studept Government (USG) East Halls senator, said he has prepared a three-step approach to defend the Creamery’s cur rent location on his own, not as a repre sentative for USG. Ritsko and co-organizer Chris Miller (graduate-mechanical engineering) are gathering the necessary information to apply the current Creamery location for landmark status from the National Reg ister of Historic Places. They are also surveying students to determine their thoughts on the effects of the Creamery’s relocation. According to the pair’s Web site, www.savethecream ery.com, 49 of 127 students surveyed said Israeli consul general speaks on Middle East Uri Palti painted a positive view for the future of Israel at a Hillel sponsored event last night. | LOCAL, Page 3. other two players were Lisa Etienne and Amber Bland, and that Etienne con firmed the sequence of events. Etienne also told The Patriot-News that she is not currently exploring a transfer and plans to meet with Penn State coaches to discuss her future with the program Penn State Assistant Sports Informa tion Director Erin Whiteside told The Patriot-News that the status of the three players had not officially changed. Whiteside could not be reached by The Daily Collegian late last night for com ment. Etienne told the Collegian last night that she could not comment on the situation. they go to the Creamery at least once a week. Twenty-nine students said they would visit the new location as often statistics Ritsko and Miller say show the move may affect student accessibility. “Right now the students say that loca tion is really convenient,” Miller said. “[After the move], it will be convenient only to the students who live in East Halls.” The Web site also includes a petition for students and alumni to sign, which will eventually be sent to Penn State administrators and trustees. Since the creation of the Web site in February, 230 See CREAMERY, Page 2. Amber Bland could not be reached for comment yesterday. Jen Harris said that she would not comment on her dismissal until she -~ceived permission from the Penn State athletics department to speak to coaches of other Division I women’s basketball programs, should she decide to pursue a transfer. Pearl Harris said her daughter was not seeking a transfer or a release for a transfer. “She is not requesting to be released,” Pearl Harris said. “And she is not requesting to transfer at this time.” Harris would be the team’s returning other students, said her co-adviser, Suet-Ling Pong. “Hyeonhwa was reliable, conscien tious and hard working,” she said. “She was the kind of student every teacher adores ... we love her so very much,” Pong said. Yoo-Bok Kim, Joo-Ook Kim’s father, choked up as he spoke through a trans lator and asked the audience to keep his daughter in their memories. “When you live in happiness, Joo-Ook will be there with you,” he said. Soyeon Cho, a friend of Joo-Ook Mm, said she was optimistic and had a great sense of humor. “Joo-Ook had the heart of an angel,” she said. See MEMORIAL Page 2. Two students are trying to block the University Creamery’s Borland Lab location from moving to the new Food Sciences Building. Officials say it might be too late. Tables turn on lacrosse After knocking off two No. 1 teams in two weeks for a high ranking of its own, the women’s lacrosse team was upset yesterdav by unranked Temple, 6-5, at home. | SPORTS, Page 8. leading scorer next season, averaging 10.4 points per game this year. Harris started the first 22 games of her sophomore season with the Lady Lions and provided a viable third scor ing option with Tanisha Wright and Jess Strom this year. Against Illinois on Jam 13 at the Bryce Jordan Center, Harris turned in a career-high 26 points. Portland removed Harris from the starting lineup before the Feb. 10 game against Indiana and her production waned coming off the bench. Collegian staff writer Justin Kunkel contributed to this report. Court hears : family appeal Terri Schiavo’s parents begged a federal appellate court to reconnect her feeding tube yesterday. TAMPA, Fla. Warning that Terri Schiavo was “fading quickly” and might die at any moment, her par ents begged a federal appeals court yesterday to order the severely brain-damaged woman’s feeding tube to be reinserted. David Gibbs HI, attorney for par ents Bob and Mary Schindler, told the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta that the 41-year-old woman might die before they could get a chance to fully argue their case that her rights are being violated. The appeal came after a federal judge in Tampa rejected the parents’ emergency request. “Where, as here, death is immi nent, it is hard to imagine more criti cal and exigent circumstances,” Gibbs said in the appeal filed elec tronically with the court. “Terri is fading quickly and her parents rea sonably fear that her death is immi nent.” There was no immediate indica tion of when the appeals court might rule. Even before the parents’ appeal was filed, the woman’s husband urged the 11th Circuit not to grant an emergency request to restore nutri tion. “That would be a horrific intrusion upon Mrs. Schiavo’s personal liber ty,” said the filing by Michael Schia vo’s attorney, George Pelos. He filed See SCHIAVO, Page 2. Arts 5 Briefs 2 Classifieds 10 Comics 13 Crossword 13 Opinion 6 ! Sports 8 lOC off campus Vol. 105 No. 147 By Jill Barton ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER 865-1828 865-2531 ©2005 Collegian Irc.
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