2 I MONDAY, Nov. 30, 2009 Gingerbread Man faces fine from PLCB The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board cited the Gingerbread Man, 130 Heister St., with serving alcohol to a 19- year-old minor, Pennsylvania State Police said. The bar could face a fine ranging between $5O to $5,000. Police: Cash, stickers stolen from Texaco Unidentified individuals broke into the Texaco Service Station, 1310 S. Atherton St., sometime overnight Nov. 23 and stole $7OO, 29 Pennsylvania emission inspection windshield stickers and 29 Pennsylvania vehicle inspection stickers, State College Police Department said. The suspects who authorities did not name broke into the unoccupied business through a door and somehow got into the safe, police said. Police are asking anyone with any information to notify the authorities. Police investigate thefts from vehicles Police are investigating five male suspects ranging from 17 to 19 years of age in connection with a rash of thefts from motor vehicles throughout the fall semester, the State College Police Department said. Through a joint investigation with the Ferguson and Patton Township police departments, authorities have identified the five individuals who have taken "large quantities of stolen items," police said. A majority of the items were stolen from unlocked vehicles parked in lots, garages and at private residences, police said. Authorities believe the men stole numerous electronic items. Anyone with further information is asked to contact the authorities, police said. UPUA members to meet with Sen. Casey Members of the University Park Undergraduate Association's (UPUA) Government Affairs Committee will meet with the office of Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa., to discuss the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009, according to a press release from the student government. The act would "expand federal Pell Grants to a maximum of $5,500 in 2010 and tie increases in Pell Grant maximum values to annual increases in the Consumer Price Index plus 1 per cent," according to the press release. UPUA Governmental Affairs Chairwoman Colleen Smith said the meeting with Casey's assistant is part of a larger ini tiative led by other student governments at Big Ten schools. Representatives from each student government will meet with their respective senators to discuss the act and report their findings at the next Association of Big Ten Students con ference. "We don't have an official stance, but we think that prelimi narily the act looks like it'll be very beneficial for students," Smith said. "We're hoping that tuition relief in general for stu dents will come, but I feel like we need to ask a few more ques tions before we come out with an official stance." This is the first time that UPUA has lobbied on a national level, Smith said. "That's a really exciting step for us," she said Mauricio Terrones, of the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research of San Luls Potosi in Mexico, will speak at noon in S 5 Osmond Lab. Nitin Samarth, of the Department of Physics, will host the event. Xiaoying Meng, of Penn State, will speak on "Functional Studies of S-RNase-Based Self-Incompatibility" at 12:10 p.m. in 108 Wartik Lab. Teh-hui Kao, of the Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Biology, will host the event. Paul Backman, of Penn State, will speak on "Interfacing Microbial Ecology with Development Needs in Latin America" at 3:30 p.m. in 112 Buckhout Lab. The Department of Plant Pathology will host the event. Correction Correction: Articles "Senior leadership paces Lions" and "Team starting to get healthy" on Nov. 18 and Nov 19 respectively incorrectly state forward Nick Seravelli's year and the years of the Icers' top scorers. Seravelli is a sophomore, and four of the Icers' top six scorers are upperclassmen. Correction An article "Incident spurs blackface discussion" on page 4 of Thursday's Daily Collegian incorrectly stated the group Keiwana Jones advises. She is adviser of the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC). Collegian Collegian Inc. James Building, 123 S. Burrowes St., University Park, PA 16801-3882 The Daily Collegian Online, which can be found at www.psucolleglan.com, is updat ed daily with the information published in the print edition. It also contains expand ed coverage, longer versions of some stories and letters, Web-only features and pre vious stories from our archives. 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Economic worries about jobs were still apparent as shoppers stuck to their lists and focused on practical and small-ticket items for themselves and for their loved ones, resulting in a mildly encouraging start to the season. Online sales on Thursday and Friday, however, rose 11 percent to $913 million, according to data released Sunday by com Score, an Internet research firm. According to preliminary figures released Saturday by ShopperTrak, Climategate From Page 1. any of his colleagues went through with the deletion either. But he does believe the controver sy is a smear campaign led by those who do not believe in climate change skeptics who also consis tently "badgered" Jones to try to distract him from his research. "Someone being constantly under attack could be what causes them to make a poor decision," Mann said, though he didn't specifi cally say Jones' e-mail was inappro priate. Mann said Friday that in their e mail exchanges, the scientists used phrasing that can be easily misinter preted by outsiders a misunder standing that fueled accusaticns the scientists had tampered with data. In one of the contested e-mails, Jones writes his colleagues to tell them that he had "just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's to hide the Dado From Page 1 HUB, blue-and-white wristbands printed with the words "In Loving Memory... Joey Dado" will be sold at a table run by Joe Dado's friends and sponsored by Colleges Against Cancer, a club his sister Natalie Dado (senior-industrial engineer ing) is involved in. The fund aims to give high school students the chance to attend col lege something the Dados had always hoped for their son, who died Sept. 20 after attending a party at Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity, 319 N. Burrowes Rd. His body was recovered the next day from an exterior stairwell between Steidle and Hosier build ings. Mike Cook, one of Joe Dado's friends and the event's organizer, said he got the idea from Dado's sis ter and her friends, who sold the wristbands at Joe's alma mater, Greater Latrobe Senior High School in Latrobe, Pa. Dado's father said Bowl From Page 1 psucollegian.com I think there are a lot of advan tages." Headinginto the final weekend, the Lions come in at No. 11 in the BCS, two spots behind lowa. In all likelihood, Texas will play the Alabama-Florida winner for the BCS National Championship. Besides the conference champions, four at-large bids remain. No. 4 TCU and the SEC Championship Game loser will nab two of them. Penn State or lowa will grab another, and Boise State looks good for the final slot, barring a major upset like a Texas loss to Nebraska in the Big 12 Championship. Although Oklahoma State's loss to Oklahoma appeared to ensure a second Big Ten team placing in the BCS, Palm believed the league would have received a second bid regardless. The team that needed help and could have been the odd team out and may be again if Texas loses this Saturday was Boise State. Rossilynne Skena Andrew McGill Matt Conte lan Brown Mandy Hofmockel Alexa Santoro Beth Ann Downey Alex Weisler ...Aubrey Whelan Elizabeth Murphy Safest Heather Schmelzlen Katherine Dvorak ..Danielle Vickery From Page 1 deserve accolades for their behav ior and working relationships with each other. Adam Clark Dave Miniaci ..Matt Brown Dan Rorabaugh "The State College Police Department is instrumental, and we also have wonderful citizens," Goreham said. "Our police do a great job of helping people and stay ing alert about possible crimes." State College Police Lt. Mark Argiro said that the majority of stu dents follow the law. Those who do commit crimes are usually first-time offenders who do not repeat offens es, he said. "There are very few bad seeds," Bill Wellock Abby Drey Michael Felletter Holly Colbo By Anne D'lnnocenzio ASSOCIATED PRESS a research firm that tracks more than 50,000 outlets, sales rose 0.5 percent to $10.66 billion Friday, com pared with a year ago. That was on top of a 3 percent increase last year. The National Retail Federation trade group said Sunday it is stick ing to its forecast for holiday sales to decline 1 percent from last year. The question now is whether mer chants will be able to keep cus tomers coming back for the rest of the season. A year after suffering the biggest sales decline in 40 years, the nation's merchants pulled out all the stops in stores and online to keep the momentum going for the holiday weekend, further blurring the lines between their Web-based and land-based businesses. Major merchants including J.C. Penney Co. and Sears Holdings Corp., which operates Kmart and Sears, broke new ground this year decline," according to the Associated Press. Jones confirmed to the Associated Press that this was accu rate, but the "Keith" in reference could not be identified. The controversy continues with only one week left before the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009, where politicians and scientists will meet in Copenhagen to discuss what meas ures they will take to combat cli mate change. President Barack Obama is expected to attend a portion of the event, along with other world lead ers and scientists. Climate scientist Brenda Ekwurzel, a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said Sunday she does not think "Climategate" will be a distraction at next week's summit. But she said a number of people have made a concerted effort to dis tort facts presented by scientists as the summit approaches and climate change legislation is debated in Congress. "One thing is for sure," Ekwurzel the girls who started the sale knew his son loved Penn State, so blue and white were fitting colors for the bracelets. Joe Dado loved playing soccer, his father said, and the fund will award money each year to two students from Greater Latrobe Senior High School one member of the women's soccer team and one mem ber of the men's soccer team. "We want it to last for a whole gen eration, to keep Joey's memory alive and so hopefully the class mates of Joey, our friends' sons and daughters, will have an opportunity to go to college," Joseph Dado said. Non-profit organization The Latrobe Foundation will administer the scholarship, Dado's father said. After his son's funeral, he and his wife weren't anticipating anything but flowers and condolences. The influx of donations to the fund, he said, has been touching. Cook (freshman-science) said he and some of Joe's other friends from Greater Latrobe were discussing ideas to celebrate Joe's life shortly after his funeral and came up with As it is, the Orange Bowl and Fiesta Bowl are the expected BCS destinations for the Lions or the Hawkeyes. Although lowa won the head-to-head matchup in Beaver Stadium this September, Palm said the only other real bonus the Hawkeyes have is a large alumni base in the Phoenix area, which is the site of the Fiesta Bowl. That said, Palmer thinks the Fiesta Bowl is the most likely destination for the second Big Ten pick. Of course, head-to-head results aren't the final factor in the selection process. Even as recently as 2007, Kansas was picked by the Orange Bowl ahead of Missouri, even though the Tigers knocked off the then-unbeat en Jayhawks to clinch the Big 12 North division title. But after Missouri lost the conference cham pionship game to Oklahoma, Kansas was selected despite rank ing behind the Tigers in the major polls. Although a similar situation could happen this season, Penn State line backer Navorro Bowman didn't shy Argiro said. "Anybody who lives here knows it's a very safe place with very few violent crimes." But CQ Press officials said some authorities view crime statistics and therefore crime rankings as simplistic and incomplete because of the range of categories and citi zens' differing opinions on crime in different locations, according to the press release. "This criticism is largely based on the fact that there are reasons for the differences in crime rates, not that the rates are incompatible," according to the release. Another major difference between towns' demographics is student population, according to the release. While student population THE DAILY COLLEGIAN by making many of their early morn ing Black Friday specials available on their Web sites at the same time. Marketing gurus have started calling the season a "Twitter Christmas" as merchants have been tweeting deals and offering pre views of discounts on Facebook pages. Sears spokesman Tom Aiello noted Sunday that since Wednesday, the chain has sent out a few dozen tweets to inform customers of bar gains for the weekend and for the Monday after Thanksgiving, which is heavily promoted as Cyber Monday but could lose some of it steam this year. "Fbrget Black Friday for bricks and Cyber Monday for clicks this year it's all about making it easy for customers to satisfy their shopping fix ... wherever and whenever," said John Long, a retail strategist at Kurt Salmon Associates. said. "These allegations do not take away from the fact that the ice sheets are accelerating their melt ing rates and that the oceans are heating up at a pace that is entirely consistent with the heat-trapping gases that we have added to the atmosphere." Ekwurzel said these changes are consistent with research done at East Anglia's climate change research center as well as data recorded in many other independ ent studies. Mann said his research was reviewed by the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS), a group of scholars specializ ing in furthering the use of science and technology for the general pub lic. In a report published by NAS in 2006, the academy said it saw noth ing in his work that was in any way inappropriate, Mann said. "They went out of their way to state that our work was of the utmost scientific integrity" Mann said. To e-mail reporter: Icnsol9@psu.edu the idea of selling wristbands. The wristbands enjoyed a successful sale at Greater Latrobe High School, where many students now sport the bracelets, Cook said. Cook ordered 1,000 bracelets to sell at Penn State and said he already sold about 150 to 200 over Thanksgiving break Joe Dado's former roommate, Eric Hayes (freshman-engineering), said he will work at the table today. The wristbands are a great way to remember Joe and his life, Hayes said. Lauren Stout (freshman-kinesiol ogy), who knew Joe Dado for six years and went to high school with him, said she will stop by the booth tomorrow to help sell the bracelets. She said the sale is for a good cause, and she hopes for a good turnout. "I know [Joe's death] has affected a lot of people in different ways," Stout said. "For some, it's losing someone who went to the same col lege, but for us from his high school, it's personal." To e-mail reporter: argsll6@psu.edu away from Penn State's obstacles. "I want to play in a BCS bowl for sure, but you got to give credit to lowa," Bowman said. "They came and beat us at home, so that's defi nitely got to be added into the equa tion, but I know our team is a team that's going to get better and we're gonna be able to play with anybody" Despite the win against the Spartans setting the perfect stage for open lobbying for his team for the BCS over lowa, head coach Joe Paterno didn't expand much on the debate. "Please, don't get me into all of the ethics of college football every time I get up here," he said after the Michigan State game about the bowl-selection process. "We're playing, we won, I'm pleased, the kids played hard. We had a tough time out here, Michigan State's team came out and they went at it. I'm just happy for [our players], and I hope they get the kind of game that they'll be excited about." To e-mail reporter: wmssol2@psu.edu considerably affects crimes, Goreham said the majority of Penn State students are well behaved. "The vast majority of students admitted to Penn State are really the best and brightest," Goreham said. "The people who create prob lems are very much in the minority but unfortunately, a minority is still too many" Goreham said State College must now strive to continue to keep its safe reputation. "We're still a pretty safe town, and we just want to keep it that way," she said, laughing. "That's the kind of pressure we really like and we wel come." To e-mail reporter: kncso63@psu.edu
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