I Wednesday, Dec. 9,2009 Rifle stolen from Mitsubishi Mirage An individual told police at about 9 p.m. Monday that a .243 caliber Remington rifle was stolen from a parked Mitsubishi Mirage on Monday on the 100 block of North Barnard Street, the State College Police Department said. Police said someone threw a brick through the locked vehi cle’s window to steal the rifle. Theft: A laptop computer was removed from a Beaver Hall lounge sometime between 11:54 p.m. Sunday and 12:23 a.m. Monday, the Penn State Police said. ■ Mike Benton, of the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, will speak on "The End-Permian Mass Extinction: Death and Destruction in the Red Beds of Russia” via video conference at noon today in 541 Deike Building. The Worldwide Universities Network and Office of the Dean of the Graduate School will host the event. ■ The Earth and Mineral Sciences Library will host a screen ing of the film “Heat: A Global Investigation - Part Two" at 12:15 p.m. in 105 Deike Building. The Earth and Mineral Sciences Library will host the event. ■ Frank Krennrich, of lowa State University, will speak on “Particle Astronomy of the Northern Sky with the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) Observatory” at 2:30 p.m. in 339 Davey Lab. Tyce DeYoung, of the Department of Physics, will host the event. ■ Todd Lane, of the University of Melbourne in Australia, will speak at 3:30 p.m. in 112 Walker Building. The Department of Meteorology will host the event. ■ Wenbiao Gan, of New York University, will speak on “In Vivo Imaging of Synaptic Plasticity and Pathology” at 4 p.m. in 108 Wartik Lab, with video conferencing to room CG623 at College of Medicine. Gong Chen, of the Intercollege Graduate Program in Neuroscience, will host the event. ■ Terry Herter, of Cornell University, will speak on “Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA): Airborne Astronomy is Back” at 4 p.m. in 538 Davey Lab. Peter Roming, of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, will host the event. 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The Danish proposal would allow rich countries to cut fewer emissions while poorer nations would face Man From Page 1 Before the incident, Ferry was a able, excessive and outrageous,” sated for physical and emotional “highly successful and skilled run- because Perry was not intoxicated pain, medical expenses past and ner” on the verge of obtaining a and didn’t try to resist arrest, future, unlawful arrest and use of scholarship from the university, the Feriy’s suit claims the officers were excessive force suit states. Now, the injuries suf- engaged in a “joint venture,” and the fered from the incident have “great- Weather From Page 1. was in February of 2007, when a foot of snow fell on campus. But that didn’t stop university offi cials from issuing a midnight clear Tuesday night. Such measures would usually not be taken for a storm of this size but the predict ed “wintry mix” had officials wor ried, Penn State spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said. Cars had to be moved from park ing lots by midnight, or they faced a fine. Student parking lots were not affected by the midnight clear. Three different OPP crews were ready to respond to the storm, From Page 1 said. “They might have had the same letters, but there’s no doubt in my mind about our guys.” Recruiting was a challenge, he said. Still, he’s optimistic about the future of the fraternity. Del Signore said he understands the challenges fresh fraternities face at Penn State. “There are a lot of established frats at Penn State,” Del Signore said. “(The new members] decided to take a chance and build something new. We psucullegian.com Senate From Page l sight for passage of the legislation that Congress has labored over for months. The officials who described the details of the closed-door negotia tions did so on condition of anonymi ty, saying they were not authorized to discuss them publicly. At its core, the legislation would expand health care to millions who lack it, ban insurance companies from denying coverage on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions and rein in the rise of health care spending nationally. The developments followed a vote on the Senate floor earlier in the day in which abortion opponents failed to inject tougher restrictions into sweeping health care bill, and Democratic leaders labored to make sure fallout from the issue didn’t hamper the drive to enact legisla ■ tion. .Abby Drey The vote was 54-45. .Rossilynne Skena Andrew McGill .Matt Conte ..lan Brown ,Dave Miniaci .Matt Brown .Bill Wellock .Michael Felletter Taken together, the day’s develop ments underscored the complexity that confronts the administration and Reid as they seek the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican opposition and pass a bill by Christmas. ■Holly Colbo Despite their reluctance, some senators had talked openly and in ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS Anja Niedringhaus/Associated Press Environmentalists stage a protest with a banner reading Take me to your 2015 peak year' in the main venue of a UN Climate Summit in Copenhagen on Tuesday. tougher limits on greenhouse gases and more conditions on money available to adapt. A sketchy counterproposal attrib uted to China would extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which required 37 industrial nations to reduce emis sions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming by an average 5 percent by 2012, com pared with 1990 levels. The Chinese text would incorpo rate specific new, deeper targets for the industrialized world for a further five to eight years. Developing coun tries, on the other hand, including China, would be covered by a sepa rate agreement that envisions their taking actions to control emissions, but not in the same legally binding way. No targets would be specified for them. Poorer nations believe the two ly impacted” Fterry’s ability to run, as they were handcuffing him. Perry the suit states. was taken to Mount Nittany Medical The lawsuit calls the police’s Center to be treated for his injuries. actions “unnecessary, unreason- officers only identified themselves To e-mail reporter: pppsol7@psu.edu Ruskin said. The road crew pre-salt ed the roads in preparation for Tuesday night’s basketball game at the Bryce Jordan Center and then used a priority system to determine which roads and sidewalks to clear at night. Roads and sidewalks near dining services, medical services, loading docks and fire hydrants are the OPP’s first priority in the case of a winter storm, Ruskin said. Once those areas are cleared, the crews begin to clear the parking lots. Ruskin called clearing the cam pus’s 23 miles of sidewalks and 31 miles of road a “major operation,” forcing OPP landscapers and janito rial crews work through the night to clear sidewalks and “We’re going to bring Delta Upsilon back into the top fraternities.” are happy to have them.” we’re here. We’re going to bring David Runyan, secretary for Delta Upsilon back into the top fra- Delta Upsilon, agrees starting over temities,” Robinson said, will be tough. Interfraternity Council President “We have no brothers to help us elect Max Wendkos said he is confi out, so we’re figuring things out on dent the fraternity will succeed, our own,” Runyan (junior-mechani- The house was the temporary cal engineering) said. residence of Kappa Delta Rho mem- The main goal for Delta Upsilon is bers this semester, who moved in to get involved, Robinson said. after former Delta Upsilon mem “We want to let everyone know bers were evicted. detail earlier in the day about the progress of the negotiations. The provision in the legislation to be dropped under the emerging agreement provides for a govern ment-run insurance option to be available to consumers, with individual states permitted to drop out. Liberals have long sought such as arrangement, as a means of forcing competition on insurance compa nies. One participant in the talks, Sen. Tom Harkin, D-lowa, told reporters he didn’t like the deal, but he added, “I’m going to support it to the hilt” in hopes of securing passage of the health care bill. Another senator involved, Sen. Russ Finegold, D-Wis., issued a statement saying, “I do not support proposals that would replace the public option in the bill with a purely private approach. We need to have some competition for the insurance industry to keep rates down and save taxpayer dollars.” But he did not rule out voting for the measure. In his comments to reporters, Reid said the emerging compromise “includes a public option and will help ensure the American people win in two ways: one, insurance companies will face more competi tion, and two, the American people will have more choices.” It wasn’t clear what he meant by a The Daily Collegian track approach would best preserve the principle of “common but differ entiated responsibilities” recog nized by the Kyoto Protocol. Such ideas are usual grist early in such long, difficult international talks. These two proposals were not yet recorded as official conference documents. “It has no validity,” key European Union negotiator Artur Runge- Metzger said, speaking specifically of the Danish proposal. “The only texts that have validity here are those which people negotiated.” The last few decades are the warmest period in at least 400 years and probably 1,000 years, based on evidence from tree rings, retreating glaciers and other scientific meth ods to track climate, according to a 2006 report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Ferry said he should be compen- entranceways to buildings. Mark Whitfield, State College Department of Public Works direc tor, said borough crews were pre pared to work through the night as well. “We’ll be ready to salt, and if we have to plow, then we’ll plow throughout the night and have everything open in the morning,” he said. Mountz said OPP wanted to get ahead of the storm to eliminate the possibility of a freeze. “Hopefully, there will be nothing there to freeze,” she said. Staff writers Leri Belculfine and Peter Panepinto contributed to this report. Justin Robinson Delta Upsilon President “public option,” the Medicare expansion or another as yet unknown element. It was unclear, for example, what fallback steps would be included in case private insurance companies declined to participate in the nation wide plan envisioned to be overseen by the Office of Personnel Management. One possibility was for the agency to set up a government-run plan, either national in scope or on a state-by-state basis, but no confir mation was available. Under the tentative agreement, liberals lost their bid to expand Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care for the poor, elderly and disabled. But they prevailed on the Medicare expansion, and the nego tiators appeared ready to maintain a separate health care program for children until 2013, two years longer than the bill currently calls for, according to officials familiar with the details. Additionally, there was consensus support for a requirement long backed by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D WVa., and other liberals for insur ance companies to spend at least 90 percent of their premium income providing benefits, a step that sup porters argue effectively limits their spending on advertising, salaries, promotional efforts and profits.
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