THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Merging of gyms creates new jobs The North Club will be taking over four gyms in the State College area. By Alyssa Murphy COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER A new company is set to take over four downtown gyms, which could provide more job opportuni ties for Penn State students. The North Club, 1510 Martin St., recently acquired both Lion Heart Fitness. 127 Sowers Street, and Titan Fitness, previously at 412 W College Ave., The North Club operator Karl Zimmerman said. Titan Fitness now runs the mixed martial arts classes that Lion Heart Fitness previously cov ered. and both gyms are now housed in the Lion Heart building. The former Titan Fitness building will become a new general fitness location. And the new conglomerate is hiring, The North Club manager Gretchen Welch said. West Club, a new um set to open in Westerly Parkway in August, will need a full staff of five to 10 people when it opens. Students who wish to apply for a part-time front desk job can fill out an application at any of the *I2IS. - Zimmerman also expects new positions at The North Club, The 'S' Book to reach out to new PSU students By Casey McDermott COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Samantha Miller began her career at Penn State as a transfer student. moving from Wake Forest University in her second semester of college. Adjusting was hard, she said. Now the UPUA Director of Assembly Services, she had hoped to offer a university handbook not just to incoming freshman, but to transfer students like herself. On Wednesday she was happy to announce that the handbook, now dubbed The 'S' Book," will be offered to everyone new to Penn State University Park including freshmen: transfer and change-of campus students. "I know how important it is for LADY LIONS BACK IN POST SEASON! LADY LIONS vs. HOFSTRA tNiTa~l.NJffi Thurs. March 18, 7:oopm lis dlpfSTM)e * STUDENTS I , GET IN FREE ' AND RECEIVE LA FREE C]-SHIRT AND LA C•OMPLIME = NTARY which recently underwent renova tions and now features full-length lockers, new showers, a new sauna, a new steam shower and new bathroom facilities. Titan Fitness also hired new people because of the change, gym owner Paul Zelinka said. "Because of this facility and availability, we've actually been able to hire a couple of new instructors to just add some pro grams," Zelinka said. "But at the same time, we're taking on more people. Enrollment has increased substantially. We wanted the right number of instructors." Some of the programs Titan Fitness offers include mixed mar tial arts, Brazilian jiu-jitsu and co ed boxing. Each location targets a different demographic. Zimmerman said the North Club caters to cus tomers 40 years old or older, though they do have some college undergraduates. Titan Fitness is more oriented to college under graduates, with programs like martial arts classes, Zelinka said. Zelinka said the merge benefit ed both the club and the members. "It benefits us because we're in a much better location," he said. "The location is more central ized." To e-mail reporter: atmso77@psu.edu every single new student regardless of when they join the Penn State community to receive help when making that tran sition," she said. The book's newly finalized title stands for "State," repre senting its status as a service for all Penn State stu dents regardless of campus. University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) Director of Public Relations and Media Andrew Karasik said. UPUA members hoped to •give the handbook to all new students, but they had to make sure they OCAL THE ART OF SPRING A student walks past an abstract sculpture placed in front of the Pattee Library. The sculpture was designed and built by a team of graduate and undergraduate architecture students and represents the blooming of flowers that appear on the Pattee Mall every spring. had the money, said Millet, who is leading the production of the handbook. Miller (senior-political science) said the cost of the project is still undetermined but will definitely not exceed the $21,000 originally allocated for the initiative. The number of handbooks to be distributed is also still being deter mined. Miller estimates that the incoming freshman class at University Park will require about 7,500 books, and additional trans fer and change-of-campus stu dents will require about 2,000. UPUA President Gavin Keirans said he agreed the expansion of the handbook is a positive move and is happy to be able to resolve some of the initial concerns voiced over the handbook. Cr ** cl 0 * * * reithig Open a Go Blue Checking Account and get perks specially designed for students "We wanted to make sure we could get this book out to as many people as we were able to." "The idea to extend it to University Park freshmen. CCSG change-of-campus and transfer President Nick Borsuk students came out of listening to change-of-campus student from chronic concerns members of Penn State Altoona said he CCSG expressed," Keirans (sen- commends UPUA's efforts to ior-business management) said. reach out. "We wanted to make sure we think it will greatly impact could get this book out to as many (new students] ability to success people as we were able to." fully enter University Park," And the decision has been well Borsuk (senior-political science) received by CCSG. said. 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