W The Daily I nl p(Ti/iTi m 1 \'VI I psucollegian.com Published independently by students at Penn State @dailyCOllegian Rendell refuses to sign budget By Mark Scolforo ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER HARRISBURG The Pennsylvania Legislature sent Gov. Ed Rendell a belt-tightening $2B billion budget bill Wednesday in the waning hours of the fiscal year, but the governor said he would not sign it until companion legislation was also approved. The budget increases basic education spending by $250 mil lion and does not raise taxes, but draws heavily from federal stimu lus money and imposes cuts and likely layoffs across a wide swath of state government. The House voted for it 117-84, with 16 Republican votes. In the Senate, the tally was 37-13. Rendell said he would sign the general appropriations bill when lawmakers also send him the fis cal code, which specifies how the money is to be spent, and a meas ure to authorize borrowing for capital projects. House Majority Leader Todd Eachus, D-Luzerne, said the See RENDELL. Page 2. Reconstruction to streamline the student football ticket entry process at Beaver Stadium has begun. Officials predict the work will be finished in time for the first home game of the 2010 football season. Gate A overhaul underway By Paul Osolnick COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Penn State is spending $665,000 on Gate A reconstruction at Beaver Stadium this summer part of an effort to decrease the time students spend in line at home football games. The improvements to the student gate will include 12 new entry kiosks, a baggage check area and a resolution booth for students whose tickets do not appear on their student IDs, university spokeswoman Lisa Powers said. Powers said expansion plans to add new kiosks to the Gate A entrance of the stadium were put in place after several temporary kiosks were used to expedite entry into the stadium last year. “We believe that students and other stadium patrons that enter through Arts Fest to add literary component This is the first in a five-part series about the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. By Kathleen Loughran COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Fbr Rick Bryant, it’s that time of the year again. As executive director of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Biyant has one week to finalize everything and prepare for the moment when the quiet summer streets of State College erupt with thousands of people. The festival kicks off with Children and Youth Day on July 7 and continues until July 11 with Associated Press Gov. Ed Rendell failed to sign the Pennsylvania state budget after it was passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Gate A are going to have a faster and more organized passageway into the stadium this fall." Powers said. Paul Ruskin, Office of Physical Plant (OPP) spokesman, said construction on the gate started about six weeks ago and is set to be completed before the first game of the season provided that good weather continues through the summer. ' We’re good at working around prob lems," Ruskin said. "Let’s say we get a week of bad weather, we would work evenings and weekends." Ruskin said the worst case scenario is that the improvements would not be completed before the first game, when the Nittany Lions take on Youngstown State Sept. 4. In that scenario, the stadium would operate with only the new kiosks that art, performances and food. Each year Bryant, who has headed the festival since 2005, makes “grad ual changes” to the event. “We make a few changes every year. It’s an evolutionary event,” he said. “Even if the envelope stays the same, we have different performances and artists each year, so it really is a different expe rience when yod come." See FESTIVAL, Page 2. have been finished up to that point. But that situation is not very likely, Ruskin said. “I don’t see much chance that we’ll miss our deadline, because we’ll find a way to make it,” he said. Ruskin said the stadium will also have seven new portable barricade systems added to increase security, traffic con trol and area safety for students walking to the gate. Though the improvements will not change Paternoville’s location or size, Ruskin said there will be barriers placed around the sidewalks of the Paternoville section to increase student safety. "All this; s being done to enhance stu dent safety and security at the events,” Ruskin said. To e-mail reporter: prosoo4@psu.edu i Collegian file photo Art lovers walk the streets of College during the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in 2009. University anticipates last year’s allocation By Paul Osolnick COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Penn "state’s state appropria tion is still up in the air. Though Pennsylvania's General Assembly approved an approxi mately $2B billion budget Wednesday afternoon. Gov. Ed Rendell did not sign the final doc ument waiting instead to receive additional “companion legislation " that will further define where that money will go. Penn State officials said they're grateful the state's General Assembly kept appropriations to the university on par with last year now all there is to do is wait for Rendell to sign it. Rendell and members oi his office will meet today with Democratic and Republican leaders from the General PSU to release findings University will announce the results j of the investigation into climate researcher, professor Michael Mann Penn State will release today the results of its follow-up investigation into whether professor Michael Mann acted within university academic integrity regulations while researching climate change. The report will be available after Mann and the National Science Foundation vvhich helped fund some of Mann's research are notified of the findings. Penn State spokes woman Lisa Powers said The review began March 4 and Mann had a 120 day deadline a time line ending today. In February. Penn State officials cleared Mann of "falsifying or suppressing data, intending to delete or conceal e-mails and information, and misusing privileged or confidential information." according to the RA-10 Inquiry Report. But the report set up a five-person committee to review whether Mann practiced "accepted faculty conduct surrounding scientific discourse." Meanwhile, Mann's research from his time at the University of Virginia is being called into ques tion. Mann was an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences from 1999 to 2005. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccineili wants to know if Mann wronged taxpayers when he accepted grants to study climate change, Cuccineili spokesman Brian Gottstein said. “The use of manipulated data to apply for tax payer-funded research grants in Virginia is poten tially fraud. Given this, the only prudent thing to do was to look into it,” Gottstein said. The Virginia Civil Investigative Demand (CID) called for the University of Virginia to produce materials presented by Mann when he sought funding from Virginia. CID is also asking the uni versity to provide more information about five grants worth a combined $484,875 awarded to Mann while he worked at the University of Virginia. Cuccineili also called for the school to turn over all correspondences between Mann and 39 other scientists, saying the CID is meant ‘to reach any and all data, documents and things in [the univer sity’s] possession." The University of Virginia was supposed to comply with Cuccinelli's request by May 27, but university officials filed a legal petition to set aside the investigation. The school responded to the CID with a state ment claiming the investigation put academic freedom in jeopardy and questioned the legality of such action. Despite the controversy, Mann said he is not a direct party to the matter - which is between the university and the Attorney General - and had not been in communication with either involved party. Still, Mann said he was pleased with the univer sity’s response to the investigation. He also said he’s happy with the support he’s received from other organizations. As for the CID itself, Mann said the investiga tion into the University of Virginia is essentially a “witch hunt.” Assembly to clear up some small differences, said Tor Michaels. See ALLOCATION. Page 2. Going steady Penn State's state appropriation will likely remain the same for the 2010-2011 school year. 3jO . ; 4S 7 :,#r: 3, 2 334 334- l- 1 f == “ 0 - ' vf i t* * ' V i 5 - 300 2000 200" 2008 20-09 ce: By Casey McDermott COLLEGIAN STAR* WRIiER To e-mail reporter: cmmB26o^>psu.edu
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