4 I Wednesday, July 7, 2010
University issues electricity alert
The university’s electricity supplier has issued a hot
weather alert as well for the region through July 9, accord
ing to a Penn State press release.
While voluntary, Penn State has asked all employees to
reduce their electricity use until the hot weather alert is lift
ed, according to the release.
Some of the steps they can take include turning off all
unneeded office equipment and lights, unplugging any iPod,
digital camera and phone cords when they are not being
used and reducing water usage since water is pumped
into storage tanks with electricity at the university, accord
ing to the release.
Guidelines and tips can be found at live.psu.edu.
Woman killed by hot weather
PHILADELPHIA A scorching heat wave bringing triple
digit temperatures to Philadelphia is being blamed for the
death of a 92-year-old woman.
Authorities say the woman’s body was discovered Monday
by a neighbor who went to check on her.
Temperatures reached the upper 90s on Monday and the
National Weather Service says it hit a record 102 degrees
Tuesday at Philadelphia International Airport. That topped
the previous high for the date of 98 degrees last reached in
1999. Philadelphia hit 103 degrees on July 15, 1995. In
Allentown, it was 100 degrees Tuesday, tying the record for
the day.
An excessive heat warning is in effect until Wednesday
night.
Man sentenced to life in prison
PITTSBURGH A Pittsburgh-area man will spend life in
prison for using a 20-pound weight to bludgeon his girlfriend’s
two children, and trying to kill the woman the same way.
Forty-three-year-old Keith Scott, of Penn Hills, pleaded
guilty to killing 18-year-old lesha (ay-EE’-shah) Drake and
her brother, 14-year-old Naim (NY’-eem) Drake on Oct. 14,
2008 at the apartment they shared with their mother.
The woman, Nikiesha (nih-KEE’-shah) Warren, and her
daughter were attacked in their sleep and the boy while play
ing a video game.
Scott apologized before he was sentenced Tuesday to con
secutive life prison terms, plus 10 to 20 years for the attack on
Wallace. A relative of the victims shouted “Kill yourself” and
was led out of the courtroom by Allegheny County sheriff’s
deputies.
Candy store burns down
ORRTANNA A central Pennsylvania candy store and
kitschy museum of all things elephantine has been destroyed
by a fire.
Mr. Ed’s Elephant Museum burned Monday night in
Orrtanna, near Gettysburg. Fire officials say the store’s taffy
and gum room was badly damaged.
The museum is home to a collection of some elephant
themed toys and objects. The room that houses the collection
was damaged by smoke and water.
Ed Gotwalt opened the museum as a roadside attraction in
1975. He says he’ll rebuild.
A state police fire marshal is investigating.
Storage milk leaks into creek
YORK Pennsylvania environmental officials say milk
from a storage tank leaked into a central Pennsylvania creek
Department of Environmental Protection officials say the
milk leaked from a storage tank at Rutter's Dairy in
Manchester Township, York County, into a nearby stream on
Monday.
Officials aren’t sure how much milk made it into the creek
DEP emergency response manager Bob Conrad says the
majority of the milk in the tank remained in the plant but
enough reached the water to be noticeable.
Workers will visit the dairy on Tuesday to learn more about
what caused the leak
Teen killed during fireworks shootout
PHILADELPHIA A teen shot in the head as he walked
home from Philadelphia's July 4th fireworks has died.
Police are searching for a gunman said to have fired ran
domly into the crowd, striking three.
Authorities say 16-year-old Kyle Featherspoon died at a city
hospital at about 10 p.m. Monday, a day after he was shot in
the chest and back of the head.
Correction
An article “Grants raise concern” on page 4 of Tuesday’s
Daily Collegian incorrectly stated the figure given for the
grant program’s shortfall. The correct figure is $4.5 billion,
and the program is facing $5.7 billion in cuts nationwide.
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Missing boy’s mom issues plea
MEDFORD, Ore. The biologi
cal mother of a 7-year-old Oregon
boy missing for more than a month
issued a fresh appeal Tuesday to the
boy’s stepmother, again asking her
to cooperate with police.
Desiree Young said the boy’s 18-
month-old half sister needs to see
that Terri Horman did the right
thing in bringing her brother home.
She said the girl loves and misses
Kyron Horman.
“He is somewhere and we don’t
know where,” Young said at a news
conference Tuesday at police head
quarters in Medford in southern
Oregon, where she lives.
Terri Horman is the last person
known to have seen Kyron at his
Portland school before he vanished
on June 4. Investigators have not
named her as a suspect or a person
of interest.
Queen tours NYC, speaks at U.N.
NEW YORK Queen Elizabeth
II challenged the United Nations to
fight global dangers by “waging”
peace, then entered ground zero on
Tuesday for the first time to honor
the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Back in New York after more than
three decades, the 84-year-old
British monarch turned her eyes
toward the future of the World lYade
Center new skyscrapers rising over
what was once smoldering debris
that had buried loved ones forever.
“We are not here to reminisce,”
she told the world body earlier
Tuesday. “In tomorrow’s world, we
must all work together as hard as
ever if we are truly to be United
Nations.”
Webster’s
From Passp 3 bookstore closes. with a resolution so that they can
® The Downtown State College stay where they are.”
the bookstore’s situation and how Improvement District, a local busi- Alessandrine said Webster’s is a
supporters can help. ness advocacy organization, has vital part of the downtown business
“I’m very touched to see you all been in contact with Meder-Wilgus landscape because of its long stand
here,” Meder-Wilgus told the crowd, to try to resolve the situation, ing history in State College,
fighting back tears. “I don’t run this executive director Jody “It’s integral to the success of
business because I want to drive a Alessandrine said. downtown that the business stay in
big fancy car... Ido this because I “It would be a tragedy to lose that operation, preferably at its current
love this community and I love my kind of business,” Alessandrine said, location,” he said,
employees.” “That business serves the commu-
Webster’s is holding an every- nify in countless ways, more than To e-mail reporter: prosoo4@psu.edu
Budget
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Rushton said the university is
pleased the budget could be
resolved in a timely manner
because it allows Penn State to set
the university’s budget for the 2010-
2011 academic year at the Board of
111151665 meeting to be held at Penn
State Dußois on Friday.
In addition to the $318.1 million
base appropriations from the state,
Penn State will also receive $15.8
million in federal stimulus funds,
Rushton said.
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not a governmental agency. We’re
here to report the facts as they are
and that’s what we did.”
The Daily Collegian has made no
plans to destroy the stories, Murphy
said.
Lunsford said most attorneys use
a standard order provided by the
Centre County Prothonotaiy’s office
in Bellefonte when filing a peti
tion to expunge their clients’ crimi
nal records.
The standard order does not
include provisions to force newspa-
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Rockview
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part of their college education. The
land will be used for testing crop
systems and renewable energy
feedstocks.
Part of the deal is that all of the
new landowners are prohibited from
selling or transferring the land to
other groups, Hanna said.
In addition, a conservation ease
ment between Centre County land
trust Clear Water Conservancy, the
.Elizabeth Murphy
Alex Weisler
lared Shanker
Katie Sullivan
Edgar Ramirez
Kevin Cirilli
Laura Nichols
Chris Zook
Ragland
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organization is aiso making sure to
work on some of its other initiatives.
■Bill Landis
.....Andrew Robinson
.Heather Schmelzlen
Jenna Ekdahl
Steph Witt
Ragland met with the police
Tuesday to discuss establishing a
commission on safety. The police
department was very receptive to
the idea of a committee, he said.
“They really welcomed the idea
because here’s an opportunity to
keep the communication coming,”
he said.
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Alissa Nemzer
lulia Brondam
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Her attorney, Portland defense
lawyer Stephen Houze, did not
immediately return calls seeking
comment on Tuesday.
Multnomah County authorities
have said that Horman has been
cooperating with the investigation.
But Young, the boy’s father and his
stepfather said in an e-mail to news
organizations late Monday that they
don’t believe that Horman has given
authorities her full cooperation.
Young spoke Tuesday alongside
her husband, Medford police
Detective Tony Young, who said
Terri Horman hasn’t contacted
authorities since their first appeal
on Thursday.
Lt. Mary Lindstrand at the sher
iff’s office said Tuesday that the
department would not discuss
details of the case.
Horman has told authorities she
dropped Kyron off at a science fair
before school. He did not come
home on the school bus.
Not even a record high tempera
ture of 102 degrees, accompanied by
a heat advisory, kept the monarch
from New York’s hallowed ground.
She arrived at the 16-acre site in
lower Manhattan late Tuesday after
noon with her husband, Prince
Philip.
They walked slowly across a
wooden walkway that reaches deep
over the construction site. Huge
cranes hovering overhead were
stopped and workers took a break
during the queen’s visit.
In silence, Elizabeth laid a wreath
of flowers on an iron pedestal near
the footprint of the trade center’s
south tower.
Bowing her head, she gently
brushed her gloved hand against
the locally grown red peonies, roses,
lilies, black-eyed Susans and other
thing-must-go sale with books 50 what meets the eye. We have to do
percent off regular price until the everything we can do to come up
Members of the University Park
Undergraduate Association (UPUA)
who have taken on the issue of
rising tuition as a main initiative
said they are glad to see things
moving from the state level down
ward.
“As a student leader, I am grateful
that the budget is passed and Penn
State gets the same amount of
money as last year,” UPUA
President Christian Ragland said.
Ragland (senior-political science)
said he is happy Penn State doesn’t
have to face a budget cut but
stressed that tuition is still high for
many students.
pers to destroy archived stories.
In this specail instance, however,
attorney Joe Amendola modified the
standard order so that it would
direct The Daily Collegian and The
Centre Daily Times to destroy any
stories involving the cases of his five
clients, Lunsford said.
“We didn’t realize that these mod
ifications had been made to the
standard order,” Lunsford said.
Lunsford said he signed the three
orders with several others and did
n’t realize a mistake had been made.
Amendola did not respond to
phone calls by press time Tuesday.
The Daily Collegian’s policy is to
“amend or correct any article where
Pennsylvania Department of
Conservation and Natural
Resources and Penn State will limit
acceptable uses for the university’s
new acreage.
The bill states that Penn State can
only use the new land for agriculture
or “furthering its mission of agricul
tural legislation.”
Clear Water Conservancy
Executive Director Jennifer Shuey
said the specifics of the conserva
tion easement are currently being
developed.
She said she expects actions like
“Having the police guide us sheds
light on the fact that this is going to
be a great collaboration.”
When formed, the commission
will focus on campus safety issues
such as sexual assault, campus
lighting and dangerous drinking,
Ragland said.
UPUA is also taking advantage of
the number of freshmen on
| campus in the summer, UPUA
Freshmen Outreach Director
Rebecca Alt said.
Both Alt (sophomore-communica
tion arts and sciences) and Ragland
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Young and her husband said they
wanted people in southern Oregon
to know about his ties to the region,
and to keep up hopes that he will be
found alive.
“We’re parents,” she said. “We
still expect him to get out of bed
everyday and come and see us. So of
course we believe he’s alive.”
In a message to her son through
TV cameras, she said, “We love you
and we miss you. We remain here
working hard every day to get you
home. Please do not be afraid,
because the police are going to find
you.”
Young also revealed that the day
her son disappeared, his stepmoth
er was supposed to drive him to
Eugene to turn him over to his
mother and stepfather to spend the
weekend in Medford.
Tony Young choked up when he
described how he was going to take
the boy on a long-delayed fishing
trip.
summer blossoms that surrounded
the wreath.
Then the queen met dozens of fam
ily members and first responders
who had lost loved ones as the twin
towers collapsed on Sept. 11,2001.
“The queen just was asking me
about that day, and how awful it
must’ve been,” said Debbie Palmer,
whose husband, battalion Fire Chief
Orio Palmer, was killed. “She said, ‘I
don’t think I’ve ever seen anything
in my life as bad as that. And I said,
‘Let’s hope we never do again.’ ”
Palmer said of the monarch:
“She’s beautiful. She looks like she
could be anybody’s grandmother.”
The queen wore a two-piece
white, blue and beige print dress
with long sleeves and a matching
brimmed champagne-colored silk
hat with flowers.
“The battle is not over yet,” he
said.
Ragland said he and UPUA had
their own message for the state leg
islature.
“I urge the Pennsylvania state
government and the university
administration to find ways to make
college affordable for all students,”
he said.
To offset those rising and unavoid
able costs, most agencies of the
state government have to absorb
deep cuts, according to the Rendell
statement.
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it is warranted,” Murphy said.
If Amendola were to provide any
evidence that his clients’ records
were expunged, Murphy said stories
involving their sentencing would be
amended to say that their
criminal records had since been
expunged.
But stories will not be deleted or
destroyed because of an expunged
record, Murphy said.
“Even though it was expunged
with the court, it’s still something
that happened,” Murphy said.
“As much as you want to, you
can’t just take that away.”
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dumping waste and building new
classrooms to be prohibited under
the agreement.
The bill will also open to the pub
lic a particularly ecologically sensi
tive area of the former Rockview
land: Spring Creek Canyon.
Shuey said most of the land sur
rounding Spring Creek, a popular
trout fishing destination, was open
to public use, but the prison kept
about a mile-long section closed for
security purposes.
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are LEAP mentors and have spoken
to some LEAP groups about UPUA.
The pair is hoping to gamer some
interest in the freshman representa
tive positions and the internship
programs come fall, Alt said.
A UPUA information session is
tentatively planned for Tuesday
night to educate freshmen on the
opportunities available, Alt said.
“We want to get the UPUA name
out early and we’re hoping for a lot
of engagement in the fall,” she said.
To e-mail reporter mers2oo@psu.edu