2 I MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010
One injured in argument turned violent
Nicholas Gundaker tackled and injured a Penn State stu
dent at 1:04 p.m. Thursday at the corner of Pollock and Bigler
Roads, Penn State Police said.
The student got in an argument with Gundaker, who was a
visitor on campus, and ran from the area of the Nittany
Apartments, police said,
Gundaker chased and then tackled the student, who was
punched in the face and suffered injuries to his nose and
elbow, police said.
An ambulance was called to the scene, but the student did
not seek further medical treatment.
Students caught trespassing
'l\vo Penn State students were cited for trespassing at 1:34
a.m. Sunday at the McCoy Natatorium outdoor pool, Penn
State Police said.
The students, Caleb Johnson and Michael Hobson, were
also cited for underage drinking when police discovered they
had also been drinking, police said.
Police said the pool is routinely checked for trespassers on
summer nights.
Woman cited for disorderly conduct
A woman was"cited for disorderly conduct after she threw a
corncob at a pedestrian she was driving by at about 6:13 p.m.
Saturday on the corner of East Beaver Avenue and Pugh
Street, the State College Police Department said.
The pedestrian was not injured in the incident, police said.
Police said they located the woman after a witness called
police to report the incident.
Two hurt in car accident
Two people were injured in a car crash when a driver failed
to stop at a red light and collided with a vehicle in the inter
section at about 12:40 a.m. Sunday on the 700 block of Benner
Pike, the State College Police Department said.
The passenger of the striking vehicle and the driver of the
car that was hit were both taken to Mount Nittany Medical
Center with minor injuries. police said.
One injured in police shooting
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say officers shot and
critically injured a teenager after he allegedly pulled a gun on
them.
Police say they saw the 19-year-old man with what
appeared to be a gun in his waistband on a street in the
Frankford section of northeast Philadelphia at about 7:30 p.m.
Saturday.
Officers say he ran from patrol officers and pulled the
weapon in a vacant lot. Police say the three officers told him
to drop the gun. but he refused to do so. Police say the officers
then fired several shots, hitting the man in the torso, and he
was taken to Jefferson Hospital.
Boy killed in truck accident
BRISTOL - Police in suburban Philadelphia say a 5-year
old boy died after he was struck by a pickup truck.
Police say the accident happened just before 5 p.m.
Saturday on Route 13 in Bristol while the boy was with his 7-
year-old brother and his mother was in a nearby delicatessen.
Police say the driver of the truck stopped and cooperated with
police.
Brothers arrested in murder case
JOHNSTOWN - Two brothers from western Pennsylvania
wanted in a shooting death last weekend are in custody fol
lowing their arrest in the Poconos.
Police say 21-year-old Taevon Dixon and 24-year-old Jharon
Dixon were found in a moving van on Interstate 80 in
Tannersville early Friday. Both were wanted in the July 11
shooting death of 38-year-old James Pelham in Johnstown.
Authorities accuse Taevon Dixon of firing the fatal shot and
have charged him with criminal homicide, aggravated
assault, reckless endangerment and illegally possessing a
firearm. Jharon Dixon is charged with conspiracy to commit
homicide. aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless
endangerment.
Man shot and killed in exchange
READING-Police in eastern Pennsylvania say an officer
shot and Idlled a man in an early morning exchange of gunfire
M Reading
Police say an officer responding to a 2:36 a.m. Saturday call
about a man with a gun tried to stop 26-year-old Tyron
Stevenson and chased him on foot. Police say Stevenson fired
a shot at the officer, who returned fire and killed the suspect.
Theft: An unknown person climbed in through an unlocked
bedroom window at 841 Southgate Drive and stole a Nintendo
Wii and 10 Wu games valued at $630 at 11:41 p.m. Saturday, the
State College Police Department said.
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Blagojevich to testify in court
CHICAGO After promising for
a year and a half to take the witness
stand, Rod Blagojevich is likely to
testify in his own defense at his fed
eral corruption trial this week in a
long-awaited duel of wits and wills
with federal prosecutors.
Unlike in his TV interviews,
Blagojevich is going to be under
oath.
And the grilling he gets from gov
ernment attorneys about charges
that he sought to sell or trade
President Barack Obama's former
Senate seat is guaranteed to be
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football schedule was made to
increase the significance of the
White House event and preserve the
exciting atmosphere on game day,
Myford said
"The game has to have signifi
cance and the date has to work,"
Myford said. "There's a number of
factors that go into it."
In a meeting earlier this year,
Paternoville representatives met
with the athletic department to dis
cuss the possibility of a White House
game.
But the meeting decided not to
have a White House event for 2010,
Cohen said.
"The Athletic Department should
be commended for making the deci
sion not just as the Penn State
Athletic Department, but as Penn
State," Cohen said. "They always
Concert
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Though SPA was not involved in
any of the three spring festivals, SPA
Executive Director Zack Krieger
said he has been a part of the dis
cussions to see if it's something SPA
would participate in.
University Park Allocation
Committee Overall Chairman Mark
Donovan said UPAC "would like to
explore ways to facilitate" one larg
er festival.
Haynes (senior-energy, business
and finance) said the talks are going
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he did not know how much. Filippelli
said he hopes construction is start
ed before then.
Borough Council member
Theresa Lafer said she believes
Susquehanna Real Estate has sold
"just about enough" apartments to
begin construction on the project.
In April, Kay said the company
would not begin construction until
they had sold 75 percent of the
apartment spaces.
Kay said they were close to meet
ing that benchmark at the time, but
did not specify how close.
Since then, plans have been made
to decrease the number of condos in
the complex to install more office
space and possibly even a boutique
hotel, Filippelli said.
It's a smart move to reduce apart
ments and increase office space,
Lafer said.
She said companies often com
plain they can't find office space
downtown, and the Fraser Complex
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of corrupt organizations, according
to court documents.
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He's also charged with one felony
count each of possession of marijua
na with intent to deliver, criminal
conspiracy, criminal use of a com
munication facility and dealing in
proceeds of unlawful activity,
according to court documents.
From December 2005 to June
2008, Murray who Shirk said was
one of Spara's suppliers distrib
uted 2,000 lbs. of marijuana with a
Hiking
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start at about 1,350 feet and lead up
the side of the mountain before lev
eling off around 2,000 feet where the
trail leads hikers around the top of
the mountain, Verbeke said.
The blue trail stretches 4.6 miles
and the white trail 3.5 miles, he said.
While the trails share their colors
with Penn State, Verbeke said the
similarity is just coincidence and the
colors were designated by the state
due to the characteristics of the
trail.
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"I always thought they were
named for Penn State's colors, and
that's not true," Verbeke said.
In recent years, Mount Nittany
has established a simple sign sys
tem to better outline the mountain
trails for hikers, Verbeke said.
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tougher than anything he faced on
the talk show circuit.
"Barbara Walters is not going to
be cross-examining him in that
courtroom," says former Assistant
U.S. Attorney Jeffrey H. Cramer,
managing director and head of the
Chicago office of Kroll Associates,
an investigative firm.
Taking the stand in his own
defense, possibly as early as
Tuesday, is a high-risk move
that many lawyers warn could back
fire.
They say that to have any chance
of winning over jurors, Blagojevich
must abandon his cocky demeanor
and become the soul of humility,
value our input as students they
want to have everybody's opinion."
The White House printing error
was a simple oversight, Paternoville
Vice President John Tecce said.
"It was a mistake," Tecce (junior
marketing) said. "The last two
White House games have actually
been on that same weekend vs. lowa
and Illinois, so it's easy to see how
they made that mistake," Tecce
said.
Students should still be excited
for the 2010 football season and the
events planned, including the stu
dent Whiteout games, Cohen said.
One potential Whiteout includes the
primetime game against Michigan,
Cohen said.
"It's during Halloween weekend,
there definitely will be a wild crowd
that night," Cohen said. "The stu
dent section will be in full force that
night."
With no White House game
scheduled for 2010, the next White
well and that he's interested in
working together with other organi
zations to create one festival.
Zach Zimbler, president and gen
eral manager of The Lion, also said
he thinks one larger festival is
exciting because it potentially lends
itself to "larger named acts"
because there are more resources
available.
"It's impossible to say if it will be
better or worse because we're
months and months out. You can
just hope for the best at this point,"
Zimbler (junior-supply chain man
agement and information sciences
and technology) said.
will provide modern offices.
Lafer said she hopes to hear Kay
announce a set date for when build
ing will begin and she hopes to
see the company stick to schedule.
The most recent timeline for the
project puts the date for ground
breaking by the end of the summer.
she said.
Though there was debate over
what should be built at the Fraser
Centre complex, Lafer said what
matters most now is replacing the
empty intersection with something
that will bring people downtown and
provide a "cool" place for students
to go.
A pedestrian bridge has been
proposed for the complex, but Lafer
believes that is just a suggestion
that will not come to fruition, since it
has not been presented to the plan
ning or zoning commissions or the
borough council.
Also at the meeting, the council
will vote on a zoning ordinance that
will affect fraternities on campus,
council member Don Hahn said.
The ordinance will create stan
dards for minimum yard depth and
street value of $6 million between
New York and North Carolina, Shirk
said.
Spara established his connection
with Murray through Anthony
Cenicola, of Hamilton, N.Y., who is
one of the 11 defendants charged
Friday, Shirk said.
Seven of the defendants charged
Friday are New York residents, but
three reside in Pennsylvania and the
other in Florida, Shirk said.
Spara received most of his mari
juana from New York towns that
border Canada, according to the
grand jury investigation.
The marijuana was smuggled into
The sign posts are located
throughout the trails and include a
complete map of the trail, the dis
tances between each marker and
the GPS coordinates for hikers
using GPS systems, Verbeke said.
"There have been signs up on the
mountain before," Verbeke said.
"But for a number of years it was
simply the dots or blazing on the
trees. Once you were up there, you
really had no idea where you were
on the mountain.'
Verbeke said the mountain hiking
trails are free to use all year around.
Mount Nittany provides students
a taste of the outdoors, but it isn't
the only place for hiking near State
College.
Several state parks are located
within a short distance of campus.
Black Moshannon State Park,
located in Philipsburg, Pa., offers a
less difficult hiking experience with
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admitting faults and apologizing but
insisting he never intended to vio
late the law.
"He has to convince people that
he knows he's a jerk and sometimes
didn't work as hard as he should
have and had a bad mouth and spent
too much money on clothes and
insulted the people of the state,"
says Professor Leonard Cavise of
DePaul University law school.
"He has to not fight like the bar
racuda that we know he is," Cavise
adds.
Federal spokesman Randall
Samborn won't who
Blagojevich's adversary in the
cross-examination duel will be.
House game is tentatively sched
uled for the 2011 match-up between
Penn State and Alabama.
"As far as all-stadium White
House, we've been targeting 2011 for
that in order for the all-stadium
White House to take hold and have
the effect we want it to have,"
Myford said.
The need to keep the White House
game special was one of the reasons
the Athletic Department chose to
not include the event during the
2010 football season, Mytbrd said.
Making the event a strong Penn
State tradition was also important to
Cohen.
"We always have a great home
stadium one of the greatest
atmospheres in college football.
Cohen said. It's one of those tradi
tions that a lot of people agree
should be saved for certain games
and certain opponents.-
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Though Krieger (junior-bioengi
neering) still has to discuss the col
laboration with other SPA members,
he said he thinks one larger festival
would work well.
"When you bring a large group of
people together that all have some
thing different to bring to the table.
you might end up with something
cool," Krieger said.
"We're trying to change some
thing because of student opinion...
not enough people happy in the past.
People want a celebration at the end
of the year."
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open space on on-campus fraterni
ties, he said.
The council will also discuss
but not vote on -- ordinances
regarding zoning in the West End
district, Hahn said.
The State College Planning
Commission has been looking into
the West End redevelopment for the
past few years and the council will
discuss the latest presentation dur
ing its work session tonight.
Borough Council member Silvi
Lawrence said.
lb cap off a busy night, the council
will also vote on a resolution to sup
port Webster's Cafe.
Joel Solkoff, a Webster's Patron.
will present a resolution asking the
borough council to support
Webster's Bookstore at tonight's
meeting.
The resolution asks the council to
recognize the importance Webster's
has for the community.
Borough Council member Peter
Morris told Solkoff he expects the
council to pass the resolution.
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the country through an Indian
reservation on the Canadian-United
States border, according to the
grand jury investigation.
Spara went to great lengths to
avoid police detection, according to
the grand jury investigation.
After receiving the marijuana,
Spara would deliver it to others
immediately so it was in his posses
sion for as short of a time as possible.
He used a prepaid cell phone and
changed his phone number on a reg
ular basis, according to the grand
jury investigation.
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trails that are intended for begin
ners, Black Moshannon Park
Ranger Mark Stone said.
Another location that provides
hiking trails is Bald Eagle State
Park in Howard, Pa.
"We have something for every
body" Bald Eagle Environmental
Education Specialist Nick Thomas
said. "We have very easy trails that
are pretty much low paths that go
around a relatively flat area to diffi
cult mountainous terrain trails."
While these parks are further
away than the more local Mount
Nittany, these trails are still well
within driving range.
"It's only about a half hour away,"
Thomas said.
think it's a little under-used.
Bald Eagle State Park is sort of like
a hidden gem."
To e-mail reporter: prosoo4@psu.edu