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Vol. 111 No. 13 Tuesday, July 20, 2010 30 cents off campus
Officer's record questioned
By Brendan McNally
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
An attorney is questioning the
credibility of a state trooper who
filed a criminal complaint in May
against a Boalsburg man charged
in connection to a string of Centre
County robberies.
Dmitriy Litvinov, 23; Maksim
Illarionov, 21; and Alexei
Semionov, 23, were charged in
connection to a several armed
robberies occurring at local busi-
The Millenium Science Complex is scheduled to open in the summer of 2011. The 275,000 square foot building, set on the corner of Bigler
Road and Pollock Road, will serve as the main hub for the Life Sciences and the Material Sciences' faculty and students. When completed,
the structure will have three floors housing facilities for infectious disease, animal research, neuroengineering and several other labs.
Ticket
options
missing
A glitch prevented sen
iors from ordering two
add-on options.
By Zach Geiger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The misprinted "Whitehouse"
on the September 25 Penn State
v. Temple game ticket is not the
first error in this year's online
football ticket sales.
"Buying and managing season
tickets online is entirely new,"
Associate Athletic Director Greg
Myford said. "It's taken some
getting used to from both
Athletics and the student body"
This season's ticket sale began
on Monday, June 21 starting
with the senior class.
Upperclassmen were able to
order tickets through
Ticketmaster.com using their
Penn State student ID to verify
their class status. At the online
checkout students were given
the option to purchase season
football tickets as well as basket
ball tickets and the official White
Out T-shirt except the add-ons
proved to be a challenge for
many seniors.
"For the first hour of the sen
ior sale on the first day, only the
football ticket could be ordered,"
Myford said. "The system was
not allowing for other items."
The senior% weren't alone
the junior class sale was also
affected during the ticket sale
process, Myford said.
"Each sale was inexplicably
assessed an international sur
charge of $2 per order," Myford
said.
Meaning, instead of paying
$2lB for season tickets, an extra
$2 fee was charged during the
See TICKETS, Page 2.
nesses and residences from
November 2009 to March 2010,
according to court documents.
Litvinov's attorney Karen Muir
said in Centre County court dur
ing a hearing Monday that she
received a letter from the
Pennsylvania State Police (PSP).
Muir said the letter stated that
Trooper Leigh Barrows who in
May authored the court docu
ments detailing Litvinov's
charges was disciplined in 1992
for making dishonest statements
Courtesy of Natalia Pilato
Painters work on the mural that is set to go on display on the corner of Beaver Avenue and Fraser Street.
Mural attracts art lovers
By Kathleen Loughran
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Local art activist Tyler Wagner
said State College is a "launch
pad."
Because of the borough's
strong community and ties to
Penn State, people's dreams
"begin to take flight," Wagner
said.
With help from the community,
the Community Arts Collective
conceived the theme Dreams
Area caverns entice families, PSU spelunkers
Series note: This is the sec
ond in a five-part series that
explores unusual summer
activities.
The caves are naturally held at
a constant 52 degrees and serve
as a refreshing refuge from the
Penn State student adventur- heat waves and temperature
ers unfazed by the dark depths of highs common to State College
Pennsylvania may find some- summers, she said.
thing more welcoming than the Visitors to Penn's Cave are
caverns' beauty underground offered tours of the limestone
like relief from the summer heat, covered caverns by motorboat,
By Anita Modi
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
said Terri Schleiden, marketing led past formations enhanced by Courtesy of pennseave.com
director for Penn's Cave. See CAVE, Page 2. Explorers take a boat tour through limestone formations in Penn's Cave.
in an administrative interview actions taken against Barrows.
No further information about Muir said she may want to use
the nature of the Barrows' mis- the file to bring the trooper's cred
conduct was disclosed during the ibility into question during a later
hearing. Barrows was not present trial.
at the hearing. Barrows filed a criminal corn-
Muir said she wanted Centre plaint in May that said Litvinov
County District Judge Jonathon took part in an armed robbery of
Grine, who presided over the 30- The Dollar General Store in
minute hearing, to order Centre Centre Hall, Pa.
County District Attorney Stacy Grine did not make a decision
Parks Miller to release the troop- in the hearing yesterday and told
er's personnel record that con- the attorneys to submit written
tains details of any disciplinary See TROOPER, Page 2.
Take Flight for a new commu
nity mural, to be located on the
corner of Beaver Avenue and
Fraser Street, said Wagner, the
group's fundraising coordinator.
Though Wagner has helped
with the project from the begin
ning, he said Artistic Director
Elody Gyekis and Executive
Director Natalia Pilato are the
"leadership of this project."
"Those two gals really are the
ones who are responsible for how
successful this project has been,"
Wagner said. "My role has really
been one of support."
Pilato also said the idea for the
theme came because it fit per
fectly for the State College com
munity.
"We felt Ake State College is a
place where things start and kind
of shape, and a lot of people move
away and come back and sort of
migrate to and from the area,"
she said. "People come here to
aspire. Dreams are taking flight
See MURAL Page 2.
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Council member Peter Morris
discusses the West End Monday.
West
End
stalls
By Zach Geiger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Monday night's State College
Borough Council Meeting
attempted to tackle the issues
surrounding the West End
Development program, but ulti
mately ended with the council
deciding to hold off on the vote.
The proposal, which would
alter building standards in the
West End of State College, was
supposed to be approved by the
council ahead of an undeter
mined public hearing on the
proposal.
Planning Director Carl Hess
presented the latest plan for
the West End to the council
Monday night. The original plan
was revised following a July 12
council meeting that proposed
changes in subdivision zoning
and revised height restrictions,
Hess said.
"I'd rather not push this back
again," Borough Council
President Ron Filippelli said.
See ORDINANCE, Page 2.
Webster's
resolution
approved
By Paul Osolnick
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The State College Borough
Council adopted a resolution
that stated the importance of
Webster's Book
store Café to the
downtown com-
munity at its
meeting last
The resolu
tion "Support of
Webster's
Bookstore Café"
received a unan-
imous vote of approval from the
council. The final version of the
resolution was an edited version
of the original proposed by
Webster's patron and supporter
Joel Solkoff.
Borough Council President
Ron Filippelli made the changes
to the resolution drafted by
Solkoff and was advised by coun
cil member Peter Morris, cut
ting the resolution down to three
paragraphs.
See WEBSTER'S, Page 2