2 I TUESDAY, JULY 20, 2010 Park Avenue to undergo construction Park Avenue will be under construction from July 26 to August 12 as the Pennsylvania Department Of Transportation will be repaving the road between 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. Construction will cause intermittent lane restric tions, Office of Physical Plant spokesman Paul Ruskin said. Repairs to various sidewalks and curb ramps will also be completed during the construction period, Ruskin said. "Motorists traveling on Park Avenue should use caution and allow extra time to reach their destination," Ruskin said. Transformer box short-circuits An electrical transformer box short-circuited at 9:34 p.m. Sunday in the intramural fields, causing the box to smoke and lights to go out in nearby buildings, Penn State police said. Police did not say what buildings lost power or whether the short-circuit caused any damage elsewhere. Police: Female student harassed A Penn State student told police she was being harassed by a male acquaintance at 12:30 a.m. Sunday in Beaver Hall, Penn State police said Police did not say if the male was also a Penn State stu dent. Police did not say what the nature of the harassment was New Philly tugboat operator hired PHILADELPHIA The city of Philadelphia says it has hired a new tugboat operator for a sludge-hauling contract following this month's fatal crash on the Delaware River. Doug Oliver, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Nutter, says McAllister Towing & Transportation Co., based in Gloucester City N.J., will provide service on a month-to-month basis. He says K-Sea Transportation agreed to suspend its con tract pending findings of a National Transportation Safety Board investigation. K-Sea Transportation did not immediately return rails seeking comment Monday. The city says it is ordering the new company to post look outs on the barges. K-Sea Transportation has not said whether there was a lookout on the barge on July 7, when a barge struck a duck boat with 37 people aboard. _ The duck boat capsized and sank, and two Hungarian tourists died. Senior citizens die parachuting PHILADELPHIA A retired ironworker and a 70-year-old friend who had been skydiving together for years were killed when their parachutes got tangled during a weekend jump. George Flynn, 75, of Colonia, N.J., had jumped approxi mately 1,500 times since learning to skydive about 16 years ago, his daughter, Diane Sievert, said Monday. Flynn and Theodore Wilson, of New Rochelle, N.Y., were skydiving in the Pocono Mountains on Saturday when their parachutes got tangled and they tumbled about 75 feet to the ground, authorities said. Wilson was declared dead upon impact on Saturday. Flynn was flown in on Sunday. The jump was organized by Sky's the Limit skydiving at the Stroudsburg-Pocono Airport in East Stroudsburg, about 70 miles north of Philadelphia. 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On the World Wide Web Board of Editors Board of Managers Extended forecast at NVe ather: Toda y; 83 Tonight 1 1 Tomorrow: Low 64 fuel 85 campusweatherservice.com Courtesy of Campus Weather Service < • • Trooper From Page 1. arguments within the next 15 days. • Parks Miller argued against the order, saying that the file may con tain personal information like med ical records that should not be made public. She suggested that the file be sub mitted to the court, which would make a decision about what information in the file if any would be relevant to the defendant's case. But Muir did not accept that com promise. "[Previous cases] say that the prosecutor or the judge do not make the decision on what evidence is needed to defend my client," Muir said after the hearing. Parks Miller said in court she was not aware of any disciplinary action history that was up against Barrows. and said her office has previously destroyed Barrows' per sonnel file because of an expunge ment order. The file is currently in the posses- Ordinance From Page 1 The plan for West End State College will affect the entire com munity, Hess said. But, numerous council members expressed concern over the revised plan. "I have a problem mandating this for the first time in this com munity," council member Donald Halm said. Council member Peter Morris also questioned the zoning ordi- Webster's From Page 1 Solkoff said he heartily approved the changes, which cut out his per sonal statements about the book store, but kept the sections that would represent the council's opin ion. "I thought the condensation rep resented an improvement," Solkoff said. "It got the point across." Solkoff said he hopes the cafe will find a new location to conduct busi ness, but was unsure about the pos- Tickets From Page 1 junior class sale on June 22. What triggered the extra fee is unknown but all accounts affected have since been reimbursed, Myford said. "This occurred solely during the junior sale on the second day," Myford said. "Most importantly, the glitch was caught early and should not have resulted in any student being assessed the $2 fee without also being credited that amount." In addition to the online transac tion errors that plagued the first half of the sale, a physical misprint on the season tickets also caught fans off-guard. The September 25 Penn State vs. Temple game was mistakenly labeled as the White House game, Myford said. A printing error resulted in the words "Whitehouse" and "Everyone wear white!" being printed on the Cave From Page 1 light effects over the course of an hour "It's an attraction that appeals to people of all ages and backgrounds," Schleiden said. "We often see three different generations in one family come out to the caves, and hear as many as three different languages being spoken on one boat." psucollegian.com Trained staffers conduct the tours three to four times a day, livening up the trip by intertwining Native American legends with their accounts of the caves' history and descriptions of the limestone forma tions. While the majority of summer vis itors include local families and chil dren attending Penn State-hosted camps, Schleiden said college stu dents venture to Penn's Cave as well. Because the site is just 20 min utes away from campus, fraterni- Mural Elizabeth Murphy Alex Weisler ...Jared Shanker Katie Sullivan ....Edgar Ramirez Kevin Cirilli Laura Nichols Chris Zook From Page 1 and maybe they fly away and go somewhere else or they develop here and become wonderful." The mural is not just for Pilato and Gyekis' to create. Though the pair created the lay out of the mural, the design was transferred into Photoshop to make one large paint-by-numbers type of mural so that people can come and paint an available mural paneL The mural painting sessions opened during the Central Pennsylvania Astival of the Arts, and Pilato said the response has Bill Landis ....Andrew Robinson Heather Schmelzlen Jenna Ekdahl Steph Witt Kelsey Thompson Alissa Nemzer ....Julia Brondani ....Brittany Thrush ..Danielle Meyers LOCAL sion of the state police, Parks Miller said during the hearing Muir said she was confident that there had been disciplinary action taken against the officer. "It's not a suspicion, it's not a hunch, it's not a rumor," Muir told the judge. "It's an actual admission by the PSP" Parks Miller also said the person nel file should not be admissible as evidence in court because the disci plinary action taken against Barrows if there was any does not relate directly to the case Litvinov is facing. Litvinov, who has not yet posted his $lOO,OOO straight cash bail, was present at the hearing. He sat handcuffed and clad in a red Centre County Correctional Facility prisoner's uniform but did not speak for the duration of the hearing. Litvinov has been charged with seven counts of felony robbery, seven counts of felony criminal con spiracy to commit robbery, one count of felony theft by unlawful tak ing, two counts of misdemeanor nance in relation to Penn State's own design plans moving forward. The redevelopment and zoning plan in neighboring Ferguson Township was also addressed by the council. At the close of Monday's meeting, the council was unable to come to a vote on the ordinance. The council managed to pass the Campus Development Standards proposal without any disagree ment. The proposal will establish guidelines for setbacks on proper ties located on campus that are not owned by the university, such as sibility of a return of Webster's. Solkoff proposed adopting the res olution on July 12 after his request to the council to enter into negotia tions with the building landlord and bookstore owner was denied. After Mayor Elizabeth Goreham read the proposed resolution aloud, it was met with few questions by the council as the proposed resolution simply asked the council to support the bookstore. Along with conveying the support of the council to the bookstore, the resolution stated the influence it has to the community as a "center for ticket without the university being consulted, Myford said. "Since those same words appeared on last year's lowa ticket, I'm speculating that the artwork was done for this year and the word overlay from last year was never altered," Myford said. The misprint on the White House event was not a major concern for the Athletic Department, and no other misprints were found on the tickets, Myford said. Season tickets have already been mailed out, and the misprint affects only season ticket holders, Myford said. A picture of the ticket proclaiming the White House event would be held during the Temple game sur faced on Twitter over the weekend and caught student representatives of Paternoville off-guard, Paternoville President Alex Cohen said. "If it didn't say 'Everyone wear white!' no one would have known," ties, sororities and other student organizations often plan group tours at the caves and adjoining wildlife park Neil Carney, manager of Indian Caverns in Spruce Creek, Pa., said Penn State's own Nittany Grotto club members have frequented the caves. The members of the club, intend ed for experienced cavers, are trained in climbing and navigation and are equipped with helmets and headlamps. The side passageways of the cve are distinct from the main limestone passageways on which tours are given throughout the day, as they feature tight tunnels and steep pitches lined in clay and mud that only experienced cavers would know how to traverse safely. Certified cave explorers not affili ated with the Nittany Grotto can similarly trek through the inlets of Indian Caverns by scheduling a visit over the phone or by acquiring writ- been strong so far Painters have ranged in diversity from community members to visitors from countries like China and Korea, she said. "Some people really dedicate themselves to the color and won't leave until they paint every section of their color," Pilato said. The design for the mural incorpo rates the four seasons, and Pilato said the first season is nearly com plete. Painting sessions occur every Wednesday from 1 to 3 p.m. and every Thursday from 1 to 3 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. Group sessions are also available, she said. In order to construct the mural, the Community Arts Collective THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Dmitriy Litvinov exits a police car. criminal mischief for damaging property, according to court docu ments. He is also facing five additional charges in connection to robberies that were reported between December 2009 and February 2010, according to court documents. To e-mail reporter: bwmsl47@psu.edu fraternity houses, State College Mayor Elizabeth Goreham said. The council also heard a presen tation from Susquehanna Real Estate President & CEO Jack Kay and Vice President Tim Fulton on the progress of the Fraser Centre Project. In addition to altering the layout of office floors and hotel space, the revised plan calls for a bridge link ing the proposed Fraser Centre to the Beaver Ave. Parking Garage from the roof of each structure. To e-mail reporter: zjgsol2@psu.edu social, cultural and intellectual activities, and a focus on promoting local goods and service." "This borough council thanks Elaine Meder-Wilgus [Webster's owner] for her contribution to the borough," Goreham read to the council. 'And sincerely hopes that the spirit of Webster's will return soon to a new location in downtown State College." Meder-Wilgus could not be reached for comment as of press time Monday. To e-mail reporter: prosoo4@psu.edu Cohen said. "One single tweet can spread like wildfire." Even with the problems that plagued the 2010 football season ticket sale, the benefits of the online sale far outweigh the negatives, Myford said. "The students were very outspo ken that we come up with a solution to the rampant scalping of student tickets paperless ticketing has done that," Myford said. The online sale has allowed for every student that wants to pur chase a ticket to have a fair chance without having to deal with students turning over their season tickets at a huge profit, Myford said. This year's problems were small compared to the overall results of the sale, Myford said. "With each passing year, online ticketing and paperless entry to the games will become the new 'nor mal,' Myford said. To e-mail reporter: zjgsol2@psu.edu ten permission, Carney said. Those unqualified to explore the caves solo are still eligible to tour the largest limestone cavern in Pennsylvania with trained guides knowledgeable in Indian Caverns' rich geological and Native American histories. The tours, lasting between 45 minutes and an hour, provide visi tors of all ages with a glimpse into the lives of four different Indian tribes who used the caverns to store meat, Carney said. Some caverns are still adorned with etched pictographs depicting the life of a prominent chief, along side the caves' natural limestone walls. "Our guides give interpretive tours, pointing out shapes and pat terns in the rock formations as though they were clouds," Carney said. "They've even seen weddings cakes." To e-mail reporter: arms373@psu.edu received funding from many donors including the Centre County Community Foundation and the bor ough of State College.. Even though the initiative took a lot of planning, Gyekis said her favorite part is having other people participate in the painting. "My favorite part is once we're finally started and having people come in and paint... people having fun and being a part of the project," Gyekis said. "[lt's] really fun and easy and anyone can do it. [lt's great] to be a part of something that is going to last forever in State College." To e-mail reporter: krlslo6@psu.edu Collegian file photo
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