2 I Tuesday, July 27,2010 Police: Man’s phone stolen A man living at 705 Edgewood Circle reported Sunday that his phone had been stolen and several hundred dollars of phone calls had been made on the phone, the State College Police Department said. Police did not say what the exact value of the total calls made was. Downtown bar cited for loud music The Mezzanine, 420 E. College Ave., has been cited by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement (PBLCE) for playing music that could be heard from outside the establishment on May 19, according to a PBLCE press release. The charges could result in up to a $5,000 fine, according to the release. Police seize 2,000 marijuana plants FRIEDENS State police have seized more than 2,000 marijuana plants found growing in a wooded area of south western Pennsylvania. State police in Somerset say a private landowner tipped them off to the plants, which were found in the middle of an 1,800-acre tract that can only be accessed by all-terrain vehi cles. Police say they also found two campsites nearby, but they aren’t saying who owns the land or the campsites and they’ve not charged anybody in connection with the plants. Police announced the find Monday, but say they were alert ed to the plants a week ago. Some of the plants were in the ground, while others were being grown in small plastic cups. Police say they seized 2,376 of the plants. The tract is in Stonycreek Township, about 60 miles south east of Pittsburgh. Geese causing sanitation issues ALBION Officials at a state prison in northwestern Pennsylvania prison say they’re having a harder time keeping geese out of the facility than they are keeping prisoners inside. Officials at the State Correctional Institution at Albion say an abundance of geese droppings are creating a sanitary problem inside the prison and in the parking lot outside. The inmates have been cleaning up the mess, but it’s so big the U.S. Department of Agriculture is being asked to help. Harris Glass, a USDA official, says a crew is being sent to the prison about 20 miles southwest of Erie to use “nonlethal” techniques to scare the geese away. That will include pyrotechnics, propane cannons and trained dogs. That’s expected to take about three months. Erie beaches to temporarily close ERIE Swimmers will have to be more choosy this week when visiting Presque Isle State Park in Erie. That’s because three beaches will be closed through Thursday so crews can replenish sand on them. Beaches 9 and 10 and a third at the Sunset Point area are affected by the work. The beaches are being closed primarily because there will be a lot of truck traffic in the area to bring the sand to those beaches. All the park’s beaches will remain open on weekends while the sand replenishment work continues. Ambulance crashes into creek COWANSHANNOCK Police in western Pennsylvania are investigating a crash involving an ambulance that ended up in a creek. Armstrong County emergency dispatchers say the ambu lance crashed around 5 a.m. Monday in Cowanshannock, about 50 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The ambulance was transported a patient at the time. Another ambulance took the patient to a hospital but the driver was unhurt. State police are investigating. Theft: A Macbook laptop was reported stolen at 6:07 a.m. Saturday from an apartment at 425 Waupelani Drive, the State College Police Department said. Correction: An article “Cafe seeking new location” on page 1 of Thursday’s Daily Collegian unclearly stated the State College Downtown Improvement District’s involvement with assisting Webster’s Bookstore Cafe in its attempt to relocate. The organization will assist Webster’s in securing funding from outside sources to re-open in a new location. Follow us on Twitter for up-to-the-moment news. www.twitter.com/dailycolleglan \\ The Daily Collegian Collegian Inc. James Building, 123 S. Burrowes St., University Park, PA 16801-3882 The Daily Collegian Online, which can be found atwww.psucollegian.com, is updat ed daily with the information published in the print edition. It also contains expand ed coverage, longer versions of some stories and letters, Web-only features and pre vious stories from our archives. Our site features full News and Business division list ings and e-mail addresses. 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In it, DeWeese acknowledged hav ing campaign fundraising special ists on his staff and expressed regret over a successful campaign to remove Ralph Nader from the 2004 presidential ballot in Pennsylvania. It was an effort that enlisted leg islative employees during work hours. "Looking back, it was wrong they shouldn't have done it, but it was part of the political culture on Capitol Hill," DeWeese told the jury, according to the transcript read by erty in the days prior to its sale and Deveney said he is hoping to have a general cosmetic disrepair, building plaque installed, commemorating renovations would have cost the uni- the historical significance and mem versity millions of dollars, Mountz ories behind the the property, the university has decided to get rid said. The demolition of the house is of it,” Wendkos (senior-marketing Sandy Deveney, a member of the planned to be completed by mid and psychology) said. Phi Delta Theta alumni board of August and the “green space” will But university officials said directors, said he would rather see be worked on throughout the fall restoring the house would be too the house restored to its former semester, Mountz said. Demolition From Page 1, costly. Because of vandalism to the prop- Arson From Page 1. Police said they have been waiting for test results of evidence collected by investigators in that arson results that police said could help them determine exactly what accel erant was used to start the fire. Police could not say how long it will be before the crime lab finishes its analysis. In the meantime, the State College Police are continuing with their investigation in other ways. State College resident David Wise, 18, said police contacted him sometime last week to conduct an interview about the arson that Bus From Page 1 “We recognized over the years that we need to stay modem.” While other bus companies offer similar amenities, Weisman said Rillington offers superior customer service with live telephone opera tors, effective lost-and-found servic es, excellent on-time records and terminals. Weisman said the combination of on-time schedules and indoor termi nals offers travelers a superior alternative to curbside service offered by other companies by pro viding an escape from the extreme temperatures during the year. South Halls From Page 1 Latta said there would also be some architecture changes to add some “character, class and warmth” to the buildings so they aren’t as lin ear. University spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz said she was not aware of any further plans to expand on-campus housing. Plans to convert Simmons Dining Hall into a living space are sched uled to go forward, Garvin said. The project, which is expected to begin in the spring, is expected to psucollegian.com Bouncer From Page 1. While escorting people from the bar can cause problems, Petraitis said the tougher job is keeping peo ple out. “The main problem is whenever we don’t let people in because they’re too drunk,” Petraitis said. “I’ve seen a guy come up to me in the morning after a football week end with puke all over his shirt.” Petraitis said that while kicking people out is sometimes difficult, kicking women out is usually more difficult than men. .Elizabeth Murphy Alex Weisler ....Jared Shanker Katie Sullivan Edgar Ramirez Kevin Cirilli Laura Nichols Chris Zook .Bill Landis .....Andrew Robinson .Heather Schmelzlen Jenna Ekdahl Steph Witt Petraitis said he keeps his hands in. his pockets and just asks the women to leave to avoid them from getting angry. Blake Hopkins, a Phyrst bouncer, echoed the statement that women are more difficult to escort out of the bar. .Kelsey Thompson Alissa Nemzer ....Julia Brondani ....Brittany Thrush ...Danielle Meyers LOCAL By Mark Scolforo ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER “A technique that I use if a girl is deputy attorney general Michael A. Sprow. DeWeese also told the grand jury that some state Senate employees had their official Capitol phone num bers listed in Campaigns & Elections magazine. His attorney asked Linglestown District Judge Wiliam Wenner to order prosecutors to produce the entire 203-page transcript of DeWeese's testimony, so he could put it into proper context. Defense attorney Bill Costopoulos said that transcript, along with "prof fer" notes from DeWeese’s previous meetings with the attorney gener al’s office, would show that DeWeese has maintained the campaign work performed by his staff was done using compensatory time, and not on taxpayers' dime. "I always asked for vacation days, for personal days and to make sure people were using comp hours, so that’s why I feel solid in my circum stance," DeWeese told reporters after the hearing. He said he can produce numerous witnesses to back up his recollec tion. Prosecutors argued that grand jury rules prevented them from releasing the transcript overnight, but they offered to have an agent wait with Costopoulos and Wenner while they read it. The judge refused grandeur. But if that doesn’t happen, destroyed an unmarked police vehi cle. Wise said he met with police in the State College Borough Municipal Building for a 15-minute interview with an officer. Police asked Wise where he had been at the time of the July 18 arson, but Wise said he was at home with his parents, Wise said. Wise did not know why police decided to interview him, he said. Wise said he is leaving for Marine Corps boot camp in two weeks. Police were also able to identify through a tip last week two other men of interest to their investigation that were seen on surveillance footage in a State College parking garage “at or around the time” that “A lot of times, if you’re curbside service, you will not have a termi nal,” Weisman said. “We have a ter minal, we have employees at the ter minal, we feel that having a terminal is the better way to go.” Dale Moser, president of Coach USA and Megaßus.com, said Megaßus provides about 70 depar tures and arrivals every week in State College. Moser said Megaßus has become popular with students over the past few months with tickets starting at $1 and amenities like free Wi-fi and plug in outlets for electronics. “Even if you don’t get $1 seats, you get some other discount,” Moser said. “It’s hugely popular.” Moser said the company has create about 70 dorm rooms, she said. These projects come after anoth er year of increased requests to live on-campus. Room assignments were posted on eliving.psu.edu yesterday and about 900 students were assigned to supplemental housing, Garvin said. The number of students in supple mental housing has increased as popularity and demand for on-cam pus housing has risen. Until more housing options are available, the housing office will try to do all they can to make students comfortable, Garvin said. As regular dorm space becomes too drunk to be in the bar I’ll go up to her friends,” Hopkins said. “Because most of the time, there’ll be one sober friend and I’ll talk to her and she’ll deal with the situation and get her out of here so there is no problem.” Hopkins said he escorts someone out of the bar a couple of times a night during the school year, but during the summer it is more relaxed. Hopkins said escorting people from the bar is the toughest part, because many are too drunk to understand. “The worst part is dealing with drunk people who are out of control and don’t understand what’s going on,” Hopkins (senior-telecommuni cations) said. “You’re trying to tell them, but you can’t really get through to them. You try to be calm.” Hopkins said one of his main responsibilities is to check the IDs of people entering the bar, but he also The Daily Collegian Costopoulos' request, the prosecu tion rested and the felony charges against DeWeese of theft, conspira cy and conflict of interest were for warded to Dauphin County court for trial. Earlier Monday, one of DeWeese's former fundraising aides testified that DeWeese reassured him about performing campaign-related work on state time. Kevin Sidella said that in 2002 he and DeWeese were alone in a vehi cle, driving from the state Capitol to DeWeese's apartment, when Sidella asked him about the propriety of the research he was performing. DeWeese's response, Sidella told the judge: "Our saving grace is everybody does it." Sidella, who currently works as a political consultant, said there were times when more than 40 percent of his time on the Legislature's payroll was spent doing campaign work. Sidella described a campaign meeting in DeWeese's Waynesburg home during which DeWeese became angry at a legislative aide for failing to put up enough yard signs. "Bill just yelled out that she should be fired," Sidella said. Another attendee said that would not be legal, Sidella said, but the message was clear to get the yard signs installed. To e-mail reporter: mers2oo@psu.edu the police vehicle was destroyed on July 18. Police have interviewed the two men and said they have cooperated fully with the investigation. Wise said he doesn’t know either of the two men in the surveillance footage from the parking garage. Police have also connected the Marine Corps recruiting office fire to a June 21 incident in which a homemade bomb was left on the trunk of a State College Police Department marked vehicle. That homemade bomb was quick ly extinguished by a State College police officer and caused only minor damage to the cruiser. To e-mail reporter: bwmsl47@psu.edu served more than she million pas sengers in its four years of business and is currently serving about one million passengers every four months. He added that Megaßus.com has given away 9,000 free tickets on var ious trips through September over the past three weeks and will give away another 1,000 tickets as part of a company special to increase trav eling. “It was a promotion to get people out and traveling,” Moser said. “What we wanted to do is to stimu late travel. It was sort of our way to give back and try to get people out and moving.” To e-mail reporter: prosoo4@psu.edu available, students in supplemental —who were notified of their housing placement last year will be offered the opportunity to move. The housing service decides who to offer to leave supplemental by the date that students accepted the offer of admission. This year, the amount of students assigned to supplemental housing is at a “standard” level, Garvin said. With the expected loss of some students, Garvin said supplemental housing will “come to a really good number for everyone to be comfort able.” To e-mail reporter: mers2oo@psu.edu walks around to make sure every one is having a good time and not starting any trouble. Hopkins said the Phyrst uses an ID scanner to ensure that people don’t get in with fake IDs. “People know in this town it’s very hard to get into bars with fake IDs,” Hopkins said. “We catch all of them, because we have that scanner. We’ve taken classes to study fake IDs too. So we know what’s fake and what’s not.” William Conway, a doorman at Gingerbread Man, said the bar catches several fake IDs at the beginning of the semesters, but less after students realize they will get caught. Conway (senior-psychology) said the bar also catches more fake IDs during large events including the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts when the bar caught five fake IDs in one night. To e-mail reporter prosoo4@psu.edu
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