2 I Wednesday, July 28,2010
■VVS IN BRIEF
Students found sleeping under tree
One male student and one female student were found
sleeping under a tree at 12:34 a.m. Hiesday on the HUB-
Robeson Center lawn, Penn State Police said.
Police said they told the two students that camping out
overnight on Penn State property is not allowed and then
told them to leave the area.
The students were not cited, police said.
PSU employee facing preliminary hearing
Penn State employee Daryl Mains, Jr. is facing a prelimi
nary hearing today in connection to indecent exposure
charges, according to court documents.
Penn State Police said Mains was reported to be mastur
bating in a Hammond Building computer lab on June 21 and
was reported to have exposed himself in the HUB-Robeson
Center April 27.
Centre County District Judge Leslie Dutchcot will decide
in the hearing if Mains will face trial on two charges each of
misdemeanor open lewdness and disorderly conduct and
one charge of misdemeanor charge open lewdness, accord
ing to court documents.
Student charged for producing fake IDs
Penn State student Chase Magaziner will have a prelimi
nary hearing today in connection with charges of manufac
turing false identification cards, according to court docu
ments.
Penn State Police said Magaziner distributed at least 11
fake ID cards to Penn State students under the age of 21.
Centre County District Judge Leslie Dutchcot will deter
mine whether to bind Magaziner over for trial in coimection
to a charge of manufacturing or selling false identification
cards, according to court documents.
Former student facing dmg charges
John Murray who police say supplied former Penn
State student Paul Spara with more than 2,000 lbs. of mari
juana is facing a preliminary hearing today in connection
with felony drug charges, according to court documents.
Murray headed a $6 million dollar drug ring that extend
ed from New York to North Carolina, said Eric Shirk,
spokesman for the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office.
Centre County will determine whether to order New York
resident Murray to trial in connection with two charges
each of felony possession with intent to deliver marijuana,
felony corrupt organizations and one count each of felony
criminal conspiracy and felony dealing in proceeds of
unlawful activity.
Man convicted of open lewdness
Christopher Finelli, of Stroudsburg, Pa, was convicted by
a jury on misdemeanor open lewdness charges following a
September 13,2009 incident where he was found naked and
masturbating in a Rec Hall locker room, according to a
press release from the Centre County District Attorney.
Finelli watched a man shower in Rec Hall but did not
shower himself, according to the release.
When the man who was showering left the shower he
found Finelli naked on a bench and then later masturbating
in the restroom area, according to the release.
Auntie Anne’s founder hurt in accident
LANCASTER - Family members say the founder of a
national pretzel franchise was injured in a motorcycle acci
dent in central Pennsylvania over the weekend.
She was taken to a hospital for treatment but was dis
charged Tuesday.
A family blog posted Monday says Auntie Anne's founder
Anne Beiler suffered a concussion, broken collarbone, broken
rib and abrasions to her face.
Better crashed around 8 p.m. Saturday in Gap, Lancaster
County.
The blog says Belier was wearing a helmet but could not
keep her motorcycle upright when she hit a spot of oil
Belier then spun out of control and was forced to crash her
motorcycle.
Lancaster General Hospital spokesman John Lines says
Beiler was discharged Tuesday afternoon.
Lancaster-based Auntie Anne's says it is the world's largest
franchiser of hand-rolled soft pretzels with more than 1,000
locations worldwide.
Correction: An article “Canyon Pizza space could be
rezoned” on Page 1 of Monday’s Daily Collegian unclearly
stated the ramifications of the proposed rezoning of the
space.
If the proposed rezoning plan is passed, Canyon Pizza will
be temporarily displaced, but the shop could move back into
the same location after construction is completed.
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Police: Employee stole PSU funds
A former Penn State administra
tive assistant told police she was
struggling with mounting medical
bills when she stole $2,280 from the
university but now she is out of a
job and facing two felony charges in
connection with the stolen cash.
Lisa Stevenson was fired from her
position at Penn State on May 28
after an internal audit concluded
that she had stolen money that was
meant to be used during a student
trip to Kenya, according to court
documents.
She is charged with one count
each of felony theft and felony
receiving stolen property. She is
also charged with one count each of
misdemeanor theft and misde
meanor receiving stolen property.
Stevenson took the money on her
last day of work before taking a pre
viously scheduled medical leave,
according to court documents.
He said he received no response are intentionally ignoring messages
and e-mailed Poole again on July 16 from SJP/
to ask about the delay, but he still But to Ghrayep, there’s still “a
From Page 1. hasn’t gotten a reply. clear bias.”
school supplies are among the items Poole said he has no record of the “Spanier has clearly taken sides
not allowed in, he said. two Mow-up e-mails from Ghrayep, on this issue,” Ghrayep said.
Ghrayep said he sent Poole and and he said his office tries to “I think we caught him in a con-
Spanier an article on June 8, written respond to each e-mail within one tradiction, and they’re a little
by Human Rights Watch about the business day as is their protocol embarrassed.”
blockade’s effects on education in when it comes to e-mail.
Gaza
Spanier
CATA
From Page 1,
has received questions over the
years concerning whether passen
gers can bring items like multiple
suitcases and bicycles that do not fit
in the bike rack.
“All sorts of questions have come
up,” Mose said. “We’ve been trying
to get our arms around a concise
policy that everybody could agree to
and that the bus drivers could
adhere to uniformly.”
Mose said the proposed policy
which was planned to go into effect
for the fall —was delayed for further
discussion after several members of
the community stated their opposi
tion to the policy.
Saftey
From Page 1.
get movie theaters and downtown
businesses to give discount tickets
or prices for students.
The IFC may adopt some new
policies as welL
IFC President Max Wendkos said
his vice president for risk manage
ment Tom Piarulli is looking
into policies in place at other univer
sities as well as talking to Penn
State risk management professors.
Piarulli (senior-security and risk
analysis) said nothing is official at
this point. He said the IFC may
make policy changes to address
community concerns regarding
noise and litter, as well as refine last
year’s policy changes.
Last year, the IFC altered its
social policy to reduce the emphasis
on alcohol.
The new policy eliminated
Wednesday social functions and
away bars and required both guests
Obesity
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year. This research is targeted at
grades kindergarten through 12,
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The Penn State dining halls have
also been doing their part to make
healthier choices available to stu
dents. .They have made several
health improvements for this year,
Director of Residential Dining Lisa
Wandel said.
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These changes include offering
two vegetables at lunch as opposed
Bartenders
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At the Phyrst, 111 1/2 E. Beaver
Ave., bartender and shift manager
Richard Peat echoed Cooper’s
statement.
“We’re a tight-knit family,” Peat,
Class of 2007, said.
Different bartenders from multi
ple downtown bars typically come to
the Phyrst on Sunday to drink and
relax, Peat said.
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The students come to the bar for
two big reasons —to celebrate their
21st birthdays and to see local bands
perform, Peat said.
“I love that we have live music
eveiy night,” he said. “We’re the
busiest bar in town eveiy day.”
Apart from birthday celebrations,
the Phyrst is a traditional Irish bar
with an old-fashioned style that
makes working there special, Peat
said.
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Stevenson was an administrative
support assistant in the College of
Engineering, Penn State
spokesman Geoffrey Rushton said.
Engineering professor Khanjan
Mehta first noticed that the funds
were missing, according to court
documents.
On April 20, Mehta contacted
Stevenson who was in charge of
collecting the money from students
but Mehta was unable to resolve
the issue by speaking with
Stevenson, according to court docu
ments. Mehta then reported the
missing funds to College of
Engineering administrators who
turned the issue over to the Penn
State Department of Internal
Auditing for further investigation,
according to court documents.
Senior Administrator Nathan
Cooke, who headed the internal
audit, confirmed that $2,280 was
missing from the fund that
Stevenson oversaw, according to
court documents.
Penn State replaced the missing
funds so that students could contin-
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The proposed policy could pre
vent passengers from bringing
items like shopping carts onto the
bus.
Snyder said some passengers
mostly senior citizens expressed
concerns about the proposed policy
because it would prevent them from
bringing their groceries onto the
bus if shopping carts were prohibit
ed.
“We decided that a better course
of action to take is to defer imple
menting a new polity until we have a
better opportunity to collect public
input,” Mose said “And make sure
we make the best possible decision
because this is a challenging issue.”
Mose said CATA acknowledges
that many people use the bus sys
tem as their primary source of
to show photo ID before entering a
party and fraternities to register
events and guests by the
Wednesday before the social event.
Both the university police depart
ment and borough officials said they
appreciate the student’s efforts.
Penn State Police Deputy
Director Tyrone Parham said the
police department was supportive of
the work that student leaders are
doing.
Parham said the department does
not necessarily have any new initia
tives for the upcoming year.
But the police will continue to try
to educate students and deter alco
hol-related incidents like overdosing
which he said seems to increase
each year.
Some efforts include having a law
enforcement presence on campus at
night and strict enforcement for
high-risk drinking incidents, like
when a student requires medical
attention or is posing a threat to the
community.
Representatives from UPUA met
to last year’s one, having different
hearty grains available like cous
cous and quinoa, providing smaller
portion sizes and offering certain
foods in halves, Wandel said.
Pre-packaged wraps, salads and
fruits are also available and are in
high demand at the food stores in
the commons, Wandel said.
It is up for the dining halls to pro
vide choices, Wandel said if Penn
State was to take away things like
white bread and potato chips, stu
dents would just go somewhere else
to find them, she said.
It is about modifying students’
interesting because the crowd
ranges from students to alumni, he
said.
Serving a diverse range of
patrons is all part of the job for
Andrew Alvarez at The Deli
Restaurant, 113 Heister St
“We have a steady clientele,”
Alvarez (junior-graphic design) said.
Alumni and students make up the
crowd at The Deli, where patrons
can find a wide selection of good
drinks at good prices, Alvarez said.
But the weekends and the
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the
Arts can stiff be intense, he said.
Even though summer may be a
slower time of year compared to
football weekends, Arts Pest was
one of the biggest weekends of the
year, Alvarez said.
And Arts Fest wasn’t without its
problems Alvarez said he saw a
girl vomit on the sidewalk chalk on
Hiester Street one night
Peat and the other Phyrst bar
tenders operated an Irish Car Bomb
lane throughout the day to
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ue the planned trip to Africa, accord
ing to court documents.
The investigation found that
Stevenson had issued receipts for
$2,280 deposited into the fund from
March 17 to April 29. Those same
receipts ended up totaling the exact
amount missing from the fund,
according to court documents.
On May 8, Cooke interviewed
Stevenson in connection with the
missing funds, according to court
documents. In an interview con
ducted May 30, she later admitted
and told a Penn State Police investi
gator that she had stolen the money,
according to court documents. She
told police the money was stored in
her desk and under her control,
according to court documents.
A secondary internal audit
revealed another $l7O missing from
the funds of another student trip.
She told police she had also taken
that money, according to court docu
ments.
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transportation and will consider that
in determining the policy.
The proposed change in policy
could affect passengers with lug
gage who use the bus system to get
to the Megaßus stop near the
Walmart, 1665 N. Atherton St.
Dale Moser, president of Coach
USA and Megaßus.com, said regu
lating a limit on the amount of lug
gage would be similar to the sane
standards of airlines.
Megaßus currently allows pas
sengers to bring a maximum of one
rolling suitcase and one carry-on for
trips, Moser said.
The proposed CATA policy would
not be implemented until January
2011 at the earliest, Mose said.
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with the State College Police
Department to discuss collaborat
ing to strengthen the message of
safe drinking.
The borough has worked with
UPUA, IFC and the Off-Campus
Student Union in the past, and
Borough Manager Tom Pountaine
said it plans to continue those rela
tionships in the fall.
Pountaine said the borough will
announce new policies relating to
alcohol abuse in about a month.
The pilot program of opening pub
lic restrooms in borough facilities
for 24 hours a day and installing a
few portable toilets at downtown
locations will continue until the end
of the year, he said.
Ragland acknowledged that
changing students attitudes
towards drinking is a difficult task.
“We have to recognize that a lot of
students are coming in with the
mindset of “Oh, I’m going to the No.
1 party school,” Ragland said.
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behavior, not the foods available, she
said.
University Health Services (UHS)
is a resource available to students to
help them make healthier choices.
Beth Collitt, UHS marketing man
ager, said there are two nutritionists
on staff who can be seen by appoint
ment.
Health Works, a peer education
group affiliated with UHS, has done
outreach programs in the cafeterias
and has lobbied the administration
to improve the quality of snacks
available in the dining commons,
Collitt said.
meet the growing crowd at the bar,
Peat said.
Last year while working during
Arts Pest, a patron ran into Cooper,
causing her to drop an entire tray of
drinks.
For Alvarez, bartending is a great
experience, but going out in the
crowded downtown bar scene is a
different story.
“I hate being shoulder-to-shoul
der waiting for a 25 cent draft,”
Alvarez said. “I enjoy being able to
talk to my friends.”
Having patrons in the bar is good
business, but all three bartenders
stressed the importance of watching
out for visibly intoxicated patrons.
That act is something that comes
with the territory of working at a
downtown bar.
“People go out with the intention
of getting wasted, not having a good
time,” Cooper said. “You can go out
and have a few drinks and stiff have
a fun time.”
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