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Game day parking rates to rise
By Casey McDermott
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Penn State officials hope
increasing parking fees at Beaver
Stadium will make life easier for
tailgaters, but some football fans
say it’s just another expense that
makes it more difficult to keep
their traditional game day rou
tines.
Parking passes bought on game
day will now cost twice as much as
they did in 2009 $4O for cars, $BO
for RVs and $l2O for buses,
Shops tell tale of downtown changes
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The future of downtown State
College has some local business
owners concerned about the via
bility and staying power of “mom
and-pop” shops.
Some say more chain stores
have set up shop in State College
in recent years.
And they worry it will be at
the expense of locally owned ven
ues.
Amanda August/Collegian
The Wienermobile stopped by Penn State last year.
Students drive
hot dog car
across nation
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
When Penn State graduates Kylie Nellis and
Tera Zeishauser drive on the highway in their cur
rent vehicle, they get plenty of honks, cheers and
photo requests.
That’s because Nellis and Zeishauser, both Class
of 2010, are Oscar Mayer Hotdoggers. As hotdog
gers, they’re touring the country in the
Wienermobile for a year, handing out stickers,
coupons and hot dog whistles.
This year, three Penn State graduates were
selected out of more than 1,000 applicants for the
job.
But they’re not the first.
Penn State graduate Mary Kate DeCoursey,
Class of 2009, said the year she spent cruising
through 28 states in the Wienermobile was one of
the best experiences in her life.
All three women said there’s nothing better than
making a person’s day simply by showing up in the
Wienermobile.
Associate Athletic Director Greg
Myford said.
Single-game advance passes for
RV drivers doubled to $4O, an
increase from the $2O price in
2009.
Myford said the increases
reflect the size of an RV which
takes up four car spaces that cost
$lO a piece.
The Day of Game change isn’t
an effort to generate additional
revenue, Myford said. In fact, he
said, there’s a possibility of no rev
enue increase for the Athletic
Chain Store Invasion
Abercrombie
Starbucks. Panera Bread
When students first come to
Penn State, they might see some
names familiar from their home
town mall or shopping center.
And State College locals say
they are seeing the same trend.
State College Mayor Elizabeth
Goreham said she has seen more
chain stores come to the down
town area in recent years.
See WIENERMOBILE, Page 2.
The new rates
Car/SUV: $4O in 2010, $2O in
2009
RV: $BO in 2010, $BO 2009
Bus: $l2O in 2010, $6O in
2009
Source: PSU Athletic Office
Department if more people choose
the cheaper option and purchase
their passes ahead of time.
Some local business owners
agree that chain stores are work
ing their way into the permanent
downtown structure but that’s
because local patrons are not giv
ing enough support to local busi
ness.
Chili’s.
Smaller businesses are having
trouble competing with chain
brands, particularly in terms of
advertising, local business owner
Doug Kifolo said. Kifolo, owner of
Happy Valley Freez, 234 E.
College Ave, said locals are not
Dance group gives
local kids tiyouts
By Kathleen Loughran
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
It’s the chance of a lifetime.
At 10 a.m. on Aug. 7 in Eisenhower
Auditorium, children ages nine to 12 will
have the opportunity to audition to be a
part of a performance by RIOULT, a New
York City-based modem dance company.
The company features the choreogra
phy of Pascal Rioult, who once performed
with the legendaiy Martha Graham
Dance Company.
From the audition, 12 children will be
selected to perform with the company in
its performance of “Small Steps, Tiny
Revolutions,” said Amy Vashaw, Center
for the Performing Arts audience and pro
gram development director.
“[The performance] is
DJs mashup fun, variety in the club
Series note: This is the last in a
four-part series about party-related
jobs.
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Fall on the dance floor, and they see.
Bust out your Jane Fonda moves, and
they’re watching. Go crazy for the song
blasting through the speakers, and
they’re ecstatic.
They’re local DJs and they say they
wouldn’t trade their bird’s-eye view of the
party on the dance floor for anything.
giving the “mom and pop” shops
enough attention.
As Webster’s Bookstore Cafe,
128 S. Allen St., faces closing,
Kifolo said he has seen an out
pouring of support for the local
business.
But he wants to know where
the support for local businesses is
at other times.
“All these people who are writ
ing letters to the editor saying we
need to support local businesses,
See SHOPS, Page 2.
Performers act a scene from RIOULT.
about a boy who sort of escapes his reali
ty into his own creative, imaginary world
where it is a safe place for him to dance
See RIOULT, Page 2.
essentially
“It’s a drug. I’m addicted to it,” Penn
State student and DJ Rahim Blocker
said. “I’d do an event for free. I just love
spinnin’.”
The experience is even more of a lure
than the money, he said.
Blocker is about to take on a regular
DJ position at the Lion’s Den, Washington D.C.-based DJ Super Nova
See DJS, Page 2. mixes some music at a club.
“The best-case scenario for us
is that we don’t realize any addi
tional revenue,” Myford said.
“We realize a benefit in how
we’re able to move fans in
off the roads and in off the
parking lot with a smoother opera
tion.”
Deputy Director of Penn State
Police Tyrone Parham helps
direct the thousands of cars that
flock to Penn State parking lots at
home games. Advance permits
make a big difference when it
See PARKING, Page 2.
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Penn State tailgaters enjoy food
outside their stationed trailor.
CATA to
increase
revenue
Buses will
raise prices
By Nathan Pipenberg
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Students who take the bus for
trips around town and off-cam
pus will soon find themselves
scrambling to find another quar
ter in their pockets.
On Sunday, the price for a one
way ride on CATA buses will
increase from $1.25 to $1.50 to
offset rising costs.
Centre Area Transportation
Authority (CATA) Marketing
Manager Jacqueline Sheader
said most Penn State students
purchase bus passes through
their apartment complexes
rather than directly from CATA.
These prices may also
increase, but are usually
attached to the price of an apart
ment lease, CATA Board of
Directors Chairman John
Spychalski said at an April public
hearing concerning the fare
increase.
Eares for monthly, semester
and yearlong passes will also
increase, as will fares for the
taxi-like service called
CATARIDE.
CATARIDE fares will rise
from $1.50 to $2.00 for senior citi
zens and from $2.50 to $3.00 for
disabled passengers.
Members of the general public
will see fares jump from $lO to
$13.35 per one-way trip.
The increase is the first hike in
bus fares in eight years, CATA
General Manager Hugh Mose
said.
At the April meeting there
was little public input, either pos
itive or negative. No students
were in attendance, and only two
community members spoke.
In the months following the
meeting, the fare increase was
approved as part of the yearly
budget process.
In May, Mose presented the
budget to all nine local munici
palities that CATA serves.
Mose said he received gener
ally positive feedback from the
municipalities. Rinding from
municipalities increased five
percent overall, Mose said.
Though the municipalities
provide only a small amount of
funding, Spychalski said federal
and state funding only increases
when local funding does as well.
Before the local increase,
Mose said local funding amounts
to about $340,000, while federal
and state allocations reach near
ly $6 million. This year’s increase
should provide $17,000 in addi
tional local funding, Mose said.
To e-mail reporter: ndpso4s@psu.edu