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Pipe to speak at meeting
By Zach Geiger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Pennsylvania congressional
candidate and recent Penn State
graduate Michael Pipe is hosting
a town hall meeting tonight at the
Schlow Centre Region Library to
discuss his campaign with State
College residents.
The town hall meeting in State
College Pipe’s tenth stop on a
tour of the sth Congressional
District is set to begin at 6:30
p.m. and is open to all residents.
The sth Congressional District
is the third largest district east of
the Mississippi and covers a wide
range of constituents across the
state of Pennsylvania, Pipe’s cam
paign manager William Hughes
said. Reaching out to those con
stituents, addressing their con
cerns and getting Pipe’s name
out into the public is one of the
main goals of the town hall series,
Hughes said.
“Our main goal is that Michael
wants to get out there and talk to
the voters,’’ Hughes said. “This is
an excellent way to do that.’’
Each of the nine previous town
hall meetings has been different
from the others, Hughes said.
But in each situation. Pipe likes
to introduce himself to the crowd
and then engage in a dialogue
with the person instead of just a
simple question-and-answer for
mat, Hughes said.
The questions typically range
PSU gets $54 million grant
By Micah Wintner
FOR THE COLLEGIAN
Penn State's College of
Medicine's Department of Public
Health Sciences is using a seven
year grant from the National
Institute of Health to try to
advance asthma research.
The grant, worth $54 million, is
one of the largest in the college’s
history, according to a statement
posted on Penn State Live.
Asthma Net, a group that is part
of the National Institute of Health,
is a collaboration of nine clinical
centers whose goal is to "investi
gate” new therapies for asthma
patients, said Vernon Chinchilli,
Department of Public Health
Sciences chairman.
Families remember volunteer workers killed in Afghanistan
By Kathy Matheson
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
AKRON, Pa. A Mennonite
aid group in Pennsylvania
denied Monday that a member
killed with nine others during a
medical mission in Afghanistan
had tried to convert Muslims to
Christianity.
The Mennonite Central
Committee joined a chorus of
protests over Taliban claims
the volunteers had engaged in
proselytizing.
John Williamson, a repre
sentative with the Akron, Pa
based aid group, dismissed
those claims as “rubbish" after
a morning news conference
about the death of member
Glen Lapp. Lapp, a 40-year-old
nurse from Lancaster, had
been in Afghanistan for nearly
two years.
Lapp was a “very kind, lov
ing, respectful person" who
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from current issues in the sth
Congressional District to the
campaign that Pipe started at
such a young age, Hughes said,
but Pipe making himself available
to the voters and the constituents
in the district is the ultimate
result of the meetings.
“The problems we’re having
here in the district unemploy
ment, high taxes, and a
Washington not listening to its
voters they're the problems we
face not as Democrats or
Republicans, but as neighbors
and friends,” Pipe said. “I’m here
and I’m ready to listen.”
Centre County Democrats
Chairman Greg Stewart said the
group promoted Pipe’s event
through its e-mail lists, website
and Facebook page.
“He’s definitely one of our can
didates,” Stewart said. “We go out
of our way to promote these
events.”
But not everyone expressed
confidence in Pipe's campaign.
Penn State College
Republicans Vice President
Anthony Christina said he was
concerned about Pipe’s lack of
experience.
"He's only been a college grad
uate for a year now." Christina
said. “We don’t really think that he
has what it takes to lead the dis
trict."
Christina said the current
incumbent. Congressman Glenn
Thompson, R-sth District, is a
The Department of Public
Health Sciences was chosen
through a competition with other
research facilities to act
as the data coordinating center
(DCC) for this project, Chinchilli
said.
As the DCC, it is Hershey
Medical’s job to store and man
age data found among the nine
clinical centers.
“Lots of coordination effort
goes into [clinical centers] mak
ing sure things are standardized
and uniformed,” he said.
Asthma Net will work to com
pare different asthma therapies
to see which ones work best for
certain conditions and patients,
he said.
In terms of original research.
spoke Dari, a local language,
and enjoyed sharing stories
with the Afghan people,
Williamson said.
Lapp was among 10 aid
workers six Americans, two
Afghans, one Briton and a
German fatally shot
Thursday after being accosted
by gunmen following a two
week medical mission to help
impoverished villagers in
remote Nuristan province.
“These Afghan villages, I can
assure you, are grieving deeply
this loss," said Ron Flaming,
the committee's international
programs director.
Though trained as a nurse,
Lapp managed logistics for the
International Assistance
Mission, a Kabul-based
Christian charity that organ
ized the trip. An official with the
group said it was authorized to
treat people in the Parun valley
for eye diseases.
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What: Michael Pipe town hall
series
When: Tonight, 6:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m.
Where: Schlow Memorial
Library, Downsbrough Room A
& B
Details: Town hall meeting for
Pipe for Congress
Centre County area native and a
big supporter of Penn State.
Thompson hosted a town hall
meeting last fall but Christina
said he did not know the plans of
the congressman in regards to
future meetings.
But age isn’t a factor in the
campaign, Hughes said.
“People actually seem to
respond well to [Pipe’s] age,” he
said. “There’s a feeling out there
that we need new blood in
Washington.”
The goal of tonight’s town hall
meeting which is open free of
charge to any interested voters
is to express Pipe's goal to bring
change to Washington and take
the time to listen to his con
stituents, Hughes said.
Rep. Thompson’s office did not
return calls for comment by press
time Monday.
To e-mail reporter: zjgsol2@psu.edu
Chinchilli said Asthma Net is still
developing trials.
Asthma Net is still working to
develop trials based off of its two
predecessors, the Asthma
Clinical Research Network
and the Childhood Asthma
Research and Education
Network, he said.
The project started in
September 2009 and will be fund
ed through June 2016, he said.
Penn State makes sure to help
all students with asthma.
Students can receive inhalers at
University Health Services
(UHS), Sam Kelly said.
Kelly (junior-statistics) said he
can get his inhaler at UHS
through a prescription from his
allergist at home.
Director Dirk Frans insisted
there was no attempt to preach
Christianity. He said members
were likely carrying personal
Bibles in English and German
but not in Afghan languages,
as the Taliban alleged.
Some local officials suspect
common criminals carried out
the attack.
The family of Brian
Carderelli, a photographer
among those killed, said he was
documenting aid work done by
the International Assistance
Mission and other groups.
Carderelli, 25, of
Harrisonburg, Va., worked for
the International School of
Kabul. He went to Afghanistan
in September and also was
compiling an album titled “The
Beauty It’s Not All War.”
“Brian was a Christian who
was killed as he was fulfilling
his life ambition to use his tal
ents and training to show the
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love of Christ to the poor and
disadvantaged,” the church
said in a statement.
In Tennessee, the father of a
woman who was among those
murdered said he hopes
Afghan leaders will honor the
victims by pushing for freedom
in their country.
Cheryl Beckett, 32, under
stood the risks of working in
the unstable country but had
grown attached to the Afghan
people after repeated visits
over six years, according to her
father, the Rev. Charles
Beckett, a senior minister at
Woodlawn Christian Church in
Knoxville.
Flaming said the Mennonite
Central Committee still has
one relief worker in
Afghanistan. He would not
divulge the nature or location
of the worker’s assignment,
but noted “at this time, she is
safe.”
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Businesses await
return of students
By Mike Hricik
FOR THE COLLEGIAN
Cartridge World owner Ed
Giller resorts to covert opera
tions to get out his business'
name at the beginning of every
fall semester.
His plan of attack? Freebies.
“We’re using guerilla market
ing tactics,” GiUer said.
He said he stations employees
outside of Got Used Bookstore,
206 E. College Ave.. armed with
free giveaways like water bot
tles and discount coupons.
State College businesses are
preparing for the fall semester as
the summer slump caused by
a lack of students and continuing
economic instability ends.
Mike Albright, manager of
Woodring’s Floral Gardens, 145 S.
Allen St., said the hot and dry
summer weather can also be
blamed for the decrease in activi
ty
Albright predicts the first week
of school will not be as busy as
previous years.
Still, he said he sticks to the
same business model regardless
of the seasons at his floral service
company.
“The students are feeling the
same way as everyone around
the country. They don’t have a lot
of expendable income,” he said.
“Our big thing is that we try to
keep our prices as reasonable as
we can to keep it affordable for
everybody.”
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Some businesses are debuting
new services for the fall to bring
in new customers.
The Student Book Store will
begin to offer textbook rentals
which could save students 50 per
cent or more, Store Manager
John Lindo said.
“It's another way to save on
textbooks and it eliminates
searching around on the
Internet.” Lindo said.
The fall season also means
expanded hours.
Giller is planning on opening
his Cartridge World stores on
Saturdays again starting move-in
week. Cartridge World special
izes in ink cartridges for printers.
“We find we get very busy that
whole week. Students get to their
computers and discover they’re
out of ink,” Giller said.
The return of many Penn State
students can serve as a boredom
cure for some business owners.
Ellen Fryer, manager of
Ultimate Tans, 111 W. Beaver
Ave., is looking forward to the
influx of students.
Tm really excited for the stu
dents to get back. It’s been kind of
boring the past couple weeks,”
P'ryer said.
Ultimate Tans will build up
inventory, prepare advertising
and get returning staff members
ready as fall approaches.
Fryer said business will
become more steady when stu
dents get back into the routine of
tanning.
Courtesy of the Associated Press
Cheryl Becket, 32, was one of 10 civilians
killed in Afganistan this week.