2 I Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 Police: Pedestrian struck by vehicle A pedestrian was injured at 4:03 p.m. Monday when he was struck by a vehicle turning from West Beaver Avenue onto Allen Street, the State College Police Department said. Police said Michael D. Griffin, 39, of State College, was struck as he was walking eastward along West Beaver Avenue through the crosswalk on Allen Street Griffin had a "Walk" sign at the time he was hit, police said. Police said the driver, Jesse Hackshaw, 20, of Jennerstown, Pa., told them he looked down for a moment as he was turning the comer. When he looked up, police said, Hackshaw said he saw Griffin begin to cross die street and hesitate for a moment. Hackshaw said it appeared as though Griffin was going to stop walking, police said, so the driver continued through the turn. Griffin was thrown into the air and sustained moderate injuries as a result of the impact, police said. He was trans ported by ambulance to Mount Nittany Medical Center and treated, police said. Police said Hackshaw is charged with failure to respond to a pedestrian control signal. Lloyd Banks performs at Mezzanine Lloyd Banks headlined a show at 10:30 p.m. last night at Mezzanine, 420 E. College Ave. Banks’ performance opened with sets by Mic Mobbs, Big Keen and K-Money. The 18-and-over show was scheduled to continue until 2 a.m. this morning, with Banks performing later in the evening. Banks, of the group G-Unit, is releasing his new album “The Hunger for More 2” this November. The artist began his solo project in 2004 with the release of “The Hunger for More” and has released two other albums and several popular mix tapes over the past half decade. To read more, visit www.psucollegian.com. ■ Burglary: A purse was stolen Saturday night from a 623 W. Beaver Ave. residence, the State CoUege Police Department said Tuesday. The total loss is estimated at $370, police said. ■ Criminal Mischief: At 5:17 p.m. Monday, a resident of 711 University Dr., apartment #SIOI, said an unknown person damaged her bedroom window, the State College Police Department said. The cause and the estimated value of the damage is unknown, police said. ■ Criminal Mischief to Vehicle: An unknown person Smashed the rear window out of a vehicle parked outside of the State College post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at 139 N. Barnard St., over the weekend, the State CoUege Police Department said Tuesday. Penn State professor Abhay Ashetar will speak on “Quantum Evaporation of 2D Black Holes” today at 10 a.m. in 320 Whitmore Laboratory. For more information call 814-863-9605. Penn State professor Adrian Maler will speak on “Computable Functions of a Computable Real Variable” today at 2:30 p.m. in 315 McAllister Building. For details call 814-865-7527. 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Speakers at a rally in the Rotunda included the maker of the documen tary “Gasland” that was critical of the gas industry and a woman who claims nearby drilling poisoned her northeastern Pennsylvania well water. “Gasland” maker Josh Fbx said the industry is causing terror across Pennsylvania a reference to the recent revelation that Pennsylvania's homeland security bulletins listed gatherings of drilling Republican Corbett leads HARRISBURG, Pa. Democratic gubernatorial Dan Onorato's campaign declared Tuesday that it is gaining momen tum, even as a new poll and the lat est campaign finance reports showed Republican Tom Corbett holding the advantage in voter sup port and money. A Quinnipiac University survey of likely Pennsylvania voters showed Corbett with a 15-point lead over Onorato 54 percent to 39 percent. The totals include voters who had not firmly made up their minds but were leaning toward a candidate. Corbett's campaign reported that Bids From Pate 1 ment P rocess and attended Phired greater than last year by about 100 rrom rage i. Up sessions, the recruitment people. Alvira (senior-science) said Spanish and international studies) process ended with the acceptance the PHC is hoping to have more Delta Chi president Dan Kutz said It’s not just the IFC seeing an process this year. While 700 women his fraternity excelled under the increase in numbers. Though for- registered for recruitment last fall, new policy. The bid acceptance rate mal Panhellenic Council (PHC) only 300 woman accepted bids. was about 80 percent, Kutz (junior finance) said. Volleyball From Page 1. energy to the gym,” Pavlik said. “He’s done a real good job of rectify ing the situation that caused this and now all of his energies are on working to make the team again this fall” Redshirt senior setter Edgardo Goas echoed Pavlik’s sentiment, adding that Wagner is still a leader on the Lions. Goas said Wagner’s presence in the gym has been especially impor tant this fall, as the squad has six freshmen. Dryers From Page 1. officials decided to install the hand dryers. “There are sanitary issues that go along with everyone wanting to fre quently wash their hands,” Can said. psucollegian.com “We wanted a safe, environmen tally friendly way to help protect stu dents against diseases.” HINI is typically transmitted by skin-to-skin contact with a person that is infected with the virus, Can said. It is not an airborne disease, which makes the hand dryers much safer than communal paper towels. “Hand dryers are more environ mentally friendly because there is no paper waste. With paper towel;, the housing staff would have to devote a lot more time to maintain ing the paper waste,” Carr said. at the Pennsylvania State Police’s Allen’s family was also present in Greensburg crime laboratoiy, said the courtroom. DNA samples taken from both Allen Allen sat hunched in his chair as and Davis matched the samples Brolley testified, argument, introducing multiple taken from the used condoms found Multiple Pennsylvania pieces of evidence in an attempt to in Allen’s bedroom. Blood samples Police troopers also testified, convict Allen of first-degree murder, taken from the handle of a black Each described Allen’s lack of a Testimony from Pennsylvania Maglite flashlight found in Allen’s reaction when police arrived to State Police forensic scientists, pho- bedroom also matched Davis’ DNA, search his house after Davis was tographs of used condoms, bloody Brolley said. Davis’ family, who was found dead, paper towels and various articles of seated in the courtroom behind the The trial is scheduled to continue clothing found in Allen’s apartment defendant, remained silent as in Blair County through Friday, were presented to jury members. Brolley testified her findings of the Julia Brolley, a forensic scientist DNA analysis Dial .Elizabeth Murphy Alex Weisler ..Beth Ann Downey From Page 1, .Andrew Metcalf .Lexi Belculfine .Chris Zook ..Somer Wiggins ..Kevin Cirilli ..Ashley Gold .Laura Nichols ..Laurie Stem ..Steve Hennessey ■Paul Casella .Nate Mink r > *lQl»L' Cacfol/ more voters and gather more volun- and group president Rob Ghormoz vldrK B lJCi9ldli. teers for the campaign. (junior-political science) said he c p 1 This will not be the first time the enjoys hearing from family mem trom rage Sestak campaign has reached out to bers of candidates during the cam much is at stake for the state’s Penn State and Centre County. The paign season, youth. congressman hosted a conference “It shows that they aren’t just Mellody said campaign members call with students last week and vis- politicians, but are family members are hoping visits like this wifi bring ited the Centre County Grange Fair and have commitments like every young voters to the ballots in high and Encampment earlier this one else,” he said. “It’s one of the numbers, as was the case in 2008. month. things we’re most excited about.” She also said another reason for The Penn State College Clark-Sestak’s visit was to register Democrats are hosting the event, To e-mail reporter: ndpso4sBpsu.edu .Heather Schmelzlen Steph Witt Kelsey Thompson By Marc Levy ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER By Peter Jackson ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER “It was unlucky with whatever Penn State students had mixed opponents by polluting the land and water of people living near drilling sites. “The stories are adding up and they can't hide much longer,” Fbx said, backed by people holding signs supportive of a drilling ban. Various proposals to halt drilling are going nowhere in the state Legislature, and drilling companies have contested a number of accusa tions against them concerning pollu tion. Legislative leaders met Tuesday morning to discuss a wide range of issues that are being pressed in the brief fall legislative session sched uled to wrap up in mid-October. Both the House and Senate were in session TUesday, but largely inac tive while drilling opponents and environmental and industry lobby ists circulated through Capitol offices. Thus far, Pennsylvania's political- it had $7.7 million on hand as of Sept. 13, more than double Onorato's $3.4 million, according to summaries of the campaign finance reports they were required to file with the state. “Enthusiasm and support for Dan Onorato's candidacy continues to grow,” said Kevin Kinross, Onorato's campaign manager. “The more vot ers hear our message, the more they recognize that Dan Onorato is the only candidate with the experi ence and the plan to reform Harrisburg, turn our economy around and create jobs for Pennsylvania families.” A campaign spokesman for Corbett, the state attorney general, said the poll results underscore the strength of his platform. Because so many fraternity mem bers were involved in the recruit- of “quality” members, Kutz said. recruitment is just getting under way, PHC Vice President for happened, but nothing has changed,” Goas said. “Whether he is a walk-on or not a walk-on, he’s still a veteran leader on this team. He’s still someone the guys text or call when they have a problem and we really depend on him.” Wagner has seen limited court time in his career at Penn State. The Lions’ starting libero for the last three seasons has been senior Dennis Del Valle a three-time All- American and Penn State’s all-time leader in digs. This fall, Sie Lions also brought in heralded recruit Connor Curry, who is expected to redshirt the 2011 sea son and inherit Del Valle’s starting job. reactions to the new restroom addi tions. “I’m so excited that I don’t have to walk back to my room with wet hands anymore,” Bree Frederick (freshman-division of undergradu ate studies) said. “It’ll save so much time.” And Sam Agostino (freshman broadcast journalism) said he prefers to bring hand sanitizing gel to the restroom to avoid walking around with wet hands. “I feel like I have built up an immunity to Purell because I use it so often. Walking back to your room with wet hands and touching your dirty door defeats the purpose of washing your hands,” Agostino said. But some students said they’re concerned with the noise the dryers make. “It doesn’t sound like a hand dryer, more like a drill. I would rather walk back to my room because they’re so loud,” Maggie Payne (freshman-biology) said. The Daily Collegian ly divided General Assembly remains unable to agree on a tax, as well as other pieces of legislation affecting drilling Pennsylvania is the nation's largest natural gas pro ducing state without a tax on the gas extracted from its bedrock Gov. Fid Rendell first proposed a tax on the growing Marcellus Shale gas indus try last year. His proposal is equiva lent to West Virginia's tax 5 per cent on the sale value, plus 4.7 cents per thousand cubic feet of gas. Such a tax is projected to raise $2BO mil lion in 2011, the Rendell administra tion said. House Democrats say they are still working on the details of a bill they intend to advance. Constitutionally, revenue-raising bills must start in the House, but lawmakers expect any bill that pass es the Democra tic-controlled House would set a tax higher than is acceptable to Republican leaders of the Senate. in polls “Corbett's message of creating jobs and reducing taxes and state spending is resonating with voters while Onorato’s message of more taxes and a continuation Ed Rendell’s policies is not,” said Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley. Gov. Ed Rendell is stepping down in January after serving the two consecutive terms allowed by law. PA campaign spokesman for Onorato, the elected chief executive of Allegheny County, said the poll seems to exaggerate Corbett's lead, noting that Democrats outnumber Republicans in the state by more than 1 million. Democratic registra tion surged in Pennsylvania during the hotly contested presidential pri mary and general elections in 2008. Membership Jackie Alvira said the number of women registered is women remain in the recruitment To e-mail reporter: mers2oo@psu.edu “This is probably the deepest libero grouping we’ve ever had at Perm State, between Connor, Jesse and Dennis,” Pavlik said. “All three of them have been working really hard. We have some time to figure things out as far as our roster and things will play themselves out. We’ll see how it goes.” Goas said he expects Wagner to continue to bid for time if he finds himself on the roster again this spring. “The entire team knows what kind of guy Jesse is,” Goas said. “He never stops working hard.” To e-mail reporter: exkso49@psu.edu “Housing should have just given us paper towels and added a recycling bin to the restroom if they wanted to be environmentally friendly.” Other students agreed the dryers are a disturbance. „ “It’s so annoying to hear the hand dryer blaring at 4:00 in the morning. It’s so loud that it wakes me up all the time,” Mimi Chung (freshman marketing) said. Students are being asked to use other floor’s restrooms while the hand dryers are being installed onto their floor. Housing officials purchased 500 total hand dryer units. The dryers are currently being installed into all East Halls restrooms. After East, the hand dryers will be added to Pollock, South and West residence halls, as well as non- University Park campus locations, Carr said. The dryers should be fully installed by the end of the academic year, Carr said. To e-mail reporter: zjgsol2@psu.edu
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