2 I FRIDAY, Nov. 19, 2010
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Harlem Globetrotters to play at BJC
Tickets for the Harlem Globetrotters show will go on sale
Monday, Nov. 22. The event will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 14 at
the Bryce Jordan Center. Prices range from $lB to $4l.
Courtside VIP seating will also be available. The
Globetrotters, an exhibition basketball team known for com
bining their athleticism with comedy, will take the court as
part of their 4 Times the Fun World Tour. The tour will also
include appearances by entertainers such as Showman "Big
Easy" Lofton, who appeared on the CBS show "The
Amazing Race."
WWE RAW tickets available Saturday
Tickets will go on sale for the World Wrestling
Entertainment RAW World Tour at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 20.
Prices range from $25.20 to $59.95. The event will take place
Jan. 22 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bryce Jordan Center. Tickets may
be purchased at the Bryce Jordan Center box office or online
at www.ticketmaster.com. Professional wrestlers including
John Cena, Randy Orton, Melina and The Miz will appear
Lecturer highlights injustice in Africa
As a native of Uganda, Columbia University professor
Mahmood Mamdani shared his opinions and insight
Thursday night about African human rights, violence, con
flict and its possible solutions to a crowded room of faculty
and students. Mamdani's lecture "Human Rights: The
African Experience and the Way Forward" was presented in
the Nittany Lion Inn as part of the 2010 Nelson Mandela
Lecture Series.
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Penn State professor Ti-Cheng Chang will be giving a lecture
entitled "Transcriptome of the Bovine Y Chromosome" at 11 a.m.
in 324 Agricultural Science and Industries Building. The event
will be hosted by the Department of Dairy and Animal Science.
Call 814-865-7638 for more information.
University of Wisconsin professor Claudio Gratton will be giv
ing a lecture entitled "Midge Madness! Quantifying Linkages
Between Lake and Land" at 11:15 a.m. in 107 Forest Resources
Building. The event will be hosted by Gary Felton of the
Department of Entomology. Call 814-865-1895 or visit
http://ento.psu.edu for more information.
Penn State professor Caroline Smith will be giving a lecture
entitled "Regional Sweat Rates in Human" at 11:15 a.m. in 127
Noll Laboratory, with video-conferencing in room CG62B at the
College of Medicine. The event will be hosted by the Department
of Kinesiology. Call 814-865-3453 for more information.
University of Southern California professor ltzhak Bars will be
giving a lecture entitled "Principles of Unitary and Causal 2T-
Physics and the Implications for Space-Time and Universal Laws
of Physics" at 1:15 p.m. in 320 Whitmore Laboratory. The event
will be hosted by the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos.
Call 814-863-9605 for more information.
University of Chicago professor Norbert Scherer will be giving
a lecture entitled "Probing and Controlling Biological Function by
Chemical Perturbation Spectroscopy" at 2:30 p.m. in 102
Chemistry Building. The event will be hosted by Tae-Hee Lee of
the Department of Chemistry. Call 814-867-2232 for more infor
mation.
Junita College professor Ryan Mathur will be giving a letture at
3:45 p.m. in 117 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building. The
event will be hosted by the Earth and Environmental Systems
Institute. Call 814-865-9910 for more information.
Princeton University professor Mansour Shayegan will be giv
ing a lecture entitled "Electrons in Flatlands: Surprises Never
Stop" at 4 p.m. in 117 Osmond Laboratory. The event will be
hosted by Jainendra Jain of the Department of Physics. Call 814-
574-7497 for more information.
Penn State professor Fuqing Zhang will be giving a lecture enti
tled "Flying Into Hurricane Earl" at 4 p.m. in 529 Walker Building.
The event will be hosted by the Department of Meteorology. Call
814-863-8566 for more information.
Penn State professor James McCarthy will be giving a lecture
entitled "The Social and Environmental Geographies of Boston's
'Big Dig': Preliminary Findings and a Research Agenda" at 4 p.m.
in 112 Walker Building. The event will be hosted by the
Department of Geography. Call 814-865-4562 for more infor
mation.
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Speaker dissects Middle East conflict
Richard Becker says he's out to
dispel myths surrounding the con
flict between Palestine and Israel
and he elaborated on those
myths at an event hosted by the
Leftist Symposium and Students
for Justice in Palestine Thursday
night.
Becker, a writer and internation
al commentator on the Middle
East, based his presentation on his
book, "Palestine, Israel and the
U.S. Empire."
He said that though he's been to
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place, so I was disappointed at first
and I was very upset and did lump
everyone in a group like, 'Oh, they
all must be racist.' "
When the couple returned home
to Greensburg, Pa., they wrote a let
ter to Penn State officials and sever
al local newspapers.
"I wasn't looking to gain anything
from this," Baker said. "Except that
hopefully in the future, because I
said something about what hap-
FedEx Field
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preparing for the next game," Lynch
said. "And this has always been in
D.C., this has always been in FedEx
Field. So we've been prepared for it
all along."
Asked to describe why the univer
sity made the decision in the first
place, Lynch sidestepped the ques
tion.
"We thought it was the right deci
sion at the time based on a lot of fac
tors," he said.
Joe Paterno had a similar per
spective, choosing to focus on the
tactics for this weekend's game
instead of where it's being played
and why.
"I don't like to comment on what
the other fellow does," Paterno said.
"I think that they have a reason for
doing it. I don't know exactly. I have
not discussed it with them. I was
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you're probably thinking of someone style of playing.
else." Douglass said. - It was kind of slow, but very pas
"l'mFrom Page 1. an independent artist so sionate and rhythmical," she said.
and she has really interesting things opportunities like this don't come Ramsay said the State Theatre
to say." around often, and I'm thrilled to be was a genuine venue to host artists
Colvin's opener for the evening, here. - like Colvin and Douglass. "You can't
Gregory Douglass, offered an indie Douglass demonstrated skill at beat this venue," Ramsay said. "It's
singer/songwriter style. both guitar and piano and received small and intimate, and there's not a
He said he was excited to play and crowd acclaim in response to his bad seat in the house "
promote himself alongside a sea- cover of Brandi Carlile's "The
soned musician like Colvin. Story
Travels
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While an 11 percent increase in
Thanksgiving travel may seem sig
nificant, it remains almost 30 per
cent below the 2005 peak of 58.6 mil
lion travelers, according to AAAs
statistics. Despite recent increases
in gas prices, the majority about
39.7 million, or 94 percent of travel
ers intend to drive, which is a 12
percent increase from last year,
according to the AAA statement.
The auto club also predicts the num
ber of air travelers will increase 3.5
percent to 1.62 million during the
holiday travel period Wednesday,
Nov. 24, to Sunday, Nov. 28.
Officials from the University Park
Airport made an even more opti
mistic estimation.
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Bars
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knowledgeable borough officials on
liquor license regulations.
King said the Pennsylvania
Liquor Control Board devised a way
to regulate the number of bars and
restaurants allowed to serve alcohol
in town several decades ago. The
method takes a population-based
approach, allowing one establish
ment per 3,000 residents.
State College is home to 38,866 cit
izens and therefore should only con
tain 12 businesses that have liquor
licenses.
But savvy business owners can
circumvent the restrictions if
they're willing to play by the rules.
Jennifer Zangrilli, director of
operations at Dante's Inc., said her
company obtained a liquor license in
1973 for The Deli, 113 Heister St.
Today, Zangrilli oversees the
operation of eight bars and restau
rants, including two that join the
Deli on the corner of College Avenue
and Heister Street the Saloon
and Inferno.
Steve Hennessey
Paul Casella
Nate Mink
Steph Witt
Zangrilli took advantage of the
exemption that states that estab
lishments can share a license if
they're physically connected and
belong to one owner.
Her three bars share a single
liquor license, and Zangrilli isn't the
only property owner in town taking
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the Middle East several times over
the years for speaking engage
ments and research, he would not
call himself an expert on the sub
ject.
Becker addressed the factors
leading to the Zionism movement
and the development of Israel as a
state.
During the lecture Becker pre
sented a series of maps illustrating
the loss of Palestinian land. He
highlighted the 1947 United
Nations Partition Plan, after which
an estimated 750,000 Palestinians
were displaced.
"They left because of terror,
pened, maybe it won't happen to
anyone else."
Baker said she never expected
her story to generate such a large
response.
But in addition to the recent
investigation by law enforcement,
Baker said the response also includ
ed numerous personal letters from
officials like Penn State President
Graham Spanier, Associate Athletic
Director for Facilities and
Operations Mark Bodenschatz and
football coach Joe Paterno.
Combined with the other well
wishes she's received from the
told that they were going to move
the game to Washington, D.C., and I
said to myself, probably, 'Hey, I won
der why they are doing it?' "
Paterno did mention the value of
playing a game in the Washington,
D.C., area, where Penn State has
traditionally recruited well.
The trip home is special for the
Penn State players from that region,
but they wouldn't focus on why it
came to be in the first place.
"You can't put a value on the expe
rience of going back and playing in
front of people you know," said right
tackle Chima Okoli. who recalled
fond memories of going to Redskins
games as a child. "It's truly a bless
ing."
Playing games at NFL stadiums
is nothing new in college football.
But typically it's an annual rivalry
game Missouri and Kansas play
at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas
City Mo., or it's a game being played
at a larger stadium to accommodate
"We are looking at about 5 percent
more travelers than the past year,"
said James Meyer. Centre County
Airport Authority's director and
operational manager of the com
mercial airline terminal. "The heav
iest schedule for us will be this
weekend we are doing 2,900 peo
ple for the week."
Meyer said he encourages stu
dents using the University Park
Airport to arrive about an hour and
a half before their designated take
off time.
But Fbllington Trailways, a major
bus company used by many Penn
State students, predicts the number
of bus travelers from State College
will be roughly the same as last year
"We have a captive audience. The
bulk of whom we take home on
Thanksgiving are students, - said
Milt Weisman, Millington Trailways'
advantage of the opportunity to
have multiple alcohol-serving estab
lishments.
"You know how many licenses are
on the corner of College and Allen?
One," said Jody Alessandrine, direc
tor of the Downtown Improvement
District.
That corner includes Hotel State
College, the Allen Street Grill, the
Corner Room and four bars that all
exist under a solitary license.
King said PLCB records show
that having an excess of liquor
licenses is not uncommon across
the state. In fact, every county has
surpassed its limit.
But the limit on liquor licenses is
not totally ineffective. It does pre
vent new licenses from being issued
in the borough, meaning that any
new restaurant that serves alcohol
is the result of a sale or transfer of a
license between business owners.
King said prospective business
owners found a new way to receive a
license in State College in 2003 due
to another rule change.
The rule allowed a business to
transfer a license between munici
palities within the same county.
While State College is over its
license limit, other towns in Centre
County are not, and can still be
granted more licenses. For exam
ple, he said, a business could obtain
a new license in Philipsburg and
later attempt to transfer it to State
College.
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unadulterated terror," he said.
While the conflict still has a large
presence in the Middle East,
Becker said he thinks a lot of
progress is being made.
SJP president Heather Qader
said she liked Becker's comparison
of the current situation in the
Middle East to apartheid in South
Africa.
She said she hopes attendees
took valuable information away
from the presentation.
"Hopefully he wasn't preaching
to the choir," she said.
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Penn State community, these have
helped to soften her nearly
tarnished view of the school, she
said.
And one letter in particular, Baker
said, has been especially helpful in
putting the incident into perspec
tive.
"But like Mr. Paterno wrote in his
letter to me there's always going
to be a few jerks," Baker said.
"There's nothing you can do about
it, and you just have to try to move
on with your life."
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an influx of fans for an important
game TCU played host to Oregon
State earlier this season at Cowboys
Stadium.
Games are often moved for his
torical purposes, too. This weekend,
Army hosts Notre Dame at Yankee
Stadium, and Northwestern and
Illinois will play at Wrigley Field.
For the Hoosiers, however, a
move to FedEx Field 648 miles
from Bloomington, Ind makes a
lot less sense, especially given their
road woes. Despite an 0-6 record in
the Big Ten, the three home losses
have been one-score games, while
the conference road defeats have
each been by 28 points or more
including an 83-20 loss last weekend
at Wisconsin.
"There's nothing I can do about
it," said Paterno, who wouldn't get
into the way Penn State benefits
from the switch.
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vice president of intercity coach
services.
About 40 buses are expected to
leave State College during the trav
el period, a similar number as last
year, Weisman said. Each bus can
take about 50 passengers.
"Students are still buying tickets
Friday is the big day [for ticket
sales]," he said. "We keep a consis
tent price. It means whether you
book it a month in advance or one
day in advance, there is no differ
ence."
Weisman said the bus company
signed an agreement with Lion Cash
this year, which enables students to
buy tickets with their Penn State ID
card at the bus terminal, but the
plan has not been implemented on
website.
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"It's up to the municipality that
receives the transfer whether or not
to allow it," King said, giving State
College Borough Council the ability
to create a list of limitations on any
restaurant requesting a transfer.
Alessandrine said the most signif
icant limitation the council has cho
sen to impose has been its mandate
that 75 percent of a prospective
licensee's total sales be food-relat
ed.
King said that ratio is one a fami
ly restaurant can meet, but bars
cannot.
Most downtown bars' alcohol
sales account for well over 50 per
cent of their total sales.
Since the regulations changed in
2003, three establishments have
been granted transfer licenses:
Rotelli's, Pizza Hut and Flkii and
Jade Garden.
According to State College
Borough Council records, during
Rotelli's request for a liquor license,
the council also limited the hours
when alcohol could be served.
Alessandrine said the only way
State College might see an
increased number of bars, as
opposed to restaurants, would be if
a bar owner decides to expand into a
neighboring property.
"It seems like the time has come
and gone for people who want to
open a bar in town," he said.
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