WIIKIND SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY THI ROCKtT WEATHER r DIRECTORY —«-——« TODAY SHOWERS High T% low 54 mwutoem THE 7384438 KETVOLUME 81, NUMBER 4 SLIPPERY ROCK, PENNSYLVANIA SATURDAY 738-2643 I SHOWERS CMSfffMM High 71 738 6112 Inw M ROCK ROILS OVIR SfANIf tAIY MANIA FRI DAY FAIRMONT STATl, 32-7 TAKisoviiTHiROCK September 25,1998 SUNDAY SRU looks to continue its win- From bears to tigers; Beanie PARTLY CLOUDY ning streak at East Stroudburg Babies are a craze across High 13 MUM. Low M tomorrow afternoon. the country. SPORTS, Page B-l FEATURES, Page A-6 Power outages will leave campus in dark By David A. Feller and Weisenfluh Dining Hall will all be with "We thought we would kill two birds with water treatment building. Rocket News Editor out power. one stone," Carlson said. Even SRU President G. Warren Smith's SRU's FTE enrollment And from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., North The steam outages will mean no hot water residence will lose telephone service. It's lights out for the upper part of the Slip- Hall, McKay Education Building, Miller to the following buildings Saturday from 7 "As soon as power is back on Saturday falls again for 1998-99 pery Rock University campus this weekend. Auditorium, West Hall, the Art Building. a.m. to 4 p.m.: Strain, East/West Gym, Maltby, evening, we will be working to restore all Slippery Rock University's As a matter of fact, it's lights out hot water Patterson Hall, Harner Hall, Rhoads Hall, McKay, Miller, Old Main, Weisenfluh, West computer and telephone services," Pas student enrollment has out phone out Internet out East/West Gym and Strain Behaviorial Sci Hall and North Hall. sauer said. "Our system will not accept any slipped again, with full-time Well, you name it and it will most likely be ence Building will all be in the dark. According to Linda Passauer, director of E-mails during the time of the outage, but it equivalent enrollment stand- will retrieve the messages after the power is ing at 6233 for the fall 1998 out. According to Herb Carlson, director of telecommunication and networking, Essentials like electricity, phone service, facilities and planning, the power outages because of the power outages there will be restored." semester. Also because of the outages, Weisenfluh That figure — which takes hot water, E-mail and printing in computer can be expected all over campus as the proj- no E-mail, Internet access, or access to H, I, the total number of credit labs in residence halls won't be available ect will continue until May of next year. and W drives on Saturday. Dining Hall will be closed for the entire hours students are taking and Saturday. "The outages will continue on some week- Passauer also said printing from any weekend, according to Bridgett Stapleton, divides it by 15 — is a drop That's because, as part of an ongoing elec- ends and Friday afternoons," Carlson said. printer in residence hall computer labs director of dining services. from a figure of about 6,400 trical distribution system renovation proj- "Students will continue to be notified as the won't be available. "Boozel Dining Hall will be open during last year. ect, workers will need to cut the juice to sev- outages are scheduled." Passauer also said that there will be no Weisenfluh's regular dining hours," Staple SRU students are taking a eral buildings on the upper part of campus Carlson also said that because of the pow- phone service to North, Kraus, Patterson, ton said "We decided to close Weisenfluh for total of 93,499 credits this Saturday. er outages on Saturday, work will also be Rhoads, Weisenfluh and West halls; Maltby; the entire weekend so we didn't confuse year. Between 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Maltby done to some existing steam lines at the Old Main; McKay; the Lowry Center, Strain; Overall student enroll- Building, Old Main, Morrow Field House upper part of campus. East/West Gym; the Art Building and the LJ Please see POWER on A-2 ment — the total number of full-time and part-time undergraduates, specials and transient, post-baccalau- reates and graduate students — fall semester enrollment stands at 6,923, according to the official l!>day enrollment report issued this week by the university's office of aca- demic records and summer school. The 15th-day figures are used by the State System of Higher Education as an offi- cial enrollment benchmark to compute funding for each of the 14 system universi- ties. According to the SRU report, there are 1,267 part- time and full-time new fresh- man on campus this fall—an overall increase of 5.7 per- cent Eliott Baker, SRU's direc- tor of academic records and summer school, said the average credit-hour load for all students — except gradu- ate students — stands at MIKE KLINK/THE ROCKET 14.097 hours, up about one- Several SRU students were injured in a two vehi- tenth of an hour over a year cle crash Wednesday evening just outside of Slip- ago. pery Rock. Millersville not Amish Paradise for comic visit MILLERSVILLE — Some Crash injures Millersville University stu- dents are saying a comedy act on campus earlier this month should've been flagged with a seven SRU bright orange warning trian- gle. JASON GREENAWALT/THE ROCKET MU students are saying students that too many years without Checking under the hood electricity may have gone to Seven SRU students were injured and an Raymond the Amish Comic's Slippery Rock's 13th Annual Family and Heritage Festival was in full swing last weekend. Sunday's Classic Car Show was greeted eighth escaped injury when two cars collided brain, after they were with ble skies and sunshine. SEE RELATED STORY ON A-2 along Route 258 in Slippery Rock Township shocked by the comic act Wednesday night brought in to welcome stu- dents back to the campus out- Jeffery C. Dohn, 18, of Pitts Grove, N.J., side Lancaster. suffered from head injuries and facial lacer- According to students pres- ations and was taken to United Community ent at the performance, Ray- Hospital in Grove City, where he was listed mond came out dressed in Residents voice zoning concerns in stable condition Thursday afternoon. full Amish garb and began Brenda Bushard, administrative supervisor at dancing provocatively to By David A. Feller concerned about these rentals. level of his home on Normal Avenue to stu- the hospital, said Dohn was scheduled to be Weird Al Yankovic's song Rocket News Editor Many said they were worried about the dents for the past 22 years, said he feels the released from the hospital sometime Thursday "Amish Paradise." buildup of trash around homes in Slippery borough's zoning discriminates against evening. "We were in the first row," "Slippery Rock is not going to become a Rock. landlords who only rent out three or less Police said Andrew R. Frost 18, of Moon Town- said Amy Kehm, an MU jun- college town of rentals," Slippery Rock "I dare anyone who doesn't think that units. ship, was driving south on Route 258 around 7 ior. "He started grinding, Mayor Pat Madden said Tuesday evening there is a health problem here to just take a "Well, because I only have one (rental) p.m. when he attempted to turn left into the path thrusting his pelvis in and out during a special public meeting at the bor- drive up Midway Alley and see the mess of unit, it gets inspected every year," Goyak of a northbound vehicle driven by Jamie V Hake, in front of me and my ough building. dumpsters and garbage," said Beverly Bar- said. "Whereas someone with a four-unit 19, of New Bedford. friends." More than 100 residents and landlords ron, who resides along Elm Street with her building only has to have one of those units John Adams, a second-year crammed together in a crowded room to husband John. checked each year. The front end of Hake's vehicle then struck the transfer student, was singled discuss health ordinances and zoning Barron stressed that she did not blame "The students are getting exploited here. passenger side of Frost's vehicle about 1000 feet out by Raymond and was rental properties within the borough. students, who are the majority of renters in All we care about is getting the places off Township Road 385. asked to step in front of the Tensions ran high during the meeting as the borough, for many of the problems. But cleaned up." Dohn was riding in Frost's vehicle. auditorium, directly below several people in the crowd gave their opin- Barron did say something must be done. Thomas Cooper, of Slippery Rock Town- Hake and Frost were treated and released at the stage. ions and got some answers about health John Barron agreed. ship, rents out 21 rental units. United Community Hospital along with Matthew There, according to and safety violations among the borough's "I sense a great deal of tension," Barron "I have lived here as long as most people Garrett, 22, and Jason Slotten, 20, both of Slippery Adams, Raymond "started 187 licensed rental buildings. said. "I hate to see Slippery Rock be this and the rental thing isn't something new to Rock; Ryan Rager, 18, of West Middlesex and cracking jokes and made fun Many of those concerns came from land- way. I hope that all this can be settled just- Slippery Rock," Cooper said.