CAMPUS BRIEFS: Thursday, July 30, 1998

Vending ordinance set to take effect Tuesday However, even as many vendors -- most of whom will have to move from their current street and sidewalk locations as a result of Council's unanimous April 23 vote -- have expressed dissatisfaction with their treatment at the hands of the University, they may find that this coming Tuesday is not the "D-Day" that they might have expected. According to Penn Director of Community Relations Glenn Bryan, the University is working with the city to ensure that vendors are not forced from their current sites until appropriate alternate locations are found, even if that means allowing vendors to stay at their current locations past August 4. The University is currently building five fresh air food plazas on and around campus to accommodate 47 of the approximately 100 displaced vendors. The plazas are located at 34th and Walnut streets, 34th and Spruce streets , 37th and Walnut streets , 40th and Walnut streets and 33rd and South streets. Jack Shannon, the University's top economic development official, said last month that the five plazas -- which will hold 11 food trucks, 24 carts and 12 stands -- would be completed "in time for the effective date of the ordinance." For the first five years, the University will provide plaza vendors with electricity, sanitation and lighting for the cost of $1 a month. However, the University and the vendors are still negotiating other aspects of the leases, including what rents will be charged in the future. -- Edward Sherwin Date set for Schieber memorial service A memorial service for Shannon Schieber, the first-year Wharton doctoral student murdered May 7 in her Center City residence, will be held September 16, according to Wharton officials. Michelle Henry, an administrative assistant in the Insurance and Risk Management Department, said that the ceremony will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room B-17 of Logan Hall. A reception will follow in Logan's Terrace Room. Schieber, 24, was one of four students studying insurance in Wharton's doctoral division. Henry emphasized that plans for the services -- including who will speak -- have not yet been finalized, noting that "everything is still in the works." Schieber was strangled to death in her apartment near 23rd and Spruce streets at approximately 2 a.m. on May 7. Suspicion initially fell on fellow Wharton doctoral student Yuval Bar-Or, a former Israeli soldier who Schieber had told friends was stalking her. But blood tests in May cast heavy doubt on his alleged role in the crime. Last month, in hopes of tracing the killer, Philadelphia police released sketches and photographs of several items stolen from Schieber's apartment the night of her murder. As of yesterday no arrests had been made. -- E.S.