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[ Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003 ]

Cindy Song Coalition sending care package

Collegian Staff Writer

As the second anniversary of her daughter's disappearance approaches, some Penn State students are organizing help for Bansoon Song, who is hospitalized in South Korea.

Also, investigators are searching for new leads in the Cindy Song case in Luzerne County. An ABC television segment focusing on the possibility of the Luzerne County connection is scheduled to air in two weeks.

Bansoon Song was recently hospitalized after bumping her head, and the stress she has experienced since her daughter's disappearance has only made it worse, said David Davis, leader of the Cindy Song Coalition.

The coalition has started a care package program that will collect anything students want to send to Song's hospitalized mother in Korea.

"This is obviously the hardest time of year for her," Davis said. "We just want her to let her know that [Song] is still an important part of Penn State."

Song disappeared on Nov. 1, 2001, after leaving a Halloween party at Players Nite Club, 112 W. College Ave. The few leads in the case have been inconclusive as to Song's whereabouts.

Davis said that last year, Song's father was in the hospital on the one-year anniversary of his daughter's disappearance. The coalition has already received teddy bears, letters and cards from students, he added.

"Ideally, we would like to send the package on Wednesday, but that is not set in stone," he said. "If we continue to receive, then we will hold it."

Donations can be made at 228 HUB-Robeson Center on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The Cindy Song Coalition is an organization of about 30 students whose primary focus is to help authorities with Song's search. Their next goal is to make Oct. 31 an official day for Song.

"We will have to have consent from the administration and perhaps the borough, but it is something we want to happen," Davis said. "Even if it doesn't happen, I think it is still an understood day at Penn State."

Ferguson Township Police Department officials were expected to travel to Luzerne County yesterday in hopes of finding new leads in the Song case. Det. Brian Sprinkle was unavailable for comment yesterday. On Oct. 8, police received a lead from Paul Weakley, alleged accomplice of accused murderer Hugo Selenski, that an unidentified body found on Selenski's Wilkes-Barre property was Song.

After investigating, Ferguson Township Police Chief Edward J. Connor had said police were "100 percent sure" the unidentified body was not Song's.

ABC Primetime will feature Carla Baron, a Los Angeles psychic involved in Song's case, on its Nov. 13 program. Baron returned to State College last Wednesday and Thursday and performed more readings with Sprinkle and producers of the show.

The trip and subsequent readings, Baron said, confirmed many of the visions she had earlier seen in connection with Song's disappearance.

"The things that we found were fine tuning the things that I have seen," Baron said yesterday. "Things are starting to make more sense."

Baron said that because of a contract with ABC News, she could not reveal details about her visions until after the Nov. 13 airing.

Collegian Staff Writer Mike Walbert contributed to this article.


Collegian File Photo
Collegian File Photo
Bansoon Song, mother of Cindy Song, joins students for a candlelight vigil.
 



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