Thursday, Oct. 23, 2003
Matchbox Twenty performs “Real World,” an old favorite from their first CD,
Adam Gaynor, guitarist for Matchbox Twenty, plays and sings at the concert.
Matchbox Twenty burns through new material at BJC
rocking tunes and meUow ballads, denced in songs like “Red Dragon Tat- were recruited to write the perfect pop
Matchbox TWenty blurred the lines too” and “Bright FUture in Sales.” But song for the perfect pop band in That
. .. „ between MTVs conservative little sis- as the group humbly broke into its Thing You Do'
Matchbox Twenty is just one of those ter and something a little cooler. mind-numbingfy-memorable break- The big rock star moments continued
bands that is rarefy associated with per- But before Rob Thomas and crew hit through single, “Stacy’s Mom,” the girls during Matchbox Twenty’s hit-Dacked
forming live. A friend of mine put it best the stage, Fountains of Wayne whet the went wild. Sm“SdstSa? oSSS
when she said she thought the band audiences’ appetite with some excruci- “I ready enjoyed ‘Stacy’s Mom,’ ” of dirty slide guitar and smeofthe
was just around nowadays to keep VHI atingly catchy synth-pop. The group’s Morgan Macenka (freshman-crime, law girliest screams the Jordan Center has
ufoii a . t dead-on harmonies and simple guitar and justice). “Me and my roommate are seen so far this semester, the guys
Well, the VHI crowd came out to see nfEs rang clearly through the onlookers always listening to it.” appeared onstage to beUow out “IfeeL”
the group last night at the Bryce Jordan scattered throughout the floor’s seating The group’s 40-minute set reached its the first track from the band’s newest
ltt e ™l e than a se * tlon ' . climax during “Joe Rey,” as guitarist album, More Than You Think You Are
l t !! tS mixmg A newcomer to the larger venue lime- Adam Schlesinger hopped up onto the The rest of the show focused heavify
Wlth a . s P l the Fbuntans sounded surprising- bass drum for a true “rock star on the newer material, though the sec>
what eclectic blend of surprisingly hard- fy experienced m the arena setting, evi- moment.” It’s no “wonder” these guys See MATCHBOX, Page 2.
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Consent
discussion
focuses on
solutions
By Jessica Golden
COLLEGIAN STAF WRITER | jmg43l@aol.com
The point of last night’s discussion on
sexual assault was not to inform
women of ways to avoid them. It was a
way to inform everyone how to obtain
consent so unwanted assaults no
longer happens.
“Our biggest concern is that it isn’t a
woman’s behavior that causes sexual
assaults, but rather our culture and
men’s behavior that perpetrate it,” said
Molly Zuckerman, co-director of
Womyn’s Concerns.
About 50 students, predominately
women, attended the Consent Forum
last night in the HUB Auditorium.
Zuckerman said the event was part
of a yearlong and continuing campaign
to end sexual assaults on campus and
in the community.
Susan Del Ponte, program assistant
for the Center for Women Students,
said solutions are often portrayed as
what women can do to avoid sexual
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Shirley Bishop, volunteer coordinator at the Centre County Women’s Resource Center,
(left) and Susan Del Ponte, program assistant for the Center for Women Studies speak
to students about the issues dealing with consent.
assaults and that there isn’t enough Marie “Eli” McDermott, Class 0f2002,
emphasis on how to stop the assaults in said he would like to see men become
the first place. more active in the cause.
Del Ponte said it is important to get
men involved in stopping sexual
assaults and that men are more willing
to listen to other men.
“We’re enlisting men because we’ve
been doing this a long time, but we
need their help.”
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Rob Thomas, lead singer of Matchbox Twenty, performs at Bryce Jordan Center.
“I would like to see an all-male out
rage rally down College Avenue, but
we’re a long way from that,” McDer
mott said.
He said in the five years he’s been
here there seems to be an increase not
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Valenti
amid jokes,
By Nicholas Norcla
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File-sharing has been a hot topic on
campus recently. On Tuesday, Penn
State President Graham Spanier
spoke in length about the university’s
plans to introduce a new file-sharing
service that would allow students to
listen to music online without making
them criminally culpable.
Yesterday, Spanier personally intro
duced a high-profile celebrity who pub
licly spoke at length about the same
subject.
Jack Valenti, President of the Motion
Picture Association of America, said
society needs to instill a sense of
morality into young people who think
they can freely download movies that
cost millions to make.
“We are in a great state of crisis,” he
said, referring to both the infringement
of copyrighted material that goes on at
file-sharing sites as well as what he
called “the most repugnant, squalid
pornography you will see... I can’t talk
about it”
Valenti called the digital world “the
most extraordinary intrusion in the
history of mankind,” citing a “vast
chasm” between digital and analog
societies.
He then said the future will intro-
condemns file sharing
personal stories
duce newer technological and ethical
challenges and we must meet these
challenges with the same sense of
morality that he discussed earlier.
Valenti’s speech at the Penn Stater
Conference Center Hotel was the lat
est in the Forum series presented by
the Penn State Faculty/Staff Club. He
began by thanking Spanier and calling
him “an extraordinary leader.”
“Nine years is an eternity for a uni-
Hversity president,”
he said, adding that
presidents are usu
ally dragged out
comatose after five
years. The mostly
faculty crowd
laughed early and
often at Valenti’s
witty remarks.
Valenti Valenti continued
in the same light
hearted fashion, citing amusing anec
dotes from his past, including one
about the origin of his stopwatch, at
which he continually stole glances
throughout the speech.
He turned serious when he dis
cussed the events following the assas
sination of John F. Kennedy. Valenti
had been in the motorcade, a few cars
behind the president, when the assas-
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Police:
Athletes
are not
taigeted
■ Police and others in the
Penn State community
have responded to Joe
Patemo’s comments on the
arrest of Tony Johnson.
By Rob Rlva
and Robert Sprack
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS
rerlsB@psu.edu, rjs336@psu.edu
Several members of the Penn
State community have responded to
football coach Joe Patemo’s ambigu
ous comments regarding wide
receiver Tony Johnson’s driving
under the influence charge, citing
the severity of the offense.
During his weekly Tuesday press
conference, Patemo initially implied
that his players
have been unfair
ly targeted.
“I think a lot of
these things are
happening to
them, there are a
lot of people that
now all of a sud
den say, ‘Hey,
there is a kid who
Patemo
looks like a foot
ball player and he is doing this and
that and let’s trail him,’ ” Patemo
said.
Penn State Police Services Super
visor Bill Moerschbacher said he
does not target any specific group,
athletes or otherwise. ‘We just react
to what we see,” he said.
Moerschbacher added that it is
public record what the probable
causes are for all incidents the
department handles. Those records,
he said, speak for themselves.
State College Police Sgt John Wil
son said he had no comment on what
Patemo said, other than that no offi
cer on the force targets any of the
football players.
Penn State spokesman Bill Mahon
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