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Tuesday, March 22, 2005 PUBLISHED INDEPENDENTLY BY STUDENTS AT PENN STATE
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Jon Rowe (senior-English), who goes by the stage name Troy Walsh, plays with his band in his basement with bassist John
Kurlock (senior-economics). Walsh, a rap artist striving for a record deal, will tour with the Bloodhound Gang this summer.
Student freestyles
By Jessica Horton
FOR THE COLLEGIAN
recording his second album, tentatively
titled White Noise, which is the follow-
In his torn blue jeans and vintage up to his independent release, Country
T-shirt, Jon Rowe looks like your Clubbin’. He is working with Grammy
average Penn State student. winner Mike Elizondo, who has previ-
It’s hard to believe that behind the
Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses is a col
lege student juggling the stresses of
both school and a trying to live as a rap
artist striving to land a record deal.
In fact, this spring break, Rowe (sen
ior-English) decided to ditch the beach
for the recording studio and headed to
US6 ELECTIONS
Few outside campaigns
attracted to first debate
By Devon Lash
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | dlash@psu.edu
About 130 students listened as 12
Undergraduate Student Government
(USG) presidential candidates
explained their goals for USG next
year in Fbrum Building last night.
However, only about ten students in
the audience said they were unrelated
to a campaign when USG presidential
candidate Mark Taticchi asked audi
ence members to raise their hands if
they were not already affiliated with a
candidate.
This revelation emphasized the two
themes that were highlighted by
many of the candidates last night in
the first election debate: communica-
Playing the night away
Los Angeles where he is currently
ously worked with Dr. Dre, 50 Cent,
Gwen Stefani and Eve.
Known to his fans as Troy Walsh
a.k.a. Mr. Unlikely, Jon Rowe is just that
unlikely. His production company,
BurbLife, describes him as: “Your very
own chic, country-clubbing musical
messiah. Volvo-driving, gator-shirted,
tion and student awareness of USG.
“Only a dozen or so people were not
affiliated with a campaign,” Taticchi
said. “This speaks to student apathy.”
Candidate Scott Sherbine said only
communication between the USG
branches will get things done for the
students.
“The respect needs to be there,”
Sherbine said. “If Senate, Academic
Assembly and the executive branch
would communicate, we wouldn’t be
See DEBATE, Page 2.
A ticket faces a possible penalty for a
flier placement. | LOCAL, Pape 4.
USG president Galen Foulke is attempting
to be re-elected. | LOCAL, Page 4.
Thrower excels as she
deals with diabetes
Despite dealing with hypo
glycemia, throwing captain Kate
Johnson has set records at Penn
State. | SPORTS, Page 10.
to L.A.
upper-middle-class bohemia. Pure priv
ilege. The palest thing on two feet.”
With influences covering the whole
musical spectrum, from Notorious
8.1. G. to Nirvana, he is not your aver
age rapper, to say the least.
Rowe grew up in Mechanicsburg, the
son of an English teacher in a well-to
do suburban area. This fact was actual
ly the inspiration for Rowe’s first
record.
“Jon has always had a vocabulary the
size of a dictionary,” said Dave Eberly,
See RAPPER, Page 2.
Patrick Sopko/Collegian
Alice Walker speaks at Eisenhower
Auditorium as part of the Distinguished
Speakers Series. Walker spoke last night
about her books and poetry.
Judge makes
no ruling in
Schiavo case
The district judge who heard
the case gave no indication
as to when he might act on
Schiavo’s parents’ request.
TAMPA, Fla. Armed with a new
law rushed through Congress, the
attorney for Terri Schiavo’s parents
pleaded with a judge yesterday to
order the brain-damaged woman’s
feeding tube re-inserted. But the judge
appeared cool to the argument.
U.S. District Judge James Whitte
more did not immediately make a rul
ing after the two-hour hearing, and he
gave no indication on when he might
act on the request.
The hearing came three days after
the feeding tube was removed. Doctors
have said Schiavo, 41, could survive
one to two weeks without the tube.
The courtroom showdown, the latest
Students: Legal precedent
may be set with Floridian
By Josh Kowalkowskl
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | jak4oB@psu.edu
While federal courts decide whether
or not to reinsert the feeding tube of
Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged Flori
da woman who doctors say is in a per
sistent vegetative state, some campus
groups say it could set a precedent for
similar cases.
Yesterday, U.S. District Judge
James Whittemore heard arguments
on the case but did not make an imme
diate decision or give a time when he
would proceed.
Both members of the College
Republicans and College Democrats
said the issue spans more than just the
life of one woman.
“The most important thing in this
case is that it’s setting a precedent,”
said Megan Green, College Democrats
president. “In a way, this is the first
time that Congress is intervening in
the life of a person.”
Green said she doesn’t believe it is
the government’s right to get involved
in the issue.
Larry Frankel, legislative director
for the Pennsylvania American Civil
Liberties Union, also said the govern
ment has already done too much.
Walker reminds all
of blessings in life
By Kate Faxon-St. Gfeorges
-jLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I kkfsooo@psu.edu
A charged crowd filled Eisenhower
Auditorium last night, anticipating the
lecture by Alice Walker, whose soft-spo
ken voice hushed the audience from the
moment she began speaking.
Walker, author of The Color Purple,
spoke to Penn State students, profes
sors and book lovers as a part of the
Distinguished Speaker Series.
She spoke of her past and her inspi
rations for writing, especially poetry
“When I lived in Mississippi, we
learned that part of being afraid is part
of living, and we wrote poetry to deal
with that fear,” Walker said.
Walker shared six of her poems with
U.S. version of BBC's
‘The Office’ makes debut
Daily Show alumnus Steve
Carell stars in a TV show about
the humor found in the monotony
of office life. | ARTS, Page 7.
By Vickie Chachere
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
in what has become a legal cliffhanger
captivating the nation, followed an
extraordinary political fight over the
weekend that consumed both cham
bers of Congress and prompted the
president to rush back to the White
House.
what desperate,”
the parents’ attorney, David Gibbs 111,
told the judge. “Terri may die as I
speak.” The attorney said that forcing
Schiavo to die by starvation and dehy
dration would be “a mortal sin” under
her Roman Catholic beliefs.
“It is a complete violation to her
See SCHIAVO, Page 2.
“Her case has been thoroughly con
sidered many times by the courts,”
Frankel said. “And we don’t feel it’s
appropriate to return the decision
making to Congress or the president,
when the decision was already made
by her husband.”
Andy Banducci, chairman of the Col
lege Republicans, said the president
and Congress have explored every
option in die case.
“It’s such a sad situation,” Banducci
said. “I don’t think it should be a politi
cal issue, but with the intervention of
Congress and the outcome of the case,
there will be debates on it.”
Banducci and Green both said the
Schiavo topic has not been discussed
at their respective group’s meetings
since it became a national issue.
“It’s such a hot national issue now
that any decision [to speak out on the
issue] will be criticized,” Green said.
Christine Shott, spokeswoman for
Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa, said the
senator fears an innocent life could be
taken.
“The focus of the senator’s concern
is that Schiavo is ensured her rights,”
Shott said. “And that it’s good that the
federal courts are getting to look at the
case.”
the audience, including a poem that she
hoped would become a children’s book,
“Why War is Never a Good Idea”
“These are pieces of light to remind
us that we have life itself, and life is so
grand,” Walker said. “Most people want
to live decent and good lives, be with
their families and do things they enjoy.”
By placing her hands together in a
praying position, Walker blessed the
audience and other people who need
blessings in the world.
“Life is too precious and too beauti
ful,” Walker said. “You can live life from
the beginning to the end, but, it involves
making some preliminary decisions.”
Touching on the topic of healing,
Walker said that all of humankind is
See WALKER, Page 2.
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Congress passed
a law that allowed
Schiavo’s parents to
argue their case
before a federal
court, bringing the
intense legal battle
to Whittemore’s
Tampa courtroom.
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