2 I Thursday, Sept. 20,2007
NEWS IN BRIEF
Silverman to appear at Jordan Center
Comedian Sarah Silverman will bring her humor to the Bryce
Jordan Center this November.
Sponsored by the Student Programming Association, Silver
man will be performing on at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2.
Silverman earned a spot on Saturday Night Live in 1993. After
leaving SNL, she appeared in several movies including There’s
Something about Mary, Say It Isn’t So and School of Rock.
She currently has her own Comedy Central sitcom that
debuted in February 2007 called The Sarah Silverman Program.
Silverman stars in the show as a fictionalized version of herself.
The second season premieres in October
Tickets for students go on sale at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 2 and
for the general public at 10 ajn. Wednesday, Oct. 3 at the Bryce
Jordan Center. HUB-Robeson Center and Eisenhower Auditori
run. Tickets are $9.95 for students and $27.50 for the general pub
lic.
CAMPUS NOTES
The American Red Cross will host a blood drive from 10 a.m to
2 p.m. today at Wagner Drill Deck.
The Department of Horticulture will host a lecture at 12:20 p.m.
today in 108 Tyson Building. Penn State’s Rich Marini will give a
speech titled “Apple Fruit Size is Influenced by Crop Load, Root
stock, and Location: Using Analysis of Covariance to Interpret the
Three-Way Interaction.”
Penn State’s Dmitri Burago will speak at 2:30 p.m. today in 113
McAllister Building.
The Department of Mathematics will host the event.
The Department of Mathematics will host a seminar at 3 p.m.
today in 315 McAllister Building. Penn State’s David Hurtubise
will speak.
University of Illinois’s Yiiguo Chen will speak on “A New Data-
Augmentation Scheme” at 4 p.m. today in 201 Thomas Building.
The Department of Statistics will host the event.
Daniel Larson and Jayanth Banavar, both of Penn State, will
speak about “Random Musings” at 4 p.m. in 117 Osmond Labora
tory.
The Department of Physics will host the event.
Manfred Denker of Germany’s University of Gottingen and
University of Cincinnati will speak at 4 p.m. today in 114 McAllis
ter Building.
The seminar, “T\vo Theorems of de Moivre and Poisson: Recent
Extensions with Applications,” will be hosted by the Department
of Mathematics.
The Department of Mathematics will host a lecture on “Teich
mueller Disks of Origamis and Outer Space” at 5 p.m. today in 106
McAllister Building.
Gabriela Schmithuesen of Cornell University will speak at the
lecture.
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Weather
CWS FORECAST
Today: Mostly sunny. High 78
Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 52
Tomorrow: Sunny. High 80
Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy.
Low 62
Saturday: Partly cloudy. High 82
Saturday night: Clear. Low 56
Sunday: Sunny. High 79
COLD WINTER AT PSU?
With multi million dollar computer models,
what better way could there be to predict
the weather six months in advance? The
local State College squirrel population and
their increasing nutty behavior could pro
vide some helpful insights. Weather folklore
passed down over the ages declares that
puffy tails and/or increasing nut collecting
could aid in predicting a severe winter.
There is very little scientific evidence sup
porting this occurrence, but they can’t do
any worse than us can they?
ADDITIONAL WEATHER
Visit the Campus Weather Service at:
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Forecasters: Marc Chenard, Kenny Rubenstein,
Doug Buehring, Nick Werner, Kurt Bopp,
Kenny Pratt
Jena 6
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ters may try Bell in juvenile court if his
appeal fails, the AP reported.
CNN.com reported that Walters was
under investigation by the FBI because of
possible bias after reportedly warning
black students at Jena that he could “take
away their lives with the stroke of a pen.”
Although Donald Washington, a U.S.
attorney for the Western District of
Louisiana, said yesterday that he has
found no connection between the beating
and the nooses, he did say they were like
ly symptoms of racial tension, CNN
reported.
The three white students responsible
for hanging the nooses at Jena High
School were given in-school suspensions
by the school administration despite the
principal’s recommendation of expulsion,
the AP reported.
The court proceedings have spurred
rallies and activism nationwide, recently
reaching Penn State.
Morgan Means (junior-telecommunica
tions/joiheid one of more than 300 Face
book groups associated with the Jena Six,
encouraging students to wear black in
support of today’s rally.
“It’s upsetting that something like this
can happen, and people don’t know about
it,” she said. “It’s disgusting that lawmak
ers will bend the rules because of race.
We should be able to have more faith in
our justice system.”
Penn State’s National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) and the College Democrats
started raising awareness about the Jena
Six yesterday by providing information
about the issue in die HUB-Robeson Cen
ter. They will be there again today with a
petition if students would like to support
the Jena She.
“It’s not just a black and white issue,
but to see what really happened,” Penn
State NAACP president Lloyd Colona
said. “We want to have a unified front
against injustice at a larger level.”
Means said she hoped that if a similar
situation occurred at Penn State, the
responsible students would be expelled.
“People have a tendency to push what
happened aside and say that it’s a prank,
and it gets overlooked,” Means said.
On Sept. 7, a noose was found hanging
from a tree outside the Nyumburu Cultur
al Center at the University of Maryland,
in College Park, Md.
“It’s a real big deal on campus,” said
University of Maryland student Akshay
Gupta. “People think it may be related to
the Jena Six because there was nothing
that happened recently on campus that
would have caused someone to do some
thing like that. Most people agree on cam
pus that it is a hate crime.”
T\vo days earlier and only miles away,
about 2,500 students from Howard Uni
versity in Washington, D.C., packed a
campus building to rally in support of the
Jena Six, said William Roberts, Howard
University Student Association vice presi
dent and one of the rally’s organizers.
“We felt it necessary to do because ... it
was important to educate students,”
Roberts said. “We wanted to voice our
protest about the case.”
On Tuesday, an estimated 200 students
marched from Atlanta University Center
campus to a downtown park in support of
the Jena Six, the AP reported. A bus car
avan will also make the 550-mile trip to
Jena today for the rally.
The issue is bigger than just a trial in
Louisiana, Roberts said.
“It’s not just a Jena issue, it’s a racial
issue. Nooses are not a joke,” he said.
“Jena is a microcosm of what is going on
in society.”
GSA
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between GSA and UPUA, called any Spanier said graduate students tend to student concerns, as well as a place for |
action between the two “great” face problems because they are “very students to have a voice,” she said. !
“I don’t think we’ve seen very much of focused.” However, Spanier stressed Spanier said the administration backs'
that over the years, and that’s a posi- that graduate students should know GSA in foil. “We should never forget that \
tive,” Spanier said. that, on campus, “nothing is off-limits.” grad students are a very important part i
Krauss said it is a GSA goal to involve Lindsay Kittelberger, GSA public rela- of this university,” he told the attendees [
more graduate students in various tions officer, said she would like to see of last night’s meeting. “[They] bring
events. graduate students “happy and healthy great credit to Penn State.”
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Floaters
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Earplugs are provided to keep
water and sound out.
When the participant is ready, the
researcher turns off the lights and the
floater shuts the door to the tank,
immersing them in complete dark
ness for an hour.
“You close the door, and there’s no
other input. Nothing happens. It’s a
very gentle meditation environment,”
Doyle said. “It’s not anything to make
people feel any anxiety.”
Doyle said between 60 and 70 per
cent of participants feel like they’re
flying and many lose all sense of up
and down.
“You can really lose awareness of
the boundaries of your body,” Shriver
said. “The weightlessness is unique. I
wish I had one at my house.”
Doyle said that so far they have
been getting good responses.
“One of the most common symp
toms is wanting to float again,” he
said.
Aid
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analysis system, but it would also
make it fairer, said U.S. Rep. Tim
Bishop, D-N.Y., basically allowing the
system to include and serve more stu
dents with financial aid.
For example, the amount of income
needed for a family to qualify for an
auto-zero Expected Family Contribu
tion has been raised from $20,000 to
$30,000, according to the National
Association of Student Financial Aid
Administrators.
An auto-zero Expected Family Con
tribution means that family is expect
ed to contribute no money to the cost
of college for one year.
The act will also raise the maxi
mum Pell Grant an individual can
receive from $4,310 per year to $5,400
per year over a five-year period, Alt
mire said.
The interest rate for student loans
will be halved from a current rate of
6.8 percent to 3.4 percent over the
next four years. This will reduce about
Saggy
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Ave., which has recently taken action
to ban baggy pants as part of its dress
code.
The dress code is effective only on
Wednesday nights, when 18-year-olds
are allowed to enter the dub.
The code was put in place for safety
reasons, said manager Doug Nixon,
adding that the dub didn’t want peo
ple sneaking alcohol inside or from
different levels in the dub by hiding it
in their baggy pants.
“Once people got used to the dress
code, it worked veiy well, ” Nixon said.
“People actually appredate it”
The dress code also banned men’s
capris, cutoffs, sweatpants, bandanas,
do-rags, sunglasses, white T-shirts
and shirts longer than the person’s
fingertips.
When the dress code was created
over the summer, some students com
plained that they felt the selected
items of clothing and accessories
being banned were radally motivated
in nature.
Students have expressed concerns
“We want people to get involved and because all programs
actually plan things,” he said. demanding and rigorous.”
When Krauss asked Spanier if he had “[GSA] is here to create a balance,
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CWS UNIVERSITY PARK FORECAST FOR
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20. 2007
FORECAST DISCUSSION
Today will feature temperatures a few
degrees warmer than yesterday and
continuing sunny weather. This will be
the trend through Saturday. Saturday
will be the warmest day with the highs
in the low 80's but will also feature
more clouds and humidity. A front
comes through late Saturday but unlike
past fronts, it will feature only clouds
and no rain through the region. Behind
the front, it will become drier and sun
nier, but temperatures will not cool
much as highs will still be near 80.
Of about 100 people who have float
ed in the tank, Hance said two ended
early because they didn’t like the feel
ing.
“That’s to be expected,” he said.
“Some people don’t want to spend that
much time with themselves.”
Hance said he would like to get a
neuroscientist on board to see what
kind of brain activity is going on as
people float, though he said it would
be hard to do in the water environ
ment.
“I would hope we would expand,” he
said. “There’s a lot left to be
answered.”
The other study the researchers
are planning will begin next week and
will require 20 participants to float 12
times for 45 minutes each in a period
of seven weeks, he said.
This study focuses less on narrative
experiences of floating, but more on
individuals with different personality
traits and how they experience the
tank, Hance said.
Anyone can sign up to float.
“It’s one of those things you have to
experience for yourself,” Doyle said.
$4,400 of debt for each student over
the lifetime of the loan, Altmire added.
Flirthermore, there will be a cap of
15 percent on the portion of students’
discretionary income the income
remaining after paying for necessities
that can be used to repay loans, he
said.
Other parts of the bill help students
who are pursuing careers in public
service, including teachers. The bill
will grant up-front tuition assistance
of $4,000 a year with a maximum of
$16,000 to students committed to
teaching a “high-need” subject at a
“high-need” school for four years after
graduation, said Congressman Chris
Murphy, D-Conn.
Additionally, the bill provides loan
forgiveness after 10 years for students
going into careers within the public
sector or with certain nonprofit organ
izations, Congressman John Sar
banes, D-Md., said. This includes pro
fessions such as law enforcement offi
cers, firefighters and librarians.
“We want to try and do everything
we can to encourage people to get into
public service,” he added.
with these newly proposed laws.
“This law will obviously fine differ
ent groups of people, but stereotyping
will be an issue, even if the law wasn’t
specifically created against a certain
race,” Considine said.
Occhipinti said she thinks people
will definitely think the law is target
ing certain ethnic groups.
Downtown store sT\venty7,2l4 East
College Ave., sells several types of
baggy pants, known as “urban fit”
“I don’t think it should come to the
point that a person should be fined for
wearing saggy pants,” store manager
Teresa Johnson said. “It’s what’s in
style.”
However, she added that there
comes a point where wearers have to
be respectful and make sure that
nothing is hanging out
Brian Canseco (sophomore-com
parative literature) said he “doesn’t
want to see people’s underwear.”
He added that he also feels that the
government should not be able to tell
people what they can and cannot
wear.
The Associated Press contributed to this
report.
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