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IFC pushes for more all-greek events
By Erin Shields
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I eksso29@psu.edu
Because non-greek students abuse
fraternity houses, the Interfraternity
Council (IFC) voted in late August to
move toward all-greek social events,
Roy Baker, director of fraternity and
sorority life, said Friday.
"It's their property and people are
damaging and abusing it," Baker said,
adding the IFC wants to host fewer
guest-list parties and more greek
only events.
"There's movement towards frater-
Lions
smash
OSU
By Travis Johnson
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER'S twjll2@psu.edu
At halftime Saturday, Penn
State's only Heisman Trophy win
ner John Cappelletti was back on
the field in Happy Valley.
But someone else was wearing
his familiar No. 22.
Cappelletti, who was there to be
honored with the
1973 team, leaned
against the Penn- 45
sylvania lime-
stone that lines Penn State
the tunnel in the
south end zone
and said the "kid"
in his jersey, Evan „AI
Royster, has a Oregon State
chance to end
Penn State's 35-year Heisman
drought.
"The kid out there today, No. 22,
certainly could be a legitimate can
didate if he continues to do what
he's been doing," Cappelletti said. "I
Nathan A. Smith/Collegian
Andrew Querless dressed for Saturday's game against
Oregon State after being suspended Thursday.
Student affairs VP
settles into new job
By Aubrey Whelan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I ajwsl39@psu.edu
Newly appointed Vice President
for Student Affairs Damon Sims has
only been at Penn State for a little
more than a month.
But for him, campus already feels
like home literally.
A former associate vice provost of
student affairs at Indiana University
at Bloomington, Sims was appointed
to Penn State's vice presidential
position in May but couldn't find a
house in State College for himself,
his wife and two young sons.
Undeterred, he and his family
decided to temporarily lease an on
campus apartment while house
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nities partying more with sororities
than non-greeks because the risk is
lower and there's less people the fra
ternities don't know in their houses,"
Baker said.
The door is "soon going to be shut"
for students who choose not to join
fraternities, Cory Will, co-executive
vice president for membership, said.
Fraternities are currently in the
midst of their recruitment season,
and the IFC is trying to make frater
nity social life an incentive to join
greek life, Will said.
"In the past, freshmen have had
Meagan Kanagy/Collegian
Evan Royster, 22, avoids being tackled by Oregon State players. Royster scored three touchdowns in the game.
think the kid's the whole package. downs in Penn State's 45-14 win yards over the goal line for his third
It's just a matter of doing it for a over Oregon State. Royster slashed score.
while now, getting some notice." up the middle on his first score then "Our offensive line is doing a
Royster added another stellar scored his second a 28-yard run great job," Royster said. "We've got
game to his résumé Saturday, rush- when he outran defenders to the a couple of other good backs that
ing for 144 yards and three touch- left side. He followed blockers four See FOOTBALL, Page 2.
Players face uncertain future
Even when John Cappelletti wore blue and
white, Joe Paterno dealt with players who
found trouble "very severely and very quickly
most of the time," the former Nittany Lion
said.
Cappelletti, Penn State's only Heisman Tro
phy winner, said he hopes Paterno is getting
back to the approach Cappelletti remembers.
"The temptations are there," Cappelletti
said. "You've got to decide for yourself When
we were in school, we could go drink, we could
go party or we could toe thr line and do the
right stuff and be part of the team and have
some fun and win some games."
Cappelletti whose acceptance speech
dedicated to his dying brother became part of
Heisman lore starred on the .1973 team that
was honored during halftime of Saturday's 45-
14 thrashing of Oregon State.
hunting. For now, Sims begins and
ends his day in a two-bedroom
apartment in the Nittany Apartment
residence area.
"I'm doing a lot of walking to
work," Sims said, laughing. His office
in Old Main is just a few blocks away
from his apartment.
Going from a 10-acre farm in
Bloomington, Ind., to an apartment
in State College can be a bit of a
stretch, but Sims, who spent 33
years at Indiana first as a student,
and then as an administrator is
making it work
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easy access to our houses and our
social scene," Will said. "Recruitment
is a chance to get a glimpse at what
we d 0.... If you want to be a part of
our social life, you need to be a mem
ber. We want to use the resources we
have for members."
People don't know or appreciate
those living in the fraternity house or
their property, Baker said, though he
added there are many great students
who choose not to be greek, and he
would not encourage a policy that
would completely ban independents
from all greek events.
By Josh Langenbacher
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER jjlso3l@psu.edu
Damon Sims; vice president for
student affairs, was appointed in May.
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Paterno has often referenced the changing
times surrounding Penn State football now
compared to the early stages of his career. If a
player got himself into trouble years ago,
Paterno has said police would call him, he
would bring the player to his home and run
him in the morning.
The public would never know.
Today, though, the public knows almost
instantly.
Such was the case Tuesday night when
Penn State Police said they found a "small
amount" of marijuana at Nittany Apartment
5204. A search warrant that cited university
housing records indicated defensive end Mau
rice Evans, defensive tackle Abe Koroma, tight
end Andrew Quarless and cornerback A.J.
Wallace were the most recent tenants.
Koroma and Evans did not dress for Satur-
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Baker said there are four types of the number of guest-list parties being
parties fraternities can host: "broth- scheduled because of the problems
er-sister" functions; socials with fraternities have experienced by host
one fraternity and one sorority; date ing them.
parties in which each member can
bring one guest, greek or non-greek;
and guest list parties in which fra
ternity members put non-greek
friends on a list so they will be
allowed at the party. have relied on it.
Fraternities used to have more During the information sessions for
guest-list parties, Baker said. recruitment held last week, Kelsey
Fraternities are required to sched- Gingrich, IFC president, said within a
ule their parties for the weekend, and year fraternities will be holding more
Baker said he's seen a decrease in See GREEKS. Page 2.
Café reopening
draws hundreds
By Elizabeth Murphy
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I eamslls@psu.edu
Despite former Nittany Lion
LaVar Arrington's call for "the
plague," the Sports Café & Grille
saw no locusts this weekend.
The 244 W. College Ave. bar
reopened Thursday at about 9 p.m.,
and saw hundreds of bar-hoppers
throughout the night, said AJ Mad
den, a bar manager
"It's been a good weekend," Mad
den said Sunday. "The reaction has
been all positive."
Although bar-goers responded
positively to the reopening for the
most part, Arrington, who had
Monday, Sept. 8, 2008
An independent student doesn't
have the right to attend greek parties,
Baker said. He added it is not the
greeks' obligation to provide the
social scene, and for years, people
Police:
Harriott
charged
By Elizabeth Murphy
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER I eamslls@psu.edu
Former Nittany Lion cornerback
Willie Harriott was charged with driving
with a suspended license Thursday,
police said, marking his third brush with
the law during his Penn State career
after a previous DUI charge and an
underage drinking citation.
After pulling Harriott over Thursday,
police administered a personal breath
test and then took him to Mount Nittany
Medical Center for a blood test to deter
mine if he had been drinking, Penn State
Police Sgt. Don Hazel said.
Hazel said the
results of the test
were complete, but he
could not release
Harriott's blood alco
hol content (BAC)
because no charges, if
any, had been filed as
of Sunday afternoon.
Harriott, 21, of New
Haven, Conn., is also
facing one count reg
istration and certification
required, police said.
Police will consult with the district
attorney's office about the BAC and then
determine whether to charge Harriott
with a DUI, Hazel said.
Driving a 2007 Subaru, Harriott and a
passenger were pulled over while sitting
at a red light on Cherry Lane, off North
Atherton Street, at 2:28 a.m. because offi
cers noticed the vehicle's rear license
was expired, Hazel said.
The reserve cornerback was dis
missed from the team Thursday, Joe
Paterno said during his radio show.
Penn State sports information director
Jeff Nelson said the dismissal was a
result of a violation of team rules.
Harriott was charged with DUI last
November after he was pulled over on
North Atherton Street with a BAC of .16,
police said. Harriott has since enrolled in
the accelerated rehabilitative disposition
program (ARD).
Last August, Harriot was cited for
underage drinking outside of Nittany
Apartments.
attempted to buy the bar from cur
rent owner Kevin Anderson, was
less than excited.
"I hope the plague falls upon the
Sports Café," he said Thursday.
Arrington and his group, FA.M.M.
LLC, planned to reopen the bar as
"Linebacker U Sports Café," but
said he had nothing to do with the
reopening Thursday.
He said Sunday that he plans to
take legal action against Anderson
soon.
Anderson's lawyer, Raquel Price,
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