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Police defend tactics
Chief says pepper spray was safest tool
By Heather Schmelzlen
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | hrsso29@psu.edu
TWo days after students poured into
Beaver Canyon in a boisterous celebra
tion following Penn State’s victory over
Ohio State, law enforcement officials
defended their plan of action, including
the use of pepper spray.
State College Police Chief Tom King
said using pepper spray is “the least
intrusive and the safest tool” police
have to disperse people, adding police
do not use tasers and do not want to
use night sticks or tear gas.
“We don’t want to use force that is
going to cause any lasting, long-term
injury,” he said. “[Pepper spray]
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Aaron Stidd is recovering two years after he was struck by a drunken driver in the early morning hours of Oct. 28, 2006
while crossing Atherton Street at Beaver Avenue. The other victim, Richard Smith, was killed, and Stidd sustained trau
matic brain injury as a result of the crash | LOCAL, Page 3.
Students
prepare
for Palin
Volunteers paint signs and
anticipate Sarah Palin’s
arrival on tonight.
By Mandy Hofmockel
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | amhs2s6@psu.edu
Lauren Hemrick knelt on the floor
of Rec Hall painting a blue sign with
white lettering that read “We [love]
Sarah,” complete with a red heart, in
anticipation of Republican vice presi
dential candidate Sarah Palin’s arrival
to the venue tonight.
Volunteers picked their way
through still wet signs and their peers
in a hallway at the entrance to the
floor of Rec Hall where doors for the
event will open at 6 p.m.
Hemrick (freshman-veterinary
medicine) said she is volunteering at
the event guarding the VIP section.
“I’m the only girl,” she said, “but I’m a
hardass.”
Hemrick said she had never seen
the candidate before and likes the idea
of a woman vice president.
“I’m just so excited to see this elec
tion, to see them win,” she said.
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almost, in a way, goes away so quickly,
we had people coming back that had
been sprayed.”
Though some students said the use
of pepper spray was excessive, Penn
State Police Capt. Bill Moerschbacher
said it was warranted.
King said police had extra staff on
hand Saturday night to keep celebra
tors safe from traffic and heavy pedes
trian flows in the area.
“We were anticipating, if Penn State
won, that people would be excited and
would come out and celebrate and
enjoy the special night,” he said. “We
didn’t anticipate that people would
start to cause damage as part of the
event.”
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Volunteers make signs in Rec Hall Monday night supporting Sarah Palin. Palin
will be speaking at Rec Hall on tonight.
mass communications at Bloomsburg
University, said she had been to five
rallies so far.
“When you’re standing at these ral
lies, it makes you feel like an
American,” Sage said.
She said the event at Penn State
would differ from those that she had
been to before because the sound
would be “like a mini rock concert.”
Palin will most likely talk about the
youth getting out to vote, Sage said.
“We’re our nation’s future so we
have to get out and act like we are, not
just talk about it,” she said.
Andrew Ryan (freshman-geo
science) made more than one sign
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King said 25 to 30 officers were
employed to control the crowd of about
4,000 to 5,000.
Penn State Police were on hand to
assist State College Police before the
game was over.
“We had most of our officers in the
area right after the game got over,”
King said. “It was obvious within about
two minutes of the game getting over,
or actually two minutes from the inter
ception in the end zone, that we need to
bring all of our available officers up for
crowd control.”
If you go
What: Sarah Palin speaking
When: Doors open at 6 p.m.,
speech begins at 8 tonight
Where: Rec Hall
Monday night, including one that
read “PSU 4 PALIN.”
Although he had never seen the
vice presidential candidate, Ryan said
he saw Palin’s husband Todd when he
tailgated with students and alumni at
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A riot control officer warns a man to back on to the sidewalk during the events
that ensued on Beaver Avenue early Sunday morning.
Clinton to visit,
support Obama
By Danielle Vickery
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | devsolo@psu.edu
President Bill Clinton will visit
State College Wednesday,
Democratic presidential candidate
Barack Obama’s campaign con
firmed late Monday afternoon.
Clinton’s stop will be the day after
Republican vice presidential candi
date Sarah Palin’s speaks in State
College.
Zachary Zabel, president of Penn
State Students for Barack Obama,
said the timing is coincidental.
“I know he’s going to be talking in
support of Barack, obviously,” Zabel
said. “I think it’s definitely going to be
focused on Barack Obama himself
and also on the leadership abilities of
Joe Biden and how important they
are for Pennsylvanians.”
Clinton last visited Penn State in
March, speaking to a full Rec Hall,
when he was campaigning for his
wife and then-presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton.
College Democrats President Sean
Meloy, who introduced Bill Cllinton at
the Rec Hall event, said he is looking
forward to seeing him again.
“He’s awesome he’s just amaz-
Knight relates tales,
gives audience advice
By Ben Skalina
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER | blssl33@psu.edu
When Michael Jordan had 19
points, 12 rebounds and eight assists
in a half of basketball, Bob Knight
asked him why he wasn’t setting
screens.
Jordan responded by telling his
coach he was setting screens, they
were just happening too quick for
Knight to see.
That anecdote, from the 1984
Olympic Games, was one of the many
highlights of Knight’s speech at
Eisenhower Auditorium, the first in
this year’s Student Programming
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Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008
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Former President Bill Clinton spoke
in the Rec Hall in March, while
campaigning for his wife.
ing,” Meloy said. “He’s going to
remind people what it was like to
have a president that cared about col
lege students and the middle class.
See CLINTON. Page 2.
Association Distinguished Speakers
Series.
Scott Press (senior-journalism)
said he “didn’t really know what to
expect” from the famously volatile
coach, but he liked the quick, witty
responses Knight gave.
Knight, the all-time leader in NCAA
Division I men’s basketball coaching
victories with 902 wins, kept the
Eisenhower crowd laughing through
out the 70 minutes he was on stage.
Despite the humor, the former Army,
Indiana and Texas Tech coach mixed
in plenty of serious advice about suc
cess during his speech.
See KNIGHT, Page 2.