W The Daily Collegian Published independently by students at Penn State Rape counts filed Felony charges were brought against a Penn State student after police say he raped two women on separate occasions. By Kevin Cirilli COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER A Penn State student was charged with two felony counts of rape Tuesday, less than a week after authorities dropped sexual assault charges against him. Police say Murad Hanif, 25, raped a woman March 28 and another woman Jan. 23 in his Hanif downtown apart- ment on the 200 block of East Hamilton Avenue. The investigation of the March 28 incident led to the discovery of the Jan. 23 incident, Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira said. In addition to the rape charges, Hanif is charged with two felony counts of sexual assault, one felony count of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and four mis demeanor counts of indecent assault, according to court docu ments. Hanif’s attorney, Karen Muir, could not be reached for com ment. The woman from the March 28 incident told police she never gave consent to sex with Hanif and said she was unable to act or say no, according to court documents. A resident in the building who reported the incident said the woman was intoxicated, according to court documents. DNA tests linked the woman’s vaginal sampling to Hanif’s oral sampling, according to the affi davit. After waking up with Hanif next to her in March, the woman fled the apartment as he chased her down the stairs, police said. She knocked on several apart ment doors seeking help, police said. A resident of an apartment in the building said an unknown woman entered her unlocked apartment, asked if anyone was there and possibly took the key to the unlocked apartment at about 4 a.m. the morning of the incident, police said. The tenant reported the miss ing key to the landlord, who noti fied authorities, police said. Police found the missing key on the woman who said she had been raped. See RAPE, Page 2 Speaker revisits Woodstock memories By Amanda Elser COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Baby boomers all have differ ent memories of the flower-power ‘6os if they can remember it at all but for Michele Hax, Woodstock was the cap of a tremulous decade. Hax, a professor of sociology at Community College of Baltimore County, is a guest speaker at “Woodstock Revisited,” an event being held at Penn State Great Valley tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. The gathering is in honor of the 40th anniversary of the iconic music festival. Hax will share her Woodstock experience with a wide audience tonight, but she thinks that today’s generation will be able to relate. After all, Woodstock was a festival for the young, and at the time, the youth of America Movin’ out jhjn g Tlie last four sororities in East Halls will move In im to South and Pollock Halls, freeing space for freshmen ,g 2l NEWS, Page 3. The Patriot-News, Christine Baker Associated Press Sen. Arien Specter, D-Pa., speaks during a town hall meet ing on health care Tuesday in Lebanon. Hat Trick Michael Felletter/Coliegian Antonio Massey (front) and Sean Powderly, of Baltimore, skate off of a stone wall in front of the Berkey Creamery Tuesday afternoon. The skateboarders are from Camp Woodward filming a skater video. were in turmoil over Vietnam. Hax thought it was almost iron ic that there were 500,000 people attending the festival, the same number of people fighting in Vietnam during that time. Woodstock was a good outlet for people to let out their anger, she said. “The war still hasn’t stopped,” she said. Hax said the festival was filled with a lot of “peaceful thinking.” The people attending Woodstock realized the soldiers in Vietnam during that time didn’t know who their enemy was. “But we knew that our enemy was the establishment,” she said. Fbr Hax, the whole situation was a “psychological experi ence.” Claustrophobic and nerv ous about accidentally drinking something spiked with acid, she made her then-boyfriend take her Associated Press A couple hugs during the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in August 1969 in Bethel, N.Y. home early, which meant she driving up to the festival,” she missed a large portion of the fes- said. 'People were standing on tival. top of their buses holding peace But her defining moment hap pened on the ride up. “It was a magical experience : —c'— v ■HKx ft- ' - : : _ Sen. Specter to visit PSU By Chris Bickel COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER U S. Sen. Alien Specter will be host ing a town hall meeting today in the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel to discuss what's on the minds of locals and if recent meetings are any indication, it may get ugly. According to a press release from Specter's office, the town hall meeting invites constituents to discuss impor tant issues, ranging from local to national subjects. signs. Others parked their cars miles away and were walking to See WOODSTOCK, Page 2. psucollegian.com "I find these town meetings indis pensable to stay in close touch with the people of Pennsylvania in order to do as a good job as possible in repre senting them/' Specter, D-Pa., wrote in the press release. But recently, some of the people of Pennsylvania seem to think he’s not representing them at all. Specter host- See SPECTER, Page 2. For continued updates: psucollegian.com Frats divided over fee By Kevin Cirilli COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Some fraternity leaders are opposed to the $lO rushing fee proposed by the Interfraternity Council, saying it will discourage prospective greeks. Lee Connolly, president of the Sigma Pi fraternity, said the fee will tarnish the rushing experi ence. “It’ll ruin it,” Connolly (senior finance) said. “If I had to pay $lO,l wouldn’t have joined.” The fee was proposed to help pay for a fraternity recruitment marketing campaign, Interfraternity Council (IFC) President Luke Pierce said. The money will be used to purchase T shirts, wristbands and food for informational sessions. “We’re trying to weed out the people who are at the bottom of the barrel the people that are seeking to take advantage of the recruitment process,” Pierce (senior-economics) said. Pierce acknowledged that the proposal has been criticized by fraternity leaders. While he’s aware some fraternity leaders are against implementation of the fee, he said it’s been tough to address their concerns because everyone is spread out during the summer. Connolly said fraternities should use the rushing process to change minds, rather than dis courage students’ curiosity. While Connolly said he rushed with no intention of joining a fra ternity, the recruitment process helped him understand what fra ternity life is all about. “I never thought I’d ever join a fraternity, and now I’m president,” he said. “The whole point of rush ing is to get kids out there and to introduce them to it, even if they don’t think that the fraternity might be the place for them.” Connolly also questioned what the money would be used for, say ing Sigma Pi, 303 Fraternity Row, pays for its recruitment events. “They just want extra money for stuff,” Connolly said. “They’re try ing to shoot for the moon and hope for somewhere in between.” Adam Nye, Sigma Pi’s former recruitment chair, said the fee would be another $lO tacked on to already hefty fraternity fees. “You need to take small baby steps before you try to drastically change things,” Nye (senior-edu cation public policy) said. Josh Corcoran, IFC vice presi dent for membership, said the fee will help the incoming freshmen understand more about fraternity life. The registered students will receive the fee’s purchases imme diately, he said. “It’s a win-win situation,” Corcoran (senior-communication sciences and disorders) said. “It can help deter people who are just looking to have a good time in the first two weeks of school and makes the process more serious.” To e-mail reporter: kncso63@psu.edu
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