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PSU short
on vaccines
By Kevin Cirilli
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
University and local health
officials are encouraging stu
dents to get both the HINI and
the seasonal vaccine while it
lasts, as national flu vaccine
shortages continue to affect the
Penn State community.
Today is the last scheduled day
students can get the seasonal flu
vaccine in the HUB-Robeson
Center for $26, which will be
billed to bursar accounts,
University Health Services
Fewer
campus
elms hit
by illness
By Lexi Belculfine
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Last November, elm yellows dis
ease infected 47 of the 400 elm trees
on campus, prompting fears the
campus's historic foliage could be at
risk
There's good news for tree lovers:
This year, only three were afflicted.
- This is a moderate success, but
we are not out of the woods, so to
speak," Office of the Physical Plant
(OPP) spokesman Paul Ruskin
said.
A relatively new disease to Penn
State elm trees, elm yellows has no
known cure, said Kelleann Foster,
chairwoman of the University 'free
Commission.
"Every other place that it hit, it
has wiped them all out," Foster said.
While elm yellows is isolated to
two specific parts of campus
Mitchell Road and Burrowes Road
the disease is very present in
other parts of the valley.
"When you leave the campus
area, Penn State is in the midst of a
raging epidemic," Ruskin said. "But
we have teams of trained people
dedicated to saving the elms and
some of the best scientific guidance
for plant pathology in the nation."
OPP Superintendent of Grounds
Jeffrey Dice and plant pathology
professor Gary Moorman led the
team of OPP landscapers who col
lected this year's elm data.
Several factors contributed to the
disease's decline, including a cold
spring, Ruskin said.
"We think the cold weather has
affected the leaf hoppers and
decreased the number of nymphs on
trees," he said, speaking about the
disease's insect carriers and their
young.
Elm yellows is spread by insects,
although researchers have yet to
isolate a specific carrier, Moorman
said.
Another factor may be the antibi
otic injections administered to some
of the elms but Moorman said
there is no evidence of that tactic's
success, as targeted trees and those
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Mellow yellow
The Elm Yellows disease hit
campus hard last year, but the
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Thursday marks the end of the
UHS-administered mass HINI
nasal vaccines, which are free.
Students can schedule an
appointment online at www.sa.psu. Ryan Ulsh/Collegian
edu/uhs. Lucero Hernandez (freshman-division of undergraduate studies)
"You need a vaccine to protect receives a flu shot. The national shortage has left PSU needing more.
you from each one," Guanowsky
said. - There are two different uncertain when more will more appointments. This is the
strands going around." become available, she said. last one as of now"
Although UHS originally "The production is way down The HINI virus has infected
ordered about 30,000 HINI vac- than what they had expected," college-aged groups more than
cines, it has only received Guanowsky said. "If we get more those older another reason
4,800 vaccines to date and is vaccines, then we'll open up See VACCINES, Page 2.
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Abby Drey Collegian
Joe Tomczuk, 84 and a Marine veteran, talks
with friends at a Marine Corps event on Tuesday.
Veteran reflects on U.S.
and you better be there," Tomczuk said. "The
discipline I think they took people and
molded them into something, I'd say good cit-
More than 60 years ago, Joe Tomczuk izens, when they got out."
By Katie Sullivan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
served three years with the Marines. The 84-year-old-man, dressed in a striped
Although much time has passed, the disci- collared shirt and a crisp pair of khakis, pulled
pline and punctuality the military instilled in out a thick, leather-bound photo album
him is still apparent. Tuesday that holds pictures of his time in the
Tomczuk's lawn in front of his split-level service.
home on Saxton Drive in State College is cut Black and white images of fallen comrades,
in perfectly straight lines, clean of any leaves Asian architecture and a little Chinese boy the
or debris. Inside, the scene is no different Marines dubbed "Smokey" in a homemade
pictures of his children and grandchildren line Marine uniform stare back from the black
the walls and mantel in perfect symmetry, photo paper.
with nary a pillow or cushion out of place. If He reflected on his time in the military as
there's one thing his service taught him, it's people across the nation celebrate Veteran's
neatness and punctuality, he said. Day.
"When they said fall out at 6 o'clock, it's not "People don't realize what we have here in
a minute of 6 or a minute after 6. Six o'clock See VETERAN, Page 2.
Hull follows dreams
This is the first in a three-part series
about Penn State linebackers
overcoming personal adversities.
By Nate Mink
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
MILLHEIM, Pa. Dressed in a navy
blue cap and gown, Josh Hull lifted him
self out of his seat and took the podium to
address the 107 other seniors at Penns
Valley's high school graduation
ceremony.
Standing underneath clear skies on a
stage set up in the middle of the school's
football field, the 2005 valedictorian
glanced down at his speech proofread
by his mother and spoke for about five
minutes.
"I can remember him telling them,
'Follow your dreams, — said his father, Jeff,
who sat in those same bleachers on Friday
nights just seven months before, watching
his 205-pound son run and tackle players To read more about Fenn State football
on the football field. SPORTS, Page 8.
Courtesy of Joe Tomczuk
Joe Tomczuk served in the Marines in the
19405. His military career took him around the
world.
BOUNCING
Who better to deliver such a message
than the 4.0 grade-point average Penn
State-bound football player? Someone
who, although he comes from a small, old
mill town tucked in the mountains of cen
tral Pennsylvania, would fight through
improbable odds to climb from invited
walk-on to leading Linebacker U in tackles
his senior season.
Getting to Penn State
Addressing the seventh grade members
of the football program, Penns Valley var
sity coach Martin Tobias took one look at a
See DREAMS. Page 12.
service
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Josh Hull (43) tackles Minnesota's Duane Bennett
(22) during Penn State's 20-0 shutout of the
Golden Gophers on Oct. 17.
Police
obtain
phone
records
By Kevin Cirilli
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Authorities obtained phone
records for the man who told police
he accidentally shot and Hied his
21-year-old girl
friend Oct. 24 in
game lands just
30 minutes from
campus, as police
decide whether to
file criminal homi-
cide charges.
Troy R. Tierney
who Penn State Perryman
officials said is listed
as a Penn State student told
police he accidentally shot his girl
friend, Racheal Lynn Perryman, of
Port Matilda, with an inline muzzle
loading rifle because he thought she
was a deer, according to court docu
ments. Tierney and Perryman were
hunting in Black Moshannon State
Forest in Union Township. Tierney
called 911 at about 8:30 p.m. after the
shooting, police said.
An investigation revealed
Perryman contacted Tierney's par
ents via texts that night. "Food (a 8
do not load gun again," Thomas R.
Tierney, Troy Tierney's father,
texted Perryman at 7:32 p.m.,
according to the warrant filed
Tuesday at Judge Allen Sinclair's
office. Perryman texted Thomas R.
Tierney at 7:15 p.m. that same night
she and Troy Tierney were "Lookn 4
deer," according to the warrant.
Only two text messages were stated
in the warrant. Thomas R. Tierney
told police the couple had dinner
plans with him and his wife, Melinda
Sue Tierney, according to court doc
uments. The text messages, phone
records and medical records could
help authorities establish a timeline,
police wrote in the warrant.
"[The records] also may shed
light on Perryman's and Troy Ray
Tierney's s' ate of mind," according
to the warrant. Tierney told police
he didn't drink alcohol before the
incident, but police said he may have
been under the influence of drugs or
alcohol, according to court docu
ments. Authorities asked Verizon
Wireless to keep Tierney's texts.
according to the warrant. One bullet
to the upper body killed Perryman,
who was also involved in a rape
case. Perryman told police in
January that Kyle Lingle, 21, raped
her in August 2008 at his residence,
according to court documents.
Lingle, of Milesburg, faces rape
and sexual assault charges, accord
ing to court documents.
To e-mail reporter: kncso63@psu.edu