r- - - -- Fit fora King council will discuss whether toll:, Can a ,1 , ~ , , - --.- •--- The Flaming Lips successfully cover i , name a street in honor of , . help the nii=4 - ,Th ,- •,- ,-,,,-, -, 7 ,-,5,-,- 5: . - -•--- - ' Pink Floyd. 1 ARTS IN REVIEW, Pape 14, MLK Jr. I LOCAL. 1 '(.4,;(• ..; "V, ' , it - Tri,r 7. -: r: r'7:-. i'rifie f,',. .: The Dail psucollegian.com Published independently by students at Penn State Haiti receives international aid By Mike Melia ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Desperately - needed aid from around the world slowly made its way Thursday into Haiti, where supply bottlenecks and a leader ship vacuum left rescuers scram bling on their own to save the trapped and injured and get relief supplies into the capital. The international Red Cross estimated that up to 50,000 people were killed in Tuesday's earth quake. President Barack Obama announced that one of the largest relief efforts in our recent history" is moving toward Haiti. with thou sands of troops and a broad array of civilian rescue workers flying or sailing in to aid the stricken coun try backed by more than $lOO million in relief funds. To the Haitians. Obama prom ised: - You will not be forsaken." The nascent flow of rescue workers showed some results: a newly arrived search team pulled U.N. security worker Tarmo Joveer alive from the organiza tion's collapsed headquarters, where about 100 people are still trapped. There are easily hundreds of people trapped. living or dead, in collapsed buildings. Friends and relatives have had to claw at the wreckage, often with bare hands, to try to free them. Planes from China. France, Spain and the United States land ed at Port-au-Prince's airport, car rying searchers and tons of water, food. medicine and otner supplies. The Red Cross has estimated 3 million people a third of the population --- may need emer gency relief. 41". Lynn McGowan -Collegian Christian Ragland (junior- politi cal science) distributes a flier about longer White Loop hours. Loop extends hours to 4:30 a.m. By Paige Minemyer COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER The extended hours of the White Loop officially took effect early this morning, and the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) is putting together an extensive campaign to garner support for the initia tive. The White Loop will now add two hours to its current run time and extend bus service until 4:30 a.m. The extension is only in effect Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. The new hours are on a trial run for this semes ter. The first step in its campaign was a trip to Findlay and Johnston Commons in East Halls on Thursday evening. UPUA members handed out fly ers and encouraged freshmen to take advantage of the new bus hours, as the policy was geared See LOOP, Page 2. - 3 Military personal from HMCS Halifax take on supplies as other crew members try and exit the ship on Thursday in Halifax, Nova Scotia. HMCS Halifax and Athabaskan left Halifax for Haiti loaded with provisions, while other countries have donated money and flown in supploes to help in the earthquake relief effort. Increase in tuition limits diversity By Laurie Stern COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER The state of Pennsylvania may be notorious for its limited appro priation dollars, but this lack of funding is catching up with Penn State in more ways than one most recently, a potential decline in student diversity. A new report released by The Education Trust, an organization that promotes "high academic achievement for all students at all levels," found that state universi ties nationwide are becoming less financially accessible to low income arid minority students, in part because of the misallocation of need-based financial aid. IDE Alum, university reflect on breach By Laura Nichols Alle' ?: -- :-.1" :- • ''''x'- COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER * • ...... ‘ "*' ,7 , t= It couldn't be a coincidence, he - - - ' • thought. Around the same time A • Penn State sent Ryan Davidson a letter telling him a virus on a pro- fessor's computer may have exposed his social security num ber, .44 his credit card company N detected some suspicious activity on his account. Davidson, Class of 2006, expected his records to have been expunged one or two years after he graduated from Penn State, not still archived on a university comput er nearly four years later. What's xixxxx more, it took Penn State three 700000 X_..., 700000( months to notify him of the 01110 °. 111 . 11 breach. 1111.100EQUI "I understand th keeping is important, but I don't know why it was still on a teacher's personal computer," Davidson said. "It is unnerving that Penn State may not be trust ed with our personal informa tion." - Flagship universities are using financial aid dollars to compete for high achieving, high-income students," said Mary Lynch. co author of the report. "The upper middle class students who are a little leery of private schools in the current economy are going. Low income students get pushed down the education scale." In the report, Penn State is list ed as one of 15 schools with a lower percentage of minority stu dents, compared to a private school counterpart in the same state. The number of minority stu dents enrolled at the University Park campus has increased slightly over the past 10 years and Breaches by the numbers Davidson's was one of 303 Social Security numbers thai could have been exposed when a professor's gradebook was hacked in November. constitutes about 13.9 percent of students. But the limited need based financial aid available remains to be seen, which will prevent the main campus from becoming more diverse. According to the report, current trends undermine the reason state schools exist: To make high er education more accessible to all residents of the state. "These schools were founded to serve that mission," Lynch said. "We're holding up this mir ror for students to see they're not fulfilling this mission. Private schools have made more of a com mitment to it." But Penn State is aware of the See DIVERSITY. Page 2. RISIS In December, the number of those affected grew considerably. Nearly 30,000 unidentified indi viduals were put at risk when malicious software (malware) infiltrated several colleges at University Park and a common wealth campus. In the Eberly College of Science, 7,758 records were put at risk, along with 6,287 in the College of Health and Human Development and 261 from the Dickinson School of Law. About 15,000 records at Penn State Schuykill were compromised. And some believe the recent security breaches could only be the tip of the iceberg, John Bagby, professor of information sciences and technology and co-director of the Institute for Information Policy, wrote in an e-mail. - They claim [reports are] hardly comprehensive because some breaches by some institu tions may not be reported if the standards for reporting are liber al or if the breach notice law per- See BREACH. Paget. UPUA to collect for quake survivors By Paige Minemyer COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER As people across the country take part in relief efforts after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Penn State students are banding together to raise funds for the cause. Spearheaded by the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA), Council of Lion Hearts and the Office of Student Affairs, many campus organizations will be a part of setting up a table for donations in the HUB-Robeson Center. Interested students can donate from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and every day next week. UPUA Student Life and Diversity Chairman Christian Ragland said UPUAs involvement is important to spreading word of the fundraiser across campus. "Our role is to just let organiza tions know that there is a universi ty-wide effort for Haiti," Ragland (junior-political science) said. Ragland hopes the fundraiser will engage students, helping to unite the student body in aiding Haiti. In 2004, a similar campus wide effort was created to aid tsunami victims in Indonesia. See UPUA. Page 2 Public vs. private Out of 15 schools five Big Ten institutions have a loiAer percentage of minority students FORM) than their states selective private university. Indiana University (Bloomington) -8% University of Notre Dame - 15% Penn State University (Main Campus) - 10% University of Pennsylvania - 20% 'Public schools indicated in bold. 'URM percentage only includes Afncan Amencan. Native American and Latin American students. MIME Megan Yanchitts Collegian Greeks talk to officials By Sarah Peters COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER The greek community brought talks of town-and-gown relations to the fraternity house Wednesday night Leaders in the Interfraternity Council (IFC), Panhellenic Council and student govern ment met with Wendkos State College Bor-ough officials Wednesday to discuss longstanding issues like excessive drinking and account ability The meeting, held at the Thu Kappa Epsilon fraternity house at 346 E. Prospect Ave., is the first of a series of meetings to foster communication between student leaders and borough See GREEKS, Page 2.
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