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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.
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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.
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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.
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Alum, university reflect on breach
By Laura Nichols Alle' ?: --
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COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
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It couldn't be a coincidence, he - - - ' •
thought. Around the same time A
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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,
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his credit card company
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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.