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Howley owes THON $1,734 after Friday’s ‘perfect storm’
By Jourdan Cole
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Last Friday. Khloe Kardashian
made one innocent tweet about
THON. boosting awareness and
support but Pat Howley said
she ruined everything.
It started simply enough: 'For
every new follower of " abolish
cancer TODAY ' PatHowley
agrees to donate SI to ■.« THON to
fight cancer."
On Fridav. Howley. a
Karena Smith (junior-community environment and development) senes spaghetti as part of Project Haiti's fundraiser for the United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Partners In Health on Monday night at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church. 208 W. Foster Ave. More than 350 peeps
attended the event, raising more than $2,500. For complete coverage j LOCAL, Page 4.
UPUA
asks for
musical
input
By Lindsay Cryer
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Though contracts have yet to
be signed and bands have yet to
be scheduled, planning for this
year’s UPUA-sponsored spring
music festival is definitely under
way.
Plans for a new commission to
plan this year’s Wallypalooza will
be discussed at Wednesday's
University Park Undergraduate
Association meeting.
Last year's Wallypalooza was
created and largely planned by
former UPUA Programming
Chairman Mike Wallace (senior
economics) and a small commit
tee and ever since Wallace
stepped down from his UPUA
position because of a heavy aca
demic load, the future of the fes
tival has been up in the air.
Once the committee
designed to be led by Wallace
is formally proposed at
Wednesday's meeting, the
UPUA assembly will confirm
See UPUA Page 2.
Interfraternity Council Panehell
enic Dance Marathon (THON*
hospitality committee member,
pledged to give $1 for even- new
follower of abolishcaneer. a
Twitter account run by a cancer
awareness advocate.
Howley (junior-hotel restaurant
institutional management'
expected to be donating about $5O.
with the average amount of new
abolishcaneer followers falling
between 20 and 50 per day.
Then the unexpected happened.
Show me the mone
Penn State's endowment is
currently on the upswing.
Source: Lisa Powers and Board of Trustees 20C 9
fiscal report
Justine King/Collegian
Celebrity THON tweets worry local Mr zzszzssr
J J about THON this weekend,
eventually catapulting #THON to the
top categories in the worldwide network.
DJ “PJ" Mullen is
worried that celebrity'
role could take awav
from THON goal. '
By Katrina Wehr
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
THON has recently caught the
eye of several prominent celebri
ties, but one local DJ said this
attention is distorting the mission
of the pediatric cancer philan
thropy.
Tweets and blogs written by
celebrities like Perez Hilton,
“The Big Ten
Network tweet
ed." Howlev said.
■THON tweeted
and then Khloe
Karda s h i a n
screwed every
thing up."
At the end ot the Howley
day. abolishcancer
had 1.734 new fol
lowers - and
TIION 31.734
Working
Howley
at the
Endowment rises
after economy dips
By Colleen Boyle
COLLEG : AN STAFF WRITER
After taking a hefty dip during
the height of the recession last
year. Penn State's endowments
are now on the upswing, universi
ty officials said Monday.
The total endowment, which
dropped to 51.28 billion at the end
of last June, has rebounded to
$1.46 billion. Penn State spokes
woman Lisa Powers said.
Powers wrote in an e-mail
Monday "the university's overall
Khloe Kardashian and Lindsay
Lohan drew an influx of donations
to the Interfraternitv
Council/Panhellenic Dance
Marathon this weekend.
But Phillip "PJ" Mullen, pro
gram director and host of 894.5’s
radio show "The Morning Zoo."
said he is concerned that THON
is risking its integrity by trumpet
ing certain celebrity endorse
ments.
"With national exposure, stu
dents' efforts are getting over
shadowed." he said. “It’s going to
become a celebrity 's baby and not
the students ."
The issue hits close to home for
Roadhouse as a cook and a bus
boy. Howley said he does not have
that kind of money, but tie's dedi
cated to raising it and fulfilling his
owed pledge.
"If I don't get Si./on through
donations, then I plan on
conservative and sound invest
ment practices" helped Penn
State to regain $lBO million in the
last six months
Use of Penn State's endow
ment is divided into three areas:
Sixty-two percent funds faculty
and program support, 37 percent
goes toward student financial aid
and 1 percent finances other uni
versity costs.
But Penn State cannot spend
endowments to finance just any
university expense. Nearly all
See ENDOWMENT. Page 2.
him. In November, local band
Audio Imagery wrote Find
Tomorrow," an uplifting tune the
band hoped would become a
THON theme song.
But when the THON overall
committee heard about the song
through its promotion on 894.5. it
contacted the band and asked
them to remove THON from the
song and the advertisement.
Mullen said he understood the
reason behind taking the name
out, saying the band and radio
station did not go through proper
channels to set up a promotion
“There was a process and we
See LOCAL. Page 2.
working really hard." Howley said.
In the meantime, he has
switched over to Facebook for
help, creating a group called
"Thanks Twitter..now I owe
THON $1,700 - HELP!" With more
than 200 group members,
Howley s hoping he can get people
to help him fulfill his pledge to
THON. He's also set up Pay Pal
and chipin accounts and has
already gotten pledges from fami
ly and friends.
See HOWLEY. Page 2.
Strife
starts
over
event
By Casey McDermott
COiIEGIAN STAFF WRITER
As of press time, a Facebook
group in favor of the "4th Annual
State Patty's Day" boasted
8.3u4 members. But a counter
movement is also gaining
momentum, with 646 people
advocating to "End the ‘State
Patty's Dav' Tradition."
And as the anti-State Patty's
Day campaign spreads across
social media Web sites, some
students are calling on Penn
State student leaders to take a
stand against this growing tradi
tion.
Last week. Rainbow
Roundtable President Steve
Lucas posted this call to action
for the University Park
Undergraduate Association
iUPUA) on Twitter: “Would love
to see -a upuapsuedu step up to
the plate and advocate for the
END of State Patty's Day.”
A firm stance from the UPUA
and other organizations could
See EVENT. Page 2.
State Patty’s Day celebrators
wait in line outside the Phyrst on
Beaver Avenue last year. Some
students have expressed concern
over the upcoming holiday.
Source: Twitter.com
Jaclyn McKay/Collegian