uMm ■EQgDQjail 11 The Datily |g9 Collegian Published independently by students at Penn State Christine Reckner/Collegian Juan Jimenez (senior-electrical engineering) stands inside an igloo he and his friends built in front of Old Main on Wednesday. Many Commonwealth Campuses closed, but University Park remained open. Students, By Greg Galiffa and Laura Nichols COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS In his trek through the snow Wednesday morning, Penn State student Justin Rosales heard a bus honk at pedestrians to move out of the way because it was sliding down High Street. “It was just weird I’ve never seen a White Loop lose control,” Rosales (junior-psychology) said. Many students were upset about having class Wednesday IFC: Patty’s rules IFC president said the resolution was created for safety purposes, not to appease officials. By Katrina Wehr COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Following a resolution passed Tuesday night restricting State Patty’s Day events at fraternities, IFC President Max We idkos said though it may be tough some greeks to swallow, the h dliay is too dangerous to be ignore d. The Interfraternity Council enic Dance Marathon. Mating at THON weekend, where dancers, Abby Rzepnicki (senior-elementary and kindergarten education) the White Building, all dancers moralers and kids will aU work snaps a quick photo of her team during Color Wars on Wednesday night, and moralers met to compete in together. Kosovec (senior-microbi- WHITEHOUSE & ' ' officials react while more than a dozen Commonwealth Campuses shut down including Penn State Altoona, just 45 minutes away from University Park. The second winter blast of February spurred Rosales and his friends to create the “WE ARE... Still Snowed In” Facebook event, which had reached 2,500 members by press time. Students posted pictures and described their personal attempts at getting to class in the blizzard. (IFC) resolution opposes daylong parties and does not allow chap ters to serve hard liquor or wine during the Feb. 27 event. Attendees will only be allowed to drink inside, and no more than 50 non-affiliated people are per mitted in fraternity houses at one time. Wendkos acknowledged the dif ficulty in pitching the new See IFC, Page 2. To see the IFC's press release and its new social policy: psucollegian.com To sec a photo gallery of ©WPenn State students brav ing the winter weather: ' psucolllegian.com “They’re risking lives,” Vince Touhey (junior-electrical engi neering) said. “The transporta tion is bad, the; side roads aren’t good.” Touhey, who used to attend Penn State Worthington/Scran ton campus, said he is always See SNOW. Page 2. will protect frats Customers enjoy drinks at The Phyrst during last year’s State Patty’s Day. The event brought attention to IFC this year for its drinking hazards. Color Wars heats up morale spirit By Jourdan Cole COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Just like the rest of Penn State, snow could not stop hundreds pf dancers and moralers from com ing out to the start of THONelodeon. “THONelodeon We play FTK.” “It was worth it, 100 times over,” “It’s an opportunity for the Grayson Sundermeiir said. “I dancers to get pumped for THON wouldn’t miss it for the anything, weekend, to compete in different It’s a great cause.” events to earn points for their Wednesday night marked the color,” Julie Kosovec said, start of Color Wars for the New this year is a kids’ color Interfraternity Council/Panhell- war that will be incorporated into PITTSBURGH - 7.7" Hoi .m. . HARRISBURG -14* University Park stays open Though many campuses closed due to snow, University Park had regular classes Wednesday. OPEN Penn State Erie j&a&StaXe Paik Penn State Abington Penn State Altoona Penn State Beaver Penn State Berks Penn State Brandywine Penn State Dußois Penn State Fayette Penn State Greater Allegheny Penn State Flarrisburg Penn State Hazleton Penn State Lehigh Valley Penn State Mont Alto Penn State New Kensington Penn State Schuylkill Penn State Shenango Penn State Wilkes-Barre Penn State Worthington Scranton Penn State York University of Pittsburgh University of Pennsylvania Source: Penn State University Relations Jaclyn McKay/Collegian Snowfall information is from AccuWeather and includes last weekend's snow. Photos above are from the Associated Press. STATE PATTV’S STANCE UPUA vies for safety By Casey McDermott COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER UPUA plans to join with other on-eampus organizations including all four greek councils in a public campaign to re direct the 4th Annual State Patty's Day and "promote actions that will not bring shame to our university." So far. about 33 student organ izations have signed on to co sponsor a "State Patty's Day ‘Safe and Responsible Actions' Pledge' that will run as a full page advertisement in the Daily Collegian, said Student Life and Diversity Chairman Christian Ragland. Ragland (junior-political sci ence) presented a prototype of the pledge to the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) at Wednesday night's general assembly meeting. This draft was also the design approved by the other organiza tions that signed on to support the stance alongside UPUA. The proposed design leads with the phrase “May no act of ours bring shame?" followed by a list of crime and alcohol-related statistics from the 2009 State Patty's Day holiday. At the bot tom of the draft, the design also includes the stanza from Penn State's alma mater from which its heading was taken. Ragland said this design satis fied reservations expressed by some student leaders about See UPUA Page 2. Election timeline reversed By Caitlin Burnham COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Gavin Keirans vetoed the 2010 Elections Code on Wednesday night, reversing the election timeline and the number of off campus and on-campus repre sentatives. The University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) voted to change the date of the election this year to March 31 and to change the number of off-campus represen tatives back to 10 and on-campus representatives back to six. The newly amended Elections Code was passed 25-0-0. The UPUA Elections Code of 2010 had originally extended the campaign period to three weeks, with Election Day previously scheduled for April 7. Keirans called this ‘unconstitutional” because the UPUA constitution requires the election be held during the 12th week of the semester, not the 12th academic week. See ELECTION, Page 2. OTo see a video of the events that happened at the THON Color Wars: ONUNt psucoliegian.com ology) said the event was designed to motivate the dancers and to get them pumped for THON weekend. She added that THONelodeon was chosen because it’s a great throw back for dancers and the kids will be able to relate to it. Winners of the night were the red team, but they’ll still have to work hard to continue to stay in the remaining 22 Color War events See THON, Page 2.
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