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Derek Gittler, an employee at Spats Cafe & Speakeasy, 142 E. College Ave., describes a Super Tuscan wine to a table on Tuesday during the
restaurant's Mardi Gras festivities. Students celebrated Fat Tuesday in their own way by visiting various fast food restaurants in State College.
Students take on Fat Tuesday
By Chris Bickel and Zach Geiger
.EGIAN STAFF WRITER
While March Gras typically
highlights "Cajun and Creole fla
vors." one group of students
decided to traverse a greasier
avenue.
Duke Gastiger. owner of Spats
Cafe & Speakeasy and the All-
American Rathskeller, said his
establishment holds an annual
dinner during Mardi Gras, but
typically falling on Fat Tuesday in
conjunction with a wine tasting.
Three Days Grace will perform with Breaking Benjamin
and Flyleaf tonight. Each band will also play lew music
from its recently released albums.
Rock bands
to grace BJC
By Chidi Ugwu
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
An audience full of people screaming “I hate
everything about you" is a worst nightmare for most
musicians but band Three Days Grace couldn’t
hope for anything better.
Along with Breaking Benjamin and Flyleaf, the
band will bring its signature sound, encapsulated in
songs like 2003's "I Hate Everything About You,”
tonight to the Bryce Jordan Center. While discount
ed student tickets are sold out, regular tickets for the
show are still available for $39.75.
Fan Chris Yi said he enjoys each of the bands but
didn't know if he would have been willing to buy a full
price ticket.
T'm so glad I went to buy my ticket fast enough to
get a discounted one," Yi (freshman-finance) said. “I
like the bands, but that regular ticket price is pretty
steep."
Each of the three bands has released a new album
in the past six months, so fans can hope to hear lots
of new music alongside a healthy dose of some older
material.
If you go
What: Three Days Grace, Breaking Benjamin and
Flyleaf
When: 7 tonight
Where: Bryce Jordan Center
Details: Student tickets sold out, regular tickets
can be purchased for $39.75
"Mardi Gras is all about foods."
he said. "It's a time to eat to
excess before giving up stuff and
celebrating before atonement."
But one group of current and
former Penn State students
decided to give a new meaning to
Fat Tuesday
At 4:30 p.m., Nancy Pazmino.
Class of 2009, had already been to
eight fast food restaurants.
Pazmino is one of 25 students
and alumni who attended the
Third Annual Eat Tuesday Event
on Facebook. The challenge was
See THREE DAYS GRACE, Page 2.
to eat two items excluding
drinks, desserts and kids meals
at 10 fast food restaurants, all in
celebration of Fat Tliesdav.
Pazmino started eating at 8
a.m. and faced an early challenge
breakfast at McDonald's. 1615
N. Atherton St.
"I'm not a huge fan of
McDonald's." she said. "The
breakfast sandwich wasn't so
good.'
From there the event had nine
other stops, culminating at
See FAT TUESDAY. Page 2.
Dancers prepare
for healthy THON
By Jourdan Cole
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Dancing can be tough on the body
no one knows that better than Lionette
Amanda Jo Cannillo. In addition to danc
ing at football and basketball games, she
also danced in THON last year.
“It was awesome, because I danced
with three other girls on dance team and
had the support of the dance team,”
Cannillo said. “The dance team is
assigned a THON child, and she’s the
cutest girl ever. She was there all week
end, and knowing now she doesn’t have
cancer because we raised money
reminded me of why we were doing this."
But support alone isn’t enough to
make it through the 46 hours of the
Interfraternity/ Panhellenic Dance
Marathon.
Cannillo said even though her body
was prepared from her rigorous dance
practices, her immune system crashed
Presentation goes ‘beyond’ histoiy
By Caitlin Burnham
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Students who attended “Beyond
Black History” last night learned there
is more to black history than Rosa
Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
About 30 people attended the presen
tation on Tuesday night in the Hosier
Building. The Black Caucus, National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP) and the
National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC)
sponsored the presentation.
The event discussed the past, pres
ent and future of black history, the
“unsung heroes” and the history of the
three sponsoring organizations.
Christopher Nock, president of the
Black Caucus, said the event was
meant to educate students about black
history. He said there are a lot of cul
tural celebrations during black history
month, but the educational component
is often missing.
“In black history one thing that gets
Schedule
8 a.m.: McDonald’s
9 a.m.: Burger King
9:20 a.m.: Dunkin’ Donuts
Noon: KFC or McDonald’s
1 p.m.: Wendy's
1:30 p.m.: Chick-fil-a
2 p.m.: Nathan’s
6:25 p.m.: Five Guys
6:50 p.m.: Margarita's Pizza
7:10 p.m.: Taco Bell
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during the last 4 hours of THON. By the
next morning, she had a 103-degree
fever.
"I stopped eating and drinking, and
your immune system starts to crash
because it's so overworked," she said.
This weekend, there will be between
eight and 10 emergency medical techni
cians at the Bryce Jordan Center at all
times, Emergency Medical Services
Captain Justine Dzemyan said. They will
be there to provide dancers with medica
tion or to provide help if dancers are feel
ing nauseous from sleep deprivation.
To prepare dancers for THON,
Emergency Medical Service captains
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Students sign a banner stating “We are Black History," leaving comments about
their views. Various groups sponsored the event to celebrate black history.
lost is black history,” Nock (junior-pub
lic relations) said.
The program marked the first time
in memorable history the three organi-
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zations have come together to put on
an event, Nock said.
“There’s unity in the community,”
See PRESENTATION, Page 2.
CLIMATES ATE
Org.
backs
PSU
Penn Future is calling
for an apology from
The Commonwealth
Foundation for the
accusations it made.
By Laurie Stern
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
As the scientific community
awaits the verdict on Penn State
Meteorology Professor Michael
Mann's lone - j
unresolved
"Climategate"
charge, a public
war of words
between two
organizations is
bringing into
question the uni-
versity's deci
sion to perform
the investigation internally.
Citizens For Pennsylvania's
Future (Penn Future). a
statewide public interest organi
zation. issued a press release
Tuesday calling for The
Commonwealth Foundation, a
non-profit research and educa
tional foundation, to retract "its
attack on the integrity of Penn
State University."
“They called the Penn State
investigation a 'whitewash,' but
they've given no evidence that it
is a whitewash," said Jan
Jarrett. president and CEO of
PennFUture. "Calling into ques
tion the university committee
and Dr. Mann himself without
evidence is something they
should apologize for."
- The investigation was con
ducted in response to allegations
that Mann and his colleagues
altered evidence in support of
climate change. This charge
came after hundreds of illegally
obtained e-mails were leaked
from a private server in the
Climate Research Unit at the
University of East Anglia in
England last November.
The ruling on one charge
undermining "public trust in sci
ence" will undergo further
investigation beginning on
March 4, University
Spokeswoman Lisa Powers said.
But The Commonwealth
Foundation is adamant that the
committee Penn State appointed
to investigate Mann failed to
adequately scrutinize the evi
dence against him. During
Friday’s protest of the Mann
investigation in front of the
HUB-Robeson Center, a
See PENNFUTURE, Page 2.
Peter Tesoriero/Collegian