Thome at last V’s The men’s basketball team IkT notches first home win in 2010 SPORTS, Page S. \\ The Daily Collegian Published independently by students at Penn State Police see ‘challenging, busy’ day By Greg Galiffa ••.a reports have yet Wilson said. "It was an extremely police are already challenging, busy day for law lie fourth State enforcement." ,:iy have been the Early Saturday morning. drunken revelers in green T- Th.n: , to bo roioa spooul.it in Patty's IP, worst As ot Sun,lu\ night. an estimated shirts stumbled through the 430 total rop< mis were tiled with the streets of State College. As their State Colleen Police Department numbers increased, so did the and Pee: "t i e Police throughout number of police reports. the wo kor.c still be;. . \e md numbers are Abby Drey ''Collegian Students during an all-day State Patty's Day party on West Beaver Avenue. Though the Interfraternity Council and the University Park Underg-v; : j ' sedation asked students not to participate in the student-created holiday, police received almost 90 calls by Saturday afternoon. Students celebrate amid People tnro.v chairs and snowballs from the roof of the Tau Delta Phi fra ternity house, 240 N. Burrowes Road, on Saturday afternoon. Kelley King/Collegian Green-clad bar-goers wait in line at The Phyrst, 111 E. Beaver Ave., on the to - rn annual State Patty's Day, a student-created holiday. Pauly D’s beats fire up Altoona By Valerie Tkach T AGIAN STAFF WRITER ALTO! )XA There was no shortage of fist pumping and hair gel Saturday night as DJ Pauly I) from MTV's "Jersey Shore” took the stage at Penn State Altoona to perform for about 100 students. Entering at exactly 8:30 p.m., Pauly Delvecchio had the crowd erupting in cheers and screams of "Pauly D!" as he manned the DJ booth. Delvecchio's DJing mainly focused on remixes, including one featuring Gloria Estefan's Turn the Beat Around” and several working off of songs by KeSha. Music videos and dips from Jersey Shore” played behind him as he worked the crowd. "It s as busy if not busier than last year." State College Police Department Lt. John Overall. Saturday saw 185 reports filed with State College See PAULY D. Page 2. Pauly D DJs at Penn State Altoona on Saturday night. Pauly D starred on MTV’s “Jersey Shore” this past winter. police including 51 disorderly conducts, 24 alcohol violations, nine incidents of criminal mis chief and five assaults. Last year, police had responded to about 60 calls by Saturday afternoon. This year, they had responded to almost 90 bv the same time. For Wilson, the synopsis of the weekend could be found in one incident. At one point, police found a heavily intoxicated 19-year-old man hugging a signpost for sup i' i H I By Chris Bickel COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Even with all the bad publicity surrounding State Patty's Day. Jillian Carroll joined a green surge of thousands in downtown State College to celebrate what she called a day of Penn State pride. At about 5 p.m. Saturday, Carroll (sophomore-nursing) said she had been party-hopping since morning. Despite opposition toward this year's celebration, she thought the atmosphere was great it takes more than a cou ple bars closing to stop the stu dent-run holiday, she said. "It's school pride that holds State Patty's Day up,” Carroll said. "You will celebrate if you are a Penn Stater." Rather than wearing the tradi tional blue and white, hordes of students wearing green Penn State gear pushed and crammed their way into the open bars as they chanted, “We are... Penn State." Will Sirois (senior-business management) and his band, Down to Rink (DTF), performed at Cafe 210, 210 W College Ave.. port. Wilson said the man was then taken to the emergency room for treatment. "It was a tough day," Wilson said. In a separate incident, police said a man was charged with aggravated assault after throwing a snowball at a passing Jeep on Saturday afternoon and then punching an officer trying to arrest him near Beaver Avenue and Allen Street. protest from 2 to 5 p.m. He said the loca tion's patrons were more ener getic from the start and "hard core the whole time." "People were jumping on tables, and they usually don't," he said. "It was packed and every one was sweating like a fat strip per." And Penn State students weren't the only ones celebrating. Jackie Patterson, a sophomore at West Chester University; was vis iting Penn State for the first time all because of the hype sur rounding the student holiday. She was impressed by how friendly everyone was and the level of school spirit involved with the celebrations, she said. She added that she'd like to see a sim ilar event at West Chester her university has a lot of school spir it, but lacks a day like State Patty’s Day to bring the student population together. State College Mayor Elizabeth See CELEBRATE, Page 2. Pens captain Crosby clinches Olympic gold By Gregg Bell ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER VANCOUVER, British Columbia - As the crowd screamed his name, Sidney Crosby raised his right hand, sheepishly acknowledging the rollicking, raucous sea of red and white. Then he looked down at the gold medal dangling from the pale blue ribbon around his neck. The hero of a hockey-crazed nation checked both sides, as if to confirm it was real. The Next One is now even more like Canada’s own Great One. “He’s got a little destiny to him his entire career, throughout minor hockey, See CROSBY, Page 2. Students compete in Rube Goldberg machine contest LOCAL, Page 4. See POLICE. Page 2. To see a video of stu dents celebrating State Patty's Day downtown: psucollegian.com Canada’s Sidney Crosby shoots past USA goalie Ryan Miller, winning the gold medal. *" a reaction psucollegian.com Crime re State Patty’s Day 2010 saw an increase in police calls from 2009 r 430 2009 2010 2009 2010 Source: State College Police Department and Collegian archives Greeks ‘sweep’ up area The IFC kicked off its CORE initiative by cleaning the community after State Patty 's Day. By Laurie Stem COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Members of the greek commu nity took to the streets Sunday morning to clean up all the cans, bottles and paper plates another raucous State Patty's Day week end could throw at ihem. The Interfraternity Council (IFC) teamed up with Delta Upsilon fraternity 7 to host “Greek Sweep," recruiting greek organi zations to help remove litter in the Highlands neighborhood after a weekend of parties. Armed with garbage bags and brooms, about 90 fraternity and sorority members gathered at 10 a.m. Sunday to pick up paper plates, cans, bottles and any other trash lying around. "We want people to know that we care about the community we live in, and this is a great way to show we care," IFC Vice President for Programming Christian Van Horn said. Those who participated paid $lO each to contribute to the cost of the cleaning supplies and received a green T-shirt listing the names of the fraternities and sororities involved. While most people walked in groups and picked up trash in their specific zone, others drove See GREEKS. Page 2. Manssa Gutherz/CoHegian Members of the Delta Upsilon fra ternity pick up trash on Fraternity Row after State Patty's Day. Chris O'Meara/Associated Press I # ** 311 ■ as a; o j*; -= O 05 C- 5 O 05 Ashley Rickard/Collegian
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