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Men jailed, face felony charges
Officials cannot confirm
whether the three men
are affiliated with other
recent armed robberies.
By Laura Nichols
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Three men were put behind bars
Wednesday night and face felony
charges in connection with break
ing into a State College home with
guns and attempting to steal a car.
Maksim Illarionov. 21. of State
College; Dmitriy Litvinov, 23. of
UPUA
names
music
festival
By Casey McDermott
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The University Park
Undergraduate Association
(UPUA) decided to officially call
its spring music festival “Last
Call” and approved the release of
$45,011.75 toward artists for the
show at Wednesday night's gen
eral assembly meeting.
Initially, the resolution regard
ing the festival’s title included
three other names: “State of
Spring,” “Encore” and “(Penn
State) Jamboree.”
However UPUA
Programming Chairwoman
Leanna Usnik (sophomore
biobehavioral health) said the
first and third of those since
became unusable “State of
Spring” because of other events
bearing the word “State" and
“Jamboree” because it is already
trademarked by another organi
zation.
But former Programming
Chairman Mike Wallace, who
currently directs the spring festi
val commission, said he felt that
“Last Call” had the most poten
tial as a title, and the assembly
agreed.
“I think that we can kind of
play with it ‘Penn State’s Last
Call,’ or something sexy like
that,” Wallace (senior-econom
ics) said. “Stay away from
‘Encore,’ it sounds like an
Eminem album or a cable sta
tion. But ‘Penn State’s Last Call'
sounds pretty cool.”
The assembly was not so quick
to agree, however, on details sur
rounding the event’s funding. In
fact they spent over an hour
debating whether to release
roughly $45,000 without knowing
which artists were being consid
ered for the show.
Wallace, Usnik and others
involved in planning the event
said that releasing any details
See FESTIVAL Page 2.
Asher Roth performs last spring
at Wallypalooza. On Wednesday,
UPUA decided to call this year’s
spring concert “Last Call.”
Boalsburg; and Alex Semionov, 23,
of Brooklyn, are charged with one
felony count each of criminal con
spiracy burglary and one felony
count each of receiving stolen
property.
Illarionov is also charged with
one felony count of criminal tres
pass and one count each of misde
meanor theft, receiving stolen
property and possessing crime
instruments.
State College Police Chief Tom
King could not confirm if the men
arrested Wednesday are affiliated
with the other armed robberies
that have occurred in the area
Flogging Molly plays to a packed crowd of students in HUB Alumni Hall on Wednesday night. During each song, students crowd-surfed to the
front of the stage and trying to avoid a mosh-pit of dancers that formed shortly after the band’s entrance.
Flogging Molly invades HUB
The band attracted an
audience wearing green
attire and even kilts.
By Nick Weingartner
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
On Wednesday night, the
crowd at the Flogging Molly con
cert was wearing more green
than the sidewalks after State
Patty's Day.
HUB Alumni Hall was filled
with screaming fans who filtered
Bar tour
to ‘unify’
seniors
By Laurie Stem
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Just as the hangovers of another State
Patty’s Day have subsided, some students
are already marking another day of drunk
en revelry on their calendars.
Planned for March 27, a 10-stop bar tour
dubbed “Happy Valley Drink Pest” will
attempt to “unify the senior class for one
last time,” according to its Web site.
But for some local community mem
bers, the thought of another alcohol-cen
tered ‘holiday’ is unfathomable.
“It’s one thing to drink responsibly, but
when people think they need to pass out or
dedicate any official ‘holiday’ I don’t get
it,” Penn State Police Deputy Director
Tyrone Parham said. “That’s from the per
spective of a cop and a Penn State alum
nus.”
Drink Pest’s Facebook group currently
boasts more than 700 members, and the
creators, who identified themselves only
as two members of the senior class, are
preparing to orchestrate what they pre
dict will be the “largest collegiate bar tour
in the country.”
throughout the past month.
The men were arrested early
Wednesday morning after being
turned in by a police informant.
According to court documents, the
men originally planed to rob Uncle
Chen’s Chinese Restaurant, 430 E.
Calder Way, but decided on another
location upon finding it closed.
The men then drove to a resi
dence around Hillcrest Avenue and
Glenn Road, where Semionov stole
a garage door opener and car
chains before being apprehended
by police, according to court docu
ments.
See CHARGES. Page 2.
in through a line that started at
the television screens and
descended two staircases all the
way to and past the Penn State
bookstore.
As the band played, shoes and
hats became airborne as multiple
mosh-pits erupted and merged—
one of which was easily the size of
a classroom or two.
“You look like lively ones for
sure,” singer and guitarist Dave
King said in an Irish accent as
thick as a leprechaun’s beard.
Brothers Adam and Ryan The accordion player from Flogging Molly plays for dancing students as
See FLOGGING molly, Page 2. part of the band’s sixth annual Green 17 tour on Wednesday night.
courtesy of happyvalleydrinkfest.com.
“Happy Valley Drink Fest” is an attempt to
“unify the senior class” through a bar tour.
About 100 T-shirts have sold so far.
About 100 tour T-shirts have already
been sold and will be on sale until March 5,
according to the Web site, happyvalley
drinkfest.com.
The Web site, which lists many of the
popular local bars as stops on the tour
including Cafe 210 West and the
gingerbread Man says the specific date
was selected because it doesn’t interfere
with final exams and falls conveniently
between spring break and Greek Week
Though Cafe 210 West co-owner J.R.
Mangan said he only recently became
aware of the event after coming across the
Web site, he’s skeptical it will gain much
See DRINKFEST, Page 2.
Alex Semionov, left, Maksim Illarionov, middle, and Dmitriy Litvinov
are arraigned at Judge Johnathon Grine's office on Wednesday night.
False report
ignites talk
Innovation Park and Penn State officials will
meet today to discuss increasing security, two
days after a woman lied to police about being
raped.
The woman, who works for a private firm in the
Lubert Building, told Penn State Police she was
attacked by a man in a black ski mask at about
8:30 p.m. Monday on a parking lot snowbank
Rirther investigation proved the report false,
but officials have recognized the need to discuss
security measures.
“We don’t want anybody to panic. We want to be
vigilant,” said Thor Wasbotten, Assistant Dean for
Student Media and Online Operations.
Wasbotten, who said he will attend the meeting
on behalf of the College of Communications, said
the recent incident brought up the issue of safety
at Innovation Park but added that stricter securi
ty is not definite.
For now, Wasbotten’s goal is raising awareness
about safety at Innovation Park
He said students should be more cautionary
and use buddy systems when working at the loca
tion late at night.
And for a complex that stays open until 11 p.m.
five nights a week the idea of increased security
is welcomed.
Laura Shay (senior-broadcast journalism) said
she wouldn’t mind having more thorough security
See RAPE, Page 2.
By Greg Galiffa
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
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