f >4 \\ The Daily Collegian Published independently by students at Penn State UPUA official Karn's Twitter rj account. Lucas (senior- I Newly appointed CPLA Student English) said the J Life and Diversity Chairman Noah tweets were * Kara has come under fire for removed shortly racial and gay slurs posted on his alter he first saw By Casey McDermott COLLEGIAN St AFP WRoFR Twitter page. them, but he The allegations against Kara saved screen- | surfaced Thursday evening, shots of posts he when Rainbow Roundtable called into ques- President and lormer I'PUA tion. Student Life and Diversity According to Lucas' screen- Chairman Steve Lucas said he shots, which spanned nearly a saw several offensive posts on year. Kara's tweets included ? V Mamma Mia! actors uurform in Eisenhower Auditorium on Tuesday night. Tickets are still available for tonight o of the nationally tciirmg production. For complete coverage of Mamma Mia! | www.psucollegian.com UPAC alters policies By Kathleen Loughran COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER On Tuesday night, the University Park Allocation Committee (UPAC) passed a policy allowing a single honorar ium allocation of $20,000. an increase from the previous $12,000 allotment. Honoraria can include any artist, speaker or other group who is brought in for the stu dents. The maximum total amount of money allotted to hon oraria payments will remain at $20,000, UPAC Chairman Mark Donovan said. In addition, Donovan (junior political science) said the com mittee closed the "existing loop hole” that allowed groups to use negotiations from honoraria costs in their 20 percent contri bution to event costs. Donovan said he felt that Penn State students would like the pol icy changes because it will help to bring more popular acts to University Park. “I think that any time that we’re going to get better pro gram and better concerts it well received by the students,” he said. “It will bring us better See UPAC. Page 2. Asit Mishra/Collegian Former UPUA President Gavin Keirans said his biggest regret from his time in office was not reaching out to students enough. Campus gyms to enforce stricter dress code By Laurie Stem COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Though students may be proud been directed to pay more atten of their washboard abs or buns of tion to people’s clothing this year steel, facility managers say the to prevent the spread of germs gym is not the place to show them through contact with equipment, off. The HINI scare in the fall Penn State’s gym desk atten- semester was specifically dants and supervisors have been addressed as one reason for tak more stringently enforcing a ing these precautions, she said, dress code, angering some stu- Hand-sanitizing stations were dents who feel they should be free also installed around campus hs a to work out in whatever attire further precaution, they want. Eighties-style shirts cut off Beenash Sheikh (senior-kinesi- See GYM. Page 2. under fire for derogatory references to the Japanese, blacks and homosexu als. Dustin Dove. outgoing University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) Internal Development Chairman, also con firmed that he saw Karn's original tweets a few months ago when Karn requested to follow Dove (senior-secondary education! on Twitter. Karn (junior-political science said he deleted his Twitter account before he was made % , * - / President reflects on two-year term By Casey McDermott COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER For the past two years, Gavin Keirans' Sundays have hardly been days of rest. Fbr him, Sundays meant prep ping for meetings, de-briefing with other student government leaders and making sure UPUA's plans were lined up for the week ahead. But the former two-term University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) president said this mentality of planning ahead even if the plans didn't always pull through was a key part of UPUA’s progress since he assumed the presidency in 2008. “When I was first elected, we ology) has worked as a gym desk attendant for the past two years and said gym staff members have aware of the allegations against him. He declined to comment on the language of the posts, and said he wanted to handle the matter miernallv. Kirn also said he sent an e-mail to the UPUA assembly to make all representatives aware of “the sit uation.'' He was appointed to his position through an assembly vote at last week's meeting. 11TA President Christian Ragland 'junior-political science) and Chairwoman of the Assembly Jessica Pelliciotta (junior-political ;V . \ in j Ajit Mishra ''Collegian d Thursday's performances put out a 40-dav plan," Keirans (senior-business management) said. in a large part, we didn’t reach all of those goals but it really set the tone that we have to take an aggressive, realistic approach to getting things done." Since then. Keirans said, he’s proud of the accomplishments UPUA was able to tackle with a goal-oriented mentality during his two terms. He noted the White Loop Extension, the newly opened Office of Student Legal Services, the Tenant-Landlord Mediation program, the spring music festi val, Last Stop, and the revival of Encampment as major initiatives See KEIRANS, Page 2. What not to w< Citing health conceri campus gyms have prohibited off-should T-shirts and deep-cu muscle tanks Source-One.Harrison. Director ol psucollegian.com tweets If you go What: UPUA General Assembly Meeting When: 8 tonight Where: 302 HUB science) said Karn told assembly members that he would answer any questions they had for him at tonight's general assemble See TWEETS. Page 2. Dorms could forbid alcohol Alcohol could be banned from primarily freshman dorms under a new proposed policy. By Laurie Stern COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER No alcohol in freshman resi dence halls. No alcohol in any dorms as early as fall 2011. Those measures and more are being considered in a push to solve the university's drinking problem, according to Penn State administrators. Vice President for Student Affairs Damon Sims said though residents of freshman dorms are primarily underage students, tire proposed policy would no longer allow 21-year-old residents in these dorms, such as resident assistants, to have alcohol in their rooms. The freshman dorm policy would be a small adjust ment in a long-term effort to mit igate problems with excessive drinking, he said. Sims said this policy could take effect as early as the fall 2010 semester, as he has already had conversations about the potential change with adminis trators and student leaders. Currently, only students who are 21 or older are permitted to have alcohol in their residence hall rooms. "Right now you have the com plication of sometimes people who are 21 living next to people who are 19,” Sims said. "Twenty one-year-olds can have alcohol in their room. Trying to manage all that as it exists right now is much more complicated." If the proposed policy for the freshman dorms passes, further discussions could lead to a blan ket policy prohibiting alcohol in all of the residence halls effec tive as early as fail 2011, he said. "This is a multivariate prob lem,” he said. “It operates on many, many levels. It's one of dozens of steps.” An area traditionally inhabited by freshman, East Halls would be largely affected by the pro posed policy. See DORMS, Page 2. Jaclyn McKay/Collegian
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