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Kara has come under fire for removed shortly
racial and gay slurs posted on his alter he first saw
By Casey McDermott
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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