The Daily Collegian PSU takes back the night By Colleen Boyle and Alyssa Bender COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS An estimated 200 to 300 people will gather tonight for the 25th annual Take Back the Night march at Penn State to raise awareness of rape, sexual assault and domestic violence. In recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, students will gather at 0 p.m. in front of Old Main and ’travel to places where sexual assault occurs the most the library. East Halls, Pollock Halls and Fraternity Row. The group will finish this year's jour ney. titled "Shatter the Silence. Stop the Violence." at Sidney Friedman Park. "Participants talk about how empowering it is and how helpful Animal rights group displays visual exhibit By Marilyn Perez COIIFGiAN S t A|T WRITER Youth animal rights group peta2 is stopping at Penn State this week to conduct a series of displays for their Liberation Project, a visual exhibit that shows the parallels between cur rent animal cruelty and historic human injustices. Liberation Project coordinator Adrianne Burke said the display lias been receiving overwhelm ingly positive responses from the Penn State communitv. "The easiest wav to stop animal cruelty would be to go vegan." Burke said. "Vegans save over 100 animals per year. It's as easy as getting a bean burrito for a dollar from Taco Bell" The peta2 exhibit has been on campus since Monday. It'll set up shop Wednesday at the Pattee Mall and Thursday in front of the Palmer Museum of Art. Also on Thursday, there will be a presen tation hosted by peta2. at 8 p.m. in 102 Chambers Building, titled "Liberation: A Forum with PETA director Dan Shannon." The event is open and free to the pub lic. President of the Penn State Vegetarian Club Rusty Zufall 'senior computer science) said Thursday 's forum will give stu- This summer, do what's right for you at Hofstra University on Long Island! Hofstra offers flexibility in summer session offerings. 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"It's really going to be more of a forum than a lecture," he said. "I definitely encourage everyone to come out. This is their chance if they have anything that they dis agree with." Burke said some photos in the display show the branding of cows, chickens confined to living in areas the size of a sheet of paper and pigs being castrated without painkillers. “The point is to draw a parallel between the ways we humans have treated other humans in the past for reasons of racism, sexism and other things like that and par alleling that with many of the ways we treat animals today," Zufall said. And organizers said this can inspire students. "These companies try to keep these issues behind closed doors." Burke said. "People see the display, and they're moved to make some change. Normally, it's to go vegan." Zufall said Penn State was one of the few schools chosen for the Liberation Project this semester. He hopes students take the dis play seriously. Passer-by Erin Ash said she's always been interested J. O C A I Peggy Lorah Center for Women Students Director The Paul Robeson Cultural Center also contributed. Event coordinators empha sized the importance of using the term "survivors" rather than "vic tims." as the goal is to make sur vivors feel the incident is some thing they can get through with support from others. Police will escort participants in their march around campus and downtown, coordinator Belle Genao said. At each stop, marchers will form a circle to share personal Kelsey Morris/Collegian Qing Wang, professor of material science and engineering, reads the signs about animal abuse and slaughter at the peta2 exhibit at the IST building. The exhibit has been on campus since Monday. in veganism and her sister has been a vegetarian for years. Ash (graduate-communica tions) said the display is also a prime example of free speech on the college campus. But she also said she had some problems with the way the project was dying to display its message. "I'm not sure it's a just compar ison - comparing animal life and using the biggest social injustices To see interviews and in our recent history." she said. footage from Tuesday’s exhibition: “HIM psucollegian.com To e--mail reporter: mcpso7l@psu.edu If you go What: Take Back the Night march When: 6 tonight Where: The march will begin at the Old Main steps stories. The circle creates a com fortable and safe environment, Genao (sophomore-crime, law and justice) said. Take Back the Night has been taking place on many college campuses and towns across the country for about 35 years, Lorah said. "It is important both to high light the struggles that victims of sexual assault have and to cele brate the survivors of sexual assault,” she said. To e-mail reporters: cabs3s6@psu.edu, ambsB74@psu.edu If you go What: peta2 exhibit Whem: 8 p.m. Thursday Where: 102 Chambers Building Details: Free and open to the public HOFSTRA Wednesday, April 14, 2010 I 3 Police recover stolen objects By Laura Nichols COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Police have recovered more items during the investigation of several reported State College burglaries that led to three men being charged. All of the recovered items are posted on the State College Police Department's Web site so the items can be matched with their rightful owners, police said. The initial search came after Maksim Illarionov, 21, of State College; Dmitriy Litvinov, 23, of Boalsburg; and Alexei Semionov. 23, of Brooklyn, were each arrested March 3 in connection with several burglaries in the State College area. Search war rants after the arrests led to the recovery of dozens of valuables including gold earrings, pen dants, watches and Costa Rican currency, according to the search warrant. Leads from the initial investi gation prompted police to file new search warrants that led officers to more stolen goods, the State College Police Department said. The most recently recov ered items were found on April 4, police said. The initial investiga tion also recovered rounds from a .45 caliber pistol one of sev eral weapons used in the recent burglaries, according to the war rant. Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller, who did not return calls for comment, recently filed a motion to consol idate the cases so Illarionov. Litvinov and Semionov could all be tried at once. The three men are each charged with one felony count of criminal conspiracy bur glary and one felony count of receiving stolen property, according to court documents. Illarionov is also charged with one felony count of criminal tres pass and one count each of mis demeanor theft, receiving stolen property and possessing crime instruments, according to court documents. 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