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Blue-White football game to take center stage
By Audrey Snyder
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Former Penn State All-America
defensive tackle Matt Millen said
not a lot has changed with the con
cept of the Blue-White game since
his time at the university
While the players are still out
there fighting for playing time and
trying to avoid injuries the
same concept Millen said he
played with in late '7os the for
mer Nittany Lion will be in a dif
ferent place during this weekend's
Alumna
donates
$2.4M
Paula Donson gave the
donation to foster
innovative ideas in the
College of Education.
By Vera Greene
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The largest donation ever
made to the College of
Education $2.4 million is on
its way.
Paula Don
son, Class of
1982, committed
the money in
hopes of foster
ing innovative
ideas through
out the college.
Donson, who's Donson
giving $2.4 mil
lion out of her own pocket, said
much of her success came from
her ability to think broadly
and a vacation to Alaska.
- While on vacation in Alaska, I
met a chairman of the board at a
landline company who wanted to
start a cell phone company,"
Donson said. "We talked about it
and decided to just go for it it
was a meeting of the minds."
See DONATION, Page 2.
Penn State Arboretum hosts open house
By Laurie Stem
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
In the midst of a record
fundraising year, the Senior Class
Gift Committee allowed students
to better visualize what the Marsh
Meadow Boardwalk and Overlook
will contribute to campus at the
Penn State Arboretum's open
house.
The committee has received
more than $235,000 in pledges from
about 3,000 seniors and Thursday's
If you go
What: Blue-White game
When: 2 p.m. Saturday
Where: Beaver Stadium
spring game. Millen, along with
Brent Musburger, Kirk Herbstreit
and Desmond Howard, will make
up the ESPN2 broadcast team
that will call the nationally tele
vised conclusion to Penn State's
spring football season. While the
Sarah Kerr (junior-math education) fits together recycled bottles to make columns for a greenhouse
Campus turns
As part of Earth Day,
students held activities
that increased environ
mental awareness.
By Alyssa Bender
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
A student dressed as a tree
greeted passers-by walking
through the HUB-Robeson
Center on Thursday afternoon.
open house provided the opportu
nity to educate more peple about
the gift and its potential to further
beautify the Arboretum, said
Senior Class Gift Committee
Chairman Mike Lampariello.
Though mats in the shape of
paw prints were used to illustrate
where the boardwalk will eventu
ally be laid, once built, it will pro
vide a more direct path for visitors
walking to the Arboretum after Asit Mlshra/Collegian
crossing Park Avenue. Visitors take photos of tulips at the Arboretum's open house, which was
See ARBORETUM, Page 2. held to educate people about the 2010 Senior Class gift.
Lions' spring game, set to kickoff
at Beaver Stadium at 2 p.m.
Saturday, is the first Big Ten
spring game to be televised by
ESPN, Millen said he isn't neces
sarily surprised college football
teams are now using their
spring games to garner a lot of
attention.
"This country has a sensational
appetite for football, whether it's
college football or pro football,"
Millen said. "The Penn State
game will be going on the same
day as the last day of the draft, and
Green and blue balloons and
about a dozen tables lined the
first floor entrance of the HUB
part of a sustainability exhibit to
celebrate Earth Day.
Various student groups, like
Eco-Action and Students
Engaging Students, had tables
with information and activities
related to helping the environ
ment. Penn State Union and
Student Activities sponsored the
event, which has grown signifi
cantly since last year
there will be all kinds of people
getting a football fix that week
end.-
Last year the Blue-White game
attracted about 76,500 fans, and
this year's attraction should once
again be a homecoming for alum
ni, family and fans.
That's exactly what Penn State
historian Lou Prato said he
expects from the event.
With the return of Band Day, a
tradition dating back to 1950 that
outdates the spring game by one
year, high school bands will partic-
green
Students who attended the
event had the chance to trade in
their plastic water bottles for
reusable bottles as well as plant
See EARTH DAY, Page 2.
If you go
What: Children's Day
When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m
Saturday
Where: HUB lawn
ipate in a parade at 11 a.m.
Saturday. The revitalization of the
Band Day tradition, which Prato
said hasn't been used in the spring
See BLUE-WHITE, Page 2.
More coverage on the Blue-White
game. I PIGSKIN PRE, Page 10.
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Miami
grabs
Lion
NEW YORK Jared Odrick's
first NFL memory will be a cho
rus of boos from New York Jets
fans at Thurs
day night's NFL
Draft.
Excuse him if
he's not too dis-
Abby Drey /Collegian
appointed
Odrick, the
first Nittany
Lion to be draft-
ed this year, was Odrick
taken 28th over-
all by the Jets' archrival, the
Miami Dolphins.
The 6-foot-5, 296-pound defen
sive lineman learned Miami
would be drafting him through a
phone call. His first reaction, he
said, was, "What area code is
954?"
"It was a great phone call," he
said. "Not just a call to be draft
ed, but to be a Miami Dolphin.
I'm just happy now"
Odrick was the Big Ten's
defensive player of the year in
2009 with 43 tackles, 11 which
went for a loss and seven sacks
the most of any Nittany Lion.
He will be playing under
Dolphins' head coach Tony
SParano, who Odrick had spoken
with at the Senior Bowl. He said
he already has a very good rela
tionship with him.
Going 28th out of 32 picks was
no surprise to Odrick, who was
projected by most experts as a
late first-round pick. But that
didn't stop him from being nerv
ous in Radio City Music Hall's
Green Room as NFL
Commissioner Roger Goodell
rattled off the first 27 picks.
"I was back there sweating for
See ODRICK, Page 2.
By Andrew J. Cassava!!
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER