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Paternovile-goers set up last
season. The university e-mailed
students about procedures for
the fall season on Wednesday.
Ticket
system
to stay
Officials said the steps
for buying football
tickets will see minor
tweaks next season.
By Andrew J. Cassavell
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Following large-scale changes
to Penn State football ticket
sales during each of the last few
years, 2010 may come as a sur
prise: Everything is staying pret
ty much the same.
In an e-mail released
Wednesday to students through
Penn State Student Central, the
athletic department announced
the sale will cycle through each
class and run June 21 to 25. Like
the 2009 system, this year will
feature pre-registration from
May 27 to June 2.
The price $2lB total or
$31.14 per game is a
$0.26 raise per game from last
season's cost.
"The sales process itself will
be a virtual mirror image of last
year, - Associate Athletic
Director for Marketing and
Communications Greg Myford
said. "We're still working on
some small changes, but in some
ways we're going by, 'lf it ain't
broke, don't fix it.' "
Myford said the athletic
department is still trying to mod
ify the process of buying and sell
ing tickets before a game. He
said last season's 5 p.m.
Thursday deadline was too early
in the week for students to
exchange tickets.
See TICKETS, Page 2.
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Seniors, alumni gather at Hintz for sendoff
By Colleen Boyle
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
For Jen O'Neill, Lauren
Subosits, Lindsay Adams and
Lindsey Earle, whose friendship
began four years ago at Penn
State, Wednesday was bitter
sweet. The four seniors sat
squished on a bench outside of the
Hintz Family Alumni Center, shar
ing pizza and still unable to grasp
that the word "alumnae" will soon
apply to them.
This year's senior sendoff,
"Aloha Class of 2010," was spon
sored by the Lion Ambassadors as
a chance for the senior class to
gather before they don blue caps
and gowns.
"It's to thank the seniors and
get them in with the Alumni
Past leader questions IFC
The former president is
unsure about rewarding
Chapters of Excellence
with Wednesday socials.
By Sarah Peters
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
In a tweet Wednesday after
noon, former Interfraternity
Council (IFC) President Luke
Pierce expressed disappointment
Ton' Ruane Collegain
The Millenium Science Complex continues to undergo construction Tuesday. The building has been under construction for the past two years
and is expected to be complete in June 2011. Builders are currently working on construction within the building. These tasks include several
green initiatives to make the building energy efficient. For full story on the construction I LOCAL, Page 3.
Police: Exposure
incident in HUB
By Greg Galiffa
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Police are looking for an
unidentified man who indecently
exposed himself to a female stu
dent at about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday
on the east side' of the HUB-
Robeson Center.
The female student sat down in
a chair on the building's first floor
and saw a man sitting in a chair
next to her exposing his genitalia
and masturbating, Penn State
Police said. The student then
grabbed her belongings and left
the area, police said.
Police could not confirm if the
man is a Penn State student but
Association so they can see what
they can do for Penn State after
graduation," Lion Ambassador
Katie Martin (senior-French and
business) said.
Those who gathered could
indulge in pizza, pulled pork sand
wiches, cotton candy and Berkey
Creamery ice cream cones.
About 500 guests pre-registered
for the event, but Martin predicted
between 1,500 and 3,000 seniors
would stop by during the after
noon.
Bringing together any Penn
State senior class is a mighty feat
one that is not often attempted
during a student's time in Happy
Valley. But despite the enormity of
the soon-to-be graduating class,
Earle (senior-supply chain and
See SENDOFF, Page 2.
in the IFC's "use - It's disheart- addressing the problem of exces
of alcohol as a ening that the sive drinking and dangerous
carrot" to reward select few excel- behavior."
five chapters. lent fraternities Current IFC President Max
Pierce (senior- are rewarded Wendkos said he doesn't think
economics) said with the privilege granting Wednesday socials to the
the use of alcohol of drinking on a five "chapters of excellence"
sends the wrong Wednesday , Sigma Nu, Tau Phi Delta, Theta
night," Pierce
Wendkos Chi, Theta Delta Chi and Tau
message that Pierce
"alcohol is indeed said. "It's sending Kappa Epsilon will create an
paramount" and the exact opposite message to our unsafe drinking environment on
using it as an incentive is not a members that the finest fraterni- Wednesday nights. The selected
sustainable model for encourag- ties are the ones being rewarded fraternities have proven their risk
ing good behavior rather than leading the way in See IFC, Page 2.
described him as a white college
aged male with an average build
and dirty blonde hair, police said.
He is 6-foot-2 and was wearing
blue-and-white shorts, a long
sleeve blue T-shirt and sneakers,
police said. He was carrying a
dark colored backpack, police
said.
This isn't the first indecent
exposure this semester. On
March 2, a female resident in
East Halls reported to police that
a skinny man with dark eyes
indecently exposed himself to her
while she was in one of the
women's communal bathrooms,
police said.
See INCIDENT, Page 2
Ashley Grim (Junior-marketing) and Curran McCready (junior
finance) make snowcones for seniors who attended senior sendoff.
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This man is a suspect in the mas
turbation incident, police said.
UPUA
passes
budget
The assembly also
approved an initiative
that will lend bikes
to students for free.
After a long discussion, the
University Park Undergraduate
Association (UPUA) passed its
$139,628.55 budget for the 2010-
2011 academic year with a vote
of 33-3-3.
Several amendments were
made to the budget that was ini
tially presented to the assembly
at Wednesday night's meeting.
UPUA Programming
Chairwoman Chrissy Boggs
gave a revamped budget to the
members of the assembly prior
to the discussion, suggesting
several key changes to the allo
cation of funds.
Boggs (junior-international
politics) also suggested the
assembly use money originally
allocated to a discretionary
account, moving it to other proj
ect. Some UPUA members said
they were disappointed with the
fact they had to make so many
changes which included
revamping allocations of funds
to most areas of the budget.
"I think it's sad that we're
looking at two completely differ
ent budgets," said Chairwoman
See UPUA, Page 2.
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By Paige Minemyer
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER