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Frats to rent spaces
Rooms are available for non-greek students
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
This fall, some students may get
the fraternity house experience
without joining the greek commu
nity.
Several Penn State fraternities
are renting out open spots in their
fraternity housings. Interfraterni
ty Council President Max
Wendkos said. He said it's the
greek community's way of helping
with the off-campus housing
crunch.
President Obama, LaFourche Parish President Charlotte Randolph and U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen examine the oil spill damage
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Police: Soccer player was disorderly
By Brendan McNally
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
A Penn State soccer standout is
scheduled for a preliminary hear
ing today after police said he had
to be sedated because he made
vulgar comments to police and
doctors while intoxicated.
The State College Police
Department was called at about
3:30 a.m. June 27 to the 200 block
of Chestnut Alley in response to a
report of a burning mattress,
Alumna, ‘People’ writer pens book on celebrity dog
By Kathleen Loughran
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Flipping through the pages of
“People” magazine, stories about
the lives of the rich and famous
are told routinely.
But there was one facet of
Hollywood that was not explored
in detail until Penn State alumna
Rennie Dyball wrote about it.
“To my knowledge, no one has
ever written extensively about stu
dio mimal trainers, which I think is
a fc«cinating slice of Hollywood,”
Dyball, Class of 2002, said.
“I just wanted to make sure the
greek community was doing their
part to help out,” Wendkos (senior
marketing and psychology) said.
A few weeks ago, Wendkos con
tacted the presidents of the frater
nities, asking them to consider
renting out spaces to students, he
said about four fraternities rose
to the occasion. Though in the
past fraternities have rented open
spots to students, this is the first
year the Interfraternity Council
has reached out to the entire
Greek community about the issue,
The week following the Gulf oil spill,
Penn State professor Timothy Bralower
was sitting in a restaurant in Houston,
As news of the spill began to dominate
the media, Bralower said the attitude in
the bar was much different.
‘Nobody was talking about it,” said
Bralower, head of Penn State
Geosciences. “It was a very surreal envi
ronment for me.”
Bralower couldn’t stop thinking about
it, so he reached out to Nancy Tirana,
director of Penn State’s Philosophy
Graduate Studies program.
The result? New Schreyer Honors
College course Earth 297 H, (The 2010
Gulf Oil Spill: Science and Ethics of a
Natural Catastrophe).
police said.
When police
arrived at the
officers
Treavor
scene,
saw
Gelsinger who
was Penn State’s
leading scorer for face, police said. reached for comment.
the men’s soccer Gelsinger He has been charged with one Police said they were able to
team in 2008 count of misdemeanor disorderly convince Gelsinger to take a seat
intoxicated to the conduct and one count of summa- in a lawn chair that was nearby
point that he could not stand on ry public drunkenness, police the mattress fire where they were
his own without “falling into said. able to handcuff him.
things,” police said. Police did not say whether they See SOCCER PLAYER. Page 2.
But with DybalTs new book, “A
Famous Dog’s Life,” the life of a
studio animal trainer will be told
in even greater detail.
The book, which is set to
released in spring 2011, chronicles
the lives of two different charac
ters: a celebrity dog named Gidget
and Gidget’s trainer, Sue
Chipperton.
The idea for the book came
about after Gidget who is iconic
because of her appearance in
Taco Bell’s advertisements
passed away in 2009.
Since Chipperton knew Dyball
Off-Campus Student Union
President Bobby Ryan said.
Ryan (senior-psychology) said
the Off-Campus Student Union
will work to connect students look
ing for a living space with fraterni
ties that have extra spaces by
sending out an e-mail to their list
serv. The arrangement is benefi
cial for both parties, Ryan said.
“It’s a great idea. Students need
a place to stay and fraternities
need people to fill the spot,” he
said. “It’s a perfect match."
See FRATS, Page 2.
Oil spill inspires
new course option
By Zach Geiger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The idea is to present all of the con-
Gelsinger (senior-kinesiology) believe Gelsinger started the mat
repeatedly told police vulgar tress fire,
things, police wrote in the affi- Gelsinger has been named
davit. Academic All-Big Ten three times
He also said he wanted to and Second Team All-Big Ten
punch a female police officer who
was present at the scene in the
from an article Dyball previously
wrote for “People” magazine, the
trainer decided to contact her to
help co-author the novel.
“I had met Rennie during a
photo shoot she coordinated for
‘People’ magazine. Gidget was
part of the shoot,” Chipperton
said. “When the idea of the book
came up, I knew immediately that
I couldn’t write it. It seemed like it
was a natural choice to ask Rennie
if she would co-write the book with
me, especially since she had met
Gidget.”
Dyball began working for
Chloe Elmer/Collegian
Alpha Epsilon Pi is one of the
frats offering living space.
flicts around deep-water drilling and oil
exploration in general, ” Bralower said.
The course is designed to be a compre
hensive approach to the situation, he
said.
Bralower said he’ll tackle the scientific
aspect of the issue while Tuana will focus
on the complex social issues including
corporate responsibility and socioeco
nomic aspects.
Students enrolled in Earth 297 H won’t
just be sitting in a classroom all semester
they will have the opportunity to wit
ness the devastation first-hand.
A planned trip to the Gulf of Mexico will
allow the students to tour the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina and hopefully
examine the Gulf beaches and wetland
ecosystems affected by the spill,
Bralower said.
“We’ll make every effort to get us close
to the oil," he said.
See COURSE. Page 2.
once. Officials with the Penn State
athletic department could not be
“People” magazine shortly after
graduating Penn State.
Throughout her senior year, she
said she was able to stay in touch
with her bosses after interning
with the magazine the previous
summer.
Dyball said she was so persist
ent because she knew she “want
ed nothing more out of life after
graduation than to work at
‘People.’ ”
At “People,” Dyball said she
specifically covers the music
scene, but she has been able to
See DYBALL, Page 2.
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Gov.
talks
roads
Rendell to
tour state
By Paul Osolnick
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Gov. Ed Rendell will hold a
press conference today at 4:45
p.m. on Route 26 South in
Bellefonte to
discuss the
state's need for
transportation
funding.
Gary Tuma,
press secretary
for Gov. Rendell,
said the need for
state trans
portation fund
ing comes from a gap in the
budget caused by the federal
government voting against a
portion of Act 44 a
Pennsylvania transportation
funding law passed in 2007
that would have allowed for tolls
on Interstate 80.
Rendell
Tuma said the state is facing a
gap of about $472 million per
year in funding for improve
ments to infrastructure in the
state.
The governor will travel
around the state to raise aware
ness to particular areas that
have "structurally deficient"
bridges or “unsafe road condi
tions” including roads that can
not handle the traffic volume or
need re-paving, Tuma said.
Tuma said Rendell traveled to
Allentown and Philadelphia
Tuesday and will stop in
Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and
Centralia before coming to the
Bellefonte/State College area.
Rendell will continue through
central Pennsylvania on
Thursday before heading
toward Pittsburgh and western
Pennsvlvania Friday.
"He is traveling around the
state to stress to the citizens
that we do have a significant
need to improve our transporta
tion," Tuma said. “He wants the
public to understand that he
wants the legislature to convene
in late August to address the
problem. ”
Tuma said there are more
than 5,000 structurally deficient
bridges in the state.
Rich Kirkpatrick, spokesman
for the Pennsylvania
Department of Transportation in
Harrisburg, said the state saw 7
the number of structurally defi
cient bridges decrease for the
first time in about a decade, but
the number is still very signifi
cant.
“[RendellJ has been a strong
advocate, both here in
Pennsylvania and around the
See RENDELL. Page 2.
If you go
What: Gov. Ed Rendell’s press
conference
When: Wednesday, Aug. 4
When: 4:45 p.m.
Where: Route 26 South in
Bellefonte near 1-80, mile
marker 161
Details: Gov. Rendell will
address transportation fund
ing
Dyball holds Gidget and Moonie