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For the second year in a
row Penn State received
a top rating for LGBT
condusive atmosphere
By Eddie l au
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRlltw
Penn State is one of 19 colleges
and universities in the nation to
receive a five-star rating for les
bian, gay, bisexual and transgen-
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Gov. Ed Rendell speaks under a tent on the side of 1-80 about the importance of fixing Pennsylvania’s transportation roads and bridges.
Rendell
By Paul Osolnick
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
BELLEFONTE Gov. Ed
Rendell stood along Rt. 26
Wednesday and proposed several
potential revenue sources that
could help the state’s shortage of
transportation funding. The press
conference is a part of Rendell’s
statewide tour to discuss potential
solutions to the gap in hinds for
repairs to Pennsylvania’s bridges
and roadways.
Freeze Thaw Cycles settled ifito its new location
Bike
finds
By Nathan Pipenberg
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
At first glance, the new store doesn’t look'much
different than the old one. Skeletons of bikes
minus wheels and other essentials hang on
racks and wait to become part of a project.
A look into the back of the shop reveals the same
wrenches surrounding a pair of stands ready to
hold the bikes that require some maintenance. A
dog’s wagging tail is still the first thing to greet cus
tomers through the door.
Welcome to Freeze Thaw Cycles.
Jordyn Drayton, 27, has seen his shop through
three moves from a below-ground Fraser Street
location, to a second story shop on Calder Way, to
this prime real estate on the 100 block of South
Allen Street, finally with no steps leading up or
down to the front door.
PSU gay-friendly
der (LGBT) inclusion and friendli
ness.
The Campus Pride Climate
Index was announced on Monday
by Campus Pride, a Charlotte,
N.C.-based organization that pro
motes an LGBT-friendly learning
environment.
Five stars is the group’s highest
rating.
Colleges are ranked from one
to five stars, depending on the
answers those colleges provide to
Campus Pride, according to the
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highlights Pa. roadways
Rendell is making stops in spe- to close the gap in infrastructure speak on behalf of Exxon-Mobil or
cific locations around the state funding. BP or Shell,” Rendell said.
where roadways and structurally One idea proposed by the gov- “Anybody that thinks that we’re
deficient bridges are in need of emor is to take gas companies out taxing them too high right now
repair. of the corporate net income tax and that this is unfair don’t you
Rendell stopped in the and have companies like think that people that make the
Bellefonte/State College area to Exxon Mobil pay the company biggest profit from a transporta
address the need for repairs to net profits tax. tion network should pay a signifi
the Route 26 roadway and the Rendell said the amount of cant share of the cost of keeping
bridges over 1-80. money going to the state would that network up? I do.”
The governor discussed sever- increase from $7O million a year to Rendell said another way to
al ways the state could make almost $BOO million annually. gather money to fund infrastruc
changes in current taxes and “Now I’m happy to turn the mic ture is raising the cost of licenses
transportation-related expenses over to anybody who wants to See RENDELL, Page 2.
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shop
niche
See BIKE, Page 2.
press release. The index looked at
university policies, programs and
practices concerning LGBT com
munity.
“I am very exciting about the
rating it shows the progress
and the wonderful things that
Penn State have in place,” said
Allison Subasic, Lesbian, Gay,
Bisexual, Transgendered and
Allies (LGBTA) Student Resource
Center director.
This is the second year Penn
See LGBT, Page 2.
UPUA invests
Freshman internship showcases job
By Zach Geiger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
For freshmen interested in student gov
ernment but who don’t know where to
start, the University Park Undergraduate
Associ-ation (UPUA)
internship program is a
way to get an early start,
student body president
Christian Ragland said
“We want to show them
how the executive board
and UPUA works and
prepare them for a future
in UPUA,” Ragland (sen
ior-political science) said.
The internship spots are only available
to freshmen, Ragland said. During the
PSU graduates cash in on ‘SLIZ’ idea
After inventing a drinking
gadget with their friends, a
few alumni are hoping to t
market their idea nationally.
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
During their time here, some Penn
State graduates engineered a way to
drink liquor without actually tasting
anything—and they say it may become
the next social staple for college stu
dents across the nation.
Their product is the SLIZ Cup a
“drinking vessel designed to eliminate
the cringe between taking a shot and
reaching for the chaser,” said
Anthony Vella, one of the product’s cre
ators.
summer session, he said about 30 to 40
freshmen expressed interest in getting
involved in UPUA.
But the number of internship positions
all depends on the number of applicants
during the fall semester, UPUA freshmen
outreach executive director Rebecca Alt
(sophomore-communication arts and sci
ences) said.
“It all depends on the pool of appli
cants,” Alt said. “We won’t turn people
away because we ran out of [executive]
board members.”
Each intern will be paired with a mem
ber of the UPUA executive board, Alt said.
If more applicants than executive board
members apply for the internship posi
tions, the program could be expanded to
See INTERN, Page 2.
Ragland
It’s a cup on top, with a straw for the
handle.
To get the shot and chaser experi
ence, co-creator Maurio Poire, Class of
2010, said users pour the alcohol into
the SLIZ cup, add a non-alcoholic bev
erage and then drink quickly through
the straw before letting the drink mix.
The invention quickly became popu
lar with their college friends, and soon it
may be sold in Urban Outfitters and col
lege bookstores, said co-creator
Carolyn Rees, Class of 2010.
But for the time being, SLIZ cups are
only sold online at sllz.com and at some
downtown State College stores, like
Metro, People’s Nation and Old State
Clothing, Vella, Class of 2010, said.
Inventing, marketing and selling
SLIZ has been quite the experience,
Vella said The group got the chance to
See SLIZ, Page 2.
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Ithaca College
Oregon State University
Princeton University
San Diego State University
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University of California, Los
Angeles
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Vermont
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in future
Bems
picks
new
team
UPUA adds
group liasions
By Casey McDermott
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The 11 new student govern
ment liaisons didn’t have to sub
mit an application or run in an
election to be appointed, but the
leaders who selected them say
the process still produced the
best possible people for the jobs.
University Park
Undergraduate Association
(UPUA) Student Life and
Diversity Director Michal Bems
and President Christian
Ragland worked together to
place the new liaisons across
areas like Greek Affairs,
Religious Affairs and
Multicultural Affairs.
In the interest of speeding up
the selection process, Berns
(senior-media studies) said she
thought it’d be best to forgo an
open application.
“We needed people immedi
ately so we could be able to con
tact them over the summer,” she
said.
“If we opened up the applica
tion to everyone, the whole
process would have taken a
month or two and would have
gone on into the [fall] semester.”
Ragland (junior-political sci
ence) said he did publicize sev
eral of the positions
Community Services Liaison,
Campus Sustainability Liaison,
Health Services Liaison and
Sports Services Liaison via
IWitter, asking interested stu
dents to contact him.
Otherwise, he said, the selec
tion process was essentially a
matter of looking for “known
faces” in various areas of stu
dent life. For example, he said,
new Women’s Affairs Liaison
Dahiana Tejada (senior-geogra
phy and Latin American
Studies) is involved in the
Commission for Women.
Bems said she and Ragland
looked for people they knew per
sonally when choosing the
liaisons.
“If I knew them personally
already, there’s already a trust
built up there,” Bems said.
She also said there was no set
criteria for the liaisons, but she
sought out people who were
involved and interested in the
field for which they were chosen,
and who were able to devote
enough time to serving as a
bridge of communication
between UPUA and their
assigned area.
When selecting the Greek
Affairs Liaison, Bems said she
contacted Interfraternity
Council (IFC) Executive Vice
President Dan Florencio
because she is close with him
and could trust the person he
recommended to her.
Florencio said it made sense
See UPUA Page 2.