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QB to face Alabama pressure
By Brendan Monahan
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Chuck Risina could move only a
few feet at a time before fans of all
ages asked to take pictures with
the 1978 Maxwell Award-winning
quarterback.
Outside of Beaver Stadium after
Friday’s Football Eve, Risina was
still dealing with the attention of
being a Penn State quarterback,
more than 30 years after he suited
up.
That attention is something
freshman quarterback Robert
Bolden faced Saturday as he
stepped off the team bus first and
witnessed 101,213 fans cheering
for him during the game.
Grad
calls for
Patemo
stadium
By Mike Hricik
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Penn State graduate Warren
Armstrong wants to honor
Penn State football coach Joe
Patemo.
Armstrong, Class of 1960, is
urging university officials to
rename Beaver Stadium to Joe
Patemo Field.
The name change would take
effect before Paterno retires,
ideally when the coach wins his
400th career game, Armstrong
said.
The 75-year-old Armstrong,
who has missed only 23 Penn
State football games since grad
uating college, lives in Allentown
and has served as president of
Armstrong Marketing Services
since 1972.
Fbr Armstrong, there are a
few good reasons why Penn
State should consider the
change.
“There's millions of dollars
he’s made for the university,” he
said.
“There’s not too many coach
es around that can graduate a
large majority of football players
and still be top ranked in the
country.”
TWo summers ago, he sent let
ters to Penn State President
Graham Spanier and Athletic
Director Tim Curley proposing
the name change.
On Oct. 26,2009, he received a
phone response from Curley.
Curley told him not to dismiss
the idea but to hold off on plans
for an advertising campaign
about the name change,
Armstrong said.
It would be months until
Armstrong would meet Curley in
person at his class reunion last
summer and Curley said he
would put Joe Paterno Field
“back on his plate,” Armstrong
said.
But Penn State spokesman
Geoff Rushton said no official
plans have been made to honor
Paterno yet.
“I think that all possible
options will be considered at the
appropriate time. I don’t know if
any plans have been put into
motion yet,” Rushton said.
Spanier echoed that senti
ment via e-mail.
See PATERNO, Page 2.
Joe Paterno surveys the field
before a game last season.
To see video coverage
from Saturday's game
■■lf against Youngstown State:
psucollegian.com
And the attention is only going
to get bigger Saturday playing
Alabama in front of a national TV
audience a situation Bolden’s
never experienced.
Risina was thrown into a simi
lar pressure-filled circumstance
as a freshman in his first Penn
State game, a situation he doesn’t
remember. Risina took over for
starter John Andress in 1975’s
regular-season finale against
Pittsburgh. With Penn State down
6-0, Risina led a fourth-quarter, 69-
Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland performs at the BJC. The country-duo played a mix of old songs, new songs
and covers of artists including Neil Diamond, Beyonce and the Bee Gees on Friday night.
Sugarland plays BJC
By Hannah Rishel
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Jennifer Nettles and Kristian
Bush had a simple claim for their
Bryce Jordan Center audience
Friday night.
“There ain’t no party like a
Sugarland party because a
Sugarland party don’t stop,” the
duo told the crowd.
They held up their promise
playing old favorites like “Want
To” and “Baby Girl” as well as
songs off of their upcoming
album “Incredible Machine,”
including their latest single
“Stuck Like Glue.”
The band based its set on a
Greeks transition to new event policy
it can have hired Piarulli (senior-security and risk
security guards analysis) said it looks like the
work the party transition has been smooth.
The Interfraternity Council instead. “The vast majority [of the fra
(IFC) hopes recent changes to its It’s a “revolu- temities] have completely adjust
social policies will lay a fbunda- tionary” policy, ed to the changes,” he said,
tion for the future, and officials IFC Vice The social policy is better than
said the first weekend seems to President for its predecessors because it has an
have been a success. Risk Manage- educational approach to event
At the first Presidents’ Council ment Tom management and allows for more
meeting of the semester, the IFC Piarulli said growth, Piarulli said,
updated its social policy to include the IFC has never before stan- Last year, the IFC voted to
greek event monitors: certified dardized the instruction of greek enforce a new social policy which
fraternity members who may take event monitors. required fraternities to hire pro
the place of a hired security guard Though he is still gathering fessional social monitors for a
at a party. If a fraternity chooses, data from the past weekend, party.
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
yard touchdown drive to win the
game.
“My head was spinning so
much,” Risina said. “My advice to
him is just play the way you can.
Don’t try to make things happen.
Let it come to you because some
times when you try to do too
much, that’s when you make mis
takes.”
Teammates said the poised and
soft-spoken Bolden was calm in
the huddle. He was also almost
mistake-free in his first start, but
Alabama is a whole different ball
game, a whole new experience.
See QUARTERBACK, Page 2.
For more coverage of Saturday’s
game. | SPORTS, Page 11.
giant machine spanning the
stage, complete with a hanging
circular screen framed by gears
and wires.
“I loved the set and graphics
on stage,” Brittany Karlheim
(freshman-elementary educa
tion) said.
Karlheim was visiting from
Penn State Altoona to see the
concert with her brother Adam
Karlheim (senior-architectural
engineering), a University Park
student.
Some attendees said the most
moving part of the concert was
Nettles’ emotional rendition of
the band’s award-winning single
“Stay.” During the song, which is
Quarterback Robert Bolden runs wi
about an affair from the perspec
tive of “the other woman,” tears
glistened in Nettles’ eyes as she
performed with only Bush on gui
tar by her side.
Stephanie Pecovsky, who trav
eled to State College to see the
concert from Andrews Airforce
Base in Maryland, where she is a
K-9 handler, said the “Stay” per
formance was her favorite part of
the show.
See SUGARLAND, Page 2.
To see a gallery of pic
tures from the Sugarland
!■( concert, visit us at:
psucollegian.com
ith the ball during Saturday's game.
Floor
to be
fixed
By Mike Hricik
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The Forest Resources
Building will undergo repairs
next semester due to cracks in
the concrete on its ground floor
moving classes normally held
in the building to other locations
around campus.
Classrooms and labs on the
western wing’s bottom floor will
not be in use for most of the
spring because of construction,
Office of Physical Plant (OPP)
spokesman Paul Ruskin said.
Ruskin said a construction
schedule is being drafted with an
assigned project manager to
ensure repairs end as soon as
possible so classes can be
accommodated in the building
again.
The university is working with
the contractors to resolve the sit
uation without litigation, Ruskin
said.
Ruskin said he did not know
which company was responsible
for building the Forest
Resources Building.
According to a winter 2005
School of Forest Resources
newsletter, the Gilbane Building
Company constructed the build
ing.
Gilbane Building Company
representatives could not be
reached for comment at press
time.
Ruskin said portions of the
underlying rock base had a
See FLOOR, Page 2.
Cracks in the floor of Forest
Resources Building will undergo
repairs next semester.
Certification involves taking an
initial course taught by Piarulli.
Currently, Piarulli is holding the
course frequently he certified
more than 700 people in the first
week but later in the semester,
the course will be available by
appointment for fraternities hop
ing to get members certified.
At the one hour training ses
sions, Piarulli explains how the
IFC works and how its actions
affect each fraternity. Attendees
also discuss the social policy “line
by line” to make sure the entire
See SOCIAL POLICY, Page 2.