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The annua! Football Eve celebration drew a crowd to Beaver Stadium on Friday night.
Football Eve excites fans
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STALL WRITER
The No. 1 student section in the nation
kicked off the 2010 football season Friday
night with Football Eve, which students
said upped their anticipation for the com
ing season.
Football Eve featured performances
from the Blue Band, cheerleaders,
Lioncttes and Nittany Lion mascot and
ended with an appearance by Coach Joe
Paterno and the football team.
Captains Brett Brackett and Ollie
Ogbu led the team out of the tunnel to
mounting shouts and applause from the
hundreds of fans who packed the stadi
um. But the loudest cheers of the night
were reserved for Paterno. who waited at
the microphone while the crowd chanted
his name.
When the cheers died down. Paterno
spoke of the past before looking ahead to
the upcoming season.
Paterno told the crowd that when the
decision came to move into Beaver
Stadium .jo vea> - aye. he opposed the
idea.
"It i hoy move the stadium, it will ruin
Penn State football.' h laid the crowd he
had said -Kith years later, look at this,
babv."
Paterno said I he season was going to
be a "fight" but one dial could be won
with hard - k -md •• 'smoragement from
the crowd.
“I want you to know this group of kids
behind me are gonna make you happy,”
he said, referring to the team.
The team has “a ways” to go but is
working to make the season "something
special,” he said.
Some students said they are eager to
do their part in the 2010 football cam
paign.
Friday marked the fourth Football Eve
for senior Joe Prozeralik, whose friends
call him the “No. 1 football fan” or at
least the loudest.
Wearing a Penn State jersey and cheer
ing from the front row, Prozeralik (senior
environmental resource management)
said each year just keeps getting better.
“Every' year JoePa stays as incredible
as he was,” Prozeralik said. “And I just
cherish it more and more every year.”
He said he'll be sad to miss football
season next year but his friends
reminded him that's what the five-year
plan is for.
The night may have been nostalgic for
some upperclassman, but many fresh
men said they were eager to get their
first taste of Penn State football.
It was helpful to learn the songs and
dances, said Jenna Gordon, who attend
ed the event with a group of friends.
“It makes this feeling of a community,
even as freshman," Gordon < freshman
forensic science) said.
To e-mail reporter: mers2oo@psu.edu
Exposures could be linked
By Casey McDermott
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
After two more incidents of indecent
exposure were reported early Saturday
morning, the State College Police
Department said it has evidence to suggest
the incidents are linked to a recent string of
similar incidents that have occurred on
campus and in the borough.
Police said the first incident was reported
at 12:32 a.m. Saturday inside the Nittany
Garden Apartments complex, 445
Waupelani Dr. Residents told police that a
masked man entered their apartment and
exposed his genitals to two of the residents,
then fled the scene on foot, police said.
The second incident was reported at
12:49 a.m. at a different building inside the
Nittany Gardens complex, police said. A
resident there told police that a masked
man fled the apartment after the resident
heard a suspicious noise and called out to
see who it was, police said.
Police said the man they are calling a
flasher fits the description in both the
appearance and behavior that was reported
in both incidents. This makes it likely that
the two incidents Saturday morning might
have been committed by the same person,
police said. The same person might also be
linked to the string of similar incidents that
were previously reported across campus
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and in town, police said.
Most recently, two indecent exposure
incidents occurred on campus on Aug. 18
first in Tener Hall between 9 p.m. and 10
pm.. then in Holmes Hall about an hour
later, Penn State Police said. Earlier in the
summer, police said similar cases were
reported on May 8 in Brumbaugh Hall and
on June 7 in Hiester Hall. The man in
Brumbaugh Hall was described as white
and the man in Hiester Hall was described
as light-skinned with dark hair.
Another incident occurred near the site
of the most recent incident on June 11
inside Imperial Towers Apartments, 425
Waupelani Dr„ the State College Police
Department said. A woman told the State
College Police Department that she was sit
ting alone in her kitchen when a man
entered her apartment and touched her
shoulder from behind, causing her to turn
around to see him masturbating.
The man was white and about 5’7” with a
slender build, and he was wearing a green
surgical mask and a dark hat at the time of
the incident, police said. Penn State Police
and Residence Life officials could not be
reached for comment as of press time
Monday regarding a possible connection
between the most recent incidents and
those that occurred earlier in the vear.
To e-mail reporter: cmms773@psu.edu