The Daily Collegian Club to By Karina Yiicel COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Penn State will be invaded by vampires tonight. The Public Relations Student Society of America at Penn State split into two groups of three stu dents each the blue team and the white team to promote the CWs “Vampire Diaries.” The white team’s event will take place at 6:30 p.m. tonight in 101 Osmond Building and is expected to last until 10:30 p.m. The blue team’s event will take place at 8 tonight in 106 HUB- Robeson Center. “The best time to come to the event would be in the beginning. There will be way more free food,” said Liz Ferrari (junior public relations), a member of the white team. “After that we are going to be screening the last four episodes of season one, and in between episodes we will be giving out the prizes.” The prizes include free gift cards from local downtown retail ers, Starbucks mugs and promo tional items from the show, given out by the CW, said Laura Platt ABC dances to top with ‘Stars’ By David Bauder ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NEW YORK Fbrget Bristol Palin and The Situation. It’s the folks at ABC who are dancing. The 21 million people who watched Monday’s two-hour “Dancing With the Stars” made it the clear winner on the opening night of a new television season, the Nielsen Co. said on Tuesday. After a long, slow summer, CBS and NBC had some good news, too. The “Dancing With the Stars” debut was up 18 percent over last season’s opener, Nielsen said. Veteran shows usually aren’t growing like that at this stage of their career, said Marc Berman, an analyst for Media Week Online. “They put together a very good cast of characters,” he said. CBS’ remake of “Hawaii Five -0” dominated in the 10 p.m. hour, with the night’s second biggest audience at 13.8 million people. ABC’s “Castle” at that hour had a strong showing with 11.2 million people, Nielsen said. NBC’s much-hyped mystery “The Event” also had 11.2 million viewers, a strong sampling that nearly doubled the audience for “Heroes” at the beginning of last season. Curious viewers also gave a ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT screen ‘Diaries’ (junior-public relations), a mem ber of the white team. The group will also recap the first season before it screens the episodes so everyone will feel like they have caught up, Ferrari said. This will make it easier for peo ple to go from this event to watch ing the second season’s new episodes, she added. While the white team will catch people up on past episodes, the blue team is taking a shorter approach, airing only the first episode of the second season. This team will also hand out free items like posters and other promotional items during the screening, said Ally Inverso (sen ior-public relations), a member of the blue team. Blue team member Rachel Baker (senior-public relations) said people will be able to take any promotional item they want when they walk into the room. Some Penn State students said the screening is an interesting opportunity. Sadie Stellfox said she’s excit ed to learn more about the show and see the episodes. Bristol Palin and her partner Mark Balias perform on the celebrity dance competition show “Dancing with the Stars” on Monday. good start to the new CBS come dy “Mike & Molly.” Its audience of 12.2 million peo ple is considered strong reten tion out of the season premiere of “Two and a Half Men,” which had 14.5 million viewers. The night’s biggest loser and we’re not talking about excess weight was probably Fox’s new “Lone Star,” which may be on life support after get ting only 4.5 million viewers and losing more than half the audi ence that watched “House” in the time slot before it. “People say it’s a good show,” Stellfox (freshman-division of undergraduate studies) said. “I’d check it out.” And while Erin Ball (senior communication arts and sci ences and political science) said she doesn’t understand every one’s vampire obsession, she said she has a lot of friends who watch the show. As a result, Ball said, she’ll probably attend one of the events. To e-mail reporter: kzysols@psu.edu If you go What: “Vampire Diaries” screenings, presented by the Public Relations Student Society of America When: White Team meets at 6:30 p.m.; Blue Team meets at 8 p.m. Where: White Team: 101 Osmond; Blue Team: 106 HUB-Robeson Center Details: Free food and prizes will be available for students The show “declined signifi cantly in the second half hour,” Berman said. “Whoever did tune in didn’t stay with it.” Only two days after its pre miere on Sunday, HBO announced that it was ordering a second season of the prohibition era drama “Boardwalk Empire.” The show was seen by 4.8 mil lion people on Sunday, Nielsen said. It was the biggest debut of an HBO series in six years, Nielsen said. MUS Tuthe W PAPER ■ PLATE DINING GUIDE Delivery Take Out Dine-In GO TO PSUCOLLEGIAN.COM Julie Jacobson/Associated Press Paris Hilton arrives in county court with her attorney on Monday to plead guilty to reduced charges related to her Las Vegas cocaine arrest. Japanese authorities delay Hilton at airport LOS ANGELES Japanese officials delayed Paris Hilton at Narita Airport while they decide whether she will be admitted to the country after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor drug charge in Las Vegas. An e-mailed statement by Hilton’s rep, Dawn Miller, said the 29-year-old was stopped by immi gration authorities upon her arrival in Japan on Tuesday, one day after her plea. Hilton was scheduled to appear at a news conference in Tolyo on Wednesday to promote her fash ion and fragrance lines, but that appearance was canceled. Narita Airport’s immigration office questioned Hilton “for hours” to determine if she should be allowed to enter the country, the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau said, according to Japan’s Kyodo news agency. Authorities adjourned question ing and asked Hilton to stay at a hotel in the airport so they could continue immigration procedures Wednesday, Kyodo reported. There was no answer at the immi gration office early Wednesday. Under Japanese law, immigra tion authorities are empowered to deny entry to those who have been convicted of drug-related offenses. Tokyo was the first stop on Hilton’s planned Asia tour, during By Anthony McCartney ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER for 2011-2012 Wednesday, Sept. 22,2010 I 7 which she planned to visit Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and open a new retail store in Jakarta, Indonesia. Both countries have strict anti-drug laws and immigra tion procedures, and it was unclear whether Hilton would continue her travels. Miller’s statement said Hilton was disappointed with the scruti ny by Japanese authorities. “Paris was contractually bound to her business trip and didn’t want to let down her brands and many Asian fans,” the statement said. “She intended on fulfilling her contract and is trying hard to do the responsible thing, but this is beyond her control. She is very disappointed by tonight’s events.” Hilton rose to fame after appearing with Nicole Richie on the series “The Simple Life” and has since starred in another reali ty series and minor films. The Asia trip had been planned before Hilton’s arrest last month in Las Vegas, when an officer found a small amount of cocaine in her purse. She pleaded guilty Monday to drug possession and obstruct ing an officer and was placed on informal probation for one, year. The terms of her sentence did not restrict travel overseas. “We have no legal basis to restrict her from traveling throughout the United States or throughout the world,” Clark County District Attorney David Roger said.
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