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UPUA backs Michigan leader
By Kathleen Loughran
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The University Park
Undergraduate Association
(UPUA) passed a resolution
Wednesday night in support of
University of Michigan student
body president Chris Armstrong
after a Michigan assistant attor
ney general called for Armstrong
to step down.
Resolution 10-0-5 passed with a
vote of 36-0-1.
The Michigan Daily
Celtic
band
rocks
crowd
By Josh Bollinger
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Alan Doyle, the lead singer for
Great Big Sea, was a long way
from home when he took the stage
at the State Theatre on
Wednesday night.
Doyle, originally from a small
town in Newfoundland called
Petty Harbour, said he and the
band were thankful for the
crowd's attendance.
“There's more people in this
room than there are in Petty
Harbour," Doyle said.
The Canadian-Celtic pub band
played last night at the State
Theatre to a packed house of
young and old clapping along to
their Newfoundland folk-inspired
music.
Doyle said that it was the band's
first time in Happy Valley and they
wanted to play as much as
ble, so they decided to treat the
audience to two full sets.
When the crowd greeted Doyle
and Great Big Sea with claps,
whistles and Canadian flags, he
said he could feel the love in the
room.
After the band's performance of
an Irish a cappella song, a few
songs later he got an earful of love
when an audience member yelled,
“We love vou!"
“In my mind, the person that
just shouted that looks like Farrah
Fawcett," Doyle said. He went on
to say that the band loves its fans.
See CONCERT. Page 2.
Courtesy of espn.go.com
Beadle, left, and Cowherd, right, will visit the BJC.
BJC to host
ESPN show
By Mike Hricik
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
ESPN2’s “Sports Nation" will broadcast live
from Gate B at the Biyce Jordan Center today as
a part of the program’s tour of Big Ten universi
ties across the country.
Steve Balawajder said he couldn’t be happier
about the taping.
“I think the tour’s a great idea,” Balawajder
(senior-civil engineering) said. “ ‘SportsNation’ is
pretty good for fans to voice their opinions.”
See ESPN, Page 2.
If you go
What: ESPN2’s “The Herd” and “Sports Nation”
When: “The Herd” will broadcast .from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m., “Sports Nation” from 4 to 5 p.m.
Where: Bryce Jordan Center, Gate B
Details: Open to all Penh State fans
University of Michigan’s student Shirvell has also created a blog
newspaper reported that entitled “Chris Armstrong
Assistant Att- Watch,” where he details his con-
orney General
and University of
Michigan alum
nus Andrew
Shirvell asked
Armstrong to
turn in his resig
nation during the
community con-
Ragland
cerns portion of a
Michigan Student
(MSA) meeting.
Lead singer Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea performs to a packed house at the State Theatre on Wednesday
evening. It was the Canadian-Celtic pub band’s first time in State College.
Health care takes effect
Starting today, students will feel the
effects of the health care legislation
passed by Congress six months ago.
Students will be allowed to stay on their
parents’ insurance plan until the age of 26.
Previously, insurance companies forced
students off their parents’ coverage at 22.
For many students, this means coverage
through their undergraduate and gradu
ate academic careers.
For students like Jeremey Knout, who is
insured under his parents’ plan, the
extended coverage is a welcomed change.
“We’ve got enough things to worry about
right after graduating college,” Knout
One year later,
There’s a new set of founding fathers at Penn
State and they’re hoping to change the face of the
greek community.
This time last fall, the Beta Theta Pi house, 220 N.
Burrowes Rd., had no occupants or brothers
despite the largest fraternity renovation in U.S. his
tory. One year later, Beta Theta Pi affiliates say the
house is brimming with student leaders, philanthro
py and potential.
Starting over as a colony—though a long process
has gone smoothly, Beta Theta Pi President
Kealan Hobelmann said.
Disbanded in 2008 for violating alcohol policies,
Beta Theta Pi resurfaced last year.
Fifty-nine men were initiated into the fraternity in
April 2010, Beta Theta Pi restructure director and
adviser Jeff Rundle said and with that, the
See FRATERNITY, Page 2.
cems regarding Armstrong.
In his posts, Shirvell has called
Armstrong a “viciously militant
homosexual activist,’’ among
other claims.
“It’s time for Chris Armstrong
and his crew of privileged, disre
spectful, law-breaking, racist,
anti-Christian, radical homosex-
ual fanatics and ‘allies’ to disas-
Assembly sociate themselves from Uof M’s
See UPUA. Page 2.
By Nick Manella
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Controversial comments
Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell wrote about University of
Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong on his blog. UPUA passed a
resolution in support of Armstrong Wednesday night.
Sunday, Sept. 12,2010
It's time for Chris Armstrong and his crew of privileged, disrespect-1
ful, law-breaking, racist,anti-Christian, radical homosexual fanatics I
and "allies" to disassociate themselves from U of M's student *
government. Period.
Source: chris-armstrong-watch.blQgspot.coni
(sophomore-political science) said. “It’s
nice that health care won’t be one of
them.”
According to a survey conducted by the
United States Government Accountability
Office, two-thirds of current college stu
dents get their health insurance through
their parents’ plans, and 20 percent of col
lege students are uninsured. But Penn
State, among other universities, requires
health insurance to enroll.
Currently, University Health Services
(UHS) offers three different plans for stu
dents who are not covered under their par
ents’ plan. Doris Guanowsky, senior asso
ciate director of UHS, estimates that
roughly 9,000 students are currently
See HEALTH CARE, Page 2.
Beta house thrives
Abby Drey/Collegian
The Beta Theta PI house, 220 N. Burrowes Rd., began renovations in
2005. After laying empty for a year, it is now home to 42 brothers.
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PSU
backs
credit
claims
A $2,500 refundable tax credit
could be of great use to Penn
State tuition-paying families.
But United States Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) statistics
show that 67 percent of eligible
Pennsylvania families did not
claim the American Opportunity
Tax Credit, said Robin Kuleck.
director of Penn State
Cooperative Extension's Elk
County office.
“It’s in the family's best inter
est for parents to claim the kid,
and by virtue of that they would
receive the American
Opportunity Tax Credit." she
said.
By IRS standards, a depend
ent is anyone under the age 24, a
full-time student by the universi
ty’s definition, and younger than
the taxpayer, Kuieck said. A
dependent’s family can claim up
to $2,500 in tax credit, she said.
An independent student tax
payer must be older than 24
years old in order to qualify for
the same amount of tax credit,
she said.
The American Opportunity
Tax Credit is an extension of the
Hope Credit, a credit available
for the first two years of post
secondary education. The exten
sion makes the credit available
for the first four years, Kuieck
said.
Forty percent of the credit is
refundable, so taxpayers can
See TAXES. Page 2.
Tax credit eligibility
Source: Pei
egian.com
Heather Schmelzlen Coi-egian
By Micah Wintner
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
How to claim the tax credit:
- Independents over age 24
and families with dependents
are eligible for the $2,500
American Opportunity Tax
Credit
- Eligible families or
independents file an amended
return by filling out a Form
1040 X and 8863. Both forms
are.available on the IRS
website.
-These forms should be
mailed to the IRS.
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