The Daily Collegian Students debut Penn State’s first co-ed pre-law frat By Vera Greene COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Phi Alpha Delta is set to become Penn State’s first ever co-ed pre law fraternity Thursday. Max Silverstein, Phi Alpha Delta’s vice president, said the idea to start the fraternity hap pened two summers ago when he was interning at his father’s law firm and one of his dad’s col leagues asked him if he was involved in the law fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta. Unsure of what it was, Silverstein (senior-psychology) looked it up and decided Phi Alpha Delta was something he wanted to be a part of. Runners participate in the 2008 THON SK. Until this year, the race began at the Intramural Building’s fields. THON 5K moves from fields to BJC By Megan Rogers COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER This year’s THON 5K will be closer to the heart of THON week end the starting point has moved from the; fields of the Intramural (IM) Building to the Brvce Jordan Center. Though the race has started at the IM fields for the past nine years, a jump iin participation caused a location change necessi ty Mary Dowd, Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon Special Events Overall Chairwoman, said. The THON 2011 5K will take place at 11:30 a.m. on Oct. 17. About 3,000 people participated in the 2009 THON race and 5,147 people signed up for the 2010 THON race, Dov/d (senior-jour nalism) said. “That just says a lot about the THON involvement on our cam pus," she said. The THON 5K i s the largest 5K in Central Pennsylvania, Public Relations Overall Chairwoman Jony Rommel said. “That’s something we’re really > r S,s, -*• ' -*t*' sSi'^V' » fS’' - .t 3* V ./-M-.• v ‘.:v«:. • •* ■ •■• - |s; f-t ' . *,■ ‘ 1 ■'ft if >-j iff -i -fr 1 fj?* >. % * S J ',- ,4. 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Though there are other law societies at Penn State, he said Phi Alpha Delta will have a larger network. “Not only will we be able to use the Penn State network, but also the Phi Alpha Delta alumni, too, where you can focus your net proud of,” Rommel (senior-philos ophy) said. “Being at the BJC will allow us to grow in future years.” Dowd said the route will be the same as it has in the past only the starting line will change. The registration table, mer chandise tent, activities and disc jockey Larry Moore wiH be near Gate A and the race will start on the road nearby. The BJC offers a more open area, she said participants will be able to move around and stretch more easily and specta tors will have more room to view the entire start of the race. Some students said they sup port the change and understand the reasoning behind the location switch. Lauren Lahann said she plans to participate in this year’s race and believes the change will be beneficial to the race. “It's a positive change," she said. “Some freshmen who live in East don’t know where the IM fields are.” Though she didn’t participate in last year’s SK, Lahann (sopho more-supply change manage- LOCAL working in the direction of the career you want to go in as a potential law student,” Alvarez said. Though Phi Alpha Delta is a fra ternity, Alvarez said it is going to be strictly professional, keeping the focus on the development aspect in order to help students get into law school. “While we do subscribe to fra ternalism and its bond, it’s not necessarily social,” Alvarez said. “Less than 20 percent of all our activities can be socials ... we don’t want it to turn into the typi cal greek organization.” Alvarez said he is not going to completely disassociate Phi Alpha Delta with the ment) said she heard others say ing it was crowded at the start of the race. This year, runners will also have the option of purchasing a professional timing chip to get the most precise race time, Dowd said. Rommel said the chip option will cost $lB and those in the fun run will pay $l5. For the second year in a row, organizations will be able to cred it their race participation to their overall total, Dowd said a change upheld because of the increase in organization partici pation in the past years. THON is hoping to see another increase in participation, Dowd said. To e-mail reporter: mers2oo@psu.edu If you go What: THON 5K When: 11:30 a.m. Oct. 17 Where: Begins at the Bryce Jordan Center Details: To register, visit www.thon.org Interfratemity Council, though. “We would be more than happy to work with them. I just don’t know where we would fit in,” Alvarez said. Since the fraternity is just get ting started this year, Silverstein said there wasn’t any formal recruitment, but as time goes on, he thinks it will grow and become more structured. Phi Alpha Delta has no restric tions on who can join but Alvarez said people should be join ing to develop professionally, not to “party every Friday night.” Gina Russoniello, the recruit ment chairwoman for Phi Alpha Delta, said it’s been great to see how the fraternity has taken Judicial Affairs officials brief freshmen on Code By Brendan McNally and Emily Battaglia COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Penn State freshmen gathered in the HUB-Robeson Center auditorium Monday night to learn about the Office of Judicial Affairs’ Code of Conduct and some said they were surprised by what they learned. Assistant Director of the Office of Judicial Affairs (OJA) Gary Miller led an hour-long presenta tion covering some of the most common violations of the univer sity’s Code of Conduct a set of rules that Miller said students are expected to follow both on and off-campus. Miller, who spoke to a crowd of about 40, said that academic integrity problems, copyright vio lations, drug and alcohol abuse, sexual misconduct, and harass ment are some of the most com mon violations his office deals with. Although one of the meeting’s attendees, Zach Dobson, said most of the rules are fairly self explanatory, he was surprised that students could be held accountable for their actions off campus. About half the violations that OJA deals with occur off campus, Miller said. “I mean, it’s necessary," Dobson (freshman-chemistry) said. “But I’d rather it not be like that.” Miller said one of the most prevalent issues OJA handles is drug and alcohol violations. The average age of a patient at Open a new Student Banking Package. Add great features. GET UP TO Tuesday, Sept. 28,2010 I 3 off in the past few weeks. “I’ve watched it go from a cou ple of us sitting in a classroom, to the last couple days having four or five people email me about getting involved,” Russoniello (junior marketing said). Silverstein said he knows there are a lot of people out there who want to pursue a career in law, and he hopes this new fraternity will help them along. “We want them to have some thing to lean on,” he said. “And I think as we grow we’ll be able to recruit a lot more members and be a really helpful organization at Penn State.” To e-mail reporter: vhgsoo3@psu.edu Mount Nittany Medical Center on weekends is 19, and the average blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of patients brought in for alcohol-related incidents is 0.24 statistics that Miller said indi cate some students are partici pating in dangerous drinking. This year, Penn State students that are caught drinking under age will have to participate in the Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students (BASICS) program, which will cost students $2OO to complete, Miller said. Students will also have to pay any fines that the Pennsylvania Judicial System may impose, Miller said. Miller said that many students do not know what the university considers academic integrity and plagiarism. Kayla DeVore (freshman- pre medecine) said she was sur prised to find out that students can get in trouble for resubmit ting a paper that has already been submitted for a grade in another class. “I had no idea,” DeVore said. “I’ve saved a lot of my papers not that I’ve resubmitted them.” Miller said that learning the university’s rules can help clarify what faculty expect from stu dents and might make students think twice before violating the rules. “The Code of Conduct helps to create the kind of community we’re trying to build here,” Miller said. To email reporter: bwmsl47@psu.edu
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