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Rain batters students, campus
By Julia Anselmo and Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS
Some campus buildings experi
enced roof leakage and one build
ing was flooded during Thursday’s
heavy rainstorm.
Office of Physical Plant (OPP)
officials were “flooded” with calls
from people reporting problems
stemming from the rain, OPP
spokesman Paul Ruskin said.
A computer lab in Sparks
Building flooded, but no damage
has been reported, Ruskin said.
Between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., OPP
Indiana
game
benefits
THON
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Students will get the opportu
nity to support two of the univer
sity’s staples THON and
Nittany Lion football at the
Nov. 20 Penn State football game
versus Indiana University.
And students who attend the
game at FedEx Field in
Washington, D.C. will receive an
additional perk: a student sec
tion ticket at an away game.
FedEx Field officials agreed
to donate 5 percent of all ticket
sales from the game to the
Interfratemity Council/Panhell
enic Dance Marathon, Associate
Athletic Director for Marketing
and Communications Greg
Myford said. There is a $150,000
donation cap for the event,
Myford said.
This is the first time ever
THON and Penn State football
have collaborated for a
See INDIANA, Page 2.
Kelsey Morris/Collegian
Students line up to recieve free
ice cream from Cold Stone.
Icecream
satisfies
‘Wishes’
By Anita Modi
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Cloudy skies and intermittent
rain didn’t deter more than 100
customers from stopping by
State College’s Cold Stone
Creamery, 321 E. Beaver Ave.,
Thursday night.
Fbr its sixth consecutive year,
Cold Stone Creamery hosted
the world’s largest ice cream
social to raise money for the
Make-a-Wish Foundation from 5
p.m. to 8 p.m.
The foundation, established in
1980, aims to better the lives of
children with life-threatening
medical conditions by granting
wishes from barrel-racing hors
es to trips around the world.
Cold Stone employee John
Ruland (sophomore-crime, law
and justice) said an hour after
the event started, the store had
served more than 150 people the
signature flavor of the night:
“Kate’s Creation,” comprised of
caramel-apple ice cream with
See ICE CREAM, Page 2.
officials received numerous calls
reporting roof leakage in several
campus buildings, including
Benedict House, the
Telecommunications Building,
Boucke Building, the Coal
Utilization Lab, lyson Building,
South Henderson Building,
Eisenhower Auditorium and
Carnegie Building.
Ruskin said many additional
buildings reportedly had roof leak
age throughout the day.
Penn State has 941 buildings
with about 19,818,339 square feet
of roofing material. With that
THE LION KING
Max Levi opens up the Youngstown State University game as the Nittany Lion. Levi took over the position
for a month after the original mascot was cited for public drunkeness and criminal mischief.
Mascot
By Mike Hricik
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Penn State .student Max Levi
always feared large crowds.
Despite braving a year with
the Penn State cheerleaders,
nothing could have prepared him
for the stint of a lifetime: his
tenure enlivening some of the
biggest crowds in college football
as the Nittany Lion mascot.
Levi filled the temporary mas
cot position just in time for the
Youngstown State University
home opener, after original mas
cot Clint Gyoiy’s month-long sus
lowa DE Qaybom shows two different sides
ent animal on the football field,”
Adrian Claybom, right, tackles Ball State player Eric Williams on Jenkins said. “Shy people become
Saturday. very extroverted and passionate.
amount of area, OPP anticipates
occasional flooding, Ruskin said.
OPP will respond to the flooding
incident by isolating the flooding,
covering or moving the computer
equipment and then containing
the problem, Ruskin said. Staff
members will wait until the rain
stops to fix the roofs, he added.
Ruskin said incidents like this
happens every few years. And
there is one perk a relief from
the drought Centre County was
facing the past week.
“We’re happy to have the rain,"
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enjoys tenure
pension by the
Penn State
Athletic Depart
ment following a
citation for public
drunkenness and
criminal mischief
on Aug. 1.
Levi (senior- Le V j
mathematics and
economics) said he could not put
into words the exhilaration of
walking onto the Beaver Stadium
field for the first time.
“It’s a completely indescrib
able feeling,” Levi said.
During his run as the mascot,
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Heavy rains on Thursday caused flooding in the basement of Sparks Building.
he said he was most surprised by
the reverence fans have for the
Nittany Lion children and
adults alike.
Levi’s Russian family moved
from upstate New York to Centre
County after his father Mark
accepted a position at Penn State
as a math professor.
Levi excelled at gymnastics
from an early age, quitting dur
ing his senior year of high school
to devote two years to the Penn
State diving team.
He said his father initially dis
approved when he accepted the
See MASCOT, Page 2.
By Andrew J. Cassavell
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
James Jenkins knows two dif
ferent Adrian Clayboms.
He knows his calm, shy half
brother, who gets nervous before
visiting children in the hospital.
And he knows lowa’s star defen
sive end, who terrorizes Big Ten
offenses and is on track to be a
first-round pick in next April’s
NFL draft.
The latter, Jenkins said, is a
product of the former.
“You can be a completely differ-
Writer
talks
books
Afghani
author visits
By Lauren Ingeno
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
“Kite Runner" author Khaled
Hosseini spoke candidly in ii'onl
of a packed room about his nov
els, his past and present in
Afghanistan and misconcep
tions about his home country
Thursday night in Eisenhower
Auditorium.
“This story is about very basic
human things,” Hosseini said.
“People who read this rarely feel
indifferent ... They see parts of
themselves in these charac
ters.”
It was clear that Hosseini's
novels have influenced Penn
State students. Between 1,700
and 1,800 people came to hear
him speak during his presenta
tion as the first speaker in the
Distinguished Speaker Series
(DSS) sponsored by the Student
Programming Allocation (SPA).
Hosseini's presentation was
given in an unprecedented for
mat. Instead of giving a speech,
like past DSS speakers,
Hosseini asked that students
submit questions that he could
respond to.
“I feel like I can get up and
deliver a very polished 45
minute speech, but you won t get
any sense of who I am as an
individual," Hosseini said in a
press conference before the
event. “I like a lot more to sit and
just talk.”
Hosseini sat across from
See WRITER, Page 2.
Courtesy of Time.com
Khaled Hosseini spoke Thursday
night about his books.
It’s easier to become that person
through a sport. His personality is
somewhat shy. He is able to get
around that when he plays foot
ball.”
Intensity on the field despite an
introverted personality off it is a
shift Jenkins said stems from
Claybom’s pure love for the sport.
Cliff Ice, Clayborn’s coach at
Webster Grove High School in St.
Louis, agreed with Jenkins,
adding his former player uses
football as a positive means to
release aggression.
“He’s kind of a big ol’ teddy bear
kind of guy,” Ice said. “He’s a gen
tle giant kind of guy. He’s not real
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