MONDAY, OCT. 11, 2010
Police: Man steals car, hits fence, tree
At about 3:15 a.m. Saturday, a man shattered a fence and
caused a tree to split in half near South Fraser Street in a car
he stole earlier that night from Balfurd Cleaners, 215 S.
Atherton St., the State College Police Department said.
Police said the driver, Benjamin Weston, 21, was intoxicated
when the incident occurred.
Weston is charged with one count each of felony theft by
unlawful taking and receiving stolen property and one count
each of a misdemeanor unauthorized use of a motor vehicle
and driving under the influence, according to court docu
ments.
He is also charged with one summary count each of care
less driving and trespassing by motor vehicle in connection
with the incident, police said.
Police seize about S24K in illegal drugs
About $24,000 in illegal drugs were seized by the State
College Police Department (SCPD) and Centre County Drug
Task Force in two separate incidents that occurred only a
week apart.
In the first incident, SCPD officers investigating a routine
disorderly conduct call on Sept. 29 "developed information"
that Azim A. Robinson, 23, of State College and Leonard
Robinson, 45, of Philadelphia were involved in drug traffick
ing, the Centre County Drug Task Force said.
After obtaining search warrants for the pair's car and hotel
room, police recovered $14,000 worth of illegal drugs. The con
tents included 399 bags of heroin, 14 grams of crystal metham
phetamine and 5.3 grams of marijuana, in addition to drug
paraphernalia and scales, the Centre County Drug Task
Force said. Police also seized a 2006 Chevy Impala and $1,297.
In an unrelated incident one week later, two Bucks County
men were charged in connection with the Oct. 6 seizure of
940.1 grams (two pounds) of marijuana with a street value of
$lO,OOO, the Centre County Drug Task Fbrce said.
The two men - John Keith Fbgarty, 21, of Dublin, Pa., and
Adam Michael Bogdnoff, 22, of Doylestown, Pa. - were stopped
by police while Bogdnoff was driving a 2004 Lexus IS3OO con
taining the drugs, the Centre County Drug Task Force said.
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THON 2011 theme revealed
The THON 2011 theme, "Together Without Limits," was
revealed during the Homecoming parade to mixed reactions.
The theme was chosen to emphasize the fact that the
Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON)
is a community philanthropy that is continually expanding,
THON Public Relations Overall Chariwoman Jony Rommel
said. The Overall Committee spent an "emotional' night
together to capture the feeling of THON with words, she said.
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Students help recycle floats
Nearly 40 student volunteers gathered in the fields below
Medlar Field at Lubrano Park Sunday morning to help decon
struct and recycle the materials used in the floats at this
year's Homecoming parade.
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Students, alumni bond over ice cream
Penn State students and alumni kicked off the weekend
Homecoming activities at Fridays Homecoming ice cream
social eating a total of 130 gallons of Berkey Creamery ice
cream.
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Stabbing
From Page 1.
vodka, cans of Four Loko and water
bottles filled with alcohol scattered
through the parking lot.
Bassett said Saturday's party will
be the last late-night event at the
Knights of Columbus. To him, he
said, the threat of more incidents
like Saturday's is too dangerous to
the organization, which is founded
on a commitment to bettering the
community.
"This is a black eye as far as the
Knights go," Bassett said. "It could
potentially take years to rebuild
what happened in one night."
Nearly one day later, two more
men were stabbed at about 2 a.m.
Sunday when a fight involving
dozens of people began inside 797
Lounge, 244 W College Ave., and
spilled out onto the 100 block of
Football
From Page 1
Nittany Lions' worst home loss to
an unranked opponent since losing
to Pitt 31-11 in 1984.
Linebackers Bani Gbadyu (knee)
and Mike Mauti (high ankle sprain)
and defensive end Jack Crawford
(sprained right foot) didn't play and
linebacker Gerald Hodges is at least
a week away from recovering from a
small fracture in his leg.
It only got worse come game time.
On Illinois' first play from scrim
mage, defensive end Eric Latimore
went down with a hand injury and
safeties Nick Sukay (pectoral) and
Andrew Dailey (stinger) and defen
sive linemen Jordan Hill (ankle) and
Pete Massaro (cramps) all followed
suit. There was no update on their
statuses, and they'll all be re-evalu
ated this week Defensive end Sean
Stanley and cornerback Derrick
Thomas are suspended for undis
closed reasons.
The losses on defense were a big
reason for Illinois' 437 yank of total
offense, 289 of which cam! on the
ground. Illinois tailback Mikel
Leshoure found holes all day, going
for 151 all-purpose yards.
Bradley noted the significance of
injuries in terms of his team's poor
performance, but he didn't hesitate
when asked if any team could deal
with that number of bumps and
bruises.
"Sure," Bradley replied. "A good
team."
Parade
From Page 1
Instead of last year's snow,
Tootsie Rolls, T-shirts, and porn
poms were scattered in the streets.
Starting off the parade, the
Nittany Highland Pipe Band
marched down the street in blue and
green kilts.
Carpenter said he especially loves
the parade because it brings him
back to his time at Penn State.
"I was in Delta Chi and drove my
Austin Healy sports car in the
parade for my senior year,"
Carpenter said. "Our floats were a
lot nicer back then, though."
But Homecoming weekend wasn't
limited to alumni returning to their
alma mater.
Danny McDowell didn't go to
Penn State, but he said he still
bleeds blue and white.
Sporting blue and white shorts,
Penn State gloves, a Paternoville T
shirt and a white wig, McDowell said
he's at every Homecoming and
any game he can get a ticket for.
"I grew up as a kid watching Penn
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Volleyball
From Page 1.
"The players are disappointed in
how they played. They recognize
that in all three of the [Big Ten] loss
es, they had multiple opportunities
to seize the game and win the
match, but they didn't," said Rose,
whose team now sits sixth in the
conference.
"And there lies the question. Is it
the system that we've got the wrong
players playing? Is it how they han
dle competition? But one thing is for
sure I've seen four teams cele
brate like they've won the national
championship."
On Friday night, Purdue (13-4, 4-2
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were the coaches' preseason
favorite to win the conference as
they have been for the past six sea
sons.
Steve Hennessey
Paul Casella
Nate Mink
"When you try to build a program,
you always dream of trying to beat
the best team in your league,"
Purdue coach Dave Shondell told
Boilerstation.com after the match.
"The best team in our league has
been pretty darn good. To finally
climb that mountaintop, it's a good
win for our program for tonight, and
it gets us over a hurdle that was a
tall hurdle to jump over."
Steph Witt
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South Burrowes Street, police said.
One of the men, 21, was identified
at the scene and transported to
Mount Nittany Medical Center via
ambulance, police said. The second
man, 22, was brought to Mount
Nittany Medical Center later that
night by his friends, police said.
The area surrounding 797 Lounge
was a focal point for police on
Saturday night. About an hour
before the larger fight broke out,
there were reports that a fight was
already in progress outside of the
lounge, but it was gone when offi
cers arrived, police said.
At 2:11 a.m. roughly the same
time the fight occurred a woman
was shoved several times by a man
inside the lounge after she refused
advances from him, police said.
About 15 minutes later, police said a
different man and a woman were
engaged in a physical fight outside
the lounge. Police could not say
Talks of a New Year's Day bowl
have now turned to the Texas Bowl
or the Insight Bowl for the 2010
Lions. Even the nearly unthinkable
scenario that Penn State might miss
a bowl game exists, meaning
Paterno would have to wait another
year for his milestone 400th win.
If it wants to avoid becoming the
first Penn State team to do so since
2004, the defense will have to
increase its intensity, Bradley said.
"At times we didn't fight in there,"
he said. "We were catching. You see
the pile going forward that always
bothers you, and once again, you
just gotta do a better job tackling."
The defense has its injuries, but
the offense's woes are a little
tougher to explain.
The same concerns that have per
sisted all year were magnified
Saturday. The Lions were 0-for-2 in
the red zone and have just one
touchdown from inside the 20 in
their last three games. In fact, the
only touchdown the Lions scored
Saturday came from inside their
own red zone, an 80-yard strike from
Rob Bolden to Derek Moye that cut
the lead to four in the second quar
ter.
Ultimately, that was the closest
the Lions would get. Illinois wore
down the Penn State defense with
possession for nearly two-thirds of
the game.
"We're a defense and you have to
stop people," said senior co-captain
011ie Ogbu, one of the few defensive
linemen who emerged healthy after
the 60 minutes. "We can be on the
State football," McDowell said. "My
mom always had it on the TV, so
that's who we rooted for"
After moving back to
Pennsylvania from South Dakota,
McDowell got season tickets for the
2010 season.
He said the tickets feed his addic
tion even more.
"Blame my mom," McDowell
said. "I have blue and white burned
into my body because of her"
In a sea of blue and white, there
were still a few spots of orange in the
crowd.
Illinois fan Kim Posic goes to all of
her football player son's games
but this was one of her favorites.
"I love it here. When I heard peo
ple refer to it as Happy Valley, I did
n't really get it," Posic said. "But it
really is happy. Everyone here is so
nice."
And it helps that Posic's best
friend went to Penn State.
Though Missy Wright hadn't been
back for a Homecoming in 29 years,
she said it feels like she never left.
Wright, who met her husband at
Penn State and got married at the
university, said the word excited did-
Big Ten), which Rose described as a
veteran and physical team, out-hit
Penn State .218-.155. In the latter
three sets, Rose said the
Boilermakers competed harder
than the Lions and Penn State made
some bad decisions.
Saturday night's match was a dif
ferent story.
Penn State (13-4, 3-3) tallied a .313
hitting percentage to Indiana's .254
and out-blocked the Hoosiers, but
the Lions gave away points on 12
service errors.
After losing the first . set in
Bloomington, Ind., the Lions had
chances in the second frame. The
set was tied at 25 before Indiana
notched two straight points to take a
2-0 set lead.
the season with three conference
losses was 2003 and the Lions still
have 14 Big Ten matches on their
slate for 2010.
Coach Russ Rose said he was dis
appointed in his team's effort this
weekend, but didn't want to play
down the accomplishments of
Purdue and Indiana.
Rose called the schools "good
teams with good players" who
played hard and played with
incentive.
"They're probably more motivat
ed to win against us because none of
them have experienced that previ
ously" Rose said.
"I don't think Purdue had beaten
us in [23] years and I don't think
Indiana had ever beaten us, so in a
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whether either of the two incidents
were related to the stabbing.
About an hour after the area qui
eted down, police said a woman
reported her purse was stolen from
the lounge during the "mass alterca
tion."
The reports of off-campus vio
lence came as disturbing news to
University Park Undergraduate
Association President Christian
Ragland, who said he'll be contact
ing leaders around the community
to try to address safety issues.
Ragland (senior-political science)
said the timing of the incidents in
the middle of Penn State's
Homecoming celebrations made
them all the more unfortunate.
"This was our week to celebrate
Penn State, and for students and
alumni this is a horrible way to do
that," Ragland said.
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field 1,000 plays and the offense can
be on the field two plays. As a
defense you have to stop somebody.
That's plain and simple."
Who Paterno will have on that
defense in the coming weeks
remains uncertain.
Paterno meets with doctors
Sunday morning to discuss the
extent of the injuries suffered the
previous day.
Paterno said the coaches have
gone easy in practice given the
injuries this season, which makes it
baffling to him why so many defend
ers went down Saturday.
"I can't figure, out why we're get
ting so many kids bumped," Paterno
said. "But we're getting them
bumped. But you gotta live with
that."
Given the injuries, the Lions' bye
this week may come at a perfect
time. They don't play again until Oct.
23 at Minnesota.
But redshirt junior defensive end
Kevion Latham, who was thrust into
an unfamiliar role with Crawford,
Massaro and Latimore out, said for
those who are healthy, the week
won't be time off.
"No rest," said Latham, who fin
ished the afternoon with three tack
les and could play a role in the com
ing weeks if the line doesn't get
healthier. "We've got to look at this
film, fix our mistakes and have a
good hard week of practice and
come out next week ready for
Minnesota."
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n't even begin to cover what she was
feeling.
"I am an obsessive Penn State fan
I love watching the parade, the
game... anything and everything,"
Wright, Class of 1981, said. "I
brought two duffle bags full of Penn
State things."
As a senior, Stephanie Dabrow
said it was her first time going to the
annual parade.
"I wanted to see it before I gradu
ate. I was at Berks for two years and
last year I lived pretty far off cam
pus," Dabrow (senior-advertising)
said.
"I'm glad I came I have to soak
it all in."
Closing out the night, the Blue
Band was a crowd-pleaser as they
played the usual fight song favorites.
"Even though I'm graduating, I
know I'll be back to see this parade
again —just as an alumna," Dabrow
said. "And my sisters are Penn
Staters in training. My fingers are
crossed. I want them to go here so I
can come back and experience this
all again."
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Penn State had set point in the
fourth set before Indiana (14-4, 2-4)
took the next three points to win the
match.
Freshman outside hitter Deja
McClendon led Penn State with 34
kills in the two matches combined.
Senior middle hitter Arielle Wilson,
who led the nation in hitting per
centage in 2009, struggled Friday
night, recording a .000 hitting per
centage before posting a .333 mark
Saturday.
Rose said his squad is losing in
ways that are uncharacteristic of the
program, but it's a different team
than the last three championship
years.
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way it's the law of averages."
With this weekend's results, the
only team in the Big Ten who still
hasn't beaten Penn State is lowa.
The Lions are 38-0 all-time against
the Hawkeyes but still have to
play them twice this season, includ
ing Saturday night at Rec Hall.
Karch Kiraly, an ESPN volleyball
analyst and current assistant coach
for the U.S. women's national team,
said he understands why some fans
would be surprised at the Purdue
and Indiana upsets.
"By putting together the achieve
ments that Russ Rose and his team
did, Penn State set the bar high,"
Kiraly said.
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