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The Dail
Published independently by students at Penn State
Officials discuss stabbings
By Zach Geiger
and Casey McDermott
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITERS
In the wake of two separate
stabbing incidents that left four
Penn State students and one non
student hospitalized this week
end, local officials are still search
ing for answers into the cause of
the "riotous behavior" and how to
best move forward.
A meeting Tuesday brought
together about 16 people from
`Boys'
delight
crowd
By Hannah Rishel
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The Penn State School of
Theatre took the audience in the
Pavilion Theatre to an English
prep school last night in their pro
duction of "The History Boys."
The play, written by Alan
Bennett, opened last night to a
packed audience. Seven more per
formances of the show are sched
uled.
"The History Boys" follows
eight schoolboys who are all hop
ing to attend Oxford or Cambridge
after graduation. The headmaster
hires a young teacher named
Irwin to prepare the boys for the
Oxford entrance exam, in an effort
to improve the school's reputa
tion.
Irwin's teaching style greatly
differs from that of the boys'
favorite teacher, Hector.
While Hector encourages the
boys on a quest for truth, Irwin
wants them to put their own spin
on history for the exams in
order to make their essays less
While dealing with their aca
demic struggles the boys also deal
with other coming -of-age trials
such as religion and their sexual
orientations.
The play also focuses on the
students' relationships with their
teachers to which there is often
more than meets the eye.
The cast of "The History Boys"
fully utilized the stage of the
Pavilion Theatre, which is a the
atre in the round, with the
See PLAY, Page 2.
weather
October temperatures have
fluctuated greatly.
Oct. 2-6: 4-9 degrees below average
Oct. 12: 12 degrees above average
urc - : Alle
Heather Schmelzlen/Collegian
Atypical
weather
continues
By Kristin Stoller
FOR THE COLLEGIAN
After a week of atypically
warm fall weather, Monday's
thunderstorm proved to be the
most unusual weather event of
the season so far.
Penn State meteorology
instructor Marisa Fergersaid the
storm was unusual because of its
"summer-like qualities."
Though the total precipitation
was only 0.29 inches for the 24-
hour period from Monday at 8
a.m. to Tuesday at 8 a.m., there
was a significant amount of light
hing and thunder, which led to
See WEATHER, Page 2.
both Penn State and the sur- Student leaders from the Black broke out early Saturday morning
rounding community including Caucus and the Penn State following a Homecoming celebra-
State College , National Association for the tion at the Knights of Columbus,
Borough Manager Advancement of Colored People 850 Stratford Dr., the State
Tom Fountaine, (NAACP) were also involved, College Police Department said.
State College Sims said. Two Penn State students, ages 19
Police Depart- At this point, Sims said the goal and 21, and one non-student, 21,
ment Chief Tom wasn't to focus on disciplinary suffered "life-threatening" stab
King, Penn State repercussions instead, he said, wounds during a large fight that
Vice President for the meeting's goal was to de-con- originated inside the event and
Student Affairs struct what led to the violence spilled out into an adjacent park-
Damon Sims and Sims and what might be done to curb it ing lot, police said.
Director of in the future. Nearly 24 hours later, police
Judicial Affairs Danny Shaha. This weekend's first incident See STABBINGS, Page 2
Jeremy Greenbaum (junior-musical theater), left, and Stephen Millett (junior-music) act out a scene dur
ing a performance of "The History Boys" at the Pavilion Theater on Tuesday evening.
DART policy could end
A judge's injuction
ordered the military to
stop enforcing a ban on
openly gay soldiers.
By Julie Watson
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
SAN DIEGO A federal judge
ordered the military Tuesday to
immediately stop enforcing its
ban on openly gay troops, bring
ing the 17-year "don't ask, don't
Actress
By Mike Hricik
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER 111 lir I. I t
.
Red curtains drawn and lights 41 eek
dimmed, miIDRED opened the 2010
stage-left door to reveal her
dreadlocks, penciled-on biker
mustache and flowing men's
clothing.
miMRED, a Haitian American
drag performance actress, deliv
ered her one-woman show in the
HUB-Robeson Center
Auditorium Tuesday night in cel
ebration of National Coming Out
Week.
miIDRED's performance
poetry, drag, dance, music and
drama joined as a whole chal
lenged audience members to
escape society's conventions.
The University Park
tell" policy closer than it has ever
been to being abolished.
Justice Department attorneys
have 60 days to appeal the injunc
tion but did not say what their
next step would be.
President Barack Obama has
backed a Democratic effort in
Congress to repeal the law,
rather than in an executive order
or in court.
But U.S. District Judge
Virginia Phillips' injunction
leaves the administration with a
choice: Continue defending a law
inspires LGBTA community
Allocations Committee (UPAC)
and the LGBTA Student
Resource Center co-sponsored
the event.
The audience laughed as
miIDRED greeted them and
challenged the audience to pre
dict their reactions to her show.
"What will you do? What will
you see? Boy, girl, neither?"
miIDRED asked
Throughout the evening, she
donned outfits arranged around
the stage and relayed vignettes
_ See ACTRESS, Page 2. Inspirational LGBTA speaker mIIDRED performs at the HUB
Full of Headaches
Daniel Bott/
it opposes with an appeal, or do
nothing, let the policy be over
turned, and add an explosive
issue to a midterm election with
Republicans poised to make
major gains. Department of
Justice and Pentagon officials
were reviewing the judges deci
sion and said they had no imme
diate comment.
"The whole thing has become
a giant game of hot potato," said
Diane H. Mazur, a legal expert at
See DADT, Page 2.
nn State athletes
tie concussions
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Nick Sukay (1) blocks a kick.
Lions
battle
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By Audrey Snyder
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
During Tuesday's Big Ten
coaches teleconference, Joe
Paterno rattled off a list of
injuries that was so extensive he
nearly forgot to mention the
worst of the news.
Safety Nick Sukay will miss
the remainder of the season with
a torn pectoral muscle, the latest
blow to a team that's trying to
rebound from the worst amount
of injuries Paterno said the med
ical staff has seen in 24 years.
Sukay, who leads the team
with three interceptions, sus
tained the injury during the
opening kickoff of Penn State's
33-13 loss to Illinois.
"Sukay was coming on and
was probably leading our team
in interceptions, all of a sudden
he gets a bump and it's a serious
one," Paterno said. "It didn't look
like it was that serious and he's
out for the year and they're
gonna have to operate."
According to a press release
issued by Penn State, Sukay will
have surgery this week. Sukay's
rehabilitation is expected to take
a minimum of six months.
See INJURIES, Page 2
Walking
wounded
Out for the season:
■ S Nick Sukay (pectoral)
Out for minimum of two
Asks:
■ WR Curtis Drake (leg)
■ DE Eric Latimore (wrist)
• TE Andrew Szczerba (back)
Possibies for Minnesota
game:
■ DE Jack Crawford (foot)
■ LB Mike Mauti (ankle)
■ LB Gerald Hodges (leg)
■ LB Bani Gbadyu (calf)
■ S Andrew Dailey (stinger)
MI DT Jordan Hill (ankle)
For coverage on quarterback Rob
Bolden. I SPORTS, Page 8.