2 I MONDAY, OCT. 18, 2010 Harrisburg newspaper endorses Corbett HARRISBURG Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Corbett has picked up an endorsement from Harrisburg's daily newspaper. The Patriot-News endorsed Corbett, the state attorney gen eral, on Sunday, citing his pledge to not raise taxes, his office's investigation of corruption in the Legislature and his desire to explore taxpayer-financed alternatives to public schools. The paper said it questions whether the no-tax pledge is realistic, but that it likes his determination to hold the line on state spending. Corbett is opposed in the Nov. 2 election by Democratic nominee Dan Onorato, the elected executive of Allegheny County Penn State professor Inxi Zhen2; will speak about "Open Problems in Two-Dimensional Se Euler System," at 10:10 am. in 216 McAllister Building. The event will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics. University of Maryland professor lan Appelbaum will speak about "Spin Transport in Silicon. - at 12:00 noon in S-5 Osmond Laboratory The event will be hosted by the Center for Nanoscale Science - Interdisciplinary Research Group 111. Indiana University professr Roger Innes will speak about "Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Pathogen Recognition in Plants," at 12:10 p.m. in 108 \Vartik Laboratory The event will be hosted by Michael Axtell of the Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Biology and Plant I 'athologY Department. LUNCH Findlay, Pollock, Redifer and Wafnock: 'ta!ian wedding soup. wild rice soup, beef that wrap fnc vs-en sandwich, jasmine rice, vegetarian tikka rnasaiF, ; CD"Dts roasted cauli flower, shoestring fries. Simmons: Scrambled egg eggs, sunrise pan cakes, tofu scrambler, \^,hcle apple pancakes, whole wheat pancakes, whole wheat no :!mavera, cranberry apple salsa, london broil, mandarin salsa, roast turkey, mixed vegetables, oven roasted breal , '?s red potatoes Waring: Quiche, french t3ast, fries, sausage links, scrambled egg whites, seramble,, omelettes, beef gravy, breadsticks, cheese pizza, chef-:s,:sTea , pizza, green beans almondine, maple glazed hYTH sauce, meat sauce, pasta bar, penne pasta plu, pizza, scalloped pota toes, top round of roast beef. ban na walnut oatmeal, multi grain pancakes, oatmeal. tofu, •7, ; e sliced apple topping, waffle bar DINNER Findlay, Pollock, Redifer and Warnock: Italan wedding soup, wild rice soup, alfredo bolo a la vino, grilled chicken breast, hoagie f 'inicotti, meatballs in sauce, milano sauce. : cons cous tuscano, Italian vegetables, roasted Oa Simmons: Tomato beef breast, honey wasabi solos sweet potato, bade:, p lot beans, peas and mush! squash Waring: soup of the en salad, brussel st JL , t.s fritters, feature griiied almondine, grilled chicrt sweet potato fries. ) pizza, cheesesteak pizza sauce, meatballs in sa.' - :e ratatouillie with penne pay rettes, cheddar cheese Corrections: An article "Paintings inspired b irel,ind - on page 9of Friday's Daily Collegian iiK-nrri , information the Pa: !, ,inidester's "Recent Towcii.' third exhibit to be displayed M the Eisenhower Conference Room. 40 Follow us on T\ '1 tier * , ,', ' e moment news www.twittencom/dailvcoNegian Collengian Collegian Inc James Building, P 3 S Bu The Daily Collegian Online. ed daily with the information nDl;rec n. ed coverage, longer versions or vious stories from our archr.es U:lr Site ings and e-mail addresses News. 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Ben Gasbarre Stephanie Haas Anna Chau Danielle Meyers Jamie Leder p.oodlejAriAmm t [ ,r - i 3 .Elizabeth Murphy Alex Weisler Beth Ann Downey Andrew Metcalf Lex; Belculfine Chris Zook Somer Wiggins Kevin Drill' Ashley Gold Laura Nichols Laurie Stern Steve Hennessey Paul Casella Nate Mink Bill Landis/Kevin Kline Heather Schmelzlen Steph Witt LOCAL & STATE Extended forecast e it Tonight 40 HiTonightCa t Tomorrow: g g> mpusweathersenieccom leji H Thda 5 3 6 Low Courtesy of Campus Weather Service Pa. man to encourage employment By PATRICK WALTERS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWTO'WN, Pa. A suburban Philadelphia philanthropist who believes charity is a powerful incen tive thinks he can help get Americans back to work one dona tion at a time. Gene Epstein, 71, is promoting a $250,000 effort called Hire Just One, with plans to make $l,OOO donations to charity in the name of businesses that hire an unemployed person and keep the worker on the payroll for at least six months. Epstein, who amassed a personal fortune through car sales and real estate investments, has set aside his money for the first 250 hires and thinks thousands more jobs could be created if others took on his idea, too. "It's an encouragement to busi nesses to not wait," said . Epstein, who thinks the incentive may be just enough to get small businesses over the hump to make a hire in tough economic times. "This becomes like an incredible stimulus program." The idea came to Epstein at his sprawling home in suburban Bucks County last month. He said he hopes his program will encourage businesses in the region and beyond to make hundreds of thousands of new hires they would n't have otherwise made. More than 100 businesses have expressed interest, Epstein said, but for the most part he plans to wait until the new employees have been on the payrolls for six months before he makes the donations. Only time will tell how effective the incen tive may be. Epstein, known for matching gifts for organ donations and other chari- Borough From Page 1. when UPUA President Christian Ragland proposed adding a non voting student member to the coun cil. Ragland (senior-political science) said he is "pretty confident" the res olution will pass he's excited to move forward. - Me] pulled it off in October, so that speaks very highly about hard work and what you want done can happen," he said. Since the council initially rejected the proposal because the term "member" implies that the student was elected onto council, council members opted to draft a resolution that specifies a name change to stu dent representative. The draft was presented at the council's work session last week, and because there were few revi sions, it was decided that the resolu tion was ready to be brought to the Minnesota sole job is to be - the calming influ- find a way to let them have the ence on this team." Horton insisted excitement and the thrill of winning From Page 1. he won't overlook the Gophers' final football games," Horton said during five games, and Thompson said the the press conference. don't think hopefully will make this an attrac- interim coach will also try and put people realize the kind of commit tive position for a coach who can forth a solid effort to try to possibly ment and time and effort that they come in here and win more football gain a job with next year's staff. put in to the program, day in and day games." With Brewster's firing com- "The bottom line is we have to out." ing more than midway through the instill confidence in our players over Gophers' season, Horton said his these last five weeks, and we need to To e-mail reporter: aass22o@psu.edu Drag show community to show there is support Faris, whose stage name is "Fan's available to students who may be Hilton" said he and the other per struggling with their identity formers appreciated the audience's From Page 1. "We are here and we are queer. enthusiasm and support while they For Joseph Davi, who dressed in There is help available if you need expressed themselves. drag to support the performers, the it," he said. - For someone to do this for the show represented an upbeat finale Performer Michael Faris (gradu- first time, it takes a lot of courage," to a week filled with both pride and ate-English) said he has done drag he said. sorrow. for nearly five years —such events By the end of the show, the audi- After the recent suicides commit- bring people together to have fun ence was both pumped up and ted by gay students across the with the LGBTQA community he proud. crowning drag queen "Lady nation, Davi (junior-political sci- said. ence) said he wanted to provide vis- "We can play with gender roles ibility to Penn State's LGBTQA and society's norms," he said. Passion Pit In between two of the songs. The audience jumped up and Angelakos stopped. "It gets so quiet down to every lyric. Michelle Smyly, From Page 1. between songs, but there are so 20, of State College, said the per many people here," Angelakos said formance of "Sleepyhead" was her But for Maddy Ketner (freshman- to the audience, which roared favorite part of the show elementary education), the band's immediately after. She said she's been to Passion Pit performance of "Little Secrets" was The band came out to play an concerts before in both Florida and the best part. encore with each each member Philadelphia. "Everyone seemed excited to be sporting a Penn State jersey and This was my first Penn State there and everyone was dancing," one carrying out a cutout of Joe show, and it was really neat to have Ketner said. Paterno, which was placed next to a lot of energy and they seemed to "They're one of my favorite Nate Donmoyer's drumset. bands, so I'm glad I got to see them Included in the encore was the here." band's biggest hit: "Sleepyhead." THON 5K From Page 1 expand and Dowd said she couldn't be happier about the growth. "It has gone far beyond my wildest dreams. It's just amazing to see that all the work has paid off today, and to watch all the planning come alive," Dowd said. "I literally cried when I said 'go' at the starting line." After 17 minutes, a steady stream of runners bolted toward the finish line to a cheering crowd that chant ed "For the kids, FTK." table programs, previously promot ed-a novel way to increase voluntary organ donor signups: $lO,OOO insur ance payouts to each donor's even tual beneficiary. He and his wife, Marlene, have a charitable fund that contributes to the Jewish National Fund, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and other causes. "They are going to see that they need more employees," said Epstein, a registered Republican who has donated money to both political parties. He said he believes his program is a good way to address unemployment without the need for government intervention. One expert on small businesses said a charitable incentive might prove more effective at spurring dis cussion in the boardroom than in translating into new hires. "The upside is small enough that it probably is going to have more effect in bringing the issue up than it is in actually getting people to hire people," said Lawrence Gelburd, a lecturer at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who teaches about entrepreneurship and works with small businesses. "That's a pretty tough sell. - When businesses submit qualify ing papefwork, Epstein expects to donate to groups like the American Red Cross, the food program Philabundance, organ donor efforts and others. Despite his requirement that businesses keep workers on the payroll at least six months first, Epstein said he recently made an exception and sent $3,200 from the fund to go toward the Flight 93 memorial in western Pennsylvania. Epstein said he has been choos ing most of the charities that will get floor at tonight's meeting Council member James Rosenberger said he favors the cur rent resolution. "I think it offers us a good way to get direct input from the student community," he said. - We had some questions from the first proposal on how it was structured, but the cur rent one seems to be appropriate." Council member Theresa Lafer said that to her knowledge, no coun cil member is against the resolution. "We've gone for years with stu dents saying nobody hears them. and the borough frequently says students don't hear us, so now we will have a clear channel with which we can hear each other, - Lafer said. The resolution is a testament to the hard work that both the students from UPUA and the council put into it, she added. Don Hahn and Tom Daubert, both council members, said the passing of the resolution is important, but the selection of the student representative is key Council Member Silvi Lawrence One runner who heard the chant was Penn State student Mike Redebaugh. Redebaugh (senior-finance) fin ished the race in 20 minutes and 10 seconds, but he wasn't racing against time instead, he was run ning 'for the kids' and for a friend who died of pancreatic cancer this past summer. "He was a real good friend in my fraternity," Redebaugh said. "He was only 20 when he died." Not every attendee was directly involved in THON. Robyn Hill, a member of Students Taking Action to Encourage THE DAILY COLLEGIAN donations so far, but he is not against businesses choosing the charity themselves, as long as the charity is legitimate. Several participating businesses said hearing about Epstein's philan thropic promise helped to push them over the hump and move toward making new hires. "We're gun-shy like everybody else," said Philip Chant, vice presi dent of Chant Engineering in New Britain, Pa., which has fewer than 40 employees. "It spurred the conver sation internally as to, 'Hey, we should hire somebody' That in turn got the conversation to 'Hey, we should hire more than one person.'" The company ended up making four new hires, he said, estimating that Epstein's program probably got the company to make the hires about six months before it would have otherwise. Chant said he expects all the new employees to still be working there in six months. He does not know yet if they were all unemployed before hand, as the program requires. - If we qualify, that's great," Chant said. The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce has briefly discussed Epstein's idea but isn't sure how effective it will be in the long run, said spokesman Christopher Pinto. Ifs an innovative concept that Epstein is bringing to the table, he said, but there's simply no way to know how well it could work at moti vating businesses to hire in tough times. An executive at a credit union said hearing about Epstein's pro gram did encourage him to finally move forward with hiring a social media coordinator. said she is pleased that students are showing more interest in the bor ough council she's optimistic the resolution will pass. LIPIJA Governmental Affairs Chairman TJ Bard who previous ly met individually with council members to discuss the proposal and clear any confusion surround ing it said he is excited for the meeting. "I'm really, really hopeful for it," Bard (sophomore-political science and economics) said. "I've definitely been anticipating this for a long time. I'm nervous just for the sheer fact that it's coming up because it's been such a big part of my life for the past four months." Though the resolution has not been passed, Bard said UPUA is already "hammering out some details" on its end such as who would fulfill the student representa tive position in order to not waste time should the resolution pass. To e-mail reporter: krlslo6@psu.edu Gay Gay" as this year's winner To e-mail reporter: mrss429@psu.edu be really into it," Smyly said To e-mail reporter: Ibcl46@psu.edu Recycling (S.T.A.T.E.R.), came to get volunteer hours. Though she went to the race just to volunteer, Hill (freshman-elemen tary education) said she left with a newfound goal: to be a part of THON in February "It's so hard to even describe the energy here right now. Everyone is so excited," Hill said. "Coming from a high school where there was no school spirit, this 5K race is the complete oppo site. Penri State in general is the complete opposite." 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