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1 • -a i a a • • i Campaign crunch time
Candidates set to visit
By Katrina Wehr
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Happy Valley is the next stop
on the 2010 campaign trail, with
both the Republican and
Democratic tickets visiting State
College as the Nov. 2 election day
approaches.
the first candidate to come to
campus in the last week of cam
paign season is Democrat Joe
Sestak, who is running against
Republican Pat Toomey for
Arlen Specter's seat in the
United States Senate.
Sestak will hold a rally on
Members of the LGBTQA community and supporters gather at the Allen Street gates for a candlelight vigil in honor of the recent suicides
Vigil held to remember suicides
By Matt Scorzafave
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More than 50 .students and
community members held
hands, hugged, cried and
remembered. Wearing purple,
Penn State's lesbian, gay. bisexu
al. transgender, questioning and
allied community gathered
Wednesday night on College
Avenue in front the Allen Street
gates to remember the lives lost
in nine suicides recently commit
ted by gay students across the
country with a candlelight vigil.
Women report trespassing
By Casey McDermott
COLLEGIAN staff writers
Two second-floor women's
restrooms in Simmons Hall were
the target of three separate inci
dents of trespassing early
Monday and Tuesday mornings,
Penn State Police said.
All three incidents happened
in restrooms 2B and 2C on the
second floor of the building, near
the Albion and New Hope housT
es, police said.
Police said the first report
came in at about 9 a m. Monday
from a Simmons resident who
saw someone looking through
Lion Ambassadors travels through
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
Before former Penn State President
George Atherton died, he requested to
be buried on a part of campus with a
low amount of traffic.
But tours led by Lion Ambassadors
filed past his Pollock Road gravesite
last night— ignoring his death wish to
celebrate Penn State history.
Students and community members
learned of Atherton’s request and
other university trivia at the annual
Lantern Tours event.
From 6 to 9 p.m., lantern-wielding
Lion Ambassadors led over 500 tour
goers around campus, stopping to
Saturday, Oct. 23 at Old Main at 2
p.m. to talk with students about
issues that benefit them, like stu
dent loans, credit card and
healfh care reform, said Rob
Ghormoz, president of the Penn
State College Democrats.
Gubernatorial Democratic
candidate Dan Onorato is also
scheduled to visit campus
Monday, Oct. 25 at the Paul
Robeson Cultural Center’s
Heritage Hall from 3 p.m. to 4
p.m. to speak at an event held by
the Penn State Alumni
Association Grassroots
Network. However, Onorato’s
Kate Roche (sophomore
meteorology) said she was glad
that Penn State’s LGBTQA com
munity is concerned with mak
ing a difference and spreading
awareness for bullying preven
tion.
"The goal of this event is to
remember all LGBT kids who
were killed or have taken their
lives because of bullying," she
said before the vigil.
Wednesday night’s event,
which was sponsored by Penn
State s LGBTA Student Alliance,
was held from 7 to 9 and included
the slats of a bathroom door at
about 2:30 a.m. that day.
The woman told police she
"banged her hand on the door”
when she saw a pair of eyes
peering through the opening, but
the person ran away before the
student could see what he or she
looked like, police said. Police
said the woman thought it was a
man, but couldn’t tell with cer
tainty.
Monday night, all Simmons
Hall residents received an e-mail
at about 9 p.m. from Simmons
Hall Coordinator Jared
Hammond, saying, “An incident
occurred in the early hours this
watch appearances from historical fig-
President Atherton wasn’t the only Stawovy (freshman-astrophysics)
historical figure roaming the campus said they made the right decision
Wednesday night. because they got to learn interesting
Former President Milton facts about the university.
Eisenhower, alma mater author Fred Most of the facts the characters
Pattee, Sue and Joe Paterno and gave were pretty surprising, Kovich
Andrew Carnegie told of the founda- said. He said he was shocked to hear
tions of the “Farmer’s High School” that involvement in ROTC was once a
and Penn State traditions. graduation requirement.
Those who attended the event said it But it wasn’t just a history lesson,
was successful. Penn State groups, like the Blue
“I recommend it,” Grant Kovich Band, ROTC, THON and greek life,
said. “It was really fun. were also present to explain how their
Kovich (freshman-neuroscience) organizations have evolved over the
and Luke Stawovy were walking by years
when they were lured into the event
appearance has yet to be final
ized, Ghormoz (senior-political
science) said.
On Wednesday, Oct. 27,
Republican gubernatorial candi
date Tom Corbett and Toomey
will visit campus to rally sup
porters and spread the word for
people to get to the polls and
vote, said Kirsten Page, a repre
sentative from the Corbett for
Governor campaign. The event
will be held in room 129 of the
HUB-Robeson Center from 10:30
a.m to 11:30 a.m. Doors will open
at 10:15 a.m.
See CANDIDATES. Page 2.
not only a candle lighting cere
mony, but also a session where
students and community mem
bers had the opportunity to read
poems and share stories.
Jordan Darosh, the alliance's
co-vice president, said he was
pleased with the night's out
come.
“This just seemed like a
dream. It’s great that the com
munity comes out for events like
this,” Darosh (sophomore-liber
al arts) said.
Brett Meyers (junior-telecom
munications) said that he hoped
morning in one of our restrooms,
where an individual was trying
to peer into a stall.”
After the e-mail was sent out.
police said a Residence Life
Coordinator told them two more
students came forth with addi
tional reports of restroom tres
passing on the same floor.
One student said she was get
ting out of the shower between
midnight and 1 a.m. Monday
when she felt an “eerie pres
ence” and turned to notice a
hand holding the top of the show
er wall, police said.
After she exited her shower
stall, the student saw what
because of the loud music coming from
the Old Main patio.
Starting this weekend, Pennsylvania
gubernatorial and senate candidates
will be making a final campaign push
at Penn State.
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Toomey at 129 HUB
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the event would open people's
eves to recent events.
■ It's not right to pick on some
one because they are different
than you,” he said. Meyers said
that he wants other Penn State
students who may be struggling
with their sexuality or identity to
know that there is help available
at Penn State.
"We are united as a communi
ty. People that are picked on do
have support. No one should
struggle alone." he said.
Meyers emphasized that
See VIGIL. Page 2.
in dorm
appeared to be a man light
skinned. about 5 feet (i inches to
5 feet 8 inches tall, medium build
standing inside the adjacent
stall, attempting to pull the
shower curtain back, police said.
The student left immediately
and didn't see anything else,
police said.
Another student told police
she also saw a man inside of a
second-floor women's restroom
in Simmons Hall between mid
night and 1 am. Tuesday, but
police said they could not pro
vide any additional details on
that incident.
See TRESPASSING. Page 2.
PSU’s history
Lion Ambassadors participate in their annual Lantern
Tour. The tour gives information about PSU history.
See TOUR. Page 2.
Town
hall
talks
Joe Sestak
at Old Main
issues
An hour long delay would not
prevent NAACP president
Travis Salters from holding the
"town hall " meeting he and oth
ers had been planning since the
stabbings that occurred
Homecoming Weekend.
Salters planned the meeting
with Black Caucus President
Christopher Nock (senior pub
lic relations) and National
Panhellenic Council President
Shadiyah Haines (senior-indus
trial engineering).
Nearly forty black students
showed up to discuss potential
ways to increase safety on cam
pus in response to the stab
bings.
The first incident erupted
early Saturday morning during
an independent Homecoming
party held at the Knights of
Columbus. 850 Stratford Dr.,
police said. Three men suffered
"life-threatening stab wounds."
according to police.
The second incident occurred
when two 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 onto
the street.
The town hall meeting took
place at 10 p.m. Wednesday in
the Paul Robeson Center'.'
Heritage Hall, but was sched
uled to start at 9 p.m The delay
was caused bv an event hosted
by the Paul Robeson Cultural
Center that was using the same
venue.
"This issue is serious enough
where we can't keep pushing it
back," Salters (junior-broadcast
journalism and African and
African-American studies! said.
Kimeka Campbell said off
campus parties have lower reg
ulations but are out of universi
ty jurisdiction.
"Students don't like to throw
parties on campus because the
university has strict regula
tions." Campbell (graduate
education).said.
The best thing-is for the uni
versitv to work with students to
See TOWN HALL. Page 2.
Jamika Williams (junior-theatre
design and technology) voices
her opinion during the meeting.
By Micah Wintner
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER