The Daily Collegian
New PHC position to oversee risk management
By Christina Gallagher
FOR THE COLLEGIAN
Hoping to improve risk manage
ment policies, Panhellenic Council
officials created two PHC
Executive Board positions for the
2011 spring semester vice pres
ident for risk management and
vice president for member devel
opment.
The vice president for risk man
agement will take a hands-on
approach in dealing with issues
like hazing, sexual assault and
diversity, PHC President Sara
-eter Te'-onero - Collegian
Yudt (sophomore-psychology) and Callie Eardly (sophomore-psychology) treat a
bus driver to high-fives and free candy to thank him for his hard work.
dub spreads cheer to drivers
By Megan Rogers
COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER
The Clown Nose Club gathered Tuesday
afternoon to show its support and thanks
for Centre Area Transportation Authority
bus drivers.
In the end, it wasn't just the club mem
bers who were thankful.
As bus drivers pulled away from the bus
stop, sometimes giving a honk of the horn
as they went, about 20 members of the
Clown Nose Club waved them off with
cheers and uplifting signs. Club member
Maarten Levert said most of the bus driv
ers were surprised by the gesture, but each
encounter ended with a smile.
• “It means a lot just to say 'you matter' to
somebody," Levert (sophomore-energy
engineering) said.
For about a half-hour, the group cheered
in anticipation as each bus came closer to
the stop and members took turns climbing
aboard to let the drivers know that they
matter to the Penn State community.
Uplifting others was a great way to
spend an afternoon, club member Desirae
Scott said. Scott (freshman-division of
undergraduate studies) said she thinks
they may have made some of the drivers'
days a little bit brighter.
“She thought we were going to walk right
on by her like all of the other passengers,"
Scott said.
But instead, the driver was greeted with
an “upward spiral" of happiness that began
Blasts kill 76 in Baghdad
Rebecca Santana
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BAGHDAD Rapid-fire bombings and
mortar strikes killed 76 people and wound
ed more than 200 across Baghdad’s myriad
neighborhoods Tuesday, demonstrating
the insurgents' ability to carry out coordi
nated strikes from one side of the capital to
the other.
The attack blasts in at least 13 sepa
rate neighborhoods was clearly
designed to hit civilians at restaurants and
cafes where many Iraqis were gathered to
enjoy the warm evening. The sophistica
tion and the targets Shiites - suggested
that al-Qaida-linked Sunni militants were
responsible for the deadliest day in Iraq
since May. The strikes, two days after the
bloody siege of a downtown church, were
stunning in their scope indicating a high
degree of coordination and complexity
from an insurgency that just a few months
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Linkosky (senior-political science)
said.
The vice president for risk man
agement will work with the
Interfratemity Council to make
sure both councils are on the
same page with social polices and
will take steps to change social
policies, including alcohol policies.
“We thought it would be more
efficient to add this position,” PHC
Vice President for
Communications Marina Matteo
(senior-public relations) said.
The vice president for member
development will create programs
last year. Clown Nose Club President Chad
Littlefield said.
Littlefield (sophomore-rehabilitation and
human services) was chatting with the
driver on the bus ride back to East Halls.
The driver told Littlefield how awful her
day had been. Littlefield offered a hug. but
as he exited the bus. he knew he wanted to
do more.
He ran to his dorm, rounded up a group
of friends, threw on a clown nose and quick
ly composed a sign. The group headed back
to the East Halls bus stop to await the bus's
return. As the Blue Loop pulled up to the
stop, Littlefield waved their 'I love Kathv'
signs.
“I hopped on the bus and said. Thank
you, you need to now have a better day.' "
Littlefield said.
Littlefield said the bus driver later told
him she had been considering quitting her
job that day, but seeing the support of the
students made a huge difference.
Littlefield said he still chats with Kathy
whenever he rides her bus. By cheering up
the bus drivers, the Clown Nose Club hopes
the bus drivers can then cheer up the thou
sands of students they come into contact
with each dav with a smile, Littlefield said.
"I'm a huge believer that positive behav
iors start upward spirals and that a bus
driver smiling at you can lift your mood."
he said. "Hopefully we can start a wave of
more positivity."
ago U.S. and Iraqi officials were saying was
all but defeated.
"They say the situation is under the con
trol. Where is their control?" said Hussein
al-Saiedi. a 26-vear-old resident of
Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City slum,
where 21 people were killed when a parked
car blew up near a market in Tuesday's
deadliest bombing.
"We were just standing on the street
when we heard a loud noise, and then saw
smoke and pieces of cars, falling from the
sky," al-Saiedi said. "People were fleeing
the site in panic, frantically calling the
names of their relatives and friends."
The bombings began at about 6:15 p.m.
and lasted for hours. The assailants used
booby-trapped cars and a motorcycle, road
side bombs and mortars.
Associated Press writers Robert Burs in
Washington and Lara Jakes and Mazin Yahya in
Baghdad contributed to this report.
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to train recruiters, plan new mem
ber retreats and continue new
member education, Linkosky said.
Both vice presidents will face a
transition period after this week's
elections and will be initiated Dec.
6.
PHC President-Elect Paige
Rothaus said she's confident the
new positions will have a positive
effect on greek life.
“We all have a genuine concern
for the issues at hand and we want
to make a change,” Rothaus (jun
ior-advertising) said.
The IFC recently added new
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positions to its board in October.
The IFC vice president for
membership split into two, becom
ing the vice president for member
ship and vice president for recruit
ment. The vice president for mem
bership will focus on new member
education and programs, while
the vice president for recruitment
will focus only on recruitment of
new members
Earlier this semester, PHC offi
cials called a mandatory meeting
with sorority presidents to discuss
alcohol-related issues.
PHC officials said at the time
BP reports profit despite spill
By Brian Skoloff
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BILOXI. Miss. BP PLC is once again
reporting profits even with an estimated
$4O billion price tag for the response to its
blown out well in the Gulf of Mexico.
In this wateiiront city where many lost
their livelihoods to the summer of oil. a
mixture of relief and melancholy greeted
the news Tuesday. A financially healthy
BP means jobs and compensation, but
residents still reeling from the worst off
shore oil spill in U S. history are waiting
for some good news of their own.
BP said that costs related to the April 20
oil spill dragged down its third-quarter
profit by more than 60 percent. The
London-based company earned 51.79 bil
lion from July through September, com
pared with $5.3 billion a year earlier.
But the fact that BP returned to profits
at all. coming after a loss of $17.2 billion in
the second quarter, indicated the compa
ny's operations remain solid despite the
spill.
'That's real good news they're making
money because at least we know they
have the ability to pay us over a long peri
od of time because we've still got a lot of
problems," said shrimp processor Rudy
Lesso. whose Biloxi. Miss, business is
down about 25 percent because much of
the public is still afraid to eat Gulf seafood.
BP has set up a $2O billion compensa
tion fund to pay victims of the oil spill, cut
ting roughly $1.7 billion in checks so far.
But the process has been slow and cum
bersome for struggling Gulf coast resi
dents.
BP's third-quarter performance fell
well short of the industry norm. All the
other major oil companies, except
Chevron, have reported stronger third
quarter profits thanks to higher oil and
gas prices.
The company's $4O billion estimate for
its overall spill response was $7.7 billion
higher than its previous estimate provided
during its second-quarter results released
this summer, largely due to unanticipated
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that the meeting was called in
relation to several alcohol-related
incidents that had occurred.
“Because of the issue at hand
with harmful drinking, we felt it
would be best to create a new posi
tion,” Rothaus said.
PHC discussed the prevalence
of sexual assault and drinking and
decided a vice president for risk
management would alleviate
some of the duties and responsi
bilities of other positions.
The new vice president will
work directly with chapters,
Linkosky said.
additional expenses. The company had
already spent $11.2 billion responding to
the spill by the end of September.
None of that, however, kept BP Chief
Executive Bob Dudley from delivering a
rosy prognosis.
"What I can report today is that BP is
now in recovery mode," Dudley said
Tuesday from London.
At one point he talked about how the sit
uation looks without the spill an
unthinkable leap for Gulf residents.
"Putting aside the incident ... the BP
group as a whole delivered a strong busi
ness performance throughout the quarter
in terms of both financial and safety per
formance," he added.
Ewell Smith, head of the Louisiana
Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board,
said people forget that oil and fishing have
for decades "worked side by side" in the
Gulf region.
"People lose sight that our fishing com
munities and our oil and gas communities
are tied together at the hip. They both
need to stay strong to keep our economy
strong," he said.
"So it s good news that BP is recovering
financially."
BP just Monday announced it would
spend $7B million to test and promote
Louisiana seafood, and boost tourism in
the state.
"They made a commitment to us to help
us rebuild our brand." Smith said. “We
want them to be around long enough to
live up to that."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration has reopened most federal
waters in the Gulf of Mexico to commer
cial fishing, leaving just about four percent
still closed.
At the height of the spill, about 37 per
cent of federal waters in the Gulf were
closed.
But fishermen, shrimpers, crabbers
and ovstermen are finding little demand
from a wary public, despite the federal
government's insistence that all seafood
being caught in newly opened waters is
safe to eat.
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