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Motley should lead to quality
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Allocation Committee has
grairted a sta-
they could
tecdvfe up to $250,000 to
spend on thespraig music
lesf&aL 7
:r Given its increased
funds, the free festival
should now take steps to
improve from years past.
The acts should be
diverse in order to appeal
; - $o as many students as
passible.
The headline act should
a&i§ be chos<& in an
attempt to attract a large
majority of students to the
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Drunk male behavior can get scaiy
By iesilca Uau-
Leaving the stadium
Saturday night after the
game, I was dated. I was
excited about
.Evan Royster
setting the
school record,
about Joe
Patenteso
close to that
awesome 400
and just
pleased with
the night in
general
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Then my walk home killed not
ontymy vibe, but my belief in
the elusive respects nude..
A friend and I wcte Walking
when two boys behind us tried
to get us to tom around antf
interact with them.
They wanted our names, our
numbers and wanted to know if
we wanted to come home with
them. -
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They began teffiufUsgipss
seamaifhfti&Gtty wntedkodo
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ing walking aJoagCurtin Road,
with otbef fans miffing about us.
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few of the things fliey were sug
gesting meant
My first guess is that it would
certainly not be something that
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festival.
While it’s impossible to
please aS students with
arte musician, the novelty
acts and one-hit wonders
of fee past should be
abandoned
To attract as many stu
dents as possible, the
headline artist should be
one with staying power.
Because the money will
come from the student
activities fee, it’s a great
idea that Movin’ On lead
ers will take suggestions
from students on how
they want to improve the
festival.
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a father would like to hear his
son say to a girl.
After we told them to go away,
they told us they were just going
to follow us home.
That threat scared the crap
out of me.
Neither of the boys were very
big but I immediately had to
think of the most well-lit way
home just in case they were
serious. If they had been much
trigger; I would have gone to a
cop.
MY OPINION
Thankfully they veered from
our course very shortly after
they threatened to follow us. A
pain in the butt, but at least the
rest of the walk wiH be fine,
right? Wrong.
This time an (rider male, I’m
guessing mid or late 20s, was
high-fivingaHtbe guys he
passed, teßirig them to basically
go get laid tonight in more sug
gestive terminology. Then he
pointed at us and told us that
maybe we’d be lucky enough to
be their targets.
' Sexwith a drunken alumnus
who can’t even watt straight? A
girl just coukhft get any luckier
thamthaL
Ifwe hadbeen walking along
the \fegas Strip, wearing heels
and dresses that were much too.
short, I would not be surprised
by such behavior. I would actual
ly expedtsoßMhcat cans and
kwdsi^ctfkms.
But We Mac walking through
campus, after a football game,
with heavy layers Of doming on.
The onfy skin of mine that was
showing Was on my hands and
face and I know 1 looked
nowhere near thin in my bun
dles of warmth.
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They should also tiy
their best to adhere to
requests.
Students must take
advantage of this opportu
nity and make their opin
ions known. They should
suggest improvements
and potential acts.
Because Movin’ On is
free and open to the pub
lic, we believe it repre
sents a good use of the
student activities fee.
But festival leaders
must also make sure that
they plan the festival so
that it will be worth the
investment.
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1 was embarrassed and thor
oughly appalled at this display of
behavior in a short period of
Being drunk is by no means
an excuse for this conduct.
When you’re drunk, it’s usually
just a sillier, sloppier and more
extreme version of your person
ality.
A guy that’s respectful to
women when he’s sober is prob
ably not going to turn into some
one who’s sexually obscene and
harassing girls when he’s drink
ing.
I don’t know why guys would
think that being disrespectful to
girts is okay or that being
obscene is the way to get in a
girls’pants.
After an, if your ultimate goal
is to get a girl that night, you
really shouldn’t offend her.
And I understand that boys
are dirty. I don’t want to ever
hear locker room talk what boys
talk about when girls aren’t
around. But the behavior I
observed was in public, in front
of strangers.
I felt terrible enough listening
to those words, I couldn’t imag
ine repeating them to people I
don’t know.
Our culture is obsessed with
sex and females absolutely want
tofeeldesin&le.
But when it’s done in an
obscehe wax it leads girls to
lose respect for toe entire male
-population.
Mslca Uzar is a junior majoring in
journalism and political science and is
The Dally Collegian's Wednesday
columnist Her e-mail is
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Ban won’t prevent consumption
Today at a downtown store I stood in line
for 15 minutes to buy Penn State shot
glasses. Seriously, what has my college
career come to? These shot glasses
weren’t for me, they were future gifts for
family and Mends who might appreciate a
Penn State souvenir but Mil be unable to
buy them in a few months time. God knows
the student body doesn’t need shot glasses
with logos to consume 1.5 fl oz of liquor
plastic cups, drinking straight out of the
bottle, or slurping it off the kitchen counter
all work fine.
This ban does nothing to prevent student
alcohol consumption or protect the univer
sity’s public image. It only hurts downtown
businesses. Maybe the university should
address the real problem instead of tiying
to separate from it
Shot glasses not real problem
The decision by Penn State to discontin
ue its logo use on shot glasses baffled me.
Does the university really think this will
matter at all? If they do, they are mistaken.
People care more about what is inside the
shot glass, not the logo on the outside. The
decision to drink or not to drink is an indi
vidual decision, and this logo ban will have
no influence at all on people’s decision
making process. If people want to engage
in high-risk drinking, they will regardless of
what the shot glasses say. This is a feeble
attempt to save face at best.
Student section no longer best
On Oct. 8,2005, after knocking off the 6th
ranked Ohio State Buckeyes, ESPN's Kirk
Herbstreit famously stated that Penn State
had “the best student section in the coun
try." I guess he hasn’t been to a game this
year. Sure, the students are still engaged,
loud and coordinated. That is, the ones that
show up. This past weekend, at what we
knew going in would be this season’s
biggest home game, what appeared to be
two sections of student seats were empty at
kickoff (and never filled).
Next season, the infamous STEP pro
gram takes effect. While I like the idea of
shifting the student section to swallow the
whole south end zone, creating an even
more hostile situation for opposing teams, I
don’t understand the need to expand the
section by 800 seats or so. Students don't
use the ones currently allotted to them. As
an alumnus and one affected by the seat
relocation. I’m both angry and embar
rassed by the student turnout. If Penn
State really wants to increase revenue,
they should contract the lower-priced stu
dent seats and sell them to real fans. Those
students probably wouldn’t show up to
complain about it anyway.
Reasons for student tardiness
Like clockwork after a big televised
game, rumblings about the late-filling stu
dent section are appearing in places like
ESPN.com, Penn State message boards
and The Daily Collegian opinion page. Once
again, clarification is needed. Students can
only enter through Gate A causing a frus
trating flood of people and long waits well
before game time. Most importantly, prior
to the new ticket transfer system, a student
who could not make it into the game had no
trouble getting rid of their ticket prior to
game day or outside of the game.
Transferring a student ticket before game
day is now costly and difficult, and on game
day it is essentially impossible. Instead of
complaining about the lazy students, why
don't we all start voicing these concerns to
the Penn State Athletic Department who
may be able to help fix the problem?
Students should support team
Where were you students? It was a night
game! We were playing a big rival! The
weather was fantastic! A Penn State game
is supposed to be one of the most incredi
ble sporting events to attend... and yet, the
student section never filled up at all during
the Michigan game. Support your team!
Support your school! Keep up the tradition!
Mike Tome
Class of 1978
Protest relates to Penn State
In response to Monday’s article, “Union
workers protest contract,” Penn State
should care about the union’s protest. Penn
State is involved the Millennium Science
Complex is a building on campus. I’m not
sure how President Spanier can say this
doesn’t relate to Penn State. It is no wonder
that so little progress has happened with
sweatshops producing Penn State apparel
when Penn State isn’t even concerned with
workplace disputes that are happening on
its own campus.
Lion mascot should have 5 toes
I attended the homecoming game on Oct.
9. Walking around the campus brought
back a lot of memories from 51 years ago.
One upsetting thing I noticed were all the
flags showing the Nittany Lion with four
toes. How can that be? Everyone knows
the Nittany Lion has five toes. Isn’t any
thing sacred anymore? There is something
very sad about a great tradition being cast
away if we go to four toes like every other
lion in the world. Give the Nittany Lion
back his fifth toe. Five toes says we are
Penn State better than any other symbol.
Gerald Lohsl
Class of 1959
Blaze Linette
senior-crime, law and justice
Stephen Richter
junior-political science
Jim Moser
Class of 1992
David Prouty
Class of 2006
Kyle Horstmann
senior-labor studies