2 I MONDAY, Nov. 29, 2010
-, EWS IN BRIEF
Police: Three thefts from cars reported
Three thefts from cars two within a block of one anoth
er were reported overnight Saturday, the State College
Police Department said.
At about 12:10 a.m., a person reported that a camera, a
GPS system and a pair of sunglasses were stolen from a
vehicle parked at 712 Calder . Way, police said. There were no
signs of forced entry on the vehicle, police said. A specific
value on the items was unavailable, but police said the total
value is more than $2OO.
At 8:23 a.m. Sunday, another car theft was reported at 425
Locust Lane, after an unknown person stole four cases of
beer and a ski jacket a total value of more than $2OO - from
a vehicle overnight, police said. No signs of forced entry
were present in this case, either, police said.
A second car theft on that street was reported at 9:29 a.m.,
police said. A person told police that a $350 sub-woofer was
stolen from his or her unlocked vehicle, parked at 508 Locust
Lane, police said.
Police said investigations into all of the incidents are ongo
ing.
i: - riNGS A !.4 D EVEN
Ken Showalter of West Virginia University will be giving a lec
ture entitled "Motion Analysis of Self-Propelled Platinum-Silica
Particles in Hydrogen Peroxide Solutions" at noon in S-5
Osmond Laboratory. The event will be hosted by the Center for
Nanoscale Sciences Interdisciplinary Research Group 11. Call
814-863-0007 for more information.
Stela Maximova of Penn State will be giving a lecture entitled
"Genetic and Physiological Mechanisms of Fungal Symbiont-
Induced Resistance in Theobroma cacao L.," at 12:10 p.m. in
108 Wartik Laboratory. The event will be hosted by Mark
Guiltinan of the Intercollege Graduate Program in Plant Biology.
Call 814-863-7957 for more information.
Isabella Cattadori of Penn State will be giving a lecture entitled
"The Role of Host Immunity on Dynamics of Co-Infections and
Transmission: An Ecological Perspective" at 1 p.m. in 105 Forest
Resources Building. The event will be hosted by the Intercollege
Graduate Program in Ecology. Call 814-867-0371 for more infor
mation.
Rachel Brennan of Penn State will be giving a lecture entitled
"Sustainable Removal of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals from
Wastewater Using Fungi" at 3:30 p.m. in 112 Buckhout
Laboratory. The event will be hosted by the Department of Plant
Pathology. Call 814-867-0198 for more information.
Elaine Cozzle of Drexel University will be giving a lecture enti
tled "The Inviscid Limit of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes
Equations for Flows with Nondecaying Vorticity" at 3:35 p.m.in
216 McAllister Building. The event will be hosted by the
Department of Mathematics. Call 814-865-7527 for more infor
mation.
Jeffery Colter of Case Eastern Reserve University will be giving
a lecture entitled "Regulation of Coding and Non-Coding RNA by
Decapping" at 4 p.m. in 101 Althouse Laboratory. The event will
be hosted by Joseph Reese of the Department of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology. Call 814-865-1976 for more information.
Yao Zhang of Penn State will be giving a lecture entitled
"Vitamin A and Retinoic Acid as Factors in the Differentiation of
Monocytic Cells" at 4 p.m. inllOC Chandlee Laboratory. The
event will be hosted by the Department of Nutritional Sciences.
Call 814-865-3448 for more information.
LUNCH
Findlay, Pollock, Redifer and Wamock: Italian wedding soup,
wild rice soup, beef thai wrap, fried chicken sandwich, jasmine
rice, vegetarian tikka marsala, peas and carrots, roasted cauli
flower, shoestring fries
Simmons: chipotle turkey panini, grilled vegetable burrito,
Hawaiian whole wheat pizza, shrimp and brocolli stir-fry, three
cheese whole wheat pizza, barley pecan pilaf, brocolli with roast
ed red peppers, brown rice, cauliflower with parsley
Correction
An article "Police look into racial slurs" on page 1 of the Nov.
19 Daily Collegian incorrectly stated information about the
incident.
Beer was poured on a man sitting next to Linda Baker and
her husband inside Beaver Stadium, not on Baker himself.
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Rendell vetoes self-defense bill
HARRISBURG, Pa. Gov. Ed
Rendell on Saturday vetoed a bill
that he feared would escalate vio
lent acts by expanding a person's
rights in Pennsylvania to use dead
ly force in self-defense, even when
safe retreat is possible, if feeling
threatened outside their home.
Rendell criticized the bill as a
dangerous solution to a nonexist
ent problem that would encourage
a "shoot first, ask questions later"
mentality
"I do not believe that in a civi
lized society we should encourage
violent and deadly confrontation
when the victim can safely protect
themselves" through retreat,
Rendell wrote in his veto message
released Saturday. "As keepers of
the public trust, we have the
solemn duty to protect our citizen
ry, not put them in harm's way, and
to protect the sanctity of human
life."
The veto was one of three bills
rejected Saturday by Rendell.
The measure broadening
Pennsylvania's so-called Castle
Doctrine also would have offered
immunity against civil lawsuits to
people who could show that they
acted within the law's guidelines.
Under current law in
Pennsylvania, the use of deadly
force in self-defense is not justifi
able when safe retreat is possible,
unless a person is attacked in their
Taunts
From Page 1
While seated in section WF, Linda
Baker, 45, of Greensburg, Pa, said
she and her husband, an interracial
couple, were the target of racial
slurs and other taunting.
The "nonstop" harassment,
Baker said, included a spectator
calling her a "n— loving bitch"
and an incident in which a man tried
to bar her husband from entering
the men's restroom inside the stadi
um.
Baker said she did not contact
security at the game about the inci
dent and did not report it to police
afterwards.
Police said they learned of the
incident later, from "various
sources."
In the Bakers' incident, police
said the couple was seated in the
Exposure
seems out of the ordinary to police "Obviously we just inform stu
or Residence Life officials during dents to notify the police if they see
EHRA meetings. Winkler said stu- someone doing something they
From Page 1. dents have plenty of outlets where shouldn't be doing," Winkler (sopho
indecent exposure cases have been they can report any incidents or pro- more-engineering) said. "Or they
reported in East Halls, Tom Wmkler, vide any information they might can talk to the RAs or the residence
president of the East Halls have about the incidents that have hall coordinators they're willing
Residence Association, said he already been reported whether to listen."
makes sure to emphasize the impor- it's Penn State Police, Residence
tance of reporting anything that Life officials or elsewhere,
Football
From Page 1
He said he was especially disap
pointed at the number of times he
missed open targets.
"Those are throws you can make
in your sleep," said a dejected
McGloin, who finished the day 23-
for-43 with 312 yards. "Sometimes it
just doesn't go your way"
His mistakes, coupled with
untimely penalties, led McGloin to
answer, "Ourselves," when asked
the biggest reason for the loss.
psucollegian.com
"We shot ourselves in the foot in
the first half," McGloin said.
`Against a team like that you can't
do things like that and expect to win.
It's frustrating right now because
that's a beatable football team."
On defense, the Lions were called
for a pair of personal fouls one on
safety Malcolm Willis and one on
tackle Devon Still. But several other
defenders came to the defense of
their teammates, calling the penal-
Blue Band
From Page 1
the best seasons he's directed,"
Grant (sophomore-industrial engi
neering) said.
Grant said a few memories in par
ticular .have really stuck out to him
this year
"It was awesome being on the
field during the Northwestern and
Michigan games," he said. "Joe Pa's
400th win was incredible."
Members of the band said a lot of
work is put in behind the scenes and
in every week leading up to a week
end game.
"There were times we didn't have
Tea research at the Tea Institute required writing 12 handwritten
another level of the club and tea essay pages, he said.
From Page 1. the club uses to train new members, Cohen said the Tea House is
Cohen said. After passing a test, stu- important for Penn State to raise
Since then, he has been brewing tea dents can graduate from the club to cultural awareness.
twice a day every day for the last the Tea Institute to become an "It really offers an introduction to
three and a half years as a hobby. approved brewer. a culture that most people aren't
The Tea House is a non-profit Penny said the exam was "proba- aware of," he said.
organization. Some of the money bly the hardest test I've ever taken."
earned goes toward undergraduate It took over two hours and To e-mail reporter jamsB7sopsu.edu
By Marc Levy
ASSOCIATED PRESS
home or workplace, Rendell said.
The vetoed bill said, in part, that
"no person should be required to
surrender his or her personal safe
ty to a criminal, nor should a per
son be required to needlessly
retreat in the face of intrusion or
attack outside the person's home
or vehicle."
A number of states have Castle
Doctrine laws, although most limit
the use of deadly force in self
defense to the home or private
property
Rep. Scott Perry, R-York, who
sponsored a similar Castle
Doctrine bill, on Wednesday criti
cized Rendell's veto as a vote
against a majority of
Pennsylvanians "who want to be
able to defend themselves" and
"completely out of step with citi
zens of the commonwealth that he
swore to represent."
However, Dauphin County
District Attorney Ed Marsico said
in a statement Saturday that it's
rare that a prosecutor targets peo
ple who were legitimately defend
ing themselves.
Conversely, prosecutors in
states with wider self-defense pro
tections are finding that criminals
are exploiting it by making bogus
self-defense claims, Marsico said.
The term-limited Democratic
governor, who leaves office Jan. 18,
took action on the bill Saturday, the
last possible day he could have
vetoed it before it was to become
law automatically
vicinity of a man "wearing a large
ninja turtle costume." Because
many fans were dressed in
Halloween costumes for the game,
police said they are trying to use this
and other "distinguishing attire" to
investigate both incidents.
When it comes to game day
behavior, Associate Athletic
Director for Marketing and
Communications Greg Myford said
it's everyone's responsibility to act
sportsmanlike.
"Such behavior [seen in the
reported incidents] runs completely
counter to what wearing blue and
white means," Myford wrote in an e
mail.
"And the overwhelming majority
of our fans know that."
Bridgette Carrier, vice president
of Penn State PRIDE a group
that promotes sportsmanship at all
Penn State athletic events said
students shouldn't take their pas-
ties "aggressive mistakes."
In his postgame press confer
ence, Joe Paterno, who Tuesday
announced he plans to return as
coach in 2011, said the calls had a
significant impact on the game,
adding that he'd like to see a couple
of them one more time to be sure
they were, in fact, the correct ruling.
"I want to look at them again, let
me leave it at that," Paterno said.
"But again, I don't want to take any
thing away from Michigan State."
The Spartans defense stifled
Penn State's offense from the start.
After the Nittany Lions kicked a
field goal on their first possession,
they failed to score again until the
fourth quarter.
McGloin tossed a pair of touch
down passes in the final quarter and
Royster ran for one, too, but the
offense still came up six points
short. The toughest part about the
loss, McGloin said, was the seniors,
who exited Beaver Stadium for the
last time with a bitter taste in their
mouths.
much time to prepare, but we got
things together really well," Will
Baer (senior-computer science)
said. Baer, also a trumpet player,
said it takes a lot of dedication to be
in the Blue Band.
Silverman said she agreed the
Silks also put in a lot of work to pre
pare for each performance.
"We practice a lot because we
have to have everything memorized,
including every drill," she said. "It's
a lot of work."
Silverman said she noticed the
band's progression throughout the
season.
"I think we came a long way. We
definitely became more of family,"
she said.
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
The timing of Rendell's veto left
just a tiny opening for lawmakers
to reconvene to try to override the
veto. Overriding the veto would
require a two-thirds majority vote
in each chamber before the cur
rent Legislature expires at mid
night Tuesday.
But House Speaker Keith
McCall, D-Carbon, has no plans to
recall the chamber's members, a
spokesman said Saturday.
The new Legislature is seated in
January and the bill can be reintro
duced then.
It passed the Senate, 45-4, in
October and the House, 161-35,
earlier this month. Republican
Gov.-elect Tom Corbett,
Pennsylvania's attorney general,
has said he would have signed it.
The bill was supported by the
National Rifle Association but
opposed by the Pennsylvania
District Attorneys Association.
Rendell was conflicted about his
veto, because the state Senate had
packaged the self-defense ele
ments into a wider bill with sepa
rate provisions to update the regis
tration requirements of homeless
and out-of-state sexual offenders,
which he supported.
But the maneuver, he said, likely
violates a constitutional prohibi
tion against legislation that incor
porates more than one subject.
Associated Press writer Ashley
Thomas contributed to this report
from Philadelphia.
sion for Penn State to a level
where it disrespects others at the
stadium.
"A lot of times, Penn State stu
dents, as the No. 1 student section,
think that no one is as passionate as
them about their teams, and that's
not true. Other people want their
team to win just as much," Carrier
(junior-kinesiology) said. "And at the
end of the day, it's a win or a loss
it's not the end of the world, so
there's no need to make any bad
comments to anyone."
But Myford also said the blame
for the incidents shouldn't be placed
solely on those currently enrolled at
Penn State.
"Fact is, it's not just students,"
Myford wrote. "We're just kidding
ourselves and doing our students a
disservice if we allow people to push
it off as such."
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Senior co-captain Brett Brackett
said he hardly had time to compre
hend the feeling of it being his last
game in Happy Valley
"It just went by fast," Brackett
said.
"Everything from the career, to
the season, to the game.
Everything."
Saturday, the first three quarters
went by too fast for the Lions to
regroup. By the time they finally
started to click on offense, Collin
Wagner's onside kick was in the
Spartans possession, sealing a
Michigan State victory.
Minutes later, in the postgame
interview room, the sentiment was
the same, from Paterno to his assis
tants, to the players. Royster,
McGloin and quarterbacks coach
Jay Paterno even used the same
phrase to describe the game, while
sporting identical disheartened,
wistful looks on their faces:
"Too little, too late."
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Though Silverman said she will
miss many things about the Blue
Band, one memory sticks out more
than the others.
"My first White Out game was one
of the best experiences. It was
incredible to rush the field with 300
new friends to a screaming stadium
of nothing but white," she said.
Silverman then a freshman
said the feeling she got that day
would stick with her for the rest of
her Blue Band career.
"I'm going to miss the rush that
comes with being in the band during
halftime in Beaver Stadium," she
said.
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