Vol. 119, No. 37 Jan. 28-30, 2019

10:14 p.m.

911 call of three

people shot at

P.J. Harrigan’s

Dean BeachySteven Beachy George McCormick

10:15 p.m.

10:27 p.m.

10:46 p.m.

11:09 p.m.

11:14 p.m.

Officers arrive

on scene

Nicole Abrino and

Steven Beachy in

critical condition,

Dean Beachy

deceased

Shooter identified

as Jordan Witmer

of Bellefonte

Witmer’s car found

crashed near YMCA

Shots fired at

748 Tussey Lane

Officers arrive

on scene

George McCormick

deceased

By Maddie AikenThe Daily Collegian

In August 2018, State College was ranked the 14th-safest college town in America.

However, for many on Thursday night, State College felt like anything but that.At 10:15 p.m. on Jan. 24, State College Police responded to a reported shooting at P.J. Harrigan’s Bar & Grill on South Atherton Street.

A day later, four people were dead, in-cluding the 21-year-old shooter, Jordan Wit-mer. Those killed by Witmer include Dean Beachy, 62; Beachy’s son Steven, 19; and George McCormick, 83.

Nicole Abrino, 21, was also shot during Thursday’s incident. Police reported on Friday that Abrino, who suffered a chest wound, is currently in critical condition at a Pittsburgh-area hospital. Police have not released a more recent update on Abrino’s condition

This all began at approximately 10:14 p.m., when police received a 911 call that three individuals were shot at the bar inside the Ramada Hotel & Conference Center.

Witmer shot Abrino and the Beachys with a handgun. Dean Beachy was declared dead at the scene, while Steven Beachy and Abri-no were taken to the Mount Nittany Medical Center.

Witmer and Abrino were at the bar to-gether, but their relationship is not current-ly known. The Beachys, from Millersburg, Ohio, were in town for a horse auction. Wit-mer fled the scene shortly thereafter in his vehicle.

About a half an hour later, police received reports of a crash at the intersection of Wau-pelani Drive and Tussey Lane. When police found Witmer’s car, they had still not locat-ed the shooter.

After the crash, Witmer broke into a house at 748 Tussey Lane. Police believe Witmer chose the house at random. There, he killed McCormick, and then himself. Mc-Cormick’s wife, Joann, locked herself in a room and was not injured.

Police received reports of a burglary with gunshots fired at 11:09 p.m. When they en-tered the Tussey Lane residence at 11:14 p.m., they found both McCormick and Wit-mer dead.

Witmer’s motives are still unclear. The Bellefonte Area High School graduate served as an infantry team leader in the U.S. army.

While the series of events is now evident, initial reports of the Thursday shooting were unclear, unconfirmed and riddled with rumor. In those late hours, many students relied on the Centre County police scanner and messages from apps like GroupMe and Snapchat for information — with local news also grasping for details.

See Timeline, Page 2.

By Dylan JacobsThe Daily Collegian

After Thursday night’s shooting in State College that took the lives of four individu-als, including the shooter, many students are talking about the reaction — or lack thereof — from Penn State.

State College Police indicated the 911 call from P.J. Harrigan’s Bar & Grill was made at 10:14 p.m. Thursday. Police said 21-year-old shooter Jordan Witmer crashed his car at the intersection of Waupelani Drive and Tussey Lane around 10:46 p.m. Press or-ganizations, including The Daily Collegian, first began reporting on the shooting as early as 11 p.m. Thursday.

While initial reports of the shooting did not have many details, Penn State did not release a text or email alert using its PSU-Alert system, but released a tweet at 12:57 a.m. Friday to inform its followers they were aware of the situation.

“We understand the concerns and safety is a priority,” the initial tweet read. “The University is looking into the alerts and will share an update.”

Later on Friday morning, Penn State re-leased a longer statement regarding their decision to not release an alert.

The entire statement, released to the me-dia and via Penn State’s social media, read as follows: “We understand that the tragic events that occurred last night may have instilled fear and concern in members of the campus community. We are deeply sad-dened by the senseless acts of violence that have occurred and our thoughts are with the victims and their families. University po-lice, working with State College police, were monitoring the rapidly unfolding off-campus incident. After careful consideration based on the circumstances known to law enforce-ment at the time, location of the incidents, and the lack of an imminent threat to Penn State students or the campus, it was decided that an alert would not be sent. The decision to send an action alert is made on a case-by-case basis for each situation, and is based on information available to Penn State Po-lice at the time of the event. We always re-view our responses to these incidents and will adjust our processes as needed.”

Additionally, Penn State Spokeswoman Lisa Powers said the alert system only in-cludes “Clery-reportable incidents,” or loca-tions on-campus, on public property close to campus or in off-campus buildings that the university owns.

Some students who live at The Retreat, an off-campus housing just over a block away from both shootings, think an alert should have been provided via the PSUAlert sys-tem, and not just on Twitter several hours after the shooting was reported.

See ReacTion, Page 2.

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While the series of events is now evident, initial reports of the Thursday shooting were unclear, unconfirmed and riddled with rumor. In those late hours, many students relied on the Centre County police scanner and mes-sages from apps like GroupMe and Snapchat for information — with local news also grasping for details.

Penn State first acknowledged the shooting at 12:57 a.m. the fol-lowing day on Twitter. The univer-sity did not send a PSUAlert about the incident as it determined the off-campus shooting did not pose an “imminent threat” to the uni-versity or its students. The de-cision received backlash from many students.

Later that day, police confirmed during a 2:30 p.m. briefing that

Steven Beachy died due to his injuries. During the briefing, Police Chief John Gardner also took “full ownership” for the lack of information imme-diately released to the public.

“If there’s one thing I think we, myself in particular as the police chief here, could have done better, was to re-lease information sooner that the threat had been eliminat-ed,” Gardner said. “We knew there was no more threat to the public. I wish if I could go back, in hindsight, we released that information sooner so the public wouldn’t have been in a heightened state.”

A vigil for those killed will be held at 4 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Allen Street Gates.

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“It’s just so that we’re informed of what’s happening, so that we can lock our doors and stay in-side,” Sara Kelly (junior-English) said. “I think that we have a right to know what’s happening, espe-cially something that dangerous.”

Justin Trinkley, a fifth-year stu-dent, was not a fan of Penn State’s response on Friday morning.

“The Clery Act is supposed to protect students on- and off-campus,” Trinkley said. “There’s students that live off-campus, too. A lot of people didn’t lock their doors because they didn’t know.”

The university cited the Clery Act as to why it did not send an alert, but for Trinkley, who was at the nearby Taco Bell when the event occurred, thinks the law was violated.

“That has to be a violation of the Clery Act. I get warnings that there’s people who steal stuff but not when there’s a shooter,” Trin-kley said. “The only reason I knew was that I was right there when it happened… I have friends that go to Temple that gets updates for murders six or seven miles away.”

Some students were a little more hesitant to throw blame onto Penn State, and think the town should have been the one to step up.

“It technically wasn’t on Penn State’s campus, so I don’t re-ally think it’s their responsibil-ity…” Jordan Martin (junior-aerospace engineering) said. “It’s more of a town situation. If there was a student involved, they should have, but it wasn’t neces-sary.”

Some students felt the State College Police Department should have released an alert, or let the

public know basic facts sooner than it did.

While George Massie agreed that there was no obligation on the school, something should have been done.

“During the time, I had no idea until he already passed us. I tuned into the police scanner when they already found him dead. Obviously it’s scary be-cause he drove right past us…” Massie (sophomore-energy, busi-ness and finance) said. “We didn’t know what was actually happen-ing.”

Ali Adderrahmane witnessed the confusion of students first hand.

“Everyone downtown was like, ‘Oh my god should we go home?’” Adderrahmane (senior-political science) said. “I’m like, ‘I don’t know.’”

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Something that sets Penn State apart from other large universi-ties in the country is its 19 com-monwealth campuses across Pennsylvania, which offer stu-dents the opportunity to transfer from one campus to another.

Students choose to attend a commonwealth campus for many reasons — to stay closer to home, save money, have smaller class-room sizes or play on an athletic team.

The only requirement to transi-tion between campuses is to meet the entrance to major require-ments for the student’s selected major. This poses a problem for some students, like Gavin Yahner, who chose a major that couldn’t be completed at a commonwealth campus.

“Coming in as a junior, my classes were finally starting to get focused in my major, because they didn’t offer hospitality in Al-toona,” Yahner (senior-hospitality management) said. “It didn’t feel like I was just wasting my time taking gen-eds anymore.”

Some students choose to re-main at one campus for all four years, while others spend their first two years at one campus and transfer to another for the re-maining two years.

This is called the 2+2 plan, and it is the most common path students take to get a Penn State degree. More than 50 percent begin their journey at a com-monwealth campus, according to Penn State’s admissions website.

Director of Student Orienta-tion and Transition Programs, Dan Murphy, said Penn State’s change-of-campus model is unique compared to other col-leges and universities around the

country with multiple campuses. “The change-of-campus

experience is grounded in our commitment as Pennsylvania’s land-grant institution to provide access to high quality education

throughout the com-monwealth,” Murphy said. “The network of campuses offers a variety of op-tions in terms of campus experi-ence.”

The largest commonwealth campuses are Penn State Abington and

Altoona, which both have over 4,000 students.

Four thousand students is light compared to the approximately 46,000 undergraduate students at University Park.

Ronny Boudiab was drawn

to State College because he felt the campus offered more diver-sity and culture. He also liked that it offered more opportuni-ties and had a college town feel.

“I enjoy the different types of people that a bigger campus at-tracts,” Boudiab (senior-journal-ism) said. “I like how spaced out things are and how you can es-cape campus if you want to, which wasn’t really an option going to a smaller campus.”

While he likes University Park, Boudiab said its size is unfortu-nate at times, and thought it was intimidating to walk into such a large university as a junior.

“Moving to State College sepa-rated and scattered a bunch of my close friends. They were no longer across the hall from me and some of them didn’t transfer [to University Park],” Boudiab said. “The biggest challenge, in a lot of aspects, was starting over and making new friends.”

Making new friends isn’t a bad

thing, but it can be overwhelm-ing to take on a new campus with thousands of new faces.

John Spigelmyer, assistant di-rector of Student Orientation and Transition Programs, said the most helpful way for transfer stu-dents to make new friends is to get involved.

University Park has over 1,000 clubs and organizations for stu-dents to join, including academic, athletic, multicultural, political and religious organizations. A big university also comes with big resources that are helpful to students who are transitioning to a new environment. University Park offers several events and programs to assist students tran-sitioning between campuses.

Link UP, a program that oc-curs every spring, is a one-day program for students at com-monwealth campuses to visit University Park, discuss differ-ent campus options for their academic program and get

a feel for the campus. A Change-of-Campus Welcome

event is held each semester to provide Penn State students with information about services and resources. The event also con-nects students with advisors in their academic college and in-cludes a campus tour.

Casey Irvine had trouble with her past advisors at Penn State Altoona and found it difficult for her to get involved in extracur-ricular activities at a smaller campus.

“Transferring to University Park gave me a lot more oppor-tunities and experiences to help build my resume than [Penn State] Altoona did,” Irvine (se-nior-hospitality management) said. “My advisors helped me so much with finding internships on campus, which wasn’t really an option in Altoona.”

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hard work needs to be redefined and reimagined

Growing up in the United States means, from a societal standpoint, that there is a lot of

emphasis placed on “hard work.”

From kinder-garten on, we are told that no mat-ter what we pur-sue, it must be done with the passion of the gods and that work and success have a direct

relationship. We can even see this standard from a policy standpoint. The idea of welfare scandalizes so many who believe poor people are poor because they “deserve” to be poor because they didn’t work “hard enough” to afford luxuries like food.

But what is “hard work,” and who gets to define it? What ren-ders something as important and valuable, as something that makes someone worthy of respect in a late-stage capitalist society?

It’s those already in positions of power who get to delegate what work is valuable and what’s not.

I understand that from an economics standpoint, this makes sense.

Those who have the resources to fund any sort of “work” cre-ate a demand which then gives said work value. I took Econ 102 — I get it.

But why is there such an emphasis placed on certain forms of hard work and not oth-ers? It surely goes past the mar-ket demand.

In the United States, “hard work” can only be immediately counted if a) you have rich par-ents or b) it supports militaristic goals. This seems to be a huge

accusation, but it makes sense.Let’s talk about the rich par-

ents’ perspective: If you are in college and have looked into “unpaid internships,” you know that people whose families can afford to support unpaid labor have an advantage from the get-go.

Their child’s work has value because they can support the sunken cost that comes with their education, regardless of if their salary breaks even with its cost.

Chances are, it won’t even matter any-ways because the family business and connections can support them to a point when “hard work” doesn’t really ever have to take place in a classic sense, but rather exists as a mutual under-standing between the worker and their employer as a genera-tional pre-sumption of work.

That is, if your grandparents worked “hard” enough to build a large corporation, why should you have to fight for what is in your wallet? Why care?

The militaristic goals take on “hard work” is one more imme-diately obvious to me because of the career path I am headed down. I am an art major, so the first thing most people presume when speaking to me is that I am a huge idiot. It is immediate-

ly obvious in the way that their facial expressions change from interest to pity, followed by pre-scripted statements like “I just don’t see how you’re going to get a job with that.”

The truth is, there are lots of jobs in art, and a world of post-modernism makes it easier for artists to show whatever kind of work that they like.

The issue is, art cannot be used toward militaristic (*cough* imperialistic *cough*) goals.

The government started to stop fund-ing the arts dur-ing the Cold War and con-tinued on with that trend ever since. It’s all about priorities.

It is not just the arts, how-ever, that experi-ence this. Pretty much any major that cannot be militarized

is subject to this sort of social degradation in some form.

There are 8,166 engineering students at University Park and I highly doubt any of them have been questioned about their life choices regardless of GPA, involvement, drive, or work ethic.

Worst case scenario, they can work a desk job for some gov-ernment agency. Their major constitutes as “hard work,” not

because their degree is particu-larly more challenging than any other major, but because we were conditioned to believe it is from K-12.

I know that some people reading this may take in what was just processed and throw it back up. “Of course, an engi-neering degree is more difficult than an art or English degree. Math is involved.” The math argument is probably my favor-ite of all time.

Surely, I have crippling doubt regarding my choice every day, but never has it been because I cannot do arithmetic.

Math and art are actually very similar: If you practice, inevitably you will get better. One is simply apt of creativity. Hard work all depends on what we deem “challenging,” when in reality, all majors and voca-tions require their own neces-sary skills.

I think that as an American concept, “hard work” must be redefined to align with society’s perception of it. It is not work-ing hours or effort, but rather, a result-based concept derived from either parental or policy based pre-suppositions.

“The American Dream” tells us that we can jump up a tax bracket simply by means of grit is not one that exists (or argu-ably ever has) and is loosely supported by the strings of cap-italism, like an antiquated mari-onette dancing to the tune of corruption.

Kaleigh Quinnan is a sophomore major-ing in visual arts and French business and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email her at kfq5020@psu.

edu or follow her on Twitter at @kaleighquinnan.

MY VIEW | Kaleigh Quinnan

Quinnan

Last week’s shoot-ing had little to do with Penn State directly, yet because of a slow response that many deemed insufficient, the university broke its recent string of good press and managed to piss a lot of people off.

The shooting, which occurred on Thurs-day night and left four people including the gunman dead, was sur-rounded by details that were widely circulated in various GroupMe messages as well as over social media and various news outlets — as opposed to the university issuing any alert about the events that had transpired.

Penn State’s lack of a timely response, while within the univer-sity’s right, under-mines the larger moral responsibility that was failed to be met.

Per a university

statement, because of “the lack of an im-minent threat to Penn State students or the campus, it was decided that an alert would not be sent.”

To the average per-son, much of what they may have been hearing was rumor and conjec-ture, so if a Penn State student felt they were in fact in impending danger, they would’ve likely taken solace in receiving an alert.

Similarly, the uni-versity claims that its decision to not send an alert was based on a number of carefully considered factors in-cluding time and loca-tion, yet the university

had no way of knowing where the shooter, Jordan Witmer, was go-ing or what he intended to do.

It seems pretty easy to conclude that there could’ve been an immi-nent threat to students.

Threat to students aside, the university would’ve alleviated a lot of stress and worry by sending out an alert following the death of the shooter, because very few people knew what was actually go-ing on.

There were a select few who had tuned in to police scanners to determine what hap-pened, but the vast majority of students

aren’t that attentive or wouldn’t have even thought to check a po-lice scanner, so an alert would’ve been the easi-est means of getting the truth out.

Whether it’s chalked up to a lack of com-munication between departments and even if Penn State didn’t know the whole truth, there was no harm in sharing an alert saying the shooting occurred, offering advice as to what to do or not do and to wait for further updates.

That doesn’t seem like a totally unreason-able measure espe-cially considering the alert system is the fast-

est way to disseminate information to the most people.

It’s also unclear to us what the cost or harm in sending out one of these alerts, seemingly the bare minimum, is compared to what happened.

The university might argue it didn’t want to spread panic, but there was panic already.

Penn State says it’s constantly reviewing its responses to these in-stances and reforming its practices as needed.

Well here’s what’s needed: a standard alert for when a mass shooting or something of that nature occurs.

It seems pretty simple, but to continu-ally rely on a case-by-case basis to send out these alerts instead of erring on the side of caution will only esca-late tensions and make matters worse.

Penn State dropped the ball

The university should have sent an alert notifying its students and faculty

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Penn State swaggered into New York City and found its offensive mojo, picking up a much-needed win over Michigan at Madison Square Garden

By Dylan JacobsThe Daily Collegian

NEW YORK –– The first half of Saturday’s game saw Michigan dominate the pace of play, earning

n u m e r o u s grade-A scoring chances while outshooting Penn State 22-8 after

the first period.The scoreline did not reflect

that fact.The Nittany Lions took

advantage of early opportunities, rolling to a 5-2 win against the Wolverines at Madison Square Garden.

Michigan could have easily been ahead at the end of the first period, but it hit the post four times and goaltender Peyton Jones made some key saves.

Despite getting out-shot 22-8 in the opening frame, but Penn State took advantage of its chances to go into the intermission up 3-0.

“I don’t think we started great but two things happened,” Guy Gadowsky said. “One, Peyton was excellent in the first period and the chances that we did get, the guys finished.”

A big reason for the early lead was the play of the Alex Limoges-Evan Barratt-Liam Folkes line.

Barratt got the scoring started five minutes in, taking advantage of a turnover, beating Michigan goaltender Hayden Lavigne to make it 1-0.

The sophomore wasn’t done, as five minutes later he forced a turnover in the neutral zone and then dished to Folkes who

finished off a breakaway to make it 2-0.

Alec Marsh added another breakaway goal late in the period to give Penn State a three-goal lead. The Wolverines were the better team in the first, but mistakes cost them.

“I can’t tell you our team wasn’t prepared to play we had a pretty good first period,” Michigan coach Mel Pearson said. “Outshot them 22-8, Out attempted them 37-16, we hit four posts. But we didn’t make a commitment to

team defense. We made some horrendous turnovers. They took advantage of it. That was the game. They got the lead 3-0 and we couldn’t outscore our mistakes tonight and most nights you aren’t going to.”

Early in the second, after Michigan hit the post again, and Limoges buried a rebound past Lavigne to make it 4-0.

Luke Morgan got the Wolverines on the board soon after, but another breakaway goal, this time by Limoges while

shorthanded, put the game out of reach.

Penn State got three breakaway goals in the game, something that it hasn’t done much of late.

“It was nice, and that hasn’t been the case in the past,” Gadowsky said. “It was nice to get it early. Anytime you can capitalize on anything I think it’s important but we were able to capitalize on their mistakes. “I think we’ve been pretty happy with how we generate offense, but to capitalize on a couple opportunities that we

had, especially when we weren’t getting very many was a big confidence boost as well.”

Penn State’s offense had been ice-cold, but today it looked like the offense that showed up early in the year.

“We’ve been struggling to score goals recently and anyway we can help our guy in net battle,” Barratt said. “It was really nice to get three goals there in the first and help him boost his confidence and get him feeling good in the crease.”

After getting the night off in Thursday’s loss, Peyton Jones stood tall for the Nittany Lions, making some big stops early when the Wolverines were pressuring. He finished the game with 35 saves.

“We got some breaks for sure, and anytime you get breaks, whether it’s a post or a bounce, it gives you a little bit of a reprieve. But you have to say also that Peyton didn’t give up much either…” Gadowsky said.

“Yes we got some confidence from it, you feel good, but at the same time maybe Peyton deserves some credit.”

With the win, the Nittany Lions break their four game losing streak, and stay in the race for home-ice during the Big Ten Tournament and a berth for the NCAA Tournament.

Penn State will have next weekend off before returning to Pegula to battle Minnesota on Feb. 8 and 9.

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Nikita Pavlychev (13) and Denis Smirnov (25) celebrate their win in the Big Ten Super Saturday game against

Michigan at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 26. No. 15 Penn State defeated Michigan 5-2.

Penn State’s top line returns to top form

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Pat Chambers shakes his head during the game against at Rutgers on

Saturday, Jan. 26. The Nittany Lions fell to the Scarlet Knights 64-60.

MEN’S HOCKEY

By Patrick BurnsThe Daily Collegian

NEW YORK — A week after Evan Barratt launched the pro-verbial monkey off his back, he

helped his team do the same.

Penn State snapped its four-game losing

streak Saturday, beating Michi-gan 5-2 at Madison Square Gar-den, and per usual, Barratt led the way.

Against the Wolverines, the Chicago Blackhawks draft pick played like a guy who has a few more dates at Madison Square Garden in his future, scoring the game’s first goal and dishing out two more assists.

“Evan went through a gruel-ing [World Junior Championship] tournament, emotionally and physically, and I give him tons of credit,” Guy Gadowsky said. “He looked really fresh tonight...He was extremely tired and he’s fi-nally getting back to his old self.”

Barratt’s linemates were

equally impressive, and made last year’s No. 7 overall pick in the NHL Draft, Quinn Hughes, look like a fool on more than a few occasions.

Alex Limoges scored twice and nearly finished off a hat-trick in the game’s final moments, while Liam Folkes scored on a break-away at 10:54 of the first to put the Nittany Lions up 2-0.

“I think we kind of capitalized on our chances,” Barratt said. “The first period there, we got a few and we were lucky to capital-ize on them like we did.”

Penn State definitely did get lucky.

Michigan outshot the blue and white 22-8 in the first period, hit five posts throughout the course of the contest, easily could’ve put six or seven pucks in the back of the net and made at least one de-fensive error on every single Nit-tany Lions’ goal.

But the goals didn’t come off of “greasy” rebounds, they were ac-tually rather pretty.

Barratt glided into the offen-sive zone, pounced on a turnover,

skated into the slot and sniped a shot past Hayden Lavigne to give the Nittany Lions a 1-0 lead at 5:52 of the first.

Just over five minutes later, he picked the pocket of Hughes, his teammate last month at the World Junior Championship, and sprung Folkes through for a breakaway goal.

Barratt and Limoges teamed up for another goal in the sec-ond, with Limoges adding a shorthanded tally to score Penn State’s final goal at 9:08 of the middle period.

“I think we’ve been pretty happy with how we generate of-fense, but to capitalize on a cou-ple opportunities that we had, especially when we weren’t get-ting very many was a big confi-dence boost as well,” Gadowsky said.

Added Barratt: “Coming from Thursday’s loss, we know we didn’t play our best at all and going into Friday’s practice, we knew what we had to fix...We just keyed in on our [defense]-forward relationship, transition and when to stretch out the rink and when to come back and sup-port our D.”

It remains to be seen whether the Nittany Lions, who moved up two spots to No. 18 in the PairWise Rankings with the win, have another miracle tourna-ment run in them.

Three difficult conference series and the Big Ten Tourna-ment await, and their defense remains a massive question mark, but for one night, the blue and white played the physical and tenacious brand of hockey that it prides itself on.

Doing it in the “World’s Most Famous Arena” proved to be the icing on the cake.

“It was kind of everything you thought it was going to be,” Bar-ratt said.

“It was awesome. Penn State fans were crazy and awesome and loud. It was an experience I’ll never forget, for sure.”

To email reporter: pab5404@psu.edu.

Follow him on Twitter at @PatrickBurns_.

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Alex Limoges (9) celebrates his second period goal against Michigan at

Madison Square Garden on Saturday, Jan. 26.

PSU’s nightmare B1G season continues

By Tyler KingThe Daily Collegian

In the famous Peanuts comic, Lucy van Pelt holds a football on the ground so Charlie Brown

can kick it. Every time,

Lucy pulls the ball away be-fore Charlie

Brown kicks it, and he falls to the ground. Then, Lucy con-vinces Charlie Brown that next time she won’t pull the ball away. And every time, Charlie Brown believes her. And every time, he ends up on his butt.

Through nine Big Ten games, Pat Chambers is Charlie Brown, the Big Ten is Lucy and Penn State’s elusive first conference win is the football.

The Nittany Lions have been competitive in all but two of their Big Ten tilts this season.

After Saturday’s 64-60 loss to Rutgers, Penn State has now been in six one-possession games.

Just when you think the Nit-tany Lions are going to figure it out and actually come away with a close win, the football is yanked away from them.

Against Maryland and Iowa, it was experienced guards hit-ting long 3-pointers in the final minute.

Against Indiana, it was 15 missed free throws in a two-

point loss. Against Minnesota, it was a quality game-winning shot by Lamar Stevens that just wouldn’t fall. And now, against Rutgers, it was the lack of a made shot in the final 2:33.

What’s next? Are there any more ways Chambers’ team can lose? Well, there are still 11 conference games left, so we’re going to find out.

But even if Penn State manages to lose on a buzzer beater from half court, Chambers will probably stroll into the postgame press conference and tell the media that his team is “this close.”

In his defense, they have been close.

They were close when they lost to Maryland in the Big Ten opener. But over the course of the last eight Big Ten games, they haven’t gotten any closer.

The result hasn’t changed –– and neither has Chambers’ message.

No one would blame him for showing a little frustration. It’s a natural human reaction.

Maybe coming in and telling the media that this is unacceptable would light a fire under his team.

But, maybe that would only add to this season that is quickly reaching an abyss from which there is no return.

Who knows.Visit collegian.psu.edu to read

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football’s grand migration is no concernEvery time the phrase “trans-

fer portal” is thrown around, I expect it to be followed with a

“beam me up, Scotty.”

At Penn State, that mysteriously named new NCAA rule is cer-tainly a hot topic shrouded in enig-ma.

What does it mean to “enter the portal?”

What are the rules surround-ing it?

Does it magically transport players to an unknown world of freedom to pursue other options?

There’s one thing Penn State fans do know about the portal, however: it seems like every day they’re hearing a new Nittany Lion has thrown his hat in the ring, and, seemingly out of nowhere, James Franklin’s ros-ter is being inexplicably deplet-ed.

Since the end of the season, reports have surfaced that 13 Nittany Lions — that number can’t be corroborated because only schools have access to the master list — have entered the

portal, meaning they’ll be free to contact coaches at other pro-grams in search of a possible transfer.

In a surprising but refreshing move from the NCAA, the new rule is starkly different from the former transfer parameters, under which players had to request permission to leave from the coach at their current program.

In short, players are now given a chance to more easily assess their options.

It’s important to note that players who enter the portal do not have to transfer, but rather may just be testing the waters prior to returning to their own program.

Nonetheless, 13 players sounds like a lot. And it should.

No other team in the nation has seen more players test the waters in search of greener pas-tures, and all of the sudden Penn State is well below the threshold of 85 scholarship play-ers.

But, in the words of Aaron Rodgers, fans concerned with this should r-e-l-a-x.

First of all, let’s take a look at those Penn State players who

will likely — or have already announced they will be — departing the program.

The 13 players split 34 total starts in their Penn State careers.

But, those 34 starts are divid-ed among only three players: Torrence Brown (who had already retired from football prior to the 2018 season and was no longer a part of Penn State’s plan) and receivers Brandon Polk and Juwan Johnson.

In fact, Johnson claims 20 of the 34 starts, but after an injury-riddled 2018 season and the emergence of a trio of talented first-year receivers, it became apparent the stars weren’t align-ing for Johnson with the blue and white.

Other than Johnson and Polk, the most notable Nittany Lion who has been cited as entering the portal is rising junior and former 5-star defensive back Lamont Wade.

After entering Penn State as an early enrollee in spring 2017, it seemed like Wade was poised to break into the starting lineup early in his college career.

But after two years yielded a pair of position transitions and

seeing mostly special teams snaps, along with the develop-ment of rising sophomore Jona-than Sutherland as the heir apparent to Nick Scott, it became obvious Wade was going to find himself in a position bat-

tle come his third spring on campus. A former 5-star doesn’t expect to be competing for a starting job during his third year with a program.

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The winter season calls for a good book

By Anjelica SingerThe Daily Collegian

For all book lovers alike, winter is the perfect time to get caught up on some good reads, especial-ly with the snowy weather here in State College.

Some may say taking a good book to the beach and reading it with the sand between their toes is the best time for reading, but with such cold temperatures and wintery weather, curling up with a good book inside is always a go-to.

Let’s set the scene: Snow is falling outside, and the road con-ditions are not the greatest for gallivanting around town. There is a fire place nearby, and a cup of hot cocoa within reach. Fuzzy blankets surround the reading nook of choice. What is missing? A good book.

Some Penn State students, like Gracie Pickens, can relate to the serenity of reading a book in the winter season.

“My favorite book to read is ‘Wuthering Heights,’ although I am currently reading ‘Save the Date’ by Morgan Matson,” Pick-ens (freshman – marketing) said. “’Wuthering Heights’ is always a good book to read in the win-ter because the story itself has a bleak setting.”

Although Pickens personally reads more in the summer just because she has more time, she believes more people actually do read more in the winter.

“I think more people read in the winter because it is just a co-zier time in general, especially with all of the snow, people really cannot travel anywhere,” Pickens said.

Olivia Washesky is currently reading “Sherlock Holmes” be-cause of her love of mysteries — though she would coin the Harry Potter series to be her favorite.

“Winter is a good time because most people will not go outside, so a book can be an adventure that you can have inside,” Wash-esky (freshman–biobehavioral health) said.

Los Angeles native Brannon DeWolf agrees with Washesky’s statement, and he chooses the Pennsylvania winter to read more books than in the summer.

“I definitely like to read more in the winter because there’s less to do outside and sometimes there is nothing nicer than reading in a cozy room while it is dumping snow outside,” DeWolf (junior – political science and broadcast journalism) said.

DeWolf ’s pick this winter is a book titled, “1776,” which is about the start of the American Revolu-

tion and goes perfectly with the wintery season.

“It’s pretty crazy seeing win-ter in the Pennsylvania woods, and realizing our founding fathers had to fight the war in weather just like it, like in ‘1776,’” DeWolf said.

Some students like to reread classic books that most of us have grown up with, such as Nate Gillespie who loves to read “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”

“One of the biggest reasons I love to reread this book is the nostalgia it brings back from when I was a little boy and my mom would read me the book every winter,” Gillespie (fresh-man-secondary education and journalism) said. “The book takes place in an eternal winter, which out here can sometimes feel like. At the end of the book, the White Witch is defeated, and spring starts, which al-ways makes me look forward to spring coming here.”

Isabelle Stull is also reread-ing her favorite book, “No Mat-ter the Wreckage” by Sarah Kay.

“It’s just a collection of poetry, but I think she is a great poet and I really enjoy her work,” Stull (junior – health policy and administration) said.

Siena Baker normally reads five leisure books at a time, but three books she is currently en-joying are “An American Mar-riage,” “The Hate U Give,” and she is just about to start “Where the Crawdads Sing.”

“I am currently loving ‘An American Marriage’ by Tayari Jones,” Baker (sophomore – economics and community, en-vironment and development) said. “It is a beautiful commen-tary not only on marriage and love and relationships, but the role of race and our criminal justice system.”

With snow predicted to fall this week, grab a good book, and as Washesky said, have an ad-venture inside.

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Professors Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin released “Shale

Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields.”

professors present book ‘shale play’

By Cassandra KidwellThe Daily Collegian

In 2018, Penn State profes-sors Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin released their book and project titled, “Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields.”

Kasdorf, a professor of Eng-lish and women’s studies at Penn State, and Rubin, a docu-mentary photographer and as-sociate professor of art, com-bined Rubin’s documentary photography and Kasdorf ’s poetry to release their investi-gative book.

Rubin’s photographs have been published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, The Village Voice and more. He has traveled through many areas of the world working as a freelance journalist.

Kasdorf has published four books of poetry: “Sleeping Preacher,” “Eve’s Striptease,” “Poetry in America” and now “Shale Play.”

She also has a few poetry awards, such as Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize.

The book covers the impact of fracking along the Marcela Shale, an area that has a high concentration of oil and gas in the rock and extends through

mainly New York, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Ru-bin said this is where the term “Shale Play,” stems from — the industry’s term on the extrac-tion in the Marcella Shale.

The duo focused solely on the impact in Pennsylvania after seeing the effects of extraction with their own eyes.

Rubin’s journey started in 2012, hearing about the rise of fracking and gas drilling in Pennsylvania.

Rubin said he wanted to know more about the growing indus-try such as what it is doing to jobs, to the environment and to the people around it.

“Any photographer or docu-mentary photographer would know, you don’t just want to read about it, you want to see it and investigate it for yourself,” Ru-bin said.

Similar to Rubin, Kasdorf grew this same curiosity when she realized the industry was taking her local spring water to frack with around 2010.

“I was on the back of my hus-band’s motorcycle driving to Ithaca, New York when I saw for the first time what the landscape looked like,” Kasdorf said. “I saw lots of pipeline, helicopters do-ing seismic testing and pickup trucks.”

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