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Penn State’s LGBTQA community speaks against Trump ban

By Stephanie PannyTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

On July 26, 1948, former Presi-dent Harry Truman made history when he signed Executive Order 9981 that desegregated the Unit-ed States military, with “equal treatment and opportunity for all those who serve in our country’s defense.”

Exactly 69 years later, current President Donald J. Trump also made history. Instead of signing an executive order, however, he released a series of tweets early Wednesday morn-ing saying that, after a review, the military would no longer “accept or allow transgen-der individuals to serve in any ca-pacity in the U. S. Military.”

Brian Patchcos-ki, the newly-ap-pointed director of Penn State’s LG-BTQA Resource Center, said when he heard about the new policy he felt nothing but dis-appointment.

“I think the movement in the progression of limiting rights and inclusivity in the military is

taking us backwards,” Patch-coski said, “when we know the military has many folks who are engaged in service who identify as trans[gender], gender-queer, and/or gender-nonconforming.”

Trump denoted in his tweets the policy was enacted because the military “must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victo-ry” and “cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical cost and disruption” that “transgender in the military would entail.” Trump also said the decision came after “consulting with my Generals

and military ex-perts.”

Kurt Miller (senior—animal science) said he thinks the new policy is an “atrocious at-tack” on LGBTQ rights. Miller, who identifies as a gay male, said he thinks it is “hypocritical,” as Trump gave a statement of support for the

community in 2016 while cam-paigning.

“Thank you to the LGBT com-munity,” Trump tweeted on June 14, 2016. “I will fight for you while

Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.”

Miller said he doesn’t think the president has gone back on his promise, but rather Trump never committed to the community’s protection in the first place.

“His one statement of support was the only thing during his campaign that addressed us,” Miller said. “Many other things

he campaigned for opposed our rights.”

The National Center for Trans-gender Equality released a state-ment saying the policy is an “ap-palling attack” on U.S. service members.

“This is worse than ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the statement said. “This is don’t serve, don’t serve.”

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Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during his rally at Briar Woods

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“This is worse than

‘Don’t Ask, Don’t

Tell. This is don’t

serve, don’t serve…

it is about bigotry

rather than military

readiness, reason

or science.”

The National Center for

Transgender Equality

Barkley becomes topic of discussion at media days

By Jack R. HirshTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

He hurdles defenders, he runs past the fastest men in college football, he’s a record holder in

the weight room and his team-mates say he nev-er brags about

any of it.This describes none other than

Penn State’s star running back Saquon Barkley. The rising ju-nior scampered around gridirons across the country for nearly 1,500 yards rushing and 22 total touchdowns in 2016, throwing him

into the 2017 Heisman conversa-tion.

“He’s a great back,” said Wis-consin linebacker T.J. Edwards, who played against Barkley in the 2016 Big Ten Championship game. “He can do a lot of things, especially in the pass game, which is different for the Big Ten, to be honest.”

Barkley notably beat then-Badgers and current-Steelers linebacker T.J. Watt on an 18-yard wheel route for the go-ahead touchdown in the Big Ten Cham-pionship game.

“You have to get a lot of bod-ies to the ball because he’s

going to make people miss and break some tackles,” Ed-wards said. “I think he’s got a lot of weapons in front of him, which makes it easier for him.”

Michigan State running back Gerald Holmes was impressed by Barkley’s sheer athleticism.

“Saquon is a guy who will hur-dle you,” Holmes said. “If you’re standing side by side, he’ll jump over you.”

Barkley’s leaps — or leaping potential — also dazzle his own teammates.

See SAQUON, Page 5.

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UHS offers free yoga classes for beginners

By Rebecca BaloughFOR THE COLLEGIAN

Students looking to ‘nama-stay’ in shape are finding them-selves at Penn State’s Univer-sity Health Services for yoga classes in a fun and welcoming environment, where stressing out isn’t allowed.

The free yoga classes are of-fered on Wednesdays from 4 to 5 p.m. during the summer and run until Aug. 9, in Room 205 at the Student Health Center. Once the fall semester kicks off, class-es will be offered at the same time and place on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

“We just thought that yoga is a really good physical exer-cise,” said Katelyn Quick, the class instructor at UHS. “It’s also good for mental health too. We’re concerned with all aspects of health and wellness, so we chose to offer a class that would provide multiple health benefits.”

Quick fell in love with yoga two years ago, when she at-tended her first class. The State College native was looking for something easier on her joints in between running and compet-ing in half marathons.

“I didn’t know much before two years ago,” Quick said. “I pretty much had no yoga experi-ence so I learned a lot because I really loved it.”

Since then, Quick has re-ceived her 200 hour teaching certification.

Quick said she is a fan of the classes UHS offers students be-cause “it’s not in a gym, and the room does not have mirrors.”

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Local residents fight for clean waterBy Philip Poltorak

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For 53 days, David Stone has been living in his tent on the side of Whitehall Road. Despite the summer heat and occasional rain, Stone has remained in his tent to maintain the visibility of the Nittany Valley Water Coali-tion.

“If they come and finally get me to move I can just go down the street and set up a new tent,” Stone said. “This land is crucial for 75,000 people, be-cause it’s their drinking water and irrigation water. Two thirds of the water we get in our fau-cets is right here and the Toll Brothers want to build right over that.”

The Toll Brothers are a real estate development firm based in Horsham, Pennsylvania. The plot of land upon which Stone re-sides is called the Slab Cabin Wa-tershed, and Penn State — with the help of the firm — wants to develop it.

“Penn State is a very large land-owner in the region,” said

Terry Melton, a lab director at Penn State also involved in the NVWC.

“They want housing for 40,000 students, and students should care about the land. What draws a lot of the brilliant students and professors to come out here is the beautiful landscape itself.”

As of November 2015, by ap-proval of Ferguson Township Supervisor Steve Miller, the pro-posed plan to develop the luxury apartments on top of the water-shed was initiated, despite vocal opposition from the community.

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By Ben JenkinsFOR THE COLLEGIAN

At sporting events, the Penn State Alma Mater is generally sung at the end.

However, the Learning Edge Academic Program Summer Choir has chosen to learn the alma mater as its first song.

In addition to the alma mater being a hallmark of Penn State culture, the all-male summer choir chose the song because it is one of few pieces that can cater to a group of 11.

“It’s definitely more difficult,” co-director Stephen Giacobe (sophomore—information sci-ences and technologies & se-curity and risk analysis) said. “Tuning guys’ voices and finding

pieces is very difficult.”While the group is up for the

challenge, being an all-male choir has been tough.

Co-director Zachary Spaw (sophomore—music education) said the group “reached out to ev-eryone,” but still only got a bunch of guys.

“Not a single girl showed up,” Spaw said.

The choir begins every session — which takes place in the McEl-wain Hall piano room every Mon-day and Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. — with vocal warm-ups. Then, after briefly listening to the alma mater, the group begins to break it down part-by-part.

The basses kick everything off, and the baritones, tenors and al-tos follow. Then, once each per-son is comfortable with their own

part, the group puts it all together to recreate the song which was first performed 116 years ago.

Throughout practice, the group sings along and learns other fa-mous Penn State classics, includ-ing “The Nittany Lion” and “Fight On, State.”

Although the choir practices hard, the group of LEAP students has yet to lock up a concert venue.

“Right now,” Spaw said, “we plan to just travel around Penn State to sing fight songs.”

Even though the group cur-rently cannot find a place to perform, it is not giving up hope.

“A concert venue would be ex-citing,” Josh Martin (freshman—math) said. “This choir is coming along quickly, and it’d be a good way to prove that a choir of stu-

dents run by students can be good.”

Despite their challenges, the members of the choir are grateful to be doing what they love.

“There’s not much going on here in the summer,” Martin said. “It gives me something to look forward to.”

Giacobe said Spaw and him-self, who are both Glee Club members, decided to start the choir program because there is no choir club offered to stu-dents in the summer, and tak-ing a three-month break from singing can really affect the singer’s voices.

“It’s important to keep sing-ing.” Martin said, “But I can benefit from their advice as well.”

YogaFROM Page 1.

Quick believes some students are “really intimidated” by the gym, and her classes help to al-leviate their concerns.

Quick said she modifies the class depending on who is attend-ing. Whether it’s your first class or your twentieth, Quick person-alizes the class as much as she can.

“I have been to this class twice so far, and it was nothing like what I expected,” Brooke Swales (freshman—communications) said.

Students attending Quick’s classes can feel a sense of com-munity as soon as they walk in. Relaxing music fills the dimmed room as attendees go through

the instructor’s personalized routine.

Quick says she leads the class in a style of yoga called vinyasa flow, which involves synchroniz-ing your breathe with your body’s movements.

This type of flow creates a physical exercise, but still creates the meditation expected from yoga.

Even if class that day focuses of the physical side, every class ends with at least 5 minutes of a final resting pose.

“I think this is a very welcom-ing environment for yoga begin-ners because she walks around the class and helps everyone and explains the positions well,” Julia Buckley (freshman—forensics science) said. “The positions she is having us do are not too intense or challenging.”

TrumpFROM Page 1.

“It is about bigotry rather than military readiness, reason or sci-ence. It is indefensible and can-not stand. The President wants to discard thousands of troops who are already serving honorably and done nothing but be honest about who they are. To turn away qualified recruits simply because of who they are is a shameful way to show our country’s gratitude to the people who serve our coun-try.”

In 2016, the RAND Corporation — a nonprofit, global policy think tank which offers research and development analysis to the Unit-ed States Armed Forces — pub-lished a study entitled, “Assess-ing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly.”

The study found that extending gender transition-related health care coverage to transgender personnel would only increase spending from $2.4 million to $8.4 million — only a 0.04- to a 0.13-percent increase in expendi-tures.

“It’s irresponsible to make this decision to save money,” Miller said, “when the military spends less than one percent of its bud-get on trans surgeries and five times that on Viagra.”

The Trump administration said saving money on transition sur-gery and increasing unit cohesion were both reasons that fueled the new policy on transgender indi-viduals.

While the policy is not yet offi-cial, as there needs to be an official vote, the LGBTQA community — as well as the rest of the coun-try — has been very vocal with negative feedback and bipartisan pushback.

Like Patchcoski, recent Penn State graduate Kris Murray said he was “saddened” to hear about the policy, and agrees this policy could set precedence for future discrimination policy against the LGBTQA commu-nity in the workplace, at other federal levels and in housing guarantees.

“One fear I have would be leg-islators using the transgender in military ban as a reason for en-acting the bathroom bills,” said Murray, who is a female to male transgender and identifies as bi-sexual. “If they can restrict trans-gender individuals in the mili-tary, then I would fear that other agencies or businesses would be allowed to restrict them as well.”

Co-chair for the Commission on LGBTQ Equity’s Student Concerns, Logan Paiste (sixth year—classics and ancient medi-terranean studies, jewish studies, asian Studies and chinese), said the announcement of the new policy was a “major disappoint-ment” because the United States was founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all.

Paiste, who identifies as a cis-gender, gay, demisexual male, said transgender people are be-ing denied the opportunity to “show their love and devotion for their country” and are being de-nied his rights to live “safely and openly” as a member of the LG-BTQA community.

Penn State’s College Demo-crats’ Communications Director Sophia Mills said that discrimi-nating against a certain group is “uncalled for.”

“This is not a matter of cost for the people,” Mills (sophomore—psychology) said. “This is an act of hate, one which is completely unorthodox in the twenty-first century in the United States of America.”

Penn State’s Office for Veter-an Protection and Penn State’s Rotary Officer Training Corps both declined to comment. Penn State’s College Republi-cans could not be reached for comment at the time of publica-tion.

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The LEAP Men’s Choir practices in McElwain Hall on Wednesday evening, July 26.

Class of 2018 gift campaign to garner participation from students

By Elizabeth WinterFOR THE COLLEGIAN

Each year the graduating class of Penn State votes on a gift to leave behind as their mark on the Penn State community.

In years past, one gift was chosen. However, the Class of 2018 will be the first graduating class to leave behind more than one present for future Nittany Li-ons.

“With the loss of the general deposit, the Class Gift committee wanted to have options for the Class of 2018,” Alissa Janoski said, “Three gifts was decided as a good number in order to give the class an array of options.”

Janoksi explained how this was the best option so the graduating class could give to something their passionate about. This also allows three gifts to be proportionally given funds.

Janoski, the Class Gift advisor, said that in years past, when one gift was chosen, the de-parting seniors tended to have more opinions as to whom they though the gift should have gone and would email in their suggestions and their feedback.

This year, the Class Gift Campaign is en-couraging participation from all members of the Penn State community by opening up the opportunity to submit gift ideas, either at vot-ing tables in the HUB-Robeson Center from Oct. 8-13 or online, according to a Penn State press release.

Campaign members will then narrow the ideas down to six options and the seniors will vote, with the top three chosen as the gifts.

Janoski said the campaign hopes to “unite this year’s class” so the seniors can “give back to what made their Penn State class gift meaningful and special.”

Class Gift Executive Director Lauren Nel-son also discussed the importance of student participation.

Nelson (senior—chemical engineering) ex-plained how it is hard to ask students to pay

out of their pocket if they have no passion for what they are donating money toward.

With the attitude from past senior classes, Nelson said the process of choosing the class gift needed to be changed. Both Janoski and Nelson emphasize the need for student par-ticipation.

Since 2015, many of the class gifts have been cause-related.

According to Penn State’s class gift cam-paign website, the Class of 2016’s gift was an endowment to Penn State’s Counsel-ing and Psychological Services. Last year, the chosen gift was an endowment to Lions Pantry, which offers free food to students in need.

Zack Adams (senior—international affairs and political science) sees the benefits of getting to choose three class gifts this year. Adams said the countless opportunities and education Penn State gives to its students is worthy of a class gift that will represent their gratitude greatly.

Adams sees an endangered species tree as the perfect gift to leave behind that would give “an aesthetic benefit” to the university.

“I believe that by having more than one class gift,” Adams said, “more of the interest of the diverse graduating student population may be represented when giving back a small portion of gratitude to the university.”

Both students and advisors can agree that each year’s class gift leaves an impact on the university and the community.

Janoski and Nelson feel passionate about the class gift, and their involvement with dif-ferent philanthropies and student benefitting programs has driven them to this point.

Nelson was born and raised Penn State and found her home through philanthropic service.

“It became a portion of who I am,” Nelson said.

Nelson’s involvement in the Class Gift Cam-paign was sparked by her want to “give back to a community who has given me so much.”

Meanwhile, Janoski said her favorite memory at Penn State is the time she spent with CAPS as the 2016 Marketing Director.

Janoski was interested in her role be-cause of the importance of the class gift to her since she was student.

“It feels incredible to get to work with students who want to spread the message of philanthropy,” Janoski said.

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Class Gift Campaign Executive Director

Lauren Nelson (senior-chemical engineer-

ing) sits outside the HUB-Roberson Center on

Wednesday evening, July 29.

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Students participate in yoga classes at Penn State University Health

Services on Monday, July 24.

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Allyson McHugh swims the 200 yard backstroke at McCoy Natatorium on Saturday

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Frannie Crouse (9) takes a shot on goal during the game against Purdue at Jeffrey Field on

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Who to watch: Top 10 fall athletesBy David Eckert

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

After a dominant fall of 2016 for many of the Penn State athletics programs, 2017 marks a new chapter and, with it, a new opportunity to build on the success of past sea-sons.

While many stars were lost to graduation or to the professional level, teams will turn to the vet-eran presence of a select few re-turning stars.

Each week, The Daily Collegian will unveil two of the top 10 returning stars to their fall teams.

This week, we take a look at athletes four and three on the countdown.

Check back next week to find out the top two picks!

NOTE: This countdown does not include football players.

No. 4: Ally McHugh,

women’s swimming:Ally McHugh’s collegiate sea-

son ended in March, but her achievements certainly did not.

McHugh went on to post fourth-place finishes at the U.S. Championships — held in Indianapolis, Indiana at the beginning of July — in the 400-meter individual medley as well as the 1500-meter free-style.

Shortly thereafter, she was named to the United States’ World University Games roster, putting her in line to become the first Penn State woman to compete at the event since Melissa Rodriguez in 2013.

Oh, and by the way, she’s only a rising junior.

McHugh’s 10th place finish in the mile freestyle and 14th place

mark in the 400-meter IM with Penn State at last season’s NCAA Championships won’t be the best of her career if she continues im-proving her times at her current rate.

With three of the swimmers who finished ahead of her in the mile out of the picture due to graduation, McHugh has a chance to crack the top-five if she continues to improve at her cur-rent trajectory.

Since arriving in State College, McHugh has shaved 11.8 seconds off her mark in the 400-meter IM and more than two minutes off her time in the 1500-meter free-style.

Those numbers have trans-formed her from something of an afterthought to a player on the national scene — and Penn State’s most important swimmer on the women’s side of things come the fall.

No. 3: Frannie Crouse,

women’s soccer: The most prolific offensive

weapon in the Big Ten is back for one more go-around.

Frannie Crouse’s three-year tenure at Penn State has en-compassed two Big Ten regular season titles, three NCAA Tour-nament berths, two elite eight ap-pearances and a national champi-onship.

A starter since her freshman season, Crouse has been at the epicenter of all that team suc-cess, providing a powerful scor-ing punch from the forward posi-tion.

In each of her three years in State College, she’s finished in the top-seven in the Big Ten in goals, leading the conference last season with 12. Crouse also finished second in the Big Ten in points per game, with 1.29.

Now a senior, Crouse is poised to make more noise than ever.

With fellow standout forward Megan Shaffer also entering her senior year on the Nittany Lion front line, Penn State could have one of the most dangerous offen-sive attacks in college soccer.

As if she needed an X-factor to put her ahead of the competi-tion going into next year, Crouse was called up to the U-23 U.S. Women’s National Team this summer.

She, along with three other Penn State players, will spend July 21 to July 28 competing with the best that United States Soc-cer has to offer at the collegiate level.

Look for her to make use of that valuable experience and improve on her numbers from a year ago.


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Student hopes to compete in Paralympics World Championship

By Thomas SchlarpTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Penn State junior Sean Brame is spending his summer a little differently than the average col-lege student.

This past weekend, Brame, a quadriplegic amputee, competed in three swimming events at the 2017 U.S. Paralympics Swimming World Championship Trials in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Despite the increased difficulty of competing at an elevation of over 6,000 feet, Brame was able to achieve personal bests in both the 50-meter and 100-meter free-style, while also competing in the 400-meter freestyle.

The swimmer had previously set personal bests just a month earlier in Indianapolis at the 2017 World Para Swimming World Se-ries.

“I’ve made so much progress since starting three years ago, and being at altitude, I can’t com-plain,” Brame said. “This was great.”

As a child, Brame grew up a strong individual both in the classroom and on athletic fields, particularly on the soccer field.

However, his life would change forever one night in 2005 at soccer practice after what seemed like a trivial ankle sprain.

The sprain triggered an infec-tion that led to flu-like symptoms for Brame. As his symptoms

worsened, Brame was rushed to the hospital where he was later diagnosed with sepsis, the body’s extreme reaction to bacteria in the bloodstream.

Brame was placed in a drug-induced coma for over 20 days while suffering from multiple organ failures. In a final effort to save his life, doctors amputated both of Brame’s legs, one hand, and four fingers from the other.

As Sean made his way to State College for the start of his fresh-man year in 2014, he was still in search of a much-needed outlet.

“I’m not going to lie. It was re-ally difficult to transition from soccer. It was really hard,” Brame said about leaving his childhood passion. “When I was in high school, every day I just kept thinking how much I wanted to be out on that soccer field.”

When Brame first hopped in the pool with Penn State Ability Athletics, that pain of missing out on one of his life’s greatest joys was assuaged.

“It was very healthy for me to embrace swimming,” Brame said about leaving dry land for the wa-ter.

“It allowed me to compare my goals to myself and see where I want to be. It provided me with a sense of freedom and mobility that I just wouldn’t have had in any other sport. I’ve been so for-tunate to find this as an outlet.”

Despite swimming being an individual sport, something that

Brame likes because it forces himself to be personally account-able.

Brame said he cherishes the team and family feel that has sprouted from the activity, espe-cially among his coaches.

“To have people and coaches actually care, and not just be-cause you’re disabled, but be-cause you’re their athlete, that is special,” Brame said.

The road to success in the wa-ter has been far from an easy dog-gy-paddle. Brame trains six days a week, with three or four of the days consisting of multiple work-outs, swimming between 5000 to 10000 meters in a single day.

“When I’m not swimming, I’m lifting,” Brame said. “When I’m not lifting, I’m running.”

A sociology major, the swim-mer aspires to a career advocat-ing for other disabled people and hopes that one message is appar-ent when watching him swim.

“My story is just a part of me. It doesn’t define me,” Brame said. “The Paralympics have given me the opportunity to be a part of a community. The peo-ple of the Paralympics, we’ve all triumphed, but those triumphs alone don’t define us.”

When Brame isn’t busy train-ing or competing, he finds himself busy in the State College commu-nity.

An Eagle Scout, and assis-tant scout master, he has spent this summer helping a local Boy Scout troop. He goes to camp with them and helps them earn merit badges.

The busy swimmer also enjoys just kicking it back and hang-ing out with members of a local Christian organization.

With all of Brame’s success in the pool and business-like ap-proach to advocating for other disabled people, it’s easy to forget that Brame is still just a humble, down-to-Earth, normal college kid, trying to find balance and enjoyment in what has been a very hectic summer for the star athlete.

“All I want right now is sleep and a sandwich, and I’m not sure in what order,” Brame said.


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Sean Brame, a quadriplegic amputee swimmer, sets personal records at

World Championship trials all while spreading a message.

Sanderson signs new long-term contract

By David EckertTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

The best coach in Penn State wrestling history is return-ing to the Lorenzo Wrestling

Complex for the 2017-18 season.

Cael Sand-erson, winner of six national championships in his eight-year tenure in State College, has agreed to terms on a long-term contract, Athletic Director Sandy Barbour told reporters Tuesday at Big Ten Media Days.

Barbour had publicly ex-pressed her hope that Sand-erson would return, but he remained un-signed after his contract expired on June 30.

Despite some anxiety amongst Penn State fans about the situation, Barbour said Sanderson’s status was never in doubt.

“What Cael and our wres-tling program has done is absolutely spectacular, but there was never an issue,” Barbour told reporters Tues-day. “It was never a concern. It was a matter of getting to the right place.”

Sanderson’s contract situ-ation was the subject of wide-spread speculation because Penn State isn’t obligated to release its details to the pub-lic.

For the same reason, the specifics of Sanderson’s new deal will remain undis-closed.

“We’re not going to—as a course of practice—give details on anything other than the four athletic depart-ment contracts that we’re by policy,” Barbour told reporters.


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Penn State wrestling head coach Cael Sanderson looks on during

during the match between Penn State and Illinois at Rec Hall on

Friday, Feb. 10.

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SPORTS | ThursDay, July. 27, 2017

Chambers picks up new commitBy Tyler KingTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

During one of the quietest peri-ods of the year for college basket-ball, Pat Chambers has managed

to make some noise.

On Sunday, Penn State added its sec-

ond recruit for the Class of 2018 when three-star guard Rasir Bolton announced his verbal commitment to the Nittany Lions via his personal twitter.

Bolton is listed at 6-foot-3, 170 pounds and is rated as the top player in the state of Virginia for 2018, per 247sports. He is also listed as the 137th best prospect in his class by Rivals.com.

Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Bolton transferred to independent basketball school Huntington Prep, which has had its fair share of talented basketball players.

Michigan State standout Miles Bridges, former Indiana center and current Los Angeles Laker Thomas Bryant, and former No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins are all products of Huntington Prep .

While at Huntington Prep last season, Bolton played alongside five-star recruit Keldon Johnson , who has since transferred to Oak Hill Academy for the 2017-18

season.Bolton joins three-star forward

from Gonzaga Prep, Myles Dre ad, as the only members of the Nittany Lions’ 2018 recruiting class up to this point. He chose the Nittany Lions over Clemson, VCU and Pittsburgh .

Up until recently, it appeared that VCU had the upper hand with Bolton , but Chambers and his staff fended off the competition and added another solid guard to the backcourt.

During the AAU season, Bolton plays with Team Loaded VA ,

which is a high-level team that has recognizable alumni, such as former Kansas guard and 2016-17 Wooden Player of the Year Frank Mason .

Bolton is one of the key play-ers on this year’s Team Loaded VA squad and plays alongside

four-star center David McCormack.

The team has played in eight events throughout the 2017 AAU circuit and will conclude their season this weekend at the Adidas Summer Championships in Las Vegas.

Throughout this AAU season, Bolton has proven that he has the ability to score the basketball at all three levels.

Bolton is very comfortable with the ball in his hands and is great working in the pick-and-roll thanks to his willingness as a passer and his ability to finish at the rim.

He shoots the ball well from beyond the arc, but doesn’t have a high release point on his shot, which could affect his ability to shoot off the dribble in college.

Nonetheless, Bolton is an excellent shooter off the catch when he isn’t running the offense.

Bolton’s style of play is similar to future teammate Tony Carr , and the two also have similar height and length.

Both are capable of attacking the basket and taking advantage of smaller defenders, which will give Chambers plenty of scoring options in the backcourt when Bolton arrives ahead of the 2018-19 season.

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Looking back five years later


CHICAGO –– Just five years after the NCAA placed sanc-tions on the Penn State football

program, Big Ten c o m m i s s i o n e r Jim Delany re-calls the journey

the Nittany Lions have made.“Five years ago, 2012, I stood

up here and did my best to represent the conference,” Delany said on Monday to kick off the 2017 Big Ten Football Me-dia Days. “To represent Penn State, trying to understand the challenging circumstances we all found ourselves in.”

Exactly five years and one day prior, the NCAA hit Penn State with a $60 million fine, a four-year football postseason ban and the vacation of all wins dating back to 1998 in response to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse case.

Perhaps most detrimental to the current football team was a reduction of scholarships from the NCAA limit of 85 to 65. The Nittany Lions were also only allowed to add 15 new players per year instead of the normal NCAA limit of 25. Although the sanctions were eventually rolled back, it was still a big detriment to the program.

“My first thought was we need to get through this, we need to embrace Penn State.” Delany said. “They are a member of the Big Ten. We want them to be a member of the Big Ten and return to health.”

Delany continued with how difficult the road has been for Penn State to get to where the program is today, and he acknowledge the conference had “friends who were held to account by the courts of Pennsylvania,” likely referencing former Penn State coaches and administrators.

Former defensive coordina-tor Jerry Sandusky, President Graham Spanier, Vice Presi-dent Gary Schultz and Athletic Director Tim Curley all received jail time for their roles in the San-dusky child sex abuse case.

Delany also touched on how difficult a time it has been for the Penn State community, including the family of former head coach Joe Paterno.

“I would say, in totality, it’s maybe the most difficult set of circumstances I’ve ever been asked to participate in and assist with,” Delany said.

Now five years later, Delany turned to the bright future that the program and the school has created for itself. In 2014, the scholarship reduction and postseason bans were lifted. Four months later, in January 2015, all 111 wins vacated by the sanctions were restored by the NCAA. This returned Paterno to status of the winningest Division I coach in NCAA history.

Now at Big Ten Media Days, Penn State comes in as the defending conference champions.

“I can look anybody in the eye and salute Penn State for the progress they’ve made, the seriousness with which they’ve treated this issue, the education that has been absorbed, the changes that have been made by various peo-ple, including President Barron and [Athletic Director] Sandy Barbour and a variety of others,” he said.

Delany also provided some reasons why he thought Penn State was able to recover from the sanctions.

“I think the university is one of the great ones in the country. I think the culture is one of the great ones in the country,” Delany said. “And it’s obvious that, maybe the least important, is how good their football team is. But their football team is now healthy after having come through sanctions over the last five years. They’ve got great leadership, great players, and we’re really happy that they’ve gotten to the other side, if you will, after five years.”


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Big Ten Commissioner, Jim Delany, addresses the media during

the Big Ten Football Media Days on Monday, July 24 in Chicago, IL.

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Kicker Joey Julius (99) kicks the ball after Penn State scored a

touchdown during the game against Pitt at Heinz Field on Saturday, Sept.

10, 2016. Penn State lost 42-39.

FAREWELL BIG TOE JOE

By Andrew Rubin and Matt Martell

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Joey Julius will not be playing with Penn State football this season, the Daily Collegian has confirmed via a Penn State football spokesperson.

Tyler Davis will likely handle kickoffs this season, in addition to his duties kicking field goals and extra points, which was his main role in 2016.

Julius handled both kickoffs and field goals in 2015, but after missing some extra points early in the season he was replaced by Davis.

The news of Julius was origi-nally reported by Bob Flounders of PennLive.

It has not been confirmed why Julius won’t be suiting up for the Nittany Lions this fall, but he was not with the team in the spring after returning to a rehabilitation center in St. Louis on April 1 for his eating disorder, as previously reported by the Daily Collegian.

“Just as an update I am

doing well and the treatment is helping,” wrote Julius in a Facebook post in May, in which he made public is return to the treatment center.

“There is light at the end of the tunnel. It is just a very long tun-nel.”

News of Julius’ battle with an eating disorder first surfaced when the kicker announced via Facebook in October 2016, in which he explained why he had been away from the Nittany Lions football team from May 2016 through its summer work-outs.

“If anyone and I mean anyone guy or girl is struggling with the same or anything similar,” Ju-lius wrote in the October 2016 post, “please message me as I will be in immediate contact to help in any way I can to provide information or insight on my struggles and I would love to help.”

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CHICAGO –– A day after his kicker’s departure from the program was confirmed,

Penn State coach James Franklin of-fered his sup-

port for Joey Julius.“We love Joe, and we sup-

port Joe,” Franklin said after his opening media session at Big Ten Media Days. “He has been a huge part of our pro-gram and will continue to be.”

The fourth-year coach didn’t go into specifics on the situation surrounding the ex-citing kickoff specialist, whose earth-shaking hits on return-ers catapulted not only his game into the national spot-light, but also his battle with an eating disorder. He was not with the team in the spring after seeking further treatment, as previ-ously reported by the Collegian.

Julius, however, confirmed early Tuesday morning via his personal Twitter ac-count that he has been dis-charged from the treatment center and is in “full recovery.”

Franklin also did not comment on what Julius’ role with the team would be mov-ing forward.

“For us, ultimately the most important thing for us is about the health and welfare of our players,” Franklin said. “To make sure they’re in a really, really good place.”

As for the void left by the redshirt junior, Franklin said he wasn’t certain as who would handle the kickoff duties, but rising senior kicker Tyler Davis, who han-dled field goals and extra points for most of the past two seasons, came to mind.

“Tyler has some aspirations of wanting to kick in the NFL one day, so being able to do both would be important for him, and he has the ability to do that,” Franklin said.

Sophomore punter Blake Gillikin also will be in the mix, along with fellow second-year kicker Alex Barbir.

“Obviously it’s not a good situation because we had one of the better kickoff guys in the country, one of the better punters in the country, one of the better field goal guys in the country,” Frank-lin said. “I think when you limit how many things they have to do, it’s helpful. We’ll just see how this plays out.”


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Penn State Men’s Basketball head coach Pat Chambers, left, talks with his players during a second half

timeout at the Bryce Jordan Center on Saturday, Feb. 4. Rutgers defeated Penn State 66-62.

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Julius will not play with Penn State this season


After competing in one coun-try’s national amateur champi-onship earlier this summer, Cole

Miller will do it again in August.

Last week, Mill-er fired rounds of 66-65 to medal

at his U.S. Amateur qualifier at Colonial Country Golf and Tennis Club in Harrisburg and punch his ticket to the U.S. Amateur at Ri-vera Country Club in California.

Miller also competed in the British Amateur Championship last month, missing the sec-ond round cut by two strokes.

“My expectations changed after this spring and I felt like I needed to qualify,” Miller told GoPSUSports.

“My mentality after the first round was to just keep plug-ging away. It was going to get tougher in the afternoon with the wind, but I just kept working on it, I actually hit the ball better and had a better second round.”

Miller is coming off a stand-out junior season for the Nit-tany Lions where he won five individual titles, including the NCAA Washington Regional.

In doing so, he became only the second Penn State player to win a regional, helping lead the Nittany Lions to the national champion-ship. He garnered second team All-Big Ten honors and honor-able mention PING All-Amer-

ican honors after the season.“This time I have a little bit

more experience going into the U.S. Amateur and the prepara-tions I have made to go out there [to California] have allowed me to focus on a progression – playing some competitive golf, working on my game, and giv-ing myself enough time for both of those aspects,” Miller said.

This will be Miller’s second U.S. Amateur appearance af-

ter playing in the 2015 edition at Olympia Fields in Illinois.

Miller’s teammate, junior Ryan Dornes, narrowly missed in his qualifier at Stonewall Links in Elverson, Pennsylva-nia on Tuesday. Dornes fell in a 4-for-1 playoff, but did receive an alternate spot as the second alternate out of the qualifier.


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Beaver Stadium fills up for the final home game against Michigan State

on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016.

Research plans for sustainable sports venues

By Olivia WhiteFOR THE COLLEGIAN

With over 100,000 spectators coming to watch Penn State foot-ball on Saturdays in the fall, their presence is known not only by the commanding “We Are” chants, but also by the amount of waste left behind when they leave the stadium.

With a goal to eliminate prod-ucts being sent to landfills after the conclusion of sporting events, researchers in Penn State’s Col-lege of Agricultural Sciences are working to make that goal a real-ity.

Penn State has already devel-oped a multitude of strategies in order to reduce its carbon foot-print, with the next step being at major venues like Beaver Stadi-um, the Bryce Jordan Center, and Pegula Ice Arena.

Recycling and composting are not new to Penn State, as com-post and recycling bins are in every residence hall, dining hall, and educational building.

“Sustainability for large venues is a complex problem encompass-ing energy and water use, pur-chasing, green cleaning practices and waste management,” said Dr. Judd Michael, a professor at Penn State in the department of Ecosystem Science and Manage-ment with expertise in fields such as sustainable business, and zero waste.

According to Ryan McCaughey, the Manager of Grounds and Equipment for the Office of the Physical Plant at Penn State, each football season generates over 500 tons of trash.

Instead of transporting this waste to landfills, Penn State’s zero-waste effort plans to trans-port waste to one of two places: recycling or compost.

“It would most likely be many years before we could reach zero waste at our athletics arenas,” Michael said. “Reaching zero

waste would require a very large investment in both effort and money and, at this point, there is no business case for such investments.”

Despite the fact that it could take several years before Penn State’s stadiums are completely zero-waste, a series of actions can be taken to speed up the ef-fort.

“Lots of professional teams have proven that there is a ‘business case’ for having sus-tainable operations,” Michael said. “Once they see the pos-sibilities for saving or making money from being greener then they quickly jump on the band-wagon.”

The most difficult barrier in the project of making Penn State stadiums waste-free does not come from the research and implementation, but Michael said it — instead — comes from changing fan behavior.

“If a significant portion of fans don’t have the knowledge or desire to sort their materials,” Michael said, “then the waste streams will be contaminated and it may all end up in a land-fill.”

In order to avoid this issue, Michael said fans should sim-ply pay attention to the materi-als they want to dispose of, and place them in the proper con-tainer.

Until Penn State stadiums be-come waste-free, Michael said he believes that venue opera-tors should do more to motivate and educate fans.

“Some venues have promo-tions on their big screen video boards, and others have con-tests at intermission to get peo-ple fired up and make it fun,” Mi-chael said. “We need to do more to change the culture of events so that the norm is to dispose of material properly instead of just throwing it into the closest con-tainer.”

SaquonFROM Page 1.

“When I tried to tackle Sa-quon, he broke out of the tackle and scored a touchdown. I tried to go low on him,” safety Marcus Allen said of a play in practice. “When we were hustling back to the huddle, he was like, ‘Hey, you knew I could have hurdled you, right?’”

Allen added that it was nice to know Barkley is on his team, which means that he doesn’t have to play him in a game, but he gets the chance to play against him in practice.

“It just gets you better,” Allen said. “Going against the level of competition in practice every-day is really good. Now it helps for other backs that may be as good as Saquon . . . if you can go against or cover Saquon in prac-tice everyday . . . it’s not rocket science you’re going to get bet-ter.”

Barkley turns heads off the field as well with videos of him in the weight room, specifically earlier this summer when he broke his own record with a 405 pound power clean. But what impresses his teammates most is his leadership ability and his humility.

“Everyone wants to talk about him jumping over people . . . but the guy that he is off the field, he’s a really good dude,” tight end Mike Gesicki said. “He takes time of out of his day when people want to talk to him. He’s not brushing them off... He’s handled all the success that he’s had very well.”

That reflected a statement Penn State coach James Frank-lin made in early May at a Penn State Coaches’ Caravan stop where he said Barkley was not only one of his best players, but one of his “best guys.”

“I think when your best play-ers, are your best teammates and your hardest working guys, it sets the tone for the whole organization,” Franklin said on Tuesday. “In a lot of ways, Sa-quon has been that way since the day he stepped on campus.”


Saquon Barkley (26) hurdles to

avoid the tackle with pressure from

Ja’Whuan Bentley (4) of Purdue on

Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016.


Cole Miller measures up a pitch shot during the men’s golf Rutherford

Intercollegiate tournament on Saturday, April 15.

Miller headed to U.S. Amateur

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‘COOL FOR THE SUMMER’The Daily Collegian recommends songs to add to your summer playlist

This is a continuation of a

piece published in the

July 20 issue.

By Kara DuriezTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Summertime is always better with great songs, and this sum-mer is no different.

Whether you’re lying on the beach, road-tripping with friends, spending time abroad or stuck in-doors at work, good music has a way of making anything better.

This list is jam-packed with 10 recently-released hits from big name artists and up-and-comers. The list also includes songs from nearly every ma-jor genre — so there should be something for everyone.

6. “Young, Dumb and

Broke” by KhalidRising alt-R&B star Khalid has

quickly become an artist people to whom people are. His soulful ballads and breakout single, “Lo-cation,” contain a style so unique

to modern music that he’s turn-ing tons of heads. While his debut album “American Teen” was re-leased back in March, his single “Young, Dumb and Broke” has summer vibes written all through-out its lyrics. This jam thrives on the idea of being young, and em-braces all that comes along with it and you can’t help but relate.

The line “we have our lives to live” hints to a ‘living in the mo-ment’ mentality — the perfect combination of “summer feels” to which many young people often relate.

7. “Feel It Still” by

Portugal. The ManPortugal. The Man has found

itself back into the alternative music scene after virtually four years of silence, coming out with its eighth album, “Woodstock.” Better still, Portugal. The Man’s single “Feel It Still” encompasses the “Portland, Oregon-by-way-of-Alaska band” and its unique and funky alternative sound.

The single has brought the little-known band more into the mainstream scene, landing spots on the Hot Rock Songs, Adult Al-

ternative Songs and Top TV Com-mercials and Alternative Songs charts. Its unexpected success even caused the single to crack the Billboard Hot 100, currently holding onto the No. 80 spot. “Feel It Still” is less about what vocal-ist, John Gourley, says on the song, but rather how it’s deliv-ered. The track’s funky beat and “ooh-ooh’s” make you want to snap your fingers and sway back and forth.

It’s perfect for the summer, be-cause it’s catchy enough to grab your attention, but it isn’t over-played on the radio so much that you cringe whenever you hear it.

8. “Champion” by

Fall Out BoyFall Out Boy is known for its

rock anthems, and the track “Champion” is the prime example of their unique style. The single was released in the United States on June 22, and it’s been slowly making its way up the charts even since. “Champion” comes from Fall Out Boy’s pre-release of their upcoming album “M A N I A,” which is set to be released to the public on September 15, 2017.

“Champion” has the edgy gui-tar and scratchy vocals that are classic to Fall Out Boy, but also fu-turistic and hint at their potential to transition into more EDM mu-sic, similar to their recent song “Young and Menace.”

Beside the fact that this track was released right in the middle of summer, it also gives off a great summer vibe because its lyrics are so powerful and easy to remember.

9. “It Ain’t My Fault” by

Brothers Osborne “It Ain’t My Fault” is the foot-

tapping anthem off Brothers Os-borne’s major-label debut album “Pawn Shop.” While the album was released more than a year ago, “It Ain’t My Fault” just re-cently started to climb the charts.

The rock n’ roll rhythm com-bines TJ Osborne ’s deep, croon-ing vocals and John Osborne ’s sick guitar skills perfectly, mak-ing this track easy to get stuck in your head — and for good rea-son. Filled with hand clapping and catchy “Oohs” and “Ahhs,” the southern-rock beat is one to make you play some air guitar

and bob your head up and down.

10. “Sweat” by The All-

American RejectsThe one and only All-American

Rejects...talk about a comeback, am I right? “Sweat” is probably the band’s most popular song since 2012 and was released alongside “Close Your Eyes” as a two-song EP on July 7.

“Sweat” is probably the song with the most angst on this sum-mer playlist. Lead vocalist and bassist Tyson Ritter ’s tone with the lines like “that’s so typical you,” “I’m just a waste to you” and “don’t go cryin’” cater to-ward the kind of snark and eye-rolling only the All-American Re-jects can dish. At the same time, though, the sexual tension is also there.

Ritter and company whisper the word “sweat” throughout most of the song in a way that makes middle-school me swoon.

However, the angst and sexual tension combine to make this a sizzling summer hit.


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