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Today’s editorial focuses on the

decision of the Judge in the Beta

Theta Pi case.

Womens Volleyball wins big against

Stanford and Texas A&M during

road trip.

Brand new music

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Read our review for band ‘Brand

New’ and their newest album.

Charlottesville teach-in panel

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The African American Studies

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The Penn State Football captains enter the field before the game against Akron at Beaver

Stadium on Saturday September 2nd.

Penn State looks set to be quick starter

By Collegian Football StaffThe Daily Collegian

Let’s be Frank, a lot of highly ranked teams come out sluggish in Week 1 against lesser teams. They see the spread, watch some film, know how much better they are and — even though it’s their first game — struggle to come out and show their potential.

No. 6 Penn State showed none of that Saturday. The Nittany Li-ons came out flying.

The Nittany Lions led 35-0 at halftime on the way to a 52-0 rout of Akron.

The biggest sign of rust in the first half was a few missed tack-les. And Tyler Davis’ first career unblocked miss, but that could have had more to do with the rainy weather and Penn State having a new holder and long snapper.

The Nittany Lions would have beat Akron even if they started slow. They just had too many athletic advantages. Putting the game out of reach early wasn’t the most crucial factor of the quick start.

The most important part of starting fast has little to do with

Saturday’s game. It matters more moving forward.

It proves that coach James Franklin, his staff and the team’s leaders in the locker room know how to get the team up for ear-ly kickoffs against lesser foes, something that wasn’t on display much last year.

It proves that a Penn State team, which was outscored in the first half by 29 points in 2016, made it a priority all offseason to come out firing in the season opener.

The Nittany Lions are a signifi-cantly better team right now than

they were Week 1 last year. In the 2016 opener, they led a Kent State team, which is similar to Akron, by three points at half-time.

Coming back from double-digit, second-half deficits prob-ably isn’t a sustainable way to do business, even though the Nittany Lions thrived on that in 2016.

Even though it worked one season, Franklin’s team shouldn’t rely on comebacks working again.

To read full story, visit collegian.psu.edu.

Fanta Condé to renew MSA

By Nicholas CapriThe Daily Collegian

Fanta Condé wants this year to be a year of renewal for Penn State. As this year’s president of the Penn State Muslim Stu-dents’ Association, Condé seeks to bring peace to an organiza-tion reeling from an increasing-ly hostile political culture.

“I’m trying to call this year the year of restoration,” Condé said. “There is a lot going on out there in terms of what peo-ple have been saying about the Muslim community. It is always good to focus on your immediate community.”

Condé (senior-philosophy and political science) herself exudes the same sense of peace she wants her organization to ex-perience. Speaking slowly and

deliberately, she seems to think carefully about everything she says.

Her laptop is covered in Vin-cent Van Gogh stickers, and if you were to look on her bookshelf, you would find unfinished novels with only a few pages left to read. She doesn’t like things to end. A politi-cal science and philosophy dou-ble major with a minor in security and risk analysis, Condé wants to pursue a life of activism and pub-lic policy — although she is aware of her limitations.

“I’m not speaking for the entire Muslim community. I’m not even speaking for MSA,” Condé said. “I am just speaking for myself.”

Condé, like any leader, is aware that her experience is not identi-cal to all members of MSA.

See Condé, Page 3.

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Fanta Conde, the Muslim Student Association President, poses by the

Duck Pond on Thursday, Aug. 31.

THON member forms now open

Making a difference, any dif-ference, begins with a choice — a choice to get involved, to dedicate time and energy supporting a cause. The largest student-run philanthropy in the world is here in State College, and anyone can get involved.

Penn State THON is a yearlong effort. It raises funds and aware-ness for the fight against child-hood cancer in an effort that cul-minates with a 46 hour, no sitting and no-sleeping dance marathon every February.

According to THON’s website, “More than 16,500 student volun-teers dedicate an average of 15 hours per week to THON related events and activities throughout the year.”

Students can get involved in a variety of ways, such as apply-ing to be a captain, committee member, an independent dancer and joining a fraternity, sorority or organization, both special and general, that supports THON. Students can support the cause in a way that works for them.

To read full story, visit collegian.psu.edu.

Nittanyville asks fans to ‘wear white’ for Pitt

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Nittanyville campers rush into Beaver Stadium at gate A on Ohio State

Saturday afternoon, Oct. 22, 2016.

By Jack R. HirshThe Daily Collegian

Last year, coach James Frank-lin called for some additional, unofficial Beaver Stadium white outs. This year, the call is coming from Nittanyville.

The Penn State football student section is asking all fans, not just students, to wear white for the Nittany Lions’ matchup with Pitt on Saturday.

Nittanyville Vice President Cory Lestochi told the Collegian the group can’t use the term “white out” for this game because

it is copyrighted by the univer-sity.

The white out is reserved ex-clusively for the game against Michigan this year.

The reasoning behind the un-official white out for Pitt, Lesto-chi said, is the implications of the game.

“This is possibly the biggest non-conference game [for Penn State] since Alabama in 2011,” Lestochi said. “Whether Penn State wants to admit it or not, there is a rivalry with Pitt.”

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Head coach James Franklin walks the field on Sept., 2.

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Tight end Mike Gesicki (88) runs with the ball as the Akron defense

tackles him during the football game at Beaver Stadium.

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A student in the crowd plays the cowbell during the football game against Akron at Beaver

Stadium.

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Anna King (mechanical engineering) cheers from the student section during

the home opener against Akron at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 2.

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RIGHT: Running back Saquon Barkley (26) runs for a touchdown during the third quarter of the

football game against Akron at Beaver Stadium.

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Safety Marcus Allen (2) rings the victory bell after the 52-0 win against Akron at Beaver Stadium on Saturday,

Sept. 2.

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Linebacker Manny Bowen (43) tackles Akron running back Warren Ball (34) during their

game.

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Wide receiver DeAndre Thompkins (3) celebrates with safety Nick Scott (4) after running back a punt

return for the first touchdown of the game against Akron at Beaver Stadium. No. 6 Penn State won 52-0.

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Teach-in sponsored by African American Studies department

By Shelby KaplanThe Daily Collegian

After the violent protests and counter-protests that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, the Department of African American Studies at Penn State will be host-ing a panel discussion today.

In August, a streak of hate crimes, violent attacks and pro-tests broke out in Charlottesville, causing the country to take notice and create action about the reoc-curring problem of racism in the country.

Different white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis were all represented in some way.

The attacks went so far as a person driving his car into a crowd of counter protestors, in-juring 19 people and killing one.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the fatal attack “domestic terrorism,” as previously report-ed by The New York Times.

Groups of counter protestors included members of the Black Lives Matter movement, which rose last year.

From 6 to 8 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, the panel will touch on multiple topics including the historical context of racism and violence in Charlottesville.

“The event is designed to help students and the larger Penn State community make sense of the events that unfolded in mid-August,” according to a Penn State News release.

The panel will include discus-sions with six different professors from the department including Cynthia Young, Abraham Khan, Courtney Desiree Morris, Joshua

Inwood and Jeanine Staples.

To email reporter: spk5313@psu.edu.Follow her on Twitter at @_ShelbyKa-

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Dr. Jeanine Staples speaks to a

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Film club watches nothing but the best

By Keith MeenanThe Daily Collegian

Penn State offers well over a thousand clubs to suit just about any interest ranging from the mainstream to the niche.

One of Penn State’s newest clubs, Critically Acclaimed Mov-ies Club, offers students the chance to learn about film while watching critically acclaimed movies.

The club was founded last year by three students, Joe Ulsh, Kit West and Shea Harris.

Harris (junior-mechanical and nuclear engineering), co-founder and president, said he and his friends started the club because they thought Penn State lacked a

place for movie enjoyers.“We noticed there weren’t any

film appreciation clubs,” Co-founder and Treasurer Ulsh (ju-nior—biomedical engineering) said, “and we figured we could fix that.”

The standard criteria for each film is anything with widespread acclaim.

Harris said if it has around 70 percent or higher on Rotten To-matoes, it’s probably in the run-ning.

“They hear about these mov-ies, but people never go ahead and see them,” Harris said, refer-ring to the films they screen.

“We wanted to make a club To read full story, visit

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CondéFrom Page 1.

“There has been this estab-lished archetype of what a Mus-lim is, and we don’t all fit that mold,” Condé said. “We have peo-ple from all over the world.”

Condé said her largest goal as president of MSA is to recognize and embrace the diversity within the organization and build bridg-es with other multicultural orga-nizations.

Hamsa Fayed, a graduate stu-dent in the school of International Affairs and former president of MSA, agrees with her.

“We spent last year just react-ing — to the election, to various pieces of legislation to further marginalize Muslims and other POCs and the like,” Fayed said. “It’s the right direction to go in, to see this as a renewal and to take a step back to reinvestigate why we are Muslims.”

Fayed said she recognized that conversations regarding mar-ginalization and intersectionality within MSA were not being had.

“This is a really pivotal mo-ment within our historically con-servative organization,” Fayed said, referencing the more inclu-sive goals of Condé.

To read full story, visit collegian.psu.edu.

After hearing the result of the Beta Theta Pi case, not only are we shocked by the decision, but it seems almost incomprehensi-ble that Judge Allen Sinclair would drop the most serious charges against some of the fraternity members.

On Friday, Sinclair told the court which charges against the former fraternity members would be bound over or dismissed. Some of the most serious charges include involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and simple assault.

Instead, only those who face lesser charges will go to trial.

This not only sets a dangerous precedent, it gives the wrong impression on the severity of the case.

The judge’s decision on Friday showed our judicial system failing us.

As upset and hurt as we are about this decision, there is no telling how Timothy Piazza’s parents are feeling.

One thing is certain though, seeing the former fraternity members being charged for their son’s death does not bring them joy, Tom Kline, Piazza’s attorney, said.

“The meaning can come from seeing justice because justice will mean more than punishment, justice will mean

deterrence as well,” Kline said.That is completely

understandable.No matter your beliefs, Piazza

died on the watch of other fraternity members and that should not be overlooked or dismissed.

There is insurmountable evidence that shows the fraternity brothers forced the pledges to drink dangerous amounts of alcohol.

It may come as no surprise that Beta Theta Pi fraternity members still consumed alcohol in the house even though the fraternity was supposed to be alcohol-free, but that still should not be OK.

Allowing for the fraternity to have alcohol only helps prove that the fraternity members held no regard for the rules. Not being able to follow the alcohol prohibition displays an act of arrogance from the members and their unwillingness to follow

the rules resulted in the death of a student.

Yes, some of the charges may have seemed harsh, but the fact of the matter is this: a student died and no matter how harsh the charges may seem, that is nothing compared to the loss of a life.

Piazza may have chosen to drink and rush in Beta Theta Pi, but to say that it was his own wrongdoing that resulted in his death is a flat out lie.

When Nicholas Kubera’s lawyer, Andre Shubin mentioned that Piazza knew he was going to get “f***ed up” at the pledge event, and that drinking is “part of greek life,” he only helped display the level of arrogance that some of the former fraternity members have.

Sure, drinking may be a part of greek life but dying isn’t and allowing for one of your fraternity members to die on your watch is inexcusable.

It is true that the judge did not drop all the charges and 14 of the fraternity members will still be going to trial – and if found guilty could face jail time – but dropping the most serious charges gives the impression that these men are not responsible for Piazza’s death.

Hazing pledge members should not be something that is normalized and disregarded, especially when those consequences can lead to death.

Furthermore, not calling the paramedics earlier or taking Piazza’s injuries seriously shows a lack of responsibility on the fraternity members’ part and disregard for human life.

Fraternity members call each other brothers, they consider themselves family, but if this is how the brothers of Beta Theta Pi treat each other, then all should have been charged for Piazza’s death.

People must be held

accountable for their actions and the judge’s ruling clearly demonstrated the opposite.

Penn State is a community. We are all neighbors, and the death of a student is a personal loss to us all. Thus, we should want justice for this horrific tragedy and those accused to be held responsible and punished accordingly.

We must stand strong together as a community to make sure this never happens again and that those involved understand the severity of their actions.

We applaud District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller in refiling charges. Like she said, “sometimes judges get it wrong” and we could not agree with her more.

Parents should not have to worry about their children joining greek life and they should especially not question whether their children will be safe when they attend Penn State.

Yet unfortunately, that’s what it has come down to and this ruling simply enhances that belief.

Even though no number of charges will bring Piazza back, that does not mean there should not be justice for this case, and the ruling on Friday failed to do just that.

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Texans have been put on notice by their government — if regulators don’t like the prices

you’re charging for your goods and services, they’ll come at you with the full force of the law.

Wait… what? Are we sure

this is the small- government,

threatens-to-secede-regularly-citing-federal-overreach Texas we know and love, and not the USSR?

The Texas government is cracking down on price gouging in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, and they’re not fooling around. Texas’ attorney general’s office has sternly warned possible price gougers and even set up a hotline for gouging complaints. Additionally, armies of pro-bono lawyers are descending on affected areas looking to fight disaster-related “scams,” including price gouging.

Reports cite $20 gallons of gas, $99 cases of water and hotel room prices jacked up nearly 300 percent, among over 500 other price gouging complaints submitted to the Texas Consumer Protection Division.

“These are things you can’t do in Texas,” Attorney General Ken Paxton said on CNBC. “There are significant penalties if you price gouge in a crisis like this.”

The thing is, price gouging is actually good.

Essential goods like water, gas and nonperishable food normally have a certain level of demand and a supply that can easily provide enough for everyone to have those goods cheaply. But when a hurricane inundates your city, it becomes very difficult for vendors to replenish their supply while demand for these goods spikes dramatically.

High demand and low supply lead to runs on stores and hoarding of essential goods, which run out, meaning anyone who shows up too late is unable to purchase the food or supplies that could possibly save their lives.

Consider a less severe example that most of us have experience with – snow storms.

As soon as the weatherman predicts we’ll be snowed in for a day or two, everyone heads to the grocery stores to load up on the essentials. Driven by caution, people grab an extra loaf of bread, a second jug of milk or one more can of corn than they really need. By the time it starts snowing, the shelves are empty and anyone yet to hit up the supermarket is out of luck, even if they actually need those goods.

If supermarkets raised their prices in the lead-up to a snow storm, people would be more thoughtful about what they buy, so shelves would stay mostly stocked. With the shelves

stocked, people who urgently need the food in the supermarket but could not come earlier can still get what they need, even if they have to pay inflated prices.

Occasionally during times of disasters like Hurricane Harvey, people attempt formal rationing schemes to distribute goods equally without price gouging. The issue is, rationing schemes are very difficult to put into place and enforce in the best of conditions — think gas rationing in the 1970s — and nearly impossible on just a couple days’ notice while the majority of your town is submerged.

Price gouging is the market’s natural way of rationing goods to those who value them the most. If a case of water costs $99, you’re not going to buy it if you’re just trying to stock up. You’ll only drop that kind of change if you need clean drinking water immediately to help save yours or others’ lives

Similarly, people probably won’t pay $20 per gallon for gas they plan to use in a generator that powers their TV, while someone would most likely pay that price to gas up the boat they’re saving people from flooded homes with.

In addition to encouraging hoarding that may take goods away from people who really need it, price gouging laws also suppress the supply of essential goods in the aftermath of a disaster.

If Houstonians are willing to

pay 200 percent extra for generators, then people elsewhere will notice, and bring generators to where they are needed, lured in by promises of a handsome profit. If prices were suppressed, it’d take longer for the generators to get where they’re needed, because people wouldn’t have the extra incentive to bring them.

If this all sounds cynical, that’s because it is. The real heroes of Harvey are of course the people who are volunteering to give, expecting nothing in return, because it’s the right thing to do. But many others need a bit more coaxing to help out, and if the free market can provide that, all the better.

There’s no ideal system to help everyone in disasters like Harvey — cities and towns underwater are not ideal situations. But as usual, the market provides the best way to distribute scarce resources between private individuals, while government interfer-ence does more to stroke politicians’ egos than help real people.

Tyler Olson is a sophomore majoring in broadcast journalism and political science and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email him at tso5043@psu.edu and follow him on Twitter at @TylerOlson1791.

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Nittany Lions collect big wins on the roadBy Tyler KingThe Daily Collegian

If this past weekend was any indication, Penn State will be pre-pared for any scenario it faces

this season.On Friday

night, the Nit-tany Lions pulled off an impres-

sive comeback in the opening set against top-ranked Stanford and never looked back, rolling to an upset victory in four sets.

The following evening, the Nittany Lions lost the first set against Texas A&M, but were able to battle back and avoid the upset in a five-set nail biter.

Coach Russ Rose’s squad faced all kinds of adversity over the weekend, but intense games back-to-back nights replicated an atmosphere similar to that of the NCAA Tournament.

The Nittany Lions could find themselves drawing on this ex-perience later in the year, as they proved they are already prepared for any late-game situation that arises during Big Ten play and beyond.

Entering Friday night’s match-up with the Cardinal, both teams were 3-0 and had yet to lose a single set.

Stanford jumped out to an early 10-5 lead, forcing Rose to call a timeout to settle his team down. The Nittany Lions battled back and cut Stanford’s lead to three, 19-16, midway through the set.

From there on, the Nittany Li-ons rattled off five straight points to take their first lead of the match, 21-19.

Penn State never lost the lead

in the first set after that point, and went on to take the 1-0 advan-tage in the match.

The Nittany Lions rolled with their momentum from the first set, and, despite excellent play from Stanford’s Kathryn Plum-mer, dominated the second set with a 25-17 victory.

In the team’s last match of the 2016 season, Penn State jumped out to a two sets to none lead in the regional round of the NCAA Tournament over top-seeded Nebraska, but failed to put the Cornhuskers away in the third set and never regained momen-tum, eventually losing the match in five sets.

Penn State faced the same sce-nario on Friday night when the Cardinal came back and forced a fourth set after winning the third frame by a convincing, 25-18 score.

But, this team appears to have already learned from its mistakes of last season.

The Nittany Lions jumped out to an early lead in the fourth set, but the Cardinal hung around, trailing by just three or four points for the majority of the set. But late in the match, the Nittany Lions could smell blood.

After Stanford cut the lead to 20-18, Penn State seized the match, scoring five of the last six points to win the fourth set, 25-19.

Penn State has already shown that it’s a much different team than last season, and Friday night’s upset is a prime example.

There is a lot of pressure on this senior class to bring another national championship banner to the rafters of Rec Hall, and, in the early going, they are performing

as if they will let nothing get in the way of achieving that goal.

Despite somewhat of an off night for star senior Simone Lee, she still managed to lead the team in kills, along with Abby De-tering, with 11 for the match.

Detering was the real star of the night, as she notched her first career triple-double with 11 kills,

23 assists and 10 digs.Saturday night, the Nittany

Lions faced the definition of a “trap” match when they faced off with the tournament host, Texas A&M, coming off the impressive upset victory over the top-ranked team in the country.

The Aggies put pressure on Penn State all night, and were

able to force a decisive fifth set.The Nittany Lions rallied to

avoid the upset, however, and will now head into next weekend’s re-match with Stanford at the B1G/PAC12 Challenge with even more pressure on their shoulders.

To email reporter: tbk5155@psu.edu.Follow him on Twitter at @King_TylerB.

Women’s soccer suffers first setback of the season

By Thomas SchlarpThe Daily Collegian

It took four games, but Penn State encountered its first blem-ish of the season Saturday night.

The No. 4 Nitta-ny Lions fell to the sixth-ranked West Virginia Mountain-eers 2-1 in Morgan-

town, dropping their record to 3-1. Despite tying West Virginia

with 12 shots and five corners a side during the game, Penn State’s opportunities lacked any real threat. Nine of Penn State’s shots didn’t come until the sec-ond half when the Nittany Lions went pedal-to-the-metal, trying to force the issue and tie the game with time running down.

“The ball didn’t fall our way tonight,” coach Erica Dambach said. “We didn’t make our own luck either.”

Mountaineer goalie Rylee Fos-ter was only forced to make one save on the night compared to Rose Chandler’s three, along

with a clutch goal line save from Penn State defender Ellie Jean in the closing minutes that kept Penn State within striking dis-tance.

The Mountaineers did their damage in the opening half, get-ting inaugural goals for the sea-son from both Sh’Nia Gordon and Lauren Segalla before the break.

Penn State’s only goal came from Emily Ogle, who converted her second penalty kick of the season and third straight game recording a point.

Despite the revved-up pres-sure for the final dozen minutes, Penn State failed to crack the stalwart West Virginia defense on a rain-soaked field.

Saturday’s contest marked the second consecutive game that the Nittany Lions fell behind on the scoreboard, the first being a 4-2 comeback win over Arkansas in Fayetteville.

“I think their response in the second half was good,” Dambach said.

“We had that discussion in the

locker room, a couple games into the season, first time dealing with this kind of adversity, and we needed to respond.”

Penn State will need to match its second half play for the en-tire 90 minutes in its upcoming Thursday matchup if it hopes to top ninth-ranked North Carolina in the Nittany Lions’ first appear-ance at Jeffrey Field since an Aug. 20 victory over Hofstra.

Although allowing multiple goals for a second game, the Nit-tany Lion defense looked more cohesive and made fewer glaring mistakes as Dambach continues to tinker with her backline rota-tion in preparation for conference play.

Crucial to the success of the team will be whether one of Penn State’s legion of potential scor-ers can step up and emerge as a go-to target, much like Marissa Sheva did for the opening games of the Nittany Lions’ schedule.

To email reporter: rts5199@psu.edu.Follow him on Twitter at @TSchlarp.

In-state rivalry focus of Narduzzi’s press conferenceBy Jack R. Hirsh

The Daily Collegian

Pitt coach Pat Narduzzi made some noise when the program announced it wouldn’t make any players available to the media this week, ahead of the Penn State-Pitt game this Saturday.

However, the third-year coach told reporters at his weekly press conference that muting his play-ers sends a message to his locker room that this isn’t just another game.

“It has nothing to do with keep-ing [the media] out. It’s just keep-ing our kids tight,” Narduzzi said. “All the talk should be about the game and the match-ups... it’s a big game, it really is, and I want our guys locked in. It’s an in-state rivalry, at least for us, and we’re going to prepare for it that way.”

He also said the lockout had nothing to do with any of the player’s performance academi-cally or concern about what any of them would say.

Is the Keystone Classic a ri-valry?

This year’s Keystone Classic will be just the second one since 2000, and with only two more matchups left in the current se-ries, some doubt there actually is a rivalry between the two Penn-sylvania schools.

Narduzzi said this game is a ri-valry game for the Panthers, but also that every game is important in its own way.

“Youngstown game was big

because it’s the first game of the season,” Narduzzi said.

“Penn State game is a big game because it’s an in-state rivalry game.”

He wouldn’t comment, howev-er, on how he thought the Nittany Lions felt about his team.

“I’m not going to speak for them,” Narduzzi said. “I know it’s a rivalry game for us, but some people think it’s a rivalry game, some people don’t. It doesn’t matter what they think. It just matters what we think, and if we think it is, then it is for us, and it doesn’t have to be for them. It re-ally doesn’t. Everybody has differ-ent rivalries.”

After 2019, the rivalry won’t be renewed until at least 2026, when both teams have yet to schedule a Power-5 opponent.

Wheel routesThere’s one play Narduzzi is

certainly preparing for when his team faces Penn State this week — Saquon Barkley wheel routes.

“I’m sure we’re going to see some wheel routes [from Bark-ley],” Narduzzi said. “I don’t know if you guys know what a wheel route is, but that wheel route, we saw a couple the other day. But we’ll have that ironed out in every different possible formation you can see.”

Barkley burned the Panthers last year on a wheel route for a 40-yard touchdown early in the second half of a 42-39 Pitt win. He also made the play famous against Iowa, and he did it again

for the go-ahead touchdown against Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship game.

It seems Narduzzi is keen on taking that play away from the Heisman trophy candidate

running back as he mentioned “wheel route” 11 different times in reference to Barkley.

“This week we’ll probably prac-tice the heck out of the wheel routes,” Narduzzi said. “And

they won’t run a wheel route. But you wasted a lot of time of wheel routes.”

To email reporter: jrh467@psu.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @Jr_HIrSHey.

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Head coach James Franklin embraces Pitt head coach Pat Narduzzi after their game at Heinz Field on Satur-

day, Sept. 10, 2016. Penn State lost 42-39.

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Emily Ogle (10) chests the ball during the NCAA tournament match

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Head coach Russ Rose talks to women’s volleyball players during the game against Rhode Island at Rec Hall

on Friday, Sept. 16, 2016. Penn State defeated Rhode Island 3-0.

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Field Hockey dominates opponents in second half

By Patrick BurnsThe Daily Collegian

Penn State football isn’t the only second half team in town.

Like its counterpart at Beaver Stadium, Penn State field hockey only gets stronger as the game goes on.

“I think our team really buys into being a strong second half team because they trust their fitness and their train-ing,” coach Charlene Morett-Cur-tiss said.

The No. 7 Nittany Lions (4-0) scored eight of their 11 goals this weekend in the second half en route to a 5-0 triumph over in-state rival Temple on Friday and a 6-0 win over No. 15 Wake Forest on Sunday.

For the first 35 minutes against the Owls, Penn State had all of the game’s chances, out-shooting Temple 14-0, but went into the locker room up just one goal.

The Nittany Lions found them-selves in a similar predicament on Sunday against the Demon Deacons.

“I told them at halftime, ‘we’re playing really well, but I know we can play better,’” Morett-Curtiss said. “This team plays so well to-gether, they play as a team, they have each other’s backs and they don’t leave anyone hanging on the field.”

After the halftime whistle, the Penn State defense continued to dominate, while the offense came to life, scoring four goals in each second half and leaving both the Owls and Wake Forest in its dust.

The two shutouts marked the first time since 2014 that Penn State held two consecutive op-ponents without a goal, when it defeated Drexel and Temple in Philadelphia.

The efforts of junior goalkeeper Jenny Rizzo kept each shutout intact.

While the Nittany Lions stifled Temple (0-3) to just one shot, Rizzo was tested far more of-ten against Wake Forest. Rizzo, a member of the United States U21 field hockey team, made nine saves against the Demon Dea-cons (1-3).

Following Sunday’s game, Riz-zo deflected credit to her team-

mates. “My defense was on, so it’s not like it was just a one-man team back there,” Rizzo said.

Redshirt junior back Cori Con-ley garnered praise from both Morett-Curtiss and Rizzo. Conley appeared in just three games last season, but shined this weekend for the blue and white.

“Cori just keeps getting better

with every game,” Morett-Curtiss said. “It’s great to see her compo-sure and her defensive skills.”

On the offensive end, junior forward Moira Putsch had three goals and two assists on the weekend while junior forward/midfielder Aurelia Meijer scored and assisted twice.

Penn State will have revenge

on its mind next Sunday, as it travels to take on their fourth ranked opponent of the season, No. 8 Princeton, which upset the Nittany Lions in the first round of last year’s NCAA Tourna-ment.

To email reporter: pab5404@psu.edu.

Follow him on Twitter at @PatrickBurnsPSU.

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Moira Putsch (18) pushes the ball down the field against Temple’s Ashley Kucera (28) during the game

against Temple held at the Field Hockey Complex on Friday night, Sept. 1.

By Katie NanasiThe Daily Collegian

Penn State heeded senior goaltender Evan Finney’s statement that “the best teams

don’t lose two in a row.”

Somewhat. The Nittany Lions

(0-1-2) had a relatively unpro-ductive road trip to California last weekend, tying both UC Irvine (2-1-1) and Loyola Mary-mount University (1-2-1) in dou-ble overtime.

Friday against the Anteaters, sophomore midfielder Aaron Molloy scored the only goal for the Nittany Lions, aided by ju-nior midfielder Austin Maloney and redshirt senior forward Sam Bollinger.

Sunday afternoon against the Lions, Molloy came through again, scoring the only goal for Penn State.

Coach Bob Warming spoke on the benefits of having play-ers from all over the world and how their different styles of play contribute to the success of the team as a whole. Molloy’s suc-cess is a clear representation of that.

Despite acknowledging that the collegiate game is far dif-ferent than what he’s used to in Ireland, Molloy has had no issues making the adjustment so far.

His pair of goals over the weekend are the only two the Nittany Lions have scored in more than 330 minutes of play so far this year.

Warming also touched on the fact that road trips do a lot for team bonding because it forces the players to be independent and take care of themselves as well as each other. In that as-pect, the road trip was not un-successful.

The bottom line is that it’s still extremely early in the sea-son.

Once the team gets into a rhythm and develops their chemistry a bit further, their success will be evident.

To email reporter: cen5153@psu.edu.Follow her on Twitter at @katienanasi.

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Multiple charges dropped in the Beta Theta Pi case

By Sam Ruland The Daily Collegian

BELLEFONTE -- After seven days of preliminary hearings, Judge Allen Sinclair dropped the most serious charges against the former Beta Theta Pi fraternity members connected to the death of Penn State sophomore Timo-thy Piazza.

Some of the more serious charges included involuntary manslaughter to aggravated as-sault, while the lesser charges including furnishing alcohol to minors. Eighteen former broth-ers were charged for their

alleged roles in Piazza’s death. Two waived their right to a pre-liminary hearing. Those facing lesser charges will face trial.

The decision comes after hours of questioning and cross exami-nation of Detective David Scic-chitano, the lead investigator in the case.

Parks Miller argued that the former fraternity members had been through the hazing them-selves and therefore knew of the possible outcome from consum-ing such large amounts alcohol.

“To say they could not fore-see this as a dangerous event, is absolute incredulous,” Parks

Miller said during closing argu-ments.

The defense pursued the lead that the cause of Piazza’s death could not be determined as video footage from the night in question was missing.

Parks Miller has been pursu-ing this case since investigations started in February after Piazza’s death. However, it is unlikely she will follow the trial to county court as she will be out of office in January after losing last spring’s primary.

To email reporter: sjr5472@psu.edu.Follow her on Twitter at @sam_ruland.

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Jim Piazza leaves the Centre County Courthouse alongside Tom Kline, the Piazza family lawyer, after the

preliminary hearing decision in the case of the death of his son, Timothy Piazza, on Friday, Sept. 1.

Defense lawyers: charges were ‘unwarranted and unfounded’

By Sarah Vasile The Daily Collegian

BELLEFONTE -- Former Beta Theta Pi brothers will not be fac-ing serious charges — including involuntary manslaughter, aggra-vated assault and simple assault — in the death of Timothy Piazza.

Theodore Simon, the lawyer for Luke Visser, called the charges “unwarranted and unfounded.”

“[We] recognize this as an aw-ful tragedy,” Simon said. “But unfortunately not every tragedy should result in serious criminal charges.”

Michael Engle said he was “thrilled” with the decision, add-ing that Judge Allen Sinclair made the right call. Similar senti-ments were expressed by Joseph Sala’s lawyer Leonard Ambrose.

DA Stacy Parks Miller plans to refile involuntary manslaughter, other dismissed charges against former Beta Theta Pi brothers.

Rocco Cipparone, who repre-sents Michael Bonatucci, said he was pleased about the charges dismissed. District Attorney Sta-cy Parks Miller said she’s plan-ning on refiling those charges, and Cipparone said he’s ready to “fight them head on” if that’s the case. Andrew Shubin, who represents Nicholas Kubera, said

if Parks Miller does refile the charges that she should also take a look at Tim Bream.

Bream, a Penn State athletic trainer who also served as Beta Theta Pi’s live-in adviser, was not originally charged in the case.

“Tim Bream is a Penn State administrator who, like other Penn State administrators, failed to take action to prevent something tragic from happen-ing,” Shubin said. “He chose to do nothing.” When Bream testified on Wednesday, he said he was not an “overseer” and called himself “a liaison” to the house’s cook. “He cared more about scrambled eggs than these boys,” Shubin said.

Engle added that DiBelo had “mixed emotions” regard-ing the decision and the case. “He’s relieved...but at the same time [he’s] never lost sight of the fact that a young man died,” Engle said. “That’s something...that’s not going to go away. This is not a happy day for him. I don’t think he consid-ers himself a winner here. I don’t think that there are any winners in this process.”

To email reporter: sev5109@psu.edu.Follow her on Twitter at @vasilethedeal.

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Leonard Ambrose, the defense attorney of Joe Sala, addresses the

media outside of the Centre County Courthouse on Friday, Sept. 1.

Students disappointed by hearing decisions

By Stephanie Panny The Daily Collegian

Members of the Penn State community were not pleased with Judge Allen Sinclair’s deci-sion to throw out serious charges in the Beta Theta Pi case. The consensus among many students was that the former Beta Theta Pi brothers had multiple oppor-tunities to save Timothy Piazza’s life.

Piazza died on Feb. 4 from in-juries suffered at a Beta Theta Pi pledging event two nights earlier.

“They were just thinking about themselves,” Jamie Williams (senior—broadcast journalism) said.

Others chimed in on the situa-tion.

“It was involuntary man-slaughter,” Christian Iosif said. “So, I don’t see why they’re not being charged for it. It was ac-cidental, but it is what it is. You can’t kinda go around it.” Centre County District Attorney Stacy Park Miller argued the former fraternity brothers knew the pos-sible dangers associated with the pledging event, while the defense argued the cause of Pi-azza’s death could not be clearly determined due to missing se-curity footage from the night in question. “How convenient,” ju-nior Morgan Vo said, regarding the footage. Vo said the former fraternity members should have been more responsible, as fur-ther investigation revealed some had continuously walked past his unconscious form and ignored him — even took pictures of him for their Snapchats.

To read full story, visit collegian.psu.edu.

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Former Beta Theta Pi president

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County Courthouse on Sept. 1.

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to Brand New’s brandBy Hyun Soo Lee

The Daily Collegian

After eight years since “Daisy,” Brand New has finally released its long-awaited fifth album, titled “Science Fiction.”

At 61 minutes long, it’s both a grand, sprawling synthesis of the band’s past work and an interest-ing step forward for the band’s sound. Sadly, it doesn’t quite match the heights of their two previous albums.

Where “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me” and “Daisy” succeeded in their seam-less blending of styles and well-rounded songs, “Science Fiction” seems to shuffle around clumsily and is rather inconsistent on a song-for-song basis.

Songs like “No Control” feel like a lazy retread through terri-tory the band has conquered in years past, while “Could Never Be Heaven,” a slow acoustic la-ment, is just not very exciting.

However, the album does see Brand New experimenting with new sounds and flourishes. The band continues in its vein of well-mixed guitars and varied per-cussion, with harmonious vocals featured top and center on tracks like “Lit Me Up,” the album’s moody opener.

“Same Logic/Teeth,” one of the highlights, has a neat horn ar-rangement laid on top of its Mod-est Mouse-style soul-searching, while the on-edge feeling “Des-ert” sports a catchy call-and-re-sponse chorus.

The main problem with “Sci-ence Fiction,” is that some of it sounds too generic for Brand New’s standards.

Moreover, it sounds inorganic. Whether it’s from a stiff quality in the vocal performance or a part of a song that sounds out of place, the tracks don’t seem to flow as smoothly as they should when

they all come together. And while it does display some

impressive musicianship, there aren’t a lot of memorable mo-ments spread throughout the al-bum’s lengthy running time.

Still, it manages to slip in a few surprises.

With “451,” the album’s penul-timate track, the band presents a groovy, Southern blues-rock romp of a chorus and, more important-ly, something you can dance to. It’s not exactly what you’d expect

from a band that made its name as one of the premier emo acts of the mid-2000s. But, especially coming this late into the album, it’s a refreshing change of pace and certainly a direction that the band should have explored fur-ther.

One of the album’s greatest as-sets is its extensive use of vocal harmonies, particularly from lead singer Jesse Lacey and his right-hand guitar man Vincent Accardi.

Lacey abstains from the soul-

crushed screaming prominent in much of the band’s output and instead sings with a more wea-ried, passive style in many of the songs.

Frankly, his languid delivery works well in some instances, but it’s off-putting in others, like he’s unsure of where to go with a line at a given moment.

This is perhaps best illus-trated in “137,” which, for me, ruins a potentially engaging and affecting song.

Lyrically, the album is a differ-ent beast. Lacey is on his game here, drawing from his trade-mark confessional style but with a more mature outlook since his “Devil and God” days.

The lyrics of “Waste” are a moving exchange between Lacey and his younger self, and “Des-ert” presents a satire of funda-mentalist Christian values.

In fact, if there’s one strength that holds throughout the album, it’s the storytelling. It’s among the finest the band has ever de-livered.

Though “Science Fiction” suf-fers from an overlong running time and some incongruous ele-ments, it’s a rewarding listen that should grow on you over time.

It may not be the revolution that rock music has been waiting for, but it still holds plenty of ap-peal for new and longtime fans of the band alike.

If this is indeed the last album before Brand New’s planned dis-bandment in 2018, it serves as a fitting end to a long and distin-guished career.

To email reporter: hxl271@psu.edu.Follow him on Twitter at @hlee_21.

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Garrett Tierney, bassist for Brand New, plays at the Bryce Jordan Center on Saturday November 12, 2016.

Key Tracks worth listening to:

“Waste”

“Same Logic/

Teeth”

“Out of Mana”

“451”