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Vol. 118, No. 72 Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017

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Running Back Saquon Barkley (26) celebrates after defeating Michigan 43-13 at Beaver

Stadium on Oct. 21.

Barkley still the best in college football

MY VIEW | JACK R. HIRSH

Saquon Barkley was the best player in college football this past season.

The eye test is all we need to realize that. However, he wasn’t invited to the Heisman Trophy Presentation in New York, and it’s not that shocking.

Instead, Louisville’s Lamar Jackson, Stanford’s Bryce Love and Oklahoma’s Baker Mayfield were selected as the three finalists.

Barkley’s final numbers on the regular season are good, but not great. His 1,134 rush-ing yards rank 33rd in the country, 21 total touchdowns rank fifth and his yards per carry average is just 5.7, good for 45th in the country.

He did become the second Nittany Lion to eclipse 2,000 all-purpose yards and finished second na-tionally in that cat-egory.

However, after averaging over 250 all-purpose yards through the first four games of the season, his p r o d u c t i o n dropped off and he finished at just under

180 yards per game, well behind leader Rashaad Penny, who averaged nearly 225 yards per game.

He didn’t keep up the production from his torrid September, he didn’t post the guady numbers we’ve seen from recent Heisman and, most importantly, he didn’t show up in crunch time in two of Penn State’s biggest games.

At halftime of the Ohio State g a m e , people were just

itching to hand Barkley the Trophy.

At that point, such a take wasn’t

so hot. Barkley had scored two touch-

downs in the first half against the Buckeyes — in-

cluding the game’s opening kickoff return — and the still undefeated Nittany Lions held an 11-point lead over their most daunting opponent.

However, Barkley had -3 yards in the second half, and the Nitta-ny Lions blew a 15-point fourth-quarter lead.

After that game, if Barkley was to win the Heisman, he needed to put up video-game numbers.

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

One last call

for ‘Skeller’

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The Rathskeller is located at 108 S. Pugh St.

By Aubree Raderthe daily collegian

After 85 years of serving State College residents and Penn State students, Rathskeller will soon close its doors for the final time.

Spat’s Cafe, under the same owner Duke Gastiger, will also shut down, according to a release.

“It has been a great honor operating these two iconic establishments and serving this community and its many truly wonderful patrons and friends,” Gastiger said in a press release. “We are grateful for the loyalty that people-- including our incred-ible employees-- have shown us over the years. We most regret closing with such short notice, but it was unavoid-able given the timeline dictated by the new prop-erty owners.”

Closing dates for both places have yet to be determined, and it’s unclear what will replace both establishments. The All-Ameri-can Rathskeller, located on the corner of College Avenue and South Pugh Street opened three days after the prohibition was lifted in 1933, according to the press release.

It is the longest continually operating bar in Pennsylvania. Duke purchased the “Skeller” in 1985 and is the fourth owner of the business. Spat’s Café and Speakeasy, which offers New Orleans in-spired meals, has been in State College since 1987.

Duke and his wife Monica Gastiger were recent-ly notified that their leases will not be renewed af-ter Neil and Chuck Herlocher bought the buildings under the name of Cornelius LLC in June 2017.


“It has been a great honor operating these two iconic establishments and serving this community and its many truly wonderful

patrons and friends”

Duke Gastiger

Owner

Hasan Minhaj speaking tonight

Associated Press

Hasan Minhaj is being brought to State College by the Paul Robeson

Cultural Center as part of their Radical Justice Speaker Series.

By Shelby Kaplanthe daily collegian

The Daily Show correspondent, Hasan Minhaj, will bring his opin-ions, political views and humor to the HUB-Robeson Center at the Freeman Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 5.

He is being brought to State College by the Paul Robeson Cul-tural Center as a part of a long list of acclaimed speakers for the Radical Justice Speaker Series.

After becoming a Senior Cor-respondent on The Daily Show in 2014, his career in comedy gave him the outlet to be more vo-cal about pressing issues in the United States.

Minhaj let his voice be heard

at this year’s White House Correspondent dinner.

Tickets are not required for this event, but a Penn State student I.D. must be provided at the door.

To email reporter: [email protected].

Follow her on Twitter at @_ShelbyKaplan_.

Radical Justice Speaker

When: Tonight at 6:30 p.m.

Where: Freeman Auditorium in the HUB-Robeson Center

Details: Penn State I.D. required at the door

INSIDE:

Halting pedestrian

accidents

Sam Lauriello

One Penn State class is helping to

stop pedestrian accidents.

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Finding common ground against tax bill

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Graduate assistant in sociology Nathaniel Porter holds a sign during

a demonstration for graduate employees on Feb. 17.

By Katie Johnstonthe daily collegian

In a turn of events, the Coali-tion of Graduate Employees and the Penn State administration have found themselves on com-mon ground.

The GOP tax bill has recent-ly passed through the House of Representatives and intro-duces a new tax that threatens the livelihood of some graduate students.

When accepted to graduate school, students can be offered a tuition waiver — a financial award that relieves students of paying tuition.

The tuition waivers are es-sentially a discount on tuition,

meaning students cannot use the money to pay rent or buy grocer-ies, for example, because it is not income that students can use to their discretion.

However, with the new tax bill, these tuition waivers would be taxed as income.

“Which would be devastating for graduate assistants because it would move us up into a higher tax bracket — one that we can’t afford as graduate assistants,” CGE Chief Media Officer Katie Warczak said.

“Many of us would likely be priced out of graduate school if that tax bill were to pass.”

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Residents speak out


Residents speak at the borough

council meeting regarding HARB.

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Editorial

Lindsey Shuey

The times are a-changin’, but not for

the better of State College.

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Nittany Lions in the NFL

Associated Press

See what former Nittany Lions are

up to in the NFL.

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Men’s basketball falls

Caitlin Lee

The Nittany Lions fall to Wisconsin

in yesterday’s match.

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local The Daily Collegian

By Laura Zaks FoR the collegian

The crosswalk signal on the cor-ner of South Allen Street and Col-lege Avenue blinked all through-out the day on Tuesday, Nov. 28.

According to an observational study conducted by Professor Tara Wyckoff ’s Comm 473 class, 272 pedestrians had chosen to ignore that signal, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. alone.

On the corner of Atherton Street and Park Avenue, the num-ber was 313. If these numbers are not alarming in their three digit presence — the news of pedestri-an death and injury should do the trick all on its own.

That’s right, type into a google search, “Pedestrian accidents in State College, PA.”

What do you think you’ll see?Maybe you’ll find the short

update written by Centre Daily Times on the two Penn State stu-dents who were hit by a 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee at the intersec-tion of South Garner Street and East Prospect Avenue on April 7, 2016. One was taken to the Mount Nittany Medical Center and the other girl was brought to UPMC Altoona by a medical helicopter.

Maybe you’ll even click on an article that reveals a 66 year-old man — Josef Blunschi — was killed between Allen Street and Shortlidge Road in February of 2015. This man was a graduate student working on his doctorate in energy and mineral engineer-ing at Penn State. Or take July 2014, when Eva O’Brien, 18, was jogging across North Atherton

Street and was struck by a Ford F-250 pickup truck.

The Park Avenue intersection wasn’t through. It took two more lives in the span of one year.

Joel Reed, 39, did not stop for a red traffic signal and collided with a vehicle.

Michael Eiben , 23, was hit on Sept. 7, 2015. He was airlifted to Geisinger Medical Center in Dan-ville and later, pronounced dead.

Enough was enough. In the year of Eiben’s death, State Col-lege finally found a Pedestrian Safety campaign in their midst, led by Professor Tara Wyckoff and her Comm 473 class.

Wyckoff took the campaign un-der her wing with the help of the State College Police Department; their collaboration would not have been possible without the Sustain-able Communities Collaborative

that connects any University Park faculty, students or staff with local partners and organi-zations to work on issues that affect the community.

Ilona Ballreich, from the SCC, speaks out on the pedes-trian safety issue. “After the fatal accidents kept happening, the [State College] borough decided something had to be done. Re-educating people, re-teaching behavior — it has to be done,” Ballreich said. “There’s a common theme that it’s the drivers’ fault; however, obser-vational studies show it’s the pedestrians who are distracted when crossing or those who ig-nore the traffic signal that con-tribute to the problem as well.”


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Harry Barrett, (Senior-Engineering Sciences), Yifeng Shi (Senior-Mechanical Engineering), and Mitch Tabor (Senior-Mechanical

Engineering) work on their senior capstone project at the Learning Factory on Dec. 4

putting a ‘cap’ on the semesterBillFrom Page 1.

Warczak (graduate-English) said after CGE sent a statement to Penn State administration es-sentially “demanding that Penn State take a firmer stance against the tax bill and put its full re-sources behind opposing it,” the administration got to work.

“We are very much strongly, strongly advocating against those changes,” Dean of the Graduate School Regina Vasilatos-Younken said. “That would be very harm-ful to students.”

Vasilatos-Younken said various members and rep-resentatives of Penn State’s administration have been “com-municating directly” with Pennsylvania representatives in Congress.

In addition, Vasilatos-Younken released a statement on the Graduate School at Penn State Facebook page in support of graduate assistants.

According to the statement, “The University is constantly monitoring the situation, con-tinuing to communicate with key Members of Congress, co-ordinating with national higher education organizations such as ACE, AAU, CGS, APLU, and even working with the Penn State Alumni Association’s Grassroots Network to engage alumni for further advocacy.”


Attempting to prevent pedestrian accidents

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Heather Wagner, a Comm 473 student, is dressed in a donut ring and

police cap to promote pedestrian safety on Nov. 1.

Excitement, surprise in alumni created ‘Bingocrate’ box

By RC McShaneFoR the collegian

Imagine getting a random box each month outside your door and not knowing at all what you ordered. Chosen from a huge database of subscription box services, it could be food, books, or even BDSM toys.

That’s what Bingocrate, created and ran by Dusan Surla and Kareem Lewis, offers.

Each month, a box is sent to the subscriber’s door filled with some-thing new and interesting every time. “Essentially, we hand pick which boxes we put into the database and then we have an al-gorithm that picks ran-domly from the database for each purchase,” Surla said. Surla and Lewis created Bingocrate only six months ago and it has been growing quickly ever since. It was at Penn State that the two met. Surla attended Penn State for one year, while Lewis graduated with a degree in computer science.

“We feel like it’s perfect for people who

want a little excitement or surprise once a month,” Surla said.

Surla describes how the idea came about for the both of them. “We both had subscriptions to Loot Crate at different points, and after two months, it gets bor-ing,” Surla said. “We thought about it and came to the conclusion it must be the same experience for every box and that’s

why we created Bingo-crate, to breakthrough that monotony.”

At this point Surla and Lewis have been adver-tising by word of mouth, which is how Alexander Boutros heard about it.

Boutros has been using the service for the past two months and has been enjoying it. He’s received two food boxes so far, one from Korea and one from France, and has brought

them into work each time. “It’s honestly been fun and people at work have started asking me about what I’ll get next, so it is a surprise to look forward to,” Boutros said.


“We feel like it’s perfect for people who want a little excitement or surprise once a month”

Dusan Surla

Creator of Bingocrate


State College mayor Elizabeth Goreham addresses a member of the

community during the weekly borough council meeting on April 3.

Residents response to proposed HARB

By Mikayla Corrigan the daily collegian

Public response to proposed Historical Architectural Review Board On Dec. 4, the State Col-lege Borough Council’s biweek-ly meeting had a full house in response to many community members wishing to speak in the public hearing on the pro-posed Historical Architectural Review Board Ordinance, also known as HARB.

The proposed ordinance would regulate the addition to or demolition of contributing buildings, or any new construc-tion, in State College’s Holmes Foster/Highlands and College Heights Historic Districts.

Earlier this year in Sep-tember, the Borough of State College launched the Heri-tage State College community engagement project.

Then on Nov. 13 meeting, the Council revised the ordinance to only “regulate full and partial de-molitions, new construction and additions to contributing proper-ties within the historic districts,” Borough Manager Thomas J. Fountaine, II said.

The proposed HARB will be are made up of seven individuals that will be appointed by Council to review such reinventions.

In last night’s meeting, the State College Borough Coun-cil was able to hear the public’s response on the proposed HARB Ordinance.

Throughout, the hours the topic was discussed with opinions from people in support, against and those who feel there is a lot more the council has to look into before the Ordinance’s passing.

To read full story, visit collegian.psu.edu

As many of you might have already heard — that is if you follow the news — the distinguished Rathskeller will be shutting down, as well as Spat’s Café.

Now we’re not here to express our distaste or happi-ness at the fact that these two places are closing, but rather the fact that more and more locally owned businesses continue to shut down.

For those who remember or were here when it happened, Kildare’s Pub was closed down. Then there was the boutique shop, Dwellings, near the Waffle Shop on College Ave. And now we have Skeller and Spat’s.

Though we still don’t know what will be replacing Skeller and Spat’s, this idea of getting rid of these mom and pop shops or bars takes away from what

makes State College so unique.We’re a college town as the

name suggests, not a city. And guess what? That’s the way we like it.

We didn’t choose to come to Penn State, to live in State College to feel as if we’re in any other typical place that houses a Target, an H&M or an absurd amount of unaffordable high-rises.

That’s not what makes State College the town we love and

admire. Having all these new renovations and big businesses taking over and infiltrating our town makes it seem as if we are in an entirely different place altogether.

Granted, this may be our fault. Are we, as students, creating a demand for these new high-rises? Or is the borough trying to have more non-students live here?

Regardless of the reason, we wish State College would still

keep some of its identity, and that starts with keeping its local businesses like Rathskeller.

Operating since 1933, Skeller is the oldest continually operating bar in Pennsylvania as previously reported by The Daily Collegian.

No matter if you have been to the bar or not, that’s still a cool trivia fact to have. It adds more personality to the town, not having another Target or Sheetz.

Yes, we know that instead of constantly criticizing every new thing, we should give the new property owners the chance to see what they are going to do with Rathskeller and Spat’s. It’s true that we should sometimes welcome change instead of always rejecting it. After all, that’s life — change, and more change.

However, not all change is good, and we definitely don’t think or welcome these new changes.

Like the legendary musician, Bob Dylan said, “the times they are a-changin’.” This applies to State College and for the most part, that’s fine. But please, don’t strip or shut down everything about what makes State College, State College, starting with Skeller.

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The times they are a-changin’, but not for the better

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More high school graduates are enrolling in American col-leges or universities than ever

before as many professions are now requiring new employees to have some form of second-ary education.

And that’s wonderful. The beautiful thing about the United

States is it gives us the freedom to choose our careers, so long as we are qualified to work in our desired fields.

To get our desired jobs, we have to go to college and take courses that teach us the infor-mation and skills necessary to succeed in the profession. The problem, though, is that many of us students have to pay tens of thousands of dollars to enroll in college classes. And considering we’re going to school to get a

job so we can make money, most of us don’t have anywhere near enough money to pay tuition costs on our own.

So we seek financial as-sistance, either from family members, private banks, the government or the school itself. In many cases, this assistance comes in the form of loans, which we eventually have to pay back.

I say eventually because it takes years for us to earn enough income to pay off these loans.

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the standard repayment option for student loans gives the borrower 10 years to repay their loan. The payments are fixed amounts during the 10-year term for this plan. Other plans, such as the graduated repayment option and the extended repayment option, have varying costs for each pay-ment, but higher interest rates

are attached to the overall plan. Either way, it’s far from easy

for recent graduates to start their careers with entry-level salaries and pay off their thou-sands of dollars-worth of loans in a 10-year period, even as they work their way through the ranks and make more money.

And this problem extends beyond the borrowers’ personal finances. The money he’s earn-ing from his job is going toward paying back the loans instead of being invested into businesses that pay their employees who can continue cycling the money.

To make college more afford-able, many people are advocat-ing for free secondary education.

Supporters of free education say our nation would benefit from more citizens going to col-lege, earning degrees and get-ting jobs without having to worry about repaying their loans.

If college were free, the cost of tuition would be covered by

the government and those who call for free education are perfectly fine with that. They believe secondary education is a right for all humans that should be provided to them by the government.

The downside to free higher education is that students could be less inclined to work as hard to get their degrees as they otherwise would if they were paying for them. There’s a difference between more af-fordable and free.

And if everyone could attend college and get an education, their degrees wouldn’t be as valuable because everyone would have one. Sure, a math-ematics degree from M.I.T. looks better than one from plenty of other colleges, but the students from the other colleges are still getting a math degree.


MY VIEW | MATT MARTELL

College should be incentivized, not insanely expensive

OUR VIEW

State College continues to take away everything that makes the town so unique and loved by so many.

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Onward State article

fails to provide accurate

informationThis letter was written by

the first cohort of the Millenni-um Scholars Program (MSP) as a response to the Onward State article and its wrongful claims about the MSP, its stu-dents and people associated with the program.

The Millennium Scholars are a group of underrepresented students who want to contrib-ute to the world in a positive manner — through research in STEM fields.

The MSP is challenging: It is meant to be. The administra-tors of MSP have gone above and beyond to utilize the resources that our university has to build a program that is equally as supportive. CAPS came to Summer Bridge to teach us about relaxation, exam anxiety, and stress management/reduc-tion. We had weekly activities scheduled to break up our aca-demic schedules. We have advisers on staff whose sole purpose is to meet with us reg-ularly to ensure our well-being and success. We have a mentoring program that match-es older students with younger students. We are truly a family and as the first class of many

that this program will benefit, we needed to speak out against these false claims.

The MSP has made a college degree a possibility for many of us. Multiple students within the program would have been financially unable to attend Penn State without the support of the MSP. Because of the financial, academic and person-al support of the MSP, and those who support the pro-gram, we are now earning graduate degrees and contributing to STEM fields through research and advancements at John’s Hop-kins, University of Michigan, Yale, Penn, NYU, UC Santa Barbara, National Institutes of Health, Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Illinois Urbana Champagne and professionally at Exxon and Epic Systems.

As alumni of the MSP and of Penn State, we request that the Onward State article be retract-ed, as it includes misleading information. This could damage the reputation of this program, and the reputations of all the people who worked so hard for it to succeed.

Here is a list of literature detailing the successes of the Meyerhoff Program (which the MSP is modeled after). Most of these studies specifically cite the Summer Bridge Program

as being essential to increasing representation of minorities in the STEM fields at the gradu-ate level.

This road was long, and it was tough -- but it was worth every bit of the hard work. Comparing the work of diligent-ly trained education professionals to the hazing that led to the devastat-ing passing of a fellow Penn State student is outrageous.

Sincerely,All members of the first

graduating cohort of the Mil-lennium Scholars Program

Taylor Soucy (Chemistry ‘17)Nico Mesyngier (Engineering

Science ‘17)Liyana Ido (Biochemistry ‘17)Sachira Denagamage (Biolo-

gy ‘17)Rebecca Plessel (Biochemis-

try ‘17)Kaleb Bogale (Biology ‘17)Luke Gockowski (Mechanical

Engineering ‘17)Victoria Spadafora (Biochem-

istry ‘17 & Toxicology ‘17)Alek Piasecki (Chemical

Engineering ‘17)Victor Acero (Engineering

Science ‘17)Emily Cribas (Biochemistry

‘17)Kevin Wang (Mechanical

Engineering ’17)Jason Turner (Aerospace

Engineering ’17 & Engineering Science ’17)

LETTERS

SPoRTS TuesDay, DeC. 5, 2017

Nittany Lions in the NFL: Week 13


Raquel Rodriguez (11) gets challenged during the NCAA tournament

match at Jeffrey Field on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015.

By Tyler King the daily collegian

With the current Penn State football team having just one game remaining in the 2017 season, Nittany Lions fans still have plenty of former players to cheer for on Sundays.

With several of the usual play-ers that appear in our weekly series having mediocre perfor-mances on Sunday, a few lesser known players stepped up with big games during Week 13 of the NFL season.

Let’s start off with one of the staples of Linebacker U from the early 2000s.

Paul PoslusznyThe Jacksonville Jaguars

have been one of the more sur-prising teams in the NFL this season, and a lot of that has to do with the outstanding play of the defensive unit as a whole. Posluszny and the Jags had an-other dominating performance on Sunday in the 30-10 win over the Colts. “Poz” was all over the field in the win, racking up 14 total tackles. He also helped get to the quarterback, contributing 1.5 sacks, his first of the season.

Robbie GouldThe longtime Chicago Bear

returned to face off his for-mer team on Sunday and had a memorable performance. Gould scored all 15 of the 49ers’ points, converting all five of his field goal attempts, including the game-winner with just four seconds remaining in the game. Even in his 13th NFL season, Gould has made 93 percent of his field goal attempts and has been the lone reliable contribu-tor of San Francisco’s offense.

DaQuan Jones After making his first appear-

ance in our weekly series for the first time last week, Jones fol-lowed up with another solid per-formance on Sunday. Jones has

started all 12 games for the Ti-tans this season and is beginning to make his presence felt. Coming off his multi-sack game against the Colts, Jones picked up 1.5 sacks in his team’s win over the Texans this week. He also totaled five tackles and helped contrib-ute to holding Houston to just 13 points.

NaVorro Bowman Bowman continues to be a big

impact for the Oakland Raiders defense. The unit was struggling until it added Bowman midway through the season. But now, it has improved with the eight-year veteran’s play. After picking up the Raiders’ first interception of the season last week, Bowman followed that performance up

with nine tackles in his team’s win over the Giants on Sunday. Bowman and the rest of the de-fense came up big late, shutting down the New York offense and picking up crucial stops.

Sean LeeAfter another extended absence

for a hamstring injury, Lee appears to be set return next week against the Giants. The Cowboys have struggled mightily without their best defender, Lee. The Cowboys desperately need Lee to return and play at the level he was earlier this season as Dallas is currently 6-6 and fighting to stay relevant in the NFC Playoff Picture.


Follow him on Twitter at @King_TylerB.

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Former Nittany Lion Robbie Gould (9) celebrates after kicking the

game-winning field goal with 4 seconds left in the game.

This week in Penn State sports history

By Matt Lingerman the daily collegian

This week in Penn State sports history, we revisit the 2015 title run of the Nittany Lion women’s soccer team.

In the program’s 22nd year of competition as a part of the NCAA and coming off of its sixth Big Ten Tournament title, Penn State was in search of its first-ever national championship.

After beating Big Ten runner-up Rutgers in the College Cup semifinals, the No. 6 Nittany Li-ons faced off against No. 20 Duke in Cary, North Carolina, with the national title on the line.

The game’s first goal proved to be decisive, as midfielder Raquel “Rocky” Rodriguez gave the Nit-tany Lions the only lead of the game en route to a 1-0 victory.

“This is what we work for,” Ro-driguez told The Daily Collegian in 2015.

“It’s a dream come true for not only me, but the whole team,” Ro-driguez said about winning the championship.

The championship came three years after Penn State’s only other College Cup final ap-pearance, when the Nittany Li-ons lost to North Carolina, 4-1.

Penn State’s win against Duke also capped off an eight-game shutout streak from the backline, led by current Nation-al Women’s Soccer League goal-keeper Britt Eckerstrom.

Current coach Erica Dam-bach was in her ninth year at the helm of the Nittany Lions at the time, and 18 members of this year’s squad were on the nation-al title team.

“I’m so proud of this entire team, specifically these group of seniors,” Dambach told The Daily Collegian in 2015. “This is the pinnacle of your career. One of the things that’s been a hall-mark of this program and this team this year is consistency. You couldn’t have scripted a bet-ter way to finish off a college ca-reer.”


Follow him on Twitter at @linger_man.

Replacing Isheem Young: Top football recruits

By Ben Jenkinsthe daily collegian

Since Isheem Young’s sudden departure from Penn State’s 2018 recruiting class left anoth-er open spot in the Nittany Lions now fourth-ranked class, here are a few names that Penn State fans should keep an eye on in the coming weeks. With coaches hot on the recruiting trail, major commitments expected to come in within the next few weeks and the early signing period rapidly approaching, Penn State’s four open spots could fill with any of these names very shortly.

Kwantel Raines Raines, a four-star safety

according to 247sports, listed Penn State as one of his top schools prior to committing to West Virginia. It’s difficult to tell if Penn State is a serious threat to flip Raines from the Moun-taineers, however. When men-tioning Raines’ commitment to West Virginia, it’s important to note that it came Oct. 30, when Penn State had 22 members in the class including two safe-ties (Young and 3-star Isaiah Humphries, who is still commit-ted to the Nittany Lions). With Young gone, it’s possible Penn State could flip Raines before signing day.

Solomon Enis Not only does 247sports have

Solomon Enis as a 100 percent Penn State lock in their Crystal Ball feature, the 4-star wide re-ceiver from Phoenix, Arizona, also has a special connection to Penn State. His father, Cur-tis Enis, played football for the Nittany Lions. In total, Enis, the second-ranked player in Arizo-na, has 17 offers, including Ari-zona State and USC, along with Penn State. With Young’s de-commitment, it’s possible Enis will now have a spot that previ-ously didn’t exist for him.

Rasheed Walker Many Penn State fans would

be thrilled to have another offen-sive lineman commit to the Nitta-ny Lions, and offensive tackle Ra-sheed Walker would be a good fit. The 6-foot-6, 300-pound lineman is the No. 4 player in the state of Maryland, and a 93 percent lock to become a Nittany Lion, according to 247sports. Also helping Penn State in the battle to get Walker is James Franklin’s newest hire, Tyler Bowen. Bowen, formerly the offensive line coach at Mary-land, heavily recruited Walker in his time with the Terrapins. Hir-ing Bowen could make a positive impact on the Nittany Lions prior to the season even beginning.

Tyreke Smith Although many projected

Smith to commit to Penn State prior to Young’s departure, free-ing up a spot could certainly help confirm that projection. Smith, a four-star defensive end who’s listed as the third best player in Ohio according to 247sports,

is currently a 55 percent Penn State lean. Until recently, Smith had been projected to sign with the Buckeyes. Smith’s decision will come January 4 at the Under Armour All-America Game in Or-lando, Florida.

Tyler Friday The second-best player in New

Jersey according to 247sports, four-star defensive tackle Tyler Friday would be a great addition to an already strong defensive class.

Unfortunately for the Nittany Lions, Friday looks like an al-most-lock to pick Michigan. How-ever, Friday did list Penn State in his top five choices, keeping some hope alive for the blue and white. With an extra spot open, it’s pos-sible Penn State goes after Friday much harder, knowing they now have a spot for him to take.


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Guy Gadowsky speaks to the media during the Men’s Hockey Media Day

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Clutch play makes difference vs. OSU

By Dylan Jacobsthe daily collegian

Andrew Sturtz has been Penn State’s leader all season and when the team needed some

clutch goals this week-end, he delivered.

Sturtz’ performance helped the Nittany Lions go unbeaten

in this past weekend’s series against Ohio State.

Penn State earned a tie on Fri-day, thanks to a goal from Sturtz, which couldn’t have come at a better time.

With 15 seconds left, the Buck-eyes held the puck against the boards and it looked like time was going to run out.

But the puck popped out of the scrum, and eventually, onto Sturtz’s stick, who ripped a shot from the point to tie the game at the buzzer.

“My idea was, if the puck popped out, I had to get the puck to the net,” Sturtz said. “I knew that I had to clear the first guy’s

stick and get the puck back on the ice so the goalie couldn’t see it.”

That goal tied the game at five, and Penn State went on to earn an extra point in the shoot-out.

Sometimes, scoring a goal that late may make it tough for a team to refocus, but that wasn’t a problem on Friday.

“It was nice that [the refs] were looking at the goal,” coach Guy Gadowsky said. “It gave us some time. I thought that really helped us.”

Sturtz didn’t stop there though, as he scored in the shootout, which was all the Nittany Lions need to earn the extra point. He continued his strong play during Saturday’s 4-0 win, scoring the team’s first goal, while shorthanded, in the second period.

Penn State has scored three shorthanded goals this season, all by Sturtz.


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Nittany Lions fall to WisconsinBy Thomas Schlarp

the daily collegian

As Tony Carr comes and goes, so too does the success of Penn State basketball. A rough night

from the star point guard translated to a poor shooting p e r f o r m a n c e

from the team in the Nittany Li-ons’ 64-63 dramatic loss at the hands of Wisconsin.

As per usual Penn State start-ed out strong, dominating down low even with the presence of All-American Ethan Happ guard-ing the paint. The Nittany Lions jumped out to an early 13-8 start, hitting four of their first five shots thanks to three buckets from big man Mike Watkins.

The offense quickly cooled off as Penn State only hit one of its next seven field goal attempts and entered the half missing six straight. Wisconsin rode into the locker room on a high, convert-ing on its last five shot attempts to take a 31-25 lead into the break.

Penn State continued to search for its shot in the second half to no success. The Nittany Lions only shot 36 percent from the field as the Badgers continued to roll thanks in part to eight points from Nate Reuvers in the second half, on in relief for the foul-belea-guered Happ.

Penn State made a 16-3 run late in the game to close the Wiscon-sin lead to one with 45 seconds left in the game on two Shep Gar-ner free throws, but the Badgers held on to close out the game.

Carr stuck in neutralMonday night was a game to

forget for Tony Carr. Carr made his second shot of the night, but

that would be it for the sopho-more until 18:34 remained in the second half before he made a sec-ond basket.

The team leader in scoring heading into the night managed just one field goal and two con-verted free throws in the first half,

finishing 1-of-9 before the break.Carr didn’t fare much better in

the second half as the Wisconsin lead only grew. The Philadelphia

native hit four of his 13 second half shots to finish the night with 16 points.

Carr had a chance to win the game with one second remain-ing, but his three point attempt was no good, his 17th miss of the night.

Watkins finds successEven with the hype around

Wisconsin forward Ethan Happ preceding Monday’s contest, there was no backing down from Penn State’s own star big man.

The two towers each ex-changed fouls and two free throws to begin the game, before Penn State began targeting Wat-kins down low on four of its first five possessions.

Of the sophomore’s first three baskets, two were for big slams that put the white-out crowd on its feet.

Three quick blocks from the 6-foot-9 force and it appeared as though Penn State had found the key to beating the Badgers, but as Wisconsin increased its lead, the Nittany Lions were forced to look elsewhere for other scoring options.

Watkins finished an efficient night with 22 points on nine of 13 shooting and eight rebounds. He held Happ in check all night and forced the junior to miss much of the game with foul trouble. Happ played 28 minutes and scored nine points. He fouled out with 14 seconds remaining as Penn State clung to life.

Next time outPenn State continues its two-

game homestand Saturday when it takes on George Washington.


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Forward Mike Watkins (24) blocks a shot during the game against Wisconsin at the Bryce Jordan Center on

Monday, December 4. Wisconsin defeated Penn State 64-63.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

More offensive struggles for Penn StateBy Tyler Kingthe daily collegian

Basketball is all about mak-ing shots, and Penn State simply didn’t make enough of them on

Monday night.The Nittany

Lions got off to a slow start against a Wis-

consin team desperate to avoid an 0-2 start in Big Ten Play and were not able to turn things around enough to cap off the comeback bid in the 64-63 loss.

The Badgers are a team that likes to control the tempo in the game and play at a slow pace in

order to avoid teams from being able to run in the open floor.

Coach Pat Chambers cer-tainly likes his team to play at a fast pace and his guys did not respond well when they weren’t able to create any sort of flow on offense.

The Nittany Lions ended up shooting just 35.7 percent for the game, but are still confident in themselves and their ability to score.

“We all have tough games,” se-nior Shep Garner said postgame. “It’s fine. We’ll move forward and get better.”

After making over 50 percent of its 3s on the road win over Iowa

on Saturday, it was expected that Penn State wouldn’t be able to have that much success against a good defensive team like Wiscon-sin.

But the Nit-tany Lions simply couldn’t get any-thing going from 3-point range on Monday, making just two of 14 at-tempts from be-yond the arc.

“We missed a few tonight that we normally hit,” Garner said.

Penn State’s best player, and best 3-point shooter, Tony Carr, especially felt some of those 3-point woes as he was 0-for-3 from beyond the arc, including missing a poten-tial game-winning shot in the waning seconds.

Carr came into the game as Penn State’s leading scorer and second in the Big Ten in that cate-gory averaging over 20 points per game, but shot just 5-of-22 from the field against the Badgers.

Despite already being a star player in the conference, Carr is still a young player, playing in just his 42nd career college basketball game on Monday night.

Garner is the senior leader

on this Penn State team, but his message to his younger team-mates was fairly simple after the loss.

“I just told them we’re fine,” Garner said. “We’ll watch film and get better.”

Despite his struggles in the game, Chambers still trusted Carr to take that final shot and will continue to do so in similar situations going forward.

“He’s shooting incredible from 3-point range this season, maybe not tonight, but I still have to trust

his decision,” Chambers said. “I don’t know what he saw, but he’s a heck of a player that makes re-ally good decision, so I’m going to trust that decision.”

Should Carr have taken the ball to the hoop and tried to draw a foul instead of taking an off-bal-ance 3-pointer? Probably.

But that wasn’t the play that lost Penn State the game, accord-ing to Chambers.


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Shep Garner (33) moves past Wisconsin during the game against Wisconsin at the Bryce

Jordan Center on Monday, December 4. Wisconsin defeated Penn State 64-63.

MEN’S BASKETBALL


Mike Watkins (24) reacts to a call made during the game against

Wisconsin at the Bryce Jordan Center on Monday, December 4.

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