Vol. 118, No. 8

‘I have a dream’By Lauren LeeThe Daily Collegian

Standing in front of a glimmer-ing metallic wall etched with im-ages of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Rec Hall, Janelle Bullock lead the crowd with the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson.

A crowd of around 200 people from different ages and back-grounds joined Bullock in her song to celebrate the opening ceremony of the new Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza on Fra-ser Street. Bullock (sophomore-broadcast journalism) said her experience at the commemora-tion comes full circle since she is a Bunton-Waller scholar, which is one of the names written on a stone in the new plaza.

“I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for those people paving the way for me,” Bullock said. “It’s per-sonal as it is universal for people of color in America.”

Event highlightsAround 10 a.m. on Monday,

people flocked to Fraser Street to witness the official ribbon cutting opening ceremony of the plaza. The event was purposely sched-uled for Aug. 28, in commemora-tion of the 54th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington, D.C. where King gave his unforget-table “I Have a Dream” speech.

Formerly known as the Fraser Plaza, former State College Bor-ough Council Member Peter Mor-ris began organizing the plan to

rename the space to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza in 2012.

Created in collaboration with Caliber contracting services, the focal point of the plaza includes a metal curved wall, with pic-tures taken from King’s visit to Penn State on Jan. 21, 1965, just two months after he received the Nobel Peace Prize for civil rights and social justice.

The plaza includes a main area filled with pavers stating historic moments in King’s life and other events related to the civil rights movement.

The area provides places to sit and a stage open to live perfor-mances for the community. At the corner of Fraser Street and Bea-ver Avenue also stand six pillars to portray King’s philosophies.

Morris said while the plaza reflects on historical events, he always wanted the place to be rel-evant to what is happening today in this country, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, bigotry against Muslims, immigrants and refugees and the recent protests and death of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville.

A series of prominent speakers took part in the ceremony, where they each took turns reflecting King’s legacy and the social con-ditions in the State College com-munity and beyond. Many of the speakers referred to both King’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the speech he gave 52 years ago at Rec Hall, relating the struggles during his time to current events.

Charles Dumas, professor

emeritus in Penn State’s School of Theatre, started the program reciting portions of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Dumas, along with his church group, went to the Lincoln Memorial in Wash-ington, D.C. 54 years ago to listen to King speak.

“King was the greatest orator of our time,” Dumas said.

Dr. Barbara Farmer, a Penn State assistant professor of Afri-can American studies and women studies, also spoke to the crowd reflecting on her experience watching King’s speech in Wash-ington, D.C. in 1963.

Farmer said while listening to King speak, she wondered if the March on Washington would truly change the world.

“Little did I know that 54 years later, I would be standing here to commemorate that time and see evidence of what Martin Luther King desired as people and as a community,” Farmer said. “It warms my heart.”

PERSPECTIVES ON

LEGACIESNative to the State College

area, Janelle Bullock said it was an honor to be asked by her fellow church member, Farmer, to sing at Monday’s event. When Bullock walks through the plaza, she said she feels energized and inspired. Bullock said looking at the plaza makes her feel like she is here for a “divine purpose.”

“To see the legacies on the ground or on the wall inspires

me to become someone that can carry this legacy on and make it something bigger,” Bullock said.

Because she is part of the younger generation, Bullock said she looks at the plaza mostly for inspiration in times of discour-agement.

Bullock said there is a connec-tion between King’s generation and today’s modern generation through the resilience she sees from student activists on campus.

“I believe there are still some things that need to be fixed,” Bull-ock said. “But it’s nothing that we can’t overcome.”

Sitting in the audience, Can-dace Lyons and Victoria Peurifoy said this commemoration of King is a long time coming.

Both Lyons and Peurifoy have been residents of State College for 22 years. Living in a different generation than Bullock, Lyons said she has seen some social change in State College in com-parison to when she first came to the area.

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“I wouldn’t be here

if it wasn’t for those

people paving the

way for me.”

Janelle Bullock

(sophomore-broadcaast journalism)

Nittany Lions in the NFL: Mid-preseason edition

By Tyler King The Daily Collegian

Although Bill O’Brien was only Penn State’s head coach for two seasons, he made a large impact on the program and the players within it.

Those players who decided to stay at Penn State when O’Brien took over had a profound effect on the program, and many of them now find themselves on NFL rosters.

In the second edition of this new series highlighting former Nittany Lions playing at the next level, we’ll take a look at five players that were part of the

select group that wore names on the back of their uniforms.

Let’s jump right in and discuss one of the most highly anticipated recruits to come to Penn State this century, who is now trying to establish himself as an NFL quarterback.

Christian HackenbergLast week we highlighted the

man that Hackenberg supersed-ed under center, Matt McGloin.

Now, let’s take a look at the only other former Penn State quarterback with a current NFL contract.

See footbaLL, Page 2.By Shelby Kaplan

The Daily Collegian

The Common Application left many high school seniors in dis-tress, without sleep and confused.

Without a good support system the college application process can be intimidating to many, how-ever, FORM, a new organization on campus, wants to end students struggling.

Sophomores Daniel Zahn and Cory Steinle have spent the past year creating FORM Consulting, or Future Opportunities Reached by Mentor consulting.

In October of 2016, Steinle came to University Park with a preempted idea of starting a non-profit to help underprivi-leged high school students with their college application process. Together, Steinle and Zahn took the first steps to start not the non-profit, but a campus club, allow-ing more students to get involved.

“We want to start as a club, and localize the organization first,” Zahn (sophomore-com-munication arts and sciences, English, and philosophy) said. “We’re taking the first steps to get it grounded and seeing where it expands.”

The goal of FORM consulting is to help first generation college students get through their col-lege applications, scholarship applications and the entire pro-cess altogether.

“A lot of underprivileged stu-dents don’t have help from their parents or counselors and go into the Common App blind,” Zahn said. “We’re not telling students to go to college, but for those who do, we want to encourage them in any way pos-sible.”

Steinle said he does not want anyone to face that stress alone.

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Organization eases stress of college application process

Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017

Program to emphasis alcohol violations

By Aubree RaderThe Daily Collegian

The State College and Penn State Police Departments will continue the Neighborhood En-forcement and Alcohol Team for the fall 2017 semester, according to a press release. The NEAT partnership is responsible for teams who focus on noise com-plaints, criminal mischief, pub-lic urination and open container violations during Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, ac-cording to the release.

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

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Police wait to arrest a student for

public urination on Feb. 25.

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Soccer coach’s victorious team

Column

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Trump breaks tradition

Associated Press

Head soccer coach Dambach

constructs a program perfect to

lead the Nittany Lions to victory.

Our columnist Matt Martell writes

about the relevence of MLK Jr.’s

speech in today’s society.

President Donald Trump has

decided to not attend the Kennedy

Center Honors -- students react.

Women’s VBall expected to win

Aabha Vora

Women’s Volleyball expects to have

a winning season, writes columnist

Stephanie Panny.

Couple charged in hitman scheme

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A State College couple was charged

for their involvement in a murder for

hire scheme.

Associated Press

A recap of all the excitement that

took place during the 2017 MTV

Video and Music awards.

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Preston Williams, associate chaplain at Penn State in the late 1950s

and early 1960s gives the keynote speech during the Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr. Plaza ribbon-cutting ceremony on Aug. 28.

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Members of the Future Opportunities Reached by Mentoring

consulting program pose in front of Old Main.

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State College residents charged in murder for hire scheme

By Emma AndreasenThe Daily Collegian

A heroin arrest unraveled into murder-for-hire allegations for two State College residents, all beginning with a routine traffic stop.

Christopher Jerome Pickard, 29, was pulled over by a state trooper on Aug. 3 for an unspeci-fied vehicle code violation. He gave a fake I.D. to the trooper who consequently searched the car, finding 813 bags of heroin, ac-cording to court documents.

Pickard was arrested on heroin dealing charges, which proved to be just the beginning of the end for him. There was a passenger in the car when Pickard was arrest-ed, who later became the target of the murder-for-hire scheme. After his arrest, Pickard began to suspect that the passenger in his car was cooperating with, or,

as Pickard put it, “ratting” on him to the police in the drug investiga-tion, according to the court docu-ments.

That’s when Pickard’s girl-friend and, as of recently, co-de-fendant Latrice Harrington, 27, came into the picture. The two worked together to arrange the hire of a hitman in the hopes of getting the drug charges dropped.

“This is a clear example of the ‘stop snitching’ culture that is pervasive in drug cases and cities like Philadelphia,” Chester Coun-ty District Attorney Tom Hogan said. “Criminals should be aware that they only make a bad situa-tion worse for themselves when they try these tactics in Chester County.”

Not only did the charges go from heroin dealing to conspiracy and solicitation for murder, but Pickard and Harrington hired a hitman that was an undercover

cop, according to the court doc-uments, which ensured both their arrests and the safety of the victim.

Pickard offered the hitman $2,000 cash and an ounce of the “dog food,” which is code for heroin, to kill the victim, according to the court docu-ments. Harrington worked with Pickard to funnel communica-tions and deliver the $300 down payment to the hitman, along with two firearms.

The defendants have been charged with conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder, weapons charge and related offenses, which for Pickard is on top of the heroin dealing charges, according to court documents.

To email reporter: eza@psu.edu.

Follow her on Twitter at @Emma__andreasen.

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“There was a time where I could not get a meeting to have a place for my business,” said Lyons, owner of Styles by Can-dace hair salon. “But there’s always going to be road blocks. You just have to keep going for-ward to get their respect.”

Lyons said she’s noticing how more black businesses are opening up and being talk-ed about, and that residents should help support them.

Peurifoy said she sees a lot of change visually through memorials such as the plaza, but she believes there is more change coming from the stu-dents at Penn State.

Keynote Speaker Dr. Pres-ton Williams, a professor emeritus at Harvard Divin-ity School, spoke about how society is gradually moving towards King’s dream of a be-loved community through love and justice.

“In this day when facts are often ignored or misrepre-sented, the plaza can become a place where citizens can discover and dramatize the truth,” Williams said. “Where distractions and provocations of doing evil and violence can be uncovered and set aside.”

To email reporter: lml5489@psu.edu.

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The process to gain university recognition was extensive.

Zahn and Steinle sat through multiple meetings and filled out pages upon pages of paper work until one year later, they are up and running.

“We weren’t able to get recog-nized until this past April,” Zahn said. “We had to write an entire constitution for the club and re-vise it multiple times since we’ll be working with minors.”

Multiple amendments and revisions had to be made to the clubs constitution to protect the students the club will meet with.

Protections include ensuring no mentor will ever be alone with a mentee, on video chat or in per-son.

Mentors are also not allowed to contact their mentees through social media or be in any unre-lated outside contact with them, along with multiple other rules.

“We want to do this the right way and make everyone feel comfortable and welcomed to FORM,” Zahn said. “Any steps and amendments that are need—we’ll take them.”

Once the constitution was created, FORM consulting was nameless.

Steinle suggested Sargasso consulting.

“He thought Sargasso was Lat-in for Ivy, and wanted to play off of Ivy League schools,” Zahn said. “That was dropped when he real-ized Sargasso was just seaweed and nobody would know what we meant.

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

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Hackenberg, despite all of the criticism, was a huge reason the Nittany Lions rose to success so quickly under James Franklin.

In the 2016 NFL Draft, he was selected by the New York Jets in the second round. He sat out all of last season as somewhat of a “redshirt season,” which is some-thing he did not have the luxury of in college. He came into training camp this season battling with veteran Josh McCown.

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Christian Hackenburg (14)

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urday, April 18, 2015.

Once again, violence has plagued our nation’s streets.

On Sunday, anarchists and black-clad antifa — “anti-fascists” — members plummeted Berkeley’s streets, attacking peaceful right-wing protesters.

The Associated Press reported that five individuals were attacked and 13 arrests were made.

Though no one was killed or seriously injured, this repeated act of violence proves just how divided this country has become.

No, it’s not just the right- leaning side that is stirring all this hatred and bigotry, but also the left and there is truly no need for it.

Though Trump’s statement after the Charlottesville attack, “both sides are to blame,” has caused major criticism, it does speak some truth.

Both sides are to blame, but we’re not talking about right or

left, republican or democrat. Instead, both of these radical extremist groups are to blame. Not only do they not represent the side they claim to belong to, they are simply finding more and more reasons to incite violence for the sake of violence, and that’s not OK.

To be clear, we are not stating that the antifa members from Berkeley and the white nationalists that were involved in the Charlottesville attack are on the same level, just that both of these radical groups are

stirring up hatred.The idea that violence is

becoming more normalized or at least expected in today’s society should not only be terrifying to everyone, it must also make us wonder, where are we heading and are we sure it’s in the right direction?

We are in the 21st century, not in the Middle Ages where violence was a normal occur-rence, so it’s time we evolve with the times and learn how to work and live together no matter the beliefs.

There is no excuse as to why we must start violent attacks on innocent people.

It must be put to an end.Yes, many will say that it’s

human nature. But just because things have always been a certain way, does not mean they must continue that way.

It does not matter that humans have been violent in the past, nor should it be an excuse to be violent simply because we grew up with it.

This idea of finding any excuse to create violence is

ridiculous, just look at the riot after the Ohio State game last fall.

People try to find an excuse to simply act violent.

It is clear that people seek attention and will do so by any means necessary to spread their message. But there are other ways to spread one’s message — peaceful ones. And though it may seem like a stretch to ask white nationalists and antifa to all of a sudden become peaceful and shake hands, it is not too much to ask everyone else to.

If we show that we will not stand for this violence, then we can put an end to it. We should not only be defending ourselves from these groups and standing up to them —in peaceful ways— we should also defend those who we do not agree with. By standing together, united no matter our beliefs, we can truly put an end to anyone attempting to disrupt peace.

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When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech 54 years ago

from Monday, our country was a different place.

Segregation reigned supreme in many states: Whites and blacks couldn’t use the same bathrooms; they couldn’t stay at

the same hotels; they couldn’t drink from the same water fountains.

The speech inspired change. Today, we can all use the same

bathrooms, hotels and water fountains. We also attend the same universities, eat in the same restaurants and play on the same sports teams.

Undoubtedly, we’ve made a lot of progress since 1963, but by no means has King’s dream come true.

King’s dream called for blacks in our nation not to be “judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Yet, for many people, the color of their skin still defines how they are perceived.

Baltimore Orioles outfielder

Adam Jones was the target of racial slurs when his team played the Red Sox in Boston earlier this season. Naturally, he spoke up about what he had heard and said that such discriminatory comments have no place in baseball.

“Boo me, tell me I suck,” Jones told reporters in May. “Just leave the racial stuff out of it.”

But instead of condemning the insults thrown at Jones, many people questioned Jones’ account of what happened. Former Red Sox pitcher, and Breitbart radio show host, Curt Schilling jumped to the conclu-sion that Jones was lying about being verbally abused and had fabricated the whole situation.

“If somebody did say [something], we’re going to see it and hear about it, and I would apologize to Adam Jones for doubting him, but until then, I think this is bulls--,” Schilling said in May. “I think this is somebody creating a situation.”

To Schilling, Jones couldn’t possibly have been the target of racism. Instead, the unnamed Red Sox fan was the victim because he or she was accused of racism. To Schilling, Jones was weak; he was crying

discrimination because he seeked public sympathy.

Sadly, this isn’t an uncommon belief.

Earlier this month, the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, showed there are still white people in this country who believe they are superior to black people, for no reason other than because they are white.

There are also people in this country who believe not all of those protesting in Charlottesville were white supremacists.

They consider many of the protesters to be people standing up for the history of the Confederacy because they didn’t want the statue of Robert E. Lee to be removed from a public park.

They don’t understand the pain people feel when they see a con-federate general memorialized.

They can’t recognize that a statue of a confederate general is a symbol of racism.

They fail to realize that such a commemoration of slavery and racism serves as a constant reminder to black people and that the prejudice and evil that has plagued them since the beginning of time remains

prevalent in this world. King’s speech 54 years ago

was meant to jumpstart a movement to rid the world of hate.

But at some point, the ur-gency to make King’s dream a reality waned.

As a nation, we became con-tent with all the progress we made, and ending racial discrimination and hate became less of a priority. We stopped making progress because we thought all we had accomplished was enough.

But it wasn’t enough. As long as there are people

in this world who believe they are superior because of the color of their skin, all the strides we make won’t be enough.

King’s dream is as important today as it was 54 years ago because there is still so much more progress to be made. The message he preached must remain a priority for all of us.

Matt Martell is a senior majoring in digital and print journalism and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email him at mtm5481@psu.edu and follow him on Twitter at @mmartell728.

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Whether it’s violence from the right or violence from the left, the increase of attacks on our nation should make us wonder what is

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Erica Dambach constructs a top women’s soccer’s program

By Thomas SchlarpThe Daily Collegian

A concrete foundation typically needs 28 days to cure.

For Penn State women’s soc-cer head coach Erica Dambach, however, a solid base is the prod-uct of 11 years

spent laying bricks. Since taking the reins from for-

mer coach Paula Wilkins in 2007, Dambach has been the lead ar-chitect in developing a titanic soc-cer program respected all over the country.

Previously the head coach at Harvard University and an as-sistant for the gold medal win-ning U.S. women’s soccer team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Dambach has twice been named the NSCAA Coach of the Year — once in 2012 and again in 2015 — and helped lead the Nit-tany Lions to the 2015 National Championship.

Three games (3-0) into her 11th season, Dambach has amassed a career record of 172-55-14, and is looking to win at least a share of the Big Ten title for the tenth time in her 11-year tenure.

Her Nittany Lions have never failed to qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

While the numbers and awards are fantastic accomplishments, what Dambach is most proud of during her time at Penn State is the culture that she and her coaching staff have helped con-struct.

“Obviously we took over a very successful program from Paula Wilkins,” Dambach said, “and tried to — when we initially got here — just to maintain that suc-cess. But over time through re-cruiting, we were able to bring in the culture that we wanted to bring into this program.”

Dambach’s championship-cali-ber culture consists of three hall-marks that help lead her team to success year in and year out.

“[We] put in some pillars that we wanted to build off of,” Dam-bach said. “Attitude of a cham-pion, blue-collar and united as a family, and [we] make sure that we live those pillars.”

Pillars that took nine seasons to erect and convert into the sport’s highest achievement.

“I certainly think with the 2015 National Championship, all of that came together in terms of the success of the program,” Dambach said. “But on top of that, the culture was where you would want it to be and what I was probably most proud of with that championship season.”

For Dambach, the daughter of two Penn State alumni, managing the Nittany Lion squad is simply a lifelong dream come true.

“Everyone knows this was my dream job,” Dambach said. “Even more than that it’s a family. I think that’s what keeps so many of us here. We look at the cama-raderie among our group and we look at this town and this com-munity. For me, there’s no better place to coach college soccer in the country.”

Success, however, can be a dou-ble-edged sword. Expectations grow at a seemingly exponential pace, and the Nittany Lions must deflect every team’s best blow.

“Playing for Penn State, you al-ways have a target on your back,” senior co-Captain Brittany Bas-inger said. “No matter what year it is, definitely after the national championship year, our name has been all over.”

The reputation of sustained greatness has allowed Penn State the opportunity to piece together one of the nation’s most difficult non-conference schedules for this season, with every team in

the country pining to overthrow the Nittany Lions from the top.

Most recently, Penn State topped a preseason-ranked Ar-kansas team on the road, in front of the Razorbacks’ largest crowd ever recorded at a soccer game.

Success for the blue and white has also yielded some of the larg-est crowds in history at Jeffrey Field.

This year the Nittany Lions opened with then eighth-ranked BYU in front of the fifth-most fans ever at Jeffrey, and last season welcomed the largest contingen-cy ever to the field for their sea-son opener a year after winning the National Championship.

“We love to bring in big names to Jeffrey field,” Dambach said. “Give the community an oppor-tunity to see the highest level of women’s soccer and great oppo-nents.”

Dambach continues to bring in the country’s best talent every season, including TopDrawerSoc-cer’s fourth-best recruiting class for the 2017 season. The talent is so prolific that Dambach is of-ten left in a pickle when trying to

predict who will be at preseason camp and who will be off train-ing with their respective nation-al team. Nearly every player on this year’s roster has at some point represented either the U.S. or German national teams at a training camp or interna-tional tournament, allowing the Nittany Lions to form one of the deepest and most experienced benches in the game.

Penn State will continue to navigate its daunting schedule as Dambach and company try to capture their second national championship in three years.

While struggles are inevi-table and challenges plentiful, Dambach has, without question, provided her team with a sturdy foundation to stand tall, no mat-ter the situation.

“There’s no better place to play soccer in the country,” co-Captain Elizabeth Ball said. “We’re just so lucky to be here and have a great team and coaching staff.”

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Penn State women’s soccer head coach Erica Dambach celebrates her 200th win as a head coach with Senior Associate AD, Administration, Lynn

Holleran and athletic director Sandy Barbour prior to the game against La Salle at Jeffrey Field on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016.

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Penn State women’s soccer players celebrate a goal by Elizabeth Ball (7) during the second half of the game

against Iowa at Jeffrey Field on Friday, Sept. 23, 2016. Penn State defeated Iowa 2-0.

The time is now for women’s volleyball

Just three games into the season, Penn State has proven without a doubt it is more than

worthy of its preseason No. 6 ranking.

In this past weekend’s West Virginia Invita-tional, the Nitta-ny Lions used aggressive attacking to demolish each opponent they came up against.

This included a dominant 25-5 third-set victory for Penn State against the host Mountaineers.

Coach Russ Rose knows how to put together a winning team from the point of recruitment to the moment those athletes step onto the volleyball floor — of that there is no doubt.

There is also no doubt that Rose’s squad will win many games this season — maybe even the conference and NCAA championship matches.

But, in all likelihood, this is probably the only year the ros-ter will be stacked enough — and deep enough — to make a deep tournament run in the near future.

The senior class includes players like middle blocker Haleigh Washington and outside hitter Ali Frantti — a new mem-ber of the 1,000 kill club — both of whom were freshmen on the floor when the Nittany Lions took the 2014 NCAA title against Brigham Young in a straight-set sweep. The same class also includes gifted athletes like out-side hitter Simone Lee, setter Abby Detering and right-side hitter Heidi Thelen.

Frantti, Washington and Lee were the only current seniors who played all 121 sets last sea-son. Thelen played 118 and Detering played 109.

There are also two other seniors who rotate in for the Nittany Lions — defensive spe-cialists Jennifer Halterman (a transfer from Penn State-Mont Alto) and Lainy Pierce, who only played 70 sets last year.

There is a ton of experience and ability in this senior class, but what will happen next year when all these seniors are gone?

If one were to remove the senior class from the equation, Rose would be left with scat-tered talent and varying levels of experience throughout the other three classes.

Outside hitter Clare Powers is the only true junior, while outside hitter Nia Reed, right-side hitter Kathryn Cather (a transfer from Ole Miss), defen-sive specialist Keeton Holcomb and setter Bryanna Weiskircher are redshirt juniors.

Last season, Weiskircher and Holcomb played the most out of all of them at 70 and 113 sets out of 121 sets, respectively. Powers and Reed, however, only played 10 and 20 sets.

Out of the sophomores, who are currently five strong with middle blocker Tori Gorrell (a redshirt sophomore) and defen-sive specialists Allison Farrell, Kristin Krause, Emily Sciorra and Kendall White, only Gorrell and White really saw a signifi-cant amount of playing time.

White, last year’s primary libero, and Gorrell both played all 121 sets of the season. Scior-ra played 11, Farrell played five and Krause didn’t play at all.

This year’s freshmen — right-side hitter Cami May and outside hitter Michaela Putnicki — are the most fortunate, because if all goes as it should, then they might be on that floor if Penn State wins that NCAA title.

When the seniors leave Penn State, the patchwork experience levels aren’t going to aid the Lions against teams with great-er depth, experience and ability to attack weaknesses like Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The situation is reminiscent of three years ago, when this years’ seniors were freshmen with another really strong senior class which included players like Olympians Megan Courtney and Micha Hancock.

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Recapping the 2017 MTV Video Music AwardsBy Meghan Drakas

The Daily Collegian

The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards opened with a fiery, ninja filled performance by Kendrick Lamar.

Lamar performed “DNA” and “HUMBLE,” which won multiple awards throughout the night in-cluding “Best Hip Hop Video,” “Best Art Direction” and “Best Cinematography.”

“Kendrick Lamar also won “Video of the Year” which was pretty incredible” Evan Morson (junior-film-video) said.

Later in the show, Ed Sheeran and Lil Uzi Vert collaborated to-gether on “Shape of You” and “XO Tour Llif3,” which proved to be an odd, but successful pairing between the two artists.

The remainder of the awards show was filled with several high-profile performances by Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Lorde and Shawn Mendes.

Fifth Harmony’s hot perfor-mance of their second single “An-gel” stirred up some controversy within the music universe when a projected “fifth member of the group,” symbolizing former Fifth Harmony member Camila Cabel-lo, was blown off the stage in the middle of the song, possibly impli-cating bad blood between Cabello and her former bandmates.

In addition, the world premiere

of Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made Me Do” music video garnered as much controversy as when she released the song on Aug. 25, further proving the song’s relevance to her feud with Kanye West.

“My favorite part of the MTV VMAs was Taylor Swifts mu-sic video release” Julianna Cox (sophomore-division of under-graduate studies) said. “I think the highly anticipated video was successful and creative. It defi-nitely lived up to its expectations and stirred discussion in Holly-wood.”

Later in the show, Ellen De-Generes presented P!nk with the “Michael Jackson Video Van-guard Award,” where the artist gave an uplifting speech dedi-cated to her six-year-old daugh-ter who was having self-esteem issues.

“P!nk’s speech about teaching her daughter to love herself, and telling her to never change was so inspiring” said Brenna Adams (junior-info sciences and tech/se-curity and risk analysis). “It was definitely my favorite part of the VMAs.”

Other notable performances included DNCE’s collaboration with Rod Stewart and Logic’s heartfelt partnership with Alessia Cara on his song “1-800-273-8255,” which focused around suicide prevention and mental health.

During the performance survivors of suicide were invited onto the stage to join the per-formers.

Host Katy Perry closed out the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards with a basketball-inspired per-formance of her single “Swish Swish” featuring female rapper Nicki Minaj.

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Best Pop Video.........

Song of Summer........

Best Dance Video......

Best Collaboration.....

Artist of the Year......

Best New Artist........

Video of the Year......

Kendrick Lamar with “HUMBLE.”

Fifth Harmony and Gucci Mane with "Down"

Lil Uzi Vert with “XO Tour Llif3”

Zedd & Alessia Cara with “Stay”

Zayn and Taylor Swift with

“I Don’t Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker)”

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Kendrick Lamar with “HUMBLE.”

Students speak out about Trump ditching Kennedy Center Honors

By Rachel VickThe Daily Collegian

On Aug. 19, the White House announced that President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will not be attending this year’s Ken-nedy Center Honors in Decem-ber. The Kennedy Center Honors are hosted to honor those who are deemed to have achieved excel-lence in and contributed to Amer-ican culture through the arts.

The event raises money to fund the Kennedy Center’s programs; most of that money comes from

ticket sales, as they cost upwards of $400 with the event typically raising about $7 million.

“The president and first lady have decided not to participate in this year’s activities to allow the honorees to celebrate without any political distraction,” a state-ment from the White House read.

The announcement follows the events taking place in Charlottes-ville and statements from honor-ees regarding their own decisions regarding attendance — or lack thereof.

Since the event’s conception in

1978, there have only been three instances in which a president has not attended the event.

Each of these absences were due to governmental affairs.

Trump’s choice to not attend marks the first time a president has actively chosen to not attend the ceremony.

Press Secretary Sarah Hucka-bee Sanders stated this was done in an attempt to avoid “political distraction” during the celebra-tion.

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Former President Barack Obama attends the Kennedy Center Honors on

Dec. 3, 2012.

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Noah Cyrus performs “Stay Together” at the MTV Movie and TV Awards on Sunday, May 7.