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PENN STATENittany Lions

No. Name Position/Elig.1 KJ Hamler WR/Fr.2 Isaiah Humphries S/Fr.2 Donovan Johnson CB/Fr.2 Tommy Stevens QB/Jr.3 DeAndre Thompkins WR/Jr.4 Nick Scott S/Sr.4 Ricky Slade RB/Fr.5 Tariq Castro-Fields CB/So.5 Jahan Dotson WR/Fr.6 Cam Brown LB/Jr.6 Justin Shorter WR/Fr.7 Koa Farmer LB/Sr.8 Mark Allen RB/Sr.9 Trace McSorley QB/Sr.9 Jarvis Miller LB/Jr.10 Brandon Polk WR/Jr.11 Micah Parsons LB/Fr.12 Mac Hippenhammer WR/Fr. 13 Ellis Brooks LB/Fr. 13 Grayson Kline QB/Fr.14 Sean Clifford QB/Fr.14 Zech McPhearson CB/So.15 Michael Shuster QB/So.16 John Petrishen S/Jr.17 Will Levis QB/Fr.17 Garrett Taylor S/Jr.18 Johnathan Holland TE/Jr.18 Shaka Toney DE/So.19 Trent Gordon CB/Fr.20 Jabari Butler CB/Jr.20 Johnathan Thomas RB/Sr.21 Amani Oruwariye CB/Sr.23 Ayron Monroe S/Jr.24 DJ Brown CB/Fr.24 Miles Sanders RB/Jr.25 Brelin Faison-Walden LB/So. 26 Jonathan Sutherland S/Fr.27 Aeneas Hawkins DT/Fr.27 Cody Romano S/Fr.28 Jayson Oweh DE/Fr.

No. Name Position/Elig.29 Henry Fessler WR/Fr.29 John Reid CB/Jr.30 Kevin Givens DT/Jr.31 Christopher Welde WR/Jr.32 Journey Brown RB/Fr. 33 Jake Cooper LB/Sr.33 C.J. Holmes RB/So.34 Shane Simmons DE/So.35 Justin Neff S/Fr.36 Jan Johnson LB/Jr.37 Drew Hartlaub S/Fr.38 Lamont Wade CB/So.39 Frank Di Leo LB/Jr.40 Nick Eury RB/So.40 Jesse Luketa LB/Fr.41 Joe Arcangelo TE/Jr.42 Dae’Lun Darien LB/So.42 Ellison Jordan DT/So.45 Joe DuMond LB/So.45 Charlie Katshir LB/Fr.46 Nick Tarburton DE/Fr.48 Shareef Miller DE/Jr.49 Daniel Joseph DE/So.49 Cade Pollard P/Fr.50 Max Chizmar LB/Fr.50 Will Knutsson OL/Fr.51 Alex Gellerstedt OL/So.51 Jason Vranic LB/Sr.52 Ryan Bates OL/Jr.53 Fred Hansard DT/Fr.53 Rasheed Walker OL/Fr.54 Robert Windsor DT/Jr.55 Antonio Shelton DT/So.58 Evan Presta DT/Fr.62 Michal Menet OL/So.63 Collin De Boef OL/Fr.64 Zach Simpson OL/Jr.66 Connor McGovern OL/Jr.68 Hunter Kelly OL/DL/So.69 C.J. Thorpe OL/Fr

No. Name Position/Elig.70 Juice Scruggs OL/Fr.71 Will Fries OL/So.72 Bryce Effner OL/Fr.73 Mike Miranda OL/Fr.74 Steven Gonzalez OL/Jr.75 Des Holmes OL/Fr.76 Sterling Jenkins OL/Jr.77 Chasz Wright OL/Sr.79 Charlie Shuman OL/Sr.80 Danny Dalton TE/H/So.80 Justin Weller WR/Fr.81 Cam Sullivan-Brown WR/Fr.82 Zack Kuntz TE/H/Fr.82 Tyler Shoop WR/Jr.83 Nick Bowers TE/H/Jr.83 Alex Hoenstine WR/Fr.84 Juwan Johnson WR/Jr.85 Isaac Lutz WR/So.86 Daniel George WR/Fr.87 Pat Freiermuth TE/H/Fr.88 Dan Chisena WR/Jr.88 Judge Culpepper DT/Fr.89 Brandon Clark WR/Fr.89 Colton Maxwell WR/So.90 Damion Barber DT/Fr.90 Rafael Checa K/Fr.91 Chris Stoll SN/Fr.92 Jake Pinegar K/Fr.93 Blake Gillikin P/K/Jr.93 PJ Mustipher DT/Fr.94 Joe Calcagno SN/Fr.95 Donnell Dix DE/Sr.95 Vlad Hilling K/Fr.96 Matt Aloni SN/Fr.96 Kyle Vasey SN/Sr.97 Carson Landis K/P/Fr.98 Kevin Cahill SN/Fr.98 Dan Vasey DL/LS/Fr.99 Yetur Gross-Matos DE/So.99 Justin Tobin K/So.

Appalachian StateMountaineers

No. Name Position/Elig.2 Zeb Speir QB/Sr.2 Corey Sutton WR/So.3 Darrynton Evans RB/So.4 Clifton Duck DB/Jr.4 Dominique Heath WR/Sr.5 Thomas Hennigan WR/So.6 Desmond Franklin DB/Jr.6 Camerun Peoples RB/Fr.7 Jacob Huesman QB/So.7 Josh Thomas DB/Jr.8 Stephon Brown QB/Fr.8 Shemar Jean-Charles DB/So.9 Austin Exford DB/Sr.9 Jackson Gibbs QB/Fr.10 Tim Frizzell LB/So.10 Tanner Wilson QB/Fr.11 Jeremy Level DB/So.11 Jalen Virgil WR/So.12 Steven Jones DB/Fr.12 Zac Thomas QB/So.13 Peyton Derrick QB/Fr.13 Kaiden Smith DB/So.14 Malik Williams WR/So.15 Mock Adams WR/Jr.16 Shaun Jolly DB/Fr.17 Tae Hayes DB/Sr.17 Trey McCollum WR/So.18 Brad Absher WR/Sr.19 Daetrich Harrington RB/So.19 Mike Price DB/Fr.20 Noel Cook LB/Jr.20 A’Darius Purifoy WR/So.21 Ryan Huff DB/Fr.21 Dysaun Razzak WR/Fr.22 Jace Frisbee LB/Fr.22 D’Andre Hicks RB/Fr.24 Akeem Davis-Gaither LB/Jr.25 Kaleb Dawson DB/Fr.25 Jalin Moore RB/Sr.

No. Name Position/Elig.26 Matthew McQuinn LB/Fr.26 Marcus Williams Jr. RB/So.27 A.J. Beach DB/Jr.27 DeMarcus Harper RB/So.28 Jay Person LB/Fr.29 John Gliarmis K/Fr.29 Devonte Harrison LB/So.30 Zareon Hayes LB/Fr.30 Clayton Howell P/Fr.31 Nick Hampton LB/Fr.33 Jordan Mitchell LB/Fr.34 Nakendrick Clark RB/Jr.35 Miller Gibbs TE/Fr.36 Brock Mattison DL/Fr.37 Tanner Ellenberger LB/Fr.39 Zion Madden CB/Fr.39 Xavier Subotsch P/So.40 Logan Doublin LB/Fr.41 Michael Rubino K/Jr.42 Harrison Taylor DL/Fr.43 Hansky Paillant DL/Fr.44 Anthony Flory LB/Sr.45 Trey Cobb LB/Fr.46 Chris Washington DL/Fr.47 Okon Godwin DL/Sr.48 Demetrius Taylor DL/So.49 Blythe Hall LB/So.50 Keaton Forbes LB/Fr.51 Tyler Bird LB/Fr.51 Baer Hunter OL/So.52 Tobias Edge-Campbell OL/Sr.52 D’Marco Jackson LB/Fr.53 Max Durschlag LS/Fr.54 Jermaine McDaniel Jr. DL/Fr.55 Matt Williams OL/So.56 Nate Haskins OL/So.57 Elijah Diarrassouba DL/So.58 Ryan Neuzil OL/So.59 Jordan Fehr LB/Jr.

No. Name Position/Elig.60 Noah Hannon OL/So.62 Weston Gillespie OL/So.63 Ivan Reyes OL/So.64 Will Hardin OL/So.65 Gage Blackston OL/Fr.66 Will Israel DL/Fr.67 Logan Wright OL/So.68 Brody Barrett DL/Jr.69 Joe Hartung OL/Fr.70 Cooper Hodges OL/Fr.73 Cole Garrison OL/So.74 Anderson Hardy OL/Fr.75 Victor Johnson OL/Jr.77 Josh Headlee OL/Fr.78 Chandler Greer OL/Sr.79 Luke Burnette OL/Fr.80 AJ Hall WR/Fr.81 Braden Collins WR/Fr.82 Richard Tucker WR/Fr.83 Jake Henry WR/Fr.84 Mike Evans TE/Jr.85 Michael Queen WR/So.86 Trey Ross TE/Fr.87 Collin Reed TE/Jr.88 Cameron Pack DL/So.88 Henry Pearson TE/Jr.89 Devin Papenheim TE/Jr.89 Dorian Pickett DL/Fr.90 Chris Willis DL/So.91 Tommy Dawkins DL/So.91 Chandler Staton K/So.92 Myquon Stout DL/Sr.93 Elias McMurry LS/Sr.94 Josh Houser DL/Jr.95 George Blackstock DL/Fr.96 Markell Clark DL/So.97 Caleb Spurlin DL/So.98 E.J. Scott DL/Jr.99 Jordon Earle DL/Fr.

K.J. Hamler emerging as a team leaderBy Tyler KingThe Daily Collegian

It’s hard to find K.J. Hamler without a smile on his face — whether he’s on the practice field or walking around campus.

Just about every coach and player tabbed the redshirt freshman wide receiver as the standout player from spring practices. Well, as Penn State’s first depth chart for the 2018 season shows, Hamler contin-ued to stand out during training camp. In a bit of a surprising move, Hamler was listed as the starting slot receiver in advance of the Nittany Lions’ season opener against Appalachian State this Saturday.

That position was thought to be had by senior DeAndre Thompkins, who moved to the slot during the spring in an ef-fort to have him replace one of the most gifted route runners in program history, DaeSean Hamilton. While Thompkins received limited reps during the

spring, as most senior returning starters do, Hamler consistently made everyone pay attention to what he was doing on the field.

“He’s doing everything coaches are asking him to do,” fellow wide receiver Brandon Polk said of Hamler back in the

spring. “He’s been having a really, really good spring. He’s creating explosive plays and blocking well. He’s out there saying, basically, ‘I want this job.’”

Every player we talked to in the spring said Hamler made the play of the spring. The IMG Academy product busted through a Cover 2 defense and found himself wide open down the middle for a touchdown.

Plays like this really show-case Hamler’s explosive ability — a huge reason why he earned himself a starting spot.

“When you talk to our defen-sive coaches about guys that scare them when they have the ball in their hand, KJ is one of the guys at the top of the list,” coach James Franklin said Tuesday. “If we can get him involved in offense and get the ball in his hands, and if we can get the ball in his hands on spe-cial teams, then we’d like to be able to do that, because he’s an explosive player. And, he’s also

been a really good leader.”While wanting to get Hamler

as many touches as possible is a given, it’s interesting to hear Franklin describe a redshirt freshman as a team leader.

Hamler acts as a team leader in a nontraditional way, how-ever. For obvious reasons, most team leaders are guys who have been around for multiple years and know what the coaching staff expects from the team on a day-to-day basis.

But, Hamler brings an infectious form of energy to the team, one that reminds of Franklin of one recent graduate that became one of the faces of the program –– Marcus Allen.

“What I mean by [calling Hamler a leader] is maybe not the leader that you think of when I say that, but a guy that brings enthusiasm and energy to meetings and the locker room, similar to the way Marcus did for four years for us.”

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2018 Big Ten Preview

As far as football concerned, Ohio State looks a whole lot like a playoff team.

The Buckeyes have plenty of NFL-cali-ber players on both sides of the ball, and Dwayne Haskins shouldn’t miss much of a beat replacing JT Barrett at quarterback.

On offense, J.K Dobbins is a superstar at running back, Mike Weber might be the best backup ball-carrier in the country, Parris Campbell is a threat every time he touches the ball, and the scarlet and red return every receiver from a year ago.

Defensively, they have some starters to replace at linebacker and safety, but there isn’t much reason for concern, given how well the program has recruited in recent years.

With all of that being said, it remains to be seen how they’ll respond to the turmoil

currently surrounding the program.After being handed a three-game sus-

pension last week, Meyer will only be in-volved in game prep and practices leading up to the team’s games against Rutgers and TCU, and will fully return to the team the following week against Tulane.

After that, road games at Penn State and Michigan State and a matchup against Michigan at home, present the biggest challenges for the Buckeyes.

It’s difficult to gauge expectations until the pulse of the locker room is heard or until we finally see Ohio State out on the field. But, the ceiling is high given just how talented this roster is.

- Patrick Burns

Ohio StateHead coach: Urban Meyer (7th season)Key players: DE Nick Bosa, RB J.K. Dobbins, DT Dre’Mont

Jones, QB Dwayne Haskins, WR Parris Campbell

MichiganHead coach: Jim Harbaugh (4th season)Key players: QB Shea Patterson, WR Tarik Black, RB Karan

Higdon, DE Rashan Gary, CB/S Khaleke Hudson

Through three seasons under Jim Harbaugh, the Wolverines have yet to fin-ish above third in the Big Ten East. They’ve also yet to beat Ohio State.

This year’s Michigan team may be the most talented Harbaugh has had to work with, but there’s still a real chance the Wol-verines will fail to finally achieve the pair of previously mentioned goals.

Harbaugh and the offensive coordinator-less Wolverine offense will finally have a truly well-rounded signal caller in junior Ole Miss transfer Shea Patterson, who by default will be an upgrade from last year’s quarterback options.

And although it was announced over the weekend star wide receiver Tarik Black would miss “weeks” due to a foot injury, Michigan will have enough skill players to give the mobile Patterson a chance to thrive.

But the real bread and butter of this Michigan team will again be the defense. Defensive coordinator Don Brown’s group should be one of the best in the country, with a pair of elite edge rushers in Rashan Gary and Chase Winovich, and a talented linebacker in Devin Bush anchoring the

middle. Perhaps the defense’s biggest weapon is nickelback Khaleke Hudson, who actually put up better defensive statis-tics in 2017 than Jabrill Peppers did in his Heisman-hopeful 2016 campaign.

So with as much talent and experience as Michigan has, why might the Wolverines still finish third — or perhaps fourth — in the Big Ten East?

Chalk it up to one of the most difficult schedules in the country.

Michigan opens the season with a trip to South Bend, Indiana, against No. 12 Notre Dame, before hosting No. 4 Wisconsin and No. 10 Penn State, split by a trip to in-state rivals No. 11 Michigan State later in the season.

The Wolverines then finish the season with a trip to No. 5 Ohio State.

So in reality, regardless of the fact Har-baugh is finally working with a legitimate quarterback and has a frightening defense, Michigan would be lucky to finish at 9-3.

- Matt Lingerman

Michigan StateHead coach: Mark Dantonio (12th season)Key players: QB Brian Lewerke, RB L.J. Scott, WR Felton Davis

III, LB Joe Bachie, S David Dowell

Michigan State is entering the 2018 season after surprising plenty of people on the way to a double-digit win season that ended with a victory over Washington State in the Holiday Bowl.

The Spartans return almost all of their key players from last year’s squad, espe-cially at key offensive positions.

But the best unit Mark Dantonio has is his defense.

The rest of the Big Ten is going to strug-gle to score on the Spartans and if Brian Lewerke can take another step forward

this season, Michigan State could find it-self in contention for a spot in the confer-ence championship game in Indianapolis.

The toughest stretch of the season comes in mid-October when the Spartans make a trip to Happy Valley and then host in-state rival Michigan the following week.

If the Spartans can go 1-1 in those games and take care of business at home against Ohio State, they could be in the driver’s seat for a Big Ten East title.

- Tyler King

WisconsinHead coach: Paul Chryst (4th season)Key players: RB Jonathan Taylor, OL David Edwards,

OL Beau Benschawel, OL Michael Deiter, LB TJ Edwards, QB Alex Hornibrook

After losing the last two Big Ten Ti-tle games, Paul Chryst’s team is ready to make the jump to one of the nation’s true elite teams.

Given they play in the weaker divi-sion, Wisconsin should have no prob-lem running the gauntlet en route to topping the Big Ten West for the third-consecutive year. But this team has the talent to set its sights beyond win-ning an elusive conference title.

The driving force behind the Bad-gers’ is a running game headed by sec-ond-year halfback Jonathan Taylor. In 2017, Taylor logged 1,977 yards on the ground — breaking the FBS freshman record set by Adrian Peterson — and scored 13 touchdowns before finishing sixth in Heisman voting.

Taylor is elite, but his offensive line is just as responsible for the Badgers’ success. In David Edwards, Beau Benschawel and Michael Deiter, Wis-consin has a chance to boast three All-American linemen.

Although Alex Hornibrook has been inconsistent through his first two sea-sons, the lefty should be an efficient

enough game manager to lead a tre-mendously well-equipped offense.

His 25 passing touchdowns were good for fourth among Big Ten quar-terbacks last season and he owned a rating of 148.6. The lefty has plenty of arm and was statistically one of the best deep throwers in the nation last year, though his ability on the ground is limited.

Defensively, Wisconsin has one of the best linebackers in the conference, and perhaps the country, in senior TJ Edwards. He and his linebacking part-ners should wreak havoc on Big Ten West offenses, even though the Bad-gers will be replacing two important corners and a pair of ends.

Given their talent, and the fact that whoever wins the Big Ten East will most likely have been somewhat beat up during the tumultuous regular sea-son, look for Chryst’s team to vie for the Big Ten Title — and perhaps be-yond.

- Matt Lingerman

IowaHead coach: Kirk Ferentz (20th season)Key players: TE Noah Fant, QB Nate Stanley, S Amani

Hooker, DE A.J. Epenesa, DE Anthony Nelson

There are certainly some question marks, particularly at running back and all three linebacker spots, but there’s a lot to like about this Iowa team.

The Hawkeyes’ passing game should be excellent this upcoming season, with Nate Stanley, two of the team’s top-three wideouts, all three of its top tight ends and both of its start-ing tackles all set to return.

Noah Fant, especially, is probably the best tight end in the whole nation and is a matchup nightmare for even the best defenses.

On the defensive side of the ball,

Iowa has to replace all three of its starting linebackers, including Josey Jewell, but is absolutely loaded at de-fensive end and has a budding star in Amani Hooker at safety.

Schedule wise, the Hawkeyes avoid Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State, and has Wisconsin at home.

Contests against the Badgers and Iowa State at Kinnick Stadium along with a road game at Penn State should be tricky, but Iowa has a good shot at finishing near the top of the Big Ten West.

- Patrick Burns

NebraskaHead coach: Scott Frost (1st season)Key players: QB Adrian Martinez, WR Stanley Morgan,

LB Dedrick Young, WR JD Spielman, S Tre Neal

Scott Frost hasn’t even been in Lin-coln for a year, but the buzz and excite-ment around his program are some-thing Nebraska fans haven’t felt since Tom Osborne.

The Cornhuskers will be one of the few teams in the country starting a true freshman at quarterback, but Martinez was Frost’s prized recruit and has the potential to be a deadly dual-threat passer.

Easing both Martinez’s and Frost’s transition will be Stanley Morgan and JD Spielman, two-thirds of one of the nation’s best receiving trios from a year ago.

Other than the two wideouts, how-ever, Nebraska may struggle to move

the ball with a lack of star power at the running back or tight end position.

Nebraska returns the majority of its starters on defense from last season, but that defense was abysmal at best.

New defensive coordinator Erik Chinander joins Frost from UCF and plans to utilize more blitz packages, but still don’t expect much from this unit.

The Cornhuskers will be better than last season’s disappointing 4-8, but Frost needs time to return the pro-gram to its glory days. 2018 is just the beginning.

- Thomas Schlarp

B1G Championship Predictions Patrick Burns - Penn State over WisconsinTyler King - Wisconsin over Penn StateMatt Lingerman - Wisconsin over Ohio StateThomas Schlarp - Michigan State over Wisconsin

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Tyler KingWhat to watch

for: Appalachian state poses the biggest nonconfer-ence threat to Penn state since Pitt in 2016. With the Mountaineers’ speed at skill posi-tions, Penn state

will have to dominate in the trench-es.

score: Penn state 45, Appalachian state 13

Matt LingermanWhat to watch

for: I expect to see a lot of offensive experimentation with a bunch of young guys and the role Tommy stevens plays. I’m also interested to see how many

spots a guy like Micah Parsons plays.

score: Penn state 44, Appalachian state 14

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GAME INFOPenn State vs. App. StateTime: 3:30 p.m. SaturdayPlace: Beaver Stadium TV: BTNSpread: Penn State -24 Over/under: 54

PLAYERS

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The Miles Sanders era officially begins on Saturday. He might have the toughest job of all trying to replace Saquon Barkley, but if any player on the roster is up to the task -- it’s Sanders.

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Trace McSorley needs a little over 1,000 passing yards to pass Chrisitan Hackenberg to top the program’s all-time list.

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Penn State: Miles Sanders

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Sports Editor:

This week’s starting tight end will either be Jonathan Holland or Danny Dalton, who have a combined 16 career receiving yards.

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New starting RB Miles Sanders enters this season averaging 6.7 yards per carry in his first two seasons.

The new safety duo of Nick Scott and Garrett Taylor have one combined start in the secondary.

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Now that Manny Bowen is no longer with the program, the middle linebacker spot is offi-cially all Johnson’s. The walk-on is making his first start at one of the most important positions on the field.

These aren’t the 2007 App. State Mountaineers… They’re better

Linebacker group ready to move forward without Manny Bowen

What to watch for: The defensive front will be a major question mark early on with the depar-tures of some key players. Cam Brown and Jan Johnson will have to step up on the inside to

replace the likes of Manny Bowen.

score: Penn state 38, Appalachian state 13

Dylan JacobsWhat to watch for: The Trace Mcsorley Heisman campaign starts off with a bang. Appalachian state is athletic enough to pose some prob-lems for a young

Nittany Lions’ defense, but it’s hard to see the Mountaineers keeping up with Psu’s explosive offense.

score: Penn state 41, Appalachian state 24

Patrick BurnsWhat to watch

for: The post-saquon Barkley era begins with a win, but it won’t come in as dominating a fashion as most expect. This young defense will take

time to develop, but the Nittany Lions will still double up on the Mountaineers.

score: Penn state 34, Appalachian state 17

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By Matthew LingermanThe Daily Collegian

For the last decade and the foreseeable future, a matchup involving Appalachian State and any Power Five juggernaut means the persistent referenc-ing back to the Mountaineers’ instant-classic victory over No. 5 Michigan in 2007.

That game will go down in his-tory as one of the greatest upsets of all time — and for good reason.

It involved an FCS team run-ning a two-minute drill, which ended with a go-ahead field goal at one of the most intimidat-ing stadiums in college football against one of the best teams in the nation, and ultimately pre-serving the upset by blocking a would-be game-winning field goal for Michigan as time ex-pired.

There are certainly lessons to be learned from that game.

“We won’t show [the upset over Michigan in 2007] to [the team] but we will talk about it with them,” coach James Franklin said last week. “I’ll talk about all the games that I just mentioned. This is a team that’s played re-ally well on the road. I know that was a long time ago with previ-ous staff, but even here recently.”

With a Week 1 kickoff between Appalachian State and No. 10 Penn State on the horizon, much has been made about the Nittany Lions preventing a repeat of the

folly of that 2007 Michigan team.“I just know it was 2007 that

App. State went into Michigan and beat them,” outside lineback-er Cam Brown said. “I just take it as a lesson and look at it as, ‘We can’t take anybody for granted.’ We can’t take advantage of every-body and underestimate anybody because they’re hungry.”

While there is a great deal of merit to the idea the Nittany Li-ons should use the precedent of that 2007 result as a component of their preparation, fans should tread lightly in drawing too much of a comparison.

Since that upset win, the Mountaineers are essentially a completely different program.

The university has changed coaching staffs, made the jump from FCS to FBS, joined and be-come co-champions of the Sun Belt for the last two seasons, and have won three straight bowl games.

They even received votes in the most recent AP Poll.

So what has catalyzed the me-teoric rise from one of the FCS’s little engines that could to a pre-mier Group of Five team?

Quite frankly, it’s hard to put a finger one just one main cause.

Coach Scott Satterfield suc-cessfully navigated what was initially a rocky transition to the FBS, but has since established terrific consistency.

Appalachian State is 36-9 over its last 45 games and 27-3 against

Sun Belt opponents in that stretch.

Penn State defensive line coach Sean Spencer called the Mountaineers one of the best coached teams in the nation.

Franklin and his players were quick to point to the Mountain-eers’ skill position groups as ar-eas of special interest for Satur-day’s affair.

While the tempo of the offense will be slow, the players running it won’t be.

“They got a fast skillset,” red-shirt junior corner John Reid said. “They got guys on the pe-rimeter who can really run… Some of their guys are versatile, reversing field and scoring touch-downs and really showing their speed. It’s good football.”

Satterfield’s team will utilize a run-heavy pistol spread scheme headed by redshirt senior half-back Jalin Moore. Moore, who Franklin called a “specimen,” was named the Sun Belt Offen-sive Player of the Year in 2016 and has the second most career rushing yards among returning FBS backs. Moore will be called upon a lot in his final year with Satterfield having to replace four-year starting quarterback Taylor Lamb. Defensively, the secondary is experienced and well-tested. Corners Tae Hayes and Clifton Duck are two of the best in their conference and have a nose for the football, combining for 10 interceptions last year.

“They are a three-down de-fense,” Franklin said. “They are undersized but they are quick. They are twitchy, they are explo-sive and they are very produc-tive, and they play fast.”

Where Penn State should be able to create true separation is in the trenches on both sides of the ball. Appalachian State’s 3-4 front seven loses both start-ing ends and three starting line-backers, a matchup which should prove the experienced Nittany Lion offensive line well.

If Penn State can establish the run early and give quarterback Trace McSorley ample time in the pocket, the Nittany Lions should have little trouble dispatching the Appalachian State defense.But the longer it takes for Penn State to win the battle at the line of scrimmage — on both sides of the ball — the longer the Moun-taineers can hang around and give their skill players a chance to make plays.

Make no mistake — Penn State should still be expected to win Saturday’s game relatively hand-ily, and an Appalachian State up-set victory would be catastrophic.

But the team coming to Bea-ver Stadium this Saturday is not the 2007 Appalachian State that beat Michigan — the 2018 Appa-lachian State Mountaineers are better.

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By Thomas SchlarpThe Daily Collegian

Manny Bowen had a “laun-dry list” of tasks he needed to accomplish this summer if he wanted to earn his way back onto the field in Beaver Stadium.

The fact that the linebacker had 21 career starts and 137 tackles to his name made it seem virtually inevitable that the twice-suspended senior would return to an inexperi-enced linebacker corps at some point this season.

The only question would be, when?

On Monday afternoon, the Nittany Lions and fellow line-backers received a final answer to the Bowen-in-limbo situation. The team officially announced

that “Manny Bowen is no longer on the Penn State football team. We wish him all the best.”

While a shock to those outside the team, just how surprised were the teammates that Bowen is leaving behind to pursue his degree?

“It doesn’t change too much,” linebacker Cam Brown said. “We weren’t really planning on having him back right away, so it doesn’t really affect too much what’s go-ing on in the room.”

Instead, the Nittany Lion de-fense has a much clearer pic-ture of who will factor into the linebacker unit moving forward. Brown, Jan Johnson and Koa Farmer were officially tabbed as starters, while a trio of young players have also received praise this summer and will likely have decent roles with the group.

Bowen’s departure undoubt-edly removes not only the best talent at the Mike position, but his leadership will also be absent as true freshmen Micah Parsons, Jesse Luketa and redshirt fresh-man Ellis Brooks continue to rap-idly develop.

Despite the quicker than ideal transition to the college game for the underclassmen, Franklin expressed that they do not neces-sarily lack the talent of their elder teammates.

“I think at linebacker, I think you’re going to see a lot of [un-derclassmen],” Franklin said. “I think they are going to get a lot of reps. I don’t think there’s, again, a huge gap between our ones and our twos. I think you’re going to see maybe the twos get close, if not the same amount of reps, as the ones at a lot of those

positions.”Parsons and Luketa, in particu-

lar, have stood out during camp after both enrolled in January. Cornerback Amani Oruwariye described Parsons as a player “with natural-born talent,” likely having the most immediate im-pact at the Will position.

Brown has been impressed with not only the duo’s perfor-mance on the field, but their con-tinued desire to learn more about the position and ask questions.

“They’re mature guys,” Brown said. “They’ve worked hard and came in with freakishly athletic bodies. Those guys can move. They can move at the levels that some guys can’t that are older than them. That puts them ahead.”

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Bold Penn State predictions

All summer long, I was down on Penn State’s chances to repeat its success from the previous two seasons.

I was especially concerned about the Nittany Lions’ lack of experience just about every-where, wasn’t sold on the optics of Jan Johnson starting at MIKE linebacker and the barrage of medical retirements didn’t exact-ly make things any better.

There was even a point where I was firmly settled on an 8-4 pre-diction.

I still have the same concerns I once had and I don’t even think the Nittany Lions are the best team in the Big Ten East, yet here I am.

Ultimately, I love the way that the schedule lines up and I’d be a fool to bet against Trace McSor-ley. The blue and white extend their unbeaten streak at home another year and ride the arm of McSorley all the way back to In-dianapolis.

- Patrick Burns

Record Prediction: 11-1 Impact Freshman: LB Micah Parsons

We’ve been hearing since his commitment just how scary Mi-cah Parsons can be in the eyes of opposing offenses, but I wasn’t sure he’d have an immediate im-pact given his change from end to linebacker.

But with the front seven seem-ingly in state of flux, most recent-ly with the apparently final end of the Manny Bowen saga, it sounds like Penn State is going to need

Parsons. By all accounts, Parsons is ready for the call.

His body is way ahead of sched-ule compared to most freshmen and although he may struggle in coverage as a linebacker, his ver-satility on the edge might prove vital to Penn State’s defense — especially in third down situa-tions.

- Matt Lingerman

Emerging Star: Yetur Gross-MatosThrust into the starting defen-

sive end position with the medi-cal retirements of Ryan Buchholz and Torrence Brown, Gross-Ma-tos will have to progress a little quicker than ideal, but something he’s fully capable of.

As a freshman in 2017, Gross-Matos was already an athletic

freak, but needed some time to refine his raw football skills.

With another summer under his belt, Gross-Matos should be an even smarter defender and will be playing his best football as the season progresses.

- Thomas Schlarp

Offensive MVP:QB Trace McSorley

McSorley might also have to make a pit-stop in New York in December before he gets to In-dianapolis. This offense is just as much his as it is Ricky Rahne’s and he’ll have as many tools to work with as ever.

But, with Saquon Barkley now in the NFL, McSorley will have to prove to critics that he has what it takes yet again. It’s abso-lutely ridiculous that he still has to prove his talents to people, but

that’s the nature of football and if there’s anybody who thrives with a chip on his shoulder, it’s McSor-ley.

In other years, Miles Sanders and Juwan Johnson would each be worthy MVP selections, but No. 9 is the obvious pick here. Expect him to leave Happy Valley with most of the program’s pass-ing records in his possession.

- Patrick Burns

Defensive MVP:LB Cam Brown

Now that Manny Bowen is once again not a part of the Penn State program, Cam Brown is argu-ably the team’s most experienced linebacker. Brown saw signifi-cant playing time during his true freshman season in 2016 when the Nittany Lions dealt with a number of injuries.

Now, Brown is in his junior sea-

son and is going to be the veteran presence for a new batch of young linebackers.

The linebacking core is always the backbone for Penn State’s de-fense and Brown will be the rea-son there isn’t much of a drop off from last season.

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Up in smokeProbing Penn State’s smoke-free tobacco

policy, set for full-affect by fall 2019By Bailey Jensen

The Daily Collegian

Following the lead of other Big Ten uni-versities, Penn State has enacted a policy this fall to eliminate smoking and tobacco use across all its campuses.

This prohibits the use of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars, pipes, smokeless to-bacco and all nicotine delivery devices, ac-cording to Penn State News.

The University of Illinois, University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Purdue University, Uni-versity of Minnesota and Ohio State Uni-versity have already implemented similar policies.

Penn State is the 11th school in the 14-school conference to do so.

And while some schools, such as Purdue University, allow for designated smoking spaces, Penn State is eliminating it alto-gether.

However, students will not be punished if caught using these products. They will simply be forced to put their products out, said Linda LaSalle, the director of Health Promotion and Wellness at Penn State.

LaSalle, one of the driving forces in es-tablishing the policy, said she is hopeful that in the coming year, students, employ-ees and visitors will learn about and fol-low this new rule. Though people caught smoking will indeed be confronted, she said, the policy requires the cooperation of everyone involved.

Penn State student Daniel Shurtleff

doesn’t smoke and he said he is happy he won’t encoun-ter smokers on campus.

“I think it’s a good initiative and can lead to positive changes in students’ health and wellness,” Shurtleff (senior-supply chain) said.

A quick ride through campus during a weekday afternoon shows many students aren’t smoking or using tobacco products.

“We know from research that quitting smoking is very difficult,” LaSalle said. “But there are resources and staff avail-able who are here to support students to help them engage in healthier behaviors.”

LaSalle said Penn State is taking an ed-ucational and supportive approach to the new policy.

“At Health Promotion and Wellness, we have a free service to help students quit smoking if that is what they choose to do,” LaSalle said.

The service, called Freedom from Smok-ing, is an evidence-based approach from the American Lung Association in which students can work with a staff member, ei-ther with the goal to reduce the amount of time they smoke or to quit altogether.

The University Park Undergraduate As-sociation also helped in implementing this policy, UPUA Vice President Laura McK-inney said.

“It’s an issue UPUA has been concerned with for a while,” McKinney (junior-broad-cast journalism) said. “In the last couple years, it’s really caught a lot of attention.”

In 2015, UPUA surveyed the student pop-ulation regarding opinions about smoking and tobacco use. The survey turned into a proposal recommending a smoke-free uni-versity to President Eric Barron and the University Faculty Senate Committee.

From there, the University Faculty Sen-ate recommended the university form a task force dedicated to endorsing the UPUA proposal. And in November 2016, UPUA received a grant to explore smoke-free initiatives.

By Fall 2017, the task force made one last recommendation to President Barron and the University Faculty Senate voted in support of a tobacco-free campus policy.

Michael Bérubé , chair of the Univer-sity Faculty Senate, said the initiative was undertaken by UPUA leaders and student senators, who compared Penn State’s smoking/tobacco policy to that of peer in-stitutions and decided that the university could do better.

“We had a few caveats: We noted that though smoking is increasingly rare, it seems to be somewhat more prevalent among international students, staff and construction workers,” Bérubé said via email. “And we are curious to see how the policy will be enforced at tailgates.”

Bérubé said he hopes the policy’s roll-out goes smoothly.

“Obviously, people who now step outside

their building for a smoke will have consid-erably more walking to do if they want to light up, and we wonder if this will effec-tively put an end to cigarette breaks alto-gether, or whether it will lead people who work on the borders of campus to smoke on Park or College Avenues,” Bérubé said. “But plenty of large campuses have gone this route, and so can we.”

McKinney said the policy was long over-due.

“The policy is a good thing because it takes the overall health of Penn State into consideration,” McKinney said. “While it may seem inconvenient to some, second-hand smoke is a huge concern and we want our priority to be the health of Penn State students.”

McKinney said the student government is currently working with LaSalle to imple-ment an ambassador program that would consist of students going around campus and talking to those who smoke.

“As a student, when I see people around campus smoking, I hope they know the health risks,” McKinney said. “I want to help them and that’s why I personally feel this policy will benefit the overall Penn State community.”

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By David TilliThe Daily Collegian

College isn’t cheap and it’s not getting any cheaper. And to many, lower costs are needed now more than ever.

Penn Staters have an intrin-sic understanding that tuition for in-state students is among the highest of public universi-ties across the country, with the typical student leaving with an amount of debt higher than the national average, as previously reported by The Daily Collegian.

Collectively, Americans owe more than 1.5 trillion dollars in student loan debt, and the thought of paying for college leaves prospective, current and graduated stu-dents shudder-ing.

Progressives believe there’s s o m e t h i n g sweet happen-ing in Denmark that could re-lieve this ten-sion, along with the likes of Swe-den, Brazil, and Argentina.

As the Democratic Party faces a leftward flank from self-proclaimed Democratic Social-ists, such as Alexander Ocasio-Cortex and Bernie Sanders, seemingly-radical reforms are gaining traction and exposure. One of the most popular of these populist proposals is tuition-free college.

According to the progressive think tank Data for Progress, “providing free college tuition for all students has net support among likely 2018 voters in 33 states... [and] has net support among independent voters in 42 states.”

Additionally, a Morning Con-sult poll conducted last year found that 63 percent of Ameri-cans support the policy.

But while the general public may be warming up to the idea, how the student body of Penn

State feels about it is another question.

Jacob Klipstein, chief of staff for Penn State’s College Demo-crats, is neither here nor there with the cure of tuition-free col-lege, but he definitely believes that student debt is an ailment that needs curing.

Before leaping headfirst into the tuition-free route, however, Klipstein (sophomore-political science) said he wants the ques-tion of effectively implementing such a program to be answered.

“We’re getting crushed by a system that’s tying us to thou-sands of dollars of debt,” he said. And if tuition-free college is one

way of dealing with this incom-ing crisis, Klip-stein said he is more than happy to try it.

The only other assurance Klip-stein needs, aside from proof of its effectiveness, is a more suitable and accepting politi-cal climate.

“Free college tuition doesn’t sound realistic in our cur-rent political atmosphere, though it’s far from impossible further down the road,” he said.

Klipstein pointed to the Excel-sior Scholarship program of New York as a blueprint for further tuition-free experimentation.

Introduced last year, Excelsior made all public universities in New York tuition-free for in-state residents under a certain income bracket, with the caveat that graduates must work in New York for a time equal to how long they used the scholarship.

The program, however, has been criticized by both red-blood-ed socialists and fiscal neoliber-als alike.

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crushed by a

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Zijian Zhang (senior-econ and stat) from Hong Kong poses outside of Big Bowl Noodle House on July 31.

By Maddie AikenThe Daily Collegian

Penn State international stu-dents come from over 130 differ-ent countries—meaning students represent over 130 different food palates.

While international students eat American food, many crave the taste of home that authentic food from their home country can provide.

Ana Clever said she has a spe-cial connection with food from her home country of Brazil.

“[Brazilian food] makes you feel closer to home,” Clever, the vice president of the Brazilian Student Association, said.

However, in State College it is difficult for Clever (sophomore-criminology and psychology) to feel closer to home, as there are no Brazilian restaurants.

For Clever, there is only one way to get Brazilian food in State College. Clever said there is a Brazilian woman in the Centre County area who runs Brazilian Munchies — a food truck that serves and delivers Brazilian food.

However, Clever said she

hasn’t found any of her favorite Brazilian foods yet, such as the chicken dish coxinha or Brazilian barbecue.

For many students, the best bet to find authentic international food is to look no further than on campus dining halls.

Chef Bill Laychur , an execu-tive Penn State Dining chef, said the dining hall’s well-trained chefs conduct research and re-ceive input from international students when adding interna-tional cuisines to the menu.

“We have such a diverse popu-lation at Penn State,” Laychur said. “What we’re trying to do is have our menus as diverse as possible to educate students about cuisines and make [inter-national students] feel at home with something they are familiar with.”

Each year, a menu committee plans out menus a year ahead, looking at trends, requests and past menus to offer students a diverse selection of foods from countries and regions across the globe.

“We try to represent as many [cuisines] as we can,” Laychur said. “We rotate and analyze the

menus. If we see a menu that’s too heavy on one cuisine, we’ll cut back.”

Menus must blend together while also representing a di-verse mixture of foods. Laychur added that Penn State Din-ing also offers many American foods, which usually have roots in other countries.

“It’s like painting a picture,” he said in regards to choosing a menu. “You have all those things on your paint palette so you’re able to create a painting.”

Irene Pan described herself as a half-Korean and half-Tai-wanese student, who works as a student crew leader in Redifer Commons dining hall. Pan (ju-nior-hospitality management) said the dining halls “some-times” serve Korean foods.

Pan said her favorite authen-tic foods include Korean bar-beque, Korean traditional street food, bubble tea, beef noodles and scallion pancakes. She said of these foods, Korean barbeque is the only one occasionally served in the dining hall.

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Matthew Clinton Sekellick, contribu-tor to leftist magazine “Jacobin,” wrote that Excelsior will only “provide benefits to families earning between $80,000 and $100,000” — in addition to the aid that already exists for them — but does “little to help poor and working-class people.”

Far from being a Marxist, “New York Post”’s Milton Ezrati condemned the program for “benefit[ing] fewer students than it claims, saddle[ing] others with debt — and perhaps even discourage[ing] the state’s beleaguered university system from admitting them.”

The President of Penn State’s College Republicans, Reagan McCar-thy , derided any tuition-free program as “fiscally irresponsible” and not within the federal government’s role.

She also claims that the “absurd price” of such a program will inadvertently bring the quality of an undergraduate education down.

“Making something free dimin-ishes the value of it,” McCarthy (senior-broadcast journalism and political science) said.

Considering the fact several counties that provide free higher

education, such as Norway, Germany, and Denmark, top the U.S. on the United Nations’ Education Index, the link between free college and decreased colle-giate quality isn’t clear-cut.

In any case, McCarthy said she believes comparing America to countries with “different economic structures and population demographics” is like comparing proverbial “apples-to-orang-es.”

McCarthy wasn’t surprised by the idea’s popularity among Americans, saying more independent voters are “identifying with the young, progressive wing of the Democratic Party.”

She expressed certainty, however, that the policy would lose stream if Americans were exposed to its “economic costs.”

“If people knew about the trillions of dollars such a program will cost, that poll will look very different,” McCarthy said.

According to a Gallup poll, the majority of Americans think upper-income individuals and corporations pay too little in taxes, with most proponents advertising the policy as being funded by higher taxes on such groups.

Still, the exact cost of a tuition-free public education is not well-researched. NPR roughly estimated that eliminating tuition will cost the federal government

about double what it already gives out in grants and work-study hours, which currently amounts to $31 billion.

Congress’s decision to arbitrarily raise the military budget by another $61 billion this year—making the total budget $700 billion— is commonly cited by progressives as proof of the federal government’s ability to pay for such a program.

Sanders’ College for All Act, the most comprehensive bill advocating for tuition-free education yet proposed, claims the program will be “fully paid for by imposing a Robin Hood tax on Wall Street.”

No formal, in-depth analyses of the bill’s expenses, however, have been conducted.

Aidan Mattis , co-founder of Penn State’s Turning Point branch, offered a view in line with his group’s Libertarian leanings.

“Tuition-free college is not sustainable,” Mattis (junior-medieval studies) said. “We can’t afford it.”

While Mattis said he believes it’s possible to reform the American education system, he simply doesn’t think adopting a model from smaller countries is feasible.

Instead, Mattis advocates for removing both the glamour around a college degree and the stigma around attending a trade school.

“We should encourage students who are

less interested in mathematics, science and the humanities to become mechanics and carpenters,” he said.

As for students who want to get a liberal arts education but can’t afford it, Mattis said he believes in tough love.

“To put it simply, if you’re not going to college to get a marketable degree, you shouldn’t be going to college,” he said.

After relating his family history of upward mobility, Mattis counted himself among the lucky individuals who could “attend college without needing to get a professional degree.”

While grateful for this position, Mattis pulled no punches and decried students who try to “jump the gun” by getting an arts degree when their parents are barely getting by.

“People are asking, ‘Why is college so expensive?’ and it’s because you made the wrong choice of major,” he said.

In Mattis’ ideal world, education reform will be an individualized, state-by-state process with no place for a grand overhaul by a centralized power.

“There’s no reason the federal govern-ment has to be the arbiter of university education,” Mattis said.

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By Shannon Harney The Daily Collegian

For the second straight semester, Penn State students are being taught how to succeed — and stress less.

One course, called the “Art and Science of Human Flourishing,” teaches students to live meaningful and fulfilling lives. It’s a product of the Student Flourishing Initia-tive – a collaboration between Penn State, the University of Virginia and the Univer-sity of Wisconsin–Madison to help college students build important mental skills at a critical time in their lives.

Robert Roeser, the Bennett Pierce pro-fessor of Caring and Compassion in the College of Human Development and Fam-ily Studies, leads HDFS 197 at Penn State, alongside Gaby Winqvist, a kinesiology instructor.

Roeser said the course is about teaching students to “thrive instead of just survive.”

Stemming from Roeser’s research, the course brings together philosophy and science to create a new type of educa-tional course for reducing suffering and increasing happiness.

“In addition to wanting to help young people flourish, we want to help alleviate the unique sources of suffering they’re confronted with,” Roeser said. “Both stress and anxiety are really on the rise in college students, with depression not far behind.”

In a 2015 study, the American Col-lege Health Association found more than 85 percent of college students reported feeling overwhelmed by the demands of college.

Nearly one-third of all students in the study said stress had a negative impact on their academic performance.

Roeser said students can cope with these higher stress levels by learning mindfulness. This is a skill that can be cultivated through training the mind, he said.

Mindfulness allows individuals to deal with stress by becoming aware of their minds and bodies, Roeser added.

“It takes practice just like the gym,” Roeser said. “You have to exercise the flabby mus-cles of the mind to bring them to their full power.”

Practicing mindfulness has benefits, however.

“It’s a three-fold skill set that consists of concentration, clarity and equanimity,” Roeser said. “It allows us to be present to the here and now, right as our lives are unfolding.”

Learning to be present can help not only in obvious tasks, like paying attention and being aware of surroundings, but also with time management and stress reduction.

Roeser said the prefrontal cortex — the part of the brain dedicated to reasoning, perspective and empathy — undergoes enormous change between ages 18 and 25. This “malleable” part of the brain can be trained to cultivate healthy habits at an early age.

The course focuses on building opti-mism, compassion, courage and focus.

Erin Raupers, the assistant director of Health Promotion and Wellness at Penn State, said mindfulness can help students improve concentration and reduce rumi-native thinking, which can contribute to the high levels of stress common among college students.

Raupers said practicing mindfulness — through mindfulness or focusing on details to ground oneself — can help calm rapid

thoughts.“You can prac-

tice mindfulness by experiencing the world through your five senses,” Raupers said. “Taste the food you eat. Recognize the thoughts you have. Be present in conversations with friends. Try letting go of thoughts about the future and thoughts about the past. Focus on the mo-ment that you are in.”

Besides mindfulness, the HDFS course also helps students to think about their lives and reflect on what deci-sions they’re making.

“We’re really trying to get young people thinking about what they’re passionate about,” Roeser said.

The course meets for two 50-minute sessions every week, using a “flipped” class format by having students listen to recorded lectures that are reviewed online outside of class. Scheduled class meeting times are used as workshops for experien-tial exercises and discussions.

Students then attend a contemplative lab once a week to discuss course material

and focus on reflecting as a group.Charles Butler, who took Roeser’s class

last spring, said learning to be mindful has given him the ability to let go and be more sensitive to others and the world around him.

“Mindfulness takes patience and hard work, but I believe that’s because of the constant pace of our lives,” Butler (junior-music) said via email. “I rarely have time to breathe, and if I do, I don’t allow myself to.”

He said he’s extremely happy he took the course, adding “there isn’t a class quite like it.”

Nicholas Demian also took the course last semester and said it taught him a lot about life, connection and communication.

“College is very stressful, but being mindful can help reduce this stress by staying on top of things and understanding the bigger picture throughout college is to graduate and achieve your goals,” Demian (senior-economics) said via email. “Being mindful can change stress into ambition.”

Demian said he’s struggled with stress and anxiety throughout his whole college experience. He would recommend the course to any Penn State student, regard-less of major.

“I was on a downward slope when it came to school before I enrolled in this course,” he said. “The experience of tak-ing this course has completely flipped my college experience around, and I’m once again chasing my goals.”

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Embrace our motto Penn State’s main campus

has nearly as many students as Greenland has people in its

entire country.Paradoxically,

it can be far too easy to feel alone among the 46,000 students Undergraduate Admissions has accounted for here at Univer-sity Park. Fall

semester starts and State Col-lege ditches its status as a modest town in central Penn-sylvania, as it’s swarmed over-night with backpack-clad stu-dents ready to get to their classes — and to the bars.

I returned to campus this semester and immediately became overwhelmed by obnoxious honking in bumper-to-bumper traffic that seemed more fitting for the Bronx than S. Atherton St. I lugged my belongings up to my apartment on the sixth floor of The Grad-uate. As the elevator dinged to count the floors as it rose, I was reminded of the sheer amount of

strangers I would be confronted with back at college.

Suffice to say, I was taken aback when I entered my first lecture last Monday that just so happened to be in the larg-est classroom on campus: 100 Thomas. Hundreds of voices murmured around me as I waited for the professor to begin his lecture for BiSci 003, the science general education course that seems like every non-science major takes.

I’ve been told before that Professor Christopher Uhl is unique. It didn’t take long to have that confirmed. He spoke passionately, instructing us to be aware of our heartbeats and our bodies, and to think about how we think. The course was categorized as biological sci-ence, but it would be more fit-ting to call it philosophy. While some students were attentive, others rolled their eyes or tried to hide the lights emanating from their phone screens as they texted instead of listening.

Though, one recommenda-tion Professor Uhl urged really caught my attention and

became the inspiration for this column: See the people around you as “us,” not “them.”

Although I attend my classes and got involved in a few clubs, I have always felt isolated. Looking around me at the hun-dreds of faces in the auditori-um, I could only see “them.”

With 10s of thousands of faces scattered across the uni-versity; it would be impossible to know everyone.

But isn’t that exactly what we tell all Penn Staters we should do? I mean, we chant “we are,” not “they are.”

Tour guides are obligated to yell back to the call, “Penn State!” and football game attendees are familiar with exchanging the cheers between bleacher sections, fin-ishing with a “thank you” and a “you’re welcome.”

In that gen-ed class, I found myself envious of the majority who said they saw their peers as “us.” I wanted to be a part of them, a piece of the collec-tive body that is Penn State. In truth, I already am.

Walking on crowded sidewalks, sitting in packed

auditoriums and fixating on my GPA put me in a mindset of only how I dealt with myself. Familiarizing myself with everyone around me would be incredibly overwhelming and unlikely.

However, you don’t have to learn every single name of those 46,000 students to per-ceive them as an “us.”

At minimum, there is at least one commonality between you and them that allows you to fit in: Penn State. Penn State is a community that — although massive — tries its very best to embrace commonalities and be inclusive.

The sheer number of people here can be suffocating if you feel you are separate from them. Changing your mindset is the metaphorical inhaler that will provide relief.

Next time you raise your voice to shout the motto “we are,” embrace its meaning.

Madeline Messa is a junior majoring in print and digital journalism and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email her at mgm5413@psu.edu or follow her on Twitter at @madeline_messa.

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Messa

The possibility of an active shooter or any kind of terrorist attack happening at a semi-large gathering has become an unfortunate reality.

It’s something always in the back of our minds as attacks like these have become more and more relevant. For Penn State students, it also doesn’t help that on Aug. 8, a Twitter user made a threat to commit the largest mass shooting in history at a football game in Beaver Stadium.

On Aug. 23, the person who made the threat was

arrested. However with the first foot-

ball game this weekend, stu-dents may still be on edge from the potential threat.

Perhaps that’s why President Eric Barron sent an email to Penn State’s student body on the morning of Aug. 29. In the email, Barron detailed how the campus would be officially adopting the “Run, Hide, Fight” method when students are

faced with potential violence on campus.

Run, Hide, Fight is the method used by most Big Ten schools, Barron said in the email. It’s also somewhat instinctual, therefore it’s also not a lot of new information to remember if students are ever in a violent situation.

It’s not a terribly useful meth-od to use in case of an attack in Beaver Stadium, as there is no quick exit from the packed bleachers. But, it’s a great idea for Barron and Penn State to make students aware of this rule of thumb in general.

It reminds us to be vigilant on campus as well as in and around the stadium even if the chances of an attack are slim.

Active shooter drills are becoming more and more common throughout high schools and elementary schools across the country. They are designed to help protect students, but it would be impossible for Penn State and other college campuses to have a drill like that.

There’s no way to let every single person on campus on that date and that time know the drill is happening. At least

one poor soul would end up ter-rified.

But, Penn State is trying to make students more aware through different modes, like this email and by offering in-person group trainings by the university police upon student request. It’s a good idea.

However, the video Barron linked students to in his email should have come with a trigger warning.

It’s an instructional video found on Penn State’s website and filmed on a Penn State campus. But in its instruction, it shows students

being “shot” by active attackers. While theoretically this video

should be helpful and was made with good intentions, the act of showing it — while fake — may disturb students who have Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or have a general aversion to violence.

It’s important to make sure students are aware of the possibility, but it’s also important to make sure we are not instilling fear into students.

We know it’s a possibility in the back of our minds, but see-ing it acted out in such a violent manner may not necessarily make us more vigilant, but it could make us scared to live our lives.

However, in theory, there is just as much of a risk of an attack this year as there was last year on campus or at a football game. The threat is just more vocalized now.

We cannot live our lives in constant fear of something out of our immediate control.

Be vigilant, but don’t be afraid

As college students, we need to be aware of the possibility of violence without letting it affect

how we live our lives.

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How to move on from Andrew SturtzBy Ben FerreeThe Daily Collegian

Penn State has grown rapidly since its move to Division I hock-ey from being a club sport just six

years ago. As the Nittany

Lions continue to improve, more talented players

are going to enter and exit the program early to pursue an NHL dream.

On March 28, forward Andrew Sturtz decided to forgo his senior season and signed a two-year en-try-level contract with the Ottawa Senators, leaving Penn State and coach Guy Gadowsky searching for his replacement this season.

“The energy that [Sturtz] brought and how he was in the community, I hope lives forever in our program,” Gadowsky said in April. “And the guys that were there to witness it, I’m sure they’ll make sure that it’s kept alive.”

Sturtz went on to join the Bel-leville Senators, Ottawa’s AHL affiliate, for the remainder of its 2017-18 season.

The former Penn Stater tallied one goal and two assists in the six games he appeared in.

Last season in ‘Hockey Val-ley,’ the then-junior skated in 37 games for Penn State where he led the team with 40 points and 26 assists.

The Nittany Lions were also plus-13 with Sturtz on the ice. Sturtz also led the team in goals both his freshman and sopho-more seasons.

Down the stretch last season, Sturtz was crucial as the Nittany Lions defeated Minnesota four times in a row to reach their sec-ond-straight NCAA Tournament.

But according to Gadowsky, it was not only the current play-ers who made that run possible, it was also the culture left by the former stars of the team.

“I’d like to think that the team that we needed to pull that off is a culmination of not only the guys in the locker room right now, but you can go back to you name it, David Glen’s, David Goodwin’s, Patrick Koudys’, Tommy Olc-zyk’s, you name it,” Gadowsky said. “I’d like to think that our program is a culmination of all

those attitudes.”In addition to the players

Gadowsky mentioned, Sturtz is the first player since Vince Pedrie to play in the AHL.

Pedrie left Penn State after the 2016-17 season, his sophomore year, to join the Hartford Wolf Pack, the New York Rangers af-filiate.

Sturtz is the latest star to leave the program and just like the oth-er players, the Buffalo native left his own culture and stamp on the program.

The talented forward’s style is going to be especially hard to replicate, as Sturtz often put his body on the line and did every-thing he could in order for Penn State to be successful.

“You can’t coach it, I’ll tell you that,” Gadowsky said. “I think you either have it or you don’t and certainly I speak for Keith Fisher and Matt Lindsay when you go out recruiting and you see some-thing like that, you see someone with incredible passion, it jumps out at you and it’s something that

we would love to have.”“You don’t always get it at the

level of talent that Andrew Sturtz brings, but it’s something we’d love to replicate, that’s for sure,” Gadowsky added.

And while it is hard to find that balance of passion and skill that Sturtz brought to the game, Gadowsky believes junior Liam Folkes has the potential to be a similar player.

“[Sturtz and Folkes] are both right-handed shots and two wingers were actually two of our highest [face-off] percentages: Sturtz and Folkes,” Gadowsky said in April. “So, there are more similarities and they’re both scor-ers like I think there are a lot of similarities with them.”

Folkes finished seventh on the team in points last season with 23.

But similar to Sturtz in his earlier seasons, Folkes was really good at putting the puck in the back of the net.

Folkes scored 13 goals last sea-son which was only two behind team leader Denis Smirnov.

The Canadian has also proven that he can perform under pres-sure on a big stage.

As a freshman, Folkes scored a breakaway goal in overtime to win the Big Ten Tournament championship game over Wiscon-sin.

“I think the team feels similarly about Folkes,” Gadowsky said. “They just love him as a guy and yeah, if you’re looking for some-one on the current roster that understands what Sturtz is about, to overtake a little bit of his at-titude and his performance, he would probably be the guy you look to.”

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Penn State’s forward Andrew Sturtz (16) shoots the puck during the Penn State men’s hockey game vs.

Minnesota at the Pegula Ice Arena on Saturday, Feb. 24. No. 18 Penn State defeated Minnesota 5-2.

MEN’S HOCKEY

Little League World Series is a must-see event

There is something magical about sitting on the outfield hill in Williamsport, Pennsylvania,

and watching the Little League World Series.

Whether it’s reliving playing sports at a super young age — the players are from 10 to 12 years old — the

unapologetic love for the game from the competitors or the collision of cultures on the same field or something else — it is hard to pinpoint. But it just all feels right while in attendance in a way few other sporting events do.

Now I’m not a huge baseball guy, I haven’t been bothered to watch an MLB game since opening day or attend a Penn State game since fresh-man year and I’m now a senior.

However, going to William-sport the last two years have been among the most enjoyable sporting events I’ve ever at-tended. It’s a trip that I’d rec-ommend to any sports fan, not just baseball fans.

For baseball fans it’s an absolute no brainer, it has to be on your bucket list and a place you make it to eventually. While Williamsport is remote and getting a hotel nearby can be difficult, that shouldn’t stop you from making the trip one year.

This year, nearly 24,000 people watched Hawaii win it all over South Korea in the final on

Sunday at Howard J. Lamade Stadium. It was a Hawaii team that had a large section of fans in the stadium and on the hill rooting for them as they played their way to a 3-0 win, starting with a home run on the first pitch they faced.

Hawaii was an entertaining team with great pitching that was dealing with a crisis at home, as Hurricane Lane re-cently hit the Hawaiian Islands.

Now they’ll return home as champions to an island chain that is picking up the pieces after such a devastating storm.

Undoubtedly, though, this team from Honolulu has been a welcome bit of positivity as a natural disaster threatens their homeland.

When I was younger, a team from around 20 minutes where I grew up in Florida won the American Championship before ultimately falling in the final against a Japanese team in 2003.

When the East Boynton Beach Little League team returned home, they received a parade through Boynton Beach that thousands attended, and even some facetime with former President George W. Bush when he was in South Florida for an event later that year.

Even though they came up short, it was a team South Florida got behind and all the players were celebrities at base-ball camps the next summer.

Getting back to why it is spe-cial to attend is hard to explain.

It’s one of those events where truth is sometimes stranger than fiction… Much like trying to explain to a European or anyone else from outside the United States why Americans pack out stadiums across the country to watch students play football.

It’s just one of those things we do, and it’s pretty freak-ing awesome at the end of the day. The Little League World Series, more so than any other major sporting event in America, is pure.

It’s free from commercializa-tion (aside from the TV com-mercial breaks that come with the ESPN and ABC audiences).

The games are free to at-tend. The kids aren’t getting paid. And the games aren’t being played in a big city with politicians, celebrities and corporate types there just to be seen.

It’s in rural Pennsylvania with a mountain overlooking the field rather than a city skyline. If you told someone today you’d start a tournament of kids between 10-12 years old and that 10s of thousands would attend and millions more would watch a national broadcast — you’d get laughed out of the room.

It’s all part of what makes attending games in Williams-port special.

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PSU not afraid of tough schedule

By Justin MorgansteinThe Daily Collegian

In her 32nd year at Penn State, coach Char Morett-Cur-tiss knew creating a difficult

early season schedule would be something this team could not only handle,

but thrive on.The Nittany Lions shutout

No. 7 Virginia in their home opener on Sunday by a score of 1-0 and looked confident and composed for all 70 minutes.

Even after a huge season-opening game, the road does not lighten up for No. 6 Penn State, as its upcoming nonconference schedule consists of two more top-10 matchups against No. 3 Duke and No. 10 Princeton.

“You always want to chal-lenge your team to be the best,” Morett-Curtis said.

“You have to be on task and in-tense from the start, and that is what a tough opening schedule does for you.”

Morett-Curtiss possesses an undeniably talented team with an All-American and four All-Mideast Region selections.

But accolades aside, there’s a case to be made that it’s the intangible qualities — leader-ship ability, passion and experi-ence— that will really propel the Nittany Lions far this season.

The defensive pair of senior back Cori Conley and freshman Anna Simon is the perfect ex-ample of this leadership being put into action.

“Cori has been such a great teaching teammate,” Morett-Curtiss said. “She has helped

[Simon] transition well to an American system.”

The German-born Simon has been a strong performer this sea-son for Morett-Curtiss’ squad and will likely continue to be for the coming years.

The Nittany Lions first goal of the season was to focus on playing a disciplined, defensive match against a high powered Virginia team.

They reached that goal but will have to improve on other areas in order to become one of the elite teams with national title expectations.

After being held to just one goal in the opening day victory, Morett-Curtiss said that her team’s focus is now on the other side of the ball.

“[Our goal now] is being ag-gressive with our discipline and getting our attack on track,” she said.

If the Nittany Lions can accom-plish this, they will have all the pieces to be a national title win-ning team — especially now that their go-to scoring option, senior All-American Moira Putsch, is back.

The Media, Pennsylvania, na-tive who scored 21 goals last sea-son, was cleared to return to the field on Wednesday after sustain-ing an injury.

She will continue to be the catalyst of this talented squad.

Penn State will look to make its next statement on Friday as they take on another experienced team in Temple.

The game will be in Philadel-phia at 6 p.m.

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Penn State Back Cori Conley (15) goes to pass the ball duing the Penn

State vs. UVA field hockey game at the Field Hockey Complex on Aug. 26.

No. 6 Penn State defeated No. 7 UVA 1-0.

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Zijian Zhang, the president of the Hong Kong Student Associa-tion, said he can find numerous places in State College that sell food from China, his home coun-try. Zhang (senior-statistics and economics) said Szechuan food is easy to find in State College.

However, he said the most au-thentic food from his home city, Hong Kong, is called Cantonese food. According to Zhang, Can-tonese food is difficult to find in the area.

“You are what you eat,” Zhang said. “Food is a culture to bond us together.”

The best place to get Canton-ese food is Big Bowl, according to Zhang. Big Bowl usually in-cludes Cantonese foods on their daily specials menu. Several characteristics of Cantonese food include freshness and a lack of spiciness.

Zhang added that he buys food from East Asian Market to make his own food. In addition, the Hong Kong Student Associa-tion offers Cantonese food during their Lunar New Year dinner.

As a student from the Caribbe-an island, Anguilla, Ayesha Proc-tor said she has been unsuccess-ful in finding any restaurants that serve Anguillan or Caribbean food in State College.

P r o c t o r (senior-infor-mation sci-ences and technology) said Walmart is the only place that occasionally sells authen-tic Caribbean food.

B e c a u s e Anguilla is a small island, she did not expect to find some of her favorite An-guillan foods — such as Johnnycakes, coconut dumplings and curried goat — in State College. However, she said she was surprised to find there are no restaurants or stores that sell food from larger Caribbean islands such as Jamaica.

“Being so far away from home, I tend to often get homesick,” Proctor said. “Therefore, I be-lieve having access to food that is from my homeland would be a step toward filling that void.”

Vaibhav Sharma, the presi-dent of the Indian Culture and Language Club, said Indian food reminds him of home and his mother’s cooking.

“Indian food is one of the most rich and vibrant foods in the world,” Sharma (junior-computer

engineering) said. Sharma said it was not hard to

find Indian food because upper-classmen in the Indian Culture and Language Club introduced him to several locations.

However, he made a point of saying that the Indian food he eats at home is very different from the Indian food offered in State College.

“It would be nice to have a Indi-an restaurant which serves food just like back home, but that’s go-ing to be very difficult to pull off and attract customers that aren’t of Indian origin,” Sharma said. “I understand that the restau-rants need to cater to everyone’s taste and modify flavors so that everyone can enjoy it. [A few] res-

taurants have done a great job in catering to ev-eryone’s needs, and they often crave my hun-ger for Indian food.”

Maria Badan-ova, a Russian i n t e r n a t i o n a l student, said eating Russian food is impor-tant for her physical and mental well-being.

However, she said there are

no Russian restaurants in State College. In addition, she said she has never seen Russian food served in the dining halls.

“[Eating Russian food] helps me to stay connected to my roots and my culture,” Badanova (ju-nior-psychology) said via email. “Tasting the flavors from my childhood is very rewarding and comforting during the stressful times of the semester.”

There’s one store that sells Russian food, called the East Eu-ropean Market, on North Ather-ton Street. However, Badanova rarely has the chance to visit it, as she does not have a car on campus.

“If you brave the isles of strange-looking items and labels

in Cyrillic writing, you won’t be disappointed,” Badanova said.

Papon Jungwiwattanaporn , the former president of the Thai Student Association, said eating food from his home country while he attended Penn State made the university feel a bit more like home.

With two Thai restaurants and a market that provides Thai food, he said he felt there were enough stores and restaurants in State College that offered Thai food.

“It was important for food from my home country to be offered in State College because it remind-ed me of the good times I had eating lunch or dinner with my friends and family in Thailand,” he said.

Shang-Ti Chen, the former president of the Taiwanese Stu-dent Association, related food to culture and said eating it allows him to take pride in his ethnicity.

Chen (senior-recreation, park and tourism) said he finds it chal-lenging to find authentic Taiwan-ese food in the area.

“Having food from my home country usually helps me tran-scend my negative thoughts away from stressors,” he said. “Many of the foods from my coun-try tie to my good memories and positive feelings.”

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Sat. Sept. 15 Kent State

Sat. Sept. 29 Ohio State

Penn State Football2018 Season

Schedule

Sat. Oct. 20 @ Indiana

Sat. Nov. 3 @ Michigan

Sat. Nov. 17 @ Rutgers

Sat. Sept. 8 @ Pittsburgh

Fri. Sept. 21 @ Illinois

Sat. Oct. 6 Michigan State

Sat. Oct. 27 Iowa

Sat. Nov. 10 Wisconsin

Sat. Nov. 24 Maryland

Garrett Taylor is ready to make some noise

By Patrick Burns The Daily Collegian

Penn State defensive coordinator Brent Pry describes Garrett Taylor as a “field general.”

It seems like an odd title on the surface given Taylor’s lack of experience, both in general and at the safety position. But John Reid, a noted film-junkie and one of the more cerebral players on the team, feels the same way.

“[Taylor]’s a really smart guy,” Reid said. “He’s able to get into good positions and read the quarterback well. I think that comes from the work he puts in watching film. He seems like he always knows what the offense is trying to do. He jumps passes really well. Having that presence over the top is really helpful.”

Taylor’s ascent to starting safety has been both quiet and difficult.After tearing his ACL his senior year of high school, Taylor redshirted his first

season in Happy Valley and switched from cornerback to safety in hopes of earning some more playing time. The boost in playing time never came, as the Richmond, Virginia, native spent another two years buried on the depth chart, and ranked 24th on the team in tackles last season with just 12.

On Tuesday, Taylor was officially rewarded with a starting spot at strong safety when the Nittany Lions released their Week 1 depth chart.

“He’s just somebody who always kept working hard,” Reid said. “He never doubt-ed himself. He never dropped his head. He just kept looking for ways to improve. Whether that’s in film, speed, technique, he always kept going for ways to get better. He was never a guy that gave up at all because he got redshirted his freshman year. He took it as a part of growth and ran with it.”

In a safeties room that certainly doesn’t lack depth, Taylor separated himself from the rest of the pack early in the spring, according to coach James Franklin. He’s set to start next to Nick Scott, who like Taylor, has been one of the team’s top players on special teams after switching positions early in his collegiate career.

“I think I just did a really good job of knowing all my assignments, which in turn al-lowed me to play confident and fast,” Taylor said. “I was where I needed to be when I was supposed to be there.

“I made the plays I needed to make and [safeties] coach [Tim] Banks is really big on playing guys that he can trust, so I think I did a really good job of building coach Banks’ trust throughout the entire preseason,” he added.

Taylor, a four-star recruit in high school, gained some of that trust in the weight room, where he says that his testing numbers have improved across the board.

“My bench went up to 350, my squat is at like 500, my vertical leap went up to 36.5 from like 34 and my shuttle times stayed pretty consistent,” Taylor said.

With Marcus Allen, Jason Cabinda, Grant Haley, Christian Campbell, Brandon Smith, Parker Cothren, Curtis Cothran all gone, critics have talked at length about the Nittany Lions’ lack of experience on defense.

Taylor and his teammates are sick of hearing about it and they’re ready to let their play do the talking.

“We’ve been hearing a lot of that this whole offseason,” Taylor said. “I think we’ll surprise people but we won’t surprise ourselves. We know the talent and the depth we have at defense and how explosive we are. Now it’s just a matter of getting out and showing the country what we have.”

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Garrett Taylor (17) sings the Penn State alma mater after a win against Michigan State

on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016.

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Quarterback Trace McSorley (9) throws a pass during the game against Iowa at Kinnick

Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. No. 4 Penn State won 21-19.