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Vol. 117, No. 144 Thursday, April 20, 2017

Alumna debuts her fashion collection

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Laura Murcia (junior-food science) struts down the runway during a fashion show at New Leaf Initiative on Wednesday, April 19. Fashion Society of Penn State and designer Meaghan Paige teamed up to host their first annual fashion show.

Community without a god

By Nicholas CapriFOR THE COLLEGIAN

There was a light crowd in 105 Willard for the Atheist/Agnos-tic Association’s meeting, but President Sean Penfield wasn’t concerned.

“It’s difficult to get non-reli-gious people to come to a week-ly meeting, which is part of the reason they became atheists,” Penfield (junior-security and risk analysis and risk manage-ment) said with a smile.

More interested in Nation-al Geographic than vacation Bible school while growing up, Penfield graduated high school in a class of about one hundred people in a town with fourteen churches, and was not the most popular kid in his town. Penfield “found the

label” of atheist in high school, and joined AAA in the spring of his freshman year.

The Atheist/Agnostic Associa-tion seeks “to create a sense of community for people that often times when they come to college don’t have that sense of commu-nity,” Penfield said.

Each Thursday night the club gathers for a small presentation on religion, science, politics or anything in between.

A lively discussion follows the presentation.

Last week, Carl Bligan, an ac-tive member in the club, gave a presentation on “Germanic Paganism and Modern Hea-thenry,” describing Norse Gods and the neo-pagan revival led by many white supremacists.

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By Emeling NavasTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Mega prints, bright colors and athleisure were on full display at the New Leaf Initiative exhibit-ing Meaghan Daly’s “Meaghan Paige” fall/winter 2017 collection.

Her relationship with the Fashion Society, which hosted the event, began through a mutual relationship and a potential Sky-pe interview through the club, ac-cording to Vice President Laura Kerns.

The first fashion show hosted by the society was inspired by Meaghan Daly’s trip to Ireland — the designer is also Irish.

“A lot of the collection was I think was inspired by color, especially maroons and reds,” Daly said.

The nine looks featured florals, stripes and a mesh of reds and nudes. Coats inspired by the Shrimps brand also ran down the runway and sketched dresses were debuted.

College Fashionista and Express were also featured at the event.

Paige was also personally inspired by Stella McCartney’s sustainability philosophy and Rachel Antonoff ’s quirk pieces. The designer, a 2016 Penn State

2016 Brandywine alumna, interned with Antonoff during the school year as a communi-cations arts and sciences major and was inspired to enter fash-ion design there.

“I think it’s also fashion forward but I think not too crazy. You could wear it on a night on the town,” Heather McCreary (junior-biology), a model on featured on the runway, said.

The collection was hand-sewed by the designer in a span of two months, ever since her trip to Ireland.

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Conference to feature alumna Olympian, CEO of Deloitte

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John Gilmore (right) and Joshua Blair (left) pose at an event in Atlanta hosted by their client, former NFL player Takeo Spikes.

By Lauren LeeTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

When Allison Baver first started to train, she did not see speed skating in the Olympics as a career — she saw it as a goal and a dream.

Baver said she made it a ca-reer through a lot of work, con-sistency of performance and an amazing opportunity to travel around the world and pursue her dream day in and day out.

When Baver won her first Olympic bronze medal, she said it was the happiest she’s ever been.

“I couldn’t even describe that feeling, because it’s some-thing that just you never feel,” Baver said. “And that’s where I thought to myself, how can

you mimic this, how can I do this again?”

From NASCAR to the Olympics, a diverse set of ac-complished keynote speakers will take on the 2017 Powerful Women Paving the Way Conference this Thursday.

Olympic bronze-medal winning speed skater Baver will be one of the keynote speakers at the event. In addition to her prestigious ath-letic achievement, Baver is also the founder of Off the Ice Founda-tion, owner of Allison Baver New York LLC and a real estate inves-tor with High Rise Realty LLC.

“I’m a person that once I commit to something I see it through,” Baver said.

In 2003, Baver graduated from Penn State with a Bach-elor of Arts degree in marketing

and management. In 2007, she earned her MBA specializing in marketing, also from Penn State — and Baver achieved these goals all while competing for the Olympics.

“I almost like the challenge, it was something that pushed me more to be better and dig deep-er because I knew it was hard,” Baver said. “I knew it was some-thing where that level of difficulty helped my determination.”

Baver created her Off the Ice foundation to fund inline skating programs so that schools can incorporate them into their stu-dent’s learning.

Baver said she was inspired to create the foundation when her grandmother passed away from

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John Gilmore to give back to lettermen

By Leif GreissTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Former Penn State tight end John Gilmore is going to touch down with Penn State letterman and others in the Penn State com-munity on the importance and power of branding themselves and their businesses.

The first Small Business Branding and Marketing Sympo-sium, presented in part by Gilm-ore’s company Brandthumb, will get into the nitty gritty of how small business owners and entre-preneurs can overcome challeng-es in branding and marketing to establish personal and business brand identities for long-term success.

“This isn’t gonna be a stuffy weekend,” Gilmore said. “I want

people to know they can come as they are this is going to be a fun environment, and they can ex-pect to have some knowledgeable conversations.”

Josh Blair, strategic director and one of the co-founders of Brandthumb, said the event was about giving back to the Penn State community and helping Penn State football players with their own businesses to develop effective marketing and branding strategies.

“Being a football player and a student athlete prepares you to adjust on demand,” Gilmore said. “Your team looks at you to ex-ecute on the job and some people don’t really get that. Joe Barry said ‘I don’t feel pressure, I apply

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From left, Cole Perkins, Sean Penfield and David Silverman. Silverman is the president of American atheists.

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Participants in the 2016 Powerful Women Conference listen to a speaker.

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Penn State freshman wrestler Mark Hall recovers after getting pied in the face for Penn State’s branch of the Autosomal Dominant Optic Atrophy Association in the HUB-Roberson Center on Wednesday, April 19. ADOAA raises funds and spreads awareness of the pediatric disease to save children’s sight.

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Child maltreatment center awarded over $11 millionBy Madeline Messa

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As recognition for its commit-ment to child abuse research, Penn State was awarded a $7.7 million grant to go toward the creation of the first-ever national Center for Child Maltreatment Studies.

Part of the National Insti-tutes of Health, the Eunice Ken-nedy Shriver National Institute of Chile Health and Human Development, selected Penn State after a competitive process to fund an academic institution as a “Capstone.”

The NIH award adds up to $7.7 million worth of funding over

five years. Penn State is also contributing $3.4 million in its own funds, bringing the total to over $11 million.

April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, making the grant — which was bestowed April 18 — a timely topic.

The money will be used to establish the Center for Healthy Children, which will be tasked with researching child maltreat-ment to articulate preventative methods and legislative guid-ance. The center will strive to find solutions through research and improve the child welfare system.

The center will be permitted a dedicated space by the College of Health and Human Development

at Penn State’s University Park campus.

Maltreatment includes neglect and abuse in physical, emotional and sexual forms. It often has strenuous effects and results in physical and psychological health difficulties in children affected by it. A 2014 Yale study found one in eight American children will experience maltreatment before they reach the age of 18.

Dr. Jennie Noll is the principal investigator of the NIH award and a human development and family studies professor at Penn State.

“Maltreatment is a critical issue requiring tangible so-lutions,” Noll said in a press

release. “It is an incredible honor to be selected by the NIH as an organization that has the capabilities to make a tangible impact on the lives of children.”

The center may not be built yet, but researchers already have plans for it. Noll and her counterparts will have a study concerned with “eradicating health disparities for children who have experienced the child welfare system.”

For this study — which will be led by bio-behavioral health professor Christine Heim — 1200 children ages eight to 13 from Pennsylvania will be invited to participate.

The grant reflects Penn State’s

2012 investment to child abuse research, wherein faculty members dispersed among five universities committed to provide distinct angles and efforts.

“The expertise, passion and dedication of our researchers are unparalleled and this grant exemplifies our strength in successful interdisciplinary col-laborations, with leading experts from across the University,” Penn State President Eric Barron said when announcing the Univer-sity’s $3.4 million addition to the grant.

To email reporter: mgm5413@psu.edu.Follow her on Twitter at @madeline_messa.

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By Abbi SalesTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

The gloomy weather didn’t stop Lion Ambassadors from giving Lantern Tours on Wednesday night as a part of PSi<3U week.

Jackson Houser organized this year’s Lantern Tours, com-plete with live music, free treats — lemonade, iced tea, water, cookies, Philly pretzel factory pretzels, popcorn, Rita’s, cotton candy — and a petting zoo from Shaggy Mountain Farm that in-cluded goats, chickens, sheep, and an angora rabbit.

“The lantern tours are a histor-ical event we do every year where we get tour groups to go around on campus,” Houser (junior-security and risk analysis) said. “We have Lion Ambassadors play historical characters from Penn State’s past and educate mem-bers of the community and Penn State students on their relevance to the University.”

Houser said Wednesday night was the rain date, due to inclem-ent weather on the original date, March 30th. He said this is the Lion Ambassador’s 36th year as an organization and they have been doing this even for a long time — not every year, but it is

one of their staple events. The community knows it very well and they have a pretty huge turn out every year. In the past, they’ve expected about 2,000, but the rain hasn’t been too friendly. However, their fingers are crossed for a good turn out.

“I really like that it’s for the community, you get a lot of little kids who come out in their Penn State gear,” Houser said. “They love walking around and seeing everyone play their characters and I like that it gets little kids pretty hype in Penn State pride there.”

Community members young and old gathered to sign up for tours, and received colored wristbands indicating which tour they would be on. The Lion Ambassador tour guides car-rying lit lanterns started the tours at 7 p.m., taking visitors on a tour through Penn State’s past.

The first character in the tour was Old Coaly and his owner, Mr. Lytle, who talked about their part in building Old Main and how Old Coly was the very first Penn State mascot. The university then switched to the Nittany Lion as a mascot after a baseball game where Princeton said Old Coaly

was not intimidating. A student playing Rebecca

Ewing, the first female to gradu-ate of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania in 1873, gave a brief history of when women were accepted into Penn State, followed by a couple who ex-plain dating in the 1870’s. The male had to write four letters to the dean of the women’s col-lege and if she accepted, the couple would be lucky enough to get a 15-minute date in which the Dean had to sit in. The tour guides explained that the McAl-lister building was first female dorm and the bench and garden in front of it were used as a date spot.

The tour guides approached the Penn State Veterans Pla-za, where an ROTC student dressed in an Army uniform was doing drills his Sargent barked at him. The Sargent commanded him to be at ease and the student gave the group information about the start of the ROTC program at Penn State. He said that the program was founded in 1916 and ex-plained that they are constantly training.

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Lion Ambassadors give nighttime Lantern Tours

By Maddie BiertempfelTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Liaisons were elected, a di-rector of communications was confirmed and a bill funding 35 gallons of Starbucks coffee to be available during finals week was passed at Wednesday night’s University Park Undergraduate Association meeting.

During President Katie Jor-dan’s report, she said she met with Penn State President Eric Barron, along with UPUA Vice President Alex Shockley, Speak-er of the Assembly Brent Rice, and former UPUA President Terry Ford.

At the half-hour meeting, the student body government leaders discussed the state of greek life at Penn State, Jor-dan (junior-public relations and community, environment and development) said, adding that the university has students’ best interests in mind and is open to hearing student opinions.

Jordan also spoke about the progress of updating the cur-rent “classic view” of Lionpath, as well as improving the student affairs website and creating a student leader transition book-let for newer organizations to utilize.

Representatives of the Penn State Student Newspaper Read-ership Program gave a presen-tation focused on encouraging students to utilize credible news sources in a time when newspa-per readership has declined and online alternatives have flour-ished.

Shea Winton, who oversees the program, said newspapers will no longer be available in the residence halls starting in the fall semester.

Instead, Winton encouraged the use of digital platforms such as The Daily Collegian app, the New York Times Academic Pass, The BUZZ and the Centre Daily Times app.

Winton urged the assembly to

encourage other students to rec-ognize the importance of credible news.

“Help support this program and talk about the value of news,” Winton said, adding that students have access to news sources be-cause of their student activity fee — something they should take advantage of.

In new business, Lexi Shim-konis, an assisting managing editor at Onward State, was con-firmed director of communica-tions after being nominated by Jordan.

“We need someone who can manage the growth of this organi-zation,” Jordan said, adding that Shimkonis would play an essen-tial role in doing so.

Shimkonis spoke about her experience utilizing social media and ability to expand the brand of UPUA.

She will serve as Onward State’s assisting managing edi-tor until the end of the semester, at which point she will become a staff writer, Elissa Hill, a manag-ing editor for Onward State said.

After an assembly-wide vote by secret ballot, Shimkonis was con-firmed 28-4.

Liaison elections followed, in which Zach Robinson (sopho-more-agribusiness management) was unanimously elected liaison for the Pennsylvania Associa-tion of State-Related Students, or PASS.

PASS represents students from Penn State, University of Pitts-burgh, Temple University and Lincoln University. According to its website, PASS advocates for these students and “focuses on our unique relationship with the state of Pennsylvania.”

Schreyer Honors College Rep-resentative Nick Karafilis (soph-omore-information sciences and technology and integrated arts) was elected liaison for the Asso-ciation of Big Ten Students by a vote of 26-5.

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From left, Connor Hoff (senior-criminology) and Zach Grill (junior-accounting) act as Andrew Carnegie and Charles Schwab, during the Lion Ambassadors Lantern Tour on Wednesday, April 19.

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Choosing a direction that works for you

Goodbye and good riddance!My college experience coin-

cided with a strange time to attend Penn State. I arrived

during the denouement of Happy Valley.

Once the San-dusky scandal reared its head, students strug-gled more to convince them-selves that State College is

the “happiest of valleys.”Many mediocre memories

will stand out to me during my time at Penn State:

The man who screamed “c***” at me on College Ave-nue at 8 p.m. on a Thursday, when Penn State Lehigh Valley fired my favorite professor for writing her doctoral work in Spanish and then purchased flat screen televisions to line the building’s foyer and — per-haps nearest to my heart — when my Smeal advisor laughed in my face when I said I could graduate with a double major and minor in four years.

Penn State caused me to reassess my values.

When I started college at Penn State Lehigh Valley — which for the record seemed like two additional years of

high school level learning — I had two goals in mind: to become fluent in Spanish and graduate with a job offer.

Within my first week at Uni-versity Park I drafted a new goal: do not get sexually assaulted.

For a college nationally acclaimed for turning a blind eye to rape, I imagined the school would diminish the number of sexual assault alerts students receive.

But based on the culture here, I don’t foresee it chang-ing anytime soon. This is a uni-versity for some, not for all.

This university can shout “We Are” until its face turns blue. But to anyone who pays attention, this solidarity does not actually exist. Students should be shouting “I Am.”

Though I describe myself undeniably as a pessimist, I will cherish many moments unrelated to the university itself: seeing my articles on the front page above the fold in the Collegian, noticing all the wait-resses at Baby’s know my order, editing the Phollegian for hours, performing stand-up comedy with surprising confi-dence, receiving a book of Pablo Neruda poems from my favorite professor, laughing for

hours with friends and realiz-ing in those strange moments of clarity that I was exactly where I needed to be.

Perhaps the way I changed most throughout college involved my willingness to let others know me — a feat requiring about two decades of effort.

To all of the three friends I made and kept from Penn State Lehigh Valley — includ-ing one unbelievably support-ive boyfriend and two rather remarkable stand-in boyfriends — I could not be happier to have kept you around the last four years.

To the humorists of Phroth and Second Floor Stand-Up, I cannot say you are consistently funny but I can say I wish I had spent more time with such a wonderful

collection of comedians. And most of all, to my mom,

I would not be who I am today without your unwavering sup-port, introductions to interest-ing art that turned me preten-tious and unconventional advice on everything from what would make a good short story to whether food is too moldy for me to eat.

As Billy Joel said, “Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again.”

So Penn State, goodbye and good riddance. (And don’t expect any donations when I’m famous.)

Liz Furio is a senior majoring in journal-ism and is a music and arts reporter for The Daily Collegian. Her email is eif5107@psu.edu or follow her on Twitter at @lizanthemum.

MY VIEW | LIZ FURIO

Furio

“This university can shout ‘We Are’ until its face turns blue. But to anyone who pays attention, this solidarity does not actually exist. Students should be shouting ‘I am.’”

Liz Furio Music and arts reporter

When I was in elementary school, I noticed two teachers leave the school and walk across

the street to an empty lot, where a house had been torn down the year before. Curiosity struck, and I began ask-ing around to see what was happening.

At recess, with my pencil and

notebook in hand, I began asking other students and the recess aides if they knew why the teach-ers were scoping out the land.

The children’s answers were ludicrous as expected, and the adults didn’t know anything useful.

Sometime later, I found out the district was purchasing the land to build a baseball field. Though

it never went to print, I consider this the first story I ever re-ported.

When some students reach their junior and senior years of high school — and in some cases into the early semesters of college — they are unsure of the direction they want to take their careers. But for me, the choice was obvious. Storytelling has always been my passion.

Even with my career aspira-tions solidified, life can still sometimes have a plan of its own. A wrench in the engine, sometimes literally, is to be expected along the way.

I have found that it is some-times the unexpected challeng-es, and blessings, that have the biggest impact on the course of my life, rather than the things I thought were under my control.

As I reached a crossroad at the end of my sophomore year of

college, I found myself living a life that, looking back, is hard to recognize as my own.

At the time, things seemed normal, and I was content to maintain the status quo, until things boiled over. Once they did, I could no longer sit idly by, whit-tling away my days.

A choice had to be made: Would I continue on the road I was on, or take the road less traveled? What Frost fails to mention is that the less trav-eled road is full of low hanging branches that smack you in the face around every turn.

But he was right in that it did make all the difference.

And now, as I come to another, much more significant intersec-tion in my life, it seems that the choices I made in the past were a precursor; preparation, if you will, for the ones I must make now.

More than two roads diverge, because life is never black and white.

So to make a decision I can feel confident in, I will need to use the tools I’ve gained in disap-pointment and success.

I do long for the old road, a lethargic trail that lends itself to happiness by way of its familiarity.

But then, apathy is death.

Perhaps life isn’t worth living if you aren’t afraid of what you’re doing; if you aren’t nervous that it won’t work out; or scared maybe that it will.

Although, this time I will choose the right road without having to back track once or twice.

I think this time around I will take a more centered approach.

Great challenges such as the ones we face at this point in life require us to fully gather our thoughts before making a decision.

Even so, things have a habit of working out the way they’re meant to, despite what you may have planned.

Carter Walker is a senior majoring in digital and print journalism and is the Assistant News Editor for The Daily Collegian. His email is crw5331@psu.edu or follow him on Twitter at @ Carterw284.

MY VIEW | CARTER WALKER

Walker

“A wrench in the engine, sometimes literally, is to be expected along the way.”

Carter WalkerAssistant News Editor

SPORTSTHURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2017 PAGE 5

FROM SPAIN TO STATESPenn State diving’s Hector Garcia Boissier reflects on leaving his family in Spain

behind to compete as a Nittany Lion.By Tyler OlsonTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

When Hector Garcia Boissier committed to Penn State, he was doing more than just choosing

where he would continue his div-ing career. He was leaving behind his

native country of Spain, his family and his brother Nico, with whom he’d done nearly everything with since they were kids.

“My brother Nico has been a great support all my life,” Hector said of his relationship with his older brother. “I would say he’s the person who’s most influenced me, besides my coach. We basically went to school to-gether, went to practice together, competed together.”

The Garcia Boissiers grew up in Las Palmas, the capitol of Gran Canaria, which is part of Spain and is the second most populous of the Canary Islands.

There, the two brothers — Nico one year older than Hector — attended IES Politecnico and dove under the guidance of coach Enrique Martinez for the club team CN Metropole. They were very close with one another and their family, causing both broth-ers to be reluctant to leave home to continue their diving as well as education.

Nico was the first to have to make the decision.

He chose to stay close, attending La Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

“I’ve always been very close to my family, and the idea of leaving home was something terrifying for me,” Nico said of his choice to say on the small island off the coast of Africa.

Hector may have been des-tined to follow his brother’s path if it weren’t for their coach. Mar-tinez previously spent some time in the U.S. and gave Hector an

idea of what opportunities would be available to him in the states.

“He didn’t go to school here,” Hector said of Martinez’s involve-ment in his college selection pro-cess. “But he came here for one or two years, and he knew how ev-erything worked here, and he told me about how you could dive and study at the same time here…I wanted to give it a try.”

Despite the encouragement of his coach, Hector was nervous when he first came to Happy Valley.

“[The beginning of my freshman year] was kind of hard because I didn’t know anyone,” he said. “Other people from the team come here and have a recruiting trip and they can meet the team, get to know each other a little bit, then take the decision whether they want to come or not. I couldn’t do that.”

Hector also dealt with some of the same issues many interna-tional students have to face, from not knowing American culture and customs to struggling with the language.

“It was really scary to come from Spain to a place that I didn’t know anything about. I just knew the pictures of Penn State. The only person I knew was Den-nis [Ceppa], the diving coach, because I Skyped with him and I knew how he was coaching, but besides that it was a very scary decision. That was the hardest thing for me.”

Despite struggling with adjust-ing to a new place, Hector has thrived in his first two years as a Nittany Lion.

Already with an NCAA All-America Honorable Mention off the 1-meter boards his fresh-man year, he added two more

honorable mentions — one in the 1-meter competition and one in the 3-meter — at the 2017 NCAA Championships.

Hector has also succeeded on the Big Ten stage.

He finished seventh in the 1-meter and eighth in the 3- meter his freshman year, then came back this season to post ninth in the 1-meter and fourth in the 3-meter with a school record of 465.00.

Hector said his sophomore season was an improvement from his first in North America, and a sign of good things to come.

“My freshman year was quite successful,” he said. “I would say that this year I did a lot better at conference championships, and I came out with an improvement in national championships with two honorable mentions.”

This success wasn’t lost on

Nico, who was inspired by his brother to take a leap of faith and pursue opportunities on Spain’s mainland.

“Having a younger brother who decided to move to other coun-try to study abroad helped me to change my mind and take the decision to move out myself,” Nico said. “In fact, after seeing how well he is doing, I wanted to do the same thing and move to Madrid where I’m planning on finishing my undergraduate degree in marine engineering and continuing my diving career.”

Nico now dives in Madrid for Real Canoe, regarded as the best diving club team in Spain.

The two brothers previously dove together in several large events, including the synchro-nized diving competition at the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia, and are looking to reunite this summer.

“I’m working toward the European Championships and trying to qualify for Worlds this summer,” Hector said. “It’s been such a good season so far not only for me, but my brother as well, and I feel like we could have solid performances diving together in the synchronized event.”

The Garcia Boissier brothers have ambitious goals for these upcoming competitions.

“Being in the top-6 at Europeans and reaching the fi-nals at Worlds are some of the goals I believe we can accom-plish,” Hector said. “Right now, my brother is training miles away from Spain, but we’ll reunite soon, and I can’t wait to see what the rest of the year has in store for us.

“I think you just never forget where you came from and use those values you learn from your family and take that wherever you go with you.”

To email reporter: tso5043@psu.edu.Follow him on Twitter at @TylerOlson1791.

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Héctor García Boissier, a diver for the Penn State men’s swimming team, sits on a diving board in the Natatorium on Tuesday, April 11.

Brandwene retires from coaching

By Andrew RubinTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

After a little over five sea-sons behind Penn State’s bench, Josh Brandwene is leaving the

women’s hockey program.

B r a n d w e n e is retiring from coaching college

hockey after posting a 45-105-19 record in his five-and-a-half seasons in charge of the Nittany Lions, Penn State Athletics an-nounced in a press release early Wednesday morning.

Brandwene hasn’t stood behind the bench since January when he took a medical leave of absence and assistant Dean Jackson took over as interim head coach. Athletics direc-tor Sandy Barbour said that a national search will immediately begin for a new coach.

Last March, the Daily Col-legian reported allegations of coaching misconduct made by former players against Brand-wene, though it is unclear wheth-er the allegations and his retir-ing are at-all related.

Barbour responded to the Collegian’s story soon after it had been published and eventu-ally decided to give him another season in charge.

“We’ve had, as a result of this article on Monday, folks step forward and give us some very positive assessments and frank-ly some of them have flat out

refuted some of the specifics of what’s been reported,” Barbour told the Collegian at the time. “I think that makes it even all the more important that we make sure we take a really, really good look at this.”

On Wednesday, Bradwene told GoPSUSports that spend-ing more time with his wife and daughter factored into his deci-sion to retire.

“I’ve been blessed to have Le-ona’s unwavering support for my coaching career for 25 years,” Brandwene said.

“It’s my turn to make a change that will support her career and move into a role that enables me to spend more time with our daughter, Sophie.”

Brandwene was named the first coach of the Nittany Lions in May 2011, as the team tran-sitioned to Division I status and began competing in the 2012-13 season.

“I am very appreciative of Josh’s contributions and his efforts in getting the program started,” Barbour told gopsus-ports.com “I am grateful for his commitment to comprehen-sive excellence in all aspects of the program, including strong academic achievement and com-munity engagement. We thank Josh for his service to Penn State and wish him the best with his future endeavors.”

To email reporter: abr5312@psu.edu.Follow him on Twitter at @andrewrubin24.

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Head coach Josh Brandwene watches his team play during the game against St. Lawrence at Pegula Ice Arena on Monday, Nov. 21, 2016.

SWIMMING

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Franklin talks Blue-White game, NCAA rule changes

By Paddy CotterTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Tailgating and celebrat-ing warm weather are bigger themes than what the event is

actually based on –– football.

Coach James Franklin said the

spring practices leading up to the Blue-White game are “really where the most value for [Penn State] comes.”

“The Blue and White game, to be honest with you, it’s about going in and kind of one last hoorah and it’s for the fans and everything else.” Franklin said. “I would say more value is in the practice.”

During those practices, a few players have stood out to Frank-lin including quarterback Tommy Stevens, cornerback Christian Campbell, tight end Jonathan Holland, linebacker Koa Farm-er and running back Josh McPhearson.

The improvement of Campbell in spring practices has been vital following John Reid’s injury.

Heading into the spring, it was uncertain who would be Mike Gesicki’s backup come the fall, but Franklin’s comments

indicate that Holland will compete for the job.

Farmer, who made the transi-tion from safety to linebacker, is starting to get much more com-fortable in his role this season.

“He’s finally found a home,” Franklin said. “He has been fight-ing genetics for a long time, he’s finally embraced linebacker.”

McPherson has also improved his stock during spring practices and has become an option at punt return for the Nittany Lions.

Running back Andre Robinson referred to the Blue and White game as a dumbed down version of spring practices.

“It’s a lot of base stuff,” Robin-son said. “We’re not going to run a lot of the things we don’t want other teams to be able to see.”

The NCAA givethThe NCAA reformed some of

its policies last week, including the expansion of the assistant coaching staff from nine to 10, and Franklin has a good idea of what he wants from that 10th as-sistant.

“I’d like it to be a guy that has an emphasis on spe-cial teams,” Franklin said. “Long term, you’d love to be in a situation where you had a

guy and that was his deal.”Franklin’s current staff is

composed of four coaches focus-ing on defense and five focusing on offense. In addition to spe-cial team responsibilities, that additional coach would also have a defensive emphasis to balance out the staff ’s attention.

The NCAA is implementing an early signing period in Decem-ber. Those 72 hours will decrease the craziness that is National Signing day in February. It also changes the official visiting pe-riod for recruits to the summer.

“Early signing period, I do think makes sense,” Franklin said. “I wasn’t a big fan of the early visits. When do the coaches go on vacation? You also like be-ing able to show these kids the campus when the students are here.”

Being Barkley’s backupAndre Robinson is finally

asking questions. Saquon Bark-ley’s incessant –– almost annoy-ing –– questioning has opened up his teammate’s eyes to the importance of finding out the how and why behind the running back position.

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

FOOTBALL

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Head coach James Franklin talks with Blake Gillikin (93) and Tyler Davis (95) during football practice at the Lasch building on Wednesday, April 19.

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By Natasha WarcholakTHE DAILY COLLEGIAN

Head coach Mark Pavlik and Penn State know how to win EIVA championships — the Nittany

Lions have won 17 of the last 18 conference tour-naments.

Penn State last took the title in 2015, but fell to St. Francis in the semifinals last sea-son. But the Nittany Lions are de-termined to take back their place at the podium this weekend as they host the EIVA championship at Rec Hall.

Heading into the most impor-tant weekend of the season, the Nittany Lions find themselves at the top of the conference, with the opportunity to defend their spot with home-court advantage. The Lions earned home court advan-tage with an undefeated weekend against Charleston (WV) and 2016

EIVA champion George Mason.They are slated to take on

Princeton (No. 4) on Thursday night, and if victorious, they’ll take on either St. Francis or Sa-cred Heart on Saturday.

In both matches against Princ-eton this year, the Nittany Lions managed to take down the Ti-gers, but each match took the maximum five sets. In EIVA play this year, the Nittany Lions have taken all but one of their five-set matches. Pavlik believes that the reason the Tigers are able to sus-tain five-set matches so frequent-ly is the strength of their middles.

“(Princeton) has two of the most physical middles in the league, between George Huh-mann and Junior Oboh, they’re a handful,” Pavlik said. “They com-pete hard. It’s going to be a close match”.

When the Nittany Lions target the middles to try and prevent them from impacting the play, it

creates an imbalance where the outside hitters get more oppor-tunities, which the Lions are pre-paring to defend on Thursday.

“The middles score with blocks, and when you worry about them it creates one on one opportunity for the outside hitters,” Pavlik said.

Pavlik also cited strong setting as another obstacle that the Nit-tany Lions will have to contend with on Thursday.

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

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Frank Melvin (3) attacks during the men’s volleyball game against University of Charleston at Rec Hall on Friday, April 14.

Penn State vs. PrincetonWhen: Thursday, April 20 @ 7:30 p.m. Where: Rec HallFollow @TDC_MVolleyball for updates and analysis.

MEN’S VOLLEYBALL

Lions sweep doubleheader against BucknellBy David Eckert

THE DAILY COLLEGIAN

After losing a pair of games in late innings last weekend, Penn State pulled off a pair of dramatic

victories of its own on Wednesday as it swept a doublehead-er with Bucknell.

The Nittany Lions took the first game 1-0 in regulation before needing extra innings to earn a 6-5 victory in game two.

Penn State fell behind 3-0 in the first inning of the nightcap, and Bucknell stretched its lead out to 5-0 after five-and-a-half innings.

With starter Lara Bean cruising through their lineup, the Nittany Lions appeared poised to settle for a split, but they made the most of their last six outs.

Delaney Elling homered in the bottom of the sixth to cut the deficit to 5-2 and put Penn State in position for an epic comeback in the seventh.

Two hits and an error brought home another run, followed by a walk and run-scoring hit-by-pitch that cut the Bison lead to a single run.

Coach Amanda Lehotak said she could tell her team was about to make a run.

“All of a sudden [the team]’s energy was authentic, rather than trying to create it” she said. “I could feel that we were going to score runs.”

Elling came up big for the Nittany Lions again, singling to left field to tie the game, but Tori Dubois was cut down at the plate trying to score the winning run, sending the game to extra innings.

Elling was 0-4 on the day before her home run in the sixth, but she said she knew how Bucknell was going to pitch her after four at-bats.

“For me, the first game-and-a-half didn’t go so well,” Elling said. “So I talked with coach and went over my game plan, and I felt a lot more comfortable. I was really happy I could pull through for the team.”

After a scoreless top of the eighth, Rebecca Ziegler sin-gled home Christa Wagner to complete the comeback and earn the win.

Madison Shaffer earned the win in relief for the Nittany Lions, throwing five innings without allowing an earned run.

“Her level of consistency is get-ting better and better,” Lehotak said of her sophomore pitcher.

“She’s just so freaking competi-tive, and I think you’re starting to see that right now. She’s going af-ter them, she’s not afraid of mak-ing mistakes, and I like how she’s challenging teams right now.”

The first game of the day was an old-fashioned pitchers’ duel. As she has done so often this season, Marlaina Laubach carried the Nittany Lions to victory in game one. The senior pitcher hurled a complete game shutout, scattering five hits and two walks over a stellar seven innings as the Nittany Lions defeated the Bison 1-0.

“Marley always gets game one, or usually Friday night, because she’s just kind of our spark,” Lehotak said. “Whether it’s her energy, her ability to hit her locations consistently, it’s something about Marley that she usually just kind of gets us going, and she’s done that for four years.

For most of the game, however, she was matched pitch-for-pitch by Bucknell’s Raeanne Geffert, who held Penn State scoreless through five innings.

In the sixth, though, Toni Polk broke the ice. The sopho-more shortstop hooked a Geffert offering into the right field corner for a triple, scoring Rebec-

ca Ziegler from first base for the only run Laubach would need.

She retired the Bison in order in the top of the seventh to seal the win, snapping Penn State’s four game losing streak.

The Nittany Lions’ defense let them down on more than one occasion last weekend against Nebraska, but it played a pivotal

part of their game one victory on Wednesday.

In the second inning, Sam Shanahan made an impressive throw to home plate, forcing a Bucknell runner to stay at third base on what might have other-wise been a sacrifice fly.

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

SOFTBALL

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Rebecca Ziegler (15) runs for the first base against Ohio State at Beard Field on Wednesday, April 12. Ohio State defeated Penn State 10-7.

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Bryce Jordan CenterThe Price is Right Live

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Spring 2017 CommencementFriday, May 5

8 p.m. - College of EngineeringSaturday, May 6

9 a.m. - Eberly College of Science12 p.m. - College of Communications3 p.m. - College of Health and Human Development6:30 p.m. - College of the Liberal Arts

Sunday, May 79 a.m. - Smeal College of Business12:30 p.m. - College of Education3:30 p.m. - College of Agricultural Sciences6:30 p.m. - The Graduate School

Penn State SportsFriday, April 21

Women’s Tennisvs. Purdue4 p.m.University Park, Pa.

Softballvs. Rutgers6 p.m.University Park, Pa.

Baseballvs. Northwestern6 p.m.University Park, Pa.

Saturday, April 22FootballBlue-White Spring Game3 p.m.University Park, Pa.

Baseballvs. Northwestern6 p.m.University Park, Pa.

Sunday, April 23Women’s Tennisvs. Indiana11 a.m.University Park, Pa.

Men’s Lacrossevs. Rutgers7 p.m.University Park, Pa.

HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING AROUND CAMPUS

Downtown State Theatre

April 207 p.m. Penn State’s IAH presents Truth

& Reconciliation Series

April 218 p.m. & 10 p.m. Lady Grey’s Late

Night Cabaret presents “Twisted Fairytales”

April 2212:45 p.m. Metropolitan Opera HD

2016-2017 Series: Eugene Onegin7 p.m. The Student Film Organization

presents: Blue & White Film Festival

April 244 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Monday Movie

Series: Manchester by the Sea

April 277 p.m. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Are Dead8 p.m. Next Stage Theatre Company

presents Rain Dance

April 288 p.m. Next Stage Theatre Company

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