Vol. 119, No. 9 Sept. 17-19, 2018

By Lilly ForsythThe Daily Collegian

Dance is found in nearly every culture of the world — and with Africa’s 54 countries, there are plenty distinct dance styles to embrace on the continent.

Afrique Fusion brings just a taste of the variety to Univer-sity Park — not only through its moves, but through its costumes and energy.

Branching from the African Student Association, the dancers strive to increase and diversify the amount of cultural represen-tation on campus.

Found at ASA events such as Touch of Africa and the Miss Af-rica PSU pageant, Afrique Fu-sion provides an outlet for danc-ers who find inspiration in their movements.

Dancer Teni Idowu explained that this team is not traditional in the sense that one can count the dance steps. One must instead “listen to the music and really feel the beat.”

“When people know they are killing it or doing a great job, it’s written on their face,” Idowu (junior-microbiology) said. “You’ll see the confidence and the pride.”

The pride she described in-cludes more than just being able to follow the routine.

“It’s different when other peo-ple are watching. It’s like you don’t want to just represent for yourself, but for your country,” Idowu, who is of Nigerian back-ground, said.

This year, seven new members will join the four returning danc-ers of Afrique Fusion.

The new dancers are Zoleglein Yakpasuo, Dalia Batuuka, Randi Youboty, Joann Alerte, Angela Mobley, Aba Aggrey and Abigail Yeboah.

Smaller numbers have allowed the group to bond on a closer lev-el beyond just being teammates.

“What drew me into the group was that it wasn’t just about danc-ing and being shown around cam-pus,” Idowu said. “It was more like a sisterhood. The fun of danc-ing and having friends who also enjoyed the things you do was the icing on the cake.”

Four years ago, several mem-bers of ASA’s executive board felt cultural portrayal could go be-yond the historical knowledge the

association was providing. “It’s not just knowing history

or information,” team captain Ni-cole Osafo-Dedey said. “There’s food. There’s music. There’s dance. So we are just a subgroup [of ASA] bringing culture to Penn State.”

For Osafo-Dedey (sophomore-security risk analysis), Afrique Fusion was im-portant to her in-tegration into the Penn State com-munity.

“I’m from Maryland and where I grew up, it was really diverse,” Osafo-Dedey said. “Here you have the same thing but it’s on such a larger scale. We are such a smaller percentage of the population with Penn State being a [primarily white institu-tion], and … being able to find a group that I could relate to was really important to me.”

Thana Annan, a Class of 2016 alumna, was a team captain in the group’s early years, and re-members the potential she saw in the group as it gained momentum with time.

“I didn’t want it to be known as just the African Student Associa-tion dance team,” Annan said. “I

wanted it to be a general dance team non-Africans could also be a part of.”

Because the founding mem-bers of the group all originated from Western Africa, the dance team is heavily influenced by West African dance styles from

countries such as Nigeria and Ghana.

With the ad-dition of a stu-dent with roots in Eastern Af-rica this year, O s a f o - D e d e y said she hopes to diversify rou-tines, costumes and music to be more inclusive of all African cultures.

Idowu said when she original-ly joined the group, she simply wanted to show off her dance moves. But in one year, she said she also grew as a person.

“We really have a great bond and I never imagined that would be the case going in,” Idowu said. “I learned to let things go and not be afraid to speak up for myself.”

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Afrique Fusion team brings culture, dance to campus

Courtesy of Teni Idowu

Members of Afrique Fusion, a dance team inspired by tradional

African dances, pose for a photo.

“It was more like a

sisterhood. The fun

of dancing and

having friends who

also enjoyed the

things you do was

the icing on the

cake.”

Teni Idowu

Afrique Fusion dancer

OFFENSIVELY GOODPhotos by Caitlin Lee, John Stinely and Eric Firestine/Collegian

By Tyler KingThe Daily Collegian

For the first time since the undefeated 1994 season, the Nit-tany Lions are averaging over 50 points in their first three games. On Satur-day against Kent State, the offense put the pedal to the floor for four straight quarters and found the end zone nine times. But this offense still isn’t at its best.

“Areas for im-provement: it’s what everybody in the country is fighting for-consistency,” coach James Franklin said Saturday. “There’s times we look like a Su-per Bowl team, flashes of really good things.”

Penalties certainly continue to be an issue. The Nittany Lions committed nine penalties on Sat-urday, including two holding calls

that wiped away two long touch-downs. The defense also had two accepted offsides penalties and another that was canceled out by Kent State’s lone touchdown.

“There’s other times where we’re really hurting ourselves,

and the opponent had nothing to do with it,” Franklin said. “We can’t do that.”

“That’s some-thing that’s kind of plagued us the last two weeks is penalties taking away big plays,” q u a r t e r b a c k Trace McSorley

added.McSorley himself had two big

touchdown passes wiped away by penalties, but he still had himself a day. He accounted for five total touchdowns, three of which came on the ground and the other two in the air. Those three rushing touchdowns put McSorley atop the list of rushing touchdowns by

a quarterback in program history.Even though Penn State was

able to get plenty of young guys involved, the offense was still led by the three key players who have dominated the first three weeks.

McSorley finished with just a 50 percent completion rate, but he passed for over 220 yards and ran for over 50.

Miles Sanders continued to im-press, averaging over six yards per carry on 14 attempts and fin-ishing with over 100 all-purpose yards.

The electric KJ Hamler also finished with 100-plus all-purpose yards.

But there was a concentrated effort to get the struggling vet-eran wide receivers involved, specifically DeAndre Thompkins. And it worked. Thompkins had his best game in quite some time, finishing with over 100 yards re-ceiving and a touchdown. He also had three solid punt returns and led the team in all-purpose yards

“We felt like we had really good matchups on the outside and

throw the ball around and make some plays,” McSorley said. “We were able to do that and get [the receivers] going a little bit.”

The offense has had three very different performances this sea-son, despite putting up 45 points or more each week. Against Ap-palachian State, the offense dis-appeared at times during the second and third quarter. Against Pitt, the offense didn’t get going until the final drive of the first half. But against Kent State, it felt like the offense had things going for almost all 60 minutes.

“I think we’ve been able to come in and get better each week, and that’s a big plus,” McSorley said.

It was expected that this team would take time to return to the high level it’s been at the last two seasons. Saquon Barkley, Dae-Sean Hamilton, Mike Gesicki and Joe Moorhead are all gone. But this offense has been better than expected to start the season and is scoring at a rate Moorhead’s of-fenses didn’t.

This team hasn’t reached its peak and there’s still plenty of life left to get there — the Big Ten schedule is just beginning.

“We’re still kind of learning [how good we can be],” McSor-ley said. “Obviously there’s times where we’re showing flashes of a top team in the country but there’s other times where we’re not executing right, giving up penalties or being undisciplined.”

But if they do figure out how good they can be, the rest of the conference will start to worry.

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Penn State football’s offense is off to a historic start — but the team still thinks it can improve

“There’s times we

look like a Super

Bowl team, flashes

of really good

things.”

James Franklin

Head coach

“I think we’ve been

able to come in and

get better each

week, and that’s a

big plus.”

Trace McSorley

Quarterback

New student-run cafe serves unique purpose

By Cissy MingThe Daily Collegian

Like many Penn State students, Jiahao “Ben” Yan has a busy semester ahead.

Instead of writing essays or reading textbook pages, he will instead receive class credit and a salary for overseeing the new Saxbys cafe on the first floor of Business Building — a job he said requires working over 60 hours a week.

Despite the steep learning curve and loss of free time over his six-month term, Yan (sopho-more-marketing) considered the leadership opportunity to be “too good to pass up.”

“Nobody else would give you the keys to a cafe and say, ‘This is yours,’” Yan said. “I enjoy what I do. I would do it even without payment.”

As the student cafe executive officer, he joins students at five other Pennsylvania universi-ties who operate the Philadel-phia-based chain’s Experiential Learning Program cafes. At Penn State, the ELP cafe is the product of a collaboration be-tween the Smeal College of Busi-ness and Saxbys Coffee.

He said Saxbys summer train-ing in Philadelphia taught him the skills to make his business successful — such as tracking product sales, engaging with community organizations and even biking to another cafe to resupply on coffee during a mid-day rush.

Yan and his team of 50 employ-ees share responsibility for pro-moting the Saxbys brand on cam-pus, generating profit and keeping the business running smoothly. By the end of the semester, the Saxbys Coffee location on cam-pus plans to hire an additional 50 people, for a team of 100.

From baristas to managers, the entire workforce at Saxby’s ELP cafes consists of students, with everyone except Yan also at-tending classes full time. Students control their own hours and have the same chances for advance-ment from customer service to management as regular Saxbys employees.

Saxbys Coffee CEO Nick Bayer said the ELP cafes foster entre-preneurship in a college setting, and added that his company has received repeated requests to bring the program to Penn State.

“When I was in college, the cul-ture didn’t promote entrepreneur-ship,” Bayer said.

“We thought hands-on experi-ence is the best teacher there is.”

Shawn Mitchell Clark — an entrepreneurship professor and director of the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship — heads the academic side of the university’s partnership with Saxbys.

Clark and other Smeal pro-fessors advise the student cafe team on problems they may en-counter.

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Customers wait in line at Saxbys in the Business Building on Thursday,

Sept. 13. Saxbys is a student-run cafe that offers business experience.

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A young fan dressed as the Nittany Lion dances during a break in the game against Kent State at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 15.

Penn State defeated Kent State 63-10.

lion Cubs ‘kent’ lose

Shaver’s Creek reopens after two years, $7.5 million remodel

By Alexandra RamosThe Daily Collegian

After two years of construc-tion, Shaver’s Creek has finally reopened its doors.

Shaver’s Creek is located in Pe-tersburg, Pennsylvania, about 20 minutes from University Park’s campus. The environmental cen-ter has undergone a huge trans-formation using nearly $7.5 mil-lion to reconstruct the area.

Now, the space is ready for major festivals — the Enchanted Halloween Trail and Festival, and the Maple Harvest Festival hap-pening in the spring.

As visitors flowed through Shaver’s Creek upon its reopen-ing on Saturday, Sept. 1, Joshua Potter, an educational operations manager at Shaver’s Creek, said the visitor responses from the first two weeks have been suc-cessful and enthusiastic.

“We’ve had close to 1,500 peo-ple over the course of the three-day holiday weekend, and we invited past staff, students and volunteers over the last [few] years to… see the new center,” Potter said. “During the week, it’s slower and the weather has been keeping people out as well, but it’s still a nice steady stream of folks.”

With the new renovations, there have been plenty of places students are now able to explore.

“All of our snakes and turtles and toads have this beautiful new enclosure,” he said. “All of our trails are still open. We have this brand new beautiful classroom

building. We have some hands-on exhibits coming along. And as the fall comes and goes, [we] will have a lot more of those for folks to see.”

The renovations couldn’t have been made possible without some help from a few select people. One endowment of $1.2 million came from the Litzinger family — two professors who both teach at Penn State.

Thomas Litzinger is excited to see what the center has made through the endowment he and his wife, Mary-Ellen, made to-ward the renovations.

“Mary-Ellen and I both love the outdoors, so we have [visited] Shaver’s Creek for a long time,”

Litzinger said. “Mary-Ellen has

been chairing the development board, so she’s been raising mon-ey for renovations.”

The pair donated $35,000 to-ward a Litzinger Herpetology Center, and $150,000 for the Litz-inger Discovery Room.

This endowment wasn’t the only money Shaver’s Creek re-ceived, though. West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund also provided a grant of $35,000 to install sustainable energy tech-nologies, according to Penn State News.

Joel Morrison, a director of the West Penn Power Sustain-able Energy Fund, said he’s also excited to teach the public about sustainable energy through Shav-er’s Creek. He continued by men-

tioning how the work Shaver’s Creek does is a positive match for the West Penn Power Sus-tainable Energy Fund.

“We were established to show-case sustainable energy tech-nologies — that’s why we exist,” Morrison said. “Shaver’s Creek, because of the type of renova-tions [and educational develop-ment], was just a good fit for our fund… It [is a] community ben-efit. It’s energy and education.”

Chris Tassillo, a Penn State student who’s noted the new-and-improved center, said the updates have made him more inclined to visit.

“If the place is really that renovated, it’ll be cool to be able to take… Health and Physical Activity classes there,” Tassillo (junior-computer-science) said.

Classes are among the myriad activities for students at Shav-er’s Creek. According to Potter, Shaver’s Creek offers off-cam-pus and on-campus classes for students, such as the Seasonal Festival program where stu-dents can learn how to run an environmental festival.

From festivals to gatherings, the new Shaver’s Creek will re-turn with its same traditions. Potter said their typical events from the past will return, as well as past popular weekly events.

The organization’s next major event is the Enchanted Hallow-een Trail Festival on the week-end of Oct. 20-21.

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The environmental center held its grand reopening on Saturday, Sept. 1.

By Lilly ForsythThe Daily Collegian

People are told to “think out-side the box” — Tony Porter often says that but, instead fo-cuses on the “Man Box.” Por-ter, who will give a presentation titled “A CALL TO MEN” at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19 in 105 Forum building, is an author, educator and activist working to promote “healthy manhood” and stand up against violence against women.

Societal norms expect men to be “powerful and dominating… fearless and in control… strong and emotional… and success-ful,” according to Porter’s web-site.

Santiago Martinez is eager to attend the event in hopes of learning how to cope with soci-ety’s expectations.

“I think there’s a general ex-pectation that a man’s success is a measure of how datable… and appealing they are,” Martinez (senior-economics) said. “This unspoken expectation makes it kind of hard to find genuine con-nections.”

Porter also educates that these limitations, which form the walls of the “Man Box,” con-tribute to the ideology that wom-en are not equal to men.

“In the ‘Man Box,’ women are objects, the property of men and of less value than men,” Porter’s website reads. “The teachings of the ‘Man Box’ allow violence against women, girls and other marginalized groups to persist.”

Porter is the chief executive officer in the A CALL TO MEN violence prevention organiza-tion, which focuses on chang-ing negative male attitudes and expectations of men. Because of Porter’s message, the event is part of the University Park Un-dergraduate Association’s Red Zone Action Week, which will last from Sept. 15-21.

Liza Buschinski, UPUA direc-tor of communications, said The Red Zone represents the first six weeks of fall classes when freshmen are at higher risk of experiencing sexual assault.

“There are studies about this, but what we talk about is that people aren’t comfortable yet at school, or they hang out with the wrong type[s] of people,” Bus-chinski (sophomore-marketing) said. “Sometimes people don’t know their alcohol limits yet, but there are a bunch of factors that contribute.”

Thus far, the first and only re-ported forcible sex offense of the fall 2018 semester was reported on Sept. 8.

Later in the week, UPUA will partner with the Gender Equity Center, Centre County Women’s Resource Center and various student organizations for ta-bling events in the HUB-Robe-son Center and Pollock Quad.

UPUA will also co-host a male survivors’ discussion panel where men will speak on their experiences of sexual miscon-duct.

Jennifer Pencek assures those unsure of attending that Porter is an “engaging” speaker and said people should consider attending because of the preva-lence of the issues he will speak about.

“I hope students realize that it’s not about placing blame on any one group of students,” Pencek, programing coordina-tor at the Gender Equity Center, said. “It’s not about saying all men do these things.”

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Additionally, Yan will meet reg-ularly with a faculty mentor.

“In the world of entrepreneur-ship, you have to pursue your own path or experience... Classes can’t teach everything,” Clark said. “I’ve been inspired by the positive energy of the students and I see them grow day by day.”

The students at the Business

Building’s Saxbys Coffee location face the additional challenge of running the chain’s largest ELP cafe, which has an entire menu exclusive to Penn State. Penn State-inspired menu items in-clude PSU BBQ — a chicken and bacon barbeque sandwich — and the Bleu and White buffalo chick-en wrap.

At 3,200 square feet, the loca-tion represents a step up in the ELP’s growth, Bayer said.

“I’ve worked with Penn State

alumni...and I have confidence in what Penn Staters can accom-plish,” Bayer said. “With all the students here, the campus has the market where a place like [the new cafe] can succeed.”

After the cafe served 1,500 cus-tomers on opening day, Yan said he sees the location already be-coming popular among the stu-dent body.

Courtney Ripp visited Saxbys Coffee to study and get an after-noon snack. Originally from the

Philadelphia area, Ripp (senior-accounting) has been one of the chain’s customers for a long time, and has many friends who work at the new location.

“I was happy they opened one here,” Ripp said.

“I like their coffee better, they have more to offer and their ser-vice is more efficient than Star-bucks.”

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Sen. Ben Sasse sets example for how politics should be

Let’s play the word associa-tion game. When you think of a member of the United States

Congress, what pops into your mind?

Reliable? Pub-lic servant? Honest?

Probably not. With the state of our politics right now, you’re probably more

likely to think of words like liar, hypocrite or even criminal. And based on the evidence, you’d probably be right.

Two Republican house mem-bers were indicted in August alone. Democrat senators Kamala Harris and Corey Booker made fools out of them-selves with blatant lies during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings this month. Members of Congress on both sides have had major #MeToo reckonings in 2018.

But the criminality and lying are just part of it. Politicians are politicians, and even the ones who seem most reliable will change their positions on any issue depending on where the wind blows. We saw that with Ted Cruz in 2016. He spent the entire primary cam-paign talking about how Don-ald Trump was a danger to the country, and fending off Trump’s insane attacks. Most notable among those were Trump’s claim that Cruz’s father may have been involved in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy and his mocking of Cruz’s wife’s appearance.

Then at the 2016 Republican National Convention, Cruz gave what seemed at the time to be one of the most coura-geous political speeches of this century. It was a rousing defense of conservative values and a non-endorsement of Trump that angered the Trump campaign and much of Cruz’s base. He stuck to his guns at a breakfast with the Texas dele-gation the next morning.

“I am not in the habit of sup-porting people who attack my wife and attack my father,” he said.

But alas, just two months later with polls showing strong support for Trump among the

GOP base, Cruz caved and endorsed Trump. Politicians gonna’ politician.

With Trump in office, the rest of the Republican delega-tion in Washington seems to have followed Cruz’s lead. They’ve consistently knuckled under and bent to Trump’s will so as not to draw his Twitter ire or cause conflict with the party’s base.

One of the best examples of this is on tariffs. Republicans are supposed to be the party of free markets and lower taxes. That’s why they’ve taken pride in the tax bill passed last win-ter and bragged so much about all the regulations they’ve cut. But tariffs are—by definition—taxes on Americans. So it’s odd that GOP members of Con-gress have taken no action as Trump continues to press trade wars with nations all around the world.

Trump is only able to insti-tute these tariffs because of legislation from Congress that abdicated that power to the executive, so Congress could actually kill these tariffs on its own. But still, nothing.

There is one Republican senator, however, who has been setting the example for how to handle Trump and how to be a faithful public servant. That person is Nebraska Sena-tor Ben Sasse.

He’s been the most vocal member of the higher chamber in calling out Trump’s idiotic tariffs. After Trump criticized Harley-Davidson for moving some of its production out of the U.S. to avoid the conse-quences of Trump’s trade war with Europe, Sasse responded with his usual frankness.

“The problem isn’t that Har-ley is unpatriotic,” he said in a press release on June 25, “it’s that tariffs are stupid. They’re tax increases on Americans, they don’t work, and apparent-ly we’re going to see more of this.”

Sasse, a former professor, university president and mem-ber of the George W. Bush administration, was the first sitting GOP Senator to announce he would not support Trump if he won the Republi-can nomination back in Febru-ary 2016.

Now, he’s pushing a package

of bills to “drain the swamp” in Washington and hold members of both parties accountable for their conduct. In a USA Today op-ed last week, Sasse said, “The folks who in 2016 didn’t care about draining the swamp are clamoring about it now, while the folks who promised to drain the swamp have con-veniently forgotten about it.”

Here are the five bills Sasse is introducing to hold Washing-ton to a higher standard:

The first will, “prohibit Cabi-net members and their imme-diate family from soliciting donations from foreign sourc-es.” In case it wasn’t clear who he is targeting with this legis-lation, Sasse added, “No more Clintons using high office to line their own pockets.”

Sasse wants to require that presidential and vice presiden-tial candidates disclose their tax returns before the election. “Donald Trump became the first major party nominee in modern American history to not release his tax returns,” Sasse explained. “Voters deserve basic information about the financial situation of their potential chief executive. We’re going to make sure they get it.”

The third bill would create a database of HR settlements from members of Congress. “In the era of #MeToo, voters should be able to expect trans-parency from their representa-tives when accusations of

improper conduct are settled,” Sasse wrote.

The next bill would prevent members of Congress from trading stocks while in office. Insider trading is not new in the halls of Congress. Sasse wants to make it a thing of the past. “Members of Congress are supposed to do what’s best for their constituents,” Sasse said, “not their 401K.”

Finally, Sasse wants to ban members of Congress from being paid as lobbyists after they leave office. “Getting elected to the U.S. Congress should be an opportunity to serve your constituents and the country, not a stepping-stone to a cushy job on K Street,” he concluded.

This is how representative government is supposed to work. Sadly, there are not nearly enough people like Sasse in Washington.

On the bright side, Sasse wouldn’t rule out a primary challenge to Trump in 2020 in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper last week. He would certainly be a better leader than Trump, or any of the cir-cus clowns emerging as front-runners on the Democratic side.

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

MY VIEW | Tyler Olson

Olson

Penn State should aim to be the best higher education institution it can be in order to benefit its students, faculty and alumni. That means the goals and practices of the university must constantly evolve.

President of Penn State, Eric Barron, presented ideas he has for our school to the Board of Trustees in an effort he coined “One Penn State 2025.” Penn State News laid out his “vision” to have implemented by the year 2025.

This mission began in 2016, with a goal to provide the best online education possible after seeing success from Penn State World Campus. From there, it expanded to encompass vast transformations for all of Penn State’s colleges and campuses.

Barron’s goals are listed as follows: provide a seamless student experience, achieve curricular coherence, design

relevant and responsive programs, engage learners throughout their lifetimes and achieve the highest level of efficiency of university resources.

These seem like goals for a higher learning institution anyone can get behind — but what else?

Looking past the buzz words and phrases like “streamline” and “seamless student experience,” there isn’t enough real answers as to how the administration plans on moving toward this 2025 goal. The

descriptions of each listed goal don’t necessarily provide more information.

There’s no hard evidence or numbers provided.

Barron could have included data points as to how these goals are going to be reached realistically, like plans to hire “x” number of professors to improve certain departments, or where more money will be invested.

Barron also mentions 600 students, faculty and staff were consulted in the process of compiling “One Penn State

2025.” But, what students were actually involved in the process? Is it an accurate representation of the student body?

Penn State News did link to a PDF of Barron’s actual presentation, but just like the outline provided, it seemed just as vague — just filled with flowery language.

The clearest point was regarding the plan to provide Penn State students with easy access to earn more credits and enroll in classes well-past their graduation.

In a way, it seems like they weren’t prepared to have a presentation at this very moment. And that would have been fine seeing as there’s not a time constraint — 2025 is seven years away.

Barron should have either held this announcement until he was able to provide more information, or included a better description of their current plans.

It’s great to have plans for the future.

No one is blaming Barron or Penn State for trying to inno-vate and provide a path for the university to follow.

But, something like this presentation is too vague to provide students and faculty with any type of “vision” — as Barron repeated throughout the presentation — for the future of Penn State.

#WeAre a little confused‘One Penn State 2025’ has good ideas, but its

vagueness left us with questions.

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Penn State wide reciever Daniel George (86) celebrates after scoring a touchdown during

the game against Kent State at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 15.

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Penn State linebacker Ellis Brooks (13) and saftey Jonathan Sutherland (26) tackle a

Kent State player during the game on Saturday, Sept. 15.

Lions Wrap: Penn State’s future on full display in win

Second team defensive line maintains standard

By Thomas SchlarpThe Daily Collegian

When a player walks into the Penn State defensive line room, they are immediately met by three goals written in large, bold print hanging on the wall.

First, is to get 50 sacks. Second is to have the number one rush defense in the nation. Third is to get 50 more tackles for loss.

The poster sets the tone for the type of ferocity the line must play with, a stan-dard that must be upheld by every single player, even when inexperienced fresh-men enter the field of a blowout versus Kent State.

“Anytime you put guys in there, you want to see who you can trust,” safety Nick Scott said about playing freshmen. “The biggest thing when those young guys come in is can they compete how we [starters] competed and [maintain] our standard.”

Starters on the line like Shareef Miller and Yetur Gross-Matos set the bar high.

Gross-Matos had a sack of Kent State quarterback Woody Barrett and an addi-tional tackle for loss, while Miller chipped in two sacks and another tackle for loss. Two of the three goals on their wall, met.

Penn State, however, entered the week ranked dead last in the Big Ten in rush de-fense. How would it respond?

The Golden Flashes were held to 41 rushing yards on 37 attempts — showing progress on meeting the Nittany Lions’ third goal.

But to say the freshmen and other backup defensive linemen held their own with the starters resting would be an un-derstatement.

Highlighted by true freshman Jayson Oweh’s pair of sacks in the third quarter, the youthful Penn State defense held the Golden Flashes off the board in the sec-ond half and limited the offense to just 72 total yards.

True freshman P.J. Mustipher also recorded a stop.

The snaps were the first collegiate career actions for Oweh and mirrored the collegiate debut of Miller two years ago against Kent State, when the now-redshirt junior also premiered to the tune of two sacks.

“I do really like playing Kent State,” Miller said. “Jayson’s like my little broth-er. I take him under my wing and teach and help him. I want to help him learn and be more comfortable in his play. Before he went out there, I just told him to play as fast as he could, and he did good. He had a great time out there.”

Oweh’s first time on the field as a Nit-tany Lion came after fellow freshman defensive end Nick Tarburton saw the field in weeks one and two, but was with-held from Kent State action in a plan by James Franklin to use the new redshirt rules to the largest benefit for Penn State down the line.

“We were able to get [Oweh] some experience, and now we’re in a situation where we can use Tarburton late in the season to solve some problems with inju-ries and hopefully still be able to redshirt him,” Franklin said. “A lot of guys played for the first time today, which is really important. It creates a healthy locker room where there’s a lot of guys that feel like they had a role in the game.”

In total, Penn State’s defense record-ed seven sacks and 15 tackles for loss on Saturday. More importantly, starters received some much needed rest as the Nittany Lions enter a short week of prepa-ration with a Friday night game at Illinois.

And despite Franklin not wanting to look a week ahead to Ohio State, the Buckeyes rank third in the nation in total offense, averaging over 600 yards a game, and the 15th-best rushing attack averag-ing 5.8 yards a carry.

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Penn State scored nine touchdowns against Kent State to cap off the nonconference schedule with a perfect 3-0 record

Even though Penn State won by 53 points on Saturday, there was really one thing to take away for the performance

of the first team offense and defense — there needs to be more consis-tency, plain and simple.

The team is committing too many penalties, some-thing the best teams in the Big Ten will take advantage of and make Penn State pay for.

But as I mentioned, the Nittany Lions still won by 53 points and are averaging over 50 points per game. So they’re in a good spot.

The other main takeaway from the game was the young players who got to see the field. One thing is clear from that second half — the future of Penn State football remains bright.

Redshirt freshmen Sean Clifford made his second-straight appearance and has yet to throw an incompletion.

The Ohio native finished 4-for-4 on the day with 141 passing yards and a rating of 604.8 — yes, you read that right.

Clifford even broke a record, throwing the longest touchdown pass in program history on his 95-yard strike to true freshman Daniel George in the fourth quarter.

Two additional true freshmen, Micah Parsons and Pat Freiermuth, who will both continue to play throughout the season, were also impressive.

Parsons finished second on the team in tackles and got in on a stop in the backfield. Freiermuth hauled in two passes for 35 yards and starting to look like the Nittany Lions’ best option at tight end. But one of the other stars of the day is one of the oldest players on the team: Johnathan Thomas.

Day to remember Thomas, the fifth-year senior who

started his career at running back then

moved to linebacker and now is back in the backfield, found the end zone for the first time in his career.

The Massachusetts native ripped off a big run for 69 yards and later punched it in from 15 yards out.

His score was the last of Penn State’s nine touchdowns in the game, but it was arguably the most meaningful to a lot of Penn State’s roster.

Day to forgetNothing seems to fit here. It was an

all-around good day for Penn State. Quite frankly, it’s hard to complain when the offense puts up 60-plus points and the defense pitches another second-half shutout. Now on to Big Ten play.

Extra pointThis week, this section is actually

about extra points. They might seem like a menial part of

the game, but true freshman place kick-er Jake Pinegar has yet to miss a point after this season.

He’s made one of two field goals, but he’s knocked through all 22 extra points throughout the first three weeks.

Penn State’s special teams got off to a slow start to the season, but Pinegar has been the most consistent aspect of that unit so far.

Quotable“When I was younger, everybody said

speed equals power.”KJ Hamler talked about the strength

of Penn State’s team after the game and his observation is pretty spot on. The combination of Hamler, Miles Sanders and Brandon Polk gives offensive coordi-nator Ricky Rahne plenty of speed and quickness to work with.

Tyler King is a junior majoring in print and digital journalism and Spanish and is The Daily Collegian’s football fditor. His email is tbk5155@psu.edu. Follow him on Twitter at @King_TylerB.

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germany native has made a seamless transitionBy Justin Morganstein

The Daily Collegian

Germany is a long way from State College, and not just from a geographical standpoint.

Hanau, Germa-ny native Anna Simon has taken her freshman year by storm,

becoming a major contributor for a perennially nationally competi-tive field hockey program so early on in her career.

But before Simon could show off her unique ability to her team-mates, she had to transition to life in the United States and make some sacrifices in the process.

“It was a huge culture shock for me when I first came here,” Simon said. “I miss real bread and I don’t like American pizza and everyone on the team kind of makes fun of me for that.”

Even though her food prefer-ences may differ from the rest of the Nittany Lions, it’s her in-nate field hockey ability, matu-rity and general demeanor that have made her just like any other member of the squad.

Simon has been a crucial ele-ment on the field so far, and she, as well as her teammates and coaches, recognizes that her European style of play can bring a new look to an already loaded Penn State team.

“Defensively, she really has composure and she is so strong in getting the ball out of our end and gaining possession,” coach Char Morett-Curtiss said.

It’s a result of how she was taught back in Germany.

“The German style is very

disciplined and pretty methodical in a way, which makes her a little bit more mature for a freshman in those big games,” co-captain and senior goaltender Jenny Riz-zo said.

Not only do her coaches rec-ognize how important Simon is

to a season in which the Nittany Lions hope will end with a Big Ten and NCAA tournament run, but Rizzo feels that Simon has taken great strides so far, considering it is only Simon’s first year at Penn State and in the United States.

“She does a great job of

adjusting [to the American style of play], and as a freshman she is playing phenomenally,” Rizzo said. Rizzo and Morett-Curtiss’ praise isn’t what many may ex-pect to hear about a freshman making the transition to both col-lege and a new country, but nei-ther were surprised.

In fact, Morett-Curtiss made the trip to Germany to scout Si-mon and caught an early glimpse of her potential and what she’d bring to the table in the process.

“It was so awesome that she [Morett-Curtiss] was able to come to Germany and was able to meet my parents and have dinner at my house,” Simon said. “She came to my practice too, just to see what we do and it was awe-some.”

It was Morett-Curtiss’ trade-mark passion, attitude and love of Penn State that led Simon to fly almost 11 hours from Germany to State College.

“They were so welcoming right from the beginning and we had such good chemistry,” Simon said. “I Skyped with them and de-cided ‘I want to go there.’ I don’t know what it was, but it just felt right.”

It felt right for Simon’s team-mates as well, as she’s already proven herself to be a special tal-ent at Penn State.

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Anna Simon (left) defends Jane Donio-Enscoe (16) during the Penn State-Princeton field hockey game at the

field hockey complex on Tuesday, Sept. 4.

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First half troubles limit Nittany LionsBy Matt Lingerman

The Daily Collegian

With Penn State’s nonconfer-ence schedule now in the books, there are a few lessons to be

learned from the trio of Nittany Lion victories.

Most obviously, the offense has a chance to be one of the best in the country having scored 159 points already.

It’s also been made apparent James Franklin is willing to rely on youth, with more than 20 play-ers having made their collegiate debuts this season.

But one aspect of Penn State’s play thus far can be construed in a few different ways.

It’s becoming increasingly evi-dent Penn State is once again a second half team. The Nittany Lions are outscoring opponents 100-28 in the second half of games this season (not including the seven points they scored in over-time to beat Appalachian State).

Aside from a near-calamitous fourth quarter Week 1, the Penn State defense has yet to allow a second half point.

In fact, Kent State’s second

quarter field goal on Saturday marked the first three points Penn State has allowed in that stanza this year.

“We make corrections,” line-backer Cam Brown said. “The coaches do a good job of making corrections. If we don’t get it done in the first half, the guys are mad. And that’s how it’s been, so we’re coming out with a lot of anger and a lot of passion.”

Saturday’s first quarter ended with the Nittany Lions leading the Golden Flashes 21-7. But the lead wasn’t as convincing as the score might suggest.

After an opening-drive touch-down gave Penn State an early lead, mental lapses led to a quick Kent State score to tie the game.

“The first quarter [is the area most in need of improvement],” Nick Scott said. “We can start shutting people out in the first quarter and stop hurting our-selves. Today was big with penal-ties.”

The same can be said for the offense on Saturday, with the Nittany Lions having three touchdowns taken off the board due to penalties before exploding for 35 points in the second half.

“We come in at halftime and make corrections and we basi-cally have a good feeling what the whole defense is doing,” running back Miles Sanders said. “But just coming out each game in the

second half, our goal is to win the first half but also the second half. Starting fast and then just finish-ing in the second half.”

Penn State’s ability to adapt during halftime and play

improved football in the second half of games is certainly a tes-tament to the coaching staff and malleability of the players.

“Areas for improvement: it’s what everybody in the country is fighting for-con-sistency,” Franklin said. “There’s times we look like a Su-per Bowl team, flashes of really good things. Then, there’s other times where we’re really hurting ourselves, and the opponent had nothing to do with it. We can’t do that.”

Penn State did show traces of improvement in that area. The 21 first quarter points were more than Penn State had scored in either previous first half this sea-son. But the players agree that they’re still searching for a com-plete first half of football.

“We should be a four quarter team,” offensive lineman Ryan Bates said. “We should be a first half and last half team. I think in the past we’ve kind of gotten more comfortable, that’s why people are telling us we’re a sec-ond half team. But we need to start faster.”

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FOOTBALL

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Linebacker Cam Brown (6) attempts to bring down Kent State

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By Jessie EvansThe Daily Collegian

Amanda Dennis takes on a great deal of responsibility in the net for the Nittany Lions.

From penalty kicks to free kicks to pure commu-nication, it all comes down to

her. Despite what appears to be a lot of pressure, the junior goal-keeper maintains a level head throughout any game situation.

“We talk about something all the time is ‘control the controlla-bles,’” Dennis said. “I don’t have the privilege of running up there and scoring a goal, so I can only control defensively what we do and give us good counterattack-ing moments when the ball is in my hands.”

There have been instances though when Dennis couldn’t control things that had an effect on her.

During a match on Sept. 2 against Wake Forest, there was a strange situation when a ball girl grabbed the ball before it rolled out of bounds, resulting in a drop ball on the Nittany Lions’ defen-sive end.

Defender Ellie Jean then passed the ball back to Dennis who, with some confusion, picked

the ball up, which then resulted in a free kick for the Deacons on the 6-yard line.

Even though Dennis couldn’t control the bizarre situation, she knew how to handle it in the end.

The keeper made a beautiful save and quickly pushed her team up to start the counterattack.

Dennis’ teammates think she

stays positive and handles those circumstances the best that she can.

“She’s awesome,” forward Kristin Schnurr said. “She’s al-ways just so solid in the back and just a great voice on the field for us.”

In the eyes of her teammates and coaches, Dennis is a solid

presence for Penn State. Following in the steps of last

season’s goalkeeper Rose Chan-dler, Dennis has done a solid job thus far.

The Nittany Lions currently hold a 5-3 record on the season, with Dennis posting shutouts in all five victories. The keeper has only given up five goals in the

three nonconference losses.Dennis said the team focuses

on “goal down, goal up situations” to always have a positive mental-ity and ensure strong communi-cation with her teammates on the field.

Coach Erica Dambach also said Dennis brings an extremely positive presence to the field.

“She plays with a smile,” Dam-bach said. “She calms our team down and she makes them feel comfortable.”

The Nittany Lions have just re-cently started Big Ten play, start-ing their conference games off with a 4-0 win over Ohio State.

Leading up to the Ohio State game, Penn State lost out-of-conference games against UCLA, Wake Forest and Virginia. Even in those losses, Dennis remained solid in the net.

Dambach believes it is the tough nonconference games that allow her team to grow and gain confidence, and Dennis is the cat-alyst of that.

“Amanda brings the team a ton of confidence,” Dambach said. “I think she exudes confidence in her play and I think she gets bet-ter with every game.”

To email reporter: jle36@psu.edu.

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Lions will take advantage of lighter fall schedule

By Shane ConnellyThe Daily Collegian

In years past, Penn State had started its season in September and played in multiple different tournaments around the

country. While the experience

was good for the play-ers, the travel and con-stant competition became

tiring. The coaches decided to take a new

approach this season with hopes that come spring, the Nittany Lions will be on fresh legs.

“We’re just trying to maximize all our time that we’re able to hit with the players to hopefully make it better for the spring,” coach Jeff Zinn said.

This year, the Nittany Lions will be competing in just two fall tournaments in October.

The schedule adjustment was made to give coaches more time to work out the kinks and prepare for meaningful match-es.

The staff is focused on getting play-ers in shape first and foremost, so when the players have to compete in more matches, there’s less time to lay the groundwork.

“In the past, the way it worked was the guys would come in, and we’d work them hard,” coach Paul Tobin said. “But then we’d have to stop in order to play the tournaments.”

Last season, the team started the fall season on Sept. 22 at the Princeton Ivy Plus tournament before spending about one-third of the month of October competing in multiple different events.

With such a packed schedule, it was difficult to find a balance between matches and practice.

“It kind of got the strength and condi-

tioning out of sync,” Tobin said.Penn State will have a busy October

once again this season, but with more time to train and make adjustments in September, the coaches believe the play-ers will be sharper in the spring.

Of course, the shrinking of the sched-ule doesn’t really mean players have a lighter workload.

To make up for the removal of live match experience, the coaches plan on creating a tougher practice atmosphere.

Tobin and Zinn want to prepare their players both mentally and physically for the rest of the season, which means both at home and in hostile territory.

“Everything comes down to trying to create the pressure that exists in a regu-lar match,” Tobin said.

The coaches have also increased the amount of conditioning players are doing in each practice.

Performance enhancement coach Bradley Pantall has been working closely with the players to get them as fit as pos-sible for the upcoming season.

Senior captain Ben Lieb is embracing the change, even if it means more work.

“I think it helps a lot because we’re able to work on fitness a lot more,” Lieb said. “Our strength and conditioning coach has been killing us recently just because he knows that we don’t really have any tournaments to prepare for in the short-term future.”

The Nittany Lions may be having a rough go of it now, but they’re well aware the extra effort will be worth it when the spring season arrives.

“We’ve been working a lot harder in the gym and getting fitter,” Lieb said.

“In the long run, I think it’ll benefit us a lot.”

To email reporter: stc5243@psu.edu.

Follow him on Twitter at @ShaneTConnelly.

MEN’S TENNIS

freshmen continue to lead the charge

By Caleb WilfingerThe Daily Collegian

Playing three games in 24 hours is a daunting task for any team, but No. 5 Penn State handled the challenge with

relative ease this past weekend.

The Nittany Lions bounced back from a difficult west coast road

trip and went on the road again, this time to the nation’s capital, and swept How-ard on Friday night, before dispatching Buffalo and American the following day.

Penn State cruised past Buffalo with no trouble at all, before facing a very apt American team that managed to take the third set, before the Nittany Lions re-bounded and clinched the fourth set to seal the match. After coming out on top in the trifecta of matches, Penn State improved to 9-1 on the season and gained some necessary momentum with Big Ten play starting in just a few days.

As has been evident in the past few weeks, Penn State will go as far as its young freshmen group allows.

The Nittany Lions have a few experi-enced players on the roster, those that have been there before, which include Kendall White, Bryanna Weiskircher and Nia Reed. But, it will be the first-year members of the squad who will end up determining if Penn State is a legitimate contender in the Big Ten or still a year or two away from fighting for a title.

This weekend’s matches were a per-fect example of how this young group continues to grow with each and every week.

On Friday, Penn State was led by the tandem of Kaitlyn Hord and Jonni Parker.

Hord continued her torrid start to the season with another solid performance, totaling six kills and hitting for a percent-age of .312 in the match.

She was joined by Parker, who played arguably her best all-around match of the season.

The freshman hit .500 while racking up six kills and three service aces on the evening, providing Penn State with the spark it needed to fend off a late charge from Howard.

The Nittany Lions faced another chal-lenge the following day as they would be without the services of Nia Reed.

Playing without one of the senior leaders proved to be a non-issue for Penn State, thanks to the performances it got from a few new faces.

Freshman Allyson Cathey made her first start as a Nittany Lion and played a crucial role in Penn State’s straight sets victory.

Cathey finished with a career-best 13 kills and hit .550 in the match against Buffalo. On defense, she also finished with three digs, a career best.

She was aided by fellow freshman Serena Gray, who added a career-high 11 kills of her own to contribute to the victory.

In the team’s second-straight game without Reed, it was Parker who took center stage.

The budding star finished with 17 kills on the evening, shattering her previous career-high of 11, while Gray and Cathey each finished with 10 kills to lead the Nittany Lions to victory.

As Penn State’s freshmen continue to establish themselves with each week, the real challenge of winning tough, physi-cal matches in the Big Ten looms on the horizon.

This weekend was a valuable confi-dence boost for a young side that is about to face a grueling schedule for the next three months, in what is arguably the best volleyball conference in the country.

To email reporter: cjw5768@psu.edu.

Follow him on Twitter at @caleb_wilfinger.

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL

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Goalkeeper Amanda Dennis (00) high-fives with members of the Park Avenue Army after the women’s soccer

game against Ohio State at Jeffrey Field on Friday, Sept. 14. No. 21 Nittany Lions defeated the Buckeyes 4-0.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Goalkeeper Amanda Dennis has proven to be a model of consistency and confidence for the Nittany Lions

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Setter Jonni Parker (9) spikes the ball past blockers during the game against UMBC at Rec

Hall on Saturday, Aug. 25. The Nittany Lions swept the Retrievers 3 sets to 0.