INSIDE On Thursday we eat TBT: Travel to this week Fantasy Football advice Women’s volleyball wins turkey: page 2 in 2004: page 3 week 11: page 4 16th straight: page 4 Vol. 118, No. 64 Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017 More BTP Hidden in plain sight texts Addressing student homelessness at Penn State surface By Lauren Lee THE DAILY COLLEGIAN By Aubree Rader THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Food, water, shelter and sleep — these are all basic needs for hu- Centre County District At- man survival. While each of these torney Stacy Parks Miller an- items are fundamental necessi- nounced the findings in an in- ties that seemingly most people vestigation involving deleted have access to, several studies Beta Theta Pi basement surveil- suggest an alarming amount of lance footage and new charges students around the country are that 12 former Beta Theta Pi food or housing insecure. brothers will face. According to a March 2017 Detective David Scicchitano study by the Wisconsin HOPE of State College Police testified Lab that looked at 33,000 stu- in court that the video camera dents across 70 community col- in the basement was functioning leges in the U.S., two-thirds of the night of the bid acceptance, students stated they are “food even though it was alleged to be insecure.” out of order according to previ- Food insecurity is defined as ous Daily Collegian articles. having limited or uncertain ac- Scicchitano said the footage cess to nutritionally adequate was deleted by a former mem- and safe foods, according to the ber of Beta Theta Pi, on Feb. HOPE Lab. 6, two days after Piazza was Thirty-three percent of stu- pronounced dead at the Penn dents indicated they were expe- State Hershey Medical Center, Lindsey Shuey/Collegian according an article previously riencing the very lowest levels Ginny Poorman, executive director of Hearts for Homeless, poses at her desk in the Hearts for Homeless of food security, which suggests published by The Daily Colle- thousands of college students in center located on Fraser Street in downtown State College on Nov. 15. gian. Recently released court this study have been experienc- documents show text messages broader sense of having the in- the affordability of education with or enough to feed everyone who ing hunger. In this study, around from Braxton Becker, one of the ability to pay rent or utilities or the balance of necessities has be- attends Penn State 10 times, 14 percent of students indicated former brothers charged. the need to move frequently, ac- come increasingly more difficult. they were homeless, which sug- yet there are several students Messages Indicating Footage gests more than 10,000 under- cording to the HOPE Lab. According to a previous article still considered food insecure. was Erased: graduates had housing experi- According to Feeding America, by The Daily Collegian, Whitney One possible option for help is ences that are likely to reduce rural counties are more likely Ashead, the sustainability coor- through Penn State’s Student February 3 their odds of degree completion. than metropolitan counties to dinator for Penn State Dining, Care and Advocacy office. Mea- Adam Mengden: Erasing the The study also indicated that have higher levels of food insecu- said the university wastes 455,000 gan Lanning, a Student Care cameras could be the look as community colleges with greater rity, and Centre County is not im- pounds of food a semester. and Advocacy office case man- long as no one found out. proportions of students of color mune to this. With a 535 percent Ashead (sophomore-agricul- ager, said the office is designed Braxton Becker: I think the are more likely to have higher tuition increase just for in-state tural sciences) added that the to help students “when life exact same thing…The rates of food and housing inse- Penn State students alone in the total amount of wasted food is happens.” guy told me to check them curity. Housing insecurity dif- past 30 years, according to data enough to feed approximately four fers from being homeless in the from the Pennsylvania 2017 audit, sold out Beaver Stadium games See HOMELESS, Page 6. See TEXTS, Page 6. Native American culture and America’s blind spot By Katie Johnston Less than 1 percent THE DAILY COLLEGIAN Patchell grew up on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation November is Native Ameri- where there wasn’t a clear sepa- can Heritage Month in the Unit- ration between her everyday life ed States. and her culture. Penn State Programmer Ana- When she left, Patchell said the lyst Fawn Patchell , prefers to only way she could stay in con- be referenced by her tribal af- tact with her culture was through filiation — the White Mountain telling her children stories and Jamil Summaq/Collegian Brianna Basile/Collegian Apache Tribe, and Associate teaching them beliefs that would Taylor Shukow takes a stance during a tennis double Bennett Dunn returns the ball during a doubles Dean for Educational Equality intersect with their everyday game against Navy on January of 2017. match during the season opener on Jan. 14. in the College of Earth and Min- lives. eral Sciences Victoria Sanchez But Patchell said living in prefers the term American In- Pennsylvania makes it challeng- dian. Although it might not of- ing to educate her children on Nittany Lions playing ten be discussed, the month’s their heritage. dedication itself is controversial “It’s pretty difficult because to many in more ways than one, where I grew up, your culture and a long history of misunder- is very closely tied to the land,” stood culture and consequences Patchell said. on the same court have followed this blind spot in By Ryan DePhillips as she preferred gymnastics. At I was 12. I definitely wouldn’t America. See CULTURE, Page 6. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN age eight, her mindset began to be here without my dad.” While change as she suffered more inju- Shukow’s entrance to the game In the spotlight for Penn State ries within the sport and was ex- was gradual, Dunn’s focus was are two players with polar op- hausted when she arrived home always steadfast on tennis, es- posite personalities and playing between 9:30 and 10:30 p.m. most pecially on a competitive level at styles. nights.“I went up to my parents eight years old. As if bound by fate, their all-too- one day when I was 12 and I said After beginning to play along- familiar experiences have ma- ‘I’m done,’” Shukow said. “My side each other in regional and tured them into exceptional play- parents said they were praying national Floridian tournaments ers, leaders and co-captains of a every day that I would come up to at the start of high school, the notable collegiate tennis team. them and say that.” two trained later on at the Solo- Throughout journeys of ad- The big question for Shukow — mon Tennis Academy at Fort versity and self-discovery, the what would be next? Her father, Lauderdale. motives behind seniors Taylor a former University of Delaware “I was late by Florida stan- Shukow and Bennett Dunn to tennis player and a coach, was a dards, but Taylor was very late start playing tennis and become big-time influence on her at such by Florida standards,” Bennett Nittany Lions played out very dif- a young age. said. “I think it makes us very ferently. However, the duo played When he pushed her to play a unique, especially for us getting within the very same environ- few days a week, things quickly this far.” ment beside each other, starting began to escalate from there. According to coach Chris Ca- in U14 Floridian tournaments. “Playing on the side with my dad gle , Shukow has always been Samantha Myers/Collegian According to Shukow, at a as a coach when I was growing up one of Dunn’s greatest support- young age, hitting the tennis ball really invested me in tennis,” Shu- ers, straight from the get-go. Participants in the New Faces of an Ancient People beat on the once a week for about an hour kow said. “It helped me decide To read full story, visit drum to keep the dancers going during the Traditional American Indian with her dad was “just for fun,” that’s what I wanted to do when collegian.psu.edu. Powwow at Mount Nittany Middle School on April 1, 2016. PAGE 2 | THURSDAY, NOV. 16, 2017 LOCAL THE DAILY COLLEGIAN On Thursday we eat turkey 10 things to do in State College during Thanksgiving break By Samantha Lauriello Webster’s Bookstore Cafe ery offers workshops focusing on THE DAILY COLLEGIAN sewing, drawing, pottery, writing, Throughout Thanksgiving photography and more. break, Webster’s hosts a number During Thanksgiving break, of events, such as an Interfaith Paint pottery at 2000 professors and students re- Coffee Hour, an LGBTQA Open treat to their homes and an ee- Mic Night and a Pop-Up Shop. rie silence seems to fall upon Degrees Along with their unique events, A childhood favorite, painting campus, but that doesn’t mean Webster’s has a menu full of de- the rest of State College shuts pottery never gets old. Custom- licious food and European-style ize your own plate, mug, picture down as well. There are plenty coffee. of things to do downtown and frame or piggy bank with an ar- in the surrounding area when Try a yoga class ray of paints and stencils. Per- campus goes quiet for the week sonalized pottery also makes for State College has a variety of a great gift around the holidays.