Vol. 120, No. 2 Aug. 26-28, 2019

By Maddie AikenThe Daily Collegian

Playing the violin can be a chal-lenge in itself for many individu-als.

However, for a duo to play two different rhythms at the same time — with one person holding two violins, and the other holding two bows — takes it to another level.

For the husband-wife violin duo "Revamped," this trick is one of many accomplishments on their musical resumes.

Based in Central Pennsylvania, Mark Minnich and Sally Williams Minnich play a diverse range of music — blending classical, pop, rock, jazz and folk for a unique sound. The group’s performanc-es feature songs varying from Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” to “Beethoven’s Fifth.”

Minnich and Williams Minnich began dating in college at Bowl-ing Green State. However, they first met at an All-State Orches-tra program in high school.

As Williams Minnich described it, many different instruments featured at the program were on sale or could be played, including a Stradivarius — one of several hundred rare 300-year-old violins created by Antonio Stradivari — valued at $2.5 million.

While the Stradivarius was not for sale, it could be played. Wil-liams Minnich said she very care-fully picked up the instrument, played it (describing the violin as “just glorious”) and carefully set it back down.

While looking at other violins, Williams Minnich heard someone else playing the Stradivarius.

“I heard someone playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto re-ally, really well… but also, they were playing extremely vigorous-ly on this violin,” she said, laugh-ing in recollection. “I was super impressed, and also shocked that person was not being at all deli-cate with this $2.5 million violin.”

She soon came to learn that person was Minnich.

When they began several years later, they also began playing the violin together. Minnich said they were looking for an excuse to hang out with each other, and practicing together was an “ad-equate reason.”

Playing together felt organic,

and the two started learning tricks together. Among these in-cluded the trick where Williams Minnich threads two violins while Minnich plays with two bows — a difficult stunt that took several all-nighters to get the hang of.

Coordination, Minnich and Wil-liams Minnich agreed, was the most difficult part of the trick to learn. They would often master the left side and right side sepa-rately before playing both sides together.

Even as they got the hang of the trick, they strived to perfect it so it both looked and sounded good. They sometimes perform the stunt during gigs and high-profile performances.

In July, the duo played at Arts Fest for the fourth year. Minn-ich and Williams Minnich's mu-sic isn't limited to Pennsylvania, however. They've played the vio-lin across the globe, with one of their favorite locations being a medieval fortress in Greece.

Despite their global reach, the pair maintains strong ties with the Centre County com-munity. Currently living in State College, Minnich and Williams Minnich perform together as Re-vamped and in local orchestras, symphonies and quartets. They also teach individual and group classes through the State College Suzuki Program to help Centre County students learn how to play the violin.

Nika Kello, who has been play-ing the violin for about nine years, is currently one of Minnich and Williams Minnich’s students.

“I’ve learned so much from both of them,” Kello, 15, said. “Technically, they’ve helped me grow in my personal musical technique and skill, and they’ve also introduced me to a wide va-riety of music — taking the violin beyond the regular classical stan-dards and being able to realize what else you can do as a musi-cian.”

Kello has attended numerous Revamped shows with her moth-er, Carolyn. Carolyn said the first time she saw Revamped perform, she was highly impressed with them as performers.

Years later, she continues to attend shows and said she has noticed growth in the duo’s audi-ence. She “always gets a kick” out of seeing others watch Revamped

for the first time, noting they of-ten react in awe and delight.

As teachers, Carolyn described the duo as “fun, kind and sweet,” and said her daughter is “lucky” to learn from them.

“They find a way of both inspir-ing and propping the kids up in the best way,” Kello said.

Minnich and Williams Minn-ich started playing the violin at ages 9 and 4, respectively. Both had a natural knack for the vio-lin — however, that didn’t mean there weren’t challenges along the way.

“[Playing the violin] definitely clicked for me, but inevitably there’s going to be challenges,” Williams Minnich said. “It would be like a here and there kind of thing where there would be something for whatever reason that was really, really hard or su-per frustrating. You practice a lot, get mad and cry, and go practice again.”

String instruments can be tougher to play than others, as the musician must be able to make a “good sound” and play in tune, according to Minnich. Wil-liams Minnich added there is no margin of error when playing the violin — the violinist could be a millimeter off and the song will be out of tune.

The slightest shift of weight in the fingertip can make all the dif-ference.

According to Williams Minn-ich, he’s never met a student who didn’t have struggles playing the instrument.

Williams Minnich said she de-cided she wanted to play the vio-lin professionally at age 15, while Minnich described his decision as “more of a progression” as he continued to play as an under-graduate student.

Since college, Minnich and Wil-liams Minnich have built their careers entirely out of music, considering themselves free-lance musicians. They perform together as Revamped, per-form as soloists in orchestras and symphonies, and perform in the State College-based Al-legria String Quartet, of which Williams Minnich is the founding member.

As Revamped, they have also released two albums — “Bro-ken Bridges” and “A Revamped Christmas.”

Both continue to teach stu-dents through the State College Suzuki Program, where Wil-liams Minnich also serves as the director of the program.

In addition, Minnich is the president of the Penn’s Woods Music Festival in State College, a professional orchestral and chamber music festival held in the summer that began in 1986.

This past year, the duo’s focus shifted to parenting their 1-year-old son, Will.

Looking to the future, Min-nich and Williams Minnich said they hope to make more record-ings, grow their Patreon com-munity and continue reaching out to youth in the local commu-nity.

“Moving forward, we’ll have to figure out how to grow our-selves and our ensemble,” Min-nich said, “while maintaining a healthy family life.”

To email reporter: mea5457@psu.edu.Follow her on Twitter at @madsaiken.

Keeping in tune: Violin duo makes community impact

Students weigh in on the 2020 class gift

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Revamped performs at the Arboretum at Penn State during the Penn’s Woods Music Festival on Tuesday, June 11.

By Maddie AikenThe Daily Collegian

A suit filed Tuesday by three brothers in New York Supreme Court alleges Penn State Emeri-tus Professor Barry Dworkin sex-ually abused one of the brothers four decades ago while working at Rockefeller University Hospi-tal.

The complaint also says that all three brothers, now aged 53, 54 and 60, were abused on numer-ous occasions by Doctor Reginald Archibald, who Dworkin worked alongside.

No claims have been filed in the

state of Pennsylvania. Penn State did not immediately respond to The Daily Collegian’s request for comment.

Numerous people came for-ward in 2018 claiming Archibald abused them as children, accord-ing to the New York Times.

The doctor, who died in 2007, allegedly abused over 1,000 children during his ca-reer.

The suit says that the three brothers received medical and endocrinological care, di-agnosis and treatment from Dworkin and Archibald over a period of approximately six years.

Dworkin reportedly sexu-

ally assaulted the second old-est brother during a scoliosis examination in his office, where Dworkin instructed the boy to remove articles of his clothing and abused him, according to the suit.

That is the only incident the suit references in which Dworkin reportedly assaulted one of the three brothers.

However, the suit alleges Ar-chibald assaulted all three broth-ers on numerous occasions.

According to the lawsuit, the examinations were conducted by Archibald and Dworkin alone, without the presence of a parent or a nurse.

The suit says Rockefeller Uni-versity Hospital offered “free” treatment for children of young and struggling families, which the suit claims Dworkin and Ar-chibald used as a guise to sexu-ally assault children.

Additionally, the suit al-leges Rockefeller staff mem-bers knew of the abuse but did nothing to stop it. Neither Archibald nor Dworkin were ever disciplined for the alleged abuse.

“Defendant Rockefeller failed to [prevent the sexual abuse], and affirmatively ignored Dr. Ar-chibald and Dr. Dworkin’s abu-sive behavior, allowing the abuse

to occur and to continue unabat-ed,” the suit reads.

In May, Rockefeller University admitted “there were warning signs” that Archibald was as-saulting children, according to BuzzFeed News.

The suit names Rockefeller University and Dworkin as defen-dants, and says they committed negligence and medical malprac-tice.

The brothers seek monetary and punitive damages.

To email reporter: mea5457@psu.edu.Follow her on Twitter at @madsaiken.

By Connor DonlonThe Daily Collegian

Every year since 1861, the graduating class has given Penn State a parting gift.

From the Berkey Cream-ery cafe to pipe organs to tele-scopes, each class has etched its name into the Penn State his-tory books.

According to the Class Gift campaign website, the mission of the campaign is “to promote a philanthropic spirit among the graduating class by providing students an opportunity to start their legacy of giving to the University.”

Prior to 1985, only select student organizations were able to vote for the class gift. Ultimately, a committee was formed to represent all student organizations on campus.

Now, senior students can both propose ideas for and vote upon potential class gifts.

Voting is currently open online until Sep. 13.

Though only a freshman, Matt Monaghan expressed the need for renovations on campus. Monaghan (freshman-forensic science) specifically suggested renovating the south side of campus.

In the true spirit of the football season, William My-ers fittingly proposed a statue of beloved Penn State alum.

“Maybe a statue of Saquon?” Myers (senior-electrical engi-neering) said.

Other students, though, of-fered different ideas as senior gifts.

Freshman Scott Shapiro shared an idea that he believed would benefit all students. Shapiro (freshman-division of undergraduate studies) sug-gested central air conditioning for all buildings and dorms on campus.

In solidarity with bird watchers and loungers every-where, Julia Duemler pro-posed a rather simple gift — a wood bench that reads “Class of 2020.”

Colleen Graham stated she wished the class gift was a large study hall for campus.

“There’s a lot of places to study on campus but I’m not really sure where they are” Graham (junior-biol-ogy) said. “Other than the library there isn’t a big place to study.”

Finally, Sean Theocli-tus suggested the idea of creating a documentary for fu-ture classes.

Theoclitus (junior-architec-tural engineering) hopes for the creation of a documentary sur-rounding the history of Penn State.

If you want your voice to be heard submit your idea online or by texting “ClassGift2020” to 71777.

To email reporter: cmd6171@psu.edu.Follow him on Twitter at @connordonlon26.

Man files lawsuit against Penn State professor ameritus

This spring, the State College Police De-partment made head-

lines when an officer, who has not been named, shot and killed 29-year-old State College resident Osaze Osagie.

At last Monday’s State College Borough Council meeting, police released the results of their internal investigation into the fatal shooting of Osagie, con-cluding the officers involved responded consis-tently with department pol-icies and trainings and will not be liable, as previously reported by The Daily Col-legian.

This was the first deadly shooting to occur in the history of the State College Police Department. Natu-rally, the community was shaken. Further, the fact that the man killed was not only a person living with a mental illness, but also a person of color, gave many in the community even more reason to react harshly against the officers involved.

The State College Police Department stands by its findings that the officers followed training and prop-er practices, and that though the loss of a life is unfortunate, it is standard procedure in all police

departments. If that is the case, then the State Col-lege Police Department needs to confront that per-haps this is a systemic issue in Centre County and beyond.

There have been public forums, press conferences, investigations and more to draw conclusions and attempt to answer ques-tions as to how the fatal shooting of Osagie unfold-ed.

However, as long as the State College Police Department stands by its findings that no officers were liable in a situation where a life was lost, there will always be questions and a lack of trust from the public.

Though we would like to trust that our law enforce-ment officials can reason-ably hold themselves accountable, it also doesn’t come as a surprise that an entity tasked with investi-gating itself might try to protect its self-interest.

There would likely be stronger trust behind that

decision if it were made by a party not involved in the incident and without police ties.

People will continue to call for prosecution of the officers involved in the shooting regardless, which is understandable given the fact that no one except the three officers present will ever truly know what trans-pired on the night of March 20.

Since the investigation into the State College Police Department was conducted internally, it is hard to believe that a department would find itself culpable.

This leads to the question of whether an independent investigation would have resulted in different conclu-sions or been perceived as a more transparent opera-tion among the general public.

But again, there is no way to know for sure.

The evidence in the investigation doesn’t change based on the inves-tigator, but the conclusions

that the investigator draws might.

The officers were not wearing body cameras, which could have potential-ly answered questions that might put some minds more at ease.

Unfortunately, State Col-lege Police did not have the use of body cameras imple-mented at the time of the incident, though they have since started wearing body cameras as of this July.

Investigations were con-ducted by both the District Attorney’s office and the State College Police Department. Both ended with similar conclusions, finding the officers not lia-ble.

An independent investi-gator may have concurred — or not.

The incident was also perceived by many as a failure of the mental health system.

The borough of State Col-lege is allocating $50,000 to a task force aimed to improve mental health cri-sis services in the commu-

nity and prevent future incidents of this nature. In addition, another $100,000 will be allocated in spend-ing to contract with the National League of Cities, as well as a $50,000 allot-ment to contract with a selected law enforcement consultant to conduct work that would review depart-ment policies and recom-mend necessary changes.

As the events leading up to Osagie’s death have been described by police, the responding officers reportedly tried to take non-lethal measures to de-escalate the situation before any shots were fired.

Police officers are trained to shoot to kill when their own lives, or the lives of other civilians, are endan-gered — this can have the potential to be an unpre-dictable, split-second deci-sion to make, regardless of how much training an offi-cer has.

The death of Osaze Osa-gie has been devastating for the State College com-munity, and the impact will likely never go away — and it shouldn’t. This is a sys-temic issue, impacting our community and the United States as a whole.

Until change is imple-mented, community dis-trust toward police will

Climate change is real, it is current, and it is not only the single largest global

threat that every living being on earth will face the repercussions of, but also the greatest bur-den our gener-ation has to bear.

Understand-ing that this is an opinion column, what was stated above is not subjective. How-ever, I know it is true. Cli-mate change is not some-thing to have an opinion about, unlike ice cream fla-vors or a particular person’s political leaning. It is real — and the effects are already catastrophic.

The most terrifying disas-ter caused by climate change is currently the fire burning down the Amazon region, which is arguably one of the most, if not the most, important ecosystem on earth.

Twenty percent of the Amazon has already gone up in smoke, and the fires con-tinue to destroy the wildlife

and lives of indigenous peo-ple that inhabit it.

The Amazon region fires are political. Brazil’s political leadership has succumbed to the global trend of electing fascist, far-right presidents.

His plan to open up the rainforest for economic development has proved fruitful; now the forest that produces twenty percent of the world’s oxygen — which gave it the nickname “the lungs of the earth” — is being destroyed, as is tradition, by the eager greed of capi-talist endeav-ors.

The Brazilian government is not only turning the other way, but President Jair Bol-sonaro is flat out encourag-ing deforestation, as stated by Elizabeth Lawrence in a USA today article.

Adding a humanitarian cri-sis to the situation, the fires are also going to displace the indigenous people living in that environment. This is something that is under-

stood, politically, as well. That said, this is a prime example of environmental racism - something that far-right politics tend to allude to.

Now, of course we cannot exclusively blame Brazil and its leadership exclusively for this doomsday scenario — the world has been preying on this country’s resources for decades, slowly chipping

away at the region. This natural disas-ter, like the others we have seen recently, is the result of late-stage capi-talism and its dependence on a curve in eco-

nomics that does not func-tion in reality.

“Our global systems, which are designed for per-petual growth, need to be fundamentally restructured to avoid the worst-case out-come,” Jeremy Lent, and a writer Environmental Health News said.

As terrible as this all is, it gets worse. The weather pat-terns have changed, the

ocean is boiling, ecosystems are failing and people are dying.

While large corporations and politicians are predomi-nantly to blame, and have the greatest responsibility (and ability) to help save life on Earth, individuals can play their part as well. The single most impactful thing a person can do to reduce their carbon impact is to stop eating beef, and more to that effect, to stop eating animal products in general (yes, veganism).

That said, big businesses and political motivations have promoted this concept to avoid accountability for their actions, blaming dietary choices of the work-ing class rather than creat-ing actual change.

Regardless, even if meat-less Mondays aren’t for you, subbing out beef for chicken every once and a while does help.

Kaleigh Quinnan is a junior majoring in visual arts and French Business and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email her at kfq5020@psu.edu or follow her on Twitter at @kaleighquinnan.

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PSU adjusts for year two of redshirt ruleBy Evan PatrickThe Daily Collegian

The first game of the season kicks off in just under a week and Penn State is focused on going

1-0 — just check James Franklin’s Twitter weekly for reassurance.

To do just that, Franklin’s side will have to get past Idaho, an FCS team that hasn’t matched up with a Big Ten team since 2010.

Last year the Vandals finished a disappointing 0-6 in conference play after being picked to finish fourth place in the Big Sky coach-es preseason poll.

“We started looking at Idaho obviously this summer, and the coaches started again [last Sun-day],” Franklin said. “We’ll do about a week and a half prep for Idaho.”

Idaho isn’t near the quality of competition that the Nittany Li-ons will face on a weekly basis once Big Ten play starts, but the matchup with the Vandals won’t be taken lightly, and is an oppor-tunity for a relatively young Penn State side to get comfortable with the 2019 personnel.

“From this point on it’s about building confidence, it’s about starting to get [the players’] legs back, and getting ready for Ida-ho.” Franklin said.

One of the youngest areas of this Nittany Lions team is the wide receiver group. Two of the presumed top three wideouts redshirted their freshman sea-sons, only playing in four total games and maintaining that year of eligibility — KJ Hamler in 2017 and Justin Shorter in 2018.

Hamler a junior now, and Shorter a redshirt freshman, are

looking to make an impact in an offense with a lot to prove.

Franklin addressed how he in-tends to utilize the redshirt rule which allows players to regain a year of eligibility if they play in just four games over the course of a season.

“A lot of our guys were so young last year,” Franklin said.

“Not across the board but a

good percentage of our guys are so much more experienced, so much stronger, so much more ready to play this year, so I think that’s going to be meaningful for us.”

Last year, 19 freshman red-shirted for Penn State, and this year Franklin’s plan for the red-shirts is focused on helping the team down the road.

“I think we had a pretty good plan last year so we’re pretty much sticking to that plan,” Franklin said.

“The guys who have earned playing time, we’ll play them early to see if they’re ready or not, and then we’ll save a couple of games for later for injuries or things like that.”

The Nittany Lions have a couple freshman who may make large enough impacts and play in more than four games this sea-son.

Linebacker Brandon Smith is the top ranked freshman com-ing in, and second is Blue White game standout running back Noah Cain.

“If the light goes off for them and they’re rolling then we’ll keep playing them,” Franklin said.

“One thing that will be a little different is there are a couple guys who we would like to red-shirt, so what we’re probably go-ing to do is not play them early on, and save all four games for the end of the season.”

Defensive end Adissa Isaac as well as both freshman quarter-backs, Michael Johnson Jr. and Ta’Quan Roberson will most like-ly be on the path to redshirting their freshman seasons.

To email reporter: ejp5401@psu.edu.Follow him on Twitter at: @evan7patrick.

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Running back Noah Cain (21) carries the ball while being covered by linebacker Ellis Brooks (13) during the Penn State Blue-White game at Beaver Stadium on Saturday, April 13.

FOOTBALL

By Ryan LamThe Daily Collegian

No. 6 Penn State rebounded from its season-opening loss to Stanford with an offensive explo-

sion against Hof-stra on Sunday.

“First off, that’s a heck of a Hofstra team,”

coach Erica Dambach said. “I thought we handled their pres-sure really well. I thought they made things challenging in the midfield for us that we have to solve some things.

“Today, I thought we came out, we looked confident and com-fortable and knocked in a few early, which gave us a lot of con-fidence.”

After Dambach elected to make only one switch to the starting 11 from Friday’s af-fair, five different Nittany Lions scored in a 6-0 rout over the Pride. Penn State started the match very strong, dominating the possession while probing for opportunities throughout.

It did not take Penn State long to secure a lead. Kate Wi-esner and Kerry Abello both had chances early, before the Nittany Lions put one in to capitalize on their hot start.

Shea Moyer found co-captain Ellie Jean with a through ball in the sixth minute. Jean was able to slot the shot right under the approaching opposing goal-ie Skylar Kuzmich for a quick strike.

Minutes later, Sam Coffey scored her first goal of the sea-son after making a sharp run against a shaky Hofstra backline.

She was able to calmly finish her chance toward the far post in the ninth minute. The Nittany Li-ons looked very sharp through-out the first half, especially in the midfield.

The likes of Moyer, Wiesner and Cori Dyke had absolute con-trol over the middle of the pitch as they forced a number of key turnovers and start breaks.

Moyer was part of that dominating midfield. She also chipped in two assists in a stellar performance.

“Right after the [loss against Stanford], all of our thoughts were on how can we improve, how can we get better and how can we bounce back,” Moyer said. “The result today and the

effort we put in really showed that we are the type of the team that can come back from everything.”

She also enjoyed the domineer-ing midfield performance a lot herself.

“I have so much confidence and so much faith on our mid-field,” Moyer said. “I think we’re really working together and mak-ing sure we’re on the same page. We’re nothing without the rest of our teammates so it’s everybody doing a great job.”

Coffey and Payton Linnehan both had cracks at goal before Kerry Abello made it 3-0 in the 22nd minute. Schlegel played a long through ball and oppos-ing right back Monique Iannella failed to clear the dangerous pass.

Abello latched on to the pass, took the ball around the keeper and found her first goal of the season.

Tagliaferri had two chances to extend the lead, but was flagged offside on a pair of through balls which put her in on goal.

Toward the end of the half, the game also opened up a bit with a number of substitutions.

She finally got her goal early in the second half, though.

Cori Dyke put a ball into the box and Tagliaferri was able to find space to her left and found the back of the net for the Nittany Lions’ fourth goal.

Tagliaferri secured her brace near the hour mark. Shea Moyer hit yet another through ball, and the striker stayed onside, went past the keeper and gave Penn State a five-goal lead in the 59th minute.

The Nittany Lions continued their offensive masterclass as the lead was extended five minutes later.

Linnehan’s point-blank range shot was saved by Kuzmich, but Casey Ballow followed up and opened up her scoring account for the season.

It was very much the same dominant display for Penn State in the second half, winning over the midfield and looking for chances on the break and with through balls.

A few stray shots were all the Pride was able to muster as Penn State was content to sit back and see out the game.

To email reporter: txl273@psu.edu.Follow him on Twitter at: @ryrylam210.

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Former Penn State running back Saquon Barkley smiles with running back Miles Sanders at Penn State Football Pro Day in Holuba Hall on Tuesday, March, 19.

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The Nittany Lions celebrate their lone goal against Stanford on Friday.

Luck validates Barkley and Sanders’ decisions

In a world where the dangers of playing football are becoming more known than ever before,

Andrew Luck’s surprise retire-ment shouldn’t have been that big of a shock.

Luck announced his retirement from football on Satur-day night, just

two weeks before the start of his eighth professional season.

A seven-year career is well above the average 3.3-season career of an NFL player, but that number jumps to 9.4 for first round picks in the NFL Draft, according to statista.com.

Luck was the No. 1 overall pick by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2012 NFL Draft.

For players who have made at least one Pro Bowl appear-ance (Luck has four), their average career length is nearly 12 seasons.

The 29-year-old quarterback’s premature retirement, which comes a season after he was named the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year, underscores the violent nature of football and why a player near the top the game would choose to give it up because of a troublesome injury history.

The Indianapolis star missed all of the 2017 season while rehabbing from a shoulder inju-ry. After passing for nearly 4,600 yards and 39 touchdowns last season, Luck was strug-gling this preseason with calf injury.

He cited his injury struggles throughout his career after the Colts’ preseason loss to the Bears on Saturday night.

“I’ve been stuck in this

process,” Luck told reporters. “I haven’t been able to live the life I want to live. It’s taken the joy out of this game ... the only way forward for me is to remove myself from football.

“This is not an easy decision. It’s the hardest decision of my life. But it is the right deci-sion for me.’’

Luck shows just how short even a top-cali-ber player’s career can be and how there is a shift in mindset for players playing past 30.

Former Penn State and Baltimore Ravens offensive lineman John Urschel hung up his cleats before the 2017 season after just three seasons of profes-sional football.

Urschel told the Collegian in August 2017 his retirement had nothing to do with fears of the degenerative brain disease, CTE, which is linked to head injuries and concussions.

However, Urschel’s friend, former San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland, quit the game after just one season of professional football due to the fear of injuries and CTE.

Players are now more cau-tious than ever when it comes to how long they play football, which makes decisions like the ones Miles Sanders and Saquon Barkley made to leave Penn State early seem even smarter.

Both Barkley and Sanders are running backs, the position group with the shortest average NFL career, at just 2.57 years.

It was likely both would find success in the professional

ranks, but both wanted to make sure they could play as long as possible.

By leaving a year early from school, the former Nittany Lion ball carriers saved them-selves from a season of hits while they weren’t earning

any compen-sation (what they should have been compensated is another column).

Those hits in college obviously wouldn’t have been the same intensi-ty as the pair

will face this year in the pros, but an extra year of uncom-pensated wear and tear just doesn’t make sense when top-players are retiring at the age of 30 or younger.

Barkley leaving after his junior season wasn’t so much of a surprise given he was already likely to be a top-five pick in the NFL Draft — he went second to the New York Giants. Sanders was a bit more controversial, given he had only one season as Penn State’s starter after Barkley’s departure.

After watching Luck and Patriots’ tight end Rob Gronkowski retire this offsea-son at the age of 29, the 22-year-old Sanders will be happy to know he could play seven seasons before reaching that age, not six.

Jack R. Hirsh is a senior majoring in a broadcast journalism and political science and is The Daily Collegian’s sports columnist. His email is jrh467@psu.edu.

An extra year of uncompensated wear and tear doesn’t make sense when top-play-ers are retiring at the age of 30 or younger.

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Student alleges bias during hearingMaddie AikenThe Daily Collegian

An international student is suing Penn State for allegedly depriving him of a fair student conduct hearing, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday.

The student, identified as John Doe in the complaint, stated he had a contentious relationship with Penn State Law Profes-sor Jud Mathews, and that the university unfairly sided with Mathews during a student con-duct hearing held to evaluate the incidents that occurred between Doe and Mathews.

Additionally, Doe claims his right to privacy was violated as the university allegedly accessed information from a confidential phone conversation he had with Penn State Counseling and Psy-chological Services.

The complaint, which was filed in U.S. Middle District Court, names Penn State, the Board of Trustees and Karen Feldbaum — the interim senior director for the Office of Student Conduct — as defendants. It demands a jury trial.

Doe’s complaint stemmed from his working relation-ship with Mathews. Doe, who was a second-year law stu-dent during the 2018-2019 aca-demic year, first came to the U nited States in 2017 to attend law school.

Mathews, an affiliate profes-sor of law in the School of In-ternational Affairs, was Doe’s civic procedure professor during Doe’s first year, the 2017-2018 academic year. The complaint states Doe did research for Mathews during this time and viewed Mathews as a “father fig-ure.”

In April 2018, Doe offered to create a website for Mathews under Mathews’ name, which Mathews agreed to if Doe could

“get a good deal” on the domain, according to the suit.

After Doe purchased the do-main, Mathews was allegedly unhappy with the purchase and offered to buy the domain from Doe. Doe said he would give the domain to Mathews as a gift, as purchasing the domain with the sole intent to resell would ille-gally break his contract with the domain’s provider, according to the suit.

The suit says Mathews agreed to receive the domain as a gift.

Several weeks later, Doe be-gan working for Mathews as a research assistant in the summer of 2018. During his research, Doe alleges he began to face numer-ous ethical concerns.

According to the complaint, when Doe could not find authors to match Mathews’ assertion, Mathews told Doe to make up citations because the material was in a different language and claimed “no one [would] check”

to verify the citation.Additionally, the suit alleges

that on July 2, 2018, Mathews told Doe to fraudulently copy opinion texts directly from a commercial database, remove proprietary materials and falsify informa-tion if cases were from a public source to “save time.” When Doe questioned the ethics behind this, Mathews allegedly yelled at Doe and threw a pen at him, according to the suit.

After this incident, Doe called CAPS, in which he was report-edly advised to stop working for Mathews and told his conversa-tion with CAPS was confidential.

On July 6, 2018, the suit claims Doe reached out to Mathews to talk about the incident. Six days later, Doe and Mathews discussed the incident during a video conference that was re-corded by Mathews, in which Doe reported that Mathews indicated he could speak negatively of Doe to future employers.

At the end of summer 2018, Mathews again asked to pur-chase the domain from Doe, and Doe refused. Doe offered to relin-quish the domain but Mathews “strongly opposed,” according to the complaint.

The two officially terminated their relationship on Aug. 7, 2018.

Three days later, Mathews filed a 10-page “Behavioral Threat Management Team Referral Form” about Doe in which he said Doe made him feel “uncomfort-able.” Mathews referenced CAPS 10 times in the form, according to the complaint.

On Aug. 15, Penn State Law Deans Keith Elkin and Victor Romero initiated a meeting with Doe in which they discussed the “pen incident,” video conference, domain and Mathews’ alleged threat to “tarnish Doe’s reputa-tion.” During this meeting, Doe was told he would not be permit-ted to take Mathews’ administra-tive law class, despite the fact

that no other professor teaches the class, according to the suit.

Doe also relinquished the do-main following his meeting with Elkin and Romero.

On Aug. 17, 2018, Doe then met with Feldbaum — who, according to the complaint, has publicly ex-pressed bias against internation-al students.

During the meeting, Doe was given a notification of adminis-trative directive, according to the complaint. Feldbaum alleg-edly did not tell Doe why the directive was issued or what allegations Mathews made against Doe.

While Doe and Feldbaum had scheduled another meet-ing for Feb. 20, 2019 to discuss Doe’s “side of the story,” the university was closed that day due to heavy snow. Doe showed up for the 10 a.m. meeting, but Feldbaum did not, according to the complaint.

That morning, Mathews told Feldbaum he received anony-mous text messages he believed to be sent by Doe. Twelve min-utes before the scheduled meet-ing, Feldbaum emailed Doe about the text messages, and told him she would “move forward with the conduct process” if Doe did not wish to acknowledge the mes-sages.

“If you wish to get help with these issues and see if there is a way for you to continue in school, you need to acknowledge what you are doing and agree to get the assistance we require,” Feld-baum wrote to Doe, according to the suit.

When Doe emailed Feldbaum back asking for “confirmation” that he violated the directive, Feldbaum issued the univer-sity charge and sanction for failure to comply, according to the suit.

Visit collegian.psu.edu to read the full story.

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