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Alumus uses social media to eliminate mental illness

By Sam LaurielloThe Daily Collegian

Penn State alumnus Harshil Patel will film and publish his 136th consecutive “Mindful Min-ute” video to his Facebook page on Aug. 30 — and he doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon.

Patel, who graduated in Spring 2016, has made videos titled “Men Should Do Yoga,” “My An-tidepressant,” “Welcome Failure” and many more that encourage people to do things outside of their comfort zone and pay atten-tion to their mental health.

“My videos give people a re-minder to look at life a different way,” Patel said.

Graduating with a degree in biochemical and mechanical en-gineering, Patel knows he doesn’t have the credentials to work in the mental health field in the

conventional sense.

Regardless, s t r u g g l i n g with his own mental health while in col-lege left Patel determined to help others.

“I want to eliminate mental ill-ness,” Patel said, “and all of the small things I do now align with that goal.”

By changing the course of his life and creating the brand “FitSoul,” Patel found contentment. He said his videos serve as a point of inspiration for others to pursue work they’re

truly passionate about. “Doing what you love is a

great way to improve your men-tal state,” Patel said.

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Going ‘All In’ on inclusion

By Allison MoodyThe Daily Collegian

Like many students, Penn State’s “All In” initiative is begin-ning its second academic year this fall and has big plans for its future. Kicked off in October 2016, the “All In” initiative is the uni-versity’s “commitment to inclu-sivity and inspire all members of the community to take an active role in promoting respect and em-bracing diversity.” Students may be more familiar with its logo, having been put on CATA busses and all around campus last year.

“Last year was a big effort just to get people thinking about di-versity and inclusion,” Marcus Whitehurst, Vice Provost for Edu-cational Equity, said.

Now that students are familiar with the initiative, its organizers are looking forward to a more in-depth approach. Some of these approaches include program-ming and events being displayed on the university’s Diversity and Inclusion Calendar, as well as a new commemorative piece to be installed next semester.

“We are in the planning stages of what we hope to be another successful year of ‘All In,’” White-hurst said.

The first large event of the year is a Block Party held this Sunday, Sept. 3, on the HUB-Robeson Center lawn.

Spearheaded by undergradu-ate student Raenika Crew, Whitehurst said its purpose is to “showcase many of the resourc-es available to students — par-ticularly first year students.”

On Nov. 1, Lonnie Bunch, di-rector of the Smithsonian’s Na-tional Museum of African Amer-ican History and Culture, will be visiting classes and speaking at the Freeman Auditorium.

Other entities around the university will also be hosting events throughout the semester as their contribution to the “All In” initiative.

“One of the neat things about ‘All In’ is that many departments and divisions at University Park, and on [other] campuses, have taken the concept and done dif-ferent things with it so it may look a thousand different ways,” Peggy Lorah, interim assistant vice president for Student Af-fairs, said.

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INSIDE:

SPA speakers announced

Edward Fan

Associated Press

Volleyball player hits 1,000-kills

Collegian file photo

Our reporter Nick Capri sits down

with Bill Brockman, the Paterno

family librarian for literature.

Check out who the Student Program

Association chose for their 2017

distinguished speakers series.

Ali Frantti reaches a milestone of

1,000-kills at Penn State.

Being thankful in times of peril

Associated Press

Today’s column highlights the

importance of remaining thankful in

times of devastation.

Preparing to play Akron

Alex Yuan/Collegian

Penn State football shifts into a

game week mindset as they prepare

to face Akron.

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6-year-old Caroline Leopard dances with the Nittany Lion during the annual LION (Living In One

Neighborhood) on Allen Street on Tuesday evening, August 29.

c’mon let’s dance!

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Harshil Patel, a 2016 Penn State graduate and the

creator of “FitSoul” poses in front of Old Main.

Librarian shares secrets

I want to BKind because...By Bailey Jensen

The Daily Collegian

It’s really up to you.BKind, a social enterprise

founded in Israel by Eran Rozen, Dan Liebeschutz and Edo Fren-kel, has officially arrived.

In partnership with Penn State Hillel, BKind launched during an event Tuesday night in Heritage Hall that aimed to bring together groups of students interested in spreading acts of kindness within their community.

BKind’s goal is to encourage schools, educational groups, workplaces and diverse commu-nities to take on a positive, kind and caring attitude toward others around them.

According to BKind’s website, a BKind card is meant to act as a tool to promote “good deed chains” that motivate and let ev-eryone know how they too can take an active part in making the world a better place.

The founders started BKind

approximately one year and four months ago. They were each in-spired by acts of kindness in their childhood and all have a desire to spread love.

Since getting started in Israel, BKind has traveled through Mon-treal, Australia, Bulgaria, Florida, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Hawaii. Penn State is the first university in the United States to circulate BKind cards.

Alona Lea Lipetz, the second year Jewish Agency Israel Fellow at Hillel, represents Israel at Hil-lel on campus.

She moved from Israel to work at Penn State. She said her goal is to use her story and culture to help people create their own Is-rael narrative.

She works with the founders of BKind on a daily basis and worked with them to bring it to Penn State.

She first got involved in the en-terprise when she listened to one of the lectures. Lipetz said Liebe-schutz introduced the idea to her

and she fell in love with it.

“The found-ers have an amazing spirit to them and that’s exactly what we want to bring here,” Lipetz said. “Sometimes we need that push. We need someone to make us feel that we’re do-ing something in a tangible and unique way, and I think that’s the card’s essence. It’s a way to tag and share and it’s a social net-work. You can invite people in. It’s fun, colorful and full of life.”

Lipetz said the reason BKind came to Penn State was because of Hillel and the organization’s hard work.

Sarah Holtz, student president of Hillel, said her favorite thing about Penn State is the commu-

nity. She said Hillel works to help Jewish college students to be Jewish in the way that they want to be Jewish and to feel comfort-able in the community. She hopes that working with BKind will help Hillel grow.

“I think BKind is an incredible social movement,” Holtz (junior-health policy and administration) said.

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Members of BKind pose in Heritage Hall.

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Lauren Firely (senior-communications sciences and disorders) tosses a dart on the Stand for State

balloon dart wall during the annual LION Bash on Allen Street on Tuesday evening, August 29.

dart art

Meet Bill Brockman: Paterno family librarian for literature

By Nick Capri The Daily Collegian

Tucked away in a corner of Pat-tee Library, past the throngs of bleary-eyed students and trash cans overflowing with Starbucks, there is an office. In that office sits Bill Brockman, Paterno Fam-ily Librarian for Literature.

Bill’s smile and shoe choice — he wears Birkenstocks over a pair of black socks — reveal a kind and casual guy who is pas-sionate about what he does.

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Bill to talk about litera-ture, eBooks and James Joyce.

As the Paterno Family Librar-ian for Literature, Bill has four main duties. When he tells me this, I mention that I thought he just hangs out in his office and

reads. He laughed and said, “I wish I could sit around and read all day.”

With that he crushed my dream of becoming a librarian.

Bill’s first main duty is as a spe-cialized research assistant for the departments of English, Theater and Applied Linguistics, assist-ing students and faculty of those departments in finding research materials.

Bill’s second main duty is to teach. He often guest lectures in courses like Intro to Theater and English 15. Also part of Bill’s job is to curate the library’s collec-tion for research.

“Three-quarters of our col-lection budget is for electronic sources,” Brockman said.

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

UPUA to discuss student life

By Katie JohnstonThe Daily Collegian

The University Park Under-graduate Association is set to discuss specific improvements regarding student life during this Wednesday’s meeting.

George Samuel (junior-nursing), chair of the academic affairs committee, will speak about a meeting held on Mon-day, Aug. 27, between members of UPUA and Penn State’s Vice President of Information Tech-nology Michael Kubit.

Vice President Alex Shockley said a number of platform initia-tives were discussed, including increasing the Wi-Fi capabilities on campus as well as changing the email server from Webmail to another server — such as Gmail or Outlook 365.

“The meeting was very pro-ductive and progress is going well,” Shockley (senior-hospi-tality) said. “We will continue to distribute information to students so they can highlight where they’re facing Wi-Fi is-sues on campus.”

Improvements on and around campus regarding better facili-ties for handicapped students will be touched on as well by Cody Heaton, chair of the facili-ties committee.

These improvements include signs pointing to elevators for students who are unable to use the stairs in Waring Commons and more.

Heaton (junior-industrial en-gineering) will also mention a report done by Academic Rep-resentative Laura McKinney (sophomore-broadcast journal-ism) on gluten-free ice cream worked on by an intern this past summer.

UPUA meets at 8 p.m. every Wednesday night in 233B HUB-Robeson Center.

To email reporter: kjj5229@psu.edu.

Follow her on Twitter at @ktjohnston23.

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Paterno Family Librarian for Literature William Brockman poses for a

photo in front of a book stack on Monday, August 28.

Bkind From Page 1.

“I think getting people to take themselves outside of their ev-eryday life to do something kind and something that is genuinely for someone else is something that everyone in today’s society really needs to think about. The fact that Hillel can be a part of it in this way is really special.”

Lipetz said their goal is to duplicate Penn State’s experience with BKind to other universities across the United States.

She said they decided to start with student organizations based in Penn State and once BKind is deeply rooted, they will begin circling more and more cards in the State College com-munity. They emailed over 120 organizations and received a lot of positive responses in return.

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

On Tuesday, North Korea launched a missile over Japan, prompting President Donald Trump to respond and say “all options are on the table,” leaving the rest of us to wonder what exactly that means.

Not only is it a bit surreal, but it feels like we are heading back in time to the early days of the Cold War — something that does not need to be repeat-ed.

The idea that this could become the next Cold War and eventually lead up to another World War is absolutely terrifying and our president is not helping matters.

Have we seriously not learned anything from our past?

If Trump believes he is calming the nation when he makes bold declarations against North Korea and says the North Korea threats “will be met with fire and fury” or that “all options are on the table,”

after this missile launch, then he is gravely mistaken.

Trump is only helping North Korea incite more fear in everyone’s eyes and quite frankly, we don’t need any more of that right now.

It doesn’t help the people or make us feel reassured when Trump responds to North Korea in his usual way and unfortunately, it has become something to be expected.

Trump’s wild statements has almost become predictable but we cannot allow for this to be normalized.

Instead of rolling our eyes or joking that hopefully we’re asleep if a nuclear war does happen, we must take these threats from North Korea seriously and demand our president to respond in a more appropriate way.

Though it seems as if we are simply dealing with two children who are throwing tantrums, the fact of the matter is, at least this country has checks and balances, allowing us to not actually believe that all of Trump’s threats will actually happen — North Korea doesn’t.

Not only is it time that we start looking at North Korea as an actually threat, it is time we start doing something about it and not just making these wild statements that do not help anyone.

Yes, it’s hard to try to reason with North Korea, especially when its leader isn’t someone who is used to not getting his way, but that does not mean that it should be impossible to find other motives to respond to these missile launches than with rash words.

Just imagine if former

President John F. Kennedy had responded like Trump toward the Cuban Missile Crisis — it’s almost impossible to.

Trump is notorious for making headline news and his tweets and words have become something of an icon for him, but enough is enough.

He must be filtered or learn how to hold his tongue. Either Trump must take a lesson on poise, or realize he must change his attitude when it comes to practically anything.

It is time for Trump to grow up and start being the leader and president that this country deserves.

Whether or not he believes that North Korea is a joke or is actually to be taken seriously — which they should— these threats could go from being a joke to all-out war in no time and if Trump is not willing to step up and be smart on how to handle this situation, then it’s time we find someone who can.

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It’s time for Trump to act presidential

In light of the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey, it’s important that we — as in those

not affected by Harvey — remain mindful of our blessings and do what we can do help those who are not as fortunate at the moment.

On Friday, Hurricane

Harvey devastated Houston, Texas. With nine people dead and hundreds of thousands seeking disaster aid, the city is in need of love and support now more than ever.

The devastation that Hurricane Harvey brought to Houston may seem far off and hard to relate to since natural disasters are few and far between in central Pennsylvania. However the people of Houston are just like us. They were not expecting such devastation, but overnight,

they lost almost every aspect of the life they once knew.

It is far too easy to get caught up in our own struggles and stresses that we simply forget that there are other people in this world whose problems may be greater than ours. After all, we are only human and we have a natural tendency to forget that others are struggling too. This is not an excuse, however, to become completely oblivious or ignorant to others’ problems.

The things that we take for granted — a bed to sleep on at night, shelter from raging weather, food to eat whenever we want, friends and loved ones there when we need them — are exactly what the people of Houston lacking right now.

It can be challenging to be consistently thankful for these vital necessities on a daily basis because there are other stresses and obstacles that stand in our way of remembering just how fortunate we are. We have been blessed

with opportunity, support and basic necessities like food, water and shelter. Right now, there are hundreds of thousands of people going without any of these necessities.

This is not say that as college students we do not have our own problems and struggles. Each one of us is at a different place in our lives and our struggles vary. However, right now there are students and young adults just like us without a home. There are children, students and families that have lost irreplaceable and priceless things. To the people affected by Hurricane Harvey, our struggles are blessings as they are just happy to be alive.

It can be frustrating and overwhelming when a professor schedules an exam for the second week of classes, but when you consider that there are students who can no longer go to school because it has been flooded, you may feel differently. Keep your stresses in perspec-

tive and remember to not take anything, even the most basic things for granted.

It’s events like these that remind us of how crucial it is to be grateful for our daily stresses. There are people, believe it or not, that would be grateful to have the concerns of a college student; especially when they’ve lost essentially everything. We should all be ready to help others when your problems pale in comparison. Starting with Houston.

We are students and understandably, there is only so much that we can contribute however, please consider doing anything that you can to aid those devastat-ed by Hurricane Harvey.

Dominique Servati is a junior majoring in English and History and is a columnist for The Daily Collegian. Email her at dms6291@psu.edu and follow her on Twitter at @domstoppable.

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Counting blessings in timesof devastation

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Trump’s response to North Korea’s missile launch on Tuesday has only helped to create further fear for people. It is time for Trump

to learn how to reassure his people and not scare them even more.

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Women’s hockey has a fresh start

By Austin KurtanichThe Daily Collegian

Penn State hit the reset but-ton this year, introducing a new coaching staff and creating a new sense of trust in the locker room.

The change came after for-mer coach Josh Brandwene left the program mid-season last year on medical leave — and later retired on April 19 — after his tenure was plagued by alle-gations of emotional abuse by former players.

Jeff Kampersal, Princeton’s former head coach, takes his place and brings with him assis-tant coaches Celeste Brown and Allison Coomey.

Kampersal has a history of winning that Penn State is in need of. He currently has the fifth-most wins among active coaches with 327, more than Penn State’s team has in its en-tire existence.

To achieve the same level of success he had with the Tigers, Kampersal believes a team needs trust between the players and the coaches.

“One of our main values is trust, so we had mentioned to them [the players] that we will trust them no matter what,” Kampersal said, “and [the coaches] will work insanely hard for them.”

Kampersal went on to say that a part of building that trust is creating a culture that makes it fun for the players to come to the rink every day.

The Nittany Lions are only allowed to practice two hours a week currently due to NCAA rules, so that culture will have

to wait until Sept. 16 — the first full day of practice.

Until then, the forward lines and defensive pairings will not be decided. Instead, for the time being, Kampersal has the equip-ment manager make the lines and pairings for the day by laying out the forwards’ jerseys each practice.

“Any player that I’ve seen play once I can tell you which way they shoot, but I am bad with names and this has been good in prac-tice,” Kampersal joked. “I can look at players without precon-ceived notions and then go back and look for a player’s name after making my own assessment.”

This process gives the play-ers a unique ability to show their worth and be judged solely on what they bring to the table.

“It will start getting down to the nitty gritty once we start practic-ing for real.” Kampersal said. “Essentially we need to be awe-some in net, accompanied with a solid defense. Finding our three or four centers will be most im-portant.”

Filling these three quotas in time for Penn State’s first game will be a challenge. The team’s season opener is against No. 5 ranked Minnesota Duluth, on Sept. 29 and 30.

This fact doesn’t shake Kam-persal at all.

“If we go to Duluth thinking we are going to lose, we might as well not even go,” Kampersal said. “If everyone does their job we have a chance against anyone.”

“Our goal is to win every game.”

To email reporter: aak5433@psu.edu.

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Men’s soccer set for intense seasonBy Katie Nanasi

The Daily Collegian

According to head coach Bob Warming, Penn State faces “the most talented year [he’s] seen in the Big Ten” since 2010.

The conference has a host of teams that will be competing for bids to the NCAA Tournament, particularly No. 7 Indiana and No. 13 Michigan State.

Still, Warming remains unde-terred in the confidence he has for his team to compete, even after its 1-0 loss to Hofstra last Friday.

“We’ve got a great year ahead for this group,” Warming said. “We’ll need to be a good team.”

Warming said his team is up for the challenge of balancing the rigors of a tough Big Ten schedule with typical student obligations.

“That’s why they came to Penn State, to get challenged here academically against the best students in the country,” Warming said.

Warming, who will begin his eighth season as coach, is no stranger to success with his players. He has been National Coach of the Year and Big Ten Coach of the Year twice, in ad-dition to coaching 32 winning seasons.

The team has also adopted a new motto.

Last year, the locker rooms were adorned with #AllIn. This year, Warming said the motto is #11asONE, and that it was inspired from watching great teams of Penn State’s past play.

“They move together. They move as a unit,” Warming said. “All 11 players are on the same page and they move fluidly across the field.”

One of the primary focuses of

this season seems to be the ad-dition of multiple international players.

Despite having players from across the globe, Warming said that it’s just a trend for the team.

“The world game is exploding the college game,” Warming said. “International players see great value in coming to the U.S.”

Raised in Israel, redshirt junior

defenseman Dani Marks said that having more international players on the team adds a lot to the game.

“We can learn from guys from all over the world,” Marks said. “It’s just great to compare how guys used to play everywhere else in the world.”

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Athlete of the Week: Simone LeeBy Stephanie Panny

The Daily Collegian

A force on the court throughout her career at Penn State, Simone Lee began this year with yet an-other outstanding performance.

Just three games into the 2017 season, Lee already leads the team with 33 kills and a .407 hit-ting percentage heading into this weekend’s Texas A&M Tourna-ment in College Station, Texas.

Starting last weekend’s sea-son-opening series in the West Virginia Tournament against UT-Martin with 10 kills and three er-rors on 16 attempts, Lee steadily improved further into the week-end as she notched 11 kills and just four errors against Delaware early Saturday morning.

She then tallied 12 kills (a game-high) and a weekend-low two errors against host team West Virginia.

Lee has made a habit of start-ing seasons strong.

This time last year, Lee had 41 kills under her belt after the season-opening matches against the Mountaineers (10 kills), Georgia Southern (8 kills) and North Carolina (23 kills) with just a cumulative nine er-rors on 86 overall attempts. Lee finished the 2016 season with a total of 503 kills.

While teammate, outside hit-ter, and fellow senior Ali Frantti highlighted the weekend after notching four kills to get into the 1,000-kill club, there is no doubt that Lee was a huge offensive presence for the Nittany Lions on the floor.

For this, The Daily Collegian chose her as its Athlete of the Week.

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Collegian file photo

Simone Lee (22) smashes the ball during Women’s Volleyball match

against West Virginia at Rec Hall on Friday, August 26, 2016.

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Amy Petersen (9) tries to steal the puck from Larissa Martyniuk (17) of

Syracuse during the game at Pegula Ice Arena on Friday, Feb. 24.

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Head men’s soccer coach Bob Warming speaks to reporters after the

game against Navy at Jeffrey Field on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015.

Ali Frantti discusses 1,000-kill milestone

By Stephanie PannyThe Daily Collegian

Going into this past Saturday’s match against West Virginia in the West Virginia Tournament, Ali Frantti only needed four kills to reach the 1,000-kill milestone in her career at Penn State.

As soon as she came off the floor after the 25-5 third-set rout of the Mountaineers — the match where she hit the necessary four kills to reach the milestone — her excited mother approached her.

“She’s like, ‘Ali, that’s your 1,000 kill,’” Frantti said. “I was like, ‘I didn’t even know.’ It was com-pletely a shock. I had no idea.”

Frantti said she was complete-ly unaware she was approaching the milestone going into Satur-day’s match — the last match of the final season-opening series of her Penn State volleyball career.

“It’s crazy, I’m a senior now,” Frantti said. “It was definitely a special moment.”

Teammate and senior middle blocker Haleigh Washington said it was an “amazing opportunity” when Frantti hit the milestone, and remembers when former Nittany Lion Megan Courtney earned her 1,000th kill during Washington and Frantti’s sopho-more year.

“I remember being so proud of Megan,” Washington said. “When Ali got it, it was just awesome to see her following in that tradition of success and excellence at Penn State. It was obviously amazing.”

While Frantti may have been completely unaware of how close she was to 1,000 kills, Washington said she had started to figure it out during the game.

“The wRECking Crew came out to West Virginia, if you didn’t know,” Washington said. “We love the wRECking Crew — quick shout out to them — and they came out to West Virginia, and one of the girls had a poster that said, ‘1,000.’ I was like, ‘1,000? What are they talking about? Coach’s wins? Or…oh! It must be Frantti.’”

Washington said while such a milestone is certainly worth celebrating, the team doesn’t re-ally focus on those kinds of things while playing, since its more fo-cused on its opponents.

“When it comes down to it,” Washington said, “it’s about the win. It’s not about Ali’s getting this at this time, it’s about we’re beating West Virginia, because we need to beat West Virginia

and get out of there. That’s just the mindset and that’s how you approach every game. It’s an em-phasis on winning, and whatever comes out of it is just a bonus.”

Coach Russ Rose said Frantti hitting the milestone means she is steady.

“She was on the floor when we won a national championship when she was a freshman,” Rose said.

“She’s battled some injuries throughout her career, and has worked hard. I’m happy that hap-pened. I didn’t know anything about it until I read it, because we’re really not about those things, but it’s certainly nice to earn recognition for a real, nice young person.”

Rose said he’s had a lot of great moments with Frantti, as he said she plays hard, is an “enthusias-tic kid” and cares a lot about the team.

Rose said having players who

have eclipsed milestones such as Frantti, it celebrates those players for their excellence over an extended period.

“When you get certain mile-stones, those milestones are based on longevity,” Rose said. “It’s like coaching. If you coach for a long time and you have some success, you’re going to get some plateaus that you might not get if you’re doing something else a couple years after your career started.”

Frantti echoes the sentiment. “Obviously, it’s all not about

individual awards, but it’s pretty cool that I’m one of 26 people [to get 1,000 kills],” Frantti said. “But, most importantly, I’m hap-py that our team got a 3-0 win this weekend. But, it’s pretty cool. I didn’t even imagine I’d get that.”

To email reporter: svp5508@psu.edu.

Follow her on Twitter at @StephaniePanny.

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Ali Frantti (5) spikes the ball during the game at Rec Hall on Saturday,

Nov. 26, 2016.

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