By Everett Dembosky

In view of the 99% protests going on in the country, I was encouraged to hear state Rep. David Reed say early in his Oct. 13 town hall meeting in Clymer, Pa., that there are two things he wants to end in Pennsylvania:  corporate greed and tax loopholes.

My hopes were dashed when he addressed drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale: "I favor the impact fee [instead of a severance tax] because it goes directly to the areas where the drilling is going on," Reed said. "Why should Philadelphians benefit from drilling that's not happening in their backyards?" 

Students and faculty rallied in front of the business school at Indiana University of Pennsylvania on Oct. 12 in support of a student who said a professor there had criticized her professed homosexuality during a Sept. 26 class attended by five students.

Photographer Heather Tabacchi, a communications media major, captured the event, the protesters and their posters in support of lesbian Christina I. "Nina" Santiago, 22, a graduate student seeking a master's degree in business administration at Eberly College of Business.

The incident is under investigation, campus administrators said.

Occupy Wall St. at IUP Campus from Sean Yoder on Vimeo.