Zach Berger

“It is truly not something I want to spend money on if I can help it,” president Eric Barron said. “It’s an expenditure that is there for some good reasons, but is different because of the way those buildings look. These are not traditional buildings.”

The Penn State Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday and Friday, and the major agenda item involves access to campus recreational facilities. The board’s finance committee will vote on spending $7.5 million to install turnstiles at campus recreational facilities.

“We need to weigh the balance between safety and providing lights versus light pollution going into people’s homes,” councilman Evan Myers said. “Maybe lighting is what we need but not the same kind of lighting with high street lights that we’ve been doing for years.”