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8 charged in PSU cheerleader's fall from apartment window

Emily Babay, Breaking News Desk

Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 1:26 PM

Eight Penn State students have been charged with providing alcohol to minors after a cheerleader at the school was seriously injured when she fell from an apartment window.

Investigators determined that the students "furnished alcoholic beverages to minors who were attending a party" in a Calder Commons apartment on Oct. 13, State College police said.

At that party, 19-year-old Paige Raque fell from a fifth-floor window and was seriously hurt. Authorities determined that the freshman's fall was accidental, police said.

The students charged are 21-year-old Tempest Hourston, 21-year-old Megan Markovitz, 21-year-old Adaire Robinson, 20-year-old Alexandria Hipple, 20-year-old Brooke Piccione, 19-year-old Alyssa Duffy, 19-year-old Julie Hannan and 19-year-old Madeline Miller.

The furnishing alcohol beverages to a minor charge is a misdemeanor. The eight students will receive summonses, police said.

Last week, four Penn State cheerleaders were removed from the squad for violating unspecified team rules, though the university wouldn't say whether that discipline was related to the investigation into Raque's fall.

Contact Emily Babay at 215-854-2153 or ebabay@philly.com. Follow @emilybabay on Twitter.

Contact the Breaking News Desk at 215-854-2443; BreakingNewsDesk@philly.com. Follow @phillynews on Twitter.

Emily Babay Breaking News Desk

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Comments (14)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:53 AM, 01/29/2013

Tell me again how the without the PLCB, we will have uncontrolled, underage drinking. Wonder if they had cigarettes too.

— skippack_cyclist

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:59 AM, 01/29/2013

Interesting. You can be charged with furnishing alcohol to a minor if you are a minor?

— agamemnon

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:00 PM, 01/29/2013

Well, at least none of them got raped. At PSU, that's always a plus.

— Barbouze

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:03 PM, 01/29/2013

last time i checked 21 was grown

— dmac6419

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:38 PM, 01/29/2013

College has been so dumb-ed down that people can graduate drunk. If they had more work to do, maybe they would not have time to drink booze, or they would decide that college was not the place to bring that party culture.

— ricciaje

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:42 PM, 01/29/2013

Remember people in the US it's not the person who does the crime/idiot behavior, it's always somebody elses fault. Nobody forced this person to drink. Next the School will be sued. How about suing the contractor that built the apartment? I mean if the apartment was all on one floor she wouldn't have fell.

— neddyflanders

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:01 PM, 01/29/2013

Barbouze , you an idiot

— twistedview

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:07 PM, 01/29/2013

THIS IS SOME DUMB @ BECKIE B S RITE HERE

— BLACK-T&T-

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:08 PM, 01/29/2013

A Co-ed getting drunk and hurting themself must happen dozens of times a year across the country. You're no singling out Penn State are you?

— towman

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:10 PM, 01/29/2013

This headline is misleading! There were two separate actions here, and you yourself say that the eight charged did NOT contribute to the fall...that it was accidental, she lost control of herself. Yes, it was probably because of the booze, but the headline is wrong to suggest that the 8 charged caused the fall.

I guess this writer is a USA reject. Nice hire philly.com. But then this IS Phila.

— ocpizza

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:11 PM, 01/29/2013

The Tonner also never knew a minor could be charged with providing alcohol to a minor. Color the Tonner educated.

— hunglikeaton

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:17 PM, 01/29/2013

How is she doing?

— Roger Podacter

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:37 PM, 01/29/2013

We Are...Penn Staaaaaaaaaa

— GRK227

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:18 PM, 01/29/2013

@GRK - I just laughed out louuuud

— greatdogz