[FredZarguna]

1) State College is not University Park.
2) University Park has about 30,000 undergrads. Most don't vote in University Park, and although the three student precincts are heavily Democratic, it's doesn't skew Centre County nearly as much as the Faculty and Staff living in State College.
3) Centre County is about 50/50. It went blue in the last Presidential, but usually goes red in local races, midterms, and off-year elections.

[Kay Ludlow]

42,000 undergrads, 12,000 or so grad students, plus all the adjunct professors they bring in each semester.

Enrollment started to grow quickly as soon as Spanier was out. Didn’t you hear about the ‘accidental’ over-enrollment of about 1,000, I think the 2nd year Spanier was gone? Oops, but it made the new base. They are aiming for 300-400 additional freshmen each year... And that's a cumulative addition.