At a normal Penn State home football game, Beaver Stadium packs in more than 100,000 people.

Despite recent national safety concerns, students have expressed little worry that such a highly populated and decorated event could be a possible target for a terrorist attack.

"Of all the places they could drop bombs on, why here?" said Katie Hummel (junior-nursing). "We're just Penn State, only one college of many."

Hummel acknowledged that some of her friends do have reservations about attending but none have cancelled their plans or sold their tickets.

National security protecting against possible attacks should be a precaution, Hummel said, but not in State College particularly.

"I'm worried that something is going to happen, (but) I don't think that it's going to happen here," she said.

Michele Blythe (junior-elementary education) recently bought a ticket for this week's game.

She said that she has some worries, but not enough to deter her from having a good time at the game.

Her friend Stephanie Boudwin (junior-real estate), if she had a ticket, would also go to the game.

"I would think that it is a safety concern, but I'd still go," Boudwin said.

Living life in fear of an attack is something Brandon Flasco (junior-civil engineering), a season ticket holder, refuses to do.

Flasco's convictions are shared by his parents as well. He said his grandmother has shown some concern, but it's not stopping him from going to the game.

"I'm definitely still going. I've got to keep living my life," Flasco said. "I'm still going to class. I'm still going to keep my social life."

Student attendance at the football games has been down this year, a spokesman from the ticket office said.

Gary Cramer, information officer at university public relations, shared the same notion, adding that it is difficult to prepare for a random attack because the location and magnitude of such an attack is undetermined.

"There's no reason to think that any specific event is going to be targeted.

In this particular case, nothing has happened yet," Cramer said.

He added that safety measures will parallel the enormity of an attack, if it happens.

"I think we're going to take this matter on a case by case basis," Cramer said. "Life goes on."