Former Undergraduate Student Government (USG) Pollock/Nittany Sen. Vicky Cangelosi decided not to withdrawal from the university, despite alleged threats made against her and other senators who attended a controversial Halloween party.

"My parents have let me return, and I am very excited about that," Cangelosi said. "I never wanted to leave. I wasn't willing to give up my education here and go to a community college for a semester."

Cangelosi announced her resignation from USG Senate and her intent to withdraw from the university at the Senate's Dec. 9 meeting.

Cangelosi was one of five USG members who attended former Town Sen. Brian Battaglia's controversial Halloween party, during which members of the Penn State College Republicans dressed in costumes that many found offensive.

Former USG member Jason Covener dressed in blackface, portraying USG Vice President and former Black Caucus Vice President Takkeem Morgan. Others referenced the Ku Klux Klan and mocked fraternities and sororities.

During her statement, Cangelosi said Penn State President Graham Spanier put her life in danger by including a link to Penn State's online student directory in his written public statement about pictures taken at the party. As a result, she removed her address from the directory.

Spanier was not available to comment on Cangelosi's allegations.

"From my point of view, what they did was spouted inaccurate, inflammatory remarks, and then they included a link to look up where people live," Cangelosi said Sunday.

Cangelosi was not named in Spanier's statement, which was distributed over the Penn State Newswire.

Penn State spokesman Steve MacCarthy said Newswire e-mail messages have included a link to the student directory for more than three years.

"I doubt there is a student at Penn State who doesn't know how to access the directory," MacCarthy said. "That assertion is really kind of silly."

Still, MacCarthy said he has asked the Department of Public Information to determine whether to include the link in future Newswire messages.

"There was no intention to do anything inflammatory or to try to present any grief to any particular student," MacCarthy said. "The intent was to lay out the university's position on hateful activities."

He said the link is included in Newswire e-mail messages as a convenience for students who might want to forward a story to another student.

However, Cangelosi said including the link put her in danger because her name had been published in an article in The Daily Collegian.

Art Carter, assistant vice president for student affairs, said this is an issue he intends to look into with the Office of the Registrar and other campus officials who determine what information is available to the public.

"She raised an excellent point," Carter said. "It is certainly worth looking at, and I think we will do that."

At the meeting, Cangelosi named Carter as someone who did not share her parents' concern for their daughter's safety. Although Carter declined to comment on this statement, he said he reached an understanding with Cangelosi's mother.

"I feel pretty good knowing where her mother stands at this point," Carter said. "We want to make sure [Cangelosi] has a good school year and does well."

Cangelosi said the senators who attended the party received hate mail and endured harassment on many occasions. She said one of her friends was assaulted, and two students were followed home after being recognized from the photographs posted on http://botag.net, Battaglia's Web site.

Prior to the fallout, Cangelosi lived on the Martin Luther King Jr. floor in Beaver Hall, a special living option for students who do not support discrimination or violence.

However, she relocated this semester because many minority students live on that floor, including members of Black Caucus who have taken a strong stance against those who attended the party.

"I promised my parents I would lay low for a while and not do anything controversial -- not that I was doing anything controversial," Cangelosi said.