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State Patty's Day is a student-led holiday that acts as a Pennsylvania State University alternative to the traditional Saint Patrick's Day. It began on Friday, March 2, 2007, because Saint Patrick's Day fell during spring break, which would have left students unable to celebrate the holiday while at school and with friends. The first annual State Patty's Day (so named because the students mistook "Patty", the nickname for "Patricia" for "Paddy" the correct nickname for "Patrick") took place on March 2, 2007. Students began flocking the streets of downtown State College, and bars and restaurants in the area opened early to take advantage of the holiday.〔Spolar, Matthew. "State Patty's rocks valley." The Daily Collegian. 5 Mar. 2007. 11 Mar. 2008〕 In subsequent years State Patty's Day has been scheduled for the weekend after THON, giving the event a standardized date. As of 2014, it has persisted as an annual event, attracting more tourism to downtown State College than Saint Patrick's Day itself. == History == State Patty's Day made its debut in early 2007 after a handful of students realized that the school's spring break would conflict with St. Patrick's Day. Utilizing Facebook, they created a group entitled "The Official Group to Move St. Patrick's Day." Their hope was to unify the student body in early celebration. With an excess of over 4,600 members in 2008, along with an effort to get bars in downtown State College involved, the group was successful in moving the holiday to Friday March 2, a day that has been dubbed as State Patty's Day. Currently, the (State Patty's Day Event Page ) has grown to nearly 12,000 followers. The holiday has grown to such an extent that it attracts a significant number of out-of-town visitors; in 2011, nearly 60% of arrests were for visitors. In 2012, the number reported was just under 20%; this significant drop has been attributed to a misquoted statistic. Other sources state that nearly 80% of the arrests were of visitors. Magisterial District Judge Carmine Prestia, who serves as president of the Centre County magisterial district judges, has instituted a policy whereby alternative adjudications, resulting in dismissal of summary offense charges, are not available for offenses occurring during State Patty's Day weekend.〔http://onwardstate.com/2013/02/11/drinking-on-state-pattys-day-youre-going-to-jail/〕 The effort was made in an attempt to discourage illegal activities and to try to make the event seem less appealing to out-of-town attendees. In 2013, after seeing the event continue to grow in size and popularity, the Borough of State College and Penn State University attempted to squash the notorious holiday by offering a $5,000 subsidy to all alcohol-serving establishments in the downtown area, in exchange for closing their doors or ceasing alcohol sales on the day of the event. In total, $170,000 of revenue from parking fees earned from previous State Patty's days was spent to keep establishments from selling alcohol on the day of the event.〔http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/02/in_state_college_nearly_all_do.html〕 The previous two years, State College Borough had issued a "State Patty's Day After Action Report" outlining the financial impact of the event.〔(State Patty's Day After Action Report - 2011 )〕〔(State Patty's Day After Action Report - 2012 )〕 Both reports showed that the weekend was extremely busy but, over-all wasn't all that different from weekends when Penn State Football held home games. The reports also showed that the net result from the event for both years yielded an excess revenue of $15,144 & $14,479.25 after all expenses. The After Action Report for the year in which the $170,000 was spent was either not conducted or not released. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「State Patty's Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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